Zhang Jue is right. As long as Zhao Wei’s potatoes can ensure the food supply in Diaoyu City, he can defend the city.

Even if Kublai Khan comes in person, he can protect the city.

Moreover, the day after entering the city, Zhang Jue had already begun to make this unchanged city fully operate.

Zhang Jue's strategy is very forward-looking. He knows that although Ananda temporarily gave up the guards around Diaoyu City, this state cannot continue.

As long as Ananda knew that Zhao Wei had come in, he would immediately tighten the encirclement of Diaoyu City and implement what he believed was the art of raising Gu.

It's just around you and not hit you. It's hungry for you, but it makes you unable to starve to death. You can come, but you must not go out again.

Therefore, Zhang Jue must take advantage of this precious window period to make complete preparations.

First, he sent all the old subordinates of Wang Li, Cao Qi, Zhang Qiya out and sent them to Hezhou, Tongzhou, Tongchuan, Bishan and other surrounding prefectures, and took advantage of the fact that the Yuan people had not yet taken action to buy various supplies.

These include food, cloth, iron, leather, and scarce supplies for people's livelihood, as well as sulfur and saltpeter for the production of gunpowder.

Zhao Wei brought him to Dadu not much money, and it is even more worth mentioning to deal with the material needs of tens of thousands of people.

This time, the people of Hezhou helped a lot.

Not only did they come to Zhang Jue when they heard the news, but they also devoted all their money to the Song army.

Those with grain give out grain, and those with money pay, and tens of thousands of chunks of Zhongtong money were collected for purchase.

This money is not much, so it is useless.

Zhang Jue calculated that he should not think about food. There is no one in Bashu, grain merchants are gone, and a large amount of food that has money may not be able to buy. Unless he goes to Chongqing Prefecture, it is no different from seeking death.

He can get some iron and saltpeter and other military funds.

However, Zhang Jue did not expect that only tens of thousands of pennies of paper could not get much iron and stone, but Wang Li and the others transported dozens of ships of supplies.

All the people around him heard that Zhang Junyu was back and half sold and half gave him land to support Zhang Shuai.

Finally, it was found that tens of thousands of kilograms of iron were collected this time, and there were also a lot of saltpeter sulfur, which would not be a hidden danger within at least two years.

So, the problem is here, how to solve the problem?

In the short term, there were Diaoyu City people who maintained a large army. After all, there were not many people. Including the old subordinates he had gathered along the way and more than a thousand soldiers brought to Sichuan, Zhang Jue had only more than four thousand soldiers.

There are tens of thousands of people in Diaoyu City, and it is not a problem to eat a bite, but what should I do in the long run?

The old Yishu from all over the country came to hear the news. Every day, the sons raised the Yi Banner to serve, and the demand for food was increasing.

I can only rely on Zhao Wei’s potatoes.

But, where are the potatoes? In Nanchuan!

Before, Zhao Wei didn’t know Sichuan enough and thought that Nanchuan was just Nanchuan!

But after looking at the map of mountains and rivers, I realized that there was more than 400 miles between them, and there was an obstacle that could not be crossed.

"Cha!" Zhao Wei pinched the back of his neck, "Chongqing can't get around!"

From Nanchuan to Hezhou, no matter how you go, you will have to cross the Yangtze River, so you basically don’t have to think about land.

Besides, in addition to potatoes, there are more than 200 tons of gold and silver. There are all mountainous areas in the middle. How can I go by land?

The only way is to go by water.

However, it seems that the waterway enters the Yangtze River and then goes upstream from the Jialing River to Hezhou. It seems to be fine, but don’t forget that the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Jialing River is just under Chongqing’s nose.

That was Ananda's answer.

"You said..." Zhao Wei asked Zhang Jue with a fluke mentality, "You said, Ananda can do a good person to the end and let us go?"

"Haha." Zhang Jue glanced at Zhao Wei with a slight smile, "What do you think?"

"When I didn't say it." Zhao Wei became depressed.

It's indeed a bit of a dream.

Ananda answered that he was not stupid, so he would be good for him to let him enter the Diaoyu City. If there was a little threat, he would have to shoot Zhao Wei to death.

If you walk around Hezhou, he can pretend that he hasn't seen it. After a while, I guess he won't even let you enter Hezhou, let alone go to someone else's Chongqing to borrow the road.

Cao Qi, who was standing beside him, also said, "Although King Anxi put us in, he was very cautious. It is said that before we came, we removed the defenders of Diaoyu City, and sent Sichuan Deputy Shumi Tuliehuer to Chongqing to take charge, and the general leader of the navy and land armies."

"Tuliehuer?" Zhao Wei was puzzled, "Is there anything special about this person?"

