Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 481

With Zhong Ping gone, a rare peace and tranquility appeared around Liangzhoucheng.

The Xixia Kingdom is defending the Xingqing Mansion intensively. The Western Xia Army Tong Guan is not a vegetarian. He fought several small battles on the border, piecemeal, and took back all the passes occupied by the Xixia in the early stage. , from offensive to defensive.

Liangzhou City, government office.

Chai Lin sat in the middle, and Wu Yong was next to him.The other generals will line up on both sides.

Chai Lin said: "The spring plowing in Cangzhou is almost over. It hasn't started here yet. It's getting late. It's time for the army to go back. Wanchun, how about entrusting Liangzhou City to you to guard?"

Pang Wanchun said: "It is the bounden duty of soldiers to obey orders. If my brother asks me to garrison, I will garrison."

"How about I stay and help Brother Wanchun?" Shan Shiqi said.

Wu Yong pulled a simple sheepskin map, pointed to the map and said: "From Haoshuichuan to Liangzhou, it happened to be two important cities in the Silk Rebellion. Don't look at Xixia's temporary strike, it's just to accumulate strength, and sooner or later there will be more cities." A bloody battle, if it is soon this autumn, it will not be later than next autumn at the latest. These two cities can be connected and echo each other. Since Pang Wanchun led his troops to stay in Liangzhou City, and the Shanshiqi brothers stayed as lieutenants to assist, then It couldn’t be better, and if we recruit some local cavalry, the strength is still quite strong. But the main problem in Liangzhou is not the strength of the troops, but the garrison of the land.”

Pang Wanchun looked puzzled: "Turning the fields?"

"Yes, Tuntian. Although there are agricultural areas around Liangzhou, the local people's planting technology is backward. It is a problem for thousands of soldiers and horses to eat and drink. The cost of transportation with camels will be high. That is to say, if you want to gain a foothold here, you must grow There will be plenty of food."

Ma Lin said: "Farming is no problem. Most of the soldiers in the army are athletes from Hebei and Shandong, and they will farm before joining the army. As long as there are farm tools and seeds, farming is very easy. What's more, there is too much animal power here. Horses, cattle It can provide enough animal power."

"There is good news. In the past few days, the land of the former prefect of Liangzhou Prefecture and his officials has been sorted out. There are almost 3 mu of land. It only needs to be plowed and a large water truck can be set up to make it a good land. .”

Pang Wanchun didn't dare to promise, and said: "Brother, military adviser. It's okay to farm the land and contribute, and the soldiers will not disagree. But building canals and erecting water trucks need professional guidance. As long as these two issues Solved, other problems are not big. Plowing the land, more livestock. As for planting, there is no problem, all kinds of food crops can be planted, [-] mu is enough for [-] soldiers to consume for a year, and a few thousand mu of wasteland will be reclaimed Just use it as a vegetable plot.”

Chai Lin said: "If all the conditions are met, what's the use of hard work? I will provide you with the seeds and tools. I will arrange to recruit some craftsmen from Weizhou. As for other difficulties, you can solve them yourself. Here you go, you arrange the treasury’s money and food yourself, Ma Lin and Shan Shiqi will serve as your lieutenants, Liangzhou has a radius of hundreds of miles and must be firmly controlled in your hands, and the tax sources on the Silk Road are still very rich.”

"Who will guard the good water? That's the land." Pang Wanchun asked.

Lu Da said, "Why don't you save the house and guard the waters and rivers?"

Dian Zhengnan smiled and said: "The Great Monk's wife is about to give birth, what should you do with the daughter-in-law at Shuichuan's house?"

Wu Yong looked at Chai Lin, in fact, the good Shuichuan defender had already been selected.

Although Lin Chong and Qin Ming are powerful, they are not suitable to be Pang Wanchun's assistants, after all, they are old.

"How about arranging Lu Fang to lead [-] heavy cavalry, [-] light cavalry, plus [-] local infantry to garrison Shui Shuichuan?" Wu Yong said.

Pang Wanchun said: "Commander Lin will not be willing to part with five hundred heavy cavalry and one thousand light cavalry at once."

"If you don't give up, you have to give up. We captured tens of thousands of excellent war horses in this battle, all of which can be used as heavy cavalry. There are also more than 1000 sets of iron kite armor. When we go back to Cangzhou, we can immediately replenish Lin Chong's [-] heavy horses. Armored cavalry." Chailin said.

Pang Wanchun immediately said: "Since there are so many iron armors for iron kites, why don't we divide them into five hundred sets?"

"That's no problem. Take someone to see the land tomorrow, and arrange to reclaim the land as soon as possible. The caravan from Weizhou will soon send picks, shovels and other equipment."

It stands to reason that food should be collected for the army stationed, but Liangzhou Prefecture has been tossed by Xixia, and there is no way to collect food without three or two years of recovery.

Early the next morning, Pang Wanchun brought Shan Shiqi to the land north of the city.

Here is next to a river, the water source is abundant.

The river is three or four meters deep from the ground, which is the most worrying point.

Shan Shiqi said: "If you want me to tell you, don't cut off the river directly with a water truck. A lake will be formed here, and it will be much more convenient to divert water into the ground."

Pang Wanchun shook his head: "Many downstream villages and herdsmen rely on this river. If we cut off the river, it will inevitably cause great conflicts. What you said is also a solution. Let's cut off a few small streams to accumulate water during the rainy season." It is also a better way to irrigate crops. People here mismanage the land, but it is actually good to grow sweet potatoes and corn.”

"If you want me to say, you should grow highland barley. After all, highland barley is the staple food. Corn and sweet potatoes are mostly used as feed." Shan Shiqi suggested.

"Okay, we can grow all kinds of food, and we can't nourish single clothes. As for the meat, we don't have to raise it ourselves at all. In autumn, the nearby tribes will sell a lot of horses, cattle and sheep."

"Let's get started, [-] cavalry are on duty every day, [-] cavalry are farming the land, and then recruiting [-] local infantry to participate in farming, the land will definitely be planted well."

It is better to do it once than to think about it ten thousand times.It started on the same day. The ground here is relatively hard and cannot be plowed directly with oxen. 3000 people lined up and dug manually with shovels and picks. The ground was dug deeper, with an average of more than [-] centimeters. Easy to grow crops.

Grassland horses are multi-purpose. They can be ridden to fight, and they can plow the fields when they are on the ground.

After digging, the land is sprinkled with horse manure and plowed with grassland horses.

The plowing speed is very fast, much faster than manpower.

The affairs of Liangzhou are left to Pang Wanchun. Pang Wanchun's arrows can deter these nomads in the northwest.

When I went back, there were only more than 1 people.There were 500 people stationed in Liangzhou and Haoshuichuan, and hundreds of brothers were buried forever in the fertile soil of Northwest China.

Going back is not so fast. The army marches no more than a hundred miles a day, and then rests.When they came, they had one person and two horses, and when they went back, they had one person and three horses. Moreover, they were Xixia's tall horses, which were far taller than grassland horses in terms of appearance.

After traveling for seven or eight days, we arrived near Weizhou.

(End of this chapter)