Fan Jian came back with a caravan.

Yes, it's a caravan.

When Weihu Mountain established his position in the Northeast with repeated victories, when Zhang Zhongwu and Deng Jingshan discovered that the existence of Weihu Mountain could not be erased with force, they could only acknowledge his existence.

At the beginning, Deng Jingshan adopted a strict blockade policy, strictly prohibiting any materials, including grain, salt, cloth, tea and other things, from entering Weihu Mountain. Any private businessmen who catch smuggled materials and enter Weihu Mountain will have only one outcome, that is, people behead their heads and confiscate their property.

This did bring great difficulties to the initial Weihu Mountain. But the inner guard quickly opened up new roads. Weihu Mountain was too big, and Deng Jingshan could block the avenues and small roads, but the huge profits that smuggled materials could still prompt many people to open up secret smuggling channels regardless of life and death.

The smuggling vendors even eventually developed into armed escort. It was impossible for Deng’s troops to launch large-scale suppression, and small-scale suppression was often defeated by these smuggling vendors.

Of course, the price of these materials flowing into Weihu Mountain is often ten times or even dozens of times that of theirs at the foot of the mountain. Three times the huge profit can make people take risks, and ten times the huge profit can make people desperately. But if the profit is higher, someone will dare to risk the risk of raiding the house and exterminate the clan to make a vote.

Weihu Mountain survived with difficulty. If the Tang Dynasty had not subsidized a large amount of money, they would have been unable to hold on.

Later, Weihu Mountain began to produce blood on its own.

Grain is basically independent. Sweet potatoes have become the biggest food source for solving the belly-wrap problem. Now, they can even use the excess sweet potatoes to make syrup, and then use technicians from the Tang Dynasty to make it into snow-like frosting sugar and sell it.

This has become the largest source of property in Weihu Mountain.

This kind of frosting sugar has become an expensive luxury in the Northeast.

In fact, by last year, Deng Jingshan's blockade of Weihu Mountain had already been in name only. When you can't really lock the other party down, but instead make another group of people rich because of this, more people will start to think about it. Now, even Deng Jingshan himself is also doing business with Weihu Mountain.

He took some daily necessities to exchange frosted sugar, mountain goods, etc. with Weihu Mountain. After all, he also had his family to maintain a luxurious life, he also had his army to support him, and he also had his generals who needed him to give him a lot of rewards.

Although I know that this is a capital enemy, I have to do it. It is better to be earned by my own people than to be earned by others.

This is why the second leader of Weihu Mountain was able to return to Weihu Mountain from outside with a caravan.

"This is the last batch of supplies." Seeing the supplies on pack horses being moved into the warehouse, Fan Jian stroked the bearded man and told Liu Yan and Yan Wu. "There will be no more caravans in the future, and those smuggled vendors will probably be greatly restrained."

"As long as we give money, we are not afraid that they will not come!" Liu Yan said with a smile.

"It's not like that." Fan Jian shook his head and said, "It's about to fight. It's not about these smugglers who dare not come, but about the entire Northeast, all living supplies are included in the military control. Zhang Zhongwu is collecting these things on a large scale. General Liu is about to fight."

Liu Yan's eyes lit up: "Is Zhang Zhongwu ready to invade the Tang Dynasty again?"

If Zhang Zhongwu began to mobilize on a large scale, of course it was not for him, a little wild cat hidden in Weihu Mountain. In terms of input and output ratio, this is a completely invaluable thing, and this is also the reason why Liu Yan can survive under Zhang Zhongwu's nose until now.

"Tell me in the house!" Fan Jian smiled and said, "General Liu, after returning to the mountain, I haven't taken a sip of hot tea yet!"

Liu Yan laughed: "When I heard that I was going to do it, I was so excited that I forgot everything. I walked into the house and said, Yan Wu, make tea for General Fan."

Fan Jian smiled and threw a Tartar he was carrying to Yan Wu, saying, "There is new tea for this year. The colleagues over there brought me some good things, which I can't buy from our place. They are gifted to my two nieces and nieces."

"It's disrespectful, it's disrespectful!" Liu Yan bowed repeatedly and returned to the lobby of Weihu Mountain Village with Fan Jian. Yan Wu had already brewed the new Mingqian tea for them this year.

Holding the tea cup, Fan Jian slowly swayed the cup, watching the tea leaves sink to the bottom of the cup one by one, lowered his head and sniffed the tea fragrance deeply, and smiled: "Li Xiang has issued a general mobilization order, and the court is going to launch a final attack on the pseudo-liang. Now You Yong's left guard, Liu Chenglin's right guard, Tu Lichun and Shi Zhuang's left guard, as the vanguard of the army, have been preparing to launch an attack from the east and north directions. In Jiangnan, Ding Jian and Tian Guofeng's coalition forces are confronting Zhu Yougui from Shu to block Zhu Yougui's possible assistance to Chang'an. Qian Biao from Yueyang and the right Qianniu Guard led by Mrs. Liu and the army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are preparing to attack Ezhou. After success, he will also launch an offensive in the late nest of the pseudo-liang in the Central Plains from the south direction."

