Chapter 382: Make a Big Encirclement

Surrounded by the soldiers of Jingbianbao, all the displaced people followed the rules, the elderly were at the front of the line, then the children over six years old, the children under the age of sixteen, and then the women.

They all held iron lunch boxes distributed by the Jingbianbao army in their hands, and received porridge in an orderly manner.

After receiving the porridge, the displaced people gathered together in twos and threes and drank the porridge slowly.

This porridge is too little for those who have been hungry for a long time, and those young and strong homeless people sucked it in three or two bites, and then they licked the lunch box over and over again until it was clean, and their tongues scraped on the iron box and it hurt, and then they stopped.

Comparatively speaking, the old people and children have to eat more slowly, so these young and strong homeless people have their eyes shining on the old people and children to eat.

If there was no discipline and restraint, they would have to snatch the gruel in the hands of the old man and the child, but because there were heavily armed Jingbian Fort troops guarding it on all sides, they forced down the desire in their hearts, and watched others eat, and they could only salivate 3,000 feet.

The matter of Liu Renyu's soup soup in the barracks spread throughout the Ming army camp, in fact, Hong Chengchou should do it, after all, he is the biggest official in Shaanxi, and he is also a civilian official.

But Hong Chengchou really can't do it, because now he can't even guarantee the military rations, how can he still have the spare energy to manage the people, so for Liu Renyu's style, Hong Chengchou is just 'a good number, praise it, and don't send grains of rice into the Jingbianbao military camp! ’

Liu Renyu can understand Hong Chengchou's difficulties, and other generals are quite incomprehensible to Liu Renyu's behavior, and even Liu Wuguo has asked Liu Renyu many times: "Brother Xian, it is the affairs of the imperial court to help the victims, what do you do with my generation, why bother to live on corn at your own expense?" There are countless people who have worked hard, and the court is willing to show you credit? ”

In response to these questions, Liu Renyu replied: "I didn't do this to get credit, I just felt that the people were innocent, and I couldn't bear to see them die in the wilderness with no bones left, or they were taken captive by thieves and used as cannon fodder, so I took them and treated them with all their lives and made supreme merit." Read the fastest chapter on (/\)"

There are various religions in ancient Chinese folk beliefs, but there is one basic principle of Buddhism that is accepted by everyone, that is, if you do evil in the world while you are alive, you will go to the eighteen layers of hell after death; When you are alive, be kind to others, accumulate yin virtue, and after death, you can ascend to heaven.

Therefore, Liu Renyu's rhetoric Liu Wuguo can also understand.

Besides, Liu Renyu gave porridge on the one hand, and ordered the firefighters to cook baked cakes according to the basic requirements of three times a day for each homeless person, and according to the footsteps of the homeless, starting from the central county town and walking to Jingbian Fort, it would take at least ten days to walk, so each person had to give forty baked cakes to complete.

The firefighters worked overtime, and it took a day to cook tens of thousands of baked cakes, but in this way, the grain and grass carried by the Jingbianbao army were almost exhausted, and Liu Renyu, in order to ensure the supply of military food, ordered the soldiers to take out the silver taels they carried, get together, and divide the soldiers into several roads to buy grain in the prefectures and counties around the central county seat.

Originally, there was a great drought in Shaanxi, and there was no harvest in the farmland, so I thought that the states and counties should be short of grain, but the lack of grain was only the government of Shaanxi and the local aborigines of Shaanxi.

These Shanxi businessmen, who had been doing business in Shaanxi for many years, saw the opportunity of Shaanxi's grain shortage, bought grain from Shanxi at a low price, and then sold it at a high price.

In previous years, one or two pieces of silver could buy one stone of rice, but in this famine year, you could only buy three buckets, and one stone of grain had to be sold for four to five grains of silver.

When the officers and men of the Jingbianbao Army asked Shanxi merchants to buy grain, they said that they bought this grain to fight the thieves, and that it would be beneficial for them to sell the grain cheaply.

When those Shanxi businessmen turned a deaf ear, they cried and shouted to their mothers about expensive purchase prices, high freight, high risks and so on.

That is to say, even if these Shanxi businessmen knew that the purpose of the Jingbianbao army to buy grain was to fight the thieves and indirectly protect their lives and property, they would never be cheap.

The officers and men of the Jingbianbao Army had no choice but to obediently hand over the money and buy grain at a high price.

Some soldiers complained to Liu Renyu about this matter, and when Liu Renyu heard this, he did not say anything special that the businessman's profit-seeking nature had made them lose their humanity.

