The white porridge and pickled mustard is enough, why am I wearing a royal robe?

Chapter 150 If you want to step through the city gate, step through me first

Liu Zhenhua had a thousand township warriors from the township brave regiment promoted to the militia, and he also asked the people of the three counties of Yanchuan, Yan'an and Yanchang to select a thousand people to be promoted to the township brave regiment.

Despite this, he still couldn't resist the enthusiasm of the people. He lingered at the registration office for a long time and refused to leave. Liu Zhenhua didn't dare to walk this way now. He had been here once.

Every time those young men wandering around this place saw Liu Zhenhua, they would first respectfully call him Stove Lord, and then they would start to show off, yes, just show off.

They would often beat their chests to show their strength, or simply roll up their sleeves and say, "Look at the Stove King, what a strong man he is, let him go to the battlefield with his forehead."

This scene made Liu Zhenhua feel a little physically uncomfortable.

The chain reaction of pig's trotter rice didn't stop there, the training of the militiamen and the heavenly soldiers became even more crazy.

This was expected by Liu Zhenhua. As a modern person who once had enough food and clothing, when he saw a video of pig's trotter rice on a certain video platform, he couldn't help but want to go to the south to eat authentic pig's trotter rice. , not to mention in this era of lack of food and clothing, and people frequently starve to death.

That bowl of pig's trotters rice with its delicious taste and flavor is enough to make them forget all their hardships and worries.

The heavenly soldiers did not dare to slack off, because they did not want to lose their pig's feet and rice, and would rather die than be demoted as a "mortal".

The militiamen train hard because they want to become heavenly soldiers through training, and because they know that a big war is going to happen recently.

As those who train them say, sweat more when training and bleed less when fighting.

It doesn't matter if they die during the battle. If they kill one or two less people due to poor training and fail to become a heavenly soldier, they will regret it to death.

Ren Hongli, who was far away in Yonghe, watched in astonishment as the soldiers placed a portion of the Heavenly Soldiers' meal on the table one by one.

"Company Commander Ren, this is the meal for the Heavenly Soldiers that the Kitchen King asked me to bring you. The Kitchen King recently gave the Heavenly Soldiers extra food, including pig's trotters and pig knuckles." As he said that, the Heavenly Soldiers took off the cloth, revealing He picked up the Heavenly Soldier meal that had solidified below.

Ren Hongli's expression was a little frozen. After he came to his senses, Ren Hongli quickly said: "Thank you for your hard work. Go down and rest first. I will send someone to heat these things up later."

The soldier who delivered the meal nodded, then turned and left, not noticing Ren Hongli's slightly choked tone.

After the soldiers left, Ren Hongli closed the door. He stared at the dark red pig's trotter rice on the table, and suddenly he understood what his father once said, why do you know that your own people will die?

The Kitchen King actually remembered to send him a Heavenly Soldier meal.

After promising huge profits.

Ren Hongli turned his head and bowed to the west. The Kitchen God must be able to feel his piety.

There was a panic in Yan'an City, and 30% of the people in the city were lost, but countless soldiers poured in. The soldiers were wearing armor and carrying bows. They had never fought such a rich battle. Everyone in the city knew that this was to deal with Yan Yan. The Kitchen King.

Many of the soldiers who fought against the Kitchen King died. Now, although the soldiers in Yan'an City said they had heard of the Kitchen King's name, they didn't take it too seriously. There were so many of them and their equipment was so good.

Fighting a bandit, although it cannot be said that you can capture it with your hands, at least you will not lose.

It's just that they are confused, even though their superiors originally ordered the seven-day advance to be extended, why they still only gather together but don't take action now.

"Let us out! Let us out!"

At the east gate of Yan'an City, a group of people gathered together, raising their arms again and again, and they all roared with righteous indignation.

They wanted to go out and go to the Kitchen King's territory, because the people who fled Yan'an brought back news that the Kitchen God was indeed distributing food to divide the fields and also distributed sweet potato seedlings. The sweet potato incident was also true. The most important thing was that they I also saw that the Kitchen King’s soldiers had pork for every meal.

Big pork belly.

When the people of Yan'an learned the news and wanted to flee Yan'an, they found that the city gates were locked, preventing people from entering or exiting.

That's why they gathered together to protest against leaving Yan'an City.

"Asshole, what are these people going to do?"

After hearing the news, Yang He angrily opened the desk, and the things on it were scattered all over the floor. He was full of anger, "Du Si, go and lead five hundred soldiers and tell the people who are making trouble that if they get together again, they will Punished as a crime!"

