Under the city of Jiaozhou, a temporary battlefield meeting.

"How much food is still left in the army?"

Zhou Huai'an said to Yang Neng, the grain officer and the leader of the auxiliary brigade.

"How long can it last?"

"According to the current consumption of the army, there is still a surplus of about 20 days of grain in the army."

Because of multiple injuries on his face, Yang Neng, who looked a little paralyzed and expressionless, replied:

"In addition, in a short period of time, we can continue to raise and purchase some supplements from the local government. It can be extended to about January. ”

"It's just that after twenty days, the attached soldiers and servants will not be taken care of."

"But it doesn't matter, this time is enough for us to move and rush, and strive for changes and breakthroughs."

Zhou Huai'an thought about it, and in turn comforted and encouraged

"But the place is settling down, so it's good not to spread the news for a short time."

"So not only can't we just reduce the number of people, but we also have to recruit more people."

"Well, I'll give the order."

Zhou Huai paused and continued

"On the pretext of further reorganization, we should strengthen the control over those attached to the army, and then on the pretext of arranging for them to return to their hometowns to farm, dismiss and eliminate those old and weak who are of little use. Take "

"The next step is to recruit and arm more young people. Even if it's a scene, it's fine. As long as you can control these strong men, if other places want to mess up, they won't be able to mess up. ”

"Order...

More than a dozen subordinates present all spoke in unison. Then, Zhou Huai'an stood alone in front of the newly made sand table and gently tapped the various terrains represented on the Red River Plain with a wooden pole.

As a newly formed army, it has long been dragged out of the traditional peasant army that was scattered without food in the past; Therefore, under the expected reserves, there will not be much problem even within a month of the rear being cut off; What's more, he also has the newly opened town of Haimen and its maritime canal as an alternate transportation route; The key is the chain reaction of those peripheral forces from this.

Now there are barbarians who are attacking in the distance, there are remnants of the enemy in the city who are stubbornly resisting to the end, and there are pirates in the rear; Therefore, only according to the principle of clenching fists and hitting people, concentrate all efforts to solve one of them first, and then achieve the result of a series of breakthroughs.

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And in Bijinggang,

Lin Shenhe, who had a small iron pot above his head, squatted on the roof of the house, and climbed up with his body to a probe in the distance, and shot an arrow and suddenly responded. Then he sighed heavily, and carefully took a sip of water from the gourd on his waist, and moistened his dry and thirsty throat.

Now, the reason why they are in this situation is because of those thieves outside.

It is said that one of the remnants of the "Five Elders' Association", one of the remnants of the "Five Elders' Association", who escaped from the Ganggang, did not know when he had returned to the port area, and connected the big families in Zhongfangqu in the rear city, and suddenly launched a rebellion and blocked their retreat; Then a large number of pirates swarmed from the sea, and some people in the port area took the opportunity to set fires, and most of the area was suddenly subjugated by the combination of the inside and the outside.

In the end, only the remnants of them gathered in the overflow were left, relying on this warehouse and warehouse area in the eastern corner of the port area and insisting on holding on for a while; With the support of the sailors and shipwrights on the nearby moored boats, they were able to repel the familiar attacks of the chaotic pirates again and again.

But now that it was getting dark, it was obvious that they had found a new countermeasure, and began to pile up a lot of firewood outside the warehouse stack, and then used the trolley to cover the goods, and gradually approached and approached under the wall of the warehouse area.

At this time, another alarm signal came from the rear:

"Oh no, the thieves have rowed over from the sea."

With these exclamations and shouts, I saw that a Guangzhou ship moored nearby had quickly fallen in some kind of fighting and roaring movement, and it was set on fire on the deck, and many screaming figures fell down with sparks.

Lin Shenhe's mind sank all of a sudden, and he fell into some kind of fear and despair, which can be said to be the tiger entering the front door and the wolf coming from behind to take care of himself. The sailors and boatmen who had swords and bows to help them defend their defense also panicked or lost their formation, and some people began to run towards the rear involuntarily, but they wanted to escape back to their ships.

However, the sudden change was born in vain, and in the scream, blood splattered everywhere. But they were all the sailors who got up and escaped, and Lin Shenhe, who jumped off the roof first, shot down two, knocked down one more and cut off their heads; Suddenly, the rest of the people were startled and stopped their steps and movements.

"Are you waiting for the lard to be blinded? I want to be fled by the enemy.,Is this because everyone didn't die fast enough?。。 ”

Lin Shenhe, who was splashed with blood, stared at the bloodshot red eyes and said sharply.

"If this place on the shore is not secured, what can you hide from the other side with a few of your ships that have not had time to raise their sails?"

"Only if I kill the thief with me can I live."

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On top of a sentry tower in the port area, as the initiator of this incident, "Hua Lao", who had long controlled the underground forces in Jiaozhou Dagang and even the coastal areas, and one of the leaders of the "Five Elders' Association," was also watching this scene, and constantly urging and transferring the former manpower to join the attack on these remnants.

Although this "flower old" has an old word, it doesn't look old at all, but a middle-aged beautiful woman with a moving demeanor between her gestures and charms; It is hard for people to imagine that such a beautiful woman once controlled hundreds of prostitution houses and villages along the coast of Jiaozhou with Bijing Port as the center, and used the advantage of sea transit to monopolize and control the local large-scale human trafficking business for a long time.

