Chapter 52: Hugging the Rabbit

Chen Ying decided to go upstream from the Yellow River water transport. However, after walking for two days, Chen Ying had just arrived in Qu County, and Chen Ying encountered trouble.

Qu County is the later Ji County. Ji County has a very famous scenic spot. It is estimated that most Chinese people have heard of the Hukou Waterfall in the Yellow River.

The county boat arrived at Mengmen, and five miles north of the Hukou Waterfall. Although it was five miles away, the sound of the huge waterfall made Chen Ying slapped his head, and Chen Ying actually looked at this.

In fact, the places where the Yellow River can transport water is limited to the middle and lower reaches. Not to mention the canal transport ships, even the motorboats from later generations may not be able to go up the Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River.

Now, Chen Ying could only look at the Hukou Waterfall and sighed, and said intimately: "Impossible!"

However, at this point, Sun Jingchu was not panicked at all.

What Chen Ying didn't know was that the biggest water transport obstacle for the Yellow River water transport was Hukou Waterfall. The method of passing through Hukou Waterfall was "dry boating". Under the conditions at that time, this might be the best choice for water transport through Hukou Waterfall. However, the wisdom of the working people cannot be ignored. I don't know when from when, a trench about fifty or sixty steps wide to the east from Mengmen Ferry, the trench was about thirty miles away, and it directly bypassed the Hukou Waterfall. In this way, although the turn of the road was a bit complicated, it swept away Chen Ying's worries.

Because the width of the trench was too narrow, even Chen Ying's boat "Wan'an" could not pass. In desperation, Chen Ying had to move to a small Baishi boat and swayed and finally passed the Hukou Waterfall. Chen Ying was not in the mood to admire the Hukou Waterfall at this time. He wanted to put on his wings and fly to Lingzhou, and look at that lovely little man.

However, when Chen Ying and his party had just arrived in Putian County, they encountered trouble again. Putian County Magistrate Li Ruiting came to Chen Ying and howled and cried, begging Chen Ying to help him suppress the bandits.

Chen Ying was confused and looked at Li Ruiting, who was snot and tears, said: "Mr. Li, don't cry at first, why is it going on? Tell me in detail!"

Li Ruiting choked and said, "Please help General Chen to suppress the bandits, you can't live this life!"

It turned out that the autumn harvest had just passed. The taxes collected in Putian County had just been transported into the official warehouse and were transported to the government warehouse before they could warm up. Thousands of bandits robbed the tens of thousands of stones of autumn grain and scattered them. Now that the tax was lost, such a big thing happened, Li Ruiting would either bring people to retrieve the grain or fill the hole by himself, otherwise he could hang himself on his neck.

As the saying goes, poor mountains and rivers come from bad people. This Putian County is located on the western foot of the southern end of Luliang Mountain. The terrain is high in the east and low in the west, surrounded by mountains on the east, south and north. In the north, there are Taishanliang, Niucao Mountain, Juhua Mountain, Muling Mountain, Taobu Mountain, Shimen Mountain, Taishan, and Baitou Mountain in the east; in the north there are Wulu Mountain and Wulong Cave; in the south there are Shitou Mountain, Leopard beam, and Wugu Mountain. The east and west rivers are surrounded by seven walls, and the eight rivers are crisscrossed, and the gullies are interspersed. Wulu Mountain is surrounded by Shitou Mountain, and Gushe Mountain is surrounded by the east and Xinshui River is connected by the gateway to the Xishan counties. The north and south rely on a hundred miles of pass, and the east and west are opened to a line of sky. Therefore, it is known as "the throat of the east of the river and the gateway of the West Qin".

This is simply a paradise for bandits. There is no place to find any mountain valley. The key is that around Hedong, in just three years, Li Yuan went south to fight against the Sui Dynasty, and then the Liu Wuzhou Rebellion. Later, Chen Ying quelled the Liu Wuzhou Rebellion. Later, Li Jiancheng and Dou Jiande fought bloodyly in Hedong. After so many battles, there were naturally casualties, but more were deserters. These deserters who had seen blood and killed people naturally could not be good people. Their only way out was to transform into bandits.

