Chapter 3615 Black stones cry in blood, people's bones are cold

The mountains on both sides of Black Stone Pass are undulating.

There is a path of sheep intestines among the mountains, which circulates down like intestines overlapping, passing through the peaks, forming a cliff confrontation and a pass inside, with a dangerous terrain.

This Guanxi is opposite to the banks of the Mangling River, and the Luo River passes through it, controlling the way of Gongluo.

If the Cavalry Army does not follow this route, it will take a detour to Hanoi County.

Cao Zhang didn't know which route the Cavalry Army would choose, he just knew that he could only get stuck here until the new order was issued.

Under the Black Stone Pass, the rain washed away the bloodstains left by the fight, leaving only the corpses that had been soaked in the mud of mountains and rocks.

Not only the passes, but also the mountain roads and the Luo River, there are dead bodies.

The head, limbs, and the internal organs flowing out are like pieces of meat on the butcher's chopping board in the market.

The god of death stood behind the chopping board and asked with a smile, "Which piece is the guest officer?"

On the Cao army, most of the people who died in battle were Qingzhou soldiers.

If these Yellow Turban Remains from Qingzhou fought with Zhang Tianshi's ideal over the years, then now they are fighting for money and family property.

Cao Cao was worried that these Qingzhou soldiers fell into the hands of others. He used his money and land to collect these Qingzhou soldiers, and these Qingzhou soldiers also used their lives to repay Cao Cao. Under the attack of the Cavalry Army, the Qingzhou soldiers who died in battle were close to 200, which undoubtedly had a high mortality rate for Heishi Pass, which had a garrison of only more than 2,000 troops.

And most of them were killed in battle, and not many were injured.

Within the pass, most of the Qingzhou soldiers near the gate were cold-hearted. Even if they saw their own bodies beside them, they were like they saw blocks of soil and stones.

Some auxiliary soldiers and civilians were like carrying cargo. The bodies on and inside the pass were carried onto wooden chariots like bricks and stones, and their limbs were crooked and branches were skewed. Even a way of flesh and blood was dragged on the ground, not many people paid attention to it.

Cao Zhang ordered the bodies to be taken into the mass grave outside the pass to bury it, not just that summer is coming.

When this rain comes, if these corpses are not processed, it will soon become the source of the plague.

There are basically not many people in the pass, and some of the remaining people are the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, or the ones that Cao's army has stayed and walked not far away. For these remaining people in Guanzhong, they are even more numb than these Qingzhou soldiers, and death is even a kind of relief.

From the beginning of the great man swallowing his anger to the end of the whole world holding his breath to the Huns. After saying that the powerful Han Dynasty would be punished even if it was far away, it took only a hundred years and there would be no improvement again.

Even if Liu Xiu revived again, he actually did not improve his spirit in the Han Dynasty.

Especially in prefectures and counties in the Central Plains region of Shandong.

The land firmly binds farmers. The strict system of fooling the people makes everyone in the Central Plains of Shandong not the great man or the Hu people, but just have a stable meal.

Therefore, whether it is the Qingzhou soldiers, the Yellow Turban thieves, or the remaining people nowadays, they are all products under the lack of faith and emptiness of their minds. They do not have lofty goals, do not understand what lofty goals are, and they cannot even distinguish the quality of specific things. Even if their own kind are bullied or killed, they will be cold-eyed and insensitive.

What is the Guanzhong Cavalry Army and the people in the north seem to be very far away to them. Even for these Qingzhou soldiers and Shandong laborers, Fei Qian and Cao Cao are the same in their eyes. They are both warlords and princes, they are all fighting for power and profit, and they are all very far away from them.

Unless they can really feel the changes in the things they are close to, including but not limited to basic materials such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, for them, over the years, it will be just a war disaster after another, or a death.

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On the other side of the battlefield, Fei Qian and Pang Tong were discussing things beyond this battlefield.

"Although I established the teachings of Gods in the five directions, I cannot be the king, but I can only assist him. The Emperor of Heaven can calm people's hearts, but I cannot resist war. From Chang'an to Luoyang, I can reach it for three days. If I reach Xiahu, I have no choice but to do anything. China is more than two capitals? The Qin people used Guanzhong's rule of the Central Plains, but eventually they were defeated. This is the lesson."

Fei Qian said to Pang Tong.

The institutional evolution of upper-level rule is not linear, but leapfrog development.

From Yanhuang to Xia, Shang and Zhou, and from Spring and Autumn to Qin and Han dynasties, they are all innovative and extremely complex institutional evolutions and evolutions.

