Ever since the bandit suppression in Nanhu Town was defeated, Dong Ping had learned from the pain, sold off his property, purchased new weapons and horses, replenished his troops, and practiced every day, preparing to avenge his previous humiliation!
The reason why Huang Tongpan dared to pre-emptively hold Yun Chao down was because he had heard about what Dong Ping had done recently and had confidence in him.
In order to persuade Dong Ping to help, Huang Tong punished the money-grubbing old fox and gave him a heavy gift worth a thousand taels without hesitation, enduring the pain of digging his heart out.
When Dong Ping heard that he was going to Qingyang County, his head immediately started shaking.
Just kidding, with a thousand taels of silver as a gift, I want him, Inspector Dong, to send troops, and to deal with a county lieutenant of the imperial court. I don't know if it's because you, surnamed Huang, look down on people, or because you don't know the cost of raising troops.
As a military attache, Dong Ping didn't have to go through any twists and turns with Huang Tongpan, and he knew he couldn't get around these civil servants.
Just make an offer and ask him to help go to Qingyang County to do the job. There is no need to negotiate for ten thousand taels!
Well, Dong Ping still underestimated Yun Chao. If he knew that Yun Chao now had five thousand men, not to mention ten thousand taels, he would have to consider it if he had 50,000 taels!
The Dongping Army is now fully equipped with only 2,000 soldiers, and more than half of them are new recruits.
Even if they practice again, their combat effectiveness will not be as good as those of the original veterans.
Using 2,000 poorly trained men to hold down Yun Chao, who had 5,000 troops, even if Dong Ping was out of his mind, he wouldn't be able to do such a thing!
Unfortunately, Yun Chao's confidentiality work was so good that no one knew how many soldiers he had except the backbone of his men.
Even if Dong Ping heard something, he would think that Yun Chao's men were all Xiangyong.
Who would have thought that a small county captain could raise five thousand elite soldiers? Isn't this a joke?
In order to solve the problem once and for all, and for the sake of the oil and water of Qingyang County, Huang Tongpan decided to invest ten thousand taels of silver!
Dong Ping used the money sent by Huang Tongpuan to purchase another batch of ordnance. He had no choice but to do it. He had suffered too much loss when he suppressed bandits in Nanhu last time. Even if he sold off his property, Dongping's army still had insufficient equipment.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that Dong Ping's family property does not sell much. He will not spend all his wealth for the Dongping Army.
Just when Dong Ping was preparing his troops, Yun Chao had already received the news.
If you want to send troops, you don't just have to touch your upper lip to your lower lip.
Training, ordnance, logistics, etc., even with two thousand troops, it would take at least ten days to prepare.
If you delay it just a little longer, a month will pass.
The efficiency in ancient times was very low, and the pace of work was also very slow. If nothing else, just preparing logistics would not be enough if there was little time.
What's more, the Dongping Army's trip to Qingyang County still needs the approval of the prefect. Even with Huang Tongpan's mediation, it will still take a certain amount of time.
Why did Yun Chao know that the Dongping Army was about to attack?
Of course it's because there are internal contacts in the Dongping Army.
Dong Ping lost his troops in Nanhu, and after he returned, he recruited troops aggressively. The first group of people he took a fancy to were the 300 people who escorted him back to Qingyang Camp in Dongping Prefecture.
Originally, the three hundred people in Qingyang Camp were elite soldiers under Yun Chao. They had been training in Qingyang Camp for so long, and they were all good soldiers.
How could Dong Ping let such a good soldier go and detain him directly?
For this reason, Dong Chuan went to Dongping Mansion to ask for it. Not only did he not get any soldiers back, but he was scolded and almost died of anger.
Dong Chuan had no choice but to ask Dong Ping for ordnance and recruit new troops.
However, Dong Ping ignored him at all. I am still poor. It would be a good idea to give you something back. You can find a way by yourself!
Dong Chuan does not have Dong Ping's family background, and until now, the Qingyang camp still has the same 100 people left.
The weapons and equipment for these hundreds of people were barely collected by Dong Chuan, begging his grandfather and grandma, and even selling hundreds of acres of land at home.
To recruit more troops, Dong Chuan would not be enough even if he sold all the women in his family!
Dong Chuan is now in a semi-wasted state, and hundreds of people are of no use at all. Dong Ping has not taken him into consideration at all.
When the Dongping Army recruited troops, in addition to the 300 people from the Qingyang Camp, they also recruited about a thousand new soldiers.
In order to avoid being ignored by his subordinates, Dong Ping did not recruit troops in the same place.
Because Qingyang County already has 300 people from the Qingyang Camp, there are not many recruits for Qingyang County, not even a hundred.
However, these new recruits were almost surrounded by Yun Chao's men.
There are people from the Qingyang Camp as internal agents, and the recruits selected are basically the subordinates sent by Yun Chao, and many of them are well-spoken trainers.
The instructor was not a vegetarian, and he quickly became involved with the other soldiers.
Make friends, build relationships, and promote the ideas that Yunchao instilled in them, such as that the poor in the world are one family.
Dong Ping did not do a good job of keeping secrets, and his generals soon revealed the news while drinking.
Hearing that the Dongping Army might be coming to attack him, Yun Chao didn't dare to neglect and quickly called a meeting with his key personnel.
All the boys exploded when they heard it.
Jia Mancang, who had awakened the ancient power, was the first to jump up: "Brother Chao, since the man named Dong is unkind, don't blame us for being unjust. I will take people to Dongping Mansion and pick off the head of the dog thief!"
Li Xing was not to be outdone: "Brother Chao, that Tongpan surnamed Huang is nothing. Let me go with Jia Mancang. He will be responsible for killing the one surnamed Dong, and I will do the same for the one surnamed Huang!"
The second idiot was still as stunned as ever: "Brother Chao, let's just kill the prefect named Cheng too, so that the old guy won't cause trouble for us!"
The third rake simply came out more ruthlessly: "Brother Chao, I think none of the corrupt officials in the court are as good as you. Why don't we rebel and we can keep you in the country!"
"..."
The boys were talking to each other, and their voices were getting louder and louder.
Yun Chao said nothing, observing everyone's reaction.
To Yun Chao's relief, no one was afraid, and no one wanted to be a capitulator.
After all the boys had finished talking, Yun Chao coughed, and the scene suddenly became quiet.
"Stone, what do you think? Why don't you speak? Are you scared?"
Swish swish swish...
As soon as Yun Chao spoke, everyone looked at Wang Shitou.
Wang Shitou is such a shrewd guy, how could he not know that Yun Chao uses the method of provoking generals.
However, in the face of crisis, Wang Shitou could not afford to keep a low profile.
"Second brother, Dongping Prefecture is not Qingyang County. It is not advisable to send people to assassinate Dong Ping and Huang Tong. It will be easily exposed and may even damage our brothers..."
Before Wang Shitou could finish speaking, Jia Mancang was unhappy: "Shitou, what do you mean? When have brothers ever been afraid of death? For brother Chao and for our Qingyang County, I, Jia Mancang, will not hesitate to be shattered to pieces! "
