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Chapter 319: Across the River


Sometimes some people lack a little bit of luck.

Huan Wen felt that he was extremely lucky, it was an ordinary task, and he was persistent enough to seize the opportunity, and he picked up a military feat that others could not envy, and became one of the few partial generals in the Han army, and the title of twentieth rank was also promoted to doctor.

The position of partial general in the Han army system is not low, and even the official position of commanding 10,000 troops, which is the title of Zhonglang General and some miscellaneous or special generals, and then the general of the four towns, and the general of the four expeditions.

The four generals are further up, that is, the general of the chariot cavalry, the general of the champion, the general and the captain.

At present, the Han Ministry has not yet been founded, and quite a lot of positions are actually vacant, taking Xu Zheng as an example, although he is the first number one warrior in the Han army under Liu Yan, but his identity is just a Zhonglang general, and no one holds the positions of the four towns, the four marches, and the three generals at all.

Liu Yan's founding of the country is a matter of ironclad plates, and the difference is when.

Everyone knows this very well, and if everyone is full of energy to have a high position after the establishment of the country, then what merit will be awarded has become the key.

After conferring the rank and knighthood, Huan Wen received his direct troops, which were 10,000 foot cavalry field troops.

The field troops of the Han army are the so-called main battle troops, and the sources of soldiers are all actual soldiers, but not everyone stuffs them indiscriminately.

After the handover of the troops, Huan Wen was ordered to march westward as a leading force, and their march was by foot and boat, and cavalry along the line of Wenshui, with the destination being Dongping County.

The dispatch of the Han army was after the death of Ma Qiu, during which there was only a day apart, and the posture was to take advantage of the death of Ma Qiu and the loss of command of the Shijie Zhao army.

According to the scout's report, the Shijie Zhao army in Dongping County was already retreating that day, and how many Shijie Zhao troops would be caught by the Han army's attack this time was completely determined by whether the action was fast or not.

"The organization of the Zhao army is not strong, as long as we move fast enough, we will definitely be able to bite a big bite" Huan Wen was still in a state of excitement: "Ben will take the cavalry as the lead, and Changshi will lead the infantry to follow." ” Xie An naturally doesn't have any opinions, but he needs to be reminded to a certain extent: "If Ma Qiu dies in battle, Sun Fu will take over the command."

He is also a member of the Zhao army. ” Huan Wen didn't care so much at this time, what he wanted was to arrive in Dongping County quickly, and when he heard this, he just nodded, waved his hand and galloped away with the cavalry.

At this stage, capturing Dongping County earlier than planned, stabilizing the western front along Juyeze, and then turning around and focusing on Yao Yizhong's fight along the Yellow River is almost the theme.

What Huan Wen and Xie An didn't know was that Xu Zheng had already led the Han army in the direction of Xuzhou to break into Lu County.

Xu Zheng's Han army entered Lu County very easily, and almost took most of the territory without encountering any enemy troops, and it was only along Rencheng County that it engaged the Shijie Zhao army, but the intensity of the battle was not large.

Located in the upper reaches of the Surabaya water system, it connects several surrounding counties and serves as the central hub of a vast water network.

The armies in the north that are not good at water warfare have always had a headache with the terrain of Junozawa, but the armies in the south that are good at water warfare will take advantage of this terrain.

The Han army is not an army in the traditional sense, for them, whether it is cavalry, infantry, water or naval warfare, there is not much difference, it is nothing more than what kind of troops are invested.

There were two Han armies attacking westward, and considering that the Yellow River would soon be thawed, reconnaissance along the Yellow River was also in full swing.

As far as one thing can be confirmed, that is, Yao Yizhong does not have a navy in his hands, but the number does not seem huge.

The navy army in Yao Yizhong's hand was the result of Shi Hu's earlier collection of craftsmen, and it was originally intended to be used to conquer the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but when it was not used, Qingzhou was occupied by Liu Yan's army.

Xingyuan moved to Fenggao, because it was necessary to deal with the Maqiu Corps on the Western Front first, and the death of Maqiu would definitely force the Shijie Zhao army to retreat, which was equivalent to temporarily losing the threat.

In that way, the affairs in the west of Yanzhou no longer need Liu Yan to pay attention to personally, but he has to pay attention to the movements of Yao Yizhong's side.

Liu Yan moved Xingyuan again, which was to move to the vicinity of Dongpingling in Jinan County, which is located in the upper reaches of the Jishui River, and hundreds of miles to the north is the Yellow River, which happens to be Qinghe County and Pingyuan County, where Yao Yizhong's Qiang army is located.

