Hearing this, Wu Shiyi couldn't help but be confused, how many horse thieves did he buy with money? Can a horse thief also be bought with money? He raised his head and looked at Wu Wei with a hint of puzzlement in his eyes.

Seeing that he was puzzled, Wu Wei smiled and said, "Do you know where these grain ships on the dock are going?" ”

"My subordinates don't know." Wu Shiyi did not hear the conversation between Zhang Yu and Wu Wei.

Wu Weiyan got up and said slowly: "Liaodong." ”

"Hmm." Wu Shiyi's eyes blinked, looking at Wu Wei innocently, as if wondering why he was saying this to himself.

"It's for Jianyu!" Wu Wei's tone was heavy.

"Ahh Wu Shiyi jumped up from the maza, shocked and angry.

Liaodong is not an unfamiliar term, it often appears in various commentaries and dramas, the Ming Dynasty was defeated and retreated on the battlefield of Liaodong, but it did not prevent folk artists from using commentaries to fictionalize a big victory without zài. It is because before the change of his own country, the people of the Ming Dynasty were still filled with an optimistic atmosphere, and regarded Jianyu as a barbarian rebel like Bibai and Luxury, although he temporarily jumped off the beam, but it was a matter of time before he was pacified by the officers and soldiers.

However, during the Apocalypse, Guangning fell, causing hundreds of thousands of Liao people to rush into the customs, and the martial law of Beijing was imposed, which somewhat made the people of the Ming Dynasty feel that the Jianlu was a little different from ordinary rebels, but so what, it was much worse than the Mongolian Altan Khan, who had been under the city of Beijing. Even I answered obediently as a tribute, which green onion did Jianyu count?

Although Wu Shiyi was a young man and lived in the rivers and lakes, it did not prevent him from listening to the comments that did not cost him in front of the teahouses that could be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys, and after participating in the Ansai camp. Under the instruction of Wu Wei, the army art troupe rehearsed a lot of plays with Liaodong background, because he admired the heroes who resisted the Jianguo in his heart, and hated the Tartars who killed the Liao people.

Speaking of which, the Shanxi area has not been harmed by Jianlu, but Wu Shiyi's hatred for Jianlu is almost no less than that of the Liao people, whose family has a blood feud with Jianyu!

In fact, not only him, but the sergeants of the entire Ansai battalion had a similar attitude towards Jianlu as him, and they all despised and hated Jianlu under Wu Wei's deliberate scandalization and propaganda. It's okay with these propaganda, a large part of the reason why everyone hates Jianyu so much is because everyone knows Wu Wei's "revolutionary history", and knows that he was born in Liaodong, and his whole family was killed by the slave chieftain, so what. Gentlemen's point. "The lord humiliates the ministers to death", the master of the history suffered this strange humiliation, and everyone is not all desperate with Jianyu!

As for how Wu Wei knew the whereabouts of these grain ships, Wu Shiyi would not have the slightest doubt at all. The whole Ansai camp worshiped Wu as a god. This is especially true of the guards. Adults say yes, it must be, that's never wrong!

"Your Excellency mean these dog-day collaborators?" Wu Shiyi's hand grasped the handle of the knife tightly, and his eyebrows were upside down. His eyes were about to burst into flames, as long as Wu Wei gave an order, he would rush out and bring all the men and horses to find out the grain merchant, chop it with a knife, and feed it to the dogs!

"That's exactly what happened. Don't be in a hurry, sit down and talk first. "Wu Wei's reaction to Wu Shiyi was also a little unexpected, it seems that this political propaganda work has been done well.

"Yes." After all, Wu Shiyi was considered a young man, so he quickly calmed down and slowly sat down on the maza, but his snort was heavy, and it was obvious that he was still agitated.

"It's not surprising to say, Jianyu has also suffered a catastrophe in the past few years, and it is much stricter than ours, and a bucket of rice in Shengjing City costs eight taels of silver! The merchant made profits, and he couldn't blame him. Wu Wei said lightly.

