"Master Jiang, what are the orders from Marquis Xu? All we have to do is obey them. We don't want to hang on to us like this!"
The news about the Dongjing Coalition Army, or the ability to scout the military situation, lagged much behind. It was not until Xu Huai established the Nancai Recruitment Division, led his troops to cross the Han River, and set up camp at Fantai that the Dongjing Coalition Army learned about its establishment.
After the death of Emperor Jingsheng, Marquis Jingsheng personally led troops and horses to cooperate with the Lianghu system to set up a division to suppress the enemy.
The two attacks on Qianchapu were so vulnerable in the hands of Xu Huai; after escaping from Nancai, he also secretly accepted Chushan's funding, so that thousands of men, women, and children in Dongzhou Village survived and were able to survive.
Strong; no matter how arrogant Jiang Ang is in his heart, he no longer has any resistance to surrendering to Chushan at this time.
Of course, it is not impossible to recruit security and surrender, but the conditions that should be negotiated must also be negotiated. This was Jiang Ang's idea from the beginning.
Zhao Shan, Liu Fujin and others have been lurking in the dark all this time. Except for a few engineers who assisted in building the forts, fields and repairing the boats in Dongzhou Village, who were secretly sent by Chushan, they mainly operate on loan.
Jiang Ping, who was lurking in Changlin Town under the guise of the blacksmith shop, made a single line of contact - Jiang Ang was also waiting for Jiang Ping to come over on behalf of Chushan as soon as possible.
Who would have thought that Jiang Ping would not show up for a long time, but thousands of soldiers and horses from the Nancai Recruitment Division would move into Changlin Town with lightning speed.
Dongzhou Village tried to contact Jiang Ping, but there was no way. They waited in panic for seven or eight days before Jiang Ping crossed the lake and entered Dongzhou Village.
After finally catching Jiang Ping, they walked into the Juyi Hall and before he could take a sip of hot tea, everyone couldn't wait to ask Chu Shan about the specific arrangements for Dongzhou Village.
In the past six months, Chushan not only secretly transported a large amount of materials including 30,000 to 40,000 shi of grain into Bailu Lake through the Hualing River, Changlin River and Juzhang River, but also transported more than 900 Dongzhou prisoners captured in the Panlongzhai battle.
The release of the village soldiers allowed the Dongzhou Village forces to move out of the small lake island and into the Linjiang area south of Bailu Lake, where they built a total of forty large and small villages.
In addition to the old population of eight or nine thousand, Dongzhou Village still absorbs many small and medium-sized refugee forces, and the population has expanded to nearly 40,000. However, the affairs of the village are still headed by Jiang Ang, Zhao Shan, Jiang Xiong, Zhang Cong, Liu Fujin and others.
——For the vast majority of the refugee forces, they are just struggling to save their lives at the moment and have no intention of fighting for power and profit.
Although Dongzhou Village has now moved from the bottom to the middle among the thirty-six villages of the Dongjing Alliance Army, after more than ten days of waiting in panic, Jiang Ang, Jiang Xiong, Zhang Cong and others also realized that they really
I don’t have the qualifications to negotiate terms with Chushan.
At this time, in front of Jiang Ping, they simply put themselves on the chopping board as dead pigs and let him cut them.
Of course, Chushan has secretly transferred so many resources to Dongzhou Village in the past six months for layout. Now it is time to close the network. Jiang Ang, Jiang Xiong, Zhang Cong and others also expected that they only need to cooperate honestly and surrender to Chu.
The mountain won't fall too badly.
"The Jingnan Production Department also sent people to Dongting Lake to recruit Anna. After all, we will all serve the imperial court in the future. What choice do you make?" Jiang Ping drank tea slowly and looked at Jiang Ang and Jiang Xiong.
, Jiang Cong and others asked.
"Master Jiang, what are you kidding me?" Jiang Ang was not an idiot. He would not be able to see through such a simple verbal trap. He said hurriedly, "They say they are serving the imperial court, but the person named Ge is a piece of shit. How can he be like this?"
Compared with Marquis Xu? Damn, I don’t think anyone named Ge is worthy of carrying shoes for Marquis Xu. Although Jiang Ang has little knowledge, he also knows the miserable situation in which the useless members of the Ge family were killed during the Northern Expedition to Yanyun. Let’s talk about this.
