During the First Huainan Battle, most of the northwestern Huaihe area, including most of Shouzhou, Guangzhou and other places, fell to the ravages of the iron hoofs of the captive cavalry, and millions of people fled in panic, either heading south or taking refuge.
Enter the deep mountains and old forests of Huaiyang Mountain.
After the Huainan Battle, most of the people returned to the countryside - after all, that was the land they relied on for survival.
Huangchuan, Gushi, Guangshan and other counties were brutally invaded by Japanese soldiers twice in the past few years. Although the local areas were more completely destroyed and a considerable number of people moved to Huaiyuan, Xinyang and other places to settle down, there are still quite a few people.
The people are like weeds that grow again in the spring breeze and return to their homeland to inhabit and multiply.
After summer, the heading wheat stalks sway in the breeze.
Although the summer grain harvest season is about to enter, the farmers sitting on the ridge of the fields to rest their strength have long been bent by the ordeal. They are hunched over and thinking about deducting the rent paid, grain taxes and countless tax increases.
How much food is left and whether the whole family can sustain it until the autumn harvest.
The wrinkles on the skinny and numb face couldn't help but become deeper.
A carriage is coming from the north.
Even in the increasingly hot early summer, the carriage was still tightly covered with curtains so that no one could see what was going on inside. The carriage was originally escorted by a group of soldiers, but
After seeing Huangchuan City in sight, the escorting soldiers turned back to the north, seemingly no longer caring about where the carriage would go next.
The clumsy-looking coachman and a young man dressed as a servant sat on the shaft of the carriage and drove towards Huangchuan City.
Huangchuan is the seat of Guangzhou Prefecture. It is located on the bank of Huangshui, so it is named Huangchuan. Huangshui passes through the city and divides Huangchuan into two cities: north and south. In the early years, the north and south cities of Huangchuan each had city walls, city gates, and city ports.
It was prosperous, but it fell twice and was completely changed beyond recognition by the ravages of war. At this time, it is far from being able to recover.
The carriage stopped in front of the north gate of Huangchuan City. At this time, a skinny hand opened a gap in the carriage curtain from the inside, and a pair of gloomy eyes peered through the gap towards the city wall.
On this section of the city wall, there are more than a hundred skinny civilians who are being driven by officials under the blazing sun. They pour the sifted soil into the trough, and then use a roller to compact it bit by bit to combine with the previous broken earth wall.
together.
There was a Biaojian general guarding the battle shed at the head of the city. When he saw the carriage stopping at the city gate, he quickly got off the city wall, pressed his knife and walked out of the city gate. He walked to the carriage and looked at the driver and the boy.
, then reached out to lift the car curtain and took a look inside.
But he didn't expect that the guests in the carriage were sitting a little closer to each other at this time. The light contrast between the inside and outside of the carriage was too great. For a while, he couldn't see the guests' faces clearly. The general asked with some uncertainty:
"Is it Mr. Tian?"
"Captain Zhou, it's Tian!"
The guest leaned forward in the carriage so that General Biao Jian could see his face clearly.
"General Sun didn't make things difficult for you last time. Why did you come to Huangchuan again out of ignorance?" General Biao Jian frowned and asked in a low voice with dissatisfaction.
"If Sun Shuai feels that Tian is a trouble, and he is afraid that Tian will bring death to Sun Shuai, he can dedicate Tian to the Southern Dynasty court as a great contribution, and Tian will not complain at all!" Guest!
He said calmly in the carriage.
General Biao Jian stared at the guests from the half-opened curtain of the carriage for a while, and finally waved to the soldiers guarding the city gate, signaling them to pull away the horse blocking the road.
Then General Biao Jian led someone to bring in a green mule. He rode on the green mule and personally escorted the carriage to the general's mansion without letting his soldiers approach.
Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and others led their troops to accept the recruitment and were organized into German troops, responsible for garrisoning Guangzhou.
Guangzhou governs Huangchuan, Gushi, Guangshan, Shangcheng and other counties, covering a vast area on the south bank of the middle reaches of the Huaihe River that stretches for more than 200 miles from east to west, 120 to 30 miles from north to south, and is bounded by the mountains at the northern foot of Huaiyang Mountain in the south.
Logically speaking, the returned German army, totaling 30,000 soldiers and horses, was enough to establish a solid defense along the south bank of the Huaihe River. However, when Sun Yanzhou led his troops to Guangzhou, he led his direct troops to station in Huangchuan City. He found various excuses and refused to
Stretching out along the south bank of the Huaihe River, not to mention trying every possible means to build a series of dock fortresses along the south bank of the Huaihe River to construct a stable defense line.
The Returned Army was mainly stationed in Huangchuan City, and no one thought it was okay to directly requisition private houses as camps. However, the problem was that Guangzhou fell twice. Not only the city gate tower and other nearby buildings were burned down, but not only the city???
Dozens of walls have been dug down in large areas, and the buildings in the city have basically been burned, with most of them only remaining in ruins.
It is not difficult to imagine how miserable the initial scene was when these houses were used as camps.
However, it has been two years since the Returned Army entered Huangchuan City. The guests were sitting in the carriage and saw from the cracks in the carriage window that the city was still in chaos. The Generals of the Returned Army who were running around in the streets and alleys were not neat and tidy, and they could not help but frown deeply.
He frowned, but then smiled, thinking that if Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and others were determined, ambitious and good at management, how could they easily surrender?
Sun Yanzhou's General's Mansion was originally a private garden in Huangchuan City. In the past two years, thousands of people have been driven to renovate it. Although it is not perfect, it still stands out among the chaos in Huangchuan City.
Under the guidance of General Biao Jian, the guests walked all the way through halls and alleys, and finally walked into a garden that was half pond, half rockery, surrounded by verandahs and shaded by flowers and trees.
