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In the meeting hall of the Shanxi Suppression Camp, Zheng Chongjian, Hong Chengchou, Zuo Liangyu and other major generals were deliberating.

"This guest army has arrived in Liaocheng?" Zuo Liangyu couldn't help jumping up from his seat, regardless of the superficial effort, he came to Hong Chengchou in three steps and two steps, took the paper handed over and looked at it carefully, the picture on it introduced his eyes, so that Zuo Liangyu and Hong Chengchou were also taken aback when they saw it for the first time. Different from Hong Chengchou, Zuo Liangyu has seen the Liaocheng city wall with his own eyes, the plaque on the city wall in this picture reads "Nanxun", and the Liaocheng city wall of Dongchang Mansion has four gates, the east is "Yinbin", the south is "Nanxun", the west is "Nari", and the north is "lock key", that is to say, the location drawn in this picture is at the south city gate.

"So fast? It's really a noble soldier! Zuo Liangyu nodded, and said, "I just don't know how powerful it is." ”

"Don't talk about the combat strength, it's just that Taiping City is in great danger now, and I still have to rely on General Zuo to rush to the aid of one or two!" Zheng Chongjian hurriedly said to Zuo Liangyu, he was obviously Zuo Liangyu's top boss, but he couldn't stand up straight in front of Zuo Liangyu, and couldn't help but sigh slightly, "Thousands of defenders in Taiping City, facing the siege of tens of thousands of rebel troops outside the city, and there are many people in the city, if you can't send grain in time, I'm afraid it will be difficult to hold on until the beginning of spring!" ”

"Your Excellency Governor's words are too much," Don't look at Zuo Liangyu's big words, he doesn't know a few words, but when he speaks, he still speaks in a crepe manner, and said with a look of righteous words, "Your Excellency Governor just saw that his life in Taiping City was sad, and my life in the camp was not much better!" Saying that, Zuo Liangyu put the picture back on the coffee table in Hong Chengchou's hand, "Before leaving, I emphasized again and again that the soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, but I said so much first, but when I arrived in Taiyuan, I found that there was no one to take over the grain and grass, and at this moment, the road was closed by heavy snow, and the supply of grain and straw was difficult, but people had to eat." As you all know, if you can't eat food when you are a soldier, if you don't have enough money on weekdays, you can't eat food, and the group of soldiers in the camp can't control the rise and fall of the country, and they will suddenly get up and make trouble! This Taiyuan is also the capital of Shanxi, and if there is chaos here, someone on the left may not be able to control it......"

"General Zuo, you said that if you want to rush to the aid of Taiping City, what conditions are needed?" Hong Chengchou felt a little bored, don't look at Zuo Liangyu's heart-wrenching appearance, but it was all not the truth. Since Zuo Liangyu's army arrived in Taiyuan and stationed down, more than half of the grain in the official warehouse was allocated, so that Hong Chengchou had to draw official grain from other places to replenish it, just the grain that Zuo Liangyu took away was enough for his army to eat until the middle of this year, "We all know that there is a large amount of high-priced grain on the market in Taiyuan now, and at this time, there is no foreign grain team coming, and the local official warehouse and Yicang have not opened the warehouse to release grain, if there are too many words, we won't say it, you just say what to do to help Taiping City." ”

Hong Chengchou's words made Zuo Liangyu's face blue and white for a while, he is also a veteran, and he knows how to maintain the morale of his army, which is nothing more than to grasp a few of his own personal soldiers in his hands. And this group of Qiu Ba only recognizes silver and does not recognize people, he does not doubt at all that as long as his group of pro-soldiers are out of salary, they will run out in two months, so ensuring the salary of pro-soldiers is something that must not be omitted. The military money allocated by the imperial court is hundreds of thousands of taels at every turn, but if you just want to take out this money from the household department, you must be with the insatiable group of scholars in the household department, and you have to take out one-third of the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to honor them, otherwise you will not get a single one. Then after their own peaks are exploited layer by layer, there are often only tens of thousands of taels left that can be obtained. If these tens of thousands of taels are sent to the barracks, I am afraid that one person will not be able to share one tael, which is useless, and he will not be greedy for benefits. He Zuo Liangyu worked hard to climb up step by step from the low-level soldiers, but he didn't come to give everyone a wealth and poverty, he still had such a big family to support, so the money was often directly given to him to be greedy, and he could only take out a negligible amount of money for the officers below to squander.

