The Golden Age Chapter 685: Borrowing grain

Chen Xi also sat down next to Qin Xiao, and smiled lightly: "Five hundred fine riders? Are you really a cavalry of the Tang Dynasty and picked it up anywhere?"

"What do you mean by Master Young Supervisor?"

"The Neiku guards have war horses, all because of the princess." Chen Xi sighed: "Datang has the sharpest war knives, but not the strongest war horses. The three states and seven counties rebelled, the court and the rebels. They all assembled a large number of cavalry. The battle was fierce and the horses lost countless. The cavalry of the Empire suffered heavy losses in the counter-insurgency battle. After the war, the court had less than 5,000 horses."

Qin Xiao knows that Datang has always had an unsolvable weakness, that is the lack of war horses.

Compared with the grassland horses of the Tusun people in the north and even the Wutuo horses, the war horses kept by the Tang Dynasty are not only very small in number, but also inferior to the quality. Only the Xiling war horses barely rivaled them. For this reason, after the establishment of the empire, In order to solve the war horse problem, it took several years to incorporate Xiling into the empire's territory. Thanks to the supplement of the Xiling war horse, the Great Tang cavalry could finally succumb and let the barbarians surrender in all directions.

However, nowadays are different. The breeding of horses requires a large investment of money, and the requirements for war horses are also extremely high. It is often not easy to produce a high-quality war horse out of ten horses.

Although Xiling has always provided horses to the empire, there are not many horses that are actually equipped in the army. Except for the equipment of the Shence Army, most of the horses have also been transferred to the front line. As for the local state army, although they also have Thousands of personnel, but most of the cavalry of the state army is less than 10% of the organization.

Jiangnan is a rich place, and because of the moon, the three major battalions are equipped with more horses than other state forces, but the number is still limited.

Now that Xiling is lost and the supply of Xiling horses is cut off, it is really difficult for the empire to equip a powerful cavalry.

As soon as Chen Xi said two sentences, Qin Xiao understood the reality and felt regretful in his heart.

It was the first time he met Jiang Xiaochun in Neiku. Although he felt that this person was extremely aggressive, he was not clear about his leadership ability. When he saw Jiang Xiaochun show his skills today, he really admired Jiang Xiaochun and thought that Jiang Xiaochun was like this. The talent was arranged in the Neiku, and it was indeed a talent. This person has extraordinary talents in cavalry training. If this person is really allowed to command a thousand-man cavalry, I am afraid that the entire Jiangnan will be swept away by him.

Qin Xiao admired Jiang Xiaochun greatly, but the right **** general hated Jiang Xiaochun deeply.

After retreating, he thought of the thrilling scene before, and he had lingering fears. If the siege troops had not retreated quickly, he would really have died under the saber of that team of cavalry.

The Guards, who have trained themselves for many years, are simply vulnerable to that team of cavalry.

"General, the food rescued last night has been distributed." A subordinate walked over with a solemn expression: "After this meal at noon, there will be no grain of food in the evening."

The right **** shrank his pupils, and another person said: "When retreating, many of the ladders were not recovered in time. Now there are less than ten ladders in his hand, and the others have been damaged by the officers and soldiers. The gods, the lack of ladders, fundamentally Unable to work."

"Let Kiba build a ladder day and night." You Shenjiang said lightly.

The man hesitated, and finally said: "The siege ladder needs to choose suitable trees. Most of the suitable trees on the mountain have been cut down. Only fifty ladders have been built. Now it is not easy to find suitable trees, and Call again

To build fifty ladders, it is impossible to do it in less than three or four days. But..... But our food has been cut off and we can't last for so many days. "

"There is no on this mountain, go to find it farther." You Shenjiang was in a bad mood, and roared: "I will give you three days, and I will give you a hundred ladders at that time, otherwise I will pick it up. See you."

The guy opened his mouth, but he didn't dare to speak.

"God, the cloud ladder may be able to be built day and night, but... the top priority is to solve the food problem." A man said cautiously: "Villages within a hundred miles around Shuning County have been After scanning it over, almost all of the grain has been hoarded by us. Now that the grain and grass are burned, there is no grain to grab in the surrounding area." Seeing the cold eyes under the mask of the right god, he said softly: "Moreover, many villages and towns have begun to organize. Even if there is food, many people must be sent to attack and snatch."

The right **** will look up at the sky. After a moment of silence, he finally raised his head to look under his abdomen, and asked, "Doo Muqi, what do you think should be done?"

"Although people have been sent to Suzhou City to report for food, even if they leave immediately after receiving the news, it will take at least three days before there is food to be delivered." Star General Dou Mu Hao cautiously said: "Today There is no food to eat in the evening, maybe it can be suppressed, but tomorrow is still not available, those black belts will definitely cause trouble, I am afraid that the red belts will also follow the chaos, once so, the consequences will be disastrous."

No matter what their status, no one can stand hunger. Let the rebels attack the city. They dare not fail, but if there is no food to feed their stomachs and let them starve, it is absolutely impossible.

"If it were not for the incompetence of the Qian family, this situation would not have occurred." Right God burned a person beside him: "Mosk Moon entered Suzhou City, already a turtle in the urn, as long as I caught Mosk Moon, control him In their hands, resistance from all over the world must have gathered. However, the Qian family let Musk Yue escape from Suzhou City. Now that the news that Musk Moon is holding on to the isolated city has been spread, this Shuning City will not be captured for a day. The situation is becoming more and more unfavorable. Our so many years of hard work, I am afraid that we will really be wasted...!"

He has an angry tone, but in his words, he is clearly not confident.

"What's the use of saying all this now?" You Shenjiang sneered, was silent for a while, and finally said: "Huqiu County is only a hundred miles away from Shuning County. I heard that there is food in Huqiu City. Quite a lot, many people took refuge in Huqiu City with their families and food...!"

Doumula said in amazement: "God, do you want to borrow food from Huqiu County?"

"God, Huqiu County is Jing Muyan guarding the city." The man beside him immediately said: "I heard that this man is very brave, and he is highly regarded by the left god. He wants to borrow food from him. He will definitely not agree to the permission of the Zuo Shenjiang." He hesitated, and then said softly: "The Zuo Shenjiang has a bad relationship with us. In the past few days, none of his soldiers and horses came to support him. At this time, he went to borrow food. In all likelihood, they will return empty-handed."

The right **** general clenched his fist and sneered and said: "Capturing Shuning City and capturing Musk Moon alive are related to the overall situation of my Queen Mother Association. Now we are besieging Shuning City with heavy troops. As long as we have sufficient food and grass, we can break the city within a few days. Catch Musk Moon, if he refuses to borrow food because of personal suspicion, and delays the destruction of the city, General Nether knows that he must cut off his dog's head."

Domuxie frowned and said: "God, his subordinates are only worried that he will have another plan if he stays still."

"How do you tell?"

"We attacked Shuning City and suffered heavy losses. The subordinates felt that he was sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight." Dou Muqian said solemnly: "When we and the defenders of Shuning City are both injured, he will be the fisherman. Li, wait for the opportunity to lead the troops again. Zuo Shen will be afraid of your talents, and may not take this opportunity to deplete your strength. Now we are in shortage of food and grass, and our subordinates think that this is what Zuo Shen will want to see Yes, when we have no food to eat, and we collapse without a fight, he will just be able to lead soldiers to Shuning City. If he breaks the city at that time, all the credit will go to him."

You Shenjiang sneered and said: "You shouldn't know his mind? If I didn't guess wrong, he is probably in Huqiu City now, waiting for the opportunity to appear. But because of this, I have to send someone to borrow. Food, if he considers the overall situation and borrows food, then it is naturally better. If he refuses to borrow food, he will naturally sue him in front of General Nether, accusing him of ignoring the overall situation for self-reliance, and General Nether is angry. , I’m afraid I really want to take others’ heads.” Looking at Dou Muqi, “You are my confidant, and I will leave the matter of borrowing food to you. Letting you borrow food is also considered as a face to him. , Whether you borrow or not, you must come back tomorrow morning."

Dou Muqi hesitated for a while, seeing that the right **** was staring at him with a pair of sharp eyes, not daring to defy, and said: "Subordinates go right away."

"This time we borrowed food, but you can be kind to them." You Shenjiang groaned for a while, and softly said, "If you really see him in Huqiu City, you will say that I promise him. , As long as he borrows food, after breaking the city, I will double the amount he borrowed."

Dou Mu Hao arched his hands without delay, and took two guards with him on horseback.

"General, if Dou Mu Hao can't borrow food, what shall we do?" a person next to him asked.

You Shenjiang raised his head and looked towards Shuning City. After a long time, he said, "If there is no food, we can only let the soldiers find food on their own. Let's go directly to Suzhou to meet General Nether. The former rich family is incompetent. Let Musk go free, and then there will be the Zuo Shenjiang who ignores the overall situation and refuses to borrow food. When he sees General Nether, the general also has something to say that the crime of defeat cannot be borne by the general."

Huqiu City is located to the east of Shuning City, and the two county towns are only a hundred miles away.

Compared with the blood flowing into a river in Shuning City, Huqiu City is a messy scene.

The villages and towns close to Huqiu City were all peaceful, remote villages and towns were looted by the rebels under the command of the God of Right, causing many deaths and injuries, so many people fled to Huqiu City, and Huqiu City’s General Yuwen Chengchao did his best to appease the people who went to the city to avoid disasters, and specially made room for them to resettle them. He also ordered the protection of the people's property in refuge. Anyone who plundered the people's property will be cut off without pardon.

There are not only people who have taken refuge in the city, but also the Queen Mother's congregation gathered inside and outside the city.

The right **** general is not wrong. The left **** general is indeed sitting on the mountain to watch the tigers fight. When the right **** general’s rebels besieged Shuning City, the left **** general did not send a single soldier to support him. He issued an order to the star generals under his command and led the believers to gather in Huqiu City. After a few days, more than five thousand rebels had gathered in and out of Huqiu City. They were on standby. Chengjinfa.

Although the Zuo Shenjiang stood still in Huqiu City, the intelligence from Shuning City was continuously reported to this side.

In order to grasp the battle situation there, Zuo Shen will send out almost half of his cavalry as scouts, pay attention to the movement there, and report back in batches.