After the Chen family caravan in Changsha County got rid of the goods, it has been waiting for the snowflake salt from Xia's Salt Shop.
The snowflake salt from Xia's Salt Shop is white and as fine as fine sand, and its quality is highly favored by caravans from Lingnan and surrounding areas.
Therefore, the number of caravans selling snowflake salt in Lingnan has suddenly increased in the past month or so. The huge sales volume has sold out the little inventory accumulated in Xia Jing's salt field and the salt field of Prince Qian's Mansion in the past few months.
Because of this, the Chen family caravan had to stay in Lingnan to wait for the goods.
This period of time provided Chen Yongtian with an opportunity to purchase a store in the north of the city.
He entrusted Chang Chong to help find a seller. Chang Chong was considered a reliable person and helped him find a seller within three days, which made Chen Yongtian overjoyed.
After completing the transfer procedures, we came out of the Huaxia Real Estate Firm in the north of the city. All three parties were very satisfied.
The Li family who transferred the shop was considered an ordinary citizen with a small amount of assets in Lingnan. When they bought the shop, they all worked together to raise money. Later, due to difficulties at home, they had to sell the shop to alleviate the family's difficulties.
No, it just happened that Chen Yongtian picked up a ready-made shop.
The Li family said goodbye to Chen Yongtian with the money they had received, and walked home happily. This time they spent a down payment of 100 taels of silver to buy a shop, and they made a net profit of 80 taels after changing hands in less than two months.
The eighty taels earned from treating the elderly at home are enough, and the remaining one hundred taels can still be saved for emergencies.
Chen Yongtian took out a purse and handed it to Chang Chong, "The success of this matter depends entirely on your running back and forth. This is your hard-earned money, take it!"
Chang Chong glanced at the Li family who had walked away and took it with a smile, "Thank you, Master Chen, for the reward!"
After several days of contact, Chang Chong already knew Chen Yongtian's name. The two of them had become familiar with each other, and there might be a possibility of cooperation in the future.
"This is what you deserve. If you hear about anyone else having a shop transferred, remember to come and tell me. If it happens, you will still be rewarded." Chen Yongtian was in a good mood for buying this shop today, so he gave him a reward.
Quite a few.
Chang Chong looked at him in surprise, "Mr. Chen still wants to buy a shop?"
When Chen Yongtian heard what he said, the smile on his face deepened, "Yes, the shops in the north of the city are open to all comers, the more the merrier!"
Chang Chong threw away the wallet in his hand and nodded clearly, "Okay, I understand. If there are any shops that I want to transfer, I will let you know."
Chen Yongtian said please and got on the carriage.
After the carriage left, Chang Chong couldn't wait to open his purse. Inside was four fifty-tael silver ingots, which were indeed the same as what he had just weighed.
This silver reward is equivalent to his income from working in a teahouse for five or six years. It is really easy to make money as a middle-aged man.
"I just hope that there will be more employers like this. After working a few times, he can almost earn enough to marry a wife."
Chang Chong's mother left home from Chang Chong, and she has been waiting for her son to come home at the door.
After finally seeing a familiar figure appear at the alley, she didn't care about anything and trotted up to Chang Chong, "Good son, is it done?"
Chang Chong narrowed his eyes with a smile and raised his chin, indicating that he would talk about it at home if he had anything to do.
Chang Chongniang gave him a look of understanding and immediately turned around and walked home.
When he got home, Chang Chong took out fifteen taels of silver and said, "It's done, I'll get twenty taels of remuneration this time. I'll keep five taels of personal money for myself, and the rest will be given to you."
Chang Chongniang took the purse and scolded with a smile: "Fifty taels is equivalent to more than a year's salary for you. Why do you act like a playboy after making some money? You still have a private house for five taels. Go and see who your peers have."
Five taels of silver for a private house?"
As she said that, she stretched out her hand and snatched the five taels of silver that Chang Chong had hidden in her arms. "You are not young anymore. You have already reached the age of getting married. If you don't save more money, how can I get you a wife then?"
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Chang Chong looked ugly. He finally dug out five taels, but they were snatched away again.
After all the money I got was taken away, I was a little unwilling, so I asked: "Mom, how can you save some money for me?"
Naturally, the mother would not be asked by her son. She rolled her eyes at him and said without mercy: "As long as you earn another twenty taels for me, I will leave five taels for you as a private house for one month."
After saying that, she proudly asked: "What? Can it be done?"
Chang Chong was originally very distressed, but when he heard this, he felt happy: "Is this true?"
"really!"
"Okay, you can use your gossip skills again and ask around who has shops for sale. Strike while the iron is hot and we'll make another deal!"
Chang Chong believes that this time his mother will keep her word.
Besides, Li Chengmu led his troops and followed the royal army to the border, but Annan's invading troops had already retreated.
