Changxia on the north side of Jiuli Pass is narrow at the entrances and exits at the north and south ends, which are easy to defend but difficult to attack, but the depth is slightly wider.

The cavalry team entered Changxia, with undulating mountains on both sides, steep cliffs and steep peaks, and snowflakes swaying down.

There were still many refugees in Changxia who were flooded, and large and small shacks were built on both sides of the post road. They were pale and thin, and shivering in the cold wind.

Xu Huai discussed with Meng Jie, Xu Kang and others, and also set up porridge shops in Jiuli Pass and south of Xianshan to provide relief to refugees from south, but there are still people who are unable to leave their hometowns, and they hope to quickly recover their lost land and return to their hometowns.

In the past two years, as many as three or four million people have gone south from Hedong, Hehuai through Nanyang, and Anzhou to escape the war, and they have all stopped at Jinghu North Road.

It is not easy for so many refugees to have a place to live, eat, and struggle to survive.

Since the founding of the Great Vietnamese Dynasty, Jinghu North Road has been developed more fully, but it is impossible to accommodate nearly half of its own population at once. The refugees can only be evacuated to Jinghu South Road, Jiangnan East Road, Jiangnan West Road, and Liangzhe Road.

For most refugees, the escape journey that leaves their hometowns is extremely miserable.

People who are weak and run thousands of miles away may fall to death directly on the way.

Even if you can finally reach Jianghuai, Jingnan and other places, there are still fierce conflicts with the locals competing for land and land.

A large number of refugees went south, which had serious land annexation. At this time, the people in the Jinghu area, which mainly farmed tenants, still had a great impact.

On the one hand, if landlords can obtain cheaper labor, they will inevitably raise the tenant rent higher.

On the other hand, wars are still frequent, and taxes are required to maintain huge consumption and fight against the barbarians. Most of the taxes imposed will inevitably be passed on to tenant farmers and self-cultivated farmers, making them even worse.

Of course, Xu Huai didn't have the energy to take care of too many things at this time, but because of this kind of consideration, some villagers were unwilling to go south and stay in the wilderness, so he would not forcefully drive them away.

Jiuliguan Old City had long been ruined. At this time, the inspection camp was still used, which was only a small town less than 300 steps in square foot. There was a rammed earth guardrail about a mile long on both sides against the cliff wall.

If the enemy soldiers really want to come in large numbers, such defense is far from enough.

The remnants of Xuanwei Army and Huaichuan, Huangchuan and Guangshan local defenders were collected, and the weak were kept. A total of 3,000 soldiers were organized into the sixth wing of the Tianxiong Army. In addition, some of the small followers were called this large inspection camp, which was crowded.

However, at this time, at the Changxiakou on the north side of the military camp, thousands of green and strong men were building a city wall in the snow, connecting it with the cliff walls on both sides, and encircling the military camp on the south side to form a real pass city.

The old village is too crowded. On the north side of the village wall and south of the newly built city wall, there are two newly built camps.

Chen Zixiao usually leads troops to garrison in these two camps, and some generals temporarily move into the military camp to prevent interference during training.

Accompanied by Chen Zixiao, Xu Huai walked towards one of the camps and saw several teams of soldiers practicing on the school ground in front of the camps, with Xu Yan among them.

Xu Huai stopped at the edge of the school field to watch the exercises.

Xu Huai envoyed Chen Zixiao to recruit and command the remnants of Xuanwei's army. Of course, he would not ask him to bear all the burdens alone.

Xu Huai not only drew Du Zhong and Xu Yan and other young generals from Tongbai Mountain to Chen Zixiao as commanders, but also organized the elite battalion commanders with Du Wu as the sixth wing as the Dinghai Shen Needle.

The generals and officers of Jinghu North Road and the former Xuanwei Army also had their own arrangements at this time and went their separate ways to go their own way.

Meng Jie, Xu Kang, Cheng Xiao and others were middle and senior officials of the Jingbei Supervisory Office. After the Huaichuan Guards Battle, they returned to Jinghu North Road.

