Paper Maker: This is the end of the Ming Dynasty in Liaozhai

Chapter 165
Jinan Prefecture, Jinyiwei Yamen.

Su Hao looked curiously at the six men and one woman in front of him. The seven of them were not too old, probably in their 20s. He didn't expect that someone would come to give charcoal in the snow at this time, and they were still in the circle of heretic magicians Zhongdu can be regarded as a big faction.

Master Mei Shanshui!

Yinshan faction!
There are also many records in the travel notes of the ancestors of the Su family about these two sects. Treating diseases with surgery belongs to the decent warlocks. Of course, being good at saving people also means being good at harming people. After all, medicine and poison are not separated.

The Yinshan Sect is a complete ghost cultivator, good at raising ghosts, and not on a small scale. Some Yinshan Sect strongmen will subdue evil spirits and ghosts in various places, and then make offerings to them. Some even raise a whole battalion in the underworld. Ghost soldiers and ghost generals, there are not a few old ghosts with second-rate strength like Fu Bo.

But unlike Uncle Fu, this kind of ghost soldiers and generals raised in the underworld are not treated as well as Uncle Fu. In addition to Faxiang, Uncle Fu also has his occasional mana support, which is equivalent to the ancestors of the Su family.

These ghost soldiers and ghost generals are more like being arrested. They usually only receive a little incense and offerings from the Yinshan faction. The relationship with the Yinshan faction is an employment relationship. You spend money and I do things. The disciples of the Yinshan faction want to invite these Ghost soldiers and ghost generals do things, so they have to pay mana and incense, which is similar to his paper-based killing technique.

It's just because these ghost soldiers and generals are usually enshrined by the Yinshan faction, so even if the incense and magic power are sometimes insufficient, these ghost soldiers and generals will not easily retaliate.

Moreover, because they have been in and out of the underworld all year round, the Yinshan School has formed a lot of incense in the underworld, and they can ask many things in the underworld.

"I don't know what kind of official position you want to seek under this official's command?"

After retracting his thoughts, Su Hao asked with a smile, although he didn't know what these people wanted from him, but since they dared to come, he dared to accept them.

The strength of a few people is only in the second-rate realm, but the methods of heresy warlocks are weird, and if they are used well, they can also play a not weak role.

"Su Qianhu, my Meishan lineage is good at healing. The battle in Jinan Prefecture is imminent. We can treat the wounded for Qianhu."

Xu Zhou cupped his hands and said, he is Dong Shichang's eldest disciple, this time he brought his junior and junior sisters to Jinan Mansion under Dong Shichang's order.

"Su Qianhu, my Yinshan faction is good at exorcising ghosts and ghosts. Once there is an order, we will definitely obey it."

Wu Shi of the Yinshan School also followed suit.

"In that case, let's join the army for the time being."

After pondering for a while, Su Hao said: "I set up a medical clinic in the army before. A few fellow Taoists in Meishan can be medical officers. The medical officers are to test hundreds of households, and each has ten subordinate officials."

"As for the fellow Taoists of the Yinshan Sect, the business firms that I secretly set up in various places are buying various supplies for me. When the imperial court arrives, the roads will definitely be blocked. At that time, several fellow Taoists will transport these supplies for me. Come to Jinan Mansion."

These two things are the most suitable for the seven people to do. The Meishan lineage is good at healing, and it is the most suitable to send them to treat the wounded soldiers. Although he has gathered most of the doctors in the city into the army, he has also purchased a lot of medicinal materials.

However, there are many injuries that ordinary people cannot treat, and they still have to rely on spells. Moreover, if Xu Zhou and the others become medical soldiers, they will not have access to military power.

The same goes for Wu Shi and the others. It is not an easy task to transport supplies into Jinan Mansion from the outside. The imperial court will definitely have people block off the main roads in various places. He originally wanted Fu Bo and Zhao Xiaoer to do this. , but now that Wu Shi and the others automatically come to your door, it is natural to make the best use of everything.

And he wasn't afraid that Wu Shi and the others would have dissent, as long as the caravans he had outside were not taken away, otherwise the loss of three or two caravans would not be too great for him, after all, they were just small businessmen with dozens of people. Caravans, as long as there is money, it is only a matter of time to form dozens of caravans.

...

Time flies, in the blink of an eye, four months are fleeting, both sides are accumulating strength, and the impact of seizing grain and cutting off the canal is gradually appearing. It took four months to barely gather, and they still haven't moved in Cangzhou.

