Soon, Zhu Quanzhong led the main force of the Liang army to retreat to Songzhou, and at the same time ordered the Longxiang army to gallop to Yingzhou. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yang Shihou on the Yingzhou side quickly relieved the siege of Yingzhou after sending troops, and the Huainan Army had no intention of attacking Yingzhou, so after Yang Shihou led his troops to arrive, Li Chengsi wisely led the army to retreat.

However, because Yang Wuzheng was confronting Zhu Quanzhong's main force on the eastern front, Li Chengsi did not retreat directly to the south of the Huai River, but only retreated more than 30 miles before stopping, built a camp and began to confront the Liang army, in order to contain Yang Shihou's troops and prevent him from going to Suzhou to join Zhu Quanzhong.

At this time, since the eastern front could not take advantage, Zhu Quanzhong planned to mobilize his troops to Yingzhou to try it out first to see if he could defeat Li Chengsi in Yingzhou.

Suzhou.

After hearing the news that Liang Jun had finally withdrawn to Songzhou, Yang Wu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The Huainan Army is also very tired from the successive battles these days, and needs to rest and recuperate; In addition, the supply of 150,000 people to fight in Huaibei, just this more than a month spent money and food is extremely amazing, at this time to be able to stop fighting with the Liang army Yang Wu can not ask for it, so for the retreat of the Liang army, the Huainan army did not launch a pursuit, but stopped in Suzhou.

Suzhou, as an important city in the north of Huaibei, is of great significance to Huainan, and Yang Wu did not hesitate to fight with the Liang army for more than a month in order to keep it.

However, it is impossible for the main force of Huainan to be stationed here for a long time, and Zhu Quanzhong will definitely not give up, according to Yang Wu's estimate, as early as the second half of this year, or as late as next year, in order to compete for the Suzhou Liang army will definitely raise troops to the south again.

Therefore, before the main force of the Huainan Army retreats, it must first ensure that the defensive strength of Suzhou is sufficient to resist the large-scale attack of the Liang army alone for a period of time, and the current Suzhou garrison force is obviously unable to do this.

So before that, the main force of Huainan needs to continue to stay for a while.

At this time, looking at the middle-aged scribe with a solemn face in front of him, Yang Wu couldn't help frowning.

"You mean it will take at least 40,000 laborers and three years to build a new weir for Hanhai?"

"Exactly, and it's still the lowest budget, and if the schedule doesn't go well, it may take longer!" The middle-aged scribe replied.

This person is the staff member of Liu Wei who Yang Wu followed Gao Miao's advice and sent someone to Chuzhou to summon him, named Huang Ne.

Before and after he arrived at the army, he listened to the task given to him by Yang Wu, and even when he asked for a field trip, he learned the budget scale of the seawall construction project.

Yang Wu greatly appreciated his pragmatic attitude, so he appointed him as the deputy envoy of the Chuzhou Inspection, as the deputy of Yang Xin, who had been appointed as the chief envoy, to build a new seawall to replace the old one that had fallen into disrepair.

However, when Yang Xin gave Yang Wu a recital, he once said that the construction of the new embankment was not difficult and did not cost much; And although Yang Wu knew that Yang Xin's estimate must be low, he didn't expect that it would be so big as Huang Ne said, almost catching up with the construction project of the new city wall in Shangzhou.

You must know that the construction of the city wall of Shengju is not only to build a new masonry city wall, but also to dig a new moat, and some lakes need to be filled in manually, so this project is naturally very large.

However, although the total length of the seawall far exceeds that of the Seongju Wall, it is only a simple embankment that does not require much masonry, and secondly, there are old seawalls after all, and many places only need to be repaired.

So Yang Wu really didn't expect to need to use so much labor and time.

Of course, even if it required so much expense, Yang Wu finally agreed to Huang Ne's plan and was ready to hand over this matter to Yang Xin and him.

It's a pity that the prisoners of the Liang army captured last time were all sent to build Shengzhou City, and no prisoners were captured in this battle, so the construction of the seawall can only use civilian power.

"Do this well, and the lonely will not forget your merits, and the people will not forget your merits!" Yang Wu encouraged.

"By the way, last time you were asked to bring some senior salt farmers here, have you done this?"

"Your Highness Qiqi, according to your requirements, there are a total of twenty salt households, all of whom have been boiling salt for generations, and they have rich experience, and now they have joined the army with their subordinates!" Huang Ne replied respectfully.

The last time he went to Hailing for a field trip, Yang Wu specially asked him to bring some salt households back, although it was very strange why Yang Wu did this, but he still did it.

Yang Wu smiled slightly, "Since the people have arrived, let them come over, I want to meet them in person!" Well, Huang Inspector, you go down and rest first! ”

Huang Ne was even more surprised, he didn't know why Yang Wu still had to meet those salt farmers in person, but he knew that there were some things he didn't need to know, so he immediately took his leave and left.

Soon, twenty salt farmers were brought in by the guards, and as soon as they saw Yang Wu, everyone fell to the ground tremblingly, looking very nervous, not knowing why Yang Wu suddenly wanted to see them.

