Speaking of which, Chen Ru, who was the Duya of Dongchuan, initially resolutely implemented the deployment from Song Hao. Not only did he successfully attack several towns, ferries and docks downstream of Shehong City, burned them all and plundered them locally, and used local materials to break the water flow on the river surface, and built many shoal obstacles with shipwrecks and lower wooden piles.

During this period, the men, women, young and old who were driven from nearby villages were soaked in the cold water with residual ice and snow. They also froze to death, died of illness, drowning or repatriation. However, his painstaking arrangements and limited imagination could not stop the Taiping Army fleet that was rising along the river as the news that was about to begin spring.

Although he had cleaned and expelled the manpower and animal power along the river in disguise, he did not expect that Taipingzhe would have vehicles and ships that could rely on water wheels to carry on their own, and that the roughly arranged water surfaces and underwater obstacles could not cause any hindrance to these vehicles and ships. He had been discovered in advance with several poles extending the bows.

Then, many light boats leaned forward to work, with a roar and splashing waves of old high, countless dead fish rolled, and with the large pieces of residue floating away from the water, the river turned into a wide and smooth road again; and the ambush he set up by the river became a joke. Several cannons on the vehicles and ships all rushed over, and the horses pressed to the ground were shocked, and then people could not hide them.

The wharf and ferry were destroyed, and these vehicles and ships were able to quickly build a recommended landing place on the shore with small boats they put down and towed the materials on the barge. Chen Ru was under his command of all the cavalrymen in Dongchuan, but they could not cross the river to attack the other side. After suffering three losses, they could only move to the inland activities.

So they settled down and began to use swords, bows and guns to clear out the stubborn and foolish people who "accompanies thieves" and "accompanies thieves" in the local area. For a time, the real thief party did not find many real thieves, but instead killed those good people who thought they had obeyed the government for generations and had little to do with foreign peace thieves, and they would not have anything to do. They were unwilling to leave their hometowns for a while and temporarily avoided them.

However, when the thief army lurking in Shehong City was supplemented and began to take the initiative, the good days they had to rely on burning, killing, looting, Jianyin were over. After being ambushed and intercepted one after another, and relying on horsepower and familiar terrain, Chen Ru felt a sense of crisis and disaster.

Therefore, in the end, he finally abandoned the mounts that were conducive to the flat-field mercedes, and the Tutuan Township soldiers who had been mobilized and gathered, and led the last 800 people into the mountains east of Shehong City, and only then did he get rid of the pursuit of the thief cavalry who had just arrived and were not familiar with the terrain.

However, when Chen Ru and others walked out along the hunting path in the mountains and were able to walk back to Zhoucheng County, the last twenty people were left behind. Compared with the vigorous spirit of thousands of cavalry traveling around, they were extremely miserable and down.

However, the local information he received during the battle and encounters with the thief army still forced Song Hao to pay attention to it, and he temporarily let go of the plan to hold him accountable. Because the thief army in Shehong and other places no longer simply plunders the big households and wealthy families, or encourage and recruit poor households and poor families, and drive them to and cooperate.

Instead, after confiscating the rich and clerks and officials from the local tyrants, they assigned people to measure the land and check the household registrations in a serious manner, and let those poor people elect the village heads and the righteous people appointed many temporary co-organizers from it. They simply planned to abandon the old gentry system and start a new long-term governance plan.

If the thief army's obvious attempts and means to turn against the enemy succeeded, they would gain the local money, grain and military service and gain a foothold; it would mean that the Tang Dynasty's government's rule would be inverted, and the strength of the enemy and us would be further reduced. Even if the officials and gentry who fled to the state city had the opportunity to return to their hometowns in the future, they might not be able to continue to seek good things.

Thinking of this, Song Hao became increasingly distressed and difficult, and he hated that he had not sent more troops behind enemy lines to harass and restraints in order to preserve his strength when he still had the advantage and the upper hand, so that these thieves could easily destroy and control the local situation.

Immediately, he came to Zhu Jingmei next to him again:

"I would like to ask someone from the prison to tell the business where the Dongchuan Army is, and I can't go there after I have no time to take care of myself! Not only that, I also need more reinforcements and transportation; otherwise, once the thief breaks through the boundary of my Dongchuan territory, can I be alone in Xichuan, separated by a deer head, be able to make peace?"

As the Yuzhou Expeditionary Army, Zhong Yi, also looked at the mound on the south bank of a river, and used a pair of wind-milled copper mirrors to carefully look at the layout and layout of the city of Hui County (now Santai County, Sichuan Province).

