Chapter 1083: Sealing the Sea (5)
With an angry shout, a knife slashed, Wang opened his eyes wide again, and his arms suddenly exerted force. The big sword he slashed down was condensed in the air with a buzzing sound, and the blade body kept trembling. After letting out a long breath, Wang slowly put away the knife and stood up straight.
Slap sex!
There was a sound of applause from behind, and Wang turned around, but saw Xiang Zhen wearing a thick coat standing at the door of the backyard, looking at him with a smile.
"General, are you getting better?" Wang Yu came forward with surprise and joy.
Xiang Zhen nodded, "You have suffered these days."
Wang's nose felt sore again and almost burst into tears. After returning to Lingnan with Xiang Zhen, Xiang Zhen went home to recuperate, but he was first put on prison.
Although the battle between Eyue was due to Liu Xinda's final rebellion, the cause was that Ezhou City was captured by Li Mi within one day. Nearly 20,000 troops did not play any role in the right Qianniu Guard of Li Mi, which made Xiang Zhen finally overthrow the enemy, and Liu Xinda chose to preserve his strength and betray his teammates.
If the Wang family had not been quite powerful in Lingnan, after Wang was imprisoned, he had made many activities and used a lot of money, so the Wang was afraid that he would have to stay in the prison for a while.
But even if the person comes out, he is still idle. He can only practice sword techniques depressedly at home every day and exerts power in the air.
For the King, the Battle of Ezhou is really a crime of wrong war. He has already achieved the ultimate he can do, but what can he do under the bombardment of the Northern Tang artillery?
That was the first time he and his troops had seen such a sharp long-range weapon.
"It's nothing. In the Battle of Eyue, Mo General himself bears an unshirkable responsibility." Wang shook his head and said, "The general is not in good health yet, why did he come out of the city and come to Mo General's house?"
"It's almost done. After lying down for so many hours, I feel like I'm rusted." Xiang Zhen said: "Depending on your appearance, you're in good condition. How about it? Are you ready?"
Wang stared at Xiang Zhen again and said in surprise and joy: "Is the general going to come out again?"
"Let's start over again!" Walking into the pavilion, Xiang Zhen sat down, took a sip of the tea brought by the servant of Wang's family, and said lightly.
"Start again?" Wang blinked his eyes again and looked at Xiang Zhen with some confusion.
Xiang Zhen nodded and said, "Yes, we need to recruit soldiers and train soldiers again, and do what we have done before."
The king was silent for a while before saying, "General, I don't know what the Northern Tang Li Ze's plan was. They did not take advantage of the momentum of victory to attack us. Instead, they paused. Although this gave us enough time to retrain troops, what about the money? What about the land for these soldiers? It can reach the level of our army in one year and two years, but such troops were fed with money!"
Xiang Zhen smiled and waved to the back. A close-fitting guard came over and placed a wooden box in his hand in front of Wang You.
Wang opened the box in confusion again. After a glance, he jumped up in shock. The box was full of silver notes issued by Sihai Money House. The top one was 10,000 taels. This thick stack was afraid of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.
"Where did you get so much money? Is this the Grand Marshal supported?" he asked in surprise and joy.
Xiang Zhen shook his head: "Now it's not enough to be counted by Dashen alone. Dashen promised to give me 100,000 taels, and the rest was that I sold all the industries of my own shop, Chashan, etc. I got a total of 400,000 taels of silver, plus the 100,000 taels of taels given by Dashen, a total of 500,000 taels."
Wang looked at Xiang Zhen again in a daze: "General, your industries are more than 400,000 taels of silver?"
"There's no way!" Xiang Zhen spread his hands and said, "I'm eager to take action. How can those people not lower the price?"
Wang You's face was a little distorted, and his eyes showed murderous aura: "Those people are really lawless, and you dare to take advantage of you?"
"Of course they dare not take advantage of me, but there are support from them, so it will be different." Xiang Zhen smiled and said, "As far as I know, about half of my industries will fall into the hands of my second and third brothers."
The king sat down again dejectedly.
"There is nothing to be wronged." Xiang Zhen smiled and said, "It is enough to be able to find real money and silver. Take this money, and call up the surviving brothers of our country, and start recruiting soldiers immediately. Remember, it is better to be insignificant than to be inflated."
"Where to call soldiers?" Wang said again: "Now all over the country are recruiting troops, and there are not many young and strong people left."
