The winter in Liaodong is always long, the people have rested from farming, and the family sits around the warm fire in the snow, telling the illusory exploits and dreams of those family ancestors, and they can survive all the cold. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The sergeants of Yanbei reinforced the three large battalions, and in this winter, when their ears could be frozen, the warriors of Youzhou, who were born in the cold, took the opportunity of two days and one practice to dredge the road along the Liaoshui camp through the Xiangping camp to the Daliangshui border defense...... Just being able to walk, the muddy roads after the snow melts make every traveler who wishes to travel have to wait for the beginning of the next spring, and even have the luxury of reminiscing about the hot summer that they complained about all day long.

The roads in the county were paralyzed, and all operations that needed to be transported, except for the Liaodong County Government and the Academy in Xiangping, which were not plagued by the wind and snow.

Sun Qing reorganized his scouts this winter. After returning to Liaodong, he was appointed as the Sima of the other departments of the scout battalion, and the more than 100 scouts who were lucky enough to survive on the battlefield in the Central Plains are now all serving as Wu Chang, and with their strength, Sun Qing quickly pulled up a scout battalion with more than 1,700 personnel. Led by veterans who have been through several battles, the newly recruited scouts are growing rapidly.

Since the scouts suffered such a big loss in Xingyang and were almost completely defeated, Sun Qing made a statement to Yanbei, hoping that the scout battalion would no longer be responsible for frontal combat in the future...... The skills mastered by these scouts went to the ordinary soldiers to fight the enemy, no matter who looked at it, it was too much to suffer, Yan Bei did not hesitate to agree to Sun Qing's request, and further reorganized the scout battalion to plan the matters it was responsible for in wartime and peacetime.

The scout battalion has a division under the jurisdiction of the second song, the front song is the marching scout, with 600 posts, equipped with cloth inlaid leather armor short knives, one with spears, four long ges, one ring knife, one strong crossbow, one soft bow, two inferior and fast horses, and the main responsibility is to march to explore the enemy and prepare for the war; Houqu is a cantonment camp scout, with 600 posts, equipped with cloth clothes, leather armor and ordinary swords, a team with knives, spears, and crossbows, carrying soft ropes, flying hooks, fire triggers and other hidden utensils, three fast horses, two hunting dogs, the main responsibility for patrolling the camp, infiltrating before the war.

As for Sun Qing's headquarters, there are 500 posts, equipped with iron armor, ring knives and hooks, three fast horses, four spears, and two heavy crossbows, and the main responsibility is to break the enemy army and protect the scouts.

Of course, the primary mission of the headquarters is also to protect Sun Qing, the number one scout leader under Yanbei.

Zhao Yun's Split Array Cavalry Battalion also recruited enough manpower to practice daily in the Xiangping Battalion. The 2,000 Liaodong soldiers recruited were all clear-eyed and familiar with bows and horses, and the riders wore iron armor, spears and short knives, and skin and iron shields. In addition to the Split Soldiers, there are two auxiliaries in each army, and those who are brisk are selected, who carry crossbows on foot, with an inferior horse, and who wash horses and carry baggage.

Tai Shici's guerrilla cavalry camp is not simple, and it also recruits 2,000 strong men from Liaodong who are good at arching horses, equipped with new iron sheet leather armor, riding bows with spears, and everyone is fast on horses and carrying two pots of arrows, and they practice riding and archery in the camp all day long. The main duties of this cavalry battalion on the battlefield in the future were to harass the enemy's charging cavalry and infantry formations, shoot external outposts and pursue enemy troops.

Although the new Second Cavalry Battalion Captain Department and other scout battalions began to be reorganized, their armor was not fully equipped. In terms of weapons, it is relatively easy to say, there are enough armaments in the Xiangping arsenal to arm these new soldiers. Horses are not difficult, whether good horses or bad horses, Yanbei captured a large number of Liangzhou war horses that are not known for their speed and have strong endurance in the Central Plains...... When these war horses returned to Liaodong, they had selected the combination of Liangzhou mare and Youzhou stallion, and in two to three years, Liaodong had a steady stream of excellent war horses that combined the advantages of the eastern and western horses.

There is no way to do it, so I can only breed with mares from Liangzhou, because all the captured stallions have been castrated.

What really affected the creation of the new three battalions was the armor they were equipped with.

Although the training never stopped, their armor could not be forged due to the obstruction of the road, which made the three battalion sergeants wear leather armor, which will greatly limit the combat effectiveness of the new soldiers in the possible battle...... Yanbei placed great expectations on the two cavalry captains of the newly formed army.

With the Youzhou cavalry following Lu Fengxian's battle method, the direction of the cavalry was changed from light bow cavalry to charging cavalry, and the cavalry became a branch of troops that could directly clash with the enemy in addition to throwing arrows thirty or fifty paces away.

In order to achieve this wish, Yanbei is willing to pay all the resources in his hands!

In addition to the three cavalry battalions, the soldiers and horses of the various units also trained and prepared for war in winter, but they were not as diligent as the drills of the newly established cavalry battalions, and most of them were drilled every two to three days.

In the long winter of Liaodong, in addition to the army still training, the remaining county government is still operating as usual under the control of Fu Zhi...... In the past two years, the county has overhauled water conservancy, repaired four large canals, and small canals, and even more than a thousand miles, and thousands of hectares of fields in northeastern Liaoning, where the roads are smooth, are harvested under irrigation, so that these fields can produce one more stone per three acres.

