Chapter 779: Even if you are far away, you will be punished (1)
Jizhou
There are no clouds in the sky, and it is the time of autumn when the air is crisp and clear.
Lukou Duwu Fort is located on a hillside a hundred meters away from the river, and hundreds of acres of land have been reclaimed. At this time, about fifty men were repeatedly performing assassination movements against the sun.
Every 50 men in the civilian villages were divided into one village, and the soldiers were stationed in the villages. The harvest was divided with the state. In response to the Wu Dynasty, the state allocated cattle to officials, and the harvest was divided equally between the officials and the people.
At this time, the shouts and curses of the veterans could be heard from time to time.
"Stand still, you bastard, you can't stand upright without cracking the whip..."
"How can you hit with this strength..."
The village chief was a tall man with beard and cheeks. He was burly and wearing leather armor. He was patrolling. Suddenly, he felt something and looked toward the grassland.
I saw smoke and dust billowing southward on the grassland, like the tide, and there were countless cavalrymen.
At this time, a veteran nearby said in a trembling voice: "Zhou Tun, Hu's army has ten thousand people, more than ten thousand people."
"Don't mess with the morale of our army," the bearded man shouted. The hills could be seen in the distance for dozens of miles. It would still take some time to get here.
The big man with the beard stood quietly for a moment, but his mood became calm. Hu Bing arrived.
This man's name is Zhou Qinhu. He is good at spears and sticks. Despite his curly beard, he is actually only twenty-seven years old. Chengqiu County was destroyed and his family was killed by the Blood Wolf Army, so he has a strong hatred for the Hu people.
I applied to join the border Wubao farm, and then I finally met Hu Bing.
It's just that at this scale, one can tell whether there is life or death at a glance. At this moment, the bearded man suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed: "Happy, happy"
"Come here, light the beacon fire and cannons immediately."
"Don't be a coward, I will kill him immediately"
At the command, in just a moment, thick smoke rose high into the sky. Almost at the same time, fireworks shot into the sky, like the sound of cannons, which shocked everyone's heart.
Everyone looked at each other with pale faces, but remained silent and followed the commander to prepare their weapons. For a moment, murderous intent filled the air.
"Wang Ke, you are a scholar sent from above. Go and report to the counties. Hu soldiers have invaded in large numbers. There are at least 30,000 people." The bearded man said to one person.
"Zhou Tun..." Wang Ke's face turned red.
"Why are you so long-winded? You have to report it. Go quickly."
Wang Ke gasped for air, gritted his teeth, took a deep look, and ran out with a cavalryman towards the county.
Only half an hour after running out, a cavalry vanguard had arrived, probably numbering a thousand people.
It is the standard vanguard of the Thousand-Man Team.
The cavalry separated several teams of sentinels, roaring over and running around the fort. After seeing the situation clearly, one team ran back.
After a while, thousands of horses came rolling in, with banners and flags, and slowly gathered in front of Wubao.
"You Han people, if you don't surrender, you will be reduced to powder as soon as the army arrives." At this time, several riders ran out and shouted.
On the Wubao, forty-eight people put on simple leather armors, drew out their long knives, and held long spears. When they heard the surrender, they all looked at the bearded man.
The big man with the curly beard took a step forward, but at this moment he was extremely calm. Looking at the crisp autumn clouds, he suddenly sang loudly. This song is familiar to countless people.
"The strong wind is blowing, the clouds are flying, the Weijia sea is coming home, and the warriors are safe and guarding the four directions?"
"A strong warrior can guard the four sides?"
"The Han army is advancing but not retreating...
As the singing started, it started to tremble a little, but gradually became unified and merged into one voice.
"Damn it..." The Thousand Generals leading the army were officers of the Blood Wolf Army on the ground. When they saw the singing, they were immediately furious, but their hearts sank deeply.
"Take this fort and kill all the Han people." The general pulled out his sword and pointed at the castle. Immediately, drums sounded and thousands of soldiers stepped forward.
The sound of killing arose.
county town
Thousands of people were busy, shirtless civilians shouting slogans, building earth and stones on the wall, smashing them one after another, and then applying mortar...
"The project is nearing completion, or it may be completed today." Guo Jia looked at the project and was very satisfied. Then he said that he suddenly heard the roar of artillery and thick smoke rising everywhere.
"Report, Hu soldiers have invaded, the number may be more than 30,000." A horseman rushed over, got close, dismounted, and saluted.
"I've expected it for a long time."
Listening to several batches of urgent reports coming from several border forts, Guo Jia didn't even think about it and said calmly: "It's now that a man serves the country, secures the people, and makes contributions."
When the envoy submitted the declaration of war, the newly born Wei State had already broken through several weak passes of the Great Wall and fully invaded. This was actually no different from going to war without declaring it. It was an attempt to catch the Han Dynasty off guard due to the time difference.
But Guo Jia and Zhuge Liang were both people with perfect calculations, and they had heavy troops and a fort system all over the north. They would not give Murong Zheng a chance at all.
Zhang Liao, that is, Jiang Chen, looked up at this time and saw that this man was so calm. He sincerely admired him. Although this man was a scholar, his courage was not inferior to that of a warrior. He had just been promoted to the Daoist profession this year. He must be able to survive the Yanghua and be on the ground in the future.
There are also opportunities to work together.
Thinking like this, I asked seriously for a moment: "Is there any good plan for serving one's filial piety?"
