Chapter 73 Return of Grain Purchase
The next day.
When Wen Chou woke up early in the morning, he brought Chen Ning, Wen Ba and Dong Jiang to visit Du Yi. After all, there was a group of people in the wild who were carrying the danger of life and death. The sooner the food purchase, the better! Wen Chou didn't want to do so. He didn't get the benefits, and he ended up losing his troops and losing his soldiers. He couldn't help but be unfavorable.
Seeing this, Du Yi, the king of Luancheng County, only believed that Wen Chou was worried that the world was not good at the moment, and was afraid that there would be chaos in Shahe Township, so he did not make things difficult for him. After a brief discussion, he took Wen Chou and others to buy grain from the wealthy families in the county. It was said that there was still some surplus in the county warehouse, but Wen Chou needed a lot, and the surplus in the warehouse might not be enough. In addition, when he first arrived at the county king, he did not dare to take the initiative to sell the stored grain to Wen Chou.
Luancheng County is much richer than Pingji County. There are no less than twenty families who can be called a wealthy family! There are seven or eight wealthy families, all of which have tens of millions of dollars in their families! You know, this is a wealthy force that is comparable to only three major surnames in Pingji County! Wen Chou's eyes were shining and his heart was lamenting! It would be great if these wealthy families could do their best to help him, but this was just his own delusion.
Perhaps the officials had already communicated with the wealthy families yesterday, or perhaps the officials were originally from these wealthy families. These wealthy families had never been embarrassed by Du Yi who came to visit. The food price was not too expensive under the shock of Du Yi and the 300 soldiers! Perhaps there was also the intention of these wealthy families to please the newly appointed Taolin Captain. On average, 500 yuan per stone is much cheaper than the expected 600 yuan per stone. Wen Chou was naturally happy.
In total, only five wealthy families left, and they squandered all the money they brought, along with the money they had previously taken from the Wuhuan people, with a huge sum of 2.8 million yuan, and only exchanged for 6,000 stones of fine grain. Of course, the truck for transporting the grain was voluntarily provided by these wealthy families. In other words, Wen Chou took advantage of the great favor of these people.
He planned to prepare early in the morning, and when all the grains were loaded on the chariot, it was still mid-air! Wen Chou, who had hundreds of cavalry, was now all infantrymen. Wen Chou saw the old carriage lined up with sacks, and he smiled bitterly. He thought that there were enough horses! Now it seems that it is nothing more than Er.
"Du Du, you guys, please stay here. I will never thank you for your kindness. I, Wen Chou, will remember it in my heart." Wen Chou bowed to the people who had bid farewell to the city gate and thanked him.
"In this way, I wish the lieutenant a smooth journey!" Du Yi also bowed and smiled.
"Bon Voyage!"
"Bon Voyage!"
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The others bowed and said.
"Start!" Wen Chou waved his hand and the whole army set off steadily!
Dozens of shaft chariots along the way were really conspicuous, but Wen Chou also ordered the soldiers to pull out the swords of the ring. Under the scorching sun, it was shaking brightly and majestic. There were some small groups of stupid thieves along the way, and they didn't dare to move. After all, they were officers and soldiers with distinctive armor, which was extraordinary militia and peasant soldiers! Although the food and grass were good, they had to enjoy life!
Just in case, Wen Chou, Chen Ning and Wenba, and Dong Jiang were divided into three groups, following the team in front, middle and back respectively!
Because of the chariot, the team was moving very slowly. It was only 40 or 50 miles away when night fell. However, they finally met Liu Qingyitun, who was left behind, before dark. The calm along the way, but the more this happened, Wen Chou felt more and more uneasy. After all, it had been nearly two days since they wiped out the Qiu Liju branch. No matter how slow Qiu Liju was, he thought he should have found that there were a shortage of personnel and something was wrong!
So Wen Chou discussed with Dong Jiang, Wen Ba, Chen Ning, Liu Qing and others, and decided to set up camps and rest, and rushed to the streets overnight, hoping to escape the disaster. Even though Wen Chou thought that the current soldiers had some combat power after three months of training, they could be able to fight. But he still knew that thousands of cavalry were not something that the current four hundred Wen Chou soldiers could not resist!
In this way, all 400 soldiers of Wen Chou army took advantage of the moonlight and headed southward all the way to Pingji County.
It is mid-August, only two or three days before the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is the bright moon in the sky. The moonlight is soft, like silver light, shining on the faces of the Wen Chou soldiers, showing a slightly nervous and excited face. The nervousness, perhaps after listening to his own Shangguan's analysis, he knew that thousands of cavalry might come to rob and fight hard; and excitement is purely because of the six thousand stones of refined grain escorts at the moment! After all, most of them are from Shahe villagers now, knowing that these foods are life-saving food!
When the moonlight shines on the sword in the hands of soldiers, it looks extremely gloomy again. Although the hot summer is just over now.
The fields of millet on both sides of the official road sway the green fragrance of millet, indicating that the harvest year is a good harvest. In the distance, there are shadows of trees and mountains, and they sway with the wind, and they have some terrifying atmosphere.
