The Pretty Eldest Daughter of a Scholar's Family

Chapter 852 War is on the verge of breaking out

Su Yunduo's village outside Yanshan Prefecture has been busy for the past few days.

Zi Lian, Zi Tiao, their husbands, and the dozen or so guards that Su Yunduo brought from Yongcheng this time, after sending Su Yunduo away, they brought the token Su Yunduo left for them to Zhuangzi outside the city, and told them Zhuangtou showed Su Yunduo's token and autographed letter.

After confirming that the tokens and letters were correct, Zhuangtou led the servants and tenants in the village to cooperate with Zilian and Zi Tiao to bag half of the stored grain in the village.

Since Zhuangzi came to Su Yunduo's hands, he built a granary according to Su Yunduo's instructions and began to store grain. After three years of grain storage, he began to replace the old with new ones. Therefore, the grain in Zhuangzi's granary is the grain stored in the last three years.

When this Zhuangzi bought it, there were about [-] acres of fertile land, a fruit forest of about [-] acres, and a wasteland of about [-] acres.

About [-] acres of fertile land are planted twice a year, one season of spring wheat and one season of rice, so there is a lot of grain.

The orchard is considered to be a relatively mature orchard. The main fruit trees are peach trees. Every year when the peach blossoms are in full bloom, it can bring some income to Zhuangzi. It has a good reputation in Yanshan Fucheng, so after Su Yunduo took over the orchard, he did not carry out major renovations to the orchard. He only ordered Zhuangtou to properly replace the old and new fruit trees to ensure the long-term and sustainable income of the orchard.

Hundreds of acres of wasteland were also reclaimed by people, and the reclaimed land was used to grow sorghum, corn, etc. Although the output was not high, it could still solve a part of the winemaking food for Kangyun Winery every year.

The [-] mu of fertile farmland has stored more than [-] stones of grain in three years, half of it was bagged, and a total of [-] sacks were used. If Su Yunduo hadn't arranged for the village to prepare some in batches, and brought some from Yongcheng, Such a large-scale demand will definitely cause a grand occasion similar to "Luoyang Paper Expensive".

When Su Yunduo arrived at Zhuangzi, the grain had already been bagged, and after checking that it was correct, Su Yunduo began to arrange for loading.

Transportation in this era relies on horse-drawn carts and ox carts, but in this icy and snowy time, ox carts are not available. Only horse-drawn carts can be used for transportation because the horses have claws.

The day before Su Yunduo arrived at Zhuangzi, Chun Yu rushed to Yanshan Mansion with a group of people, naturally under the orders of Lu Jinkang.

Chun Yu came here with a group of carriages and soldiers, the purpose was to assist Su Yunduo in transporting the grain from the Zhuangzi in Yanshan Mansion to Boni City before the war started.

The convoy brought by Chunyu included 180 horse-drawn carriages temporarily rented from Boni City and Yongcheng in addition to the military carriages. A total of 250 horse-drawn carriages, Zilian and others rented from large and small carriages in Yanshan Prefecture, all of which are double-horse-drawn carriages, forming a long convoy. These grains seem to be a lot, but It is not enough to deal with the imminent war.

This time, Chunyu brought Su Yunduo a letter from Lu Jinkang. From the letter, Su Yunduo could feel that the situation was becoming more and more tense, because the scouts in the army had verified the news that the scouts had been placed in Beichen, and the Beichen Kingdom had indeed gone to leave. The total number of troops stationed in towns within one hundred, fifty or even thirty miles of Boni City is more than 30, and this does not include the follow-up troops.

Although Dongling Kingdom claims to have 20 troops in northern Xinjiang, in fact, the real strength is at most half of them.

Recently, the south and northwest borders are a little unstable, and there are not many troops that can be reinforced. That is to say, Lu Jinkang must defend Boni City with [-] troops at hand.

Although Boni City is short of troops, there is still a new place to rely on. Besides, since Boni City became the territory of Dongling Kingdom and became the first line of defense against Beichen Kingdom, Dongling Kingdom also spent a lot of manpower on the defense of Boni City And financial resources are far from the Boni City in the memory of the generals of Beichen Kingdom.

When Lu Jinkang came to Beijiang to take over the commander-in-chief seal, he brought with him the newly developed new-style weapons, among which were large bed crossbows and cart crossbows that could be used for both defense and siege. big dynamite.

After receiving the news of the scouts, Lu Jinkang sent a letter to the court, while strengthening his military training, and made some defensive deployments.

Now that the emperor of Beichen Kingdom has become a wolf again, he will not only deal a head-on blow to Beichen Kingdom, but also make the emperor of Beichen Kingdom kneel down and beg for mercy.

Under such circumstances, food and grass are naturally very important, which is also an important reason why Lu Jinkang specially sent Chunyu here.

