Xi Zhong said: "The one who seizes the Han Dynasty will definitely be the Duke of Thunder. The only Han Dynasty that can fight with the Duke of Thunder has been divided. Now it is just Dong Zhuo who suppresses other forces with strong means. As long as the Duke of Thunder severely injures Dong Zhuo, the world will definitely fall into pieces, and a divided country will
It is impossible for a big man to defeat Thunder Lord!"
Although Guo Jia also thought of this, he said helplessly: "It's a pity that there is no place for us in the Tengjia Army, not to mention the noble families, or even the poor families. The Lei Gong who established these systems is very powerful, but I don't
I am optimistic about the future of the Tengjia Army. The policies are too radical and too many new policies mean that there is no reference point and it is easy to perish in the second generation like the Great Qin established by the First Emperor."
"Furthermore, all the powerful nobles in the world are the opponents of Lei Gong. The enemy Lei Gong faces is too powerful. Just like now, the Han Dynasty is attacking the Tengjia Army several times because the powerful nobles in the world have felt the threat of the Tengjia Army and began to
Take the initiative to attack the Tengjia Army."
"But Lei Gong can rely on ordinary people, but the people are too ignorant to become a great weapon. However, the system of the Tengjia Army requires more than ten times more talents than the Han Dynasty. It is a bit like the former Qin Dynasty. Talents are in charge of everything.
The gap will limit the development of the Tengjia Army. Although the Tengjia Army is invincible and invincible, I am not optimistic about the future of the Tengjia Army!"
To be honest, Guo Jia went all the way north to Mayi and encountered many things that surprised him, but what surprised him the most was that in everything Lei Gong built, there was no sign of the nobles, not even the poor people.
I can't even see a few.
The entire Tengjia Army officials were actually soldiers, and they were composed of Litian who came from farmers. This was actually a world without noble families! Such a world was unheard of and unseen. Guo Jia felt a little scared in his heart, and felt that the Tengjia Army was like this
Sooner or later it will collapse!
But Xi Zhong pointed to Xu Wei who was harvesting grain not far away and said: "As a master, you can help the people harvest grain without worrying about your identity. Such a monarch can only do what the legendary Yao and Shun did! We also saw the Tengjia Army along the way.
Officials were helping with the harvesting in the fields, so the big man could see the unity of the people!
Fengxiao was also blinded by his own knowledge. Who stipulated that the world must be governed by scholars and Confucian classics. In the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, aristocrats governed the world. Who can say that soldiers and farmers cannot govern the world. At least the current Bingzhou
They are managed very well by the Tengjia Army!"
Guo Jia thought for a while and said: "The future of the Tengjia Army depends on this battle. If Lei Gong can defeat Huangfu Song and seize Youzhou, the Tengjia Army will become a flying dragon in the sky. It will be difficult for a big man to stop the Tengjia Army.
The rise of the Tengjia Army. But if the Tengjia Army is defeated and loses the struvite in Youzhou, the Tengjia Army will definitely have a food crisis. Even if the Tengjia Army is not seriously injured, it will be trapped due to lack of food. If the imperial court can catch
If you seize the opportunity, you might be able to attack the Tengjia Army, and it will fall into disrepair!"
Guo Jia and others came to Bingzhou. Although they found that Bingzhou was governed by Tengjia Army and had good governance and people, they could also sense the food crisis. The food they ate here was actually more than twice as expensive as that in Luoyang City.
They originally thought that the price of food in the Tengjia Army would be very high. After all, they also knew that the Tengjia Army had received millions of refugees. They understood that the price of food was a little higher, but they did not expect that the price of food here could be regarded as the lowest in the entire Han Dynasty.
Yes, one stone of grain only costs more than 100 yuan!
But later they learned that the sale and purchase of food in Tengjia Army was restricted. No one could take Bingzhou's food out of Tengjia Army's territory. Those who found out would be severely punished. But bringing food to Tengjia Army's territory
They will all be purchased by the Tengjia Army at a high price.
If you want to buy food, you can only go to the food store designated by Tengjia Army, and you also need to have food stamps. The food consumed by everyone every month is fixed. Outsiders like them can only eat some high-priced food. Guo Jia
Calculated, the food they eat is almost five times the price of local people. No wonder they feel that the price of food here in Tengjia Army is more expensive than in Luoyang City!
Guo Jia discovered that although this system could ensure the stability of the Tengjia Army's territorial operations, the management system was extremely complicated. The Han Dynasty simply could not distribute food according to the number of people. If such a thing happened, even the city of Luoyang would
A large number of people starved to death, but the wealthy nobles were not affected.
