Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 565 Is it expensive to buy Hebei with a hundred thousand strings?
Chapter [-] Is it expensive to buy Hebei with [-] strings?

"Outsmart?" Su Dingfang squeezed out a forced smile: "Dare to ask the general how to outsmart?"

"Capture the thief first!" Liu Heita smiled confidently: "As long as Chen Ying is killed, the Tang army will collapse without attacking. Among the generals, Li Shentong, the long-distance running general, has the largest official position and the oldest qualifications. It is still better to deal with him." Very easy!"

Su Dingfang felt a little unbelievable when he heard it. As the commander of the first army, Chen Ying must defend at every level. Even during the march, his forward winglet was miles away from his flagship. If they were hiding deep in the reeds Naturally, they wouldn't be able to find the soldiers and horses there if they didn't move, but if they moved, they would definitely be spotted by the scouts of the Tang army. At that time, they would definitely encounter overwhelming attacks from the Tang army.

There is nothing wrong with the strategy of capturing the thief and capturing the king, but it is really too difficult to realize it.

Liu Heikai saw Su Dingfang's doubts, and explained with a smile: "Calculating the itinerary, Chen Ying's army must have arrived in Buming Prefecture today, and they need to camp. Looking at the hundreds of miles around Jize, the only place that can accommodate Chen Ying's army. The place is Shahe Bay, where the water is deep enough to stop so many boats, and it is closer to Mingzhou, less than [-] miles away. With the speed of Chen Ying's army, we can set off early the next morning and arrive in Mingzhou by noon. Under the city!"

"However, how do we capture and kill Chen Ying?" Su Dingfang said, "Chen Ying has more than ten thousand cavalrymen under his command, and they will put a radius of hundreds of miles into the alert circle..."

Before Su Dingfang could finish speaking, Liu Heikai interrupted Su Dingfang and said, "Chen Ying likes to recruit peasants to build a big camp. When the time comes, you will bring people disguised as Shahewan people and sneak into Chen Ying's camp!"

Su Dingfang said: "As long as I can accept Chen Ying within a hundred steps, Dingfang is absolutely sure to kill him!"

Liu Heikai said: "The general has already inquired clearly. Chen Ying will stay on that wheel ship at night. The whole fleet is only such a big ship. You can take your people and sneak in through the waterway!"

Su Dingfang smiled bitterly and said: "General, you also know that if you let me make a surprise attack on horseback, Dingfang will not be afraid of anyone, but I don't know how to dive!"

"Can't dive?" Liu Heita frowned, stretched out his hand to pick up a reed, then pulled out the leaves, and handed a reed pole more than one foot long to Su Dingfang, saying: "Use this!"

In the absence of support equipment and diving suits, when water ghosts dive to attack the enemy, they usually use reeds to breathe under the water in the dark, and quietly enter the enemy.

However, Su Dingfang picked up the reed pole with a crying face.

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Just as Liu Heikai expected, after Chen Ying learned that there was only a wharf like Shahewan in the vicinity of Jize, he only had to order the army to advance towards Shahewan.The old Shahe River was originally more than ten meters deep, but since the seventh year of Tianbao in the Northern Qi Dynasty, due to floods, the Shahe River was diverted, and a huge wetland has been formed here.

However, the embankment on the north bank of the Shahe River is well preserved. The entire Shahe Bay, like the several bays of the Yellow River, can be shaped like a half-moon, and most of the water transport ships can be relied on in the half-moon bay.Go north and leave the cavalry of the Xiaocai Army on guard outside, and there is no need to worry about being attacked by the Xia Army's troops.

When Chen Ying learned of such a good place, he ordered to camp in Shahewan.

When Chen Ying arrived at Shahe Bay on the Wan'an steamship, he immediately caught sight of this place.First of all, the water depth here is the same as that of the Jize Waterway. The water is nearly three feet deep, and even ships can pass through it without hindrance. More importantly, it is too close to Mingzhou.

From Liyang, Zhangqiu, Xiangzhou, and Huanshui, Chen Ying can also ensure that the rear roads are unimpeded.

Chen Ying called Li Shentong, the king of Huai'an, and asked him to shoot with Zuo Pu, the Shangshu of Xingtai, Hebei Province, and announced that the Tang Dynasty would recruit civilian husbands to build the Shahewan camp.

Li Shentong looked at the simple statement made by Chen Ying, and said very strangely: "General Chen wants to build a permanent military stronghold in Shahe Bay? Isn't this necessary?"

According to Chen Ying's plan, he needs to recruit 3 people, and it will take three months to build a military camp that can accommodate [-] troops. At the same time, he also needs to build a mooring wharf that is [-] miles long, which can moor thousands of ships of all sizes.Not to mention the time-consuming and labor-intensive construction of this fortification, the key point is that in Li Shentong's view, it is unnecessary at all.

Chen Ying murmured: "Does the King of Huai'an think it's unnecessary at this time?"

Li Shentong nodded.

Even Feng Li and Wei Wenzhong felt that Chen Ying was unnecessary.Because after defeating Mingzhou, the Tang army will not be stationed here, and it is even more impossible for such a large number of ships to berth at Shahewan.

Chen Yingdao: "This place already belongs to Dou Jiande's Mingzhou area, and the people here all have hearts for Dou Jiande, is this undeniable?"

