Jinan Mansion, Jinyi Wei Yamen.

Su Hao looked at the six men and one woman in front of him curiously, none of the seven were very old, about twenty years old, he didn't expect that someone would come to the snow to deliver carbon at this time, and they were all considered big people in the circle of left-handed warlocks.

Meishan Shui Shi!

Yinshan faction!

For these two left-handed sects, there are also many records in the travelogues of the ancestors of the Su family, Meishan Shuishi is only inherited in the Meishan area of Huguang, and generally rarely goes out of Meishan, worshiping Chiyou God and Zhang Wulang, who are good at treating diseases with runes and witchcraft, and belong to the decency among the left-handed warlocks.

And the Yinshan faction is a thorough ghost cultivation sect, good at raising ghosts, and it is not a small-scale raising, some strong people of the Yinshan faction will subdue the ghosts and ghosts in various places, and then provide for them, and even raise a whole battalion of ghost soldiers and ghost generals in the underworld, and there are not a few old ghosts with second-rate realm strength like Fu Bo.

However, unlike Fu Bo, this kind of ghost soldiers and ghost generals raised in the underworld do not have such a good treatment as Fu Bo, Fu Bo usually has his occasional mana offerings in addition to Fa Xiang, which is equivalent to the ancestors of the Su family.

These ghost soldiers and ghost generals are more like being caught, and they can only receive a little incense from the Yinshan faction at ordinary times, and the relationship with the Yinshan faction is an employment relationship, you spend money and I do things, and the disciples of the Yinshan faction want to ask these ghost soldiers and ghost generals to do things, then they have to pay mana and incense, which is similar to his reward paper killing technique.

It's just that because these ghost soldiers and ghost generals can still be worshiped by the Yinshan faction more or less in ordinary times, even if the incense and mana are sometimes insufficient, these ghost soldiers and ghost generals will not easily fight back.

And because of the perennial going in and out of the underworld, the Yinshan faction has also made a lot of incense in the underworld, and can ask a lot of things in the underworld.

"I wonder what position a few people want to seek under this official?"

After retracting his thoughts, Su Hao asked with a smile, although he didn't know what these people wanted to get from him, but since they dared to come, then he would dare to accept it.

The strength of a few people is only in the second-rate realm, but the methods of the left warlock are strange, and if they are used well, they can also play a role that is not weak.

"Su Qianhu, my Meishan Yimai is good at healing, the battle in Jinan Mansion is imminent, we can treat the injured for Qianhu."

Xu Zhou arched his hand and said, he is the eldest disciple of Dong Shichang, and this time he was ordered by Dong Shichang to bring his junior brother and sister to Jinan Mansion.

"Su Qianhu, my Yinshan faction is good at driving away ghosts and walking away from the yin, once there is an order, we will definitely obey."

Wu Shi of the Yinshan faction also followed.

"In that case, let's join the army for the time being."

After pondering for a moment, Su Hao spoke: "I have set up a medical clinic in the army before, and a few Taoist friends in Meishan can be medical officers, and the medical officers are a hundred households, and each person has ten subordinate officials."

"As for a few Taoist friends of the Yinshan faction, the trading houses secretly set up by this official in various places are buying all kinds of materials for me, and when the imperial court arrives, the road will definitely be blocked, and then a few Taoist friends will transport these materials to Jinan Mansion for this official."

These two things are the most suitable for the seven people to do, Meishan Yimai is good at healing, and it is the most suitable to send to treat the wounded soldiers, although he has concentrated most of the doctors in the city into the army, and has also purchased a large number of medicinal materials. ….

But there are many injuries that ordinary people can't treat, and they still have to rely on spells, and if they go to be medical soldiers, Xu Zhou and they won't be able to contact the military power, and if they don't have the military power, they have no place to do anything even if they have crooked thoughts.

Wu Shi and them are the same, it is not easy to transport materials into Jinan Mansion from the outside, the imperial court will definitely let people block the main roads in various places, he originally wanted Fu Bo and Zhao Xiaoer to do this, but now that Wu Shi and they are automatically sent to the door, it is naturally to make the best use of everything.

And he is not afraid that Wu Shi and them have different intentions, as long as they don't end up with those caravans he has outside, otherwise the loss to him from three or two caravans is not big, after all, they are just some small caravans of dozens of people, as long as there is money, even if dozens of caravans are formed, it is only a matter of time.

Time flies, in the blink of an eye, four

The time of the month passed in a blink of an eye, both sides were accumulating strength, and the impact of seizing the grain and cutting off the canal was gradually emerging, and the soldiers and horses that the imperial court could gather in more than two months took four months to barely gather, and they did not move in Cangzhou.

