Chapter 542: Wind and Frost (1)

In late September, Da Ying and Ming dynasties launched a large army to Hanoi.

Hanoi County was established in the Tang Dynasty, with a total of sixteen counties. By the time of Wei, Cao Che divided the eight counties in the east into Ji County. The remaining eight counties in the west were still Hanoi County. New Hanoi was long stairs-shaped, with mountains on both sides and rivers on one side. Only the east was unobstructed. In theory, it belonged to a horn that extended into Jin territory on the Hebei Plain. However, because of the existence and importance of the so-called world-class Tianyuan, Hanoi actually became an affiliation to the Eastern Capital and belonged to the northern gateway to the Eastern Capital.

Three years ago, as the controller of Hebei, the Gang took the initiative to hand over half of the Hanoi County, which is of great significance to Dongdu. In fact, the agreement that day could be reached was achieved, and this condition was of great importance.

This action also directly led to the reconstruction of the famous Heyang City Cross-River Fortress, making Hanoi County a place where the three forces converge.

When the war really broke out, some rumors appeared involuntarily... Many people say that these were Chief Zhang's calculations. The reason is very simple. This position is too convenient for the army to dispatch, which is equivalent to an inside battle. Relatively speaking, Guanzhong has obvious logistical pressure, but it is difficult to give up the battlefield here, because fighting here can take into account both Dongdu and Yecheng.

But some people sneer at this, because on the other hand, setting this place as a battlefield is equivalent to putting Yecheng on the front line. Once the front line fails, Yecheng will be in danger of overturning. With the explosive development of Yecheng in recent years, who is willing to lose it?

Is it okay to have the Feng Tunfengtai repaired?

Haven't you seen that the war has just begun, and the people of Yecheng have just cheered. The next day, many merchants quietly retreated to the hinterland of Hebei, and some Yecheng people also sent their children to the countryside.

Even the Daxingtai was relocated to the Jiangling. Anyway, everyone was used to it. Wei Xuanding was furious and directly signed the promotional document for the corresponding personnel to go to the front line. He transferred the Ministry of Personnel to the Documentary Department and then issued it to the Ministry of Military Affairs. He sent the person away on the same day.

That's right, Chen Bin was just stunned for a moment, and then signed and stamped it silently. In the afternoon, Xu Shiying silently sent the person to the death.

However, just when the rear was still in this obvious state of combat readiness and pre-war entanglement, the front-line army had already taken over the enemy.

On the second day after the army was dispatched, the forward arrived in Xinwen City.

This is located at the junction of the Hanoi County Gang and the Dongdu forces. Because it is necessary to protect Xingyang, Yanjin, the easternmost section of Hanoi, was not transferred to Dongdu, but was still under the control of the gang. In order to continue to control the business roads and to supplement the defense system of Heyang City, Dongdu was built on the east side of Qinshui, and a new Wencheng city was built in Wen County to replace the previous Lincusi and Yanjin.

The effect is also significant. Hebei and the Dongdu are in peace for several years. Hebei merchants have been traveling around since then as usual, making this place literally make money every day.

"I, Old Liu, have something to worry about for several years, and I haven't understood it." Liu Heiba ​​looked at the sun that was far west, then went to Xinwen City in front of him, frowned slightly. "Who can tell me why Xinwen is so diligent in collecting taxes from merchants here, but we won't collect them until the customs clearance? Is it the provision of the peace agreement that year?"

When this situation was asked, everyone was confused.

However, interestingly, someone really answered it, and it was a very unexpected person... Cao Chen was stunned for a while and suddenly slapped: "I remembered it. I heard from my sister that this matter was said by my sister... It was not a clause, but the business strategies of the two companies were different. We only collected bulk transaction taxes with livestock, carriages and horses facing upwards, and encouraged merchants to circulation, so we did not charge tolls. As for Dongdu, we first followed the old examples, and later we wanted to learn that we only collected transaction taxes. After all, they were there in Dongdu, so it was easier to do this. However, because Dongdu is now in a small territory and the things in the warehouse are terrible. The army needs fresh supplies to encourage morale, so instead of abolishing this tax, we changed to physical items bypassing. As for Dongdu, we can take the voucher and no longer need to withdraw transaction taxes."

"So that's it." Liu Hei-chan nodded in pretending to understand, and then looked at Cao Chen again, sincerely responding. "Old Cao, General Cao, the future of General Cao is really bright."

"That's natural." Cao Chen responded with great pride.

Liu Heiju suddenly laughed out loud: "You don't understand what I mean..."

"What do you mean?" Cao Chen was puzzled for a moment.

