"I have wronged you today!" In the study of the Governor's Mansion, the servants had already come in to clean up. Rong Shuihe had also changed into a homely robe. When he saw Xu Lianshan coming in, he nodded and said, "I'll give you a credit later!"
After Xu Lianshan saluted, he folded his hands and said with a smile: "The prince's words are serious. How can such a trivial matter be regarded as credit?"
The disputes and various questions he had in front of people today were actually arranged by Rong Suihe in advance. The purpose was to ask questions for the people in Jishan camp while leaking as few secrets as possible.
After all, Rong Suihe said that Jishan Ying and Wuyi Ying were equal confidants in his opinion, and his right and left arms were not superior to each other. Even because of the current situation and the number of people, he was more towards Jishan Ying than Wuyi Ying. Look at the important points.
For example, Wu Jing, the leader of Jishan Camp, came in and out of the Governor's Mansion as freely as he did at his own home, and even Sheng Weiqiao, the princess of the county, treated him with great courtesy; another example is that Le Yangwen, the military advisor of Jishan Camp, became a member not long after arriving in Yizhou. Liao Rong is Sleeping Crane's chief staff member and is highly regarded.
But in fact, it was Wuyiying that Rong Suihe truly trusted and relied on.
This is because Wuyi Camp, or to be precise, the current Wuyi Camp was built by him personally. He knows everyone from top to bottom, and of course they can use it like a finger. However, Jishan Camp It was the work of his teacher Huan Guanlan, and the reason why he joined him was also because of Huan Guanlan.
If Rong Suihe is said to have a deep mind, his teacher is even more unfathomable.
When he retired from the court at a young age, he suddenly disappeared shortly after retiring and returned to his hometown. He had been living at sea for many years and was obviously regarded as a hot potato by the old sea master Gongsun of Tortoiseshell Island, but he still refused to return to the shore and even ignored all his children. And all the efforts made by his disciples to seek justice for him... If he was so desperate that he drifted with the crowd, he left countless records of secrets.
Such abnormal lurking and silence.
Even if he carefully cultivated Rong Suihe and taught him everything he could, Rong Suihe was a person who could not trust the teacher wholeheartedly.
So regarding Jishanying, he didn't show it on his face, but in his heart he always had the idea of both wooing and guarding against him.
That's why Xu Lianshan was arranged to argue with others in public and control the situation by singing along.
At this moment, seeing Xu Lianshan denying the credit, he smiled and did not insist. He pointed to the seat in front of him: "Sit down and talk!"
Xu Lianshan responded, and after sitting down, he said: "Prince, we have just discussed all the matters that Ni Jidao said you will deal with, so that's all. I feel that the most difficult thing to deal with is the people near Yizhou City. The problem of not being able to evacuate into the city before Ruru’s troops approach the city.”
After all, he is a habitual bandit with many years of experience and is not a descendant of Xijiang. He does not care about the life and death of these people. At this moment, he frowned and said, "If Ruru arrives, it will be nothing more than burning, killing and looting, even if they kill them all, it doesn't matter! The biggest fear is coercion. After all, the Western Xinjiang Army is already very unreliable, and the risk is too great if we engage in this kind of thing again!"
In fact, there have been many things like coercing the enemy's people to attack the city throughout the ages. The only way to deal with it is to say: save if you can, and kill if you can't save!
No matter what, they can't break up the array and rush to the top of the city. That would be like being dragged to death by them!
If Rong Suihe has already established a foundation in Western Xinjiang, there is nothing to discuss. At most, he can prepare more weapons and arrows to avoid being wasted by cannon fodder.
The problem is that Rong Suihe has not been around for half a year since he came to Xijiang. Except for a few senior officials of the Xijiang Army, 80% of the people in the Xijiang Army have never seen him!
Such an army that is neither elite nor trained for a long time, and is full of resentment due to being deprived of military pay, poor and sick... is not optimistic about its actual combat power or its determination to sacrifice for the country.
Seeing his parents, wife and children crying and begging under the city again, Xu Lianshan thought about it for a moment and felt that if it were him, he would definitely unite with the surrounding Paoze who were fighting side by side, kill the supervising team together, and run down to the top of the city to open the door to greet him. Ruru.
Anyway, the Xijiang Army is much larger than the Jishan Battalion and Wuyi Battalion combined. No matter how ruthless the Jishan Battalion is, most of the people do not need to mutiny, and a small number of people become rebellious. It will not work if all the two battalions are involved!
As for what will happen after Ruru enters the city, he doesn't care!
Xu Lianshan believed that his thoughts were human nature, and of course he was very concerned about the people near Yizhou City.
"I have ordered people to persuade the Western Xinjiang Army to rush to the border to set up an ambush, with these important towns as the center and horns of each other to block Ruru's advance." Rong Suihe said, "When the people nearby hear the news, most of them will They will take the initiative to flee to the city or the rear. In this way, most people should be able to escape. As for those who are difficult to leave their homeland or unable to leave, they can only give up. After all, the situation is like this."
In this case, even if those who are abandoned are all relatives of the soldiers, there will be fewer people involved, and the chance of mutiny, or the scale of mutiny, will also be reduced.
Xu Lianshan couldn't help but ask: "Can we excuse Ruru or the Meng family and kill them first? This should make it easier, right?"
