Chapter 23 Soldiers are iron, and rice is steel

Dong Ping returned to Dongping Mansion after defeat, counted the men and horses, and folded 200 soldiers, so he urgently ordered to gather the cavalry again and pursue the Huyan soldiers with him for the second time.

Governor Cheng Wanli said: "Dong Dujian, the anti-thief is very difficult to defeat, it is better to protect the city." If you are unrelenting like you, you will be annoyed by the thieves and turn around to attack our Dongping Mansion City, which will be terrible! ”

Dong Ping despised in his heart: "Guts rats!" But thinking of Cheng Wanli's beautiful and moving daughter, he still reluctantly explained: "Adults don't know." The thief is so fast, he must go to Qingzhou to rescue the Huyan brothers. If our army loses in the first battle, the thieves will inevitably treat us like a mustard and will not be prepared again. Our army took advantage of its unpreparedness and pursued it with light cavalry, and even if it could not be defeated, it could still plunder the anti-thief baggage and frustrate the anti-thief's spirit. ”

As soon as he heard that he could plunder the anti-thief baggage, Cheng Wanli became itchy and angry, and hurriedly urged: "In this case, the capital prison will quickly lead the military horses." The anti-thieves and baggage were originally state-owned, and it was also the loyalty of the soldiers to repay the country by plundering more and returning it to the treasury. ”

Dong Ping promised to go when suddenly a spy came to report: "Two adults, something is wrong!" A team of men and horses from Liangshan is about to come to the city of Dongping Mansion, headed by the general Moyun Golden-winged Ou Peng, the fiery and fierce Deng Fei, on the flag of the Chinese army, yes yes - it is Ximen Qing, the son of Sanqi! ”

Cheng Wanli's ears were "buzzing", and he was still shouting: "Close the city gate quickly!" But the man had already fallen limp, and he hurried to the right and left. After Cheng Wanli breathed a sigh of relief, he grabbed Dong Ping's hand like an embroidered powder in the hook bar, and said repeatedly: "Du Du! Liangshan West Gate Qinglin City, you can't go! I...... I ......"

When Dong Ping heard that Ximen Qing was coming, he was also afraid in his heart, and he promised Cheng Wanli indiscriminately, and hurriedly dispatched soldiers, not to mention the defense of the city.

After Han Tao Peng Xi defeated Dong Ping, he was anxious that his brother suffered in Qingzhou, and he couldn't wait to grow his wings and fly to the city of Qingzhou. If Ximenqing hadn't done them a big favor, Hu Yanbing would have been successfully counterattacked by Dong Ping and would have suffered a big loss.

rushed all the way to the state and hit the mansion, and saw that it was close to Qingzhou City, Han Tao had a plan, so he tied Hu Yantong and the two sons falsely, and went to Qingzhou City to call the pass.

Murong Yanda, the prefect of Qingzhou, in order to guard against Erlong Mountain, the city was heavily guarded, and when he heard a strange military horse calling Guan, he didn't care about corruption and bending the law, and when he went to the city to see it in person, he saw Han Tao disembarking and giving a salute: "On the orders of the two supervisors of Yunzhou, escort the descendants of the Huyan family to come in the starry night and send them to the Gongzu Hall for trial." ”

Murong Yanda saw that although the team of people in front of him went to the dust, the armor, banners, and blades were all high-quality styles made in the inner mansion of the Beijing Division, and ordinary grass cowards could not imitate it, so he believed it in his heart, and asked in a loud voice at the head of the city: "Do you have any documents?" ”

Han Tao said repeatedly: "Yes, yes! As he spoke, he took out an official letter from his bosom that was sealed with fire in the army.

After chopping up the two dog prison troops, their public and private seals all fell into the hands of the Huyan army, plus the marching seals of the commanders, this fake official letter is more real than the real one.

The prefect of Murong is an old oilman in the form of a case, and at a glance, he knows that this official document boy is not bullied, and then looks at the three people who are tied up on horseback, and finally nodded and said: "Put the suspension bridge!" Open the gates! ”

As soon as the city gate opened, Han Tao and dozens of other escort knights did not dare to ride horses, but led their horses into the city slowly. Murong Prefect looked at it proudly: "These rough billets are very knowledgeable and interesting!" Knowing that in front of the lord is restrained and majestic, it's good! Not bad! ”

Seeing Han Tao coming up to the city tower with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, Murong Prefect asked with a smile, "Which adult's command are you?" ”

Han Tao said respectfully: "The junior general is under the command of General Hu Yanzhuo!" ”

"Huh?" Without waiting for the surprised Murong Prefect to react, Han Tao had already put the long sword on his neck with an arrow step, and the surrounding Qingzhou soldiers were dumbfounded, but where did they have time to respond?

