I want to be emperor

Chapter 79 Fighting a War and Fighting a Big Battle
Songjiazhuang is located in the west of Lushan County, not far from Songshan Village of Funiu Mountain, about [-] miles away.

The west part of the thirty-mile road is a trail in the hilly area. Although it can barely pass a carriage, it is not a good road. After leaving the hilly area, you will come to the plain area and walk more than ten miles. Also arrived at Songjiazhuang.

Songjiazhuang was built along a tributary of the Shahe River, and near the manor were ordinary villagers, mainly tenants of the Song family.

Surrounding Songjiazhuang is a large piece of farmland, and most of these farmlands are owned by the Song family.

The strength of the Song family not only owns a large area of ​​farmland in the Songjiazhuang area, but also owns a large number of farmlands in other places. A large amount of farmland allows the Song family to obtain a large source of food, and the Song family is still a family of farming and reading. People, this tax is naturally not paid, so the wealth of the Song family is well-known throughout Ruzhou.

It is widely rumored that the warehouses in Songjiazhuang are full of grain, and the cellars are full of gold and silver.

This is also the reason why the rebels from Baoxiangying decided to go out to collect strategic materials such as grain and grass, and immediately aimed their spearhead at Songjiazhuang.

It wasn't because of any hatred between the people in the Baoxiang camp and the Song family, and it wasn't because Huang Guangmao was behind the push. It was simply because the Song family village was a big piece of fat.

It was so fat that An Yongduo and Wang Xiazi were just about to go out to collect food and grass, and everyone thought of Songjiazhuang in unison.

"The scope of Songjiazhuang is relatively large, but the periphery is protected by ordinary villagers without protection. The core is Songjiazhuang."

"I've been to the inside of the Song Family Manor. The courtyard walls are half a meter high and one mile in circumference. Not only are there courtyards where the core members of the Song Family live, but also the Song Family's granary and other warehouses."

While talking, Huang Guangmao drew the layout of the Song Family Manor on paper with a brush.

"Although their courtyard walls are taller and thicker than ordinary people's courtyard walls, they are not city walls after all, and it is absolutely impossible to block the bombardment of [-]-jin long cannons."

"There are at least [-] people in the Song Family Nursing House, but if we attack Song Family Village, the Song Family will definitely temporarily recruit young and strong tenants to defend together, and there may be four to five hundred people at that time."

"They have at least three cannons on the courtyard wall, but they are all light cannons weighing about [-] jin. If our artillery post can accurately attack the section of the courtyard wall where they deploy the artillery, it will be enough to destroy their artillery positions. "

"The Song family nursing home is well-equipped, with strong bows and armor. The exact number is unknown, but it should not be too few. Otherwise, they would have been taken down by other thieves long ago."

"I heard that in the first half of last year, there were at least two waves of thieves trying to attack the Song Family Manor, but they all failed in the end."

In terms of understanding of the Song Family Manor, Huang Guangmao undoubtedly knew the most among the people in Baoxiangying.

After all, he had been to the Song Family Manor in person, and had seen the high walls and guard yard of the Song Family with his own eyes.

And with Huang Guangmao's explanation, An Yongduo and the others had a clearer and comprehensive understanding of the Song Family Manor.

I only heard Wang Xiazi say: "No wonder so many thieves have passed through Lushan County, but no thieves can take down this Songjiazhuang. There are high walls and well-equipped guards. Look at the artillery and armor. The strong bow is probably stronger than ordinary officers and soldiers."

Huang Guangmao nodded and said, "That's right, the Song family nursing home is really not easy to deal with!"

But Zhang Malin said: "It's okay, they are only relying on the high wall. There is no way for ordinary thieves to deal with this kind of high wall, but it doesn't mean that we can't do anything either. When the time comes, I will personally bring the two [-]-jin-long A few rounds of shelling aimed at their courtyard wall is probably enough."

Lin Dongsheng said: "That's exactly the case. As long as the opponent doesn't have the protection of the high wall, our army can directly fight in. Could it be that the opponent's group of guardians and young tenants can still fight us head-on?"

"You don't even need to rush in, you just need to break down their courtyard walls and destroy the emplacements of their light cannons. Later, we can put the light cannons in front, plus archers and musketeers for fire coverage, Let alone two hundred guards, even if two hundred soldiers come over, it is impossible to block our attack."

Seeing everyone saying this one after another, Er Yongduo, the chief of staff, also said: "In this case, let's formulate a detailed attack plan now, and try to submit it to the general for decision later."

When An Yongduo, Wang Xiazi, Huang Guangmao and others were tossing out various offensive plans, especially the attack plan for Songjiazhuang, Luo Zhixue on the other side also summoned the main personnel from various internal affairs departments for a meeting.

Guo Quanshu followed Chen Xingkai, the director of the Grain Requisition Department, into it. After entering, he looked up and saw that there were quite a few people coming to the meeting today, among them was Huang Chengxuan, who had a good relationship with him, and immediately nodded slightly to Huang Chengxuan.

Huang Chengxuan also nodded in response.

However, the two of them were very tacit and did not speak.

Today's occasion is not easy to see. The people who came were either the chief or the deputy chief, or the chiefs of the core departments of various subordinates.

He, Huang Chengxuan, was brought up and became the section chief of the Field Mu Section of the Grain Collection Department, so he was able to attend this meeting.

