Chapter Eighty-Seven: Yingzhou City
Liu Futong looked at the different expressions on everyone's faces at this time, smiled and said to everyone: "That's right, it's Zhu Gao's granary." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"
And Du Zundao heard Liu Futong say this, he also showed joy, clapped his hands with a folding fan and said: "Wonderful plan, when the Yuanmeng court invaded my Great Song Dynasty in the south, it built a large granary in Zhugao Town, Xizhou, although later my Great Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Tartars, but this granary has been preserved by the Yuanmeng Tartars to this day, and now this granary has become the largest warehouse in the Huaihe River, storing at least one million quintals of grain, enough for 100,000 troops to use for a year. Moreover, this place is only more than 100 miles away from our army, and it can be reached in a day and a half by a rapid march, and if we can capture this place, our army can definitely gather tens of thousands of troops in an instant. ”
Han Yan'er and Luo Wensu also showed joy when they heard Du Zundao's explanation, after all, in this world, how important food is, needless to say, everyone understands. There are many people in the world who don't have enough to eat, as long as they have food in their hands, do they need to be afraid of running out of soldiers? Conquering this place completely made the Red Turban Army invincible.
As soon as they thought of this, Luo Wensu and Han Yan'er stood up together and asked Liu Futong to fight: "The last general is willing to lead the army to fight and take this place for the marshal." ”
Seeing this, Liu Futong smiled on his face and said to the two of them: "I already know the bravery of the two generals, but this time is different, and Ben Shuai also served as an official in Zhugao Town back then, so this time Ben Shuai decided to personally lead the army to take this place." ”
When the two heard Liu Futong's words, they naturally didn't say anything more, but then the two heard Liu Futong say: "But our army only has three cities in its hands now, and the strategic depth is too small." And if the Tartar army wants to attack us, it will definitely attack from Taihe Xian in the west, so the commander decided that the attack should be divided into two ways, one main and one pair, one real and one virtual, the main route army was led by the marshal and attacked Xizhou Zhu Gao, and the deputy route army was led by General Han, taking TH County as a stronghold, directly attacking Shenqiu, and taking Shenqiu City for our army. ”
When Han Yan'er heard Liu Futong's words, he immediately clenched his fists and said: "The last general obeys the order, and the last general will take Shenqiu City for my army." ”
After Liu Futong heard Han Yan'er's words, he couldn't help but nodded, and then he turned his gaze to the map on the table, his expression became more and more determined, and said, "Three days later, the army will move. ”
When the four of Du Zundao heard this, they all clenched their fists and replied: "The lower official (the last general) obeys the order." ”
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Early the next morning, in Qingying Town, after Zhang Shihua and others finished their preparations, they continued to rush to Yingzhou City, that is, at noon, everyone rushed to Yingzhou City.
There were more than 200 people in their group, and there were no traces along the way, plus Sheng Wu sent a person to Yingzhou City on a fast horse to report the news on Sheng Wu this morning, so Yingzhou City naturally knew their tracks well, and naturally knew that they would arrive at noon.
And because Zhang Shihua's current identity is special, when Zhang Shihua and them arrived in Yingzhou City, Liu Futong also had to send a person with status to greet Zhang Shihua. After all, since you want to treat Zhang Shihua and the Zhang family as horse bones, you have to make a look of buying bones.
And because it was Sheng Wenyu who was solely responsible for appeasing the Zhang family, it was naturally Sheng Wenyu who greeted Zhang Shihua.
At first, Zhang Shihua naturally didn't know Sheng Wenyu, but at the city gate, there was a middle-aged man wearing a Confucian robe and holding a folding fan with an elegant temperament, standing quietly at the city gate surrounded by dozens of soldiers and guards, as if waiting for them.
Because Zhang Shihua didn't know Sheng Wenyu's reason, Zhang Shihua still wanted to ask Sheng Wu next to him who that person was, but before Zhang Shihua could speak, Sheng Wu said to Zhang Shihua: "Master Zhang, that adult is my master." ”
And Zhang Shihua was also shocked when he heard this: "It turns out that this gentleman is Sheng Zhizhou Shengda." ”
Then Zhang Shihua said: "I, Zhang Shihua, how can I let Sheng Daren greet me personally." Saying that, Zhang Shihua and Xu Mingsheng Wu hurriedly rode their horses to the city gate, and then they got off the horse and walked towards Sheng Wenyu when they were still more than ten meters away from the city gate, that is, the place where Sheng Wenyu just wanted to speak.
