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8. On the reckless hot dumping pot

At this time, Wei Gao and Gao Yue's coalition forces, who captured Qingxi Pass, really used big stones and broken wood blocks to break the pass that was only more than a foot wide. After that, Wei Gao and Gao Yue stood on the top of the pass, snow fell on the fur coats outside their armor, and the thin wool swayed in the cold wind. From afar, they looked at the continuous Papaya Ridge position in the Xifan Army Camp opposite.

After looking at it, Gao Yue half-squatted on the ground, pulled the stones with his hands, and put them into a simple sand table of terrain between north and south of Qingxi Pass, saying, "It is false to hear it, but it is true to see it. Qingxi Pass is not the terrain of the rumored man. According to the Dongman who is familiar with geography, there are three roads to pass through the pass alone, and as for the detailed paths opened by the barbarians, there are no less than five or six. Therefore, if the fortress is really cut off here, you must build a fortress and station a large army."

Wei Gao thought for a while, saying that Qingxi was not a mountain stream, there was no soil, and there were only big stones in the mountains. It was not realistic to have too many soldiers and horses stationed here. In my opinion, the most reliable defense strategy was to set up a small and sturdy military fort here, equipped with beacons, and then build a large military city between it and the Dadu River, so that Liwu City in Lizhou could be connected to the Dadu River.

The two close comrades immediately decided to leave only Liu Chaocai, the Duke of the Fengyi Army, to lead two thousand soldiers, each of them set up wooden fences, guarded the Qingxiguan Mountains, acted as defense lines and eyes, and frequently sent scouts to reconnaise the virtual and real formations of Xifan on the opposite Pagua Ridge.

Then Gao Yue's seven thousand Dingwu Army set up camp in the slope north of Qingxi Pass, a place that the Xifan team could not see, to cover Wei Gao and the remaining three or four thousand Fengyi soldiers, surrounded the former site of Wangxingyi in Dadu Hebei, and began to dig soil and moats to prepare the military city. The six thousand Yisong children of the Eastern Barbarians also came to help.

At the same time, the entire Xichuan, Banan, Dongchuan, Xingyuan, Jingnan, and Kuifu Fengjie areas began to operate logistics according to the offensive and defensive alliance agreement of the digital Yuanrong Jieshou:

Jingnan, the grain from Kuifu crossed the Yangtze River and arrived in Yuzhou to gather; Xingyuan's grain starts from Sanquanyuan in Lizhou and goes down the Jialing River. The grain from Banan along the Bashui, Dongchuan along the Fu River, and Sanshuidu to Hechuan in Hezhou (Hechuan was actually more famous in the Southern Song Dynasty and the location of Diaoyucheng). Then the ship transporting grain went 180 miles southeast, and also went to Yuzhou-Yuzhou as the most important transit station to transfer the ships.

After the transfer, the grain from all over the country was transported to Luzhou and Rongzhou. Then the water transport that arrived in Jiazhou was about to reach the important land of Longyou. Here we met with the grain transport ships from the Minshui, the capital of Shu. Then, using Longyou (this place is also the intersection of the Minshui, Qingyishui and Dadushui) as the starting point, followed the Dadushui and hired the Dongman and other surrounding barbarians to make a large number of cowhide rafts, and sent the grain to Weigao and Gaoyue's camps after hardships.

The imperial court temporarily appointed Liu Changqing, the observation envoy of Banan. For this purpose, the "Banan Dongchuan Water Transport Envoy". Liu Changqing used his former talents in Liu Yan's patrol to set up sections of the waterway along the way. After each section of the ship, the boatman, husband, and boatman could extract some rice, grain and salt from the ship as a reward. In this way, the ship would carry lighter and lighter, faster and faster, and not delay.

For every 10,000 shi of grain, except for the part that is replenished with the money, there are still 5,000 shi to be sent to the camp, which is already very low.