A county in eastern Liaodong harvested more than 1.8 million stones of grain from thousands of hectares of fertile land. Moreover, after Yan Bei adopted Xun Yue's suggestion, he found that the fields were in the official and private, which actually had little impact on him, and the grain collected on the left and right was still loaded into the Liaodong County Treasury under his control.

Frustrated, he devoted himself to the county government, wrote a bunch of books, and sent them to the mansion outside the city before Yan Beicheng got married...... He has been in charge of Liaodong for four years, and heavy snow will affect the roads every year, but it will be extremely difficult to dredge them in the coming year. In March, the roads were muddy, and after collecting new soil and compacting it, it was April; There was heavy rain from June to September, and after the heavy rain, it was a pothole road that pedestrians could not pass, so a large number of people and field guards had to be mobilized every year to repair the road.

The cycle goes on and on, and the cost is huge.

In the past, there was little demand in the county, and the road was built twice, and more than 100 gold was spent in vain, but no one paid attention to it, who made Yanbei rich?

But now Xiangping is also an iron and horse farm, and there are several large battalions. The loss caused by the blocking of transportation by the Tiewu mine alone is unacceptable, and the road is blocked for two months and March, and more than 300 gold and 1,000 pieces of ordnance will be spent in vain. But money is a foreign thing after all, what if it is a military situation?

Liaodong, a ghost place, is far away from the Central Plains, and the changes in the world all depend on the news delivered by the envoys who have been operating outside these years, and the road blockage means that they will not know until the end of the spring of the next year, and if something big happens in the middle, it will be too late to know!

Therefore, he planned to build roads and stone roads in eastern Liaodong.

Yan Bei hastily read the case of Fu Zhu, and immediately rushed to the county government in the wind and snow to discuss with Fu Zhu.

"Gonghe, don't say that it is to build roads in Liaodong, even if it is just a big road that runs from east to west around Xiangping, I am afraid that it will cost a lot of manpower and material resources, do you think...... Does this road have to be repaired? ”

Building roads is sometimes a good thing, but sometimes it's also a bad thing. For example, the road to Liaodong requires the efforts of thousands of people to be tamped with soil, and it takes half a year and a year to build a road of two or three hundred miles from scratch.

Want to build a path out of stone?

I'm afraid that it will not be enough to spend two or three years without levying 3,000 people, and Liaodong will not have to count on the tax revenue of just transportation and road repair, and the tax revenue of these few years in the middle!

What's more, in the process of road construction, the road congestion can not be driven, what is the loss?

Conscription can be levied, and money can be used in large quantities, but the key is whether it is really worth it.

"The road must be repaired, lord, look, this is the last secret letter from Jizhou received in the county this year, which says that there is a locust plague in Jizhou this year, and the harvest will not be too good." Frustrated, he took out a linen towel and said to Yanbei: "Throughout the winter, Liaodong is like being blindfolded, and he doesn't know anything. ”

"But even if the road in the county is repaired, we can't open our eyes, which county in the whole Youzhou has a good road? There are three major roads in the north and south of the broken place in Beiping, but whenever it rains, it can sink into half a wheel, not to mention the snow. This is the reason why Yanbei is reluctant to build the road, and said with a shriveled face: "Gonghe, Yan also knows that this road repair is for future generations to seek peace, but it is useless in contemporary times!" If it is said that the entire Youzhou county repairs stone roads, in order to smooth Yan, no matter how much effort is needed, but Liaodong is connected, and it is impossible to go to Liaoxi at all...... What's the point? ”

Youzhou is not as good as the Central Plains, which can be seen from the small things. Speaking of marching alone, when Yanbei fought in the Central Plains, he took the big road when he had a big road, and unless he needed soldiers and horses to spread out and fight in the fields, he would not let the soldiers march in the field, because where there was no road, he would walk slowly.

But it's different in Youzhou, you can fight in Youzhou without walking without taking the road, because you don't walk fast on the road! The road is potholed, and sometimes it is even better to step on the green seedlings in the neat field, after all, the ploughed field baggage truck does not get stuck in the wheels, and the official road after the rain is potholed and hard enough to break the wheels.

"Oh, the general is thinking about it too. But you can't just look at one side, the general will send troops to the west sooner or later, and when Gongsun is wiped out, Liaoxi will also be in the general's pocket, and then discuss with the state capital Liu Gong to build a stone road from the entire Youzhou, isn't this the general's strength? He smiled and said to Yanbei a little ridiculously: "There are not many places in the state that produce stones, but the stones that open the mountains in the county are inexhaustible, and I may be able to make some transactions with the county at that time." ”

Yanbei has some intentions, the road in Youzhou will be repaired sooner or later, if you can repair the four counties in the east and the six counties in the west of the state capital, you can ensure that after a few years, his soldiers and horses can run all the way to Jizhou.

Seeing that Yanbei was a little moved, he continued to ask: "It's better to repair Xiangping things first, send 3,000 farmers to repair one mile a day, and in May of the next year, you can repair to Liaoshui for eighty miles, and the three camps can be connected, and the car can be driven in one day!" ”

One day can enter the subject country, which means that the soldiers and horses of Yanbei can raid Liaoxi in three days!

"Repair!"