151 Raids
Although he promised His Majesty, the Chu family was willing to contribute money and food to support the extermination of the sea bandits
But it's not a matter for His Majesty to come to the Chu family to get money whenever he has something.
Chengzhong Hou felt that the gray hair on his head had fallen a little bit lately.
The Chu family is such a big family, and the expenses are also very huge, and now there is His Majesty's bottomless pit, which is endlessly filled, when will it be a head.
It is good that the food is in their hands. The people live on food, and it is true that they make a lot of money, but they can't stand His Majesty's endless desire to go down.
He didn't want to pay for the food, he wanted His Majesty to release the blood of the Feng family, but he knew that he was involved with another Changping county lord, and he was involved in Concubine Xi's mother's decision to take the money. The county lord of Changping is good, he also likes this little girl, this little girl also inadvertently saved her baby grandson, according to reason, the Chu family should take the money, but if you take it this time, there will be a next time. Therefore, Marquis Chu felt that he must not be so happy to take the money this time.
As soon as Murong Qianqian came to pit his grandson, it was right for him to suffer a little crime.
Second, he wants to cry for the Chu family! Let His Majesty understand that he cannot come to him for everything.
Anyway, Murong Qianqian and those people are stupid soldiers, and they can't starve to death even if they starve for three days.
After the marquis in the city made up his mind, he deliberately delayed the delivery of military rations for three days.
But the sky is not as good as the people, and the warehouse where the military rations are stored was actually struck by the thunder! It's providence!
You said it was already late autumn, where did the thunderstorm come from? That's it. A big thunderbolt with lightning caught in the middle of death draped over the warehouse, igniting the grain inside, and as soon as the fire burned, the entire granary was burned.
Now it's okay, the military rations have been burned, and it's too late to raise grain and grass now.
Murong Qianqian, who was far away in Jinghai, got such bad news.
Although he was waiting for the ship to be repaired, he was not idle, and led the cavalry to attack quickly at the speed of lightning and thunder according to the map of the pirates drawn by the small county order, and leveled the pirates in the two or three nearby counties, and uprooted the walled cities they had built on the shore.
The cavalry of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion is basically invincible on the shore, don't look at the lack of people, but in Murong Qianzhen's hands, it is a sharp blade. Take the heart of the enemy, and a small price in exchange for the greatest victory.
The bandits usually plague the people of Jinghai County, burning, killing and looting, and doing all kinds of evil, so Murong Qianqian is doing things to suppress bandits and save the people, and now his prestige in the eyes of the people of Jinghai is extremely high, but his reputation among Jinghai officials is very poor, Jinghai officials see Murong Qianqian is like a mouse seeing a cat, and they are afraid and disgusted in their hearts, most of them are Jinghaibo's fox friends and dog friends during his lifetime, and they still miss Jinghaibo, Murong Qianqian punished some corrupt officials who made trouble, They wish Murong Qianqian would die sooner.
As soon as I heard the news from Kyori. Said that the military rations were burned. Everyone couldn't help but secretly rejoice.
There is no military rations, look at this person slaughtering, Scarface kills God, how to fight.
Murong Qianqian is also very worried, he is not afraid of beating him, but if he doesn't eat, something is likely to happen.
It is already unrealistic to collect grain around Jinghai.
The bandits here are fierce, and the autumn grain collected is looted by the bandits, transported to the islands in the sea and hidden, and the people nearby have nothing to eat, what to feed such a large army consumption.
The profiteers on Jinghai's side had already gotten the news of the local officials, and as long as Murong Qianqian took the Xiaoqi camp to buy grain, they would increase the price.
Murong Qianqian doesn't have much silver in his hand, where can he eat the price increase of these profiteers.
Guo Fan's face flushed angrily, and he put the silver ticket on Murong Qianqian's table, "General, don't call the last general to go on the next errand to buy grain." β
Pei Dongcheng knew that he was angry again outside, so he silently poured him a glass of water, and then patted him on the shoulder, "Dissipate your anger." He persuaded.
"How can you get rid of your gas?" Guo Fan said angrily, "We are here to fight, not to play, we don't give food, how can we fight this battle when the soldiers are hungry?" He poured a few large sips of tea and continued, "Those eight calves know how to make money, what kind of people do you think they are?" You deserve to be robbed by pirates! "The earthsmith has a stroke.
"Just take your breath. Angry, they won't cut the price either. Song Liankai also persuaded, and then he looked at Murong Qianqian, who was sitting in the big tent and had been silent, "General, it's not a way to go on like this." Our military rations are already running out. β
"How many more days will it last?" Murong Qianqian asked.
"Four days." Song Liankai had just gone to see it, so he knew it very well.
