In Annan’s Jiaozhou area, on the banks of the Zhu Luan River; Zhou Huaian was still dealing with some finishing work after the war, mainly because the success of this night counterattack was able to capture the power of the enemy-led general An You.
From the surname alone, this is a descendant of a Lite, so although it looks the same as most Tang people, it still has some residual features of curling beard and hair. Of course, such people are not uncommon in the former city of Guangzhou, but those who can join the army and obtain corresponding positions are rare.
It is said that he was good at making a pair of double knives like snow splashes and there was no enemy in the vicinity. Therefore, in the short moment of the battle that night, he was hacked to death and wounded to more than a dozen people; he was almost taken the lead. Went back to the situation.
Fortunately, Ge Congzhou, who personally led a team of crossbowmen reinforcements, also rushed to the spot, immediately teamed up with Huo Cun and tried his best to drag him; when the opponent was gradually exhausted, he shot him with Lianbow. Without adequately protected legs and feet, he was able to knock down and capture him. And at the moment when he heard the simple description, Zhou Huaian could even make up some kind of battle scene where the two people responded to each other, fighting for dozens of rounds, and finally made them fall to the ground.
According to other captured confessions, he was also one of the die-hard cronies and guest army generals Zeng Kun brought to Jiaozhou. Basically, there was no possibility of persuading surrender or appointment; just torturing to no avail made him curse a few more times." After not sharing the sky with thieves," he pushed out to the owl's head by the river to sacrifice the military flag.
But the other captured is not so simple. He is the deputy general and marching commander Shi Fanchuo, who is temporarily formed into the army. This is a famous and popular figure in the local area. He is the former generation of Annan. The manager of Cai Xi's staff was born.
As early as November of the third year of Xiantong (862), Nanzhao led a group of 50,000 men to commit an offence against Annan (now Hanoi, Vietnam). The guard and economic strategy made Cai Xi anxious. He ordered two thousand soldiers from Jingnan and Hunan, and three thousand children from Guiguan (now Guilin, Guangxi). They rushed to Yongzhou, under the jurisdiction of Lingxi Jiedushi Zheng Yu. reinforce. In December, Nanzhao besieged Jiaozhi City, Cai Xi held on to the city, and then asked for more troops.
Thousands of archers from Shannandong (now Xiangfan, Hubei) sent help. In the first month of the fourth year, the rescuers did not arrive, and Jiaozhi City has fallen. Cai Xi died on the left and right, fighting with unarmed hands, and with ten arrows in his body, he drowned to death. Jing Nan general Yuan Weide led 400 soldiers to death. Only Fan Chuo, a staff member, was ordered to take the capital and protect the Fuliang River away.
Later, Gao Pian regained Annan, and Fan Chuo made a lot of effort in offering his books and joining the army. He belonged to the type who was willing to contribute behind the scenes without seeking success. After Gao Pian was transferred to the mainland, he stayed with Governor Yifeng. Historical status assists in local governance, and continues to collect and compile local geographical features;
His final "Book of Nanban", also known as "Yunnan Zhi", has become an important reference and basis for later dynasties to explore the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and even study the historical evolution of the Indochina Peninsula. To be honest, Zhou Huaian didn't expect to capture him here. In the words of later generations, this is at least an expert at the level and level of an academician of social sciences.
We must know that there are quite a few scholars in the world these days, but those who can work hard in these miscellaneous applied disciplines and basic disciplines are really rare; therefore, they can catch one of them. It's not easy anymore.
Although he and his colleagues in the past belonged to the imperial camp, there are still objects worthy of respect and courtesy from the standpoint of the family and nation of the foreign captives; it is like the one engraved on the Monument to the People’s Heroes Sentence:
"This goes back to 1840. Since then, in order to oppose domestic and foreign enemies, strive for national independence and the people's freedom and happiness, the people's heroes who have sacrificed in previous struggles will be immortal!"
Therefore, Zhou Huaian immediately gave Qu Chengyu a task, which was to find a way to persuade him to provide assistance to the rebels. Even if you can't change it for a while, you should stay in the rebel army as much as possible and never use it for the opponent's camp; otherwise, you don't know how many variables and resistance will be added here in Jiaozhou.
Another is Jingxian, a highly respected monk who has been to Nanzhao. He was also a diplomatic representative sent by Gao Pian after the Battle of Xichuan to persuade Nanzhao Wang Shilong to stop and re-attach to the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, it is also quite prestigious and appealing in the Annan prefectures and counties, and even the caves of Tuman, where Buddhism is also popular. Therefore, although Zhou Hui did not have time to pay attention to him for the time being, he could be detained in the army as a mascot for the time being.
The last one is Zhang Biao, the head of the local tycoon Zhang family in Fengzhou, and the Fengzhou training general Zhang Biao, nicknamed "No Manzi".
"The villain is willing to redeem for the army anyway..."
He was born with a rough appearance and very strong, but as soon as he was dragged in, he knelt on the ground and begged loudly.
"Jiaozhou has been struggling for a long time... I only hope that the rebels will rescue the upside down."
This guy speaks like a complicated rehearsal that has been practiced countless times. I believe that if it came from other officers and soldiers, he would also make such a rhetoric. He is also the most powerful leader of the soil regiment in this army, and his subordinates are known to have trained troops in the more than one thousand regiments. Only the performance at night can only be described by the pig teammates who can only drag their feet.
