From the perspective of Li Gang and others, the ones who were hurt the most by Yuan Tan's actions were the merchants, but merchants have always been the cattle and sheep of the Han Dynasty. Dong Zhuo almost killed them all at first, but it did not affect the Han Dynasty. Later, Emperor Heng, Lingdi, and the Han Dynasty
The emperor of the Han Dynasty crashed the economy countless times. Although this caused serious damage to the Han Dynasty, it did not lead to the destruction of the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, Li Gang and others feel that Yuan Tan has raised money to support the army. In the short term, his strength has not been weakened but strengthened. He has become more difficult to deal with!
But Xu Wei said: "Wars are fought by people. With Yuan Tan's exorbitant taxation, the economic collapse of the entire Yuzhou is inevitable. The economic collapse may not have any impact on Yuan Tan and other noble families, because these noble families are all
The manor's economy is self-sufficient. Except for the military disaster, the manor's economy is extremely stable to a certain extent. A manor is a small world, and it is difficult for outside influences to interfere with the interior of the manor (that's why Tao Yuanming wrote "Peach Blossom Spring"
Such an article)!
But how could the people at the bottom not be affected? The 200,000 army in Yuan Tan's hands is composed of 200,000 ordinary families. The families of these soldiers are in dire straits. No matter how well-equipped they are and how superb their martial arts skills are, they cannot
He has no morale to fight with us, so Yuan Tan is seeking his own death!"
"Everyone think about how we won the battle of Jizhou back then! The Han Dynasty obviously had more than 200,000 elites in their hands, but it was because they brutally oppressed the people of Jizhou that the entire people of Jizhou lost their hearts. Our army invaded
When we were in Jizhou, the people of Jizhou took refuge one after another, and our army became more and more numerous, and in the end we occupied the Han Dynasty's largest granary at the cost of a small machine!"
With the example of Xu Wei talking about Jizhou, the senior officials of Daqian suddenly realized that it was true! The battle of Jizhou was the easiest battle they had fought since the uprising. The people of Jizhou turned to them one after another. When they sent out troops, they only had 200,000 troops.
After the battle, the number of troops increased to more than 400,000! It was because soldiers from the Jizhou Army turned to them one after another!
Niu Gui suddenly realized: "No wonder the government wants us to recruit so many troops. This is to speed up the consumption of materials in Yuan Tan's hands and let Yuan Tan print more banknotes. With an army of 500,000 by his side, Yuan Tan will definitely print banknotes desperately.
, to plunder the people of Sili in Yuzhou to arm his army, but the faster he plunders, the faster the economy of Yuzhou will collapse. When the economy of Yuzhou completely collapses, it will be our Dagan who launches the most deadly attack on Yuan Tan.
With one strike, our army's attack will be overwhelming!"
After everyone understood Xu Wei's strategy, they all agreed and began to act according to this strategy!
So the world was boiling again after being quiet for less than a year!
Military camps are being set up in Xiliang, Bingzhou, Jizhou, and Yanzhou, and a large number of troops are gathering among them!
Lei Gong's actions naturally aroused panic among the entire Han Dynasty, because Lei Gong's actions this time were more intense than those in the Central Plains War. Judging from the news they received, Lei Gong was going to assemble an army of more than 500,000 to deal with them!
Qingzhou, Beihai County!
"Wenze, has the news come?" Cao Cao asked anxiously!
When Da Gan moved like this, he and Yuan Tan were the most anxious, because Lei Gong would either hit him or Yuan Tan!
And Yu Jin is now the commander of Cao Cao's navy. After all, Yu Jin was captured by Lei Gong, and his reputation was affected. Cao Cao's subordinates all despised Yu Jin. Cao Cao did not want his confidant and beloved general to be wronged, and at the same time he discovered the navy in the Central Plains War. Because of its importance, he was also afraid that Xu Wei would send him a ship to bombard the city and invade Qingzhou, so he appointed Yuzhou as the Navy Zhonglang General, expanded the Yellow River Navy, and prepared the Daqian Navy to cross the Yellow River!
But now the Yellow River is under fire every day, and Cao Cao is worried that Yu Jin will not be able to withstand the attack of the Daqian Navy!
Xiahou Dun said: "Don't worry, Meng De. The Wang Guojun is just a bluff. Most of Jizhou's 200,000 troops are in the direction of Wei County. They obviously want to attack Hanoi County. Only Fan Xian's navy is mobilizing in the direction of Qingzhou! However, the two sides are fighting and there is no way. Not intense!”
Xun You looked at the map and said: "This time the Thunder God's camps are in the direction of Xiliang, Taiyuan County, Shangdang County, Chenliu County, Jiyin County, and Shanyang County!"
Everyone looked along where Xun Yu was talking and they all breathed a sigh of relief. From the position of Daqian's camp, it could be seen that the person Lei Gong wanted to hit this time was Yuan Tan. Although this was a bit unkind, they were glad now. You can die as a fellow Taoist but not as a poor Taoist!
