The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 136 The Battle of Nanpi Ends
Faced with Qi Hong's remarks that this place would become a battlefield, these local people would find it difficult to believe it unless they were really attacked by defeated troops.

But if they really follow these sudden appearance of government soldiers and evacuate to the south, then the local people will have no idea.

They were willing to believe Zhao An's troops, but Zhao An's troops persuaded them to go south. It was really difficult for the local people to be persuaded.

In fact, not only the people in this village, but also the local wealthy families and nobles were caught up in making a decision after hearing the words of Qi Hong's men.

However, compared to the hesitation of the common people, the local wealthy families and nobles were much more decisive.

They immediately guided some children of the common people to take advantage of this opportunity to separate their families and choose to go south to Qingzhou.

Compared with ordinary people who have no information, these wealthy landlords or nobles have more information channels than ordinary people, so they know that Qi Hong went south but was beaten by Liu Tai and fled north, so the balance between him and Wang Jun was broken.

Jizhou is the center of the Central Plains, extending in all directions, but it is also only the place where the four battles took place.

This time Liu Tai sent this army to persuade himself and others to move south, which was quite benevolent to a certain extent.

At least Liu Tai clearly told you that this area will be a battlefield. If you are not afraid of death, feel free to stay.

Liu Tai said that he respects your choice. Of course, if you want to avoid war, then go south with Liu Tai, and you will naturally be safe.

For the aristocratic family, their main foundation is in the local counties. Unless it is absolutely necessary, they will definitely not choose to go south.

But the children of the common people in the family can be thrown out at this time and let them follow Liu Tai's army south.

To be honest, if it weren't for Liu Tai, I don't know why it seems uncomfortable to see the wealthy families. There is no preferential treatment for the wealthy families in various policies. On the contrary, there are many restrictions. In fact, these wealthy families are also happy to follow Liu Tai. .

But the problem is that whether Liu Tai implemented the land equalization system or the military system, it was for military households, not for aristocratic families.

At the same time, if a family goes to Qingzhou and acquires some fields or slaves, and if the fields exceed one thousand acres, they will be taxed, and they have not entered Liu Tai's bureaucracy, then the number of slaves will also be limited.

These little bits and pieces make the wealthy family somewhat hesitant to take refuge in Liu Tai.

If Liu Tai hadn't been so good at fighting, at least he hadn't been defeated so far, the wealthy families might have disliked Liu Tai.

But no matter what, with the fall of Luoyang and the collapse of the Jin Dynasty, all the aristocratic families gradually understood that this era had entered the troubled times of the late Han Dynasty when heroes were competing for hegemony.

In the current situation, the family didn't know who had more potential, but after watching Wang Jun defeat Liu Kun, he gradually became brutal and killing, and even Wang Ti was imprisoned after just a few words of persuasion. This guy No matter how you look at it, he doesn't look like a wise master.

As for Liu Tai, he can be young, but he does not benefit the family at all, and he does not look like a wise master.

After all, Zhuge Liang's implementation of "Shu Ke" to suppress the gentry in Shu was not a failure, and the Jin court's recommendation of the ninth-grade Zhongzheng system relied on the gentry to create the current foundation.

So Liu Tai doesn't rely on the aristocratic family, but relies on the untouchables. What kind of enlightenment is this!

But who makes people like me pitiful? They are in the Youzhou area and have no choice at all. Otherwise, they would have fled to Jiangnan long ago. I heard that Sima Rui seems to be developing quite well in Jiangnan.

Under such circumstances, the only option was to let the commoner children in the family go over to Liu Tai's territory and take advantage of it.

Didn't you say that as long as a man can join the army and have a family, he can have a land?

Therefore, these aristocratic families directly arranged marriages for common people disciples who had excellent martial arts, and set up their own common people's children one by one according to Liu Tai's conditions for obtaining land.

Choose if there are conditions, and choose if there are no conditions to create conditions.

For these wealthy families, it is normal for the children of their common people to have studied and practiced martial arts. It is natural that they cannot compete with the direct descendants who have obtained the main resources of the family, but it is too much to be unable to compete with those untouchables. It's an insult to the lintel.

So at this moment, the aristocratic families in the northern part of Jizhou decided to let a bunch of common people go to Qingzhou.

Not to mention taking refuge, at least take advantage of Liu Tai's standard quota for joining the army, whether it is to become a soldier or to make military history, in short, to occupy more fields and accumulate a foundation. For the aristocratic families, everything is fake, but taking The land you get is real.

