Taiping Order

Chapter 433: Fame like a dragon, a gift for worship (please give me a monthly vote)

In the court of Ying, all the princes remained silent.

Prince Jiang Gao and second prince Jiang Yuan were silent at this moment. Grandmaster Jiang Su was wrapped in her sleeves with her hands in her sleeves, looking quiet. Jiang Wanxiang looked at the battle report, looking at the words that the Qilin Army invaded the border, breaking the Our country's army invaded several cities.

The world is so big that counties and counties divide the people. There are 200 large and small prefectures under Yingguo, and more than 500 counties, and each county has several counties, which are extremely vast. At this moment, the Qilin Army has entered the country, which is a radius of thousands of miles. , it is not a big loss.

But this is like a sign of the beginning, often with a sword.

Moreover, the empire was defeated after several battles, and Judas was defeated by others. Their take-off momentum had been interrupted, and many bureaucrats were extremely shocked.

Why did Emperor Yingguo not care much about Jiangnan before?

But it's just because of that.

The south of the Yangtze River is a thousand miles away, but only eighteen states, with more than fifty cities and towns. Compared with the vast land of thousands of miles and hundreds of empires, it is just a separatist force. Therefore, they are so easy to do so. Make decisions to invade.

And in just over ten days, it almost penetrated into the Eighteen Prefectures in Jiangnan.

However, it took two years to deal with Chen State, but only fought in more than a dozen states on the border, and never advanced directly.

This is the difference between a great country and a prince. Now, the small prince who originally thought could be overthrown just by backhand, but was randomly ravaged on the ground, turned into a pixiu sitting on the ground, with a kilin holding its head up.

He bit Ying Guo's palm with a fierce bit.

And this time the counterattack was so violent and so painful.

The defeat in Jiangnan is still within an acceptable range.

But what scared the nobles above the court was the future development.

The defeat of the south of the Yangtze River means that the rise of Qin Wuhou cannot be stopped. Once he surging down and taking down the part of the city in the southwest of the Western Regions and waterways, it will not be a pattern city with a radius of thousands of miles, and it will also be the foundation of a great country.

Prime Minister Wei Yiwen Qi said, "Your Majesty, the bandits are in power, but the land in the south of the Yangtze River is still far from my heart. With the foundation of the south of the Yangtze River, it is impossible to drive straight into it. Otherwise, the cutting of our army and the army will be the end of the wolf king."

"Of course, we need to be on guard from all sides, and the city cannot be held out."

"There are many soldiers going out in Jiangnan, and people eat horses and chew them all. They can't hold on in just two months."

"Only hold on to it."

Jiang Wanxiang said, "What you mean is that if the enemy enters our country, we cannot resist. We must also garrison the city like a turtle to avoid fighting with it?"

Wei Yiwen said: "That's right."

Jiang Wanxiang's chest was fluctuating violently, but the old emperor's eyes were fierce for a long time and said, "Yun!"

Wei Yiwen said again: "I would like to ask the Grand Master to lead the Hu Barbarian Cavalry to return to the rescue."

"Previously, the army of the Taishi was only in the Western Regions, and the Wolf King had to return to the rescue because he was attacking our city. Now the Taishi was in the country and had his own luck, while the Qin Wuhou went deeper. The situation was indeed Has changed."

When the Yingguo court meeting ended, Jiang Wanxiang returned to the palace alone, holding the document on the Zhaixing Tower, looking at the battle report, listening to footsteps behind him, looking sideways, but seeing the Grand Tutor Jiang Su coming.

Jiang Wanxiang resisted the stinging pain in her heart and could still laugh at herself:

"I underestimated this kid, but I was beaten so badly."

"I will not be hurt in this battle, but it will completely cut off the possibility of fighting for the world within ten years. The Grand Master thinks, which descendant should I use as the prince?"

Jiang Su replied: "The general trend of the country is not what my ministers should say."

Jiang Wanxiang said, "It's just you and me at this moment, let's talk about it."

Jiang Su remained silent and replied:

"In the world today, I, Da Ying and Chen, have no chance to compete for the world. The opportunity for Da Ying is to recuperate and occupy the north is a road. If this is the case, the world will not develop into a complete chaos."

"If you want to rest with the people, Prince Jiang Gao is more suitable."

Jiang Wanxiang was surprised, coughed several times, and said with a smile: "I thought you would say that it was my second son Jiang Yuan who was in line with the way of a king in troubled times."