Therefore, it also hid and adopted many wanted and exiled criminals and outlaws as wings and minions to maintain their power and status; As a result, countless people's families were ruined and their wives separated, and it was even more bloody and tearful. As a result, it has also established a deep network of relationships and unshakable ties of interest with many pirates, bandits, and smugglers.

Therefore, the body of a weak female streamer who has no power to restrain a chicken, in these underground worlds where the weak eat the strong and only respect force, is listed as one of the top five elders of the gang with those ruthless and brave gangs. Therefore, while intriguing and calculating with other leaders, he also plays a certain role of think tank and well-informed on weekdays;

Yes, after these grass thieves landed in Jiaozhou Dagang and started to rectify it ruthlessly, she was able to escape one step ahead of others; And in the end, he connected with a strong background and backer, and with the connections and dark lines he left, he made a comeback and sat back on the counteroffensive thing. It can even persuade those big families in the rear urban area to sit idly by, and cut off the channels for these grass thieves to ask for help and break through in disguise.

But as it is called, every hateful person must have pity; Her real name is Lei Zhu, and she is the concubine and son of a bankrupt Hu Shang. Therefore, it was sold in many places at a very young age, and finally became a popular brand in Jiaozhou City with the name of "Green Girl"; But it is not surprising that I encountered the routines and endings of many women in the courtyard;

first was let down by Ailang, who was born poor and had to compromise with reality, and gave up on himself; Then he was targeted by a deliberately designed serial scam and lost both people and money, and he didn't even have a good chance to marry a businesswoman, and was forced to owe a huge debt to his bank, and his years of humiliating efforts and expectations came to naught.

Although he finally came to his senses and regained his revenge from the other party through the deliberately formed gang leader, Erdo went to control of the courtyard where he was; But she also paid a lot of money, both physically and mentally. Then it dawned on her that the hue of her flesh and skin was about to fade, but something remained the same;

So she began to pursue and seek everything she wanted by any means, or power, wealth and the like that could bring her a little sense of security. For example, information obtained through brothels can be converted into channels of influence such as wealth and power. Until now, no one dares to call her the "green girl" flower name in the past, but the "flower old" who has to worship respectfully and respectfully.

At the beginning, there was a local chaos in Jiaozhou, and the plan that the Five Elders' Association wanted to take the opportunity to come to the stage was also a product of her hands; Then there were the bandits that flooded by sea and land, and the waste of the conflict between the tax collectors and the united soldiers, and the defeat of both sides; But it has not yet waited for the connections and resources mobilized by the Five Elders' full force to move on to the next step; The general trend forced the local maritime merchants in the city to compromise and retreat, and then recognized their open dominance and control over the port of Jiaozhou.

The grass thieves from the sea who strongly intervened in Jiaozhou Dagang completely smashed their plans and intentions. The power and force mobilized by the Five Elders' Guild also quickly disappeared like a dream bubble in the face of these well-trained and good fighting soldiers.

Therefore, she wants to recover and take revenge in public and private, and it is easy for her to rely on the inside line in Jiaozhou City to take a new backer and background; The other party even promised her if she could successfully cut off the back of this foreign thief army; Not to mention getting back on the table, even wanting an officially recognized identity and corresponding position is no longer a problem at all; So she didn't hesitate to invest everything she could.

It's a pity that the grass thieves stationed in the port area are too cautious, and there is basically no result in a short period of time for the methods she sent out to hook up and woo. And after the matter was launched, there were still a small number of people who could gather and fight and go, and retreated to the area where the Guangzhou ship was anchored and held on.

It's a pity that these pirates, bandits, and smugglers who are in charge of contacting her also have their own ways of coming from and are not acting with one heart; After they came ashore and entered the port, they were busy burning and killing the female cadres and silver captives, and they didn't have much heart to work together to deal with the "hard bones" represented by those remnants of the grass thieves and the entrenched area, so they actually let them gather and escape many people one after another.

There are even people who deliberately break the agreement and tacit understanding between him and the big families in the city, and want to rush through the wall to wreak havoc, but they are all beaten back; Still, it had an impact on her relationships with those people that were hard to ignore. Or in other words, she will have to pay more dividends and concessions in order to re-stabilize these wall-riding streams.

But now, under all her coercion and temptation, promises and agitation, and the reciprocal exchange of interests, it should all be over completely, and she looked at the barn area that was gradually submerged in the sound of tearing from the sea and land, and could not help but show a certain expression of wisdom in her hand again.

As long as the remnants of these grass thieves can be dealt with, and the military materials and materials they have at their disposal can be further armed, and with a little guidance and agitation, they can turn to deal with those temporary allies in the rear city;

Although each of them has a family and a guard in the house as a credential, they can protect themselves for a while; But in the face of the madness of the bandits that formed the scale, they were just dry bones in the mounds that were broken by each one. Do these wall-to-wall grass think that it will be so easy to watch the fire from the other side?

At this time, suddenly another subordinate hurriedly came to report that an unknown fleet was found in the sea outside the port.

(End of chapter)