With an angry shout, a knife slashed, the king's eyes widened angrily, his arms suddenly exerted force, and the big knife under the chop was frozen in the air, and the blade trembled uncontrollably with a buzzing sound. With a long sigh, the king slowly put away his sword and straightened up.

Bang Bang Bang!

There was a sound of applause behind him, and the king turned around again, but saw Xiang Zhen, who was wearing a thick jacket, standing at the door of the backyard, looking at him with a smile.

"General, are you feeling better?" He threw the knife aside, and the king greeted him with surprise and joy.

Xiang Zhen nodded, "These days, you have suffered. ”

Wang's nose was sour again, and he almost burst into tears. After returning to Lingnan with Xiang Zhen, Xiang Zhen went home to recuperate, but he was first imprisoned.

In the Battle of Eyue, although it was because of Liu Xinda's final rebellion that led to the destruction of Xiang Zhen's entire army, the reason for this was that Ezhou City was broken by Li Mi within one day. Nearly 20,000 troops did not play the slightest role in delaying Li Mi's right Qianniuwei, which made Xiang Zhen finally fall on his back and suffer the enemy, and also made Liu Xinda choose to preserve his strength and betray his teammates.

If it weren't for the fact that the Wang family was also quite powerful in Lingnan, after Wang was imprisoned again, he carried out various activities and made a lot of money, and Wang was afraid that he would have to stay in prison for a while.

But even if people come out, they are not used. Every day, I can only practice my sword skills at home depressed, and I just exert my power at the air.

The battle of Ezhou, for Wang You, is really a crime of non-war. He has done what he can do, but under the bombardment of the Northern Tang artillery, what can he do?

It was the first time he and his troops had seen such a sharp ranged weapon.

"It's nothing, in the battle of Eyue, the last general himself has an unshirkable responsibility." The king shook his head again and said, "The general is not in good health, why did he still go out of the city to the last general's house?" ”

"It's almost all right, and after lying down for so long, I feel like I'm rusting." Xiang Zhen said: "Looking at your appearance, you are still in good shape, how is it, are you ready?" ”

Wang stared at Xiang Zhen again, and said in surprise and joy: "Is the general going out of the mountain again?" ”

"Let's start all over again!" Walking into the pavilion, Xiang Zhen sat down, took a sip of the tea brought by the Wang servant, and said lightly.

"Starting all over again?" Wang blinked his eyes again and looked at Xiang Zhen with some puzzlement.

Xiang Zhen nodded and said, "Yes, start all over again, we have to recruit again, train soldiers, and do what we have done before, again." ”

Wang was silent for a long time before he said: "General, I don't know what Li Ze of the Northern Tang Dynasty is having, they did not take advantage of the momentum of the big victory to attack us, but stopped, although this gave us enough time to retrain the army, but what about the money?" What about the land where these soldiers were placed? If you become an army in one year, you can reach the level of our army earlier in two years, but such a unit is fed with money! ”

Xiang Zhen smiled and beckoned to the back, and a personal guard walked over and placed a wooden box in front of Wang You.

The king opened the box again in confusion, and after only one glance, he jumped up in shock, and the box was full of silver tickets issued by the Four Seas Money Bank, and the top one was enough for 10,000 taels. This thick stack is only afraid that there are hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

"Where did you get so much money? This, is this supported by the marshal? He asked, surprised and delighted.

Xiang Zhen shook his head: "Now it's not that the handsome can be counted by himself." Dashuai promised to give me 100,000 taels, and the rest was for me to sell all my properties such as my village shop and tea mountain. got a total of 400,000 taels of silver, plus 100,000 taels given by the marshal, a total of 500,000 taels. ”

Wang looked at Xiang Zhen in a daze: "General, your inheritance, how can it be more than 400,000 taels of silver?" ”

"There's no way!" Xiang Zhen spread his hands and said: "I'm in a hurry to make a move, how can those people not lower the price?" ”

Wang You's face was a little distorted, and his eyes showed murderous aura: "Those people are really lawless, and they dare to take advantage of you?" ”

"Naturally, they don't dare to take advantage of me, but they have someone behind them, so it's naturally different." Xiang Zhen smiled and said, "As far as I know, about half of my property will fall into the hands of my second and third brothers. ”

The king sat down again.