Of course, if Chen Xingkai, the director of the grain requisition department, hadn't brought Guo Quanshu to the meeting, the meeting wouldn't have been possible.

Because although Chen Xingkai is the director of the grain collection department, in fact, the person who works in the grain collection department is him, Guo Quanshu.

The head of the grain requisition department is an old thief. He followed Sun Jiancheng and Luo Zhixue to run errands and was in charge of some camp affairs. He was responsible for the grain requisition operations of the rural protection camp during the autumn harvest. Well done though, at least nothing went wrong.

After Luo Zhixue established the grain collection office, he was officially appointed as the director of the grain collection office to take overall responsibility for grain collection and taxation.

However, despite Chen Xingkai's seniority and rich experience, he still doesn't know big characters, and he can't even read the official ledger. accounted for.

Later, when Guo Quanshu was assigned to work under him as a clerk, the account books at the grain requisition office were gradually straightened out.

Therefore, Guo Quanshu actually knew more about the situation at the grain requisition office than Chen Xingkai, so it took him less than a month to surrender and less than half a month to attend today's meeting after he was promoted to the Field Mu Section.

Guo Quanshu's situation is not an isolated case, but a common situation.

In fact, among the twelve people who came to the meeting today, five were hostage scholars who were forcibly kidnapped like Guo Quanshu.

In addition, there are a few people who are half-students from mountain people, and a few more are old thieves like Chen Xingkai.

There is a shortage of talents in Baoxiang, especially those who can read and write, and can read and write official documents.

It doesn't mean that you have to be a traditional scholar who is familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, as long as you can read and write official documents.

However, even so, it was difficult to find enough talents, so Luo Zhixue set his sights on the sons of the hostages of the landlords and prisoners of war.

There is no way, there are only so few people who can read and write in Funiu Mountain now, and Luo Zhixue doesn't bother to care about his composition or his thoughts, and he will use it to death if he catches one.

This led to the fact that at today's internal affairs meeting, among the twelve people who attended the meeting, five were kidnapped sons of landlords.

Guo Quanshu is just one of them.

After Guo Quanshu and the others waited for a while, they heard someone outside shout softly: "The general is here."

Immediately, one by one stood up, and after a while, Guo Quanshu saw a young figure appearing at the door.

This person was Luo Zhixue. He was dressed in a dark blue robe and a square scarf. He looked older, but it could still be seen that this person was only sixteen or seventeen years old.

Guo Quanshu didn't stare at Luo Zhixue for too long, but after a quick glance, he lowered his head like everyone else, and said loudly, "Greetings, General!"

Even though Luo Zhixue in front of him was seven or eight years younger than Guo Quanshu, Guo Quanshu knew very well that this young man in front of him was the highest ruler in Funiu Mountain, with thousands of soldiers in charge of protecting the village.

The most important thing is that he also found out that this Luo Zhixue was not an old thief. He was just a refugee more than half a year ago. After establishing the establishment and dying of illness, he took power in one fell swoop and became the general of the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp.

Such a young man can become the leader of an army in just over half a year, and make those gangster leaders willingly listen to his orders.

How is this possible without any ability?

Therefore, Guo Quanshu never underestimated Luo Zhixue because of his age. On the contrary, Guo Quanshu paid more attention to Luo Zhixue.

Luo Zhixue stepped forward steadily amidst the voices of the crowd, and did not make any other unnecessary movements until the chief seat at the top of the living room sat down, then raised his hand and pressed lightly: "Don't stand still, sit down."

Now everyone sat down one after another, but except for a few old thieves who had secured Luo Zhixue's trust because of their seniority, the others actually just sat on the edge of the chairs, but they didn't dare to sit down carelessly.

Luo Zhixue didn't care too much about everyone's actions. After he sat down, he took the tea offered by the soldiers, moistened his mouth and said, "I called the big guy here today because we will have a big move recently. And if the army moves, it must be indispensable for your support in the rear."

After Luo Zhixue finished speaking, he raised his head and glanced around, ignoring the surprised expressions on everyone's faces. This internal affairs meeting is different from the military affairs meeting.

Luo Zhixue went to the military affairs conference to listen to opinions, but he did not come to listen to opinions at the current internal affairs conference, but to assign tasks.

"Starting today, all places will enter a state of combat readiness. The factories and workshops under the Industrial Department will work overtime to provide the army with a batch of ordnance, quilts and other items faster, more and better."

"The Grain Collecting Department needs to dig deeper into the potential of the villages in Funiu Mountain, and prepare more grain and grass while ensuring people's livelihood."

"The Food and Rating Department must do a good job in the distribution of food and wages, and prepare a batch of money in advance for backup."

"The Commerce and Trade Department needs to increase the collection and procurement of materials, especially to ensure the supply of iron materials. I don't want to see the arsenal shutting down due to lack of raw materials. In addition, prepare some people to accompany the army to purchase."

"The Department of Agriculture and Forestry should also tap labor resources as deeply as possible to ensure that land reclamation and subsequent spring plowing will not be affected."

"The battalion office should also do a good job in the internal logistics work and coordinate the affairs of various places."

After the meeting started, Luo Zhixue said a lot, and then looked at everyone again: "Do you understand all of this?"

When the directors of the various departments said loudly that they understood, Guo Quanshu was terrified: Look at this posture, there is going to be a war, and it is a big war!

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