He knew that this group of people was going out of the city to Yanchuan to join the Kitchen King, because the treatment there was good, and there were rumors that all the soldiers ate meat. Yang He really wanted to laugh, he really thought that the Kitchen King could change anything. The soldiers eat meat every day, the Kitchen King has at least tens of thousands of soldiers and horses!

What a huge expense that must be.

These people left because of their treatment. It was definitely impossible for him to use their treatment to keep these people. After all, the prices he offered to his soldiers were not that high. If part of the money and food were used to improve the treatment of these people who stayed, , not only are his soldiers unwilling, but the bandits who were bribed by his silver are also dissatisfied.

When it came to the bandits, Yang He became even more angry and asked Zhang Shusheng to come within seven days. It was already the eighth day and there was still no trace.

He has sent out soldiers to investigate, but he has not returned yet.

"We can't wait until then. There are only a thousand people. If they still don't come by evening, we will start tomorrow."

Yang He's face was as gloomy as water.

Du Si Aimu rushed to the city gate with five hundred soldiers, "What kind of magic power does the Stove King have that makes these people crazy like this?"

From a distance, Aimu could hear the noise of the people, "What are you doing? If anyone gathers here again in the busy city and is punished as a traitor, he will be punished."

The soldiers led by Aimu immediately frightened the people who gathered together. His cold tone, combined with the soldiers who were waiting behind him, immediately made a group of troublemaking people dare not speak.

They want to get out of the city gate, but they don't want to lose their lives. At the moment, the official doesn't seem to take them seriously. He just treats them as ants moving. If they see something goes wrong in the future, they want to trample them to death. They can't do that. I risked my life here to go to Yanchuan.

The people were sad, but they had no choice but to regret why they didn't leave here earlier.

The crowd had no choice but to disperse. Seeing these people being driven away, Aimu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. The war was imminent. If the people changed again, the morale of the army would be unstable. No matter what, the advance would be extended tomorrow. This time, The governor still let Hong Chengchou, who was involved in politics, take charge.

Adopt the tactic of prolonging the siege and encircling the points for reinforcements.

It sounds a bit similar to the first attack on Yanchuan, but this time, their equipment and number of soldiers are much stronger than before. “I don’t know where the opponent’s strategic goal is this time, but no matter where it is, sending troops from Yan’an cannot bypass Yanchang. No matter what tactics or conspiracies there are, they cannot bypass the word hard power.”

Liu Zhenhua banged the table. There was a lot of information these days, and he drove away a group of bandits who joined Yang He's team, but there was still a group of about 2,000 bandits stationed in Yan'an.

Counting the soldiers who came to Yan'an in batches, as well as the carriages pulling various equipment, Liu Zhenhua finally figured it out, and this time the opponent became ruthless.

It is estimated that all the capital brought over has been paid off.

Sure enough, everything is quiet before the storm. The quiet days before that year were all for this storm.

No matter where the opponent plans to attack this time, Yan'an is always on the way to send troops from Yan'an. Therefore, there is no tactical configuration this time. If the opponent wants to attack Yan'an and wants to encircle the point for reinforcements, then attack him.

Liu Zhenhua now has 75,000 reputations a day, which is enough to buy 750 heavy armors or horses, and more than 1,000 light armors. The changes in the army every day are huge.

In terms of hard power, he is no longer afraid of the miscellaneous soldiers summoned by the so-called governors of the three sides. In Liu Zhenhua's view, the bandits, the servants, and the purchased armor, bows and crossbows can barely pull one together. It looks like a very intimidating team, but its essence is still a miscellaneous soldier.

Not elite.

Although he found out that the opponent's commander this time was Hong Chengchou, one of the five ruthless men in the late Ming Dynasty, Liu Zhenhua was not afraid of them because his troops were not strong and his horses were not strong, and a clever woman could not make a meal without straw.

He gave the order. Soldiers must keep their weapons in their hands while sleeping. The cavalry must lie beside their horses. The opponent's army has assembled and may send troops at any time. They must also be ready for battle.

Liu Zhenhua looked at the reputation in his personal information and was a little unsure whether to save up and upgrade the population limit, or to invest all the reputation gained in the past two days to improve combat effectiveness.

"If the population limit is upgraded, the number of reputations gained every day can easily exceed 100,000."

Liu Zhenhua frowned and calculated. If the number exceeded 100,000 in a single day, he would be able to pull out a platoon of sky soldiers with modern firepower in less than half a year.

