Chapter 987 The greatest victory since crossing south!
At this moment, it's still dark.
Two young men of similar age were sitting on the ground of the city tower, with their backs against the city wall.
Mr. Shen looked up at the moonlight in the sky and suddenly sighed: "Zheng Hu, Duan Chong and the others, during those years when I fought against Japanese invaders in the southeast, I can't say that they killed without batting an eye, but their hearts were much hardened. It's rare to have Yankang." You still have a soft heart."
Yankang is Lin Sheng's cousin. He was a scholar. Among the eight team leaders of Shen Yi's Di newspaper department, he was the only one with the cousin name.
The epithet of this era is generally related to one's own name, or is a derivative of each other, or completes each other. For example, Shen Yi's epitome, Zi Heng, is the explanation of the word Yi.
Zhang Jian's surname is Yi'an, Zhao Zhi's surname is Changping, Lu Fuzi's original name is Jizhong, and his surname is Anshi, all of which are related to the original names.
Lin Sheng's word "Yankang" was also his teacher at that time. The explanation of his original name was born as Yankang.
It's just that he didn't go well in the examinations, failed the provincial examination twice, and was not very interested in current policy theory. He felt that there was no hope in the examinations in this life, so he joined the Di Bao Division.
At this time, Lin Siwu, who was born as a scholar, turned to look at Shen Yi and shook his head: "Si Zheng, although my subordinate is not a good person, and I will not be a good person in the future, but I feel that people You can not be a good person, but you can't be a bad person for no reason."
"The sage said, there are things you should do and things you should not do."
"The woman I married in Xuzhou has never done any evil. She treats me very well and I can't bear to hurt her."
Shen Yi glanced at him thoughtfully and said with a smile: "I told you, it's all up to you. You don't have to explain a lot to me."
Having said this, Mr. Shen said calmly: "It's just that you are a hero of Da Chen. If you are going to be an official in the imperial court in the future, you must be careful of these women from harming you."
"Si Zheng, don't worry."
Lin Sheng lowered his head and said, "My subordinates will arrange for her properly."
When Shen Yi heard this, he squinted his eyes and looked at the moon in the sky without saying anything else.
Lin Sheng also looked at the moon for a while. After a while, he saw that Shen Yi had not left yet. He stood up, turned his head and glanced at the bustling city, sat down next to Shen Yi again, and asked: "Sizheng, the fighting is going on in the city, why don't you go take a look?"
"What are you looking at?"
Shen Yi glanced at him and exhaled: "Would you like to see the bloody scene?"
"You can't bear to see blood."
Mr. Shen laughed at himself: "Actually, I can't bear it, especially I don't want to see the blood of my brothers, but today the blood has to be shed."
"Therefore, if you can't see it, just see it."
Lin Sheng looked at Shen Yi and said thoughtfully: "Si Zheng is so calm and relaxed. It seems that the battle situation in Xuzhou City has been decided."
"There is no suspense in the first place."
Shen Yi said softly: "There are many Qi people from all sides of Xuzhou City, but if we want to support them, it will take two days to reach the nearest Qi army in Suqian."
He looked up at the sky and said, "And our main force will be there at dawn."
"The gates of Xuzhou City have been breached and cannot be defended."
Shen Yi stood up and looked towards the city with his hands behind his back.
Fires were everywhere in the city, shouts of killing were heard one after another, and occasionally the sound of gunpowder explosions could be heard.
After watching for a while, Shen Yi stopped reading and sat back down next to Lin Sheng. He lowered his eyebrows and said, "The next thing that needs to be considered is defending the city."
He looked at Lin Sheng and asked: "At the beginning of this year, I asked you to prepare food. How much food did you prepare?"
Hearing Shen Yi mentioning business, Lin Sheng did not dare to neglect, and immediately said: "Back to Sizheng, my subordinates started buying grain at the beginning of the year. However, there was no legitimate reason at that time, so it was not easy to buy too much. Later, my subordinates said to the outside world
He announced that he was going to open a grain store, and then he started buying grain on a large scale."
"In recent times, Master Wang has crossed the Huaihe River, and his subordinates, with the cooperation of Pan Mao, have been able to transport food into the city on a large scale. Until now..."
"We bought almost 200,000 shi of food in total."
Shen Yi frowned slightly and said, "So few?"
When Shen Yi was in Jiangdu, the imperial court sent officials from the Ministry of Husbandry to Jiangdu to buy grain. At the court's purchase price, the Ministry of Hunan's 50,000 taels of silver took away nearly 200,000 shi of grain from Jiangdu. In recent years, Shen Yi has been working in Linsheng.
He spent far more than 50,000 taels of silver. In the first half of this year alone, Master Shen spent nearly 200,000 taels of silver on Lin Sheng.
Lin Sheng smiled bitterly and said: "Sizheng, this year's food is more expensive than in previous years, and the price of rice has increased."
"Furthermore, most of the money you gave to your subordinates was given to Pan."