The burly Sun Yanzhou stood in a pavilion built on the top of a rockery with his arms and hands, staring coldly at the guests who entered the garden; but a young general came over from the pavilion eagerly: "Mr. Tian, come here this time
, it’s been a hard journey, hasn’t it?”
"Young Master, you're welcome, Confucian scholar's hard work is nothing!" Confucian scholar Tian smiled and saluted Sun Yanzhou's eldest descendant. Then he walked to the rockery and saluted Sun Yanzhou, who was standing coldly in the pavilion. "Confucian scholar has met Sun Shuai!"
"Why did you come to Huangchuan again? Do you really think that what Sun said before was just talk, and you will show mercy today?" Sun Yanzhou said coldly.
"Father, it's rare for Mr. Tian to come here. Let's listen to what he has to say. If what Mr. Tian says doesn't sit well with my father, what's the point of sending Mr. Tian away?" Sun Zaichun persuaded from the side.
road.
Sun Yanzhou gave his eldest son Sun Zaichun a stern look. Even in Hutu, he knew that Tian Rusheng's ability to walk up to him smoothly must have been due to his eldest son's arrangement.
"If the Southern Dynasty is not on guard and can safely transfer the German troops led by Sun Shuai to the hinterland, Confucian scholars will naturally not come over to seek trouble!" Tian Rusheng raised his head, held his head and asked, "But at this time, Sun Shuai is in danger, how can he still do it?
Are you stingy enough to listen to a Confucian scholar?"
"Don't be alarmist," Sun Yanzhou sneered. "The Red Husbands have assembled 300,000 soldiers and horses, but they haven't been able to capture a piece of land from Rucai for two years. Now they have to withdraw their troops from the middle. I don't understand what happened to Huangchuan?"
Is this going to be a big disaster?"
Hearing Sun Yanzhou pointing directly at the painful spot, Tian Rusheng's face couldn't help but twitch slightly, and then he said calmly:
"It is an indisputable fact that Wang Shi went south and was blocked by Rucai. No Confucian scholar can deny it. But whether Jingxiang is strong or not, and whether it can defend its territory, what does it have to do with Huangchuan, and what does it have to do with Sun Shuai? Sun Shuai.
Will Shuai forget that it was Jing and Xiang who secretly colluded with Jiang Ang, Sun Yanguan and others to finally foil Sun Shuai's plan? Or maybe Sun Shuai really didn't know that Jing and Xiang had always requested the court to be on guard against the returning German troops.
, there is not a day when I don’t think about dismembering and returning to the German army? Think of Shenzhou in Jingxiang, which has jurisdiction over Queshan, Qingyi Ridge, Chushan, Xinyang, Huaiyang, and Luoshan counties. However, the troops and horses under the jurisdiction of Shenzhou’s camp are deployed in the south and north.
Light, they built forts along the right bank of the Shi River and stationed more than ten thousand elites. They would not be able to guard against our troops in the west of Beijing, right? Sun Shuai imagined that this autumn and winter, the Wang Division once again crossed the Huaihe River and marched south. The army besieged Huangchuan City, and the Jingxiang Hui sent out
Will one soldier support each other?"
Sun Yanzhou remained silent, and Tian Rusheng continued: "Confucian scholar, during this trip, I didn't expect Sun Shuai to make a decisive decision right now - it's just that I was taken care of by Sun Shuai in the past, and I really didn't want Sun Shuai to be unprepared when something happened...
…”
"You will definitely cross the Huaihe River via the east road this autumn and winter?" Sun Yanzhou asked after a long silence.
"What does Sun Shuai think?" Tian Rusheng asked, "Or maybe Sun Shuai thought that the German army could hold Huangchuan, and the Southern Dynasty would finally clear up their suspicions about Sun Shuai and entrust him with important tasks? Or maybe Sun Shuai thought that both sides would lose in this fight, and then expected the king to return the favor.
Can we be more open-minded?"
"I believe that Sun Shuai does not like the Confucian scholar staying in Huangchuan for a long time. The words have been brought here, and the Confucian scholar said goodbye. I hope that Sun Shuai will prepare early so as not to be caught off guard when things happen!" Tian Rusheng persuaded Sun Yanzhou again, but when he saw that Sun Yanzhou was still indifferent, he left.
Please resign and leave.
"Mr. Tian rarely comes to Huangchuan, and his relationship with Hu Shuai is irreconcilable. Could it be..." Sun Zaichun looked at his father, Sun Yanzhou, and said.
Sun Yanzhou waved his hand, not intending to ask Tian Rusheng to meet Hu Dangzhou at this time, and signaled General Biao Jian to personally take Tian Rusheng out of the city and not to cause any further trouble.
Seeing that Tian Rusheng had left for a while, but his father did not leave the pavilion, Sun Zaichun said again: "I think Mr. Tian said something right during this trip. Maybe there is no need to make any decisions at this time, but some preparations must be made -
Are you asking Chen Jinqiu to lead a small group of troops to sneak into Jianye and pick up my mother, Si'er and the others?"
"Do you think that when the imperial court granted a village outside Jianye City and allowed dozens of Sun family members to enjoy the glory and wealth there, they didn't secretly send someone to keep an eye on it?" Sun Yanzhou glanced at his eldest son, Sun Zaichun, with a cold tone.
He said, "Another one, I really picked up your mother and the others secretly, but the generals abandoned their wives, children, and children. Who will listen to the orders of our father and son in the future?"
"..." Sun Zaichun was stunned there, and for a moment he couldn't understand the cold light in his father's eyes.
"You keep talking about decision-making, but now you know that decision-making is not easy, right?" Sun Yanzhou rolled up his sleeves and walked down the pavilion. Before leaving the garden, he left another sentence, "You should think about it..."
