After climbing over a mountain ridge, in the valley at the northern foot of Maoshan Mountain, there is a manor house with more than 20 stone houses, hidden in the dense woods. I drove my horse closer and saw the walls made of these stones.
It is covered with moss, grass and vines, and has some mottled traces of time.
This was once the secret vault where the Feng family's treasures were stored. After the treasures were taken out, several deaf-mute old men who guarded the secret vault had already moved into Xuzhou along with the Feng family's slaves, and the village courtyard was abandoned and became
A resting place for hunters, medicine farmers or vagrants in the mountains.
You can still see the remnants of the bonfire in front of the house.
At present, the main force of the remnants of Taowu Jibinghu has been stationed in the northern foothills. They were busy until late at night, and when all the soldiers set up camp, Han Qian and Yuan Guowei rushed to the manor with a group of personal guards.
Xinchang Hou Li Pu and Chen Mingsheng came with several guards, riding lame horses like flies. They were full of doubts about what Han Qian was doing here in the middle of the night when he had nothing to do.
In any case, the real elites of Taowu's army are still in the Longque Army. As long as Han Qian still serves Yueyang as the leader, Xinchang Hou Li Pu serves as the right prime minister of Hunan Xingtai, and as the father-in-law of King Tan, especially in Li Pudu
Having already surrendered, Han Qian really couldn't do anything to Li Pu.
Besides, it is better to have Li Pu follow you than to have him hide behind your back and do anything.
When he rushed to the farmyard, Li Pu saw that Guo Nuer, who was a soldier of the Han family, had already led a team of people in a stone house in the farmyard and was digging out baskets of soil from the stone house and piling them into the yard.
in the open space.
"Sun, didn't you take out all the treasures from my uncle's family from here, and secretly hid some of them in this villa?" Kong Xirong dismounted and limped over. Seeing the scene in front of him, he couldn't help but
I want to give Han Qian a look.
Hearing what Kong Xirong said, Li Pu also stared at Han Qian suspiciously.
After the Feng family committed a serious crime of rebellion, in addition to the Dali Temple, Yushitai and the Ministry of Justice confiscated the Feng family's property, Prince Tan's Palace also secretly confiscated a large amount of the Feng family's jewelry and property, totaling more than one million yuan.
Prince Tan's Mansion mainly used these treasures to run Ezhou and prepare for the war against the Ma family to reduce the vassalage.
Of course, Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, was aware of these things. He also knew that the Feng family’s most important treasure cave was located in the mountains at the northern foot of Maoshan Mountain. However, the person in charge of the secret treasure hunt of the Feng family in Tan Prince’s Mansion was
Han Qian, Jiang Huo, Yuan Guowei and others, but no one from the Xinchang Hou Mansion was directly involved.
Seeing this scene, Li Pu couldn't help but think that it was very possible that Han Qian had hidden a lot of property from Jiang Huo and Yuan Guowei. After all, all the people in Jinyun Tower at that time were direct descendants trained by Han Qian.
It is said that people will not be rich without windfall, and people will not be fat without night grass. If this were not the case, Li Pu could not imagine how the rise of Xuzhou could be so fast.
Kong Xirong was close to Han Qian, so he asked him directly. Li Pu didn't want to offend this murderer now, so he thought of writing down the account for the time being, and seeing how Han Qian would explain it when he returned to Yueyang in the future.
Han Qian glanced at Li Pu and guessed what this guy was thinking, and said coldly: "If Mr. Li wants to sue Han Qian in front of His Highness in the future, he will go into the stone house to see clearly what is hidden in the secret cave.
Wealth may be better."
"Hmph!" Li Pu snorted coldly. He didn't want to be underestimated by Han Qian. He stood there proudly and looked at the torches around him that were beeping and swaying in the mountain wind. He said, "You are now
We need soldiers and armor and food and fodder the most. Even if we hide countless treasures privately, what's the use? Is it possible that any of the surrounding people would dare to sell you soldiers, armor, food and fodder?"
In the battle of Jingshan'an, the Taowu army was defeated by Xu Zhu. In addition to more than half of the casualties, the generals had to abandon a large number of heavy armor in order to save their lives when they fled.
When Han Qian took over the remaining 3,000 soldiers, there were less than 2,000 sets of soldiers and armor left. Even though he raided Danyang this time and captured a batch of soldiers and armor, he could barely make up more than 3,000 sets of soldiers and armor.
However, Han Qian had to organize a women's battalion and a boy's battalion to supplement the lack of defense forces at this time, so there was still a serious shortage of armor.
More importantly, the Chuzhou Army will react soon. Even if they don't attack Maoshan, they will send troops to keep an eye on the left and right to prevent Han Qian from sending troops out to collect food. It may only take ten days.
When the food supply is exhausted, eating will become a big problem.
There are many large and small Taoist nunneries in Maoshan, as well as a dozen large and small villages, but the total population is only a few thousand, and the food storage is extremely small, even if they robbed more than a hundred carts of grain from Danyang City during the day
, it seems to be 20,000 to 30,000 kilograms, which is a lot, but when divided into 50,000 old, weak, women and children, each person only has five or six kilograms of rations. Even if they can dig wild vegetables and catch fish and crabs to satisfy their hunger at the turn of spring and summer, they still have
How many days can it last?
Furthermore, Han Qian attacked Danyang and captured thousands of war horses.
If a war horse eats raw grass directly, it is prone to diarrhea and plague. If a horse's food is not supplemented with a large amount of beans, it will be unable to run. But how much beans should a thousand war horses eat every day?
Therefore, in Li Pu's view, Han Qian's sneak attack on Danyang and a complete break with Chuzhou would make the situation ten times more difficult than before, not any better.
