"Do you have any plans?" Wu Ke knew that his son had been smart and wise since he was a child, and after returning from studying with the great Confucian Chen Yu for several years, he had grown significantly. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info his strength is to manage the operation of the family business, and in the face of today's **** situation, he wants to listen to his son's advice more.

Wu Yi thought for a long time before he spoke: "Chen Liucheng is a rare fortified city in the world, even if Fan Xiang took away most of the men and horses, but with the assistance of the private soldiers of various families in the city, with those Yellow Turban Army who cut wood for soldiers and wore linen for soldiers, even if tens of thousands of people besieged it, it can hold out for several months until the imperial army comes to rescue, so we are already invincible at this moment." The only trouble we have now is that the Yellow Turban Army will take advantage of the situation, and it will be difficult for our family's stores scattered in the counties and townships of Chenliu County to evacuate in a short period of time, and the family industry will suffer great losses. ”

Wu Ke nodded in agreement, with the tall city walls and perfect armor to defend the city, he had never worried about the safety of Chen Liucheng. And a few days ago, his younger brother Wu Kuang sent a letter from Luoyang, the imperial court has worshiped He Jin, Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song, and Zhu Jun as generals, and at this moment is distributing grain, grass, and armor to rectify nearly 100,000 elite troops. It can be said that if it can hold out for another month or two, Chen Liu, which is close to the Tiger Prison Pass, will become an important grain and grass transportation place for the imperial counterinsurgency army, and will definitely leave heavy troops to guard this place.

"But if we can form a rebel army by ourselves, will we have the ability to replace Fan Xiang and defend the entire Chenliu County? A force that persists until the imperial army goes out of the customs to quell the chaos? ”

Wu Yi hadn't thought about forming a rebel army like Liu Bei's three brothers before, but Zhuo County, where Zhang Fei was located, was close to the border pass, and the people there were very martial, and as long as they had money and food, they could gather a rebel army. But Chen Liu is the heart of the Central Plains after all, as long as the people here can live a good life, who wants to be Qiu Ba? In addition, Zhang Fei had gathered a miscellaneous army of hundreds of people after scattering all his wealth, and if Wu Yi wanted to form a rebel army that could fight against the Yellow Turban Army, the amount of money he would have to spend was not a small amount.

Hearing his son's words, Wu Ke was stunned: "Form a righteous army? It's not an easy task. You also know that although there are more than 300 guards in the family, there are only more than 200 people who can really be transferred for the father. ”

Liu Hong, the Son of Heaven, had already issued an order some time ago to remove the party and encourage the squires from all over the country to form a righteous army, as long as the Yellow Turban thieves were killed, they would have merit, and those who had merit after the Yellow Turban Rebellion were put down would be rewarded.

Although the Son of Heaven has allowed the legitimacy of the powerful private soldiers, except for some old families, the only people in the world who can play the rebel army are those who are willing to smash pots and sell iron to bankrupt their families and win wealth.

If the Chen Liuwu clan can also put together a rebel army of more than 1,000 people with the strength of the whole clan, but what about after that? Do you really want to take this team of rebels who have gathered the efforts of the whole clan to work for the imperial court, just to win the reward promised by the emperor?

Don't be kidding, the emperor was anxious to quell the chaos at this time before he promised everyone to form a rebel army, and after the real Yellow Turban Rebellion was all eliminated, if you still have a group of rebels in your hands clamoring for rewards, you can't say that those imperial court troops with blood stains on their knives and guns have not dried up, and they will directly charge you with a remnant of the rebel party, and there is no place to cry out for injustice after you are exterminated.

