Chapter 398 Your plan is still too conservative!
Huang Taiji, who was chasing after him, became furious when he heard that Wei Jiajie had only killed one captain in formation, and the rest of the cavalry did not dare to pursue him.
These cavalry are not the elite of the Tumut tribe, but troops from other tribes on the grassland who came to Bansheng City to recruit.
Huang Taiji originally looked down on these miscellaneous troops, so he ordered that one of ten cavalrymen be killed and killed for fear of war.
Immediately afterwards, Huang Taiji led his Tumut cavalry to pursue these Han refugees.
No matter how brave Wei Jiajie was, facing the elite armored Tumote cavalry, he could only cover the escape of the Han people.
Fighting and retreating along the way, although Wei Jiajie led the White Lotus Sect's soldiers to cover hard, these people with their families moved too slowly, and more and more people fell behind and were scattered and killed by Huang Taiji's cavalry. , scattered and fled.
Huang Taiji also ordered not to pursue these scattered Han people, and continued to bite Wei Jiajie's White Lotus Skitarii to pursue them.
He knew that as long as Wei Jiajie's Han armed forces were wiped out, all Han people would become like cattle and sheep, allowing the cavalry to drive them away at will.
Wei Jiajie was also tenacious. The two sides spent the whole night covering up the attack. By the next day, less than a hundred of the White Lotus Sect's skitarii were left. They gathered in the small forest by the Yellow River, and almost everyone was injured.
Wei Jiajie also had many wounds on his body. He held a spear and said, "After today, everyone is going to see Amitabha. If you die, you will die. It would be good to kill one more Mongolian dog!" Wei Jiajie looked around and said,
" Dear Taoist brothers, on the day we joined the religion, our religion swore to live and die together. Today, the day of death has come, and Wei Mou went first!" After saying this, Wei Jiajie
rushed out of the woods alone and rushed towards Tumo led by Huang Taiji. Special cavalry.
The remaining members of the White Lotus Church hesitated for a moment, but when they saw Wei Jiajie rushing out, they no longer hesitated and followed him with weapons.
Huang Taiji was riding on his horse, looking contemptuously at the White Lotus cultists who were rushing to die. He waved his whip and said, "Don't use your bow, trample them to death!" The cavalry began to charge, and at this moment, a black spot appeared on the horizon
.
Then, there was another flag. When this flag appeared, Huang Taiji also narrowed his eyes.
The cavalry under his command started to commotion, and a veteran who had escaped from the battle against Wuyuan City said in a panic:
"It's the flag of the Lord of Wuyuan City!"
A bigger commotion spread among the cavalry.
The high-pitched singing came from afar. Huang Taiji only heard it as a Han folk song, but in the ears of Han people like Wei Jiajie, this song was a military song engraved deep in their hearts.
"How can I say that I have no clothes? I share the same robe with you. When the king raised an army, I repaired my spear and I share the same enemy with you!" The military song of the
Qin army thousands of years ago sounded, followed immediately by the black cavalry charging down the hillside!
Huang Taiji panicked and controlled the horse, and quickly asked his surroundings: "Why did the army of Lord Wuyuan appear here!"
A cavalryman who had participated in previous wars shivered with fear when he thought of the terror of the grenadiers.
Another soldier said: "Great Taiji, we should return to Bansheng immediately and inform the Great Khan that Wuyuan City Lord's army has appeared near Bansheng City!" Huang Taiji did not want to withdraw, but no matter how arrogant he was, he would not
dare He underestimated the cavalry of Wuyuan City. His brother's life and death were still unknown from the last time he went on an expedition. Those cavalrymen who escaped told the story of the terror of the Wuyuan Grenadier Cavalry.
There was no time to hesitate on the battlefield. Huang Taiji gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go!"
As the Mongolian cavalry withdrew, Wei Jiajie collapsed on the ground.
He only saw a middle-aged man walking up to him on horseback, with the red Wuyuan City flag waving beside him. Wei Jiajie looked at the Wuyuan cavalry again, but what he saw were many businessmen on horses.
Lu Er ordered his men to take care of these wounded soldiers. He looked at the direction Huang Taiji was going and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Lu Er originally only led troops to escort the caravan to Datong for border trade, but he brought out a total of less than 300 Wuyuan cavalry.
After hearing the news of the fleeing Han people, Lu Er took the risk to fly the flag of Wuyuan City, and asked the caravan members and the nearby fleeing Han people to pretend to be cavalry, pretending to be in large numbers.
Unexpectedly, they actually scared off Huang Taiji's Tumut cavalry.
After being identified by others, Lu Er said to Wei Jiajie:
"Preaching is prohibited in Wuyuan City."
Wei Jiajie lowered his head and said: "I don't want to preach, I just want to kill Meng Gou!"
