"Your Majesty, the slave thieves across the Xiaoling River are not easy to fight!"
"Yes, their soldiers and horses are no less than ours. There are only 80,000 if not 100,000..."
"Moreover, they are still guarding the dangerous position of Xiaoling River. They have built a stronghold on the bank of Xiaoling River. We have no way to get over, so we have to confront each other across the river..."
"Long live Lord, we have more food, but the slaves and thieves have less. If we fight for a few months, the slaves and thieves will run out of food!"
"Yes, yes, I heard that Huang Taiji likes to compare himself to Zhuge Kongming. He is destined to run out of food and be defeated..."
In the camp outside Songshan City, the three generals and six deputy generals under Yuan Chonghuan were all talking about urging Zhu Youjian to avoid being impulsive!
Impulse is the devil! Impulsiveness is dangerous!
Now there are so many slaves and thieves on the other side of Xiaoling River. It is too dangerous to take risks. It is better to confront each other across the river than to eat! In recent years, Liaoxi has done a good job in farming. Not only oats, soybeans, and sorghum have been planted, but also many sweet potatoes have been planted. Shen Tingyang's Haisha Gang also sent a lot of Huguang rice, which was enough for him to eat. So compared to eating, Liao Town will definitely win!
Zhu Youjian was really dumbfounded when he heard the words of these Liao army generals... Are you going to compete with slaves and thieves for food? When you were not allowed to go into battle to fight slave thieves, you all claimed to be elites, and you all shouted about five years of peace and Liao. Now that we are going to war, how come you have nothing left to eat?
However, Zhu Youjian didn't get too angry. He had long known that most of the generals in Liao Town were nothing but drunkards. Even if there are a few loyal and brave people, they are still afraid of slaves and thieves.
Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian laughed, "Huang Taiji compares himself to Zhuge Liang, but I am not Sima Yi! I have been using troops every year since Yuji, when have I ever been a coward? I will not compete with others for food... ...." His tone suddenly darkened, "I have decided to take the lead and compete with Huang Taiji! If you don't want to go, just stay in the camp and eat!"
What? The emperor wants to take the lead again?
They also let us stay in the camp to eat... Why does this sound so unreliable? Is it a deprivation meal?
Some of the Liao Town generals below immediately lost their temper.
"Long live my Lord, you are a man of ten thousand gold. You must never risk your own life again. My old minister, Zhao Lian, is willing to lead his son to fight and become the king's forerunner!"
Zhao Shu taught Mr. Zhao that he was thin-skinned and dared to fight, so he died in battle in his previous life...
Zhu Youjian nodded with satisfaction and said in his heart: Old man, I will take you to kill slaves in this life. Not to mention one Huang Taiji, even if there are 10 of them, they will not be my opponent! I have black guns, black cannons, and black pot... I will kill that fat man!
Seeing that Mr. Zhao was already in his early years, He Kegang was too embarrassed to hide anymore, so he went out to the squad and said: "Long live my Lord, I am also willing to fight... let me fight in the first battle!" "
Zhu Youjian also smiled and nodded: You are also a loyal and brave person! Well done! Follow me to make meritorious deeds!
Then Zhu Youjian turned to look at Zu Dashou, the "Five Ministers" in his previous life, and his eyes gradually became cold.
Zu Dashou had seen Zhu Youjian's heroic appearance as a soldier, and of course he knew that the emperor was not joking with everyone.
The emperor really wants to take the lead!
If anyone volunteers to be a pioneer for the king, wait until he is forced to the front line by the emperor with a black gun!
But now that two of the three generals under Yuan Dudu have already asked for a fight, it's not enough for him to just be a coward!
Thinking of this, Zu Dashou had no choice but to stand up and say, "Long live the Lord, I invite you to fight!"
good! You know the current affairs! Zhu Youjian took his eyes away from Zu Dashou and looked at Yuan Chonghuan.
Yuan Chonghuan had no choice. All three generals under his command had asked for a fight. How could he, the governor, be as fearful of the enemy as a tiger? He has spent tens of millions of military pay on Zhu Youjian in the past few years...
"Long live my Lord," Yuan Chonghuan said, "please allow me to command the army on the battlefield and fight the slaves and thieves... Your Majesty just needs to listen to the victory report in Songshan City."
Zhu Youjian valued Yuan Chonghuan seriously: "Captain Yuan, you can't do it! You are no match for Huang Taiji... I have to do it myself to command an army of 100,000 people to fight the slaves to the death!"
And Songshan City is not a good place, I won’t go! I'm going to Jinzhou... tomorrow! "
tomorrow?
Isn't this too urgent?
