Rebirth Farmer Yaomei

Chapter 312 Reinforcement
Ning Wan looked at the defense of Hutai County again, and felt something else.

Indeed, on the surface, it seems that the barbarians have taken the upper hand. They are numerous, strong, brave, and invincible.But Hutai also has many advantages, nothing else, just this high city wall makes the barbarians helpless!

From the top of the city wall, it is much easier to deal with barbarians climbing up on a ladder or arrows shot from below.In particular, there is a general like Tieshi who is brave and capable of fighting and has a deep understanding of strategy, leading a group of good men. They are dedicated to defending their homeland, their wives and children, and their morale is higher than that of the barbarians!
Thinking of Tieshi's troops left behind in Huju Mountain, Hutai County is definitely not a city of sleepiness and sorrow!

Therefore, for the first time in these days, Ning Wan felt that the sky was blue again, and the sun was bright again.With the secret Tieshi told her in her heart, she always smiles when she speaks and does things.

Madam Qian looked at the bright and splendid Madam Lu and couldn't help relaxing her frowning brows, "Yesterday, I heard that you were not feeling well and didn't come here, so Young Mistress Feng and I wanted to visit you. , it’s not easy to disturb at night. I thought early this morning that if you don’t come again, we will come to ask for advice.” Most of the men in Hutai County are on the city wall, and the rest of the work is done by the women. On him, he has always been headed by himself, Mrs. Lu and Young Mistress Feng.Ordinarily, he and Young Mistress Feng are both women from a scholarly family, and they should have higher talents than Mrs. Lu.As the county magistrate's wife, Mrs. Qian had another idea that her husband was a civil servant, so she should naturally listen to herself when managing the affairs of the county.

Therefore, when County Magistrate Qian ordered her to listen to Mrs. Lu, she felt a little unconvinced. She had always had a good relationship with Mrs. Lu, but she had to act according to reason!It's just because the barbarians are coming to the city now, and she doesn't want to have another civil and military discord, so she reluctantly endures it.

But the three of them have been in charge of the matter for more than a month, and Mrs. Qian has already been convinced.It turned out that Mrs. Lu was not just destined to marry General Tieshi, but she was indeed a capable person!She is the wife of a military officer, it's nothing that she is more proficient in guarding the city than she is, but she knows everything about the intricacies of the county town, much better than herself, the magistrate's wife, which is really remarkable!
Therefore, Madam Lu didn't come for a day, and Madam Qian and Young Mistress Feng felt like they had no backbone.

Ning Wan smiled and said, "What are you asking for advice? It's just that everyone discusses something. As the saying goes, there are three cobblers, and there is one Zhuge Liang on top! Now there are exactly three of us."

Madam Qian didn't have the intention to laugh, and said angrily: "You don't know, we let Mrs. Zhou go, and she brought some soldiers to look for us yesterday, saying that there is no rice at home, and she wants to share it with us." We snatched back the food from outside the city. Hearing that Young Mistress Feng and I refused to agree, she even quarreled with us."

Zhou said there was no rice for the pot?Ning Wan smiled sarcastically, most of the fields in front of Hutai County belonged to Qianhusuo, and most of the grain from Qianhusuo went to Xu's family on weekdays. Everyone in Hutai County knew that Xu Qianhu's granary was always full Yes, every year when the new grain comes out, the old grain will be distributed to the military households and the new grain will be stored.

But this year is different. The whole city went out to grab the harvest, and collected the grain. Apart from distributing some to the harvesters, they distributed it to the poor people who entered the city every day, and the rest was used as military rations.Everyone didn't think it was wrong, and even the owners of the other fields didn't ask for grain. After all, if the whole city didn't rush to harvest it, no matter how much grain they had, it would be cheap for the barbarians.

Young Mistress Feng was also angry, "Earlier, Mrs. Zhou didn't care about it when she returned to the city in embarrassment. Now that she escaped with her life, she remembered that everyone was eating food from Qianhu. It's really hateful! I heard that she wanted to sell it at a high price some time ago. As for the food, it’s just that we distribute food to the poor for free, and no one is willing to buy her!”

"We don't need to pay attention to her," Ning Wan said coolly, "The food in Qianhu's house has nothing to do with her, even the food in her family has nothing to do with her. Grain collection. The food in the thousand households is different from that in common people’s homes, and you don’t even need to collect it, just take it out and use it as military rations!”

"Why didn't we think of that!" Young Mistress Feng laughed, "The food in the Qianhu Station is military food!"

Madam Qian was embarrassed to admit that she had missed a move, so she smiled and said: "Actually, I understand the truth, but the two of us can't quarrel with her, so we both thought it would be good if you were here."