"Four days is four days." Murong Qianqian stood up, walked to the enlarged picture of the bandits, and pointed to a bandit stronghold above, "Let's attack tomorrow and see if we can raid here as quickly as possible, maybe the autumn grain here hasn't been transported yet." β
Song Liankai, Guo Fan, and Pei Dongcheng surrounded them, looking at the stronghold that Murong Qianqian was pointing at, "It's so far away here." Guo Fan looked at it and touched his chin.
"I'll forget it, hurry up, you can go back and forth in four days." Murong Qianqian said.
The reason why the cavalry battalion is called the cavalry battalion is because they are mostly cavalry. Originally, there were 20,000 horses in the cavalry battalion, and 10,000 of them were cavalry. Now it has been expanded, but only by an expanded infantry.
What cavalry does best is a quick raid.
There were only four days of food left, and Murong Qianqian could only give full play to the greatest advantage of the cavalry and fight against the water.
That stronghold, he sent someone to investigate a few days ago, this is the most powerful stronghold, it has been entrenched for a long time, the stockade is also large, and there are many bandits, it is impossible for them not to put food in the stockade, otherwise what will so many people eat.
It's just winding down, too far away from Jinghai, if you are headed, it will be easy to be made dumplings.
The bandits in this area of Jinghai are actually making more trouble than everyone imagined.
The ronins and samurai in some of the island countries off the coast of Daqi, plus some scum of Daqi, actually gathered nearly 60,000 people, which was twice the number brought by Murong Qianqi.
They are scattered along the coastline south of Jinghai, and if they really want to go deep into it, it must be very dangerous.
If this raid can be successful, it can seriously damage the confidence of the pirates, but if it is not successful, the cavalry he leads is likely to be in the quagmire and cannot be pulled out.
So the raid is dangerous.
But in this case, there is only one way. They only had enough food for four days, and they could only achieve the greatest victory possible in these four days, and if the food in that stronghold had not been hidden, it would have been enough to sustain them for a few more days. Murong Qianqian had never felt that it was so difficult for him to fight a war this time.
First, it was a water war, which he was not familiar with, and relying on the three months in eastern Zhejiang, it was simply a piece of paper.
Second, there is no money and no food, and he has to think about hunger while fighting, which he has never encountered before, Emperor Su asked him to fight, and the problem of grain and grass was solved very well, and he never needed to worry about these trivial matters. The army has not moved, and the grain and grass go first.
There was no boat, a water battle, no boat, he could only take the cavalry battalion along the coastline, and watched the pirates who were scattered by him go to sea in a boat, and there was no way at all. They can scatter people, and the pirates can go down to the sea and gather.
I don't know if the craftsmen of Jinghai deliberately dragged it, the ship of the navy has been repaired for almost a month and a half, and it still hasn't been repaired.
In fact, it was not that the craftsmen deliberately dragged on, but that they were all blackmailed by Jinghai's officials, and these people were waiting for Murong Qianqian to make a fool of themselves, so naturally they secretly made a lot of ghosts.
Murong Qianqian is good at fighting, but she is much weaker in handling interpersonal relationships.
As soon as he came, he killed Jing Haibo, which was very happy, but it also buried the root cause.
How many years has Jing Haibo been entrenched in Jinghai, and how many people inside and outside Jinghai are Jing Haibo's relationship?
Did Murong Qianqian think that killing a Jing Haibo and getting rid of the officials who were closest to him would be able to shock these people?
He is really too naΓ―ve, as a general, his reliance is to be able to win, if he can't win, His Majesty will definitely blame, so these people just wait, waiting for Murong Qianqian to defeat the battle, as long as Murong Qianqian is defeated, they will have all kinds of reasons to visit Murong Qianqian. Naturally, when I wait, I will do some small things or something.
Jinghai has been in their hands for so many years, why did Murong Qianqian suppress them as soon as he came?
Doesn't he understand the truth that the strong dragon doesn't suppress the head snake?
Don't say it, Murong Qianqian really didn't think about those aspects.
He can fight, he can fight, and so far he has made a name for himself as a Weiyuan general with his military exploits, but he has been fighting all year round, where do you know the twists and turns in the court. Even if there was no fight, he was out of place with others in the capital, and he mixed in the Xiaoqi camp all day long.
Murong Qianqian's proposal, everyone thought about it and felt that it was feasible. As long as they act stealthily and fast enough, they will definitely be able to raid successfully.
The cavalry made a quick surprise attack in front, followed by the infantry, and the end of the road back could be connected from end to end, which could ensure the safety of all the soldiers.
Murong Qianzhen and Guo Fan led 10,000 infantry to respond, while he and Song Liankai raided with 8,000 cavalry, while Pei Dongcheng led the remaining 10,000 people to guard Haiyang City, maneuvering at any time. Murong Qianqian left Pei Dongcheng with 2,000 cavalry, just to make him more flexible.
Under the cover of night, the gate of Haiyang City was quietly opened, and Murong Qianqian and Song Liankai disappeared into the vast night with eight thousand cavalry like ghosts.
At the same time, several white doves flew up in Haiyang City and flew to different places.