After May, millions of generals and craftsmen retreated into Qintong Mountain through Hengshan. In mid-May, Huang Shuang and Yan Yuan led their troops to officially abandon Tongkou, Tianjun, Yandang and other cities and shrink towards Hengshan...

Huang Shuangyu rode on his horse and looked at the golden waves on both sides of the road, feeling full of regret. As long as they could hold on to Yandangyuan for more than a month, they could have tens of millions of stones of grain collected into the treasury. However, in order to obey the overall situation, no matter how much he was reluctant he felt in his heart, he could only give up the land they had built with enthusiasm and operated for several years.

In order to ensure the orderly evacuation and ensure that the Hexi Iron Cavalry and Liangyong Iron Wolf Army did not dare to pursue the enemy, He Zhenren led the Battle Bird Battalion into the rear of the palace, and after more than 200 light and heavy heavenly war chariots and 400 heavy bullet crossbows, the enemy did not dare to cross the line easily.

Dong and Miao had no intention of paying too much casualties to fight the Longxiang Army. The large number of soldiers and horses followed the Longxiang Army's retreat, and took over one city after another abandoned by the Longxiang Army without any effort.

Perhaps the Longxiang army retreated too hastily and discarded the towns along Yuchengling and deep in Yandangyuan. Not only were the walls built with molten iron intact, but the houses and workshops in the town were preserved, and some heavy materials such as copper and iron were even abandoned in the city.

On Yandangyuan, 400,000 troops marched south in three groups, and the several roads that extended from Hengshan City to the depths of Yandangyuan were filled with dust and smoke.

The common people who have finally settled down in Yandangyuan over the years have been mixed in their hearts when they see this scene.

As for them, they are naturally more willing to accept the rule of the Longxiang Army.

In the past few years, they have been wandering to Yandangyuan. Not only did the Longxiang Army give them food to rations to survive the famine, but also the Longxiang Army distributed farm tools, plowing oxen or camel horses to help them build houses, reclaim wasteland and plant grain in Yandangyuan. Not to mention that in recent years, the Longxiang Army has been building water conservancy in Yandangyuan and built well-connected roads, and the reclaimed land is directly allocated to individuals.

Everything they have can be said to be given by the Longxiang Army.

Now that the Longxiang Army is leaving, those sects that eat people and don’t spit bones are coming, how can they be happy? But they finally took root in Yandangyuan, cultivated and owned their own fields. How many ordinary people can resolutely give up all this and follow the Longxiang Army to retreat to Qintong Mountain, where there are many mountains and few lands?

Even so, the total number of military and civilians who finally retreated to the Liquan General Administration Office exceeded 2 million.

This made Guo Hong, who stayed in Tongbei Prefecture, faced an extremely headache.

There is a lot of arable land in the three prefectures in Qintong Mountain, Tongbei, Tongnan, and Tongnan. However, Liquan, which has many mountains and few fields, has gathered a large number of craftsmen and poor children who entered the Tianji Academy to practice. The number is as many as 400,000 to 500,000, and it is not a farmer and afforestation.

At this time, we must ensure that the many smelting plants in Liquan and many casting factories can operate efficiently. Even if there is still surplus grain in Tongbei, Tongzhong and Tongnan, the bottomless pit on Liquan will be swallowed up. Now there are suddenly two million mouths for eating, and six or seven hundred kilograms of grain every day. How can Guo Hong not worry about it?

However, he did not have a headache for too long. Soon, the Fengyan Airship was loaded with food from Yanjing, and flew into Liquan under the bitter wind to replenish the food shortage.

The Jingji Plain is the largest granary in Yanjing.

However, the Fengyan Airship's capacity is limited. The Fengyan Airship travels back and forth, plus the necessary maintenance and maintenance, it takes six days. Twenty Fengyan Airships can transport less than one million kilograms of grain into Liquan on average every day. Fortunately, land transportation quickly followed, but there was no famine.

Although Qin Tong Xiguan controlled the Huayang Sect, with the first and second town troops retreating eastward, quickly strengthening control over the three prefectures of Tongbei, Tongnan and Tongzhong. At the same time, a large number of soldiers' families were placed in Tongzhong and Tongnan to reduce the grain pressure in Liquan.

Chen Hai had already started to build a plank road between Yuting City and Tongbei Prefecture.

The so-called plank road mainly uses holes on the cliffs, insert stone piles or wooden piles, and lay stone wooden boards across it to facilitate pedestrians and open to traffic. Although it is easy to be destroyed by wind and rain, it cannot carry the passage of Tianji war vehicles, and it is even very easy to destroy by infiltrated enemy scouts, but it is much easier than using rock-breaking chariots to dig deep mountain tunnels, and it costs much less. It is also the best choice to strengthen the connection between the Jingji Plain and the hinterland of Qintong Mountain at present.

This project has been working for three months, and 100,000 Jianyong was requisitioned from the surrendered soldiers and the civil warriors. The plank road deep in the eastern foot of Qintong Mountain has been built for nearly a thousand miles long. In another two months, cattle, horses and camels can transport materials.

