"As long as there are no accidents, the Chuzhou army can win, but judging from the performance of the Chuzhou army on this day, it is necessary to break Xiangyang!" Pang Tong groaned and said.

"Oh! Zhuge Junshi's thoughts are the same!" Leng Zhuo didn't expect Pang Tong to be so optimistic about the future of the Chuzhou army, it was more than 200,000 regular soldiers and horses, although there were also troops of the same size on the other side, but the elite soldiers and horses were only 30,000 or 40,000 at most. Xiangfan is just a county, there was a naval army as a barrier before, but now the naval army is also defeated, in Leng Zhuo's view, as long as the army counterattacks, it will be destroyed all the way, at most in Xiangyang Chongcheng there is some time.

Zhuge Liang shook the feather fan, and with the fan, a fresh breeze blew by, plus the loose robe, which was quite a bit of a Dao Bone Immortal Master.

This fan is made of the feathers that Leng Zhuo shamelessly plucked from the tail of a red-crowned crane, this red-crowned crane is only seven orders, but it is quite fairy-like, in the meantime, Liu Bowen, Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang also made bets on this mount, and later, Zhuge Liang won, so this red-crowned crane became Zhuge Liang's mount.

"If you ask me, if the Chuzhou army can fight steadily, maybe there will be a victory, if you are arrogant and blind, go all the way, and defeat will not be possible!" Uh, Leng Zhuo was speechless for a moment, he didn't expect that these two half-immortal military divisions were collectively not optimistic about the fate of the Chuzhou army, which made Leng Zhuo depressed for a while, but he was also a member of the Chuzhou rebel army, and it was strange if he was said so. "Why?" Leng Zhuo asked as he broke the casserole.

"This, the reason is not easy to say, there is just a feeling!" Zhuge Liang didn't say one, two, three, four, just a feeling, Leng Zhuo can only dry Lou Ba's eyes, this is okay.

Pang Tong on the side saw Leng Zhuo's depression and said: "There are many decisive factors for a war, but it is nothing more than the right time and place to be with people, and from the perspective of the first two, the Chuzhou army now has an advantage, but the people are ......!" Pang Tong shook his head as he spoke: "Internal dumping, although a large army has been formed, but the generals are not in harmony, they are in their own affairs, and the rights of the rear are even worse, on the contrary, the anti-king army is fighting against the water, and the upper and lower sides are united, and these days, the two sides are at war, it is not difficult to see this." ”

"If the Chuzhou army still thinks that it can win only by relying on more soldiers, then defeat is a matter of time, and then there are war reports that continue to return from the front these days, the generals of the anti-Wang army are bold and careful, good at tricks, dare to fight and dare to rush, and in the face of disadvantages, they dare to take the initiative to attack, it can be said that they have waved their hands to the extreme!"

"On the contrary, looking at the Chuzhou army, although it is well-equipped, but the generals are all good and happy, their talents are poor, they have been fighting for more than three months, and they have not been in the state, marching, procrastinating and delaying military aircraft, but they have been caught several times, which makes people fight a beautiful counterattack, and now 200,000 soldiers and horses are gathered in one place, if there is no unified transfer, once the command is chaotic, the result can be imagined!"

"And the most uncertain thing for us is the difference between Warcraft, so it's hard to say whether it's winning or losing, but there's always a feeling!"

Leng Zhuo was concentrating on his thoughts this time, thinking that the reason why the two of them were not sure was because they were not sure about the combat power of the two sides, and they didn't know who they were, so there might be all kinds of accidents, so the two of them only used a feeling.

But Leng Zhuo knew that this feeling almost judged the unfavorable situation of the Chuzhou army, that is, the Chuzhou army might be defeated.

In Chuzhou, there are three major places where grain is produced, Dongchang Mansion in the northeast of Chuzhou, Shanglin Mansion and Guangling Mansion are located in the plain. There is also Poyang Mansion, Xiaoxiang Mansion, a crescent moon next to the Poyang Sea, and finally the Vermilion Bird Mansion and Xiyan Mansion on both sides of the Xiangshui River, the grain produced in these three places accounts for eighty percent of the grain in Chuzhou.

Shanglin Mansion, Nanwu County, Lu Family Compound, as the largest family in Nanwu and the in-laws of the Leng family, the Nanwu Lu family has expanded its family business by half in the past year, and the head of the Lu family has not stopped laughing since the beginning of the year.

The Lu family's wealth has risen sharply, and the Lu family, which is the largest wealthy family in Nanwu, has become an example of Nanwu County.

At the beginning of the month, Lu Chanyue, the wife of the Marquis of Ping'an, went home to save her relatives, so that the Lu family, which had been stopped for a while, was full of guests again, and the threshold was smoothed by an inch, and this time it was not only from Nanwu County, as long as it could be related to the door, almost all of them stammered.

Lu Chanyue went home this time, in addition to the provincial relatives, naturally there is a heavier burden, the grain of Nanwu County is set by his own family, the Lu family has half of the land of Nanwu, and with the current wealth of the Lu family, the prestige in the local area, this Nanwu County is almost a bag, but this time Leng Zhuo is not a small fight, so relying only on the grain production of one county naturally cannot meet Leng Zhuo's requirements.

