Chapter 706 Robbers Also Lose Money
Success! Success!
The morning breeze blew, and Wei Mingcha Ge stood on a loess plateau, looking at the thick smoke in the distance, and crying sounds came from Saimen Village, and felt a burst of joy.
I was indeed a ancestral robber, and I snatched the big ticket as soon as I took action.
He led his troops to Tumen Pass north of Saimen Village at noon yesterday. Although the guards were on guard, there were not many defenders, about one or two hundred. He did not need to take the elite troops brought by Xingling, but only let the heroes of Li Da's army take action. The people of Li Da's leaders were prepared for a long time. They followed Cha Ge with a long ladder and were also good at climbing. They captured Tumen Pass in less than two hours.
Then Cha Ge rushed to Semen Village, and before the Han fat sheep escaped, he surrounded the city village. He first persuaded surrender, and then drove the troops of Li Da to launch a fierce attack.
However, the resistance I encountered this time was much more intense. Because the resistance at Tumen Pass had been delayed for some time, the farmers and archers around Saimen Village entered the village. All those who could pick up weapons were armed and fought for their lives. The arrows were like rain, and the rolling wood and rocks were smashed down like hail. Leader Li quickly could not stand the defeat.
Then, Brother Cha forced Li Dacheng to attack twice. It was not until he had almost consumed the wooden rocks prepared in Saimen Village that he had just ordered 2,000 garrison troops to step forward. With one attack, he broke Saimen Village!
This is a big village with at least a few thousand people! There are tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses in the village, and maybe there are 100,000 stones of grain stored, there must be a lot of copper coins and silk.
Although I had to give some to the leader of the Li family, Dabai Gaoguo still got enough things.
Moreover, taking down the Semen Village can also have the effect of coercing Yan'an Prefecture... If Tao Jiefu still wants to ensure that Yan'an Prefecture is foolproof, he will have to transfer the army occupying Yinzhou back. In the battle of Yinzhou, even if Dabai Gaoguo wins.
If Tao Jiefu is a little more reckless and does not transfer back to Yinzhou, he will send troops to seize the Saimen Village. Then, hum... another great victory in Sanchuankou will be obtained!
Some are proud, some are sad.
Han Wu's heart was very hurt! Not to mention the defeat of the first formation, he even lost his family. Those friends who were farming and practicing martial arts with him in Saimen Village and had family affection, either died or became slaves to the Western thieves.
Finally, he looked at the black smoke in Saimen Village. The young man Han Wu wiped his tears and made a poisonous oath to destroy the Western thief in his heart. Then he climbed onto the horse and urged the horse to gallop away, reporting the message to Yan'an Prefecture.
In addition to being proud and sad, people are disappointed today. This person is the old military strategist Wang En and his son Wang Ze.
Of course they captured Shibao Village! But the food and defenders in Shibao Village were far less than expected.
The Western thief's heads were less than 300, and the prisoners were zero, and the only surviving Western thief traitor was already missing. This little force was already so low! This is a big village that can store hundreds of thousands of stones of grain!
Moreover, most of the granaries in the fortress were empty, with only a few that had less than 10,000 stones of food stored.
According to the confession of the Western traitor, the existing grains in Shibao Village have been transported to Xiazhou in the past month, and a considerable number of the defenders have also gone to Xiazhou.
In other words, Shibao Village is a city that is about to be abandoned...
After spending so much effort and spending so much money, I finally only won a stone castle city that was almost an empty village, which was a bit of a loss.
The old military strategist Wang En and his son looked at each other, and it seemed that they could only use Zhe Yanzhi's wonderful pen to create a great victory.
"Seventh brother," the old military strategist sighed and said to his son, "Take people to Yinzhou and let Wu Haogu send someone to transport food.
Remember to be careful. If Yinzhou is besieged by the Western thieves, come back quickly, do you know?"
"The boy knows."
Wang En responded and led dozens of cavalry (these cavalry were brought by his father) to Yinzhou. In the evening that day, he arrived at a peaceful Yinzhou City.
Oh, it was not the calmness without any movement, but the smell of war. Only countless soldiers, under the command of their respective officers, practiced gun formations in the wilderness outside Yinzhou City.
The gun formation was crooked, and you could tell at a glance that it was the new recruits who were training. The officers were all like vicious spirits, and everyone was holding a whip in their hands. When they saw something was wrong, they whipped it without hesitation.
However, it is not all corporal punishment, and there are also rewards. When Wang En passed by a team of spearmen, he heard a small officer like Dutou shouting: "You guys have all listened to you. After ten days, they will be small matches. If you win the first place, everyone will be rewarded. Each one will be rewarded with three copper coins! 2310 texts... Do you thieves want money? If you want money, practice it for me!"
One ten-day competition, there will be a prize for victory? Wang En was so surprised that there is such a way to train troops? But there are hundreds of people in this city, and one person gives three knots to three knots... Is this martial arts good-looking Gu Zhen willing to give up?