In the year, without Xu Hou stepping forward to turn the tide, Jinghu might have been ravaged by Hu Gouer. We had heard the news before that a man named Ge came to Sun Yanzhou and Hu Dangzhou. If we didn’t even want to understand this, how could we do it?
Why don't you turn around and ask Mr. Jiang to inform you?"
The Dongjing Allied Forces were made up of thirty-six water strongholds, intertwined with each other, forming cliques, and fighting overtly and secretly. How could Jiang Ang be so naive as to accept Ge Boyi's advice just because he thought "they are all working for the imperial court"?
Is there no difference between recruiting and accepting Chushan’s recruitment?
Chushan has invested so many resources in Dongzhou Village. He really wants to let lard go to his heart. He accepts Ge Boyi's recruitment. How can he believe that Chushan won't be ruthless and destroy Dongzhou Village first? How can he believe that Chushan won't?
Pull out Jiang Ang, crush his bones and spread his ashes?
"Yes, yes," Jiang Xiong and Zhang Cong said, "Xu Hou personally led his troops to kill. We are anxious and don't know how to serve Xu Hou. We also ask Master Jiang for advice..."
Most of the thirty-six water village forces in Dongjing have not suffered much loss at the hands of officers and soldiers, and have even won many battles. However, Jiang Ang and others have both won battles and suffered heavy losses, so they naturally feel sad.
With comparison, it is clearer that Chushan is definitely worthy of its reputation over the years.
Even if you are a bandit, you still have to pick strong people to join the gang and accept the recruitment. Of course, you must be a little bit particular.
Jiang Xiong, Zhang Cong and others were all refugee leaders who fled from Hehuai and others into Jinghu to avoid the disaster of war, so they recognized Chushan even more.
In their hearts, Ge Boyi and his like are really not qualified to be compared with Chushan.
"Master Jiang and other leaders are determined and will not be fooled by small gains. Jiang Ping will not play tricks on Master Jiang and other leaders," Jiang Ping first handed over to Jiang Ang and others, then took out a letter from his arms and said,
"My Jieshuai has a handwritten note here. I would like to ask Mr. Jiang to read it..."
"Master Jiang, you know me. The total number of words I know may not be a basketful!" Jiang Ang took the handwritten letter with some embarrassment, and was about to ask Zhao Shan to read it for him, but after opening the envelope, he saw
The words used in Xu Huai's handwriting were simple and simple, and he could generally understand them, so he read them straight through...
In the letter, Xu Huai not only recounted that his biological father was persecuted by traitors, and his people were dispersed and struggled to survive. He also grew up in the wilderness and was well aware of the suffering of the people at the bottom who were exploited and oppressed.
Tens of millions of people in the Central Plains were still struggling under the iron heel of the barbarians. They also wrote about the various new policies implemented by Chushan and the reasons for them. In the end, they made no secret of their desire to recruit generals to fight against the barbarians.
Jiang Xiong, Zhang Cong and others all had a rough grasp of pen and ink. Zhao Shan and Liu Fujin also looked at each other, pretending to be confused and said: "Marquis Xu is very sincere in his intentions, but how to recruit us is not mentioned in this letter?"
"Whether it is the battle of Panlong Village or the command of troops in Jingjiang this time, Chushan's purpose is to calm and prosper the people, and take care of both the old and the weak, women and children. Instead, it recruits the young and strong to expand its power, and ignores the old, weak, women and children.
We will not kill innocent people indiscriminately for meritorious deeds," Jiang Ping said. "However, there are millions of elderly, weak, women and children displaced and helpless in the north and south of the Jingjiang River and along the Dongting Lake, and there are even far more than that. If you want to take care of both,
How could it be an easy task? It would be too cumbersome to write down the specific provisions in a hurry, so Commander-in-Chief ordered me to come over and discuss it carefully with Mr. Jiang and other leaders..."
To prevent Ge Boyi from easily recruiting the Andongjing Allied Forces in the name of the imperial court, the Dongzhou Village forces located between Jiangling County and Jianli County and occupying the riverside area south of Bailu Lake are naturally the most critical step in many deployments.
The trust of the generals of the Dongjing Alliance Army in the imperial court is very fragile, but they must delay the Dongjing Alliance Army's acceptance of Ge Boyi's recruitment as much as possible. In addition to the threat of Chushan's soldiers and horses heading south, Dongzhou Village provides support within the Dongjing Alliance Army.
, the effect will naturally be better.