When Wu Shiyi heard this, he was slightly stunned, and then his face showed a disapproving look, this profiteer, can he be a traitor for a few stinky money!

"My lord, the villain understands, and he will take people to burn these grain ships at night!" Wu Shiyi said lightly, as if he was going to the vegetable market to buy a few catties of vegetables.

"There are at least dozens of grain transportation teams of this size in Shanxi today, how many have you burned?" Wu Wei smiled and shook his head.

Wu Shiyi hurriedly said: "If you burn one by one, you can't let it pass like this!" After saying that, I also felt a little discouraged.

Wu Wei said with a smile: "Burn a grain transportation team, they will also form a second and third teams, these families have silver, and the local government is also their people, we can't do anything about them, if we don't do it, we will get into trouble." ”

"Is it just watching them transport grain to Jianyu?" Wu Shiyi felt powerless for a while, he understood that what Wu Wei said was the truth, but he was extremely unwilling to let him admit it.

Wu Wei looked at him and seemed to smile, "Of course not, we can't do anything about them in the Ming Dynasty, but what about outside the Ming Dynasty?" Since they are going to transport grain to Jianyu, they must go out of the customs. ”

"What do you mean" Wu Shiyi muttered, suddenly thinking of what Wu Wei had just said, if he realized, he hurriedly said: "Is it for us?"

"Yes, let you go and be a horse thief, rob me of all this grain on the grassland, and not a single grain of rice can be transported to Jianyu!" Wu Wei slapped the low table in front of him hard.

"The villain understands!" Wu Shiyi understood what Wu Wei meant, and his face was flushed with excitement. He was not yet eighteen years old, and he was just the time when his blood was strong, and he didn't feel what it meant to be a horse thief on the grassland, where the east and west stretched for thousands of miles, the wind and frost invaded, and the hardships could be imagined, but he didn't even ask where he was going and chose to carry out Wu Wei's order without reservation!

"I'm not done yet, I just said that you should buy a few horse thieves, do you understand?" Wu Wei smiled.

"Could it be that I should use the silver to buy those horse thieves and rob the grain with me?" Wu Shiyi guessed carefully, feeling more and more that his analysis was reasonable, and his words gradually became fluent.

"Well, that's right, the ground in the north is very tight, and you have few people, even if you get stuck in a few passes, there will inevitably be times when you can't take care of it, the horse thief is the head snake on the grassland, and the path is more familiar than ours, and it is indeed twice the result with half the effort with their help. But this alone is not enough," Wu Wei first agreed with Wu Shiyi's words, and then changed his words.

"Please make it clear." Wu Shiyi solemnly arched his hand.

"So your task is not as simple as looting food. Instead, give me a strict block of the passage for transporting grain, and I will support you in the rear at any cost to achieve this goal! Wu Wei stood up, pulled out a short steel knife, squatted down and used the tip of the knife to scratch the terrain on the ground. It turned out that the black steel Yingjisha was given to Wu Shisan, and now this one was bought on Taobao later and brought here to open the front.

Wu Wei studied history and geography when he was studying, and most of his current knowledge was made up in the past six months, and the outline of China's coastline, the Yellow River, and the Great Wall were all painted crookedly, and they were extremely ugly.

But if you are a big traveler like Xu Xiake who has traveled all over the world, or a big pirate leader like Zheng Zhilong, who has been crawling on the sea all year round, you can see this sketch on the ground. But you will be shocked. I admired Wu Wei so much that he threw himself into the ground, because although this map is sketchy, his understanding of East Asian geography is already epoch-making!

As for the famous "Kunyu Wanguo Quantu", regardless of its authenticity. But one thing is certain. Even if this picture was really painted by Zheng He. It was also hidden in the deep palace as a military weapon, and few people could see it except for the emperor himself.