"Xiao Er, these are four demon spirit paper armors. You and Zimo go to Dongchang Mansion together to help Tang Xiangjin and the others defend the city. These four demon spirit paper armors are kept by you in normal times, and they will be given to Tang Xiangjin and them during wartime."

Su Hao handed the four pieces of demon spirit paper armor to Zhao Xiaoer. He originally planned to refine the demon spirit paper armor and distribute them to Tang Xiangjin and the others when he had spare time. He didn't expect the imperial court to be so weak that it took four years to gather soldiers and horses. In the past four months, he had given him enough time to refine seven demon spirit paper armors.

"One for He Liu, one for Tang Xiangjin, one for Liang Ping, and one for Luo Yi. These four demon spirit paper armor should improve their combat power a lot."

After a pause, Su Hao went on to say, although the demon spirit paper armor can't make a qualitative change in Tang Xiangjin's combat power, it can definitely improve a lot. Even if it can't reach the level of Zuo Yifeng, it should be able to reach the level of other Jinyiwei The level of thousands of households.

As for why Tang Xiangjin, He Liu, Luo Yi, and Liang Ping were distributed, it was mainly for precautionary measures. They were not in the same group. Tang Xiangjin was closer to Yang Bao and Hao Yi, while Tian Ming and Liang Ping were closer. Even better, it goes without saying that the four of Luo Yi, He Liu, Jiang Shizhong and Gan Yang have worked together for many years, so naturally it goes without saying.

The most untestable thing in this world is people's hearts. He doesn't want Tang Xiangjin and the others to fall into infighting because of the four demon spirit paper armors. If one side is too powerful, it will easily breed ambition. Next, Dongchang Mansion and Jinan The contact with the mansion will become less and less. If someone becomes ambitious, then Dongchang Mansion may not be defeated by the imperial court, but fall into the hands of its own people.

The four demon spirit paper armors were distributed to Tang Xiangjin, plus Zhao Xiaoer and Ding Zimo. Dongchang Mansion should be able to hold it. Needless to say, Zhao Xiaoer's strength is also Ding Zimo's. Breaking through the first-class realm, he also gave Ding Zimo a demon spirit paper armor, and in the past four months, he has recruited more than 7 new recruits, plus the original 2, there are nearly 10 people .

In addition, he also broke up the four thousand elites who had been trained for more than two years, and led the recruits separately. As long as they trained for a year and a half, plus a few battles, one hundred thousand recruits would be able to get on the right track up.

In terms of food, there will be no problems in the past two or three years. In these four months, in addition to grain, of the more than 100 million mu of land in the Dewang Mansion, 10,000+ mu of land was used to recruit recruits, saving more than 80 mu of land. For the tenant rent, the rest of the grain that collected more than 20 shi, plus the grain seized from the Dewang Mansion and the Tong family, and finally the more than 30 grain collected from the tax collection, totaled more than 170 million shi , These grains are enough for three years.

"Master, only Jiang Shizhong and the others are left in Jinan Mansion to help you. I'm afraid it will be difficult to resist the imperial army."

After receiving the demon spirit paper armor, Zhao Xiaoer frowned and said, Jinan Mansion was originally weaker than Dongchang Mansion, and now she and Ding Zimo will be sent to Dongchang Mansion again, even though she doesn't know the power of Dongchang Mansion now. What level of Su Hao's strength has reached, but facing the imperial army, it may not be so easy.

"Do not worry."

Hearing this, Su Hao laughed and said, "As a teacher, you have your own discretion."

Although in the past four months, he wasted a lot of training time in order to refine the seven demon spirit paper armors, but now his eight extraordinary meridians have been opened up, and he only needs to completely penetrate all the meridians to achieve success. A master of martial arts, this doesn't take too long, he should have already broken through before the imperial army arrived.

Hearing Su Hao's words, Zhao Xiaoer didn't say anything more. Since Su Hao said so, he naturally wouldn't take his own safety as a trifling matter.

.........

Cangzhou.

As more and more soldiers gathered, the entire Cangzhou Wharf became a huge barracks, with military tents standing tall.

In the county government office, Wang Congyi and Yang Guodong were both frowning.

"Governor, the court has given us too little food, I'm afraid it won't be enough for us to take down Dongchang Mansion."

Yang Guodong grimaced. Over the past four months, Cangzhou has gathered 14 soldiers and horses from all over the country. The monthly consumption of these soldiers and horses alone is [-] to [-] shi of grain.
But this time the imperial court only sent them 12 shi of grain, which was only enough for the army to consume for more than a month, and the attack on Dongchang Mansion would not be successful in a short time.

