Chapter 52 Beating the Rabbit with Grass

Swimming upstream from the Yellow River, this is a matter that Chen Ying decided with a pat on his head, but in fact, he had just walked for two days and had just arrived in Qu County, and Chen Ying was in trouble.

Qu County is also the Ji County of later generations, Ji County has a very famous scenic spot, it is estimated that most Chinese people have heard of it, Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River.

The county boat traveled to Mengmen, and then five miles to the north is Hukou Waterfall, although the distance is five miles, but the sound of the huge waterfall makes Chen Ying pat his head, Chen Ying actually looked at this stubble.

In fact, the place where the Yellow River can be transported by water is only limited to the middle and lower reaches of the region, not to mention the Cao transport boats, even if it is a motorboat in later generations, I am afraid there is no way to go up the Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River against the current.

Now, Chen Ying could only look at Hukou Waterfall and sigh, and said secretly: "Mistake!" ”

However, at this time, there was no panic from Sun Jingchu.

What Chen Ying didn't know was that the biggest obstacle to water transportation on the Yellow River was Hukou Waterfall, and the method of passing through Hukou Waterfall was "boating on dry land". Under the conditions of the time, this was probably the best option for water transport through Hukou Falls. However, the wisdom of the working people cannot be ignored, and I don't know when it began, from Mengmendu to the east of a ditch about fifty or sixty steps wide, this trench is about thirty miles, directly bypassing the Hukou Waterfall, so that although the diversion is a bit cumbersome, but Chen Ying's worries have been swept away.

Because the width of the trench is too narrow, even Chen Ying's boat "Wan'an" has no way to pass, in desperation, Chen Ying only needs to move to a small Baishi boat, swaying slowly, and finally passed the Hukou Waterfall, Chen Ying is not in the mood to appreciate the Hukou Waterfall at this time, he can't wait to put on his wings at this time, fly to Lingzhou, you look at that lovely little man.

However, when Chen Ying and his entourage had just arrived in Puxian County, they encountered trouble again. Li Ruiting, the county commander of Puxian County, came to Chen Ying and howled and cried, begging Chen Ying to help him suppress the bandits.

Chen Ying was confused, looked at Li Ruiting, who had a handful of snot and tears, and said: "Li County Ling is not busy crying, what is going on, you tell me carefully!" ”

Li Ruiting choked up and said: "Please ask General Chen to help Xia Guan suppress the bandits, this day is simply impossible!" ”

It turned out that the autumn harvest had just passed. The tax revenue that Puxian County had just collected had just been transported into the official treasury before it was hot, and thousands of bandits snatched up the tens of thousands of stone autumn grain, and now that the tax was lost, such a big thing happened, Li Ruiting either took someone to find the grain back, or filled the hole himself, otherwise he could wipe his neck and hang himself.

As the so-called poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people, this Pu County is at the western foot of the southern end of Luliang Mountain, the terrain is high in the east and low in the west, and it is surrounded by mountains in the east, south and north. In the northeast, there are Taishan Liang, Niuchao Mountain, Chrysanthemum Mountain, Muling Mountain, and in the east, there are Taobu Mountain, Shimen Mountain, Taishan Mountain, and Baitou Mountain; There are Wulu Mountain and Wulong Cave in the north; In the south, there are Stone Mountain, Leopard Beam, and Wugu Mountain. The east and west rivers are around, the seven walls are spread, the eight rivers are vertical and horizontal, and the ravines are staggered. Wulu Mountain sleeps its north, Stone Mountain ranks its south, Gushu Mountain surrounds its east, Xinshui River runs through it, it is the gateway of Linfen to Xishan County. The north and south are separated by a hundred miles, and the east and west are separated by a line of sky. Therefore, it is known as "the throat of the east of the Cheng River and the gateway of the West Qin".

This is simply a paradise for bandits, and there is nowhere to find any ravine. The key is around the place of Hedong, in this short period of three years, Li Yuan's southward conquest of the Sui Dynasty broke out successively, and then Liu Wuzhou's rebellion, followed by Chen Ying's pacification of Liu Wuzhou's rebellion in the south, and then Li Jiancheng and Dou Jiande fought in Hedong.