Even when Jiang Su sat down, wearing a black robe, she was extremely majestic, saying:

"If the future world is in power, my Da Ying will still be invincible, and my country is strong and powerful, and my aura will be swallowed thousands of miles away, and the surrounding strong enemies will be surrounded by him, that is His Highness Jiang Yuan's opportunity; but if it is not decided today, my Da Ying will be repeatedly setbacked and need to rest and recuperate."

"If you continue, this great power will collapse on its own."

"We need to join forces with Chen Dingye to fight against Qin Wu. In this way, there will be no dispute within more than ten years. The foundation of the Great Response is still there, and the foundation of the court is still there. This is not something that can be shaken in just a few local battlefield victories and losses. of."

"There are still ministers in the army, including Qin Yulong, He Ruo Capture Hu, Yuwen Lie, and the only one who can be called a famous general in Li Guan's army is himself. Although Duke Xue is here, he cannot fight."

"With the benevolence of the prince, I should be able to cultivate for several years; but with the character of the Second Prince, I am brave and strong, but I will be revenge. After a few years of ascending the throne, there will be a great war."

"At that time, it will be even more destructive."

Jiang Wanxiang was surprised, coughed several times, and said silently, "Let's talk about it then."

"I am an old guy, and I still have some strength."

The Grand Tutor Jiang Su and Jiang Wanxiang played a game of chess and got up and left. Jiang Wanxiang was still at this time. He finally couldn't stand it. Looking at the battle report over there, his face turned pale. Next, suddenly opened his mouth.

A mouthful of blood spurted out and landed on the ground.

After swaying, Emperor Yingguo, who was still enraged thousands of miles of mountains and rivers several years ago, was kneeling on the ground. His eyes were black and his heart was thrusting. He raised his head and saw the portrait of the woman when he was young.

Suddenly, I felt that the portrait of this wife was becoming more and more lively and realistic, and I was going to find myself.

The scarlet red lights in the Picking Star Tower suddenly swayed violently.

………

Li Guanyi led his army to attack the border of Yingguo. This time he felt the feeling of the large army being far away from the rear and going deeper. The attacking corps led 70,000 elite soldiers, but the corresponding logistics was added to each hundred miles.

At this moment, the logistics corps has reached the level of 100,000.

When Li Guanyi didn't understand the battle formation before, he didn't understand why the logistics pressure was so huge. Now that he became the lord of the land, he gradually understood that the army was moving forward, people ate and horses chewed, and the daily consumption was intense.

The third-line army is required to transport food and supplies from the rear.

These soldiers usually cultivate the fields themselves and train them frequently. The food they store is enough for daily consumption. Once the army is deployed and the war is mobilized, these government soldiers will become full-time logistics soldiers, and all consumption needs to be borne by the Tiance Mansion.

If the food required by 70,000 people is transported to a thousand miles, most of these logistics troops will have to eat up on the way.

The more food you transport, the more people you need.

The more logistics troops you need, the more food you consume on the road.

The more food you consume on the road, the more food you bring when you set off, it means that you have to carry. This is a snowball posture. The more the army goes deeper into the enemy's territory, the greater the consumption.

Therefore, the battlefield is just an extension of the temple, and what is consumed every moment is gold and silver.

Unless Li Guan and his subordinate Tiance Mansion are like the normal army of this era.

Whenever you arrive in a place, you will forcefully confiscate military rations and supplies in the villages and towns that invade the people. If you don’t follow, you will kill them. Otherwise, you will not be able to support them by relying solely on Jiangnan.

But if Tiance Mansion did such a thing.

Not mentioning the changes in the world, not mentioning Li Guanyi's own mood collapse.

Even this powerful army in the world would collapse from the inside. When Li Guan looked at the daily war report's food consumption, his forehead was jumping wildly-

This expedition is different from the Western Regions.

When in the Western Regions, Li Guanyi was able to chew horses and chew Duke Li. He cheated a lot of supplies from Duke Li's eldest son. Later, there were more than 60 cities, and the main location of the battlefield was in the Western Regions.

Li Guanyi did not have to bear the consumption of the army driving thousands of miles.

It's completely different from this time.

Li Guanyi looked at the words depicted in cinnabar on the battle report and murmured:

"It's over..."

"This military ration is consumed too quickly."

