Fu Song

Chapter 178
Cheng Gui finally saw the so-called Fanjun.

The officials of the Song Dynasty always believed that the Fan army was a mob with lax military discipline.The reason why they came out to fight at the order of the imperial court was that they were afraid of the imperial court's might and power, and secondly, it was because of money.Such an army naturally has no combat power at all. On the battlefield, it is basically used by the coach as a consumable.

But the Xiangfan army of the Hengshan Party right now made Cheng Gui's eyes straighten.

Xiao Ding vowed to go out to fight, and all the troops under his command were assembled, and Cheng Gui, as the representative of the pacifier, finally got a glimpse of Xiao Ding's current strength.

Standing on the hillside, the army below the hill can be seen at a glance.

In the middle is Xiao Ding's headquarters, which is the Imperial Song Dynasty's orthodox Forbidden Army with the Guangrui Army and Dingbian Army as the core. Needless to say, the Guangrui Army is an army that has been tested in the battle against the Liao people. So far, Cheng Gui still can't forget the majestic figure of Xiao Dingchu leading the Guangrui Army to the city of Yan'an, although the whole body was covered with snow, the majestic figure remained motionless.That scene also let Cheng Gui see what a real hero is.

The Dingbian army was not even ranked among the armies on the Shaanxi Road in the Miaoshou era, but now you can see the tall and straight figures under the flying Dingping army flag. I am afraid that this army has been reborn long ago, and it is completely different from the past.

After Xiao Ding took over Dingbian, he vigorously purged almost all the officers. Nearly [-] soldiers were dismissed, and in the end only a thousand or so were retained. The rest are all farmers now, and they are probably busy with spring plowing right now. Bar.

The large-scale reorganization resulted in not only a completely new army, but also a rapid rise in Xiao Ding's influence and strength.

If Cheng Gui still thinks there is a way to influence these two armies, then the two foreign armies will give him a toothache.

He regrets it to death now.

Originally, in order to express his support for Xiao Ding, Ma Xing asked the imperial court to include the Hengshan Fan soldiers in the imperial army's salary supply plan. There are also people in the court, so naturally they passed easily.

But then the sudden attack launched by Xiao Ding made Ma Xing passive and furious. Naturally, Ma Xing refused to give Xiao Ding any more money, but swallowed it himself.

Of course, Ma Xing didn't put it into his own pocket, but gave the money to another army.

But looking at the Fan army in front of him, Cheng Gui suddenly felt that if the money was given to them, the pacifier could justifiably intervene in the management of this Fan army, but right now, it seems that even this last reason is lost.

Cheng Gui was startled by the two Fan armies in front of him.

Left wing, all cavalry.

In his field of vision, it extended far away, and it seemed that he couldn't see the edge.It was Tuoba Yangwei who was next to him and told him that this is the iron kite, with a total of [-] riders.

"They all ride with one person and two horses, and the core is one person with three horses. But right now it's just a troop inspection, so naturally they only brought one horse." Tuoba Yangwei said with a smile. "Heroes who have been carefully selected from the hundreds of thousands of party members in Hengshan, they can work without sleep for days, and they can easily travel hundreds of miles in one day."

Cheng Gui didn't speak, but just looked at the cavalry. The banner of the iron kite was a giant eagle flying with wings spread. Its eyes were like lightning and its claws were as sharp as iron. The flag fluttered in the wind, just like countless eagles were about to spread their wings and fly away.

On the right wing, fluttering in the wind are countless wolf-headed flags with sharp fangs, and the sharp fangs are red in the wolf's grinning mouth.

The one holding the wolf flag is Bubazi among the Fan soldiers, a heavy infantry.

"Bubazi has a total of [-] people, but now only [-] people have been given armor. We really don't have the financial resources for the remaining [-] people. Cheng Chaofeng must explain it to Bachelor Ma when he has the opportunity. A, the fighting power of the soldiers should be discounted several times!" Tuoba said with a smile.

Cheng Gui had a half-smile on his face, you still want money now?
Think beautiful!
Dozens of natural salt lakes in Yanzhou are not enough for you to build?
The longer he stayed in Yanzhou, the more Cheng Gui's heart ached.

Because the salt produced in Yanzhou is not just the low-end rough salt with both mud and sand and bitter and astringent taste, but a full third of snowflake salt.The quality of this snowflake salt is the only one Cheng Gui has seen in his life, and the price of this kind of salt is only one-third of the snowflake salt on the market.

Cheng Gui naturally eats snowflake salt all the time.He could imagine how much impact Yanzhou's snowflake salt would have on the salt market in the entire Northwest and even in the Song Dynasty.

And these party members will make huge profits from it.

We must take back the control of Yanzhou!Cheng Gui thought in the center of his heart.

But right now, they are the absolute main force to fight Li Xu, and they really can't be offended, so we can only coax them first, and wait until Li Xu is finished.

But would a wily guy like Tuoba Yangwei fail to think of this?How will they respond then?
Cheng Gui's eyes looked at the army at the foot of the mountain, but his mind was turning so many times that he didn't hear a single word of Xiao Ding's impassioned speech.

In fact, Xiao Ding didn't say much.With an army of more than [-] people, no matter how loud his voice was, not many people could hear him clearly.It's just some motivating slogans, Xiao Ding yelled it once, then dozens of big men yelled it again in unison, and finally the whole army yelled it again, it almost meant something.

The sudden shouts of tens of thousands of people made Cheng Gui's body tremble, and he came back to his senses, the thunderous drums were already ringing in his ears, and when Ding Qing watched, armies were marching out one after another.

"Cheng Chaofeng!" Xiao Ding, who turned around, cupped his hands and said to Cheng Gui: "Our department is about to go, this time to challenge Li Xu's department head-on, to be honest, Xiao doesn't have much confidence in his heart. In fact, the outcome of the decisive battle depends on Chao Feng alone. If Yu Zang cannot become our ally but instead becomes our enemy, then Xiao will have no other choice but to run away in embarrassment. And when the time comes I am not the only one who is unlucky at the time, I am afraid that the Zhen Rong Army will also be defeated."

"Commander, don't worry, Cheng will definitely persuade Yuzang Huama." Cheng Gui said solemnly.

"Okay, as long as Yuzang Huama is anyway, the first victory in this battle will be yours." Xiao Ding laughed.

"How dare you compete with the soldiers!"

"No, no, you are the key to this battle. As long as we succeed, none of us will envy Cheng Chaofeng for your first victory." Xiao Ding laughed, "This journey must be uneven. Yes, be careful of the other party's scouts. Tuoba Fenwu, you have to protect Cheng Chaofeng's safety."

"Obey!" Tuoba Fen said loudly.

"Ren Duo Zhi Zhou!" Xiao Ding looked at the white-haired Ren Duo Zhong again.

"Commander, don't worry, you and Deputy Commander Tuoba will go out together this time, and Ren Duozhong will do everything to the best of his ability even if he will not sleep or rest in the matter of food and grass allocation later on!" Ren Duozhong caressed the white beard and said, "If I missed the commander's job, and when I came back, I chopped off my big head."

"Okay, everything is ready, I only owe the east wind, everyone, Xiao has gone!" Xiao Ding laughed loudly and rode his horses, and walked away.

"Farewell, everyone." Tuoba Yangwei also bowed his hands, rode his horse and swung his whip, and followed Xiao Ding away.

This time to attack Li Xu, whether it was Xiao Ding or their Hengshan party members, they really did their best, not only for Huang Song, for Ma Xing, but also for themselves.Only if they win, will there be a wider world for them to gallop.

"Everyone, this is Cheng's farewell." Cheng Gui looked at Ren Duozhong, Miao Shou and others, "I will leave the matter here to you."

"Cheng Chaofeng has a smooth journey, and he has made great achievements." Ren Duozhong sincerely cupped his hands in congratulations.In any case, Cheng Gui is worthy of his admiration. It is still extremely risky to instigate Yuzang Huama, and no one knows what this Tibetan nobleman from Qingtang thinks in his heart.

If it succeeds, it is naturally a miraculous feat, but if it fails, it will be buried in a foreign land.

As a literati, Cheng Gui dared to do this, which is remarkable in itself.

"Judge Zhang, I still have a few things to discuss with you!" Ren Duozhong glanced left and right, and his eyes fell on Zhang Yuan who was on the side.

After everything in Yanzhou stabilized, the big shopkeeper of Hengshan Trading became the judge of Yanzhou. As Ren Duozhong's deputy, he entered the core of the group from the official position.

"It just so happens that I have a few things to report to Zhizhou!" Zhang Yuan smiled and cupped his hands, and the two got on their horses and rode away together.As for Miao Shou who is still in place, even if it is reasoned, there is no reason.

Whether it was Yanzhou officials who came to see him off, or officials from Dingbian City Shentangbao, they all tacitly joined forces and left. In a blink of an eye, there was only one lonely Miao left in the field. Shou, it looks so bleak.

After Xiao Ding, Tuoba Yangwei and others left, Ren Duozhong became the supreme principal.

Of course, Ren Duozhong is also very clear about where he should be. When it comes to the importance of their small group, Zhang Yuanke is more important than him.

More importantly, Zhang Yuan is much better than Ren Duozhong in terms of how to make a state run normally.It is naturally impossible to manage a state with the same method of managing tribes.What's more, the real area under their jurisdiction now also includes Dingbian Town and its surrounding areas.

"Make every effort to ensure spring plowing, this point must not be delayed." In Zhizhou's office, Zhang Yuan talked eloquently: "There is still a shortage of seeds, and people have been sent to buy them, but now that there are continuous wars in the northwest, I am afraid that the price will be high." It will be soaring. In Renduo Zhizhou, there are still few cattle that can plow the land. In the future, we need to train more calves. Using cattle to plow the land is much more durable than horses."

A large amount of land reclamation has brought about the shortage of large livestock.There is no shortage of cattle in Hengshan, but there are not so many cattle that have been trained to plow and plow the fields. The most important function of the party people's cattle is to eat them.

"That's right, I didn't think about this problem earlier." Ren Duo nodded repeatedly: "However, we need to recruit more experienced farmers from Dingbian City and Shentangbao. After reclaiming so much wasteland this year, many people are still not interested in farming. Layman, sowing seeds in the spring, there must be no mistakes, otherwise the year will be over."

"Don't worry. The youngest Zhu has already arranged this matter, and about a hundred experienced farmers will come over soon. Although these lands are all raw land, as long as you take good care of them, the harvest may not be bad. After all, we have thought of many ways on top of fertilizer."

"Food is the root of everything!" Ren Duozhong sighed: "If we want not to be choked by others, we have to find a way to be self-sufficient in food. This year, nearly [-] party members have been mobilized to go down the mountain to farm. I hope that after autumn, we can Had a good harvest."

"I don't need to count on it this year." Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "This year's [-] people can feed themselves with food, which is a great achievement. In previous years, don't you have to buy all the [-] people's food? You don't need to buy it, this is Great job."

"That's true."

"As long as the battle ahead goes smoothly, there will be nothing missing this year." Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "If we can occupy the surrounding areas of Xingqing Mansion in one fell swoop, next year's life will be even better. Governor Renduo, we still have to mobilize More party members go down the mountain, breeding, farming, what is better than hunting in the mountains!"

"There are still a lot of Qiang. They have always been disobedient and used to being wild!" Ren Duozhong shook his head and said, "All those who can come down have come down, and those who can't come out, won't come out."

"Such a good manpower can't be wasted. I think we can catch it!" Zhang Yuan sneered: "If you don't eat the toast and eat fine wine, then don't blame us for being rude. Those who come down the mountain on their own initiative have Fang Youtian and Tools , those who are caught will have to do coolies first.”

"Alright, I'll arrange this!"

"Well, I'm worried about Zhizhou. Next, I have to go to various workshops to have a look." Zhang Yuandao: "Nowadays, the Northwest Road is busy playing, and the prices of everything are rising. Our workshops are taking this opportunity to produce more. Then it’s shipped over there, it’s all a lot of money! Knowing the state, the price of hemp rope alone has tripled, and castor oil, turpentine, and tung oil have increased by more than five times. It has increased by five times, and the refined medicine, like the sore medicine, has increased by ten times."

"The fight on Suide's side was fierce, but Li Du was about to be unable to hold on anymore. As soon as the Hedong side sent troops, he had to run away, otherwise he would be blocked in Suide."

"Can Hedong go out? Not necessarily." Zhang Yuan said with a smile, "I'm afraid the Liao people will make a move. Yelujun has endured all winter, isn't this the time he's been waiting for? Once the Liao people move, Liao Du Ke will be refreshed, and if we can persist for a longer time, we will be able to make more money! Hahaha!"

"Liao people from Nanjing Road? Will there be a big fight between Song and Liao?"

"That's not certain. Anyway, Song and Liao didn't fight a few battles in a year! In short, the battle will not end until one side admits defeat first." Zhang Yuan laughed.

(End of this chapter)