But the Tengjia Army has maintained this system for more than 2 years. Under the leadership of the top brass of the Tengjia Army, there have been no major problems. The Tengjia Army's ability to govern simply exceeded Guo Jia's imagination. The violent Qin Dynasty that year was also
But that's it! Then he discovered that many of the systems of the Tengjia Army were the same as those of the Baoqin, and he had a hunch that the system of the Tengjia Army would be difficult to maintain. After all, Baoqin had hundreds of years of experience, but Lei Gong had nothing to do with it.
nothing!
Xi Zhong smiled and said: "How about we wait and see in Mayi to see whether Huangfu Song wins or Lei Gong wins in this battle. This battle should not last long. After the autumn harvest, the temperature in the north should cool down.
, If the Tengjia Army cannot break through any of the three nodes of Daijun, Juyongguan and Yuyang City in one month, it will snow in Youzhou, and Lei Gong will have to withdraw his troops, and as long as Lei Gong withdraws, it will definitely affect the situation.
The subsequent development of the Tengjia Army. Let’s first say that I am optimistic that Lei Gong will break through Youzhou’s defense line within this month!”
Guo Jia laughed and said: "Huangfu Song is the number one general of the Han Dynasty. He can only defend for a month. I don't believe he can't withstand Lei Gong's attack for a month!"
Xu Wei was still working hard to harvest wheat, but he didn't know that two people not far away were betting on the fate of the Tengjia Army!
With the attention of the entire Tengjia Army, the wheat harvest in Bingzhou was twice as fast as in previous years! After the autumn harvest was completed, a large number of young men in the Tengjia Army were liberated. Counties under the Tengjia Army began to continuously mobilize soldiers. Their Xiaowei Army
Under the leadership of Sima, they went to various battlefields one after another!
Xu Wei led the Tengjia Army's heavy cavalry, Modao Battalion and 10,000 infantry to the Youzhou battlefield. In order to end this war as soon as possible and allow the Tengjia Army to completely occupy the entire Youzhou, Xu Wei took him with him over the years.
The accumulated 10,000 kilograms of black powder also allowed Old Man Niu to start researching artillery. Such large-scale use of black powder will definitely be spread. He can only upgrade firearms to create artillery!
Primitive artillery is not that difficult. Making the simplest bronze artillery is even easier than making Mo Dao armor. After all, Chinese civilization has a history of playing with bronze for thousands of years!
The only trouble is that this thing is relatively expensive. A five-baht coin weighs about 3-4 grams, and casting a bronze cannon that can fire 4-pound shells probably consumes more than 600 kilograms of bronze. One cannon does not count labor.
It consumes nearly 100,000 yuan worth of bronze, and if other expenses are included, the ex-factory price of each artillery piece is 150,000 yuan. This can be regarded as the most expensive weapon of the Tengjia Army. Of course, it is difficult for these artillery to catch up.
In this war, when Xu Wei attacks Jizhou, he can use these artillery to knock on the door of Jizhou city little by little!
On the solid wooden rails of Mayi, wooden rail carriages carried carts of newly ground wheat flour. These transport ships moved along the winding path towards Youzhou!
In order to support this war, after the autumn harvest, Zhang Baiqi recruited 10,000 civilians, bringing various tools and sleepers to start laying the track from Pingcheng County to Khantan Mountain, because a large number of people helped this track to be laid every day.
Moving forward at a speed of 2 miles!
When there were no wooden rails, heavy-duty horse-drawn carriages were used to transport grain, grass and supplies. Hundreds of thousands of heavy-duty horse-drawn carriages or ox-carts formed a giant long queue. These were civilians who transported grain and grass to Youzhou.
And when the army after Xu Wei passed by these civilian husbands, the civilian husbands looked at these soldiers who were about to enter the battlefield with envy!
After Xu Wei led his troops on the expedition, the herdsmen across the northern grasslands were extremely excited. How glorious it was to be able to fight with Qu Shuai, the Thunder God, and to make achievements in front of Qu Shuai!
These herdsmen came out of their homes to fight, mounted their war horses, and came after them with some food. Throughout the desert mountains, rivers, and fertile grasslands, herdsmen rode horses and galloped to follow the thundering army.
For the herdsmen who have just joined the Tengjia Army, getting rich through hard work is too troublesome. Their outlook on life is still in the era of the Xianbei people. They like to use their swords to bring wealth to themselves and prove it by beheading their enemies on the battlefield.
My own bravery is already engraved in the blood of the herdsmen!
So now the famous Thunder God on the grassland is watching his team getting longer and longer in annoyance. You must know that the more troops there are, the greater the consumption of food and grass. Moreover, these herdsmen are all newly conquered. To use an old saying,
It's just that the wild nature has not been eradicated.
They are good at fighting, but they are also sloppy. You must know that the territory he is attacking this time is the territory of the Han people. With the habits of these barbarians, Xu Wei is not surprised that they come to massacre the city. Originally, among Sun Qing's army were herdsmen.
There are quite a few, and now these are more than half of his army. It is difficult for Xu Wei to control them. He doesn't want the reputation of his Tengjia Army to be ruined by them!
