Chapter 163: Escorting Food
In the end, the two of them walked out of the pass with red eyes and their backs bent. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info then the two teams erected the banner of Zhao characters and lined up on both sides of the pass.
Those two teams are not very large in number, and when combined with the Zhao family's army, they are only 2.67 million people.
In addition, those people were peasant rebels, and they lacked weapons. When playing against Zhao Jiajun, everyone saw that the two teams were using farm tools.
However, even if there are farm tools to use, it is considered good. Think about Qin Yi's team, there are nearly sixty percent of them, and they don't even have farm tools.
They relied on attacking other teams everywhere, collecting the spoils of war, and finally reluctantly equipping the six men with weapons.
The last of the four adults to use were sticks, the kind of thorny branches.
After the two teams were recruited, General Zhao and the others were most troubled by the matter of weapons.
It is said that the metal control in these years is very strict, and no one except the imperial court should have the right to smelt metal in private.
However, no matter what dynasty it is, there are some bold rats who brave the wind and risk.
Not only do they dare to mine the deposits privately, but they can also smelt those ores and make them into various finished products and sell them.
Coincidentally, General Zhao knew so many such people. Of course, when the world began to be chaotic, those people packed up their things and went into hiding.
Now, in order to keep the 300,000 iron horsemen out, General Zhao had to put down those mustards and put down his worth to go to those who sold weapons privately.
"General, those eight kings and eight lambs have not forgotten to make a fortune at this time, according to me, we should abolish them all, and save them all from being blackmailed." Vice General Tong patted the little ones beside him and said angrily.
After Wang Dajun sighed a few times, he said, "Who doesn't know that those people are hateful." Don't we have something to ask for now, let them be proud for a while. When our business is done, they won't be able to jump. ”
On the one hand, several generals also echoed Wang Chengshuai's words, and General Ji explained: "Now they are still useful, let's keep them first." Isn't it just to keep their lives, it's not a very difficult thing to do, and when we're done, if they don't know how to rein in, it's not too late to clean them up when the time comes. ”
"Are you going to unload the mill and kill the donkey? Aren't you afraid that they will bite us back when the time comes? "Vice General Tong belongs to the kind of person who can do it and resolutely don't use his brain.
At this time, General Zhao didn't want to say anything more, but explained to Wang Dajun and asked him to contact those people.
"Let's talk about it first, analyze the lotus root of the good guys, see how they react, and then, you should know how to operate." General Zhao's face was very solemn,
At this critical juncture, if there is any moth, it will be waiting to be opened by the Yuan army.
It's just that he doesn't want to be too accustomed to those people who don't even have a moral bottom line. If those individuals are too much, then he will not let them go.
Before, when the country was still in turmoil, General Zhao met those people, mainly so that he could get rid of them with the weapons that the imperial court had withheld.
An army that lacks weapons is like a tiger with its teeth drawn, completely deterrent.
Of course, at that time, General Zhao was enough to realize that among those people, who was worthy of cooperation, who had to be on guard, and who should be directly held back from moving.
It's just that in the past few years, in order to be able to calm the border and make the people in the area he guards more stable, he has not been able to take care of those individuals.
Now, it's time for them to make a move, and who deserves to be forgiven depends on the performance this time.
"General, let Vice General Tong go with me. He waited outside with men, and if I needed them, he would order them to do it. When it's time to be tough, we still can't admit it. Wang Chengshuai did not consult with General Zhao, but asked Vice General Tong to accompany him.
General Zhao looked at Deputy General Tong, who was obviously confused, nodded without hesitation, and said, "It's just right for him to go." Only if he comes out in person, those people will be taboo and will not embarrass you too much. ”
So, on the day when the two agricultural teams merged, Wang Chengshuai took Deputy General Tong and his party to the Five Elements Mountain.
There, it is the small hilly area south of Xianren Peak.
The reason why it is named Five Elements Mountain is because the geographical distribution there is a formation of five elements and eight trigrams.
General Zhao led the rest of his subordinates, including the two peasant leaders who were named the left and right deputy generals, to study the strategy of dealing with the enemy.
Just when they were arranging their troops to protect the Pylorus Pass, in the rear, the big battalion where Meng Ge and them were located had already completed their mission and finally held the food.
Just after the revenue was completed, someone came from the front, saying that Wang Ran and others would send 150,000 people and a month's worth of grain and grass to the pylorus pass after ten days.
150,000 people, a month's grain and grass, that's not a small number. There was only a small detachment of people who came to receive the grain, and the general manager was only about 30 people, and he definitely could not escort the grain.
It can be seen that when the time comes, the people of the large battalion will have to send it over.
It's just that after the previous battle at the airport, the remaining more than 10,000 people in the camp lost a lot, and now they are only more than 10,000.
When the time comes, send another 2,000 men to escort the grain and grass, and there will be 8,000 people left to guard the camp, which is not a good idea.
Meng Ji was so anxious that he spun around in place, and couldn't think of a good way for a while.
However, Wang Yan felt that there was no need to worry too much about this matter. "Those Yuan dogs were injured by such a powerful weapon as ours, and they will never come again until they find out the situation. It's just that our own people have to beware of our own people first and prevent them from leaking secrets, which is the key. Wang Ran said, and his eyes glanced in the direction of the second battalion.
Last time, after they took out their firearms, Zhou Changan and others took advantage of the chaos to pick up the leaks and hide some of them privately.
If Wang Ran hadn't taken out the general's warrant, saying that he would be punished by dividing the corpse of five horses for secretly possessing firearms, I am afraid that those people would really not talk about handing over firearms.
However, that's it, at the time of the final count, they still had six muskets missing, and a mortar barrel.
Fortunately, those grenades, as well as the bullets of the guns, were not missing. Even mortar shells are worth counting.
Even the bullets of those muskets, I don't know if those people really handed them over.
Thinking of the missing musket, Meng Ji also looked in the direction of the second battalion. Those people claimed to have handed over everything, and they did not find anything when they took people to search for it, and they were helpless.
"You say, those muskets were really taken away by Yuangou?" Meng Ji asked with some uncertainty.
Wang Yan cut a snort and said coolly: "At that time, those who used firearms were all mixed in our own team, and they would not be touched by those Yuan dogs at all. If you want to say it, it should be said that our internal personnel have different intentions. ”
"So what should we do?" Meng Ji asked.
On the side, Wang Ran, who was silent, suddenly opened his mouth and said, "Send them to escort grain and grass." When the time comes, we will know if there is any dissent. ”
"Escorting grain and grass?" Meng Ji and the two spoke in unison.
What an important thing to do, how dare you risk it?