Lu Er looked at Wei Jiajie and said, "Go back to Wuyuan. Go to the city and heal your wounds. There are many Mongolians for you to kill!"
In the next few days, Lu Er bluffed near Bansheng City and attacked several Mongolian tribes at night, causing Wuyuan City's army to bluff near Bansheng City. The illusion of haunting.
Now the Mongols in Bansheng City were even more afraid to pursue the fleeing Han people.
Huang Taiji led his troops back to Bansheng, but Anda Khan did not punish his son for escaping from battle, but praised his prudence.
The Mongolian military system is that when they are scattered, they are herdsmen, and when they are gathered, they are cavalry. Anda Khan began to recruit his cavalry, and also sent troops recruited from other tribes to intercept the fleeing Han people and spy on the location of the main force in Wuyuan City.
As a result, the soldiers from other tribes became even more resentful.
He was attacked by the White Lotus Cult Army and stopped in pursuit, and was killed by Huang Taiji. Now Huang Taiji saw the Wuyuan City army and ran away without any punishment!
Now the army of Wuyuan City is near Bansheng. You Tumut tribe members are in the city, but you let other tribesmen go out and die.
The cavalry of these other tribes became even more disloyal and no longer contributed to the pursuit and interception of the Han people. They came back every day to report all kinds of fabricated news.
In this way, An Dahan listened to the false news in Bansheng City for nearly half a month. The Lord of Wuyuan City "incarnated into tens of millions", appearing in the east of Bansheng, and then in the north of Bansheng City.
The number of troops in Wuyuan City is also ever-changing. Sometimes it is reported to be a few thousand cavalry, and sometimes it is an army of 100,000.
After An Dahan summoned his cavalry, there was no sign of the Wuyuan City army outside Bansheng City, and most of the Han people near Bansheng City had fled.
There was no sign of the army passing through the grassland, and Andahan finally understood that he had been tricked.
An Dahan had no choice but to return to Bansheng City again. He ordered all Han people's fields to be taken back, and all the properties of several Han Han printing officials were confiscated.
Immediately afterwards, An Dahan ordered the construction of the Buddhist temple to begin immediately. However, now that all the Han craftsmen in Bansheng City had fled, An Dahan could only recruit craftsmen and laborers from the tribes below.
These tribes were naturally very dissatisfied, but the Tumut cavalry in the hands of Anda Khan made them dare not resist, so they could only send craftsmen and labor force obediently.
Time has entered May, and the front page of the latest issue of "Jingshi Bao" published a map including the grasslands, the Western Regions, Tibet, Annan, Korea, Japan, and Nanyang.
Originally, this issue was just an overview of Asian geography in "Hai Guo Tu Zhi", which was an introduction to the situation in the Central Plains and surrounding areas.
It was originally just an issue of a geographical science newspaper, but unexpectedly caused a rush to buy it. People throughout the southeast region, after paying for newspapers, began to color on the newspapers with pens.
The people painted the occupied areas in the southeast.
With the capture of all of Jiangxi, news of the new southeastern army entering Wuchang, and the pacification of the Yao rebellion in Guangxi spread to Nanjing, the map was once again filled with civilians.
Looking at the entire southeastern region, the land area alone can compete with the Ming Dynasty.
Not to mention the regions such as Nanzhili and Zhejiang in the southeast, which were originally the wealth centers of the Ming Dynasty, and the economy of the southeast has far exceeded that of the Ming Dynasty.
The nominal brigade commander of the fifth brigade is Xu Wei, but normal military orders are issued through Chen Lin, the deputy brigade commander.
Advancing northward along the Grand Canal, Chen Lin led the fifth brigade to suppress bandits and water pirates along the way, pushing the brigade headquarters all the way to Xuzhou.
After restoring order along the waterway, Xu Wei sent judicial officers from the governor's office in Nanzhili to try the bandits and water thieves.
After a quick trial, all the culprits were exiled to Guangxi, and the accomplices were sentenced to one to three years of hard labor according to the circumstances of the crime, so that they could repair the Huaibei section of the Grand Canal.
Upon hearing the news, most of the bandits and water thieves cried with joy.
The canal is known as "the place where millions of water workers are connected." Among the entire canal, the Huaibei section has the largest number of water workers.
Because the Yellow River flows into the Huaihe River, the water level in this section of the Grand Canal has risen, and the river has become silted up in many places, making it impossible to navigate normally.
This requires a large number of trackers. Some cut-off channels even require trackers to pull the boat onto the sand and use land boating to pull it to the next dock.
These water workers had no land and relied on water transportation to make a living.
When the New Army from the Southeast captured Nanjing and water transportation from the north to the south was cut off, they naturally could not survive.
When Zhang Juzheng retreated, he also deliberately left some nails in Huaibei, so when the fifth brigade went north, they encountered many bandits and pirates.