Thinking about Mrs. Zhou's background, how can a person who grew up in such a market place not be able to swear?As for the quarrel between Madam Qian and Young Mistress Feng, she was indeed not her opponent, so Ning Wan shook her head and said with a smile: "When I donated money to Dongxue last time, although I had the upper hand, she wanted face at that time. Now Xu Qianhu She's dead, now she only wants to save her family's wealth, and I'm afraid she has other plans. Even if I'm here at this time, I'm afraid I can't quarrel with her. But if you didn't give her a grain, you actually won!"

Even so, Madam Qian and Young Mistress Feng still couldn't calm down, "She was just relying on Commander Zhou, and she kept saying that the whole Tiger Terrace was waiting for her father to save her? When her father came, there would always be something for her She's in charge."

Mrs. Qian and Young Mistress Feng have always looked down on the Zhou family the most. They, civil officials and family members of scholars, don't pay much attention to military officials.Now they didn't beat him back severely in front of the arrogant Zhou family, but they were still worried about Commander Zhou in their hearts.It's not because they are afraid of the power of the Zhou family, but because Hutai County needs Anpingwei's rescue.

But Commander Zhou didn't have to count on it, Ning Wan smiled softly, "Why are you bothering to be angry with her, Xu Qianhu is dead, and when we talk about merits and demerits later, what can Commander Zhou cover up? What's more, maybe He can't protect himself either."

Young Mistress Feng glanced at Ning Wan, as if she understood something, "That's right, we do what we have to do, right and wrong, the future will have its own judgement!"

"Yes!" Mrs. Qian also agreed, but the resentment in her heart still couldn't be calmed down, so she gritted her teeth and said again, "Our lord has said that we will go to Xu Qianhu when the barbarians retire! I will definitely write to the empress, Her imperial wife is spared! When the time comes, she will still have the face to show off her might in front of us!"

Everyone said a few more things about food, cotton clothes, etc. Madam Qian's expression gradually eased, and she smiled: "Our lord has been reading by candlelight after returning to the yamen in the past few nights, but found out that there is a person who guards the city in winter. A good way is to pour water on the city wall to freeze the city into a big ice city, and even if the barbarian people want to climb the ladder, they will immediately slide down, don’t you think this method is brilliant?”

This method was used in Hutai County before, and it was very useful, Ning Wan nodded and smiled: "It's really good!"

"Actually, General Tieshi got a lot of arrows from the barbarians a few days ago, and it's the method written in the book," Madam Qian smiled triumphantly, "Fortunately, the barbarians didn't know that they fell for it!"

"How can a barbarian be as knowledgeable as Master Qian! Naturally, he will be fooled."

"The barbarians don't have writing or history books at all, so they will always be barbarians, and they can't compare with our Chinese orthodoxy!" Madam Qian judged for a long time before returning to the previous topic, "Our adults will use this method I told General Tieshi and arranged for people from the county to send them to the city. Now that the weather is getting colder, we can start to freeze the city walls. However, General Tieshi refused to agree. Do you know why?"

Of course Ning Wan knew!But it was impossible for her to tell Madam Qian.So he smiled and said: "I don't understand the matter of defending the city. I think Tieshi also has plans in his heart."

Madam Qian sighed again and again, "But what a good idea this is!"

But Young Mistress Feng suddenly said: "If you freeze the city with ice, barbarians will not be able to enter, but if Anpingwei or the General Military Mansion send troops to help, wouldn't they also be unable to enter?"

Only then did Madam Qian understand, "What you said makes sense." But she said disappointedly again: "We have been looking forward to reinforcements ever since Tiger Terrace was besieged, but it has been almost two months since we were besieged. What about a reinforcement? Commander Zhou and the Zhou family are really father and daughter, and they are rotten in their bones!"

Young Mistress Feng looked at Mrs. Lu again and then fell silent. Unlike ordinary people, she didn't think too much. Having read many books, she knew that Hutai was the northernmost city of the imperial court. As soon as they leave, Anpingwei and General Military Mansion will send troops to come, but there must be some reason why there is no reinforcement now.

Ning Wan laughed, "Don't worry, there will definitely be reinforcements!"

Madam Qian and Young Mistress Feng immediately opened their eyes wide and asked, "How do you know?"

"I just think there should be."

Madam Lu's words of "I think there should be" did not give Madam Qian and Young Mistress Feng much comfort, it was just her casual comfort.But a few days later they were surprised to find that she was right.

That day, the barbarians surrounding the northeast corner of Hutai City suddenly became chaotic, and then a group of people rushed into the siege of the barbarians. At this time, the north gate of Hutai County was wide open, and Tie Shi led his soldiers to meet them.The two teams attacked back and forth, quickly defeated the Yi people in the northeast area, and entered Hutai County together.