"Xiao Er, these are four demon spirit paper armors, you and Zi Mo go to Dongchang Mansion to assist Tang Xiangjin and them in defending the city, these four demon spirit paper armors are usually raised by you, and then give them to Tang Xiangjin in wartime."

Su Hao handed the four demon spirit paper armor to Zhao Xiaoer, he originally planned to refine the demon spirit paper armor to Tang Xiangjin and them when he had spare strength in the future, but he didn't expect the imperial court to be so weak, it took him four months to gather soldiers and horses, giving him enough time, and in the past four months, he has refined seven demon spirit paper armor.

"One for He Liu, one for Tang Xiangjin, one for Liang Ping, and one for Luo Yi, these four demon spirit paper armors should increase their combat power a lot."

After a pause, Su Hao continued, although the demon spirit paper armor could not make Tang Xiangjin's combat power change qualitatively, it could definitely be greatly improved, even if it could not reach the level of Zuo Yifeng, it should be able to reach the level of other Jinyi Wei Qianhu.

As for why they were divided into Tang Xiangjin, He Liu, Luo Yi, and Liang Ping, it was mainly to prevent Yu Weiran, the four of them were not in the same group, Tang Xiangjin and Yang Bao and Hao Yi were closer, and Tian Ming and Liang Ping had a better relationship, Luo Yi and the four of them needless to say, He Liu and Jiang Shizhong and Gan Yang had worked together for many years, so naturally there was no need to say it.

The most untentative thing in this world is people's hearts, he doesn't want to let Tang Xiangjin and them fall into infighting because of the four demon spirit paper armor, if one side is too strong, it is easy to breed ambitions, and then the connection between Dongchang Mansion and Jinan Mansion will become less and less, if someone has ambitions, then Dongchang Mansion may not be defeated in the hands of the imperial court, but in the hands of his own people.

The four demon spirit paper armors were distributed to Tang Xiangjin and the four people, plus Zhao Xiaoer and Ding Zimo, Dongchang Mansion should be able to hold it, Zhao Xiaoer's strength needless to say, Ding Zimo's strength has also broken through the first-class realm, he also gave Ding Zimo a demon spirit paper armor, and in the past four months, he has recruited more than 70,000 recruits, plus the original more than 20,000, there are already nearly 100,000 people.

In addition, he also scattered the 4,000 elites who had been trained for more than two years, and led those recruits respectively, as long as they trained for a year and a half, plus a few battles, 100,000 recruits would be on the right track. ….

In the past four months, in addition to the grain, in addition to the grain, more than 100,000 mu of land in the Dewangfu were recruited for recruits, and more than 800,000 mu of tenant rent was exempted, and the remaining grain collected more than 200,000 stones, plus the grain seized from the Dewangfu and the Tong family, and finally the more than 300,000 grains collected from the tax, all of which had more than 1.7 million stone of grain, which was enough to eat for three years.

"Master, only Jiang Shizhong and the three of them are left in this Jinan Mansion to help you, I'm afraid it will be difficult to resist the imperial army."

Taking over the demon spirit paper armor, Zhao Xiaoer frowned and said, Originally, the strength of Jinan Mansion was weaker than that of Dongchang Mansion, and now she and Ding Zimo had to be sent to Dongchang Mansion again, although she didn't know what level Su Hao's strength had reached now, but in the face of the imperial army, I am afraid it would not be so easy.

"Don't worry."

Hearing this, Su Hao smiled and said, "Being a teacher has his own measure."

Although in the past four months, in order to refine these seven demon spirit paper armors, he has delayed a lot of cultivation time, but now that his eight veins of the Qi Sutra have been opened, he only needs to completely penetrate all the meridians to become a martial arts master, this does not take too long, before the arrival of the imperial army, he should have broken through.

Hearing Su Hao's words, Zhao Xiaoer didn't say anything more, since Su Hao said so, he naturally wouldn't treat his safety as child's play.

………

Cangzhou.

As more and more soldiers gathered, the entire Cangzhou wharf became a huge barracks, with military tents standing.

In the county government, Wang Congyi and Yang Guodong had sad faces.

"Governor, the food given to us by this court is too small, I'm afraid it won't be enough for us to hold out until we take Dongchang Mansion."

Yang Guodong had a bitter face, in the past four months, Cangzhou has gathered people from all over the world

140,000 soldiers and horses, the monthly consumption of these soldiers and horses alone is 780,000 stone grain,

However, this time the imperial court only sent them 120,000 stone of grain, which was only enough for the army to consume for more than a month, and the attack on Dongchang Mansion could not be successful in a short time.