On the other side of the canal, the more than ten-mile-long river course from the Tuhai River to Dongchang Mansion was filled by the rebels. To dig it would require a large number of civilian laborers, and it would not be possible to dig it in a short time. The important thing is that there is no upstream water source, and the waterway from Dongchangfu to Xuzhou cannot sail at all.

If the food in the south of the Yangtze River wants to be transported to Dongchang Mansion, it can only rely on the land route, and it will consume too much to go by land.

"This matter will be reported to the court at the official meeting."

Wang Congyi sighed: "It's just that the court is short of food now, if it's really not possible, then it can only be eaten by the people."

Eat it for the people!

Hearing Wang Congyi's words, Yang Guodong frowned even tighter. He eats the people, nothing more than plundering the people.

"Command, pull out the camp!"

Seeing Yang Guodong's expression, Wang Congyi was also very helpless. The court had no food, and the rebels wanted to suppress them. If they didn't rob the people, where would he find food to support the 10,000+ army.

"Yes!"

Hearing this, Yang Guodong could only sigh, then turned and left.

...

Soon, the army set out, and more than [-] ships of all sizes came down the river one after another. With the canal as a convenient traffic artery, no one would foolishly walk on two feet.

It took five full days before the army arrived at the Dezhou Water Transport Terminal. At this time, Dezhou was already empty, and all valuables were cleared.

Wang Congyi didn't stop, and the army went down the river again, heading towards Linqing Prefecture.

Naturally, such a big movement of the imperial army cannot be concealed from others. As soon as the army left Cangzhou, the news had already spread to Jinan Mansion and Dongchang Mansion.

.........

Linqing Prefecture, the state government office.

"Governor, the intelligence of the rebels has arrived."

Yang Guodong came to Wang Congyi with a dozen pieces of information.

"How's the situation?"

Wang Congyi asked, war is not a child's play, in addition to food and grass, intelligence is also the top priority.

"In addition to the capital city, Dongchang Mansion also has two county towns, Boping and Chiping, which have been captured by the rebels. There are 3000 people stationed in each county."

Yang Guodong said: "On the other side of Jinan Prefecture, the six counties of Licheng, Zhangqiu, Changqing, Qihe, Yucheng, and Jiyang around the Fucheng were all captured, and the two counties of Lingxian and Pingyuan were abandoned by the rebels. , but there are not many troops stationed in these counties.”

"In addition, according to the news from the spies, there are about 5 to [-] defenders in Dongchang Prefecture and Jinan Prefecture."

"How come there are so many?"

Hearing this, Wang Congyi's face changed. Since ancient times, siege warfare has always been three and surrounded by ten. The opponent has 15 to 20 soldiers and horses, which means that they have to have 15 troops to attack the city. Qualifications, after all, the casualties of the siege are much heavier than those of the defenders, and if you want to besiege the city, you need at least [-] troops, but now they all add up to less than [-] troops.

According to the previous intelligence, the opponent only has 14 to [-] troops at most, and their [-] troops are almost enough to counter the rebellion, but now the opponent has more than doubled.

"We've delayed it for too long."

Yang Guodong sighed, the imperial court dispatched troops from Henan, Shanxi, Shandong and other places, and also dispatched food from these places to supply the frontier army. The soldiers who came to aid from all over the way could not get food along the way. Therefore, it is impossible for these soldiers to come hungry.

Hearing this, Wang Congyi was speechless, and the atmosphere suddenly became dead silent.

"Then Zongbing Yang thinks how to fight this battle?"

After a long time, Wang Congyi sighed that although he knew some military affairs, he was much worse than Yang Guodong, who had learned the art of war since childhood.

"In my opinion, the most important thing for us now is to get through the canal."

After Yang Guodong thought for a moment, he said: "We can take Boping and Chiping first, and then let people stick to Dezhou and Linqing Prefecture, so as to cut off the possibility of the other side supporting Dongchang Mansion."

"After the siege of Dongchang Mansion, we will immediately conscript civilians to dig the river and restore the canal. As long as the water transportation resumes, we can ask the imperial court to send more reinforcements."

"However, if the rebels in Jinan can't be restrained, they will definitely attack other counties. Even Qingzhou is in danger. Now Qingzhou's defenders are less than a thousand people. The prefect of Qingzhou is recruiting brave men. Once the rebels invade Qingzhou, the imperial court will definitely question us."

After hearing Yang Guodong's method, Wang Congyi's heart sank, and he hurriedly said: "Besides, if we don't stop them, Su Hao will definitely continue to recruit troops. The other party has stolen millions of stones of grain and occupied Jinan Mansion. There is no shortage of food, grass and money. It is absolutely possible to recruit more soldiers and horses."

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