Under the autumn tiger with the sun flowing fire, time soon entered the end of July.

With the staggering crowds in Songzhou hundreds of miles away, the Huaidong military and civilians stationed in the local area also welcomed the third batch of prisoners of war from the rear.

Unlike the first and second tests, which only had more than a thousand people, this time the preparation measures and experience were enriched a lot; therefore, the total number of prisoners sent out in this batch reached eight thousand;

They were tied with ropes and tied up with ten people into a string. Groups of fish were on the road, and a battalion and a regiment of auxiliary cavalry were responsible for guarding along the way. In the end, when they arrived at the first sentry camp and quarantine camp in Songzhou, at least 80% of the scale was retained.

The remaining 10% is mainly due to the fact that they are exhausted and fallen on the road or die suddenly from the road. A few are due to the fact that a whole team was implicated and executed due to the actions of some attempts to escape.

But no matter what, the remaining people finally arrived at the controlled area alive and successfully joined the left-behind garrison. This also made the leader Song Gongming, who was leading the team, breathed a heavy sigh, and a stone in his heart fell to the ground.

In his vision, there have been considerable changes in the deserted and withered fields that were originally seen passing by. On both sides of the road, there are renovated fields and traces of deep cultivation of soil being turned out, and trickle of water also appears in the dry and silted ditches.

This made him feel a little excited, which was obviously a masterpiece of the local Jiansheng Army and the pioneering regiment.

Mainly in order to meet the strategic needs of Huaidong's main lineup to go out to fight, the actual control area and buffer zone of Yanbian, Huaidong Town also expanded and extended to the west as the army heading to fight along with the flow.

Since then, the follow-up troops formed by the Jiansheng Army and the defense camp have been able to cross the Mangyang Mountains and the lower reaches of the Wuzhang River, and naturally occupied the already cleaned Songzhou, Shanzhou, Dingzhou, and Haozhou and Caozhou, which are affiliated to Henan Road, and most of the areas east of Caoqu and Baigou.

From the big map, it is equivalent to initially introducing most of the former Huaibei Road under the jurisdiction of Huaidong Town, which greatly shortened the distance of the grain station transport between the rear and the troops along the way.

From a certain perspective, this edge of the expansion distance is also the maximum upper limit that Huaidong water transport forces currently set out from Xuzhou, which can directly reach. Therefore, if something happens, there is enough buffer and room for emergency response.

Of course, at the current stage, this occupation is only on the basis of controlling the main cities near more than a dozen roads and rivers, as well as the key occupations that ferry bridges are needed.

For local management and breeding, the center is around these garrison strongholds. After initial results are achieved, they will gradually expand to the surrounding areas and extend corresponding control and influence to complete the regime organization and grassroots layout from point to line, line to surface.

Therefore, the first ones to be developed and restored were the mountains, forests and fields near these strongholds and cities;

It is mainly based on labor camps, pioneering regiments and some Jiansheng Army that migrated from Xuzhou, Yanzhou and Yunzhou. In addition, it is further enclosed from the local mountains and jungles and Wubao Village, and is forced to move to the nearby hidden population.

The group of prisoners sent back from the front are undoubtedly also a very good supplement to the strong labor force.

Therefore, after the initial quarantine is completed, they will be scattered into labor camps in various places; under the supervision of local military and civilians, these old-fashioned mature land and newly grown plants will be cleaned and rebuilt, and then logged wood from nearby mountains and forests to build temporary residential areas based on the city walls.

Although output and other benefits are not available at present, the first batch of winter wheat seeds have been sown, and some short-lived and fast-growing seedlings have grown in the fields...

Wang Duanchen only felt bitter in his mouth and sour in his eyes. His original mentally strong appearance suddenly became much older, because the specific statistics of losses had slowly gathered;

There are more than 200,000 troops still on the books. More than half of this flood has been lost in a blink of an eye, and even more are needed, because there are still many places to garrison, and there is no reply or feedback yet.

Although he had received the news and took decisive measures, under the system of transferring layers of the middle army itself, coupled with the selfishness and stance of the generals, he could not help but slow down and brought various painful consequences.

The four armies gathered in the north of the city and prepared to advance westward to regain Mianchi can be confirmed to be destroyed. In addition, the troops on the north of the city and Luoshui were unable to escape and most of the heavy equipment and equipment in China Unicom suffered heavy losses.

