Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 41 Food Crisis
Chapter 042 Food Crisis

Ran Ming's Rushui River rescued more than 14 people who were captured by the Yan army, and recaptured more than [-] grains, more than [-] taels of gold, and [-] silver coins. There are more than ten thousand and eight hundred taels, and there are millions of copper coins.

Such a harvest made all the soldiers of the Wei army elated.

According to the promise in advance, Ran Ming distributed 6000% of the seized money directly to the soldiers of the Wei Army, especially the soldiers of the Canglang Camp and the Quick Jie Army. On average, each of them received more than [-] yuan, or gold and silver of the same value.

The Jin Dynasty did not have its own currency system, so the copper coins used were extremely complicated, which made gold and silver a hard currency.Holding yellow gold and white silver in their hands, all the soldiers of the Wei army were smiling, and their faces were like flowers.

Going east along Rushui for more than [-] miles, there is a fork in the road, which leads directly to Lexiang County, which is under the jurisdiction of Gaoyang State (county).Lexiang County is only sixty miles away from Gaoyang County.

At this time, the forward scouts of the Wei army reported back: "Yan army is found in front of the horse!"

Ran Ming gave an order to Wei Jun's scouts to drive away Yan Jun's scouts directly!Then Ran Ming ordered Canglangying, Sujiejun, and Qingdian of Lexiang County to set up camp!

Ran Ming didn't directly order the Wei army to make a surprise attack. For the Wei army with all the cavalry marching at a distance of sixty miles, it only took an hour to arrive!There is not much suspense in the battle!But Ran Ming hesitated at this moment.He looked at the crescent moon slowly rising in the sky, feeling very helpless in his heart!

"Your Highness! When did you feel so depressed?"

Ran Ming looked back and found that it was Ran Feng from the Tiger Roaring Camp who was speaking.

Ran Feng said: "This time we, Great Wei, have won a series of victories, Your Highness should be happy!"

"We have defeated the Yan army, but there is another hidden danger in the Wei state!" Ran Ming patted Ran Feng's shoulder and just shook his head and sighed, "Although we have rescued nearly [-] people, let nearly After getting out of the sea of ​​suffering, I originally wanted to be happy and celebrate each other, but new troubles came again!"

Ran Mingdao: "One liter of grain per person for 10 people needs more than 100 shi per day. Our 1 horses need one bucket per person, and each horse needs three buckets a day. On average, we need to consume more than 600 shi of grain per day. The food that people and horses need to consume every day is more than 700 shi, but we only got back more than 3000 shi in this battle. In two months, we will have no food to eat! But two months later, it will be the end of June, at least the new grain needs The harvest can only be done in September, so we need to face a food shortage of more than two months! Even if there is some food left, we still need [-] shi of grain to get new food!"

"As you have seen along the way, there are barren fields everywhere, and there is not much food at all. The food shortage we are facing is not two months, but more than a year, and we need at least 30 shi of food to eat! "

Ran Ming then sighed deeply, and smiled helplessly: "It is easy for us to save those captured people, but how to feed them is a serious problem."

Ran Feng is a warrior, he has never considered such issues.After being reminded by Ran Ming, he realized that the situation was not as optimistic as he thought.If there is no food, the people will choose to rebel, and the army will mutiny. No matter what happens, it will be fatal to Wei Guo!

Ran Feng suddenly lost his mind and said anxiously: "Your Highness, what should I do?"

"The situation is actually worse than this!" Ran Ming said with a dumbfounded smile, "If we don't have enough food, then we are not saving lives, but killing lives. Those common people are slaves under the hands of the Xianbei. Being horses, suffering and suffering, but at least a considerable part of them still have their lives, but following us, all of them can only starve to death!"

Ran Feng was silent. In fact, the food crisis was an invisible shackle around the neck of Wei State. Not to mention, not to mention ordinary people, even military rations can hardly last more than a month.

Wei Jun went north to seek a decisive battle with the Yan Army, but he was actually going for the food of the Yan Army. Only by defeating the Yan Army and robbing them of the food they robbed, could the Wei Army survive!
Ran Feng murmured: "Although I know that Wei Guo has no ability to save them, it is the best choice not to save them for the time being. But, but, the Xianbei people are too cruel, they are very cruel to the Han people, as long as they are captured by them The common people live a miserable life, if you don’t talk about abuse, beating and scolding, and don’t give them food and drink, they will be tortured to death one by one, I can’t accept this situation!”