During the two years of Yan Daiqing, Li Guan spent at least 40% of the food accumulated in the grain warehouse in one expedition, and with the continued expedition, the consumption would become greater and greater.

It is possible to transport 100,000 troops of one day's food from Jiangnan.

On the way, the 100,000 army's seven-day food was consumed.

This is because Changfenglou gave his own food to Li Guanyi for free during the battle, and only asked Li Guanyi to sign a financial report.

A woman from the Xue family joked:

"The poster said that every time Junhou signs a bill, he will have to accompany my eldest lady one day."

"I don't know how long can I buy you a lord day and night for generations."

Li Guan grinned.

This female businessman is very powerful in speaking skills, and Li Guanyi is no match for her.

I originally wanted to refute fiercely, what does it mean to buy it day and night?

He doesn't need gold and silver to accompany the eldest lady.

However, the daily food loss was too much. Li Guanyi could almost feel that Yan Daiqing's anger was rising invisibly. If he had worked hard for two years, he would have enriched the people and strengthened the army like a hamster. If all the reserved grains accumulated bit by bit are eaten.

Yan Daiqing's eyes fainted in a dark state.

No matter what, the brothers under their command need to have a meal.

The king is so powerful that he is extremely poor and has to sell himself. This is the only way.

Li Guanyi signed the bill happily and took the food away, making a grand excitement.

The laughter of the businesswoman came from behind.

But they are even more heroic than this king!

But even so, it is not a long-term solution.

At this moment, he had entered Ying Kingdom for more than 200 miles. With the defending of the city and the retreat of the wounded soldiers in the battle formation, the number of troops he brought out also decreased from 70,000 elite troops to 40,000.

Li Guanyi said to himself, "It's almost over."

"It's a good thing to stop when you see it is good."

However, Feng Xiao, the military advisor who followed the army, told him that the food could no longer keep up, and the situation had reached the level of Feng Xiao not drinking, and the situation where the logistics could not keep up, and he could not move forward rashly.

Feng Xiao bit the dried tea leaves and said, "June, we have defeated Zhucheng, we have to think of a way to get military rations."

The subordinates of Qin Wuhou had already stopped the idea of ​​plundering the people.

He was completely unfair, and even had a faint sense of pride.

Good people want to eat.

Li Guanyi said: "Where is the aristocratic family?"

Feng Xiao sighed, "That's all gone."

Li Guanyi was shocked and said, "Have you run away?"

Feng Xiao grinned: "Well, Wen Qingyu's tricks are too ruthless. Even when he took action, he would not give any trace, but those aristocratic families are not stupid. In the past few years, they have discovered that they are in Jiangnan. Almost all the aristocratic families were destroyed.”

"Every old cases have been raised up, and they are all over the sky."

"They can't understand Wen Qingyu and Xiao Zhi's methods."

"But they know what happened to everyone in the aristocratic family."

"These people run faster than anyone else."

"Nothing is left. But before leaving, I harvested debts and other things from the people, and gave those shops to ordinary people at a high price. I took the opportunity to withdraw and earned a basin. A lot of smart people.

Li Guanyi sighed and said, "What a pity, Nangong Wumeng, I couldn't keep up. Otherwise, I might be able to dig in the walls of the aristocratic family and find something."

Feng Xiao said, "Hand Xue Building helps us collect the food from the business, at least helping our Qilin Army save 30% of the logistics cost, but continuing is not a long-term solution."

"Why don't we go to the villages and towns to buy food?"

"The Chamber of Commerce hasn't been involved there yet."

Li Guan nodded. At this moment, it was the situation after they took two more cities. Li Guan felt that it was very difficult to attack the city, but when he found that the defeated troops severely smuggled morale, these were not considered fortresses. the city.

There is no such a disgusting super giant city wall.

There is no corridor full of crossbow arrows.

There is no moat, no inner city, and no inner city, and no city reserved enough 100,000 people to eat for a month. There is no such strong will as steel as steel.

What is difficult to fight is not the siege battle.

But Lu Youxian.

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

After defeating Lu, there was no one to block the road in each city.

Only when attacking other cities can the generals of Tiance Prefecture understand how difficult that guy Lu Youxian is. At this moment, the defenders in the city were defeated, and the Qilin Army was stationed in this city, and due to logistics reasons, they could not continue to move forward.