"There's nothing to be wronged about." Xiang Zhen smiled: "It's enough to dig up real money." Take the money, gather our surviving brethren, and begin to recruit soldiers at once, remember, rather than in abundance. ”

"Where to recruit troops?" Wang also said: "Now all the places are recruiting government soldiers, and there are not many young and strong left. ”

"Go to the coastal counties to summon!" Xiang Zhen said: "You probably also know that the Northern Tang Navy Division is very eager to invade the coastal provinces and counties, and now a large number of people have begun to flee inside, and there are people we need." As long as you have money and land, you can naturally summon the people you want. This time, a little more relaxed, under forty, we all want. ”

"I know this, the soldiers we want must have a family and a room, we must be honest and obedient, and we don't want anything to be slippery and tricky. It's just a general, the money is there, but what about the land? ”

"All the land in my name has been taken out this time to house the families of these people. Wang You, I'm not a penny now, maybe I'll come to you to fight the autumn wind in the future! Xiang Zhen smiled.

The king said ashamedly: "General, in my family, I don't count what I said, and I have a net worth of only tens of thousands of taels of silver." ”

"Forget it!" Xiang Zhen smiled: "You are not the eldest son at home, how much money can you have, this money, let's keep it to support the family, besides, what can you use with this money?" You have done things well for me, which is the best support for me! ”

"Okay, General, today I will gather those old brothers, after we come back, these old brothers have also been idle and scattered, and some have even been driven out of the army, and now I will be overjoyed to hear that the general has returned. After gathering these people, we will immediately go to the coastal provinces and counties to recruit troops, and within a month, we will definitely bring back all the people you need. ”

Xiang Zhen slapped his face and said with a smile: "That's right, when we have soldiers and horses and form combat effectiveness, are we afraid that we won't have money?" ”

Wang was stunned again, glanced at Xiang Zhen, but saw the slightest wisp of murderous aura in the other party's slightly squinted eyes, and his heart suddenly froze, but at the same time, he also felt extremely happy in his heart.

That's how it should be.

Now they are downcast and bullied, and when they stand up again, those who have bullied them will naturally have to pay the price.

"Under the nest, there are no eggs, these people are so ignorant of the overall situation, they really deserve to die!" Wang sneered again.

"Who made us the generals of the defeated army?" Xiang Zhen said lightly: "But only we know how we lost." Wang You, you are a person who has personally experienced the shelling of the Northern Tang army, these days, I think, you must also be thinking about how to restrain him, right? ”

Wang nodded again: "General, even when I was in prison, I was struggling to meditate on how to solve this problem, but I never came up with any good solution. After fighting with the Northern Tang Dynasty, fighting according to the city, it was no longer possible to stop the opponent, how strong the Ezhou city wall was, but under the bombardment of the other party, there was still no resistance. ”

"So, we don't have anything to do?"

"Yes!" Wang also said: "When they used this kind of cannon to attack Ezhou City, I was above the city and saw them get this thing with my own eyes. It was so heavy that they loaded it onto small boats and pulled it under the city by man. Therefore, its disadvantage is also obvious, that is, it cannot maneuver quickly. Therefore, if the other side has this kind of weapon, we cannot choose to fight positionally, but to find fighters in high-speed movement, and would rather fight with the enemy in the field than squat somewhere to be bombed by him. ”

"If one day, the Northern Tang Army comes to attack, how should we face it?"

"General, the south is different from the north, and in the future, we are afraid that we must avoid large-scale battles with the other side as much as possible, and we must also avoid fighting with them on the plains. The Northern Tang army had too many cavalry, and fighting it on such terrain would infinitely expand their advantage. ”

"In other words, we have to use the complex terrain to engage in high-frequency small-scale combat with them."

"Yes, we can also take advantage of the many characteristics of the southern water system to vigorously develop water divisions."

"But the Northern Tang Dynasty has an absolute advantage in terms of water divisions."

"General, the sailors I am talking about are not the sailors of the Northern Tang Dynasty, we use small boats to quickly intersperse between tributaries and small rivers, and their big boats cannot enter these small rivers. And are there more people in the north who are proficient in water than in the south? Wang added: "Equipped with a large number of such cheap sailor troops, ships are just means of transportation, not our means of warfare, of course, if there is an opportunity, we can also use some special tactics." ”

Xiang Zhen laughed: "It seems that these days, you really haven't been in vain." But for now, let's retrain our army, and what you're saying will not be fully implemented until I'm in power, and now, even if we say it, no one will listen to it. ”

Wang nodded again: "I have confidence in the general. General, you are only temporarily dormant, and there will always be a time when you soar into the sky. ”

"I hope so." Xiang Zhen said: "Borrow your auspicious words." This time, Xiang Juntong secretly went to the Lufeng area with thousands of cavalry to assemble, hoping that he could bring some good news. ”

"Why Lufeng?"

"That's my judgment." Xiang Zhen said: "I think the next step of the Northern Tang Navy Division is definitely to go to Lufeng." The purpose of these attacks by the Northern Tang Navy Division is to create panic, hit the economy of our south, and make us suffer huge losses on top of our finances, so, Lu Feng, they are definitely going to go, hoping that Xiang Jun can seize the opportunity. ”