Chapter 305 September Eagle Flying
In September of the second year of Jianyan, the autumn was tall and the grass grew and the horses were fat and the eagles flew. From the first year of Jingkang, for three consecutive years, every time at this time, the Jurchen Jin people went south to herd their horses and guided the Southern Dynasty. This fourth year is probably no exception.
Di Lie didn't care whether the Jin army was struggling south, whether to attack Jianyan Dynasty or not. He only focused on the nearly 500,000 Hebei soldiers and civilians who set out from Tokyo, went north 600 miles, crossed Huazhou, crossed the Yellow River Bridge, passed the Amway Army, circled Xiangzhou, crossed Cizhou, and finally entered Liaozhou.
Since Di Lie returned to Taiyuan from Tokyo on a warship, the important task of organizing Hebei's military and civilians to go north was handed over to Fu Xuan; and the one who led the army to clear up Cizhou and met with the northbound team in Wu'an was Zhao Bangjie's Five Horse Brigade; Zhang Rong continued to sit in Wanshengmen, Tokyo, and his navy officers and soldiers often took warships to roam between the Guangji River and the Bian River. He was both monitoring the Song army and defending the Jin army.
News of civil strife in Tokyo also spread to Zhengzhou, but when King Gai Tian reacted and was about to take action, the civil strife was pacified by the Tianzhu Army in lightning. Moreover, dozens of warships of all sizes were added on the Bian River. The military helmets and armor on the ships were bright and the military appearance was purged, which made the Jin army in Henan not dare to invade. King Gai Tian then gave up the idea of taking advantage of the troubled waters.
The scale of this migration was so large that it created a record for Jianyanchu.
Nearly half of the Hebei rebels and refugees came from Xiangzhou, Cizhou, Xingzhou and Weizhou on Hebei West Road. This time, when we went north, we cried and looked back, and we were reluctant to leave for a long time. It was precisely because most of the soldiers and civilians went north were local to their hometowns, and the villages themselves had their own force to protect them. Along the way, there were very few robbers and bandits who were robbed. On the contrary, there were many robbers and thieves. They learned that they could go to Taiyuan to avoid disaster and give land. Such a good thing was really a great thing for these bandits who were in danger and often starved to death.
People along the way heard propaganda that there was food to eat and farming. Except for some old and weak who were hard to leave their hometowns, the rest of the young and strong all joined this migrating army. As a result, there were more and more people migrating along the way. By mid-September, when the last batch of refugees entered Liaozhou, the Household Registration Department counted that the entry of Dingkou had reached 580,000...
Entering September, the Daming Prefecture adjacent to Cizhou and the Jin army in Xingzhou direction were gradually ready to move. From time to time, Jin cavalry entered Cizhou and appeared in Handan and Fuyang areas, posing a threat to the migrating army.
Di Lie immediately ordered the Cavalry Regiment and Musket Battalion of the Fourth Mixed Brigade, which had just completed three months of recruit training, and together with the Five Horse Brigade, to protect the flank safety of the migrant army. The newly-commanded Chevalier General and Deputy Brigade Commander Zhang Rui. Liang Xing took over his position as the commander of the Hunting Battalion. At the same time, the newly formed 4th Mixed Brigade commander He Yuanqing also led half of the Mixed Brigade and stationed troops in Liaozhou, ready to attack and support at any time.
The Tianzhu Army was ready to fight, but the Jin army had some idea of what happened, but it was retracted. Until the last group of migrants migrated north into Liaozhou, the Jin army had never seen any movement.
Di Lie later learned the whole story: Wanyan Chang, the Daming Prefecture, was determined to prepare for the Nanluo in September, and was not interested in intercepting and killing these poor refugees. In the Zhending Prefecture, Wanyan Zongfu suffered many losses at the hands of the Tianzhu Army. Seeing that the Tianzhu Army was prepared and had no confidence in winning, he was reluctant to take action. Although Wushu, who was in Zhending, had the intention to show 88 signs with the Tianzhu Army, he had no support from his third brother and had to give up. He focused on reorganizing his army and preparing for the Southward Battle in the autumn.
Any national-level military operation must distinguish the main goals and secondary goals. Once determined, it cannot be changed at will. Stick to the goal, unswervingly, pursue and fight hard, and never die - this is the true nature of an emerging military empire.