Of course, to win this battle, it is not enough to rely on Su Yunduo, half of the food in the Yanshan Mansion, but Lu Jinkang sent a letter to the court and also sent a letter to Lu Mingyang. In this way, Lu Jinkang can save a lot of worries.

Of course, Su Yunduo is not idle either. Except for the grain and medicinal materials of Geshan Village in Yanshan Mansion, she adjusts the grain and silver from Zhuangzi and the industry under her own name respectively. The supply of grain, grass and medicinal materials in Nicheng.

Because Su Yunduo started to collect food and medicine from her and Lu Jinkang's village as early as a month ago, Geshan Village, who was the first to get the news, had already sent the first batch of medicinal materials to Yongcheng, and the second batch of medicinal materials was being processed quickly. Meanwhile, news also came from the Valley of the Divine Doctor that the medical team led by the owner of the Valley of the Divine Doctor has already set off from the Valley of the Divine Doctor and is rushing to Boni City day and night with dozens of vehicles of medicinal materials.

Because of the long distance from the capital, no news has come back, but Su Yunduo believes that as long as they receive the letter, Lin Zhuangtou, Peng Zhuangtou, Shen Bao, Jiang Xiao and others will definitely do their best to send food to Boni City Deliver medicine.

It's just that Su Yunduo's current thoughts are all on the escort of this batch of grain.

Although the route from Yanshan Mansion to Boni City is within the territory of Dongling Kingdom, this area is not absolutely safe when the war is about to break out.

Although Lu Jinkang asked Chun Yu to bring 250 sergeants, there were a total of [-] grain trucks. On average, each carriage only had two sergeants. .

In order to ensure the safety of this batch of grain and grass, Su Yunduo discussed with Chun Yu and others, and finally decided to recruit bodyguards and chivalrous men from Yanshan Mansion.

There are so many good fighters in the Northland. As soon as the recruitment list came out, because Su Yunduo gave a pretty good reward, and winter was both the slack season in the Northland and the off-season for the Escort Bureau, there were quite a lot of people who came to apply for it. It took only one day to recruit 500 people. In this way, the guard team doubled.

Originally according to Chunyu's intention, some more people were summoned to meet the emergency, but because Su Yunduo urgently needed to rush back to Boni City, a convoy of 250 taels full of food, five hundred sergeants and five hundred temporarily assembled people set off for Boni City. and go.

In order to transport the grain to Boni City as soon as possible, and at the same time give people and horses a proper rest time, after discussing with Chun Yu, Su Yunduo decided to stop and rest for half an hour every 25 miles.

Chunyu even divided the [-] sergeants and [-] conscripts into groups, some guarding the left and right sides of the convoy, and some exploring the way in front.

Before arriving in Yongcheng, the convoy was really attacked. Fortunately, after Chunyu got the news from the scouts ahead, he fully demonstrated his ability to arrange troops.

This attack did not bring any damage to the convoy, nor did it cause any casualties. On the contrary, it wiped out all the attacking enemies, which greatly boosted morale. , As a result of united efforts, the convoy finally arrived safely in Yongcheng after seven days of difficult trek.

After resting in Yongcheng for two days, Su Yunduo set off again with the team.

This time Yang Aoqun joined the team, while Zeng Ru was left in Yongcheng by Su Yunduo to take care of the children.

At this time, the 30 troops of Beichen Kingdom had already entered Boni City, and it was really an emergency moment. Rich households, businessmen and even some ordinary people with better family backgrounds in Boni City had already evacuated Boni City one after another.

Although Boni City is not yet in panic, but if it continues like this, more people will definitely leave Boni City. Now there are dozens of people in the area, and Boni City will definitely fall into panic and even become an empty city in a short time , This will seriously affect the morale of the army.

Su Yunduo knew in her heart that at this time, she and Yang Aoqun were the wife of a marshal and the other was the wife of a vanguard general, and they needed to appear in Boni City as soon as possible to stabilize the hearts of the people.

However, since the children have been brought out of Boni City, naturally they will not take the children back to Boni City at this time. In fact, Su Yunduo is even considering whether to follow Mrs. Kong’s advice and send the children to Go to Geshan Village for temporary shelter.

But it's not yet such a time, the biggest problem at present is to send this batch of grain to Boni City, she and Yang Aoqun appear in front of the people.

This batch of food transported into Boni City can not only stabilize people's hearts and improve morale, but also perfectly locate the reason why she and Yang Aoqun left Boni City.

Raising rations is of course a way to hide your whereabouts!
No, even if they hid their whereabouts and found a reasonable excuse to go to Yongcheng, they were still attacked by the scout soldiers infiltrating from Beichen Kingdom when they transported food from Yanshan Mansion.

