There was a beautiful woman sitting in the banquet, which added a catfish effect to the leaders of Qingyang Mansion.
Han Chaozai and Tian Jin'an talked to each other about their experiences of besieging the city and attacking the stronghold, and commented on each other's use of troops from time to time.
Just listening to the chat is like a god coming down to earth.
While boasting, he would secretly glance at Bailiu River and Yunjiaoyue with his peripheral vision.
Liu Chengzong was just the opposite, he was very silent.
Fan Sanlang tiptoed to the side and advised softly: "Commander, please move your eyes. You have embarrassed these two girls."
Liu Chengzong came back to his senses, smiled, and asked in a low voice: "What have you been doing?"
"Walk the horse, Hongqi needs some water, and help the Dai Guan team to set up camp for their people."
Liu Shizi said: "Come on, come on, sit down and watch together."
Fan Sanlang frowned when he heard this. He said, "Who are you? Just watch it for yourself." He also pulled me to watch it together: "Don't look at anything inappropriate."
Liu Chengzong was fooled.
He wondered, what about other girls not wearing clothes?
And it was wrapped very tightly.
"Sit down quickly, sit down quickly, I'm not as good-looking as you, so you can even look at each other." Liu Chengzong said seriously: "We can't take advantage of others in vain."
Liu Chengzong is particularly boring.
Sitting on his left was Han Chaozai. Next to Han Chaozai was Tian Jinan. Next to them was Han Shipan and Han Shiyou who were accompanying them. The two chattered non-stop and wanted to say something to him from time to time.
The key points were very boring. They were all about sieges and wars, and Liu Chengzong couldn't arouse any interest in them.
You guys are so awesome.
Qingyang Prefecture has one state, four counties and five cities, but none of them have been captured yet.
Of the ten post cities, only Songzhuang and Shaozhuang in Malan Mountain and Pengyuan and Zhengping in Ningzhou are gone. However, three of the four post cities were instigated by Yang Yaoxi during his plunder.
There was only one Zhengping post left, but it was due to poor management by the post chief. He deducted it even more severely than the post chief who was beaten to death by Wei Qian'er, and forced the post soldiers to rebel.
So what have you two brothers done?
What does it mean to besiege a city and attack a stronghold? Why not call it a siege and evacuation of a stronghold? Because it was not captured.
Fan Sanlang was dumbfounded and stood there blankly when Liu Chengzong pushed him to sit next to him.
The first time he heard Liu Shishi praise her for her beauty, and then looked at Bai Liuxi's small earrings and headdress, Fan Sanlang felt aggrieved.
She always thought that Liu Shizi regarded him as a man. He would not let her sleep on the bed, throw him on the back of a horse or a mule, and make her throw away all her clothing.
I have to wear 30 kilograms of weight and run around in the mountains every day, and I have to be hacked hundreds of times... I feel sad, now you know that I am a woman, no matter how good-looking I am, I can't do this all day long!
Liu Shizi was shaking his head and sighing. He is 1.8 meters tall, but his weight is obviously not enough. Otherwise, the dream of becoming the number one heroine has become a reality.
Turning around, he saw Fan Sanlang calming down and asked, "What's wrong?"
Fan Sanlang shook his head and whispered, "If you like them, just keep them."
"What do you think of their people?"
"Guan Dui Dai said..." Fan Sanlang was at a loss for words to describe the tribesmen in Bailiuxi, so he borrowed Dai Daozi's words and said: "There is little chance of winning against them with a pond of horse soldiers."
This was actually a bit complicated for Fan Sanlang. She didn't understand it, so she added another sentence: "The Dai Guan team is a bit overconfident, there are seven or eight hundred people."
Liu Chengzong shook his head. He knew the people in Bailiuxi well and said, "We can't keep them."
Even though Liu Shizi overestimated the martial arts skills of Bai Liuxi and others, after all, Han Chaozai did not clarify that it was a performance of Huaqiang. He thought it was Shaolin's Huaqiang.
But this does not prevent Dai Daozi from having a very low evaluation of the combat effectiveness of his tribe.
The subtext of this evaluation is that he has no military training.
To put it bluntly, martial arts can be strong or weak. If Bai Liuxi is a master of spears and spears, or a master of fists and kicks, Liu Shishi may not be able to defeat him even if he takes off his armor and uses fists, kicks or similar weapons.
There is also a slight possibility of being beaten to pieces.
But this did not stop Liu Chengzong from thinking that with a dozen martial arts masters and six to seven hundred civilians who became thieves due to hunger, he might be able to scare them into hiding from the arrows and trample on each other by shooting left and right.
He can do it, Dai Daozi can do it, and Yitang Horse Soldiers can do it even more. Whether he can do more has to do with courage and intelligence, and has little to do with martial arts.
Cao Yao sat on the other side. He was an old man. He noticed that Liu Chengzong had been staring at Bai Liuxi and the two of them. He smiled and cupped his hands from a distance, left the table and went to the tent. Not long after, he came back with Cao's sister-in-law.
