Wang Huaqiang smiled slightly: "It's this person." ”

Xiao Maha, the character Yuan Yin, from Lanling (now Daxian County, Shandong), the earliest ancestors can be traced back to the early Han Dynasty name Xiao He, the five Hu chaos when the Xiao family crossed to the south, living in the south, Xiao Maha himself is known for his bravery. The word Maha comes from Buddhist scriptures, Sanskrit, meaning great.

Xiao Maha's grandfather Xiao Liang was the right general of the Southern Liang Dynasty, and his father Xiao Liang became the county of the Liang Dynasty, as for Xiao Maha himself, he had already appeared in the Southern Liang era more than 30 years ago.

In the early years, Xiao Maha had many times to capture the flag, single horse charge, known as the courage of Zhang Fei, but also in the war with the Northern Qi Army, one person killed more than ten Hu people in the Northern Qi Army, killing the Northern Qi soldiers and men, since then the prestige is known to the world.

In the first year of Kaihuang (580), Yang Jian ascended the throne, with the Sui Dynasty Zhou, and from then on began to prepare for the southern expedition to destroy Chen, Emperor Chen Xuan was shocked, and ordered Xiao Maha to be the general of the hussars, and led the iron cavalry along the river to prevent.

In the first month of the second year of Kaihuang (581), Emperor Chen Xuan died of anxiety and illness, and the crown prince at that time was Chen Shubao, but his younger brother Chen Shuling, the king of Shixing, was also present, taking advantage of Chen Shubao's crying and unpreparedness, he pulled out a file knife and slashed Chen Shubao's neck, and stabbed Chen Shubao's biological mother, Empress Liu, in an attempt to seize the throne.

As a result, Chen Shubao was seriously injured and did not die, escaped from the main hall, and returned to the East Palace to guard, and Chen Shuling did not stop doing anything, launched his own palace guards, and prepared to fight the prince in Jiankang City.

At that time, the regular army of the Chen Dynasty was all deployed along the riverbank, the city was empty, and the hundred officials did not know which side to support, so they all took a wait-and-see attitude, so that no one went to crusade against Chen Shuling.

After Chen Shubao returned to the East Palace, he came to his senses, listened to the advice of the left and right, and sent someone to urgently summon Xiao Maha, so Xiao Maha led hundreds of steps to ride back to the city urgently, and entered the East Palace to protect Chen Shubao.

Chen Shuling had no choice but to run away, and finally Xiao Maha led his troops to chase after him and kill him.

Because Xiao Maha supported Chen Shubao at the most critical time, so after the queen Chen ascended the throne, Xiao Maha was also generously rewarded, and he was named the general of the chariot and cavalry, the prince of Suijian County, and 3,000 households.

Xiao Maha's brave name has spread all over the world for decades, not only in the eyes of the southerners, he is the first god of war in the Southern Dynasty, but even the Sui people hear the three words of Xiao Maha, and everyone changes color. As soon as he heard that this person was in charge of Jiang Defense, the room suddenly became silent, and the faces of the Wang family and his son were as heavy as water, and their brows were tightly locked.

Wang Huaqiang smiled when he saw his father and brothers like this: "Actually, you don't have to worry, Xiao Maha is brave, but his IQ is urgent, and he is a typical general, not a handsome talent." He is in charge of the defense of the river, in fact, it is a good thing for us in the Great Sui. ”

Wang He suddenly came to his senses and asked, "How do you say this?" ”

Wang Huaqiang smiled slightly: "General He Ruobihe, the governor of Wuzhou, has already begun preparations to capture Nanchen, he secretly bought the ships on the Yangtze River, hid these ships in the reeds, but deliberately made hundreds of dilapidated small fishing boats and put them on the river, so that the southerners thought that our Sui army was not accustomed to water warfare, so as to relax their vigilance.

Every time the troops who changed their defenses arrived at the big camp on the riverbank, he would make a big show of the troops who had taken over and changed the guards, set up more flags, spread all over the camp tents, and let the officers and men shoot and hunt along the river, which shook the sky.

When Xiao Maha saw this situation at the beginning, he would lead the troops to deploy the defense, but later he found out several times that General He was just deliberately engaging in this kind of suspicious tactic when changing the guard, so he slacked off. In the past month or so, the imperial court has begun to secretly increase troops to the front line, and the Southern Dynasty, from Chen Shubao to Xiao Maha, knows nothing about this. ”

Wang He shook his head, his expression was still very grim: "Hua Qiang, even you can get these news through your own eyeliner, Xiao Maha, as a general of the Southern Dynasty, will know nothing about this?" Will there be fraud in this? ”

Wang Huaqiang's expression was full of confidence and calmness: "Ah Da, think about it, the big rivers are separated, and it is not easy for us to find out the intelligence of the Southern Dynasties, but it is also difficult for the spies of the Southern Dynasties to know the situation in our Jiangbei."

