Han Qian just set the next combat goals and requirements. A more specific military action plan was discussed and drawn up by Gao Shao and others. Then he walked out of the hall to breathe.
Zhang Ping avoided suspicion and did not participate in the discussion of specific military action plans. He followed Han Qian out of the hall and said: "At this time, the capture of Shangjia Fort has greatly increased the power of the Chishan Army. In addition to recruiting the slaves and poor tenants of Shangjia Fort, I will come back
At that time, I seemed to see slaves from Liyang and Jintan counties coming to surrender?"
"..." Han Qian spread his hands with a smile and said, "I don't want to attract slaves from outside Jinling to bring their families to surrender. This will make the Chishan Army become more bloated and huge, but people are coming to surrender, so I don't want to attract slaves."
There is no way to turn them away - in the past two days, there have been six to seven thousand slaves and children brought in with their families every day, which brings the total number of Chishan Army generals, women and children to more than 150,000 -
—Now as long as these people can be transferred out, there is nothing to worry about."
Zhang Ping sighed: "Yes, if we can successfully move these 150,000 people out and keep the passage to the south of Jinling City from being cut off, Wang Wenqian's siege strategy will almost be defeated."
Jinling will continue to face the problem of lack of food in the short term, but the transfer of 150,000 people will not only reduce the basic consumption of 50,000 to 60,000 stones of food and grass every month, but other civilians will not be driven to Jinling City and besieged.
Outside the city, there are rivers, streams and lakes. You can fish and shrimp, pick vegetables and wild vegetables, and even bark and cores can be used to satisfy your hunger. It is not a problem to survive the famine. If not, you can go to Yishan and Jiuhuashan in the south.
The population is dispersed in the depths.
It's just that the Chishan Army needs at least 50,000 to 60,000 shi of food every month to meet its basic needs. Where can the 150,000 troops be transferred?
Zhang Ping was at a loss to think about this, but looking at Han Qian's calm expression, he thought there might be a deeper plan, but he was from the Shenling Division, and Han Qian didn't trust him and was unwilling to tell him.
Thinking of this, Zhang Ping looked at Han Qian again and said:
"No one will recognize your achievements for what you have done. After all, the siege did not really happen. Even if someone saw the clues, there were only three or five people. If we hadn't listened to Miss Wang's suggestion, we would never have thought of going up to this level——
What more people see is that you are arrogant and domineering, and you are good at seizing military power. Many people in Yueyang even say that you are not resentful of being left out, and came to Jinling to win over people's hearts and military morale, but you do not hesitate to make enemies of the world's noble families.
Do you think it’s worth it?”
Han Qian was slightly startled. He didn't expect Zhang Ping to ask him these questions directly. He pondered for a while and said: "My father couldn't bear to see the war in Jinling and the casualties of the people. Although I can't stop the war, I can let as few people as possible be considered as concession."
He can rest his eyes under the Nine Springs - as for the people in Yueyang and what will happen in the future, I can't take care of it for the moment."
Zhang Ping pondered for a while, then raised his hands and said, "If Mr. Han needs Zhang Ping to share his worries, please tell me."
"Is Li Pu so unpopular?" Han Qian asked with a faint smile.
"It's hard to put it into words." Zhang Ping smiled bitterly.
"Can General Zhigao be relied upon?" Han Qian narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhang Ping and asked.
Zhang Ping's eyes showed a trace of confusion, and after pondering for a while, he said: "Master Han is sincere..."
"The situation will change, and people's hearts will also change," Han Qian stopped Zhang Ping and said, "We'd better get over the current difficulties first!"
At this time, there was a noise outside the yard.
Han Qian looked out and saw several guards cursing and driving someone away from the passage in the west courtyard. Seeing that the man was Shang Hu who fought extremely bravely during the attack on Shangjia Fort, he asked: "What's going on?
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"This guy is poking around in the courtyard where the female relatives are detained. I'm afraid he has lustful thoughts. If he hasn't committed any evil deeds, he would have to be sent to Mr. Guo to see how Mr. Guo will deal with him," the guard said.
"I was just passing by to take a look." Shang Hu's skin was originally dark, and now his face turned red, a bit purple-black, and he held his neck to defend himself.
"Passing by? What did you say you were doing? You happened to pass by the courtyard where the female relatives were imprisoned, and you happened to lean on the courtyard wall to take a peek?" The guard exposed Shang Hu's lie mercilessly.
"Lying at the end of the courtyard and peeking, as long as you don't barge in unintentionally, is not a violation of military discipline." Han Qian asked the guards to retreat and asked Shang Hu, "Which girl do you have your eye on and are you thinking about it? Tell me.
, I will ask Mr. Zhang to ask for you. If the other party is interested, then it will be done. If not, don’t think too much about it."
"No, no, I really just took a look. I don't dare to have any delusions." Shang Hu's face turned red and he stammered.
Seeing that Shang Hu refused to tell the other party's name, Han Qian just followed him.
Shang Hu hesitated for a long time and refused to leave. Han Qian asked curiously: "Is there anything else?"
"The Shang family has a grudge against me for killing my father. I don't want to use the surname Shang anymore. I want to ask you to give me a surname. I ran here to talk to you about this, but I didn't dare to disturb you. I don't know why.
He ran to the yard where the female relatives were imprisoned." Shang Hu said bravely.
"Is this the case?" Han Qian pondered for a while and said, "There is someone in my family whose surname is Han Minghu, so you should be Han Donghu - just ask Guo Nuer to change the name list."
"Thank you, Sir, for the name!" Han Donghu nodded excitedly and quickly went down the mountain.
Han Qian shook his head and smiled. He didn't know what he was happy about. He said to Zhang Ping: "There are so many people imprisoned and they need to be sent to Lishui quickly. Don't worry about so many people up and down."
Shang Zhongjie and other family members led a small number of elite troops to escape, but most of the female family members in Shangjia Fort were abandoned. Han Qian had no idea of relegating the enemy's female family members to Leying Prostitute Village for the enjoyment of the generals, and temporarily imprisoned them together.
I got up and thought about asking Zhang Ping to send the person away...
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Although the valley at the foot of the mountain is crowded with people, behind the Leipingfeng Taoist Temple and among the ruined pavilions on the stone cliffs, it still feels like a paradise.
Except for people who go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables and fruits, and people who hunt mountain animals occasionally pass by, people and horses in the valley usually do not climb to Leiping Peak to disturb the peaceful and peaceful life of the Taoist temple.
On a hot summer day, the old man in green clothes with a sickly face couldn't stand the cool air in the mountains, so he put on a robe outside his coat and sat in the incomplete pavilion playing chess with the temple owner Yun Puzi.
"Master Li was killing prisoners in Lishui City and couldn't wait to entrust the surrendering families with great power, regardless of their shortcomings of losing their heads and tails. Why don't you really come forward and give them some advice?" Yun Puzi said witheredly.
He picked up a chess piece with his fingers and before it fell, he squinted at the old man in front of him and asked.
"I can teach anyone who can teach me step by step. If I can't teach you step by step, I am a dying person. Who will listen?" The old man spoke openly.
"It is unlucky to kill prisoners after all," Yun Puzi said.
"It is not appropriate to kill prisoners, but there is nothing ominous about it. Besides, I have been stained with so much blood in my life and my heart is as hard as iron. What qualifications do I have to preach to the younger generation?" said the old man.
"I understand, while you are still breathing, no matter how big the trouble those juniors cause, others will always look down on you. It is better than you burying the loyal bones with a pinch of dirt and causing trouble again."
!" Yun Puzi laughed.
"You will inevitably have to think about your children throughout your life!" The old man sighed and said noncommittally.
"When the Chishan Army has reached this point, both King Xin and the Marquis of your Li family believe that Han Qian will represent the interests of Yueyang and lead the large-scale Chishan Army to stay in Maoshan and the East Lushan line. They believe that Han Qian will not particularly care about the old man.
Weak women and children are in dire straits for food, so at most they will expand their scope of activities to northern Xuanzhou, but you also said that Han Qian came here adhering to his father's legacy - then tell me, what will the Chishan Army do next?"
At this time, Yun Puzi finally put down the chess piece in his hand, stared at the old man in green robe with interest and asked,
"Gu Zhilong is waiting hard in Xuanzhou, and Huang Hua is not easy to mess with in Huzhou, right? When Han Qian first arrived in Jinling, the price of grain in Jinling was only ten or twenty yuan per stone. But today, two months later, the price of grain in Jinling City is only ten yuan or twenty cents per stone.
It rose to seventy or eighty cents, and the grain from the east was never able to move west by car or boat. Many poor people endured several months of spring famine, and were so hungry that they looked sallow and thin. However, after the beginning of summer, most of the harvest was lost to the south.
The Yamen Imperial Army was forcibly recruited to serve as military rations to meet the needs of the noble officials in the city. This caused the Chishan Army to capture Shangjiabao and its momentum increased. In the past ten days, three to five thousand people with their families and families came to join the Chishan Army.
As a result, the Chishan Army does not have 200,000 troops at this time, which is very different. I believe that more slaves and hungry people will gather soon. However, the problem is that even if the Chishan Army can number 400,000 to 50,000 strong men, it will not be more than 300,000.
The old, weak, women and children had 300,000 mouths open, crying for food, and a large number of them were weak people who had been given up by the noble families due to lack of food. At this time when the counties outside Jinling were short of food, they were not so easy to serve! The old prince judged
Han Qian wanted to inherit his father's legacy and concluded that he would not leave these many old and weak women and children alone. He would definitely have to take so many old and weak women and children out to get food in order to survive so many people. I assume all this is true.
But surrounded by heroes, the Chishan Army consists of only 30,000 to 50,000 men, but it has to protect 300,000 to 400,000 women and children running around for food. Old prince, it must be easy for you to imagine how many flaws will be exposed, right?
In the eyes of aristocratic families and ordinary people living and working in peace and contentment in Jiangdong, the Chishan Army at this time is no different from the refugee army, right? Even if Huang Hua cannot stop the Chishan Army from advancing eastward, by then the three or four hundred thousand
People who enter the two Zhejiang provinces will be like locusts wherever they go, eating up all the food in the place, causing more hungry people to be trapped, and the entire Jiangnan East Road will be destroyed. This is probably not the case.
Is it what the old prince wishes to see?"
"You have a lot of problems. I see that you have reduced your problems a lot in the past few days, but you have been thinking about this matter." The old man in green robe said with a slight smile.
"Others expected Han Qian to be a scheming and ruthless man who wanted to gain fame and reputation. He came to Jinling not to be ignored by Yue Yang and intended to win over the hearts and minds of the elite soldiers of the Dragon Bird Army. But you also said that he came to Jinling to break the siege of the Chuzhou Army.
"He came here to inherit his father's legacy," Yun Puzi said, "However, I have thought about it in every possible way, but I don't know how he can treat the three or four hundred thousand people well, surrounded by tigers and wolves, who will be hated by the surrounding states and counties.
, are regarded as the rabble of Locust County—or perhaps, old prince, you have made a mistake this time?”
"What's the important thing if I don't make mistakes? When Han Qian recruited slaves to join the army, he expected that King Xin would impatiently follow suit. The current situation is also the same. This makes the Chuzhou Army and Gu Zhilong in the south and Huang Hua in the east have each other.
If you are afraid, it will be difficult to join forces,"
Seeing that Yun Puzi was racking his brains thinking about this matter, the old man finally couldn't bear to throw out all the questions in his heart today. He sighed and said,
"My younger brother was used by Han Qian to block the northwest. I think he must have planned it - of course, as a dying man, I can only play a few happy chess games with my old friends. Go
What are you thinking about?"
"The old prince doesn't want to point it out to me, right?" Yun Puzi asked.
"What plans does Han Qian have to break the situation? Far away, what Han Daoxun and Han Qian's father and son did in Xuzhou. Nearby, look at how Han Qian organized these old and weak women and children in Maoshan for more than a month. Every detail was laid out.
In front of you and me - if you need my help to figure this out, then even if I help you figure it out, you still won't be able to figure it out." The old man sighed softly, "I advise you, you can be happy in this mountains and rivers, but you can't figure it out.
Why do you want to go down the mountain? These days in Maoshan, the ditches and ridges are crowded with people. Only Chuiping Peak can isolate you from the outside world. Do you think Han Qian really doesn’t know that you and I are hiding here? Han Qian really thinks that I am the only one who is old.
You immortal, why don't you just stay in this Chuiping Peak? Han Qian is deeply entangled with the Shenling Division, and he is also the most defensive about the Shenling Division. You can't hide this."
Yun Puzi was slightly startled. Is Han Qian's way to break the situation really right in front of him?
Yun Puzi still couldn't see through it, but he said with a smile on his face:
"You have nothing to do with your son, the Li family. The Shenling Division is divided into four parts, each fighting for its own advantage. How can I still be ignorant - I'm just curious about how Han Qian will clean up this mess."
Seeing that there was still a trace of bitterness and unwillingness in Yun Puzi's eyes, the old man sighed and shook his head, and stopped trying to persuade him, but he also stopped talking about this topic in depth.