To be honest, Zhou Huai'an didn't want to leave something like this that looks particularly soft on the knees. If it is the so-called pig teammate, regardless of the negative effect on which side he casts, the result will be the same; but although he is a little strange, he is the first leading party to take the initiative to jump out, and Na Qu Chengyu is actually an old acquaintance. ; Therefore, after weighing and thinking repeatedly, Zhou Huaian still pinched his nose and reluctantly accepted his "sincerity."
However, as a surrender and price, his people and other surrender soldiers must act as pioneers and guides to clear the remnants of the rebellious forces and bandits and barbarians who took the opportunity to cause chaos in the periphery of Jiaozhou for the army.
But after the collapse of such an active army, there is no longer a decent presence in the place that can stop the rebels; the place where it passed is almost overwhelming and people are competing to vote, and some even regard them as imperial courts. The army horses sent to recover, but eagerly came forward crying and begging for something.
Zhou Huai’an also learned about some local ecological trends; for example, among the people living on the Red River Plain, those wearing bamboo hats or towels are generally of Han surnames, while most of the people who wrap their heads are Tu people, and the colors are more intense. It is colorful and complicated, which means that the higher the status, the richer the wealth, and then different ethnic groups and types, as well as the ranks of three, six, nine, and so on. .
As indigenous peoples who have been engaged in cattle farming and agriculture for a long time, and have developed a certain degree of economic and cultural development, they are mostly referred to as "Li Shu is very popular, and there is a lot of grain." The influence of the degree of Sinicization is also more obvious than that of the same ethnic group in the mountainous area, and even some customs and language can be shared in common, and intermarriage is not forbidden all year round.
After all, since the Qin and Han dynasties, the Han people have multiplied and thrived on this land for more than a thousand years.
If there were no descendants of immigrants like Ding Bu, Li Huan, Li Gongyun, and the like, and I met my iron-blooded Song Dynasty, this strange thing that would only tolerate and condone the country’s separatist forces, and even the land of Guanlong where it originated, would be born. If it comes from a different kind of national consciousness; perhaps according to this trend, it has gradually become a part of China since ancient times, just like Yunguichuan and other places.
Two days later, when Zhou Huaian's army of tens of thousands of people approached Jiaozhou City again, there was another good news. However, he sent a partial division led by Zhong Yi, who has successfully taken down Haimen Town, an important stronghold along the coast of Annan. Under Zhong Yi’s persuasion, the one hundred soldiers and three hundred soldiers stationed in Haimen Town surrendered without blood; among them, dozens of soldiers, including the town general, asked to be disarmed and returned north by ship. The gate was changed.
The change of hands in Haimen Town also means that another important channel to and from Annan has been brought into the grasp.
Because, in addition to traditional cross-sea navigation, there is actually a line between Guangzhou and Jiaozhou, which runs through various ports and cities in the coastal area, starting from Haimen Town in Annan (now near Haiphong, Vietnam) in the south to Baitengjiangkou in Qinzhou (Guangxi). Near the Crescent Bay in Fangchenggang City), the Grand Maritime Canal-Tanpeng Canal, also known as "Tianweiyao" and "Xianrenlong", is mainly named after the extremely difficult project and the claim that only immortals can complete it.
It originated from the waterway excavated by General Fubo Ma Yuanping in Nan and Jiuzhen counties. After knowing that Qian Gaopian regained Annan for more than ten years, I felt that there were many hidden reefs along the sea route from Annan to Yongzhou and Guangzhou, causing the ship to hit the reef. Sinking; therefore, in order to consolidate the imperial rule in Annan and ensure the flow of military resources, Jinghai Jiedu asked Gao Pian to recruit craftsmen to dig up the reef, and connect several coastal routes through artificial canals filled with seawater, so as to make the sea The transportation of water is unobstructed and free from the danger of wind and waves.
It also benefited from the vigorous development and dredging of waterway transportation in the high-level post. Since then, the shipping line connecting the Baiteng River estuary to Haimen and running through the coast of the Beibu Gulf became the only route that transported large quantities of grain and taxes at that time. Water transportation is also convenient for the transfer of goods through Haimen: through the river network and Lingqu, it can reach Yongzhou, Guangzhou and Yangzhou; if by sea, it can reach the ports of Guangzhou, Fuzhou and related trade networks.
In addition, there is also a "Tianwei Path New Chiseling Haipai Stele" to commemorate that the boulder blocking the channel was broken by the thunder caused by Gao Pian's spell; although it sounds a bit mysterious, it also fits Gao Pian who likes to pretend to be gods and ghosts. For example, the means to drive Liujia's soldiers to boost morale; but what interests Zhou Huaian is about the "phosphorous fire flickering, loud noises, and rock bursts in the process of going to the channel reef boulders." The description of is very similar to the earliest use of gunpowder blasting.
After all, Gao Pian's men supported many Danshi. Prior to this, Chinese ancestors used the method of "sintering volcanic acid" to open mountains and break rocks, which is to heat the boulders first, then drill holes to pour vinegar or water to crack the rocks; such as the ancient Shu plank road, which is said to be difficult to climb Developed for
And it's coincident that in this era, there are already descriptions of similar gunpowder products. Because in the same period of Gao Pian, the alchemy "Synopsis of True Essence and Miao Dao" warned alchemists: "There are those who burn them with sulphur, realgar and saltpeter, and burn them with honey, and burn the hands and houses with the flames." And Gao Pian even wrote the "Song of Sexual Advocating Gold Liquid" to describe and record the chemical reactions and derivatives between some minerals; as a by-product of practicing Taoism and alchemy.
This is simply a half chemist who has inadvertently cultivated immortals and cultivated a little way. (End of this chapter)