When Su Yunduo and Yang Aoqun entered Boni City with 250 carts of grain in full force, the entire Boni City was shocked. There are 20 troops stationed in the city, but there is food in the city of Boni, and the wife of the commander-in-chief said that this is the first batch of food from outside, so after the war, they should not need to worry about running out of food. eat it.

Because Su Yunduo and Yang Aoqun showed up in Boni City in time with [-] shi of grain, the panic in the hearts of the people was greatly relieved. Ten days later, another batch of grain, grass and medicinal materials came, which were naturally given to the army of Boni City And the greater confidence of the people, this is what Su Yunduo arranged after he left Geshan Village.

"Miss, you've worked hard!" After Su Yunduo returned to Boni City, Lu Jinkang, who hadn't been back to the Marshal's Mansion for almost half a month, took the time to go back to the Marshal's Mansion, holding Su Yunduo's hand and gently rubbing Su Yunduo's little hand with frostbite , both distressed and emotional.

Su Yunduo leaned in Lu Jinkang's arms, stretched out the other hand to gently touch Lu Jinkang's face, feeling that this face was a little rougher than before she left Boni City, looked up at Lu Jinkang: " No matter how hard you work, it can't compare to your husband's hard work. You've lost weight again! Look at the bloodshot eyes in your eyes, you haven't closed your eyes for at least two days. I know you're under a lot of pressure, but no matter how much pressure you have, you have to take care of your body. You can't Before the battle started, you fell first."

Lu Jinkang buried his head and kissed Su Yunduo softly, and said in a hoarse voice, "Don't worry, I will never let myself fall before beating Beichenguo to its knees!"

Su Yunduo knew that under the current situation, it was not easy for Lu Jinkang to come back to see her. She arranged for someone to prepare hot water for Lu Jinkang to soak in hot water to relax, and at the same time asked someone to prepare some soft and digestible meals. Look at Lu Jinkang. With this state, he must not be able to eat well these days, so naturally he can't prepare big fish and meat for him at this time.

She personally waited for Lu Jinkang to take a bath. While giving Lu Jinkang a back massage, Su Yunduo talked about her experience of going to Yanshan Mansion and Geshan Village this time. She just started to hear Lu Jinkang's long breath.

Lu Jinkang just soaked in hot water and fell asleep.

Su Yunduo felt sore and hurt in his heart, but he kept rubbing and wiping him with his hands, worried that the water temperature would not be enough for the man to catch the cold, so he specially ordered the kitchen to send some hot water, so Lu Jinkang only rested for a quarter of an hour, because The scouts from Beichen Kingdom captured by the army finally spoke up and needed Lu Jinkang to return to the army to deal with them.

No matter how much distress there is, Su Yunduo has no choice but to wake up Lu Jinkang at this time, watch him eat some food in a hurry, wait for him to put on his armor, and watch his back disappearing from his sight with tears in his eyes.

Originally, Su Yunduo planned to take advantage of Lu Jinkang's return home to discuss with him about sending the children to Geshan Village, but now it seems that she can only decide on her own.

"Sister-in-law is going to send the children to Geshan Village? Is it not good?" Yang Aoqun's eyes lit up when he heard what Su Yunduo said, and then the brilliance in his eyes dimmed again.

To be honest, Yongcheng is naturally much safer than Bonicheng, but compared with Geshan Village, Geshan Village is naturally safer.

Yang Aoqun grew up in Northern Xinjiang and has experienced several wars. He naturally understands that their children, as the children of commanders and vanguard generals, will be the targets of Beichen Kingdom's capture once a war breaks out. If they can be sent away from Northern Xinjiang The relatively distant Geshan Village has since lost its value as a target.

But as long as he remembered that Su Yunduo had been attacked by the scouts from Beichen Kingdom when he came here to transport food, Yang Aoqun hesitated and became afraid again.

"Are the younger brothers and sisters afraid of danger on the way, or are they worried that we will send the children away from the border town and be criticized and criticized? You don't have to worry about these, I will arrange it. I plan to let the children take another road, although it is a little longer, the road is not too long. It is relatively difficult to walk, and it is better to be safe. As for the comments of the world, there is no need to worry, we can't let the children stay in the border town and become the targets of Beichen Kingdom to hinder the war, right?
If the siblings have no objections, you will set off tomorrow, and you will lead the team to send the children and the third siblings to Geshan Village for resettlement. "Su Yunduo looked at Yang Aoqun and said.

Yang Aoqun's eyes lit up, it could have been like this!
She really can't compare with Su Yunduo, she has thought about everything and arranged it properly.

Not only that, Su Yunduo also arranged another errand for Yang Aoqun.

In other words, when Yang Aoqun left Boni City this time, he not only secretly sent the children to Geshan Village, but also took on the important task of escorting medicinal materials from Geshan Village back to Boni City. Only in this way would it be reasonable for Yang Aoqun to disappear from Boni City again. explain.

(End of this chapter)