Zhang Jueze said: "I am an old opponent. I have a very strict army management and use my troops like a god. In the Anxi Palace, I belong to the best generals, and can be among the top five good generals."

Wang Lize continued: "The only conquered Shen'an City in Bashu Mountain City is the surface of Li Dehui leading the army, but the actual commander is this Tuliehuer."

"Hiss!!" Zhao Wei took a deep breath, "It seems that Ananda said he didn't even think of old feelings at all! Is he going to block us? Are you sending such a cruel character here?"

"More than one Tulihuer, Chengdu Travel Privy Council has also dispatched hundreds of craftsmen to set up defenses along the river in Chongqing. It uses a new type of Huihui cannon."

"New style rejuvenation cannon?" But Zhang Jue's heart tightened.

He hated the Yuan people's Huihui cannon.

That thing has a long range and is accurate in shooting. It can be fired by Shiwan or lightning bombs. It is the only siege weapon that can be shot into Diaoyu City.

However, the Huihui cannon was just like the tiger squat cannon used by the Song people, which was relatively bulky. When the Yuan army came to attack the city, it was unable to set up Huihui cannons on the shore, so it could only be fired by warships. It was not only missing its accuracy, but also unable to guarantee the range.

But even so, Zhang Jue was deeply afraid.

"What kind of new cannon?"

Wang Li shook his head, "I don't know very well. I heard from the people that the Yuan people created a new Huihui cannon, which is not the original integrated structure, but is connected to various parts with pin buckles, which can be detached. It has a fixed ruler, and the range can be far or near, and wherever you point!"

“…”

Zhang Jue's heart sank even further, and suddenly felt that Diaoyu City was not so easy to defend. If the Yuan people really had such a killing weapon, it would be really difficult to deal with.

However, Zhao Wei didn't seem to hear the two of them worried. He looked at the map of mountains and rivers for a long time and slapped his thighs.

"Then there is nothing I can do. Since I can't be more forceful, I can only take the lead."

Zhang Jue was stunned, "How to get ahead of his wisdom?"

Zhao Wei, "Chongqing is the largest city east of Bashu. There must be merchants entering and leaving the waterway? Let's pretend to be merchants and get along."

Zhang Jue thought it was feasible.

Zhao Weina has a complete set of trade documents from Ma Nanbao, so it is not difficult to pretend to be.

"Then I'll go!" Wang Li stood up first, and this guy still looked like a bear who was determined to die.

Zhao Wei glared at him, "Go? You are big and round, and you can see that you are either a bandit or a martial artist, and you look like a businessman?"

Straighten up, "I'll go! If someone else is changed, Xie Ming may not necessarily trust him."

Wang Libuyi, "Then I'll go with you."

This time, Zhao Wei did not object, "Okay!"

When Wang Li heard this, he immediately clasped his fists at Zhang Jue, "I'll prepare for it now."

After saying that, he turned around and went out.

Zhang Jue frowned and looked at Wang Li, and couldn't help but sigh, "Wang Li was originally a wise general, but now... he was made into a useless person by the death of the fishing robe. What's even more difficult is that no one can solve the knot in his heart, so he can only watch him destroy himself little by little."

Zhao Wei didn't raise his head, and was still staring at the map of mountains and rivers and studying how to go.

He replied in a daze, "I will help you treat him if you come back this time."

Zhang Jue: "How to treat it?"

Zhao Wei kept it in hiding again, "At that time, the general will just watch it."

After saying that, I went down and prepared.

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The difficulty of walking on the waterway is not the weight of more than 200 tons, but the personnel.

The ability of river tank ships to transport cargo is not low, but transporters consume more space.

There are still 1,500 people left in Xie Ming, and it is absolutely impossible to have less than a dozen trough boats.

And in this way, the biggest problem is that the goal is too big.

After thinking about it, Zhao Wei decided to use the old way to escape from Dadu - to walk in batches.

When we go, we can go there together. They are all empty ships, and even if the Yuan army set up checkpoints on the river to check, they are not afraid.

When I came back, I was divided into several batches. As long as I escaped the waterway in Chongqing, everything would be fine.

After adding some details to everyone, I felt that everything was foolproof, so I boarded the ship and boarded the road.

Before leaving, Zhang Jue and others came to see him off and told Zhao Wei to be careful. Especially when passing Chongqing, you should be more careful of Tu Liehuer, which is very difficult for this person to bear.

If it really doesn't work, you can do without gold and silver, and you can get less luck in potatoes, but people must come back.

Zhao Wei was completely unlucky and left the shore.

Diaoyu City is less than 300 miles away from Chongqing, and it goes down the river, which is very smooth.

The fleet traveled a hundred miles and passed Beizhou before Wang Li began to become solemn.
To be continued...