Han Qian personally took Gao Shao, Zhao Wuji, Yang Qin, Han Donghu, Ji Xiyao, Du Yijun, Zhao Jicheng and other Tangyi generals to greet Yuan Guowei's arrival outside the gate of Liyang East City.
Everyone did not stay in Liyang City, but passed directly through the city and headed for Donghu New City via the wide galloping road.
After another year of construction, East Lake New City is now considered to be in its initial stages. The new port terminal, warehouse, and workshop area are built along the lake embankment, covering an area of about four square miles. Of course, there is still a certain amount of land to fill the lake outside the dock.
, as a space for the subsequent westward extension of the Lakeside Workshop District.
To the east of the workshop is the residential area, which currently consists of more than a thousand houses, dotted on both sides of dozens of criss-crossing streets.
The residential area is currently not large in scale, but a planned land extending about six miles deep is reserved on the east side.
The north and south sides of the residential area are mainly planned as workshop areas equipped with hydraulic equipment, and tung oil tree and medicinal material planting areas.
In the Nanbei Mountain and Linhu workshop areas, there are not many workshops built so far.
Before the great victory of Wujinling, the craftsmen recruited were mainly engaged in infrastructure construction. For the camp, some money and food were raised in the early stage to build a weaving yard, a smelting yard, a shipbuilding yard, as well as a dozen or so limited factories such as armor ordnance, military uniforms, and soap making.
The workshop is mainly for military purposes.
After the victory at Wujinling, Qiao, Chen, Xiang, Yang and other families invested a large amount of money and food on a relatively large scale to build a new workshop, but they still needed to continue to expand the scale.
The Yasi and the garrison camp are located in the northwest corner, covering an area of 500 square feet. It is also the only area in East Lake New City enclosed by a city wall. Between the Yasi and the residential area, there are also markets, more than a hundred shops and inns, and traditional
There are many workshops here and there.
Between Liyang City and East Lake New City, a larger area of land was still reclaimed into farmland, where beans, wheat and other crops were grown, and more than a hundred villages were dotted around it - in this day and age, farming was always the foundation.
In the past year and a half, in addition to the 30,000 residents and residents who have moved in, Donghu County has also had more than 10,000 craftsmen recruited from Xuzhou, Jiangzhou, Guangde and other places. In terms of its prosperity, it has already
It is comparable to an ordinary state-run city.
Seeing all these situations and coming into contact with him over the years, Yuan Guowei also felt deeply. Han Qian was still strong in politics, and all of this was the basis for his unpredictable schemes, and everything in front of him was just the basis.
, Tangyi has a wider space than Xuzhou, allowing Han Qian to fully develop.
Yuan Guowei was ordered to serve as the military supervisor this time and came all the way from Liyang City. On the way, Han Qian also gave a detailed introduction to the military establishment of Tangyi's camp system.
The expansion of Tangyi's camp system was completed before the army was set up in autumn. In order to adapt to the defense line that had more than doubled in depth after the victory at Wujinling, and to facilitate the defense needs of command and troop gathering and mobilization, Han Qian added additional troops under the town army.
Military establishment at the brigade level.
The town army was led by the capital commander, and the left and right armies each had 10,800 regular soldiers.
In addition to a cavalry force with 1,200 cavalry, the left and right armies have three infantry brigades under their jurisdiction.
The infantry brigade is headed by Du Yuhou, and each brigade is composed of 3,200 regular soldiers. In addition to the guard battalion of 200 cavalry, each brigade has three capitals.
Each command has a thousand regular soldiers, with Yu Hou as the chief general, and each command has three battalions under its jurisdiction.
Each battalion consists of four hundred soldiers, with the battalion commander as the main general.
In this way, Han Qian can use the brigade as a military unit to take charge of a larger defense area.
The Left Army has Lin Haizheng as the capital commander, Feng Xuan as the deputy capital commander, Zhou Chu, Zhao Qi, and Tan Xiuqun as the capital Yuhou, garrisoning Chucheng, Tangyi and Shiquan respectively, responsible for the defense on the eastern front. The right army uses Tiancheng as the commander.
The capital is in command, Kong Xirong is the deputy capital commander, and He Liufeng, Su Lie, and Dou Rong are the Du Yuhou, garrisoned respectively at Wujin Ridge, Chaozhou City, and Jinniuzhai located fifty miles west of Chaozhou City at the western foot of Zipeng Mountain.
