Chapter 234 Kao Jia Xing (17)

Since Zhang Xing has mentioned this, it is naturally difficult for others to say anything publicly.

Wei Xuanding immediately turned around and took the existing organizational system in the city to open the treasury and prepare for the transfer of logistics. In the first stage, it was inevitable to send military supplies and food down the river to Dingtao; Jia Yue, Yan Qing,

Zhang Jinshu, Shang Huai'en and other leaders also went out separately to prepare to mobilize all forces in Jiyin City; while other key members also left the county one after another to make preparations.

Zhang Xing himself also returned to the corridor and began to prepare his armor for the expedition with the help of his personal guards.

However, just a moment later, Wei Xuanding came back with a piece of red silk in person. This made Zhang Xing, who was putting on his armor, slightly dissatisfied. The big dragon leader was already prepared. If the other party came to ask again, could he not go?

Yes, there is no need to save face for the other party.

You've already come to this point, why are you still so blind?

However, Taoist Wei came to the corridor with the silk in his hands, opened his mouth and asked a question that slightly surprised Zhang Xing:

"Longtou, I thought about it for a moment. Most of the military supplies and food are here in Jiyin City. It's raining again. Although it is a short distance within the county, if the sergeants are allowed to carry it themselves, it will inevitably delay the march. The matter is urgent. Can we directly recruit civilians?

And ships? At worst, I’ll give you money like last time in Liangjun.”

"Can."

Zhang Xing was startled for a moment, then came to his senses, and immediately replied seriously, and quickly added. "But there are a few points to make clear... First, we need to tell them that we only need them in Dongjun and Jiyin counties.

For transportation within the county, there is no need to go out of these two counties, as they are familiar places; secondly, the price is clearly marked, one stone of grain transported by land will be given for one hundred miles, one liter will be given for ten miles, and the same heavy ordnance materials will be given for one hundred miles.

Fifty cents will be reduced by half when traveling down the river, and grains will be shipped together with other supplies. Money and grains will be given in half; thirdly, two meals will be taken care of every day."

After Taoist Wei listened carefully, he immediately nodded hurriedly: "Good idea."

Even so, he still did not leave. Instead, he waited for a while. After Zhang Xing put on the armor that he rarely wore with the help of the guards nearby, he immediately stepped forward in person and helped remove the piece of silk from his neck protector.

Hook it there and tie it up to make it a cloak.

This time, Zhang Xing was caught off guard, and then he turned around and laughed: "I thought Chief Wei was going to ask me if I was going to fight, or what would happen if everyone came here and Han Yingong came over?"

"No matter how stupid I am, I still know that I have to go to war." Taoist Wei said with a sneer behind him while helping Zhang Xing hang up his cloak. "As for the people who went to the northwest to support those on the eastern front, there is nothing that Han Yinggong can do when he comes to this city.

Resistance... Although I am not familiar with military affairs, I also know that the current situation is that if we don't move and Han Yingong comes, will it be better? In other words, since Yuncheng is lost, why Qu Tuda and Han Yingong move together again?

, then as long as the officers and soldiers become ruthless, we will be dispersed in a rush. Instead of doing this, it is better to fight... Zhang Longtou, don't you think so?"

"That's what I mean." Zhang Xing nodded heavily. "This is not a military adventure, but we are forced to a dead end. If we don't fight, we will be separated..."

"Don't worry about me anymore." Taoist Wei hung up his cloak, took two steps back, and suddenly interrupted him. "I actually understand in my heart... Looking back now, from the day when the incident started, it was you and Li

You see far, but we people from the hometown of Dong Qi are too short-sighted... As a result, when the tide goes down, you two outsiders will make more serious decisions. Of course, judging from the situation on the Eastern Front

It seems that Li Shu is a step behind you in terms of ability and determination, otherwise he would not be in this situation."

Zhang Xing was surprised for a moment, but after turning his head, he remained calm.

