Liu Yan chose to lead the army back to Xiami, which was unexpected and reasonable.
It's surprising that the Han Dynasty has just captured Duchang City, and the surrounding land is naturally included in the territory of the Han Dynasty. Since the boss's strength has been abandoned, he even chose to give up. It's very similar to the nature of wandering bandits. It's not like a tribe rising at a high speed and competing for every inch of land.
But now more than one enemy is approaching Liu Yan's headquarters. In addition to more than 30000 enemy troops in Gaomi County, there is also an enemy force of 30000 or 40000 in Dong'an County. Duchang city is broken and difficult to defend. That mountain area is a wild area. Only Xiami has been operated for a period of time and has relatively perfect fortifications, The best choice is to retreat to the lower secret and prepare for a defensive war.
When Cao Yan saw Xiami city operated by the Han Dynasty, he naturally saw Zicheng and the camp as part of the corner trend. From his heart, he thought that Liu Yan's choice was correct.
Next, Liu Yan is facing more than two enemy forces. Even if he can win against the enemy forces from Gaomi County and Dong'an County, there will be a steady stream of enemy forces coming. It can be confirmed that there are two enemy forces preparing for war in Xuzhou and guanggucheng.
"The tribe has been established for four years. From having nothing to controlling the territory of three counties, the most difficult test is coming." Liu Yan has ordered Ji Chang to come over. In addition to Ji Chang, he will also dispatch 4000 troops from the Korean Peninsula: "we should try our best to prepare for difficulties!"
LV Yi was gratified that Liu Yan did not retreat from difficulties this time. He chose to concentrate on dealing with difficulties.
Only by going through this crisis can the Ministry of Han really rise. What they want to attract the attention of the world may happen in this war. If they can win the war, the heroes of the world need to face up to the Ministry of Han, and the Ministry of Han has changed from unknown to known all over the world.
"Yes, we will go all out to meet this challenge!" Liu Yan's mentality has not changed. The difference is that he wanted to fight without strength before, but now he has strength. He said: "the mobilization will be carried out this time, and 30000 reinforcements will arrive in Shijie Zhao state from overseas within a month."
At present, there are 60000 troops and horses of the Han Ministry of the state of Zhao in Shijie. With 30000 follow-up support, it will reach 90000.
Of the 90000 troops participating in the war, nearly 20000 have been soldiers for more than two years. They are soldiers who have seen blood on the Korean Peninsula; About 30000 of them were the newly attached army, slave army and slave army forced to serve in Changguang County, Dongmou county and Donglai County after waving troops to Xigu; Nearly 40000 soldiers are young and strong. They are only trained at a fixed time every year. They can only be regarded as a kind of militia.
Because of the identity registration of the number plate, it is very easy to check how many people there are in the Ministry of Han. When Liu Yan waved his troops to the west, the state of Zhao in Shijie controlled three counties. The total population of the Han Dynasty has reached 340000, and the number of free people is 220000. The rest are either servants or slaves. This is related to the new Jin's occupation of two cities and towns, Donglai County and Beihai county.
"We will try our best to give full play to the potential of war." LV Yi had full confidence in this: "thanks to our policy, the vast majority of the newly attached army, slave army and slave army are eager to change their destiny on the battlefield."
More than that, the soldiers are eager for merit, and the servants and slaves are also eager to become free people. As long as the Han Dynasty is not defeated like a mountain and can be stable on the front line, the war potential will be tapped out, because for all people, this war is a great opportunity to change their destiny!
Yes, it's a great opportunity to change their fate, including some families who don't want to integrate into the Han Dynasty, but they don't know what happened.
Xiami is really well managed by the Han Dynasty. A well defended city and a specially built angular sub city. The military camp on the west side of the glue is also as solid as gold. The three defense points form an irregular corner. Any enemy who wants to win Xiami city will definitely suffer a flank attack from the other two.
For everyone, the weather is not beautiful, and it rains.
According to the local people, this season is really rainy. It will go underground intermittently for about half a month. Otherwise, how can it be called spring ploughing season? Isn't it just planting the seeds? Will God give you some rain?
"The enemy on the south side is still 80 miles away from us. The flag they play is the main general flag of Liu Min, the Sheriff of Gaomi County." LV Yi soon entered the role. As a military commander, Shi must understand the enemy's movements and make a reasonable response, but there are some problems, such as: "the scouts we sent did not detect any troops in the West."
Liu Yan immediately asked, "how far is the Scout's reconnaissance range?"
"Hundred miles." What LV Yi said is also a limitation of Scout reconnaissance: "no matter how far away, it will exceed the scope of Dong'an County."
Do you know? At present, Dong'an County was formerly called Dongguan county. When Liu Yuanhan arrived, Dongguan county was changed to Chengyang County in the northeast of Langya County, which means that Chengyang county has disappeared. Dongguan county has changed its place, and a new Dong'an County has emerged.