What's more, the Luliang Mountains have a strong bandit culture tradition. Many of them have been built over a hundred years and have been deeply rooted in the management of several generations. The people here are half bandits and half farmers, landlords and powerful people colluded with the bandits. During the Sui Dynasty and the first year of Wude, they all made great efforts to encircle and suppress, but they were in chaos every time and left nothing.

Because they cannot do without the support of landlords and gentry in those poor mountains and rivers, and the landlords and gentry colluded with the bandits, that's all that!

But now, those bandits have met their opponents. Because Chen Ying asked Li Yuan for 50,000 troops, it was not difficult to defeat the Western Turks alone, and it was not difficult to swallow the Western Regions. However, it was not that easy to gain a foothold in the Western Regions. The overall customs of the Western Regions were strong, and this was definitely a forbidden zone for good people and a paradise for bullies. Once the Tang Dynasty immigrated to the Western Regions, it was estimated that 300,000 to 500,000 migrated would be completely killed in just a few years or more.

But the bandits are different. They dare to kill people and have blood. If they give him a knife, they dare to go up and fight to their lives. This is simply sleepy and someone gives them a pillow.

Now these bandits are the hottest items in Chen Ying's eyes.

However, Chen Ying did not say anything, but pondered: "I am a general who is busy with military affairs and has no time to take care of others and suppress the bandits..."

When Li Ruiting heard this, he felt like he fell into an ice cellar. He lost more than 30,000 stones of tax grain. Although this little grain was not much, it took his life. Li Ruiting was not from a family of aristocratic families. He could rely on the help of his family to take out 30,000 stones of grain to fill this hole. Whether he was suffering from the bandits or lost the tax grain, he could easily take off his black hat.

He was over 50 years old and reached the position of the seventh-rank county. This happened again. This was a matter of life. Looking back on the bumpy journey of the first half of his life, he worked hard and finally got to this position. Once he was dismissed from office and became a title, he returned to the pre-liberation. The more Li Ruiting thought about it, the more aggrieved and depressed he wanted, the more his eyes were flowing out.

"Oh... County Magistrate Li, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying?" Chen Ying said with a laugh and cry: "I did not say that I could not help you suppress the bandits in Guixian. The key is that the reputation is not right. If you do what I said, then I will help you suppress the bandits."

Li Ruiting was overjoyed when he heard this. According to what Chen Ying said, he quickly went to Chang'an to report urgently.

In Li Ruiting's urgent report, the bandits in Putian County did not know what was wrong and actually attacked General Chen's baggage fleet. General Chen had no choice but to fight back.

In fact, Chen Ying's purpose of suppressing bandits was very simple, which was to ask for people.

A group of people who are passionate and dare to fight and fight will defend the Western Regions for him. 50,000 people look quite a lot. If they are scattered on more than 3 million square kilometers of land in the Western Regions, it is probably similar to sprinkling pepper noodles. There is absolutely no people in a hundred miles.

At the same time, Chen Ying can train his army, and Chen Ying also has a shameful army in his hands, which is the face of the Wei army.

The money and grain expenditure of this army was all Chen Ying's private account. This army did not exist on the account, and even generals at all levels in the army were appointed as deputy positions. For example, Liu Tong, now his honorary officer is the fourth-rank light chariot commander, Wusan official is the General Xuanwei, and in fact the commander of the Beiwei Army. Xunqi is the Chief Secretary, and Wusan official is the Deputy Commander of the Beiwei Army.

The Beiwei Army is not very useful now, and Chen Yingke has not forgotten Tubo. In the future, he will need to compete with Tubo, especially Lu Dongzan, known as the God of War in Tubo. If Chen Ying is known as Qinling, he will be sorry for his time traveling through time. To fight against Tubo, the Tang army is generally used at all. The troops that cannot adapt to altitude sickness and fight in the mountains will be delivered as much as they go.