"However, I still want to remind Longtou that there are actually very few people like me who can see clearly. Since you want to fight this battle, you have to reason well with those who are discouraged. Everyone must be reasonable.

, If we don’t make it clear, they may not have this determination." As Wei Xuanding said, he cupped his hands in the corridor and gave an inexplicable salute. "I'll go and do my work first, and let's settle down before we talk."

After saying that, the deposed leader of the Dragon Gang turned around and left in the increasingly heavy rain.

Zhang Xing looked at the opponent's back and was speechless for a moment, then finally turned around and went to help a few personal guards shape their armor.

Half an hour later, the rain became heavier and heavier, but as some of the shipping in the logistics team was opened, Zhang Xing immediately led the armored guards and the backbone of the Deposed Dragon Gang to set off to accompany the Western Front, which had just returned from the victory in the south.

The Dragon Army only rested for a few days, then followed closely and set off again.

To be honest, the road is difficult to walk. Even if the first half of the road goes down the Jishui River, even if Jiyin County is a large commercial county and has no shortage of ships, the Qianlong Gang also has no shortage of vehicles, livestock and money to buy manpower.

We had to buy food, but it was still difficult to walk.

The water is rising, Jishui has become extra wide, and the current has become faster.

The intermittent rain for most of May also made the ground completely soft and muddy, making even official roads unable to withstand trampling.

Especially compared with the last time when we went south, because of the rain, the red flag with the word "deposed" could not be raised at all. In addition, Xu Shiying and Niu Da were not here, and the army ranks were a little less imposing, so they simply

Silence.

Even the soldiers who went ahead put on simply torn silk as raincoats. Because they could not cover their faces, they would instinctively lower their heads to avoid the rain, which inevitably made the atmosphere even more gloomy.

Probably because he personally felt the hardship of the march, Zhang Xing and Wei Xuanding discussed with each other one after another before arriving in Dingtao in the evening, and together they increased the pay of the civilians, which was an extra ten coins a day for rain shelter.

, and promised to add an extra pancake at noon.

Of course, it’s just that you can afford it now.

On the evening of that day, when they entered Dingtao and ordered the uniform removal of armor as agreed, many of the backbones of the Deposed Dragon Army who had experienced life and death assaults secretly complained.

The troops rested for a while, and the same thing happened the next day. The elite backbone unified their armor and traveled in the rain. The logistics supplies also switched from water to land, heading north to Chengshi.

Marching on this day was more difficult.

However, when entering Chengshi, the surrounding county troops probably moved a little faster because they did not have a large amount of baggage and small troops. Local troops from two counties except Dingtao and Chengshi had already gathered here.

But something was obviously wrong.

"Each county should have five hundred people." The wet Taoist priest Wei also arrived here, but as soon as he came up, he got into a fight with several helmsmen, who were the actual county magistrates, on the street. "Why is this?

Can’t bring everyone together? And what’s wrong with you, Chengshi? Why do you lose sixty or seventy people even if you don’t move?”

"Chief, I have something to make clear." A helmsman who was not a descendant but was promoted from within the gang first glanced at Zhang Xing, who was sitting under the eaves of the street drinking hot soup, and then came to explain seriously.

"This matter is due to our dereliction of duty, but it is not that we have selfish motives...these new recruits who stayed behind are responsible for security and taxation. They are no different from the previous government officials. There are some bastards among them; and they are doing county official duties, and they are not

I don’t understand, I saw that there was going to be a war and the situation was not good, so I ran away.”

"That's right." The helmsman named Shan from the Cheng family also agreed. Of course, his eyes were also looking at Zhang Xing. "We don't have a large army pressing down on us, so even though we know they are hiding, it's not easy to find them...

"

"Where are they hiding?" Zhang Xing, who was wearing armor and drinking soup, suddenly put down his soup bowl under the eaves and asked. "Inside the city or outside the city?"

