Northern Dynasties

Chapter 482
As the gateway to the west of Luoyang, Hanguan City is more than twice the size of Yan Han Chengxiong in the upper reaches of Gushui. Li Tai's thousands of troops entered the city and he could not completely control the city, so he could only concentrate on a few important areas for defense.

After entering the city, he wandered around and inspected it, and Li Tai felt more and more that if there were no sudden changes, it would be very difficult to conquer this pass city even if his troops were to attack head-on, even if the number of troops increased several times.

In order to prevent the forces of the Western Wei Dynasty from re-entering and controlling the Heluo area, the Eastern Wei Dynasty invested heavily, and the expansion of this pass city was also an important part.

But no matter how steep the pass is, it is human beings who can really decide the outcome of a war. Due to the spontaneous collapse of the defenders, this majestic pass fell into the hands of Li Tai so easily. I'm afraid I can't even dream of it.

Leaving aside the various variables in the war, after controlling Guancheng, Li Tai immediately passed the news of the results of the battle to the back road, hoping that the back road could send some more troops to strengthen his strength.

However, Li Tai also understands that this possibility is unlikely. Even he was quite surprised that he advanced so smoothly on the front line of Beiwei Road. changes with the results.Even he himself was not very optimistic about Heluo's tactical concept before, and now it is delusional to hope that Li Bi and others will turn to cooperate with him.

So if there is no accident, his advance in Heluo should stop here. If he pushes forward again and there is not enough reinforcements in the back, when the Eastern Wei people in this area react, he will have to be like him in minutes. Duguxin, the father-in-law, was besieged in the Luoyang area by the Eastern Wei Dynasty as before, waiting for people from all walks of life to come to rescue him.

However, if that happens, it is still unknown whether someone will come to rescue him. After all, the current focus of the Tyrant Mansion's actions is to interfere with the situation in Henan.

In other words, if he could still look at this series of changes as an outsider before, now he really has enough reasons to complain about Wang Sizheng: What do you think you are doing so fast? Arrange a tactical plan to recover Heluo around my results.

The Hou Jing Rebellion was one of the most important changes in the East-West confrontation and even the post-Three Kingdoms period, and Wang Sizheng's unauthorized actions made the early Western Wei Dynasty lose the strategic initiative.

If this sentence is still more mysterious, then Li Tai's current situation is a vivid example. Although he has achieved certain results, it is difficult for Li Tai to dominate the government when Wang Sizheng has already entered the game first. Additional investment.

Putting aside these miscellaneous thoughts, Li Tai quickly accepted and sorted out the results obtained.Since the pass city was occupied without bloodshed, there was almost no battle consumption, and the personnel situation was still the same as after the battle in Yan Hancheng.

The material reserves in Guancheng are not as rich and impressive as those in Yan Hancheng. Both food, grass and ordnance are very limited. According to Jiangren, Heluo has not replenished Guancheng with supplies since this year. Only a period of time ago, a batch of materials passed through the east of the Guancheng Luoshui was transported to Yiyang Jiuqu City.

Insufficient material reserves in the city are also one of the reasons for the collapse of the army and civilians defending the city. Probably in the opinion of the chief officer of the Heluo side of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, there was Yanhan City before, and the ruggedness of the North Wei Road itself, even if the Western Wei Dynasty made a breakthrough, it would not choose this Therefore, limited personnel resources are invested in more needed positions.

Although the material seized was not as rich as Yan Hancheng's, one of the gains was amazing, that is, there were more than 30 Gao Aocao lying on their stomachs in the Guancheng warehouse.

Li Tai was also very surprised when he looked at the silk in more than a dozen warehouses. Although this thing is also a kind of war preparation material, it is good enough. There are so many stocks in the military city for every soldier. Are you making more than a dozen sets of new clothes, or are you simply mocking the poverty of the Western Wei Dynasty?

After interrogation, he realized that the reason why so many silks were stored in Guancheng was actually the ration money of the soldiers.

Although the main source of the army of the Northern Wei Dynasty was the soldiers and urban residents, the battlefield environment also changed after the capital was moved to Luoyang.Most of the civilian soldiers in Xianbei were cavalry, so they began to recruit Fanbing from the prefectures and counties.

The so-called Fanbing refers to soldiers serving in ordinary civilian households, and the annual service period is one month.But in fact, more than half of a month was wasted from enlistment to departure, and there was very little time left for the garrison period.

Therefore, twelve households are taken as a unit, and each household sends out one piece of silk to replace military service, and takes one piece of silk from it to serve on behalf of the twelve families. The service period is one year, and one piece is rotated every year. It was the food and clothing consumed by the Fanbing soldiers in the past.

At first, the twelve pieces of silk were carried by each Fanbing in turn, but they were often lost or damaged, so it was stipulated that the collection and storage management should be centralized in the town where the Fanbing is located.

