Yun Puzi and the old man in green robe were at Lei Ping Peak, wondering how Han Qian would clean up the mess. In the following days, the third group of people heading east from Xuzhou, with more than 500 people, led by Feng Liao, Ji Xiyao and others, also followed one after another.
They continued to arrive in Maoshan and Donglushan in batches to join the Chishan Army.
Among this group of 500 people, there were only 100 grassroots military attachés drawn from the state camp.
Xuzhou implements a unique military recruitment system. The military attaché team formed based on the sons of family soldiers and elite scouts and sons of Zuosi is the foundation of Xuzhou's military preparation.
More than 400 military attachés have been transferred from Xuzhou. It is impossible to further squeeze the military potential of Xuzhou without limit. Otherwise, the powerful forces surrounding Xuzhou that are eyeing covetously may not continue to maintain their current docile and well-behaved appearance.
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Among the 500 people transferred in the third batch, there are nearly 100 people who are craftsmen and craftsmen with various specialties. In addition, there are nearly 300 people whose sources are more complicated.
These people include refugees who were lured to Xuzhou by the gold rush, a considerable number of slaves who moved west with the Feng family, a small number of Feng clan members, and some of the four surnames who were forcibly moved down the mountain to Linjiang. The Chinese side
Among the Fanhuzhai slaves who settled in other counties, there were also civilians with Xuzhou guest status.
These people have a common characteristic, that is, in addition to being proficient in pen and ink and being able to write and read simply, Xuzhou has built river embankments, water conservancy, roads, cultivated new fields, and built villages on a large scale in recent years, especially
In the process of implementing the land tax reform and the integration of native and guest registration, they participated and received certain training. In the process, they gained certain abilities and experience in leadership of grassroots organizations.
Why did Emperor Tianyou have to compromise with the aristocratic families when he decided to rule Jianghuai?
In addition to the fact that a considerable part of the main force of the Jianghuai Army comes directly from the aristocratic families represented by the Xu family, another main reason is that it has not formed a civil servant training and selection system, and does not compromise with the aristocratic families. The regime established by Da Chu
The tentacles cannot smoothly extend to prefectures and counties, let alone sink to the grassroots level at the township level.
The fact that Han Qian and his father were able to implement new policies such as the land reform and the unification of native and guest registration in Xuzhou not only completely destroyed the resistance of the local forces by force, but also allowed them to appoint a group of people who could go deep into the country.
The subordinate staff who promoted the restructuring work at the grassroots level were directly related to this - among them, Feng's servants also contributed a large number of manpower.
Han Qian recruited his slaves to join the army and dared to build grudges with the noble families. His main support was not only the young and strong slaves but also the old soldiers, but also the military attachés who organized them into the Chishan Army.
Only if there are enough junior staff at the grassroots level to lead the old, weak, women and children to disperse to get food, can the Chishan Army not become an increasingly unbearable burden, and can the Chishan Army not become a piece of meat surrounded by heroes.
In addition to recruiting young men and women as standing troops, the Chishan Army also mobilized women and young people in Taowu, which had long been accustomed to semi-military management in recent years, to form women's camps and youth camps to strengthen the establishment and establishment of internal order.
maintain.
These are all necessary conditions for creating dispersed food supplies.
It was also that the way to break the situation that the old man in green robe told Yun Puzi was right in front of him, but he himself couldn't see through it.
The place where grain was scattered was not the Huhang Plain on the south coast of Taihu Lake, nor the Ningxi Plain on the west side of Jinling such as Dangtu and quarrying, but the Fuyu Mountain (Tianmu Mountain) in the east of Xuanzhou.
Dangtu, quarrying is located in the heart of Nanya Forbidden Army and Shouzhou Army, in the Huhang Plain on the south coast of Taihu Lake. The powerful family members headed by Huang Hua, the governor of Huzhou, are scattered to get food.
How many soldiers and horses should be sent to protect weak women and children in order to successfully obtain stable and sufficient food from the local area?
Fuyu Mountain spans the five states of Xuanshe, Hangzhou, and Quzhou, stretching 150 miles from north to south and 300 miles from east to west. Further to the west is the Yishan (Huangshan) mountain range of the same size, and the northern part is dominated by hilly terrain.
Jieling Mountain (Yili Mountain) is steep and steep, and its scope is more than a hundred times larger than the small Maoshan Mountain.
The Chuzhou Army was also eager to expand its troops in a short period of time and control Changzhou and Suzhou in the east. They did not want to be overly eager to divide their troops and go south to confront the Chishan Army. The Xuanzhou Army was thinking of beggar-thy-neighbor and even hoped to introduce the Chishan Army to Huzhou in the east.
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Taking advantage of the current situation, Han Qian first built two cities at the western and southwest foothills of Jieling Mountain, and then organized the old, weak, women and children to bypass the southwest foothills of Jieling Mountain, but before entering Huzhou, he went south to
A group of two to three hundred or three to five hundred women and children took the dangerous paths in the mountains, traveled through mountains and rivers, and spread out deep into Fuyu Mountain.
This is another form of using a mountain as a city.
The prerequisite for doing this is that after extracting the young and strong slaves, each team of old, weak, women and children, consisting of one, two hundred or even three to five hundred people, must be able to maintain a certain ability to protect themselves after being separated from the main force.
To maintain a certain degree of self-reliance and the ability to use all favorable conditions to organize production and self-rescue, we must also have a strong binding force to avoid excessively fierce confrontation and conflicts with the people in the local villages.
This is something that ordinary refugee soldiers can never do.
The extremely large team of women and children in the refugee army has a disorganized grassroots organization. They are pure refugees. They can only follow the main army and move around without daring to disperse.
