Chapter 171: Abandoning the cart and abandoning the horse
The autumn harvest work experienced a bit of chaos in the past few days, but finally became orderly by the end of September.
Seeing the warehouse full of grain, Song Yang couldn't help but smile.
The people were not unhappy either.
With so much food harvested, we no longer have to worry about hunger.
"By the way. Where are the craftsmen that Ma Cheng sent back?"
After working on the autumn harvest for seven or eight days, Song Yang finally remembered those craftsmen.
"We have all divided the tools for the autumn harvest. We happen to be short of manpower, so let them harvest the grain first."
Song Yang didn't arrange any specific work for them, so Fang Zhe asked them to do the autumn harvest first.
"Okay, it's not too late to wait until the autumn harvest is over before doing other things." Song Yang nodded after hearing this arrangement.
"Whoops!" Gao Junyan gasped and sat on the field ridge.
Song Yang looked at him and said with a smile: "Your body is not strong enough. Look at Fang Zhe, he is also a scholar, and he is not as tired as you."
"My lord, I find that collecting grain is more tiring than practicing martial arts. I know some martial arts skills, but this grain collection..." Gao Junyan gasped.
"Hey! That's because you're exerting force in the wrong way, look at me!" Fang Zhe showed off.
I waved my sickle and started working quickly.
"This... is so easy! I have to learn from you!" Gao Junyan didn't want to be compared to Fang Zhe, a pure scholar.
Under the leadership of Song Yang, all officials of Jiangzhou, big and small, participated in the autumn harvest.
Even Gao Junyan is no exception.
He is from Jiangning. If he wants to be favored by Song Yang, he must work harder to be what Song Yang wants him to be.
Otherwise, you will never be able to become the core of Jiangzhou Group in your lifetime.
That's why Gao Junyan worked so hard.
He is a real second-generation official and a rich second-generation official, not one of those ignorant dandies.
This kind of person can endure hardships and fatigue, and he can also use his brains!
That’s why their family will endure for a long time.
Song Yang also admires this kind of person. At least he is pragmatic and not a boastful person.
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Jiangzhou Group’s autumn harvest work is in progress until the end of September.
Bronze Drum reinforcements have arrived.
The reinforcements were not from Hongzhou Wang Songying, but Liu Manqing led a large group of troops.
"Miss. They don't know you're coming now. Tomorrow will catch them off guard."
"Yeah. It's a good idea. Let's have a meeting to study it. Be careful, others will find out the clues."
"Don't worry, King Hongzhou is nothing to do."
In recent days, Shen Dan would only secretly harvest some grain at night.
During the day, the thieves are keeping a close eye on you. If you want to harvest, they will leave the city.
In several tug-of-wars, the Hongzhou soldiers were at the disadvantage.
So much so that they didn't dare to run away, fearing that the thieves would chase after them.
They didn't dare to attack, for fear that the enemy's entire army would attack.
That was all it took for a while.
Song Ying wanted to run out of food in the city and force the thieves to escape.
Shen Dan wanted to harvest all the grain here as much as possible and then conduct an ambush outside the city.
Destroying the morale of a wave of enemies, even if it is impossible to eliminate these thieves, cannot make them live too comfortably.
At the end of September, the grain harvest near Tonggu County was finally almost done.
Shen Dan went to King Hongzhou and talked about the ambush.
"Ah Dan, why don't we withdraw and leave the bronze drum to them." Song Ying doesn't want this place.
In the past few days of fighting, he also discovered that his side was no match.
If the entire army of thieves comes out of the cave, they may suffer heavy losses.
"Uncle, you can't lose the bronze drum! If the bronze drum is lost, Hongzhou will be finished!"
"Uncle! Let Li Yujiang and the others be the forwards, and we can still fight!"
In the past few days, Shen Dan had seen clearly that Li Yujiang and the other guards were restrained beside King Hongzhou, and they were all rushing to go to the front to kill the enemy, but they never got permission to do so.
And Minzhuang, who was stationed in front, was no match for the thieves.
At the very least, the morale is too low.
After one or two people were killed, they were immediately frightened and kept retreating, not daring to step forward.
Even if we continue to fight like this, let alone being more numerous than the enemy, even if we are ten times more numerous than the enemy, we may not be able to defeat them!
"No, no, no! No! They can't pass! Who will protect me when they pass!"
The King of Hongzhou waved his hands and refused.
"Uncle! Why don't you go back to Yuzhang first? How about leaving this place to me and Li Yujiang?"
Shen Dan was speechless. He wanted to drive away King Hongzhou.
"That's not possible! If you don't leave, your aunt will be worried! How about you come with me?"
The King of Hongzhou had long ago not wanted to fight, and now he was eager to retreat immediately.
"Then uncle, let's leave Li Yujiang to command the battle?" Shen Dan suggested again.
"We have already withdrawn, so why give orders? Of course we all left!" Song Ying shook his head and said.
Shen Dan was dumbfounded when he heard this. The guards officers and soldiers stepped forward.
How to fight this?
Do we really want to give up the bronze drum?
At that time, thieves could attack Yuzhang at any time. It was so dangerous!
In his heart, he didn't want to give up the bronze drum, but King Hongzhou was really incompetent.
It's not an option to waste it like this.
"Forget it. Since uncle is leaving, let's leave tomorrow."
After some ideological struggle, Shen Dan finally gave up.
Go back and manage Yuzhang well, and there will still be room for defense.
If the bronze drum is used up like this, the bandits will have to stay here if reinforcements come.
"You want to leave? Okay, okay! I'll leave tomorrow! I'll leave tomorrow!" King Hongzhou said happily.
