Chapter 202 Yanmen Army with skyrocketing strength
Chapter 201: Yanmen Army with skyrocketing strength
If the Yellow Turban Army wants to attack Luoyang, it will be nothing more than launching an attack from four directions, including east, southeast, south, and north.
There are Hulao Pass and Dagu Pass in the east of Luoyang; Mengjin Pass and Xiaopingjin in the north; Qiyuan Pass in the southeast and Guangcheng Pass in the south. After breaking through any of these two passes, there is Yique Pass.
The Yellow Turban Army will definitely choose one of the four directions as the main attack direction. Once it attacks the city of Luoyang, the other six passes will lose their effect.
But no matter which direction the Yellow Turban attacks Luoyang, at least two heroic passes must be conquered to reach Luoyang.
Judging from the fact that Zhang Jiao placed the base camp in Chenliu and cleared all the defense facilities in front of Hulao Pass, the main attack direction of the Yellow Turban must be the front line of Hulao Pass.
But no matter which path the Yellow Turban chooses, it must conquer two heroic passes in succession, and the difficulty of capturing the other three routes is not smaller than that of Hulao Pass.
Hulao Pass is the first pass in Heluo, and its defense is the best among the eight passes in Luoyang. However, even so, the reason why Zhang Jiao naturally chose Hulao Pass is because when entering Sili, the route of the grain and grass transport truck will be shorter, so it is more convenient.
There is also Dagu Pass after Hulao Pass. Although the terrain of Dagu Pass is extremely dangerous, it was newly built not long ago. Since the construction time is shorter than that of the sedan, its defense is naturally not as good as going to Hulao Pass.
On the surface, Dagu Pass is the last line of defense in Luoyang, but everyone knows that once Hulao Pass falls, it will only be a matter of time before Dagu Pass falls.
Therefore, all the hopes of the Han Dynasty are now concentrated on Hulao Pass. The court recruited all its military forces to Luoyang, and hoped that the Yellow Turbans could be defeated under this powerful pass.
The Yellow Turbans were also sharpening their swords and preparing to conquer this thousand-year-old pass in one fell swoop, thus destroying the Han Dynasty and establishing the Yellow Turban Kingdom!
One strong attack and one defensive defense, it is conceivable that Hulao will inevitably become a huge war meat grinder after being imprisoned soon!
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Five months passed in a flash.
During these five months, the Han Dynasty and the Yellow Turbans were both in the tense war mobilization, and countless supplies were transported to the frontline positions.
As for the Yanmen Army, during these five months, it was completely in a state of rebirth of nirvana and its strength grew wildly.
All institutions in Yanmen are in an overloaded state, and all officials in Yanmen, including the lord Qin Wen, have little rest time.
Expanding army, repairing customs, immigration, building houses, dividing fields, clearing land, sowing seeds, and purchasing grain...
In short, it’s just one word, busy, I’m so busy!
On average, there are nearly 10,000 refugees who come to Yanmen along the way. After staying in Yanmen for a while, they will be assigned to move to the three counties to settle down.
Gradually, Wang Meng and Fan Zhongyan''s pioneering speed in the three counties could not even keep up with the migration speed of refugees, resulting in a situation of crowded Yanmen.
Seeing that this happened, Qin Wen ordered the construction of Yanmen Pass to suspend the construction and let 20,000 troops **** nearly 200,000 Yellow Turban prisoners to the three counties as laborers.
With the addition of this part of labor, the abnormal development of the four counties in Bingbei is in the fastest direction of benign nature.
As the temperature dropped sharply, the difficulty of immigration in Yanmen also increased a lot. Qin Wen had to send people on all the roads to Bingbei, and set up porridge sheds and meals along the way, so as to do his best not to let any people starve to death on the road. In this way, the consumption of food has also increased a lot, and the Qin family’s secret grain warehouse in Yanmen has also consumed most of it, but Qin Wen did not feel sorry for this at all.
Although food is a hard material in troubled times, if it can be converted into a foundation, no matter how much food consumed, it is worth it, because fighting for hegemony in troubled times is the kingly way.
Besides, although the grain prices have soared now, you can still buy grain at a certain price. As the five major commercial families in the Han Dynasty, the Qin family is not short of funds, so a large amount of working capital is used to purchase grain.
Jia Yu arranged several people to go to various states to buy grain in advance, and Shen Wansan achieved the best results on this journey, and bought the most grain and grass from Yizhou at the lowest average price.
Seeing that Shen Wansan had extraordinary business talent, Jia Yu cracked down on promotion and reuse, so he handed over the soap manufacturing project to Shen Wansan.
As for the glass manufacturing factory, Jia Yu decided to take charge of it personally due to the huge profits, which became Jia Yu''s biggest business mistake in his life.
Although glass has high profits, it can only be circulated among aristocrats. Although soap is cheap, it is an indispensable item in life. If it is popular all over the world, the profits are unimaginable.
The immigration work in the four counties of Bingbei is proceeding in an orderly manner, and in the fourth month of the relocation, the number of refugees heading to the four counties of Bingbei finally dropped.
Most of the refugees who are willing to come to Bingzhou have already arrived. The rest are either disliked the difficult conditions in Bingzhou or disliked the journey too far, and were afraid that they would die on the road if they couldn''t get there.
But even so, thousands of refugees still arrive at Yanmen every day. Yanmen accepts all these people and does not let go of any of them.
During this five-month migration, the four northern counties have received more than 1.1 million refugees, more than 300,000 Yellow Turban prisoners of war, totaling more than 1.4 million people.
In addition, Yanmen has a population of more than 400,000, and the three counties in the north and the population of more than 100,000. Now, the four counties in the north have nearly 2 million Han people alone, and there are nearly 300,000 Hu people.
The resettlement of a population of 1.4 million is also a big problem. Considering the acceptance ability of the four counties, there were 300,000 refugees and 100,000 Yellow Turban prisoners, a total of 400,000 people were placed in Yanmen, and the remaining 800,000 refugees and 200,000 Yellow Turban prisoners, a total of 1 million people were placed in the three counties in the north and north.
Since then, the population of the four counties in the north of Bing has far exceeded that of the five counties in the south of Bing, but the economic level and living standards are far inferior. However, under the governance of Qin Wen and Qin Wen, it is only a matter of time before overtaking.
After the population surged, what was welcomed was naturally the expansion of the army. The expansion of the Yanmen Army and immigration were carried out at the same time. After all, the war will start in five months, and no training time can be wasted.
Qin Wen has been busy with government affairs and has no time to get out of here, so he entrusted full military power to Qin Hao. Qin Hao originally wanted to transfer Wang Meng back from the three counties to assist him in handling military expansion affairs.
But the three counties have to handle more affairs. Without either Wang Meng and Fan Zhongyan, the three counties will be in chaos. In the end, Qin Hao can only handle the expansion of the army by himself.
This time, the Yanmen Army''s military troops will be expanded to 100,000, including 60,000 cavalry and 40,000 infantry, and 60,000 were declared to the court.
Two million people support 100,000 troops, and twenty people support one army. This is not a little pressure for the Yanmen Army, and it can be afforded even if it is twice as much.
(This chapter ends)