Chapter 221: Don't Look Back
Just when the banquet in the palace of the Han Dynasty was in full swing, the Baohan army had already marched towards the Longxi County Administration, captured Didao and expelled the county soldiers, followed by Angu, Baishi Mountain, and Shouyang...... Until the entire territory of Longxi is obtained, this is the whole plan of the Baohan army.
When Li Xiangru was assassinated in the palace of Baohan, the same assassination also occurred in various parts of Longxi, and the captain of Lintao was drunk by the singer and drowned in the latrine; Xiangwu County ordered to be strangled to death on the beams of the house; The captain of Zhangxian County was stabbed to death in the street by a pawn. Everywhere there was a shortage of soldiers, followed by the countryside outside the eastern city of Longxi was full of donkey carts in the shape of chariots galloping with Liangzhou soldiers.
Song Jian knew better than Li Xiangru what the donkeys of the Liangzhou army were used for, and there were ten donkey chariots in the Pinghan Palace, which were sent by Zhao Yun, and even Song Jian personally drove the donkey cart in the valley outside the palace for more than ten miles.
"Brother, is this the end?" Li Xiangru's head was gathered in the wooden box, and Song Yang was suddenly a little overwhelmed, all this came too easily. He clapped his hands and asked his brother, "Then we really want to follow King Zhao's idea and let Huhan send troops to fight the Dayue Clan?" ”
Song Jian leaned comfortably on the couch, holding his belly with both hands and showing doubts on his face, "Send troops to the Dayue Clan?" ”
"That's right, King Zhao didn't make his brother the Marquis of the Song family, now let's get rid of Li Xiangru and send the head to the Liangzhou Assassin Mansion, so don't send troops to the Dayue Clan?"
"What kind of soldiers are sent to fight the Dayue Clan, thousands of miles away, it's not good to hold Han?" Song Jian rubbed his face, stretched his waist and said, "You, go back to Hanyang and tell Zhao Yun that you are the Taishou of Longxi." Their donkey soldiers are all in the countryside outside the city, and those who fight the city are our people, so they want Longxi to be guarded, and we won't go anywhere! ”
Song Yang's eyes widened, "Then the Song family, no, what about the Lan family?" ”
"That's right, it's the Song family, let it be where to put it, the city can't run. What do you lack of fiefdoms? Brother will settle accounts for you, now the taxes of Baohan and Heshou are ours, and you have been the Taishou of Longxi, is it also ours for the taxes of Zhangxian and Xiangwu? Don't say anything stupid like handing it over to the state, we have to use taxes to raise soldiers, how can we fight Song City without raising soldiers, this is asking for money; What to do with the armor, it depends on Zhao Guo to give, I heard that Zhang Lu beat Liu Zhang's hairy cub, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are all Zhao State armor, what inlaid iron armor, crossbow machine sandalwood bow, Yan Zhongqing wants us to fight with Guishuang, this is to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, thinking that both sides will be hurt, let's ask him for 5,000 inlaid iron armor, 3,000 strong crossbows and 3,000 sandalwood bows, not too much! ”
Officials, money, and knives.
"Things don't come in a day, money doesn't come in a day, and soldiers don't train in a day. In less than three years and five years, our Song family is still holding Han, no, we are still the king of Longxi! Song Jian smiled, waved his hand and said: "Silly brother, what we want is a knife, money, and official position, Yan Zhongqing is such a great person, what he wants is a letter from his brother, as long as the letter calls him His Royal Highness King Zhao and the sovereign, even if you go to the Liangzhou Thorn History Department to open your mouth, you will have it!" ”
Song Yang smiled when he heard this, "Hey, brother is really powerful, anyway, we won't be the enemy of Longxi and General Zhao, in fact, nothing has changed, let's take care of our own affairs!" ”
Smiling and smiling, Song Yang was also worried, and asked, "But brother, what if you ...... In case Zhao Wangzhen sends everything, then what should we do, should we go to the Western Regions, or not? ”
"All delivered? Why don't you go to the Western Regions! Grant it, damn it! Then he, Yan Zhongqing, is my Song Bo's master! ”
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The sentry rode galloping, but in half a month, Li Xiangru's head and Song Jian's request were sent to the Zhao Palace. Yan Bei looked at Zhao Yun's long letter and Song Jian's short surrender, and there seemed to be an uncontrollable smile on his face.
