The reason why Cai Dao gave such a high reward to the craftsmen was because all the craftsmen in Thang Long City had already been transported to Yizhou Island.

Cai Dao arranged for this matter to be done secretly after arranging for the money to arrive. The most businessman, this big fat man is the second Song man besides Cai Dao to deeply realize the value of craftsmen.

Even Ding Youcai, who was supported by Cai Dao, was treated worse than money by his craftsmen, and Cai Dao must be far from it.

As for Zhao Xu, although the ordnance supervisor contributed countless sophisticated weapons to the Great Song Dynasty, the officials believed that this was due to Cai Dao's personal ability, so they also gave good treatment to the craftsmen in the ordnance superintendent, but they still made them like slaves as before.

Therefore, with the covert assistance of Li Zhongshun, the money has been transported by ship to all the skilled craftsmen in Thang Long City. For these craftsmen, Cai Dao and this big fat man said that it was a nine-nine account. Money has no complaints about this.

Originally?

If Cai Dao didn't come out, with Guo Zhongxiao and Di An, he wouldn't be able to take Shenglong City at all, even if Di Qing and Guo Kui were alive, Zhao Xu still gave the two of them 300,000 forbidden troops, and still couldn't take this small Dayue Kingdom.

On the one hand, the time, place and people are not in the Great Song Dynasty, and on the other hand, Li Qiande and Li Changjie are not mediocre people. It's easy to defeat the opponent, but if you want to be like Cai Dao, you can completely destroy the country. Without Cai Dao, the Song army had to be prepared to injure 10,000 enemies and lose 8,000 themselves.

If you can get a free craftsman, the money is already a huge harvest. You must know that the Da Yue Kingdom of this era was the pinnacle of the ancient re-establishment of the state, whether it was military, political, cultural or economic.

With the assistance of Cai Dao, Chong Pu finally exerted his eighty percent ability to lead the troops, and led half of the Song army to easily take the three cities on the Red River.

However, the Western Route Army was trapped by Xinghua City.

Without Cai Dao's help, it would be a bit difficult to use the 10,000 troops of the Western Route Army to take the second most prosperous city in the Great Yue Kingdom. However, this is also a test that Cai Dao deliberately left for other generals.

Of course, there are many difficulties, and there can be many very favorable conditions, not to mention anything else, at least the defenders in Xinghua City are very fragile.

The Great Yue Kingdom is basically an imitation of the Song Dynasty, and within its borders, except for the border troops on the north-south border, that is, the forbidden army in Thang Long City is the elite. The other cities, like the Great Song Kingdom, were militias with extremely low combat effectiveness.

Yao Pingzhong's six personal guards had successfully completed the task of 'being killed' in the final battle of Thang Long City, and moreover, it was done under Di'an's nose. In this regard, Dian's words are more convincing than anyone else's.

It is precisely for this reason that Guo Zhongxiao had to knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, at least, in Thang Long City, he couldn't shake Cai Dao's status at all.

Guo Shuyong and Guo Shugan finally returned to Beijing by boat with their uncle.

The two of them were naturally unwilling to leave like this, Cai Dao relinquished the right of the chief and deputy commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army, which made Guo Zhongxiao lose face, and Guo Shuyong also because of Yao Pingzhong's incident, after returning to Beijing in the future, he will definitely not be able to deserve it.

But even if these two people are missing, in the Western Route Army, Cai Dao still deliberately did not set up the commander of the Western Route Army.

Therefore, in order to choose a strategy to attack the city, the Zhe Keda and Liu brothers all quarreled, while Yang Huaiwen, Cao Bao and Pan Xiong were silent on the side.

Cao Bao didn't want to participate, he knew that he had no military talent except for a little cleverness, nor did he have good martial arts like his brother, so he almost became a transparent person in the entire Southern Expeditionary Army. There is no prestige at all, even the guards around him are a little dissatisfied with him. Who let him have no ability, and offended Cai Dao, the real commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army, as soon as he came?

On the other hand, Pan Xiong, he didn't have much brilliance in this Southern Expeditionary Army, but he completed the task entrusted to him by Cai Dao very well. In the battle of Thang Long City, Pan Xiong was in charge of the east gate.

Unfortunately, Cai Dao's Eastern Route Army was progressing too smoothly and was very lucky, and the forbidden army of the Great Yue Kingdom did not attack any of the city gates in the eastern direction at all. When Zhi Kerou led the remnants of the army back, Pan Xiong also completed the task of logistics and treating the injured Song army well, and it was precisely because of his efforts that many of the wounded soldiers under Zhi Kerou survived.

Those wounded soldiers all thought that Cai Dao was fully prepared, but Pan Xiong did not make some preparations in advance, for example, when he was guarding the east gate, he once sent troops to loot a lot of Lang Zhonghe medicinal materials from the city in advance, and he also ordered someone to boil hot water in advance. These measures have greatly reduced the treatment time. It's just that he did this, and others just saw it, and they didn't necessarily think that it was Pan Xiong's own decision.

What a big deal!

However, Pan Xiong did not take credit or take credit, and he also knew that his current knowledge and experience were still shallow, so he did not speak at this military meeting.

It can be said that among the generals of the Southern Expeditionary Army this time, the one with the best mentality is Pan Xiong, the concubine of the Pan family.

If the two positions of Pan Xiong and the Guo brothers were reversed, the area he was responsible for defending would be even better than the Guo brothers, but unfortunately, there was no if.

This time, Pan Xiong originally wanted to follow Cai Dao to the east to conquer the three cities, but Cai Dao only brought two people, Chong Pu and Zhi Kerou, and the other young generals were arranged in the Western Route Army.

In the end, Yang Huaiwen couldn't see it, and said: "Generals, if I continue to quarrel like this, it is very likely that Cai Daochang has already come to Xinghua by boat, at that time, what is the matter with you and me in this prosperous city in front of me?" ”

Yang Huaiwen's words were very clear, and the other generals also understood them. If it is delayed, there is really this possibility, you know, Xinghua City is also next to the Red River. If Cai Dao acts quickly, it is very possible to have one city a day.

And they have been delayed under Xinghua City for seven whole days. Although the losses were all cannon fodder for the forbidden army of the Great Viet State, the time really could not be delayed any longer.

"Yang Huaiwen, aren't you a strategist? Now is the time for you to show what you can do. Originally, I was very happy to see the excitement, but suddenly someone disturbed my interest, Cao Bao finally couldn't help it, and said sarcastically.

"You ,......" The reason why Yang Huaiwen spoke out was not because he wanted to be in the limelight, besides, he just had a way, are these young and vigorous people willing to listen to him?