What's more, there is a strong bandit cultural tradition in Luliang Mountain, many of which are bandits for a hundred years, and the operation of several generations is deep-rooted, and the common people here are half bandits and half farmers, and the landlords and heroes are even more colluded with the bandits. In the former Sui Dynasty and the first year of Wude, they made great efforts to encircle and suppress, but every time they were disgraced, they couldn't do it.

Because in those poor mountains and bad waters, they can't do without the support of the landlords and gentry, and the landlords and gentry collude with the bandits, so it's a fart!

But now, the bandits have met their opponents. Because Chen Ying asked Li Yuan for 50,000 horses, it was not difficult to defeat the Western Turks alone, and it was not difficult to swallow the Western Regions, but it was not so easy for these men and horses to gain a firm foothold in the Western Regions. The overall folk customs of the Western Regions are fierce, and this is definitely a forbidden area for lovers and a paradise for bullies. Once the Tang Dynasty immigrated to the Western Regions, it is estimated that the migration of three or five hundred thousand people would be completely killed in just a few years or more than ten years.

But bandits are different. They dare to kill, they are bloody, give him a knife, and they dare to go up and play with their lives. It's like being dozing off and someone sends a pillow.

Now these bandits are the sweethearts in Chen Ying's eyes.

However, Chen Ying did not take a position immediately, but muttered: "General Ben is busy with military affairs, and he has no time to take care of other things, and the matter of suppressing bandits ......"

When Li Ruiting heard this, it was like falling into an ice cellar. He lost more than 30,000 stone of tax grain, although this little grain is not much, but it cost him his old life, this Li Ruiting is not from the family gate, you can rely on the help of the family, take out 30,000 stone of grain to fill this hole, whether it is a serious problem under the rule of bandits, or lose tax grain, you can easily take off his black yarn hat.

It was more than half a hundred years old before he mixed into the position of Qipinzheng County, and there was this thing again. This is simply his life, thinking back to the bumpy course in the first half of his life, when he was a cow and a horse, he worked hard and finally got to this position, and once he was dismissed and went to the knight, he returned to before liberation. The more Li Ruiting thought about it, the more aggrieved he felt, the more he wanted to be depressed, and his eyes flowed out uncontrollably.

"Oops...... Li County Order, what's wrong with you, why are you still crying? Chen Ying said with a smile: "The general didn't say that he couldn't help your county to suppress the bandits, the key is that the name is not right, and if the words are not good, the matter will not be successful, if you do what I say, then the general will help you suppress the bandits." ”

Li Ruiting was overjoyed when he heard this, and according to what Chen Ying said, he hurried to Chang'an to report urgently.

In Li Ruiting's urgent report, the Puxian bandits did not know which tendon was wrong, and actually attacked General Chen's baggage fleet, and General Chen had no choice but to counterattack.

In fact, Chen Ying's purpose in suppressing bandits was very simple, that is, to get people.

He wants a group of bloody people who dare to fight and dare to fight to defend the Western Regions for him. 50,000 horses seems to be a lot, but if it is sprinkled on more than 3 million square kilometers of land in the Western Regions, it is estimated that it is similar to sprinkling pepper noodles. There is absolutely no one for a hundred miles.

At the same time, Chen Ying can also train the army, and Chen Ying also has a disgraceful army in his hands, which is both a backsliding army.

The expenditure of money and food for this army is all Chen Ying's private account. There was no such army on the books, and even the generals at all levels in the army were all appointed as deputies. For example, Liu Tong, now his commander is the lieutenant of the Sipin Light Car, and the Wusan official is General Xuanwei, which is actually the commander of the Wei Army. And Xun Xiang is the commander of the cavalry, the military officer is the general Mingwei, and the official position is the deputy commander of the Beiwei Army.

Now the use of the Beiwei army is not too great, and Chen Yingke has not forgotten Tubo. In the future, he needs to have a good wrestle with Tubo, especially Lu Dongzan and Nonqinling, who are known as the gods of war in Tubo, Chen Ying will be sorry for crossing this time if he doesn't beat them out of the. To fight with Tubo, the general Tang army will use it at all, and the troops who cannot adapt to altitude sickness and mountain battles will send food to more or less.

