Wang Pu sat there, heroic and elegant, and the smile on his face made people feel good. But Gao Yu, who stepped forward while smiling, knew in his heart that this person was definitely a very influential figure around Li Jing.

"The military order passed on by the high servants, the king of Anton has received it." Wang Pulang said: "Suppressing bandits and grass thieves, our town and the national army also think that everyone is responsible for this matter. Therefore, the king of Andong actively responded to the call of the imperial court, and after receiving the order to transfer troops from the senior servants, he immediately dispatched the six armies and two naval divisions with two fleets totaling nearly 40,000 troops to the south. ”

Gao Yuzheng had a lot to say, but Wang Pu said: "Now the national army of our town has sent 40,000 troops to the south, and according to the old system of the imperial court, the army of the feudal town will provide food. and one soldier for the food of the three soldiers. Our army has been out of the town since July, and the 40,000-strong army should be counted as 120,000. In addition, there are 8,000 horsemen in our army, and the horse's feed should be counted at 24,000. Now that our army has arrived in Huainan, then first ask Gaodutong to pull out the grain and grass of our army in March. ”

Gao Yu's words in his heart were forced back by Wang Pu, so he had to say: "General Wang Mingjian, the grain and grass will naturally be distributed." Under the order of the commander of the capital, he also asked General Wang to lead the army to land, and first go to the Liuhe camp with a certain commander. ”

"Of course, there is no problem in going to Liuhe, but the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers. We used to bring our own grain and grass when we went south, but now please pull out the March grain and grass first. ”

"The general doesn't have to worry about this, as long as the soldiers go ashore and arrive at the camp, there will naturally be a supply of grain and grass. Grain and grass are now stationed in Yangzhou, Liuhe, Luzhou and other places. Why do you need to go so troublesome to this side, go directly to Liuhe, and there will naturally supply food. Gao Yu endured his dissatisfaction and said with a forced smile: "It's after the official enters the island." Seeing that the brothers of the Zhenguo Army were building a water city and a walled city. Soldiers and horses on the island. Looks like you're going to stay here forever? ”

"We are going to build a lighthouse on the island to facilitate the passage of ships at night, General Gao must not be suspicious." Wang Pu chuckled and said: "It's still the same old saying, our army has now gone south to help in the war, but we will only go to listen to the Hou transfer if we still ask Gao Dutong to distribute our army's March food and salary." ”

As he spoke, Wang Pu handed over a piece of paper to Gao Yu.

Gao Yu glanced down. However, I saw that what was recorded above was the food and salary that the Zhenguo army went south to camp and asked for first.

Wang Pu didn't open his mouth at all, everything was calculated according to normal circumstances. But Gao Yu looks at it, the numbers calculated on it are always so amazing.

First of all, Wang Pu completely followed the standard of food and food for one soldier and three soldiers.

The Zhenguo army was 37,000 people, and Wang Pu directly rounded it up to 40,000 troops, and then it was three times as much, which was 120,000 troops. Another eight thousand horses, tripled to twenty-four thousand.

Wang Pu's calculation is: Each soldier of the Zhenguo Army was given an average of six buckets of food per month, plus 5,000 dollars. In addition, the officers and men of the Zhenguo Army also have non-staple food, and canned meat and vegetables in their usual times. Of course, considering that the prices of Zhenguo Army and Huainan Town are very different, Wang Pu is very careful to convert all the data into grain.

A soldier's monthly standard grain is six buckets, one bucket is five and a half catties, and one month is thirty-three catties of grain. Then, six yuan in January, according to the price of grain in Dengzhou, one catty of rice is five yuan, which is 1,200 catties of rice, exactly ten stones.

One person is 1,233 catties, and 40,000 people are 411,100 stones, and if you multiply it by three, it is 1,233,000 stones.

Of course, this is not counting horses, war horses eat three stones of corn in a month, and three times that is nine stones in January. Eight thousand horses are seventy-two thousand stones.

If you count it for three months, it will cost 1,350,000 stones, and if you count it for another three months, it will be 3,915,000 stones.

Gao Yu's face turned blue when he saw it, Wang Pu was blackmail at all.

The high treatment of the soldiers of the Zhenguo Army is well known to the world, but other places are not as good as the Zhenguo Army. An ordinary soldier of the Huainan Army is given two liters of rice per day, plus two cents of money a month. Counted, the list issued by the Zhenguo Army was almost three times the number of the Huainan Army.

Besides, the so-called one soldier and three rations have no such thing.

In this way, the conditions offered by the Zhenguo Army are actually nine times that of the Huainan Army.

37,000 troops, 8,000 war horses, according to the standard of the Huainan army, the three-month salary is only 400,000, and the monthly grain is only 130,000 stones, including grain and salaries and the supply of war horses.

Gao Yu shook his head again and again, the conditions offered by the Zhenguo Army were too harsh, and they wanted nine times the salary, how could this be possible.

Although Huainan used to be known as the richest domain in the world, it was because there was no war in Huainan before, and there were no soldiers, and the entire more than ten states in Huainan raised 10,000 old and weak soldiers. But now, Huainan has experienced several grass thieves sweeping, plus the forty or fifty thousand soldiers and horses raised in Huainan Town now, they still have to offer to the court, and Gao Biao is now overstretched.

Now Huainan Town, in order to deal with the Huangchao that came to the east, Gao Biao gathered 70,000 soldiers and horses, but the imperial court could not come up with money and food to supply the army.

