The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

Chapter 105: Survey on the Border (Three)

The continuous wars formed a military dividing line between Song and Xia, which was winding and winding from Shenmu Fort in the east and reached the central part of Pingliang in the southwest, and winding and circulating - commonly known as Hengshan. Press ctrl + d to quickly collect "《》"

Hengshan includes the Hengshan Mountains in northern Shaanxi and the northern end of Ziwuling, and the watershed area between the Malian River Valley and Qingshui River between Ziwuling and Liupan Mountain. To the north of Hengshan is the vast Mu Us Desert, and to the south is the Shaanxi-Gansu Loess Plateau.

Hengshan is a loess hill that undulates the southwest and northeast. Gaoshang is dangerous and is separated by north and south, with the advantage of high terrain. It also has a river valley originating from the north and south slopes of Hengshan, which can be used as a channel for war marching, without aircraft, cannons, etc.

In ancient times, heavy weapons were insurmountable natural dangers.

The forts set up between the valleys of the two sides have played a certain defensive role. Although these military blocks are related, the names of cities, villages and forts are different, and the sizes are different, but the nature is the same and there is no strict distinction. With the military situation

To develop and increase or decrease the importance of border defense in these barriers, castles can be villages, castles can also be cities, villages can also be forts, and cities can be promoted to states and army; states and army can also be reduced to city walls.

Zhao Qiong and his party walked along the Jialu River Valley for thirty miles to reach the Yahe Village. The terrain here made him gasp. The erosion of the river water made an open valley here, and the village was built in Chuankou and surrounded.

The terrain is flat, and the main purpose of its construction is to control the military farms in traffic roads and river valleys. The open terrain ahead has almost no danger to defend. Once it is attacked on a large scale, it is difficult to protect yourself, let alone block the enemy's attack.

, its military role is far greater than that of defense!

The defending the fortress was a commanding imperial guard and two hundred vassal Han archers. The fortress lord and the prince and others were welcomed into the fort. Zhao Jie took a break and went to the city to patrol. The fortress was built on the shore, with a length and width of about 200 steps.

Spreading the road to the river valley, it is built with rammed earth. The city wall is three zhang high and less than two zhang wide. The enemy building, women's wall, horse face, beacon tower and other defense measures are complete, and the number of rolling wood, thunderstones are prepared.

There are also many.

Then he went around the city and found that it was much deserted than the fort here. Except for occasionally seeing soldiers wandering around, he rarely saw the people. The only shop was deserted and the shopkeeper was

The guy was watching the fire and lying on the counter and dozing off, and there were very few goods in it.

"Master Liubao, I see that the terrain is wide and close to the rivers around this fortress. Why are the people so sparse? Are the fields always deserted? Why don't you recruit people to settle down!" Zhao Qi asked while walking, because the fortress was sufficient when selecting the site.

Considering factors such as water sources and military farming, he strives to be close to water sources and a large number of fertile fields to facilitate survival and production of grain, so he asked this question.

"Sir, this fortress was indeed prosperous thirty years ago. You see, there are many houses built in this fort. There are several villages outside the fort, with a large number of households and a population of nearly 10,000.

Thousands of hectares of fertile land have been cultivated here, and countless merchants have been visited and brought by. However, now the troops of Xia Kingdom are harassed from time to time, and most of the fields outside the fort are destroyed. Now there are less than a hundred households left, and they are barely cultivating in the river valley, so it is difficult to support themselves.

The food and grass in the fort are now imported from the mansion!" The fortress seemed to be full of bitterness and sighed.

"Tell me in detail!" Zhao Qi also knew that the Western Xia and the Song Dynasty's border residents were competing for arable land, but he did not expect that the matter was so serious that a once prosperous fortress declined so much.

"Yes, please go to the yamen to explain in detail!" Although it is not yet sunset now, due to the obstruction of the river valley, the sky quickly darkens, and spring is a time of windiness, which makes people feel even more cold.

When we arrived at the yamen, the fortress asked the patrol inspectors who had been reclaimed here for many years to explain the origins and outs of this situation to the prince:

Since Yuanhao's invasion, the two worlds have been fighting each other for a long time, and Liangzuo began to rule. In order to restore the city as soon as possible, Xixia sent envoys to discuss the boundaries of Song, Xia Lin and the prefectures, and the two sides agreed.

: "Since now, the people in the western border must not be able to cultivate the east. They are in Fengzhou's foreign villages and the old Sheyu villages in the Fuzhou border, and have been restored. The old Sheyu villages along the Fuzhou border, and the thirty-three Sheyu villages along the border.

, and there is no creation and repair. The households in Linzhou are not cultivated, and the land in Quye Hexi is not cultivated. The households in both worlds are not cultivated, so they are not allowed to insert a erectile siege and build a cemetery.

Violators will be arrested and arrested by officials and held the city. The patrol personnel from both worlds must not bring more than 30 armor and equipment to ride." The issue of invasion and farming in the palace was basically reached. However, the Song Dynasty did not complete it.

The relationship between Song and Xia was still tense when the agreement was implemented, and the invasion of Xixia in Lin and the mansion did not completely stop.

During the Yuanfeng period, Xixia was invaded by the tiles and the land of the prefecture was not yet established, so the foreign tribes ordered them to shoot and kill them when they saw the Chinese border people. In addition, there were many forbidden areas along the border areas of the Song and Xia, and some forbidden areas were suitable for cultivation, which was invaded by the Xixia people.

Farming created conditions. Especially the land in Quye River area in Linzhou was fertile, and the benefits of irrigation of Quye River water were suitable for farming and herding. For the marginal forbidden lands like the Song Dynasty, neither farming nor desolate, the enemy was able to be captured.

