After the autumnal equinox, it is late autumn and September, and the areas north of the Yangtze River have also entered the autumn grain harvest season.
No matter how strong the clouds of war are on the north bank of the Huaihe River, Huaixi still maintains the stability it deserves.
Going north from Donghu in early August, Li Xiu knew from what he saw and heard along the way that Han Qian had decisively mobilized tens of thousands of men and women to build reinforced dams and dig flood channels in Shou and Huozhou in response to Liang Shixiong's excavation of the Yuhe River dike in Xingyang at the beginning of August.
, although it seemed to be an overreaction at first, and the money and food invested in the Tangyi government was as high as millions, but by May it was proved that many of Han Qian's arrangements at the beginning of the year were necessary and timely.
Although Li Xiu didn't know the specific data, what he saw along the way and when they went to the Xiacai area was that there were many transport teams composed of civilians recruited from Shouchun and Huoqiu areas transporting supplies from north to south of the Huaihe River, including Lijia Xinzhai and nearby roads and bridges.
A considerable part of the repair materials were transported from the Shouchun and Huoqiu areas. Li Xiu knew that not only the grain fields in Shouchun, Huoqiu and other places were not affected much by the floods this summer and autumn, but also in these places, Tangyi
They incorporated refugees, even reclaimed large areas of grain fields, and built a number of stone and mud cellars, lime cellars, iron smelting yards and other workshops.
This may be Han Qian's confidence to fight the enemy on the north bank of the Huaihe River!
Chen Xiu was wearing scale armor, holding the sword on his waist, sitting astride Songfan's war horse, looking out at the increasingly bleak wilderness.
Behind him were more than a hundred generals led by Cao Ba and more than two hundred warriors from Xinzhai.
Although the military tasks assigned by the Xinzhai soldiers are to defend, build the Li family's new village, and serve as a support point for the east wing of Xia Caixincheng's defense line, let alone Li Xiu, Cao Ba is not willing to stay in a small camp.
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At the end of August, a group of military horses and Songfan war horses arrived at Xia Cai. Cao Ba shamelessly snatched back more than 50 Songfan war horses and more than 200 military horses, allowing Li Xiuneng to organize a 300-man horse infantry army to enter the east.
Scouting and reconnaissance in the area near the mouth of the Wishui River.
At this time, groups of Xu Si army scouts also crossed the Guoshui River and entered the eastern area of Xiacai. Small-scale battles between the two sides occurred every day.
Although the reconnaissance and counter-infiltration operations of the Tangyi Army were mainly undertaken by the scout cavalry of the main combat battalion, Li Xiu also took the initiative to lead his troops to participate in the small-scale counter-infiltration operations in the Cai Dongyi area.
In addition to allowing Xinzhai Xiangyong to take turns to dispatch and quickly adapt to the pressure of the battle, Li Xiu was more important to closely observe the enemy's penetration of the west bank of Wishui River, the intensity of penetration and the composition of the enemy's scouts and horses, and speculate on the progress of the battle.
Li Xiu was not among the senior generals of the Tangyi Army. As more and more soldiers and horses crossed the Huaihe River and marched north, the alert level of Beiying Camp and Xiacai Xincheng became higher and higher, and Xinzhai Xiangyong's activities
The area was becoming more and more restricted. From the end of August, Li Xiu was unable to learn the overall information about the Yingwo War, which made him feel uncomfortable all over.
Currently, the area east of Xia Cai is still under the control of the Tangyi Army. Every time enemy scouts cross the river, counter-infiltration operations are equivalent to hunting. However, every time they are dispatched to hunt enemy scouts, Li Xiu personally leads the team.
This made Cao Ba full of opinions.
"More than a dozen people swam across from the shallow waters of Chenjijin, all of them Mongols!"
Two Chazi, pretending to be hunters, quickly passed through the grass and ran to Li Xiu to report what they had just discovered while lurking by the Wishui River.
Li Xiu's expression perked up. On the battlefield downstream of Wushi River, the figure of the Mongol finally appeared for the first time. This meant that Tian Cheng and Lin Haizheng were progressing smoothly on the northern front, and the Shouzhou Army was weaker than expected.
Wusu Dashi, Xiao Yiqing mobilized the main force of the Mongolian cavalry to go south to launch a battle earlier than he expected. Of course, it may also be that Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang stepped up his offensive in Heluo, making it difficult for Liang Shixiong to support it.