"Things are urgent, so most of them must still be in the city." The single helmsman felt excited and immediately responded. "Leader, do you want me to go look for you now?"

"Of course." Zhang Xing looked at the other party's eyes and ordered calmly, with no emotion in his words. "Now that the army has arrived, they have to wait here for news from the front line. The city has been blocked. It is time to send people immediately to search for these escapees.

If they are found in other people's homes, they will be sent to hard labor to transport food. If there is an officer above the level of a gang leader, they will be beheaded in public display and do not tolerate it."

"yes."

Not only this single helmsman, but also the other helmsmen present were all stunned.

But Zhang Xing just continued to drink the hot soup with his head down. After finishing the bowl of hot soup, he sat for a while and then ordered the troops to move to the barracks with him to rest and remove their armor together.

By the way, on the day and night when I arrived at Chengshi and waited for the news, the originally sparse rain suddenly stopped, and the sky cleared up for a rare day.

Zhang Xing and others also took a day off to dry their armor and cloaks.

However, as the news came and it was learned that Li Shu and others followed the river from the north of Lishan Mountain back to Dongjun, instead of coming from the south of Lishan Mountain to Jiyin County, Zhang Dalongtou did not dare to

He Nuo immediately sent a messenger to ask the other party and Xu and Niu to come closer to him. At the same time, he quickly set off to the north, crossed Jiyin County, and met in the Lihu area of ​​Dongjun.

And as soon as we set off, it started to rain lightly again.

There is no way, there is really no way, this is the weather in May, Zhang Xing has seen similar situations before in Dongdu.

In this way, on May 23, Zhang Xing set out from Chengshi again.

At this time, as more and more local helmsmen and deputy helmsmen led their teams from all directions to follow, the follow-up logistics team was also fully deployed, and some leaders who stayed in the south also turned back one after another, and the team became very large.

Already.

One day later, on the afternoon of May 24, Zhang Xing arrived at Lihu County in Dongjun.

He met Niu Da here. The latter obviously didn't want to be late again. In addition, it was indeed closer and he knew the news earlier, so he was the first of several main forces to arrive in Lihu.

Lihu's local helmsman and county magistrate Chai Xiaohe also made relatively complete preparations. He took advantage of the clear weather the previous day and hurriedly asked people to collect bamboo hats, cloaks and coir raincoats from the people.

The interior and exterior are properly arranged. Although it is not perfect, it has exceeded expectations. At least it is much better than the previous ones in Dingtao and Chengshi.

With the army gathered, it becomes even more valuable.

Zhang Xing immediately appointed Chai Xiaohe as Wei Xuanding's deputy to share the logistics tasks.

On the morning of the 25th, Xu Shiying, a Lihu native who was forced to relocate, also led his troops to arrive at his hometown. At this time, not counting the civilians and businessmen who assisted in the transfer, the Deposed Dragon Army troops here in Lihu had reached 20,000.

A thousand people.

In fact, this number is still wrong, because theoretically there should be 25,000 people, and the shortage of nearly 20% cannot be explained by temporary desertion... Obviously, Xu Shiying and Niu Daming knew what Zhang Xing's order was.

Even though he knew what the situation was, he still couldn't help but stay in his hometown Puyang and Baima.

This is so stupid and so true.

But at this time, Zhang Xing could no longer care about this.

In other words, for Zhang Dalongtou, he was already satisfied that so many troops were left behind on the Western Front. Xu and Niu, two semi-independent commanders with strong backgrounds, were willing to obey orders to join forces at critical moments.

If he is willing to fight this battle, he has already paid off his favor and prestige this year.

Of course, these two people knew how bad the overall situation was, and they came here in the rain, so their mental state was not very good.

But soon, at noon that day, with Bai Yousi's unhesitating volley coming from the sky, the morale in Lihu was obviously boosted, especially the backbones of the gang, who cheered up... They knew very well that such a master had joined.

What it means can most likely be made based on Miss Bai's surname and family background.
To be continued...