Orders were sent out eight hundred miles from Chang'an one after another, and these orders were sent to their destinations as quickly as possible.
During the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Dong Zhuo's political chaos, the post system throughout the Han Dynasty had been severely damaged.
That is to say, after Liu Cheng came to power, he rebuilt the post system and added the postal function.
Liu Cheng also established a special post system.
The official office, called the Postal and Communications Department, is located under the Shangshu Taiwan.
Previously, personal letters and official documents had to be delivered by dedicated personnel.
After the reconstruction of the post station system and the establishment of the Postal and Communications Department, the officials responsible for transporting official documents in the government were all assigned to the Postal and Communications Department.
The Postal and Communications Department was not only responsible for transporting official documents, but also He is also responsible for the allocation of military supplies, and also undertakes the transportation business of civilian goods.
The most important thing is that ordinary people can send letters to the recipients through the Post Office.
If the address is wrong or the recipient cannot be found, the letters will be returned intact, but this requires a fee, but The cost is definitely much lower than sending someone to deliver the letter yourself, and since this is an official channel, security is guaranteed.
In order to ensure the privacy of official documents and private letters, the imperial court also issued a decree.
Without the permission of the recipient, anyone who opens letters and official documents without permission is an act that violates the law.
Once the person involved reports it to the official, the official will investigate and punish the offender. impose severe punishment.
There are three modes of transportation in the postal system.
The first is general transportation, which is an ordinary transportation speed.
It takes more than half a month for interstate goods and letters to arrive, but this is already very fast; the second is express transportation.
It is an expedited transportation, traveling three hundred miles a day, and all official documents, government decrees, imperial edicts, etc.
It is transported by this method of transportation.
Private messages can also be sent by this method, but the freight is not low.
If it is not a particularly important matter, ordinary people will use the first method to send letters; the third method, eight hundred miles at a time.
Urgent, mainly used to convey military orders, battle reports, and military information, and does not undertake civilian business.
After the Postal and Communications Department was established and the postal and communications system began to operate, it soon played a huge role and demonstrated its vigorous vitality.
The speed of development exceeded the imagination of Liu Cheng and the ministers of the DPRK and China.
However, the imperial court did not care about this area.
The investment is also quite large.
After all, the cost of establishing inns, recruiting personnel, and purchasing fast horses, mules, and carriages in various places is not a small amount of money.
Post stations belonging to the postal system have sprung up in various places.
Post stations in various places are adding fast horses, mules, horses and carriages every day.
Every day they are recruiting postmen who can ride horses and coachmen who can drive carts.
Most of the retired soldiers from the army are joining. into the mail system.
However, the court's investment was directly proportional to the volume of business.
The greater the volume of business, the more manpower and hardware facilities such as fast horses, mules, and carriages were needed.
In the past, when ordinary people wanted to send letters to their relatives far away, they had to ask someone to take them there.
If there was no way, the letters could not be sent, but it is different now.
Just drop the letter into the mailbox of the inn, and the letter will be collected and sent out that afternoon. , in many aspects, it only costs a few pennies in postage.
The establishment of the postal system also gradually gave rise to the boom of the letter-writing industry.
From the capital city of Chang'an to the county magistrates, and then to the lower counties, villages, towns, and pavilions, a large number of letter-writing people appeared. , these are all educated students from poor families, as well as down-and-out aristocratic children.
In this battle against Yuan Shao, the postal system played a huge role.
The orders sent from the imperial court to Bingzhou and Luoyang were sent out in a hurry for 800 miles.
Every time the post soldiers arrived at a post station, they would hand over the military orders to the post station, and then the post soldiers would hand them over to the post station.
The inn station will send someone to ride a fast horse to the next inn station, and the interval will not exceed three minutes.
When the light cavalry is marching long distances, there are situations where the horse rests and the people don't rest, but in the postal system, both the people and the horse rest.
Not only will the speed not slow down, but it will also increase exponentially.
Traveling eight hundred miles a day is not just talk.
But actually being able to do it.
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In order to minimize the delay in the transmission of important military information, military orders and battle reports due to external factors, the imperial court issued special laws.
The eight-hundred-mile express horse has special clothing and flags.
Anyone who sees it must give way to it and has priority.
Privilege, any horse can be requisitioned; at the same time, anyone who harms the eight-hundred-mile acceleration horse is considered a felony.
If it causes a delay in major military affairs, he will be imprisoned for life, or be beheaded.
Xu Shu and Han Hao themselves had the responsibility of coordinating defense with each other.
While Han Hao's official report to the court was still on the way, his letter for help to Xu Shu had already been delivered to Xu Shu.
After Xu Shu received the letter asking for help, he realized that the court would definitely send troops to attack Yuan Shao this time.
The court now was no longer the court during Dong Zhuo's time.
It would never swallow its anger or give in.
He immediately ordered to assemble troops and horses, prepare food and supplies, and make preparations.
Prepare to send troops for rescue.
Once the order from the court arrives, it will be time to send troops.
The letter sent from Chang'an to Luoyang actually took only one day to be delivered.
After Xu Shu received the military order, the army was still mobilizing and preparing food and supplies.
However, Xu Shu only had two days to prepare.
He led his army to set off the next day after receiving the military order.
First, they arrived at Mengjinguan.
The warships that had been prepared were already ready to transport troops and horses across the river.
It is now the end of September.
The river water level has dropped to normal levels and the water flow has returned to a gentle level.
There is no danger in crossing the river.
It only took an hour for 10,000 horses to cross the river.
A naval force stationed here played a huge role.
This is the only navy under the direct control of the imperial court.
