Chapter 169: Embattled
For people in troubled times, happiness is actually a very simple thing.
You can eat a full meal, and you don't have to eat wild grass to satisfy your hunger.
There can be a brick and a half to shelter from the wind and rain, and there is no need to be exposed to the wind and sun all day long. For them, it is enough to smile, and it is happiness.
Thanks to the blessing of Song Jiang, a free volunteer propagandist, Wang Xiao's image in the Fang La army is even more fierce than that of the Yaksha ghosts.
'Every battle leaves no prisoners, and all are pitted. Digging hearts for vegetables, sucking blood for wine, and cannibalism. No women are not happy, and the night is a hundred women. ’
This is Wang Xiao in Song Jiangkou.
In conscience, the first half of this sentence is still somewhat interesting, and the last sentence can be regarded as an intuitive description of Wang Xiao's proud ability in a certain aspect.
But the middle paragraph is nonsense, and Wang Xiao is not the pervert of Sun Erniang.
Just because Song Jiang, a bastard, slandered Wang Xiao's reputation, the Fang Lajun he met here in Qingxi either fought to the death or fled when they met.
Faced with this situation, in addition to making a note on Song Jiang again in the small notebook, Wang Xiao also used rare gentle methods.
The able-bodied sergeants, with tin thorns, shouted at the hills and woods everywhere that they had something to eat when they came out to surrender.
The firehead soldiers directly set up the cauldron in front, and the hot steamed buns and fragrant broth played a greater role than knives and guns.
At first, all that came out were some ragged, skinny old men.
This is what was sent out to tempt.
When the people in the distance saw that the old men who no one wanted at all could eat and drink, more people walked out of the hill one after another.
The terrain here in Qingxi is mainly mountainous. Mountain bag after mountain bag, and the mountain is lush and densely wooded.
Wang Xiao's armor and cavalry were difficult to exert their strength in this environment. Going deep into the forest, you will often encounter all kinds of strange traps.
Faced with this situation, Wang Xiao simply adopted the tactics of siege.
Drove Fang La's army into the cave in the mountains, cut off the surrounding roads and directly surrounded them.
Living in the mountains is not as simple as you think.
In film and television dramas, a few thatched houses and a few acres of fields can live a leisurely life in seclusion, which is all nonsense.
In the mountains and forests, only sour wild fruits and unripe birds and beasts are eaten. Drinking dirty water with an unknown number of parasites. He wore a leaf hide, which could neither keep the wind nor the rain out. The only tools available were stone and wood.
The most important thing is that he has no salt in the mountains.
Fang Lajun did gather a lot of grain and grass in Qingxi, but it was all left for the young people to eat.
The existence of the elderly, weak, women and children, who purely consume food, was driven out to eat official meals after Wang Xiao began to be Huairou.
At its peak, the Fang La army claimed to have millions of soldiers, but most of them were old and weak women and children who were forcibly brought in. In order to fill the number of people, it seems that there are many people, so as long as you have legs and can walk, you can bring them.
Wang Xiao didn't kill these people because they were all coerced and didn't do anything evil. At the same time, he also wants to use these old and weak women and children to break the morale of the army.
When the news spread that the officers and soldiers did not kill people and still took care of food, many people came out of the caves in various hills and surrendered to the officers and soldiers.
Fang Bo, Song Jiang and others all felt that this was a good thing, and they could get rid of these burdens and consume the food of the officials and soldiers.
When the officers and soldiers are short of food, then they have to retreat.
So instead of stopping them, they added fuel to the fire and sent out all the useless people.
For these people, Wang Xiao is all accommodated.
"General, the food and grass in the army are only enough for ten days."
Han Shizhong walked through the camp of beggars and found Wang Xiao, who was drinking broth, and complained: "Thousands of people have come down the mountain today, and if we continue like this, our military rations will be eaten up." ”
Wang Xiao picked up a big spoon and put it into the pot, scooped a big bowl of broth and handed it to Han Shizhong.
"These are all coerced into the rebels, and it is their duty to help them."
Han Shizhong respectfully took the bowl, "The last general knows this reason, but there is really not much grain in the army." ”
Wang Xiao burped comfortably, "Don't worry, Hangzhou will soon bring grain over." ”
The wealth of Hangzhou City surprised Wang Xiao, who was accustomed to seeing big spending. The seizures of all kinds of materials are really countless, and the grain and everything are calculated in the warehouse.
In addition, the Western Army helped collect the goods of the rich before, and he could raise even hundreds of thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled people.
Han Shizhong snorted and drank up the broth, "General, why don't you send these people back to their respective prefectures?" Leaving them here to consume food in vain is really incomprehensible. ”
These old, weak, sick and disabled people were all brought by Fang La from the fifty-two counties in six states, and theoretically since they went down the mountain, they were sent back to their respective hometowns with enough food and drink.
But Wang Xiao left these people to raise them, which made everyone in the army incomprehensible.
"Do you know Xiang Yu?"
Han Shizhong was stunned and nodded, "The last general knows, the famous overlord of Western Chu." ”
"Then do you know how Xiang Yu was defeated in the battle of Xiaxia?"
"The ten-sided ambush of the Marquis of Huaiyin?"
"That's the process, and the root is embattled."
