"Second brother, do you want the Wang and Xu families to become one?"

After everyone left the lobby, the head of the Wang family rubbed his forehead and asked tiredly:

"You talk about it first, what do you think the Xu family wants. Let's be honest. ”

Wang Ping's father and son and Wang An had discussed this issue together in private, and the conclusion they came to was very simple: the Xu family wanted to be a feudal town.

In the Tatar Yuan, such people were called Han Jun Shihou; In the Jurchen gold, it is Han Bo Jilie.

The Xu family is not much different, the only difference is that seeing Xu Muhe's urgent roar to send his most beloved son to Jiangnan, the Xu family's choice is probably to be the pawn of the Great Zhou, right?

Well, according to the Han people, this should be a festival envoy?

A semi-independent kingdom.

"The Xu family is invincible."

After Wang Ping explained his conjectures and discusses, he made a summary in a whisper:

"In the future, at least our Qingzhou Mansion will probably be the world of the Xu family. Why should our family bother with them? What's more, our family took the initiative to vote, and the Xu family is the horse bone of Qianjin City, and they have to treat our Wang family well. ”

Old lady Wang sat on the chair, put her hand on her forehead, and thought quietly.

Wang Ping, Wang An and others gathered around the next position, patiently waiting for the head of the family to make a decision.

They are now very confident, and if the old lady does not have greater ambitions, then they will definitely agree to their proposal.

In fact, when Wang Ping, Wang An, Wang Qi, Wang Wei and others made this decision, there was another important goal that attracted them - if the Xu family really became an independent kingdom, how could the Wang family, who first took the initiative to take refuge, be regarded as a small condescendant, right?

In the future, if the Xu family has a mansion, how can it give the Wang family a county. If there is a province, it is not impossible for the royal family to have a mansion.

"You can do the marriage you talked about first."

After a while, Mrs. Wang made a decision:

"Choose a good girl from your family, don't make your in-laws enemies. Marrying a girl from the Xu family can be mentioned, but if they don't agree, don't force it. ”

"As for Wang and Xu, don't worry now, your brothers will send troops to Wulian Mountain with the Xu family this time, see more, listen more and talk less, and then carefully ponder whether the Xu family really has such great ambitions, and if so, who wants to be the envoy of this festival."

"After seeing it, let's decide what the Wang family should do next."

We? Decision?

Wang Ping tried hard to suppress his ecstasy, bent down slightly and whispered, "Yes, don't worry, Dad." ”

……

The second month of the lunar calendar is not a good day for Han people to send troops, because February 2 is the traditional day for spring plowing and farming, and for Han people, land and harvest are the most important things.

However, the owners of Wubao are very clear that if they do not eliminate the threat of the displaced people of Wulian Mountain, even if there is a bumper harvest this year, there will be no good fruits to eat.

The current situation of the powerful families in Zhucheng is the best reference.

Therefore, this time to send troops, several powerful families in Rizhao are far more active than the previous pacification of the Japanese rebellion and the joint suppression of bandits.

Of course, everyone firmly believes that the Xu family, who can annihilate a Tartar Meng'an, will definitely be able to destroy the main force of the Wulian Mountain Exile Group, which is also an important reason for the active dispatch of troops.

Who doesn't love a winning battle?

On February 15, the coalition forces assembled at the Rizhao Wang's house, which was closest to the Wulian Mountains.

This time, the Xu family's new army was still fully dispatched, and although the other dock owners within the alliance had promised to bear the new army's twenty days of food and grass consumption, they still brought more than 200 carts and more than 1,000 auxiliaries.

In addition to the Xu family, the four families of Wang, Ding, Bao, and Zhang in the alliance sent 5,000 troops, which is almost equivalent to pulling all the strong men who can be dispatched during the busy farming season.

In addition, the three families of Zhucheng, Xin, Zhu, and Tao, who did not belong to the Wubao Alliance, also gathered more than 3,000 people to help in the battle.

Obviously, these powerful families in Zhucheng are counting on exterminating the displaced people of Wulian Mountain and grabbing some of the population back to make up for last year's losses.

In this way, the troops that actually participated in the Battle of Wulian Mountain totaled more than 12,000 people from 8 powerful families.

Although it is still very primitive, this is indeed the first time that after the Great Zhou court moved south, there was a Han armed force with more than 10,000 troops in Jiangbei with a clear organization and purpose.

However, Xu Shiyang did not lead this huge army to take Wulian Mountain directly, but set up a joint camp around the entire Wulian Mountain, forming an encirclement of Wulian Mountain first.

Subsequently, he gracefully ordered all units of the New Army to perform martial arts ...... at the foot of Wulian Mountain.

First of all, in order to attract the attention of the displaced people on the mountain, as if the opening gong and drum, the 2,500 infantry of the New Army took the battalion as a unit and was fully armed around the entire Wulian Mountain area for a long-distance training.

In just two days, the infantry unit of the New Army circled Wulian Mountain, during which almost no one was left behind, showing a strong strategic marching ability in front of the eyes of the allies below the mountain and the displaced people on the mountain.

Subsequently, after only a slight rest, the New Army carried out various queue transformations in what seemed to people of the era to be quite complicated in a well-spaced open space at the foot of Wulian Mountain: successive turns to the left and right, the rapid transformation of the marching formation into an anti-cavalry phalanx, the close cooperation of different branches of the infantry to cover each other's attacks, and the neat fanning rotation of the whole unit with the officers as the core that lacked actual combat significance.

After the training every day, during dinner, Xu Shiyang ordered the logistics troops to line up dozens of cauldrons and steam out dozens of fragrant wild vegetables and pork stuffed buns and steaming sorghum porridge.

This is a rare delicacy for the New Year, even the Wubao people who live a relatively stable life are full of mouth, not to mention the homeless people on Wulian Mountain who have eaten the last meal but not the next meal.

After dinner was ready, a row of loud auxiliaries, holding wooden trumpets, shouted loudly in the direction of Wulian Mountain:

"Brothers on the mountain! We are the new army of Juzhou! It's our Han team! We are not Tartar bandits, we don't kill indiscriminately! We also know that you can't survive as homeless people, so you have to go up the mountain as a last resort, so Lord Xu specially sent us to invite the brothers to go down the mountain to eat! ”

"Come down! There's nothing to eat on the mountain, what's the point of staying? When you go down the mountain, we will give you a piece of land, as long as you work hard, you can always eat enough! Work hard for a few years, maybe you can marry a daughter-in-law to leave a queen for your family! ”

"Brothers, think about it, you have also seen the strength of our new army soldiers! Wait a few more days, the soldiers will go up the mountain, what will you resist? Can't stop it, don't you still have to go down the mountain? It's better to go down the mountain and have a good meal now! Work hard in the future, let's all have a peaceful birthday! ”

After shouting the above statement, all the blockade troops took a hundred steps back and waited quietly.

There was a dead silence on Wulian Mountain, but Xu Shiyang was riding on a horse, and he could clearly see countless homeless people hiding in the deep dense forest, looking curiously over here.

Most of them were armed with improvised weapons such as clubs or stones, and were clearly on guard.

But there are also some skinny children, whose eyes are attracted by the whole cage of steamed buns and the big pot of sorghum porridge, and bite their fingers greedily.