Chapter 81 Water Can Carry Boats

Yan Bei stood in the chariot with the battle report in his hand, just wanting to look up to the sky and smile.

Now it's a bit of a real general, telling his lieutenants where there is an enemy, and a fierce general will settle the matter with a click. He led a large group of men and horses behind the palace, a large share of military rations, baggage is still on the way, Tai Shici and Sun Qing in front have led the bow and cavalry to charge the battle, and sent a message back to tell him to recapture 70,000 people in Zhuo County and attack the east bank of Yushui.

After the battle, the corpses were collected, and the enemy Bai Ma Yi was wounded one hundred and thirty-seven, and eight hundred and fifty-three died; Jizhou soldiers captured 1,365 prisoners and killed more than 1,600. There are countless enemy soldiers who jumped into the Yushui and drowned, and the rolling corpses went south along the Yushui, and they would probably follow the flow to the Yishui generation.

In this battle, Yan Gang, the general under the command of Gongsun Zhan, was trapped in the battle and died in the chaos, the corpse was no longer presentable, and the soldiers and horses reluctantly teleported the head back.

"Spread the letter Ziyi, brave and commendable, order him to wait for the opportunity to move, Yan is his palace!"

This battle report was like a strong heart, which made Yanbei determined to seize Wuruan Pass, and even had a hard fight with Jizhou Gongsun Zan under the pass. Of course, it also made him more afraid of the people...... At his level, it was difficult for him to be feared by any rival in the world, and his greatest enemy became himself.

"The people are in peace, and then the gentlemen are in place. It is said: 'Gentleman, boat also; Those who are common to the people, the water is also; The water carries the boat, and the water capsizes the boat'. Yan Bei stood upright, shook his head and said this sentence that Xunzi had said five hundred years ago, which only made him feel cold to his bones, turned his head to look at Guo Jia beside him, slowly shook his head and sighed: "Mr. Zhongyu's philosophy is similar to his ancestors, and I will listen to his teachings more in the future...... Come! ”

Gongsun Xu commanded tens of thousands of warriors, including more than 2,000 white horse righteous servants, how terrifying is it? This is almost half of the army that Yanbei can mobilize now, and Yanbei once used such a force to fight Goguryeo, a powerful country in Dongyi, to cut land and sue for peace! But such an army, in the process of becoming an enemy with Tai Shi Ci, was broken by the people under his command in one fell swoop, and Tai Shi Ci wrote clearly in the battle report that more than half of the enemy army died at the hands of the angry people.

This feeling reminded him of the Yellow Turban Rebellion that affected the world in the early years.

"General, it is still necessary to properly guide the people at the moment, and those who intend to join the army should be reorganized and enlisted, especially to rebuild Zhuoxian...... Otherwise, tens of thousands of people are afraid of disaster. ”

Of course, Guo Jia knew what Yan Bei had in mind, and such an obscure expression on his face in such a big victory said it all.

"You thought of it too." Yan Bei nodded slowly, and when he saw that the messenger rider was under the car, Yan Bei said, "Go and order the high lieutenant to come over; Feng Xiao repaired a letter to the state government for me, informed Xun Jun of the situation here, and sent Liaodong Fuzong to Zhuo County to serve as the Taishou, and asked the state and county to recommend a young man with noble morality and impatient behavior to govern Zhuo County and rebuild the city. ”

Guo Jia promised to seal the letter in a short time, and at this time, Gao Lan, a general on the side, also received the news of Yanbei's summons to him, rode his horse, and asked, "General, the front line has won?" ”

"Victory, a big victory! I'm afraid that this battle will not be your turn and my generals will face the enemy. Ah Xiu, you select capable men to gather 1,000 soldiers from your command, and then send 3,000 people to go upriver from the south of Yushui to the Yishui River, mobilize civilian boats to salvage the corpses, find uninhabited valleys and throw corpses for burning, so as not to cause a great plague after the catastrophe...... Ziyi killed three or four thousand enemy soldiers in front, and the corpses floated down the river, which was about to cause chaos. ”

Hearing this, Gao Ran hurriedly promised, the plague is enough in this era to make the bravest warriors fearful.

Then I heard Yan Bei say: "Send someone to do this, you command all the remaining Han soldiers, build food sheds along the way, and lead the people back to their hometowns to tell everyone that if the family is troubled by the Gongsun army, Yan will send someone to give them the money and food they need to survive the winter, and everything will be the same as before." In short, it is to appease the people, you have been guarding Liaodong for a long time, you don't need Yan to say more, right? ”

"The subordinates know, the lord has no worries!"

"Let the state government transfer grain to Zhuo County for me, enough for 100,000 people for two months, and first transfer 250,000 stone corn and enough salt for the road consumption, if anyone dares to think about this, let Jiang Jin immediately cut me off!" Yan Bei's voice was full of emotion, if Jiang Jin was not allowed to take care of this kind of thing, he would definitely be the first to have a problem. "Sent a message to Liaodong Taishou Yandong and Wenxian Tian Yu, and asked him to transfer 700,000 stone grains and grass from Liaodong to Yuyang Quanzhou by water, and then send them from Quanzhou to Zhuo County. Let Ma'an's caravans buy winter clothes everywhere...... 70,000 people came to vote for Yan, and Yan couldn't let them starve and freeze this winter! ”

The orders were quickly conveyed, and even Yanbei himself was aware of the change in his identity from general to state minister, which gave him the biggest feeling that the nature of war had become different. In the past, he only cared about the war, killing the enemy, preserving and even strengthening himself, and as for the aftermath of the war, he hardly had anything to worry about. But now everything was different, and war was the least thing he had to worry about.

The road consumption of transporting grain by water is at most 10 percent, while the road consumption by land is 4 to 60 percent, and the amount of grain and grass required to be transferred twice as much as the journey in one month, and if it is transported in three to five months, the transportation of 100,000 can only reach 30,000, which is far less cost-effective than the mobilization of grain and grass from Liaodong County by the fleet. But Liaodong County is too far away after all, and it takes twenty years to run back and forth...... One trip is only 100,000 stones of grain and grass.

Even if it is transported from now until the sea freezes in winter, I am afraid that it will only be able to be transported. But it will take ten years for the letter to be sent back, and it is difficult to say what the situation will be in the winter moon.

The only good thing is that in the past, Yanbei vigorously tuntian in Liaodong, and the grain in Liaodong County was always enough.

Now that such a division of troops, Yanbei needs to recalculate the combat strength of his subordinates, and waved his hand and said: "Recruit Zhang Jaw and He Hun Lu, and order the Goguryeo army to move forward, and Zhang Junyi will be merged into Yan's headquarters." ”

At present, there are more than 5,000 troops in the headquarters of Yanbei, more than 2,000 Goguryeo royal troops in He Hun Lu, more than 1,000 other troops in Zhang Jaw, and then there are the pro-guard troops led by Dian Wei. It's just that the two generals left behind now are both bosses and troubles...... He Hunlu didn't say anything, he was originally the commander of the Goguryeo Forbidden Army, and he had a national enemy and family hatred with Yanbei, but now the king's safety is in Yanbei and he reluctantly surrendered; Zhang Jaw, since the incident in Xuanwu County, Yanbei has been reluctant to leave him alone, but at this moment, once the front-line battle situation is unfavorable, I am afraid that he will have to rely on these two people.

However, the abilities of these two people are so good, if they are not afraid, they will not be worse than most of the captains under Yan Bei's command.

Fortunately, there is also the bullet pressure of the pro-guard army under Dian Wei, so there should be no chaos.

"Order the whole army, continue to march westward and cross Yushui!"