Li Pu still stayed here and refused to leave at this time, just because he wanted to see Han Qian be forced to abandon these old, weak, women and children when he was unable to clean up the mess.
Incompetent people always like to see others incompetent.
When asked Li Pu's provocative question, Han Qian remained silent, as if saying more to Li Pu would be a waste of air.
Seeing Han Qian's appearance, Li Pu snorted twice, stroked his long gray beard, and stood aside with a breath.
Soon Guo Nuer emptied the soil that had been refilled in the secret cave. At this time, he led others to bring out piles of packages wrapped in oilcloth, piled them in the yard and opened them. There were piles of packages that had been soaked in grease.
of fine iron components.
No matter how incompetent Xinchanghou Li Pu is, he is still slightly above the average level among the current generals, but he is just not worthy of his high position at this time.
"Fed Crossbow!" Li Pu could see at a glance that these refined iron components wrapped in oilcloth were key components of the Crossbow or Cyclone Crossbow. He was stunned for a long time and didn't know what to say. He thought Han Qian was copying them.
During the investigation, the Feng family's belongings were secretly hidden, but they did not expect that all the items they brought out were parts of war weapons, and they were offensive and defensive weapons that were in short supply among the remnants of the Taowu army.
Chen Mingsheng could no longer hold back at this time. He walked into the spacious stone house with the soldiers carrying the oil packages, and saw a huge hole dug out on the inside of the stone house, revealing the underground secrets that the Feng family had used to hide their belongings.
The library is dark and illuminated with torches.
As Guo Nuer led his men to move out all the war weapon parts and a batch of sophisticated soldiers and armors wrapped in oilcloth, Li Pu discovered that in the secret warehouse of the manor, there was actually something that could assemble thirty crossbows and thirty Scorpions.
Cannons, three hundred refined iron parts for crossbows, five hundred horse-killing broadswords, three hundred sets of fine steel scales, hundreds of large shields, and thousands of bundles of sharp iron-edged arrows.
Today, three thousand remnant soldiers captured Danyang City. They were purely using a dangerous strategy to quickly disrupt the situation, defeat the defenders as quickly as possible, and drive the defenders out of the city. However, Qin Ran, the commander-in-chief of the defenders, dared to lead three to five hundred elite troops to defend the city.
If it is a critical point, the situation will be extremely dangerous. Even if it can be bitten down in the end, the casualties will be difficult to control.
After all, the three thousand remnants only had morale available at that time. If they really had to show off their chariots and horses and fight in formation, their combat effectiveness would be inferior to that of the elite Chuzhou army.
With the addition of this batch of soldiers, armor and weapons, the three thousand remaining soldiers can truly be said to have the strength to face the Chuzhou Army head-on.
Li Pu was stunned. He had never thought that all these things were hidden in the Feng family's treasure cave. He didn't know when Han Qian hid these things here?
After the Feng family was confiscated, didn't Han Qian go to Xuzhou quickly? He was busy with the war to reduce the vassal state, and after the war to reduce the vassal state, he was quickly sent to Shu as a wedding envoy, right?
Seeing that Yuan Guowei also had a shocked look on his face, Li Pu knew that Han Qian had secretly kept these armors and weapons and did not use the power of Jinyun Tower. Otherwise, even if he did not notice any clues, as one of the two main cases in Jinyun Tower, Yuan Guowei
It's impossible not to know.
"There are still thousands of bags of grain in it! If you save money, it can probably feed 40,000 to 50,000 women and children for a month!" Chen Mingsheng said to Li Pu'er, but his face was not excited at all. With this batch of grain, Han Qian
They can stay in Maoshan for at least a month and a half. Can they stay in Maoshan for a month and a half to see Han Qian's jokes or his fate?
"Master Li, do you now know how bad this game of chess has been played by you?" Yuan Guowei originally didn't want to hate Li Pu, but at this moment he couldn't help but ridicule him.
Li Pu stood there, not knowing what to say.
To be honest, Qiuhu Mountain serves as the main base to guard against changes in Jinling City and King Tan withdraws from the city. The grain stored there is several times more than here. There is also a complete workshop in operation.
If Li Pu couldn't understand the essence of Han Qian's idea of using a mountain as a city at the beginning - that Han Qian would fully mobilize women and children, and the main strategies and combat methods he would adopt would start publicity in the afternoon, Li Pu and the others would like to know
It's easy - no matter how stupid he is at this time, he can more or less see clearly what Han Qian's original plan was.
If he can lead 7,000 elites to guard Qiuhu Mountain and protect more than 50,000 women and children at the southern foot of Baohua Mountain, Yueyang only needs to send an elite force with light equipment to penetrate into the vicinity of Maoshan in the south of Jinling City, and use the troops hidden in Maoshan in advance.
Jia Liang Mo, whether guarding Maoshan, or cruising around Maoshan, can allow Yueyang to take considerable initiative in this three-party competition.
They didn't even need to cooperate with Wang Wenqian at the beginning. As long as they could gain a foothold on the Jinling side, they would be qualified to negotiate with Anning Palace and force Anning Palace to retreat, thus allowing Xu Mingzhen and the Chuzhou Army to fight for victory between the Jianghuai River and the Huaihe River.
Come on - in that case, there is really no need for them to cut off Han Daoxun's way of life so urgently!
Han Qian turned around, not wanting to look at Li Pu again.
This also made Li Pu feel even more complicated, but he didn't feel much guilt in his heart. He was just more afraid of Han Qian and Han Qian's resentment towards him.
At this time, Shi Ji rode up the mountain with dozens of people. He dismounted and said excitedly: "Sir, you said that Damao Peak Yinyun Temple is a den of thieves planted by Chuzhou outside Jinling City. I took people to go there. Sir, you guessed that our
How big of a fish did you catch for the first time?”