"I'll ask you something, let's make an assumption. If your Chief Cao didn't get married in Gaojipo that day and is not married yet, would you still be willing to let your sister marry Brother Dou?" Liu Hei-chan asked jokingly.

Cao Chen immediately turned black: "Liu Babiao! Where did you come from so many bird talks today?!"

"Isn't this annoying?" Liu Hei-chul smiled and glanced at the sun again.

In this way, everyone laughed for a while. Although they said they were tired of waiting, there was no intention of delaying it in Xinwen City and quickly responded - they did not receive the so-called reinforcements from the Dongdu direction, and Dongdu and Yecheng were not in alliance, so they refused to open the city.

Not only that, if the army forcibly enters the city, they will rise up and resist.

"Go to do it!" Cao Chen thought for a moment, and then he immediately clenched the whip. "Although we are all cavalry camps, we dismounted and went side by side, and five or six thousand elites drowned them! What's more, Han Erlang's camp was behind, and Wang Longtou's army was behind, so we can definitely continue!"

"Not bad." Xiahou Ningyuan also gritted his teeth and expressed his opinion. "I suggest fighting! If you fight, you will be the first result!"

"I don't want to fight." Unexpectedly, Liu Hei-chan, who has always been the main battle, took the initiative to win the vanguard position, frowned slightly and made an unexpected attitude.

"Are you afraid you can't fight?" Xiahou Ningyuan said gasping. "Captain Liu, I must remind you that this city stands behind the river, is the gateway to the battlefield ahead and the logistical hub. Whether the east guard is happy or not, we must take it down and cannot escape."

"Xiahou's leader is right." Cao Chen was also a little anxious. "Old Liu, since we are pioneers, we cannot lose all our power..."

"You know what you know! I think the credit is not great enough!" Liu Heiju sneered. "Of course we have to take down this city, and we can take it down, but our third battalion cavalry runs so fast, more than 100 miles a day and night, just to get off the horse and attack the city? Or will we attack a city that will definitely be flooded when the army comes from behind? Besides, this city is a newly built city. Although the city is small, it has a deep wall and high base, and it is abundant in military equipment. Now there is no shortage of money and silk. The guard generals are also a dan. Our third battalion cavalry dismounted and attacked the city without any equipment. Even if we were the leader of Xiahou, we would go in and kill the guard generals, and we would not delay the casualties outside."

The other two calmed down, and Xiahou took the initiative to speak out: "What does leader Liu mean?"

"It's just that I'm not going to pass Longqiu Pass on the other side, I can't even get through." Liu Heiju pointed to the city and said later. "Now it's just a matter of grabbing a time. If our third battalion troops can rush into the hinterland of Ji County today and fight a battle or two on the other side of Qinshui tomorrow, it will disrupt the arrangement of Dayong, so that our army can lay in, and then gain a foothold in the key points of Heyang City...that's the overall credit."

Cao Chen immediately became a little blind and instinctively went to see Xiahou Ningyuan.

Xiahou Ningyuan pulled his horse around the place, looked at the sun and the military appearance behind him, and gave a reply: "Captain Liu is right. We are cavalry. The Ministry of Military Affairs asked us to be vanguards but did not let us stop to attack the city. The original mission "try to make progress" is definitely not about this! Let's go!"

"Then let's go, just take a break here. Go west across Qinshui and let Han Erlang come to siege the city." Cao Chen immediately responded when he saw the two big leaders unanimously.

"Send someone to inform Han Erlang and ask the people behind to come to the siege, and he doesn't care about this place." Liu Hei-chan continued to arrange. "Let him go upstream to explore the Qinshui side, and be careful that Daying's people will come to cover the place from the upstream, and they will also respond to us through Qinshui."

After hearing what Liu Heifeng had arranged, the remaining two people had nothing to say. The so-called soldiers were very fast, so they immediately set off, five or six thousand cavalry, and directly crossed Xinwen City. They built a floating bridge from Qinshui to cross the river. They did not care at all, and did this to throw the cavalry of their three battalions into the feet of the main force of Daying, who was known as 200,000.

Seeing this shape, more than a thousand soldiers from the East Capital, plus hundreds of tax collectors and civilians in Xinwen City were all excited, and then they couldn't help but whispering, feeling that the gang was really unwilling to destroy the alliance with the East Capital, and this time it would be safe.

After these cavalry crossed the Taiban, the latter battalion rushed to the river and even left the river, and directly abandoned the city and went upstream along the Qinshui. This kind of discussion became even more frequent.

