Chapter 82: Give Up Completely
In fact, Lin Fengjin felt that it was impossible for the East China Sea Coalition to make such a sacrifice.
He would even add the word "absolutely" in front of it,
No matter how amazing and glamorous His Highness Tianlu is, no matter how strong his personality charm is, no matter how much he hates Lin Fengjin, his identity determines that this matter cannot be done, because he is His Highness in the Land of the Rising Sun.
And the Rising Sun Country is the strongest among the East China Sea countries, in other words, the potential threat to the rest of the East China Sea countries is the greatest.
If the rest of the generals were willing to give away the command of their armies and fleets, and willingly threw themselves under the command of His Highness Tianlu, to fight an extremely difficult battle, the consequence of doing so would be to suffer a huge loss of their own interests and capacity, and at the same time, if they were used to plunder, they would make a lot of money.
Then, the general's death should be approaching, and no matter how generous a king is, it is absolutely impossible to accommodate such a courtier. This kind of behavior can be described in four words, that is, "betraying the country for glory"!
At the same time, for those guys in the No. C war zone, Lin Fengjin's blow only hurt them, but it was not fatal, so Lin Fengjin deduced that the next action of these guys was also very simple:
If you can't be provoked, you can always afford to hide.
At this time, they always have a general understanding of the environment in their war zone, so after being rejected by these guys after asking for friendly assistance many times, they should have swallowed this breath temporarily, reluctantly withdrew from the barrier defense line, and then found another base camp, and even they could use Ah Q's spirit to comfort themselves, anyway, the camp in Cave Bay is also very unsatisfactory, and the port is too small.
Of course, this does not mean that Wu Zuocheng can sit back and relax from now on, when the East China Sea Coalition Army finds that the raids everywhere have already caused a strong backlash from the Central Plains countries, and they hit a wall everywhere. At that time, they will have enough preparations, and they will have enough reasons to attack Wu Zuocheng!
Lin Feng expected that it should be a year or a year and a half later, after all, as far as the four countries of the Central Plains are concerned, it is also difficult to come up with an effective way to deal with the amphibious landing of the East China Sea countries, just like the Ming Dynasty's widows, this is not an official act, it has made the entire Ming Dynasty restless and has become a confidant, and it is necessary for an immortal general like Qi Jiguang to exterminate it.
What's more, the four countries of the Central Plains are facing at this time. It is an organized, methodical, and confident act of the state, which is doubly difficult to deal with.
The next thing went very smoothly, after Lin Fengjin's fleet sailed smoothly to Wantian County, the people on the dock were all happy, their mouths were smiling together, and they almost didn't beat gongs and drums and set off firecrackers, as if it was the New Year.
Because this is the first big deal they have made since the opening of the year, although the docks are full of odd workers. They still have fields in their house, and they won't starve to death if they don't work, but it's really not easy, so the family can eat two pieces of meat.
And Wantian County is also close to the sea. It is also blessed with a wharf, but the East China Sea coalition forces have not attacked here, and there is only one reason - Wantian County is too poor, and this saline-alkali land has a reputation for being a poor and remote land. The girl can't get married, and the spies of the East China Sea Alliance Army have also heard about the "famous name" here, so they simply beat this place into a big X.
Wu Zuocheng's fleet docked. Immediately, he used the manpower of the post station to move towards Yedu quickly, firstly, to report safety, and secondly, with such an astonishing amount of goods and such a large number of slave populations, how could the transportation capacity of Wantian County be enough?
Three days later, the messenger who changed the horse and did not change the person spread the news to Yedu, since the barrier defense line was repaired, the news was cut off for more than two months, and Master Lin was also worried, every time he looked at Fu Min'er and Zuo Ya, who came to the house to inquire about the news, they both sighed in their hearts:
"This little beast is really worrying, these two girls are like flowers, why don't you be tempted, why don't you have a round house, if there is a movement in the belly, my old man will not be so anxious now! β
As a result, after the news came, Master Lin was also shocked for a long time, so he simply took the initiative to go out and organized a large number of mighty convoys to pick up.
As a result, when Master Lin arrived in Wantian County, Lin Fengjin actually arrived in Wantian on a three-masted ship!