In history, Xue Rengui was defeated because the Tang army could not adapt to altitude sickness (Lao Cheng had been to Xinjiang and had not gotten out of bed for half a month). In an army that was not adapted to altitude sickness, he had 100% of his combat power and could not even play out in half of Chengdu. It would be strange if he did not defeat the war. As long as the shortcomings of the plateau and mountain combat were made up, the Tang Dynasty could be considered invincible.

In fact, during the Tang Dynasty, the one who suffered the most was not the Turks, the Tuyuhun people, or the Goguryeo people, but the Tubo. Of course, the Goguryeo mountainous areas also had a significant impact on the Tang Dynasty. An army that could adapt to combat in the plateau and mountainous areas could definitely easily punch Tubo and kick Goguryeo.

For this reason, Chen Ying had high hopes for the Beiwei Army. However, the Beiwei Army is still too far from Chen Ying's goal. Chen Ying always believed that good soldiers were not trained, but fought, and the Beiwei Army could use these bandits to practice their skills first.

Because the surrendered army of Xia from Hebei from Mingzhou can arrive in Putian County within seven or eight days at most, Chen Ying is now in a tight time and heavy task.

To this end, Chen Ying issued an order to the Beiwei Army: "End the bandits in the Luliang Mountains within three months!"

Liu Tong and Xunxiang are both ambitious people. They are also thinking about winning their wives and children and making achievements. How could they be bound by a group of bandits?

Although suppressing bandits is considered a military merit, this military merit is far worse than fighting the Turks. In order to escape as soon as possible, the Beiwei Army was also more ruthless.

First, the Beiwei Army sent a cavalry to deliver the leaflets to every mountain where bandits were active. At the same time, some enlightened gentry who had contact with the bandits went up the mountain to promote the current policies to the bandits, requiring the bandits to put down their weapons and surrender to the Beiwei Army within three days after receiving the leaflets. Then, depending on the severity of the circumstances, the minority of the circumstances went home to farm, and the more serious the circumstances were entered into the labor camp, and the extremely angry people... I'm sorry, I'm a thousand miles away and I will not be allowed to return to my hometown forever.

Due to the proper policy and the great military achievements of Chen Ying swept across the Central Plains to annihilate nearly 100,000 Zheng army and tens of thousands of Xia army, a large number of bandits chose to surrender to the Beiwei army. After registering their identities and household registration, they prepared to go home to farm. However, these bandits never expected that Chen Ying had no intention of fulfilling the agreement. One of these bandits was counted as one, and the whole family was packed and boarded the canal ship to the north.

For this reason, Chen Ying had not shot a single arrow, and half of the bandits in Putian County were suddenly reduced, and many of the counterfeit villages were gone. However, not all bandits cooperated so much. Many bandits knew that they were guilty and refused to surrender. They also attacked everywhere, trying to resist to the end.

Now Chen Ying was angry. Mom, I wanted to open a dyeing workshop if I gave you some sunshine, but there was no door.

The cavalry, the Modao Army, and the Shooting Army were all dispatched, and a blockade line was established on every mountain road, blocking all the passages for bandits to go down the mountain. At the same time, the people in the mountain village were mobilized to move out.

This remote countryside is not a good place to survive. It's better to walk out of the mountains and go outside. The outside world is very wonderful! Chen Ying suggested that Yi Ding can obtain 100 acres of fertile land, and a family of five people can obtain one oxen and five sheep. The people who have been poor in the mountainous areas for a lifetime have a great trust in the government. If you have the opportunity to move to the flower world outside the mountain, you will naturally be unlucky. Therefore, many villages in Putian County are empty and you can't even find a figure.

Not only Putian County, but also Qu County, and all the villages near Linfen were packed and swept away by Chen Ying.

Anyway, in Chen Ying's eyes, this is just about beating a rabbit. What he lacks the most is population.
Chapter completed!