After thinking about it, Xu Wei went to Liu Hu and said: "You take the soldiers of the heavy cavalry battalion to reorganize the herdsmen who have surrendered to us. During this period, you must let them understand the military rules and regulations of our Tengjia Army. You must know that Youzhou will be our Tengjia Army from now on."
I don’t want the herdsmen to massacre the people of Youzhou. Now all your heavy cavalry battalions have become supervisors. Supervise them and don’t let them make mistakes! Do you understand?”
Liu Hu said firmly: "Understand, my subordinates must give them the military rules and regulations of our Tengjia Army every day. If any of them dare to violate the military regulations and military disciplines, my subordinates must severely punish them!"
There are about 50,000 herdsmen who came with Xu Wei. Liu Hu manages ten supervisory troops at a very high level, so there should not be any big problems.
In this way, Xu Wei marched all the way and passed through Khantan Mountain. At this time, he met Duan Peng's soldiers asking for reinforcements!
He brought Xu Wei some not-so-good news. Mijia, the eastern Xianbei man, saw the Tengjia Army attacking Youzhou. Maybe he wanted to fish in troubled waters or was worried about losing his lips and teeth. He led 30,000 Xianbei cavalry to constantly harass the Tengjia Army.
Grain paths on the grassland.
Although Duan Peng has 30,000 cavalry, which should be stronger than the Xianbei in terms of combat effectiveness, Duan Peng has to protect the thousands of miles of transportation lines, and the soldiers are scattered. Faced with the harassment and guerrilla warfare of the Xianbei, he is a little powerless. Duan Peng
Peng wanted to fight the Xianbei people, but Mijia didn't want to. What he wanted was to cut off the food route of the Tengjia Army. Duan Peng, who couldn't find Mijia's main force, could only ask Xu Wei for help.
Xu Wei thought for a while and asked Liu Hu to lead 50,000 cavalry to support Duan Peng, and asked Liu Hu to bring the heads of Mijia. The territory occupied by Mijia was close to the three eastern provinces, which was the granary of the Celestial Empire. After Xu Wei occupied Youzhou, Naturally, he would not let such a treasure land go, and now that Mika is seeking his own death, Xu Wei simply kills him first, completely annihilating the Xianbei people on the grassland, and making the Xianbei country a piece of history!
But what Xu Wei did not expect was that soon after Duan Peng asked for help, even Sun Qing began to ask for help from him, saying that there were insufficient troops to conquer Juyong Pass! It seems that Xu Wei came to support Juyong Pass, and there were 60,000 troops in the direction of Yuyang City. , he was not worried that Huangfu Song could defeat such an army.
However, there are a few fewer soldiers in the direction of Juyong Pass. Originally, there were 3,000 soldiers at Juyong Pass. Yan Rou brought 10,000 Youzhou troops, and Gongsun Zan brought more than 1,000 white horse followers. Sun Qing only had twice the advantage, so it should be difficult to conquer Juyong Pass. .
Xu Wei simply led his army to Juyongguan, and Sun Qingze brought his people to greet Xu Wei early!
Xu Wei glanced at Juyong who was not far away and said: "How is the battle situation? Are the defenders at Juyong Pass resisting fiercely?"
Sun Qing smiled bitterly and said: "Commander Qu, my subordinates rarely attack Juyong Pass during this period. The Karasuma people in Shanggu County are like crazy and attack our Tengjia Army everywhere. Most of my army is used to suppress the rebellion of the Karasuma people. Up there! There are less than 10,000 soldiers in this camp now!"
Xu Wei said seriously: "It seems that Liu Yu has also begun to mobilize the power of his allies to fight back!"
Liu Yu had always had good relations with the Wuwan and Xianbei people in Youzhou, especially in recent years, they had become allies under the oppression of the Tengjia Army. Now that he is attacking Youzhou, especially for the Wuwan people, Youzhou It is also their homeland, so it is not surprising that they rebelled against Xu Wei. As long as the Tengjia Army does not change its policy of dividing cattle, sheep, and pasture, it is impossible for these barbarian leaders to defect to the Tengjia Army.
Of course, Xu Wei didn't want them to take refuge. He wanted cattle, sheep, pastures and their herdsmen. As for these leaders, Xu Wei felt that hanging them was the best way to resolve the grassland dispute!
After thinking about it, Xu Wei said: "When you lead your men to encircle and suppress the entire Karasuma people, you must act in accordance with our policies and clearly distinguish who is our enemy and who is our friend. Although our policies cannot be achieved by Karasuma, The leader likes us, but the Karasuma people at the bottom welcome us very much, so we must win over the Karasuma people at the bottom and explain our policies to them. They will help us eliminate this small group of Karasuma leaders who have launched their forces. As long as we seize If we understand this key point, the Wuwan people will not be difficult to deal with, and Juyong Pass can be conquered by me!"