The Eastern Wei Dynasty also inherited the military system of the Northern Wei Dynasty, but expanded the original [-] Dings to [-] Dings. Correspondingly, each Fan Bing carried [-] bolts of silk to enlist in the army.

Li Tai had never heard of such a system in Kansai. The reason why Kansai did not implement this system was probably because the households were too poor, and the overlord's government needed the labor force provided by the householders every year.

Hanguan City used to be one of the important defenses between Heluo. Although some fan soldiers were transferred to other places, their silk funds still remained in Guancheng.These more than 30 bolts of silk are equivalent to the rations of more than 2 Fanbing conscripted by Hebei, Henan and other states for a year.

In addition to the more than 30 pieces of silk, there are nearly [-] soldiers from various states left in the city. They failed to escape from the city in the first place, and now they can no longer escape if they want to.

Because the origins of their hometowns were too mixed, Li Tai simply mixed them into three battalions, handed them over to Zhao Jingzhi and others, and he was assisted by the surrendered people who had left the city before to be responsible for the repair of the city and some miscellaneous tasks.

Not long after Li Tai entered Guancheng, Han Xiong, who was one step ahead, also sent his staff to report the news: After bypassing Guancheng, Han Xiong and his party successfully entered the Luoxi Plain and pretended to be the troops of the Eastern Wei Dynasty. Facing the Golden Barn City dozens of miles away.

Golden Barn City is located between Qianjinyan and Jinguchuan in the lower reaches of Gushui. Qianjinyan was a river weir built during the Wei and Jin Dynasties to divert the valley water injected into Luoshui into the moat of Luoyang City at that time.Later, it was restored during the Northern Wei Dynasty, and it was named because the daily harvest of water conservancy can be worth a thousand gold, also known as Qianjincheng.

Jingu River is a tributary on the north bank of Gushui. The angle formed by its injection into Gushui is the location of Jingu Garden built by Shi Chong in the Western Jin Dynasty. The ancient battlefield where the former Zhao Liuyao and the later Zhao Shile fought in the Five Hushuahua period is also here.

Now the garden no longer exists, and even the nearby city of Luoyang is dilapidated and dilapidated.The Eastern Wei Dynasty built a city near the weir, as an important transit point in Luoxi, relying on the Luoshui, Gushui and other rivers to transport materials to various defense strongholds between Heluo.

Han Xiong and his party occupied the Golden Barn City, which is tantamount to cutting off the logistics network of the entire Luoxi area, and the Golden Barn City is connected to Hanguan City by a river, and it happens to be located on the back road of Guancheng. The huge pressure on the insufficient Guancheng defenders was also one of the important reasons why the defenders finally abandoned the city.

In addition to the important geographical location of the Golden Barn City, Han Xiong has already seized a lot of materials, armored swords, food, fodder, etc. are even more abundant than those obtained by Yan Hancheng.After all, this warehouse city itself is a transit place for materials collection and transportation, and is responsible for delivering materials to various parties, so the daily savings are quite considerable.

After browsing through the list of materials submitted by Han Xiong, Li Tai couldn't help but smile.

The hegemony of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the hegemony of the Western Wei Dynasty belonged to the first military politics. Social wealth and resources must first meet military needs, but the wealth and resources that can be dispatched by the two are not the same. Although only a few Eastern Wei strongholds were captured, But this kind of fun of opening blind boxes has already made Li Tai quite addicted.

Li Tai did not choose to continue to increase troops to the Golden Grain Cang City before the commander of the Central Army in the back route gave orders. He just sent a group of chariots and horses to transport the spoils obtained from Cang City back to Guan City, and ordered Han Xiong to do it at any time if the situation was not good. Ready to evacuate.

Although Han Xiong didn't directly object in his reply, his intention to keep Cangcheng in order to move forward was revealed between the lines. As a native of Henan, he is now an official in Yin of Henan. Of course, he hopes to establish a career based on his hometown.

Li Tai understands Han Xiong's mood, but his influence on the overall situation is also very limited, at least not enough to influence the Bafu to abandon Henan and Wang Sizheng and concentrate on farming in the Heluo area.Even Yuwentai wanted to regain Heluo and even look into Heyang before, but the current situation does not allow it.

Li Tai was not surprised when the military order from the Chinese army commander Li Bi came, and he copied the general order to Han Xiong, hoping that he would remain rational and wise in advancing and retreating at critical moments.

But Han Xiong has not sent back any new decision, but a cavalry force from the Eastern Wei Dynasty came quickly from the upper reaches of the Luoshui River, not only surrounded the Golden Gran Cang City, but even a small group of troops continued westward along the Gushui River, and entered Guancheng City The door shouted and invited to fight.

(End of this chapter)