Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 933
Chapter 939

After receiving Ruan Ling's order, the Dubos of the three villages bit the bullet and sent four teams of 200 people to fight the fire.Looking at the background of the defenders in the warehouse area going away, Wu Zi and Hei Zi let out a long sigh of relief.They are just water ghosts with excellent water skills, not the kind of special forces of the later generations who are omnipotent in capturing, fighting, sniping and blasting, so after seeing the defenders dispatching nearly three teams of soldiers to fight the fire, they secretly thought that the opportunity had come.

Xiaowu and Heizi's skills are not particularly high, but as famous water bandits in Zeng Economic Water, they also have more than a dozen lives in their hands.Let the two of them deal with two hundred well-trained soldiers, they will definitely not be able to do it.However, they still have the confidence to complete the task if they want to secretly deal with the fifty or so guards guarding more than 100 million square meters.

After the Yishi garrison patrolled, the two quietly approached a big locust tree, which is at the window of the warehouse. Since it is a large warehouse, this kind of warehouse is actually different from the buildings of this era. First of all, It is tall and tall. Although this kind of warehouse is one floor, it is as majestic as a palace. If calculated from the ground, the distance to the eaves is nearly three feet, which is equivalent to the distance that later generations will accept a three-story building.Moreover, the window is opened very high from the ground, about two feet above the ground.It is very difficult to climb this window without ladders and tools.But for Xiao Wu and Hei Zi, the difficulty is within an acceptable range.

I saw that Xiao Wu took out two sharp grippers from the back waist, these were the guys they used to eat when they were water bandits.Originally, Ma Jianwu and his boats were very short, and belonged to the kind of flat sand boat with a side less than three feet high. big problem.However, the water bandits thought of a stupid trick, that is, to create a kind of fine iron grip, which can be put on the wrists of both hands, and they can use the iron grip to climb upwards.Xiaowu and Heizi are both water ghosts, and they have done a lot of things to climb buildings and boats with iron claws.

For this kind of climbing, Xiaowu and Heizi are familiar with it.I saw the two quickly insert the steel claws into the cracks in the bricks, and then with a sudden force on the arms, the left and right arms crossed upwards. As a result, the two climbed to the window in just twenty breaths.Due to the high distance from the ground, there is no need to worry about thieves patronizing this kind of window, so there is no such kind of steel decay, and the traditional wooden window is used, which is convenient for the two of them.

In fact, when the two had just climbed to the window, the captured soldiers and craftsmen in the warehouse discovered the two.It's just that everyone watched the two stupid thieves with pity. You must know that this warehouse was originally only a place for stacking iron ingots, and it belonged to that kind of transit warehouse.Although iron ingots are very valuable, they are very heavy.Each piece of iron ingot weighed five hundred catties, and no one could move it unless it was a perverted hunk.Even in the water smelting ironworks, they are also hoisted with pulley blocks.What's more, there is no iron ingot in this warehouse now, and there are only more than [-] captives.

However, to the surprise of these prisoners, the two stupid thieves were not curious about the presence of so many people in the warehouse.It seems that they have expected it.Xiaowu and Heizi came down from the window lightly, and then looked at the prisoners. At this time, more than half of the prisoners in the warehouse were soldiers of the original garrison army, but they were all stripped of their armor, not only in rags, but also yellow and emaciated.Evidently the captives had a miserable life.

Xiao Wu came to the crowd and asked, "Which one of you is the leader?"

At this moment, a group of captives approached a man with a wound on his shoulder and said, "Dare to ask this brother, who are you and what are you doing?"

"I'm Liu Wulang, and I'm serving as the leader of the Qu Bing team in the war against the army." Xiao Wu smiled and said, "Didn't you ask my brother?"

"Under Ying Rongguang, I was originally the Sima of the other department of the Shuiye Garrison Battalion."

Liu Wulang said: "Ying Sima, how many people are there in your department now, can you still fight?"

Ying Rongguang said: "Except for one seriously wounded member of our department, all the other 160 five members can participate in the battle."

"Okay," Liu Wulang said: "I, as a Marquis against the military power, order you to organize all your troops and prepare for battle!"

Of course, at this moment, Liu Wulang told Ying Rongguang in a low voice that the rebellious army is attacking Shuiye Town. In order to prevent the defenders from massacring prisoners when they fail, the rebellious army Captain Hu sent them an action team to take charge of the rescue. All captive soldiers and craftsmen, rescued captives and craftsmen do not have to participate in the battle, but they must be prepared to prevent the defenders from slaughtering captives in an unfavorable situation.