Every time it goes to a place, in addition to causing serious damage to local production like a swarm of locusts, it is also too bulky and easy to be taken advantage of by a small group of elite soldiers.
But the Chishan Army is different.
In addition to a group of civilian officials transferred from Xuzhou, each team of women and children was led by a leader, and there were also members of the women's camp and youth camp from Taowu Ji, ranging from ten to thirty or forty, to ensure that each team was dispersed.
Women and children who enter the mountains can maintain a certain degree of self-protection and organizational skills, and can also maintain close contact with the main troops and horses, instead of being a bunch of loose sand that can get out of control at any time or be thrown out and ignored.
At present, women and children are mainly scattered into the mountains at the northern foot of Fuyu Mountain, which belong to Huzhou and Xuanzhou respectively. Han Qian led the main force of the Chishan Army to stay outside the mountain, mainly focusing on the main forces of the Huzhou Army and Xuanzhou Army, and focused the attention of the local soldiers here.
By attracting them and making them afraid to send troops into the mountains to suppress them, you can eliminate the biggest threat faced by the old, weak, women and children.
At the same time, more than a thousand elites were separated in advance and dozens of elite teams were formed to go deep into the depths of Fuyu Mountain to warn and suppress some stubborn forces in the mountain and help the women and children who dispersed into the mountain to gain a foothold in the mountain.
Deep in Fuyu Mountain, although there is very little cultivated land and the grain that can be purchased is extremely limited, in the summer and autumn, the vast mountain forests located in a land with abundant rainfall and a mild climate, can find thousands of food sources to satisfy hunger.
The plain areas that have been fully developed over the past few years are abundant.
Just like in the mountains near Jingxiang, tens of thousands of villagers hid in the mountains and forests to avoid the war. Although their lives were extremely difficult, they managed to survive.
The more important point is that the old, weak, women and children are dispersed into Fuyu Mountain. After the pressure on the Chishan Army's main bodyguards is greatly reduced, the scope of activities can become wider and more flexible, freeing up hands to go to more places.
In distant places, grains were collected in the area and transported into the mountains to supplement the lack of food for women and children.
Because the area for grain collection has become extremely wide, it is no longer limited to one county, or even one state. Instead, grain and grass are collected from five states in Huhang, Xuanshe and Quzhou around Fuyu Mountain.
In this way, the food pressure on each place will be greatly reduced, the resistance will be greatly weakened, and there may not even be the possibility of peaceful transactions!
Han Qian sent out elite soldiers and horses to buy three to five thousand shi of grain from a county at a reasonable price. Even if he could not get the goods for the time being, he bought 3 to 5,000 shi of grain on credit in the name of Yueyang or directly in the name of the Chishan Army. He was
The possibility of rejection is far lower than purchasing two to three hundred thousand dan of grain from a county and completely draining the county's grain reserves.
The prerequisite for all this is to break away from the aristocratic families and have the grassroots organizational capabilities of nearly 300,000 old, weak, women and children to the extent that one or two hundred people can form a team.
Simply based on the convenience of contact with Yueyang and Xuzhou, it might be better for Han Qian to send the Chishan Army and women and children into the Jiuhua Mountains and Yishan Mountains between Chizhou and Shezhou.
The mountains of the Jiuhua Mountains stretch straight to the south bank of the Yangtze River, and extend into the Dongting Lake plain to the southwest.
However, Han Qian avoided this area, not only because he did not want to contain the soldiers and horses of An Ning Palace for the Chuzhou Army, but also because after being suppressed by the Chishan Army, the population of Jinling City and the surrounding areas was still as high as 700,000. In addition, there were
The Nanya Forbidden Army and the Nandu Shouzhou Army had more than 100,000 troops.
If he disperses the old, weak, women and children into Jiuhua Mountain and Yishan Mountain, and leads the main force of the Chishan Army to stay in the southwest of Jinling, it will only compress the remaining large number of people into Jinling City, let alone continue to evacuate Jinling City to the periphery.
Allow more space for population.
No matter what others think of him, his core goal this time is to evacuate the crowded population in Jinling, which is now entering famine, and break the Chuzhou Army's siege strategy.
The early preparations were relatively slow, but in order to prevent the Chuzhou Army and the Xuanhuzhou Army from reacting, when the women and children were actually organized to disperse and transfer in leaps and bounds, the speed was extremely fast. In almost five days, more than 200,000 women and children were transferred from the southern foot of Maoshan Mountain.
The extended hilly area was directly evacuated into the mountains at the northern foot of Fuyu Mountain.
After that, the Chishan Army was stationed at the northern and middle foothills of Maoshan Mountain. It expanded to the first capital of 9,000 people and was the most elite combat force of the Chishan Army. In one day, all the defenses built with great effort over the past two months were abandoned.
, quickly shrank to the southwest foot of Jieling Mountain, preventing the Chuzhou Army from seizing the opportunity to entangle.
Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, found it difficult to believe this fact, and hurriedly led more than a hundred cavalry to the main camp at Canglongbei, the former first capital of the Chishan Army, at the northern foot of Maoshan Mountain.
Looking at the fortifications below the ridge that were in disarray and empty of soldiers, Xinchang Marquis Li Pu wanted to cry without tears, and felt a chill running down his spine: Han Qian, the grandson, had withdrawn all the men and horses, leaving not a single soldier behind!
Not a single soldier of the Chishan Army was left behind. They all shrank to the southwest foot of Jieling Mountain a hundred miles away. They may even shrink from the southwest foot of Jieling Mountain to the east of Langxi County. He led his troops to guard Lishui City.
, like a weak and beautiful girl who was suddenly stripped of all her clothes and thrown into a group of men who had been suffering for many years and were full of hunger and thirst...