After the line was properly settled, Liu Yan led people to the north and personally came to the banks of the Yellow River to check.

At this time, the Yellow River did not seem too turbid, and it should be said that the water of the Yellow River was still relatively clear.

Then the tongue twister that is not a tongue twister is that the Yellow River is not called the Yellow River now, it is called the River.

The water of the Yellow River has become extremely turbid after the serious soil erosion in the Northwest Plateau, and the most turbid river water is Jingshui before, so there is a record of "one stone of Jingshui, and several buckets of mud".

Liu Yanguan saw the Yellow River, the surface of the river is full of ice slag, it may be that there is a difference between the river sections, and the boiling river does not look turbulent.

The course of the Yellow River is wide and narrow, and in special periods, you can even drive horses directly across the riverbed, but most of the time you can only wait for the ice period if you don't need a boat.

"Shijie's navy is currently on the front line of the Duma River."

Sang Yu seemed to feel cold wrapped in his cloak, tightened his neckline and said, "The number of boats should be nearly a thousand."

It was not a matter of a day or two for Shijie Zhao to go south to attack the south of the Yangtze River, and the time when Shi Hu recruited craftsmen could be moved back to a long time ago, but it was after conspiring with Li Chenghan to carve up Jiangnan.

The previous Han army attacked Qi County, located on the south bank of the Yellow River, rescued a large number of craftsmen who were forcibly recruited by Shi Hu, and that time also captured nearly 300 inland river boats, but that was only a group of ships built in the later period of the Zhao Kingdom of Shijie, and the previous boats were sent to the north bank of the Yellow River.

Shi Hu did not let the fleet go south to the Yangtze River in history, and the ships that were built fell into the hands of Murong Yanguo who went south.

After Murong Yanguo got the warships there, part of them were brought back to Youzhou, and the other part was chopped off as firewood, but he treated the craftsmen who were not tortured to death by Shijie Zhao Kingdom, and completed the craftsman system behind Murong Yanguo.

Liu Yan asked: "How many people can be transported across the river at one time with their transportation capacity?"

The northern army is not good at water, but there will be no problems in crossing the river by boat, and then the Yellow River is too long, as long as you want to always seize the opportunity to cross the river, the Han army knows where the fleet of Shijie Zhao is, but it does not mean that you can keep an eye on it all the time.

Yao Yizhong received the order to conquer Liu Yan of Qingzhou, indicating that it would be an offensive battle, so how many people could be transported by Shijie Zhao's naval army at one time became the key.

"I can't say."

Sang Yu finished telling the truth, and said with a smile: "The king means to let the Qiang army cross the river" Liu Yan responded flatly: "That depends on Yao Yizhong." ” The reality is that compared with taking the initiative to cross the Yellow River, the Han army still expects Yao Yizhong to fulfill Shi Hu's orders sufficiently, so that the Qiang army can cross the river to fight, not the Han army to cross the river to attack.

But I don't know if Yao Yizhong knows whether the Han warships are sharp, and it should be clear if I think about it.

Whether Yao Yizhong is loyal to Shi Hu or not, no one knows this except Yao Yizhong himself.

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The traditional sphere of influence of the Qiang, that is, the northwest, is being ravaged by the Liang state of the Zhang clan.

At this time, Yao Yizhong, who was the commander of the Qiang tribe, had to lead the army to approach Qingzhou, what a tangled thing.

Liu Yan didn't know what Yao Yizhong was doing at the moment, but he was generally able to guess that the Qiang army needed enough food.

Jizhou has been a large state since the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it is a large state in the true sense of the word in terms of population and arable land.

This did not change even during the Cao Wei and Western Jin dynasties, that is, after Shile occupied the Central Plains, it caused a certain degree of damage, but then recovered.

Shijie Zhao is currently conscripting troops on a large scale, considering that Shijie's national policy is to turn the Central Plains into horse ranches, the entire Central Plains farming system has actually become extremely fragile.

Shi Hu not only recruited soldiers on a large scale before, but also widely collected grain and grass, which caused a large-scale exodus in various places, and those who did not flee could only commit suicide if they could not pay their taxes.

"So we came to the conclusion that it was difficult for Yao Yizhong to collect enough grain and grass."

Sang Yu just introduced a lot of the situation in Jizhou, who made the Sang family have a lot of relatives and friends in Jizhou.

He said lightly: "Yao Yizhong's correct choice is to wait for the autumn high horse fat to enter the army. ” It's only early spring, and there's at least half a year left until autumn.

For such a long time, if neither side has the desire to cross the river, it will become inevitable that they will face each other across the river hundreds of meters wide.

