marquis of jingan

Chapter 1017
Suqian County.

Xue Wei has led the troops to take down Suqian.

The whole process was not too strenuous. When his 1 soldiers arrived in Suqian, almost 2000 people from the Huaihe Navy also arrived in Suqian. At this moment, there were only less than [-] defenders in Suqian, and everyone else was in Xuzhou City. Nearby, taking Suqian is naturally easy.

However, the Huai'an Army and the Huaihe Navy did not get along happily in Suqian these days. In just two or three days, there were many fights between the two armies in private.

At this time, Xue Wei was standing on the Suqian city tower, looking to the north from a distance.

Behind him, there were two people standing, one was the deputy secretary of the Dibao Department, that is, Ge Zheng, Luo Yong's deputy.

The other is Cai Kun, the deputy general of the Huaihe Navy.

Ge Zheng stood behind Xue Wei, bowed his head slightly and said: "General Xue, according to the information from the internal guards and the Di Baosi, there are at least [-] Qi troops approaching from Xuzhou to Suqian, and it is estimated that they will arrive in Suqian early tomorrow morning." .”

Xue Wei nodded, looked up at the sky, then stroked his chin and said, "There are too many people from Qi, Suqian is not easy to guard."

He looked back at Cai Kun, and said lightly: "General Cai, go and prepare to withdraw from Suqian City."

Cai Kun was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and cupped his fists, frowned and said: "General Xue, we also have more than 1 people, and we can defend the city as a guard, and we can definitely keep the lodgings."

Xue Wei pointed at Suqian's city wall, and said in a muffled voice, "The highest part of this Suqian city wall is less than ten feet high, and the shortest part can be climbed up by stepping on someone's shoulders."

"It took us less than two days to capture Suqian, which is enough to prove that there is almost no place to defend the city."

Xue Wei glanced at this General Cai, and said in a deep voice: "If I wait for a month or two, and I can still build a city wall, how can I defend it if I don't even have enough supplies to defend the city?"

Cai Kun still frowned: "If the city that was so easily taken is given away for nothing, wouldn't the hard work of the past few days be wasted?"

"How can it be in vain?"

Xue Wei grinned, his dark skin showed a mouthful of not-so-white teeth: "My family Shen...Master Shen explained that the gains and losses of a city or a place don't matter when marching and fighting, and it can even be said that it has nothing to do with it."

"The most important thing is to kill and injure the enemy's vitality."

Cai Kun was stunned.

"General Xue, what do you mean by that?"

Xue Wei scratched his head, and then a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind. He suddenly thought of an article written by Sailor Zong, and said.

"It's said in the military book."

"Don't attack the land alone, but attack the people."

After saying this sentence, Xue Wei felt proud for a while, and said carelessly: "The general meaning is that we can't just occupy space, but more importantly, kill people!"

Cai Kun and the others were thoughtful upon hearing this.

In fact, Xue Wei's understanding of this passage is somewhat problematic. The word "attack" mentioned in the military book does not mean killing, but refers to strategy.

The best situation is naturally to win the hearts of the people after winning the land. This is the so-called "attacking people".

Of course, killing people is also a kind of "strategy", Xue Wei didn't completely misunderstand it.

General Xue looked forward, and said in a deep voice: "There are still five or six hours left, and now pass on my general order."

"All Zhuli's belongings in the city were confiscated on the spot, especially food and the like, and they were all used as army rations."

"Before tomorrow morning, retreat south and leave Suqian!"

Speaking of this, Xue Wei paused, and said in a deep voice: "It's not necessary, try not to kill people."

Cai Kun was stunned for a moment, then bowed his head and said, "General Xue, those Zhuli are really barbarians, can't they kill them?"

"If you can't kill it, don't kill it."

Xue Wei scratched his head, and said, "Master Shen said that it is okay to kill the Qi army, but it will be more difficult to kill too many Zhu Lizhen civilians during the Northern Expedition."

"I don't understand why."

"However, what Mr. Shen said is never wrong, so let's do it accordingly."