Why was Lin Fengjin able to withdraw, because after Wu Zuocheng stayed for three days, Lin Fengjin actually noticed that there seemed to be some movement in the opposite barrier defense line, and went out to investigate, and found that the people of the East China Sea Coalition Army had actually begun to withdraw! This was a good time to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and the morale of the troops on the opposite side was very depressed, and if they took advantage of the situation to attack, it would not be difficult to defeat the other party.
However, Lin Fengjin immediately found that the other party still had reinforcements to respond, if the main force of the cavalry was still there, then he could still pursue it, but now a large number of war horses died of illness and Wu Zuocheng had a great impact, and tens of thousands of people died in the East China Sea Alliance, but Lin Fengjin valued his own life very much:
These sergeants who are surviving now have seen blood in their hands, and they are all the seeds of their own army expansion in the future, and they feel a lot of pain when they die, and they are also afraid of being ambushed by the East China Sea Alliance, so they can only watch them return.
Next, according to Tanma's reconnaissance, it seems that the other party really gave up the camp of Cave Bay, but only built an improvised dock there, where the soldiers in the barrier line and the troops who came to meet them boarded the boat and evacuated, and the specific direction was unknown.
After learning the news, the entire Wu Zuocheng was jubilant, and many people shed tears of excitement and happiness, this fact also verified that Lin Fengjin's judgment of the current situation was indeed very accurate, and the people in the East China Sea Alliance Army were really unbearable and completely abandoned the Cave Bay camp.
So needless to say, the next thing is to send fast horses to the Sanli Department outside Sisheng Pass to report the victory, and at the same time mobilize the soldiers in the city to demolish the barrier defense line, and at the same time to fill in the amazing number of dense horse traps dug out of Wu Zuo City.
At this time, after the cadres entered, they found that the East China Sea Coalition Army had retreated in a hurry, and it was estimated that they were also afraid of walking slowly with grain and grass. I was afraid that Wu Zuocheng would pursue, and it was estimated that there was no shortage of food, so I even abandoned a large amount of grain and grass, as well as a lot of rough benzene baggage, here.
Why don't you burn it? It is intended that Wu Zuocheng's people will be busy carrying these things and lose the opportunity to pursue them? This can be regarded as painstaking.
It is worth mentioning that among these leftover grains and grasses, there are grains and grasses that Lin Fengjin took out to trade with the crow ghost strategy, and successfully returned it to the original owner.
Wu Zuocheng can really be described as a waste waiting to be rebuilt at this time. Fortunately, there are enough people in the city, all of them are strong laborers, and the food is piled up, and there are no logistical concerns, so they can work overtime and let them work hard.
In addition, as soon as the enemy withdrew, the people who had been stuffy in the city for too long also planned to go out and live in the yurt, so it can be said that a thousand things were piled up, so that the people who were dealing with internal affairs were really busy with their heels hitting their heads!
Fortunately, Lin Fengjin did not leave at this time, and he sued them to leave. In the recent period, the safety of Wu Zuocheng should still be a priority, so the first priority is to strive to set up ten to twenty beacon towers on the coastline within a radius of two hundred miles, and at the same time build a simple camp around the beacon towers.
The role of these beacons is to give early warning. At the same time, it is also useful to build a simple camp around the beacon tower, for example, when the caravan passes there, it can rest on the spot. For example, if a large herd of livestock is grazing in rotation on the pasture outside, they can also spend the night there.
Don't worry about the horses, and when you contact the Sanli tribe scattered on the grassland, you can at least immediately replenish more than half of the war horses. And Wu Zuocheng is very rich in food. But there is a shortage of arrows, crossbow arrows for Shenwu crossbows, etc., and these things will be quickly replenished by Lin Fengjian.
Lin Fengjin at this time even more told the sΓΉ sΓΉ and wolf suddenly, to take a long-term view, most of the herdsmen within a radius of hundreds of miles are the East China Sea coalition army suffered, or simply fled, those tribes that were originally entrenched here have lost their pastures, life must be embarrassing, then you can also send some people out to contact contact, inform those herdsmen that the enemy has left, at the same time, these people are also better to carry a few carts of grain out, half sold and half sent to these grassland herdsmen, so that they can tide over the difficulties.
Wolf Tu was still a little resistant to sending food for free, but Lin Fengjin enlightened him and said that these grains were originally snatched by us, and we didn't spend a penny, even if they were put in Wu Zuocheng's warehouse, we couldn't eat them all, why didn't we take them out to help people?