The occupation of the land was empty and caused the northerners to fight for the boundaries every year." The Song people did not farm and created arable opportunity for the Xia people to invade farming.

On the other hand, after the main function of the fortress turned to military farming, the Xia army immediately formulated a strategy of "disturbing farming" and "invading farming". They neither attacked the fortress nor lured archers out of the fortress to fight, but were committed to destroying the surroundings of the fortress.

The cultivated land interferes with the normal cultivation and reclamation activities of archers. If the Song army fortress cannot carry out grain production smoothly, not only will the regular army supply be threatened, but even the archers themselves will find it difficult to gain a foothold. The fortress will naturally lose its significance in the establishment of the Xixia "

The tactic of disturbing farming hit the key points of the Song army. There were many fortresses in the Song Dynasty and were close to the border. The people of Xixia came and went like the wind. The Song soldiers were unable to take care of each other. The waves of land forced the Han residents who were in the military farm to leave, causing the present

The situation where the enemy advances and we retreat.

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The next morning, a team of cavalry left the Dahe Fort and headed north. The leader was not old. He was wearing golden armor and a golden helmet. The big red helmet tassels and red cloak flew in the wind. A strong black horse under his crotch

It was so divine. A team of black horses behind him followed closely. From a distance, they looked like a group of old turtles flying over the ground. Behind them were the Yamato Fort Lord and more than a hundred riders were following in the fort.

Protection, no need to ask, it must be Zhao Qiong's group of men.

"Master Liubao, Yuanfeng demarcates the boundary. How far is the Dahebao?" Zhao Qiong was in a good mood today. The sun was shining brightly. The open field made people feel refreshed. He swept away the suffocation of marching in the canyon and ran for five or six miles in one go.

He slowed down and asked the lord who followed him.

"My Lord Qi, twenty miles away from the fort, basically the ancient Great Wall of Qin was bounded by the Qin Dynasty. However, Xia Guofanmin has built up the forbidden territory and has penetrated into our Song Dynasty ten miles, and the enemy cavalry has penetrated into our territory at this time. You must be careful

!” Master Liu Bao's face looked very ugly. He now wanted to jump off his horse and search for if there were any coptis chinensis trees to dig two chewed trees. He has been guarding the border for many years. It is not the first time he has seen him patrol the border. It is usually

After a while, I left. Even if I look at the border, it would be at least a few thousand infantry and cavalry. He had also encountered Taiwei Tong patrols. Fifty thousand victorious troops accompanied him, with flags covering the sun, and the team was vast and powerful.

, shock the barbarians. It would be better to serve this master myself. I dare to go out with more than 100 people. I am really a newborn calf who is not afraid of a tiger!

"Oh, I don't know how lucky we are today. Can we meet a Xia native? I have never seen a real person yet!" Zhao Qi said with a fascination.

"Well... the master is powerful. Those barbarians escaped early when they heard the prince's reputation. How dare they show up!" Master Liu Bao was almost shocked and fell off his horse. He recited the Buddha for the whole night last night to bless Xixia today.

Everyone was suffering from disasters, and every household was deserted. They had no time to stroll here. They were worried about going out in the morning. They told the commander who stayed behind to not go back at night. Remember to bring people to collect the body for themselves!

"Haha, Master Liu Bao is really good at joking. I'm afraid they will send troops to capture me when they know I'm coming. Could it be that Master Liu Bao sent someone to deliver a letter to them last night!" Zhao Qi said with a big laugh.

"Sir, don't joke. I dare not give the minister a hundred courage!" Master Liu waved his hand quickly, saying that he didn't dare, for fear that the prince would say something else "a traitor" and consciously went forward to lead the way.

But Zhao Xin and others who were accompanying him did not dare to be careless. Jiang Fei sent several teams of scouts to explore the enemy situation.

Zhao Qi's mood became worse and worse as he moved forward. The wasteland in front of him still had traces of farming. He roughly estimated that there were four or five thousand hectares of ripe land here, but now it has become weeds.

A pasture where wild animals appear. Even if a mu of land produces only one stone of grain, hundreds of thousands of stones of grain are recorded. How much is that? His heart hurts so much that it only drips with blood. Walking forward, the intermittent ancient Great Wall

It was already vaguely visible, but there was another scene there, with the fields crisscrossing and the harvested fertile fields could not be seen at a glance. At this time, Zhao Qiong's heart was not bleeding, but bleeding. They planted their own land.

, but don't pay taxes to yourself!

"Your Majesty, you will find an enemy cavalry in the northeast direction!" Just when Zhao Jie was angry, a scout came to report.

"There are ten horses, like patrol soldiers!" The scout reported again.

"Sir, it's noon now, let's go back to the fort!" Master Liu said as if he hadn't heard the scout's return. He also learned his lessons and knew that officials wanted face. He ran away when he saw the enemy soldiers.

Let the leader step down, so I changed the tactful statement.

"Tsk, are you taking the enemy soldiers from Xia Kingdom back and treating them to eat together? If we find them, they must have discovered us too. What are the only ten people afraid of him?" Zhao Qi did not give him face.

He snorted.

"Prince, the enemy cavalry is following!" Another scout ran. After hearing this, Zhao Qi looked in the direction of the scout. He saw a team of Xixia knights standing there three hundred steps away from them.

"Sir, go quickly. This is the enemy's probing horses. The brigade will not be too far away. I'll cut off the rear, you go first!" Master Liu Bao was sweating coldly at this time, and he didn't care about his face anymore and urged the prince to run away quickly!

"Haha, can you worry clearly when you are far away? Let's catch them back and see them clearly. It's okay if you can't live or die!" This was the first time that Zhao Qi's group of guards saw a living person, and they all reached out.

Looking over there with his neck, the prince started to make a fuss again!

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