Chapter 136 Two-handed preparation

"Damn it, you are not an exclusive deal, it is obviously a kidnapping!" When the generals heard this, they could no longer be annoyed by Li Qi. They cursed in a low voice.

"Yes, it's just kidnapping! It's just this meat ticket is a bit special!" The surrendered general Li Qize salivated and followed the storm of everyone. "When we get the money, we will go back to recruit soldiers. After we recruit enough soldiers, we will take a big boat to fight, and let the person quit the second and third ones. If he doesn't have enough money, he has to persuade the rich merchants in the city to donate. The rich merchants donate once, twice, and if they have too many times, they will definitely not be in the same way as him. At that time, the governor will bring a hundred thousand troops to come."

"Nonsense, that person wouldn't spend money to recruit soldiers if he sucked himself?!"

"He is not so stupid. It's not enough to suffer a loss once?!"

"A hundred thousand army, do you think it's a person who can come to our left army by sending a knife?"

The generals glared at Li Qi and retorted in a verbal manner.

"Let me listen to me, listen to me!" The surrendered general Li Qi bowed all over and explained with a smile, "You can definitely recruit soldiers, but he will not fight. If you come out to fight in the field, you will definitely not be able to defeat our governor. When you squat in the city, as long as we block the city gate and break the waterway, the situation will be the same as it is now. As for the 100,000 army, I will not hide it from you, I really think that the strength of our left army is too thin!"

"You know nothing!" Liu Ziyun smiled and cursed, looking back at the small military camp not far away, but a little embarrassment surged on his face.

Influenced by Zhu Bashiyi, they all believed in the elite soldiers strategy. Judging from the Left Army's previous record, this strategy was indeed nothing wrong. However, field battles are one thing, and siege is another. During field battles, both sides basically have no danger. They have a elite soldiers at hand, which is enough to defeat more than three times the mob. However, when siege, the role played by the soldiers' qualities was greatly offset by the city defense facilities. Without enough troops to sacrifice, it is impossible to climb up to the other party's city head.

"To be honest, the little ones, the little ones really don't understand! The little ones have never seen elite soldiers like our Left Army before!" Li Qi bowed his hand again and smiled, "But the little ones know what kind of soldiers and horses in the court are. The little ones know that there is a good place for recruitment. Ensure that all those recruited are all good soldiers. If they are trained for a little, they will not be worse than those in the court!"

"where?"

"Speak quickly, speak quickly?"

Everyone was overjoyed when they heard this and couldn't help but urge them in a low voice. It was impossible to guarantee that they were all elite soldiers of the Left Army. It was also a good idea to be able to ensure that they were stronger than the court's soldiers. As long as they were slightly stronger than the court's soldiers, it would be enough for everyone to gain a foothold in Lianghuai!

However, the surrendered general Li Qi decisively closed his mouth and repeatedly asked Zhu Bashiyi with his eyes.

"After saying that!" Zhu Bashi nodded and encouraged with a smile, "Who doesn't want to ask for good soldiers? If you can think of a good idea, next time you recruit soldiers, the governor will send you to take charge."

"Really?" Li Qi was surprised and happy, with disbelief on his face. After spending so much effort, he wanted to be treated as his own person as soon as possible. One of the symbols of his own person is that he was entrusted with important tasks. If he could take the task of recruiting troops for the Left Army, he would have gotten what he wanted. He would never feel inferior to other generals in the future.

"There is no joke in the army!" Zhu Bashiyi nodded again and said with a smile.

The other party's behavior is very alternative. It is more of a professional vendor than a professional officer. Influenced by Zhu Dapeng's soul, Zhu Bashiyi is not opposed to the vendors. He is even willing to bargain with them and entrust some things for them to do, as long as the latter can guarantee credibility.

This way of thinking undoubtedly made Li Qi feel very aware of his experience. After thinking about it, he lowered his voice and added: "Have you ever heard of the governor? Apart from the wealthy businessmen along the Huaidong Road, the most famous one is salt diced. Whether it is official salt or private salt, it cannot be sold at a good price in the hands of local stoves. It must be concentrated and transported to Huai'an City. Then it is transported outside through various means to make more than ten times the profit. Salt diced is a thug who specializes in escorting salt trucks, and he dares to fight with others the most."

"The government used to be unable to leave them, and was afraid that they would rebel and cause trouble, so they were very strict with them. But the salt dick watched a lot of money passing by, but was too poor to afford a wife. How could he be willing to do it? The resentment between the two sides has been accumulated for more than one day or two days. Especially in recent years, the salt dick has rebelled almost every year. There were more than a dozen cases of villains who personally participated in the pounce. The governor took the money from his hand, turned around and went to the downstream to recruit salt dicks to join the army. In less than half a year, he would definitely be able to pull out a team of 100,000 people! Then he brought 100,000 troops to attack Huai'an, and it would be easy to break the city?"

"That's true. It took more than a month to pull up 30,000 salt dices last time! And it was still there in Huainan." Geng Zaicheng, who had been listening with his ears raised his head and whispered to testify for Li Qi.