As soon as Sister-in-law Cao sat next to the two of them, Bai Liuxi and Yun Jiaoyue were no longer so embarrassed, and the three women started chatting.
But in this case, Liu Chengzong stopped looking in that direction and concentrated on chatting with Fan Sanlang.
"Why can't I keep it? It's beautiful. Just keep it by your side and look at it every day." Fan Sanlang was very curious: "Don't they all talk about marrying a virtuous wife and taking concubines for sex? I haven't heard that you can find them if you run around."
Fan Sanlang kept talking in a low voice, but unexpectedly this sentence directly amused Liu Chengzong: "Where are you thinking? I didn't want to please my aunt."
Fan Sanlang smiled and said: "If you don't want to woo my aunt, then you keep looking at her."
Liu Shishi took it for granted: "Isn't it normal to get motivated by sex?"
The person in his mind had no idea how many times a day he would get interested in someone, but he would stop at being polite.
Liu Shizi doesn't want to please his mother-in-law. In college, it is said that self-cultivation requires the study of things to gain knowledge in order to be sincere and sincere. How can he know what he wants if he has never seen a few beauties?
You only want to know about it when you see it, and then you can know whether it is what you want.
Is it true that only Mr. Yangming is allowed to check bamboos, but he, Marshal the Lion, is not allowed to check beauties?
"Isn't it... normal?"
Seeing him taking it for granted, Fan Sanlang was not so confident when he spoke.
She doesn't quite understand the man's thoughts either.
Anyway, she found that Liu Chengzong was different from others. She always thought that when seeing a beauty, it was normal to look at it secretly or not look at it at all.
But she didn't expect that when Liu Chengzong said this, she felt vaguely that it was normal to look at it openly.
She was convinced by Liu Chengzong's fallacy, so she also followed it and nodded while watching: "She is indeed a beauty!"
But she still feels that Liu Shizi attaches too much importance to combat effectiveness. She said: "I think we can stay and let them follow us. There are many women in the team and they can help with a lot of things."
"I'm so sleepy every day that I can't keep my eyes open and wash clothes. I'm a soldier and a slave. Why don't you find a woman who can do the washing and tidying up?"
Hey, don't say it, the little thing makes sense.
Liu Chengzong was injured some time ago, and blood would always ooze from his sleeves and stain his clothes.
Those clothes were washed by Fan Sanlang. He was so sleepy every day that he couldn't open his eyes. Several times he almost fell into the basin.
There were several women in the baggage team, but they couldn't do all the work in the Lion Camp.
In fact, it is normal for leaders of all walks of life to have women in their ranks.
In some cases, women can even account for one-third of the team.
But Liu Chengzong was very resistant to this. He always remembered the time when he and President Wu Qian committed suicide and were chased and beaten by Zhang Xiong.
At that time, the team was full of hungry people, and those running behind were either old people or women. They had not been hungry for a few days or suffered much at that time, and they were all normal people. The ones who were most capable of fighting were all at the back. .
Many of those who were not that good at fighting or were unlucky died on the road and were killed by the Yan'an Flag Guards.
Therefore, I always feel in my heart that women and old people are a burden and will kill others because they are incompetent.
Even Fan Sanlang joined in and was not allowed to sleep in the bed every day, just to practice his ability to escape day and night.
But it was effective.
Nowadays, Fan Sanlang still cannot maintain wearing heavy armor, so he usually wears chain mail wherever he goes to let his body get used to the weight.
After a few months, she has been able to do it very well, and she is as skilled as a veteran at sleeping on horseback, and she will never fall off again.
She is becoming more and more like a soldier.
Bai Liuxi and Yun Jiaoyue seemed to have some skills and would not be a burden, but they were also leaders, with hundreds of people behind them eating with them.
Those people are a liability.
If he couldn't keep him, no matter if he let others disperse as soon as they met, or if he used the gains from the bloody battles of the entire Lion Battalion to enrich himself, it would make him feel like he was nothing.
Liu Chengzong was not the only one who felt bored. The captains of the Lion Battalion all chatted about their own affairs, except for Li Laojia, who couldn't stand Tian Jinan's boasting.
He said: "Chief Tian, you are so powerful, why did you attack Heshui County? Just across the front, if we don't attack this city, we won't be able to transport food to the west!"
It was originally Li Laojing's vindictive words, but Yang Yao took over and said: "Heshui City is indeed a problem. It guards the nearest road to Qingyang Fucheng. The city is three miles away and is built on the Beishan Mountain. There is a beacon tower on the mountain, and the beacon fire ignites it." , Qingyang Fucheng and Qingyang Guard can be heard forty miles away."
"Beichuan, which flows from north to south in the east of the city, meets Dongchuan, which flows from east to west. They merge into Heshui River and go westward. Only a stone bridge on the river outside Dongguan can pass through."
As soon as he heard that the car couldn't pass, Cao Yao became anxious: "What should I do if I can't pass?"
Yang Yao added: "Small cars can pass, but big cars cannot. Before I entered Qingyang, the commander-in-chief had ordered not to harm the people. I was afraid of robbing the city and the magistrate summoned the people to defend it, so I left the city alone. I thought I would go back to Yan'an." Woolen cloth."