"We have already budgeted for this matter. Now we only need to leave only soldiers in each fort and evacuate the people to the counties and counties...the walls will be clear and the fields will be defended in layers." Guo Jia said calmly.
Julu City had just fought a war with foreign lands, and His Majesty specially left 200,000 farmland. Guo Jia immediately armed these veterans.
Moreover, the construction of the new castle wall has been basically completed. The wall is one thousand meters long, eight meters high, and has a deep moat, which is enough.
"If we really want to fight this so-called big Chanyu, I dare to do it. I'm afraid that Hu Qi will come and go like the wind and won't give us this chance."
"The Hetao Racecourse has been converted to farmland for a long time, the Yinshan Racecourse was given to the white-eyed wolves of the Southern Xiongnu, and the Longxi Racecourse fell into the hands of the Qiang people. Our land for raising horses has shrunk too much in these years. Emperor Wu brought 180,000 riders to Yaowu Border Pass.
, we can only envy ourselves." Guo Jia let out a long sigh, and his voice suddenly became a little deeper.
Jiang Chen nodded upon hearing this: "We don't have the conditions for a cavalry legion duel to defend the enemy outside the country, but for internal support nodes, I can still do it with 20,000 cavalry."
"Well, I'll leave it to General Wenyuan."
With the support of 200,000 veterans, Guo Jia quickly implemented his combat policy. The entire Jizhou's manpower and material resources were organized by veterans to strictly implement the fortification of walls and clearing out the wilderness.
On one side, they defended the wall firmly, while on the other side, Zhang Liao's 20,000 cavalry troops maneuvered to connect all the nodes of the defense network.
Moreover, because the original people of Jizhou died or fled, and nine out of ten houses were empty, the immigrants who moved to replenish Jizhou in the past few years were mostly young and strong, and they were all organized into militias and retreated to various forts and cities for defense. Each fort was regularly spaced.
For more than ten miles, there are magician networks connecting each other. The atmosphere in various places has become tense, but overall it is peaceful. It must be said that the veterans play a great role in taking the lead.
On the other side of Youzhou, we have communicated the situation. Ji County, which governs the state, only has 50,000 veterans, which is slightly weaker than Jizhou. However, Gongsun Zan and Gongsun Du have 60,000 troops. Based on Guo Jia's understanding of Zhuge Liang, this junior's organization and coordination ability dominates these ten.
Ten thousand combat troops are more than enough for defense, and in the bitter cold region of the Northeast, the folk customs are strong and there is nothing to rob, so the benefit-to-cost ratio is too low.
The most important thing is that behind Jizhou and Youzhou, there is an emerging dynasty with a population of 40 million. This is where Guo Jia's confidence lies.
At this time, looking towards Luoyang in the south, from such a distance, even if a real person could not see the changes in the dragon's aura, the changes were definitely already taking place.
"Has His Majesty issued a general mobilization order?"
Luoyang
After a few autumn rains, the weather became cooler.
The issuance of the preparatory mobilization order shows that the entire ruling area is being organized step by step, and the energy in the entire area is connected. Xinhan has recovered its strength in the past four years, and is more prepared than on the grassland.
In Luoyang and Xuchang, newspapers announced that the official mobilization could gather 750,000 troops, breaking the national war record of Qin's 650,000 against Chu's 600,000, and a decisive battle with the Hu tribe.
All military information is said to be confidential, and no one knows whether the propaganda in the newspapers is true or not, but the news is undoubtedly very exciting.
Without him, there are many people.
In the palace, a series of summit meetings are being held, and the neural network spread through the information system is adjusting every part of the huge empire.
"Has that road been repaired?"
"It has been locked and surveyed. Although it has been a long time and the military situation has changed, some sections of the road have long been abandoned and the original appearance is obscured by the jungle vines beside the road, but the main part is still there."
Xun unfolded a scroll of the northern road network.
On the yellowed scroll, the area from Ganquan Mountain to Ziwu Ridge is marked with dense forests and lush greenery, and the Hetao Grassland area is even more overgrown with weeds and lakes and swamps. In the middle, there is a thick line written in thick ink, starting from Linguang Palace in Chang'an in the south.
It was built along the high point of the main vein of Ziwu Ridge and reaches Jiuyuan County in Hetao in the north, with a total length of 1,400 miles.
"It can be said to be a military highway... it's breathtaking."
Ye Qing pondered and looked at it. Some of the main road sections were marked with road widths, which were converted into UU meters. The average road section was also wide in meters. According to the characteristics of being built across high mountains and ridges, it was not for civilian use, but for military purposes. It controlled the key points around Ziwu Ridge from a high position -
- It looks like the Great Wall without walls. In fact, there is no technical mystery. The ordinary rammed earth method is used. It is just that the people of Qin were serious about their work, well organized, and did not hesitate to work hard to ram it hard.
"Did it attract the enemy's attention?"
The Secret Intelligence Department in charge of Jia Xu shook his head in denial: "It is located on a high mountain, and no civilians were recruited to repair it. It was kept very secret and did not attract the attention of the enemy... But please rest assured, Your Majesty, after the Secret Intelligence Department cleared the jungle piece by piece as scheduled, the middle road unexpectedly
It is as intact as ever, the road surface is as hard as iron, and not a blade of grass grows... Gee, the technology and engineering of the Qin people are unbelievable."