Chapter 167: Drawing Salary from the Bottom of the Cauldron
readx;? At the Imjin Station, the post guards and miscellaneous servants were all replaced with new faces, and the faces of the camp prostitutes could not be seen. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The complaint quickly made the wine disperse, the pure sunset soju, not mixed with water, the shopkeeper was too young, and the heart had not completely turned black, why he could get this fat difference, it was people's skills and private affairs. It's probably just a happy night, and there's no need to get to the bottom of it to offend the new shopkeeper.
The convoy and the messenger didn't care, and the centurion stationed at the stone bridge wanted to find out. He didn't think about it, it was a student soldier pretending to be a soldier, and he ran to open a post station in a panic after he was full? It was better to kill the defenders of Shiqiao and buy the road money.
The night is low, after running for a day to rest on the road, there is a sound of drinking and punching angry and scolding and strange laughter from the post house room, and the students who pretend to be post guards are running non-stop, their ears are all pricked up, borrowing food and wine to eavesdrop on the news, and by the way, collect a few rewards to play.
"Pretending to be like nature, rewarding a lot of money, gurgling, those who have money will be beaten if they have no money!" Hua Yue's reward and punishment method is simple and effective: a lot of reward means that the service is good and not exposed, and you can hear more news, whether it is useful or not depends on everyone's luck.
"Shopkeeper, the brethren who guarded the bridge have come to drink. A scout lurking outside the inn ran in, approached and whispered, "Centurion with twenty." The shopkeeper pretended to be unhappy and scolded loudly: "Do you want to eat white food? Be a bully! Go, find a place to settle down, no credit, you have to collect one less money, and deduct it from your salary." β
Hearing the words of the shopkeeper, the soldiers who drank and punched in the hall were envious, they must have a great background, no wonder they mixed up the title of centurion at a young age, and the only doubts disappeared, it seems that it is the house slave or distant relative of which powerful family.
The shopkeeper took the centurion into an unobtrusive room, handed over the menu with a cold face, and ignored the appearance of the defenders who did not dare to go wild casually.
The centurion has a leather coat and iron armor, and it is suitable to be a businessman, an official, or even a scoundrel in the market, but he has nothing to do with the soldiers, one pocket is high and two pockets are thick, and when he goes to the battlefield, he can be used as a stone for the trebuchet to throw out and smash people, so that it can come in handy and be worth it.
"Brother, why don't you say hello when you come, so that the brothers can come and help settle down, this ghost place can't be in front of the village and not in the back of the store, and distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. β
People can't be good-looking, as soon as the centurion opened his mouth, he mentioned God, and reversed the snub of the party, took out the new menu from the cuff, and greeted warmly: "Your old official is not small, how can you order dishes that can't be on the table, change this book, and try the skills of the chef of Wangcheng." β
The centurion was secretly taken aback, not wanting to lose his prestige, so he opened the menu with his fat hands, glanced at the meat on his face, and pulled it down, he had never heard of the name of the dish, and the price was not a hundred taels.
The centurion hesitated for a long time and didn't order, and the jailer changed his face faster than he could turn a book, threw the old menu on the table, looked out the door with a cold face, and tightened the strings for the shocked guests: "You're right, there is no place to spend money in poor places, missββ"
"Shut up!"
The shopkeeper walked in at the right time, and bowed down to make a circle: "I'm slacking everyone, please sit down, I'm in for a treat today." After speaking, the staring post man changed his tone: "How can I teach you? If you dare to talk nonsense, you may be thrown into the mountains to feed the wolves one day." β
On duty at the bridge, kneeling in the distance to see the dignitaries who passed by, but it was not uncommon to follow the guards, flattering and bullying two faces, killing people was the same as joking, and the centurion knew that he had met someone he couldn't afford to provoke. Misses, ladies from high-ranking and aristocratic families, are more difficult to serve than men.