Guo Jia said with a serious face: "That's not right. The summer harvest has just ended, and the autumn harvest only lasts for two months at most. Unless Lei Gong doesn't want the autumn harvest, it is impossible to launch a war of hundreds of thousands of people during the autumn harvest! But If there is a war after the autumn harvest, it is too early to recruit soldiers! Even if hundreds of thousands of troops are not dispatched, the cost will be huge!"
Although Da Gan is constantly building camps, judging from the news he has received, Da Gan is not ready for war at all. To prepare weapons, equipment and food for hundreds of thousands of people, a few months is simply not enough. At this time, Lei Gong Mobilizing the army will not only affect the autumn harvest, but also the time to start the war will be in winter, but Lei Gong is also a famous general in the world, so he naturally knows that winter is not the season for war!
Cao Cao looked at the camps covered in Yuan Tan's territory and said: "Did Yuan Tan do something to attract the attention of Thunder Lord, so he fought hard to occupy Yuzhou even if he didn't have the autumn harvest!"
Then Cao Cao looked at Xiang Manchong, he had always mastered the intelligence system of Cao Cao's army!
Man Chong looked depressed. Although he had mastered the intelligence system of Cao Cao's army, most of it was aimed at Da Gan. If Cao Cao wanted to ask Lei Gong how many soldiers he had in Hebei, he could still tell him, but if he asked him what happened in Yuzhou What's going on? This is a bit embarrassing!
He could only say with a grimace: "There is not much movement in Yuzhou. Like us, they continued to recruit soldiers and build weapons, armor and artillery to restore their strength after the Central Plains War, but this has been done for half a year. There are too many, Yuan Tanbing has recruited 200,000 troops, and now Lei Gong is worried that it is a bit unnecessary!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! But after listening to Cao Cao's words, Xun Or said: "During this period, Yuan Tan came to our Qingzhou to buy a lot of food and weapons and equipment. Our army and the generals of cavalry can be said to be It’s because of the coldness of lips and teeth, and the fact that the Chariot and Cavalry General purchased these supplies at three times the price of copper coins, so my subordinates sold a lot of food and weapons to the Chariot and Cavalry General!”
Cao Cao waved his hand and said: "Qingzhou has a good harvest of grain this year. It doesn't matter if we sell some to Yuan Tan!"
The world is having a good harvest, and Cao Cao's place is no exception. Even the harvest level in Cao Cao's land is not much worse than that in Hebei. The land of Qingxu not only has a long coastline, but also has many islands. Cao Cao dispatched a large number of transport ships to protect Qingxu.
Due to the supply of struvite in the land, three stones of grain in the land of Qingxu is now a very common food output. High-yielding land even has a grain output of 5-6 stones! The grain harvested by Cao Cao this year is enough for him to feed him for three years!
But at this time Xun or said seriously: "Our army has only lost 40,000 to 50,000 troops, but re-arming these soldiers has exhausted the finances of our Qingxu and Qingxu areas, and even used paper money to rob the entire Qingxu area."
Only copper coins can sustain our 200,000-strong army!"
"The Yuan family suffered the greatest losses in the Central Plains War. More than half of the 300,000 troops recruited by the former Cheqi generals were lost. Now Yuan Cheqi can not only arm a 200,000 troops, forge artillery, but also have the financial resources to buy from us.
Food and weapons, my lord, don’t you think there’s anything wrong with this?”
Guo Jia's eyes lit up and he said: "Yes! With so much money from Yuan Tan, you must know that Yuan Shao even borrowed food from Liu Bei in order to fight the Central Plains War, but now he has armed an army of hundreds of thousands and cast
With hundreds of artillery pieces, he still has the talent to buy our food and weapons! Not even Liu Bei can do this, how could Yuzhou and Sili have such financial resources!"
Among the three princes of the Han Dynasty, Yuan Tan had the worst financial resources, because their transformation was the least thorough, but now they have become the richest. There must be a problem, and this problem was discovered by Lei Gong, so Lei Gong
There is such a move!
Xun You said: "Now we don't know what happened in Yuzhou at all. It's difficult to know the purpose of Lei Gong. From my subordinates' point of view, our army should strengthen its vigilance to prevent Lei Gong from attacking from the east to the west and attacking our Qingzhou!"
This kind of thing is really possible. Who allowed Hebei to have a rail transit system, and their marching speed was several times faster than that of Cao Cao and the others. Even though Xu Wei's army gathered in Wei County, the Daqian army marched hundreds of miles to Pingyuan County. Cao Cao's army
They may not be able to reach the Yellow River from Beihai County.
This is the difference in marching speed. Cao Cao has not thought about improving this, but even if he wants to use up the last copper plate in his body to cast wooden rails, Qingxu is a prosperous place in the Central Plains, and there is not much virgin forest at all.
