"Have you heard? The second prince colluded with An Guogong to rebel and killed the emperor and queen. ”

"No, aren't these two princes the biological sons of the emperor and the queen? He even killed his own parents? ”

"You are mistaken, the second prince's mother is Concubine Xie, not the queen. But it's true that he killed his own father. ”

"Oh my God, you killed your own father?! That's too much of a beast, isn't it? ”

"The government has already posted a document, is this still fake?"

"What is it?"

"I heard Zhao Tongsheng at the entrance of the village say that it was a kind of document dedicated to denouncing traitors, and the content on the text was also told by him to the villagers."

"Zhao Tongsheng is the most knowledgeable person in our village, since he said that, there will definitely be no fake."

"Of course, I heard that there are many autographs of generals and officials who led the troops on the inscription, indicating that they are all willing to follow General Ning Da together, not accept the orders of the puppet dynasty, and resist to the end.

General Ning personally said that he was a loyal minister of the Great Wei and a general of the Northwest personally appointed by the emperor. He will never obey the orders of Shi's father Shijun's second prince, even if he is the emperor's own son.

In other words, our northwest has severed relations with the capital and is no longer under the control of the capital. ”

"Is that okay? Is the capital really willing to suffer this loss and give up the northwest? ”

"If you don't let it go, you have to let it go, it's a big deal to start fighting."

"Wait a minute, you mean, the capital may send a large army to fight us?"

"It seems like yes. I heard that the emperor and the ministers of the puppet dynasty regard our northwest as a thorn in their side and want to kill us all.

But you don't have to worry, we have General Ning here, and those young master soldiers in the capital will definitely not be able to defeat us. ”

"But there are a lot of people in the capital after all."

"What's the use of a lot of people, have you forgotten? When there was a great drought in the north that year, the Hu people took the opportunity to come in.

Not only did all the soldiers and civilians in the northwest resist the Hu people with all their might, but the capital also sent a large army to support.

But when the battle really started, those soldiers in the capital were useless at all, and they were often scattered by the Hu people.

In the end, it was not up to our local soldiers in the northwest to drive the Hu people away? That's why we jokingly called those soldiers in the capital young master soldiers.

What's the use of having more such people, we are not even afraid of the Hu people, but we are also afraid of those young master soldiers? It's a joke. ”

Hearing these words, the villagers who joined in the excitement nearby were a lot more relieved.

Many of them had seen the vicious battle with their own eyes, and they still knew how effective the soldiers from the capital were.

But is that really okay? In this way, the northwest turned against the imperial court. So what to do after that?

This question is not only a question of many people in the northwest, but also a question of many military generals and officials at all levels.

Unlike civilians who don't know anything, these military generals and local officials know a little bit about the Northwest and have a deeper understanding of the dire situation today.

Although the military and civilians in the northwest are fighting very strongly, the northwest itself has a great weakness: that is, the lack of food.

The barren land and arid climate in the northwest led to extremely low grain production, which could not support the 250,000-strong Northwest Army at all, and could only barely maintain the food and clothing of the local civilian people.

Therefore, the imperial court needs to allocate a large amount of grain and grass to the northwest every year to support, otherwise it is easy to mutiny once the army is short of food.

Now that the northwest has severed relations with the capital, the most urgent issue facing all military generals is: how to solve the problem of military rations in the future.

As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first.

Food supplies are critical for both soldiers and civilians.

Once there is a shortage of food, not only will more than 200,000 soldiers be prone to mutiny, but there will also be a major riot in the entire northwest.

In addition to supporting more than 200,000 soldiers, the northwest also has another heavy burden, that is, a large number of war horses to raise.

The reason why the Northwest Army was able to compete with the Hu people, who were good at cavalry and archery, in addition to the courage of the soldiers themselves, another important reason was that the Northwest had cultivated a large number of cavalrymen who were also good at cavalry and archery.

To train cavalry, you must first have horses, and they must also be war horses.

The Central Plains region where Great Wei is located is originally short of horses, let alone one out of a hundred war horses.

These tens of thousands of war horses are the huge war horse herd that the successive generations of Ning family owners spent decades of time and energy to breed and cultivate the war horses captured from the Hu people little by little, and then gradually formed. It is really difficult to describe the difficulties and bitterness of it.

These tens of thousands of war horses are not only an important tool for the Northwest Army to fight the Hu people, but also an extremely heavy burden.

Horses originally ate a lot more than people, and in order to ensure the physical strength of war horses, they could not be fed coarse material like ordinary cattle and sheep, and they had to be fed concentrate.

The grain consumed by a war horse is enough to feed a dozen or twenty ordinary soldiers.

Just one war horse is so amazing, and the food consumed by tens of thousands of war horses every day is simply a bottomless pit.

If there is no new source of food, just feeding these horses will be enough to deplete the grain reserves in the northwest.

This is an issue that must be addressed as soon as possible, and it is urgent.

At this time, it was already late at night, but in the meeting hall of the northwest camp, the lights were bright, and more than two dozen military generals in battle robes were discussing the matter.

Among these people, including Ning Yabai and Ning Yafeng, except for some of the Ning clan who served in the army, the other dozen generals with foreign surnames were all confidants and generals who had followed Ning Zhi's expedition for many years, and they were also the first people to sign the document to show their loyalty.

These henchmen and generals who were loyal to Ning Zhiyuan were the key forces for the Ning family to be able to control the entire northwest military power in just a few days.

Otherwise, the Ning clan alone would not be enough to do this.

They are gathered here tonight to discuss how to solve the problem of food shortage.

After everyone discussed, they came to a unanimous opinion, that is, they could only rob it.

But as for where to grab it, there are different opinions.

As we all know, Jiangnan has always been the main grain-producing area of the Great Wei Dynasty, and nearly half of the grain of the entire Great Wei Dynasty comes from several major provinces in the south of the Yangtze River.

Moreover, most of the provincial capitals in Jiangnan are rich, and the local agriculture and commerce are very developed, and there has always been a saying that Jiangnan is rich in the world.

As long as the south of the Yangtze River is laid, not only will the northwest not be short of grain in the future, but will also not be short of money, which is really a good goal to kill two birds with one stone.

However, although Jiangnan is good, it is too far from the northwest and needs to cross two provinces to reach it.

Moreover, the puppet dynasty also knew very well that Jiangnan was the henchman of the Great Wei, and there would definitely be heavy troops guarded there.

At that time, the Northwest Expeditionary Force will probably face hundreds of thousands of elite defenders who are waiting for work.

In addition, the defenders occupy the advantage of the city, not to mention whether it can be captured. Even if it can be defeated, the expeditionary force is likely to pay extremely heavy casualties and costs.

As soon as this account was settled, many generals did not agree to fight Jiangnan.