Cai Kun raised his head and looked at the young man from the Huai'an Army in front of him. After hesitating for a while, he lowered his head and cupped his fists and said, "In that case, Cai will obey the general's order."

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Xuzhou city.

Shen Yi got hundreds of thousands of arrows, and finally solved his urgent need. At this time, Master Shen was in a good mood, and asked someone to pass a letter to Tu Yuan.

The general content of the letter is to thank General Tu for his generous loan of arrows, but Shen has always been trustworthy and will return the hundreds of thousands of arrows, as long as the Qi army comes to ask for them, the Huai'an army will definitely return them all.

This letter pissed Tu Yuan to death.

Because the return Shen Yi mentioned was naturally not a normal return, but to use a bow and crossbow to shoot back these arrows.

It is unknown how many Qi people will be inserted in the body at that time.

General Tu Da was furious, and also wrote a letter to Shen Yi.

This letter was also sent to the city of Xuzhou.

At this time, Shen Yi was discussing the order of the city with Zhao Jizhou at the Zhizhou Yamen.

Now, the food supply in the city until the end of the year is not a problem. The more serious problem is the lack of meat.

After all, Xuzhou City is a city, and the meat supply is usually brought in from outside the city. After a few months, even the cured bacon in the city has been eaten up.

Even Shen Yi himself has no more meat in his rice bowl.

It's not too much of an issue.

After all, for most ordinary people in this era, meat can only be eaten during the Chinese New Year. As long as there is a stutter, there will be no big problem.

After the two chatted for a while, Shen Yi said with a smile: "Brother, it is enough to control the food supply in the city. What should be paid attention to is that every household should try their best to distribute food to ensure that no one will starve to death."

Master Shen paused, and continued: "At this time, if anyone dies of starvation, someone in the city will definitely start to make trouble."

Zhao Jizhou nodded and was about to speak when there was a knock on the door: "Si Zheng."

There are not many people in Xuzhou who can directly contact Shen Yi and call him Si Zheng. After Luo Yong left, Lin Sheng was almost the only one left.

Zhao Er looked at the door, stood up, and said with a smile: "I have written down what Ziheng said. You can fight the war without worry. I will take care of the affairs in the city."

Speaking of this, he sighed slightly, and said with emotion: "When I was idle in Jiankang, I never thought that my old father was so great. I only thought that he could study, so I became an official. Now I am doing things outside, and I am better." Fa knows how powerful he is."

"I'm only busy with the money and food in Xuzhou city, and I'm already a bit stretched, but his old man has to manage the money and food of the whole country."

Master Shen stood up, got up to see him off, and said with a smile: "Second brother, don't underestimate yourself, and uncle can't come here alone. There are many people in the household department, but second brother doesn't have many people under his command now. "

After a pause, he said, "Second brother is now on the front line and has made a lot of contributions. When I return to Jiankang, I will recommend second brother to join the household department, so that second brother can inherit his father's career."

"Let's forget it."

Zhao Jizhou walked to the door and said with a wry smile: "After entering the household department, my old father will probably think I'm stupid and criticize me in every possible way."

Master Shen pulled his sleeves and said with a chuckle: "I can't let Senior Brother Song inherit the Zhao family's business in the future."

Zhao Er is very free and easy.

"Let him go if he wants, and he is not an outsider."

When the two of them said this, Zhao Er cupped his hands at Shen Yi, turned and left.

Shen Yi turned around and went back to his study. Lin Sheng, who was standing at the door, followed him in.

"Sizheng, Luo Siwu Jiankang secret report."

"Also, His Majesty's secret letter has also been sent."

Shen Yi nodded, and reached out to take the document.

The above was of course an imperial decree, so Shen Yi didn't read it first, but read the document sent by Luo Yong.

In the document, the big and small things that happened in Jiankang City were written.

After reading these, Shen Yi unfolded the emperor's secret letter.

This is the emperor's personal letter, not many words.

But it has a lot of weight.

"I am in Jiankang, and I am fully prepared."

"Northern Expedition to restore the country, just waiting for Qing's wishes..."

(End of this chapter)