Chapter 201: The Yanmen Army, whose strength has skyrocketed

If the Yellow Turban Army wanted to attack Luoyang, it would attack from four directions: east, southeast, south, and north. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

And Luoyang east has Tiger Prison Pass and Dagu Pass; There are Mengjin Pass and Xiaopingjin in the north; There is Yuyuan Pass in the southeast, Guangcheng Pass in the south, and after breaking through any of these two passes, there is Yique Pass.

The Yellow Turban Army will definitely choose one of the four directions as the main attack direction, once it reaches Luoyang City, the remaining six levels will be useless.

But no matter which direction the Yellow Turban attacks Luoyang from, at least two Xiongguan must be captured in order to reach Luoyang.

Judging from Zhang Jiao's placement of the base camp in Chenliu and the emptying of all the defensive facilities in front of the Tiger Prison Pass, the main direction of the Yellow Turban's attack must be the front line of the Tiger Prison Pass.

But no matter which road the Yellow Turban chooses, it must capture two Xiongguan in a row, and the difficulty of the remaining three routes is no less than that of the Tiger Prison Pass.

Tiger Prison Pass is the first pass in Heluo, and its defense is the most of the eight passes in Luoyang, but even so, the reason why Zhang Jiao naturally chose Tiger Prison Pass is because when he enters the division, the route of the grain and grass transport vehicle will be shorter, so it is more convenient.

After the Tiger Prison Pass, there is the Big Valley Pass, and although the terrain of the Big Valley Pass is extremely dangerous, but it was newly built not long ago, because the construction time is shorter than the sedan car, the defense power is naturally not as good as the Tiger Pass.

On the surface, Dagu Pass is the last line of defense in Luoyang, but everyone knows that once the Tiger Prison Pass falls, it will only be a matter of time before Dagu Pass is lost.

Therefore, all the hopes of the Han family are now focused on the Tiger Pass, and the imperial court requisitioned all the troops to Luoyang, hoping to defeat the Yellow Turban under this Xiongguan.

And the Yellow Turban is also sharpening his sword, preparing to conquer this thousand-year-old Xiongguan in one fell swoop, so as to destroy the Han Dynasty and establish the Yellow Turban Heavenly Kingdom!

One strong attack, one death, it is conceivable that the tiger prison will soon become a huge war meat grinder!

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Five months went by in a flash.

During these five months, both the Han family and the Yellow Turbans were in the midst of intense war mobilization, and countless supplies were transported to the forward positions.

As for the Yanmen Army, in the past five months, it has been completely in a state of nirvana rebirth, and its strength has grown wildly.

All the institutions in the entire Yanmen are in a state of overload, and all the officials in Yanmen, including the lord Qin Wen, have little time to rest.

Expansion of the army, repair of customs, immigration, construction of houses, division of land, clearing of wasteland, sowing seeds, and purchasing grain......

In short, it's just one word, busy, it's too busy!

On average, nearly 10,000 displaced people will come to Yanmen every day under guidance along the way, and after living in Yanmen for a period of time, they will accept the assignment to move to the three counties to settle down.

Gradually, Wang Meng and Fan Zhongyan's development speed in the three counties could not even keep up with the speed of migration of the displaced people, resulting in an overcrowded situation in Yanmen.

Qin Wen saw that this was happening, so he ordered the construction of Yanmen Pass to be suspended, and let the 20,000 army escort nearly 200,000 Yellow Turban captives to the three counties as laborers.

With the addition of this part of the labor force, the abnormal development of the four northern counties is moving in the direction of benign and fastest.

As the temperature plummeted, the difficulty of Yanmen's immigration work also increased a lot, so Qin Wen had no choice but to donate manpower on all the roads to the north, and set up porridge and rice shacks along the road, trying his best not to let any people starve to death on the road.

In this way, the consumption of food has also increased a lot, and the Qin family's secret grain depot in Yanmen has also consumed most of it, but Qin Wen is not distressed about it at all.

Although food is a hard material in troubled times, if it can be transformed into a foundation, then it is worth consuming more food, because fighting for hegemony in troubled times is the king.

Moreover, although the price of grain has skyrocketed now, it is still possible to buy grain at a certain cost, as the five major business families of the Han Dynasty, the Qin family is not short of funds, so a large amount of working capital is used to buy grain.

Jia Yu arranged several people to go to various states to buy grain in advance, and among them, Shen Wansan had the best results along the way, and bought the most grain and grass from Yizhou at the lowest average price.

Jia Yu saw that Shen Wansan was talented in business, so he cracked down on promotion and reuse, and the project of the glass soap manufacturing factory was also handed over to Shen Wansan.

As for the glass factory, due to the huge profits, Jia Yu decided to take charge of it personally, and this became the biggest business mistake in Jia Yu's life.

Although glass is highly profitable, it can only be circulated among the nobles, and soap, although cheap, is an indispensable item for life, and if it is popularized all over the world, the profit is unimaginable.

The migration work in the four northern counties is proceeding in an orderly manner, and in the fourth month of migration, the number of displaced people going to the four northern counties has finally decreased.

Most of the displaced people who are willing to come to the state have already come, and the rest are either disgusted with the difficult conditions of the state, or disgusted that the road is too far, and they are afraid that they will die on the road if they can't get there.

But even so, thousands of homeless people still rush to Yanmen every day, and these people accept all these people, and Yanmen does not let go of any of them.

During this five-month migration, more than 1.1 million displaced people and more than 300,000 Yellow Turban prisoners of war were accepted in the four northern counties, totaling more than 1.4 million people.

In addition, there are more than 400,000 people in Yanmen and more than 100,000 people in the three counties in the north and south, and now there are nearly 2 million Han people in the four counties alone, and nearly 300,000 Hu people.

The resettlement of the population of 1.4 million is also a big problem, considering the acceptance capacity of the four counties, in the end, there are 300,000 displaced people and 100,000 Yellow Turban captives, a total of 400,000 people are placed in Yanmen, and the remaining 800,000 displaced people and 200,000 Yellow Turban prisoners, a total of 1 million people are placed in the three counties in the central and northern regions.

Since then, the population of the four northern counties has far exceeded that of the five southern counties, but the economic level and living standard are far behind, but under the governance of Qin Wen and Qin Wen, it is only a matter of time before it surpasses.

After the population surged, it was naturally greeted by the expansion of the army, and the expansion and immigration of the Yanmen Army were carried out at the same time, after all, the war would start in five months, and no training time could be wasted.

Qin Wen had been busy with government affairs and had no time to get out, so he entrusted military carte blanche to Qin Hao, and Qin Hao originally wanted to transfer Wang Meng back from the three counties to assist him in handling the expansion of the army.

But the three counties have more affairs to deal with, and if they leave either Wang Meng and Fan Zhongyan, the three counties will be a mess, and in the end, Qin Hao can only deal with the expansion of the army by himself.

This time the Yanmen Army will expand the army to 100,000, including 60,000 cavalry and 40,000 infantry, and claim 60,000 to the imperial court.

Two million people support 100,000 troops, and 20 people support one soldier, which is not a little pressure on the Yanmen army, and it can afford to raise twice as much.