Lord of the House

Zhang Gou and Li Wei crossed Huai to Siyang, and soon contacted the front post of the Red Jacket Army in the south of Suyu.

Fengshao is an elite scout in the Red Jacket Army. Everyone is proficient in horsemanship, sword and bow, and one person and two horses;

In order to prepare for the sudden northward attack of the Huaidong Army, Ma Lantou placed more than 100 elite cavalry sentries in the south of Suyu, which was almost the only cavalry Ma Lantou had in Suyu.

Under the surveillance and personal accompaniment of dozens of sentries, the carriage that Zhang Gou and Li Wei rode crossed through the fields south of Suyu. On both sides of the road were scrawny and hungry people, and there were also groups of people with big guns on their backs. of the refugee army. Obviously, the refugee army was very worried that the Huaidong army in the south would suddenly come out, so they could only gather a large number of troops and horses in the south of Suyu and dig trenches and build fortresses in the ice and snow.

Many of these brave soldiers use a sharpened wooden pole or bamboo pole as a weapon. They have all kinds of clothes, tattered, yellow-faced and thin, and they are not even as good as beggars. From them, Zhang Gou can clearly understand. Thinking back to the predicament I was in two years ago (more unbearable than that), I feel panicked.

In addition to the starving people like frozen corpses on the roadside and the brave refugee soldiers digging trenches in the ice and snow, the chaos caused by looting can also be seen everywhere.

It wasn't because Ma Lantou didn't restrain his subordinates, it was just that the rice grain that Sun Zhuang secretly saved for them was only three thousand stone. Even without taking into account the ordinary starving people who followed, the refugee army and their families alone numbered nearly 300,000 people and stored 3,000 shi of grain for three to five days.

In order for an army to be able to do nothing against the people, in addition to strict discipline, it is more important to ensure that it has sufficient material guarantees.

It is an inevitable move to forcibly levy grain from the people. Even if the red jacket army does not go out of the city to grab grain, it cannot restrain other refugee troops from going out to loot the city. , who would be concerned about integrity and morality?

The two counties have not recovered their vitality from the Huai Si war. The county residents who have moved back have been struggling on the line of life and death. conflict?

It wasn't too late for Zhang Gou and Li Wei to come over, and the situation had not deteriorated to the point where it was beyond control.

On the one hand, the refugee army had just crossed the river, and it would take some time to break through the local surrounding to grab food.

At least in the countryside south of Suyu, the soldiers and horses who levied grain all wore red jackets. They were the direct descendants sent by Malantou.

From Zhang Gou's point of view, the situation was not too bad; from Li Wei's point of view, it was a different feeling.

The people's livelihood in the two counties has improved a little, with his countless hard work in it - in fact, before this, he was thinking about the matter of Biao Chunhuang - seeing this scene in front of him, his teeth clenched. .

Zhang Gou was also afraid that Li Weiqiang's temper would come up and things would be bad, so he sat in the carriage and persuaded him: "Master Li, since ancient times, it is unavoidable to collect grain because of the land. It's important to meet each other to prevent the situation from getting worse..."

Li Wei loosened his clenched fist and said, "This old man knows this truth, and won't ruin the big picture for a little thing!"

Surrounded by Fengshao, the carriage entered Suyu City, and Ma Lantou had already received news that Zhang Gou and Li Wei would be brought into the line he temporarily converted from the county government office.

In the official hall, there were only some simple old mulberry table cases. Ma Lantou was wearing brown old leather armor. Standing behind the long table, he stared at Zhang Gou and Li Wei who entered the hall.

"Tuntiangou, if you come today to say surrender for your new master, I advise you to save your energy. For the sake of the past, I invite you to have a drink, then you go back, don't say that everyone can't step down. If you do." Ma Lan sneered, only when Zhang Gou said he would come down, and immediately blocked his words.

Zhang Gou looked at Ma Lantou calmly. Before he came to Suyu, he knew that Liu Miaozhen led a team of elite troops to guard against Chen Zhihu in the west of Huaiyang. Today, he could only see Ma Lantou in Suyu.

Ma Lantou's sturdy body was slightly hunched, and his cheeks were thin and sunken. He was in his early 40s, and his stubble stubble like steel needles actually caught some frosty white hair, which was extra dazzling against the white hair of the two manes.

Zhang Gou was filled with emotion for a while, but since Sun Zhuang was sent to prison in Siyang, he has completely regarded himself as a member of Huaidong, and no longer had any tangled thoughts in his heart, he took a slight breath and said, "Rod. The Lord has already pardoned the death of my family, and temporarily charged it into the army, I am here to take the son of the master to Huaidong, and I think Ma Shuai will not be in trouble, right?"

