Sweep the World

Miao Song came to Taocheng without any hindrance.

Taocheng is located on the east bank of a river system. Less than ten miles away on the west bank is Dong'a where Li Nong has mobilized troops.

After the beggars arrived on the north bank of the Yellow River, they did not take any drastic actions. They would capture Dong'a and Taocheng as their entrenched places, mainly because they had shelter from the wind and rain instead of staying in the frozen snow in winter. Of the wild.

Practically speaking, the begging army has never been an armed force with abundant supplies. Whether it was during the struggle against the Hu people, Ang or became executioners after being defeated by the Hu people, their situation would not be better. Poverty is used to describe a family or an individual, but begging for a living army is really impoverished, not to mention the military equipment and other materials, it is quite difficult to maintain even the most basic living security.

Miao Song did not come empty-handed, and was accompanied by nearly a thousand people and nearly a hundred carriages.

The carriage is loaded with some grain, cloth, and even salt, which is extremely important to people. These things were not covered up, they were exposed brightly, making everyone who saw the begging army stare.

Li Nong is in Dong'a on the other side of the river, and the lord of Taocheng will be Li Cunxiao (not the one from the Tang Dynasty).

Li Cunxiao was receiving Miao Song outside the city, pointing to the carriages full of supplies, and said in confusion: "Is it from selfish friendship, or..."

Miao Song and Li Cunxiao can only say that they know each other, not how familiar they are. He looked at Li Cunxiao, who was wearing a thick sheepskin jacket, and asked, "Why cross the Yellow River?"

In the early days, the beggars were able to conquer and fight well, but they still fought **** battles with the Hu people when they lacked everything, and they had more victories than defeats.

After Shi Le defeated the Qihuo Army, the Qihuo Army still appeared brave and good at fighting for Shijie's rebellion. However, after Shihu became the ruler of Shijie, the Qihuo Army was basically dismantled and used, which led to the emergence of Li. In the end, the agricultural system and the Ranmin system were divided into three parts: to serve the Hu people, to resist the Hu people, and to be neutral.

Of course, it was Li Nong's system that chose to continue to work for the Hu people, but the reason was that Li Nong was treated and valued personally by Shi Le and Shi Hu, not how well Shi Jie treated the collective beggars.

"Persuaded, but..." Li Cunxiao paused when he said. He is really unfamiliar with Miao Song, saying so much is useless. He asked once and didn't get an answer, so he had to ask again: "The Han army is here, isn't it?"

"Yes." Miao Song didn't mean to conceal, and said frankly: "Twenty-five thousand are all the elite of the Han army. The Tiger Ben Army and the Yulin Army, and even the world-famous Imperial Guard."

"Really?" Li Cunxiao didn't feel so surprised. He twitched his cheeks and said, "Han Wang really looks up to us."

The convoy had already begun to enter the city, which caused bursts of cheers in the city. Listening to some fragments of the cheers, people are rejoicing that they finally have some decent food, and they are even more ecstatic at the appearance of table salt.

As far as table salt is concerned, even after thousands or eight hundred years, it is still a scarce thing, especially for the inland people.

People cannot lack salt. If they do not produce various diseases, they will also make people feel weak. This shows the importance of salt to the human body.

In terms of today's technology, the manufacture of sea salt is not without it. It is important to know that during the Warring States Period, Qi State was famous for making sea salt, and gathered the wealth of the world in Linzi. However, after the Western Han Dynasty, the technology for making sea salt became the official property, and the strict blockade of the people was caused by the incident that "collecting salt and iron is beneficial to the court".

Of course, the official blockade cannot completely prevent the spread of salt-making technology among the people. However, there were wars at the end of the Western Han Dynasty and the melee of the princes at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was lost in the flames of war.

The small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty had a long coastline, but the court did not control the production of sea salt by even one family, but the families along the coast had their own small workshops to make sea salt, but the quality can only be described as unsightly.

At present, 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 after a thousand years? Just get a piece of salt cloth and use the salt cloth over and over again to get the salty taste. As for adding salt grains, unless it is a rich family, or it is really too much to think about.

A full twenty carts of salt, it looks like the white salt, each cart should be five hundred catties, and twenty carts are ten thousand catties. If it saves a bit, it will be enough for 300,000 people to use it for more than a year and a half.

