Miao Song came to Taocheng without any obstacles.
Taocheng is located on the east bank of a river system, and less than ten miles on the west bank is Dong'a, where Li Nong has a large army.
After the beggar army reached the north bank of the Yellow River, they did not take any drastic actions, and they would capture Dong'e and Taocheng as entrenched places, mainly because they had to have a sheltered foothold from the wind and rain, not to stay in the wild in the frozen snow in winter.
To be realistic, the beggar army has never been a well-stocked army, and whether it was during the struggle against the Hu people, Ang or became an executioner after being defeated by the Hu people, their situation was not better.
Poverty is used to describe a family or an individual, but the beggar army is really poor, not to mention the military and other materials, and even the most basic living security is quite difficult to maintain.
Miao Song did not come empty-handed, and was accompanied by nearly a thousand people and nearly a hundred carriages.
The wagons were loaded with grain, cloth, and even salt, which was extremely important to people.
These things were not covered up, they were exposed in a bright way, which made the eyes of everyone who saw the beggar army widen.
Li Nong is in Dong'e on the other side of the river, and the lord of Taocheng will be Li Cunxiao, not the Tang Dynasty.
Li Cunxiao was receiving Miao Song outside the city, pointing to the carriages full of supplies, and said in confusion: "Is it out of personal friendship, or" Miao Song and Li Cunxiao can only be said to know each other, not very familiar.
He looked at Li Cunxiao, who was wearing a thick sheepskin jacket, and asked, "Why do you want to cross the Yellow River?"
In the early days, the beggar army could be called able to fight well, but it still fought bloody battles with the Hu people under the condition of lacking everything, and won more victories than defeats.
After Shi Le defeated the begging army, the begging army still appeared brave and good at fighting when suppressing the rebellion for Shijie, but after Shi Hu became the ruler of Shijie, the begging army was basically dismantled and used, which led to the emergence of the Li Nong system and the Ran Min system, and finally the begging army was also divided, which was divided into three parts: serving the Hu people, resisting the Hu people, and neutralizing.
Of course, it was Li Nong's system that chose to continue to work for the Hu people, but the reason was that Li Nong was personally treated and valued by Shi Le and Shi Hu, not how well Shi Jie treated the collective of the beggar army.
"Persuade, but" Li Cunxiao said and paused, he was really not familiar with Miao Song, and it was useless to say so much.
After asking once before and getting no answer, he had to ask again: "The Han army is here, is it?"
"Yes."
Miao Song didn't mean to hide it, and said bluntly: "Twenty-five thousand, all of them are the elite of the Han army."
The Tiger Ben Army and the Yulin Army, as well as the world-famous Praetorian Guard. ” "Is it" Li Cunxiao didn't feel so surprised, pulled his cheek and smiled, and said: "King Han really looks up to us." ” The convoy had already begun to enter the city, causing bursts of cheers from within the city.
Listening to some of the clips in the cheers, people are rejoicing that they finally have something decent to eat, and they are even more ecstatic about the salt that appears.
Salt is still scarce even after 1,800 years, especially for people in the interior.
People are indispensable to salt, or they will not produce a variety of diseases, but also cause people to lose strength, which shows the importance of salt to the human body.
In terms of today's technology, it is not impossible to make sea salt, you must know that the Qi State during the Warring States Period was famous for making sea salt, and also gathered the wealth of the world in Linzi.
However, after the Western Han Dynasty, the technology of making sea salt became the official possession, and the strict blockade of the people was caused by the incident of "collecting salt and iron to benefit the imperial court".
Of course, the official blockade could not completely eliminate the spread of salt-making technology among the people, but there was the war at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the melee of the princes at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and then the loss of the Central Plains by Sima Wastewood's family, which led to continuous wars, and quite a lot of the technology was actually lost in the midst of the war.
The small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has a long coastline, but the small court does not control the production of sea salt by even one family, but the families along the coast have their own small workshops to make sea salt, but the quality can only be said to be unsightly.
Nowadays, there are not many sources of salt in society, there are salt lakes in the northwest, and where there are no natural salt lakes, salt can only be extracted from some rock salt.
Do you know that now, even a thousand years later, the most common way to provide salt is to make a salt cloth, and use the salt cloth over and over again to make it salty.
As for adding salt grains or something, unless it's a rich and wealthy family, or it's really too much to think about.
There are twenty carts of salt, and it looks like it is still the kind of white grain salt, each cart should have 500 catties, and 20 carts is 10,000 catties.