For example, one of the eight imperial merchants in Shanxi who was sealed by the founding of the Manchu Dynasty is a dog traitor who is all shameless to the extreme, and he will definitely find an opportunity to settle accounts with them in the future, but now he will get rid of the thieves first.

After the Jingbian Fort army finished replenishing the grain and grass, Liu Renyu sent men and horses to escort the displaced people to Jingbian Fort.

Hong Chengchou's army was short of food and grass, and after destroying the black evil gods entrenched in the central county, after passing the sky star and scorpion block, he was temporarily unable to attack the thieves, so he could only stand still in the central county and wait for the military rations to be transported from Huguang.

Liu Renyu's subordinates did not have any concerns about the shortage of food and grass, and the displaced people in his hands were still not enough, and he also needed more people, so he did not want to wait, so he went straight to Hong Chengchou's Chinese army tent on the night of sending the displaced people to Jingbian Fort, and asked the latter to fight, planning to go alone to meet the Red Army friends entrenched in the area of Zhenyuan Puhe, Li Dusi, Du San, Yang Laochai, Hao Ning'an, Liu Liu and other thieves.

Hong Chengchou felt that the thieves were numerous, and the number of troops was said to be as many as tens of thousands, and Liu Renyu's department only had 3,000 people, if he was forced to fight, he was afraid that he would be outnumbered, or even if the Jingbian Fort army was strong, he was afraid that there would be losses, so he advised Liu Renyu and said: "I know that Renyu's troops are all strong and strong, and their combat power is outstanding, even the Jiannu of Liaodong is not afraid, but after all, your army is only 3,000, and this thief department heard that there are tens of thousands of people, and Renyu's two fists are difficult to defeat with four hands, so it is better to wait until the military rations come to our army, and then join forces to attack, how about it?" ”

"The commander, in the past, when the standard was only a small garrison, there were only 700 soldiers under his command, and he still dared to face Wang Jiayin's 30,000 thieves, and now the number of troops under the standard has risen to 3,000, and the combat power is not the same as before, so I also ask the commander to allow the standard to lead the army to the Pu River in Zhenyuan, go straight to the thief's lair, and defeat the thief in one fell swoop." Liu Renyu replied confidently.

"Renyu, I know that you are dedicated to the country, and this heart can be learned, but it is not your soldier's horse to exterminate the thieves, you must let the soldiers and horses of the court bear the war as one, so that the war achievements will be divided, and the other people and horses will be profitable, and they will help you." Hong Chengchou said with a smile.

"Commander, you don't need the help of other people to suppress thieves, and my department can take on the big task alone." Liu Renyu looked down on the thief in his heart, and said with some arrogance.

"Renyu, the thieves have always been easy to win, but it is difficult to destroy, because they are too capable of running, so I am brewing a big plan, I intend to first send troops to defend all the passes near the left of Zhenyuan, form a large encirclement, and then concentrate the main force to fight the main force of the thieves, and defeat it in one fell swoop.

At this time, our army has strong soldiers on all sides, and the thieves cannot rush out, and they will fall into a heavy encirclement and be wiped out. Hong Chengchou said.

"Commander, your tactics are not very good, and your tactics are not to send a division that dares to fight to the Puhe River in Zhenyuan to fight a decisive battle with the thieves, and the mark can just take on this task, and the rest of the troops and horses only need to hold the passes and intersections everywhere, and don't let the thieves escape." Liu Renyu said.

"Renyu, the task of guarding the passes and intersections is only the responsibility of the garrison generals in various places, and your men and horses still have to fight the thieves with the main army. Let's close the door, our family speaks our own words, you are my confidant and favorite general, and you will still rely on you to protect Shaanxi in the future, so I mean, your people and horses will fight with the main army, so as to minimize losses, you can understand my painstaking efforts. Hong Chengchou said repeatedly.

Hong Chengchou has said it to this point, if Liu Renyu disagrees again, wouldn't he be too ignorant, so he had to nod and say: "The commander's hard work, marked with gratitude, even so, the standard will send someone to Zhenyuan to find out the truth of the thieves, so that our army can get relatively accurate information when the thieves are in a decisive battle, I don't know what the commander wants?" ”

"You do something, I don't worry, you go, the grain and grass will arrive in the barracks after five days at the latest, and after five days, the generals of the General Assembly will attack and fight a decisive battle with Jiannu, and wipe out the thieves of Ningsai on this road in one fell swoop." Hong Chengchou said loudly.

"Yes, Commander." Liu Renyu responded and walked out of Hong Chengchou's Chinese army tent to arrange reconnaissance matters.