Ma Lantou stared at Zhang Gou suspiciously, but Chen Zhuo, he would not have too many concerns, this swallowing dog is more difficult for people to see through, and asked, "How can I trust you?"

"Whether to kill or stay, do the adults in my family need to be sneaky, why don't you believe it?" Zhang Gou asked, "Even if you leave the family of Master Rod and Brother Eleven in Suyu - Suyu's grain and grass can last for a few days, three Five days, or ten days and eight days?"

Ma Lantou's face sank, and he said, "I remember my old love, I don't leave you in trouble, but you earn my knowledge!" Zhang Gou said this as a test.

"I don't know, what details does Ma Shuai have for me to explore?" Zhang Gou said with a smile, "Pole threw the two cities to you, and the grain storage in the city is only three thousand stone. When you come down, you can probably grab 20,000 to 30,000 stone grains—what are you going to eat when these two or 30,000 stone grains are exhausted? Are you eating human flesh?"

Zhang Gou's words were **** and harsh, and Ma Lan's face was gloomy. In Huaiyang City, there had already been a tragic incident of Yizi's food. He lied to himself. Hearing Zhang Gou's words, his face seemed to be slapped hard. A note!

"Where are you going?" Zhang Gou continued to ask, "Chen Zhihu to the west, Chen Hansan to the north, Liang Chengchong to the northeast, Xiao Kuian to the east, and Tao Chun to the southeast, is it possible that you have to forcefully cross the Huaihe River, Can't you enter Huaidong?"

"Just kidding, I'm waiting for a teacher of 100,000 tigers and wolves, the world is so big, where can I go? Even if the net is set up, I have the confidence to pull it into pieces," Ma Lan stared at Zhang Gou and said, "Huai If the Eastern Army wants to fight, you can lead the troops to fight, and whoever is afraid is not born of a mother. Doing these **** things will make people look down on you!"

"I would like to ask: There are so many handsome men, how many are willing to follow the red jacket girl and Ma Shuai to fight to the death?" Zhang Gou ignored Ma Lan's stern expression and said, "According to what I said, if it wasn't for Chen Zhihu to be in the west There are no survivors under the butcher's knife, and there are more than two families who want to find a way to survive!"

"It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, who can manage so many things! Besides, there is no shortage of those useless things," Ma Lantou angrily walked back to the desk, holding the desk in his hand. , stared at Zhang Gou eagerly, and said, "If Huaidong wants to recruit this kind of thing, I will never stop him!"

The military affairs of the northern front were handled by Cao Zi'ang. As a detailed plan to secretly borrow rice and grain to the refugee army, it was also determined by Cao Zi'ang. In exchange, the restrictions on the refugee army would not be as simple as Lin Fu originally ordered.

When Zhang Gou and Li Wei came over, they first had to test the bottom line of the refugee army. They also hoped that the refugee army on the Huaisi front line could eliminate the disorder. The refugee army on the Huaisi front line now has hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses. Headed by Liu Miaozhen and the red jacket army led by Ma Lantou, but there are more than a dozen other hilltops, each with several thousand to more than ten thousand soldiers and horses, mixed in one place. On the one hand, it is not easy to stabilize in the Huaisi area. Who knows when a Qu Shuai suddenly advocates without authorization, and takes his troops to go to other places. On the other hand, it is obviously very inconvenient for Huaidong to grasp the situation here.

Hearing that Ma Lantou didn't seem to mind Huaidong recruiting other Liu Shuai, Zhang Gou and Li Wei looked at each other and knew that Ma Lantou's perseverance was very limited.

"Master Li and I want to see Miss..." Zhang Gou said.

"I won't stop you from seeing those scumbags, whoever the **** loves to go, but big sister, I think you still have the heart to die. It's true that An Shuai died of Chen Hansan's death, but the trap is You and I both know who it is, if others can vote for Huaidong, it is absolutely impossible for me and the eldest lady..." Ma Lantou said firmly.

Ma Lantou knew what was going on with Sui Ning and Su Yu.

Sun Zhuang gave up the two cities, just to let them breathe a sigh of relief, and they could get ten days and eight days of rest. They can't break through Chen Zhihu's blockade from the west, and they don't expect to break through the Huaidong Army's defense line to the south. To the north are the soldiers and horses of Chen Hansan and the Liang family. Is it easy to break through? Even if one city and two cities are attacked in the east, what is the benefit? Further east is the sea.

Do you really want to eat human flesh?

When they were trapped in Huaiyang, Ma Lantou and Liu Miaozhen did not stop others from surrendering, so they would not stop others from going to Huaidong at this time. As for Huaidong's mind, is it as vicious as Chen Zhihu and Yue Lengqiu? Everyone can only ask for more happiness! As for whether Sun Zhuang had given up on Huaidong, Ma Lantou would not blame him. Sun Zhuang has done too much for them. Even if we meet on the battlefield in Japan, Sun Zhuang will not owe them half a cent...

