Just when Zhang Baiqi and the others were discussing the expansion of the black powder workshop, a servant came to report that Zhen An was visiting! Zhang Baiqi asked someone to bring Zhen An in!
Zhen An looked at Zhang Baiqi and took out something like a roster and said: "Commander Zhang, we merchants who are making a living in Bingzhou know that the Tengjia Army has consumed huge amounts of supplies due to the war with the Han Army, so we expressed our sincere wishes to Lei Gong.
Qu Shuai can win a great victory!"
Zhang Baiqi took Zhen An's roster and found that it was filled with cloth, money, grain and other materials. Zhang Baiqi did a casual calculation and found that these materials were worth about 500 million yuan. This is a huge amount of wealth. You must know that now
Dong Zhuo could only receive 1 billion yuan!
Zhang Baiqi smiled and said: "I have received your wish, and I will forward it to Commander Qu. And you can rest assured that our Tengjia Army never takes anyone's things in vain. I will keep track of all your supplies. The war is over."
I will give you double the tax exemption and you will not suffer any loss!"
Zhen An couldn't open her eyes when she heard this, but she still said: "There is no need for tax exemption, after all, this is our donation!"
But Zhang Baiqi said: "The Tengjia Army has rules and does not take anything from the people. If we don't give you tax exemption, we can't accept these things! It's better to do this now because it will be mutually beneficial!"
Zhen An was so excited when he thought about the big men slaughtering merchants like them, but the Tengjia Army didn't take any needle or thread, that some of them wanted to cry. Without the comparison of the big men, he didn't feel anything, but after the comparison of the big men, he realized
How precious is the fair trading environment of Tengjiajun.
He said with red eyes: "I think Commander Zhang knows what happened to the big man!"
Zhang Baiqi said: "A warning?"
This incident shocked the world, and Zhang Baiqi had heard about it, but it was too shocking. Zhang Baiqi didn't know how much of it was true or false. But in his opinion, as long as Dong Zhuo wasn't crazy, he shouldn't suddenly kill all the businessmen.
!Plus Zhang Baiqi is busy with a lot of things every day, so he doesn’t pay too much attention!
Zhen An said excitedly: "What kind of laws are there here? They are simply robberies and massacres against our merchants. Dong Zhuo, the butcher, doesn't care at all whether we violate the laws or not, and directly surrounds the market with his army! Then he massacres us merchants.
, it’s not an exaggeration to say that they are butchers! The businessmen of the Han Dynasty are really miserable, the entire Central Plains is shedding our blood!”
Wang Ge sneered and said: "No wonder Dong Zhuo can support Huangfu Song's army until now. We and Qu Shuai calculated at the beginning that the financial resources of the Han Dynasty can support the logistics of Huangfu Song's 200,000 troops for three months at most. But now the entire Han Dynasty has mobilized more than 40 people."
Ten thousand people can still fight, it seems that Dong Zhuo has taken a lot of property from you businessmen!"
Zhen An was jealous and said: "So now there is no place for us in the whole Han Dynasty. Now Qu Shuai has become our only support. We also want to help Lei Gong Qu Shuai do something! So that we can help Qu Shuai defeat the Han Dynasty!"
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Zhang Baiqi asked curiously: "How can you help us? Do you want to continue to donate a sum of money?"
Zhen An said: "The reason why Dong Zhuo, the butcher, massacred us is because the Han Dynasty's treasury was empty. He wanted to use this method to raise supplies to fight this war. And many of us have a lot of money. Our thoughts
It is to use the money in our hands to buy as much food, steel, leather, wood and other materials as possible in the Han Dynasty, to push up the prices of goods in the Han Dynasty, so that Dong Zhuo, an old thief, does not have enough materials to maintain his army!"
"But now the Han Dynasty is still massacring us merchants, so if we want to implement this strategy, we still need the help of Commander Zhang!"
Zhang Baiqi was really stunned by Zhen An's method. There is such a method, it sounds feasible!
Zhang Baiqi thought carefully for a long time and replied: "You just do what you want. I can send an army to protect you, but I can't do anything about the rest. I don't know much about such business matters. If you lose money
There are too many, I can report it to Qu Shuai and help you bear some of the losses!"
But Zhen An smiled and said: "Buying high and selling high are the special skills of us businessmen. How can we lose money? However, there is still a certain danger in doing such a thing. If the evil thief Dong Zhuo finds out, he will definitely not
We merchants in the Han Dynasty will be spared!"
Zhang Baiqi nodded, these are really what businessmen are good at, he was overthinking, how could Zhen An and the others lose money!