In fact, Ran Ming also knew that very few of these captured Han people would survive in the end. Otherwise, after decades of chaos, the Han people would not have died tens of millions.It is one thing to know, but it is another thing to be able to do it. If they are rescued, but there is no food to feed them, these people will still die in the end, but their deaths will be counted on Ran Min. On the head, in this way, it also gave those corrupt Confucians in Jin an excuse to attack Ran Min.

Now Ran Ming not only wants to fight for the life of Wei State, but also to build up the hearts of Ran Min.

Ran Ming said: "Wei State really has no way to solve the food problem, relying on farming, this year's Qin Geng has already missed, and next year will only be more difficult. Unless we can buy a large amount of grain from Jiangnan, we can solve the problem of no food!"

Ran Feng smiled wryly and said, "Even if we can buy food, we will spend a lot on the road, unless we can transport it by sea, enter the sea along the big river, go upstream from the Yellow River, pass the Zhangshui River to Yecheng, but we buy No food!"

Speaking of this, Ran Feng sighed helplessly and said: "Those people in the state of Jin will not sell us a grain of grain. After the fall of Zhao, he surrendered to the Jin State. After the father commander surrendered, the Jin State not only did not give the father commander any support, but instead sent troops to attack Xuzhou in our Wei State, and forced them to land in Qingzhou and Yanzhou. Merciful, according to me, they should kill all the second ministers who betrayed the Great Wei. But I don't understand why the father commander let the Luozhou and Yanzhou, which are empty of troops, not fight, but came to fight the Yan army. According to the combat effectiveness of our Wei army, it will not take a month to fully occupy the states of Yan, Qing, Xu, and Luo."

Ran Ming said: "Of course you don't understand. Even if we don't agree with the Jin country, we must belong to the descendants of the Chinese Yanhuang and the Jin country. We are born from the same root, so why rush each other! Our Chinese nation has shed too much blood. When the Xiongnu entered and established the Han Kingdom, they carried out a bloody massacre to the northern states, and then Jiezhao. How many Han people were there in the six states of Qing, Xu, You, Zhou, Ji, and Yong 40 years ago? How many are left now?" Ran Ming gritted his teeth and said, "Those bastards from the Sima clan of the Jin Kingdom are amateurs in external fighting and expert in internal fighting, and I'm so mad!"

"Your Highness, without food, our country of Wei still cannot survive. Can you think of a way to solve the food problem?"

"It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, and I can't help it!"

Ran Feng's face was full of disappointment and death.

Ran Ming's head suddenly flashed, and he suddenly had an idea.In this era, the sea is not open at all. As long as you have an outlet or a coastline, you can go fishing. A boat can catch more than 1 catties of fish after half a month.Besides, there are not only fish in the sea, but also kelp, sea salt, and all kinds of treasures.

Ran Ming suddenly said: "But."

"But what?" Ran Feng asked curiously.

Ran Ming said with a smile: "As long as our Great Wei can have a port close to the sea, the best way is to conquer Qingzhou and connect Qingzhou and Yecheng together. We can't do anything to our great Wei! It's just that Qingzhou has surrendered to Jin, and we fight Qingzhou, which is like fighting in the same room!"

"Qingzhou is the territory of Duan Kan, which belongs to Jin State in name, but in fact he has always been his territory!" Ran Feng continued: "This niche is the son of Duan Lan from Xianbei. They moved from Lingzhi to Chenliu. Later, when his father was in battle with the remnants of the Shi family, he had no time to take care of him. He took the opportunity to lead his troops to occupy Qingzhou, and claimed to be the king of Qi. There is not a single soldier in Qingzhou, and at the same time, Duan Kan is also violating the Yin and Yang of the Jin State!"

Ran Ming sighed secretly in his heart. He didn't know if the emperors and ministers of the Jin Kingdom had water in their heads. They could tolerate Lu Hu, a member of the clan, surrendering to the Jin Kingdom and supporting troops to occupy Luozhou independently. They supported the independence of Qingzhou, but they couldn't tolerate Ran Min. If it wasn't for the fact that Ran Min was not a Han, these Jin ministers would definitely agree to the fact that Ran Min would join him!
This is the sorrow of China for thousands of years. They can be said to have been raising tigers. First, they nourished the Xiongnu.However, the lesson of blood was not remembered. Later, he supported Xianbei and Qianyan to destroy Ran Wei, and finally joined forces with the Hu people to wipe out all the Han resistance forces in the Central Plains.