Liu Yan took a deep breath, his face flushed a little. The opportunity he was looking forward to finally came.

"No wonder Zhang Zhongwu couldn't sit still and wanted to start mobilizing on a large scale. He also knew that once Li Xiang completely destroyed the pseudo-liang, he would never allow him, the so-called Liao king, to be happy in the Northeast. He was going to pull Li Xiang's back! General Fan, what can we do?"

Fan Jian smiled: "For now, we can only play the side drums and it will not play any major role for the time being."

Liu Yan said a little dissatisfied: "Old Fan, you are your own people, why can you destroy our own power? Now we have three thousand war soldiers, and these are soldiers who have been fully trained. During the war, we can mobilize about five thousand young and strong people. No matter men, women, young and old, on Weihu Mountain, we can become civilians. We are definitely a force that can control the situation of the battle!"

"Of course. But that happened after the army defeated Zhang Zhongwu's main force on the front battlefield. At that time, we can only play the greatest role. General Liu, don't forget that we can't attack rashly without a complete grasp of Zhang Zhongwu's hinterland. Once we fail, our years of sleeping on firewood and eating gall will be completely in vain." Fan Jian said.

"Erlang, General Fan is right. Since Zhang Zhongwu wants to attack on a large scale, he will not forget our confidant troubles. He may set up a trap to lure us to attack so that we can remove us in one fell swoop." Yan Wu stretched out his hand and pressed Liu Yan's shoulder and said, "A little impatience will cause chaos. I have been enduring these years. What's the point of enduring it?"

"Yan Wu is right!" Fan Jian said: "We will not come out of the mountain, which is also a huge threat to Zhang Zhongwu. If there are no 10,000 or 20,000 troops guarding us outside the mountain, can he feel at ease? So if we don't move, we can contribute to the court."

Liu Yan took a deep breath and nodded.

"Okay, let's listen to you. Who is the chief general appointed by Li Xiang this time? Xue Chong or Wang Wenshu?"

"None of them!" Fan Jian shook his head: "It's Han Qi. Whether it's Xue Chong or Wang Wenshu, it's still a little bit against Deng Jingshan. If you face Zhang Zhongwu, that's not the case."

After hearing this, Liu Yan couldn't help but wonder: "Han Qi, isn't Li Xiang's opponent? He has always been incompatible with Li Xiang. This time, Li Xiang actually handed him such a big thing? Are you not afraid that this guy will take the opportunity to make trouble?"

"I don't know much about the specifics. But since Li Xiang handed over such a big thing to Han Qi, he naturally trusted him." Fan Jian smiled and said, "Besides, people will change, aren't they? General Liu, you were not our opponent before, but now we are a family."

"Can you please tell me the past?" Liu Yan was a little annoyed.

"Okay, don't mention it!" Fan Jian waved his hand with a smile.

Liu Yan looked at Fan Jian with some concern: "Zhang Zhongwu is now very good at soldiers and food. Just relying on Xue Chong's Zuo Jinwu Guard, plus the local troops in Pingzhou and Mozhou, there will be no more than 50,000 people. Can he be Zhang Zhongwu's opponent?"

Fan Jian smiled slightly: "General Liu is too worried. Li Xiang has been planning for many years, so how could he have only such troops? As far as I know, there should be more than 100,000 troops to deal with Zhang Zhongwu. This time, it will not only be defense, but also attack and counterattack. Li Xiangxiong is very talented and ready to solve the threats in both directions of the pseudo-liang and Zhang Zhongwu in one fell swoop in this battle."

Liu Yan was stunned. This was too far from the scale of the Tang army he expected. It was twice as many as the 50,000 army was not hundreds or thousands. It could be found in a mountain corner and could hide it. Such a huge army could not hide it at all. Just supplying logistics alone could make people guess their origins clearly. But looking at Fan Jian's expression, he was obviously not ready to tell him in detail. He felt a little uncomfortable, and he still treated him as an outsider!

Looking at Liu Yan's appearance, Fan Jian roughly guessed Liu Yan's thoughts and smiled and said, "General Liu, don't think so, it's not that I won't tell you, but I really don't know. This time I went out and joined us in the Northeast. I also had the same concerns as General Liu, for fear of losing in Pingzhou and Mozhou. But the superiors told me that I didn't need to worry about these things at all. Speaking of this battle, it was planned by Li Xiang for a long time, and the scale was far beyond our imagination. What that guy told me, I was what General Liu said to you."

After hearing Fan Jian's words, Liu Yan smiled: "Yes, Li Xiang's strategy, we can't even guess at all, so we just need to do our own things well. Next, we may have to strengthen our precautions. Perhaps Zhang Zhong's army is still dreaming of taking the opportunity to make us a fight!"
Chapter completed!