Shouzhou Red Turban Army Qingfeng Military Governor's Mansion, Hao Ren raised the account, convened more than 1,000 officials in Shouzhou to discuss the meeting, the Governor's Mansion left and right Su Wei Qianhu, the Governor's Mansion craftsman Jiao Yu, Shouzhou Taishou, garrison, left and right sentinel rangers Qianhu, Shi Nai'an, Mao Gui, and Yiying joined the army all sat down.

The only thing missing is Yu Dechen, who joined the army!

Yu Dechen was temporarily excluded from military and political deliberations by Hao Ren, and was entrusted by Hao Ren with the major matter of crop breeding, and was sent to the field, away from the inner circle of power.

Anqing was too much of a threat to the Qingfeng army, and Hao Ren originally intended to accumulate strength to attack Anqing's Yuque, so the recent military arrangements were intended to avoid Yu Dechen. It doesn't necessarily take Yu Dechen to have the opportunity to betray Hao Ren, and he studies beating his father in front of a sixteen-year-old boy every day, which is a kind of torture for Yu Dechen, so it's better not to let him know.

Hao Ren raised his hand, and the civil and military forces below immediately quieted down, he coughed dryly, and said loudly: "Today, the main imperial court sent the prime minister to get rid of his relatives and lead a million troops, and the southern expedition to the world's righteous army, Gaoyou's Zhang Shicheng sent his prime minister Li Bosheng to ask for help, I want to ask everyone's opinions, save or not save this Zhang Shicheng." ”

When everyone heard about the imperial court's southern expedition, and the military figures were really amazing, they exchanged heads and talked about it.

Shi Nai'an preemptively left the table and said: "Zhang Shicheng's righteous army, also belongs to the anti-Yuan force, although he does not belong to the Red Turban Army sequence, and arrogance to the king, everyone understands the truth of the death of the lips and teeth, according to the reason, we should save him, but we have just experienced a fierce war with the state, the strength has not been fully recovered, Anqing's Yuque occupies a geographical advantage, threatening the safety of my state and Luzhou, if the Qingfeng army is full of all its strength and comes to the aid of Zhang Shicheng from afar, I am afraid that Yuque will attack our rear, and the foundation laid by the governor for more than half a year will be in vain." ”

Shi Nai'an is telling the truth.

Yu Que is a rare able official of the imperial court at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Anqing took advantage of the geographical advantages of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, threatened the Hezhou occupied by the Qingfeng army downstream, and threatened the safety of Luzhou on land, but with the current military strength of the Qingfeng army, it was impossible to defeat Anqing and destroy Yu Que.

The Qingfeng army and the Tianwan regime's naval army are still training in Chaohu Neihu, and they don't even have the courage to enter the Yangtze River, and Anqing's city defense, Qingfeng Army Governor Hao Ren has personally inspected, Anqing City has been transformed by Yuque, which is not conducive to a large-scale attack by infantry.

Yu Que's existence is indeed a huge threat to the Qingfeng Red Turban Army.

Hu Dahai said happily: "Zhang Shicheng has nothing to do with us, why should we save him?" When the Totok army destroys Zhang Shicheng, it will definitely fight Guo Zixing in Chuzhou, and when Totoku destroys Guo Zixing, and then fight us, it is estimated that the veteran soldiers will be tired long ago, and at that time, we will definitely be able to defeat Tokhtar with a strong city defense. ”

The enemy is not to be hated, because he is an enemy in the first place, and his friends and brothers become enemies, but they are more hateful than the enemies of the past.

Hu Dahai was ruthlessly abandoned by Guo Zixing and Zhu Yuanzhang with the trick of 'giving up the car to protect the handsome', Hu Dahai hated Guo Zixing very much, and it was not realistic for Hao Ren to send troops to fight the Chuzhou army. Therefore, it is understandable for him to make such a statement.