It has to be said that any aristocratic family is almost instinctively proficient in taking advantage of loopholes.

For them, the most annoying thing is that there are no rules. Although Liu Tai's rules are relatively harsh to the family.

But Shijia used his rich experience, soft figure, and right skills to tell Liu Tai what Shijia is!
You think aristocratic families fight for power, occupy fields, and keep slaves, but in reality aristocratic families never take the initiative to conflict with those in power. They only choose to familiarize themselves with the rules, integrate into the rules, absorb the nutrients of the rules, and then think of ways to modify the rules.

Unless they are destroyed in a physical sense, they will eventually grow among the ruins and become a new aristocratic family.

At most, the name should be changed, because the aristocratic family eats a regular meal, while the common people eat a hard-working meal.

And Zhao An soon discovered that compared to persuading the people at the bottom to migrate, the vast majority of the people only had to eat locally and their families were not ruined. It was more difficult to persuade them to leave than to go to heaven.

After all, if you follow Zhao An to move south, all you have to pay is to cut off all the local connections. If you have a thatched house and acres of thin farmland, you will be reluctant to leave. Who knows whether the vernacular words Zhao An talks are true or false.

On the contrary, it is the children of the common people who come from the local aristocratic families, and they are all very active.

In particular, some guys actually wore leather armor to indicate that they wanted to join the army. Even Zhao An felt that he should accept it first.

These people are all considered talented people. If they were still literate, they would become military historians as soon as they entered.

The children of the common people in this part, as well as some refugees with no land or houses, and dreams of getting rich overnight, can be regarded as the first group of people willing to go south.

Under the leadership of this group of people, some people who felt that the local area was no longer safe after experiencing the rout of the army began to choose to follow them one after another.

When these guys started to head south, Liu Tai couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.

Liu Tai didn't do much. These days, he just continued to attack the city with the built siege weapons, but he was not active.

At this time, Liu Tai's long-term stationing in Rongcheng gave Wang Jun enough time.

Again, Wang Jun's foundation is actually not bad. Strictly speaking, Qi Hong's loss is only the loss of [-] soldiers. Wang Jun can still afford the loss. At most, the organizational strength of the old-style warlords is poor. Point, the response is a bit slow.

Now Wang Jun decisively launched an army, with Wang Ti as the mastermind and himself as the commander-in-chief, and led an army of [-] to decisively suppress it.

However, for Liu Tai, time was enough, and he had no intention of fighting Wang Jun, but began to retreat.

Xi Jian conveyed the order given to Liu Tai, but even so, Xi Jian looked at Liu Tai and asked:
"I see that Rongcheng is crumbling, and I think it is about to be breached. With Rongcheng as our support, we may not be unable to fight Wang Jun. Such a battle can determine the place of Dingyouji!" "It's too risky. Since our The strategy has been achieved, so there is no need to take too many risks.

Zhao An's migrating people have passed through Nanpi City. If the war continues, the pressure on our army's food and grass will be very high.

If we run out of food by then, not to mention that we have not defeated Wang Jun, even if we defeat Wang Jun, we are afraid that we will have to retreat from Youzhou.

Moreover, spring plowing in March, if we continue to contend with Youzhou here in Rongcheng.

Then no matter youzhou or Jizhou, I am afraid that spring plowing will not be possible this year! Liu Tai said to Xi Jian.

Xi Jian couldn't help but respect Liu Tai after hearing Liu Tai's words, but Xi Jian said again:
"If we don't retreat, we will still have Qingzhou, but Youzhou's food harvest will be poor this year, which will make it easier for us to attack Youzhou!"

When Liu Tai heard Xi Jian's words, he glanced at Xi Jian unexpectedly and said helplessly, "The people of Youzhou are also the people of the Han Dynasty, so why should you be so harsh on the people!"

After hearing Liu Tai's words, Xi Jian felt extremely ashamed of what he had said and done.

But if you think about it carefully, Liu Tai's idea is right. After all, the risk of betting on this fight is still too high.

In the end, Liu Tai chose to retreat and did not choose to fight Wang Jun, who was about to come.

In fact, for Liu Tai, it was not wise to fight Wang Jun at this time, because Wang Jun had a cavalry advantage that he did not.

In addition, the real problem is that Jizhou has not yet used winter wheat for farming, and now mainly cultivates corn.