"Have the other scout cavalry noticed this enemy cavalry crossing the river?" Cao Ba asked the two scouts as he was more concerned about whether he could kill the dozen Mongolian spies alone.
"There is an observation post from the Second Town's Third Brigade on the north side of our lurking point. I wonder if they didn't see this group of Mongolian spies..." Cha Zi said.
"Oh, they have a lookout. Don't expect to be able to eat alone this time. Let's hurry over and don't lose even a piece of meat!" Cao Ba ordered the generals behind him to get on their horses and prepare to follow him towards the embankment.
Ask other villagers' brave horse infantry to spread out to the two wings and be prepared to capture the dispersed troops.
Li Xiu did not stop Cao Ba from issuing the command and leading the elite troops to attack first, but he still looked towards the north with a worried expression.
After half a stick of incense, the enemy soldiers who had not fled fled to the west, but Cao Ba came back with his men and horses. The two generals on the left and right had a head hanging on the side of the saddle.
"Let's retreat quickly. A large group of enemy riders gathered behind the mud embankment on the east bank. They were a large group of black people, fearing there were thousands of people. The small group of enemy riders who crossed the river before were measuring the water depth and current. We rushed over and killed them.
Two people." Cao Ba shouted, non-stop urging the horse infantry here, who were not very smooth on horseback, to get on their horses and retreat to the west.
At this time, a melodious and melancholy horn sounded from the distance, notifying the scouts on the shore to retreat westward.
During the retreat, Li Xiu and the others encountered the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Town, the 202nd Brigade of Tangyi Army, and a scout cavalry under Dou Rong, and they withdrew side by side towards Xiacaicheng.
Only then did Li Xiu learn from this scout cavalry that four thousand-man Mongol and Uighur cavalry teams appeared along the east bank of the lower reaches of the Wushi River at the same time, preparing to cross the river.
This not only means that the Mongol cavalry will enter the west bank of the lower reaches of the Whirlpool earlier than they expected, but from today onwards, the enemy will cross the river on a large scale - four thousand Mongol cavalry teams, just to cover the main enemy force
They are just the vanguard troops heading west.
The transmission speed of the main battle camp of the Tangyi Army was obviously faster than Li Xiu imagined. They and the scout cavalry team of the 202nd Brigade withdrew to the vicinity of Xinzhai. From a distance, they saw several groups in the direction of Xiacaicheng.
The horse infantry in units of war camps are moving north along the newly built post road in Xia Caibei.
"What is this for?" Cao Ba couldn't help but asked with some confusion.
The news that a large number of Mongol cavalry is about to cross the Whistle River should have reached Han Qian's tent. Even if they want to organize troops and horses, they should fight the enemy first. The troops and horses in Caicheng and the camp on the north bank should go to
It's better to move in the east and northeast direction, rather than heading north in a straight line.
"These are the troops sent to reinforce the rear flank of the Bian Army..." Li Xiu said with a frown.
"At this time, it is enough for the troops aiding Bian to shrink back dozens of miles to the south. What reinforcements are needed to strengthen the flanks and rear flanks?" Cao Ba asked in confusion.
"What if the aiding Bian army intends to continue north after capturing Dan County?" Li Xiu was not among the mid-level and senior generals. He could only speculate on Han Qian's true intention as the supreme commander-in-chief of the Tang Yi government based on the signs he observed.
"Completely attracting the enemy's main force and the focus of operations from the east bank of Guoshui to the southern front will create convenient conditions for the northern front to cover the southward retreat of Bianjing soldiers and civilians along the Chen-Bianyi Road. This is probably the true intention of Marquis Qianyang
Right. Therefore, we only need to gather enough troops on the Danxian and Wuting front lines to delay the enemy's main force and intercept it south of Danxian, preventing the main force from having the opportunity to penetrate the two wings of Chenji Post Road. There is still a chance to
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Bianjing are traveling to the south of Chenjiyi Road
They retreated to the west bank of the Ying River! Perhaps the Marquis of Qianyang and Emperor Liang had known for a long time that Bianjing could no longer be defended, but the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Bianjing were crucial to the morale of Liang's generals who would continue to participate in the war.
, we must evacuate safely!”