Wang En didn't know that Wu Haogu would give more than 300 rewards, because the second and third places also had rewards, and there were even more generous rewards for grassroots officers at all levels, including Dutou, Deputy Dutou, Ten Generals, etc.
In the training competition every ten days, Wu Haogu only needs to find a prize of 1,200!
Of course, it’s not just rewards and no punishments. The last one in the competition is all the soldiers and soldiers!
Unlike the Song army's traditional emphasis on management and focusing on actual combat, Wu Haogu, the bourgeoisie, knew that management benefits! Therefore, his troops not only had a relatively professional management team, but also had strict military training.
There is no reason to practice once a few days. It is just practice twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. In order to prevent the people below from fooling around, Wu Haogu also came up with ways to compete in each capital, and there are rewards and punishments.
As for how to compare and how to decide the outcome, that is the military affairs...
In short, it is not easy to live a life of doing things under Wu Dalang!
Just when Wang En arrived at the big tent of Wu Haogu in Yinzhou City, this big capitalist who focused on efficiency was paced back and forth in the tent, looking very anxious.
What made him anxious was that the Western thief army that came out of Xiazhou City suddenly disappeared!
They should have approached Yinzhou, but there may be a fierce battle in Yinzhou in the next two days.
But now, this Western thief army seemed to have disappeared in the air. I don’t know where it went? Maybe I went back to the city, maybe I went south across Hengshan to threaten Yan'an, maybe... I discovered Murong Tu and Wanyan Xie also led 3,000 cavalrymen followed!
The last possibility is what Wu Haogu is most worried about.
Because the 20,000 palace soldiers in his hands did not have much combat power, the ones who could fight were more than 3,000 dragon-harming heroes and one thousand armored cavalry. The role of the dragon-harming heroes was far inferior to that of the armored cavalry.
If these armored cavalry were consumed by the Western thieves, they would have to flee from Yinzhou City in a panic.
In addition, 200 of this thousand-armored cavalry are Wu Haogu's sluts, and more than 200 cavalry are recruited from Jiehe Shang City. They can also be regarded as Wu Haogu's own power.
If all the Western thieves were destroyed, Wu Haogu would have made a big loss-making deal!
"Xuanzan, Wang Zheng is coming, Wang Zheng is coming in the future!"
A military opportunity suddenly ran away and told Wu Haogu about Wang Ze's arrival.
"Wang Zhengjiang?" Wu Haogu couldn't remember who this person was for a moment.
"It is the seven yamen under General Wang, and the third general of Fuyan Road is Wang Zezhi."
This military opportunity was a knight from the Western Army and knew Wang Ze.
"Why is he here?" Wu Haogu was stunned and immediately said, "Come in quickly."
"Here!"
The military expert led Wang Ze in. After seeing Wu Haogu, he did not exchange greetings. Wang Ze directly reported the good news of seizing the stone fort village and seizing thousands of stones of military rations.
"Shibao Village?" Wu Haogu walked to the map and found the location of Shibao Village. Sure enough, it was not far from Yinzhou.
"Wu Xuanzan," Wang Ze saw that Wu Haogu did not say when he would send someone to transport grain, so he urged, "There are thousands of stones of grain in the Shibao Village. Please send someone to pick it up."
Wu Haogu shook his head, "Zezhi... Four days ago, at least 20,000 cavalrymen from the Western thieves left Xiazhou. I thought they were coming to Yinzhou, but they disappeared."
"Four days ago? Twenty thousand Western thieves and cavalrymen!?" Wang Ze also felt that the matter was a little serious.
The distance between Xiazhou and Yinzhou is only more than one hundred miles. Infantrymen can arrive anyway after three days. How can cavalry attack in one day can be completed in one day. If you march normally, it will be almost the same for two days.
In other words, this Western thief cavalry should have arrived in Xiazhou two days ago!
"Do you know where they are going?"
"I don't know!" Wu Haogu shook his head, "Is it possible to enter Hengshan?"
"Enter Hengshan?" Wang Ze frowned, "Xuan Zan said they went over Hengshan to fight..."
His eyes swept the map and landed on Saimen Village.
"They are going to attack Saimen Village!" Wang Ze whispered.
"Semen Village?" Wu Haogu also found the Saemen Village in the picture, "It's very close to Yan'an Prefecture City! Will they..."
"Attack Yan'an Prefecture?" Wang Ze shook his head, "The one that cannot be defeated... Yan'an Prefecture was almost taken down by Yuan Hao more than 60 years ago. Therefore, it has been continuously strengthened and built since then, and it has become solid. Moreover, there are many troops stationed in the prefecture and surrounding fortresses, with the imperial guards and archers of less than 20,000. The Western thieves had 100,000 people, and they could not be taken down in less than a few months of attack."
Wu Haogu's heart had already sunk, "That's not Saimen Village..."
Chapter completed!