There are only ruins left, devastated, dilapidated villages and towns without any human habitation.
As for the people who were killed by the enemy, they had been gathered together and buried by the soldiers of the garrison before they came.
"Annan now has 50,000 troops in Liangshan. It is this army that invaded our territory this time, and its leader is Annan's more famous Bian Yuehong."
Shi Mingbi, the commander-in-chief of Siling, followed Li Chengmu and Xiang Rongrang and introduced them to the current situation on the border.
Although Shi Mingbi and Xiang Rongrang were both commander-in-chiefs, there were differences between commander-in-chiefs. Serving as commander-in-chief directly under the prince would definitely have a higher status and power than serving as commander-in-chief locally, such as the difference between direct lineage and collateral lineage.
Among the group of people, Shi Mingbi was obviously headed by Xiang Rongrang.
After hearing what he said, Shi Rongrang said to everyone seriously: "The soldiers have been traveling for days and rest for three days. After three days, we will discuss before the war. At that time, everyone will make suggestions on how to arrange the next war?"
"yes!"
Everyone responded.
Shi Rongrang then said to Shi Mingbi: "In the past few days, you should go out and collect as much information as you can, so that you won't have a black eye when the time comes to discuss the matter."
"Yes!" Shi Mingbi heard the words and had to agree. The Ye Bu Shua in his hand had suffered a lot in the war. He originally thought that he would be able to take over as the shopkeeper once the palace's troops arrived.
I just didn't expect that the prince's commander-in-chief would catch him.
The commander-in-chief has at least 10,000 troops. He is not the commander-in-chief favored by the court or the palace. The current number of troops under his command is only a little over 10,000, which cannot be compared with the commander-in-chief before this prince.
Three days later, the latest news came from Ye Bushou. There were only 20,000 troops in Liangshan in Annan, led by Bian Yuehong.
Xiangzhou has 15,000 troops, led by Bian Yuehong's capable subordinate Chang Chang. On the other side of the city, there are 20,000 troops stationed at Bianyuan. The three parties form an interdependent triangle. No matter which side is attacked by the enemy, the troops of the other two parties will be attacked.
Can quickly rush to the aid of one of them.
When Xiang Rongrang heard this, he was very surprised. He turned to look at Shi Mingbi, "The news I got this time seems to be obviously different from what you said three days ago."
They are all passive and inactive in seeking information, which shows that defeating the war is not unjust!
Shi Mingbi had a sarcastic look on his face, scratched his nose, glanced at everyone and said, "It may be that Bian Yuehong's soldiers and horses have moved in the past three days."
Xiang Rongrang didn't buy his blame, and snorted coldly: "You will pay the price one day for your fluke!"
These words are very serious, but what he said is right. If Shi Mingbi's luck mentality does not change, one day he will die because of his own natural thoughts.
Shi Mingbi had a sneer on his face, but he didn't dare to say anything this time.
When Xiang Rongrang saw that he was no longer quibbling, he turned to look at Li Chengmu who was whispering to Long Yutian.
His tone couldn't help but soften a lot, "Master Wu, do you have any good thoughts on the current situation?"
When Li Chengmu heard Xiang Rongrang's question, he didn't answer him immediately and asked him to wait until he asked again.
Then he turned to Li Chengzhan and asked: "Second brother, what about you? Do you have any good strategies for dealing with the enemy in the current situation?"
When Li Chengzhan heard the question, he gritted his teeth secretly. It was not like Xiao Wu didn't know that he was uneducated and knew nothing about marching and fighting. Didn't he just want to embarrass him in front of everyone by asking him this question?
He sighed, Xiao Wu was becoming more and more sinister and cunning, and this opening made him unable to move forward or retreat.
Facing everyone's looks, Li Chengzhan could only ask the question to Xiang Rongrang, "When I'm out on an expedition, I obey the commander-in-chief for all military orders. Whatever he says, we do it!"
Xiang Rongrang: "."
This question seemed to be posed to them from him. Why did they in turn throw the question to him?
He turned to look at Long Yutian, "Sir calls himself Sai Zhuge. Do you have any tips for this?"
Long Yutian looked serious and did not shirk. He immediately said: "From the map, it seems that they are not far apart, leaning on each other in a triangular position. But as long as we calculate correctly, we can surround one city and consume the troops of two cities."
Xiang Rongrang's eyes suddenly lit up, "How do you say this, sir?"
"We need to treat the current situation with caution. The soldiers' physical strength will not recover so quickly after coming from afar. Although our strength is evenly matched, when tired, our combat power may only be less than 40%,"
Having said this, Long Yutian frowned, "However, the enemy is waiting for work, and will be superior to us in terms of physical strength and energy."
Shi Mingbi nodded: "What you said is shocking. We should consider how to do good logistics."
