The 70,000 cavalrymen brought back by the Han family's cavalry general did not rush to Anding City immediately, but took their cavalry to capture the surrounding small cities one after another.
Yes, because he knew very well that with his 70,000 cavalry, there was no way he could rescue Anding City from being surrounded by the Xiliang army.
The 70,000 cavalrymen he brought into that battlefield were nothing more than nothing, or at most only a few storms, unable to make any decisive changes.
Therefore, he had to wait for the arrival of the infantry army. At that time, he would use cavalry as the main force and infantry as the supplement to rescue Anding City together.
Therefore, the surrounding cities were captured one by one under the leadership of the Han family generals, and the Xiliang soldiers in those cities ran out one after another.
They are not stupid and will not wait for the enemy to attack in the city. Moreover, if they die in the city, it will be a wasted death and they will not be able to do anything beneficial to the entire war situation.
They moved to places beyond the reach of the Han family's cavalry, where they began to integrate their troops and form powerful armed forces.
Facing the enemy's large army, they had no choice, but with the strength of Xiliang's own soldiers, they could easily kill a small group of enemy troops.
But now what they mainly do is to cut off the enemy's logistics. After the Han family's cavalry captured various cities, they began to recruit food and soldiers on a large scale.
Most of the food in these cities has been looted by the Xiliang headquarters, and only a part is left, which is only enough for the living needs of the civilians in the city.
Now the army began to recruit food and take away the food belonging to the civilians. The civilians in the city had very little food left, and now most of it was taken away by these soldiers.
How do the common people in the city still live?
Some riots began to occur in the city, and the civilians who were originally happy about the return of the Han family's army were now a little dissatisfied.
We don’t have much food to begin with, and now you come back with most of the food. What do you want us to eat next?
Because of food problems, riots have begun to occur in surrounding cities, and the riots are still expanding.
Among them, Xiliang's push was indispensable. When Xiliang conquered these cities, many people in the cities took the initiative to join Xiliang's army.
Some people defected secretly, and some people defected directly openly. Those who defected directly openly had already retreated out of the city with the Xiliang troops.
Those who secretly took refuge continued to stay in the city. When the civilians in the city had conflicts with the army due to food problems.
These people are adding fuel to the fire and making this commotion bigger and bigger. They want to make the city chaotic.
Since they have chosen to go to Xiliang, they must devote themselves to Xiliang. They don't think they have a way back. Moreover, can the Han family really stop the attack of Xiliang's army?
Look at the current army of the Han family. The main army is on the Fufeng battlefield, and the armies from other places have no intention of supporting them. What can the Han family do to keep up with the Xiliang army?
Li Xiang, the king of Xiliang, is the governor of Liangzhou. He represents the regular army of the entire Liangzhou. In total, he is the orthodoxy of Liangzhou.
The three major families in Liangzhou are just local tyrants, wolves, tigers and leopards. Many people have longed for Xiliang.
They yearned for the tax revenue and the ordinary people could live a better life under the face-washing system, so they yearned for Xiliang and wanted Li Xiang, the king of Xiliang, to rule them.
This is the problem. In some cities, some people have even formed resistance armies.
It was not the Xiliang army that resisted, but the Han family's army who returned from the city. Among the additional troops recruited by the Han family, there were also many people who were members of the resistance army.
They chose to lurk in the army and wait for the opportunity. When the time is right, they can revolt within the army.
Moreover, this organization continues to expand rapidly, and the number of people joining the organization is increasing day by day. Everyone who joins the organization has been selected through layers of selection.
These people were also afraid that the Han family soldiers would know what they were doing, so they chose to do it secretly and kept it very confidential.
After Bu Yi received the news from these places, he felt a lot more relieved about the Han family's 70,000 cavalry.
His main goal now is not the Han family's 70,000 cavalry, but how to build a defensive front outside Anding City. The Han family's reinforcements are already on their way back.
It would take a lot of time to attack the city in front of him. He was already prepared for a long-term war.
Perhaps the battle here will not end until the battle on the Fufeng battlefield is over.
The people in the city firmly believe that the Han family can defend Anding City, so they are actively resisting, and the number of troops is constantly increasing.
The purpose is to resist the Xiliang army.
At this time, after a heavy rain in Liangzhou, the weather began to become warmer. This time was the spring plowing period in Liangzhou.
The whole year's plan begins in spring, and it's time for them to farm, but the entire Liangzhou continent is in the middle of a war, so those civilians can go out to farm and sow seeds even if they don't want to.
Except for places that are not within the war zone and can still be farmed normally, cities within or on the edge of the war zone are closed.
It's not that they don't want to go out, it's that they are afraid that if they open the city gate, the enemy will gallop forward and they won't be able to catch up even if they want to close the gate.
While the entire Liangzhou was in flames of war, Jiuyuan County and Northwest Pass, under the rule of Xiliang, had already entered the first harvest after the beginning of spring.
Countless amounts of rice were transported back to the granary by farmers using various livestock. In the northwest, every household had its own granary.
Most of their grain is owned by themselves, and they don't need to pay taxes or anything like that, so they own whatever grain they grow.
Every household can eat delicious rice. After selling the excess grain, the money earned can be used to buy some meat and improve the food for the family.
These days, due to Xiliang's participation in the Liangzhou War, the price of food in the northwest has also increased.
The entire Eastern world is under the shadow of war. Food prices have generally increased in various places, and many places have become unable to farm due to the war.
Those places where there is a shortage of food will go to other places where food is abundant to buy it. The northwest, a land that was originally forgotten by countless people, became a famous granary due to the arrival of Prime Minister Li.