"Go to the coastal counties to summon!" Xiang Zhen said: "You probably know that the Northern Tang Navy was very anxious to invade the coastal prefectures and counties. Now a large number of people are starting to flee, with people we need. As long as we have money and land, we can naturally summon people whom we want. This time, we will relax a little bit, and we will all be under forty years old."
"I know that the soldiers we want must have a home and a house, must be honest and obedient, and do not have any tricky ones. It's just that the general, if you have money, what about the land?"
"All the land under my name will be taken out this time to resettle the families of these people. Wang You, I am not famous now, and maybe I will come to you to fight Qiufeng in the future!" Xiang Zhen said with a smile.
The king said ashamed again: "General, I don't have to say anything about it. I can only earn tens of thousands of taels of silver in total."
"Forget it!" Xiang Zhen smiled and said, "You are not the eldest son at home. How much money can you have? It's better to keep this little money to support your family. Besides, what's the use of your little money? If you do things for me, you will be the best support for me!"
"Okay, General, today I will summon those old brothers. After we come back, these old brothers were also idle and some were even driven out of the army. Now, I am overjoyed when I hear the general's return. After gathering these people, we will immediately go to the coastal prefectures and counties to summon troops. Within a month, we will definitely bring back all the people you need."
Xiang Zhen clapped his hands and smiled and said, "That's right. When we have troops and horses and form combat power, are we still afraid of losing money?"
Wang was stunned again, glanced at Xiang Zhen, but saw a trace of murderous aura in the other party's slightly narrowed eyes. His heart suddenly became shaking, but at the same time he felt extremely happy.
That's what it should be.
Now they are in a down-and-out situation and are bullied. When they stand up again, those who have bullied them will naturally have to pay the price.
"Where can there be a complete egg when the nest is destroyed? These people are so ignorant of the overall situation, they deserve to die!" Wang sneered again.
"Who made us the defeated generals?" Xiang Zhen said lightly: "But only we know how we lost. Wang You, you are a person who has personally experienced artillery bombardment from the Northern Tang army. These days, I think you must be thinking about how to restrain him, right?"
The king nodded again: "General, even when I was in the prison, I was meditating hard to solve this problem, but I never came up with any good solutions. In the future, fighting with the Northern Tang Dynasty and fighting on the city, I could no longer stop my opponent. The Ezhou city walls were so strong, but under the bombardment of the opponent, I still had no resistance."
"So, do we have no effective way?"
"Yes!" Wang said again: "When they used this gun to attack Ezhou City, I saw them bringing this thing over the top of the city. This thing is extremely heavy. They put it on small boats and then pulled it to the city with manpower. Therefore, its disadvantage is that it cannot move quickly. So when we fight with the Northern Tang army in the future, if the opponent has such weapons, we cannot choose positions to fight, but we must find fighters in high-speed movements. We would rather fight against the enemy in field than be bombarded by him."
"If one day the Northern Tang army comes to attack, how should we face it?"
"General, the south is different from the north. In the future, we must avoid large-scale battles with the other side as much as possible, and also avoid fighting them on the plains. The Northern Tang army had too many cavalry, and fighting against them on this terrain would infinitely expand their advantages."
"That is, we have to use complex terrain to fight them on a small scale on high frequency."
"Yes, we can also take advantage of the numerous characteristics of the southern water system to vigorously develop the navy."
"But the Northern Tang has an absolute advantage in the navy."
"General, the navy I am talking about is not the navy of the Northern Tang Dynasty. We use small boats to penetrate the tributaries and rivers quickly. Their big ships cannot enter these small rivers. Moreover, are there more people who are familiar with the water in the northern people than in the south?" Wang said again: "Equipmenting a large number of cheap naval forces is just a means of transportation, not our combat tools. Of course, if you have the opportunity, you can also use some special tactics."
Xiang Zhen laughed: "It seems that you have never had a waste of time these days. But now we should retrain our army first. What you said can only be fully implemented unless I have taken the power. Now, even if we say it, no one will listen."
The king nodded again: "I have confidence in the general. General, you are just a temporary dormant first, and there will always be a time when you soar into the sky."
"I hope." Xiang Zhen said: "I'll lend you auspicious words. This time, Xiang Juntong secretly took thousands of cavalry to Lufeng area to gather in the area, hoping that he could bring some good news."
"Why is it Lu Feng?"
Chapter completed!