Chapter 723: Winter Truce

Liu Yin also shook a shot, he had no intention of fighting a decisive battle with Qi Wannian in Fuping at all, in this season when the weather was cold and the water was dripping into ice, it was a great price to fight in the field, and the non-combat attrition of frostbite alone was something that Liu Yin could not bear. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The biggest problem now is that the soldiers lack enough warm clothing, and in an era when people don't know what cotton is, winter protection is one of the biggest problems.

Liu Yin has been in Yizhou at the beginning of the crossing, the climate there is okay, at least it does not freeze in winter, and it will not feel too cold, but in the past few years after arriving in Guanzhong, he did feel the severe cold in the north, and the winter of this era is much colder than that of later generations, even if there is no thermometer, Liu Yin can feel that the coldest time in Guanzhong winter can be as low as minus 30 degrees.

In such cold weather, marching and fighting will become a high-risk thing, and after a battle, the number of people killed in battle will fall second, and the proportion of those who will freeze to death and frostbite will account for a large proportion, and there will not be enough winter clothes to keep out the cold, which is indeed the biggest problem.

Wealthy people may be able to buy animal skins or silk to make clothes to keep out the cold, but ordinary people can only add some hemp wool and other fillings to the sandwich of ordinary linen clothes, and poorer people can only fill in some thatch to keep out the cold.

The army will not be as good as winter clothes, after all, silk and animal skins are scarce materials, and the supply of people from the upper class is a little insufficient, and it is obviously impractical to equip every soldier.

When climbing the snow mountain and crossing the grassland, Liu Yin had prepared more than 30,000 pieces of silk winter clothes to ensure that the Shu army successfully completed this extremely difficult road, at that time it was still in Shu, and Shu was rich in silk and Shu brocade, even so, in order to prepare these 30,000 pieces of silk winter clothes, Liu Yin still spent a lot of effort and spent a lot of money to make it, to Guanzhong, without the support of the silk production area, it is completely unrealistic to want to make silk winter clothes.

So when the cold winter came, Liu Yin's first choice was to avoid the war, and try not to fight if he could, when Qi Wannian took the initiative to withdraw to Fuping and strengthen the defense of Fuping and Niyang, Liu Yin waved his army south, crossed Weishui, and returned to Chang'an.

Qi Wannian got the news, he was so angry that he was like thunder, but he was helpless, and now Liu Yin's army returned to Chang'an, and his plan to capture Weinan was declared bankrupt, losing more than 10,000 men and horses, and in the end nothing was gained, Qi Wannian's depression can be imagined.

However, this winter was exceptionally cold than in previous years, and Qi Wannian had to shrink in Fuping and talk about this winter.

Heavy snow covered the entire land of Guanlong, and the two sides entered a truce, accumulating strength and waiting for next year's battle.

This winter Liu Yin is not easy, although Liu Chen and Yin Zheng are dealing with government affairs, so that Liu Yin is not worried, and he can free up his hands to focus on the military, but with the expansion of the number of troops, many affairs of military politics, military orders, and logistics have also been pressed on Liu Yin's shoulders, especially logistics, which has become the biggest problem.

The whole Yongliang region is vast but sparsely populated, and the proportion of Hu people far exceeds that of the Han people, which is also the reason why the Beidi Hu has been able to expand rapidly this time, the real Han population is still less than one million, and the population of less than one million to feed the army of nearly 150,000 is obviously overloaded, and there has been a lot of pressure in the area of grain, grass, baggage, and logistics supply.

Fortunately, the land in Guanzhong is fertile, and there is a lot of idle land, so Liu Yin discussed with Liu Chen and Yin Zheng to implement the tuntian system, and the military tun can not be counted on, and the entire army has war tasks all year round, and there is no time to rest in tuntian, so it can only recruit displaced people and use prisoners of war. This prisoner of war included the captured Wei and Jin soldiers in the Battle of Guanlong, as well as Hu soldiers, Liu Yin arranged them in the camp of Tuntian, as much as possible to make the best use of people, after all, feeding these prisoners in vain also cost food, and if they were released, they might replenish the enemy's strength, and it was the best way to integrate them into Tuntian.

Of course, Cao Cao took the lead in implementing the tuntian system in order to supplement the shortage of military supplies, which laid a solid foundation for Cao Wei's strength and unification of the north, and now if Liu Yin puts the money and grain of the 150,000 troops on the heads of less than one million Han people in Guanzhong, such a terrible and heavy tax will inevitably crush the newly established Yongliang regime, and the implementation of the tuntian system can effectively alleviate the tax burden of the people of Guanlong and create conditions for the people of Guanlong to recuperate.

Two years have passed since the implementation of the tuntian system, and the initial 30,000 or 40,000 people have now expanded to nearly 200,000, and the annual accumulation of millet has reached several million hundreds, and the army's logistical supply problem has been temporarily resolved.

How to gain a firm foothold in Guanzhong and build the land of Qinchuan into a base for seeking to dominate the world has always been a problem that Liu Yin has been thinking about, I have to say that Liu Yin is very talented in military affairs, and he can leap thousands of miles from Nanzhong to Yongliang, and his outstanding military talent is already comparable to that of the famous generals of ancient times.

But at the same time, Liu Yin also clearly realized that how to govern this land has always been a shortcoming of his own, in terms of governing the country, it is indeed Liu Yin's weakness, for this, Liu Yin has to admire Zhuge Liang, cultural and martial arts, both internal and external, lifting weights like light, and governing a country in an orderly manner, although Zhuge Liang was not the most powerful when Shu Han was alive, but it is not a force that anyone can ignore.

If you really want to make yourself do Zhuge Liang's deeds, no matter how big or small, Liu Yin asked himself if he really couldn't do it, not to mention that after he became the master of Yongliang, he has been in the middle of the crusade in the east and the west, and he sat down to deal with political affairs without flawlessness.

However, Liu Yin found that Yin Zheng did belong to a talent in internal affairs, the position of Yongzhou Assassin Shi, he did a very competent job, and Chang'an had Liu Chen in charge, Liu Yin had almost no worries.

The turn of the year is the sixth year of Shu Han Yanxing, the first four years of Jin Tai, the third year of Wu Baoding, and the year 268 of the Common Era, if it is a real history, this year should be a very calm year, there is almost no major event, lackluster, but because of the disturbance of the traverser Liu Yin, the world has become turbulent, from the beginning of the third year of the Hu rebellion, to the beginning of the fourth year of the beginning of the Tai, it has become more and more intense, a real troubled era came to the world. (To be continued.) )