In that case, thirty or forty post offices and transit warehouses are added deep in the eastern foot of Qintong Mountain. Only the most traditional means can ensure the transfer of materials between the two places. At the same time, you can rely on these post offices and transit warehouses to resettle hundreds of thousands of people to some river valleys, basins and dams deep in the eastern foot of Qintong Mountain, reclaim more grain fields, plant more medicinal mountains, and open more mines...

The plan to divide the brigade of the world not only attracted the idea of ​​the clan, but also the poor children of the world were eagerly paying attention to the progress of the trend.

The Xiyuan Army and the six clans of millions of people evacuated from the capital and entered Jiyang County, and occupied mountains, forests, lakes and arable land.

If that is the case, it is nothing. After all, after the Black Yan Army Rebellion, the population of Jiyang County once dropped by more than 400 people. Although it has recovered in recent years, it is still only 40% of the previous war. A large amount of land was deserted and no one cultivated, so the clans would take over it.

However, there are many people from the six ranks who do not work in farming and weaving. Not only do they have to occupy the cultivated fields, but they also have to force the farmers who have cultivated these fields into slavery.

To ensure the supply of the coalition forces gathered in Lichuan County, Prince Yingdan not only imposed heavy taxes in Lichuan County, but also all counties increased their rents and taxes, which made them resentful for a while.

Under the high pressure of the various clans, ordinary people were like ants and had no room for struggle or resistance. However, the raiders and brave men from poor families who dared to commit crimes were full of yearning for the equal-field feudal strategy of the Longxiang Army in the capital and Qintong Mountain.

Especially after Xie Jueyuan came out of the mountain, he was commissioned by Chen Hai to serve as the chief priest of Tianji Academy. Since then, in addition to Tianji puppet technique, military technique, and martial arts, Tianji Academy has added three major subjects of mysterious method, sword cultivation and alchemy. Children of poor families can take the exam and enter the school to practice. There are hundreds of knights and local brave men from poor families who come from poor families, cross mountains and ridges, enter the capital plains, enter Qintong, and ask to join the Longxiang Army, or enter the Tianji Academy to practice.

When the various clans realized this problem and began to send elite children to completely block all the dangerous mountain roads to the capital, the Tianji Academy requisitioned a large number of disciples after the Guining Army, Shinjuku Guard Army, and Sword Cultivation Camp repatriated a large number of disciples, and the scale of disciples returned to its peak.

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After capturing Yanjing City, Chen Hai ordered Yao Wenjin to lead his troops to capture Qinglongyu with thunder, and then ordered Yao Wenjin to lead 400,000 elite troops from the third town division of Longxiang Army to garrison Qinglongyu.

In order to block the coalition forces of various families led by Prince Ying Dan, Chen Hai not only invited Helan Sword Master Huang Qiwei to Qinglongyu to take charge, but also deployed the Gantian Xuanji Formation, the best defense of the Heaven and Earth Formation, along with eight super-kilded crossbows in Qinglongyu.

In addition, Chen Hai also strengthened the third division of the Longxiang Army with the speed of 20,000 newly formed soldiers, twenty heavenly chariots, forty heavy-bore crossbows and a super-bore crossbow.

Le Yi and Han Jian led the Fourth Town Division of the Longxiang Army to Tiechengling. Although they failed to attack Wusheng Pass for a while, they also blocked the Wei Zijun. Yu Zonghu led the remnants of the Suwei Army to attack the northern part of Beijing.

In early June, Chen Hai rushed to Tiechengling, surrounded by Huwei Camp, and personally presided over the war against Wusheng Pass.

At this time, the first and second divisions of the Longxiang Army had retreated to Qintong Mountain, and completed the defense of the Qinchuan Tea-Horse Road from Liquan to Hengshan, Tongzhong Prefecture to Qintong Xiguan, and Tongnan Prefecture to Qinchuan Tea-Horse Road. He Zhenren also led the Battle Bird Camp back to the capital and met with Chen Hai.

The sound of hooves and the carriages were driving. The newly repaired Tiecheng Ridge was already far away. Thirty miles north of Tiecheng Ridge, Yannan Pass, the southernmost part of Wusheng Pass, was also waving flags and soldiers were like alike.

Wei Ziya and others naturally would not believe that Chen Hai would let them go. They had already prepared in Yannan Pass and were waiting for the Longxiang Army to launch a large-scale attack.

Le Yi followed Chen Hai to the main peak of Tiecheng Ridge, narrowed his eyes and looked north, knowing that only by taking down the three subsidies in the south of Wusheng Pass controlled by the remnants of the Guards could the gap in the attack on the Jingji Plain from the north, Chen Hai's strategic intention was initially completed.

At this moment, Ning Chan'er was like a wisp of smoke, disappearing among the mountains and ridges between Qintong Mountain and Yan Mountain. She gathered her breath and flew to the north quickly among the dangerous valleys.

Although Tie Kun obeyed Chen Haiyan, Chen Hai asked Tieya's troops to give up Yaoshan and move towards Shouyang Mountain as a whole, so as to put strong military pressure on the northern part of Liangyong counties and the Iron Wolf Army, and to make it easier for the blood demons to escape in time when the blood demon disaster is coming.

Even though Tie Kun still obeyed Chen Haiyan at this time, there would inevitably be great controversy and opposition within the Tieya Division.
Chapter completed!