As soon as he asked this question, not only Rong Suihe looked at him speechlessly, but also Gongsun Yingdun, who had just come in with tea, had his mouth twitching: "Brother Lian Shan, are you crazy? We are no longer pirates!"
"Don't you think this is quite troublesome?" Xu Lianshan realized that he had come up with a bad idea and said sarcastically, "In the past, when we went to war, we just wanted to kill! Except for our own people, why should we chop them with a few swords when we see them? That's right! How did you know that after becoming an officer and a soldier, you would still have so many troubles?"
When Gongsun Yingdun saw that Rong Suihe didn't stop him from interjecting, he corrected him: "It's still the same now, don't touch your own people! But since we have become officers and soldiers, the people of Damu are also our own people!"
He added, "Didn't I tell you just now that the person from Jishan camp was named He Yingqian? My uncle's goal is not just Western Xinjiang. In this case, you must be careful in your actions to avoid being used to make a big fuss in the future! So Wait, where can you do this kind of thing of killing one's own people? Don't forget that even though Meng Jiaqian can't even get up now, his uncle Gao Qieyi and the soldiers and horses assigned to him by the General Hussar are all there. In Yizhou! If they get hold of this kind of thing, or on the eve of the enemy's invasion, wouldn't it be equivalent to pushing my uncle into a pit of fire? "
Xu Lianshan said angrily: "I thought maybe the heads of those common people could be used as war merits!"
"Save it!" Rong Suihe said dumbfounded, "Now that you're on the shore, follow the rules on the shore! Besides, when we were at sea, how many times did we win with less and more? What kind of ruthless character was not killed? Passed? Why are you afraid now that we have an army of 200,000 and a reinforcement of 100,000 on standby at the rear, but a 50,000 forward is unable to come forward?"
"Of course not!" Xu Lianshan said quickly, "I am just afraid that you will worry too much!"
Rong Suihe said: "It's just a small fight at the moment. If we can't handle this little storm, don't mention it in the future! Don't forget that Chang'an is our ultimate goal!"
Although these words were said implicitly, the meaning behind them made Xu Lianshan and Gongsun Yingdun a little excited. They grew up in a bandit den. They never dreamed that they would one day be officers and soldiers, let alone how many people they had established. The merit of following the dragon that all ministers dream of!
For a moment, he felt that the upcoming war was really just a small scene. He agreed, and seeing that Rong Suihe had no other instructions, he resigned and continued to perform his duties.
At this moment, on the official road three or two days away from Yizhou City, in a temporary camp, Lu Shiyu and Cheng Meizhu were looking pale: "Send the detective horses again to ask in the nearby villages! It can't be just this road!"
No wonder they were still so impatient in the middle of the night: before, they discovered a big hole on the official road while exploring the horse. Lu Shiyu and Cheng Meizhu judged that someone wanted to slow them down, so they ordered Cheng Meizhu to lead people to explore the road first to make preparations.
As a result, after Cheng Meizhu accepted the order, she carefully touched the narrow valley all the way, but it was always calm.
But soon, the group was confused!
Because there are no ambushes inside or outside the narrow valley, and there is no need for an ambush: the valley is blocked!
As mentioned before, this narrow valley is very narrow to begin with, and the sky is not worthy of its name, because there are some sections where you cannot see the sky at all when you look up.
So this place is easy to get clogged, but the key is the indescribable trouble of cleaning it!
Cheng Meizhu dispersed her troops and occupied favorable terrain to ensure that no one would take advantage of them during the cleanup. She dismounted and personally led people in to clean up a section, hoping to see if a road could be opened so that the army could pass.
As a result, he was busy for a long time, and all the troops behind him caught up, and they only cleared a few feet away, but the blockage was still so solid that no trace of the passage could be seen!
"Look at the traces of soil." At this time, Lu Shiyu received the report and drove his horse over to take a look. Seeing this, he frowned and said to his surroundings, "Many of them were dug from the official road, just those holes!"
After the large troops came up, the cleaning speed still couldn't be accelerated: the valley was too narrow! Only so many people can get in at one time, and when there are too many, there is no place to start, so I just stand behind and watch.
Lu Shiyu then sent military experts who were good at flying over eaves and walls to go around the top of the cliffs on both sides of the narrow valley from the nearby cliffs, and had people tie ropes and lower them to investigate.
As a result of this investigation, it was found that two-thirds of the narrow valley five to six miles long was blocked!
"According to the current progress, it will take at least ten days and a half to completely clean up!" Lu Shiyu made an estimate and asked someone to call Cheng Meizhu from the valley, "We can't afford it, and the princess can't afford it! This way! , let the soldiers go around to look for guides and see if there are any paths or anything like that?"
However, although the soldiers did find some hunters, mountain people and other common people from nearby, they all insisted that this narrow valley was the only way, and the only other way was to go around a hundred miles away.
Therefore, Lu Shiyu ordered to withdraw several miles from the narrow valley and set up camp to discuss countermeasures.
Just deliberation and deliberation, there is only one way: take a detour.
The problem is that the guide who came here couldn't provide any new routes at all. It can be said that he found it in a hurry today. He asked around nearby, so there may be some omissions.
What if the person I call tomorrow and the day after tomorrow says there is none... Then, what should I do
Lu Shiyu and Cheng Meizhu were having a headache when the guards came to report that Sheng Weiqiao had sent a maid to ask why the team first stopped and then retreated. Is there anything going on in the narrow valley