The navy had Yang Qin as the capital commander, Lin Zongjing, and Feng Zhang as the left and right capital Yuhou, with a total of 4,800 soldiers.
In addition, there were 3,600 regular soldiers in the guard cavalry, with Zhao Wuji as the capital Yuhou, Han Donghu, and Xiao Dahu as the deputy capital Yuhou, stationed at East Lake.
As a result, the 30,000 regular soldiers of the Tangyi Xingyingzhifu were used up, which was also the main field force of the Tangyi Xingyingzhifu. In addition, there were 20,000 baggage garrison soldiers, some of which were assigned to the main army.
Some of the auxiliary troops are assigned to the counties to maintain daily security and defend the inner walls of the city.
The military logistics and military orders issued by the establishment of the embassy, military discipline and merit recognition, military recruitment and even military intelligence collection and analysis were all included in the management of the Military Intelligence Staff Department. Gao Shao led the Military Intelligence Staff Department as the deputy commander, and Guo Que and Xi Faer served as Du Yu.
Wait and take charge of the affairs.
The diplomatic bureau was established with a separate Department of Capital Affairs, headed by Chief Shi Feng Liao, responsible for civil affairs in the jurisdiction; a Department of Capital Affairs, equivalent to the office of the embassy, was set up, headed by Chief Registrar Guo Rong.
The newly established counties of Huaiyang (Wujinling), Chaozhou City, Chuzhou City, Tangyi, and Shiquan are located on the outskirts of the Tangyi Defense Area. They are all stationed with heavy troops, civil affairs, and supply camps with half of the regular soldiers.
The commander-in-chief of the garrison is responsible for the management of the troops and horses.
Wushou, Tingshan, Puyang, Donghu, Liyang and the newly established Longtan counties became the inner hinterland of the Tangyi Defense Area, with Gao Bao, Han Chengmeng, Chen Zhiyong, Zhao Jicheng and others serving as county magistrates.
The Engineering School, the Martial Arts School, and the Medical School were merged into Liyang School. Han Qian personally served as the school's headmaster, but Chen Jitang served as the deputy headmaster and took charge of daily affairs.
When Yuan Guowei took office this time, Han Qian decided to separate the affairs of general Ji reward meritorious service from the Military Intelligence Staff Department and establish a separate military supervisory department with Yuan Guowei in charge. This actually made the supervisory military system truly implemented, instead of just asking Yuan Guowei to go to Tangyi.
As a "court eyeliner" that does not live up to the name.
Although the East Lake New Town has begun to take shape after another year of construction, the government buildings are still quite crude, and there are currently not enough resources to build pavilions and pavilions.
Although the residence prepared for Yuan Guowei and his entourage was not large, it was quite elegant.
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The temperature is getting colder day by day, and it feels even colder than at this time in previous years. Perhaps in November, the entire Huaihe River basin will be frozen, and the wind and cranes will start to roar again along the Chuzhou coast.
In mid-March, taking advantage of the Shouzhou Army's collapse and contraction of its defense lines, the Huaidong Army occupied Shiliang County and was able to fully control the river connecting Fanliang Lake and Hongzepu.
A barrier wall was erected in the river and locked with iron ropes to block the passage of Liang Jun's navy from Hongzepu to attack Fanliang Lake. The Huaidong Army was able to concentrate its limited navy warships on both wings of Chuzhou to block the invasion of Liang Jun's navy.
Although Huaidong has never been able to regain control of the main channel of the lower reaches of the Huaihe River from Liang Jun's navy, nor has it been able to launch attacks on Sizhou and Haizhou through Xihe, a branch on the north bank of the Huaihe River, it has finally been able to contain Liang Jun's attack on Sizhou and Haizhou.
The situation on the south bank of the country has been greatly improved.
Once the Huaihe River freezes in winter, it will be more convenient for Liang Jun's cavalry troops to infiltrate from the gaps in the walled city into the vast Huaidong hinterland than the navy army. It will be more difficult for them to intercept snipers.
difficult.
But no matter what, Huaidong must learn from the previous lessons this time and resolutely intercept the enemy forces north of the Huaihe River to avoid further damage to the settlements that have finally recovered.
Wang Wenqian, who was transferred to the side of Xin Wang Yang Yuanyan, once again took up the post of secretary-general. After entering October, he also followed Yang Yuanyan non-stop to travel to fortified villages in various places to supervise war preparations and training.
