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Chapter Twenty-Seven: When the soldiers arrive at the bottom, they are like facing a great enemy

Starting from Tianjin, along the Yellow River, along the road into Baoding Mansion, Shunde Mansion, and then to Huaiqing Mansion to cross the river to Kaifeng, this is the route that Yu Feng drew up for the new army, and this time to go out to fight, in fact, for Yu Feng, is very unfavorable.

In terms of logistics supply alone, he is accustomed to the aftermath of his own logistics system, and there has always been no shortage of food and money, most of the time, he is tailor-made and expands his strength according to his own financial resources, and in this battle here, there is no doubt that the solid logistics foundation he used to fight cannot be counted on at present, of course, the imperial court is even more unexpected, at this time, if the imperial court can have so much money and food, it is rather than training a soldier by itself than giving Yu Feng.

Therefore, the military salary, grain and grass of the imperial court is more symbolic, after all, with the military salary, grain and grass, you can be regarded as the soldiers and horses raised by the imperial court, so that the imperial court will naturally have a great name when using it.

In fact, today, all the generals who have some soldiers and horses in their hands, except for a very few outliers like Lu Xiangsheng, there are really few who expect to rely on the money and food of the imperial court to train a soldier and horse by themselves.

It is in this case that most of the generals can afford to raise soldiers and horses that far exceed the establishment of the imperial court, among them, of course, there are means to raise their own grain, grass and military rations, to put it bluntly, the imperial court is insufficient, so they rely on themselves to rob it? Whoever robs, of course, robs the common people. And the imperial court also turned one eye open and one eye closed, ignoring it. Therefore, in some places, the defense of officers and soldiers is more powerful than the defense of thieves, and when the thieves come, you can still find a place to run, if you are targeted by the officers and soldiers, and you do not have a strong backer, you just wait for the family to be ruined.

The supplies Yu Feng received from Tianjin were only barely enough to maintain the daily expenses of the army, which was easy to say, but food was a problem. In fact, even this limit is enough to empty all the stocks in Tianjin in recent years, and no matter how much, Yu Feng will have to figure out his own way.

Asking Yu Feng to be like those other generals and snatch the little food they had from the already miserable people along the way to maintain the expenses of the army, Yu Feng still can't do this for the time being. Looking at the history books, there are rebels who are short of food, kill the people all over the city and make them into dried 'meat', and call these people "two-legged sheep" This heinous thing, Yu Feng can't even think about it, how crazy this must be, to such a move.

Therefore, one of the most important reasons for Zhao Deng's vanguard brigade to start early is that in several prefectures and counties along the way, it is more convenient to 'get' some food from the government than to 'get' some food from the hands of the people, and Yu Feng did not plan to reason with the magistrates of the prefectures and counties along the road. If you don't give it to me, I'll rob it, my new army can even break through Tianjin, can't you break through your prefectures and counties?

Ten days later, Yu Feng led the army to Baoding Mansion, but the scene he saw was taken aback, Zhao Deng's report, the prefect of Baoding Mansion, has promised to provide half a month's food for the transit army, and got this letter, Yu Feng also thought that when he led the army to come, Baoding Mansion did not say that it was welcome, at least it would send some officials to negotiate these matters with him.

Who knows, he came to the city of Baoding Mansion, Baoding Mansion actually closed the city 'gate', the soldiers and people at the head of the city, busy and guarded, as if facing a great enemy.

"Send someone to take a look!" Yu Feng was a little puzzled, but he still set up camp outside the city according to the scheduled schedule, even if the 'gate' of Baoding Mansion was opened, he didn't plan to bring people into the city, this was not his end, and it didn't seem that the soldiers were greedy for comfort at the moment.

The army behind Yu Feng is four brigades, more than 20,000 people, in Tianjin, Yu Feng left a brigade, no matter what, leading the army to think about defeat before victory, this is the quality it should be, if things are not satisfactory, at least, Yu Feng has a way out, these years, he knows very well that everything has a way out, how important it is.

The army of 20,000 people does not sound like a lot, but on paper, 20,000 and 100,000 million do not seem to be on the same level at all, and even have some meanings that cannot be put on the table. However, if you really think so, then what is called shallowness?

100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, Even if you see people in the sky, in fact, you may only see tens of millions of people, and you have to stand tall enough. The camp set up by 20,000 people is actually enough to surround the east and north of Baoding Mansion, and standing at the head of the city, it is densely packed with banners.