In fact, it is very common to kill prisoners in this era. After all, no one wants to die, and everyone began to mobilize.To put it bluntly, some people may question whether these captives would not resist by themselves, but need two people to save them?This is mainly related to the character of the Chinese people.The Chinese lack the spirit of pioneering and enterprising, but if there are leaders, it will be different.During the War of Resistance Against Japan, a Kuomintang army was defeated, with about six to seven hundred people, but there were no officers among them, and the highest rank was only a platoon leader.When everyone was at a loss, they met a civilian lieutenant colonel, and everyone asked the lieutenant colonel to lead them to fight.But the lieutenant colonel said that he was only a civilian lieutenant colonel and did not know how to fight.But these soldiers said that you don't need to command at all, you just need to say to fight or not to fight.

Don't we feel incredible when we see this real event now?But in fact, the Chinese lack the leadership spirit of being a leader.In the 55th year of Kangxi, Yingde County encountered a rare drought. Instead of getting tax exemption, the people were forced to increase taxes.In the end, Deng Yabao, a security chief in Yingde, led the villagers to revolt. As a result, more than 24 people responded in just one month. In the end, it took a year for the Qing Dynasty to transfer to Huguang, and even more than 24 people in the Green Camp of the Qing Army in Gansu suppressed it.Let’s not talk about Ran Min first, let’s talk about Liu Kun, a hero who fought against Hu in history. This is one of Shi Chong’s 24 Jingu friends. If you look at Baidu, you will know what the [-] Jingu friends are.It can be said that the [-] friends of Jingu are basically the children of nobles and relatives. However, when Liu Kun was guarding Jinyang, because his flag did not fall, Jinyang became unique when the entire north fell.Whether it is Shi Le or Liu Cong, they can only watch as Jinyang belongs to Jin.But after Liu Kun's death, the Eastern Jin's resistance in the north completely disappeared.

This topic is a bit far away. Under Liu Wulang's instigation, Ying Rongguang deliberately created turmoil to attract the attention of the defenders.As a result, as soon as the defenders entered the warehouse, they were surrounded by more than 300 prisoners, and they were all beaten to death.With this assortment of weapons and equipment, Ying Rongguang and Liu Wulang's confidence was greatly increased, and they directly launched a strong attack. With nearly a hundred casualties, they wiped out a team of warehouse defenders.Subsequently, Liu Wulang sent people to open the major warehouses and release nearly 5000 captured soldiers and craftsmen.Immediately afterwards, this mighty army of 5000 men captured the equipment depot in Shuiya Town in one fell swoop, and obtained a large amount of equipment.Liu Wulang continued to attack the craftsmen's dormitory based on the captives guarding the barracks under Ying Rongguang, released all the craftsmen who were detained and restricted their freedom, and told everyone that His Majesty had sent troops to defeat the rebels. Implications after the fact, the only chance now is anyway.After some agitation, almost all craftsmen and captives responded and resisted Ran Zhi's rebellion.

There were nearly [-] young men, and all the equipment was easily obtained. Under such circumstances, even without Hu Guang's attack, it would be almost impossible for Ruan Ling to calm down these young men.What's more, Hu Guang's three-sided attack now involved most of Ruan Ling's energy.A chaotic attack without any rules, on the contrary, beat Ruan Ling into a panic.

In the chaos, Ma Jian's armed forces disguised themselves as soldiers of Ruan Ling's tribe, successfully approached Ruan Ling, and threw the bomb at Ruan Ling's feet.With Ruan Ling's serious injury, it became the last straw for his nephew Ruan Ling's family.After nearly an hour of fighting, Hu Guang successfully regained Shuiya Town.Although the recovery of Shuiye Town was not of great significance, Ran Zhi didn't think so.

Because there is a ready-made example, when Wang Meng launched a night attack in Surin, he wanted to fish in troubled waters, and sent nearly 6000 troops to attack Shuiye Town. As a result, all [-] attacks failed without exception, and instead lost troops.Now it took less than an hour for the rebellious army to take down Shuiye Town and wipe out Ruan Ling's troops.This made Ran Zhi feel that the strength of the rebellious army is absolutely sufficient, and the rebellious army is definitely not worth the [-] people on the surface.

Fang Yucheng said with guilt on his face: "Master, this disciple is really speechless. The disciple is in charge of intelligence work, but he didn't find out that there is such a powerful force hidden in Linlu County under the nose of our army. Disciple There is no shirking of responsibilities, and death is the last word!"