Naturally, it is difficult to provide a large amount of wood to make wooden rails. Cao Cao experimentally made a section of wooden rails, but the price was too high. Cao Cao could not afford to maintain his finances, so he had no choice but to give up!
Cao Cao nodded and responded to all changes by remaining unchanged. This is the only thing Cao Cao can do now!
However, Guo Jia still said: "We should strengthen the intelligence on Yuzhou, so that we will know what happened in Yuzhou to cause Lei Gong to go to war so violently!"
Cao Cao saw Man Chong and said, "Please Boning pay more attention to the developments in Yuzhou!"
Man Chong raised his hands and saluted, "No!"
Yuzhou, Runan County, Yangzhai!
Yuan Tan asked with a look of fear on his face: "Now Daqian is coming fiercely. Hundreds of thousands of troops are about to attack our Yuzhou Sili. What countermeasures do you uncles have to deal with Lei Gong's conquest!"
Xu You said calmly: "Be calm. If you want to launch an army of hundreds of thousands for battle, it will be impossible to complete the preparations in less than half a year. Daqian has no intention of attacking our army before the summer harvest. I estimate that it will be this year." Hebei's grain harvest has made Daqian want to attack us, but we still have time!"
"The most important thing now is to contact Liu Bei and Cao Cao immediately, and the three of us will once again form a coalition of princes, so that we can withstand Lei Gong's attack!"
Yuan Tan suddenly realized: "My uncle is right. Send envoys to Qingzhou and Jingzhou quickly to ask Liu Bei and Cao Cao to support us!"
Xu You said confidently: "I have a close relationship with Meng De. It's up to me to ask for reinforcements in Qingzhou. In Jingzhou, Brother Shiji is Liu Bei's number one confidant. If you want to ask for troops from the south of the Yangtze River, I think you need to ask Yuan The elders of the family went to seek help from Brother Shiji!"
Yuan Tan said as if grabbing a life-saving straw: "Yes, we can also ask the eldest father for help. I will ask the third brother to go to Jingzhou. Even for the sake of the Yuan family, the eldest father must find a way to rescue us!"
After arranging the envoys to request reinforcements, Yuan Tan and others began to discuss how to defend Sili and Yuzhou.
Guo Tudao: "In the last war, we suffered the most from the artillery. But now after a year of preparation, the number of artillery pieces on our Han side has reached close to a thousand, and our army also has 300 artillery pieces. Although we still have a small number of artillery pieces, Not as good as Lei Gong, but our army already has the power to counterattack! The most critical thing now is Sili. Xianyi and their troops are sparse, and it is difficult to get our support. As long as the Daqian army attacks Yingchuan County, it will be cut off The connection between our army and Sili is that it is too difficult for Xianyi to rely on his 60,000 troops to withstand hundreds of thousands of elite cadres. Although Luoyang City has eight levels of defense, Chang'an City is also in danger of being blocked. But the military strength gap between the two sides is too big. Without the support of our army, it will be difficult for Sili to hold on!
But Yuan Tan didn't want to reduce the number of troops in his hands but support Sili. After all, facing Da Gan's hundreds of thousands of troops, he didn't think that the 140,000 troops in his hands could withstand Da Gan's thunderous strike! But Obviously he couldn't express his weak thoughts.
So he said: "We are still unsure of the direction of Da Gan's main attack. If we mobilize the army rashly, we will be vulnerable to the attack of Lei Gong's cavalry. Xian Yi is young and inexperienced. Please ask your uncle to go to Luoyang City to ensure that Xian Yi defends Luoyang City!"
Guo Tu didn't expect that Yuan Tan would kick him to Luoyang City, so he had no choice but to obey!
Then Yuan Tan said: "Our army is not large enough. We must continue to recruit 100,000 troops to defend against Thunder Lord!"
Feng Ji was surprised and said: "We still need to recruit soldiers, what about food, grass, weapons and equipment? Facing the elite army, ordinary people are of no use at all. Only the elites who have been trained for many years are capable of fighting!"
Yuan Tan said nonchalantly: "If you need money, just print more. We have a printing press, but we are still worried about not having money! Although ordinary people cannot fight against the elites of Daqian, we are not going to fight with Daqian." Instead of fighting in the field, we let them defend the city. If the equipment is not enough, we will wait until the people die in battle!"
What Yuan Tan said made everyone feel chilled. They felt that something would definitely go wrong. But when it comes to defensive operations, it doesn't matter what happened to the soldiers. The people in the city will also be organized. Let these people join now.
In the army, the Yuzhou Army also formed civilian guards to defend the city in advance!
Yuan Tan looked at Xin Pi and said: "Please also ask Mr. Zuo Zhi to purchase all the grain, medicinal materials, wood, leather and other materials needed to defend the city in Yuzhou. Lei Gong has the field advantage, and our entire city in Yuzhou may be attacked by Lei Gong."
Now we can only purchase a large amount of supplies in all cities for defense!"