Chapter 409

Miao song came to Taocheng without any obstacles.

Taocheng is located on the East Bank of a river system. Less than ten miles away from the West Bank is the East ah where Li Nong large-scale troops are stationed.

After the Qi Huo army arrived at the North Bank of the Yellow River, they didn't take any drastic action. They would attack dong'a and Taocheng as entrenched places, mainly because they had to have a foothold to shelter from the wind and rain, not in the field of frozen snow in winter.

Practically speaking, the Qi Huo army has never been an armed force with abundant materials. No matter during the struggle with the Hu people, ang or after being defeated by the Hu people and becoming executioners, their situation is not better. Poverty is used to describe a family or individual, but the living army is really poor. It is very difficult to maintain even the most basic living security, not to mention the materials such as military equipment.

Miao song didn't come empty handed. He was accompanied by nearly a thousand people and nearly a hundred carriages.

The carriage was loaded with some grain and cloth, and even salt that was very important to people. These things were not covered up, but were exposed brightly, which made everyone of the begging army stare.

Li Nong is in dong'a on the other side of the river. The Lord of Taocheng is Li cunxiao (not the Tang Dynasty).

Li cunxiao received Miao song outside the city. Pointing to the carriages full of materials, Li cunxiao was confused and said, "it's out of personal friendship, or..."

Miao song and Li cunxiao can only be said to know each other, but they are not very familiar. He looked at Li cunxiao in a thick sheep fur coat and asked, "why cross the Yellow River?"

The early Qi Huo army was good at fighting. It still fought with the Hu people under the condition of lacking everything, and won more times than lost.

After Shi Le defeated the Qi Huo army, the Qi Huo army was still brave and good at fighting when suppressing the rebellion for Shijie. However, after Shi Hu became the ruler of Shijie, the Qi Huo army was basically separated and used, resulting in the emergence of the Li Nong system and the ran Min system. Finally, the Qi Huo army was also divided into three parts: serving the Hu people, resisting the Hu people and being neutral.

Of course, it is Li Nong who chooses to continue to work for the Hu people. The reason is that Li Nong is personally treated and valued by shile and Shi Hu, not how well Shijie treats the collective of Qi Huojun.

"Persuaded, but..." Li cunxiao paused. He really didn't know Miao song well. It's no use saying so much. He had to ask again, "the Han army is coming, isn't it?"

"Yes." Miao song didn't hide it. He said bluntly, "twenty-five thousand are all the elite of the Han army. The Huben army and the Yulin army are the world-famous Forbidden guards."

"Really?" Li cunxiao was not surprised. He pulled his cheek and said, "the king of Han really thinks highly of us."

The motorcade has begun to enter the city, causing bursts of cheers in the city. Listening to some clips in the cheers, people are glad to finally have some decent food, and they are ecstatic about the salt.

For salt, even after thousands of years, it is still scarce, especially for inland people.

People cannot lack salt. If they do not produce a variety of diseases, they will not have strength. It can be seen that salt is important to the human body.

With today's technology, it is not impossible to make sea salt. You know, the state of Qi in the Warring States period was famous for making sea salt and gathered the world's wealth in Linzi. However, after the Western Han Dynasty, the technology of making sea salt became officially owned and the people were strictly blocked, which was caused by the incident of "taking salt and iron for the benefit of the imperial court".

Of course, the official blockade can not completely prevent the spread of salt making technology among the people, but first there was the war at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, then there was the scuffle among the princes at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and then the Sima waste firewood family lost the Central Plains, resulting in continuous war. In fact, a considerable number of technologies were lost in the flames of war.

The small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty had a long coastline, but the small ~ imperial court did not control even one family's sea salt production. Instead, the aristocratic families along the coast had their own small workshops to make sea salt, but the quality could only be said to be unattractive.

At present, the society does not have too many sources of salt. There are salt lakes in the northwest. Where there are no natural salt lakes, salt can only be extracted from some rock salt.

Do you know what is the most common way to provide salt now, even a thousand years later? Is to get a piece of salt cloth, but repeatedly use the salt cloth to make a salty taste. As for adding salt, unless it's a rich family, I really think too much.