Early the next morning, the Hongzhou soldiers who had packed up were waiting for Hongzhou King Songying, who was still dreaming, to get up and break camp.
"Woo!"
Suddenly, horn sounds came from three directions in the north, southwest and south.
"No! The thief is here!" Shen Dan frowned and looked into the distance.
Countless thieves rushed toward them from these three directions, but they didn't look like five thousand people.
The thieves' reinforcements must have arrived.
Last night Liu Manqing and Liu He discussed a move to outflank three people without one.
Their goal was to completely defeat the Hongzhou soldiers and capture Tonggu.
It's not that all these Hongzhou soldiers are wiped out, they still understand the principle of fighting even when a trapped beast is trapped.
Being able to defeat most of them is already a great victory.
Besides, the number of elite rebels was not large, and Liu Manqing was not willing to lose too much.
So this play style of surrounding three and missing one is the best choice.
Sure enough, when the Hongzhou soldiers heard the attack horns coming from three directions, they all turned their attention to the east.
Except for those guards, no Hongzhou soldiers wanted to resist.
"Oh! Withdraw!" Shen Dan shook his head speechlessly and said.
After saying that, he immediately asked Li Yujiang to carry the sleeping Hongzhou Wang Songying into the carriage.
The army was about to retreat, but now it was suddenly attacked.
It's strange to have a fighting spirit.
When thieves carry out a sneak attack, of course they will only launch a charge when they are already in front of them.
At this moment, he rushed over quickly.
But the Hongzhou soldiers didn't know how to resist, while the Wuyangyang ones knew how to run away.
"Kill! Hunt for a while and then we'll talk!"
Liu He is responsible for presiding over the forward battle, while Liu Manqing is in charge of the central army.
Seeing that the Hongzhou soldiers were about to collapse at the first touch, Liu He immediately ordered a pursuit.
"Puff puff!"
The thieves chased each with a machete, just like a tiger chopping melons and vegetables into a flock of sheep.
The Hongzhou soldiers showed no intention of resisting and were chased and hacked to death crazily.
"Hurry up! Hurry up! The thief is catching up!"
Wang Songying of Hongzhou grabbed the frame of the car and urged frantically, fearing that he would be overtaken by the thieves if he ran too slowly.
"In that carriage is King Hongzhou! Capture King Hongzhou and be promoted to the fifth level!"
After chasing for a while, Liu He also learned from the defeated soldiers that the leader of the Hongzhou soldiers was actually the King of Hongzhou.
So he set out to capture the King of Hongzhou.
"Come on! Capture King Hongzhou and get promoted to the fifth level!"
"The person in the carriage wearing a yellow robe is King Hongzhou!"
The bandits roared excitedly, making King Hongzhou tremble with fear.
Looking at the swarming bandits, King Hongzhou didn't care about his physical strength.
He took off the king's robe, grabbed a group of guards' horses, got on the horses and ran away.
"Hurry up! The horseman in front is King Hongzhou!" Liu He shouted again.
The thieves also saw King Hongzhou, and some even fired arrows directly at him.
"Puff puff!"
Several guards guarding King Hongzhou were shot in the back.
No matter how strong his martial arts skills are, he can't withstand a rout without any intention to fight.
King Hongzhou saw the guard fall off his horse and was so frightened that he did not dare to ride anymore.
He quickly dismounted and mingled with the fleeing crowd.
Now Liu He can't find anyone.
We can only order the thieves to kill as many people as possible.
After a full hour of pursuit, Hongzhou's defeated troops finally got rid of the rebels.
The thieves were also busy encircling us last night and almost didn't sleep all night.
Otherwise, it wouldn't be so easy to get rid of.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, are you okay?"
In a small forest, Songying, the king of Hongzhou, sighed and fell to the ground.
He rolled his eyes and foamed at the mouth, looking like he was about to die.
"Don't worry, sir. Your Majesty is in collapse. His life is not in danger." A guard with some knowledge of medical skills said after looking at it.
"Alas! Why is this happening! Why is this happening!" Li Yujiang said with a distressed look on his face.
As a guard soldier, he was defeated without even fighting.
This time it was extremely embarrassing.
"Where is Shen Dan? Have you escaped?" Li Yujiang looked around but didn't see Shen Dan.
He hurriedly pulled over his subordinates and asked.
"I don't know! It's so chaotic, I didn't see anyone at all."
"Go and find it quickly!"
Just as Li Yujiang was about to send someone to look for them, a group of people came out of the grove. It was Shen Dan and the more than 300 Hongzhou soldiers he had gathered.
"Master Shen, everything is fine!" Li Yujiang breathed a sigh of relief.
The purpose of this trip was to find Shen Dan.
If the team breaks up, you can practice again. If Shen Dan fails, nothing will be accomplished.
Looking at the prince's expression, Shen Dan curled his lips, his uncle really didn't have any courage at all!
Otherwise, these ten thousand people might have captured the bronze drum long ago.
"Master Li, do you think the thieves will attack Yuzhang?" Shen Dan said with a frown.
"It's very possible!" Li Yujiang said in a deep voice.
All the bronze drums were obtained, and Yuzhang was just these defeated soldiers plus some strong people.
The thieves may not give them a chance to breathe.
"Then what should we do! We won't be able to go to the training camp!"
Shen Dan has already begun to plan for the future.
The original plan was to return to Yuzhang to train troops and then regroup and recapture the bronze drum.
But now they are in retreat and their morale is extremely low.
Moreover, the losses were heavy, and there was no telling how many people could be gathered.
It is simply impossible to establish an effective defense system.
"Why don't we evacuate? Doesn't it mean that King Jiangzhou is managing well? Let's persuade the prince to go to King Jiangzhou!" Li Yujiang suggested.