Aspiration

Chapter 16 Eating Problems
The matter of hunting grain was once again brought up at the military council.

Everyone has no good ideas.

It stands to reason that now is not the time for food shortages. The autumn harvest is not long and the grain will be returned to the warehouse.However, the poor people had no food left. The small landlords fought once and never twice. Those who were close were beaten, and those who were far away ran away.

These wealthy families.To put it simply, it is a bully landlord, and a big landlord with hundreds of soldiers and a high wall.This kind of people has connections with the government, and they are incompatible with the rebel army.Now the rebel army itself needs to rest and reorganize, and has no strength to attack Dazhai at all, so food is a big problem now.

The generals discussed for a while, thinking that there is still more than half a year before the Dragon Boat Festival next year. If the food problem is not solved, conscription and training will become a big problem. Therefore, the core of the problem is to solve the problem of food.

Li Laiheng had never participated in grain hunting, and now the only people who could eat with their stomachs open were his more than 400 people, so he did not speak.Everyone else contributed ideas, but not many really worthwhile ideas.Liu Zongmin looked at him several times.Li Laiheng pondered for a while, he knew that Liu Zongmin must be dissatisfied with him, so he made up his mind.

"Chief sentry, give me half a month. I'll take down Lujiazhai, and it's estimated that I can provide food for the rebels for three months."

When Li Laiheng said this, people were taken aback.

Where is Lujiazhai?He is a big village with thousands of families. Even if one family guards the village, there are thousands of people. In addition, the Lujiazhai ditch is deep and the walls are high, and they are all made of stones. It is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Your Li Laiheng People and horses are good at charging, and this kind of tough battle will definitely suffer.Therefore, everyone believed that Li Laiheng was too confident this time.

"Can Lujiazhai be defeated? Since we are going to gnaw hard nuts, I think it is better to attack Huangshizhai first. Lujiazhai is no less than a prefecture, and it is too difficult." Li Zicheng said.

Everyone also echoed Li Chuangwang's opinion.

Only Liu Zongmin did not agree. He said: "Laiheng said that he must attack Luzhai. He must be sure. Taking down one Lujiazhai is better than attacking ten Huangshizhais. Let alone three months of food, in my opinion, three There is enough food for the year."

When everyone heard this, they knew Liu Zongmin's little Jiujiu, and they felt uncomfortable. Li Guo's face also changed, with a hint of anger.Everyone thought in their hearts that it was not good for Liu Zongmin to do so, and it was not good for King Chuang's career.Li Laiheng's rise to the top recently is a good thing, and he should be happy, but how can you be jealous?
Li Zicheng was about to defend Li Laiheng, but Li Laiheng rushed to speak, "The chief sentry said well, ten Huangshi villages are no match for one Lu's village, so let's fight Lu's village."

Young people don't know the heights of the sky and the depths of the earth.

Everyone was going to speak for him, but he insisted on digging into the horns, and others had nothing to say.

"How many people do you want?" Li Zicheng asked.He also felt a little helpless, he had to take Liu Zongmin's words seriously, and he couldn't always protect Li Laiheng, let alone Li Laiheng himself insisted on doing so.

"There are people in the headquarters." Li Laiheng replied.

"400 people? This is an attack." Everyone exclaimed. 400 people fought in such a big village, it was a joke.

"It's okay, I won't use these people to attack."

No one knew what Li Laiheng was thinking, whether to fight or not to fight, they were confused by him, they listened quietly, wanting to hear him continue.However, he didn't say any more.

This kid has been like this lately, so unpredictable.

Do not!He is impulsive.Everyone realized that he was acting on his temper.

The young man couldn't bear setbacks, and when he was provoked by Liu Zongmin, he couldn't hold his breath, and he didn't care about the future.However, everyone thought, Li Laiheng was trying to get angry with Liu Zongmin, who would dare to mess with Master Liu?Even Li Zicheng wanted to give him three points, so everyone had to keep silent.

Only Tian Jianxiu didn't think so, he just smiled and said nothing.He knew that Li Laiheng must have a good strategy. He said just now that he would not use his [-] elites to attack a fortification, so he must be planning to outwit him.

He has seen the heroic appearance on the battlefield, let's see how his Wen Tao is.

Tian Jianxiu is looking forward to it.

Everyone was sweating.

Li Laiheng decided to participate in grain hunting with two plans.One is, Li Laiheng didn't go to harvest food and stayed to train elite soldiers, what would the other generals think?Li Laiheng was able to fight in the last half a year, while other generals were able to fight a few years ago. What's more, other generals had at least led thousands of soldiers in their heyday. Liu Zongmin, Yuan Zongdi He also received tens of thousands of troops and horses.Li Laiheng is the youngest and the least experienced. He has not led more than 1000 soldiers, and at most 800 soldiers at one time.Therefore, if Li Chuang said that Li Laiheng was the ace, it would hurt other generals.He has played well in the past six months, there is no objection to this, but strictly speaking, Li Laiheng can only be regarded as a surprise soldier, not a main force.Therefore, if Li Laiheng is regarded as Li Zicheng's trump card, will the other generals be convinced?Also fair?Li Zicheng had to consider this point.Li Laiheng, who is both wise and brave, would not fail to think of this level, and he would not be so arrogant that he would treat famous generals such as Liu Zongmin as nothing. He still had to rely on everyone's strength, so Li Laiheng planned to take the initiative to reconcile with Liu Zongmin .Second, Li Laiheng didn't think it was so difficult to harvest food. Fighting meant attacking cities and fortresses. In exchange for life, fighting for food was at most a matter of attacking a few cottages.Besides, Li Laiheng thought, wouldn't it be much more effective to train soldiers by collecting grain than talking about them on paper?He didn't want to be just a fierce general who could kill and slash on the battlefield.

Therefore, he told Liu Zongmin that he participated in grain hunting.

If he didn’t fight, he would have done it, and once he did, he would make a request. He said that within half a month, he would be fully responsible for the harvesting, and his goal was [-] dan.

"Ten thousand tons?"

Everyone was horrified again.Ten thousand dan, this is half a year's ration for three thousand soldiers!

Raising half a year's rations in half a month is no joke.Li Zicheng looked at Li Laiheng, and asked with concern: "Laiheng, harvesting grain is not a charge. In Shangluo Mountain, except for the Lujiazhai, which has more than [-] tans of grain, it would be great if the other villages have hundreds of tans of grain in reserve." However, Lujiazhai has a large population, high walls and deep trenches, and government support, attacking it is almost like capturing a state capital."

Lujiazhai, can be said to be the largest wealthy family in the Shangluo Mountains. Not to mention the fields and mountains with a radius of hundreds of miles, there are dozens of people who are officials and generals outside the clan. The largest is the Minister of Rites, and there are many deputy generals , there are more than ten generals above guerrilla.Therefore, Lujiazhai is the natural leader in this land.

(End of this chapter)