Thinking of this, Zhen An said: "Commander Zhang, I know a Hedong businessman named Wei Chang. His family was ruined by Dong Zhuo and he is now looking for ways to retaliate against Dong Zhuo. Commander Zhang can let him go to the Han Dynasty to carry out these acts of destroying the Han market!"
Zhang Baiqi nodded and said he would find this person!
After Zhen An left, Zhang Baiqi asked Wang Ge: "Do you think Zhen An's plan can succeed?"
Wang Ge looked confused and said: "I don't know this either, but I know that the most important thing in war is all kinds of materials. Money is basically useless now. If we can use money to buy materials in the Han Dynasty, we will make money.
, Didn’t it say in the Art of War that if you eat an enemy’s one bell, you will be worth twenty? Now we buy one stone of grain from the Han Dynasty, which is equivalent to Dong Zhuo losing 20 stone of grain. From this aspect, it should be beneficial to us!”
But Zhang Baiqi rolled his eyes and said: "Copper coins are also a precious strategic material. Don't forget that Qu Shuai is asking us to make bronze artillery now. It is said to be more powerful than a trebuchet. Each of these artillery will consume 7-8
Ten thousand copper coins, we don’t even have the copper coins we want to buy Dong Zhuo’s supplies now!”
Wang Ge said excitedly: "Artillery is the most powerful weapon of our Tengjia Army. It is more than ten times more powerful than trebuchets. Even if we don't have five baht to spend, we still have to cast artillery, because as long as there are artillery, we will have endless uses."
Money!”
Dozens of artillery have been cast now, but as Wang Ge said, it is too expensive. However, because of this war, their Tengjia Army also purchased a large amount of supplies and did not have a lot of copper coins in hand. There is no way.
Since arriving in Mayi, Tengjia Army's bulk commodity exchanges with the outside world have mainly been through barter. Copper coins really don't play much role in Mayi! Woolen cloth in Mayi is more useful than copper coins!
When he used it, it was gone. Wang Ge said regretfully: "Why use bronze as money? White paper can't do it. The passbooks in our money shops are also made of white paper! Why waste bronze like this!"
Zhang Baiqi said with a smile: "You are crazy about money right now! You actually want to use it as money!"
Then Zhang Baiqi ignored Wang Ge and reported Zhen An's donation and the disruption to the Han economy to Xu Wei. At the same time, he also reported the current plight of the Tengjia Army. Although there was no shortage of food and cloth, their money
It was almost exhausted, so he asked Xu Wei to end the war quickly, otherwise the Tengjia Army would be seriously weakened.
Youzhou, Guangyang County!
After experiencing the great battle in the autumn, in the cold wind, the fighting between the two sides finally came to a slow stop and they hid in their camps!
Xu Wei led a group of cavalry to observe Huangfu Song's camp!
Xu Wei looked intently at the Huangfu Song army camp not far away, and found that the camp had expanded again, and the sky above the camp was densely filled with flying flags.
Military units above the Sima level in the Han military formation will have their own banners. Most of the banners have the surnames of their chief officers, so these banners all have the words Zhao Qian, Sun Li, etc. written on them. Generally, when counting the banners of the Han army,
You can probably know how many troops they have, and now Xu Wei just counted hundreds of flags. Xu Wei estimated that Huangfu Song's army now has 200,000 troops blocking him!
Xu Wei was surprised and said: "Huangfu Song increased his troops so quickly. How long has it been since he actually increased his army by almost 100,000?"
You must know that not long ago, Xu Wei defeated Huangfu Song once, annihilated Huangfu Song's 30,000 troops, directly pushed Huangfu Song back 30 miles, and re-camped in Changping County! Now Huangfu Song's army has not only not decreased, but has increased!
Duan Yun, who was following Xu Wei, said: "Huangfu Song is simply a coward. If he dared to fight us head-on, this war would have been over long ago, so there was no need to delay it for so long!"
When Huangfu Song was confronting Xu Wei, he wanted to force Xu Wei out of Juyongguan, but the heavy cavalry around Xu Wei immediately became a disciple of Fu Song. As long as the heavy cavalry charged, it would be difficult for any of Huangfu Song's battalions to hold on for a long time.
During the time of burning incense, many of them were defeated by Duan Yun in one charge, so that now the soldiers of the Han Dynasty would turn around and run away when they saw the heavy cavalry of the Tengjia Army! They suffered from cavalry phobia!
Even Ju Yi, his confidant in the back, shook his head after watching the heavy cavalry charge and said: "Such a heavy cavalry can only be defeated in swamps and other places by using halberdiers to kill soldiers from above and chop the legs of horses from below!
As for my shield and sword battalion, the shield cannot withstand the charge of the heavy cavalry, and the long sword is too short to kill the Vine Armor Army!"