"Put away the broken menu, where can the ingredients come from in the remote mountains. It's addictive to collect door bags on weekdays, and going out makes people laugh. The shopkeeper reprimanded the two post soldiers, and then laughed at everyone: "Sit casually, no one is allowed to leave today, and you will not have to bother the brothers in the future." β
The dishes were served one after another, and the fragrant and greedy defenders drooled, and when the postman brought two jars of wine, the shopkeeper opened the mud seal and filled it for the centurion in person, and when all the wine bowls were full, he raised the bowl and said with a smile: "Brother is young, mix some credit here, and rely on the help of the brothers in the future, come, three bowls in a row." β
After drinking three bowls of wine, he took out a stack of sunset silver tickets from his bosom, handed them to the centurion without looking at them, and opened his mouth a little embarrassedly: "This, hehe, the master likes to be quiet, and he snubbed the brothers, so he divided the money and went to the city to have fun in the future." The corner of the centurion's eyes swept over the silver ticket, three hundred taels, a stack estimated at thousands of taels, the reward was generous enough, and he couldn't figure out the details and wanted to excuse himself, and the shopkeeper had already surrendered: "Eat and drink casually today, hehe, I'll retire first." β
After leaving the post station full of wine and food, the centurion still did not know who the person who came was sacred. The guards are very skilled in serving people, but their expressions and postures will inadvertently show arrogance, and they have clearly not done drudgery before. As soon as the cold wind blew, the centurion understood a little, how could the noble lady hide hundreds of miles away from the border to seek military exploits, how could the camp prostitute ruin her reputation.
"If you have silver, you don't have to worry about not having fun, and you won't go to the post station to cause trouble in the future. Shut his mouth, Lao Tzu could see that the post guard had killed people and seen blood, and he was protecting the nobles. Whoever wants to keep his mouth unfirm and let his family lose the mountains to feed the wolves, he can only blame his own bad life. β
Several captains gathered the sentinels, quarreled behind closed doors for half the night, and came up with the noble lady's greedy tricks. The students don't need to pretend to be like the guards, and there are many well-informed people among the dead soldiers in Washington, who are true and false and even scared and deceived the defenders of the stone bridge, and run the Imjin post in a decent way. The pearl of the two mansions of Hua and Qin, Hua Yue had no choice but to pretend to be a cook, so that the people in the past were happy, and for a long time after the war, there were still people who secretly boasted that they had tasted the dishes of the princess in charge.
The mercenaries in front of the siege suffered heavy casualties, and the messenger who passed through the Imjin post followed the front and back feet, reported the military situation and urged the reinforcements to ask for merit and reward, and the transport team took a break to eat a hot meal and rushed overnight, summarizing and analyzing all kinds of information, and Hua Yue had a clear grasp of the situation of the Tucheng attack and defense battle thousands of miles away.
In the middle of the night, the messenger's door was opened with a sharp knife, and the leather bag containing the official document was quietly taken away by the black shadow that flashed in, and before dawn it slipped in and put it in its original state, tiptoed to close the door, opened the window and jumped out, closed the window and disappeared into the backyard of the inn. The messengers who stayed to rest for the night delivered ordinary official documents, and the soldiers read them and let them leave.
The messenger who only eats and changes horses and does not stay overnight has an emergency military information on his back, and the food is drugged, and the military information is no longer a secret. Some messengers woke up, thinking they were too tired to take a nap, so they jumped on the post and prepared their horses and went away. Some messengers were not so lucky, and when they went out, they had more tails behind them, and they followed them as far as three hundred miles, and there was an extra graveyard in the wilderness. The 100,000 urgent military situation was escorted by a team of three, and sometimes they were urged to change horses and not even eat, so the post guards would sneak attack and kill people when they changed horses, and then search for official documents to report.
The Imjin Post was several hundred miles closer than the other roads, and the more urgent the military situation, the more the messenger had to go, and Huayue's principle was that the more urgent the enemy felt, the more he could not allow him to transmit smoothly, and it was worth risking some exposure to get rid of him. The inconspicuous Imjin Station, during the entire offensive and defensive battle, almost completely cut off the communication between the front and rear of the mercenaries.