After these large and small tribes on the steppe survived the difficulties, and after they prospered, it was convenient for Wu Zuocheng to trade with them, buying cowhides, animal tendons, and important strategic materials and horses.
Therefore, Wu Zuocheng quickly sent out fifty more teams, each team was twenty people, and each team set off with five carts of grain, and these people set off as messengers towards the tribes on the grasslands in all directions, and returned one after another within a month or two.
Many of the squads also brought back the convoys of the rest of the tribes, and the convoys of these troops not only carried return gifts, but also a lot of goods, all of which were asked to exchange food.
It turned out that last winter was a white-haired wind, and the winter had already made the days tight, but with the East China Sea countries attacking again when the green and yellow were scarce, the inhumane sweep of the surrounding hundreds of miles of grassland directly triggered a series of chain reactions:ββ
For example, on the hundreds of miles of grassland near here, there are still seven or eight grasslands with abundant water and grass, which are naturally deserted. The cattle and sheep that had been grazing on these seven or eight pastures went to graze on other pastures, but there were also owners on other pastures, and the foreign cattle ate more grass, and the original cattle had to eat less, so that a great famine began to break out on the grasslands.
Now that Lin Fengjin sent people to deliver grain, some tribes would definitely think while laughing at the grain: I think Wu Zuocheng is sending grain out, so there must be no shortage of it, so he tentatively asked whether to sell grain or not, and after getting a positive answer, he naturally quickly sent a caravan to come.
Wu Zuocheng met their requirements one by one, and Wu Zuocheng did not express any intention of taking advantage of the fire to rob. It is also quite kind, what is the price of grain on the grassland now, if it is bought for your own tribe to eat, after reporting the population, you can buy grain at the price of 30%, and you can even owe it.
If you want to buy it to make some difference, then you have to exchange leather, animal tendons, and horses, but this is the case. The exchange price is still 30% lower than the current market price.
Therefore, Wu Zuocheng suddenly became prosperous, after Lin Fengjin straightened out these major events, he felt that the East China Sea Alliance Army would not come again, so he moved the idea of homesickness, he also calculated the old man's temper, knowing that there was such an amazing large number of valuable goods to arrive in Wantian County, most of them would come in person, so he simply got a boat and took it. As a result, in just four days and nights, he arrived at Wantian, and sure enough, he saw the old man.
Of course, knowing a father is better than a son, and Lin Fengjin can even guess the old man's mood and reaction at this time.
So. When the forester saw his son who had been "absent" for more than two months, he saw him from his hospital bed.
Gritting his teeth and rubbing his hands, the forester walked into the room with a fire in his belly. Immediately, it was like a balloon that had been punctured, and the anger suddenly turned into worry.
Lin Fengjin's face was a little pale (with a little makeup), his eyes were half-closed and seemed to be asleep (in fact, he knew better than anyone else in his heart). Occasionally, he coughed one or two times (pretended), and when he saw the forester's face, he was a little ugly, and the person next to him hurriedly explained:
"Childe, there is actually nothing serious, but there is some seasickness on the road, and unfortunately it happened to be infected with the wind and cold. β
At this time, Lin Fengjin was "justly" woken up, and when he turned his head, he saw the old man, and hurriedly struggled to get up to meet him, and the people next to him hurriedly stopped him.
At this time, someone in the back brought a bowl of ginseng soup to Lin Feng to drink, and the old man touched it, and finally found an outlet, and immediately shouted angrily:
"How do you do people? This ginseng soup is cold before it is brought to people to drink? After drinking the disease, the person is not cured, but the spleen and stomach are defeated first (the word N is omitted below). β
After scolding people this time, the forester finally felt that the fire in his heart was defeated, and he sat on the chair next to him and gasped, and at this time he immediately felt distressed when he looked at his son, and he walked up and asked where he was uncomfortable, and after asking, he began to chatter a little.
In short, in the role of a forester's external father, when he feels angry, he is a strict father, but as soon as the anger disappears, it is the kind character of a loving mother. At this time, Lin Fengjin snickered and communicated with the old man, mentioning the goods that were transported home, especially those specialties of the East China Sea countries, and the forester's eyebrows immediately fluttered.
