"I'm afraid this matter is not as simple as the general thinks!

After the war, the people in the vicinity who received the wind fled as they could, and those who remained were the elderly, weak, women and children, and they even had a problem with their own rations, so how could they have surplus food to sell to us?

As for the rich merchants...... The last time we collected grain, they were crying poor one by one, we just finished harvesting the grain on the front foot, and they ran away on the back foot, where would they obediently wait for the Chao Jian Army to come to the door again? Xu Wenbing didn't have any hope for this matter.

Although the border city is a strategic place, if it weren't for the fact that General Nangong led the Zhenguo army to defeat the Xirong people eight years ago, it also officially opened up the trade road between the two countries, and at the same time, many businessmen still went out to seize this opportunity, otherwise, I am afraid that the border city would not be able to have the prosperity and development of today, of course, those businessmen who seized the opportunity also made a lot of money!

But even so, all their efforts were wasted in the war, and the city that took them almost eight years to build was destroyed by the Xijon tribe in less than three days......

This is where war is at its most brutal.

And Xu Wenbing's words also made Ning Guohua, who had already calmed down a little, a little irritable, "These grandsons, we are fighting bloodily on the front line to protect our family and defend the country, aren't we just asking them to donate some food and money?" They run faster than rabbits!

Sure enough, businessmen are all treacherous and insidious villains! ”

"Vice Admiral Ning!"

Hearing his words, Pu Ce shouted unhappily, with a somewhat dissatisfied look on his face, and Xu Wenbing also disagreed with Ning Guohua's words, and retorted: "What you said is easy, 'isn't it' to donate some food and money......

You don't want to think about how much food we have to eat at the end of a day for more than 40,000 people? How much is it converted into silver?

Could it be that you want to bankrupt your family to donate food and money to us? Do you want to live anymore?

Furthermore, survival is everyone's instinct, and if those ordinary people can escape, why can't they? Or is it that Vice General Ning is discriminatory and prejudiced against businessmen? ”

In his opinion, it was very normal for those wealthy merchants to run away, and even those merchants used their own money to hire a dart board to protect themselves, while the other common people asked them to allocate a part of their forces to protect them for transfer.

Compared with the two, Xu Wenbing still thinks that these rich businessmen are better!

"I would rather not dare to take Vice General Xu's words, I just think that they have money and food, but they don't contribute to the national crisis, and they are a little angry!"

"Could it be that other people's money and food are earned from you?" Chao Jianjun opened the curtain and walked in, and he angrily scolded Ning Guohua.

Although he knew that the other party was thinking about the rations of the entire army, the words he said were really unacceptable.

If Nangong Jue was on the scene, she would definitely scold the other party with a sentence of "moral kidnapping"!

Ning Guohua saw Chao Zhengping like a mouse seeing a cat, and his angry appearance immediately wilted.

Seeing this, Pu Ce on the side couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, Ning Guohua is the second prince's person, and there are many things that are inconvenient for him to be directly scolded by himself, if it weren't for the fact that he is also a good hand in the war, and he is loyal to the court, Pu Ce will not tolerate him so much!

Fortunately, he still knows to be afraid!

As for whether that person is Chao Zhengping or someone else, it doesn't matter if Pu Ce is there, anyway, as long as someone can restrain Ning Guohua!

"Chao Jianjun, what's the situation?"

Seeing Chao Zhengping coming back, Xu Lingjiao asked expectantly.

It's just that the latter shook his head slightly with a solemn expression, "Everyone is almost gone, but I have moved all the remaining things in their house, and the food has been confiscated."

Deputy Envoy Xu, you can find a time for people to sell all those things, plus the silver tickets they donated before, and estimate how much food they can buy back. ”

Hearing his words, Xu Lingjiao couldn't help but give him a thumbs up, if this kind of thing were done by them, I was afraid that those people in the court would be killed, but Chao Zhengping was different.

He is the supervisor of the army, and he is responsible for supervising and restraining the army, but even he has to make this kind of "raiding" move, which is enough to prove that this is a matter of urgency, and others can't stand up if they want to participate!

"Thank you."

When Pu Ce heard this, he thanked Chao Zhengping, after all, the other party doing this is equivalent to helping himself hold a tank, if this is defeated, then naturally there will not be too many people holding on to this kind of thing, but if they lose, then there will definitely be people who take the opportunity to make trouble and shirk responsibility.

At that time, Chao Zhengping, who could have stayed out of the matter, will become the first person to be pointed out by Qianfu!

"Thanks for what? It's all for the people and the soldiers. Chao Zhengping said coldly.

Then, he stepped forward and briefly looked at the battle report and the letter sent by the imperial court, and frowned tightly, as if he wanted to kill a fly.

"On the Xijon side, when will the people behind them arrive?"

After a long while, Chao Zhengping looked at Xu Lingjiao and asked.

"According to the news of the spies, they will arrive in four days at the latest, and in addition, because they have left some people to guard Shucheng, the final strength should be about 250,000 people."

Although this is 50,000 fewer than the original 300,000 people, it is still a huge difference compared to the current strength of the Zhenguo army.

Xu is a member of the Xirong tribe also knows this, so he is so arrogant that he didn't bring everyone over!

"Where is their grain and grass?" Xu Wenbing asked on the side.

When Pu Ce and the others heard this, they all looked at Xu Lingjiao, but the latter had a complicated expression.

"According to the ...... detected by the spies They pioneered a whole month's rations, and in addition, there was a lot of follow-up grain and grass, which was estimated to last at least two months! ”

"How is this possible!" Ning Guohua shouted with a shocked face.

The others also frowned, a little puzzled, after all, even if the strength of the Xirong tribe was 50,000 less than originally expected, the daily food consumption of these 250,000 soldiers was also an astronomical amount!

And the place outside the customs where the Xirong tribe is located is not suitable for farming, and before there was no trade with the Northern Wu Dynasty, it is not an exaggeration to say that the life of Ru Mao is drinking blood!

Under such circumstances, even if the grain officials in the border city sold all the grain to them, there would be no way to support such a large consumption of the Xirong clan!

"Did the spies find out where their food and grass came from?"

After a while, Park Ce sorted out his emotions and asked calmly.

"No, but it shouldn't have been transported from us......" Xu Lingjiao's answer didn't make the others relax, and his mood became even heavier!