"That's why." He Zhang nodded: "Even if we add all the grain and straw sent by the second son from Guangfeng and Chaoyang, we will only be able to use it for seven days!"

In other words, if there is no replenishment, the team will be out of cooking after seven days!

And here is one hundred and twenty miles to Yushan, even if we open the door to accept the surrender when we go to the city, it is difficult to support this bit of food, so we must vigorously replenish a batch locally.

Recently, the countryside has sent a grain team to clean up, and the limited income is better than nothing. Only the local squires, eunuchs, and merchants, who have not been polite to them since we arrived, must be able to collect some of them."

"But teacher, this is a symptom but not a cure!"

"Ho-ho." He Zhang laughed, stroked his beard and nodded, "Indeed!"

"Then why do you do that?"

"Do you still think that we will come back and take Shangrao after all?"

"This is natural!"

"Then I tell you, this time there are three purposes:

purge the servants and make room for those who are loyal to us;

Kill chickens and monkeys, and let those squires know that the sword of the rebels is not soft;

Needless to say, it is necessary to take food from the enemy, and in the end, it is to paralyze the opponent, so that the officers and soldiers of Shangrao and Yushan think that our army is extremely short of food, which is conducive to taking Yushan lightly!"

"Oh, I see!" Lou Shiyong gave a deep salute: "It's still the teacher's foresight, and the students admire!"

"Wrong!" He Zhang shook his head and smiled at the stunned Lou Shiyong: "Publicizing the news of our army's lack of food and making the officers and soldiers relax their vigilance is the lord's idea. I'm just adding fuel to the fire!"

"So, my father already had the idea of fighting Yushan?"

"Yes, yes. Therefore, the lord is wise!"

Lou Shiyong blinked, and then realized that his father's scheming was so deep, and the son didn't see through it.

"But, if you paralyze Shangrao, why go to Yushan again? Isn't it better to just kill a big city than a small one?" He thought and asked.

"Good question!" He Zhang tapped his fingers on the table: "So let's go back to the original topic, can we fight it?" There are more than 10,000 defenders in the city, and the strength of our army is basically the same.

However, the defeat of Fengling Town and Guangxin in the two battles weakened our strength, coupled with the lack of food and low morale, it was actually weaker than the defenders in the city, but the other party did not know it.

Presumably the eldest prince can agree to this?"

"Well, that's why we talked about how to retreat with dignity in the first place."

"Yes! Do you still think we can build that city high and deep, and there is a water village and a palace in it?"

"I can't." Lou Shiyong was silent for a moment and shook his head in reply.

"Therefore, transferring to Yushan can not only stabilize the morale of the army, but also seize the summer grain stored there in the future to supplement it, and also recruit laborers and miners from the vicinity of Yushan to serve in the army.

After the autumn harvest, the soldiers will have enough food, and then they will go west again and fight Shangrao, which is the overall outline in the heart of the lord. The eldest prince understands?"

"I see, I see!" Lou Shiyong felt that there was a basin of water poured from the head to the bottom, and this time it was a real realization.

"It's still a handsome and wise father, and he's thoughtful!" He said this sentence from his heart, and he always felt that the old man was too simple to look at the scenery and sleep with a woman in the back, but he didn't know that people had always had a plan in their hearts.

"Then do you understand what to say and do when you go to visit Yintuo this time?" He Zhang stared at him and asked:

"Yintuo moves, just block the little thief in green clothes for us, so that I can let go of it, and I can also deter Shangrao and attract its attention, so that our army can retreat from Shangrao City unharmed.

Otherwise, if Shangrao sends troops to follow closely step by step, it will be difficult for the lord to attack and capture Yushan's strategy to be realized, and in the end, he will not be able to quench the thirst of the whole army."

"Sir is right! Then, the student still has a question. How to take Jade Mountain? If the army slowly retreats to Yushan, I am afraid that the enemy has already been alarmed, and a siege battle is inevitable."

He Zhang smiled hesitantly: "Don't worry, the eldest prince was already ten days ago

Secretly ordered the White Horse Captain Cao Liang to lead people to infiltrate Yushan. The eldest prince only needs to lead a strange army and rush to the city to echo in the starry night."