Liu Chengzong was amused when he heard this. Large carts couldn't pass, and grain trucks carrying thousands of kilograms couldn't pass. He had no grain and still wanted to shoot?
The Heshui County in front of them must be broken, but these Qingyang Mansion's squatters may not be of use.
He asked Tian Jin'an: "Chief Tian, you are permanently stationed in this mountain. How many defenders are there in Heshui County?"
"The defenders are composed of three squads of government officials, city guards and postmen, and squire regiments, more than 500 people plus one. But the walls are high and the fortresses are deep, and two rivers meet, so it is really easy to defend but difficult to attack."
Liu Chengzong heard that this city was difficult to deal with, and wanted to avoid casualties among his men, so he stretched out his hand and said: "Thousands of stones of rice and food, think of a way to break it."
Tian Jinan was in trouble.
One thousand kilo of rice and grain was quite tempting to him.
However, he thought about it again and simply surrendered: "Commander, let me be honest. I only have 600 men."
"There was an encirclement some time ago, but Jiang Yingchang, the county magistrate, was already on guard and couldn't defeat him."
Liu Shishi smiled. This guy couldn't even get free pay from the imperial court, so he wanted to get free pay from the rebels?
He turned to look at others again: "Which leader is willing to destroy this city?"
No one spoke. Even just listening to Yang Yao and Tian Jinan's introduction to the city, they all knew that Heshui City was difficult to fight. It had a city wall and a moat, with mountains to the north and river valleys to the south. No one knew how many people would die if they attacked by force.
Maybe there won't be any pressure on food after people die.
Seeing that none of them spoke, Liu Chengzong smiled and said: "It seems that I have to come to this city, so I will come. As for what the leaders said about the lack of food and grass, I have a suggestion."
At this time, Han Chaozai, Tian Jinan and the men sent by the Liu brothers from the north were all a bit lower in momentum.
When it comes to field battles, mutual courage means that the frontier troops may dare to fight, but siegeing a city really does not rely on courage.
But when asking for food, they are very active and do not say anything when they have to work. They all have no shame in asking for food.
"All the leaders have a lot of men. I have a small favor that I need your help with. I am short of shoes and socks. Please help me get some shoes and socks, as well as a raincoat and hat."
Several leaders were particularly aggrieved.
I look down on people so much. Isn’t this just treating them as small traders?
"Don't worry, I don't have any other intentions. The quantity I want is huge. I need help from the leaders if I can't buy it."
Liu Chengzong waved his hands and said, "I want 10,000 pairs of thick-soled cloth shoes and white cloth socks."
He really didn't mean to insult others. His people were too expensive for shoes, especially the previous battle with He Huchen on a rainy day on the mountain road. It was impossible to pull out the mud, and many people lost their shoes.
He Huchen's Ningxia soldiers were also recruited, and there were also a lot of barefooted soldiers in this group.
What's more, during long-distance marches, cloth soles are not very wear-resistant. Many of his men now wear straw sandals, and some simply go barefoot when their feet are worn out.
Shoes are the most scarce armament in the Lion Battalion.
"It doesn't matter whether you buy or make them, just bring me cloth shoes and socks, and I'll give you six pounds of yellow noodles for one set."
The unpleasantness on the faces of the leaders became less intense.
Han Chaozai asked: "Commander, are the shoes you have worn okay?"
Liu Chengzong never thought that someone would ask this question. He nodded blankly and said: "As long as the ones you wear are not broken, I will give you four kilograms... But don't rob ordinary people's shoes. It's too ugly to rob shoe thieves."
Everyone laughed.
Han Chaozai was a little embarrassed. He wanted to go back and ask his men to take off their shoes and go barefoot from now on.
Especially those at Bai Liuxi were the happiest, with excitement on their faces along with Yun Jiaoyue.
They are the best at this.
And the price is very high. Even if you sell the grain given by Liu Chengzong and go directly to the village to buy shoes, you can get a lot in exchange.
Immediately afterwards, Liu Chengzong said again: "Ten thousand pairs of thick cotton shoes and cotton boots, and a pair of twenty kilograms of yellow fabric; I also need ten thousand pairs of leather boots, sheepskin or cowhide, I don't care what kind of leather, the same twenty kilograms of yellow fabric." noodle."
"There are also 10,000 sets of bamboo hats and oil coats, and ten pounds of yellow noodles." After Liu Chengzong said this, he looked at everyone's reaction and smiled: "As long as you send the things over, there will be no problem, just weigh the food and take it back, there will be no deductions. "
After that, he changed the topic and said: "The price I gave is very suitable. Even if you buy it, you will still make money. If anyone lets me know and steals shoes, don't blame me for turning against them."
Just when several leaders were happy to have a job in exchange for food, Bailiuxi, who was at the bottom, sat and cupped his hands and asked: "Generalissimo, if the sisters from the slave family sneak into Heshui County to serve as internal agents, how much food can they be rewarded if the city is destroyed?" ?”
