Chapter 107: A prince who breaks into the army (1)
After the Yunyang War ended, Miao Lichen continued to pursue Yunxi, expanding the achievements of the Chuang Army. He successively captured Yunxi County and Shangjin County, and expanded the northern boundary of the Huguang Chuang Army's control area to Shangluo.
The southern foot of the mountain.
If you continue to go north and pass through the Shangluo Mountains, you will soon see the Longju Village that Li Laiheng is familiar with. However, as the Qin army continues to mobilize its troops to the eastern part of Guanzhong, more and more people have gathered on the northern edge of the Qinba Mountains.
Many officers and soldiers.
Li Laiheng considered that the main task of Huguang at present was to promote the camp system as soon as possible and consolidate the grassroots political power, rather than carry out some meaningless over-expansion in the Shangyun Mountains. So he quickly asked Miao Lichen to withdraw his troops to the south of Shangluo Mountains.
Relying on the steep terrain of the Qinba Mountains, it faced off against the Qin army in Guanzhong.
This line of defense can be described as high in the mountains. In addition to the extremely steep terrain, it is also a sparsely populated wilderness area, making it inconvenient for large armies to move and fight.
As long as the Chuang army uses a small number of troops to hold on to a few key passes south of Shangluo Mountain, it will be enough to control the Qinba Mountains and prevent Sun Chuanting's front from Huguang.
"With a few hundred soldiers controlling the mountain road, we can defeat thousands of soldiers and horses. This is a very good deal."
On the way back to Xiangyang, Li Laiheng visited some of the scenic spots in the Qinba Mountains along the way. Although many of the key passes located among the precipitous peaks were dilapidated due to years of disrepair, their beauty still impressed Li Laiheng.
Admire.
He told Miao Lichen that the civil engineering troops of the Chuang Army should seize the time to repair all the dilapidated fortresses in the mountains of Yunxi. After that, they would need to conduct targeted and specialized training in these places to make the corresponding Chuang Army troops accustomed to it.
Mountain environment, develop good military habits in mountain warfare.
"Shangyun is surrounded by mountains. Back then, the Generalissimo rested his horse deep in the mountains here, waiting for an opportunity to rise again. The officers and soldiers could not enter the mountains to suppress it. As long as we control these mountain passes in the west of Yunxi, even if Sun Chuanting really trained a hundred thousand capable troops
, and it is difficult to invade Huguang from here."
Miao Lichen was still taciturn. He nodded slightly in agreement:
"indeed so."
"The mountains are steep everywhere. As long as one or two hundred people are stationed at any fortress, thousands or tens of thousands of troops can be choked and unable to move forward. Miao Lichen, look at that mountain pass. The road is so dangerous. You are here
Building one more base here will definitely play a big role in turning things around in the future."
Li Laiheng stood on a high slope, looking at the mountains in the distance, stimulating words and giving directions to the country. The more he talked, the more he talked, and his saliva flew everywhere. He even began to give instructions to Miao Lichen, a civil engineering expert, on how to build a fort.
Miao Lichen was an honest man and replied directly: "Jie Shuai, the terrain of this mountain pass looks dangerous, but the angle is not conducive to defense. If the enemy attacks with artillery, it will be difficult for the defenders to resist, and I'm afraid it won't be able to do much damage."
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"Forehead……"
Li Laiheng was stunned for a moment by Miao Lichen's answer, then pretended not to hear, and then pointed to Jiang Shan and said:
"There are so many dangerous places in the world. Just take Huguang as an example. The three passes of Yiyang are all famous in the world. But the imperial court cannot defend it after losing its people! Lao Miao, you have to remember this truth. Consolidating a country does not rely on mountains.
The creek is dangerous."
"...Jie Shuai, when we entered Huguang from the front line of Tongbai Mountain, wasn't it precisely because Zuo Liangyu controlled the three passes of Yiyang and other dangerous places? Having said that, the lack of government troops controlling the Xinyang area cut us off from the Generalissimo.
, it is also difficult for Jieshuai to have various opportunities to show off his skills later."
"Yeah, yeah, let's get back to the important point. From now on, you will be in charge of the Shangyun Defense Line. If something goes wrong and the enemy invades Huguang from this line, I will definitely take you back to Xiangyang for questioning."