At present, his team's combat effectiveness is very high, and there is no need to use reputation to improve its strength.

Moreover, the number of heavenly soldiers is approaching three thousand. After this battle, more than 500 people are expected to be promoted to heavenly soldiers. By then, the number of heavenly soldiers will not be enough.

If he didn't want to disappoint his soldiers, he had to save his reputation to upgrade his population.

"It's already the second year of Chongzhen," Liu Zhenhua couldn't help sighing while lying on the bed. In history, Emperor Chongzhen reigned for a total of seventeen years.

In the second year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty was not in such danger. Li Zicheng, who destroyed the Ming Dynasty, would not be unemployed until May and become a thief.

But now, Liu Zhenhua has stirred up troubles in northern Shaanxi. Under such circumstances, Emperor Chongzhen will be considered a waste for him, Liu Zhenhua, even if he reigns for seven years.

The west wind howls and the war drums beat.

Yang He stood on the wall of Yan'an Wengcheng and looked towards the east. He looked at the advancing army and murmured: "This time, we must capture the Kitchen King."

He didn't say a word. If he couldn't win, Yang He's career as an official would be at an end. Emperor Chongzhen had a good time with his father, and he knew that man's temperament. If he said he should be dismissed, he would be dismissed, and he would lose his official position. It's still good, but I'm afraid that when the official road comes to an end, the life road will also come to an end.

In order to deal with the opponent's cavalry, Yang He raised a thousand war horses this time. Some of the 100,000 pieces of gold he brought and the 50,000 silver and 20,000 shi of grain donated by the feudal lord were used in the previous recruitment, and the rest , all fell into this war.

Or it could be said that fighting consumes countless money.

Their team this time has 15,000 people, and the armor rate is almost 30%. This is even when the rogue bandits drag down this number, including 1,500 archers, 1,500 horses in total, siege vehicles and They also have some things like cloud ladders and cowhide ladders.

The soldiers and horses have not moved, and the food and grass go first. However, this time, their marching route is not long. It is only more than a hundred miles from Yan'an to Yanchang. The soldiers carry five days' dry food on their backs. As long as Yanchang is captured, they will have supplementary food.

If the attack fails for a long time, Yan'an can also transport food at any time.

Zhang Heizi, who was out to investigate the news from Yan'an, rushed forward. This is how ancient wars were. If the opponent took action and the army started to move, the scout horses would rush to bring the news back. Fast horses are always faster than infantry marching. The opponent was halfway to He said, Zhang Heizi had already brought the news.

Liu Zhenhua commanded the troops that had already been assembled to rush to Yanchang.

When they were two-thirds of the way there, the other party had already surrounded the city and began to attack the city.

Yanchang County Magistrate Liu Zhi looked at the army in front of the city, and his heart was calm. He had been defeated in the city before, what could be worse now? Besides, how powerful the Stove King was, he was once the most powerful prisoner. Known.

The governors of the three sides sent by the imperial court are just mediocre.

"Captain Wang," Liu Zhi turned to look at Wang Wu next to him. He also knew this person. He was the one who killed Yanchang County Magistrate. His actions were exactly the same as Huang Fugui's. He was the first to surrender to the enemy, but he was much more ruthless than Huang Fugui. Well, he directly killed the county magistrate in front of everyone on the pretext of protecting the magistrate.

So much so that when Liu Zhi worked with him on errands, he always felt a chill on his neck. However, after working together for a long time, he gradually stopped feeling this way. After all, we were all subordinates of the Stove King.

Wang Wu can be regarded as loyal, and he is always kind to him as the county magistrate. He does not show the ferocious look as when he chopped off the magistrate's head.

"Magistrate Liu, what's the matter?"

It was also the first time for Wang Wu to be the commander of a city defense, so he was a little nervous, but at least he had experience in city defense, so he would not be in a mess.

"You and I will work together to defend the city today," Liu Zhi said with a smile. These days, he has been living a very good life, and he understands why the Stove King is loved by the people.

The tea eggs are really fragrant.

The pig's trotter rice is also a must-have, but it's a pity that he didn't get the fresh one. However, now that he is the county magistrate, he feels much more comfortable than the emperor.

Previously, he was unwilling to betray the Ming Dynasty because of his bookish temperament, and he also changed his mind when he became the county magistrate. But when he had his first meal of heavenly soldiers, he had already chosen to eat from his stomach. Long live the Stove King.

"Haha, you should be like this. There are people in the city. If anyone wants to break through the city gate, he should first step through me, Wang Wu."

(End of this chapter)