"Five thousand pieces of iron-inlaid armor, yes, good, and specifically said that we want to use the same iron-inlaid armor as our cavalry, has this reputation spread to Baohan?"
Yan Bei's angle of looking at things is indeed extraordinary, and even if the staff around him use their toes, they can't imagine that Song Jian's request for armor can actually be brought to the fame of iron-clad armor...... King Zhao's face is getting thicker and thicker, and this iron-inlaid armor is obviously the light armor of the cavalry of the border army of Bingzhou at the earliest!
Then Yan Bei pointed to the letter and smiled even more happily, "Three thousand strong crossbows, three thousand sandalwood bows, you can!" Youji is the strongest crossbow in the world, and even Song Jian, who is in Xiliang and hugs Han, knows that the combat power is extremely high, good, good! ”
Tian Feng and Fu Zhu listened on the side, but secretly smacked their tongues, their mouths moved slightly, as if there was something in their throats, but they could only freeze there because they couldn't figure out what Yan Bei wanted to say.
Five thousand pairs of iron-inlaid armor, three thousand strong crossbows, and three thousand sandalwood bows are no less than the armor sent by Yanbei to Zhang Lu. It is true that Yanbei helped the Hanzhong Army to arm the strong crossbows and sandalwood bows of the two captains' departments, but did not inlay Zhang Lu with iron armor, only 300 pairs of iron armor and 3,000 sets of leather armor. In fact, these things are understandable to Zhao Guo, just the southern conscription of troops and horses, which general has to replenish more armor than these in a year, but the problem is that Song Jian is his own person?
Zhang Lu is not his own person, but he was the first to advocate Hanzhong to invest in Yan's family, which is Yanbei's thousand-mile horse bone, what about Song Jian? He also wanted the Yan clan to send him to tell him...... Told him that he would give weapons and official positions, can Yanbei be comfortable with this?
Song Jian knows the soldiers, just by looking at the armor he wants, he can know that this is not a straw bag hero, at least not what Yan Bei thought before. Inlaid with iron armor, he doesn't want leather armor, he doesn't want big armor, just inlaid iron armor, why? Because leather armor is easy to obtain, and it is not difficult to have large armor, there is no shortage of fur jackets in Liangzhou, and the sergeants are good at spears, and most of them are light soldiers...... Iron-clad armor is the most suitable armament for them, that is, it can provide sufficient defense for foot soldiers, and it can also be used as heavy armor for cavalry to shoot at a gallop.
A strong crossbow and a sandalwood bow are the only way to defeat the enemy. Song Jian didn't want much, but he was the backbone of an army, and with such equipment, he could easily pull up an army of 20,000 people, and even expand to 30,000 without effort!
Well, what else is needed besides these things? The light soldiers' fur jackets, wooden poles and spears are all working!
"This King of Pinghan, he's not defecting to Yan, he's doing business with Yan!"
Yan Bei smiled and threw the letter on the case, and said with a smile: "If King Pinghan wants to do business, then he has to have the appearance of doing business, asking for officials, money, and armaments, Yan will give it to him, and even more for him!" He wanted Longxi to be too guarded and open up Zhangye County, and Yan allowed Song Yang to be too shou in Longxi, and pay taxes in the county for five years to strengthen the army; Take Dunhuang and hand it over to Liangzhou Mansion, 2,000 sets of iron-clad armor are his, reopen the trade route of the Western Regions, so that Liangzhou Mansion can rebuild the Western Regions Protector, 2,000 sets of iron-clad armor, 1,500 strong crossbows and 1,500 sandalwood bows, give it to him; After conquering the Lan Clan, Yan gave him another 2,000 sets of iron-inlaid armor and the remaining bows and crossbows...... Hahaha, tell King Pinghan, go all the way to the west, don't look back! ”