The journey was silent, and the sky was about to be bright. There were already red clouds radiating in the distance, but it was a sign that the sun was about to break free from the clamping of Dongshan!
This is also the time when Wen Chou's army is trapped and there is no horse! The silent journey all night has made the soldiers extremely nervous and even more tired. Fortunately, there were no cavalry chasing them all the way, and they also walked into Pingji County, which is only 40 or 50 miles away from Pingji County. I think that in the end of another day, we will be able to arrive in Shahe Township. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Of course, this was the case where there was no mistake in the future.
Wen Chou looked up at the end of the team, looked up at the sky, and looked at the journey he had just walked, muttering to himself, "Are you probably wrong?" He looked at the four hundred soldiers now, most of whom were drowsy and weak. After all, one day he didn't eat for a night, and he ran for so long. Although Wen Chou frowned, he knew the reason and would not blame him."
Wen Chou was frowning here, Dong Jiang, Chen Ning and Wen Ba came together in front of him. Seeing Wen Chou's appearance, he looked at each other and smiled bitterly.
"Mr. Wen, I think you have seen it too. In terms of the current state of the soldiers, they can only exert three or four out of ten. If Qi Liju cavalry caught up with us, we wouldn't have been wiped out by them?" Dong Jiang said with a wry smile.
"Mr. Wen, now it is also in Pingji territory, and even the cavalry will take some time to arrive. After all, we have changed several directions at night. I think it's okay to have some rest. Please think about it." Chen Ning said interrogatively.
Wen Zhao heard this, looked at the soldiers again, pondered for a moment and said, "So, do you all think you should take a rest?"
"That's right!" Chen Ning and Dong Jiang met each other and said.
The literary master didn't say anything, just scratched his head and smiled.
"Well, okay, since that's the case, I'll find a hidden place and take a break! After all, I'll still be unable to get to Pingji County for a while!" Wen Chou said aloud.
"Send the order to find a hidden place and rest." Wen Chou said to a guard beside him.
"promise!"
The soldiers cheered and the horses scattered everywhere, looking for a secret place.
After a while, he returned from the horse and said that there was a forest not far away, which was quite secret. After hearing this, Wen Chou measured it one or two, and immediately ordered everyone to go, which was no problem.
The woods are not far away, just two or three miles away. I saw that they were lush and lush, quite wide, and they were afraid that they would look like thousands of acres. Not to mention four hundred people, even four thousand people, it would be no problem to hide in! Wen Chou was naturally happy and immediately took people in. He ordered people to destroy the traces of the people passing by. Although it might not work, it was always better than doing nothing. It would be better to be able to confuse the thieves' army a little.
Except for some people who were responsible for making fires and making meals, most of them leaned under the trees and fell asleep beside the cart. They kept their knives away and lie down in their clothes. They could see that the soldiers were very distressed. Wen Chou counted the chariot along the way, and saw that there was no mistake. He leaned under the trunk of a lesson, narrowed his eyes to raise his spirits. Chen Ning was in a spirit and helped some soldiers to make fires and cook, which was awesome. Dong Jiang led a group of people outside the forest to set up defenses, otherwise Wen Chou would not dare to rely on the trunk to rest on the trunks!
It took less than half an hour, and everyone prepared the meal. Of course, with Wen Chou's approval, there were two horse corpses, which made the meal much more abundant! The meat was filled with fragrance, and everyone was savoring it.
"How about it, Mr. Dong? Are there any cavalry?" Wen Chou saw Dong Jiang coming and hurriedly stepped forward and asked.
"I haven't seen it." Dong Jiang replied respectfully.
"I'm going to bother Dong Jun. I wonder if the horses sent to Pingji County have returned? What did the county lord say?" Wen Chou felt relieved and asked again. It turned out that when he decided to rest, Wen Chou was still not relieved, so he ordered the horses to go to Pingji County to ask for reinforcements. After all, is there more strength and more layer of guarantee?
"Oh, the horse has come back. The county lord attaches great importance to this matter and ordered the county lord Liu Jun to lead two thousand county soldiers to support him. I think he is on the way here now." Dong Jiangyan said.
"That's good, that's good. Then Mr. Dong goes and eat, take a break, and leave it to me next!" Wen Chou breathed a sigh of relief and said apologetically.
"No!" Dong Jiang bowed his hand and said.
Wen Chou saw everyone eating, smiled bitterly and walked towards the outside of the woods.
I saw a large forest branch in front of me piled up in scattered together, and there were a shallow row of trenches behind me, with many sharpened branches inserted between them! I think it was the blocking that Dong Jiang prepared, the strategies of those unknown cavalrymen. Wen Chou nodded with satisfaction and thought to himself: "This domineering double halberd Dong Jiang is different from ordinary rangers. He can't help but be active and good at leading troops. He is a general! He will train one or two more in the future."
Time flies quickly, and in a short while, another hour passed. Wen Chou saw the Taolin soldiers who were leaning against each other and laughed bitterly, and when he was about to order everyone to set off again, he saw Dong Jiang, who was originally lying on the ground to rest, suddenly jumped up from the ground, leaning down, his ears pressed against the ground, and his face was unstable.
Chapter completed!