I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 503, the dark tide surges

From Li Gang's point of view, Yuan Tan's actions hurt the businessmen the most. The emperor of the Han Dynasty played the game of economic collapse not to mention how many times. Although this caused serious damage to the Han Dynasty, it did not make the Han Dynasty perish.

Therefore, Li Gang and the others felt that Yuan Tan collected money to support the army. In the short term, his strength was not weakened but strengthened.It just got tougher!

But Xu Wei said: "Wars are fought by people. With Yuan Tan's excessive expropriation, the economic collapse of the entire Yuzhou is inevitable. The economic collapse may not have any impact on Yuan Tan and other powerful families, because these powerful families are all The economy of the manor is self-sufficient. Except for the military disaster, the economy of the manor is extremely stable to a certain extent. A manor is a small world, and it is difficult for outside influences to interfere with the manor (that's why Tao Yuanming wrote "The Peach Blossom Spring" such articles)!
But how could the people at the bottom not be affected? The 20 army in Yuan Tan's hands is made up of 20 families. The families of these soldiers are in dire straits. What kind of morale is there to fight against us, so Yuan Tan is looking for a dead end! "

"Think about how we won the battle of Jizhou back then! The Great Han had more than [-] elites in their hands, but it was because they brutally oppressed the people of Jizhou that the people of Jizhou lost their hearts. In Jizhou, the people of Jizhou took refuge one after another, our army grew more and more, and finally occupied the largest granary of the big Han at a small price!"

With Xu Wei's example of Jizhou, the top executives of Daqian suddenly realized, indeed!The Battle of Jizhou was considered the easiest battle they had fought since the uprising. The people of Jizhou took refuge in them one after another. When they sent troops, they had only 20 troops.It is because the soldiers of the Jizhou Army have taken refuge in them!
Niu Gui suddenly realized: "No wonder the government wants us to recruit so many troops. This is to speed up the consumption of materials in Yuan Tan's hands and let Yuan Tan print more banknotes. With 50 troops by his side, Yuan Tan must desperately print banknotes. , to take away the people of Sili in Yuzhou to arm his army, but the faster he takes away in this way, the faster Yuzhou's economy will collapse. When Yuzhou's economy completely collapses, it will be the deadliest launch of our big cadres against Yuan Tan When it hits once, our army's attack will definitely be overwhelming!"

After everyone understood Xu Wei's strategy, they all agreed and began to act according to this strategy!
So the world boiled again after less than a year of peace!
Xiliang, Bingzhou, Jizhou, Yanzhou, and all over the country are setting up military camps, and a large number of troops are converging here!
Lei Gong's action naturally caused the panic of the whole big man, because this time Lei Gong's actions were more intense than the Central Plains War. From the news they got, Lei Gong is going to gather an army of more than 50 to deal with them!
Qingzhou, Beihai County!

"Wen Ze, did the news come?" Cao Cao asked anxiously!
He and Yuan Tan are the most anxious about Daqian's movements, because Lei Gong is either beating him or Yuan Tan!

And Yu Jin is now the commander of Cao Cao's navy. After all, Yu Jin was captured by Lei Gong and his reputation was affected. Cao Cao's subordinates all despise Yu Jin.And Cao Cao didn't want his confidant to be wronged. At the same time, he discovered the importance of the navy in the Central Plains War. He was also afraid that Xu Wei would send him a ship to bombard the city and attack Qingzhou, so he appointed Yuzhou as the navy. General Lang, expand the Yellow River Fleet and prepare for the large fleet to cross the Yellow River!
But now that the Yellow River is under fire every day, Cao Cao is worried that Yu Jin will not be able to withstand the attack of the Dagan Navy!

Xiahoudun said: "Don't worry, Meng De, the Kingdom's army is just bluffing. Most of Jizhou's 20 troops are in the direction of Wei County. They obviously want to attack Hanoi County. We only have Fan Xian's navy mobilizing in the direction of Qingzhou! Not intense!"

Xun Yu looked at the map and said, "This time, Lei Gong's camp is in the direction of Xiliang, Taiyuan County, Shangdang County, Chenliu County, Jiyin County, and Shanyang County!"

Everyone looked at what Xun Yu said, and they all breathed a sigh of relief. From the location of Dagan's camp, it can be seen that the one Lei Gong wants to fight this time is Yuan Tan. Although this is a bit unkind, but now they are glad You can die a fellow Taoist but not a poor Taoist!
Guo Jia said with a serious face: "This is wrong, the summer harvest has just ended, and the autumn harvest is only two months away at most, unless Lei Gong doesn't want the autumn harvest, otherwise it is impossible to launch a war of hundreds of thousands of people during the autumn harvest! But If there is a big battle after the autumn harvest, it is too early to recruit soldiers! Even if hundreds of thousands of troops are not dispatched, the consumption will not be small!"

