Xu Huai and Wang Ju, Guo Jun judged, Xu Wujiang went out of the camp to send Lu Xiong from the western foot of Songshan Mountain to Ruzhou first. From a distance, I saw King Jing, Qian Shangduan, Zhang Xin, and Deng Gui also came out of the camp to see him off.

"How dare you send me off?" Lu Xiong was also excited to dismount and salute to King Jing.

"Mr. Lu is working hard and dangerous. He is running around for the court. How can I not send you a trip?" King Jing Zhao Tuan helped Lu Xiong and ordered Zhou Jing and others to protect Lu Xiong's safety along the way.

Everyone slowly walked to the west side of the camp, and the official road leading from Gong County to Yanshi stopped.

Watching Zhou Jing and his men gathered around Lu Xiong and hurried south along the official road on the western foot of Songshan Mountain, Xu Huai accompanied King Jing to drive his horse to the embankment on the west bank of the Yiluo River.

Although the world is still depressed, if you look closely at the branches, there are already sprouting leaves and buds, but they are not yet in size. It will take almost another month before the spring in the Hehuai land will become stronger.

The temperature between Hulao Pass and Tongguan, as well as the Yiluo River, had already risen above the freezing point half a month ago. The river ice had long been cracked and broken, but the Yellow River flowed westward from the mouth of the Sishui River, as a whole, to the northeast. The river channel had not yet thawed, and a large amount of floating ice was congested in the river channel, forming the Yellow River that occurs almost every year, with a unique ice flood phenomenon.

This year's ice flood is not particularly severe, and there is no rain after the New Year Festival in the upper reaches of the Yiluo River. Although ice dams are formed in the river channels between Hulao and Gong County, it does not put much pressure on the river embankments on both sides.

However, if the Western Army dared to launch an offensive against the enemy troops between Hulao and Gong County at this time, it would still have an absolute advantage in terms of geographical advantages.

At the same time, due to the existence of ice flood, although the enemy soldiers collected a large number of boats and ships in northeastern Zhengzhou, they had no way to build a floating bridge. At the same time, the ice layer became extremely fragile due to the warming weather and the impact of the floating ice on the upper reaches. At this time, the enemy soldiers on the north and south sides of the Yellow River were actually divided.

Although the peace talks were no longer possible for them to stop them, Xu Huai still told everyone to know the matter of ice, Lingsun and Yizhi to use troops.

Although the weather is difficult to predict, the way of using troops, or the qualified commander, must have a prediction of the time, and must also combine it with the geographical advantage of rivers, mountains and valleys to arrange troops and find opportunities for war.

"It's a pity that the father has no determination to fight with the barbarians. If this delays, the greater the greater the passiveness!" King Jing Zhao Tuan said with great regret when he heard Xu Huai analyze the situation of fighting and defense.

Xu Huai didn't want to talk about peace anymore, and then told King Jing that he wanted to send all the prisoners and surrendered soldiers who had gathered up to Tongbai Mountain: "The rebellion of the bandits in Tongbai Mountain lasted for more than half a year, and the damage was still very serious. Five ten families were disabled. Even though we brought back thousands of people from Shuozhou, they were all mainly organized into the army to fight. The local camps and paving roads were built, but there was still a shortage of manpower. These prisoners and surrendered soldiers were defeated and could not resist the use of their power. It was OK to supplement their lack of service!"

"Send it to Tongbai Mountain, Zhou He and Zheng Huaizhong are afraid they want to know about this." King Jing Zhao Tuan waved his hand and said.

After breaking through Qingquangou Village, they set fire on fire, forcing the remaining soldiers in the village to flee south to the northern slope of Songshan Mountain, which is actually divided into two parts:

Part of it was Cao Shixiong and Cao Shili recruited soldiers from the Han people in Shuozhou and the foreign households in Lanzhou. This part was the most loyal to the Cao brothers and had no favor to Dayue. After they were driven out of Qingquangou Village by the fire, some people wanted to escape back.

Most of these people were disabled, but Xu Huai also asked Ling Jian, Yu Gong and others to resolutely annihilate them when they encountered them.

Another part of them was the surrendered prisoners who were attacking cities and camping along the way.

These people surrendered to the Chihu people mainly because of the situation. They were forcibly assigned to the camp by the Chihu people. The Chihu people and Cao Shili and other rebel generals treated these soldiers extremely brutal. For example, when attacking Gong County, the surrendered soldiers in Xingyang were almost driven to the city by Cao Shili to death.

These people could not have any loyalty to the rebels such as Chihu people and Cao Shili at this time, but their fighting spirit had been destroyed, and the hometown where the family was located was also destroyed. Generally speaking, they would not be a good source of troops, and they were even worse than Liu Chong's prisoners.

Speaking of the issue of military source, in the past, Dayue used to send refugees and prisoners to serve as soldiers. In addition to the difficulties in border states, ordinary people do not need to join the army. They are more greedy for this move to solve local public security and eliminate hidden dangers in the mainland prefectures and counties.

However, if we really want to enroll in the recruitment system, there are absolutely no shortage of 200 prefectures and towns under the jurisdiction of Dayue, and there are tens of millions of Ding Zhuang, so no one will stare at the three or five thousand surrendered soldiers and defeated soldiers.

As for Zheng Huaizhong, Gao Chunnian and others, they really wanted to know the existence of these prisoners and soldiers.