Miao Lichen's words made Li Laiheng secretly roll his eyes, and then he said some perfunctory words such as "Uh-huh, uh-huh, ah-ah" that people couldn't understand. He also hastily arranged some aftermath matters in Yunyang Mansion and ordered Miao Lichen to clean up the situation.
After the remnant of Yun's army was defeated, he and Zhang Pixuan and other pro-army troops took a boat across the Han River and returned to Xiangyang.
The family members of the old camp who were originally concentrated in Xiangyang have now been transferred to various prefectural capitals in Huguang in units of dozens or hundreds of households under Li Laiheng's new policy.
This will further strengthen the control of the Chuang Army over Huguang and accelerate the consolidation of the grassroots political power of the Chuang Army. This will make Li Laiheng's new system more and more indestructible in the land of Sanchu.
The person responsible for this work is Li Laiheng's only real relative, Li Changqing. Ever since Li Laiheng left to fight in Henan, he has not seen his distant uncle for more than a year.
However, Uncle Qing's stay in Desheng Village in Henan was not to advance the days of retirement and enjoy his old age. He was responsible for a lot of chores in the old camp. Although due to his limited personal talents, he was still not very good at administrative organization work.
Although proficient in it, it is also competent enough to perform many general daily government affairs tasks.
Li Laiheng was not an unkind person. For Uncle Qing, an old man, he knew that Uncle Qing could not keep up with the rapid growth of the Chuang Army, so he arranged a small job for him that was purely responsible for daily government affairs. Although the affairs were very trivial and busy
, but it just fits Uncle Qing’s character.
"Uncle Qing is getting stronger." Li Laiheng looked at how Uncle Qing was busy in Chen Xin's Jingxiang Festival Mansion, grinned and said, "Wang Chen, you need to give my old uncle a little more living allowance.
! At such an old age, he still works so hard, so he must be given even the slightest bit of preferential treatment in life!"
Chen Xin pursed his lips and smiled silently. Li Changqing himself replied to Li Laiheng: "Master! The rations and allowances arranged by Chen Shijun for me are already more than those of many officers at the ministry level. How can I be so virtuous and capable?"
?Every day in Jiefu is just doing trivial errands that anyone can do, how can it be worthy of such treatment?"
"Uncle Qing is such a person! More than a year has passed, and nothing remains the same."
When Li Laiheng sighed twice, the fat cat Slave came out of the backyard of the festival hall. The biggest "big rat" in the army, his body became more and more plump, and the fat on his body was all over his body when he ran around.
Flashing and flickering.
Before Li Laiheng could react, Li Laiheng ran into his arms.
The raccoon slave back then was a cute creature like a little ball of fur, but now the raccoon slave is a ferocious beast from the underworld covered in fat, with only two gaps left for its eyes.
Such a monster slammed into Li Laiheng's arms, making him dazed and almost unable to stand. He fell to the ground in front of everyone and his staff.
It was obvious that he had done such a bad thing, but the raccoon slave, who was so obese that he was disgusted by gods and ghosts, suddenly didn't know it and rubbed himself against Li Laiheng's chest with a cute look on his face!
Even Li Laiheng didn't know who or what in the world could compare to this level of shamelessness!
"Wang Chen...hey, this, how come the raccoon slave has gained so much weight? Before I left Xiangyang, didn't I remind you to starve it for a long time and take care of its mouth and belly? Wang Chen, you
This matter was really not handled well."
Chen Xin could only smile bitterly and said: "Commander, do you want me to be the governor of Jingxiang without asking the people about the cat? Besides, it's not that I don't want to control its appetite, it's just that the raccoon slave has the support of Miss Youci.
Miss Youci feeds it her own rations, so it’s not easy for me to punish her, right?"
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It turned out to be Li Youci’s good deed!
But just like what Chen Xin said, if You Ci really wants to protect Li Laiheng, even Li Laiheng can't do anything. He can only shake his head helplessly, watching Li Nu ball up the fat on his face, showing his pampering.
His expression was arrogant and he was not even angry at all.
When You Ci came over to take Li Nu back to the backyard, Li Laiheng had no temper at all.
Alas, when he was inspecting the fortresses in Shangyun Mountain, it was impossible not to think of Longju Village in the north of the mountain, and it was also impossible not to think of Youci's parents who died in Longju Village.
Although Li Laiheng did not think that the Chuang Army was responsible for the murder of You Ci's parents by the rebels.
But in his heart, he always felt guilty about You Ci.