There are twenty carts of salt. It looks like that kind of white grain salt. Each cart should have 500 kilograms, and twenty carts are 10000 kilograms. If we save some money, it will be enough for 300000 people to spend more than a year and a half.

Only twenty carts of salt is a big gift. Needless to say, there are thirty carts of cloth. Fifty carts of millet, chestnut rice and wheat seem insignificant.

Li Nong personally came to the east bank from the floating bridge. When he saw Miao song, his first sentence was: "the king of Han wants to surrender us?"

Miao song did not hide, and told what he knew, including that it was ran Min who advocated the surrender. Otherwise, the left and right prime ministers and some generals of the Han state were actually the opinions of the annihilation of the army.

"Never thought." Li Nong had a mocking expression on his face: "they underestimated us so much."

Well, Miao song knows that it's no use saying more. Only when Li Nong sees the coming Han Army in person and may need to fight with it, will he know that the top leaders of the Han country are really not out of inexplicable pride.

It didn't take much time, that is, on the third day after Miao song arrived in Taocheng, a mighty Han army arrived ten miles outside Taocheng.

"Look at the designation. It's the Huben army, the Yulin army and the forbidden guards. There are no other Han army." Li cunxiao and Li Nong almost stood side by side at the gate of Taocheng. From a distance, we can see the Han Army still moving forward: "our scouts lost a lot and achieved very limited results."

Without looking at the number of scouts lost before the war, we can probably guess what kind of army the enemy is. The more elite the field group is, the greater the advantage the scouts have in the war. Usually, the Scouts of an army can best explain the combat effectiveness of the army. That's why Li cunxiao specially mentions the loss of scouts.

Soon Li Nong could see the Han army with the naked eye. Without too much interpretation, he could see what kind of army it was from the marching posture.

The qihuo army did its best to reinforce the peach city on the front line in winter, but the degree of desolation of the peach city was too serious. Even after strengthening day and night in winter, the gap of the peach city wall was only blocked. If there were any fortifications, it was only building walls and digging some shallow trenches outside the city wall.

The Huben army is an Armored Cavalry. It is impossible to wear heavy armor in the marching posture. Now the Knights are riding on auxiliary horses. The war horses that are really used to ride cross combat are light, and there are pack horses loaded with boxed armor and wrapped riding weapons.

The badminton army is a sudden cavalry with both riding, shooting and close combat. They have many auxiliary horses as well as heavy cavalry. Because of the nature of sudden cavalry, the armor of people and horses is not too heavy. As a result, the Knights wear breastplates and the horses are also half armored. Visually, it is more elite than the non combat Huben army.

"Not 25000." Li Nong turned his head and looked at Miao song at the back and raised the corner of his mouth: "there are at least 50000."

"Each armour rider has three auxiliary riders, and each sudden cavalry has one auxiliary rider." Miao Song said expressionless, "auxiliary riders are not war soldiers in the Han army system."

That is, the Han Army has such a system. All countries will be accompanied by people, and one of them will be regarded as participants in the war. It is even rare to have a "reputation". For example, only 10000 people dare to claim 100000.

Li Nong didn't know much about the Han state established less than two years ago. Maybe there are still many fallacies in his understanding. For example, it is rumored that Liu Yan is a royal descendant of the Han Dynasty, and for example, Liu Yan is actually a highly sinicized Hun. Anyway, none of them seems reliable.

In less than six years, the Han army developed from a small tribe in a corner to a country occupying two states and occupying many states and counties. Li Nong did not have too serious deviation in his cognition. What I want to say is that Liu Yan really began to fight in the Central Plains. In fact, it was nearly three years, not six years.

"The Han Army did not find any equipment for attacking the city." Li cunxiao didn't lower his voice. He raised his hand and pointed to the Han army who looked like it was starting to camp. He found something and said, "move the flag... This way. Yong ever wanted to talk before the battle?"

In silence, Li Nong turned and walked to the corridor of the lower city. He really wanted to have a good conversation with ran min.

Ran min did ride across Zhu Longma. There were not many people accompanying him near Taocheng, only more than 500 people. Li Tan and Qian Jian were among them, and Xie an followed.

Stopping about two miles away from Taocheng, ran min saw the gate of Taocheng open and the handsome flag representing the Qi Huojun appeared first. From a distance, he could see Li Nong leading nearly a thousand people out of the city.