Although this is not the entire strength of the Shuaisi, there are still a few dissatisfied military orders that are preserved by the city walls; and several people who have rectified the food routes in the front and rear, what is lost in this flood is the most combative part that each army can take out;

What's worse is that due to the varying efficiency of the response between the armies, although some people were removed more or less, most of the baggage was inevitably left in the camp, and then flooded by the flood and washed away.

This further aggravated the pressure and dilemma of the middle lane Shuaisi in daily supply and logistics support. Although he had blocked the news and source of Yanling, if the subsequent handling was not properly handled, this unprecedented painful loss will continue to evolve into a huge disaster like the first Northern Expedition.

This is also the most terrible consequence and ending for his life and future. No matter what the reason is, the pressure-bearing state can no longer tolerate or cover up a defeated general who always fails in the face of the final victory;

For this battle to destroy the country with high hopes, both the state and himself have paid too much and cannot accept the consequences and endings of the failure.

Therefore, as long as there is a front-line opportunity to save the situation, he feels that he has paid no cost or any means.

At this time, the other side finally got in touch again and got "good news". The Huaidong Army from the north of the city had successfully invaded the imperial city...

The opening activities in Hanjia City are still continuing in an orderly manner.

The layout of Cangcheng is now divided into four major areas by cross streets facing the four gates of east, west, south and north.

Among them, the northwest area is responsible for the daily office and the garrison barracks, and it also connects the waterway dock and transfer area outside the north gate; the northeast area near the imperial city, the southeast area and the southwest area backed by Dongjiacheng are all distributed storage areas.

Dozens of storage communities are arranged according to the number of heavenly stems and earthly branches; therefore, by searching the Northwest Department, we found a lot of messy and scattered everywhere, including documents and documents related to Hanjia Cang City, from storage and transportation records more than ten years ago to transfer documents half a month ago.

It was obviously the part that was ignored and forgotten by the Northern soldiers who were responsible for setting fire, but it was a treasure-winning benefit for our army.

With this batch of documents and archives, the next opening operation can follow the map and no longer look for blindly.

"Food was discovered..."

I couldn't help but feel relieved when I heard this report.

Although it is just a warehouse called Chen Bing Thirteen, it is estimated that there are about 550,000 kilograms of millet, which is more than 6,000 stones if it is a larger unit of measurement, it is also considered a small amount of supplements. Especially in this situation, grain is much more useful than gold, silver and treasures.

Then, in the warehouses of Chenbing No. 16, 17 and 21, other types of grain crops such as coarse milled rice, hulled wheat, soybeans and red beans were found to varying degrees. Although a considerable part of them have been taken away, the remaining amount is still quite considerable.

For my soldiers, this also means that we don’t have to chew hard compressed rations, but we just need to drink a bowl of hot rice porridge, or pinch a few mixed bean rice balls sprinkled with Shanghai moss, fish pine and shrimp.

After all, although the Central Plains have generally promoted potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other plants for hundreds of years since the Taixing period; but due to the huge inertia of traditional eating habits, chestnut rice (millet) and rice and wheat have always firmly occupied the forefront of the top staple foods for the majority of Central Plains people.

The imported melon, vegetables and jacquards are usually regarded as humble people or lower-class people to help disaster relief crops, but are never attracted by the mainstream and the upper class.

Therefore, this preference and social orientation are also reflected in the exchange and storage records of Hanjiacang City. Chestnut rice alone accounts for at least one-quarter of the grain, followed by rice and wheat, and finally various beans. Corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes, which are popular in the south, only account for a small proportion.

As the saying goes, "In a dry land, millet can be stored for 9 years, rice can be stored for 5 years, and a warm tide, millet can be stored for 5 years, and rice can be stored for 3 years." (New Book of Tang Dynasty: Food and Message Records).

Seeing this, I suddenly remembered a later case.

After the liberation, the archaeological community once conducted archaeology on a Hanjiacang City in the early 1970s, and a whole cellar of chestnuts was found, and the grains and chaff were clearly distinguished. Although half of them were carbonized, some of the millets could still germinate after being unearthed, and rice ears grew from it.
Chapter completed!