After a few words of appeasement, Yang Wu asked, "You are all people who have been boiling salt for generations, have you ever thought of the method of drying salt?" ”

……

Yes, these salt farmers were summoned so that they could experiment with the method of drying salt.

As the prince of Wu Wang and the actual ruler of Huainan, it was naturally impossible for Yang Wu to personally test the method of drying salt, so he could only try to tell these experienced salt farmers some of the ideas he knew, and let them test the details of the specific method of drying salt.

“…… When you go back, you will each set up a salt pan to experiment, and whoever can test the method of drying salt first will be rewarded. In addition, the Orphan Society will send someone to assist you, if you have any difficulties, you can directly report to Yang Xin, the Hailing Inspector, and he will help you solve it! Yang Wu finally promised a lot of profits, and sent these people out.

Weizhou.

After getting Zhu Quanzhong's final reply, Luo Shaowei finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Whether the battle between the Liang army and the Huainan army went smoothly or not had little to do with him, but it was Wei Bo's unruly tooth soldiers who were his henchmen, and as long as these tooth soldiers did not solve it, he would not be able to sleep peacefully.

As early as three years ago, when Zhu Quanzhong's troops surrounded Fengxiang, Luo Shaowei sent his henchmen to tell Zhu Quanzhong of his request, and got Zhu Quanzhong's promise, so after that, he followed Zhu Quanzhong obediently and fought for him, so that Zhu Quanzhong could fulfill his promise in the future.

However, because of the frequent wars, Zhu Quanzhong has never fulfilled his promise, which makes Luo Shaowei faintly dissatisfied. Fortunately, Zhu Quanzhong was finally ready to take action, but he did not completely break his promise.

"King, just now there was news from the eldest son's mansion, saying that the county lord of Anyang has died of illness!" At this time, the guards hurriedly came to report.

"What? Died of illness at this time? Robert frowned, looking down at what impact it would have on his plans.

The county lord of Anyang is Zhu Quanzhong's eldest daughter, marrying Luo Shaowei's eldest son Luo Yangui, is an important embodiment of the alliance between him and Zhu Quanzhong.

But then he was relieved, and even a little overjoyed: because he quickly reacted that the alliance between him and Zhu Quanzhong, the marriage was just a link, the county lord of Anyang died of illness by himself, and there was nothing unsightly in it, plus he had always supported Zhu Quanzhong, so he believed that Zhu Quanzhong would definitely not affect the friendship between the two families.

Not only that, but because of the death of the county lord of Anyang, he also thought of a good plan.

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Soon, Zhu Quanzhong received a notice from Luo Shaowei that his eldest daughter had died of illness. Birth, old age, sickness and death are human nature, and heroes like Zhu Quanzhong are even more indifferent to their children, and they are only silent for half a day about the death of their eldest daughter.

Next, he began to think seriously about Luo Shaowei's suggestion.

"Mr. Jing, do you think Luo Shaowei's proposal is feasible?"

"There is a great feasibility, but this seems to be a bit ...... the county lord," Jing Xiang said respectfully.

Zhu Quanzhong waved his hand and said: "Don't think about those, since it is feasible, then immediately do as he says!" Luo Shaowei has been asking for help from Lone for a long time, Lone can't delay it all the time, this is just an opportunity! ”

"Yes, it's just that once the Wei Zhou side is launched, then the king must be prepared to prevent Wei Bo's army from taking the opportunity to cause chaos. Now although our army has retreated to Songzhou, the main force of the Huainan Army is also stationed in Suzhou, if the Wei Bo army accompanying our army rebels because of this, maybe Yang Wu will be given an opportunity! Jing Xiang reminded.

Zhu Quanzhong nodded, although the Wei Bo army that followed them did not have many troops, only 20,000 people, but if they colluded with the Huainan army and suddenly launched a rebellion, the Liang army might really suffer a big loss if it was defenseless.

Therefore, Zhu Quanzhong planned that when the Weizhou side launched it, the Songzhou side would also suddenly launch it, no matter how to control the 20,000 Wei Bo troops accompanying them first.

A few days later, Zhu Quanzhong asked his pockets to be filled with armor and weapons, selected a total of 1,000 soldiers who had served as his guards for many years, all dressed as porters, and ordered Ma Sixun to lead the general Ma Sixun to Weizhou in the name of the burial of the county lord of Anyang.

When Wei Boyajun heard the news, he only thought that these people were sent by Zhu Quanzhong to give his daughter a funeral, so he did not arouse any suspicion.

On the 26th day of the first month of the third year of Tianyou, Luo Shaowei secretly sent his henchmen into the Weizhou armory and broke all the bowstrings and armor ties in stock.

That night, Luo Shaowei personally led hundreds of his domestic slaves and guests, and 1,000 people from Ma Sixun's army sent by Zhu Quanzhong suddenly attacked Wei Boya's army. The Wei Boya army was in a hurry to fight, but when they opened the armory, they found that the bows, crossbows, armor, etc. in the inventory were no longer usable.

That night, in the midst of a bloody storm, the entire Wei Boya army, a total of 8,000 families, and tens of thousands of people, were all killed, and not even a single baby or child was left.