If Xiao Maha really had a way to find out the truth of General He, he would not have been fooled by the suspicious army several times, let alone have no reaction when I really wanted to march south now.

The monarchs and ministers of the Southern Dynasty are still singing and dancing. Xiao Maha is a brave man, but he can't even do it in Sun Tzu's Art of War, he can't find out the truth of our army in Jiangbei, and he can't stop people like Yang Xiang and Pei Yun from reporting to us.

It can be said that this battle, the Southern Dynasty has already lost, this time there will be no more battle of Weishui, and the miracle of Jiankang's counterattack will be repeated. ”

Wang Huaqiang said these words, and his heart was even more relieved, before the crossing, he was not a person who knew history very well, but he also knew the story of Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian who destroyed the Chen State and unified the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Although it is said that the crossing itself changes history, but over the years the Southern Dynasty has become weaker and weaker, and the trend of the Great Sui becoming stronger and stronger is very obvious, he has enough confidence that this Southern Expedition will definitely conform to the trajectory of history, and how he can seize the opportunity in this Southern Expedition and realize his father's wish to become an official depends on this hammer deal.

When Wang He heard this, he closed his eyes and pondered for a while, and when he opened his eyes again, his eyes were already like torches, not at all like a dying patient: "Hua Qiang, this matter is up to you, the three of you, this time you will all go to the battlefield, but just like at home, everyone has to listen to Hua Qiang's arrangement, understand?" ”

The brothers of the Wang family all showed joy on their faces, and bowed to Wang He in unison: "Follow Ah Da's arrangement." ”

The following things became very simple, Wang Huaqiang arranged the tasks of each brother, and the eldest brother Wang Huashi went to the Lianghuai area to buy grain and rice for two thousand people to eat for three months. Once everything is in place here, it will be transported to the front line of the southern expedition.

The third brother Wang Huawei, is responsible for taking stock of the surplus money of the shops in the area from Guanzhong to Longxi, since the opening of the emperor five years, Yang Jian unified the currency system, and all the territory of the Great Sui changed to the copper money called five baht money, and Xishu because the road is difficult, and there is no copper mine, can only use iron money.

In this era, gold and silver have not yet entered the circulation channels, and the silver tickets of the money village have not yet appeared, and a thousand coins weigh four catties and two taels, and if you want to carry 10,000 coins, you have to carry more than 40 catties on your back, let alone 300,000 yuan.

Therefore, the collection of 300,000 yuan is far from being as easy as bank transfer in later generations, so much money weighs four or five hundred catties alone, and you have to go to the shops in various places to withdraw the money, and then hire a car to transport it back to the head office of Xinfeng. Therefore, all the money transfer operations along the way must choose capable guards.

Fortunately, the Wang family has been in business for many years, there is a capable guard team, Wang Huawei himself is also a strong martial artist, Guanzhong area as the capital of the empire, public security has always been good, after careful planning, Wang Huaqiang is basically at ease.

Wang Huaqiang himself was responsible for the creation of ordnance and armor, Xinfeng City was not a large place, only one or two blacksmith shops, and could not supply hundreds of pairs of ordnance and armor, and if he wanted to go to the towns around Daxing City (now Chang'an City, the capital of the Sui Dynasty at that time) to build these weapons, he would only get himself into trouble until Wang Xuan had obtained permission to recruit his own subordinates.

Therefore, Wang Huaqiang's task is to buy pig iron and leather first, and then start to prepare after Wang Xuan gets the holy decree, and buy 300 pairs of leather armor, 1,000 catties of leather and 2,000 catties of pig iron needed to make 300 sets of steel knives, spears and bows and arrows, and 2,000 catties of pig iron, which can be taken out of 50,000 yuan from the Wang family's treasury in Xinfeng and used in the Daxing market to prepare.

After the arrangement was stopped, Wang Huaqiang's brothers went out to do errands one after another, leaving only Wang Huaqiang and Wang He's father and son in the room.

Wang Huaqiang looked at his father on the sickbed, the corners of his mouth moved, and he stopped talking.

But Wang He took in these subtle changes in Wang Huaqiang's expression, he sighed, and said, "Huaqiang, do you not understand that your father let all three of you brothers go to the battlefield?" ”