"Let me go?"

"Yes!" He Linquan nodded proudly with his beard: "You persuade Yintuo to use the grain, silver, and equipment brought by the group training from the west as bait, and inform them of the transfer route, so as to prompt Yintuo to go down the mountain in the starry night.

If he can defeat the enemy and seize his pontoon bridge and reach Guangxin directly, it will be enough to defeat the officers and soldiers by mistake.

When Yintuo poured out of the nest, the second son came to take over the camp of Jiyang Mountain after receiving the third son safely.

The eldest prince, you have worked hard to return, I will arrange elite soldiers in Chashan, and you will take them to gallop in the starry night to kill the inside and outside of Yushan to seize the city. What do you think of this plan?"

"Teacher, do you want to send me military merits?" Lou Shiyong asked with a smile.

"The eldest prince, throughout history, all the kings who founded the country and started the business have all made great achievements, and most of the people who succeeded to the throne after them were people who could conquer and fight, so that the two generations could stabilize the situation and rule the world.

People say that Li Jiancheng is cowardly, which makes Taizong's talent and military exploits stand out, but in fact, it is not!

Li Jiancheng pacified Henan, pacified Liu Heimin, and still had two hits. Even so, he still lost to Taizong, why?

Because he often had fellowship with scribes and alienated himself from military officials. Later, although I tried my best to make up for it, it was far from enough!

The old man hopes that the eldest prince will be able to learn from the previous car, and from the beginning he will be able to make the civil and military uniform, so that it will be logical in the future and will not repeat the mistakes of the past!"

He Zhang's words sounded harsh, but they were clearly from the heart. Lou Shiyong was silent for a moment, and then said:

Mr. Jinyu's words, the world should keep in mind! There is something to trust ......," he paused and said, "The Chashan Lou clan is the same clan of my family, and I hope that Mr. will be merciful, and it will be almost enough."

"Hehe, this is natural, the old man can save it." He Zhang smiled and nodded.

At the appointed hour, the people of Kamisakato began to get nervous.

On the opposite side of the ferry, two walls were built with bamboo cement reinforcements, and the walls were seven feet high from the bottom to the upper part of the battlement;

On the north side, this road extends to the west and turns south to connect with the left bank of the river, with a total length of about 160 steps;

The other is shorter, basically north-south, about fifty paces long, and there is a gap between the two that is more than twenty paces wide and defended by a horse.

The Left Battalion and the Bird Squad were responsible for guarding the port, forming a bridgehead to defend the ferry.

The river channel suddenly narrows in the Kamisakado area, and it is not too much material to erect a pontoon bridge here, but it is a problem to increase the water depth as the water speed increases.

Originally, Zhou Qin's idea was to use the method of paving the boats, but soon found that this would not work, not only was the pontoon bridge itself unstable, but also it was impossible to carry a fully loaded carriage, let alone a heavy truck transformed by Li Dan.

So Li Dan decided to rebuild a semi-permanent bridge.

First of all, the original pontoon bridge was temporarily preserved.

Li Dan asked everyone to make cement slabs by making mud bricks, each one fist thick, three feet square in size, and the hole reserved in the middle for the wooden pillars of the bridge pile, with a diameter of about one palm.

The prefabricated cement slabs are dried in two days, and the bridge piles are laid first, and the prefabricated slabs are "guided" one by one by a person with good water ability, and the prefabricated slabs are inserted from above the bridge piles and sunk into the water to form a five-foot-high cement "string".

A caisson was made of a rectangular cage filled with large pebbles, and deep wells were built around the "strings", each seven or nine feet wide (the middle two were slightly wider) and one zhang and six feet long.

Finally, auxiliary piles are set up in the well, and gravel and cement are filled to the top.

A total of four piers were made, and two tower gates were erected on the middle two piers, and the lifting and flattening of the middle bridge plate were controlled by pulleys, winches and thick, strong rattan cables above the tower gates, so that even if the ship passed up and downstream, it could be passed.

Timber, mortise and tenon, prefabricated slabs and cement all speed up the construction of the bridge, and the pontoon bridge was dismantled after it was built, as the boat had to be returned to the water village.

