Chapter VII: Rescue
Ma Yun discussed with the generals in the barracks, everyone felt that this was very good, and it was easy to win the hearts of the soldiers, Ding Sijin thought for a long time, and said: "Lord, you are restructured like this, in case Changsha is to blame, what can you do?" ”
Li Xiang guessed what Ma Yun meant, and said with a smile: "Why don't we add the word 'Ma' in front of the names of the 'Yuezhou First Regiment' and 'Yuezhou Second Regiment', presumably the imperial court will not be too difficult for us." ”
Ma Yun seemed to look at Li Xiang casually, and said with a smile: "This is better, you don't have to worry, you can train your own soldiers, and the affairs of the court will be borne by Xiao Wang." ”
After Ma Yun finished speaking, he paused and said: "Zhang Wenbiao, Zhou Xingfeng, Chen Xu, Qian Qing, and Shi Da are all elite generals in the army. ”
Of course, the five people were overjoyed, and immediately bowed down and said, "Swear allegiance to the prince." ”
Ma Yun laughed and scolded in a low voice: "Nonsense, you should be loyal to your father." ”
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In the Assassin's Mansion, Ma Yun had just returned from the barracks, so he summoned Li Xiang and Zhao Pu to discuss the matter of aiding Shentu Congjian, and in order to understand the situation more clearly, he also called Pan Mei. Although Pan Mei knew that this matter was complicated and could not be done overnight, it was about her own brother, and she was also restless these days. At this time, the recruitment was naturally described in detail and in detail about the "Seven Villages" in Guizhou.
Guizhou is the combination of Daba Mountain, Wushan Yumai and Bamian Mountain. The Yangtze River enters through the Badong Poshui Gorge, traverses the central government, and divides Guizhou into two parts, north and south, which constitutes a unique mountainous landform of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. The terrain in Guizhou is undulating, with mountains and mountains, and the terrain is high on all sides, low in the middle, and it is a basin terrain. Guizhou "Qizhai" lives in this lofty mountain.
After listening to Pan Mei's introduction, Ma Yun said bluntly: "Brother Pan, it's not that Xiao Wang is unwilling to send troops, it's just that this matter of sending troops requires the consent of his father." What we can do now is to fully understand your current predicament and try to help you solve some material difficulties. ”
Pan Mei seemed to have expected this to happen, although there was disappointment in her eyes, she still said: "Thank you for your help, our Qizhai is now short of food and grass, second, weapons, and medicine." ”
Li Xiang said on the side: "How many strong people do you have left?" And how many people have been trained? ”
Pan Mei stuck her mouth and said: "We are mostly old and weak women and children now, there are only about 800 young and middle-aged men, only about 200 of them have received some training, and the rest have always been farmers who keep to themselves. ”
Zhao Pu asked, "How did you have a conflict with the government this time?" ”
Pan Mei shook her head and said, "Although we have a large number of cottagers, we have always kept to ourselves, and we have not done anything else except not paying taxes. You may not know that we just rely on the mountains to grow some food every year, and the mountains are picking up some game, so we can barely survive. The land in the mountains is barren, the income is small, and the king of Nanping has a harsh decree, if you pay taxes according to his decree, our cottage people not only have a grain of grain left in a year, but also have to paste some money and grain. That's why we resisted. Originally, the two of us were safe, but a month ago, the king of Nanping suddenly sent an army and asked us to pay 10,000 taels of silver, otherwise he would crusade against us. Our cottage is in a difficult situation, how can there be so many silver taels, so we can only be forced to resist. The officers and soldiers were well-armed and well-trained, and we couldn't resist in desperate battles, and they broke five villages in a row. ”
Ma Yun comforted Pan Mei and asked him to go down and rest for a while. He turned around and asked the two, "What do you two think?" ”
Li Xiang sighed and said: "According to what Pan Mei said, if we don't send troops over, then Qizhai will really be unable to stop it anymore." ”
Zhao Pu said on the side: "Qizhai must be saved, this is not a matter of Jianghu commitment, with Qizhai here, you can divide part of Nanping's military strength." Then he looked at Ma Yun and said, "Has the prince thought about going to Nanping?" ”
Ma Yun looked at the two of them and said with a smile: "It's not a secret, Xiao Wang does intend to crusade against Nanping, but there is some trouble in the middle, so he has always made up his mind." ”
Li Xiang smiled and said, "The prince is worried that the king of Chu will not agree, will we send troops?" ”
Jack Ma nodded. Li Xiang smiled: "This is not difficult, if it is not for our willingness to send troops, it is Nanping who forced us to send troops, and it will be easier for the King of Chu to explain in the future." ”
Ma Yun has not thought about this problem, just like Hitler's attack on Poland, and the excuse is easy to find. However, there is another question that makes Ma Yun hesitate.
Li Xiang glanced at Ma Yun and said, "The next question for the prince is when to send troops." Looking down, the autumn harvest is the best time to send troops. ”
Ma Yun understands that there is not much money and grain in Yuezhou, if Nanping is knocked down now, relying only on Yuezhou's money and grain, it will not be able to support the people of Yue, Gui, Xia, and Jiangling to harvest in the autumn. If the time for the attack should be in the autumn harvest, not only will there be two more months in time, but there will be sufficient time to prepare. And after the autumn harvest, Nanping can support himself for a while. Then the likelihood of support until next summer is much greater. However, how should the people spend these two months?
Ma Yun's face was a little gloomy, but there was really nothing he could do, so he nodded helplessly. Li Xiang next to him said: "Since this is the case, we have to make a good total, how to help Qizhai." ”
Seeing Ma Yun looking at him, Li Xiang continued: "We can send 500 soldiers to Guizhou to help Qizhai, we don't want to repel the Nanping army, as long as the Nanping army is firmly tied to Guizhou." ”
Zhao Pu said on the side: "Can we still send people to train the strong men of Qizhai, so that we can attract the Nanping army a little more certainly." ”
Ma Yun nodded and said, "Then who should you send?" ”
Li Xiang said slowly: "I thought it was best for Guangmeng Gongzi to go." ”
Ma Yun was stunned for a moment and said: "Guangmeng is too young, and besides, he doesn't have any experience in military training." ”
Li Xiang smiled and said: "The prince doesn't seem to know much about this younger brother, Guangmeng Gongzi, but he is a genius in military training." The prince didn't inspect the 1,000 pro-soldiers today, otherwise he wouldn't have this idea again. ”
Ma Yun said: "Is Guangmeng really good at training?" Seeing Li Xiang nodded, he said happily: "Okay, good, I didn't expect Guangmeng to be my horse's thousand-mile horse, well, then let Guangmeng go, it's also a good thing to exercise more, and let Zhou Xingfeng protect him." Ma Yun didn't say something in his heart, let Guang Meng go, that is to sell a lot of face to Shentu Congjian, and also make Shentu feel at ease, knowing that Yuezhou will do his best to help him.
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