"It's just that it's too risky." Although Cao Ba was demoted to Li Xiu's command and served as the leader of the formation team, although he preferred to charge into the formation with his warriors, his overall strategic vision was still higher than that of ordinary generals. With his
Brave and fearless, he still felt slightly disturbed at this time and smacked his lips and said, "Chen-Bian Post Road is too thin. The enemy does not need to use the main force. It only needs a few thousand cavalry commandos to penetrate it."
It caused enough damage to the Chen-Bianyi Road, which greatly delayed the southward retreat of Bianjing's troops and civilians. The Chen-Bianyi Road was nearly 200 miles long, and Han Yuanqi joined Kong Xirong's troops, with only 30,000 elite troops. It was impossible to move them
Chen-Bianyi Road was protected so that not even a crack was exposed - once the southward retreat of Bianjing's troops and civilians was slowed down, the enemy's main force on the southern front would make full efforts to attack the flanks of the aiding army from south to north.
How long will the county and Wuting be supported on the front line?"
"The Marquis of Qianyang is used to using his troops in an eccentric way. Perhaps the Marquis of Qianyang is confident that the main force of the reinforcement army in Bian County can be sustained for a long time in Danxian and Wuting areas." Although Li Xiu also felt that Han Qian was too strong this time.
It was in danger, but who was he qualified to say? And the future of the Li family was closely related to the fate of the Tangyi Army. At this time, he could only hope for a better result.
Although Cao Ba felt that the Tangyi Army's decision was too risky, he still couldn't help but exclaimed with emotion: "In order to evacuate Liang Jun and his family, it is really possible for the Marquis to put all the family assets of the Tangyi Army into it. It's just that Japan
|Damn it, Mr. Cao, I can’t go to Dan County, I’m so damn unhappy!”
Based on the current development of the situation, Cao Ba could also fully foresee that the next most intense battle would inevitably take place on the battlefields of Danxian, Wuting and other places where the aiding Bian Army intercepted the main force of the enemy forces on the southern front moving north.
They cannot be transferred to Danxian and Wuting areas to participate in the war.
"Your Excellency will definitely order Cai's soldiers and horses to go all out to support the Bian army, and the enemy will also do their best to cut off the communication between the supporting Bian army and Xia Cai. We will inevitably have a tough battle to fight. What is Master Cao calling for?" 20
The scout team of the second brigade said with a smile.
It had just been a month since Li Xiu led his people into Xia Cai. What impressed him most about the Tangyi Army was that the grassroots military commanders at the scout cavalry level had quite good tactics and strategic vision - Han Qian had devoted all his energy in his early years.
Efforts are made to run various schools to cultivate and reserve talents at the grassroots level in Tangyi.
Li Xiu had exchanged seals with this scout Li Shu before. He only knew that his name was Zhou Bao. Seeing that he would temporarily lead a team to cruise near Li's Xinzhai to scout the enemy's situation, he invited him to lead more than 20 scouts and cavalry into Xinzhai for a short rest.
, only to find out that he is a descendant of the Shanzhai clan who moved to Guangzhou from Junzhou years ago. In terms of seniority, he can be regarded as the nephew of Zhou Pang, the governor of Guangzhou and the military envoy.
"How is the situation in Guangzhou now?" Li Xiu asked Zhou Baodao.
The four counties of Guangzhou suffered the most severe population loss due to the war in these years. He followed Li Zhigao to withdraw his troops from Luoshan, Qisi and other places. The number of households in Guangzhou was less than 30,000, even though at the end of last year there were 10,000 Shanzhai dependents.
Five to six thousand people have moved to Gwangju, and the number of registered households should be only about 50,000, which is not even as high as a middle county in Jiangdong.
Of course, Li Xiu knew that in April and May, the Yu River flooded through the Ying River to capture the Huai River, and Han Qian built several refugee camps in Guangzhou to accommodate the victims who moved south from the west bank of the Ying River, but he had no more specific information.
Got it.
Zhou Bao also knew the identities of Li Xiu and Cao Ba, and respectfully told them some of the current situation in Guangzhou.
By the end of August, Guangzhou had accepted the disaster households from the west bank of Yingshui River. The number of Dingkou had expanded to 130,000, and the total cultivated land area had also increased to 900,000 acres, of which more than 700,000 acres were planted with grains. After the autumn grain harvest, they could
Achieving food self-sufficiency is much better than outside expectations.