As the magistrate of Huaichuan, Han Qiwen was temporarily transferred to Jinghu North Road after Emperor Jian ascended the throne in Xiangyang. In fact, he had nothing to do with the Jingbei Supervisor.

He was also a regular and took the imperial examinations for eight classics, so he went directly to Xiangyang to listen to the candidates.

Although Xu Ling, the former Huaichuan County Magistrate, had already obtained an official position, he was a military official. He knew that he would go to Xiangyang to take the lead, but he was just a transfer between county magistrates and inspectors, and it was difficult to make a breakthrough.

He was the inspector of Ruhuai. Although the Ruhuai Inspection Office had only a few small boats, less than 200 soldiers, and they were arrested and attacked the water bandits and ze bandits a few years ago, but Xu Ling was the general in the shorts, and the navy commander was always more experienced than the people in Chushan.

Xu Ling learned about the water conditions of the upper reaches of the Huai River, and was also given some achievements in his tenure as the inspector of Ruhuai, so he was appointed as the county magistrate of Huaichuan.

At the beginning of the founding of the Great Yue Dynasty, most county magistrates were appointed as military officials, but more than a hundred years later, it was rare for military officials to serve as county magistrates.

Xu Huai deliberately kept Xu Ling in Chushan, and specially set up a new water camp Caosi under the Sima Courtyard of the Xingying Camp, and sent Xu Ling to take charge of the military and train the first battalion of naval troops for Chushan.

Among the two thousand remaining soldiers who fled from Jiaopi battlefield, the proportion of military officers and generals was quite high, with about 400 people. Xu Huai, the junior team soldiers and other grassroots soldiers were not told about human rights to them, and they were sent to the wushizhaishu for three months to train.

However, the generals and battalion commanders have entered the military general class and have to be awarded military positions. Theoretically, the Privy Council can directly select and dispatch, so Xu Huai has no way to force his refusal, so he gave them their own choice.

Most of the military will experience this battle. After this battle, they will be killed to death.

Moreover, their status in the military is not very low, and they are unwilling to stay in Chushan, so they choose to return to the Jinghu North Road Metropolitan Deployment Department to wait for the disposal.

Of course, they still don’t know about Xiangyang’s adjustments to the Jinghu North Road Deployment Department and the troops of the prefectures.

However, the two generals Fu Liang, Chen Su and dozens of generals will choose to be incorporated into the Tianxiong Army.

Dozens of Fu family's children were killed on the battlefield of Jiaopi with the commander Fu Qian.

Although Xiangyang was quite generous to Fu Qian who had already died in battle and was posthumously awarded the title of Marquis of Lingshui, Fu Liang himself escaped by chance, but he didn't know how to face so many orphans and widows in the Fu family when he went back.

Chen Su and other military generals who chose to stay were almost the same.

Xu Huai envoy Fu Liang, Chen Su and some generals came to Chen Zixiao and continued to command the remnants of Xuanwei's army.

When he walked into the camp, when Chen Zixiao summoned the generals, Xu Huai directly asked everyone to discuss the construction of the new Luoshan City at the north entrance of Changxia.

Xu Huai hopes that Chen Zixiao can build a military camp at the north entrance as fast as possible. If there are no large number of soldiers crossing the Huai River this winter, they can build the outer city wall first on the basis of the military camp this winter.

We should still consider that other battlefields may deteriorate at any time, which will allow more soldiers to free up their hands to move south.

If Luoshan New City can be built through this time window, Chen Zixiao could lead the sixth wing of the Tianxiong Army to move its troops to Beixiakou and support it with Luoshan Old City and Xinyang to block the enemy troops who might cross the Huainan south.

Xu Huai stayed in Jiuli for two days, talked about the offensive and defense with the generals, talked about the current situation facing Huai Shang, and discussed the actions and intentions of the puppet Chu army in Queshan and Zhenyang area at this time. When he left Jiuli Pass and returned to Chushan City, he found that the newly appointed Jinghu North Road troops deployed Wang Fan had arrived in Lishan, Anzhou.