However, Hu Yan, the military supervisor in the city and general of the Central Army, had a very nasty face. As a middle-level official of the Great Wei Dynasty, he was a model for entering the house after a chaotic world. He knew the current situation better than anyone else. Since the gang came to participate in the war and the troops were so fast, the new Wencheng would inevitably take down... That's right, the core of the problem is that the army was really coming too fast, so it was so fast that it changed the situation.

In fact, the high-level battle in Xinwen City is simply aimed at the possible enemy from the west, not the east, otherwise there would be no more floating bridges on Qinshui... As long as the army comes late and comes one or two days later, then when Daying's troops arrive first and attacks on Xinwen City, the local military and civilians can choose to give up this strategic enclave with a calm attitude of fighting against the powerful enemy, and then transfer from the army's controlled territory to Yanjin and return to the Eastern Capital.

Of course, it is useless to think about these things now. Because the army has arrived, the question is what to do?

"General Hu." Chai Yuyu, the local ambassador of Guancheng, walked away. His expressions and actions were originally relaxed, but the closer he got to Hu Yan, the more affected he was the latter, and he became solemn. "Will the gang let us go?"

"Impossible." Hu Yan said simply. "For us, Xinwen City is a point of defense in Heyang's outer periphery, and it even becomes an enclave immediately, but for Hebei, it is the key to advance and it must be taken."

"Then what should we do to abandon the city now?" Chai Yu was stunned, but his mind was turning fast. "There should be more camps behind them. We abandoned the city and turned south, walked next to the river, and walked overnight... They came quickly, but they were also anxious. From the previous camps, they could see that they themselves didn't know how to deal with us. We were in the chaos and could not cross the river from Yanjin."

"It's hard." Hu Yan sighed. "The city has saved up all the tariffs for a long time. Even if the military discipline is strict, it will be tempting. When they come, we will be even more unlucky in the wild."

"Uncle Hu." Chai Yu whispered and changed his name. "I mean, let's leave the money here!"

Hu Yan glared at his former colleague Jing'antai: "If you say you want to turn against each other, isn't this a foe?"

Chai Yu looked at the other party in amazement and continued to discuss: "What if it's burned?"

"It's all people's wealth..." Hu Yan still couldn't accept it. "What's more, Dongdu has always been short of these fresh supplies. Now he is trapped. I don't know how long it will take to get it right. If it can be delivered, it will be even more worthwhile."

"But now aren't people doing their jobs for the sake of the sword?" Chai Yuyu became more and more earnest. "Uncle Hu, you can't abandon people for the sake of things. It's too late. Once you start a war and see blood, nothing will be useful!"

Hu Yan was silent for a while and refused to answer.

Chai Yu lowered his head and asked, "Uncle Hu thinks we are all in Jing'antai. The old couple in the gang can care about old love? But that's true. Now that they have a great career and a large army is rushing up, how can they spread an old old man in the Dongdu? To put it bluntly, now that the enemy and I are in line, why should we care about old love?"

"If you don't care about old feelings, how can I expect others to be nostalgic? What I mean is habits and temper." Hu Yan suppressed his emotions and tried to explain. "Xiao Chai, don't you know that Zhang Sanlang is a particular person, Qin Erlang is a loyal person, Qian Tang is a rule... So, if we can really wait for this group of people, even Chen Bin, Xie Minghe and other Southern Chen people, we can't really leave completely... As for these Hebei people and Dongjie people, all of them are from the grassroots, they really can't believe it."

Chai Yu was still unwilling to give up and continued to say, "Then you can't wait forever. People can't say you'll attack the city at any time... Uncle Hu, how about we do this? Now be careful and start preparing at night. If you can't wait for someone who can speak before midnight, you will set off directly and escape in the dark. The goods only bring the cloth and goods that Dongdu urgently needs, and the gold, silver and copper coins left behind!"

Hu Yan thought for a while, but could only nod.

Seeing this, Chai Yu stopped caring about it and hurried to go and work hard.

After another half an hour, all the military cavalry camps crossed the river, then threw them down the floating bridge and continued to move westward. The cavalry rolled on the plain and the extraordinary momentum was very powerful, but they soon disappeared behind the trees in the village... On the other side, another battalion arrived, and the leader's surname was Jia, which caused a stir in the city. If Jia Runshi was not trustworthy, he might be able to communicate like he had just now, but if it were the killing god Jia Yue, it would be troublesome.

But it is not like that, because almost everyone in Jia Yue's camp has to be equipped with a straight sword that chops people's heads.

Just when the city of Xinwen was hesitating because of its rapid advance, Han Erlang and his subordinates unexpectedly became the pioneering force because of the need to cross the river by Liu Heiba.