Li Shen said: "That's right, even if this king orders the recruitment as Hebei Xingtai Shangshu Zuo Pushe, I'm afraid the people nearby will not respond, and they will only become the laughing stock of the world in the end!"

"Everything has advantages and disadvantages. We can take this matter into account. From a long-term perspective, this is really necessary!" Chen Ying smiled slightly: "I didn't say to recruit without compensation, but to recruit with compensation. The common people can get a hundred coins a day, or three buckets of grain, or salt or other materials of the same price!"

Li Shentong really wanted to say that Chen Ying was crazy, because Chen Ying had very big hands and feet this time.[-] civilian husbands for three months, if so many civilian husbands came to apply, Chen Ying would have to pay [-] guan every day, and three months would be [-] guan.

In fact, Chen Ying is not crazy.It is not meaningless for him to do this, but to win the hearts of the people.Although the so-called popular sentiment is a very mysterious thing, the short-sightedness and ignorance of ordinary people are well known to all.Just like later generations, because of a certain incident, a movement to boycott Korean products was launched, but it was a pity that it ended up being a big joke.Because of the price cuts and promotions, one day the shopping malls were full of cars and horses, and the turnover increased instead of falling.

It is everyone's nature to be greedy for cheap. It is really difficult to withstand the temptation in the face of tangible interests, regardless of the righteousness of the country and the people's will.When the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China, the officials of the Qing Dynasty sent a banner to the Eight-Power Allied Forces to commend the Allied Forces for their actions in Beijing. On the flag was written "Zhu Xiao Hua Feng" (May his birthday, wish him blessings, and wish him many men).Of course, when the Eight-Power Allied Forces landed from Tianjin, it was all Chinese people who were responsible for transporting supplies, weapons and ammunition, and repairing bridges and paving roads along the way. (This is not fabricated by Lao Cheng, there are historical materials to check.)
In fact, there are two main reasons for this phenomenon. First, the Chinese people were extremely disappointed with the imperial court at that time, and had the psychology of overthrowing the Qing Dynasty.The second reason is that it is ridiculous to say it, because when the Eight-Power Allied Forces hired Chinese people, they paid remuneration, and the remuneration exceeded the market price.

Ordinary Chinese people are great, and of course they are lovely.Except when I was so heartbroken in the Qing Dynasty, it is very rare for other dynasties to be abandoned by their own people like this.

Chen Ying actually wanted to use [-] yuan to buy the hearts of Hebei.

After thinking for a while, Li Shentong suddenly understood Chen Ying's intentions: "The general wants to use work for relief?"

Chen Ying did not answer Li Shentong's words, but asked with a smile: "King of Huai'an, do you think it is expensive to buy Hebei with a hundred thousand crowns?"

It was only at this time that the generals suddenly realized.

"Of course it's not expensive to buy Hebei with 100 guan!" Li Shentong said with a smile: "Don't say [-] guan, even if it's [-] million guan, it's cheap!"

Li Shentong temporarily dispatched dozens of secretaries and small officials from Chen Yingjun, quickly drafted more than 100 notices, and distributed them all over the place.Of course, the people near Shahe Bay were the first to get the news.In troubled times, manpower and life are cheap, and working in Mingzhou costs only [-] yuan a month, which is equivalent to two liters of rice a day. With some rice bran and wild vegetables, it can barely keep a family from starving to death.

However, the wages Chen Ying gave were fifteen times the price of labor in Mingzhou City. After working for one day, he could get three buckets of grain, which was about thirty catties.This wage is only a little more expensive than that of Chang'an, but it is already comparable to that of Mingzhou fighting food officials.

Even the small officials who are almost from the ninth rank, the salary they get is still less than three buckets.

Li Shentong was worried that the people in Hebei would not respond to Chen Ying's call at the beginning, but as soon as a dozen booths for recruiting civilian husbands opened, as many as dozens of people came to inquire. Within hours, more than [-] civilian husbands were recruited in Shahewan.

However, when recruiting, Chen Ying played a cautious role. Those who recruited either had brothers or had families.When it was dark, the peasants who had been working for more than an hour received an order to stop work, and each of them went home from work at the standard of [-] yuan or a bucket of grain.

When it was time to hold the lamps, the recruiting sites were already crowded by the people who had heard the news. Chen Ying asked people to notify the recruiting scribes, and even sent more than a thousand soldiers to maintain order.

But these people were not panicked when they saw the soldiers of the Tang army, but lined up very seriously.Chen Ying's method was a success, and Li Shentong wrote an urgent report overnight and sent it to Chang'an.

However, it was precisely because of Chen Ying's careful screening that he recruited civilian husbands, which allowed Su Dingfang and his more than [-] elites to successfully infiltrate the civilian husband camp. Tiwa.

There was no moon in the sky, but the stars were bright. Su Dingfang looked down along the embankment of Shahe Bay. At this time, the people who heard the news, dragged their families and set up straw sheds on the river embankment. The river embankment extends all the way to the water's edge of Jize, and under the starry night, it is densely packed, looking as desolate as thousands of wild graves.

Su Dingfang really couldn't figure it out, why did the people under Dou Jiande serve Datang as if they were reincarnated?
In the middle of the night, it should have been silent, but Su Dingfang encountered several teams of Tang soldiers on patrol. It seemed that Chen Ying stepped up his guard, and it would not be easy to take Chen Ying down.

However, Su Dingfang also knew that he had no choice but to attack.

(End of this chapter)