Considering that the Hu people can't play with the political power at all, the disorderly reform of administrative units is really an extremely common thing, and the result is that the actual situation of local states and counties is relatively chaotic.
How do I say this? Like several mountain maps that Liu Yan asked people to hang on the wall. The first one belongs to the Western Jin Dynasty, but there is no Dong'an County in it. In the second picture, the mountains and rivers map belonging to the period of Liu Yuanhan became the disappearance of Chengyang county. The third one is more strange. The counties in it are still called by those names, but there are many contradictions about which state the county belongs to.
Those mountain maps are very simple. They only roughly mark where there are counties and cities. The terrain of mountains and water is blank. It's hard to believe that such a map is the most perfect one. If it's not perfect, isn't it just fooling around?
At present, the 30000 troops led by Fei Yan and Gong Tao are located in a place called Chunyu, about ten miles west of the beach water (about thirty miles northeast of modern Anqiu).
In fact, Liu Yan did not expect the enemy from Gaomi County to speed up. According to the results of their negotiation, the enemy in Gaomi County will only approach after the arrival of Yao's troops.
"So... Is it necessary for us to take the initiative to destroy the enemy before the Yao family's troops appear?" Of course, the location of Liu Yandian is the place marked Chunyu on the map: "what's the terrain there?"
This requires Cao Yan to answer. He said: "that place is located on the side of a mountainous area. To the west is the mountainous type. The terrain near the beach water and glue area is relatively flat."
Cao Yan does not belong to the Han Dynasty now. He can only be said to be the object of cooperation. Seriously, he is equivalent to some kind of guest Qing? Part of his cooperation with Liu Yan is to provide necessary intelligence support.
There is no doubt about the importance of intelligence. Without intelligence from Cao Yan, the Han Department would only wait for the army sent by the Yao family to enter the alert range within 30 Li. It would not know that the army belongs to the Yao family at the first time. It would only know that there is an army, and in terms of scale, it can only conduct investigation temporarily.
If he had not known in advance that the Yao family sent 30000 or 40000 troops, Liu Yan should have been near the mountain 70 miles south of Hanting, perhaps fighting the enemy from Gaomi County, and then being attacked by the South and West, it would have been a worse situation.
Knowing that the Yao family sent troops is only one of them. Without the information provided by Cao Yan, the Han ministry will not know that Xuzhou is preparing for war, but it will definitely know about guanggucheng, but it will be delayed for at least half a month.
"I think the assassin should increase his troops immediately." Cao Yan did not know that Liu Yan had ordered mobilization: "this time, the Han ministry will not face one or two enemy troops, and the war will not end in three or two months."
There are many things Liu Yan doesn't need to let Cao Yan know. For example, Xu Zheng's headquarters, which originally planned to invade Gaomi County, accelerated the preparation for the invasion. It depends on whether the enemy from Gaomi County will retreat after Gaomi County is attacked.
If the enemy from Gaomi County doesn't retreat, Xu Zheng will take advantage of the emptiness of Gaomi County to complete the attack, or mainly plunder material and population, and then March from the south to Beihai county. When necessary, he will enter the war whenever appropriate.
Almost when the scouts finally found the Yao family's army, the exact information came from guanggucheng. The new assassin Liu Zheng set up 50000 troops to officially intervene in the Qingzhou war.
"That guy issued a call to arms and ordered all parties to return to their counties." Liu Yan did not respect Liu Zheng and said with a sneer: "I was specially ordered to return to Changguang County, otherwise it would be regarded as treason."
Liu Yan's official position in the state of Zhao in Shijie is only the Sheriff of Changguang. The Sheriff of Dongmou county is hanging on the head of the original sheriff, while the Sheriff of Donglai county has long been killed.
"Liu Zheng was deeply trusted by Shi Hu. He intervened in the war..." Cao Yan smiled again, but it was like a sneer: "it's a good thing for the Han ministry."
Qingzhou's affairs only belong to Qingzhou. Liu Zheng is an assassin of Qingzhou. Seriously speaking, he has the right to refuse the intervention of foreign states and counties. Then, whether it's the Yao family or Xuzhou, legally speaking, entering Qingzhou is a rebellion.
"Will Liu Zheng refuse Yao's army to enter Qingzhou?" Liu Yan has not yet understood whether Dong'an County belongs to Qingzhou or Yanzhou.
No one is the roundworm in Liu Zheng's stomach. How can we answer Liu Yan's question?
However, we can probably guess that Liu Zheng is not Liu Zheng. From the content of the call to arms, Liu Zheng was clearly very afraid of Liu Yan. He should expect the Yao family to intervene and attack the Han Dynasty.
"Then Liu Zheng's order is a fart!" Liu Yan showed a tough: "since one is fighting and two are fighting, it's just a war to decide the ownership of Qingzhou!"
Cao Yan's mouth was hooked up, but he was really sneering and thought, "where does such great confidence come from?"