"Yao Yizhong may wait so long" Lu Yi also seemed to be afraid of the cold, and kept trembling when he spoke: "Autumn is half a year, which is not in line with Yao Yizhong's starting point of wanting to go back to the northwest." ” Sang Yu said with a smile: "Then there are special circumstances, and it is also the reason why the king moved his line to Dongpingling." ” What does it mean is nothing more than Yao Yizhong taking him by surprise and attacking him unprepared, and solving Liu Yan with the most rapid attitude.

It's still the same old routine, the last time the line moved forward was to attract Ma Qiu, and halfway through the whole step, when it didn't show the effect it should have, Ma Qiu was killed by Huan Wen.

This time, Liu Yan moved his line again, which was an action with great fanfare, and it was impossible to ignore Yao Yizhong's experience of fighting the war for half his life.

Why did Liu Yan come to the Yellow River to show his sense of existence, don't look at the fact that there are only about 3,000 guards around him, but the troops hidden around him are not small, if Yao Yizhong fights to cross the river with ice slag, the Han army will dare to eat it beautifully.

"Your Excellency, look."

Ji Chang, who had been silent, suddenly spoke, he pointed to the other side of the Yellow River, where a group of people appeared, and it looked a little blurry from a distance: "Could it be that Yao Yizhong got the news and came to check in person?"

That would be a very interesting thing, but Liu Yan deliberately planned it, but Yao Yizhong planned it temporarily, and there was an intention to induce the other party to send troops to cross the river.

"But it's overthinking."

Liu Yan didn't mean that the people on the other side could not be Yao Yizhong, but that the ships of the Han army did not appear in the Yellow River, and unlike the naval army of the Zhao army in Shijie, which could be easily mobilized from the Duma River.

He took the monocular from the attendant and saw that there were nearly 100 people on the other side: "What does Yao Yizhong look like?"

Liu Yan asked people down in one sentence, none of them had seen Yao Yizhong with their own eyes, some rumors only said that Yao Yizhong had a majestic face, but there were no obvious features.

In fact, among the people who appeared on the other side, there was really Yao Yizhong.

At this moment, he was also looking at the other side, guessing whether there was Liu Yan's figure.

"Father" Yao Yisheng, who was only twelve years old, was slightly confused: "Those people on the other side are Han Jun" Yao Yizhong has a bit of a lot of sons, and it is impossible to be close to them one by one, the Qiang people have received too much Han culture, including the division of a family's descendants, and what he focuses on cultivating is those sons-in-law.

In fact, Qiang is also a member of the Yanhuang and Miao descendants in terms of bloodline, the difference is that they have been separated from the Central Plains culture for a long time, and they have gradually been assimilated by the Hu people of Rong Di.

Therefore, it is very depressing to distinguish ethnicity by bloodline, or to look at cultural identity is the truth, and there can be no obvious differences in natural appearance.

Yao Yizhong still didn't know that Ma Qiu had been killed in battle, let alone that the Han army had marched westward, and he would know if the Han army appeared on the south bank of the Yellow River, or if Liu Yan deliberately made a move.

There are quite a large number of Qiang people gathered along the Yellow River in Qingzhou, and there are new Qiang tribes moving over all the time, and the huge number of Zahu is also moving, which is both a good thing and a bad thing for Yao Yizhong.

Yao Yizhong may have a certain degree of loyalty to Shi Hu, or it is clear that the old nest is being ravaged by the Zhang family's Liangguo, or someone advises Shi Hu to be jealous and still prepare to conquer Qingzhou.

The fact is that way, Shi Hu did it too obviously, almost clearly showing that he was afraid of the growth of the Qiang and Di tribes, but whether it was Yao Yizhong or Fu Hong, they all showed obedience.

In some ways, Yao Yizhong and Fu Hong's reactions were also one of the reasons that made Shi Hu even more crazy.

"It's the Han Army."

Yao Yizhong actually couldn't see it at all, he could only see a vague figure.

He squinted his eyes and whispered, "Only by clearing them will we have a chance to return to the northwest." ” Perhaps Liu Yan was too obvious, Yao Yizhong knew that the moment the Han army appeared on the south bank of the Yellow River, he knew what was going on almost without much thought.

For Yao Yizhong, the appearance of the Han army is a trouble, everything only depends on Shi Hu, not from the actual pressure of the Han army, which is equivalent to Liu Yan putting up a battle, Yao Yizhong's lack of action will definitely make Shi Hu, who is far away in Yecheng, know that there will be new actions.

Yao Yizhong, on the north bank of the Yellow River, said, "It's bad. ” Liu Yan, on the south bank of the Yellow River, said: "It's very interesting. ”: