Hearing that the Jin army was coming, Li Deyi did not panic, pulled his senior brother, and continued to say that he planned to send this Yecheng Lingximen Leopard back to Dingbei County. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Regarding these arrangements for the junior brother, Head Xiao Liu didn't say a word, and nodded directly. Strange to say, the junior brother is obviously not moved at all in terms of human feelings, but the eyesight of the official is very accurate. The last time I got back that sea strength, he was a first-class good official that is rare in a century. Since this sea strength, the prosperity of the entire Dingbei County has reached a higher level, and the people love Weibei Camp even more. So Li Deyi wanted to send Ximen Leopard back this time, but Xiao Liu didn't even think about agreeing directly.

After seeing that his senior brother agreed, Li Deyi talked about how to deal with this Jin army. He planned to ambush the soldiers and horses of Shimaizhou outside Yecheng. Taking advantage of its distant foothold, it launched a fierce attack and was defeated in one fell swoop.

Commander Xiao Liu was sincerely pleased that the junior brother could take the initiative to think about the combat plan this time, to be honest, the garrison regiment has been established for so long, although the junior brother commanded the cavalry, he also helped a lot. But this junior brother always refused to contribute to the combat strategy, so he approached the master a few times, wanting the master to teach the junior brother something. How do you know that the master, the old medical officer, Sun pretended to be profound, and said every time: "The seed has been planted for the master, you go back, and wait patiently for it to sprout, blossom and bear fruit." ”

Master's words made Xiao Liu confused, but he had always been obedient, so he had to go back and continue to take the lead alone. Unexpectedly, this time the junior brother actually took the initiative to propose a combat strategy, is this what the master said "sprouting?" ”

Commander Xiao Liu thought for a moment, nodded and said, "Well, your strategy is good, we have to start preparing to deal with the enemy." You must first hurry up and clean up the affairs in the city, so that you can pour out your hands to fight this reinforcement. ”

Li Deyi couldn't help but shout loudly: "Why did Shimaizhou come so quickly this time?!" Senior brother, I have to start recruiting Ding Zhuang tomorrow, there are still five days left, and the time is a little tight. ”

Commander Xiao Liu nodded: "General Li and General Han will bring soldiers and horses to pull away this harvest the day after tomorrow, you have to hurry, otherwise I am afraid that you will not be able to catch up, and it will be a trouble when the time comes." ”

On the second day, Li Deyi took out the files of the past years and began to put on public trial of those bullies and gentry who had done many evils and had bad deeds, cut off people's heads, and paraded them on the street at the tip of a gun. Then it is a set of treats for dinner and copper coins. After this set of procedures was completed, Li Deyi took the opportunity to post a notice to recruit Ding Zhuang. After defeating Yecheng this time, he copied so many wealthy families, and the garrison group made a lot of money, so Li Deyi's recruitment promise this time was much higher.

But this time, there are few farmers who have signed up, but there are many textile workers in Yecheng who have signed up. Yecheng is the capital of Shanghe Province, and although it has been looted by Shimai Prefecture several times, it is still extremely rich. There are many wealthy families in Yecheng, and they hold more than ninety percent of the land in Yecheng. Most of this land was acquired by the shady means of forcing hungry farmers to mortgage their fields in exchange for food rations in years of famine.

Farmers who lost their fields had to go to the city to work in order to earn a living. In this way, Yecheng's cotton textile has been greatly developed. Stimulated by the generous profits of cotton cloth, a large number of fields around Yecheng were replanted with cotton, forming the largest cotton planting area in the northwest region. Textile and cotton cloth sales are the most developed industry in Yecheng, and all the wealthy families in Yecheng participate in it and earn amazing wealth.

Therefore, as soon as Li Deyi recruited Dingkou in Yecheng this time, he only recruited nearly 2,000 cotton textile workers, and as for the farmers who farmed the land, there were almost none.

Due to the urgency of time, Li De was busy recruiting Ding Kou all day. Before dawn the next day, Li Jiangzong arrived as scheduled, with a thousand foot soldiers, driving more than 500 carts, and came to Yecheng in a mighty way. Xiao Liu, the head of the regiment, took advantage of the work of the past few days to work overtime and rushed to produce more than 1,000 board cars, each of which was full of goods obtained from the house. Among them, there are more than 20 cars, all of which are stacked with cured meat. If you take a closer look, many of these board cars are temporarily restructured from the door panels of those large households.

When raiding the house, a lot of pigs and sheep were copied out, and the chickens and ducks were eaten directly. If the pigs and sheep can't finish eating, they will be touched with salt, and each soldier will be left with a hind leg as military rations, and the rest will be piled up on the cart and brought back. As for the mules, horses, oxen, etc., the good horses were selected and left for the cavalry, and the rest was used to pull the carts.

At this time, Li Deyi finally had some spare time, and hurried to find the Yecheng Order who was guarded, Ximen Leopard. Time was pressing, so Li Deyi didn't talk nonsense, saluted, and said: "Lord Ximen is a good official who is honest and honest, and he is under the command of Shimaizhou, the godson of Tuliao, which is really a pearl." Over the years, Nashimai Prefecture has been expropriating and expropriating, wantonly looting people's wealth and women, building the imperial palace and expanding the harem, and making a good Shanghe Province a miasma. He shamelessly served as Emperor Tuliao, and he had to send a large amount of annual tribute every year, and he was really a thief in the world. Lord Simon is so capable, why should he stoop to serve the thief? ”

Ximen Leopard is also a masterpiece, of course, he heard that the young general in front of him said this, which meant to solicit. But after all, he is a virtuous minister with integrity, and it is not so easy to let him change his court. Thinking of this, Simon Leopard rolled up his sleeves and was about to speak.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Li De raised his hand, he blocked his words back: "We in Dingbei County need a good official like Mr. to govern." You agree or not, you have to go. Come! sent Lord Ximen to Mr. Li, and said that this was another sea strength. On the road, you must be entertained, and you must not be dismissive. ”

Simon Leopard was shocked in his heart, "How can there be such a recruitment?!" Why don't you respect the spirit of the scholars at all?! Hey, I haven't spoken yet. ”

Li Deyi: "How can I have the time to listen to you talk about those useless things, and directly tie them up to Dingbei County, and you still have to agree or not?" Thinking of this, Li Deyi hurriedly added: "Lord Ximen, rest assured, your family has sent someone to pick you up, and I guarantee that your family will be sent to Dingbei County for reunion." "Look, how good the welfare of Dingbei County is, and officials are allowed to bring their families when they take office!

When Mr. Li left, the head of Xiao Liu was not at ease, so he sent two thousand foot soldiers to Mr. Li, and brought one thousand foot soldiers to escort the harvest of Yecheng together, and two thousand carts full of various belongings, all the way back to Dingbei County.

Seeing Li General disappear on the west avenue with his soldiers and horses, Li Deyi breathed a sigh of relief. Next, the two commanders and deputy commanders of the Dingbei garrison regiment began to arrange the response of the army to the enemy.

It is to fight with the soldiers and horses sent by Shimaizhou. The soldiers of the garrison regiment have been recuperating in Yecheng for so many days, eating a lot of oil and water every day, and they have reached their peak in terms of physical strength and fighting spirit, and this is the time to use the soldiers. Besides, the three generals are on the way, betting on the harvest of this trip to return, why do you have to buy them more time, don't you?

The most important one, the garrison attacked Yecheng this time, originally to further weaken Shimaizhou (bullying), to give him the crumbling Jin Dynasty, kick hard, and help him finish it early. If you don't fight a battle and weaken the military strength of the Jin Dynasty, how can you show the ruthlessness of this kick?

Besides, after the capture of Yecheng, the passage of the displaced people in Shanghe Province to the west has been completely unblocked, and the garrison regiment has to maintain it for a while, so that the displaced people can smoothly advance westward.

In Yecheng, in a house, Li Deyi is discussing the recent situation with his senior brother. "Senior brother, where have the soldiers and horses of Shimai Prefecture gone?" Li Deyi asked. The intelligence system of the garrison regiment was controlled by Commander Xiao Liu, so Li Deyi did not know the latest movements of this Jin army.

"I have already arrived in Fenshui County in the east, and I will be able to reach Yecheng in three days at most. In addition, Liu Weiyi, who occupies the northern half of Shanghe Province, has also recently made a change, sending 20,000 soldiers and horses, and is moving closer to Yecheng in the south. Commander Xiao Liu took out a copy of the latest military information from his arms and handed it to his junior brother.

As soon as Li De took it and took a look, he immediately gasped. "Then Liu Yiyi actually dispatched half of his soldiers and horses this time, it seems that the plan is not small. Senior brother, is he coming for us? Want to unite with Shimaizhou and give us a bag? ”

Captain Xiao Liu's expression was grim, and he nodded and said, "Very likely." Although Liu Weiyi has been supporting the army and standing on his own all these years and ignoring the imperial orders of Shimaizhou, he is a general of the Jin Dynasty after all. But over the years, we have never had a dispute with Liu Weiyi, and we have even had many contacts. In my opinion, he didn't come for us, most of the time he came for this Yecheng. That Liu Fuyi has been in possession of the north of Shanghe Province for many years, and if he doesn't covet the rich Yecheng in the south, the dogs don't believe it. The reason why he didn't do it was because there was no good excuse. After all, this Liu Yiyi is still nominally a courtier of the Jin Dynasty, and he occupied the north of Beishanghe Province before, but it was only under the guise of patrolling border affairs given to him by Shimai Prefecture. ”

Hearing what Senior Brother said, Li Deyi's eyes lit up and said: "Senior Brother, we don't want this Yecheng anyway, let's just get out of here, no one in the two families will pay attention to it, and let them eat dogs here in Yecheng." Li Deyi also changed quickly, and as soon as he heard that the situation had changed, he no longer insisted on the combat strategy of ambushing the Jin army that he had proposed before, and immediately changed his mind.

After thinking about it carefully, Head Xiao Liu shook his head and said, "It's not appropriate." After all, Liu Yiyi is a courtier in Shimai Prefecture, and he has followed him to fight for many years, and the monarch and the minister still have incense, otherwise Liu Yiyi would not have endured it until now. If we withdraw directly, it is Liu Yiyi who will most likely withdraw to Shimaizhou for the sake of the face of the monarchs and ministers for many years, and take back Yecheng without spending a single soldier, which is not in line with the strategy set by our master. ”

"Yes, Master said, we went to war this time to completely cut off the last bit of power in Shimai Prefecture in Shanghe Province and kick him hard. This Yecheng was beaten down by us, and no matter who it was lost to, we couldn't let Shimaizhou take it back. Li Deyi agreed.

At this point, the two brothers fell silent, and neither of them had anything to do about the current situation. If you directly face Shimaizhou, I am afraid that Liu Yiyi will intervene from behind at that time, which will be too fatal. If it is left like this, Yecheng is likely to fall into the hands of Shimaizhou again, and the garrison will be completely defeated in this battle, and the wealth obtained will not help.

After being silent for a while, Li Deyi moved, "Senior brother, do you say that Shimaizhou now knows that Liu Yuyi also sent a large army to rob this Yecheng?" Doctor Liu frowned and thought for a while, "It's hard to say, most of them still don't know." ”

As soon as Li De asked this, he was speechless again, and the brothers began to be silent again.

In the middle of the sound, Commander Xiao Liu said: "We have enough military food now, it is better to quietly retreat to Gucheng County first, wait and see the two soldiers and horses for a while, and wait to see their movements, and then we will decide how to act before it is too late." In this way, we can also get rid of the dilemma of being attacked from both sides. ”

This is the safest way at the moment, Li Deyi couldn't think of anything better, nodded and agreed.

(To be continued.) )