MTL - Poor Family-Chapter 896 Take Back the Rebels
Chapter 896 Recovering the Rebel Army
At night, in the lobby of the temporary military office, Yan Qing, Liu Da, and eight or nine other major generals discussed military affairs.
"For an army, the three most important things are territory, money and food, and equipment. Where there is territory, there is a foundation. In the future, no matter whether the supply of money and food or the supply of troops will not be interrupted, money and food are the foundation of the army's survival. I understand everything, so I won’t go into details. Today I checked the army and warehouses. There are currently 40,000 troops in the army. If each person consumes five buckets of grain per month, it would cost 20,000 shi of grain a month. There is only 30,000 shi of grain, and it will last for one and a half months at most, and everyone has to think about where we will get the grain after one and a half months, when it happens to be green and yellow."
Liu Da was silent for a moment and said: "General Yan means that our army has too many people."
Yan Qing nodded, "The army lies in its quality rather than its abundance. The golden soldiers are so powerful that you can't fight a city attack and defense battle with the golden soldiers, let alone a positional warfare. Your way out lies in guerrilla warfare. When the golden soldiers come to encircle and suppress, you will Go up the mountain, and then look for the weakness of the golden soldiers to raid around, beat the golden soldiers hard to defend, this is your way of survival, so my first suggestion is to disarm, keep 5,000 troops, and persuade the remaining 35,000 people to go home .”
"Only five thousand!" Everyone exclaimed, "It's too little!"
"It's not a lot at all. You must know that the army on Shaanxi Road last year was only 30,000. It's not that you can't recruit troops, but you can't afford to support them. Now a soldier's monthly salary is at least eight guanqian. The monthly rate is 240,000 guan, and 5,000 of you need 40,000 guan per month, don’t tell us, none of your soldiers want money.”
Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. They really hadn't thought about the fact that soldiers in their own army still need to be paid. Isn't it enough to have enough food?
At this time, Liu Da sighed and said: "General Yan is right. Every soldier is the pillar of the family. The family counts on them to earn money to support the family. If they have no income, how will their family live? Such an army cannot support them." How long, because the army has just started, and the issue of money has not been discussed yet, and the new year is coming soon, I guess money will be mentioned at that time, but we only have tens of thousands of coins in our hands, what do we use to support military expenses?"
Everyone was silent, Liu Dao said: "Then follow General Yan's arrangement, cut down the army, keep only 5,000 people, distribute money and food to everyone, and let them go home."
"But all the money and food were given to the soldiers who dispersed, what about the remaining soldiers?" Liu San spoke quickly, but couldn't help asking.
Liu Da looked at Yan Qing. He hoped that Yan Qing could solve this problem together with the armor and equipment.
Yan Qing smiled slightly and said, "Actually, I'm very surprised. You raised troops from Jinzhou, why didn't you attack Linfen County?"
Everyone blushed a little. They didn't attack Linfen County because there were a thousand garrisons there. Although they were rural soldiers, they were all regular troops. Without fighting, the soldiers ran away. Although they refused to admit it, they knew in their hearts that their army was a bunch of mobs.
Liu Daqian laughed and said, "Maybe it's because there is food in Shangdang County! The most urgent thing at that time was to solve the problem of food."
Everyone responded one after another, and Yan Qing smiled faintly, "According to the latest information we have obtained, Linfen County still has some military materials, money and food. Although most of them have been shipped to Jiexiu County, the remaining money and food materials in Linfen County are enough for five Thousands of troops consume a year or two."
Liu Da's eyes flashed brightly, and he asked quickly: "How many troops does Yan Tong think we need to capture Linfen County?"
Yan Qing smiled slightly, "As long as we seize the vital points of the enemy army, I can use a little trick to capture Linfen County without spending a single soldier!"
Linfen County currently has the only 1,000 troops in the south of Hedong Road, and they are also Jinbing. The reason is that Linfen County is a material transfer station on Hedong Road. Jinbing built a large number of warehouses here. This time, Jinbing transported a large amount of materials to Jiexiu. County, it is transferred from the warehouse of Linfen County.
Linfen County is a large county with a population of nearly 200,000 people. The county seat has a circumference of 30 miles. In addition to the county magistrate, there is another person who is also the leader of this county. This person is called Wang Feng. A thousand township soldiers from Jinzhou.