At this time, Wu Wei casually drew a map of East Asia ahead of the times. Wu Shiyi looked at it and didn't care at all, and didn't make a fuss, anyway, he was used to the omnipotence of adults, and the two of them were pointing and drawing on the ground, excited.

Wu Wei pointed to a point in the northeast corner of the ground and said: "This is the Jingshi, and the emperor lives here." The tip of the knife moved a foot to the northeast, drew a circle, and said, "This is Jianyu, and the Liao salary we paid is to deal with them." Then he poked a small dot on the line representing the Great Wall between the two, "This is Shanhaiguan, and it is the one that blocks the Jianyu and prevents it from entering." ”

After a pause, Wu Wei poked another small dot between Jingshi and Shanhaiguan, and said: "This is the Zunhua we are going to, the north is next to the side wall, and outside the side wall is the Mongols." He used the tip of his knife to draw several large and small circles outside the line representing the Great Wall in the north of Zunhua, "This is the Tumut Department, this is the Ao Han Department, this is the Karaqin Department," Wu Wei struggled to recall the poor bit of geographical knowledge he had seen on the Internet.

After drawing a few Mongolian tribes, he drew a big circle in a blank space outside the north side wall of Zunhua, dotted it with the tip of his knife, and said: "This is the only way for those grain transport teams, let's wait for the rabbits here!" ”

"It's quite close to Zunhua here!" Wu Shiyi saw Wu Wei's circle and said loudly. Although separated by a side wall, the place Wu Wei pointed to was indeed very close to Zunhua, although he had put life and death aside, but it was still a joy to know that he was not far from the base camp.

"Hmm." Wu Wei glanced at him and said: "The Great Khan of Mongolia has now gone to the west, there is no owner in this steppe now, and there are many horse thieves. ”

"To fight is to subdue them, to pull is to use money and food to envelop them, when necessary, to recruit them, let them also join the Ansai battalion, anyway, we don't have many cavalry now!"

"The Mongol tribes are now fighting among themselves, there must be a lot of prisoners on all sides, these are the best cavalry, but now they are slaves, this is a good opportunity, you can go and talk to those big khans and little khans, buy them all, and build a few cavalry battalions, I will give you as much food as you need!"

Wu Wei talked eloquently, Wu Shiyi couldn't help nodding his head, looking at him with reverence, constantly deducing in his heart, feeling that the probability of success in this matter was still very high, not like just now, although he had no hesitation, but after all, he had no bottom in his heart.

This time, the soldiers of the Ansai battalion who followed Wu Wei to Zunhua included more than 200 cavalrymen, although these people were all skilled equestrians, but after all, the number was too small, and they could only be used as scouts for the army, and it was not realistic to use them to fight against the cavalry of Jianyu.

Jianyu to cavalry and archery as the foundation of the country, can not walk to learn to ride a horse, and from the beginning of the army has been fighting all day, the skin is durable, the strength is indeed second to none in today's East Asia, the Ming army can barely compete with the Guanning Iron Cavalry Army. There are still nine months left before Jianyu enters the Kou, and when he arrives in Zunhua, recruits new soldiers, and trains cavalry again, the daylily is cold. The training cycle of cavalry is not as good as that of infantry, and it can not form combat effectiveness in a few months, so let a group of rookies who have just learned to ride horses go to fight against Jianyu, who has been practicing riding and archery since childhood, that is, to send them to death!

But if you recruit people directly from the steppe, that's another concept, the Mongols are also a people on horseback, and their riding and archery skills are comparable to those of Jianyu, and they are opponents! When these mixed "horse thieves" become stronger, they will not only be used to rob grain, but with their own support, they will be an important force on the grassland that can affect the balance of all parties, which is enough to determine the choice of some wall grass

In time, who said that you must not break your wrists with Jianyu? Wu Wei thrust the short knife hard into the place on the ground that represented Jianyu, and there was a trace of hideousness on his face. (To be continued......)