With the support of these goods, he even plans to reopen three shops in Yedu, which are limited to three or five pieces of special products from the East China Sea countries every day, or they will be able to attract popularity in less than a month.
Then the father and son carefully discussed the issue of those captives and slaves, and finally decided to let them be transported back to Wu Zuocheng, and then go from Wu Zuocheng to the inland Wu Zuocheng tribe by land.
Next, Lin Fengjin asked about the situation of the other four countries, at this time, the transportation was already underdeveloped, or the five countries stood side by side, and the truth was in the hands of a few people. And the Wa Snake God is inconvenient to ask, and the information he gets is also fragmented, with scales and half claws, so although Lin Fengjin is in this Wantian County, he still seems to be a little blocked by the overall information.
And although Master Lin just donated an official, but the Zuo family is a high-ranking official and dignitary, and the Fu family is also a generational relative, because he cares about Wu Zuocheng, so he is also inquiring about it, and the news channels are extensive
At this time, Lin Fengjin could be regarded as having a comprehensive understanding of the situation in the world, and he even felt dumbfounded for a while, because although he had thought that the destructive power caused by such a surprise attack by the countries of the East China Sea was very amazing, he did not expect that the situation in the coastal area would be so corrosive!
According to the latest information, even three prefectures have been broken, and one of them is even 40 miles away from the sea! Most of the sea is covered with smoke, and a raging war has ignited on most of the sea.
The second is Jiangnan, the wealth of the Jiangnan area is also famous even among the countries of the East China Sea, only Shangmao suffered a light loss in this raid, and the rest of the place is still a piece of erosion, and even the five-masted ships of the East China Sea coalition army can enter the mouth of the Yangtze River together, and go up hundreds of miles to attack the states and counties on both sides of the strait.
Although Nanzheng is good at defending, the fatal thing is that after the death of Liu Quyi, the lord of Nanzheng, Nanzheng exists in name only, and the trend of division has been achieved, so it is difficult to organize and dispatch a large number of manpower and material resources to resist.
The coastline of the Zhongtang Dynasty is shorter, and the loss is relatively light, but it is also "lighter", which is relative to the area of Dongxia and Nanzheng, because the coastal territory of the Zhongtang Dynasty includes the "Jiangning Mansion" and the small half of the "Suzhou Mansion", which is equivalent to the current Yancheng, Taizhou, Nantong, and is also a quite rich area.
The losses of the Northern Qi were the smallest, but the latest military reports in China show that there are still seven counties in the Jiaodong region that have been invaded by thieves, and more than 5,000 people have been looted, with more than 10,000 dead and wounded. (PS: The geography of the area around Wu Zuocheng and the geography of the countries of the East China Sea were made up by me)
Because there was a Shouku that often closed the warehouse, it discovered the other party's attempt, so it decisively set fire to burn the stored grain, so this place suffered the most cruel revenge, this Shouku family was chopped up together with the neighbors, it seems that 4,000 people were killed and sacrificed, miserable! According to the current statistics, the losses of the Northern Qi in this war were at least one million taels of silver, and there was no way to recover the vitality of the local government for at least ten years.
Lin Feng listened to his father's narration, and these eloquent numbers sketched out a tragic image in his heart, and he couldn't help but sigh, but he deeply felt powerless. There is a saying called self-cultivation, Qi family, governing the country, and leveling the world. A person's ability is limited, and what he can do is also limited.
For example, although Lin Fengjin caused a lot of trouble to the East China Sea Alliance Army in the C War Zone, the entire East China Sea Alliance Army was frantically devouring and growing in the catastrophe they launched, which had already made Lin Fengjin feel powerless at this time.
After chatting with the old man for a while, Lin Fengjin yawned, and the forester suddenly woke up and said:
"By the way, you are still seriously ill, you should not consume your spirit too much, I will go out, by the way, the person you are waiting here is clumsy, when the IELTS arrives in the afternoon, let her come and wait for you." β
Lin Fengjin was stunned when he heard this:
"Why is she here?"
Forester Wai Dao:
"This girl is worried about you, she is very concerned about your news, since the message is isolated, she has been secretly crying every day, this time she came to hide from her family, when she set off, she didn't know that you were also back, so the original purpose was to follow the ship to you, but fortunately, you came back by yourself, and it also saved a lot of things, so as not to go through a storm and turbulence. (To be continued......)