The political rule model of "super stable structure" formed after the Han Dynasty is essentially a relatively general equation solution for China under parameters such as complex geography, technology, productivity, and development of people's intelligence.

The reason why the governance political model established in the Han Dynasty continued in the subsequent feudal dynasties was mainly because it did not make breakthroughs in three aspects.

First, the matching of the speed of information transmission and the scale of territory failed to break through.

Although humans can outperform most animals on a very long distance, the process of information transmission and the range of soldiers are still limited by the butts of cattle and horses. Eight hundred miles of rush is already the command to run both people and horses to death. When civil strife suddenly breaks out or foreign invasion, the speed of Eight hundred miles of rush is still insufficient to quickly transmit information to the center of the empire.

『In this way, if you settle the Central Plains, you should restore Qin Chidao." Pang Tong said, 『But, it would be a waste of time to cultivate Chidao...』

Fei Qian smiled and said, "First practice one horizontal line, one vertical line. The other routes can last for ten years or twenty years."

Heng means from Longyou to Guanzhong, then through Guanzhong to Luoyang, and then to Xuxian.

Even though they are basically in the Central Plains, from Youzhou to Jizhou, then to Yuzhou and Jingzhou, they directly lead to the river.

"If Jingzhou wins, the Sichuan and Shu naval forces can be moved to govern Jiangling and to control Jiangdong." Fei laid on the map and said, "After defining Jiangdong, it can also be a business road that can reach the north and south."

In this era, the development level of Yangzhou's Jiangnan area was not high, so with Jingzhou as the core of the river, it is definitely more suitable than those cities in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

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The situation in the Jiangling area of ​​Jingzhou, which Fei Qian and Pang Tong talked about, was not very ideal.

To the north of the river and in Jiangling County, Cao Zhen established a line of defense on land by retreating.

Most of the warships in Jingzhou were transferred to Jingbei by Cao Ren, so Cao Zhen did not have many warships on hand and could not compete with the Sichuan and Shu navy on the river.

Therefore, Cao Zhen could only fight a tug battle in Jiangling area.

But it does have miraculous effects.

Cao Zhen constantly sent Cao's army teams to shuttle through Yunmengze through crafts and fighting ships, and found the right opportunity to attack the Sichuan and Shu army.

This kind of uninterrupted, discontinuous, and irregular sneak attacks, even if you don’t find any flaws in the Sichuan and Shu army, you will slow down the rhythm of Sichuan and Shu as much as possible and guard the Jiangling bridgehead.

Cao Zhen used Cao's army's familiar guerrilla delay tactics with the terrain, which indeed achieved certain results.

At the beginning, Xu Huang suffered some losses.

After all, this kind of sparrow tactic cannot be completely defensive by just building a scarecrow.

Xu Huang must also ensure the safety of the attack camp under Jiangling City, the water camps on the riverside, and the grain routes, transportation lines, etc. in the two parts and other areas, so he had to allocate troops, strictly guard the enemy, fight steadily, and advance gradually.

Of course, Xu Huang knew that blindly defending was not a solution, so he found a way to form some small swimming fleets, with hundreds of people in a team. Under the sneak leadership of the Cai guide, he also invaded Yunmengze and formed a staggered form with Cao Zhen's fleet, chasing and attacking each other.

After fighting with the Jiangdong Army, the Sichuan and Shu naval army was tempered in morale and skills, and once suppressed Cao Zhen and other ship teams, but the good times did not last long. After Yu Jinshui Army, who came from Xincheng, joined the battle in Yunmengze, Xu Huang gradually became passive.

Yu Jin was originally designed by Cao Cao to target Yu Jiangdong. He was originally staring at the Ruxukou of Jiangdong, and also threatening the downstream Chaisang Wujun and other places. However, the war in Jiangling in Jingzhou is almost on the verge of burning, so Yu Jin of course didn't care whether Jiangdong or Jiangdong was not the case, and joined Jiangling's battle and defense with the watercraft.

In the current situation, it is obviously meaningless for Cao's army to continue to guard against Jiangdong troops. Therefore, while taking advantage of the second alliance with Jiangdong, Cao Cao ordered Yu Jin to be transferred to support the battle in Jingzhou.

As for whether Jiangdong, the second-five-child, will do something backstitch again, Cao Cao really doesn't care about it at this stage.

However, the good news is the soul of the Jiangdong naval army and the news of Zhou Yu's death, which made Yu Jin and others feel a little relieved. But the bad news is that Sun Quan is now equivalent to breaking away from Zhou Yu's tight curse. Although he has no action for the time being, he will definitely tear up the covenant again in the near future.