This is a larger city located on the platform at the turning point of the river, with few thick rammed earth wrapped around a large amount of gravel and walls; the wall part in the south view alone is about three or four miles wide; in addition to the main stream of the Fu River turning northwest and southwest, there is also a tributary of the city river that bypasses under the south wall of the city, which is named after the name of Hui County.

It is also because the water transportation of the Fu River has been very convenient since ancient times, and it is relatively convenient and accessible to the land. The ships can travel upstream to Mianyang and the hinterland of the Xichuan in Jiangyou, and downstream to the Xiajiang River waterways such as Shehong, Suining, Hechuan, and Yuzhou. This is the confluence of the Kaijiang River into the Fu River, and the ships travel upstream to Zhongjiang River.

Therefore, since its opening, Santai has been the distribution center and an important transit place for goods in Shuzhong. It is known as "the Fu River on the left and the Zhongjiang on the right, and the water and land are the key points of Jiannan Metropolis." Therefore, it has gathered a large number of local guests and financial resources, listed as Shangzhou. Since the Qianyuan period, it has served as the governor of the East Sichuan Army of Jiannan.

At its peak, Zizhou had 61,824 households and 246,652 households. The most important of them was 30,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. The most important of them was the city of Zhucheng. Therefore, Zhu County was once comparable to Chengdu, and Shu was the second most prosperous place.

The east and south sides of Wei County are natural dangers facing the water river. Only the land on the north and west sides of the hills can be used as a traditional open terrain for the launch of troops and siege operations. However, there are large areas of rice fields distributed here. Although they have been passed by the clearing of the wilderness, the accumulation of water and silt in the fields is also a big hindrance.

As the only official road and land trade route that travels north and south through the narrow riverside area east of the city, it is almost uncoveredly exposed to the threat of attacks such as from the city walls, throwing stones and shooting arrows from a high place, and can be easily cut off anytime and anywhere. Even the city floors and wharfs, which seemed to be dense on the riverside, were burned, without giving the Taiping Army Water Camp a chance to calmly land.

The city walls of Xi County are not like those that the Yuzhou Expeditionary Army had attacked before; because they are located in a relatively peaceful inland hinterland, except for a few terrorists and private dealers, there is no threat they want; therefore, it is inevitable that there will be disrepair or defensive defenses will be in a state of disrepair, and only some thieves and tax collectors are maintaining the situation.

According to what Zhong Yi observed, this kind of wall structure with earth and stone inlaid and glued tightly cannons can not be easily made into a large enough opening with a few rounds of gunfire; not to mention that the wall seems to have been repaired this year, and the small inner wall is suspected to have been built inside the city gate, and there are faint shadows of stone cannons and crossbows, which makes the materials on the top of the city look ready.

However, even these imminent difficulties and obstacles cannot shake him, defeat the enemy, and drive into Shu; he thought that the civil war situation was restrained and harassing. After all, the direction of the situation today is very clear, and the rest is how these generals and generals used the great governor Jiang Shang with a satisfaction amount of RMB 100,000 at a low cost and beautiful tactics.

From the two-gun school assigned by Hou Guanzhen, who was observing the Fujian road, to the general who is now the leader of the side-level division. Zhong Yi has experienced a lot of things and gained enough experience and insight. He has also studied for a few years through resignation and transfer. In terms of vision, pattern and cunning, he has gradually grown more mature and steady.

Therefore, in the inadvertent process of the Taiping Army's expansion of the world, he was already the same as Pi Rixiu, the director of the Inspector who was a Jinshi in the old dynasty, who was a member of the former dynasty and was a deputy envoy of Piling. He had a status in the old days of demotion. He vaguely represented the surrendered group from the old days of the official army, the highest upper limit and some kind of weather vane in the new system of the Taiping Army.

"Set up a camp on the spot to repair the ferry, apply for more tactical support from the navy, seize the towns on the river beach facing the east to support it. Then, build a new pontoon bridge as a breakthrough and support, extending to the east coast of the north of the city..."

Then, Zhong Yi ordered with some determination:

"General, it seems that we are going to fight a time-consuming battle here."

The old and subordinates next to him couldn't help but ask:

"No, we don't need to fight the stronghold of the big city again, just collect enough boats and ships and go around directly from the river... At least on the water, the defenders can't do anything to do with them."

Zhong Yi shook his head without hesitation:

"If the enemy in the city is indifferent, we will take Mianyang, Jiangyou and other places in the upper reaches of Mianzhou, and wait for an opportunity to attack Lutouguan, the gateway to Xichuan; if the enemy in the city cannot stop coming out to intercept and fight, then we will be under the water attack of our army turning back and fighting."
Chapter completed!