I’m The King Chapter 763: : The sound of drums and horns is sharp (35)

It was a painful decision for Zhou Yuan to betray a country that he had served and worked hard for for decades. Although he agreed to Cao Tianci before, deep down in his heart, he was not without struggle Hesitant, on the one hand is the imperial court he once loyal to, and on the other hand is the life of all his children and grandchildren. In the past, Zhou Yuan did not have this kind of mood. All the official positions, back to his hometown in Fenzhou, after getting along for a period of time, the weakest part of his heart was finally magnified infinitely, especially the call of those grandchildren's milky grandpa, which made his heart tremble It's time to melt.

Looking at those little faces with pink make-up and jade carvings, Zhou Yuan can't bear them struggling to survive at the bottom with their faces covered in mud, especially in the end, Gao Yuan's cavalry brazenly stepped into Tianhe County. When the front was approaching Jicheng, he finally made the final decision to leave Fenzhou and go to Hetao to fight for the last credit in his life for his children and grandchildren.

He has completely given up his fantasy of Jicheng now, no matter how Zhou Yutanfeng struggles, he will never be able to support Dayan whose shoes are about to collapse.

This time, besides his descendants and grandchildren, the old boatmen and family members of the entire shipyard went to western Liaoning with him. The four large ships built in the past two years were fully loaded and far away from the coast of Fenzhou. , the four big ships converged at the predetermined location, and headed straight for the west of Liaoning. Kou Shuguang had already gone back to take care of the corresponding affairs. Naturally, someone would welcome him to Jishi City.

The Overwatch Council has been working on this matter for more than two years, and today it has finally yielded fruitful results, which has made everyone in the Overwatch Council happy. All beaming.

In Yuyang, Kongde is occupying Anlu and marching into Xinhui. After driving the Eastern Expedition Army all the way into the Luliang Mountains, troubles followed. First of all, in the rear, the Anlu mining area, those miners made troubles every day, and the operation of the entire mining area almost came to a standstill.

In Conte's mind, these miners are restless guys organized by slaves, criminals and jobless refugees, as long as they are given a bite to eat. He can squeeze their labor as much as he wants, dig out more ore for himself, and produce more steel, but obviously, things are not as simple as he thought. After he took control of Anlu, the miners here The riots never stopped.

After some investigation, Kong De realized that after Zhengdong Mansion ruled this area, they paid the miners generous wages and paid them according to their work. The more you do, the more you get, which greatly incentivizes these miners. It also makes the miners here are the most responsible when the Zhengdong Army controls Anlu. As long as you work hard, you can earn more money, and if you have money, who will worry about causing trouble? ? Ordinary people, after all, as long as they have a bite to eat, they are very satisfied. What's more, the reward given by the Eastern Army. It is extremely lucrative, and there are some miners in these two years. I have already saved a lot of money, and I am about to work for another year or two, so I leave this place and go to Hetao, where I can buy 180 mu of land and live and work in peace! I heard that the soldiers of the Zhengdong Army who used to be on duty here often talked about the place in Hetao. The land there is simply ridiculously cheap. In the past, as long as you were willing to go, the land would be given to you for free. The money is collected, but the money to buy a hundred acres of land there can buy up to four or five acres in the interior. What is the difference between this and free gifts?

However, before the sweet dream woke up, Sun De came, and the Zhengdong Army retreated. After Kong De came, everything went back to the old way. The family belongings were also taken away by those soldiers of the Yan Army, and everything returned to the original point. Two years of hard work were in vain, and all the miners were full of anger, resentment, and hostility.

First of all, it was passive sabotage and destruction of tools, and then the defenders guarding the place raised their butcher knives unceremoniously, and blood stimulated all the miners. They had hammers and brazing in their hands, and the Yan army who was stationed here by surprise suffered a heavy blow. Thousands of guards were scattered in the huge mining area, just like a wave in the sea. If there is no splash, it will be ruthlessly engulfed.

Kong De, who was fighting fiercely with Ye Zhen, the main force of the Eastern Expedition Army in Xinhui, was shocked when he heard the news. He had to stop his offensive and mobilize his troops back to suppress the rebellion. But when he came back, those rebellious miners had disappeared without a trace. , Conte found helplessly that he had no other way except to appease the remaining miners, because the mining area still needs to be mined, and he also needs more iron ore and copper ore to make weapons. killed. After symbolically killing several relatives who were said to be the rebels, Comte had to process money for the miners to appease them, and stationed thousands of troops here to prevent the rebellion from happening again.

But in this way, he was no longer able to organize a large-scale attack on Ye Zhen, and the offensive and defensive momentum was easy to change. Launch a massive counteroffensive.

In ten days, Kongde had to give up Xinhui and retreat to Anlu, but this was already Kongde's bottom line, he had to defend Anlu and this mining area.