Yu Tongyuan said: "Judging from the combat style of Totoku massacring 400,000 soldiers and civilians in Xuzhou, it is not wise to lead Totoku to the local decisive battle. If Tokhtar's million-strong army reaches our borders, even if we can defeat Tokhtar with strong city defenses, I am afraid that the Governor's painstaking cultivation and the people who have worked so hard to gather will be in vain. ”

The army that was recruited by Tokhtar claimed to be one million, but in fact there were only 400,000. However, most of the 400,000 troops were drawn from the elite of the western khanates, as well as the 23,000 Goryeo soldiers of Goryeo, who fought far away from their own homeland, plundered and fattened themselves, killed good and risked merits, and their military discipline was extremely corrupt.

Especially the Korean soldiers. According to the records of wild history, the military discipline of the Goryeo soldiers who were put into China by the devils in World War II was worse than that of the devils, and the military discipline of the Goryeo soldiers recruited from Goryeo by the Mongolian court at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was particularly corrupt.

What Yu Tongyuan said is very reasonable, it is not wise to let the army of Detach enter the mainland.

Yu Tongyuan followed his brother and said: "To defeat the army of Totok, it is best not to fight locally, it is best to let him fight a decisive battle on the territory of Zhang Shicheng and Guo Zixing, so that they can become the main force to resist the imperial army. ”

"What is Mr. Liu's opinion?" Hao Ren saw that all his subordinates had already expressed their opinions, but Liu Bowen did not speak, so he asked.

"Tokhoff to the prime minister's high position, the governor of the millions, the front of the soldiers, for a while I am afraid that the righteous army is difficult to win, I watched the stars last night, the Tokh Bingfeng may not be long, according to Xiao Ke's view, the Tokhoff army can not reach the boundary of the Qingfeng army, the governor only needs a symbolic three or five thousand soldiers and horses, do not hurt the general military strength of the Qingfeng army, just seek a good reputation of justice and righteousness, enough!" Liu Bowen shook the feather fan, spoke slowly, and added the so-called astrology, which made people feel even more profound.

"That's what Pontus intended!" Hao Ren exclaimed.

Shouzhou Taishou Mu Youcai said: "Fight off or beat Yuque, as the governor of the Qingfeng Army, Xiao Kedu fully supports, however, at present, the grain and salt of the Qingfeng Army can no longer be supported, and now the price of salt has increased sharply, and the salt of Gaoyou and Taizhou can no longer be transported to Shouzhou, when fighting Hezhou, the number of soldiers in the army to eat grain has increased by 20,000, and the treasury has been eaten a fine light, the next battle, what do I rely on to support the military needs? ”

Mu Youcai is good at calculation, belongs to the typical miser type, he does not consider the role of Mao Gui and Sun Deya's army, he only considers how many people eat, how much food he needs to provide, and how much salt he needs to provide.

Hao Ren formulated a pension system for soldiers killed in battle, which basically made the Qingfeng army's treasury, which was not full, and also owed Mobley Iron Mine a lot of gold and silver.

Although the war is painful, the problem of money and grain is a big problem, and the so-called "before the army arrives, grain and grass go first."

Although Hao Ren has assigned Yu Dechen to engage in crop breeding and research on high-yield hybrid rice, after all, this is far from quenching thirst, and it is not yet known when the hybrid will be successful, and the summer grain has not yet matured.

"The problem of food, salt and money, Mu Changshi doesn't need to worry, the governor of Bendu has his own way, let Li Bosheng come in first, and see what his attitude Zhang Shicheng is!" Hao Ren said.

Hezhou is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, although Hezhou is not the main grain producing area, Hezhou and Wuhu on the other side of the Yangtze River across the river, Wuhu is one of the four traditional rice markets in China, guarding this place and then let the soldiers starve, that is Hao Ren Hao Guozuo is incompetent. (Note 1)

Zhang Shicheng controls the main salt producing areas, and he has no money to buy salt, so he can exchange things for it!

(Note 1: The four traditional rice markets in China - Wu/Xi, Wuhu/Hu, Jiu/Jiang, Chang/Sha.) ）

(To be continued.) )