Although Dagan is constantly building camps, judging from the news he has received, Dagan is not ready for war at all.To prepare hundreds of thousands of weapons, equipment, food and grass, a few months is not enough time. Lei Gong's mobilization of the army at this time will not only affect the autumn harvest, but also the time to start the war will be in winter, but Lei Gong is also a famous general in the world, so he naturally knows winter Not the season for war!

Cao Cao looked at the camp that was full of Yuan Tan's territory and asked, "Did Yuan Tan do something that attracted Lei Gong's attention, so he wanted to occupy Yuzhou even if he didn't want the autumn harvest!"

Then Cao Cao looked at Xiang Manchong, he has always mastered the intelligence system of Cao Cao's army!
Man Chong looked distressed. Although he has mastered the intelligence system of Cao Cao's army, most of them are aimed at big cadres. If Cao Cao wants to ask Lei Gong how many soldiers he has in Hebei, he can still tell, but if he wants to ask him what happened in Yuzhou What is it, this is a bit embarrassing!

He could only say with a bitter face: "There is not much movement in Yuzhou. They are like us. After the Great War in the Central Plains, they continued to recruit soldiers, build weapons, armor and artillery to restore their strength, but this has been done for half a year. There are too many, Yuan Tanbing has recruited 20, Lei Gong is only worried now, isn't it a bit unnecessary!"

But after hearing Cao Cao's words, Xun Yu said: "During this time, Yuan Tan came to Qingzhou to buy a lot of food and weapons. Buy these materials at a low price, so the subordinates sold a lot of food and weapons to the chariot general!"

Cao Cao waved his hand and said, "Qingzhou has a good harvest this year, even if we sell some to Yuan Tan, it will be fine!"

The whole world is harvesting, and Cao Cao is no exception here. Even Cao Cao's territory is not much less harvested than Hebei. Qingxu Land not only has a long coastline, but also has many islands. Cao Cao sent a large number of transport ships to protect Qingxu. The supply of struvite in the land of Qingxu, three grains of grain in Qingxu land is already a very common grain output, and the high-yield land even has a grain output of 5-6 grains!The grain Cao Cao harvested this year is enough for him to eat for three years!
But at this time Xun Yu said seriously: "Our army lost only 4 to 5 troops, but the rearming of these soldiers has already exhausted the finances of our Qingxu and Xuzhou, and even used banknotes to scrape the entire Qingxu. Only copper coins can maintain our 20 troops!"

"The Yuan family suffered the most in the Central Plains War. More than half of the 30 troops recruited by the former chariot general lost, but now Yuan Cheqi can not only arm an army of 20, forge artillery, but also have the financial resources to come to us to buy it. Food weapons, my lord, don’t you think there is any problem with this?”

Guo Jia also brightened his eyes and said: "Yes! So much money came from Yuan Tan. You must know that Yuan Shao even had to borrow Liu Bei's food to fight the Central Plains War, but now he has armed an army of more than [-] and forged With hundreds of cannons, they still have the ability to buy our food and weapons! Even Liu Bei can’t do this, how could Yuzhou and Sili have such financial resources!”

Among the three vassals of the Great Han, Yuan Tan has the poorest financial resources, because their reformation is the least thorough, but now they have become the richest one. There must be a problem, and this problem was discovered by Lei Gong, so Lei Gong There is such a move!

Xun You said: "Now we don't know what happened in Yuzhou at all. It's hard to know Lei Gong's purpose. From the point of view of my subordinates, our army should strengthen its guard against Lei Gong's attack from east to west and attack our Qingzhou!"

This kind of thing is really possible. Who let Hebei have a rail transit system, and the marching speed is several times faster than Cao Cao's. Even if Xu Wei's army is assembled in Weijun, but the Dagan army marched hundreds of miles to Pingyuan County, Cao Cao's army It may not be possible to come to the Yellow River from Beihai County.

This is the difference in marching speed. Cao Cao has not thought of improving this point, but even if he wants to use up the last copper plate on his body to cast wooden rails, Qingxu is a prosperous place in the Central Plains, and there are not many primeval forests at all. Naturally, it is difficult to provide a large amount of wood to make wooden rails. Cao Cao made a wooden rail experimentally, but the price was too high.
Cao Cao nodded, responding to all changes with the same, now is the only thing Cao Cao can do!
But Guo Jia still said: "We should strengthen the information on Yuzhou, so that we will know what happened in Yuzhou, which caused Lei Gong to go to war so violently!"