It is impossible for him to send soldiers to change the farming methods of the local people in a short period of time, so he must retreat when the spring plowing begins.

If you continue to stay here with your army, the corvee labor required to transport food will be a considerable consumption in itself.

And if the local people in Jizhou don't go back to cultivate their fields, these will now be their own taxes!

Although in Liu Tai's view, the Jizhou counties and counties south of Nanpi City will become battlefields in the future, no one can guarantee how promising this future will be.

Not to mention, his large-scale construction has not yet been shipped, Shi Le's food supply has not been solved, and Youzhou has suffered such a big loss, so he will not cause trouble for himself in a short time.

Under such circumstances, many parties will enter a relatively peaceful environment in Jizhou in a short period of time, and they may be able to collect a wave of taxes smoothly.

After all, Zhao An will be needed to carry out work behind enemy lines in these counties in northern Jizhou in the future, so there is no problem in fattening them up first.

To be honest, if Liu Tai had a cavalry that could compete with Qi Hong's Red Blood Cavalry, Liu Tai would not choose to abandon these counties. However, Liu Tai did not have a horse farm, so these counties in northern Jizhou County Liu Tai couldn't hold it steady.

As long as Jizhou takes the initiative, these counties will have no chance of defending, so they can only be abandoned.

This is also the reason why Liu Tai chose to concentrate his troops in Nanpi City.

Even if these counties are under his own management, Liu Tai's positioning is still similar to a buffer zone, rather than a territory that he fully controls.

The news of Liu Tai's evacuation was naturally detected by Qi Hong, who was in charge of the garrison.

To be honest, Qi Hong wanted to lead his Red Blood Cavalry to chase him out, but he gritted his teeth and gave up in the end.

Because he also discovered that although the siege ability of Liu Tai's army was not strong, the overall quality of Liu Tai's army was very terrifying.

The quality of any army can best be seen when it retreats.

Generally speaking, the defense of Rongcheng has been completely shattered by Liu Tai. As long as the opponent's army attacks the city a few times, Rongcheng may be captured.

But Liu Tai didn't, as if Liu Tai had achieved some goal, he retreated as soon as he said retreat.

This military order was actually carried out so smoothly, and the soldiers did not scramble to massacre the city or plunder it.

It is precisely because of this that Liu Tai's army at this moment surprised Qi Hong even more than when Liu Tai ambush him.

After all, Qi Hong could see that it was a coincidence that he was ambushed by Liu Tai, and Qi Hong was a little unconvinced.

However, Liu Tai was able to make the army withdraw at a moment's notice, which amazed Qi Hong.

However, Qi Hong soon learned the reason. Wang Jun came to support him personally, and his son-in-law Zaosong was also sent here.

"General Qi Hong, now that the Liu bandits have retreated, please go to Jizhou and report to the lord how the battle ended like this!"

At this time, Zao Song came to Qi Hong with a slightly gloating look on his face.

Qi Hong couldn't help but look a little ugly when he saw Zao Song's face, but he took the initiative to report to Wang Jun without any hesitation.

After all, Qi Hong was not afraid that Wang Jun would punish him excessively. Even if he was afraid that he would not have the chance to lead the army again in the future, he should be able to retain the basic base of the Red Blood Cavalry.

After all, when the army fights, who can guarantee that they will never be defeated? In today's troubled times, at best, they will only treat themselves coldly and indifferently, but they still have to use it.

Especially since Wang Jun is old now, and his subordinates are second to none. If he really wins, he might be somewhat superior to the master, but now that he loses, it will make Wang Jun feel relieved.

So at this moment, when Qi Hong went to see Wang Jun, he felt quite calm and without any fear.

At this moment, not only did Youzhou receive the news of Liu Tai's withdrawal immediately, Shi Le, who was also paying attention to the situation, also handed the battle report in his hand to Zhang Bin and said, "Right. Hou, what do you think?"

After Zhang Bin read the battle report, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Liu Qingzhou's reputation as a fierce tiger is more prosperous than that of the Red-Blooded General. It is naturally the best thing for us. Now that we are plowing in March, we It’s better to cultivate the grain first while the two tigers are fighting, and if possible, in addition to trading with Liu Tai this year, we may also be able to borrow some grain from Youzhou!"

"Youzhou? Will Wang Jun borrow it?" Shi Le was a little unbelievable.

"After suffering such a big loss from Liu Huben, I believe he will value the lord more!" Zhang Bin said confidently.

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