However, the lower-level officers are certainly not good birds, and tens of millions of taels of silver are often only a few taels of silver in their hands, and they must be unfair in their hearts, so they resort to various methods to collect money, from lending their soldiers to work to reselling ordnance, and as for the pediatrics of reselling military rations, it is naturally needless to say. In fact, he not only knew about the resale of military rations by the grain and grass officials under his command, but also got the lion's share from it, but he kept pretending to be innocent.

"This rush to help Taiping is indeed the top priority, but everyone knows that at this moment, the tens of thousands of troops used by Wang himself have gathered under Taiping City, and even Xiangling has many chaotic troops besieging the city, "Zuo Liangyu can climb from a soldier to his current position, how can he be a general?" How could such a trifle stump him? "At this moment, the king's own team is already a horn, if my army rushes to the aid of Taiping at this moment, he can send reinforcements from Xiangling to attack my flank, or cut off my grain route, once successful, it will inevitably cause panic in the army, and I am afraid that the battle that can be won will also be lost!"

The knot is not far from the cool Sun Ball by the Yang Zhan Cold Technique

"You mean you don't have to save it? Leave the people and officials in Taiping City to their own devices? Zheng Chongjian's face immediately turned red, and his voice couldn't help but be a little louder. In such a cold and freezing situation, I can still hold on to the lonely city, the city is full of soldiers and civilians loyal to my Dawu, if I resign myself to fate and let them sit and wait to die, is this too cold the conscience of my Dawu loyal people! He didn't care if the general in front of him, who had long since disobeyed his command, could listen to it, and he didn't care if he could speak well or not.

"Lord Zheng's words are wrong!" Zuo Liangyu looked calm and relaxed, "This Shanxi chaos is not just a king for his own use, there is also Wang Jiayin's chaotic army in the north echoing with it from afar, from the intelligence of the inquiry, although this Wang Jiayin's army is still far away from Wang Jiayin's own use, but it is the intention of galloping to help Wang Zi's own army, the reason why they have not moved at the moment is only because there is nowhere to collect military food in this cold winter and have not moved, it is conceivable that once the spring thaws, this Wang Jiayin's army may also go south to help Wang Ziyong. I, Zuo Liangyu, am not afraid of death, but I am afraid of falling into the enemy's encirclement and dying in vain, all of you know that if I rush to the aid of Taiping now, it will take ten days to get there, and it will take about a month to fight against the army of Wang Ziyong, and this must be a smooth situation. The two adults have led troops to fight, and they know that once the two sides start a war, it is bound to be stalemate, don't look at his own use of less than 20,000 people, but it is not easy to eat them, and at this moment, if Wang Jiayin's chaotic army goes south, even if there are only more than 10,000 people, it will inevitably pose a threat to the flank of our battalion, and the army's heart is in turmoil. ”

"Then, according to General Zuo's opinion, how should we deal with the siege of Taiping?" Hong Chengchou had actually confirmed that it was impossible for Zuo Liangyu to run to save the siege of Taiping, but he just wanted to see what interesting reason Zuo Liangyu could find.

"This ......" Zuo Liangyu pretended to groan, and then said with an impassioned look, "At this time, the situation has become a stalemate, although the enemy and us have soldiers, but neither of them can enter the battle at will, what to do next, it all depends on the weather after it warms." When the weather warms up and the snow melts, he Wang Jiayin or Wang Jiayin uses it for his own use, no matter what he does, it is within the scope of our surveillance, and our army can also see and dismantle their moves, so the siege of Taiping, we can only sit and wait, and wait until the beginning of spring, everything will be naturally clear. At that time, I, Zuo Liangyu, will definitely take the lead, charge into battle, and personally present the heads of Wang Ziyong and Wang Jiayin! ”

"Okay, but ......" Zheng Chongjian nodded, he was completely sure at this moment, before the winter passed, it would be impossible for Zuo Liangyu's army to send troops to help Taiping. If the other ministries are willing to rush to help, then please ask General Zuo not to obstruct it. ”

Zuo Liangyu hurriedly stood up straight and clasped his fists with both hands, "In this kind of weather, I can still go to help despite the difficulties and dangers, I must be loyal and patriotic, I Zuo Liangyu is too late to respect, how can I obstruct it?" If anyone is willing to go, I am willing to give 10,000 stone from the military rations as a gift of gratitude. At the same time, he looked around.