But fortunately, there are a lot of cards that can be played by the Leng family, and the biggest card is the golden river that flows gold, the name of the golden river is now familiar to businessmen all over Chuzhou, that is as long as you invest money, you can earn a lot of fat business, but if you want to enter a hand, it is not so easy.

Since the New Year, stimulated by the interests of the previous year, the merchants have hyped up, come to the Bloody Fort to register business travel, and the merchants who want to join in the footing are rushing to run, there are too many people, and the Golden River shipping is limited, and now it is only a little difficult to deal with the existing ones, although there will be new ships launched every day, and new dock areas are being built, and there are larger storage areas in use, but they still can't cope.

So Leng Zhuo raised the entry threshold, and after having the idea of fighting a food war, this threshold became higher, and he wanted to intervene and line up, as for when to queue, it was a matter.

And this time, Lu Chanyue is taking a part of the share to talk about things, and directly set a target, as long as you can grab a sufficient amount of grain, you can get a share, the more grain you buy, the more share, and Leng Zhuo pays the price of three silver coins and a load of grain, as for what other people use, Lu Chanyue doesn't care.

In January, the news of the defeat of the anti-Wang army spread in the countryside of the market.6 And the 200,000 soldiers and horses of the Chuzhou army were hoarding on the front line, and they were ready to deal a fatal blow to the anti-Wang army.

In the past, even if this kind of thing spread, it would have to be blocked for a while, and even some could not be spread at all, but now, even the old man who is serving the field in the field can tell you some of the latest situation on the front line.

Some time ago, after the news of this victory, the fast-rising grain prices stabilized and did not continue to rise, and as the summer harvest approached, the grain prices finally fell slightly, although it was only a few copper coins, but it also meant that the price of grain began to fall.

In the five counties of Shanglin Province, in addition to Nambu County, there are also many businessmen in the four counties of Shanglin, Xialin, Hedong and Hexi.

Stimulated by huge interests, these businessmen who can talk about the dead and the living have waved their eloquence of saying that the dead do not pay for their lives, and went to the landlords' houses everywhere to lobby, of course, in addition to these businessmen, the Lu family and other landlords and wealthy families have also released rumors, and the fact that they can exchange grain for a share of the Jinhe trade has been widely spread.

Guangling Mansion, the largest landlord in Shuangxing County, Lingnan County, Zhou Qiantong sent a familiar old friend away with a smile and returned to the living room, but his face was gloomy, and he snorted twice: "This old Wei Tou, do you really think that my Zhou Qiantong's name is fake, and you want to trick me into selling grain, it's ridiculous!"

"Father, it's okay for you to say, if I hadn't come back in time and told you the news, you would have really sold out all the food in the house!"

"Go, which eye of your little rabbit cub sees that I'm going to sell grain, come on, call Butler Fu to me!"

"Father, what are you?"

Zhou Qiantong glanced at his son and said: "You are not stupid when you say that you are smart, but why don't you want to do anything with your head, since that old Wei can find my door, you can find other people, if I don't hurry up, where is there still our family's business, I have all the grain in Shuangxing County, but these grains can still have more share, and the money sent to the door in vain, we don't want to spend much money, naturally we can catch as much as we can!"

In the three major grain-producing areas of Chuzhou, the three northeastern provinces of Chuzhou are almost like a plague, spreading the news quickly, while the other grain-producing area, the Poyang Hai Grain Area, has been sharply reduced in grain production because of the war, and in addition to the harvest in the south, the grain production has dropped by at least more than half.

And the last large grain-producing area is also the focus of contention, including Suzaku Mansion and Xiyan Mansion, the competition for these two places is the main battlefield of this grain war.

Because here, in addition to the forces represented by Huang Jiawei, there is also the Holy Sect that is hidden but known to Leng Zhuo, it can be said that the three forces are entangled, and this game, although it is not as good as the real swords and guns on the battlefield in front, is a battlefield without gunpowder.

And whether Leng Zhuo can successfully realize his plan of being the uncrowned king, this time the food war is very important.

A week before the summer harvest, the grain in the field has turned yellow, the golden ears of rice are bent heavily, Leng Zhuo rode a horse, and looked at the patches of rice fields on both sides of the official road, a gust of wind blew, and a golden rice wave rolled into the distance.

"It's a pity, almost all of the thousands of acres of fertile land outside the city are the private property of Huang, Shi, Pang and other families, and most of the others are friends with a few families, but we can't compete here!" Leng Zhuo shook his head, as the summer harvest approached, there seemed to be a depressing and dull atmosphere in the air.

"The young master doesn't have to be like this, this food war doesn't also make the young master see the distribution pattern of power in the Vermilion Bird City!" Liu Bowen said while riding a black donkey.

Leng Zhuo snorted: "It's really a bit unexpected to say, I didn't expect that there is still a force in this city that is not dealing with the Huang family and other families, but it can be drawn to our side in the future!" Leng Zhuo said, and couldn't help but think of the scene a few days ago.