Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law

Chapter 299 Seven Kingdoms invade Longyou, Nangong family’s navy

And just when Chen Mo was thinking about how to deal with the Fengzhou matter, something happened again in Longyou.

In mid-June, the Buru Kingdom, one of the seven kingdoms of Xirong, marched eastward and invaded Longyou. This invasion was not a small fight before, but an all-round plunder.

Nudor, the general of the Bulu Kingdom, personally led an army of 20,000 people and divided the troops into two.

Previously, Nudor ordered a large number of his subordinates to pretend to be businessmen and enter Longyou City to facilitate internal and external cooperation. After surrounding Longyou City, they attacked the city while recruiting surrender.

The city was broken, and the city defender Yue Yong led thousands of defenders to surrender. Nudor returned victorious.

On the way back, Nudor's army fought with Yuezhi's reinforcements outside Longyou City. Yuezhi's reinforcements were ambushed. Two of Yuezhi's generals fought and died, and the reinforcements were defeated.

After Nudor's victory, his confidence increased greatly and he no longer returned to Buru. He continued to attack five cities in Longyou and captured more than 300,000 people and animals.

Yuezhi was shocked and quickly mobilized a total of 30,000 troops from seven surrounding counties for reinforcements. At this time, the other six kingdoms of Xirong learned that the Bulu Kingdom had taken advantage of Longyou, and they all invaded one after another. To Longyou.

Yuezhi was tired of coping, so she asked King Chong for help again.

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When Chen Mo received the news from Long You, it was already July 12th.

Chen Mo frowned. These past few months have been really eventful. Qingzhou and Longyou are close to each other. Now something like this happened in Longyou. The seven kingdoms of Xirong all marched into Longyou. The number of soldiers and horses may exceed 100,000. If the Yuezhi If he can't resist it, he may invade Yuzhou, so Chen Mo has to be on guard.

He immediately ordered Cui Shuang to be transferred back from Linzhou, appointed Cui Shuang as general, Shao Jinneng as deputy general, and brought with him 5,000 new soldiers of the trapped guards, 1,000 brave guards, 1,000 brave guards, and valiant cavalry, a total of 10,000 horses. , rushed to Shuofei County to defend.

When this happened, even if Chen Mo wanted to help the Heavenly Master Army, he might not be able to do so at this time.

Because aiding the Tianshi Army was tantamount to offending King Huai, and also violated the non-aggression treaty signed before, which was inconsistent with morality.

Once involved, three battlefields are likely to emerge.

The battlefield before Linzhou and King Huai.

The war between Qingzhou and Huai Wang Navy.

Yuzhou and the Seven Kingdoms of Xirong.

This is definitely unbearable for Chen Mo, who doesn't have much background.

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Pingting County.

At this time, Geng Songfu was at the racecourse on the outskirts of Qingting County.

This horse racing farm is located by Dadong Lake. It was originally a water and grass depression. The water and grass here were rich and fertile, so it was converted into a horse racing farm by Geng Songfu.

A stable was built at the end of the horse farm. The stable covers a large area and can accommodate nearly a thousand horses.

It was getting dark, and all the horses that had been grazing on the racecourse were driven back to the stables, and were taken care of by specialized people.

These horses are all Gaopu wild horses and Wutai horses brought back from Wutai County, Gaozhou.

When the Wutai horses were brought back, they were still young horses, only two years old. But now, nearly two years have passed. Under the careful care of dedicated people, they have all grown into large horses with short necks, round hips, and broad chests and backs. .

Because they are trained according to military horses, Wutai horses eat better than people. They are all full of refined food, soybeans, eggs, miscellaneous grains and fodder.

Geng Songfu put his hands behind his back and inspected each horse one by one.

He received news that someone at the racecourse had recently secretly replaced the grain of the military horses with the cheapest fodder, taking all the soybeans and eggs home, causing dozens of Wutai horses to lose fat.

Su Wen and Lu Yuan followed Geng Songfu to make a report.

"Sir, there are 300 Wutai horses and 200 trained Gaopu horses, all ready for the market. Over in Xialin County, hundreds of pairs of vests have been made and shipped to Qingting County. They will be shipped to Qingting County soon. We'll be here soon," Su Wen said.

Geng Songfu nodded: "When the vests arrive, you personally send people to transport them to Yuzhou. The Marquis has established a cavalry guard and is most in need of war horses."

"promise."

Just as Su Wen finished, Lu Yuan followed up and said: "Sir, we have investigated clearly. It was Ma Tou Jiagui who colluded with Han Tie, the horse farm's logistics purchaser, and teamed up with grooms Wang Mingliang and Liu Min to embezzle five pieces of food that should have been given to the army horses. One hundred pounds of soybeans, seven hundred eggs and...

Among them, Han Tie, who was purchased, came from the same village as Mr. Hou's sister-in-law, and they were also related. The two were brothers in their ancestors. "

Su Wen raised his eyebrows when he heard this.

Geng Songfu, who was touching the horse's belly, also paused for a moment, but soon returned to normal. He took a comb from the hand of the groom next to him and combed the horse's hair, and then said:

"These horses have not yet been delivered to the army, and Han Tie is not a member of the army. Military law cannot control him. However, the racecourse belongs to the yamen, and he is also an official of the yamen. Let him be dealt with according to the law."

"Where's the Marquis?" Lu Yuan whispered.

"I know Mr. Hou well. If he knew, he would do the same thing." After saying that, Geng Songfu turned around, glanced at Lu Yuan and Su Wen, and said, "A embankment of a thousand miles was destroyed by an ant nest. Hou I can't tolerate sand in my eyes, and neither can I. Brother Zhang Shui is a lesson learned from the past."