The Huyan soldiers who entered the city shouted, and their swords came out together, forcing the people around Murong Prefect's Mansion to stop. There are even more people who bend their bows and arrows, and the four sides point to the arrows, which one dares to move?

Hu Yanzhuo's son Hu Yanwei shook off the rope on his body, his small body was as agile as an ape, and he climbed straight to the end of the flagpole on the city tower with a dagger in his mouth, and with a knife in his hand, he cut off the "Song" flag, and hung a "Huyan" flag.

In the distance, the dark sentry saw that the head of the city had changed flags, and hurriedly used the method of reflecting the light of the bronze mirror to transmit a message to the back. Peng Xi was overjoyed when he got the news, and he rode over, as anxious as wind and rain, and arrived at the city of Qingzhou as early as possible, and waved his army into the city, and the overall situation was decided.

Occupying Qingzhou City is far easier than imagined, although the Murong Prefect is majestic on weekdays, but when he has a sword around his neck, he goes to the opposite side of majesty.

The Huyan army first surrendered the weapons of the defenders in the city and sent people to guard them, and then the Murong prefect led the way, and Han Tao, Peng Xi, and the two little sons all rushed to the place where the Huyan brothers were held. These days, not only the Huyan brothers, but also their families in Henan have been escorted here.

Thanks to Huizong's sentence of "thinking in the long run", Huyan's family was not locked in the prison camp, but was scattered in a large mansion - Murong Prefect knew that Huyanzhuo's family was wronged, plus Murong Huyan, they were all surnamed Hu, so Murong Prefect's greeting was quite passable - this is also the fundamental reason why Murong Yanda did not hesitate to see the wind and rudder, and he did not abuse Huyan's family, so he had confidence.

Hu Yanzhuo Hu Yanqing was already ready to die, and now he suddenly saw Han Tao Peng Xi and his son hiding in Hedong appear, although they were all taken aback, but they were still calm, but their wives saw their long-lost son, rushed over and hugged him in his arms, and in an instant tears were already raining down.

Han Tao Peng Xi knelt at his brother's feet, and just said, "The younger brother disobeyed his brother's instructions, the younger brother should die!" ”

Hu Yanzhuo helped the two of them up, asked the reason, and after staying for a long time, he finally smiled bitterly and said, "How can this complain to you?" After the dog slave wants to kill my Huyan family, how poisonous his heart is! Let's go! Let's die in one place today! ”

So Hu Yanzhuo politely confined the Murong prefect's family here, and then promoted the government to sit in the court, first went out to the list of Anmin, and then went to check the treasury - after all, his own family has now become a rebel, and a penny more food can support it for a few more days.

Originally, I thought that Qingzhou was a big government, and the money and grain should be widely available. Unexpectedly, the prefect of Murong was about to be promoted, and before leaving, he set up all kinds of names, although the treasury of the house could not be said to be clear, but it was also nine out of ten miles. The reason why he didn't get the walls of the family is because the prefect of Murong still has some conscience, to quote his original words, that is, the corrupt officials in the world are a family, and they have to leave some capital for future generations to settle down and live, so as to show the demeanor of their predecessors!

Later, the hopes of the Huyan brothers were disappointed, and they were furious, and went to raid the home of the former Murong prefect, but this time it was a great gain. Although the Murong prefect's family can't enrich the Great Song Dynasty, it is more than enough to enrich the enemy Dali, and if it is used to pay the Huyan army, I am afraid that it will not be paid in a hundred lifetimes.

However, it is useless for the Huyan brothers to keep so much money, what they want most is food and grass. Hu Yanzhuo sent people to the market to buy grain, and at the same time sent his brothers to lead the troops to meet the baggage carried by the infantry, after all, a thousand birds are in the forest, it is better to have a bird in hand, there is no food in the treasury of Qingzhou Mansion, and the grain and grass in his army are treasures.