And Sheng Wenyu, who was on the other side, saw Zhang Shihua and them like this, and also smiled and suppressed what he originally wanted to say again.
Zhang Shihua and Xu Ming walked to a place three or five meters away from Sheng Wenyu, so they bent down and clasped their fists and saluted Sheng Wenyu: "Taihe Xian Lieutenant Zhang Shihua (subordinate Xu Ming), meet Master Shan." "Because Liu Futong has handed over Taihe Xian to the Zhang family for governance, it is not wrong for Zhang Shihua to call himself Taihe Xianwei.
And Sheng Wenyu saw Zhang Shihua and them like this, and he also helped Zhang Shihua and them up with a smile on his face, and then held Zhang Shihua's hand and said to Zhang Shihua: "I have long heard that Taihe Xian has a little general who knows soldiers and is good at fighting, and even the three bandits. Bochang has such courage and means at such a young age, and his achievements in the future will be limitless! ”
Zhang Shihua: "My lord's words are serious, where can the lower officials be worthy of such praise from adults." ”
When Sheng Wenyu heard this, he also smiled and said: "Don't be modest, little general, you can fully afford it." Then Sheng Wenyu looked at Xu Ming again and said: "Hall Master Xu, you have done a good job these days, your merits and handsomeness are all in mind, so you can rest assured." ”
When Xu Ming heard this, he was also busy wanting Sheng Wenyu to salute, although he and Sheng Wenyu were both White Lotus Hall masters, but no one present felt that this was inappropriate.
When everyone greeted each other at the city gate, Sheng Wenyu smiled and said to them: "Okay, so many of us don't block the city gate anymore, come, let's go into the city." As he spoke, he took Zhang Shihua and Xu Ming to Yingzhou City.
Zhang Shihua traveled to this time for five years, and he is a big family in Yingzhou, so he naturally has come to Yingzhou City several times with the elders in the family, so Zhang Shihua is still familiar with Yingzhou City.
However, Zhang Shihua did not show the slightest emotion of emotion, and the expression on his face was still the same as when he saw Sheng Wenyu, without the slightest abnormality.
And now, because Zhang Shihua and they have been on the road for a day and a half, after arriving in Yingzhou City, Sheng Wenyu naturally has to arrange a place for Zhang Shihua and them to stay, so that Zhang Shihua, who came from afar, can rest and rest.
So after Sheng Wenyu took everyone into the city, he took everyone straight to the military camp in the city.
In the process, the group also happened to pass by the business district of Yingzhou City. And I have to say that although it is the Red Turban Army of the White Lotus Sect that occupies Yingzhou City now, because they are not degenerate and corrupt now, and there are many idealists like Sheng Wenyu in the high-level, so when the White Lotus Sect took control of this city, the people at the bottom of Yingzhou City and some middle-class families were not harmed by the military disaster, on the contrary, because of Liu Futong and their opening of the warehouse to release grain, the low-level people in Yingzhou City lived even better than when the Yuanmeng Imperial Court controlled the city.
As a result, the business district of Yingzhou City is still very prosperous.
And for this seemingly prosperous commercial street, Zhang Shihua naturally will not feel any surprise, after all, as a traverser, the world he has seen is completely beyond what people can imagine now, but Zhang Shihua can not be surprised, but Zhang Shihua's soldiers are not good.
You must know that the group of soldiers under Zhang Shihua are all natives of Taihe, most of the soldiers have never been out of the county in their lives, and the most prosperous place that they have ever seen is the streets of Taihe Xian, and the first time they came to the state city, they would naturally be surprised to see such a prosperous place.
And when Sheng Wenyu heard the surprise of Zhang Shihua's soldiers, the smile on his face became stronger, and then he said to Zhang Shihua beside him with a slightly ostentatious tone: "Master Zhang, you are from Yingzhou, how do you see my Holy Sect governing this city and the Yuanmeng Tartars?" ”
When Zhang Shihua heard Sheng Wenyu's question, he respectfully said to Sheng Wenyu: "The people of Yingzhou live and work in peace and contentment, and they should be a paradise." Manmeng Tartar Di Yi is just a beast, and An Neng is on a par with my Holy Sect. ”
When Sheng Wenyu heard Zhang Shihua's words, although some scholars were reserved, they couldn't help but caress their beards and laugh.
And Zhang Shihua looked at Sheng Wenyu like this, but couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Even the high-level Red Turbans like Sheng Wenyu are so short-sighted, no wonder the Red Turban Army will occupy half of the country in the future, and they have not succeeded in the uprising, but they made a wedding dress for Zhu Yuanzhang in vain." ”