my wonderful zoo

Chapter 142

"What a pity for such a good field." Chen Zhuang next to him sighed.

He has lived in Yancun since he was a child and has never cultivated good land, so he is very greedy for the fertile land on both sides of the Huaihe River.But water and fire are ruthless, and if the river cannot be controlled, these fertile lands cannot be used, and it is a pity that it is useless.

"It's a pity indeed." Chen Xun agreed.

He knew in his heart that it was better for the Yellow River to flow northward into the Bohai Sea.There is no shortage of water in the Huaihe River Basin, and the entry of the Yellow River into the Huaihe River will only bring disaster.Instead, heading north into the Bohai Sea can nourish the North China Plain.

When the military government takes control of Hebei in the future, it will start repairing the old course of the Yellow River and then divert the water from the Yellow River back.

This is a huge project, and I can only think about it now.

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December tenth.

Spring rain is as precious as oil, but the drizzle in Xuzhou has been falling for three days.

Training in the rain caused many soldiers to catch wind, and many people caught colds.

Moreover, more than two months have passed since the Yellow River was dug by Du Chong, and the great epidemic after the disaster finally spread to Xuzhou.

All training activities had to be stopped, and Chen Xun began to organize all soldiers and civilians to carry out sanitation and establish isolation points to prevent the large-scale spread of the plague among Chen's army.

Even the refugee camps around the military camp benefited. All the refugees were washed and given a new set of clothes.

Every day, people who do not respect hygiene and do not implement epidemic prevention regulations are hung at various intersections and beaten with rattan braids.

As for Xuzhou City, after Sun Zheng went to the city to "borrow" horse gear, all the Song court officials in the city had fled, and Chen Xun had to arrange for Chen Jiajun to enter the city to take over management.

The military government's first city in the Yellow River Basin was obtained like this.

In the former Zhizhou government office, Chen Xun was discussing the next step with senior military officers such as Sun Zheng and Lai Qingyun.

"You all should take a look at the news that Pei Ren has sent recently." Chen Xun handed a pile of compiled information to the officers present and asked them to read it separately.

The language organization of intelligence is very refined, concise and to the point, it seems very fast.

Soon, everyone basically understood the general idea.

"Hasn't King Qin's army already arrived? Why did Song Ting let the Jin army enter the city so easily?" Some officers did not understand.

"We can't come up with any results from discussing these issues, so we will put them on hold for now." Chen Xun stopped their free discussion first, intending to set a tone so that today's discussion would not go off topic: "Today we mainly discuss how to prevent the Jin army from using up the gold and silver they looted. The treasures, craftsmen and women were taken away and headed north.”

The inertia of historical development is really great. Although Chen Xun killed Zhao Huan, he did not change much of this period of history.

This also shows that the Song Dynasty officials had little influence on the development of the Song Dynasty and the trend of the war.

The Song official family was actually just the spokesperson of the gentry class.

This was completely beyond Chen Xun's expectation. He had previously thought that the Song officials kept their word, but now it seemed that although their words were useful, they had little impact on the development of the situation.

The scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty ruled the world together with the emperor, but the emperor was like a mouthpiece pushed to the front.

Just like the president of the United States in later generations, he does have great powers and his words are very effective, but the actual result of his governance is that he cannot escape the control of big capitalist groups.

Of course, it is not ruled out that there are gentry who serve the country and the people and understand the righteousness, but after all, they are only a minority and cannot determine the general trend. "Let's go grab it." One of the commanders suggested.

"We want to take it over, but the total strength of the Jin army has reached 20. With 5000 of us, how can we win?" Lai Qingyun retorted.

According to the previous intelligence summary, the Jin State went south to attack the Song Dynasty this time, and two armies arrived in Kaifeng.

The East Route Army was led by Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyanchang, who led two thousand (elite) Prince's Army and 5000 Jurchen soldiers. They went south from Liaodong and selected 5000 Han troops into camps around the Bohai Sea. Two thousand Xi Army soldiers Thousands, two thousand iron troops, and more than fifteen thousand other miscellaneous soldiers (auxiliaries), a total of forty-five thousand people. "

The West Route Army was headed by Wanyan Zonghan, who led [-] Jurchen troops, more than [-] Liao people (Khitan), and more than [-] Han people in Liao.

Guo Yaoshi's ever-victorious army consisted of about [-] cavalry and more than [-] auxiliary troops.

There were more than [-] troops in other camps (the surrendered Liao generals and Han generals).

There are a total of 20 troops.

But the only ones who can really fight here are Wanyan Zongwang's Prince's Army and a small group of Jurchen soldiers. Although Guo Yaoshi's Victory Army has strong combat effectiveness, it has low desire to fight.

As for the other miscellaneous soldiers, their combat effectiveness is only a little stronger than that of the Song Imperial Forbidden Army, and they are mostly auxiliary soldiers.

"You are going in the wrong direction. The governor's purpose is to prevent the Jin people from going north with their gold and silver treasures and the captive Han people, rather than to fight them and win." Sun Zheng reminded.

Chen Xun looked at him and nodded. Sun Zheng understood it correctly and that was what he meant.

The five thousand Chen Jiajun who went north are their own capital. Isn't it stupid to use their own capital to consume the Jin army, the enemy of the Song Dynasty?
I just need to let the Jin people "steal the chicken but lose the rice", and there is no need to fight with them to the death.

"Captain, is it true that the Jin people have no horses?" Lai Qingyun asked.

"Yes. Even if there are, there won't be many, not more than a thousand." Chen Xun replied.

In fact, the Jin Kingdom did not have many war horses. They had captured a batch in their previous victory over the Liao Kingdom. At the beginning of the year, they robbed the Song Kingdom's horse farm in Kaifeng and captured another [-] to [-] horses. This was enough to make up the [-] horses for the southward march.

Moreover, maintaining their internal stability also requires a large number of war horses.

Not long after the fall of the Liao Kingdom, a large number of Khitan people still held a hatred towards the Jin Kingdom, and Xiliao, which had Yelu Dashi to the west, was ready to counterattack and restore the country at any time.

The [-] war horses stolen by Chen Xun have already exhausted the war horses that the Jin Kingdom can send out. The Jin Kingdom will not be able to recover within three to five years.

"Then we can make full use of the high mobility advantage of our many war horses, dragging the Jin army back north without having to abandon their gains in Kaifeng." Lai Qingyun suggested.

"That makes sense." Sun Zheng nodded after hearing this.

Chen Xun asked: "If we do this, the craftsmen and women can indeed be stopped by us, and the food and grass should be able to do it. But it should not have much effect on gold and silver. They can abandon their vehicles to protect their commanders and send large troops to stop us. , a small group of elites quickly returned north carrying gold and silver."

This hypothesis immediately stumped everyone. After all, the small number of people on our side is an unsolvable problem.

"I heard that there are hundreds of thousands of Han rebels in Hebei. These are all heroic men. Can we ask them to help?" This was Wang Yuan's suggestion. As a native of Dengzhou, he has always been more enthusiastic. Pay attention to the development of the situation in Hebei.

"Good idea." Chen Xun was immediately enlightened by him.

Not only the Hebei rebels, but also the King Qin army gathered around Kaifeng can also be used.

(End of this chapter)