Now Wang Pu is good, and directly offers nine times the salary, his 40,000 troops are equal to more than 300,000 troops, even if Gao Biao smashes the pot and sells iron, he can't afford to supply it.

Sure enough, it's not good!

The Zhenguo army came thousands of miles to build a city on someone else's territory, saying that there was no food in the army, but on the other hand, they stationed troops to build a city.

It's just that Gao Yu is a little helpless that Hu Tuozhou, which is now occupied by the Zhenguo Army, although it is close to Huainan Town, its naval warships can even reach the city of Yangzhou in one day and night. But the territory of Hu Douzhou belongs to Zhou Bao, the navy of West Zhejiang Town, across the river. And with the two brothers Zhou Bao and Gao Biao turning their faces now, this matter is even more complicated.

What is the purpose of the Zhenguo Army?

Could it be that Li Jing transferred tens of thousands of Zhenguo troops to the south, really to prepare to attack Huainan?

If Li Jing really had this kind of thought, put this army here, and when the Huainan army went to Jiangxi, the Zhenguo army suddenly went up the river and attacked Yangzhou directly, which would be very dangerous. Judging from the fact that Li Jing led the Zhenguo army to sweep Liaodong in a few years, attacking all of them and being invincible, this possibility is extremely great.

If Li Jing really wants to take advantage of the fisherman, then no matter what, he has to find a way to prevent it.

"One hundred thousand stones!" Gao Yu plans to test the bottom line of the Zhenguo Army again. "Huainan is willing to give the brothers of the Zhenguo Army a month's salary of 100,000 yuan. You can first pull out 50,000 stones and deliver them in Hailing, and the other 50,000 stones need to be collected at Liuhe Daying. ”

Wang Pu smiled at Gao Yu.

Ji Lu shook his head again, "Since we are begging for thieves for the country, we don't want to worry about it, so we can lose the fraction behind." One month's salary of one month was paid in advance, and the remaining two months were to be paid later. ”

Gao Yu couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly when he heard this: "General Wang, for the sake of the country, we all need to show some sincerity." Although there were some misunderstandings between Gao Shizhong and King Li Jun before, I believe that the King of Jun is not the kind of person who will repay him, let alone believe that he will be the kind of person who ignores the major affairs of the country for the sake of some small things in the past. ”

"Of course the county king is not that kind of person." Wang Pu's tone softened slightly, "If the county king is still thinking about the previous things, how can he send a large army south." You must know that the king of the county is now recovering the land of Liaodong for the country and fighting a decisive battle with Goguryeo. At this time, even a little more troops would be good. But the marshal still sent 40,000 troops south, isn't this sincerity? Our army has arrived, and we refuse to pull out some food from the senior servants, so how can we rest assured that we can accept the command of the senior servants? ”

"If the high servant is really embarrassed, we can also not supply the army in the high servant. We can solve the matter of food and grass ourselves. At the same time, we are still willing to send troops to help the high-ranking servants suppress the bandits, but in this case, some things will have to change. ”

Gao Yu heard what Wang Pu said.

can't help but look forward to his plan, in fact, Wang Pu's plan is not complicated.

That is, the Zhenguo Army does not need Gao Biao to supply the army, but because of this, the Zhenguo Army went south and the camp was nominally under Gao Biao, but it was not transferred by him. The Zhenguo Army formed a separate road and was responsible for the blockade and interception of the Yangtze River. The main responsibility is to prevent the Huang Chao army from crossing the river and prevent it from killing from Jiangxi to Huainan.

But in the same way, Gao Biao had to provide convenience to the Zhenguo army, for example, the Huainan army, the Zhennan navy, the Zhennan army, the Jingnan army, etc., were not allowed to intercept the fleet of the Zhenguo army, and at the same time, the land troops of the Zhenguo army could pass through the towns at any time.

Of course, the most important thing is that Gao Biao must allow the merchants of Zhenguojun and Liaohai in Shandong to trade in Jianghuai, and they must not set up heavy deductions. In addition, Gao Biao also had to allow the Zhenguo Army to recruit displaced people in the Jianghuai area and other major conditions.

Gao Yu heard the meaning of Wang Pu's words.

To put it bluntly, Li Jing's southward army was not so much to help fight and suppress bandits, but to protect merchants and open the way.

Previously, Gao Yu united with the towns to cut off Li Jing's trade routes, seal up shops, and seize the goods of caravan merchants, which immediately attracted Li Jing's tough retaliation and directly sent a fleet to plunder the southeast coast.

This incident even caused Gao Biao to lose his position as the commander, turn against Zhou Bao, lose the support of the towns, and become a loner for a while.

It is precisely because of this that the people in Huainan Town know that Li Jing's reverse scale is actually the business of Dengzhou.

Gao Yu's heart was a little moved, he knew that there must be some truth in these words.

If the Zhenguo army goes south, it is really just to ensure the development of commerce and trade in the southeast, and it is not impossible.

Then, maybe Li Jing's southward movement did not really mean to be unfavorable to Huainan Town.

"Is that really the case?" Gao Yu's sharp eyes stared at Wang Pu, three points of belief in his heart, and seven doubts in his heart!

However, his heart did not relax because of this. On the contrary, he was worried, no matter what, he was now sure in his heart that although Li Jing's southbound fleet did not come to attack Huainan, it was definitely not at ease. Tens of thousands of troops are stationed in Hushuzhou, at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and it seems that they have already planned to stay there for a long time.

On the side of the couch, there are others sleeping soundly, which makes Huainan Army feel at ease in the future! (To be continued......)