The transport team is outnumbered and heavily guarded, and if you kill the leader who sneaks away to drink, the post station will be exposed immediately, and letting go of the transported materials is tantamount to seeing death for your partner. Hua Yue sneaked into the camp of the transport team several times, looked at the grain, grass and ordnance on the car and gritted his teeth, the apprentices were even more angry, it was the task assigned by the corps commander to attack and intercept the transport team, and it was difficult to bear the shame of failure if the transport team was spared.
"Commander, I'll take people around to the front, and in two days a fire will be burned. β
The captains begged for battle, and Hua Yue pursed his mouth again when he was about to agree. The escorted mercenaries are not mud and paper, how many batches can be burned before the whole patrol dies? Hua Zifei repeatedly explained before leaving, first save himself and then intercept and kill the enemy, and would rather let it go than take risks. The captain was unusually indecisive, and the captains looked at each other a few times and gradually calmed down. The meaning of interception and killing is exposed, how to get out of the enemy territory, the tragedy of the crescent spring, and the severe punishment of the county lord, you can't do the stupid thing of killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred.
"Captain, I secretly pierced a hole, and the pocket was not filled with grain, but salt. β
The captain of the guard thought that the young lady was unwilling to take risks, and whispered what he found during the investigation, and the captains were deflated after hearing this, and suddenly attacked and set a few fires, which can ignite the grain and grass, but there are no salt blocks, Hua Yue sighed with relief, and wanted to let the captains disperse.
"Salt is more expensive than grain! How much grain can we burn in one round, but if we destroy this salt, we can't raise it for a moment and a half at sunset. The captain of the guard was worried that everyone would not understand, so he hurriedly explained: "If a person does not eat salt for a long time, he will become weak, and destroying salt is much more useful than killing thousands of people." β
The cadets of the Lingbo Standard Battalion had taken the old man's class on herbal medicine, and when they heard it, they understood that the convoy delivering salt was resolutely not allowed to pass over, even if the whole patrol died in battle, it was worth intercepting, and the question was how to ensure that more than a dozen truckloads of salt were destroyed before they died in battle.
When crossing the river, four teams of men desperately stopped the guards, and one team lifted the salt cart into the river, and the salt melted away when it saw the water. β
I really couldn't think of a better way, the convoy would leave tomorrow morning, Hua Yue had no choice but to take the advice of a captain, and ordered to go back and prepare secretly, abandon the post station to fight to the death, and destroy the salt to give the mercenaries a salary.
"It's raining. β
Good generals have their own reasons for success, only God knows how much luck accounts for, Hua Yue's luck is so good that it makes her laugh, as soon as the heavy rain comes, the transport team can't go, so she continues to go back to the room and closes the door to find a way.
The autumn rain fell for three days, and the transport team waited for two more days, and hurriedly set off when the road was a little dry, but no one noticed that the pockets on the car made the students drop their bags, which were full of sand and gravel.
Sunset sensed that the military information transmission was abnormal and sent people to track it down, starting from the nearest post station to the place of disappearance. The messenger passed, the post station had a record of changing horses, the Imjin post coincided with the time of the adjacent post station, and occasionally there were torturers who were suspicious and wanted to stay and investigate carefully, and the defenders on the stone bridge became the best cover, a meal of wine and meat and a few silver tickets, even if there was a suspicion, it was inconvenient to report. The torturer who really found the flaws would not believe that the people at the post station were murderers, and the clues were revealed between the words, and the sharp knife was already dripping blood from the heart.
It is difficult to disguise the facts, but it is enough to delay time, and when the sunset is locked on to Imjin Station, Hua Yue led the people back to the grassland.
"All cut!"
A few days later, Kantar collapsed in his chair and gave orders weakly.
The head of the convoy is not a necessary piece of salt, the anger in Kantar's heart is replaced by sadness, more than half of the 100,000 mercenaries who have besieged the city have been killed and wounded, and half of the soldiers who defended the city have also fallen, and the gap in the city wall has been met every day. Kantar was unwilling to admit defeat, and did not dare to stop the siege, thought hard for half a night, and gave the order to die in the morning.
"Withdraw from the south and attack from three sides, no matter who dares to take half a step back, everyone can be killed!" )