Of course, what is more important is how Chushan can control the Jingxiang area more directly and effectively, and how hundreds of thousands or even millions of old, weak, women and children can survive the coming cold winter.
According to the intelligence collected by Chushan so far, Ge Boyi had earlier planned to recruit tens of thousands of young men and women from the Dongjing Allied Forces on Jinghu South Road for his own use. At this time, further relaxing the conditions for recruitment would only allow Sun Yanzhou to
Hu Dangzhou and other thieves will eliminate the weak and retain the strong, and continue to command their elite soldiers and horses to be organized into the Forbidden Army.
Although the Qinling-Huaihe war has slowed down a bit and the imperial court can take a breather, the addition of 100,000 forbidden troops by the Imperial Envoy Division is already at its limit.
In other words, if Chu Shan did not intervene, even if Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and other thieves would sincerely accept the recruitment, there would be no Chihu people behind the scenes, and the total Dongjing Allied Forces would only have 100,000 generals and 300,000 to 400,000 troops.
Families and children can be resettled, but many more old, weak, women and children, possibly numbering in the millions, will continue to be abandoned on both sides of Dongting Lake and Jingjiang River, with no one caring about their lives.
It is also true that the most elite part of the Dongjing Allied Forces has been recruited away. The remaining old, weak, women and children will have even weaker ability to survive, and will completely lose their ability to fight against the government and local gentry. Starving to death in the wild will no longer be a thing.
Something unimaginable.
Chushan will start digging a new canal between Zhangshan and Fantai to connect the Han River to Wazi Lake. The water outlet of Bailu Lake will be moved 40 to 50 miles north from Zekou north of Hualing City to east of Jingmen City.
Zhangshan: Diversion of the Hualing River, diverting the floods in the upper reaches of the Han River during the flood season to Mianyang and Jianli County, diverting the water from Hanyang County and re-injecting it into the Han River or Jingzhou, so as to share the flood pressure in the Jingdong area during the flood season.
Chushan will also build a hundred-mile embankment north of Wazi Lake and Bailu Lake, extending all the way to the upper reaches of the Juzhang River.
Next, Chushan will move 100,000 soldiers and civilians directly from Nancai to fill in the camps along Changyan in Jingbei and the new waterways of Zhangfan and Hualing Rivers.
Because most of the soldiers and civilians of Nancai who plan to move west to Jingbei are old, weak, women and children, they still have a serious shortage of troops to ensure that Changyan in Jingbei and the Zhangfan River and Hualing River new waterways are built before next year's flood season.
In the name of recruitment negotiations, the elderly, weak, women and children who were destined to be abandoned were admitted in batches from Dongjing to the north, and resettled on the spot in Fantai, Zhangshan, Changlin and other places.
In addition to starting the construction of large villages on the basis of the existing more than 40 small and medium-sized villages in Dongzhou Village, it is also necessary to start the construction of a new large village to the west of Bailu Lake and south of Wazi Lake - the lack of grain and fodder,
You can ask for it directly from Chushan in the name of recruitment and security negotiations.
Chu Shan envisions that the size of Dongzhou Village’s army and civilians can be directly expanded by 100,000 this winter. As members of the Dongjing Alliance Army, Jiang Ang and others can also use the name of fighting against the Chushan Army to absorb as many young people as possible to increase their strength.
And Chushan plans to absorb 200,000 refugees north of Bailu Lake and Wazi Lake. Even if they are mainly old, weak, women and children, there will still be 30,000 to 40,000 young people available.
Jingzhou is located on both sides of the Jingjiang River and east of Wushan. It has an extremely important strategic position. However, there are many lakes and swamps in the territory. For thousands of years, the four counties on the north bank have suffered from the floods of the Jingjiang River and the Han River. It is difficult for the population to reproduce. During the Tianxuan Period, the population of the four counties was very low.
The total number is less than 300,000.
After Chihu invaded the south, a large number of refugees poured in, and the Dongjing Allied Forces ravaged the countryside. Although the total population of Jingbei should have increased a lot, the number of households under the jurisdiction of the four counties was greatly reduced. Compared with the Tianxuan period, there were only
About half.
This winter, even if Chushan's plan can only be completed by 60 to 70%, the population directly controlled by Chushan in the four counties will far exceed the jurisdiction of the four counties; and with Chushan's ability to mobilize and organize the people at the bottom, who can still
Can the four counties of Jingbei be taken away from Chushan?