After hearing what he said, Long Yutian rolled his eyes. Seeing that everyone was listening attentively, he said: "Actually, my strategy is very simple, which is to besiege the city and bring reinforcements. We will divide our troops into three groups, and one of them will surround Xiangzhou.
, and made a move to besiege Xiangzhou.
When they sent people to Liangshan to ask for help and Liangshan led troops to assist, we ambush them halfway and eliminated them. The last team guarded the other direction to avoid being attacked by the enemy. Of course, if Bian Yuan also comes to rescue, you are welcome and can be eliminated.
Just destroy it."
After hearing this plan, Xiang Rongrang turned to look at the others, obviously wanting to see what other people's opinions were?
Li Chengzhan was out on an expedition, and he was in good spirits. He was no longer as lazy as when he was in the palace. When the coach looked over, he immediately agreed: "These barbarians in Annan are no match for us. Since Xiang Bing has an idea, it's time to
Whatever happens, so be it.”
"That's right, the people in Annan are nothing to worry about. They only bully the weak and avoid the strong. Seeing that this crime attracted the attention of the palace, they immediately gave up. They almost became immortals when they hunkered down in the territory." Li Chengyi agreed.
Xiang Rongrang turned to look at Third Master Li Chengli and Fifth Master Li Chengmu. The two of them had no objections to this action.
The strategy for dealing with the enemy was basically decided.
"Everyone go back and prepare well. In one day's preparation time, we will lead the army into Annan the day after tomorrow to take back what belongs to us."
The next day, the army advanced into Annan and arrived outside Xiangcheng two days later.
The Annan soldiers on the top of the city were so frightened that they almost rolled off the wall when they saw a large group of heads surrounding them.
But the soldiers outside the city were excited and nervous. In the past, they had only been bullied. This time, the troops of the Yu Dynasty took the initiative to attack Annan, which really boosted their morale.
They can finally vent their evil anger, and it would be a good idea to bring trouble to the enemy country.
We need to grab more supplies and return to camp later.
The city walls in Xiangzhou in Annan are all imitations of the city walls of the Yu Dynasty. The imitations are just imitations. They are somewhat similar, but they are not as strong and tall as the city walls of the Yu Dynasty.
Xiang Rongrang ordered artillery bombardment to prevent the other two cities from rushing to support. The siege here must be completed quickly. There must not be a situation where a city is besieged for ten and a half days.
"Boom boom boom!"
The sound of cannon sounded, heralding the beginning of the battle to seize the city.
The Annan garrison at the head of Xiangzhou City was in chaos. They wanted to resist and kill the enemy, but the enemy was too far away from the city wall, so they were unable to do anything to them for the moment.
However, the opponent's artillery has been bombarding their city wall. If this continues, their city wall may be bombed with big holes.
The Annan defenders on the city wall were in panic. It's over, it's over, it's over this time.
They did not expect that the soldiers and horses of the Yu Dynasty would break through the border defense line, and the soldiers were heading towards Xiangzhou.
If the cannonball hits the city wall, although it can cause damage to the Xiangzhou City Wall, the speed is too slow.
Xiang Rongrang pointed directly at the gate of Xiangzhou City and ordered the artillery: "Give me the artillery to aim at the city gate and bomb with all your strength!"
When the artillery soldiers heard the order, they adjusted their muzzles and aimed them at the city gate. Dozens of artillery shells flew towards the city gate. The power was unparalleled!
The cannonballs exploded, and all the defenders standing on the city wall felt their feet shaking.
How can they fight back in this situation?
The general never taught them!
The defenders on the city wall were all dumbfounded, praying in their hearts that the city gate would be stronger and not be blown open so easily.
"The army of Dayu's court is now so well-equipped? A team of tens of thousands of people is equipped with dozens of artillery pieces. How can one survive?"
"Moreover, their artillery seems to be much more powerful than the artillery we have seen."
"The messenger asking for help from Marshal Bian has been sent out. I hope we can hold on until the reinforcements arrive."
"I'm just dreaming. With this kind of offensive, we don't know how long we can last. We don't even know how many days it will take to wait for reinforcements from the commander-in-chief!"
"Don't blow up the city gate. If it blows up, we'll all be doomed! If we had known this, we shouldn't have provoked the Yu Dynasty's border!"
It's just that the wish is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.
Two rounds of artillery bombardment came down, and the city gate was breached. Under the cover of the artillery bombardment of the city wall, the cavalry and infantry rushed into the city gate.
The Annan soldiers and horses defending the city were defeated, and everyone was in a hurry to escape. Even the army's organizational structure was gone. How could such a defeated army resist the royal palace's soldiers and horses?
Li Chengmu led his own firearms team on horseback and rushed into the city gate with great energy. When he saw the defenders, he opened fire. It can be said that this way of killing the enemy is the simplest. It does not require waving your arms to kill people, which really saves energy.