But Ran Zhi laughed loudly and said, "Yucheng, it's not your fault. The good brother of the lonely king has always been very cunning, and now it seems that this Ye city is a game he designed. However, if you all think that the lonely king is defeated now That's too ridiculous. The younger brother of the lonely king has always cherished feathers. At present, our only chance is the queen mother. Now the queen mother is a guest in my camp (in fact, she is under house arrest). The lonely king has now decided to go east. Huang, join the fourth son (Ran Yu), when the time comes, the lonely king, the fourth son and the queen mother will send him to the door to see if he dares to kill him!"

There is a saying that goes like this, the ideal is full, but the reality is too skinny.

However, Ran Zhi didn't know that his best partner had already been disintegrated by a mere Jijiu. Now he went to Neihuang to join the Anbei Army, which was to send sheep to the tiger's mouth.

The pattering rain kept falling, and this rain actually saved Ran Zhi.Because Su Lin's main force arrived at the city of Yecheng, according to Su Lin's military style, he would either not attack, or once he attacked, he would be as swift as the wind and attack like a mountain.But the current weather has become a key factor restricting cavalry raids.

Quite simply, the ground is soaked by this light rain, and the ground becomes soft and muddy.Not to mention war horses, it is very difficult for people to walk.Su Lin canceled the battle plan to assemble the two Zhen Guojun cavalry battalions Wanqi to attack, so he had to hide in the battalion to avoid the rain.

But Ran Zhiyu made full use of this precious opportunity and prepared to retreat.Of course, Ran Zhi's troops still have 9 or [-] troops at this time, and it is not easy to retreat.Once Su Lin or Hu Guang is alarmed, the two of them may send troops to pursue them, and this retreat may turn into a rout.This price was not something Ran Zhi could afford, so after thinking about it, Ran Zhi decided to use the night to launch a massive attack to cover his real intention to retreat.

In fact, the retreat plan was already being formulated, but it was only spread among Ran Zhi's direct descendants.Just when the various ministries were rewarded by Ran Zhi, they were rewarded with a lot of meat and wine, and of course money was indispensable.In the midst of low morale, this kind of reward offsets the low morale very well.

Large pieces of pork, beef, and mutton were boiled into the pot, smelling the enticing aroma permeating the camp, many soldiers of Ran Zhijun were seduced by the aroma and salivated.The economic conditions of Wei State are much better than before, but in this era, beef is also very rare.China is a country founded on agriculture, and emphasizing agriculture has been a constant policy of all dynasties. The most important point is that cattle must not be killed, let alone beef.The beef on the market either died of illness (at this time, no one cares whether it is mad cow disease), died of old age, or the cattle that fell to death were slaughtered before being sold.Since then, the price of beef has been very high.Under normal circumstances, beef has a price but no market. It costs 120 yuan per catty, but even if you have money, you can't buy beef.According to the overall prices in Wei State, mutton is only more than 20 yuan a catty, while rice is sold for six or seven yuan a catty.Therefore, beef is very precious to soldiers from ordinary people.

Ran Zhi was absolutely generous enough. He ordered the slaughter of more than 600 cows at one time. Based on the calculation that each cow can get 4 catties of meat, a total of more than [-] catties of beef was obtained, which can be used for half a catty of beef for each soldier.As for pork and mutton, and even fish, there are more.On average, each soldier can get two catties of meat.Judging from the current people's attitudes, it is unimaginable for a person to eat two catties of meat at one time, but in ancient times, people generally had a large appetite, and there was no pressure for each soldier to eat two catties of meat.All the soldiers in the two southeast battalions of Ran Zhijun happily ate meat and drank wine. Due to their increased appetite, they seemed to have forgotten the mystery of their defeat.

Located in Ran Zhijun East Daying Camp in Yecheng, a camp here looks different.Because although the number of this army is not too large, its morale is high and order is good.Because the main general of this army is Xue Qiang.Xue Qiang, whose name is Weiming, was born in Fenyin, Hedong. He had great ambitions since he was a child, and he had military and national strategies in mind.Historically, Xue Qiang and Wang Meng had a very friendly relationship. Wang Meng went out to assist Fu Jian.After Fu Jian failed to attack the Jin Dynasty, Xue Qiang then headed the clan to strengthen the army, Wei Zhenhe Fu, and defeated Murong Yong in Chenchuan.Yao Xing was frightened when he heard about it, so he sent envoys to increase his etiquette, conscripted Dr. You Guanglu, Minister of Qibing, made Feng Yijun Duke, and transferred to Zuohu Shangshu.At the age of 98, he died.Presented as a gift to the General of the Fuguo and Si Yigong, the posthumous posthumous name is Xuan.As a military official, Xue Qiang has also reached the peak of military official.