There are naturally some ambitious people here who want to take advantage of the chaos, but most of them are also farmers and ordinary people who have been coerced.
They followed the bandits and water thieves, but in fact they didn't have enough to eat, and they were squeezed by the bandit leaders.
Now they are sentenced to hard labor, but when they were in the Ming Dynasty, they stretched on the canal every day.
Although there is some gray income from stretching for Mingting, it can only survive starvation.
Now he works as a corvee for Southeast, and he has enough to eat every day. He is also given "work points" according to his work situation every month. At the end of the month, he can use these "work points" to exchange for food to take home.
This is not like doing corvee service! It’s like Governor Su is providing disaster relief in Huaibei!
As for the Huaibei water conservancy project this time, Hu Zongxian personally completed the Hangzhou seawall project from Zhejiang and returned to South Zhili to prepare it himself.
No one expected that after Hu Zongxian started repairing several rivers in Zhejiang, he seemed to have awakened his inner soul of water control, and his level of water conservancy could be said to have advanced by leaps and bounds.
He personally went to the Nanjing Governor's Mansion to discuss with Su Ze how to manage the Huaihe River.
Hu Zongxian paid a visit to Su Ze. Su Ze took his hand and said: "Hu Butang has helped control the water in Zhejiang and made the pond disaster caused by the intrusion of the Qiantang River tide a thing of the past. I have ordered Zhejiang to name the sea dike at the mouth of the Qiantang River Hu Gongdi!" Carve a stele of Hu Gong to record Hu Butang's achievements in controlling the Qiantang River!"
Hu Zongxian felt warm in his heart when he heard this. Who are the people who can build dams in Hangzhou and leave their names?
Su Shi from Su Causeway and Bai Juyi from Bai Causeway, these two are both figures whose names will be remembered throughout the ages!
Now he, Hu Zongxian, can also erect a monument on the Qiantang River. That is an achievement that will be remembered for eternity just like pacifying the Japanese rebellion!
Hu Zongxian said to Su Ze: "Hu doesn't dare to do his best. If it weren't for the support of the governor, Hu would never have built this embankment."
Su Ze did not continue to be polite to Hu Zongxian, but said: "Hu Butang this time Did you come to Nanjing to rebuild the water conservancy project in Huaibei?"
Hu Zongxian nodded, and then he realized that there was a middle-aged man in his thirties behind Su Ze, and this person looked familiar to him.
Su Ze said: "This is Pan Jixun, the former patrol officer of Guangdong. He made great contributions when Guangdong was rebellious. Later, when he returned to his hometown of Huzhou to visit relatives, he was recruited by me to be the governor and counselor of water conservancy." Pan Jixun also nodded helplessly to Hu Zongxian
. , he just went home to visit relatives, but Su Ze found out about it and forcibly recruited him to be a counselor in the Governor's Mansion.
Although Southeast has now strictly clarified the system for official selection and appointment, and does not allow promotion above the rank, the counselor of the Metropolitan Governor's Office is still a very critical position.
For example, some important early officials, such as Xu Wei and others, all stepped out from this counselor position.
If you can serve as the Governor's Counselor now, it will definitely be a good position if you are released in the future.
Pan Jixun originally implemented the "Jiupinglijia Method" in Guangdong, but Su Ze was not interested in this method and often invited Pan Jixun to discuss water control.
Pan Jixun could only bite the bullet and start learning about water conservancy, but he didn't expect that he was really this material.
And Su Ze also lamented that those who can be recorded in the history books are indeed no ordinary people.
Pan Jixun had never been exposed to water conservancy knowledge before, but after he came into contact with water conservancy, his level of knowledge could be said to have improved rapidly.
At the beginning, Su Ze relied on his level 10 water conservancy skill to be able to guide Pan Jixun.
But Pan Jixun quickly finished reading the ancient water control books and began to read the water control experience summarized by Su Ze.
Now Pan Jixun is not as good as the experience brought by Su Ze's later generations on the whole, but in the details of water control, Su Ze is completely unable to guide Pan Jixun.
So after Hu Zongxian's water control plan was sent to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, Su Ze immediately took Pan Jixun to study it.
Hu Zongxian said: "Grand Governor, the Jianghuai section of the Ming Dynasty's Grand Canal has not been dredged for decades, so my subordinates plan to take advantage of the cutoff of water transportation from the north to the south to rebuild the Grand Canal." Hu Zongxian looked at Su Ze worriedly
. He was worried that Su Ze would suspect that he was deliberately proposing a big project to drag down the people in the southeast.
When he first surrendered, Hu Zongxian had this idea, but now he has no such idea at all.
Su Ze didn't say anything, and Hu Zongxian's heart sank even more, just when he was about to plead guilty and propose a more conservative plan.
Su Ze said: "Hu Butang! Your plan is too conservative!"
(End of Chapter)