Just twenty carts of salt is a great gift. Needless to say, there are thirty carts of cloth. Fifty carts of millet, chestnuts, and wheat seem to be insignificant.

Li Nong came to the east bank from the pontoon in person. The first sentence he saw Miao Song said: "The King of Han wants to surrender us?"

Miao Song didn't hide it, telling the things he knew, including Ran Min's advocate for recruiting and surrendering.

"I never thought about it." A mocking expression appeared on Li Nong's face: "They actually looked down upon me so much."

Well, Miao Song knew that it would be useless to say more. Only when Li Nong saw the coming Han army in person, he might still need to fight with them before he knew that the senior officials in Han were 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.

"Looking at the serial number, it is the Tiger Ben Army, the Yulin Army, and the Imperial Guard. There are no other Han army establishments." Li Cunxiao and Li Nong were standing on the gate of Taocheng almost side by side. The advancing Han army: "Our scouts have suffered great losses, and the results achieved are very limited."

You can guess what kind of army the enemy army is without looking at the number of losses of the scouts before the war begins. The more elite the field group, the greater the advantage the scouts will gain in the battle. Usually, the scouts of an army can best explain the combat effectiveness of the army. , That’s how Li Cunxiao deliberately mentioned the loss of the scout.

Soon Li Nong could see the Han army with his naked eyes, and he could tell what kind of army it was from the marching posture without much interpretation.

The beggars used their best efforts to reinforce Taocheng on the front line in a winter, but the level of Taocheng was too severe before. Even after a winter day and night of reinforcement, Taocheng was just a gap in the city wall being blocked. To say that some fortifications have been added is only to pile up earthen walls and dug some relatively shallow trenches in addition to being brave.

The Tiger Army is a riding gear. It is impossible to wear heavy armor in the marching posture. The knights are now riding on the auxiliary horses. The horses that are really used for riding and fighting are light and easy to travel, and there are pack horses loaded. Boxed armor and wrapped cavalry weapons.

The Habayashi Army is an assault cavalry capable of both cavalry and melee combat. The same as the heavy cavalry, they have multiple auxiliary horses. Because of the nature of the assault cavalry, the armor of the man and the horse is not too heavy. As a result, the knights are all wearing breastplates, and the horses are also half-armored. Visually, they appear to be more elite than the non-combat tiger army.

"It's not twenty-five thousand." Li Nong turned to look at Miao Song on the back, and the corners of his mouth curled up: "At least fifty thousand."

"Each armored cavalry has three auxiliary riders, and each assault cavalry has one auxiliary rider." Miao Song said blankly: "Auxiliary riders are not considered as soldiers in the Han military system."

That is to say, the Han army only had such a system. Every country would consider one of its accompanying persons to be regarded as combatants, and it was even considered that there were very few "names".

Li Nong didn’t know much about the Han Kingdom, which was founded less than two years ago. Perhaps his understanding still contains many fallacies. For example, it is rumored that Liu Yan is a descendant of the royal family of the Han Dynasty, and Liu Yan is actually a highly sinicized Hun. Nothing seems reliable anyway.

The soldiers of the Han Army were well equipped. It took less than six years to develop from a small tribe in a corner to a country dominated by two states and invaded many states and counties. Li Nong did not appear to be too serious in terms of perception. deviation. What I want to say is that Liu Yan really started to fight in the Central Plains, in fact, within the past three years, not six years.

"No equipment for siege was found in the Han army." Li Cunxiao did not lower his voice, raised his finger to the Han army who looked like it was starting to camp, and found something and said: "The general flag... is moving here. . Yongzeng wants to talk before the battle?"

Li Nong turned and walked towards the aisle of the lower city in silence. He really wanted to have a good conversation with Ran Min.

Ran Min's indeed rode a Zhulong horse close to Taocheng. There were not many people accompanying him, only more than 500 people. Li Tan and Qian Jian are both among them, and Xie An also follows.

Stopping about two miles away from Taocheng, Ran Min saw that the gate of Taocheng opened, and the handsome flag representing the beggar army appeared first. From a distance, he could see Li Nong leading nearly a thousand people out of the city.

The two sides quickly faced each other. At the beginning, no one made a sound. It was Ran Min kicking the horse's belly with his foot. Zhu Longma slowly moved forward, and only Xie An controlled the horse to follow, and the rest waited quietly. In situ.