In fact, there were many guest troops who came from all over the place to reinforce them, but the size of everyone was very small, and the largest was more than 3,000 people. The leaders of these guest armies are all human spirits, and everyone comes here to fight, but they are not Baba who came to give their lives, they are all counting on the rebellion and making a fortune. Before the Zheng Jiajun hurried over, he rushed directly to Taiping City to face the army used by Wang Ziyong, and now he is surrounded in Taiping City, and now he has to need the Shanxi battalion to relieve the siege. In these years, as many people as there are under his command, how much production is there, and he goes head-on with that guy who doesn't want to die, and thinks he has too many soldiers? When the time comes, he will become a bare-bones commander, and he won't even be able to go back home, and if he is lucky, he will almost die on the battlefield, and the wives and children at home will belong to others, don't say that for 10,000 stone of military rations, even if Zuo Liangyu takes out all the food, they will definitely not rush to the front to die. Therefore, as soon as they saw Zuo Liangyu's gaze sweeping over, they consciously looked at the six directions one by one, and shrewdly avoided the eager gazes of Zheng Chongjian and Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou couldn't help but smile bitterly, whispered a few words to Zheng Chongjian, and then said, "It seems that today's military discussion must have been in vain, so I will stop it, please go back." Saying that, he stood up and walked out, Zheng Chongjian also stood up, patted lightly twice on the official robe, and the military attaches below hurriedly saluted and retreated, and then followed Zuo Liangyu out and left the military hall.

Zheng Chongjian didn't go out, just stood there and looked at the pictures that Hong Chengchou brought, and after a while, Hong Chengchou walked in again, "Lord Zheng hasn't left yet?" ”

"No," Zheng Chongjian said with a long sigh of helplessness, "I don't know what the scene is in this Taiping City today, he Zuo Liangyu refuses to send troops, do you and I want to join him together?" ”

"It's useless, Lord Zheng," Hong Chengchou also sighed helplessly, "You see what we have done before can't be any more, every time Taiping sends back a war report, you and I will send it to Jingshi as soon as possible, so that the emperor can see the battle situation, which also means that he Zuo Liangyu has not done anything, whether it is the emperor or the cabinet, how can I not know what you and I want to reveal?" But it's been a month, and the posts urging me to quell the rebellion as soon as possible are one after another, but they don't mention him Zuo Liangyu. It seems that both the emperor and the cabinet only turn a blind eye to what Zuo Liangyu did. ”

"And what about this Annan army?" Zheng Chongjian was unwilling, and hurriedly asked, Hong Chengchou nodded and said, "At first, I also thought that this southern army should have average combat effectiveness, but I did see some clues in the picture of the holy decree," he said and took out the picture of the holy decree and showed it to Zheng Chongjian, "You see, this holy decree was not issued through the cabinet, but directly issued by the emperor." ”

Zheng Chongjian was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly took a closer look, and sure enough, it was written on it, "Fengtian carries the emperor, the edict says", this kind of means that it is directly issued by the emperor, and if it is a system, it is the emperor's meaning, but it is formulated by the cabinet leaders and assistants in accordance with the emperor's requirements. Hong Chengchou paused and said, "The holy decree issued by the emperor himself requires this army to rush to Jiaozhou by boat from the south, and then rush here from Jiaozhou for hundreds of miles to reinforce, if it is not a strong army, why bother?" He said as he flipped through several pictures and pulled out one of them, "This is the giant bird in the sky that I saw yesterday, you see." ”

Zheng Chongjian took the picture and looked at it, it turned out to be a large organ bird with a slightly similar appearance, Hong Chengchou said, "Although this giant bird came from nowhere, it can fly in the air as much as it wants, throw down the metal cylinder and fly away calmly." Not to mention the geometry of their combat strength, just these hundreds of miles of flight can already watch the enemy hundreds of miles away, even if this Annan army can't carry it on its shoulders or carry it, just this giant bird is enough for our army to win calmly. Besides, look at the outfits of their soldiers......"

Revenge against distant lands, love ships, and solitary battles

Zheng Chongjian nodded, "I also skimmed one or two, each soldier wears almost the same attire, the whole body is wearing a thick long shirt, and there are such hats on their heads, they must be quite prepared for the cold, not to mention that everyone has leather boots under their feet, just with this body, a soldier can't get ten taels of silver." If it is really the same as in their paintings, then the combat effectiveness of these soldiers will not be much worse. ”

"One more thing, do you remember Zheng Jiajun?" Hong Chengchou said, "I specially inquired about one or two, the Zheng family's army is the division of this Annan army, so I think the combat power of this Annan army is only far above the Zheng army, and it may even be able to give the rebellious army a first blow!" ”

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