It was established before Liu Cheng's Western Expedition.
Zhang Yun of the Jingzhou Army was recruited to the court to be responsible for establishing the navy at the Mengjin Port Water Village.
He was appointed as the navy General Yokozawa has more than 18,000 naval troops under his command and more than 200 large and small warships.
After nearly a year of building warships and training sailors, this naval force has been barely put to use, but it still lacks some firepower before it can be truly used in combat.
At present, it can only be used to transport soldiers, horses, food and grass, and patrol rivers.
Task, it takes one to two years of training to conduct water warfare.
After all, the training of naval division is more difficult than that of land division.
After Liu Cheng returned to Chang'an, he also paid close attention to the training situation of the navy.
This time it would be okay if Cao Cao and others were honest.
If Cao Cao, Zhang Miao, Liu Bei and others were not honest, they would join forces with Yuan Shao or want to cross the river to support Yuan Shao. , maybe he could only send out naval forces to cut off the connection between the two sides of the Yellow River, or launch an attack with naval forces when they crossed the river.
When Xu Shu led his army to Huai County, the seat of Hanoi County, Yan Liang's 50,000-strong army had not yet crossed the Qishui River.
Although Han Hao, the prefect of Hanoi, ordered to reduce the number of troops and strengthen the walls and clear the country, he did not withdraw all the troops southward.
Instead, he sent half of the troops to the south.
The horse is stationed on the south bank of Qishui River.
This is a natural defense barrier in Hanoi County.
How could he give up so easily?
Although Yan Liang's 50,000-strong army came with great force and easily captured Lin Lu and Tang Yin, they encountered a stubborn resistance when they crossed the Qishui River.
Yan Liang relied on his 50,000 troops and had an absolute advantage in military strength.
He was arrogant for a while and rashly crossed the river without sending anyone to cross the river to investigate.
However, he did not expect that Han Hao had already deployed strict early warning facilities on the south bank of Qishui River.
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Yan Liang's troops While preparing to cross the river, Hanoi County discovered the clue and immediately reported it to Han Hao.
After receiving the report, Han Hao immediately led 5,000 men to ambush near the other side of the river where Yan Liang's army was crossing the river.
When Yan Liang's army of 3,000 men had completed crossing the river but was unable to gain a stable footing, he launched an attack.
The 3,000-year-old Yanliang army who had landed but not yet established a foothold was immediately defeated by Han Hao's army.
More than 1,200 people were killed, and the remaining 1,800 people were driven down the river and washed away by the current.
More than 3,000 people who were crossing the river were so frightened that they immediately turned around.
However, the process of turning around was chaotic.
Small sampans, fishing boats, and rafts collided with each other.
As a result, more than 1,000 people in Luoshui were washed away by the river, and the northern soldiers who could not swim were They were drowned alive.
One day later, countless floating corpses appeared on the lower reaches of Qishui River.
These were soldiers of Yan Liang's army.
More than 4,000 people were lost after just one failed attempt to cross the river.
Yan Liang was furious and cursed Han Hao for being sinister, but the army could not be stopped by the river.
He had to humbly ask Xu You, an officer accompanying the army, for advice.
After thinking about it, Xu You suggested to Yan Liang: "Judging from the attacks they received when crossing the river during the day, Han Hao's men have obviously been prepared to attack halfway across the river.
They must have known that we were crossing the river here.
It seems that they should have a surveillance point on the other side of the river.
It is not easy to hide from their spies.
We must find a way to attract their attention and make Han Hao mistakenly think that we are likely to cross the river somewhere and take him.
The soldiers and horses were mobilized, and then our army chose to cross the river at night."
Yan Liang was not stupid.
He understood as soon as Xu You said that he wanted to create the illusion of crossing the river at one place to attract Han Hao's troops, but the army crossed the river at night at another place.
He thought for a while and asked: "Sir Xu, this plan is feasible, but crossing the river at night is too dangerous and the boat can easily capsize."
Xu You thought there was no problem.
He said: "The Qishui River is not wide nor very deep.
Now that the flood period has passed, the water flow is gentle.
As long as all the ministries are allowed to cross the river in order, there will be no chaos.
Besides, marching and fighting Where can there be no casualties?”
It was precisely because the Qi River was not wide that Yan Liang dared to let them take a boat.
If it was on the Yangtze River or the Yellow River, the soldiers would feel scared when they got on the boat.
The current was fast, the river was wide, and the waves were big.
The princes would cross the river when they wanted to challenge Dong.
There have been many capsizings.
Seeing what Xu You said, Yan Liang had no choice but to adopt his suggestion and send people to implement it.
Xu You's plan indeed eluded Han Hao and attracted Han Hao and his troops elsewhere, while Yan Liang and Xu You led their army to cross the river at night in another section of the river.
Fortunately, there were moonlight and stars that night, and the sight on the river was okay.
But even so, the soldiers were still scared when they arrived in the middle of the river on rafts and small fishing boats.
After a whole night, 50,000 horses and less than 20,000 people crossed the river. , but still more than a thousand people fell into the water and drowned, and more than 25,000 people did not cross the river.
When Han Hao received the news, he knew that it was too late to lead his army to attack.
With the strength of his troops, he could no longer shake Yan Liangjun's firm foothold.
Han Hao chose to lead his army to retreat without any hesitation.
Along the way, he moved all the soldiers and civilians in various cities southward and moved them all to the county town of Huaixiang.
Only the city walls of Huaixian County could withstand the attack of Yan Liang's army.
Under the county seat, Han Hao led his army to join Xu Shu's army
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