Thanks to the sturdy piers, the bridge is not a problem with a small number of pedestrians while passing through heavy trucks.

Lou Shiming heard that there was suddenly a bridge on the river overnight, so he hurriedly took five or six retinues to check it on horseback.

After looking at it for a long time three hundred steps away from the bridgehead, he turned to Mo Xueyi and said:

"This Li Saburo does have some ability, and he changed the soft bridge to a hard bridge so quickly. It's a pity that he is the head of the official army, otherwise he is really a talent who helps the world and prospers the country!"

The agreed repatriation of prisoners and the transfer of supplies began at 17:00 in unitary time.

The guard at the bridgehead is the responsibility of the left battalion, and the defense is Xiao Wanhe's specialty, most of the left battalion is here, leaving two teams of people to guard the bridgehead on the opposite bank.

There is also Lin Shuntang's second squadron in the bridgehead ready to respond at any time, and behind the hillside on the other side of the river is the entire right battalion and Luo You's (right hook) squadron, who will set off with the first batch of supplies after the operation begins, and move forward to ambush outside the north gate of Shuizhai.

The whole of the front battalion and the third squadron of Gao Hanzi (monk) sat quietly by the carriage of the team, and they would follow the second batch of baggage and 600 people to the north gate of Shuizhai, and then line up there to stand guard.

The officers and troops led by Sheng Huaien (including the repatriation team of Tie Tiezi and Shi Sanlian) assembled at the foot of the southeast mountain of the barren mountains, and they were the preparation of the whole army.

At the Dayuan Ferry, Ma Jiu's escort and his nephew Song Xiaoniu's pacification team were responsible for the repatriation of personnel, and in the bamboo forest to their right rear lay ambush Tan Zhongxuan's rear battalion and Liu She's (Tie Linglong) No. 1 squadron.

At this time, in the brightly lit Chinese military tent in the camp of Jiyang Mountain, Yintuo had not finally made up his mind.

Although Lou Shiyong brought the promise of the king and made Ge Yang his fief, everyone also congratulated "Chitose, Chitose" for a long time. But for some reason, he always felt unsteady in his heart.

Yintuo was a man in his early thirties, medium height, with sideburns, beard, thick eyebrows, and a collapsed nose (the result of a fight) that made his appearance look very vicious.

But in fact, this guy is quite calculating and clever, otherwise even Lou Zishi can only hate itchy?

He was originally a monk in a Fujian monastery, but he was wanted for killing the female relatives of a certain squire, so he went to work in a silver mine in the mountains.

In the confrontation with the tax supervisor and the official army, he was promoted to the head of the overseer because of his outstanding martial arts, and gradually began to become famous. Because he has always had inch hair, he was nicknamed "Yintuo".

Before Lou Shiyong this time, he had already heard a little about the results of the battles from Fengqi Pass to Dayuan Ferry.

Although he didn't say it, he knew it in his heart, hehe, the Lou family father and son couldn't beat it, so he came to ask for help. But why should I go down the mountain and clean up the mess for you?

"Report! Tell Chitose that I was ordered to go to the Kamisakadu side to check, and saw that the enemy was assembling at the ferry, and there were many carriages on both sides of the river. I didn't see the officers and soldiers, I only saw the banners of the Geyang Wei regimental training and the Guangxin Beidi inspection."

The information brought back by the sentinel didn't seem to have touched Yintuo much, and he was still expressionless, unable to tell what this guy was thinking.

Some of the subordinates were anxious, stretching their necks to look at the sky outside the big tent, and constantly exchanging glances with each other, but no one dared to come out first. In this house, it is definitely the head of the house who sits at the top!

"Look, Your Highness King Ge, I'm not wrong, am I? Rest assured, the officers and soldiers are all attracted by my second brother to Dayuan Ferry, and there is only the militia escort and escort here." Lou Shi pretended to take a sip of phoenix milk nectar easily, put down the wine cup and said:

"In order to carry the baggage across the river, they even built a bridge, and it was 'Heaven did not take it, but suffered from it.'" By seizing the baggage and conquering Guangxin, His Royal Highness will have the capital to go west.

