Chapter 251: Bold Plan
After returning from Liu Ruosi, Guo Zhiyuan took Zhang Cheng to find the quarantine officer and took out Zhao Bingjian's token. The quarantine officer took the token and glanced at Guo Zhiyuan, and said in an official voice: "According to it, I should do it myself, but I am a quarantine officer, it is really not easy to be a quarantine officer. This person is chewed with horses, and the daily cost is really great. I can only tear the east wall and repair the west wall. Let's do this. You can live on the mountain for a few days first, and I will find a way to get you together..."
Guo Zhiyuan sneered secretly. The quarantine officer was completely lying. The rebels captured eight counties in Zhangzhou Prefecture. I don’t know how much money they plundered. How could they not even get a thousand taels of silver? This quarantine officer was obviously making things difficult for Guo Zhiyuan. The purpose was to get the card. There would definitely be readers saying that you are illogical. Why did the quarantine officer below dare to make things difficult for what Zhao Bingjian told him personally? In fact, this kind of thing is also very common in our reality. For example, if you ask for money from a business unit, the boss has signed and agreed to pay, but when you go to the finance department, he will often get stuck. He always has various reasons to shirk and delay. In short, if you don’t give enough benefits, you will never get the money. From this, it can be seen that Zhao Bingjian’s rebels have not yet accomplished, and internal corruption has begun. Such a mob naturally cannot become a climate.
So Guo Zhiyuan was not only not annoyed, but was very happy. The more chaos the rebels were, the greater the chances he had. He also rushed back and arranged a strategy to defeat the enemy in five days. Naturally, it was impossible to spend it here for a mere thousand taels of silver. He laughed and said, "The young man is going to rush back and report to my general. However, the big brother is in charge of the army and the military needs is indeed not easy. Do you think this is OK? Brother, you can calculate as much as you can. The rest will be the young man who respects the big brother..."
Seeing that Guo Zhiyuan was so good at doing things, the military officer immediately changed his attitude and patted Guo Zhiyuan on the shoulder intimately and said, "Thank you, little brother, for understanding my difficulties. Don't worry, no matter how difficult the marshal's instructions were, I have to find a way. I will give you five hundred taels first. This is what I squeezed out from my teeth!"
Good guy! This guy is really bad, and he lost half of it in a flash, but Guo Zhiyuan didn't care about this little money at all and agreed readily. Even Guo Zhiyuan didn't plan to keep the five hundred taels of money, and sent it all out. Guo Zhiyuan was stuffed with silver when he saw the rebel guards along the road. Anyway, the silver was not his, so he naturally didn't feel sorry for others. The rebel guards along the road also had a good impression of Guo Zhiyuan, a "boy with money". It's hard to find such generous people these days. You should know that ordinary people in this era have worked hard for a month and still earned less than a tael of money.
Guo Zhiyuan successfully returned to Zhangpu County. This trip was a great achievement. Not only did he find out about the main guard arrangement of the rebels, but he also successfully used the internal conflicts of the rebels to plant the secret of Liu Ruosi. He and Liu Ruosi agreed that attacking the Shuizhai Mountain in five days was not just a fool, but after observing the terrain of the Shuizhai Mountain and the guard arrangement, he had a bold plan in his mind. As long as this plan was successful, he would be confident of defeating the rebels!
The most critical part of this plan is where the ten thousand elite soldiers came from. Guo Zhiyuan told Liu Ruosi that Shen Yourong brought 10,000 elite soldiers, which was naturally fooling him. Not to mention that Shen Yourong's arrogant temper could not obey Guo Zhiyuan's command. Even if Shen Yourong was willing to send troops to help Shen Yourong, there were not so many soldiers under him. Some people might say that Guo Zhiyuan could ask for help from the court, but with Xu Xueju and Shen Yizhong's hostile attitude towards Guo Zhiyuan, how could he send reinforcements to Guo Zhiyuan? Taking a step back, Xu Xueju is willing to give Guo Zhiyuan a lot of troops?
It is impossible to send reinforcements to mobilize 10,000 troops without disturbing the main force of the rebels in such a short period of time. In fact, Huang Yingju secretly sent people to Zhangzhou City to contact Shen Yizhong during the period when Guo Zhiyuan left and went to the Shuizhai Mountain to inquire about the rebels' false status, hoping to send reinforcements to help them defend Zhangpu County. As a result, what he was waiting for was a stern reprimanding letter, saying that he was following Guo Zhiyuan, a naughty young man, and ordered them not to act rashly, so as not to destroy the court's strategy of suppressing the rebellion!
Huang Yingju also showed the letter of reprimand to Guo Zhiyuan, but Guo Zhiyuan just laughed it off. From the beginning, he didn't expect the court to send reinforcements. To defeat the main force of the rebels, he had to find a way by himself. Moreover, he had a rough plan in his mind, so he began to arrange for Huang Yingju to collect 100 jars of wine and 100 jars of vegetable oil in Zhangpu County. Although Huang Yingju didn't know what Guo Zhiyuan sold in the gourd, he had become deeply convinced of the young Shangguan through this period of time, so he immediately followed Guo Zhiyuan's instructions. Although Zhangpu County was occupied by the rebels, the rebels mainly robbed valuable things such as gold and silver. No one robbed daily necessities such as wine and vegetable oil, so they quickly collected them all.
However, what made Guo Zhiyuan the most trouble now was that he had too few troops. Even if he included the surrendered rebels and the original yamen runners and gentry servants in Zhangpu County, he could at most get a thousand soldiers. If his bold plan was to succeed, he had to ensure that there were at least more than two thousand available soldiers!
There are still a thousand soldiers and Guo Zhiyuan who are on Shen Junrong. Li Jin has been to Penghu Island for help for some time. In fact, Shen Junrong's reinforcements should have arrived. Did something happen at sea? Guo Zhiyuan is also a little worried about gains and losses. Although he is calm in front of Liu Ruosi, he is not very clear about whether his bold plan can be successful. If it is not going well at the beginning, it will be a bit uneasy!
Fortunately, Guo Zhiyuan didn't wait too long. That night he met Li Jin who came to send the message. Shen Junrong had already led 800 Xinxing Army and 100 regiments of the township soldiers and 100 soldiers from Sun Mansion to arrive in Zhangpu County on five big blessing ships. He is currently on standby in the small fishing village where Guo Zhiyuan and the others landed in before!
"That's great! A big thing can be accomplished!" Guo Zhiyuan jumped up excitedly and waved hard.
Chu Wan'er and others looked at Guo Zhiyuan who was so excited that they danced with excitement. They also heard Zhang Cheng talk about the main situation of the rebels in the Shuizhai Mountain. The main force of the rebels was 20,000, and the reinforcements brought by Shen Junrong were only 2,000. Moreover, the main force of the rebels also occupied the geographical advantage. No matter how they looked, they had no chance of winning. I don't know why Guo Zhiyuan was so excited.
Chapter completed!