In this time and space, the relationship between Xue Qiang and his father Xue Tao was very bad. Due to Ran Ming's reason, Xue Tao became General Wei Yangwu. Although he was ranked fourth rank, he was still a senior position among generals.In China's environment, it is always said that virtuous people avoid relatives. Although Xue Tao is Ran Ming's confidant, he has never recommended his son Xue Qiang to Ran Ming.There is a saying that knowing a son is more like a father. Although Xue Tao knows that Xue Qiang has great ambitions, he is more aware of his shortcomings.Xue Qiang is good at bow and horse when using soldiers, and he must be the first in every battle. This is both an advantage and a disadvantage.If Xue Qiang had Ran Min's skill, it would be fine, but Xue Qiang's skill could only be considered excellent, not yet at the level of a first-class general.And in order to prevent Xue Qiang from being trapped in the front line, Xue Tao deliberately suppressed Xue Qiang.

However, human nature is like a spring, once the pressure is too much, it will provoke a rebound.The same is true for Xue Qiang. Ran Zhi suddenly occupied Yanggu County, and happened to meet Xue Qiang who was studying abroad.Seeing that Ran Zhi defeated Ran Feng easily, Xue Qiang, who was eager to show himself, took the initiative to join Ran Zhi.Ran Zhi got Xue Qiang, saw that his conversation was good, and Ran Zhi urgently needed to set an example of buying a horse bone with a thousand dollars, so he appointed Xue Qiang as the general of Fujun.The ancient military system is the first rank of generals, generals of Wei, generals of chariots, and generals of hussars, the second rank of front, rear, left, and right generals, and the third rank includes Sizheng, Sizhen, Siping, and Siping. An (not permanent), the fourth rank is generals with miscellaneous names such as Fujun, Zhongjun, Shangjun, and Zhenjun.How can Xue Qiang and He De, who has not achieved an inch of merit, become the general of Fujun?Just looking at the rankings, Xue Qiang, the Fujun general, is even bigger than his father Xue Tao's Yangwu general.

In order to live up to Ran Zhi's trust, Xue Qiang sent his confidants back to Hedong to recruit trilogy.Hedong County is roughly the southeastern area of ​​Shanxi Province in later generations. It belongs to the core area in this era and is under the jurisdiction of Sizhou.Taking the household registration rule in the first year of Emperor Wu Taixi as an example, Hedong County governed Anyi, Wenxi, Yishi, Dayang, Hebei, Puban, Fenyin, Pishi, Jiangyi, Linfen, Xiangling, Yangxian, Twenty counties including Pingyang, Yong'an, Beiqu, Puzi, Duanshi, Luize, Dongyuan, and Xie counties have 46 households and a population of 960 people.Liu Yuan, the son of Liu Bao, the Zuoxian king of the Southern Huns, rebelled against Jin in Lishi, and later made Pingyang his capital, which was in Hedong County.

Liu Yuan was the first to establish a country in the Central Plains as the Huns, so naturally he was not recognized by the Central Plains people, and Hedong County was at the forefront of resistance.There are as many as 460 Wubao in the 42 counties of Hedong County alone, and the Xue family of Hedong grew up in this era.The Xue family in Hedong is a Wuli clan, and it is their duty to fight against the Hu. They first resisted the Huns, and then the Shi clan of the Jie clan. No matter who owns the country, most of the villages and towns in Hedong are all under the control of the Han Chinese.However, the price is also very heavy.Hadong County has resisted for decades, and its population has dropped to more than [-], which is only one-fifth of that in the Taixi period.

In Hedong County, the Xue family is actually a flag. No matter the gentry are powerful, they almost sell three points of face to the Xue family.Under the banner of his father, Xue Qiang went back to Hedong to recruit troops, and he quickly gathered more than 8000 people.It accounts for almost one-third of the young and strong in Hedong County.Almost half of the eight thousand young and strong men are self-reliant warriors from various families, who have resisted the aggression of the Hu people all the year round and possessed rich combat skills.In this way, Xue Qiang controlled a well-equipped army of more than [-] people.

(End of this chapter)