People eat horses and chew them, which consumes a lot, and those who suffer casualties and suffer losses need medicinal supplies.

Li Guanyi changed his clothes and led several guards to the villages and towns near the city. Qilin lay on Li Guanyi's shoulder. When Li Guanyi and others went to the villages and towns, It was found that the village was still as usual and there was no chaos.

But the entire village is very vigilant and alert.

There was a young man holding a hoe, a sickle, and a hammer guarding the village.

Seeing someone coming, he shouted and asked who it was. Li Guanyi claimed to be a student studying abroad. Because of the chaos in the world, he ran out of the city. There was still a little hot autumn, so he came here to ask for a drink.

Feng Xiao is one of the nine sons of the Academy and has its own documents and certificates.

Fortunately, he didn't treat this thing as a drink.

But I heard the old man in the village laughing and said, "Ah, at this time, there are even guests here. It's really amazing."

Li Guanyi used to call himself a college student. These people from the villages and towns did not believe it very much, but they took out the college items and said they were willing to use money to buy things, so they put it in. Li Guanyi drank water. When I saw the young and strong around me, I was on guard.

"Brother-in-law, why are the big guys in the village so nervous?"

The father-in-law cursed and said, "Sir, I don't know. Some of the guys who were Qiu Ba before came in with swords and robbed things. If it weren't for the fact that there were still some strong men in our village, I would have suffered a disaster."

Li Guanyi and Feng Xiao looked at each other, their faces slightly condensed.

Li Guanyi said: "What kind of army is it? Is the Qilin Army?"

The father-in-law changed his expression and leaned heavily on the ground with a crutch in his hand, saying, "You young man, why are you doing this? I kindly take you in. What do you mean by Qilin Army? Who doesn't know the fame of Qilin Army? If they come, it would be fine. ! ”

"I came to the defenders of this city, my mother. I usually collect these taxes and those taxes, and they are more diligent than the other one. Damn, the Qilin Army came, and after resisting for a while, they ran away. With the sword, come to us. Here is the autumn wind."

"I've become a soldier."

Li Guanyi and Feng Xiao looked at each other and the defeated army became a defeated army. The defeated army became a chaotic army again. The disaster of the chaotic army was no less than that of the bandits.

After hearing the common people complained, they had another simple meal.

Li Guanyi sighed and said, "It is your fault for you and me to let the people suffer. The strong military force still cannot be determined by fighting. Our foundation is still very different."

Feng Xiao found the farmhouse wine and held it and drank: "Ah yes, yes, lord, you are right."

Li Guanyi said: "It is true that the army is powerful and the country is powerful and the people are harmed."

Feng Xiao's face turned slightly red and he said, 'Ah yes yes. ’

"Master, you're right."

Li Guanyi said: "Otherwise, I would leave Mr. Feng Xiao here and be a son-in-law for him, so I could drink and have enough food-"

Feng Xiao said, "Ah yes..."

He shivered and widened his eyes and said, "Ah, this is not right, lord!"

Li Guanyi laughed.

The father-in-law came and said with a smile: "Now that the chaos is coming, you can stay here for a few days. The time is right, and you can walk from here on a small road, only a dozen miles away, and it is under the rule of the Qilin Army. Now."

"You can rest assured at that time."

Li Guanyi drank the porridge made of yellow rice and mixed with pickled radish, saying:

"The old man thinks, what about the Qilin Army?"

The elder in the village raised his hand and slapped his knees, saying, "What else do you have to say? Many people have taken advantage of the situation to run to Jiangnan. I tell you, not only the tax is low, but we are taxed here. In addition, there is also the cap tax, this one and that one.”

"There are thirty taxes in the south of the Yangtze River, and there are light taxes and low taxes."

"I also teach people how to learn martial arts and learn literacy, and I can also divide the land!"

"Even aristocratic families cannot bully the common people. Alas, a good place!"

Li Guanyi and Feng Xiao looked at each other, and suddenly felt even more guilty.

In this case, Yan Daiqing forced himself to beat the aristocratic families while strengthening the army, relying on business and increasing the income of ordinary people to ensure the total taxes, enriching the country and strengthening the army, and saving so much from his fingers. food, gold and silver.

As soon as Li Guan came back, he waved his arms and opened the expedition.

The number plunged down.

Li Guan's forehead was jumping.

Feng Xiao burped and said, "That's great, why don't you go?"

The old village chief said, "Go..."

