Chapter 16
It was almost dusk that day, Liao Hua and Lin Bao led their troops back to the ancient city from Du Yuan's Hudang Village. Their ranks were extremely rich and brought back more than 400 large trucks of supplies. Among them, gold, silver and copper coins were loaded with more than 400 large trucks, and the remaining nearly 400 were all food and grass. I took Sun Gan and took a rough count, and the result was really shocking: the more than 40 large trucks loaded with silver and money had more than 12,000 taels of gold, more than 80,000 coins of copper coins, and five boxes of various types of jewelry and jade. The food and grass of nearly 400 large trucks were about 2,200 stones (one stone in the Han Dynasty was about 120 kilograms, and 2,200 stones were about 250,000 kilograms).
Although I was also surprised by this number, I still couldn't figure out what the money and grain was, so I asked Sun Gan in confusion. Sun Gan also knew that I knew very little about the money and grain, so I explained it carefully to me. I finally got an idea of the approximate value of this money and grain: 2,200 stones of grain can be used for the more than 4,000 people of our army to consume more than 3 months. 12,000 taels of gold can be exchanged for about 150 million yuan at this time, plus the 80 million yuan in total. 230 million yuan. At this time, the market price of Yishi grain was 90 yuan. It seems that this is indeed a very huge wealth. According to Liao Hua, Du Yuan occupied the mountain in Mangdang Mountain more than 10 years ago and robbed it everywhere, thus accumulating so much money. I didn't expect that today it would be cheaper. More than a dozen Du Yuan's leaders who escaped yesterday returned to the camp. After plundering money and fled, they were caught by Liao Hua and Lin Bao today, so the money and grain were not lost.
With these money and food as a guarantee, I have greater confidence in training an elite army.
Lin Bao and the others rescued more than a hundred poor young women who were captured by Du Yuan and were captured and raised up the mountain from the mountain. Most of the women returned home on their own. Only two women who seemed to have just been captured by Du Yuan and asked to follow Lin Bao and the others back to the ancient city, and also asked to meet me and tell me something important.
Young woman? There is still something important to tell me?
"Zi Chong, bring them up!"
"Yes, General!"
What a beautiful woman! At the age of seventeen or eighteen, she has a slender figure, a silk satin-shaped head with a silver hairpin, clean eyebrows, her pair of spiritual and heroic eyes, her handsome nose, and her thin and slightly wider lips, wearing on the white and deep melon-shaped face, there is an indescribable strange beauty, and her whole body exudes an innate elegant charm. She looks like a lady from a famous family. The other woman is a little young, but she looks pretty, and her clothes should be the maid of the woman. Although the two women are covered in dust and a little tired, they are dressed neatly and their temples are not messy. They should have just been taken up by Du Yuan to the mountain and have not been insulted yet.
The woman, who looked like a maid, saw me sitting in the hall, said to another woman in surprise: "Miss, it seems that she is not an adult..."
The lady stopped the maid's next words, stepped forward and bowed to me, and said with a faint smile: "I thank you, the general for your kindness in saving me, so that my master and servant will be protected from insults by the thieves!"
"Ah..." I recovered from my surprise, with a little embarrassed expression, and covered up with a forced smile: "No need, we are waiting for the soldiers, to wipe out the thieves and the people, but I don't know what the lady has to tell me?"
The woman said slowly with an apology look on her face: "This general, our master and servant originally thought that the general was his father and old friend, so we hoped that the general could give him a look on the grounds of telling each other important things. If he deceived the general, please forgive me!" After that, he bowed and bowed again.
"Haha... I don't blame the lady. I don't know where the lady lives, but I want me to send someone to take the lady back!"
"...Well, thank you, General! I live in Xuchang, and the general can just send me to Yingchuan County, where I will have relatives and friends in my family."
Xuchang??! Cao Cao’s base camp! Whose woman is she?
My eyes flashed through, and I pretended to be careless and asked, "I also have many old friends in Xuchang, but I don't know who I am? Maybe I'm still my old friend!"