As the commander who led the army outside, Xu Huai was not allowed to leave the garrison according to the rules, so he sent people to Lishan to deliver a message.

A day later, Wang Fan, Lu Xiong, Zheng Shou, Wang Kong and others, accompanied by Meng Jie and other officials, rushed to Jiuli Pass to meet Xu Huai.

"You are just in Jiuli Pass, but you can save me from going to Mount Chu!"

Since Liu Xian, Jinghu North Road no longer has a strategic pacifier in charge of military and political affairs. He is the military and horse department directly under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, and is in charge of the military and horse department of the states in Jinghu North Road. His power and status are no longer as good as those in the military pacifier, but he is in the rank of the chief officer of the supervisory department.

However, the main force of Xuanwei Army was destroyed, and the remaining generals who remained on Jinghu North Road were mixed with the weak combat power of Zhuzhou Army, which was an extremely arduous task.

Wang Fan did not have the pride of the first important task, but was full of tiredness.

After he took office, he rushed to Anzhou and urgently completed the reorganization of Anzhou's troops, and then sent them to Chushan in batches to accept Xu Huai's restraint and participate in the defense of the puppet Chu army.

Since he knew that Xu Huai was at Jiuli Pass, he naturally brought the generals and officials from the Anzhou Military and Horse Commission to discuss and assist in the defense.

"This matter is simple. Although the people in Huangchuan and other places have been evacuated, it is impossible to abandon these villages. I estimate that this winter, the possibility of the enemy soldiers crossing Huai south is not high, so I set up five new inspection departments east of Luoshan, Anzhou soldiers and horses, with battalions, can enter this inspection department and military camp to assist in defense," Xu Huai said bluntly.

The Red Hun cavalry galloped invincible all over the world. Could it be that each of them had three heads and six arms?

It was nothing more than a blessing that a group of outstanding generals had accumulated a large number of elite generals and soldiers after leading the battle for thirty or forty years.

In the past, the Great Yue ruled the military with literature and used culture to transform the military with culture. The soldiers and officials who had severely lacked the experience of leading the troops. After reading a few more military books and having more experience in the officialdom, they thought they could see through everything and believed that they could guide the country.

However, these scholars did not have the experience of sharing the same hardships as the generals and soldiers, and lacked sufficient understanding of the many detailed practices of marching and combat. They were more likely to talk about books on paper, and suppressed the participation of rich experience in strategic decision-making and excessive interference in battlefield command. How could they be qualified military commanders?

In addition, in the year of peace, the army had serious fraud, mixed sources of soldiers and low status, how could the combat effectiveness of the Great Yue soldiers and horses not be low?

However, can Dayue definitely not be able to make a strong army?

Bianliang fell, Hedong and Hebei fell, and Hehuai became remnants of land, and they were not completely unresisted.

Even though he lost his armor and armor all the way, he had lost many defeats. The troops and horses retreated from Hedong and Hebei grew up and tempered by the enemy again and again.

The combat effectiveness of Han Shiliang's troops in the Huaiwang Mansion is not weak.

Ge Huaicong's generals of Ge's family were disintegrated and were disintegrated with the collapse of the Xiong Army the day before yesterday. However, Ge Yu's new generation of young generals showed the combat qualities that the generals should have during their pursuit of Huai King Zhao Guan.

This time, Ge Yu led his troops to break through through the water, and his performance was remarkable.

Zheng Huaizhong's son Zheng Cong and nephew Zheng Jinqing led troops to guard Pinglu, and had also fought against Cao Shixiong's troops and Yinchao's troops for more than half a year.

Gao Junyang and Gu Jiqian had two troops, and some military generals performed well.

If the Anzhou soldiers want to improve their combat effectiveness, Xu Huai does not have much energy to take into account. It is better to throw away the outer patrol army camp and give them the opportunity to meet the small group of soldiers.
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