Wang Xiao explained to him, "The main force under Xiang Yu's command is the children of Jiangdong, and they have followed Xiang Yu across the river to fight for many years. I miss my hometown very much. Han Xin was embattled, and directly disintegrated Xiang Yujun's fighting spirit. ”
"Does the general want to use these people to break the fighting spirit of Fang Layu's party?" Han Shizhong made a sudden realization, and saluted respectfully, "The general's clever calculation is really the reincarnation of the Marquis of Huaiyin." ”
Thinking about the fate of the Marquis of Huaiyin, Han Shizhong felt that this was inappropriate. When he hurriedly wanted to change his words, Wang Xiao spoke.
"Fang Lajun's subordinates are also Jiangdong's disciples. These people seem to be old, weak, sick and disabled, but their children, nephews and grandchildren are the main force of the Fang La army. Now that they are all here, how much military combat power do you say the rest of Fang La's troops can have? ”
Fang La forcibly pulled people into the gang before, and it was impossible for the old and weak to let go of the young and strong. If you want to pull it, the whole family will pull it away.
Now the old and weak women and children have descended the mountain, and the young and strong people are still on the mountain. For the Chinese people who value filial piety, this situation will not last long.
Han Shizhong respectfully bowed his hand, "The general is really the reincarnation of Zhuge Wuhou." ”
This is said beautifully, and finally the matter of the Marquis of Huaiyin has been brought back.
Wang Xiao calmly accepted Han Shizhong's flattering words: "It's almost time to calculate, you take your camp head to take a shortcut, take a shortcut, and set off to Hangzhou City in concealment." Secretly protecting the grain convoy. ”
"Fang Lajun wants to rob grain?"
"As long as they still have the most basic military literacy, they should know that they can't hold out for long under the instability of the army. If you want to crack it, there is only one way. ”
"Cut off the grain."
Just like Wang Xiao predicted, seeing the increasing number of deserters, Fang Bo and the others, who couldn't sit still, finally decided to send troops to cut off Wang Xiao's grain route.
They divided into small groups, took advantage of the darkness of the night, jumped out of the encirclement and assembled on the outer line.
After that, they attacked the grain convoy that drove from Hangzhou City on the way. Unexpectedly, he was killed by Han Shizhong's cavalry group lurking on the side, and returned with a fiasco.
"You've done a good job, take credit for it."
Looking at Han Shizhong, who came back triumphantly, Wang Xiao praised him.
After experiencing the world of Daming Fenghua, Wang Xiao no longer pursues climbing the technology tree and sweeping the world.
It took decades of hard work to make the Industrial Revolution and leave a solid foundation for future generations to unify the world in a few hundred years or something.
Wang Xiao has already done this kind of thing.
The quest worlds are endless, and it would be boring if every world was so troubled.
Now he just wants to make up for the regrets he once knew when he read the book. It's like Jingkang's shame or something.
For the rest, Wang Xiao would rather enjoy life.
Eating, drinking, and interacting with beautiful girls is much more meaningful than climbing the technology tree to unify the world or something.
In the early morning, the wind between the mountains and forests is slightly cold.
Wang Xiao tightened the cloak on his body, and played with a pair of glass balls sent by Fang Bo in his hand.
Well, it's glass balls. The kind of pair of a few pieces in the modern world.
However, in the Great Song Dynasty, glass is a very valuable thing. I don't know which wealthy family Fang La snatched the pair of glass balls.
"What do you want?"
Wang Xiao was entertaining Fang Bo's envoy, who had come to discuss Zhao'an.
There is no way to do it if you don't recruit An.
Wang Xiao arranged for the old and weak women and children who were well fed and drunk all day long to call out to their nephews and officials in front of the battle, which led to a large-scale desertion in the Fang La army.
tried his best to attack the grain delivery team, but he was defeated and returned.
The morale of the army is floating, and the Fang La army, which is full of infighting and deserters, can no longer be defeated.
The messenger who came was Wang Yin, Fang La's military secretary.
"Pacify the envoy, we are willing to be recruited by the imperial court. It can be emulated by the military of the box. ”
Wang Yin said that he should imitate the Xiang Army, which means that we can be incorporated into the local Xiang Army.
In this way, the anti-thieves turned into a local army. With an official official status.
They don't care if it's anything like that.
Don't look at Fang La's uprising for less than a year, but he has plundered countless in the six states of Jiangdong. The generals are all big tyrants and have countless net worth.
To put it simply, they saw that the gamble was going to be lost. I just want to take the chips I grabbed and leave the table to live a good life.
"It's not that easy."
Wang Xiao kept shaking his head.
"It's not going to work. You should always pay for what you have done. ”
Wang Yin looked at him suspiciously, "I don't know what the appeasement envoy means?" ”
"Behold, you have swept through the Koto. I guess you can't count the number of people you've killed, right? If you say a word of Zhao'an, you will be able to live the life of a rich man with the wealth you have stolen. But those who were killed by you have to come to me who agrees to recruit peace. Do you think I'm right? ”
"Please also appease the envoy and say bluntly, what do you want me to do to recruit peace?"
"It's not too much trouble." Wang Xiao sighed a few times, "It is the guilty of the law, the release of innocence." That's my condition. ”
Wang Yin's teeth gritted and 'gurgling': "Pacify the adult, do you want us to die?" ”
"That's a normal request, isn't it?" Wang Xiao was puzzled: "You have killed so many people, it is enough to repay one life." You have taken advantage of it. ”
Wang Yin stood up indignantly, "We will never agree to such a recruitment!" ”
Wang Xiao narrowed his eyes and stretched out his hand to point at him, "Are you making a mistake, you took the initiative to ask for peace." ”
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