"Twenty thousand stones of army rations?!"

Wei Xiaojie began to look at the old man in front of him again. For someone who could casually donate 20,000 shi of military rations, one can only imagine how rich the assets behind him were!

This old man is indeed extraordinary!

Nowadays, the world is not peaceful, and coupled with natural and man-made disasters in various places, the price of grain in Youzhou has increased from ten cents per dou to a sky-high price of fifty cents per dou by unscrupulous businessmen.

At this time, the common money in the Tang Dynasty was equivalent to one tael of silver, which was 1,000 Kaiyuan Tongbao, which was 1,000 Wen. Ten dou was equivalent to one stone, and one stone was equivalent to 500 Wen. Twenty thousand shi of grain was equivalent to 10,000 Wen.

Proper wealth!

After thinking for a moment, Wei Xiaojie regained his senses and glared angrily:

"There is no joke in the army. I have never heard of the Cai family in Tanzhou who has a wealthy family! Even if my father-in-law's family is engaged in grain business, it is impossible to store so much grain!"

"Cough cough cough~!"

Cai Liuxin coughed and almost couldn't breathe.

After calming down for a while, he casually took a delicate handkerchief handed over by the young man behind him and wiped it on his face randomly.

"To be honest, General Manager Wei, I predicted a few days ago that the city of Tanzhou would be destroyed by the Turkic cavalry, that the Tanxiang official road would be occupied by the Turkic cavalry, and that the Cai family and I would also flee south!"

Wei Xiaojie:......

The personal guards nearby sensed that the atmosphere of the chat was a little different. They winked at each other, held their sword scabbards, and quietly formed a siege in order to respond to emergencies at any time.

"Actually, my Cai family is not considered a prominent family in Tanzhou, but our strength cannot be underestimated. Some time ago, we did not know that the Wang family had betrayed the Tang Dynasty and was still transporting grain and grass supplies for them."

"It wasn't until that day that Turks from all over the mountains and plains appeared in Tanxiang Town. They burned, killed and looted. They just didn't take us as a group of people transporting supplies and ignored our existence. I knew that some people were rebelling."

"At that time, Tanxiang Town was a hell on earth. There were murderous Turkic cavalry everywhere. People could be heard begging for mercy and screaming everywhere. There were scenes of Turks robbing property and dividing the spoils."

"The old man secretly rescued some villagers in Tanxiang Town and hid the supplies in place

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In the valley between the inn and Tanxiang Town. If General Wei fails to capture Tanzhou City, we only need to break through Tanxiang Town, lead these people to escape into the valley, and rely on the mountain roads to hold on and wait for help!"

After Cai Liuxin finished speaking, Wei Xiaojie arranged for personal guards to protect the Cai family, redrawn the battle plan, and sent several cavalrymen to inform Lieutenant General Zheng Jun.

While Wei Xiaojie was talking with Cai Liuxin, Zheng Jun led a cavalry group to quietly explore the mountains and forests near Tanzhou City.

Wei Xiaojie originally planned to let his deputy Zhu Xu lead more than 100,000 people to move south slowly, creating an illusion and attracting the Turkic scouts in Tanzhou City, so that the Turks who were guarding the city would relax their vigilance and then raid Tanzhou City.

After two days of fighting, after the enemy left, the Turks in Tanzhou City must have entered a state of rest. Now is the best time to backhand attack Tanzhou City.

An hour later,

The vanguard heading south led by Zhu Xu encountered the Turkic cavalry.

After conducting several tentative attacks, Zhu Xu commanded his cavalry to continuously change their formations like a quick release to encircle and suppress the Turkic cavalry.

After several rounds of fierce battles, the Turkic reconnaissance team, which was also composed of 500 cavalry. Under Zhu Xu's skillful military command, appeared to be defeated, and was crushed and beaten by the elite led by Zhu Xu.

Except for some who slipped through the net, they rushed into the refugee pile and drove the people away as a cover to escape. The remaining four hundred cavalry were all the achievements of Zhu Xu's victory in the first battle, and were severely trampled by the cavalry.

"Do these Turks think we are poor? We have come all the way from the prairie to give us war horses. Brothers, they Turks are not strong in fighting ability, but their war horses are not bad. They have captured all the war horses.

Send it to me to the chief steward, and we'll have horse meat soup tonight!"

"General Zhu is mighty! We have horse meat to eat tonight!"

"The general is mighty, the broth is mighty!"

"Haha! Send horse meat thousands of miles away!"

Zhu Xu ordered his men to clean the battlefield, bring all the horses that died in the battle to the rear army to use as broth, and package the captured equipment to Wei Xiaojie behind the team, so as to appease the people and continue on the road slowly...

On the other side,

Zhao Deyan, who was in charge of Tanxiang Inn, became uneasy after receiving the letter.

Before Zhou Jie died, he ordered his soldiers to remove all important

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All the documents were burned, but the soldiers never burned anything and threw all the letters into the fire without thinking.

Until the battle at Tanxiang Station ended, Zhao Deyan's guards searched carefully and found many half-burned letters in the fire and handed them to Zhao Deyan.

Tuli Khan colluded with Li Yuan to make a private deal?!

"It's impossible for these important clues to be kept for the last time. This must be Li Shimin's conspiracy!"

In order to restore the Sui Empire, the Turkic tribes must not be divided. At least before the overthrow of the Tang Dynasty, all the Turkic tribes must be united. Zhao Deyan threw the letter back into the fire.

"Master, the scouts are here to report that the general who led two thousand Tang Dynasty cavalry into Tanzhou territory a few days ago is Wei Xiaojie, the general manager of Hebei Province!"

Just as a guard finished speaking, another spy ran in behind him.

"Report! Report to the National Division. Wei Xiaojie is leading a hundred thousand refugees to break out in our current direction. According to the speed of the Tang Dynasty cavalry, they will arrive in three hours. But now they are escorting the refugees and their marching speed is slow!"

Wei Xiaojie is a big fish!

I couldn't understand why I could catch such a big fish in the trap I set.

Now that Tanzhou City has been conquered and Tanxiang Station has been occupied, Wei Xiaojie and his thousands of elites alone will not be able to escape from their encirclement unless they leave this group of refugees behind, no matter how much they make a fuss.

Zhao Deyan was in a good mood. With Li Yuan and Wang Shen making a fuss in Youzhou this time, it was much smoother for him to lead the troops to fight.

The Turkic Jieli Khan wanted to go south to plunder the money, land and food, but he perfectly solved it within a month.

"Come here! Please lead Mr. Yang to lead three thousand knights and escort all the Han people and supplies captured recently back to the prairie."

"Go ahead and give the order to recall all the tribesmen who are fighting the autumn wind in the surrounding counties. Set up three lines of defense to block Wei Xiaojie between Tanzhou City and Tanxiang Station and starve him to death!"

"If any tribal soldier disobeys the command and allows Wei Xiaojie, an elite cavalryman, to escape in order to take advantage of the small profits brought by the autumn wind, he will be a traitor to the entire Turkic tribe, and the tribal leader will also be implicated in his death!"

In Zhao Deyan's center, money, land and food are far less important than eliminating Li Shimin's elite!
Chapter completed!