Although Zhou Bao was only the leader of the scout cavalry, he was trained as a backbone military attache in the main battle camp. He knew even more comprehensive information than Li Xiu, and he didn't mind telling the truth about some of the things he knew at this time.
In the summer and autumn after April this year, although Chuzhou and Haozhou were severely flooded, the population of the two states was only a little over 120,000. The impact of the current floods on farmland and households was also minimal. The total flooded fields
It was only 1.12 million acres, but through the cultivation of new fields, it was not only made up, but the total cultivated land area was also increased by 70,800 acres.
The population and cultivated land of the prefectures and counties in central and southern Huaixi have generally remained stable, with a slight increase compared to last year. The main focus is still on the development of industry and mining.
Since the new cultivated land in Shou, Huo, and Guangzhou since spring and summer is mainly irrigated land, Huaixi's total autumn grain output this year has actually increased significantly, not to mention the production of various primary industrial products.
Therefore, even though Li Xiu was quite worried about the outcome of this war, Zhou Bao, the grassroots military attachés in the main battle camp, had a quite optimistic attitude towards the future.
"We discussed privately and felt that according to the current deployment, the enemy would probably move the Xu Si army and the Weizhou rebel cavalry to the east and north of Xia Cai, cutting off the connection between Xia Cai and the main force of the aiding Bian army. The main force of the Mongol cavalry going south would be
The main force of the Shouzhou Army will join forces to attack the aiding Bian Army in the north. It is still undecided who will win this battle?" Zhou Bao said quite optimistically.
Li Xiu smiled, but in his mind, Xu Si's army marching westward and Weizhou's cavalry marching south, currently totaling about 40,000 men, Tangyi gathered 20,000 elite combat troops and 10,000 rural auxiliary troops in Xiacai, and occupied the walled city.
Being able to advance and retreat flexibly can naturally be said to be invincible. However, once the battle begins, there are only one or two dilapidated cities on the west bank of Guoshui to rely on, and there are not many abundant supplies and grains to support the main force of the Bian army.
Delay the twice-strength Shouzhou Army and Mongolian cavalry for a month or more?
Entering September, the combat intentions of both sides surfaced, and the subsequent evolution of the battle situation basically did not escape the judgment of Li Xiu, Cao Ba, and Zhou Bao.
The Mongolian and Uighur cavalry crossed the vortex, mainly to cover the westward advance of the Xu Si army and the Weizhou cavalry. After that, the Mongolian and Wu cavalry quickly advanced northward. After the Xu Si army and the Weizhou cavalry joined together, more than 40,000 troops and horses marched from east to west to the camp on the north bank.
Xia Caicheng and Lijia Xinzhai were advancing.
Of course, the Tangyi army on the north bank could not completely retreat to the walled city, so Xu Si's army successfully built fortifications on the east wing and northern area of Xia Cai, thus cutting off the connection between Xia Cai and Dan County.
With the city wall and the Huaihe River behind them, the main battle camp of Tangyi Army actively mobilized, blocking and intercepting the advancing direction of Xu Si Army and Weizhou Cavalry in the wilderness time and time again, pushing them back to the coast of Guoshui, causing them to
It was impossible to deploy troops in the northern part of Xia Cai to form an effective cutting defense line.
The Li family's Xinzhai was not directly attacked by the enemy, and Li Xiu led the Xinzhai Xiangyong, whose combat effectiveness could not be said to be very strong, to defend the stronghold in vain. Even though they could not bear the combat mission of the forward battalion, they were deployed many times as forward soldiers and horses.
Block the enemy's outflanking attack.
Although it is not clear whether the enemy is Wusu Dashi or Xiao Yiqing who is stationed in Guoyang, they will not slow down their offensive against the main force of the aiding Bian army entering the northern part of Dan County because of the hesitation of Xu Si's army on the southern front.
In mid-September, the Shouzhou Army voluntarily abandoned the remnant city of Dan County, which had been beaten to a pulp for more than a month. However, the remnant army did not retreat to Wuting and Xinji villages in the north, and even together with Wuting,
Xinji two villages
The defenders withdrew together to the east to the two cities of Luyi and Bozhou along the coast.
At this time, the enemy's intention was very clear. They wanted to open the channel to support the Bian Army going north, move the main troops, including the Shouzhou Army, southward through the Wushi River, and join the Mongolian cavalry to fill in the area south of Dan County.