Soon, Wangxing Post became the "Wangxing City", and the Dadu River outside the city was filled with noisy scenes of boats and boats: Gao Yue ordered the establishment of a military city here to directly transport the excess grain transported from Dongchuan, Xichuan, Xingyuan, Banan and other places, as well as other goods that were loved by the barbarians (carriages brought), such as silk, salt, paper, soju, dyes, etc., to be exchanged for cows, horses, and sheep fur coats. As a result, not only Dongman, but also Qiang, Hufan, further west of Yazhou, came to trade. The trade routes were from Wangxing City on the south bank to Hanyuanchang on the north bank, and pack horses and cows and rafts were continuously there.

At the same time, the men and women who did not go to the expedition of the entire Dongman tribe, according to Wei Gao's instructions, began to grow grain around the mountains of each military city, Pingchou, and every household was storing simple weapons. It seemed that they had firmly determined to escape from the enslavement of the Western Fan family, rely on the Tang family, and operate and protect their own industries!

With abundant supplies, the morale of the Fengyi Army and the Dingwu Army has increased and the morale of the army has become more stable.

From Papaya Ridge to Dengtai City, the life of 40,000 soldiers in Xiban was not easy. Their supplies basically came from the farming and grazing of the local soldiers' own tribes. But now most of the men are stationed on the front line, and the output of land and pastures suddenly dropped sharply, and there was no object to plunder. This is the backwardness of the unity of tribes, soldiers and civilians.

As for what Wei Gao and Gao Yue brought, they were all regular soldiers, while some of the shooting soldiers stayed in the rear to farm. When there was a shortage of manpower, they could still hire the military prefectures and prefectures to hire people to help, which was worry-free.

The entire Wuzhou area has thousands of mountains and ridges, and the snow shows no sign of stopping, and it is getting heavier and heavier.

Zanpu kept sending bird envoys, rushing thousands of miles to demand that Lumangre go to war.

Lumangre constantly urges Yangjumei City in Yunnan to send troops and grain to help him as a servant. In fact, Lumangre is not really thinking about Yi Mouxun, but more of it is to push Zanpu and turn the blame on him.

Privately, whether it was Mangre or accepted Ma Dingde's proposal, he mobilized tens of thousands of people from all sides of the city to build a fortress with stars and moon-shaped distribution.

In the palace hall of Yangjume City, Xifan's envoy Qishengtuo had arrived, and he brought other deputy envoys to form a row, shouting, asking Yi Mouxun, the king of Yunnan Dongri in the hall to mobilize all the troops and horses in the territory of the country as soon as possible to leave Huichuan, join the Lumangrei, and destroy the Tang army.

Qishengtuo repeatedly stated that as long as Xifan and Nanzhao cooperated sincerely, they would be able to reproduce the glorious victory of Ge Luofeng against the Tang army invading Yamato City during the Tianbao period.

"The god Zanpu agreed that if Wei Gao and Gao Yue were defeated this time, the capital of Shu would inevitably be unsecured. From then on, the surrounding capital of Shu would be our Dafan and set it as the Eastern Capital; and several states south of the capital of Shu would be owned by the Dongri King. From then on, the King of Dongri was along the Dadu River and expanded the land, and Dafan would not be asked about it. The title of King of Dongri, who was once the "East Emperor", was restored to compete with me Zanpu and divided the world evenly." Qishengtuo was full of splendor.

But before Yi Mouxun had a decision, Qi Shengtuo could not wait to put forward the so-called neighborly policy - asking Yi Mouxun's younger brother Coo Luo Dong and each of the six Qingping officials to prepare the Yima quickly and go to Luoshui City to study Buddhism. The food, clothes, butter and so on are all borne by Zanpu. What a great favor for you in Yunnan!

"Shameless, do you think Yuan is a fool?" Yi Mouxun was furious, but he didn't show any expression on the surface, but he just refuted Nan Qishengtuo, saying that Yuan wanted to do this, but the Dafan Road in the northwest of Yunnan must pass through Jianchuan and Shenchuan. There is the place where my old enemy of the Meng family "Three Waves" is occupied. I am afraid that my brother and the sons of Qingping officials will be attacked and kidnapped by them.

Qi Shengtuo said cleverly and said that Sanlang was completely obeying Xifan. As long as I sent them letters, they would definitely not do such a thing.

As a result, Yi Mouxun's heart was even more dissatisfied!
Chapter completed!
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