Countless business teams rushed to the northwest to buy grain. The grain purchased here was not only of good quality, but also in large quantities.
However, if you want to purchase grain in the northwest, you must first face Xiliang King Li Xiang. You must obtain the consent of Xiliang before you can purchase grain.
Among the people in the northwest, if you want to purchase a large amount of grain, it is impossible. There are people from the Xinren headquarters in every village. They will record the amount of grain. They cannot calculate it in detail, but they can do it at a glance.
Know the approximate grain production and how much grain can be stored.
Xiliang will send people to the countryside to collect grain every once in a while. If the difference between the grain purchased and the estimate of the Xiliang people in the village is too big, then the family will be punished by Xiliang.
For the civilians living in the northwest, their lives are very happy. Many people feel like they have arrived in heaven when they come to the northwest.
Here, they can eat fragrant rice every day, and as long as they work hard in farming, they can also eat meat every once in a while.
They had never dared to think about such a life before, and even some small landowners in the place where they used to live could not live like theirs.
Therefore, it is impossible for them to sell food for a little money. The consequences of doing so are too miserable. If they are driven out, they can only become refugees like before.
If you are lucky, you can get some food. If you are not lucky, you may die somewhere.
In today's world, dead people are commonplace, and you can see piles of corpses wherever you go.
Even some places that suffered from drought were covered in bones, and the court was unable to control them.
There are also many places where people without farmland are directly used as cannon fodder. After all, in some powerful cities, many powerful formations will be deployed, and these formations require a lot of human lives to accumulate.
The northwest is the best place they have ever stayed, and there is no need to pay those exorbitant taxes here. It is like a paradise.
Another point is that the price of grain purchased in Xiliang is the same as the price on the market. They will not sell their grain for a little more money and put their family in danger.
The more food farmers in the northwest produce, the better it is for Xiliang.
Because of the system in the imperial era, food will never be enough for Prime Minister Li. He needs more food, endless food. With food, he can continue to recruit farmers from Xiliang headquarters.
After recruiting those farmers, he can then convert the farmers into soldiers, so that he can have a steady stream of troops.
What did Xiliang rely on for its establishment? Isn't it the farmers and soldiers from Xiliang headquarters?
The real root of Xiliang lies in Xiliang headquarters, the seventh, eighth, and ninth legions. In Li Xiang's eyes, they are just armies he trained to make up for his lack of numbers.
He knows very well what his roots are, so he is constantly recruiting farmers from Xiliang headquarters. These farmers from Xiliang headquarters are his roots.
Without the Xiliang headquarters, even if his strength is as high as the sky, with his own wisdom, he knows that he cannot control this behemoth in the northwest.
Even if his strength could crush everyone in the entire northwest, he would not be able to manage the northwest as well as he does now.
You only need to lead troops to fight, and don't worry about logistics and military pay and food all day long like other generals.
This is the opportunity created for him by the farmers of Xiliang headquarters. They work hard in the farmland, isn't it just to produce more food, so that his army does not have to worry about food?
There are also soldiers from the Xiliang headquarters. This Xiliang headquarters is not as scheming as the soldiers who were recruited by themselves. Each of them is a bit naive.
In terms of war, they are strong, but apart from war, they appear to be a bit simple and honest, without much scheming, and will always be loyal to their lord.
Controlling the seventh, eighth, and ninth legions made Li Xiang feel tired, because there were indispensable intrigues among those people. The battle between the legion outside the pass and the legion inside the pass made Li Xiang feel very uncomfortable.
He knew that internal fighting was inevitable in a power, but he was really not used to it, and he didn't like it very much.
The Xiliang headquarters does not have so many problems. Although they will quarrel over weapons and equipment, as long as they give an order, they will willingly give up everything and put everyone's fighting aside.
In the battle between the legion outside the pass and the legion inside the pass, both sides will choose to give up under their own suppression, but secretly the two sides will still fight endlessly.
Sometimes small things can lead to very big conflicts.
Therefore, after Li Xiang said it several times, he no longer cares about these two forces. Anyway, materials will be given to them according to the credit they have obtained. As for how to distribute the materials, it depends on their own internal affairs.
But I no longer want to deal with the affairs between the legions. Anyway, I give them materials according to the merit they have obtained every month, and send military pay to the soldiers on time every month.
These are all done by myself. Materials can be distributed by the commanders of those legions, but military pay must be provided by the Xiliang headquarters themselves.
Putting the silver and gold into the hands of the soldiers, Prime Minister Li doesn't care about the fights between the senior officials, but the issue of military pay must be handed over personally by the people from the Xiliang headquarters.
Only in this way could he believe that the gold and silver were in the hands of the soldiers, and that the soldiers had bled and sweated for him.
"It's another good harvest this year!" A businessman from the Central Plains looked at the rice fields that had been harvested for the most part: "Ever since King Li Xiang of Xiliang arrived in the northwest, this land has had a good harvest every year."
"If they don't have a good harvest, we won't come here!" Another person looked at the rice and said: "Actually, what I want to get more is the seeds of these rice. If there are such rice seeds in the world,
, I won’t have to worry about food anymore!”
Xiliang cold rice can be harvested four times a year. Such extremely unnatural rice is only controlled by Xiliang and cannot benefit the world.
"Those seeds were activated by the Xiliang people using special secret methods. Without the special methods of the Xiliang people, no one can awaken these seeds. So we should be realistic and find a way to buy a batch of grain from Xiliang. The southern battlefield is very