Li Nong naturally moved forward, but Wang Mo was following him.

Wang Mo was born in a family in the Central Plains, and joined the begging army when he fought against the Hu people. He was gradually used and valued by Li Nong. He and Ran Min are acquaintances, and they know Ran Min more conceptually. Unfortunately, his family background and burdens prevent him from freely choosing the path he wants. He can only be with Li Nong. (This person was killed by Ran Min in history like Li Nong and others)

"Yongzeng." Li Nong was only less than two steps away from Ran Min, looked at Ran Min up and down, and said: "Wearing the armor of the Han army, it is even more extraordinary."

Ran Min raised his hand in a salute, and said, "The same is true of Li Gong."

"Yongzeng is still so impatient." Li Nong made a dumb laugh, laughed ‘hahaha’, and asked after laughing enough: "Is Yongzeng here to conquer certain?"

Ran Min was silent for a while before he said: "Begging for life, begging for life... are all for life. Li Gong must not forget the origin of the army of begging for life, and serving the Hu people and humiliating their ancestors is not a small favor from the Hu people. Can replace? Now my king is going to level the world, so that I will no longer commit Han people to ruthless ruling, and return the people of the world to a peaceful place where they can live and work in peace and contentment. Why should Li Gong be with Min and serve under the king?"

This time, Li Nong was silent for a long time. He had been looking up at the sky, looking at the blue sky, and watching white clouds of various shapes drifting by, and then said: "The Han country is under attack from multiple sides. Not to mention that the Jie people gather in Puyang, Jizhou also has the elite frontier army of the Zhao Kingdom and the source of the Yan army, and hundreds of thousands of troops in the south will be ready to go north at any time. Looking at the situation in the world, it is only located in the remote Xiliang The relationship between the Liang Country and the Desolate Country of the Barren Grassland and the Han is gentle, and the rest of the nations are hostile to the Han."

Ran Min laughed and roared: "My king regards hostile nations as dead bones in the mound. Could it be a small stone on the road to restore the glory of the Han family, but something that can be kicked away with one kick."

"Never want to talk nonsense." Li Nong said very seriously: "The King of Heaven could conscript a million army two years ago. In the past two years, although the Han army has been victorious in every way, it has also placed itself on the ground of public enemies in the world. Said that those are just blocking the way. Zhishi, who gave Han Wang such arrogant confidence?"

Xie An spoke at this time. He didn't salute, but looked straight at Li Nong, and shouted as loudly as possible: "Mighty Marquis, let's look at our army."

The auxiliary soldiers are set up in camps, the Tiger and Ben Army are already wearing armor, and the Yulin Army has also entered a combat posture, and there is no need to talk about the Imperial Guard.

The army that has fully entered the attacking state, they arrange their positions according to their numbers, and advance step by step.

At the forefront is the intact tiger army. Both men and horses are encased in layers of armor. The 5,000-armed heavy cavalry slowly moves forward as a front-line formation, and the sound of heavy horses hoofs rolls in. .

The Yulin Army was divided into two groups located on the left and right wings of the Tiger and Ben Army, which looked like two wings from a distance, and cooperated with the Tiger and Ben Army to form a large crane wing formation.

At the end were 10,000 Imperial Guards infantry ~www.wuxiamtl.com~ They were advancing the most. The infantry stepped neatly, and the cavalry horses stepped on the ground strangely and uniformly.

The Han army suddenly took a forward posture, and Taocheng was naturally beating the warning drums. It seemed that a lot of troops were pouring out to respond to Li Nong's return?

"Gong Li don't have to be frightened." Xie An finally did not forget to salute Ran Min and shouted to Li Nong with Ran Min's permission: "The public is not a Hulu, and I have no intention of treating the public like a beast."

Li Nong didn't feel scared when he looked at it. He had his sight stopped on the side of the slowly advancing Han army. He waited to regain his sight before saying to Ran Min, "You never thought you could easily let a certain return?"

Ran Min was also straightforward: "I, Wang Yan and Li Nong are the pawns who crossed the river. If I resist, I can fight for Shihu for ten and a half days, but I will not be destroyed."

Li Nong was silent again... (to be continued)). If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote, and your support is my greatest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to read. )