"Your Majesty," Yuan Chonghuan said hurriedly, "the time is too short...the armies have no time to prepare!"
Zhu Youjian glared at Yuan Chonghuan: "You have been preparing for six years, and you are not ready yet? You told me back then that it would take five years for Liaoning to be leveled!"
Yuan Chonghuan blushed and thought: I like to brag, but you don't believe me either!
"Your Majesty," Liu Ce spoke at the side, "our army and the slave bandits are now facing each other across the river, and the Xiaoling River is deep and difficult to cross. It takes time to prepare the boats."
"What?" Zhu Youjian's face darkened a little more, "After such a long confrontation, you didn't even prepare a ship? That's not right. Western Liaoning is close to the sea, and your Liao army still uses Juehua Island as a place to transfer grain and grass. Why? Will there be no boat?”
The Western Liaoning Corridor is close to the sea, and all the food and wages in Liao Town are transported by sea. However, it is not transported directly to the land in western Liaoning. Instead, it is piled on Juehua Island and then sent to various places in western Liaoning.
The task of transporting grain to Juehua Island was contracted by the Shachuan Gang, while the work of transporting grain from Juehua Island to various places in western Liaoning was taken care of by Liao Town itself.
Therefore, it is impossible that the Liao army does not have ships to transport grain... now it just does not have ships to cross the river for the decisive battle!
"There is a boat, there is a boat..." It was Yuan Chonghuan who told Liu Ce that he didn't have a boat before, but now he quickly changed his mind, "Long live the Lord reminded me, I remembered... I have a boat! "
"Is it available tomorrow?" Zhu You asked.
"Tomorrow..." Yuan Chonghuan thought for a while, "If there is time, if there is time, we can always prepare dozens of them. If there are more, we will have to wait for a few days."
"How many dozens are there?" Zhu Youjian said with a sullen face, "How many people can one ship carry? Yuan Chonghuan, don't be careless with me, you have to give me an accurate number!"
"There are 50 boats, and each boat can carry 100 people!"
The grain ship Yuan Chonghuan was talking about was a grain ship that could transport several hundred dan of grain at a time. It was certainly not a problem to transport more than 100 people across the river.
"That's 5,000 people crossing the river at one time!" Zhu Youjian said, "Now that we have a boat, we will send out troops tomorrow... Yuan Chonghuan, Zu Dashou, Zhao Lejiao, and He Kegang!"
"I'm here!"
Of course they didn't run away when Zhu Youjian called them, they all stood up.
"How many men and horses do you each send? How many servants are there? How many front soldiers? How many horsemen? How many infantry? Please tell me the number!" Zhu Youjian said in a cold voice, "Tomorrow you all have to take the lead, so don't even think about leaving any troops. I have enough spare time... Bring out all the elites you have! I will take you to lead the way, forcefully cross the Xiaoling River, and fight Huang Taiji!
When the time comes, all of you will have to follow us across the river... After all the soldiers and generals who went out to fight have crossed the river, I will burn the boats! I want to learn from Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, and fight against the odds! "
Come on, no one can escape!
This time it wasn't someone carrying Shang Fang's sword to supervise the battle, but the emperor who wholesaled Shang Fang's sword personally forced him to come!
And it's not just about supervising the battle, but about crossing the river together, fighting against the odds, and fighting to the bitter end... This is the reincarnation of the Overlord of Chu!
I don’t know if Huang Taiji can be compared with Liu Bang?
The governor, commander-in-chief, and deputy generals in the big tent all knew that there was no way to "survive". This time they really had to fight hard to save their lives. Maybe there was still a chance of survival. So I was making small calculations in my mind - I had to calculate how many of my subordinates were really capable of fighting? One counts as one, two counts as a pair, go into battle and kill the enemy!
Just as they were calculating the small accounts, there was already a staff officer from the army in front of the account who was counting with a small book - they had to first figure out how many people below were able to fight before they could formulate a strategy for the decisive battle!
And we still have to count tomorrow. If the number of people is too different, then our heads will be cut off and sacrificed to the flag!
After a while, the number reported by each general was sent to Zhu Youjian. Zhu Youjian slightly added it, and there were more than 60,000 people... This should be after deducting the heavy baggage troops and miscellaneous soldiers. The number of real elite soldiers. Among them, there are more than 6,000 servants and more than 10,000 cavalry.
Zhu Youjian nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, we will prepare food at the third watch tomorrow and send out troops at the fifth watch. All soldiers will bring three days of dry food...Liu Ce, you will lead the rest of the army." , first go to Songshan Castle to station, and prepare a celebration banquet, waiting for my triumphant return!"