Seeing King Xin reining in his horse in front, Wang Wenqian and Yin Peng, who served as a member of the royal family's army, also stopped their horses. I don't know what King Xin suddenly thought of.
"What do you think about Han Qian setting up another supervisor in Tangyi and putting Yuan Guowei in charge?" Yang Yuanpu touched his face and galloped all the way. His stubbled beard was covered with a layer of cold ice.
Hoarfrost.
Wang Wenqian's current situation is even more embarrassing than that of Yuan Guowei in the palace.
After all, who would have thought that Han Qian and Wang Jun would take advantage of their wedding day to lead a raid on Huaiyang Mountain and achieve such results, completely reversing the battle and defense pattern of Huaixi in such a short period of time?
No matter how tough it was before, no matter how tenacious the Tangyi soldiers were, Han Qian was only on the defensive in Tangyi, and the Chuhe and Fuchashan defense lines looked extremely weak. Once they were reinforced by the Shouzhou Army or Liang
If the army breaks through, Han Qian's inner line operating south of Chuhe River and Fucha Mountain will suffer heavy losses.
At that time, the situation in Chu in Huaixi was mainly dominated by Li Zhigao.
At that time, Wang Jun was married to Han Qian. Although Wang Wenqian insisted on resigning as the governor of Yangzhou in order to avoid suspicion, his position in Huaidong was not that embarrassing.
Others would not think that Wang Wenqian would want to leave Huaidong.
And now?
After Tangyi won the great victory at Wujinling, Zuo Longque's army was forced to withdraw from Shuzhou and transferred to Suizhou. Han Qian was fully responsible for the entire war in Huaixi, and Tangyi's army expanded to 50,000 troops.
If Xuzhou, which was led by Han Qian, is included, Tangyi can be said to be on par with Huaidong in every aspect.
At this time, Wang Wenqian jumped up and said that he had no dissatisfaction with Huaidong and was loyal to King Xin. How many people in Huaidong believed in him?
There was even a banquet where a famous general drank too much and named Wang Jun. When he married into Tangyi, he brought many of the Wang family's children with him, and gained Han Qian's trust and was able to serve in the military and political affairs of Tangyi. This was what the Wang family had wanted for a long time.
With two bets, Wang Wenqian had no way to defend himself.
During this period, he also became silent in Chuzhou, not thinking about making plans, but just trying his best to do the affairs under his name well; recently, he also tried every means to promote the establishment of a garrison military government independent of the central government
The system ensured that the Huaidong Army generals would be loyal to King Xin, while also organizing production and reducing the pressure on Huaidong's grain and fodder supply.
But, can he win back trust by doing this?
When Wang Wenqian was mentally and physically exhausted, he also thought about calling for illness and retiring. However, he was worried that His Highness would suspect that he was seeking to retreat in order to advance, and would leave Huaidong in the name of retirement, so he refrained and remained silent.
Regarding the question of trusting the king, Wang Wenqian also found it difficult to answer.
"Han Qian set up a military supervisory department in Tangyi, allowing Yuan Guowei to take charge of military discipline and reward, and thoroughly implement the system of military supervision. It seems that he is still loyal to the court. He should be thinking that one day, the Tangyi army will be included in the military supervision department.
It's under the control of the imperial court - Mr. Wang, do you think that's the case?" Ruan Yan followed from behind, stopped his horse, looked at Wang Wenqian and asked.
Wang Wenqian gritted his teeth and said: "I'm afraid the matter is not as simple as Mr. Ruan said - just like Tangyi accepted the imperial court's dispatch of military supervisors, and it was inconvenient for all towns to refuse, the Tangyi army first implemented the military supervisory system, and the imperial court also had an excuse.
Ask the towns to follow suit - and in the end, whoever can control the court will be able to use this to control the towns from a distance..."
"According to what you said, Han Qian's ambition is actually greater than we thought?" Yang Yuanyan asked with a gloomy expression.
"Han Qian's ability to sit back and watch the destruction of the Five Tooth Army on his left and right without doing anything is enough to prove his ambition. However, it has been more than 20 years since the founding of the Chu State. The land of Jianghuai is peaceful and the people are safe. Hundreds of people regard His Highness's Yang family as their orthodoxy. This is already true.
Anyone who has a different mind than what the human heart desires will bring about his own destruction." Wang Wenqian said bravely.
"I hope so." Yang Yuanyan lost a word, whipped his horse again, and took the lead in galloping towards the distant fortress...