In the eyes of the Jin Kingdom, the most threatening primary enemy was always Zhao Gou's Southern Song Dynasty. He would never give up until he destroyed this king. Of course, this does not mean that the Jin Kingdom would let Tianshu City go, but it just believed that compared with the Zhao Song and Southern Dynasties, this was just a secondary goal and was not worthy of all efforts. The Jin army had its own arrangements and took it with a partial army.
Under these internal and external factors, Di Lie's northward migration, which had been in lingering for two months, finally ended successfully. The hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians gathered in Liaozhou gradually entered the Pingding Army and Taiyuan in batches. Tianshu City, a new force in Hedong, has a surge in population and has exceeded one million, truly laying the foundation for a prince. At the same time, it also enabled Di Lie to truly have the human capital to fight against the Song and Jin countries. Of course, in order to transform this capital into economic strength and war power, there are still many difficult and complicated tasks to do, and a long way to go...
After Di Lie returned to Taiyuan, he basically ran to both ends, half a month to Taiyuan Military Academy and half a month to Taiyuan Government Office, both government affairs and military affairs were both good. In terms of government affairs, he didn't know much, and he didn't need to understand it very much. As long as he grasped the right to appoint and dismiss officials, as well as the right to finance and taxation, the government affairs would be stabilized. As far as the current situation is concerned, military is the top priority.
As early as early June, the plan to expand 10,000 troops was adopted when the Taiyuan Military and Political Conference was first completed. The Taiyuan Military Academy was then established and the training of military backbone training was put on track. In this way, the Taiyuan Military Academy trained non-commissioned officers and supplemented divisions to train soldiers, and took two-pronged approaches and did not go against each other.
After the three-month training of recruits was completed, the primary class of Taiyuan Military Academy and the non-commissioned officers who were in charge of the training also completed the training, and they returned to the team, accepted the recruits, and organized new camps. Those students who were directly admitted to the military academy from ordinary people have a one-year school course, and they will not officially enter the various brigades and battalions of the Tianzhu Army until next year at the earliest.
He was intercepted by Di Lie. The so-called "Tokyo Liaison Envoy to Shanxi" Yue Fei, Di Lie did not let him be idle either - in fact, Yue Fei was not willing to be idle. After seeing the hot training of Taiyuan Military Academy all day, he wanted to do something practical. So Di Lie gave him a practical matter - the cavalry training instructor of Taiyuan Military Academy.
Not to mention, Yue Fei is very excited to do this. You know, since he was in the army, Yue Fei has always wanted to form an elite cavalry of the Song Dynasty to realize his military idea of defeating cavalry, but hoping to build the Yan Dynasty is like a widow's son dead. Now he is a cavalry instructor at Taiyuan Military Academy, looking at thousands of fat and strong horses galloping across the street under the guidance of soldiers wearing armor and holding sharp weapons. That feeling is really great.
Ten thousand new army infantry, plus the Jinning Army, Lin, Fu and Fengzhou, which were exchanged for equipment, more than 2,000 reserve cavalrymen. It was just enough to form four main brigades.
On the ninth day of the ninth month, the first field army of the Tianzhu Army. The second reorganized division, the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh, a total of four Class A brigades were established.
The second reorganized division does not have the position of division command for the time being. The brigade commanders of each brigade are: He Yuanqing, the commander of the 4th Brigade, Shi Zhihe, the commander of the 5th Brigade, Gao Liang, the commander of the 6th Brigade, and Zhao Neng, the commander of the 7th Brigade.
Due to the sudden expansion of the army, although there is no shortage of military officers and non-commissioned officers, there is a shortage of equipment. The most prominent one is that the output of muskets cannot keep up. Now the output of muskets has reached fifteen per day. In a month, it can almost be equipped with a musket battalion. From June to September, the Military Industry Department has produced more than 1,300 muskets and 200 eagle-billed guns. However, after deducting training muskets (including military academy training and recruit training), and supporting a batch of arms of the Tianbo Division in Liangshan, the inventory is less than 1,000.
In this way, the only two mixed brigades can be equipped and formed combat power are the fourth and fifth mixed brigades. The sixth and seventh mixed brigades, because there are no musketeers at the moment, there will naturally be no supporting chariots, so there will naturally be no "mix". Therefore, these two brigades can only serve as security forces, temporarily in Taiyuan, pacifying, Fenzhou, Shizhou, and Liaozhou. These big cities are responsible for the city guards.