After Jin Bing captured Hedong Road, Wang Feng, like other army generals, led his army to surrender to Jin Bing, but he was not promoted, and he still served as the Deputy Envoy of the Jinzhou Regiment, in charge of a thousand township soldiers. There are too many officials to be appointed, and even the prefects have not been replaced, let alone Wang Feng.
So there was an ironic thing, Wang Feng was still an official of the Song Dynasty, but he was loyal to the Kingdom of Jin.
Wang Fengnian is about forty-five or six years old, and his wife's surname is Jia. She is the younger sister of Jia Qiu, the deputy envoy of the east east transshipment. Jinzhou prison camp and a thousand township soldiers.
Wang Feng is notoriously fearful, and his wife, Jia Shi, is also a famous Hedong Lion Roar. It is said that since Wang Feng married Jia Shi, he has never had the chance to touch another woman in the past twenty years.
It's fine if he can't touch other women, but Wang Feng still has a heart disease. His wife Jia gave him three daughters, but he has no sons, and Wang Feng himself has no brothers. After giving birth again, having no heir after death became his biggest heart disease.
Mrs. Jia also knew that she was wrong. In order to make up for her husband, she took a baby from Jia's family to be her son a few years ago. How could Wang Feng be willing to do it? Although he was afraid of his wife, he still sent the baby back, no matter how bad it was. Find a stepson from the Wang family, how can you adopt the child of the Jia family?
At noon that day, Yan Qing brought a few of his subordinates into Linfen County disguised as businessmen, and they found an inn to stay. Yan Qing sent someone to inquire about the news and found the person he was looking for.
In the morning of the next day, Yan Qing brought two men down to an alley in the west of the city. Seeing no one left and right, he left one man on guard, and he and another man climbed over the wall and entered a small courtyard. After a while, the door creaked open. , Yan Qing and one of his subordinates came out, Yan Qing quickly left the alley with a wicker box in his hand.
At noon, Wang Feng, the deputy training envoy of the regiment, rushed to the alley like crazy, and rushed directly into the yard. In the lobby, a young woman was sitting at the table and crying. Wang Feng grabbed the woman and shouted: "My safety Where did Lang go?"
This woman was a concubine raised by Wang Feng three years ago. She gave birth to a son for him two years ago. After taking care of this woman in confinement, Wang Feng's eldest daughter married Feng Hui, the judge of Taiyuan Mansion, and it was this Feng Hui who betrayed the secret of the old man Wang Feng to the Jingzhao Army Intelligence Camp.
"I know it too!"
The concubine sobbed and said: "Two men came, took the baby away, and knocked the slave and the servant woman unconscious."
"Did you tell him that was my son?"
"I said it, the man said with a smile, he took it away just because he is the master's son!"
Wang Feng was stunned for a moment, the other party actually knew that the child was his own son, that's impossible! He grabbed the concubine's hand again, "Have you ever revealed the secret?"
"No! I never dare to talk nonsense, and the two maids dare not go out and say that if we reveal the secret, can the lady not know?"
Wang Feng is right when he thinks about it. His wife is extremely sensitive. If the news is leaked in Linfen County, she will definitely know. So who leaked his secret?
Wang Feng calmed down, thought for a while and asked again: "Apart from the child being snatched, what valuable things were lost, did the bandits do anything to you?"
"No! My ring, bracelet and a pair of nobiles are all on the table. They didn't even look at me, let alone touch me."
The concubine's jewelry was made by Wang Feng at a cost of several hundred taels of silver, but the other party is not interested, which means that the other party is after his son, and they must have some schemes!
Wang Feng began to look around, at this moment, he suddenly found a note behind the door, nailed to the door with a knife, Wang Feng was startled, quickly pulled out the knife, and carefully removed the note.
He hurriedly opened the note, and there was only one sentence on it, 'I will meet you at the tavern at the entrance of Xiaosong Village at dusk. Only one person is allowed to come, otherwise your son's life will be in danger. '
Wang Feng heaved a sigh of relief as there was no signature below. The other party just used his son to coerce him, and the situation was not very serious.
He said to the concubine again: "Pingan Lang is fine, just spend some money, this matter must not be disclosed, and nothing happened."
"I see, master, be careful!"
(end of this chapter)