Before sunset, they had walked along the river for more than ten miles, and the forward whistle cavalry could almost see Anchang County on the other side of Qinshui across the river.

"Han Er... Leader." Just when the troops were temporarily resting and decided to find a place to establish a camp outside the sight of Anchang County, Wang Laowu, who was already the first team general in the camp, came over.

"What?" Han Erlang, who was standing on the hill observing the situation, put down his sword-pressing hand and turned around to answer. "What is Lao Wu saying?"

"I...I, my second brother, my brother is talking about it." Team Wang will speak carefully.

“How to say it?”

"They said they were all from Qinghe. Leader Liu and the others were rebels, and we were the official army. They crossed the river together. We came to the flanks to cover it. It was still dangerous to run so far... In fact, it was excluded by Leader Liu and the others." Wang Laowu tried hard to clearly convey the information he obtained.

Han Erlang was stunned for a moment, and did not rush to refute, but asked seriously: "Is there too many such rumors?"

"There are quite a lot." Wang Laowu nodded quickly.

"It's too tiring to march for two days." Han Erlang thought for a while and made a little speculation.

"It's not just too tired, I'm afraid I'm still a little afraid of fighting." Wang Laowu also thought about it and gave an additional supplement.

"Cattle fight?" Han Erlang was shocked.

"Yes." Wang Laowu explained a little. "Everyone said that we were so excited. We were so tired after two days. Someone muttered that a Buying went deep into the front line so much..."

"What a cowardly battle? I'm just complaining." Han Erlang then breathed a sigh of relief, but also became solemn. "But you can't ignore it. You can prepare now, so that everyone will not have to wait for the establishment of a battalion. First use some dry food and water, but be restrained. Then call the documents with the army to the eighth team with the most recruits. I will go there and explain it to them clearly, and then let the documents go back to persuade them at night."

Wang Laowu was originally going to say something, but after all, he went back and followed the military orders honestly.

So far, everything was calm and quiet. In the autumn season, there was a plain at his feet, a towering mountain to the north, and a river to the side. There was no more comfortable weather and pleasant scenery than this.

In fact, an unexpected thing was that as the rest began, even though the camp had not been established, he just drank some water and ate some dry food. The complaints of the troops quickly received some natural soothing, and the atmosphere began to become harmonious. Even so, when Wang Laowu came to the eighth team after finishing his work, he found that the clerks had left, but Han Erlang was still chatting with dozens of recruits with a stir-fried cake in one hand and a water bag in the other.

"King Han, I've asked something... I've been holding my stomach for a long time." An older officer couldn't help but interrupt when he saw the atmosphere was harmonious. "You have become the leader, and you have got the sword from the chief. When you marry a wife, you are still the chief female official who is in charge of marriage. Not to mention the future, you are just now considered a noble person who has entered the house. Why are you still called Han Erlang? Don't you learn to give someone a new name?"

Han Erlang immediately smiled bitterly: "I'm not hiding it from you. Some people have indeed advised me to change my name, but I just dare not. I'm afraid that I will forget my original name after changing my name... Think about it, what are the leaders who change their names? Which family is not a bunch of relatives, some simply bring the entire village to help Jianye. Now he has changed his name and changed his clothes, and the entire village has become famous together. But what about me? My family was originally a dilapidated house in Qinghe, and there are no relatives now. Some villagers I knew in the past are still farming in the village. You said, if I change my name and take on the airs of an official, what is the difference between changing someone after death?"

The people around were almost puzzled, but when a few people understood, they naturally sang together.

Seeing this, Han Erlang had no choice but to point at Wang Laowu who had just arrived and joked: "If you care about this, Wang Wu Ge is the one who should change his name most, but he always doesn't change it and doesn't listen to advice. The leaders don't want to call him..."

Everyone was stunned for a moment, then immediately woke up and burst into laughter.

Nothing else, who made Wang Wulang, a more famous person in the gang? He is even the most serious boss.

After making a joke and saying a few gossips, Han Erlang made up a few more words about the fact that Liu Hei-chan could not have been separated from him... After all, Han Erlang is an official army, but he is from Qinghe, and the battalions behind him are simply from Henan, from the north. If he uses him to protect his flanks, he should have more trust.

Seeing that the atmosphere was getting better, Han Erlang was also ready to get up to arrange camping matters. At this time, several riders came from the north under the sunset. He was led by a preparatory general and went straight to this place, but he had to turn to meet him.

The eighth team of recruits around naturally stopped, while many officers and documents gathered together naturally.
To be continued...