If you save a little, it will be enough for 300,000 people to use it for more than a year and a half.
Twenty cartloads of salt alone is a great gift, needless to say that there are thirty carts of cloth, and fifty carts of millet and chestnut rice, and wheat seem a little insignificant.
Li Nong personally came to the east bank from the pontoon bridge, and the first thing he said when he saw Miao Song was: "The king of Han wants to surrender us" Miao Song did not hide it, and told the things he knew, including the fact that the surrender was advocated by Ran Min, otherwise the left and right prime ministers of the Han State and some generals and colonels would actually send a large army to annihilate them.
"I didn't think about it."
Li Nong's face flashed with a mocking expression: "They actually despise us so much. ” Well, Miao Song knew that it was useless to say anything, only by waiting for Li Nong to personally see the Han army that came and might still need to fight with it, he would know that those high-level officials of the Han Kingdom were really not out of inexplicable pride.
It didn't take much time, that is, on the third day after Miao Song arrived in Taocheng, a mighty Han army arrived ten miles outside Taocheng.
"Look at the number, it is the Tiger Army, the Yulin Army and the Praetorian Guard, and there is no other Han army."
Li Cunxiao and Li Nong stood almost side by side on the city pass of Taocheng, and the Han army that was still advancing could be seen from a distance: "Our scouts have suffered great losses, and the results achieved are very limited. ” Without looking at the number of losses of the scouts before the war, you can probably guess what kind of army the enemy is, the more elite the field group, the greater the advantage of the scouts in the battle, usually the scouts of an army can best explain the combat effectiveness of the army, so Li Cunxiao will deliberately mention the losses of the scouts.
Soon Li Nong would be able to see the Han army with the naked eye, and without too much interpretation, he could see what kind of army it was from the marching posture.
The beggar army tried their best to strengthen Taocheng on the front line in a winter, but the degree of abandonment of Taocheng was too serious, even after a winter of day and night reinforcement, Taocheng was only blocked by the gap in the city wall, and if there was any additional fortification, it was only to pile up earthen walls and dig some shallow trenches outside the city wall.
The knights are now riding on auxiliary horses, and the war horses that are really used to ride across the battle are light and accompanied, and there are pack horses loaded with boxed armor and wrapped cavalry weapons.
The Feathered Warriors were both mounted and melee cavalry, and they had a number of auxiliary horses in the same way as their heavy cavalry.
Because it is a cavalry nature, the armor of men and horses is not too heavy, resulting in the knights wearing cuirasses, and even the war horses are also half-clothed in armor, which looks more elite than the tiger army in a non-combat state.
"Not twenty-five thousand."
Li Nong turned his head to look at Miao Song behind him, and hooked the corners of his mouth: "At least fifty thousand." ” "Each armoured cavalry has three auxiliary riders, and each turquoise cavalry has one auxiliary rider."
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Miao Song said expressionlessly: "Auxiliary riders are not considered soldiers in the Han army system. ” That is, the Han army has such a system, all countries will count the accompanying people as soldiers, and even rarely have a "claim", for example, only 10,000 people dare to claim 100,000.
Li Nong doesn't know much about the Han Kingdom, which was established less than two years ago, and there may be many fallacies in his understanding, such as rumors that Liu Yan is a descendant of the royal family of the two Han Dynasty, and for example, Liu Yan is actually a highly Sinicized Huns, anyway, none of them seem reliable.
The Han army was well-armed, and in less than six years it developed from a small tribe in a remote corner to a country that dominated two states and occupied many states and counties.
What I want to say is that Liu Yan really began to exert his strength to fight in the Central Plains, in fact, it was within the past three years, not six years.
"No siege equipment was found in the Han army."
Li Cunxiao didn't lower his voice, raised his hand and pointed to the Han army who looked like they were starting to set up camp, found something and said, "The flag is moving this way."
Yong once asked for a conversation before the battle" Li Nong was silent and turned around and walked towards the aisle of the lower city, he really wanted to have a good conversation with Ran Min.
Ran Min was indeed riding a Zhulong horse close to Taocheng, and there were not many people accompanying him, only more than 500 people.
Li Tan and Qian Jian were among them, and Xie An also followed.
Stopping at a position about two miles away from Taocheng, Ran Min saw the gate of Taocheng open, and the handsome banner representing the beggar army appeared first, and Li Nong could be seen leading nearly a thousand people out of the city from a distance.