Ju Yi's shield and sword battalions are basically built according to mountain soldiers, and are suitable for fighting in the mountains. Facing the unparalleled heavy cavalry, fighting on the plains will only cost the lives of the soldiers in vain!
But Huangfu Song knew that if he could not defeat Thunder Lord in the field, it would be impossible to drive the Tengjia Army out of Youzhou, so during the field battle later, he helped Ju Yi's Shield Sword Battalion replace their iron armor, hoping to keep Ju Yi in the field.
Defeat Thunder Lord with an ace.
The attributes of the heavy cavalry and the Shield Blade Battalion were incompatible, so Huangfusong looked for an opportunity to engage in a fierce battle with Xu Wei's ace Modao Battalion. As a result, both sides suffered losses, with casualties exceeding 30%. It can be said that both the Shield Blade Battalion and the Modao Battalion thought this was a serious battle.
They lost their combat effectiveness in the battle and could only recuperate in the rear. However, Ju Yi's Shield Blade Battalion had not yet been repaired, but Lei Gong's Modao Battalion soon appeared on the battlefield. Obviously, compared with the reserves, Lei Gong's elite far exceeded Huangfu Song's army.
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It was the heavy cavalry and Modao battalion around Xu Wei that made Huangfusong understand that it was basically impossible for them to win in a field battle.
So after Ju Yi was injured, Huangfusong continued to recruit civilians in Youzhou, dig deep and build camps, hoping to block Xu Wei in front of Juyong Pass!
Xu Wei also thought about defeating Huangfu Song in a battle. He used all the remaining black powder in his hand to make a 10-pound hand grenade. The outer 10-pound clay bomb could hold a pound of black powder inside, and relied on the trebuchet.
Launched 300 steps away.
Then thousands of these black powders were thrown into the entire Huangfusong camp, which directly destroyed several Huangfusong camps and sent the Han army flying in all directions. Xu Wei took this opportunity to invade the Huangfusong camp.
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But Huangfu Song seemed to have already thought about how to deal with the black gunpowder in Xu Wei's hand. His camp was very large. Although it could not be said to be 700 miles long, it was still dozens of miles wide. The black gunpowder in Xu Wei's hand was
The damage range was limited. After penetrating Huangfu Song's camp, Huangfu Song personally led the guard battalion to break up the rear, and ordered the commanders to lead various soldiers to retreat slowly, and at the same time asked Xu Rong to contain the defeated troops in the rear.
Xu Wei originally wanted to lead the cavalry to attack Huangfu Song's army, but the entire military capital was crisscrossed by ravines dug by Huangfu Song for dozens of miles, making a plain land unsuitable for cavalry combat!
Therefore, Xu Wei only had a few kilograms of black powder in his hands, and the result was that he annihilated 30,000 Han troops, pushed Huangfu Song's army back for more than 30 miles, and allowed Huangfu Song to lead the army to retreat to Changping County.
But after Huangfusong gained a foothold, he continued to dig deep trenches and mobilized troops from all sides, intending to fight Xu Wei to the end! Facing Huangfusong's candy-like defense, Xu Wei also thought of attacking from other directions.
Youzhou, after all, has passed Juyong Pass and is surrounded by plains, which is very suitable for cavalry attacks!
But Xu Wei's army was in the plain area between Sanggan River and Gushui. Huangfu Song had already built a beacon tower between Sanggan River and Gushui, and also arranged 20,000 troops to garrison these two rivers.
There is no ferry around Wei, so if he wants to cross the river, he has to face the harassment of these two armies. It is difficult to cross the two rivers. Xu Wei is also worried that Huangfu Song will attack him by half-crossing, so the two sides are now in a stalemate here.
, Unless Xu Wei can defeat Huangfu Song's main force, it will be difficult for Xu Wei to attack other areas of Youzhou!
After Xu Wei defeated Huangfu Song's army in the military capital, the weather also turned cold, and Xu Wei had no choice but to stop the attack and plan to spend the winter here in the military capital!
After exploring Huangfusong's camp, Xu Wei returned to the camp. The flying pigeons of Tengjia Army quickly brought Zhang Baiqi's letter.
The above are all describing the difficulties that the Tengjia Army is facing now, especially the financial crisis!
The consumption of this battle has far exceeded Xu Wei and Zhang Baiqi's expectations. Don't look at the fact that the Tengjia Army's 100,000-level battles are fought almost every year, but the end time of these battles
But it is very fast, basically it will not take more than a month, and the consumption is naturally not high. And now this war has been going on for 4 months. Now both sides have to repair, and it looks like it will last until spring. That is to say
The fight will take more than half a year, and now Zhang Baiqi is worried that the Tengjia Army's finances will not be able to support this war!
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