"...Report to the general, my father is just a businessman in Xuchang. I'm afraid he doesn't know the general!" The woman pondered for a moment and said.
Haha, it’s not leaking, and I’m very vigilant! I know what she said is not the truth. But I don’t want to continue to get entangled in this issue. If nothing unexpected happens, she must be a civil servant or military general in Cao Cao’s army. But I don’t want to expose her lies! All grudges should be resolved upright on the battlefield, and there is no need to take revenge on the family.
"So that's it! It's too late today. The lady and the master and servant can rest in this back hall for one night. Tomorrow I will send someone to take you to Yingchuan!"
"General Thank you!"
Seeing two women turning toward the back hall, an indescribable feeling arose in my heart, and blurted out in one sentence: "I don't know the name of the lady, can I give it a message?"
The woman had a certain figure, and she turned around slowly, her face was flushed, and she was no longer as calm as before. She replied in a little panic: "... The little woman's surname is Xiahou, with a single name of Rong..." She paused, took a few deep breaths, as if she had to ask with courage: "...I wonder if the little woman was lucky to learn about the general's name?"
"Haha...my name is Zhang Fei, my name is Yide,... Maybe Lingzun will know my name...haha"
Seeing Xiahou Rong's pretty figure disappearing in front of my eyes, I shook my head and smiled faintly!
What a wise and wise beauty, she is indeed from a prominent family like the Xiahou family! I wonder if I will meet again in the future.
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Yanjin
The evening breeze raised the dust in the sky, and it was reflected in the verdant and lonely clouds in the west, looking so desolate and lonely, with the setting sun as blood. Wen Chou stood alone on his sword, standing alone in front of the formation. The 40,000 iron cavalry behind him, and the army lined up in a row. At a glance, the guns were like mountains, the swords were like forests, and they were as straight as clouds covering the sky. Not far away in front of Wen Chou, there were a few corpses of Cao's generals lying coldly. Wen Chou waved the "Fire Sun Knife" with blood marks and shouted angrily: "Who else dares to come forward to fight!"
In the Cao army, Cao Cao was anxious and asked Cheng Yu around him from time to time: "Zhongde, why has Yun Chang not arrived yet?" Wen Chou on the opposite side had killed four of his generals in a row, and even his beloved generals Zhang Liao and Xu Huang joined forces to fight Wen Chou, but Xu Huang was still injured. Although Xu Chu, the most powerful general under his command, asked for battle many times, Cao Cao was afraid that Xu Chu would be in trouble and refused to fight. His morale was already extremely low in his army. Now the hope of defeating Wen Chou can only be placed on Guan Yu who was rushing from Xuchang. In fact, Cao Cao was reluctant to let Guan Yu fight, because this time Guan Yu made great contributions, and Cao Cao had no reason to keep Guan Yu.
But now the situation is urgent, so Guan Yu cannot be defeated!
Cheng Yu also knew Cao Cao's thoughts, but he could only comfort him: "Lord, don't worry, the red rabbit and divine horse under Yun Chang's seat, traveling thousands of miles a day. Zhongde expected that Yun Chang would arrive soon!"
At this time, Wen Chou on the other side shouted again: "Didn't one of your troops dare to go forward to fight? Haha... it's ridiculous, ridiculous!" The morale of Wen Chou's army had soared to the top, and 40,000 cavalry used weapons to hit the ground at the same time, and the sound was like thunder to shake the Yanjin battlefield!
Cao's army was already in a state of fluctuation and was at risk of collapse. The generals in the army shouted loudly, trying to stabilize the morale of the army. Cao Cao was a little lost and murmured to himself: "Are you going to be defeated like this today?"
At this moment, a red cloud flashed out from behind the Cao army formation, and it was already in front of the formation. Wen Chou looked closely and saw a giant war horse opposite. His fiery red mane looked like a flame from purgatory. He immediately sat with a beard two feet long, with red phoenix eyes, lying silkworm eyebrows, and a face like a heavy date. He looked handsome and held a big sword with the blood mark of the green dragon in his hand.
Chapter completed!