Chen Liuwu clan is not Wu Ke, the patriarch of the hall, there is Wu Kuang, the general's henchman, in Luoyang, the elders of those clans think it's a big deal to move the whole clan to Luoyang to develop, Wu Kuang is a child of the clan after all, can he not take in these relatives? But when that time really comes, ruining the family business passed down by Chen Liuzu, Wu Ke will inevitably be removed from the position of patriarch as a scapegoat, and his younger brother Wu Kuang will be the master of the house. It was precisely because of this idea that when Wu Ke wanted to mobilize those private soldiers belonging to the elders of the clan several times, they all sternly refused. Although most of these private soldiers were also sent by Wu Kuang, these elders had long let these private soldiers only obey their orders through a long period of co-optation.

"Things are not as difficult as imagined, and the child also knows that his father is constrained by the elders of the clan, and it may not be realistic to recruit all the guards in the family, and it will take too much money and food to recruit the rebels from the people in the city to pay them for their settlement. But at the moment, there are still countless homeless people outside the city who are hungry, and we only need to provide them with some food to summon their allegiance. Although Wu Yi also coveted the battle-hardened soldiers in the clan, relying on these two or three hundred people to fight against the Yellow Turban Army, which was prone to tens of thousands of people, he was afraid that a single charge would all fall into the vast sea of people.

"Yi'er wants to recruit those homeless people as rebels? Is this possible? Those homeless fathers have also seen it, most of them are only hungry for a breath more than corpses, even if they are given food, it will be difficult for them to deal with those Yellow Turban Army, right? Wu Ke is not optimistic about Wu Yi's plan, these days there have been too many homeless people starving to death outside Chenliu City, a large number of homeless corpses are discarded there every day in the mass grave several miles away, passing by the mass grave in the middle of the night, you can even see the firefly ghost fire rising faintly, enough to scare the timid people to pee their pants.

"The most frightening thing about the Yellow Turban Army is not only the absolute numerical superiority, but also the fact that most of the Yellow Turban soldiers are looking forward to the Yellow Sky Prosperity promised by the thief's first horn. In particular, Zhang Jiao promised them that as long as they paid for the great cause of the Yellow Sky, even if they died, they could enter the Yellow Heaven World to receive incense sacrifices and enjoy endless yin blessings. Therefore, these Yellow Turban troops are extremely fanatical every time they fight, and if they can't establish absolute superiority over them in one fell swoop, they will be hit by the desperate blows of those Taiping Taoists who are not afraid of death. Therefore, if you want to hold Chenliu County, it is far from enough to rely on two or three hundred people in the clan.

Most of those displaced people have traveled long distances from other places where the disaster has been severely affected to come to Chenliu to seek survival, and almost all of those who are still alive are the young and strong among the displaced people, while most of the women, children, old and weak have died on the way. If those Taiping Taoist priests hadn't been expelled before, these homeless people would have been part of the Yellow Turban Army that was ravaging the county and township at this moment. The child plans to draw thousands more from these surviving homeless people, use porridge and rice to regain some vitality, and then train them to reorganize. When the time comes, against the Yellow Turban Army, the elite force composed of hundreds of family guards will be the vanguard, and after the situation is opened, these simply trained outless soldiers will cover up the past, and it will not be difficult to win a victory. ”

Wu Ke didn't know much about military affairs, but he felt that the prospect described by his son seemed to be good: "How many homeless people are you going to recruit, and how much food are you going to use in your family?" For the father, you can first get through with Yi'er, although there is still some money and food at home, you can only use half of it at most, and the remaining half must be kept just in case. Moreover, although our Wu clan has many foundry shops, most of them are messy utensils, and there are only 1,000 sets of armor and weapons that can really be used in the treasury. This is still made some time ago, although it is durable, but the image is not very good-looking. ”

"It is enough to have a thousand sets of armor, and there are more than 10,000 displaced people outside the city, and the child intends to recruit 2,000 men from them, and give the armor and weapons to the best of these two thousand. There are a thousand people left, well, when the children hunted tonight, they saw a bamboo forest not far from Chen Liucheng, so let them use bamboo spears, although these bamboo spearmen are not as good as ordinary county soldiers, but most of the Yellow Turban soldiers are also cut wood as soldiers, and there should be no problem to deal with them These bamboo spearmen. ”