There was thunderous cheers in Hutai County, and it took a while for everyone to realize that the support army was neither from Anpingwei, nor from the General Military Mansion and the capital, but mostly from Huju Mountain, and a small half from Duolun, mixed with Anping , and some guard piers near Hutai to garrison troops.

Tie Shi entertained the generals who came to rescue Hutai on the archery tower of the city wall, and Ning Wan brought Mrs. Chen Baihu, Mrs. Yang, who came with her, to her home, and then invited Mrs. Qian, Mrs. Feng, and Mrs. Yang Baihu to eat with her. liquor.

Although it has only been two months, Hutai County has been completely isolated from the outside world, and everyone is eager to inquire about the latest news.So mother, aunt, Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Song and others all came to Ning's house to listen to Mrs. Yang when they saw Mrs. Yang coming, crowding the whole room.

In the past, Miss Yang had a bold temperament, but because she always restrained herself under the restraint of her parents when she was in her boudoir, she couldn't show it even if she was good at it, but she was proud of it after marrying Duolun. And now when the barbarians went south, she followed her husband to bring troops back to aid, and she was actually wearing armor like a man!When I arrived at De Jufeng's inner house, I removed the armor first, then took the tea and drank it all in one go, then sat down with a golden knife and said: "It's a long story, it was more than two months ago when the whistle suddenly sounded. Xun, the seven princes of the five tribes of the Yiren led the troops to the south separately, and we evacuated the generals to the mountains while lighting up the smoke."

"It was only later that we found out that the barbarians couldn't reach an agreement on choosing the king of the Khan. During the alliance in the season of high horses and fat, we didn't know who suddenly proposed that all the ministries lead troops to the south. When they returned to the grassland next spring, the one who won the most would be the king of the Khan. , so the seven princes of the five tribes of the Yi people immediately reorganized their troops and horses, and went south separately. Now the one who is going to Liaodong is Prince Harlan of the Hetu tribe, the youngest son of the old Khan. 3 people!"

Although Liaodong borders the Yi people, the station guards like Duolun live next to the Yi people, so everyone doesn't know much about the Yi people. At this time, they all asked in amazement: "Why did the youngest son hold the barbarians in his hands?" Do you have the most soldiers and horses? Doesn’t it mean that the eldest son should get the most property?”

Mrs. Yang waved her hand and said: "It is the custom of the Khan people for the eldest son to support his parents and divide the family property more. However, it is the opposite for the Yi people. When the son grows up, he will separate the family and leave the family. Only the youngest son lives with his parents. So he inherited the status and all the property of his parents. Therefore, Prince Harran has the most soldiers and horses, and he is also the new Khan that most people want to push." ​​She also knows that everyone will inevitably ask why Harran did not become the Khan , and immediately said again: "But the third prince of the old Khan, Jumuge, is a capable man. When he separated his family, he only got a few hundred shepherds, but in less than ten years, he has accumulated eighty to ninety thousand troops, soldiers and horses. There are almost [-]. And he has always had the reputation of being tolerant and upright, even the old Khan was full of praise when he was alive, so there are more people who support him than Harrond, which is why the old Khan went, and the new Khan King Khan has chosen something that has not been chosen for several years!"

Madam Qian sighed, "It turns out that the barbarians also fight for the heir!"

Young Mistress Feng glanced at her immediately, and she immediately understood, "Mrs. Yang, continue talking, we are listening."

Ning Wan's heart moved. Compared with hereditary or military military officers, civil servants have connections with classmates, the same year, and tutors during the imperial examination process. Moreover, they work everywhere, compared with military officers who stick to one place. It is true that they are much more well-informed, and Young Mistress Feng's brother is in the capital, so they should know something about the struggle for the throne.

In fact, Ning Wan has never cared about the throne or anything else. She actually echoed a common saying, "The sky is high and the emperor is far away." In the eyes of Hutai people, what does it matter who is the emperor?The old emperor died, and the new emperor ascended the throne, except that there would be an imperial list posted in front of the city gate, wouldn't life be the same?Even the weddings and funerals of different families are irrelevant. Anyway, it has been a long time since the announcement arrived in Hutai.

But she suddenly thought of the brothers and sisters of the Luo family. Luo Yan had become the concubine before. According to Tie Shi, the emperor only had two sons, and the fight for the throne should be between them.So, in fact, Luo Bing and Luo Yan borrowed the influence of the prince before?So are they also involved in the struggle for the throne?Now they don't?

I have only been to Anpingwei the farthest I have ever been, and I have only heard a few words about the capital, so I can't be right in guessing about the dispute over the throne!Ning Wan felt that she was thinking too much, so she shook her head and smiled, and listened to Mrs. Yang's story about the barbarians going south.

(End of this chapter)