The two sides soon faced each other, and at the beginning no one made a sound, it was Ran Min who kicked the horse's belly lightly with his foot, Zhu Longma slowly moved forward, and only Xie An controlled the horse to follow, and the rest of the people stayed quietly in place.
Li Nong is naturally moving forward, but it is Wang Mo who is following him.
Wang Mo was born in a family in the Central Plains, and joined the begging army when the beggar army fought against the Hu people, and was gradually reused and valued by Li Nong.
He and Ran Min are acquaintances, and they are actually more similar to Ran Min in concept, but unfortunately, his family background and burden make him unable to freely choose the path he wants, so he can only be with Li Nong.
This person was killed by Ran Min like Li Nong and others in history "Yongzeng."
Li Nong was only less than two steps away from Ran Min, looked Ran Min up and down, and said, "Wearing the armor of the Han army, it is even more heroic and extraordinary." ” Ran Min raised his hand and saluted, and exclaimed: "Gong Li can do the same." ” "Yongzeng is still so anxious."
Li Nong made a dumb smile, laughed for a while, and only after laughing enough did he ask: "Yongzeng is here to ask for so-and-so?"
Ran Min was silent for a while before he spoke: "Begging, begging is all for survival.
Li Gong must not forget the origin of the beggar army, and serve the Hu people to disgrace their ancestors, how can some small favors and small favors of the Hu people replace Now our king is going to sweep the world, so that we and other Han people will no longer be committed to the brutal rule of Hu Lu, and return the people of the world to a peaceful place where they can live and work in peace and contentment, why don't Li Gong work with Min and serve under the king's command."
This time it was for Li Nong to be silent for a long time, he kept looking up at the sky, looking at the blue sky, and watching the white clouds of various shapes drifting by, and then said: "The Han State has been attacked on many sides, not to mention the gathering of the Qi people in Puyang, the direction of Jizhou is also the elite border army of the Zhao State and the Yan army that came to aid the Yan army, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops in the south who will go north at any time."
Looking at the situation in the world, only the Liang country located in the remote Xiliang and the barren grassland have a smooth relationship with the Han State, and the rest of the countries are hostile to the Han State. ” Ran Min laughed loudly and roared: "My king regards hostile nations as dry bones in the grave, and it is not a small stone blocking the way to restore the glory of the Han family, but it is just something that can be kicked away. ” "Don't talk nonsense."
Li Nong said very seriously: "The Heavenly King could have conscripted a million troops two years ago, and although the Han army has won victories everywhere in the past two years, it has also placed itself in the land of the public enemy of the world. said that those were just stones blocking the way, who gave the king of Han such arrogant confidence" Xie An opened his mouth at this time, he didn't salute, he looked at Li Nong directly, and shouted as loudly as he could: "Mighty Marquis, look at our army." ” The auxiliaries are encamped, the Tiger Ben Army is already wearing armor, the Yulin Army has also entered the combat posture, and the Praetorian Guards do not need to talk about it.
The army, which had fully entered the state of attack, arranged their own formations according to the number and advanced in echelons.
At the forefront was the intact Tiger Army, both men and horses were wrapped in layers of armor, and five thousand heavy cavalry slowly moved forward in a sharp array, and the sound of heavy horse hooves rolled in.
The Yulin Army was divided into two groups located on the left and right wings of the Tiger Army, which looked like two wings from a distance, and cooperated with the Tiger Army to form a large crane wing array.
Walking at the end are 10,000 Praetorian Guards foot cavalry, they advance the loudest, the foot soldiers are stepping on a neat pace, and the cavalry and war horses are also strangely consistent.
The Han army suddenly put on an advancing posture, and Taocheng naturally beat out bursts of warning drums, and it seemed that many troops were pouring out to take Li Nong back "Gong Li doesn't need to be frightened."
Xie An finally did not forget to salute Ran Min, and only after getting Ran Min's permission did he shout to Li Nong: "The public is not a nonsense person, and we have no intention of treating the public like a beast." ” Li Nong didn't feel scared when he looked at it, his eyes stayed on the side of the Han army that was slowly advancing, and he waited to retract his gaze before he said to Ran Min: "Yong once thought that he could easily let someone surrender."
Ran Min was also direct: "My Wang Yan and Li Nong are pawns who cross the river, if they resist, they may be able to fight for Shi Hu for ten days and a half months, but they will inevitably be destroyed." ” Li Nong was silent again: