Chapter 380: Burning food and grass, marrying misfortune

More than two months have passed since Zhao Kai ascended the throne. The situation in the Song Dynasty seems calm, but it is surging inside. As for the reason, it is because the angry Zhao Yuntian has taken Shezhou, wiped Fang La, gathered the enemy troops, and conquered the army elsewhere. He is quickly gathering the army and preparing to return to the capital to meet the Saint!

Face Saint? It's so exciting now.

Ximen Qing also returned to Bazhou yesterday evening.

At this time, Ximen Qingzheng was chatting with Tao Qian and Wu Yong in the city lord's mansion.

Ximen Qing asked: "Scholars, what's the situation between Tang Tianheng and Liao Kingdom? Before I came, I saw that both sides were not defending the city. What's the situation? It seems that there is a conspiracy?"

Wu Yong and Tao Qian smiled, and Wu Yong said, "Emperor Yi, you don't know. In the past few months you have been away, Tang Tianheng's army fought more than twenty times with the three troops of the Liao Kingdom. Each time, both sides were equal and evenly matched. Naturally, the casualties were very large. According to our spy report, Tang Tianheng's 150,000 army had dropped sharply to 100,000, and the Liao Kingdom's army also suffered heavy casualties. Tang Tianheng knew that this was not a solution, so he decisively hung up the battle-free sign and was unwilling to fight. The Liao Kingdom also had to have a rest, so he did not send troops."

Ximen Qing nodded and smiled and said, "Haha, Tang Tianheng must hate us so much. By the way, how many soldiers do we have now?"

Tao Qian stroked his beard and smiled, saying, "Emperor Yi, why don't you guess?"

Ximen Qing said: "Originally we had 170,000 troops. I have been leaving Bazhou for half a year, so I have to add 30,000 troops!"

Tao Qian laughed and said, "Emperor Yi, you underestimate the reputation of our Liangshan army too much. Now our army has leopard camp, feather camp, modao camp, fiery camp, eagle camp, Qinglong Dadao camp, serial horse camp, hook sickle gun camp, assault camp, bear camp, elephant camp, wolf camp, mastiff camp, sting camp, shield camp, and Yanluo camp. There are currently 15,000 people in each battalion. Including other soldiers, the entire Bazhou has 250,000 people and horses!"

"What? Eighty thousand more people have been added? So many!" Ximen shouted in shock.

Wu Yong said: "That's right, there are so many, and you don't have to worry about quality. Every soldier is carefully selected and is definitely no worse than our original soldiers in Liangshan!"

Ximen Qing asked: "Why are there so many? Where do you recruit them?"

Wu Yong said: "They are all recruited from nearby states, there is no problem at all, so there is no need to worry about someone not following the order."

Ximen Qing nodded, then rubbed his hands, and said happily: "Scholar, Tao Qian, I asked Zhu Wu to join the speed of recruitment to protect the safety of Liangshan headquarters. Before I came, he also sent me a letter to talk about the recruitment situation. Do you know how many soldiers they have recruited now?"

"How many?" Wu Yong and Tao Qian asked.

Ximen Qing raised his hand and said, "Fifty thousand! And it's still being collected. At this speed, when Zhao Yunzhen took over Tokyo City, there would be a total of 350,000 troops in Liangshan, or even nearly 400,000! Damn, this is something I can't imagine!"

Wu Yong and Tao Qian were also surprised. Wu Yong said: "When today is in chaos and the people are living in poverty, they all want to join the army and have a full meal. However, our Liangshan has the best conditions and the soldiers have the best food, so the people are naturally happy to join."

Ximen Qing said: "When you talk about food, I want to ask, how much is our food and grass reserves? Is it enough?"

Tao Qian said: "It's enough now, and even if it's not enough, you can still buy it with gold, silver and treasures. We still have three major warehouses of gold, silver and jewelry that are useless!"

Ximen Qing smiled and said, "No, we have taken all the treasures of Tanzhou, Jizhou and Bazhou, but we can't use them all!"

As he said that, Ximen Qing was stunned and began to knock on the table with his hands.

Seeing Ximen Qing like this, Wu Yong raised his eyebrows and asked, "Emperor Yi, do you want to send troops?"

Ximen Qing nodded and said, "That's right! Now we have 250,000 troops, and we have strong troops. Why not leave the troops? And I'm worried that Tang Tianheng will have something to do.... It's not a long-term solution to stick to the ground after all!"

Wu Yong said: "I think so too, so where can we do it?"

Ximen Qing looked at the map behind him, squinted his eyes and said, "Tang Tianheng is immortal, he is always a big concern! So he must take down Tanzhou!"

Wu Yong said: "Okay, then I'll dispatch troops quickly, and we'll send troops to Tanzhou tomorrow!"

"Wait!" Ximen Qing called Wu Yong and said, "Don't be busy now. We will send troops to attack Tanzhou. Then the Liao army will be happy and can benefit from fishermen. If that's the case, why don't we be fishermen?"

Wu Yong nodded and understood, "I understand... I will send Yue Fei to investigate quickly, and then let Lin Chong go and do it, and let him pretend to be Tang Tianheng's army to intercept the food and grass of the Liao army!"

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After receiving Wu Yong's order, Yue Fei quickly investigated when Youzhou would transport food and grass to Jizhou.

Three days later, Yue Fei returned with his spies and brought the exact time for the Liao army to escort food and grass. Then Lin Chong led a thousand dead soldiers to serve Tang Tianheng's army, and then left Bazhou.

They walked along the Youlan Valley north and slowly entered the boundary of Youzhou. Then they rushed in the moonlight and soon arrived at an official road. Then the army ambushed the sides of the official road, waiting for the food and grass army to arrive.

Over the past six months, the grain and grass army transported grain and grass to Jizhou many times, and each time they were all peaceful and had never been ambushed. So over time, Youzhou also relaxed its caution in escorting grain and grass, and did not send a large army to escort it.

I saw hundreds of carriages slowly coming on the official road, each carriage filled with food or grass. On both sides of the convoy, there were only a hundred people guarding each other, and everyone was careless, yawning and talking, just like a group of people on a spring outing.

Seeing the carriage slowly driving into the encirclement, Lin Chong decisively ordered, and then the archers shot arrows one after another.

Whoosh...

Suddenly, the guards panicked and hurriedly called for "Enemy Attack" and "Enemy Attack". However, the arrow feathers were too strong, like dense rain, which turned many guards into hornet's nests.

Afterwards, Lin Chong led his troops out, burned the food and grass, and withdrew his troops.

The guards who had escaped from death rushed to Jizhou.

In Jizhou City, Yelu Dezhong, Kangli Ding'an and He Shanlu were discussing military affairs. At this moment, the guard suddenly rushed in and told the story of the burning of food and grass. The three of them were shocked!

There is a army of more than 100,000, and there are a lot of daily food and grass. At this time, the soldiers were waiting for dinner. Now the food and grass are burned, but it is easy to cause the morale of the army to be disintegrated.

Yelu Dezhong hurriedly asked, "Who burned the food and grass? But the Liangshan bandit army?"

The guards knelt on the ground and said hurriedly: "Return to the general, it is not a bandit in Liangshan, but a Tang army!"

After Tang Tianheng occupied Tanzhou City, he removed the position of commander Tian Hu, and from behind the scenes to front the scenes, he changed his army to Tang army, known as the descendant of Emperor Taizong of Tang.

Yelu Dezhong said: "Tang Army? Why did the Tang Army run to the rear? Have you seen it clearly?"

The guards hurriedly said, "I can see clearly that it is definitely the Tang army! And they ran away after burning the food and grass, and did not stop at all!"

Yelu De nodded and said, "You are foolish this time, and you are not good at protecting food and grass. You are going to be executed according to law. Because the enemy is too cunning, I will spare you this time, but the death penalty can be avoided, and the crime of living cannot be escaped. Go out and lead the stick yourself! After taking the stick, you quickly return to Youzhou to report to the Lord, and said that the food and grass in Jizhou are in urgent need of food and grass..."

These guards were grateful to Dai Ze and hurriedly retreated.

At this time, Yelu Dezhong looked at Kangli Ding'an and He Shanlu and asked, "Two generals, who did you do the food burning this time? Is it really the Tang army? I always feel that things are a bit strange!"

Kangli Ding'an nodded and said, "I have a deep feeling! Ximen Qing is too cunning. I am afraid that he will burn food and then blame Tang Jun!"

He Shanlu shook his head and said, "I think otherwise, if the Liangshan bandits burned food and grass and wanted to blame him, why didn't they do this before? Moreover, the Liangshan bandits occupied Bazhou for many days and never went out. How could they know the way to transport our food and grass? What worries me is that this grain-burning army was sent by the Tang army. The purpose is to burn our food and grass, so that we can shortage of food and grass, and have to evacuate Jizhou and occupy Jizhou! You have also seen that these days, the Tang army has not been guarding the city, and they don't even show their faces. We go to call for battle, but they ignore it. It's so strange that there must be a conspiracy!"

Yelu Dezhong said: "This matter needs to be discussed carefully. Whether it is the Liangshan bandit army or the Tang army, the grain-burning army has been wandering behind us and staring at our food and grass. It has always been a bad thing! It must be eliminated!"

"General Yelu's words are reasonable!"

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Three days later, the Langzhu sent five thousand men and horses to escort food, grass, carriages and horses to Jizhou.

When the food and grass carriages arrived at Jizhou, they were half a day away from Jizhou City, they were attacked by Lin Chong's army.

The thousand soldiers of Lin Chong were all dead soldiers, and they were definitely killing tools for fighting to the death. Therefore, although the food and grass soldiers were escorted by 5,000 people, the food and grass were still burned. However, the thousand people of Lin Chong also died, and more than 100 people were captured.

The news of the burning of food and grass reached Yelu Dezhong and Kangli Ding'an. He Shanlu was so angry that the three of them overturned the table. Now that the food and grass were in short supply in Jizhou City, the soldiers had no more saliva. The collection of food and grass in the city had little effect. The three of them were anxious. Now that they learned that the food and grass were burned, how could they not be angry?

Afterwards, the three people interrogated more than 100 captured dead soldiers.

What Yelu Dezhong and the other two wanted to know the most was whether this team of food and grass was sent by the bandits of Liangshan or the Tang army!

The dead men were loyal to Liangshan, so they naturally did not know their origin. After enduring various torture instruments, they finally told the "truth" that they were Tang Jun.

Several people said that they were Tang army's credibility was not high, but more than a hundred people said so, which made Yelu Dezhong and the other two believe it.

Then the three of them hated Tang Tianheng very much, and wished they could send troops now, take down Tanzhou City, and kill the Tang army.

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