Two days later, Hu Yanqing returned with the grain and grass, and Hu Yanzhuo was already anxious at this time. It turned out that Hu Yanbing was buying grain and grass in Qingzhou City, which made people panic in the market, and the price of salt and rice rose sharply as if they had been soaring. Hu Yanzhuo cracked down on the profiteers who hoarded Juqi, stabilized prices, and had to appease the people on the other hand, which made him exhausted. Regardless of men, women and children, if the Huyan family says that the prancing horse rushes into battle, everyone is not ambiguous, but when they want to do these trivial things of leveling the goods, they are all laymen.

Hu Yanqing was in a hurry, and gave his eldest brother an idea, inviting all the gentry in Qingzhou, these ** are all landlords and old wealth, and there is nothing to lose at home, Hu Yanbing took the cash and offered a high price, are you afraid that you won't be able to buy food?

Who knows that there is really no way to buy food. These gentry in Qingzhou are all closely related to the government - it doesn't matter that all of them have been wiped out by Kuotian - they know that Hu Yanbing is a rebel against the imperial court, if they are greedy for high prices to sell them grain today, wait until the imperial court settles accounts after the autumn, and asks their whole family in the ranks of rebellion, how much is it? Therefore, these gentlemen are of a unified voice, only pushing the harvest of the year is not good, and the landlord's family has no surplus grain, and each family donated a dozen or twenty stone of grain to do perfunctory.

Huyanjun's military discipline is strict, and Hu Yanzhuo can copy the home of the prefect of Murong, but if he wants to copy the home of these Qingzhou land snakes, Hu Yanzhuo really can't do this. In other words, it is not yet the time when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, so it can't be done.

At present, the Huyan soldiers have 3,000 iron cavalry, 9,000 foot soldiers, and 12,000 people eat an average of 2 liters of rice per day, and they have to eat 2,000 stone rice in a day. In the past, there was a court to support so many people to eat, Hu Yanzhuo just had to put his mind on training troops and fighting wars, but today it is his turn to feed so many mouths, and Hu Yanzhuo has the heart to jump into the sea.

Hu Yanqing gave the eldest brother another idea, there are so many states and counties in Qingzhou Prefecture, let's open a white strip and go to various states and counties to "borrow grain"! In any case, "borrow" it first, and when you have surplus food later, you will definitely return it!

Han Tao and Peng Xi killed two prison soldiers, and they had a feud with the Great Song Dynasty - especially those two prison soldiers were still Yang Jian's protΓ©gΓ©s, so this feud was still an unsolvable mortal enemy - even so, Hu Yanzhuo still didn't want to attack the states and counties of the Great Song Dynasty to grab grain, but if it was to "borrow" grain......

You can't borrow grain even if you "borrow" it. It was not that there were elite soldiers and fierce generals who blocked the way for the Huyan army to "borrow" grain, but that the grain depots were emptied by corrupt officials and corrupt officials. "Borrowed" dozens of times of grain, Hu Yanqing encountered a full warehouse, and when he happily wanted to move away these big and small grains, he found that these grains were empty, just sealed the wooden board on the top, and piled up the perfect effect of grain rising on the wooden board......

The Hu family, who was forced to run out of water by a mouthful of grain, decided to break the kettle - while the grain had not bottomed out, he dismissed many soldiers, and only took the 3,000 descendants of the Huyan family back to Hedong, and died on the land of his hometown.

The Huyan family has been loyal for generations, and they don't want to betray this country, but this country rushes to abandon them. In this world, villains are powerful, and good people are hard to live! Maybe it's because everyone is envious of the villain's power now, and everyone wants to be a villain when they have the opportunity, so it's so difficult for good people to live!

"Tomorrow! On the school military field, let's call the Yanjun zuihou a big soldier! As soon as Hu Yanzhuo's words came out, everyone in the Huyan family burst into tears.

The boy doesn't flick when he has tears, but he hasn't reached the sad place.

Just when he was broken, Hu Yantong suddenly came to report: "There are people from Liangshan outside the south gate, Tsing Yi riding alone, and they are called Guan there." "This is exactly what it is:

Men abide by the law and have many ends, and heroes have few futures. But I don't know what will happen next, and listen to the next breakdown.