In history, Xue Rengui was defeated because the Tang army could not adapt to altitude sickness (Lao Cheng had been to Xinjiang, and altitude sickness did not get out of bed for half a month), and in the army that did not adapt to altitude sickness, ten percent of the combat effectiveness, even half of the Chengdu could not be played, and it was strange not to defeat the battle. As long as it makes up for the shortcomings of fighting in the mountains of the upper plateau, Datang can be regarded as invincible.

In fact, in the Tang Dynasty, it was not the Turks, not the Tuyuhun people, nor the Goguryeo people who suffered the most, but the Tibetans. Of course, the mountainous area of Goguryeo has also had a great impact on the Tang Dynasty, and an army that can adapt to fighting in the plateau and mountainous areas can definitely easily punch Tubo and kick Goguryeo.

For this reason, Chen Ying had high hopes for the Beiwei army. However, now the Beiwei Army is still too far behind Chen Ying's goal. Chen Ying always believed that good soldiers are not trained, but fought, and the Beiwei army can use these bandits to train their hands first.

Due to the surrender of the Xia State from Hebei Province transported from Zhaozhou, it will take at most seven or eight days to arrive in Pu County, and Chen Ying is now short of time and heavy tasks.

For this reason, Chen Ying issued an order to the Beiwei army: "End the banditry in the Luliang Mountains within three months!" ”

Liu Tong and Xunxiang are both aspiring people, they both want to seal their wives and sons and make contributions, how can they be bound by a group of bandits?

Although the suppression of bandits is also considered a military merit, this military merit is far worse than fighting the Turks. In order to get out as soon as possible, the back army was also more ruthless.

First of all, the Beiwei army first sent letter horses to deliver leaflets to every hill where banditry was active. At the same time, some enlightened gentry who had dealings with the bandits were mobilized to go up the mountain to publicize the current policy to the bandits, demanding that the bandits lay down their arms and surrender to the Beiwei army within three days of receiving the leaflets. Then, depending on the severity of the case, the less serious case went home to farm, and the more serious case went to the labor camp, and the people were very angry...... Then I'm sorry, I'm going to flow three thousand miles, and I can't return to my hometown for life.

Due to the proper policy, coupled with Chen Ying's great exploits in sweeping the Central Plains and annihilating nearly 100,000 Zheng troops and hundreds of thousands of Xia troops, a large number of bandits chose to abandon their weapons and surrender to the Beiwei army. After registering their identity and household registration, they were ready to go home to farm, but they bandits never thought that Chen Ying had no intention of fulfilling the agreement at all.

For this reason, Chen Ying did not fire a single shot, and the bandits in the Puxian area were reduced by half at once, and many cottages were gone. But not all bandits were so cooperative, and many of them, knowing the sin of their sins, refused to surrender and attacked everywhere, trying to resist to the end.

Chen Ying was angry now, my mother wanted to open a dyeing workshop when she gave you some sunshine, but there was no door.

The Xiao cavalry army, the Mo knife army, and the shooting army were all dispatched, and a blockade was established on every mountain road to block the passage of the bandits down the mountain. At the same time, the people in the mountain villages were mobilized to move out.

This poor country is really not a good place to survive, it is better to go out of the mountains and go outside, the outside world is very exciting! Chen Ying proposed that one ding could get 100 acres of fertile land, and a family of five people could get one ploughing cow and five sheep. The common people who have been poor all their lives in the mountains still have a lot of trust in the government, and they have the opportunity to move to the world of flowers outside the mountains, so many villages in Puxian County are empty, and they can't even find a figure.

Not only Pu County, but even the villages near Qu County and Linfen were all swept away by Chen Ying.

Anyway, in Chen Ying's eyes, this is beating rabbits with grass, and the last thing he lacks is population.

Aren't you both bandits and people? Now Lao Tzu will collect the guns and move the population to other places, see how you toss!