Li Ruolian said with a big tongue: "Natural disasters and man-made disasters in Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan are uninterrupted, it is said that the grain is one or two silver, and there is hunger everywhere.

The officers and soldiers who went to suppress the Kou were miserable, and every day they were not thinking about how to fight the Rogue, but thinking about how to get food so that they would not starve to death. ”

Fang Zhenghua said: "Our family has also heard of these, so Shaanxi is categorically unable to go, these people in Jingying are usually pampered, and the training is hard and can be endured, if you can't even eat your stomach, I'm afraid it's possible to collapse." ”

Li Ruolian smiled: "Who can guarantee that their team will not collapse when they are hungry?" It is probably inevitable to rob the people and rob the people, so Shaanxi really can't go, and the team will probably be contaminated with banditry, and it will be even more difficult to bring it from now on. ”

It turned out that the situation in Shanxi was so bad that even Fang Zhenghua and Li Ruolian did not dare to bring their troops in, not because they were afraid of starving to death, but because they were afraid that their subordinates would become robbers who were committed to murder and robbery.

Huang Han said: "Leading troops is to protect the territory and the people, in order to resist foreign enemies, how can the soldiers rob the people in the territory?"

Once the soldiers show signs of plundering, their conscience will be broken from now on, and it is impossible to expect them to be loyal to the king and patriotic. ”

Fang Zhenghua said: "Rao is so, our family has worked hard to train people and horses just to have a job, and we must not participate in the war for the first time just to not starve to death and kill people and rob everywhere." Brother! You have a lot of ideas, show me a clear way for my brother! ”

Huang Han said with a smile: "The road is ready-made, Shaanxi is so far away and so poor, why do you want to go there?"

Shandong is close at hand, why don't you take the initiative to ask for orders to kill Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde's rebels?

There is the Ning army in front, and your Jingying people and Jinyi Wei brothers are supervising the battle in the back, and when you find that there is a cheap thing to do, you can pounce on it and rush hard, and it is not a problem to get military merits. ”

Li Ruolian said: "We know the situation in Shandong, where there are also displaced people and soldiers everywhere.

In the spring, Xie Lian, the governor of Denglai, who took office, and Xu Congzhi, the governor of Shandong, asked the imperial court to transfer grain one after another, and now because the governor of Shandong, Xu Congzhi, died in the battle, he was replaced by Zhu Dadian, the former governor of Tianjin.

But the situation has not changed at all, and there are no less than dozens of excerpts requesting grain transfer every month, but now that the autumn grain has not been harvested, I don't know how many people are starving, how can there be grain transfer to Shandong? ”

No wonder they are not optimistic about Denglai to quell the rebellion, there may be two worries, the first reason is, of course, that the soldiers are afraid that the soldiers will be hungry and the military discipline will be out of control, which will make their hard work go to waste.

The second reason may also be the fear of the total artillery fire of the rebels, which is currently in the forefront of the Ming Dynasty. The rebel artillery was personally guided and trained by Sun Yuanhua, and was operated in a standardized manner by the Portuguese mercenaries, and the technology was really extraordinary.

Even a high-ranking official of the rank of the governor of Shandong, who was appointed as a new official, was able to be killed by rebel artillery fire. In history, Xu Congzhi's death did leave a psychological shadow on many civilian and military generals.

Fang Zhenghua said: "Wouldn't it be the same for our family to take people and horses to Shandong to make the brothers hungry, and the only way to avoid starvation is to rob, what is the difference between this and going to Shaanxi?" ”

"Hahaha!" Huang Han laughed and said: "It's completely different, it's completely different, Shaanxi is too far away for the 'Red Flag Army' to reach the whip, Denglai is close at hand, and there are convenient conditions by the sea."

Whether the others are hungry or not, the official can't care, but the two of you lead the troops to the battle, and the official can guarantee the supply of more than half of the military rations, even if the court doesn't give a little food, it doesn't matter, it's a big deal that the official has covered the food under your command. ”

Fang Zhenghua smiled sympathetically, he said: "Our family is the prison army sent by the Son of Heaven with the men and horses, and it is impossible for anyone's grain and grass to be short of our family's descendants, and with the 'Red Flag Army' to supplement it from the sea, our family's men and horses will definitely not be hungry." ”

Li Ruolian said proudly: "Jinyi Wei is the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, and I have never heard that I will be hungry when I go out on an errand, and I must be tired of not giving us food." ”

Indeed, there must be food in the state capitals along the way, but I am afraid that there is really none.

Huang Han said: "Gonggong Fang took the men and horses to Denglai, it must be the largest prison army, and Master Li took one or two thousand brocade guards to the supervision team."

You have to see the right time to force the Guan Ning army to fight desperately with Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde's rebels, don't be stupid and let the descendants rush forward to be shelled, once you find that the Ming army can enter Dengzhou City, you must use all your forces to chase and fight. ”

Everyone here knows that General Pingliao and the Guan Ning army are like fire and water, and when they saw him come up with an idea, they didn't forget to give the Ning army a hand, and strive to make the Guan Ning army cannon fodder, and everyone looked at each other and laughed.

Li Ruolian asked with some incomprehension: "Lord Huang, it is easier to lose manpower in urban street fighting, wouldn't it be unreasonable for us to do our best in street fighting?" ”

The old god of Huang Han is saying: "Denglai can't afford to be a sword soldier for a long time!" Yin Shi people don't know how many people are, Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde's rebels swept half of Shandong, burning, killing and looting.

They may have eaten up the grain, pigs and sheep, but can they eat the gold and silver treasures they have looted? ”

Fang Zhenghua's eyes widened and asked, "General Pingliao means that the rebels have transported all the looted gold and silver treasures into Dengzhou City. ”

Huang Han affirmed: "Yes, according to the official's estimate, the rebels swept through half of Shandong and captured the big city of Dengzhou, and it is estimated that the robbery of gold and silver treasures will not be less than three million taels in silver. ”

At this time, Lou Yun, a native of Shandong, interjected: "Lord Huang is right, there must always be dozens or hundreds of rich people in a county town in Shandong, and there will be no less than dozens of rich people with 10,000 taels of silver at home.

It is very likely that hundreds of thousands of taels of silver will be robbed when the rebels break through the county seat, and you must know that the rebels have broken more than a dozen county towns and prefectures in Shandong. ”

Ai Guodong was speechless: "The rebels can rob hundreds of thousands of taels of silver if they break a county town, and if they rob more than a dozen cities, wouldn't they be able to make millions of taels bigger, obediently!" It's still a robbery to get money quickly! ”

Lou Yun said angrily: "What do you think? You casually rush into a well-to-do house to see, which one does not have a few dozen taels of silver, and which one does not have a few gold and silver utensils?

Of course, the rebels accumulated too much gold and silver and transported it into Jiancheng Dengzhou, and Lord Huang analyzed that Dengzhou had no less than three million taels of silver, whether you believe it or not, anyway, the lower officials believed it. ”

Chen Gao and Lin Daye, the two generals of the Beijing camp, were still a little restrained when they met Huang Hannai for the first time, but they had long known that every time they fought with Huang Han, they could get a share of military merit and silver.

At this time, the two listened to Huang Han's guidance, and immediately understood that it was possible to make a fortune by going to Denglai to fight. The two of them glanced at each other, and they couldn't hold back the excitement in their hearts.

I want to be promoted and make a fortune! However, the opportunity is hard to find, and this time I want to go to Denglai to show my strength.