"If Huaidong borrows 40,000 shi of rice grains for you every month, the eldest miss and Ma Shuai will never agree?" Zhang Gou asked.

"..." Ma Lantou was stunned for a moment, but he didn't respond for a while. He was stunned for a while, and then said sullenly, "Tengtiangou, you are also a person of identity. Do you think I will wait until the mountains and rivers are exhausted, and I will let you play tricks?"

It was only at this moment that Li Wei said calmly, "The two of us have worked so hard to make fun of you? If it wasn't for the precarious situation of hundreds of thousands of starving people, and if it wasn't for the lack of help, the land of Huaisi would be ruined again. Who wants to take the risk of going through this?"

"I heard that your master is going to be the King of Huaidong, I'm afraid he has no good intentions!" Ma Lantou was shocked, but he didn't want to lose his momentum, and he sneered at Zhang Gou.

"You stand at the front of the city and see, inside and outside the city, the hungry people on the streets, one by one, how many breaths are left? Huaidong worked hard to squeeze out 40,000 stone grains every month, you said Huai Dong has ambitions, you feel your chest and say, these hungry people who don't even have the strength to walk, is it worth Huaidong's ambition to place on them?" Zhang Gou asked back.

40,000 shi of rice grain per month, 480,000 shi a year—

Chen Zhihu is a murderous madman, but some people cast their hands on Tao Chun in the south, and some people even go to a dead end and have no shame. They want to hook up with Chen Hansan in Xuzhou, but they don't pay any attention-why? No one has so much rice in their hands, and even if they had, no one would use this rice to raise these Huazi Army.

The refugee army seems to have 100,000 troops, but Chen Zhihu has only 10,000 elites and 10,000 miscellaneous soldiers to seal off in the west, so they can't get through at all!

480,000 stone grains of rice a year, it is hard to say, but it is more than enough to raise 20,000 to 30,000 elites - Ma Lantou couldn't see where Lin Fu's vision was, so Zhang Gou was speechless.

Blocking Zhang Gou's words, Ma Lantou sat down in frustration and said, "You guys shouldn't have no conditions at all, just tell me!"

"First of all, you can't threaten or try to enter the area of ​​the east bank of Sishui and the Liulibian of Siyang, and you can't build fortifications on the west bank of Sishui and the north of Siyang. You must leave a ten-mile radius on the periphery of the Liulibian of Siyang. When no-man’s land comes, every ten days, the Siyang side will send rice grains to the area and the red jacket army will receive it…” Zhang Gou said.

Listening to the harsh conditions, Malantou knew that they actually had no choice.

The Shushui and Yishui camps two years ago were easily captured by the Huaidong Army. Now he has deployed a lot of soldiers and horses to form a defensive line in the south of Suyu~www.readwn.com~ is actually fragile as fragile as paper.

Building or not building a fortress is of little significance.

"You continue to say..." Ma Lantou said.

"Now there are dozens of military leaders and Qu Shuai here, with more than 100,000 troops-we would like to see you retain 30,000 or 40,000 elite soldiers with the Red Jacket Army as the core, and ensure that the government and military orders are consistent and disciplined. Only with this can the situation here be stabilized, and it is possible to restore people's livelihood. We never want to see chaos and disorder, and people's livelihood will continue to be degraded and broken!" Zhang Gou said, "Now the three cities are all red. In the control of the jacket army, more people just want to survive - we will only hand over the rice to the red jacket army - if you want to do this, it won't be too difficult!"

Malantou is deeply aware of the fatal flaws brought about by the bloatedness and clutter of the refugee army.

Just like the siege of Huaiyang, it was not difficult for Liu Miaozhen to lead 20,000 elite soldiers to break out of the siege. Even in the past six months, he fought with Chen Zhihu's troops several times, and he did not suffer any losses, but it was extremely difficult to break out with 100,000 soldiers and horses. ——

Therefore, Ma Lantou didn't mind that Huaidong had recruited all of Qu Shuai's subordinates before, so why didn't he want to get rid of these burdens?

As for the other refugee soldiers, Qu Shuai, at the moment, they want to save their own lives and the lives of their children, and the pressure to cut their military power will not be too great - not to mention that they will control the rice grains secretly delivered by Huaidong in the future.

When the force is reduced to 30,000, not only will the combat effectiveness not be weakened, but the soldiers and their families can also live in the city.

Such conditions are beneficial to the Red Jacket Army without any harm.

It was precisely because of this that Ma Lantou became more and more suspicious that Zhang Gou was amusing him or that there was a conspiracy behind his back that he could not guess for a while! My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter