"Brother, I came to Luojincheng this time to ask you to send troops to help my brother." Zhu Zhen said.
"Sixth brother, why do you need help from my younger brother? Although the savages in Hanzhou are fierce, they have no discipline. They may be able to resist due to the geographical advantage in the mountains and forests, but in the flatlands they will collapse at a touch. But they have never seen firearms, even in
When fighting in the mountains and forests, as long as you use firearms, you will kneel down and surrender. Why do you need to rely on your brother's help? Unless," Zhu Bai suddenly thought of something, and said: "Sixth Brother, you are going to attack the place in the south where you have detected many tall buildings.
valley?"
"You are the twelfth brother who knows me." Zhu Zhen said with a smile first, and then said: "My brother's land is not as good as yours. From the north of Luojincheng to Jinchuan City, there are hundreds of miles of plains inland. Although this
At that time, it was mostly covered with woods, but it can be opened up into fields in the future. However, the place I occupy now has few plains and many mountains, just like Guizhou, making it difficult to develop."
"Brother sent someone to do a little exploration around the valley and found that the location is excellent, with open terrain, dangers to rely on, and a very suitable climate. Only by occupying that place can I develop. So brother
Please give me, my twelfth brother, a helping hand to help my brother seize that place."
The maid Zhu Bai ordered to serve him refilled a cup of tea, sipping it slowly while thinking about it. Zhu Zhen was right, the place allocated to him was far inferior to the place reserved by Zhu Bai himself. Whether it was the Wuchang Peninsula of the Han Dynasty (
Baja California Peninsula) or other places, there are not only few plains, but also not much rain, which is not as good as our own land. I have kept these thousands of miles of plains out of selfishness, and I really should send troops to help him seize the good land in the south.
But according to the news that Fang Mingqian sent back, there were very tall buildings in that valley. It can be seen that the locals are definitely not savages, and they are probably difficult to attack. He would not want to lose too much to help Zhu Zhen.
Zhu Bai thought for a while and asked: "Sixth brother, are you sure about attacking that valley? We two brothers only have this little property, so we can't help but make trouble."
"Of course there is no absolute certainty." Zhu Zhen said more honestly: "I haven't had direct contact yet, and the information I got from the surrounding tribes is vague. Some people even say that the valley has been abandoned, but I don't know.
True or false. But you should still expect leniency from your enemies."
"But don't worry, even if we can't defeat the people in the valley and capture the valley, we won't be defeated too badly."
"How do you say this?" Zhu Bai asked.
"Because we have horses!" Zhu Zhen said: "Twelfth brother, in all these years in the Hanzhou continent, have you ever seen animals that are like horses for people to ride on? Those savages saw our cavalry for the first time, weren't they all very excited?
Fear?"
"That's true," Zhu Bai said. So far, they have not found any large animals like cattle and horses for people to ride and work. The locals are also very afraid of horses. Horses are the second most frightening thing after firearms.
"If you say that the people in the valley can make very good weapons, I believe it, but if you say that they have big livestock, I definitely don't believe it. Savages can't learn to make weapons. Is it not easy to steal two livestock? But we encountered
All the savages who arrived did not have large animals, which shows that there are no large animals in Hanzhou continent."
"In this way, the advantage of the cavalry will be exclusive to us. Brother Wei's plan is to bring most of the cavalry, and the infantry will only take the savage infantry you trained to attack the valley. Even if they are defeated, the cavalry will still be able to attack the valley.
If we can evacuate smoothly, we will only lose some savage infantry. We can still recruit them later, so it is not a big loss." Zhu Zhen said.
"Well, it's not easy to train these savage infantry." Zhu Bai said hesitantly.
"Well, if this battle is successful, we will divide the spoils in half, no, 60% of the spoils will be yours. If it fails, for every person you lose, I will give you a piece of cloth for my brother! Your soldiers will eat, drink and eat along the way.
The weapons distributed are all responsible for my brother." Zhu Zhen said through gritted teeth.
"Deal!" Zhu Bai immediately agreed. This is not the Ming Dynasty, but the Hanzhou continent with extremely backward productivity. Although Zhu Bai has long started planting cotton and spinning in the territory under his jurisdiction, he has too many things to do.
There were too few manpower, and very little cotton was woven every year; but the locals, especially local women, quickly fell in love with this kind of thing that was much more comfortable to wear than animal skins, and were willing to exchange gold, silver or animal skins for it.
, Zhu Bai's tiger skin coat was exchanged for five feet of cloth (one piece of cloth is fifty feet). Therefore, the value of cloth in Hanzhou continent is very high, and it is absolutely worth it for a savage to exchange for one piece of cloth.
When Zhu Zhen saw that he agreed so quickly, he suddenly regretted it and felt that the price should not be so high. But now that the words had been spoken and Zhu Bai had agreed, he could not go back on his words and could only say in his heart: "We must take it."
That valley!'
It was already dark at this time, and Zhu Bai was so happy that he ordered a cow to be killed to entertain Zhu Zhen. There were no large livestock in Hanzhou, so both cows, horses and donkeys were very precious. Killing the head of a cow was definitely very grand, comparable to
In the Ming Dynasty, he was treated with bear paws and deer antlers, which made Zhu Zhen feel better.
The next day when they sobered up, they began to discuss the specifics of sending troops. After some discussion, Zhu Bai finally decided to send out 50 of the 80 cavalry on hand, and another 1,500 savage infantry, and 20 cavalry.
A large vehicle, totaling more than half of the military force on hand, was spent.
Since Zhu Bai had spent so much money, Zhu Zhen couldn't be too stingy. He also dispatched fifty of the seventy cavalry on hand and another thirty carts, which was almost half of his own military strength.
In order to transport so many people in carriages, Zhu Bai also called Fang Mingqian, who was guarding Jinchuan City, and mobilized his navy to transport them.
Fang Mingqian was very opposed to the two princes' decision to go on an expedition. He had personally been to the valley and knew how many tall buildings there were. According to his estimate, there were hundreds of thousands of people in the valley, and it was normal to have a few thousand standing troops. Weapons
It won't be too different. You can still recruit young men to fight. It is wishful thinking to win with a hundred cavalry.
However, according to the rules specially set by Yunxi for the vassals of Hanzhou Continent, Fang Mingqian's objection was invalid and he could only execute the order.
On the day the troops were dispatched, Zhu Zhen saw that Fang Mingqian's face was not good-looking. Before boarding the ship, he patted his shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't act as if we have already lost the battle. Maybe we can be like Chen Qingzhi of Nanliang, with thousands of troops."
Defeat hundreds of thousands of enemy troops." (To be continued)