The look on his face showed the vicissitudes of an elderly person. He stroked the crutch and said, "You are still young, you don't know. Now that Qin Wuhou is powerful, he will attack in, so we can surrender there now."

"But if the army of Daying Kingdom is back in the future and Qin Wuhou retreats easily, what should we do?"

Li Guanyi and Feng Xiao were stunned.

The old man said, "This place was the frontier of Yingguo decades ago, and the outside of the river was Chenguo. When we didn't fight on weekdays, we could cross the river to play. Later, General He Ruo captured the tiger and took the opposite side. ”

"And then, Duke Taiping and King Shenwu rushed over again."

"And Yue Pengwu."

"No one of them is a famous hero, but since the Daying Kingdom counterattacked, they have to retreat. They have retreated. What should we ordinary people do?"

"There are also the ways of living like us ordinary people, that is, we cannot easily take sides. Now we have to vote for the Lord Qin Wuhou, and one day he will have to withdraw his troops."

"What should I do if the big ones are investigated at that time?"

Li Guanyi said, "Your Majesty the Emperor is not such a person, right?"

The old village chief smiled and said, "Your Majesty, I don't know. Even the county magistrate will not care, but there are so many officials under the county magistrate. Will they care?"

"There are also the local old people. As long as they talk a little, their fingers are tightened a little, or when they raise the land tax a little, we will suffer a lot, and they may even starve to death. people."

The old village chief sighed and said, "We are the weeds in the field. Everyone has to step on it. Who cares? We have to be careful and just think about whether we can live for a longer time. Don't die so simply."

He stood up with a crutch and shaking. Li Guan was silent for a long time. He asked the father-in-law to buy food. The old man smiled and said, "Sir, how much food do you want?"

Li Guanyi said: "I don't know how much food there is in the village. Can we give us some evenly so that we can use money."

The old man was stunned and then changed color.

Li Guanyi said: "Below is a Qilin Army... a military adviser."

"This is my deputy."

He pointed to Feng Xiao, and Feng Xiao coughed continuously. The old man's face changed a lot. He got up and stopped leaning on his crutch. He just ran to close the door, looked at Li Guanyi and others, and said, "The general is Qilin." Army people?!”

Li Guanyi said, "You can't be a general, you're just a pawn."

The old man's face changed several times, with a very complicated emotion, saying, "Does the Qilin Army want to continue fighting? Do you want to occupy this place?"

Li Guanyi looked at the old man and said:

"I will protect this place later and will not leave."

The old man's face changed several times, as if he was making some decision, saying, "Each of us can give you some food for several days... There can be no more, general, food, food is our life."

Li Guanyi said softly:

"Being able to give one day's food is to give one day's life."

"Li Guanyi, I'm so grateful."

"I will live up to my responsibilities."

Feng Xiao left in Li Guan. Although Feng Xiao was drunk, his eyes were clear and said, "Lord, people's hearts are available. If a village is like this, then the rest of the villages can also get food. If there are more people gathering, you can fight."

Li Guanyi replied, "Sir, people's hearts are not available."

"It's not about using people's hearts."

“But stand with people.”

Feng Xiao was slightly stunned, and the expression in his eyes changed. He looked at Li Guanyi riding a horse and said, "The lord's spirit is more and more powerful than he was more than two years ago, it really makes people admire him."

Li Guanyi did not answer: "They give a day of food and a day of life."

"Don't give up easily."

Feng Xiao lowered his head and said, "Yes."

But when they went back, a scout from the Qilin Army arrived and said, "Lord, Jiang Su, the Grand Tutor of Yingguo, has led the Hubarbarian cavalry."

Li Guanyi was not scared and just said, "Jiang Su..."

"Are the gifts for him ready?"

Feng Xiao said, "Jiang Xuantao's body was snatched and repelled by his command, but it was still trampled into meat paste in the chaos. Only one head is still there. We have protected it and put it in the box."

Li Guanyi said: "Okay!"

He tightened the reins, raised his eyebrows and said:

"Let's go back and give this gift to Jiang Su!"

"I thought we were waiting-"

"A greeting!"

………

After everyone left, someone in the village asked the name of the Qilin Army officer, and the old man replied: "It seems that he is named Li Guanyi, he should be just a simple little official."

"But, the name Li Guanyi."

"I always feel that it sounds a little familiar."

(End of this chapter)