When the soldiers are used, they will hate them! Facing a strong city like Huai'an, Zhu Bashiyi did not dare to stick to his elite military strategy anymore. In order to gain a foothold in Lianghuai, the expansion of the Zuo Army is also imminent. Thinking of this period, he sighed softly and whispered: "If salt is available, I will not care about recruiting now. Defu, I will leave this matter to you and Li Qi. I still have some money in my hand, so you can just take it back to the account. However, after the recruitment comes, I must train well according to the standards of our Left Army. Even if it is a war and training, it is better than letting them go to the battlefield and die when they come!"

"Yes!" Geng Zaicheng was also overjoyed, pulled Li Qi and bowed to take the order.

"Why are you joking about doing business with someone?" Li Qi was still not satisfied, blinking his eyes and continuing to ask.

"Didn't you just say that when he sends someone to discuss it yourself?" Zhu Bashiyi smiled, with a mysterious face. "Let's prepare for both hands, prepare for a strong attack, and prepare to negotiate with him. For some discussions, let's talk first, don't force him to jump over the wall and recruit people to the city to assist in the defense. If you can fight, just fight. With a one-month period, no matter what the result is, you will never delay it!"

"Yes! The governor is wise!"

"The governor is wise! If you don't fight, you won't know how powerful we are!"

"I really can't fight and then talk!"

When the generals heard this, they immediately agreed in unison. Before Li Qi said anything to shake the morale of the army, they put the basic tone down.

Zhu Bashiyi knew that everyone was unwilling to leave like this, and nodded with a smile. Then he shook the reins and continued to observe the terrain around the moat to find the defensive flaws of Huai'an City. While looking, he continued to ask Li Qi in a blank space: "Is the wall of Huai'an City full of bricks, or is there a layer of bricks built outside and clay inside?"

"If you go back to the governor, you must have bricks on the outside and soil on the inside. It is estimated that the whole city of all over the world will be like this except for the capital. Otherwise, a city wall of one and a half feet wide would probably have millions of bricks. No matter how rich Huai'an City is, it would not be able to afford it!" Li Qi followed closely and explained loudly with a smile on his face.

"The city wall is really ten or half a meter wide?"

"It's almost the same, like the position of the horse faces on both sides of the city gate, it may be thicker. This is all specified, the width of the bottom and the width of the top. If it's too narrow, it's afraid that the city wall is not strong enough. If it's too wide, it's easy to climb up by the enemy and fight out of the foothold, and it's also afraid that the siege party will use a catapult to smash it. It's only about four steps wide, which is convenient for defense and is not easy to be aimed at by the catapult. It's not wide or narrow, just right!" (Note 1)

"Oh!" Zhu Bashiyi was once again amazed at the wisdom of the ancients. There was so much knowledge and etiquette in a city wall. No wonder in later generations, Chinese people were set up as the nation best at casting walls.

"We have suffered losses in Huai'an before!" Li Qi became happier and happier as he spoke, and he dared to fall out of nothing. "According to the older generation, when Jin Wushu went south, General Zhao Li was killed by the Jin people with flying stones. At that time, the Song Dynasty court was equipped with hundreds of thousands of troops and did not dare to come to rescue him. Only one Grandpa Yue fought to kill outside Huai'an City. As a result, before he contacted General Zhao, Huai'an City had been destroyed by the Jin people!" (Note 2)

This story was something Zhu Bashiyi had never heard of before. He couldn't help but become interested and asked in a low voice: "Yue Fei came here back then? Did he finally recover Huai'an? General Zhao Li, how did the court treat him in the end?"

"I don't know!" Li Qi sighed, his expression on his face a little bitter, "Anyway, everyone knows what happened later. Yue Fei was killed by the court, and no one in Huai'an City should be taken seriously by General Zhao. As for General Zhao, the court did not take him seriously when he was alive, let alone after his death?!"

It’s no wonder that the people of this era have no national consciousness. The court doesn’t treat them as their own people. How could they repeatedly use their hot faces to stick to the cold butts of the court? Thinking of the later era of Zhu Dapeng, no one mentioned heroes like Zhao Li, but Fan Wencheng, Hong Chengchou and others were repeatedly erected and erected and became heroes who promoted the great integration of the nation. Zhu Bashiyi felt very uncomfortable. He sighed again, turned his mount, and led everyone back to the military camp in a daze.

That night, he and everyone determined the new combat target. They prepared for both hands, taking Huaian as their first choice. If the goal could not be achieved, they would find a way to force the person to make a huge redemption fee, and then return to Xuzhou to accumulate strength to make a future. Anyway, Xuzhou and Huaian are connected by water, and it will take more than ten days to travel back and forth by boat.

Note 1: There were books in ancient China that specifically explained how to build a city, and there were corresponding specifications for the width, narrowness and height of the city wall. It is usually not recommended that the top of the city wall be wider than four steps, that is, six meters. The reason is that it is easy to be attacked by stone bullets.

Note 2: In the first month of the fourth year of Jianyan (1130), Wanyan Chang, a Jin man, led a large army to attack Huai'an. Zhao Li, the governor, only ten thousand people defended for more than 100 days. The court ordered Zhang Jun to support him, but Zhang refused to go; and ordered Liu Guangshi and Yue Fei to come to support him, but Liu Guangshi remained unmoved. However, Yue Fei advanced from Taizhou to attack Gaoyou, and was blocked to Sandun. Zhao Li was eager to prevent the reinforcements from coming, so he was hungry to boost morale on the city wall. He was hit by the Jin soldiers with a catapult cart and was killed. Huai'an was then broken.
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