He said helplessly: "Otherwise, there is no way to establish a relationship with Zhizhou Yamen in a short time, let alone marry Pan Mao's niece home."
Having said this, he paused and said: "But as far as my subordinates know, Pan Mao hasn't had time to send the money out yet. After Si Zheng takes over Xuzhou, you should be able to get a lot of this money back."
Shen Yi touched his chin and silently settled his accounts in his mind.
Seeing Shen Yi bowing his head and saying nothing, Lin Sheng said: "Sizheng, my subordinates have calculated that the Huai'an army only has 50,000 people at most. This food is enough to feed the Huai'an army for two years!"
Shen Yi raised his head and glanced at him.
"Then the people in Xuzhou City will be ignored?"
In this era, one stone of grain is one hundred and fifty kilograms, and two hundred thousand stone is almost thirty million kilograms of grain.
That sounds like a lot.
If only the Huai'an army is allocated, each person can get 600 kilograms of grain, which is not a big problem for one or two years. However, Xuzhou is a big city with a permanent population of about 200,000.
Shen Yi must guard the city for a long time. As time goes by, he will have to take care of the food and drink of these people.
Otherwise, when people start to starve to death in the city, chaos will break out.
Even if Xuzhou is recaptured in the future, it will still be unpopular.
Lin Sheng hesitated and said nothing.
"That's all, don't think about this for now."
Mr. Shen stretched and said, "It's not easy to get all this food in such a short period of time. If Pan Maoli hadn't been so stupid, he should have felt that there was something wrong with you buying so much food."
Two hundred thousand dan is really too much for a businessman.
In fact, when Dachen Hubu went to Jiangdu to collect grain a few years ago, the 200,000 shi of grain collected was almost half of the inventory of all grain merchants in Jiangdu.
It is obviously unreasonable for "Shen Ping" to buy so much grain all at once when he first entered the grain store industry.
Lin Sheng said with a smile: "He is not crazy, he is very shrewd. His subordinates told him that 80% of the income from selling grain will belong to him. In the past few months, especially in the last month, he has often urged
I'm going to buy food."
"It is precisely because Pan Mao, the magistrate, is here that the food is relatively reasonable."
Lin Sheng replied: "Almost everyone thought it was Xuzhou Zhizhou Yamen purchasing grain."
Having said this, Lin Sheng paused and suddenly said: "Sizheng, I have an idea."
Shen Yi looked at him.
"you say."
Lin Sheng lowered his head and said: "According to what you said, Sizheng, we can occupy Xuzhou tomorrow and drive out the Xuzhou defenders. Sizheng, you may not know that the Northern Qi court calls our Grand Master Chen the "Southern Bandit".
Or the "Southern Bandit", many people in Xuzhou fear my master Wang as much as a tiger."
"Tomorrow, after driving out the Xuzhou garrison or wiping out the Xuzhou garrison, Duke Shen can open the city gate for a period of time and allow the people to leave the city. Perhaps nearly half or even most of the Xuzhou people will flee."
"so…"
He lowered his head slightly and said, "Our food pressure has dropped sharply."
Shen Yi touched his chin and thought about it seriously.
"I need to think carefully about this method."
Just like that, two people of the same age, sitting on the city tower, talking to each other, began to discuss the fate of Xuzhou City in the future.
Time passed little by little.
Soon, the sky was bright.
When the sun slowly rose and some of the reddish morning sun shone on Shen Yi's face, under the Xuzhou City, an army of nearly 20,000 people was approaching Xuzhou in an orderly manner, and then entered Xuzhou City in an orderly manner according to the command.
A moment later, Ling Su, dressed in armor and armor, climbed onto the tower, half-knelt in front of Shen Yi respectfully, lowered his head and said, "Subordinate Ling Su, pay your respects to Duke Shen!"
Shen Yi then stood up. He stretched out his hand to help Ling Su up. A smile finally appeared on his face: "General Ling, the gate of Xuzhou City has been broken."
"I want you to control the entire Xuzhou, especially the city gates, before sunset."
Shen Yi paused and added: "Try not to hurt innocent people or disturb the people."
At this time, the Huai'an army had achieved an absolute superiority in strength in Xuzhou City. This kind of battle no longer required any skills.
When the advantage is large enough, it is enough for A to go up.
Ling Su bowed his head respectfully and saluted with clasped fists.
"I obey my orders!"
As Ling Su retreated from the tower, Shen Yi faced the east sun and looked at Xuzhou City to the east of him.
The sun shone on his face, making him slightly unable to open his eyes.
Lin Sheng also stood up and stood behind Shen Yi. He looked into the distance for a while and suddenly asked: "Sizheng, are we recapturing Xuzhou?"
Shen Yi shook his head slightly: "Not yet."
"Even if we control Xuzhou, it can only be regarded as occupation."
Mr. Shen looked at Xuzhou City from afar, his voice was calm.
"But even so..."
Shen Yi turned to look at Lin Sheng with a smile on his face.
"This is already the biggest victory since crossing south..."