At this time, it was already mid-July, that is, at this time, the order from Jicheng arrived, to abandon Anlu, and the whole army returned to aid Tianhe County, returned to aid Jicheng, and sent Gaoyuan back to Hejian.

Holding this paper order, Kongde wanted to cry without tears. He launched an attack from Yuyang and paid the price of thousands of people to achieve the current results. But now, with a paper order, what he paid before The price will be gone.

Is it that easy to retreat, and retreat before the two armies confront each other? Ye Zhen on the opposite side will let him retreat easily?

When Kongde received the order from Jicheng, Niu Ben also stood in front of Ye Zhen, and at the same time, another person who was beyond Ye Zhen's expectation also came to his camp. Among them, the person who came was Zhao Guang, the special envoy of Zhou Changshou, the former general of the Zhao army, and the former general of the whole city.

"I understand what the governor means." Ye Zhen laughed and said to Niu Ben: "When I wanted to fall asleep, someone brought me a pillow. General Niu and Zhou Changshou also sent people to me, haha Haha! You go and rest first, I will deal with General Zhao Guangzhao first, and see what Zhou Changshou means."

Niu Ben smiled and left.

Yan and Zhao have always been against each other. Zhao Guo has always played the role of bullying Yan State because of its strong national strength. Over the years, the two countries have never stopped fighting big or small. Until now, the friction between the two sides is still timely. What's more, in Daijun, there are six thousand infantry cavalry who are assisting Zhao Yong and Zhao Qi in the fierce battle. The two sides are fighting like a seesaw in Daijun, and half of Daijun has been reduced to ruins.

When Zhao Guang walked into Ye Zhen's big tent, his mood was quite complicated. A few years ago, when he was the general of the whole city, Gao Yuan was just a small county captain. Farewell badly. Even in front of a member of the other party's generals, he has to perform the subordinate ceremony.

As for himself, he was also a prisoner of the Fufeng Army, the predecessor of Zhengdong Army.

The little character back then had leaped into the dragon's gate and roared across the world, but he was still standing still, transferred around, but he didn't make any further progress. Zhao Guang knew that he had opposed Zhao Qi back then and was defeated by Zhao Qi. Qi is regarded as a thorn in the side, now that Zhao Qi is in power, how can he have his own day, the only chance is to make Zhou Changshou rise up and fight against Zhao Qi, which is why Zhou Changshou proposed to take advantage of this opportunity to seize Yuyang Time, he strongly supports the cause.

"General Zhao, please sit down. I don't know what's important for General Zhao to come to our barracks this time?" Ye Zhen politely invited Zhao Guang to sit down and served tea, but he himself also made a tiger case , sat in front of Zhao Guang, indicating that the two parties are now in an equal relationship, and you are a guest when you come. I have my own way of hospitality.

Ye Zhen was born in the Ye Mansion, and has followed Ye Tiannan from childhood to the north and south. Above etiquette, he is always full of aristocratic style. You talk and laugh happily, and there is nothing wrong with etiquette.

After his cover song, Zhao Guang felt like a spring breeze, and most of the tension in his heart was relieved.

"Zhao came here this time under the order of General Zhou Changshou, and wanted to discuss an important matter with General Ye." Zhao Guang pondered for a moment, "General Ye, you and I are both warriors, so I don't want to Turning around the bush but straight to the point, Gao Dudu’s intention of sweeping the country of Yan is already known by passers-by, and now the country of Yan is ready to fight ~IndoMTL.com~ There are not many soldiers who dare to fight, Langya and Hu Yanchao, and now a part of your army is attacking Xiaoshan Pass has not been taken for more than a month so far. This shows that Hu Yanchao's troops are indeed extraordinary in combat power. Then there is the Kongde Department in Yuyang. General Ye fought with him for more than a month. There are victories and losses. Zhao is not allowed to repeat, and there is only Zhou Yu's new army in Jicheng left, and the others are not worth mentioning."

"Could it be that General Zhao came here because he wanted to clean up Kongde's department with me?"

"General Ye is powerful, and I can explain my purpose of coming here in one sentence. Kong De's troops have a total of more than 50,000 men. They have fought against General Ye for more than a month and lost thousands. Now the number of soldiers capable of fighting is at most 30,000. More than that, General Zhou intends to help your troops to wipe out Kong De's last army in Yuyang County, making it impossible for them to return to aid Jicheng. I think this will be of great help to the great cause of Gao Dudu, right?" Zhao Guang said with a smile.

Ye Zhen nodded slightly, "What General Zhao said is indeed true, but I also know that there is no reason for the pie to fall in the sky, and I don't hide it from General Zhao. With my strength, it is true that I want to swallow Kongbu." Not enough, General Zhou Changshou is willing to help us, what does he want?"

"General Zhou doesn't want much, he only wants Yuyang. Moreover, we can still assign Anlu to you. General Zhou also knows that the Anlu Iron Mine is very important to the high governor." Zhao Guang stared at Ye Zhen and said. (to be continued)