On the other side of the canal, the more than ten miles long river from the Tuxiao River to Dongchangfu were filled by the rebels, and a large number of people needed to be recruited to dig it up, and it was not possible to dig it for a while, and more importantly, there was no upstream water source, and the waterway from Dongchangfu to Xuzhou could not be sailed at all.

If the grain in the south of the Yangtze River wants to be transported to Dongchang Mansion, it can only rely on the land route, and if you take the land route, the consumption is too great.

"This matter will be played by the court."

Wang Congyi sighed and said, "It's just that now the court is also short of food, and it really can't be done, so you can only eat the people."

Eat for the people!

Hearing Wang Congyi's words, Yang Guodong's brows furrowed even tighter, whatever he eats to the people is nothing more than robbing the people.

"Command, pull out the camp!"

Seeing Yang Guodong's expression, Wang Congyi was also very helpless, the court had no food, the rebels wanted to suppress it, and if he didn't rob the people, where would he find food to feed the hundreds of thousands of troops.

"Yes!"

Hearing this, Yang Guodong could only sigh, and then turned to leave.

Soon, the army was launched, and more than 2,000 large and small ships were coming down the river one after another, and with such a convenient transportation artery as the canal, naturally no one would be stupid to walk on two feet. ….

It took five days for the army to arrive at the Texas Caoyun Wharf, and at this time, Texas had already been empty, and everything of value had been cleaned up.

Wang Congyi did not stop, and the army went down the river again and headed towards Linqingzhou.

Naturally, such a big movement of the imperial army could not be hidden, and as soon as the army left Cangzhou, the news had already spread to Jinan Mansion and Dongchang Mansion.

………

Linqingzhou, state government.

"Governor, information from the rebels has arrived."

Yang Guodong came to Wang Congyi with more than a dozen pieces of information.

"How's it going?"

Wang Congyi asked, fighting a war is not a child's play, in addition to grain and grass, intelligence is also the top priority.

"In addition to the capital city of Dongchang Mansion, there are also two county towns of Boping and Chiping that have been captured by the rebels, and each county has 3,000 people garrisoned."

Yang Guodong said: "On the Jinan side, the six county towns of Licheng, Zhangqiu, Changqing, Qihe, Yucheng and Jiyang around the city have been captured, while the two counties of Lingxian and Pingyuan have been abandoned by the rebels, but there are not many garrisons in these counties."

"In addition, according to the news from the spies, the defenders of Dongchang Mansion and Jinan Mansion are about forty or fifty thousand people."

"How can there be so many?"

Hearing this, Wang Congyi's face changed, since ancient times, siege warfare is three and attack, ten and besieged, the other side has forty or fifty thousand soldiers and horses, which means that they must have 150,000 troops to be qualified to siege the city, after all, the casualties of the siege are far more serious than those defending the city, and if you want to besiege the city, you need at least 200,000 troops, but now they all add up to 150,000 troops.

According to the previous information, the other party only has 30,000 or 40,000 troops at most, and the 140,000 troops on their side are almost enough to quell the rebellion, but now the other party has more than doubled.

"We've been delaying for too long."

Yang Guodong sighed and said, the imperial court transferred troops from Henan, Shanxi, Shandong and other places, and drew food from these places to supply the border army, and the soldiers who came to help from all over the country could not get food from along the way, and it would be good if there was no rebellion, if it were not for the majesty of the imperial court, it would be impossible for these soldiers to come hungry.

Hearing this, Wang Congyi was speechless, and the atmosphere suddenly fell silent.

"Then how does Chief Yang think this battle should be fought?"

After a long time, Wang Congyi sighed and said, although he also knows some military affairs, but compared to Yang Guodong, a child of a family of generals who has learned the art of war since childhood, he is much worse.

"According to the lower officials, the most important thing for us now is to open the canal."

Yang Guodong thought for a moment before he said, "We can take down Boping and Chiping first, and then let people stick to morality

The state and Linqing Prefecture will definitely support Dongchang Province."

"After besieging Dongchang Mansion, we will immediately recruit the people to dig the river and restore the passage of the canal, as long as the transportation is restored, we can ask the imperial court to send reinforcements."

"But if the rebels on the Jinan Mansion can't be contained, they will definitely attack other counties, and even Qingzhou is in danger, now the defenders of Qingzhou are less than a thousand people, and the Qingzhou prefect is recruiting Xiang Yong, once the rebels invade Qingzhou, the imperial court will definitely ask us for blame."

After listening to Yang Guodong's method, Wang Congyi's heart sank, and he hurriedly said: "Besides, if you don't block them, Su Hao will definitely continue to recruit troops and horses, the other party has seized millions of stone grains, and occupied Jinan Mansion, there is no shortage of grain, grass and silver, and more soldiers and horses can be recruited."

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