My father and son are absolutely trustworthy, as long as Ge Yang is a moment, the envoy of the crown will be in the army."

"It's not that I don't distrust your father and son, and I also know Lou Shuai's intention in sending you." Yintuo nodded slightly with the wine cup:

"It's a good wine, really. But why do I always feel that this deal doesn't seem to make as much money as you say?"

"Twenty thousand stone grains, a few thousand taels of silver salary, as well as armor and weapons, I can't say that I can add a Guangxin City, why, does Your Highness think it's not enough?" Lou Shiyong deliberately said the title "Your Highness" loudly and clearly.

"Tsk. I said that you are less, Your Highness, is Your Highness good?' We haven't yet

Canonized, the handsome man has not yet entered Shangrao to claim the king, be humble! You still call me a general, it sounds good."

Yintuo's words made Lou Shiyong and other subordinates a little embarrassed, and there was a feeling that a hot face was attached to a cold ass.

"Yintuo, why do you talk to the eldest prince in such a tone?" Liang Xie, the general of Wuwei who came with Lou Shiyong, couldn't help but jump up and shout angrily:

"No matter what, you are still Lou Shuai's subordinate, Lou Shuai knows how you are, and now he wants to make you king. But are you high up in the sky, and your speech is not salty or light, as if you are grateful for your kindness?"

"General Liang is angry, angry, it's all his own people, there is no need to be like this. My home...... The general is a cold-faced and warm-hearted person, everyone knows this, how can he not be grateful for the kindness of the marshal?" The strategist got up and played a round in a pious manner.

"Don't worry, Yintuo, he's not a villain." The person who spoke was Yintuo's "military advisor" surnamed Zhang Mingzishan, this person was a Taoist priest, and his name was homophonic as "purple shirt", so ordinary people called him purple shirt Taoist.

"It's just that he has some doubts in his heart that haven't been solved yet." The purple-shirted Taoist said and glanced at Yintuo's side, and asked with a dry smile:

"The eldest prince, we don't tell lies in front of real people, if there are so many benefits, why don't the big handsome people take it for themselves, but hand it over to our department?"

"What, does the Daoist think it's wrong for the big marshal to do this?" Lou Shiyong put down the wine cup and asked coldly.

"Where, the Taoist chief is just asking for the general and asking the eldest prince to solve his doubts. Isn't that the Chief?" In the midst of piety, he came to rub the mud again.

"Everyone is out to work hard, and our words and deeds, and our decisions, are related to the life and death of thousands of brothers.

Please forgive the eldest prince, Yintuo is taking into account the grace of the handsome man that he feels that it is difficult to speak, and the old man is thick-skinned to do this evil man for him." The purple-shirted Taoist chief was neither humble nor arrogant, and pointed his palm upwards to the people in the big tent: .

"All of you here are lieutenants and adjutant generals under the command of the general, who has not participated in the rebel army for a long time and was born and died? Everyone is not afraid of death, but we cannot die needlessly.

Now it is estimated that most people have heard about the fact that the second general and the third general fought unfavorably and retreated from Fengqi Pass to Dayuandu.

Well, there's nothing to be embarrassed to talk about.

But in such a situation, if you want to persuade the general to lead us to capture the Uesaka Bridge, you have to tell me about the matter, so that I can plan and send troops again, right?

However, the eldest prince did not seem to provide any useful information when he came to the camp except for drinking and urging!"

"Well...... what the Taoist said is also right. Prince, you see? Can you tell us about the beginning and end of these battles?" Asked tentatively.

Lou Shiyong knew that this happened and it seemed that he couldn't avoid it, so he hugged his fists to Yintuo and said, "I heard the Taoist chief say this, but Shiyong didn't think it through, please General Huangyan and you don't blame me."

In fact, if there is nothing to hide or want to make you go into battle and fight for your lives, it is really that our losses have been quite small since several battles, and at present it is only enough to besiege Shangrao, and we are unable to divide our troops."

After speaking, he gave everyone a general overview of the several battles since Fengqi Pass.

But he concealed the wine business, only saying that Lou Shifan was caught off guard and was infiltrated later, and then Chow Tai Fook was attacked, and Lou Shiming was ambushed halfway.