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At this moment, the scouts who had infiltrated into the east bank of Uushui for reconnaissance roughly counted the main force of the Mongol cavalry going south. More than 40,000 elite cavalry, together with the main force of the Shouzhou Army, came from the east bank of Uushui like a tide.
Cross the river and insert into the southern part of Dan County.
From the remnant city of Dan County to the north bank of the Huaihe River in the south, about 1,560 miles from south to south, and about 120 miles from east to west, the Mongols united with the Weizhou rebels, the Shouzhou Army, and the Xu Si Army, with a total of more than 130,000 strong troops.
The purpose of the military strength is to cut off the connection between Zhang County and Xia Cai.
In fact, the main force of the Mongolian cavalry entered the west bank of Guoshui, which has already achieved this intention. No matter how strong the Tangyi army was, they could not cooperate with the infantry and cavalry. The enemy army, which was several times larger than the original, was fighting in the wilderness of northern Xiacai.
They could only watch as Xu Si's army used the east-west ditches and river valleys to establish an interception defense line in the north of Xiacai.
Although these ditches and river valleys cannot be said to be very wide or deep, floods pass through them in summer. When the floods recede, a large amount of mud accumulates in the low-lying areas on both sides of the banks, forming an obstacle to the movement of troops from north to south - of course Yingshui
The mud on both sides of the bank is wider and completely covered. Except for the thin channel of Chen-Bian Post Road, there is almost no possibility of transporting people and horses to the main channel of Yingshui across a depth of thirty to fifty miles -
Xu Si's army only needed to establish strong defenses at a few high terrain areas to effectively suppress Tangyi's army's offensive from south to north.
Although the soldiers and civilians of Bianjing took advantage of the emptiness of the enemy forces on the west flank and began to retreat southward under the cover of 20,000 defenders in mid-to-early September, the enemy troops gathered superior forces in the southern part of Dan County and killed those entrenched in the northern part of Dan County and Wuting.
In the area, the main force of the aiding army covering the east wing of Chen-Bianyi Road launched an extremely fierce offensive.
After mid-September, only excellent scouts and scouts could pass through the enemy's blockade and travel between Danxian and Xiacai, or use flying pigeons to deliver messages, or take the waterway from Yingshui to Chenbian Post Road.
Deliver messages on the south side.
After mid-September, it was confirmed that two thousand-man elite cavalry teams of the Mongols were inserted directly into the two flanks of the Chen-Bian Pass.
From Bianjing southward to the north bank of the Yingshui River in Wanqiu, the Chen-Bian Post Road is 190 miles long. It is impossible to completely cover the Chen-Bian Post Road with only the 20,000 horse infantry commanded by Han Yuanqi and Chen Kun.
The enemy cavalry that broke in could not fight head-on with the Bianjing defenders. Instead, they used the high mobility of the cavalry to divide into several groups and intersperse on both sides of the Chen-Bian passage. This actually interrupted hundreds of thousands of troops.
The unarmed women and children retreated southward and could only retreat to the large and small fortresses protected by city walls along the route to wait for the opportunity.
At this time, the aiding Bian army could only detach more than 10,000 elite horse infantry from Wuting and the northern part of Dan County, and spread the defense line to a wider area to the north, limiting the scope of activities of the enemy cavalry, so that the southward retreat of Bianjing soldiers and civilians could be interrupted intermittently.
Carry on.
By the end of September, Li Xiu knew for sure that there were only over 50,000 women and children who had evacuated from the Chen-Bian Post Road to the south and then crossed the Ying River to the west bank. At this time, the enemy saw the Tangyi Army on the northern front (the aiding Bian Army).
The fighting will of the Bianjing defenders was almost worn away, and they assembled 30,000 infantry and cavalry to cross to the north of Wanqiu and directly cut off the Chen-Bian passage.
The troops aiding Bian could only abandon all their weapons and supplies in Danxian and Wuting's two fortresses. Two generals, Wenbo and Tan Xiuqun, each led 8,000 elite soldiers and horses to guard them, as if they were in the wild waves.
The two reefs were as slow as possible to delay the movement of the main enemy force on the southern front. The 20,000 elite main force quickly left the southern battlefield and headed north, intending to join the Bianjing defenders, the advance army led by Kong Xirong and a group of troops who had moved north in advance.
Thousands of soldiers and horses, concentrated a superior force of 60,000, and used all their strength to annihilate the enemy troops crossing the southern line of the Chen-Bian Passage in the shortest possible time.