Otherwise, Xu Huai seized thousands of enemy heads in the battle (including the subsequent crackdown of the Han army in Lanzhou who were loyal to the Cao brothers on the northern slope of Songshan Mountain), and captured three or four thousand surrendered soldiers. The total number of troops exceeded that of the Guardian Army and Caizhou reinforcements, and the Western Army's aid division, which eventually fought against the Chihu people, would not be as good as this. At that time, no matter whether the court decided to make peace or not, would they have any face?

In the next few days, while Xu Huai recruited prisoners and surrendered soldiers from the northern slope of Songshan, he cooperated with the generals of the tomb guarding army to go to the line of the Yuhuangling. Relying on the convenience of the terrain, he frequently raided the enemy bases between Gongxian and Hulao on a small scale.

During this period, although the Western reinforcements went west to Tongguan and filled Mengjin and Yanshi step by step, Miao Yanxiong, Zheng Huaizhong, Gao Chunnian and others remained unmoved. After more than 3,000 prisoners surrendered were arranged to go on the road one after another, Xu Huaicai finally led his troops to retreat south.

When Xu Huai rushed to Xuzhou and met Hu Kai, who was supervising the battle in Xuzhou, the court had officially sent Wang Boqian and others as envoys to enter the camp of the captive soldiers in Zhongmu to seek peace.

Xu Huai originally wanted to negotiate peace and return to peace. As long as the court did not have a formal decree, they could still send troops from Xuzhou to the eastern foot of Songshan Mountain to harass the enemy soldiers occupying Zhengzhou, Xingyang and other places and surrendered rebels; or they could take advantage of the focus of the enemy soldiers to the west of Bianliang and send troops to recover the city walls east of Bianliang.

In addition to training troops and making the generals and soldiers from the southwest who had not experienced wars familiar with the war, they can also maintain a certain amount of military pressure on the Chihu people and gain more bargaining chips for the imperative peace talks.

Hu Kai also agreed with Xu Huai's proposal, and at this time there were nearly 40,000 troops from all over the country who were serving the kings and horses gathered in Xuzhou. However, the officials from all over the country who served the kings, Cai, Xu, and the officials who sent them to the court to restrain Hu Kai were firmly opposed.

In addition to commanding the troops and officers from the southwest, the commanders and officials from various routes also followed the army. They were nominally controlled by Hu Kai, but had considerable autonomy. Now the court is inclined to discuss peace in an all-round way, so they are more confident to stop leaving.

When Hu Kai came to Caizhou to take office, the real direct troops who could be sent were Yang Lin's troops and the village soldiers recruited in Caizhou. The village soldiers in Caizhou were also handed over to Yang Lin for training and control.

A month ago, in order to restrain the enemy troops from the south as much as possible, in addition to Xu Xin'an leading more than a thousand Tongbai Mountain soldiers, Yang Lin led more than 6,000 troops to join Hu Kai in Xuzhou.

In the past nearly a month, the troops gathered in Xuzhou were of course not qualified to fight with the main cavalry of the Chihu people in the open area, but Yang Lin also worked with Xu Xin'an to attack the enemy's troops and actively participate in the defense of the northern city walls in Xuzhou.

In dozens of battles, even though Caizhou still had a large number of bravery recruits to recruit, the qualified generals and generals needed a lot of time to train them, and by this time they could no longer be defeated.

The troops of the southwest lineages did not move, and Yang Lin's troops needed rest and rest. Xu Huai had no choice but to ask the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain to add unnecessary casualties. So he said goodbye to Hu Kai in the name of rest and rest, and led Xu Xin'an's troops to withdraw directly to Tongbai Mountain, waiting for the "peace agreement" to finally "the dust settled."

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It was already the end of March when Xu Huai returned to the Chushandu Inspection Office (Qingyiling Camp), and the grass and trees in the mountains gradually became greener.

In the past three months, the main efforts of the newly established Chushan County have been spent on building the Qingyiling camp, opening up the passage from Huaiyuan, crossing the northern ridge of Tongbai Mountain, Dafu Mountain, and from the mouth of the Rolling Stone Grooved Groovy on the northern foot of Dafu Mountain to Qingyiling.

The Huaiyuan-Qingyiling passage crosses the northern foot of Tongbai Mountain and Dafu Mountain. There are many cliffs and cracks along the way, and there are remote areas that require the creation of a mountain and remote area. There are also holes on the cliffs and building a plank road. The project is even more difficult than imagined.

The simple mountain road that is currently open can only be used for manpower to carry goods through, but even so, this road is nearly 100 miles shorter than the Zhouqiao Post at the east entrance of Tongbai Mountain Road.

Of course, there is an official road from Zhouqiaoyi to Queshan County, and a newly built road from Queshan County to the pier on the east bank of Wuzhai River is only twenty miles away.

From the perspective of bulk cargo transportation, it is much more labor-saving to transport grain and grass from Huaiyuan by carriage, and by Zhouqiao Post to the road, and to the east bank of Wuzhai River, it is much more labor-saving than to rely on manpower to transport Huaiyuan-Qingyiling Mountain Road.

However, this is the most strategic channel for Tongbai Mountain. No matter how much the price, Xu Huai has to build it.

In the battle of Qingquangou Village, more than 3,400 surrendered soldiers were finally recruited. In a short period of time, they were not expected to become qualified soldiers. They were all invested in the subsequent construction of the fortifications such as the Huaiyuan-Qingyiling Plank Road, but the consumption of money and grain further increased...
Chapter completed!