At this time, the Tianzhu Army had a total of nearly 40,000 troops, plus the 10,000 troops from the Liangshan Navy Division and Jinan Military Sub-district, the total army had a total of 50,000 troops.
The wings of the eagle, the Tianzhu Army, have become harder and harder. They flap their wings in the sky and dominate the world. Sometimes.
I also want to see that in September, the desire eagle will attack the sky and hunt for Guanzhong, and there will be Wanyan Loushi in Hezhong Prefecture.
On September 13th, the Left Supervisor of the Jinxi Road Army and the Shaanxi governor Wanyan Loushi suddenly rushed south and headed straight to Jingzhao Mansion 300 miles away. On September 18th, in just five days, he captured Chang'an, an important town in Guanzhong with a blitzkrieg.
Chang'an, the imperial capital of the previous dynasty, was as dangerous as the Wei River and solid as Tongguan, but was repeatedly conquered by the Jin army. This was the second time that the Jin army had captured Chang'an. Due to the serious damage to the city defense facilities and the occupation troops were not repaired, Chang'an, a vast and majestic city than Kaifeng, Tokyo, has become a piece of broken walls, which is in ruins, and its defense capabilities have been directly reduced to the level of an ordinary state prefecture.
In another time and space history, the Jin army even captured Chang'an three times. Even Shi Bin, a bandit leader who was wandering around, once coveted Chang'an and wanted to enter the city. It is conceivable that this former imperial capital of the Tang Dynasty has now fallen to a point.
Wanyan Loushi led a large army to capture Chang'an! Such news made the senior leaders of Tianshu City feel relieved - this senior leader mainly refers to the clerk.
Due to the influx of a large population, the administrative system of Tianshu City is under great pressure. The benefits of a large population are certainly immeasurable for the long-term development of a force, but before that, a series of costs must be paid: public security, food, residence, employment, etc., which basically continue to spend in the early stage, and the returns are extremely slow.
In order to influx of nearly 600,000 people, all the government offices, prisoners, soldiers, warehouses, and divisions of Tianshu City were dispatched, and the officials were eye-catching and officials were not idle. The money, grain, cloth and cloth in the treasury were flowing out like flowing water. Hou Fangjing, who was originally thin, shrank, was not only tired, but also distressed. Now, thinking about the rewards given to the Tianzhu Army by the city lord a few months ago, Hou Fangjing had only one feeling: it was just a little thing, why did he feel so painful at that time?
Among all expenses, it is easy to say that grain is the top priority. Fortunately, it is mid-September, and the season of harvest is very good. Especially when a place is pacified, the land was first to be opened, and there were a large number of agricultural tools and livestock. In addition, Liu Erping, the farmer, vigorously developed agricultural and animal husbandry sidelines, planting and breeding industries according to the city lord's recommendations. Both the grain harvest and vegetable basket were happy to have a bumper harvest. If not, I really don't know if it could support the food for these 600,000 people until the beginning of spring next year.
In this case, whether it is civil servants or the Ministry of Education, they do not want to start another war this year. Restoration, accumulation of money, and slowly digesting this new injected force is the primary task at present.
The generals only care about war and do not care about internal affairs, but they also know that the first priority in war is food. Although Tianshu City has a bumper harvest, it has an additional 600,000 words, so the military rations must be tight. Therefore, it is better not to fight before.
For Tianshu City, the most threatening is the Wanyan Loushi army of Hezhong Prefecture. The one who is most likely to go to war with the Tianzhu Army in the near future is this Jin army with a population of 30,000. The strongest first and third mixed brigades in the Tianzhu Army have been transferred to the two fortresses of Jiexiu and Lishi (Shizhou), and the opponent they defend is this Jin army.
Therefore, when Wanyan Loushi went south, the senior executives of Tianshu all celebrated and asked Di Lie to draw the non-main brigade back to grab wheat grain, which could also save a lot of money and overcome difficulties.
After discussing with the generals and various advisers, Di Lie did not agree to withdraw the defense, but only postponed the itinerary of the Seventh Mixed Brigade, which was originally scheduled to be sent to the guards of Jingxing Pass until the end of October. The task of rushing to the new army was completed.
The reason for making this decision was that Di Lie and the generals felt that the autumn and winter of the second year of Jianyan would be another season of the Jin army's rampant movement. When this battle was cloudy, all combat preparations should not be relaxed.
Di Lie and his generals' caution were rewarded.
Chapter completed!