Originally, Ran Ming would have been concerned that Qingzhou was the territory of the Jin State, and he himself was unwilling to fight among himself. Now that he knew that Qingzhou was actually controlled by a remnant of the Xianbei Duan tribe, he had no worries.

Ran Ming's eyes flickered with a hint of ruthlessness that could not be detected by others, and he asked lightly: "How many soldiers and horses does Duan Kan have? How strong is it?"

Ran Feng clasped his fists and said, "When Duan Kan was in Chenliu, there were about 3 people in his tribe. In fact, there are about [-] young and strong people in control of strings. Now that he has been running Qingzhou for more than two years, there are more soldiers and horses. I don't know the details! "

Ran Ming nodded thoughtfully, and said to the guards beside him, "Bring Zhang Ping and Jing Zhan!"

After the Battle of Liantai, Jing Zhan joined Zhang Ping's "Heavenly Deaf and Earth-Mute" for devilish training, including more than [-] other deaf-mute guards who trained with Jing Zhan!
Ran Ming had seen Zhang Ping's "deaf and dumb" normal training, which was almost the same as the special forces training of later generations.

Tactical skills training includes killing training with long and short weapons, equestrianism, archery, lurking, reconnaissance, and unarmed combat training. The whole process can be called cruel and bloody. Many deaf-mute guards were injured during the training. One even died due to a training error!
Not long after, Zhang Ping and Jing Zhan, who were busy in the world, were ordered to come to Ran Ming. Ran Ming found that Jing Zhan had three welts on his face. Needless to say, Jing Zhan must have been punished by Zhang Ping for not completing the training task!

Ran Ming used sign language to Zhang Pingdao: "Now the direction of investigation is turning to Qingzhou. I need to know how many troops there are in Qingzhou Duankan and how to deploy their defenses! At the same time, where are their defensive loopholes!"

Zhang Ping nodded, as if I understood!Immediately, more than 100 old "deaf and dumb" and more than 30 new "deaf and dumb" began to gather. They packed up their equipment, brought all their dry food, and disappeared into the night sky!

Just when Ran Ming set his sights on Qingzhou, at the Yan Army Camp in Gaoyang County, sixty miles across from Ran Ming, Murong Ke, Murong Jun, Murong Chui, Murong Biao and other Yan State generals gathered together, their faces covered with Concealed, full of worries about his future.

At this time, Murong Jun is the Fujun General of the Yan Kingdom, the King of Xiangyang, and he is the sixth son of Murong Xin. Like Murong Biao and Murong Ping, he belongs to the second generation of generals of the Yan Kingdom!
Murong Jun's face was very ugly, he said: "I just received the news that the [-] soldiers of Dugu Shegui's troops were wiped out by the Wei army, so a large amount of money and captured slaves were taken away, and it is even more unacceptable. Yes, the Wei army has now reached Qingfengling in Lexiang County, only sixty miles away from Gaoyang. Can you tell us what our army should do now?"

Murong Chui said: "How many soldiers and horses does the Wei army have now?"

"According to the report from the horse scouts, the Wei army has more than 1 soldiers and horses arriving in Le Township at this time, all of them are cavalry!"

Murong Ke was silent. During the Battle of Liantai, the Wei army had only 6000 to 14 soldiers, and they were infantry. He actually wiped out his army of tens of thousands. Now the number of Wei troops has not only not decreased, but has increased.The more soldiers and horses the Wei army has, the harder it is to fight this battle. His 1 soldiers and horses in Shangxian County cannot beat the 6 horses of the Wei Army. Now the Murong Army has only [-] horses, and they are distributed in Herun, Gaoyang, and Zhongshan. There are not too many soldiers and horses in various places, but they will be easily defeated by Wei Jun one by one!
If the Murong Army's [-] soldiers and horses had any losses, they would not have the deterrent force to control Liaoxi!
Murong Ke looked up at Murong Jun and said, "Sixth Uncle, what do you think?"

(End of this chapter)