The two sides soon met face to face. At the beginning, no one made a sound. Ran min kicked the horse's belly with his feet. Zhu Longma moved forward slowly. Only Xie ankong's horse followed, and the rest stayed quietly in place.

Li Nong naturally moved forward, but Wang Mo followed him.

Wang Mo was born in an aristocratic family in the Central Plains. When the Qi Huo army fought against the Hu people, he joined the Qi Huo army, which was gradually valued by Li Nong. He and ran min are acquaintances, and they are actually more similar in concept to ran min. unfortunately, his family background and burden make him unable to freely choose the road he wants, so he can only be with Li Nong. (this man was killed by ran min like Li Nong and others in History)

"Forever." Li Nong was only less than two steps away from ran min, looked up and down at ran min and said, "wearing the armor of the Han Army, it is more heroic and extraordinary."

Ran min raised his hand and saluted and shouted, "Duke Li can do the same."

"Yongzeng is still so anxious." Li Nong looked dumbfounded and burst into a burst of 'ha ha' laughter. When he had had enough laughter, he asked, "has Yong ever come to denounce someone?"

Ran min was silent for a moment, Then he said: "Begging for life, begging for life... Is all about living. Duke Li must not forget the origin of the begging for life army. He served the Hu people and humiliated their ancestors. Can it be replaced by some small favors of the Hu people? Now our king is going to wipe out the world, so that we Han people will no longer commit ourselves to the cruel rule of Hu prisoners, and return a peaceful place for people in the world to live and work in peace and contentment. Why don't Duke Li work under the king's command with min Life? "

Li Nong was silent for a long time. He always looked up at the sky, looked at the blue sky, and saw white clouds of different shapes passing by, Then he said, "the state of Han has been attacked on many sides, not to mention the gathering of Jie people and their families in Puyang. In the direction of Jizhou, there are also the elite frontier army of Zhao and the army to assist Yan, and hundreds of thousands of troops in the South will go north at any time. Looking at the situation in the world, only the cool country located in the remote Xiliang, the generation country of barren grassland and the state of Han have gentle relations, and the rest of the countries are hostile to the state of Han."

Ran min burst into laughter and roared, "my king regards hostile countries as dead bones in the grave. Is it not a small stone blocking the way to restore the glory of the Han family, but something that can be kicked away with one foot?"

"Never talk nonsense." Li Nong said very seriously: "the heavenly king could call up millions of troops two years ago. Although the Han army won everywhere in the past two years, it also placed itself in the place of public enemies in the world. Who gave the Han king such arrogant confidence that those were just roadblocks?"

Xie an opened his mouth at this time. He didn't salute. He looked at Li Nong directly and shouted as loudly as possible: "Marquis Wei Wu, look at our army."

The auxiliary soldiers are camped, the Huben army has been wearing armor, the Yulin army has also entered the combat posture, and the forbidden guard need not talk more.

The army that has fully entered the attack state arranges its formation according to the number and advances forward in echelons.

At the front is the complete Huben army. People and horses are wrapped in layers of armor. Five thousand heavy cavalry become a front arrow array, slowly moving forward, and the sound of heavy horseshoes rolls in bursts.

The Yulin army is divided into two groups. It is located on the left and right wings of the tiger Ben army. It looks like two wings from a distance. It cooperates with the tiger Ben army to form a large crane wing array.

At the end of the March were the ten thousand guards. They pushed forward with the greatest momentum. The footmen stepped on neat steps, and the cavalry and horses stepped on the ground in strange agreement.

The Han army suddenly took a forward posture. Naturally, there were bursts of warning drums in Taocheng. It seems that many troops poured out to meet Li Nong back?

"Li Gong doesn't have to be frightened." Xie an finally did not forget to salute ran Minhang. With ran min's permission, he shouted to Li Nong: "the public is not the generation of Hu Lu. We have no intention of treating the public like animals."

Li Nong was not afraid when he looked at it. He stopped at the slowly advancing Han Army and waited to take back his sight before he said to ran Min: "always thought it would be easy for someone to surrender?"

Ran min also said directly: "I Wang Yan and Li Nong are the soldiers crossing the river. If we resist or fight for ten days and a half months for the stone tiger, we will not be destroyed."

Li Nong was silent again