However, the two cities of Dan County and Wuting only have a total of 16,000 troops. It may not be a problem to defend the city in a short period of time, but how can it be possible to hold back as many as 100,000 enemy troops in the south and east of Dan County?
Do it?
On October 3rd, it was the frost season. Li Xiu felt that the weather was obviously turning from cool to cold in Xiacai. Under the howling north wind, all the soldiers put on cold clothes.
Reports sent back from the northern front for several days in a row reported that thousands of enemy cavalry had bypassed Wuting and the remaining city of Danxian County had entered the northern area of Wanqiu, which increased the number of enemy infantry and cavalry cutting off the Chen-Bian channel to more than 50,000.
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Even though Kong Xirong's troops had six thousand elite soldiers to the south of the enemy army at this moment - no more troops could be arranged in this direction. It was higher than the left and right flood plains, and the Chenbian Post Road in the mud was only more than two feet wide.
No amount of troops could be deployed to the north to attack the enemy - Tiancheng. Lin Haizheng led the main force of the reinforcement army to join Han Yuanqi and Chen Kun, and assembled more than 50,000 horse infantry in the central area of the Chen-Bian passage to the north of the enemy.
, but in such a hurry, Li Xiu doubted whether they could have a 30% chance of winning in the decisive battle in the Pingchuan area, which was more conducive to large-scale cavalry operations by the Mongols.
In the afternoon, Li Xiu left Cao Ba to guard Xinzhai. He took Li Chi to the already built Xiacaicheng City to find Feng Xuan to take over the new combat mission. He walked into the front courtyard and saw the guards standing there. He looked over and saw Han Qian and Feng Liao.
, the figures of Guo Rong, Wen Muqiao and others, I wonder what they are doing when they are not at the north bank camp and why they came to Xia Cai, who is more advanced.
Li Xiu didn't want to cause misunderstanding, so she and Li Chi stood outside the government office waiting for the summons.
"Oh, you are here." Han Qian saw Li Xiu peeking his head outside the courtyard and directly asked them to come into the office hall to talk. "In the next two days, all the soldiers and civilians of Bianjing can evacuate to Yanling and Xihua, and then cross Ying
When the water is withdrawn to the west bank, Han Yuanqi's troops and the main force of the aid army will also withdraw simultaneously. The difficulty of the follow-up battle is to respond to the soldiers and horses trapped in the siege and hold on to the two cities of Danxian and Wuting. The main force of the aid army
It will take time to withdraw, and the next defensive situation in Xiacai will not be severe. The main battle camp cannot be deployed for the time being. I plan to form a capital from Xinzhai Township and accompany the navy first to enter the mouth of Danxi River in the northwest of Dan County.
Waiting for an opportunity to support Dan County, Wu Ting held on to Wen Bo and Tan Xiu Qun..."
"The Chen-Bian passage was cut off. There are still 120,000 to 30,000 soldiers and civilians from Bianjing and more than 50,000 troops from both armies in the north, retreating to Yanling. How can Xihua withdraw from the waterway?" Chen Xiu asked in shock, "Could it be that Tang
In addition to the Chen-bian Post Road, the city also built a channel that passes through the floodplain and reaches the main river of Yingshui?"
To the west and north of Chen-Bianyi Road, in the northwest of Chenzhou, Yanling in the west of Xuzhou, and within the two counties of Xihua, the floodplain area is as wide as thirty to fifty miles in depth and as narrow as fifteen or sixteen miles in depth.
In ordinary plain areas, it is very easy to build a wide galloping road by recruiting 10,000 to 20,000 strong laborers. However, in floodplain areas, both sides are muddy fields or swamps, and there is no place for strong people to gain a foothold.
To be able to excavate earth and rocks from a distance of 17 to 18 miles and fill the flooded muddy ground little by little, and to hide it from the surveillance of the Mongolian scouts and avoid the harassment of the Mongolian cavalry, how many years will it take to build this road?
Maybe it can be fixed?
No matter how powerful Han Qian is, he can't turn the pulpy mud into hard earth and stone with just a finger!
Generally speaking, shouldn't we wait for another month? After the weather is completely cold and the mud and river water on both sides of the Yingshui River are completely frozen, it is possible to evacuate westward without taking the Chenbian Road. Aren't the two sides fighting for this last month?