Han Sande, the prefect of Baoding Mansion, is not a shallow person, but after taking a look at the city, he immediately ordered: "Chen Shoubei, you give me another two hundred people, and the people from the 'gate' of my prefect's ya, guard the four 'gates' together, without the orders of you and me, if anyone dares to open the 'gate' of the city 'privately', there will be no mercy!" ”

The garrison general of Baoding Mansion, looking at the lineup outside the city, his face was also a little pale. Two years ago, when the soldiers of Zuo Liang 'Yu', the general of the Ping thief, crossed the border, he was still a hundred households, and how those soldiers were like tigers and wolves, and he did not do personnel, but he was still in the purpose. No matter how much he usually behaves in Baoding, but he must still be a native of his hometown, and there is still a bottom line for harming the villagers, but those soldiers have no scruples, that ruthlessness, he is ashamed of himself.

A series of orders were issued, and immediately some people ran towards the city 'gate' with the soldiers, and there were soldiers at the city 'gate', and these people went just to add an insurance.

From seeing the traces of the army to the time when the army set up camp for more than an hour, the two of them looked at the 'excited' and 'swinging', such a speed of camping, there is no doubt that these soldiers usually 'drill' how harsh they are can be seen, and the soldiers who 'drill' are powerful will naturally be strong soldiers when they start a battle. Daming has a very strange logic, that is, the stronger the combat power of the soldiers and horses, the more powerful the disaster will be to the people. Or take the thief general Zuo Liang 'Yu' as an example, his soldiers and horses are notorious, and their reputation will be stinky wherever they fight, but he has not eaten less when he loses the battle, but he is still praised as a famous general in the world. I'm afraid that among them, his soldiers and horses are equally fierce to thieves and people, and they are inseparable.

"Who is this army leading the troops?" The garrison was somewhat trembling.

"I heard that it's Yu Feng, the newly sealed chief military officer of the imperial court, General Pingyuan!" Han Sande frowned slightly, for this Pingyuan general, he had almost nothing to do, as if this person had fallen from the sky with his soldiers and horses out of thin air. This kind of strength is at least a general soldier, and these soldiers and horses, relying on the title of a general guerrilla rank, cannot be pieced together.

"This is all said by the Zhao Shoubei who passed by before?" Chen Garrison didn't want to see a garrison officer from other places at all, in terms of official position, he was not smaller than the other party, and in terms of people, he was not less than the other party, so when Zhao Deng came, he simply avoided it, quite out of sight and out of mind. The benefits that can be taken out in Baoding Mansion every year are so much, if the foreign monks eat, the local monks will naturally eat less.

He thought that the other party was just looking for some benefits, as long as he didn't find his head, he would be able to hide a lot, these days, he has been hiding in the gentle township of the dark 'door' in the east of the city, knowing that yesterday, he was found by Chen Sande, and the next day, Yu Feng came with great fanfare.

"Hmmm! I hope they just cross the border, give some benefits to the labor army, and leave! Han Sande muttered, "It stands to reason that they should have sent someone over at this moment!" ”

He guessed right, and just as he was saying this, a thousand households sent by Yu Feng had already taken a few soldiers and rode their horses towards this side.

"Which lord is in the city, our general sent me to inform the lord, our new army is the military horse of the imperial court, not a thief army, the officials and people in the city, don't panic!"

"This is our prefect Lord Han, if you have anything to say, just say it in the city!" Chen Shoubei shouted loudly below, the other party's iron armor, he looked a little hot, this outfit was much better than his.

"What are these words!" The thousand households were very unhappy, "Our army has come from afar, is this the hospitality of Baoding Mansion?" Not to mention, our people have already informed Baoding Mansion to prepare the grain and grass for our army, and now it seems that you want to regret it? ”

"This general, don't get me wrong, my Baoding Mansion is barren, and the army's grain and grass are really unaffordable, please bring a message to your marshal, just say, Baoding Mansion will immediately send someone to labor the army, if there is anything that can not satisfy the marshal, please forgive me, forgive me!"

After Han Sande finished speaking, his eyes slipped around his subordinates, this labor army does not seem to be a good job, when he meets a domineering and brutal master, he is disobedient a little, and he is afraid that it is possible to lose his 'life'.

Everyone in the field looked at each other a little disjointed, and the position of this person who went to the labor army should not be much lower, otherwise, this ability is to look down on the other party. Han Sande's eyes finally fell on the judge, "You go!" Explain my meaning to him clearly, if you can move the other party to let us go of Baoding Mansion, I still have a few people in the Ministry of Officials in Beijing in the same year, and I will not treat you badly! ”

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