"General Chen is worried that the tens of thousands of troops in the city are not the opponent of thousands of rebels outside the city?"

Cui Changshi heard that, whether it was Yang He or Chen Yongfu, they were afraid of the rebels and did not dare to go out of the city to fight the rebels outside the city head-on.

Chen Yongfu said: "The 20,000 soldiers in the city are mostly new soldiers trained by young and strong men. The rebels outside the city are all old soldiers who have been through war from Shanxi and Shaanxi. There is a saying that 100,000 new soldiers will lose to 10,000 old soldiers. These new soldiers are okay to use to defend the city. It is difficult to fight head-on when they leave the city."

"According to General Chen's intention, the siege of Kaifeng Prefecture City cannot be lifted?" Cui Changshi's face became displeased.

The royal family was willing to give up some money and grain to support the city's official army to defend the city in order to resolve the siege of Kaifeng Prefecture. If the city's official army could not do it, he would not mind persuading His Highness the King of Zhou to play Yang He and other officials, and let the court send an official who could lift the siege of Kaifeng Prefecture to Henan.

Chen Yongfu heard this and looked at Yang He.

Seeing Yang He nodding to him, he said, "Don't worry, the siege of Kaifeng Prefecture City will definitely be resolved."

"You just said that there are new soldiers in the city, and they are not opponents of the rebels outside the city. Why are you doing now? The new soldiers in the city can beat the old soldiers of the rebels again?" Cui Changshiyu said dissatisfied.

I think that Chen Yongfu's statement that he had made a new soldier was to deceive himself and his Highness the King of Zhou. The ultimate goal was to get more benefits from His Highness the King of Zhou and deliberately make things worse.

Chen Yongfu is also a good man. When he heard Cui Changshi's words, he knew that the other party had misunderstood. He quickly explained: "The new soldiers in the city are definitely not the opponent of the old soldiers of the rebels, but there are not any old soldiers in the city. It is not a big problem to gather a team composed of hundreds of soldiers."

"What do you mean is a sneak attack on the rebel camp?" Cui Changshi reacted, and remembered the incident of sneak attacking the rebel camp mentioned by Yang He and others earlier.

Chen Yongfu said with a smile: "Yes, it's just a sneak attack. I was not sure when tens of thousands of rebels outside the city besieged the city. Now the rebels only leave a few thousand soldiers to siege the city, giving us a good opportunity to go out of the city to attack."

"I don't understand the military. Since General Chen is sure, I can also explain to Your Highness." Cui Changshi felt that Chen Yongfu, the general, believed that the sneak attack on the rebel camp could be successful, and it would be a quick matter to lift the siege of Kaifeng Prefecture.

At this time, Yang He said, "I would like to ask Mr. Cui to tell His Highness that it will not take long before the siege of Kaifeng Prefecture City will be resolved."

"With the promises of General Yang and General Chen, the officials can go back and inform His Highness with confidence." Cui Changshi stood up from his seat and bowed to Yang He with his fists. "The Zhou royal palace will soon send a batch of money and grain to support General Yang in guarding Kaifeng Prefecture."

"Thank you, your highness, thank you here." Yang He stood up and hugged his fists in the direction of the Zhou royal palace.

"The lower official surrenders."

Many people in Cui Changshi bowed and left the lobby.

Yang He personally sent Cui Changshi outside the house before turning back to the lobby.

Except for the Kaifeng Prefect who left before, many other officials from all over the hall were here.

"I hope you all work together to guard Kaifeng Prefecture with me." Yang He bowed to the officials in front of him and owed him.

"We are willing to share life and death with the supervisor."

The officials present replied to the gifts.

Soon, the officials dispersed, and only Chen Yongfu was left behind.

"General Chen, tell me the truth, are you really sure about sneak attacking the rebel camp?" Yang He has been in Henan for so long, and his successive defeats in the war made him afraid of being beaten by the rebels. Even if the possibility of successful sneak attacking the rebel camp is very high, he still couldn't help but feel a little worried.

The reason why he was very sure in front of the head of the royal palace was that he did not want to show his fear in front of the King of Zhou, and the second was that he wanted to defend the Kaifeng Prefecture City, he needed the support of the Zhou Palace in money and grain.

Chen Yongfu, who also suffered a lot of losses on the tiger flag, did not have the sorrow of Yang He. Instead, he comforted him: "Sneaking the rebel camp is a huge profit for us. Even if it fails, it will only cost hundreds of soldiers, and there will be no loss in defending the city."

"But there are not so many old soldiers in the city to sneak attack the rebel camp." Yang He knew that Chen Yongfu's elite soldiers had been scattered in the process of fighting against the rebels several times, and there were only less than a hundred people left by his side.

In order to preserve its strength, the other party cannot use the only remaining troops around him.

Therefore, he could only find ways to attack the soldiers and horses of the rebel camp in other places, but the only one he could trust in the city was Chen Yongfu's soldiers.

As for Xuanwuwei and the left-behind soldiers in other places, he really had no confidence.

Chen Yongfu smiled and said, "Don't worry about the commander. The soldiers and horses who were used to go out of the city to sneak attack the rebel camp will never delay the commander's affairs."

"What are you going to do?" Yang He asked.

Chen Yongfu said in a relaxed tone: "Money can make the devil push the mill. As long as you take out the money to motivate the soldiers below, you can always find some people who are not afraid of death."

"Where is the silver? Where does it come from?" Yang He frowned.

The 20,000 army was in Kaifeng Prefecture, and he spent a lot of money and food every day. He found almost all the gentry and households in the city, so he could barely stabilize the army in the city.

A sneak attack on the rebel camp requires at least a few hundred soldiers and horses. Even if one person only gets a few taels of silver, it will be a considerable amount.

Chen Yongfu pointed out and said, "Your Highness the King of Zhou has not promised to provide some money and food. I think that in order to lift the siege of Kaifeng Prefecture as soon as possible, Your Highness the King of Zhou will not be stingy with such a little money."

Thousands of taels of silver are just a drop in the bucket for a vassal king like the Zhou king.

"I hope so!" Yang He was not sure how much money and grain would be spent on the Zhou royal palace to support defending the city.

Although the representative of the King of the Palace of Zhou, the chief representative of the King of the Palace, agreed to provide some money and grain, and it was still up to the King of Zhou who could take out how much money and grain.

Like Chen Yongfu's approach, it is not enough to have one or two thousand taels of silver.

There are many families in Kaifeng Prefecture who can afford such a large sum of silver, and many officials in the city can easily take out thousands of taels of silver.

However, this money is used to defend the city and is a business. It is definitely impossible for officials to pay privately to fill the gap, and it is impossible for the large gentry in the city to pay the money again and again to defend the Kaifeng Prefecture for the court.

If the wealthy families in the city are forced to get angry because of money, maybe these wealthy families will directly surrender to the thief, which will be more than worth the loss to defending the city.
Chapter completed!