Seeing Man Chong, Cao Cao said, "Please Bo Ning pay more attention to the trend of Yuzhou!"

Man Chong bowed his hands and said: "No!"

Yuzhou, Runan County, Yangdi!
Yuan Tan asked with a look of panic: "Now that the Dagan is coming, hundreds of thousands of troops are about to attack my Yuzhou Sili. What countermeasures do you uncles have to deal with Lei Gong's conquest!"

Xu You said calmly: "Xiansi calm down, if you want to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops to fight, it is impossible to complete the preparation work within half a year. Dagan has no intention of attacking our army before the summer harvest. I guess it should be this year." The grain harvest in Hebei gave Dagan the intention to attack us, but we still have time!"

"The most important thing now is to contact Liu Bei and Cao Cao immediately, and the three of us will form a coalition of princes again, so that we can resist Lei Gong's attack!"

Yuan Tan suddenly realized: "Uncle is right, quickly send envoys to Qingzhou and Jingzhou, and ask Liu Bei and Cao Cao to support us!"

Xu You said confidently: "This old man has a close relationship with Meng De. I will leave it to the old man to ask for reinforcements in Qingzhou. In Jingzhou, brother Shi Ji is Liu Bei's first confidant. If you want to ask for soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River, you need to ask Yuan The elders of the family go to ask Brother Shi Ji!"

Yuan Tan said as if grabbing a life-saving straw: "That's right, we can still ask the eldest father for help. I will let the third brother go to Jingzhou. Even for the sake of Yuan's family, the eldest father will find a way to rescue him." us!"

After arranging the envoys for reinforcements, Yuan Tan and the others began to discuss how to defend Sili and Yuzhou.

Guo Tudao: "In the last war, our losses were due to the artillery, but now after a year of preparation, the number of artillery on our Han side is close to a thousand, and our army also has 300 artillery pieces. Not as good as Lei Gong, but our army already has the power to fight back! The most important thing now is Sili. Xianyi and his troops are few, and it is difficult to get our support. As long as the Dagan army attacks Yingchuan County, it will cut off The connection between our army and Sili is too difficult for Xianyi to rely on the 6 troops in his hands to resist the hundreds of thousands of elite troops. Although Luoyang City has eight defenses, Chang'an City is also in danger of being closed. But the gap in military strength between the two sides is too great. Without the support of our army, it will be difficult for Sili to hold on!
But Yuan Tan didn't want to reduce the number of troops in his hands but supported Sili. After all, facing the hundreds of thousands of troops in Dagan, he didn't think that the 14 troops in his hands could withstand Dagan's thunderous blow!But obviously his weak thoughts cannot be expressed.

So he said: "Now we can't determine the direction of Dagan's main attack. If we rashly mobilize the army, we will be easily attacked by Lei Gong's cavalry. Xianyi is young and inexperienced. Please ask my uncle to go to Luoyang City to ensure that Xianyi will defend Luoyang City!"

Guo Tu didn't expect that Yuan Tan would kick him to Luoyang City, so he had no choice but to obey!
Then Yuan Tan said: "Our army is not large enough, we must continue to recruit 10 troops to guard against Lei Gong!"

Feng Ji was surprised: "What about recruiting soldiers, food, grass and weapons and equipment? Facing the elite army, ordinary people are useless at all. Only the elite who have been trained for many years can fight!"

Yuan Tan said nonchalantly: "If we need money, we can print more. We have printing presses, but we are worried that we don't have money! Ordinary people don't have the strength to fight against the elites of the big cadres, but we don't want to fight the big ones. Let the army fight in the field, but let them defend the city, they don’t have enough equipment, and they will die when they die in battle!”

What Yuan Tan said made everyone feel chilled, and felt that there would definitely be problems, but when it came to defensive operations, it was not just about the soldiers, the people in the city would also be organized, let these people join in now In the army, for the Yuzhou Army, it is also necessary to form civilian guards in advance!

Yuan Tan looked at Xin Pi and said: "Please also ask Mr. George to buy all the supplies needed for Yuzhou's defense, such as grain, medicinal materials, wood, leather, etc. Lei Gong has the advantage in field battles, and our entire city in Yuzhou may become a target for Lei Gong to attack." Object, now we can only buy a lot of supplies in all the cities for defense!"

Simpi nodded and said, "No!"

(End of this chapter)