Geng Songfu originally wanted to talk about Captain Zhang.

But now Zhang He is no longer the captain.

Su Wen and Lu Yuan were shocked. Why Zhang He returned to Pingting was not a secret to them.

After inspecting the stables, Geng Songfu went to the back of the racecourse to see the newborn calves and stallions.

At this moment, Han Wu hurriedly came over and said, "Sir, this is a letter from Lord Marquis."

Geng Songfu took the letter from Han Wu, and Su Wen, Lu Yuan, and Han Wu all withdrew with discernment.

In the content of the letter, Chen Mo explained some recent situations, and then asked him how to deal with the letters from King Huai and the Tianshi Army.

Geng Songfu knew what happened in Fengzhou, and in order to prevent the Huai army navy from landing in Qingzhou, he sent two thousand troops to guard the banks of the Qingzhou River.

Geng Songfu did know Chen Mo somewhat. He knew that Chen Mo was a smart and independent person, and the words in the letter revealed that the other party had already made up his mind about this matter.

The reason why I still asked him was just to get his support and the feasibility of this matter.

When he returned to the Yamen, he didn't wash up. After his servants finished grinding the ink, he wrote a reply to Chen Mo.

He asked Chen Mo to give up aid to the Tianshi Army and explained the reason.

First of all, the Tianshi Army has lost the support of the people. It is said that those who have gained the right will live in many places, and those who have lost the right will have little help.

It would be fine if the Heavenly Master Army had a smooth journey.

But now it is blocked in Fengzhou, has suffered heavy losses, and its military strength has been damaged. With the loss of popular support, its military strength cannot be replenished, and there is basically no chance of a comeback.

Although it is possible to forcibly replenish troops, the forcibly recruited troops, especially in the case of a defeat, will only become a sharp sword that stabs oneself.

Therefore, aid an army that is destined to perish and may even pose a threat to itself. It's not necessary.

Of course, this does not mean that the Heavenly Master Army cannot be completely abandoned.

Instead, wait for the Tianshi army to be completely defeated and the leader and all the Qu commanders to be eliminated before extending a helping hand to them.

At this time, not only will it not pose a threat, but it will increase the population of Qingzhou, and qualified young men can be selected from them to be incorporated into their own army.

Moreover, the purpose of extending a helping hand here is to open the Qingzhou Port to accept the defeated troops of the Tianshi Army from Fengzhou, not to fight the Huai Army.

At the same time, before the Tianshi army was completely defeated, he wrote a reply to King Huai, stating that he would not assist the Tianshi army, and used this to ask for a favor from King Huai first.

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Chuanhai, Nangong family.

What happened in Fengzhou naturally reached Nangong Jin’s ears.

Although Nangong Jin had already seen that the Heavenly Master Army was a thing of the past, he still had some luck in mind, so he still allowed the family's navy to stay in the Heavenly Master Army.

In fact, the main reason is that the Nangong family invested too much in the Tianshi Army, and the Tianshi Army collapsed before getting any return, which made Nangong Jin feel unwilling.

This is equivalent to a person spending a lot of money to buy a stock. When he first bought it, he felt that it could rise, but he did not expect that it would keep falling and falling not long after he held it.

But all the money is in this stock, so even if it falls, I am not willing to sell it.

But something even more unexpected happened. The stock was about to fall to its limit.

If you don’t throw it away, there will be nothing left.

This is Nangong Jin's current situation.

Mrs. Zhang was anxious and worried.

Her biological brother is still in the Tianshi Army. Now he is besieged in Fengzhou, what should he do?

"Master, you have to save Brother Feng. I only have this younger brother, and the Zhang family still needs him to take care of it." Madam Zhang said with tears in her eyes.

Nangong Jin has one head and two heads.

He also wanted to save Zhang Feng. After all, Zhang Feng also brought nearly five thousand naval forces of the Nangong family. If this navy was abandoned, the foundation of the Nangong family would be damaged, and maritime trade would also lose its escort. .

This is not as simple as breaking an arm, it is simply taking half the life of the Nangong family.

"You write a letter to Zhang Feng immediately and see if it can be delivered to Zhang Feng. I will also write a letter to Chen Mo. Zhang Feng led the navy to break away from the Tianshi Army and let Chen Mo's The army will meet in Qingzhou." This was Nangong Jin's idea.

Zhang took action quickly.

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Longmen County.

In the study.

Chen Mo took a look at the map and felt inexplicably anxious.

There was a war going on next to Qing, Yu, and Lin states, and I felt like the flames of war would burn me down from time to time.

With only 60,000 troops and horses in hand, Chen Mo was still a little worried, thinking about whether to recruit another 40,000 troops and horses, just like the 100,000 troops and horses claimed at the time.

But he is worried that the three states' finances will not be able to support it.

Sad.

While he was feeling worried, Sun Meng came to report that Ning Wan was here.

"Let her in." Chen Mo said.

Soon, a graceful figure walked into the study, and Sun Meng retreated.

Ning Wan was dressed in a light purple dress, embroidered with patterns of birds and animals, her lush hair was in a bun, dignified and graceful, and her plump, white face had not experienced the baptism of time at all, her nose was delicate and straight, The red lips were painted with rouge, which looked like full rose petals, and they were so moist.

A plump and clear aura of a beautiful woman flowed silently from her movements.

Ning Wan held a porcelain bowl in her hand and said, "Master Hou, this is the sour plum soup that Qing Wu just made. I'll serve you a bowl."

With that said, he placed the sour plum soup in his hand on the table in front of Chen Mo.

(End of this chapter)