Cao's army can only look at the front of us now!

After Yu Jinshuijun, who came along the river, arrived in Jiangling one after another, he tried his best to harass and invade Xu Huang's water camp in the river, and launched attacks from time to time. However, when the Sichuan and Shu navy were preparing to launch a large-scale counterattack, they immediately turned the bow and left. It was obvious that they were angry with Cao Zhen, focusing on consumption and delay.

The combat effectiveness of these Cao army naval forces under Yu Jin is not considered to be top naval forces, but in the early years of confrontation with Jiangdong, it was also somewhat of a bit of experience in water battles, at least not new recruits.

For Xu Huang, he is more embarrassed now. On the one hand, he has to launch an attack against Jiangling, where Cao Zhen is stationed, and on the other hand, he has to defend against Yunmengze and Yu Jinshuijun on the river, which is indeed a headache for him.

The navy on the river can be roughly seen as cavalry and earth tanks on the water.

A fleet with both speed, defense and attack power cannot be matched by flesh and blood, even if the Sichuan and Shu navy carried small artillery, the shells were limited and could not be abused. Therefore, most of the time, they rely on the water camp for defense.

At the beginning, Yu Jinshui Army continued to attack, intending to consume the arrows, crossbows, and stones of Xu Huangshui Village. After the Sichuan and Shu Army discovered it, it gradually weakened the frequency and number of counterattacks. Sometimes, no matter how Yu Jinshui Army shouted and shouted on the river or how it acted as a thunderous attack, as long as Yu Jinshui Army did not enter the range, it would never fire lightly.

Yu Jinshuijun rolled his boat, flew over and circled continuously. After a while, he was exhausted and retreated. However, during this process, Yu Jinshuijun became closer and closer to Xu Huang's water camp...

Is Xu Huang's subordinates starting to slack off?

Or are you planning to use a big move after the Forbidden Water Army approaches?

It is hard to say who is whose prey is now.

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Fighting is a matter for soldiers and military academy, but it is a responsibility that Fei Qian cannot shirk.

If you want to get rich, build roads first.

Transportation is the basis of logistics and the prerequisite of business.

It is impossible to fulfill the dream of a strong country by relying on agricultural taxes.

"Farmers are the foundation of the country. Counties and counties should check household registration, protect the number of fields, and benefit from widening the farming industry. Without farming, everything will be empty. If the states in the Western Regions are scattered, the granaries are not solid and difficult to resist the wind and frost. The Han Dynasty has been in its 400th anniversary, so how can it be destroyed? However, relying solely on agricultural tuitions is not enough to repair the road and give garrison soldiers, so agriculture must be the basis and Shang tuessays are the end, which cannot be changed."

Pang Tong agreed very much.

Fei Qian found some data, saying that if the tax and rent of farmers in agriculture are maintained at around 15% to 20% of farming, it can basically be a prosperous era. Farmers have enough spare money and will start to consume while ensuring survival, so as to stimulate the development of handicrafts and commerce. Once farmers fall into a long-term situation where they can only survive, and even have problems with survival, not only will the commercial handicrafts shrink, but the same population will also begin to decline.

The handicrafts represented by workshops have begun to use gunpowder and firearms to change the form of war under the guidance of Feiqian. This means that the intensity of the war has increased and the duration has been shortened, and the addition of Feiqian's adoption of precious metals such as gold, silver and copper to improve the economic system, so the traditional political rule route will have the opportunity to make breakthroughs.

History has proved that the end of modern feudal dynasties was not only bureaucratic corruption, land annexation, but also accompanied by the development of industry, the expansion of sea transportation, and the frequent transportation exchanges, which ultimately led to the outdated system being unable to keep up with the pace of the times. Even if the conservatives were unwilling to do so, they would be forced to carry out reforms.

However, doing these things requires improving the current political structure system of the Han Dynasty.

The first thing Fei Qian abandoned was the dual structure of the divine power, which was the political system that appeared in Western Europe.

China may also step into this river for a while.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties when Buddhism was prevalent, if an emperor completed the localization of Buddhism and combined it with bureaucrats during this period, he could change the original "Son of Emperor Loyalty and Filial Confucian model" into the "Buddhist system of the Wheel-State Lord", that is, there might be a triangular structure similar to the "Emperor, Shogunate, Temple and Society" of the later Eastern Japanese, and then it would be possible to form the so-called Eastern Secret Realm and other Buddhist political systems.
To be continued...