"I don't understand. If you think doing this will make everyone survive, you do it."

Like his son, Lu Wenliang also felt that this younger brother suddenly became very strange.

He really didn't understand what his brother said, "If you don't move, you will live." But he still chose to trust his brother without reservation, which is what he must do as his brother.

However, after hesitating for a while, Lu Wenliang couldn't help but say, "Everyone follows you and you have to be responsible for others. Whether it is from Yancheng or from other places, it is not easy. I heard from you, the people who stay in Huai'an should be given a cushion to us?"

Lu Si didn't say anything.

No matter how he explains this matter, the final fact is.

"How many people will die? How can they be worthy of them?"

Lu Wenliang sighed, "Many people have died, they are all from their hometowns. Are you thinking of ways to tell everyone to follow you?"

Lu Si still didn't say anything. He couldn't do this at all, and he couldn't do it either.

Without the restraint of Huai'an City, Yangzhou will only be the next Huai'an.

More dead people.

"Even if the people who stayed for a long time?" Lu Wenliang looked at his younger brother.

After a while, Lu Si let out: "I'll do my best."

...........

After coming out from his elder brother Wen Liang, Lu Si went to the canal wharf.

The Xinyi Battalion and the Cao team have emptied most of the grain in Changyingcang, which is enough to ensure the grain supply of the Huai Army to attack Yangzhou.

This is also the reason why Lu Si tried his best to attack Huai'an City. Food was the only guarantee of the Huai Army. Only when people were full of food could they have the strength to fight to the death, so that they would not have random thoughts, and follow him, Lu Si, to rebel to the end.

Perhaps, it’s just that having milk is a mother.

The words are rough, but the truth is not rough.

Except for the fleet of the Huai Army, there were no ships on the canal. It was quite deserted at first glance.

This is also reasonable. If something happened to Huaian City such a big deal, no matter how brave the businessman is, he would not dare to fight this.

I'm afraid Yangzhou is now in chaos.

Monk Xu's new third battalion was transporting things to the fleet, all of which were the materials collected by Shanyang magistrate Luo Jiying under the order of Lu Si.

There are bedding, salt, various vegetables, pork and mutton, and even many pots and pans.

Some of these supplies were bought from shops in the city with money, while others were moved directly from the vassal and treasury treasury.

Lu Si's explanation to Xie Jinsheng, the official of the new battalion, was very simple, that was, to keep an eye on the grain and the canal. In addition to coercion, it was just to induce.

Song Qing, the chief of the Qingjiang Office, who was sent by Lu Siqiang to organize the grain team, stood obediently from beginning to end. Although this person was timid, he was also smart. He had guessed from the fact that the Huai Army organized the grain team that the Huai Army might be going to attack Yangzhou City.

I was both happy and afraid of this.

What I am happy is that if the Huai Army dares to attack Yangzhou, the Nandu will inevitably dispatch large troops to wipe out the enemy; what I am afraid is that if the Huai Army cannot defeat the Nandu official army, they will chop off their imperial officials and vent their grudges.

Very contradictory.

This is how the bandits in the north do it. The battle is smooth and they are very polite to the surrendered and captured court officials because they point to these officials to help them form local governments. But if they are not going well, they will kill all the officials at hand before they escape, so as not to become enemies with them again in the future.

Unexpectedly, the young leader of the Huai Army looked at him and said to him: "As long as you honestly conquer Yangzhou, you will let you go."

"ah?"

In Song Qing's astonished gaze, Lu Si had already walked away.

"Master Lu, let them also hand over these fire guns?"

Sun Wujin brought a sentry and took several carriages over. The carriages were filled with muskets seized from Fujian soldiers and Li Shiyuan's troops. There were more than 700 poles, including those that were soaked in butter and not opened.

"Where are the three cannons?"

Lu Si knew that there were three cannons on the west city, so he instructed Sun Wujin to move the three cannons down the city and take them away. If they attack Yangzhou, they might be able to use them.

Sun Wujin hurriedly said that there was a team of people moving there, but it was too heavy and would not be able to get it for a while.

Lu Si nodded and took a musket from the car and it was in his hand. The musket looked weird and didn't look long.

"Try it."

Lu Si threw the musket to Sun Wujin, and he would not use this thing. Sun Wujin would not use it either, but he had Fujian soldiers under him, so he called someone over.

The Fujian soldiers were nervous when they saw the leader of the Huai Army for the first time. They were busy for a long time to pack the medicine, and then raised their guns and blasted them towards a poplar tree not far away.

With a loud explosion, everyone came up to see that the poplar trees were densely packed with leads of varying sizes.

"If this thing hits people at close range, it will not become a hornet's nest." Xie Jinsheng was surprised, and the power of the musket scared him a little.

Lu Si reached out and picked a lead from the tree and pinched it in his hand, asking Sun Wu how many Fujian soldiers had surrendered in the Huai army.

Sun Wujin replied that there were only more than one hundred people, and there were more than a dozen canal soldiers who could use guns.

"Many Fujian soldiers fled. I heard that their general Zheng Zhibao went to Haizhou to recruit brave men... Does Mr. Lu want to build a gun team?"

"Let's talk about it when you conquer Yangzhou."

Lu Si shook his head. There is no need to form a gun team for the time being. There are too many rainy days in Huaiyang, and gunpowder is prone to tide. It is the twelfth lunar month, which is too cold. It is better to focus on more practical cold weapons because he spends energy to form a gun team that cannot be pulled out at any time and anywhere.

In my previous life, I remembered several great victories in the Southern Ming Dynasty against the Qing Dynasty, such as the Battle of Baoqing in Li Dingguo, and Zheng Chenggong's Zhenjiang Campaign did not rely on firearms, but heavy armored swords. Especially Zheng Chenggong's Zhenjiang Campaign, the heavy armored infantry under his command forced slashes of 4,000 heads from Zhen Manzhou with their big swords.

It can be seen that firearms are not the main cause of the outcome of the war, and can only be used as auxiliary. Only after a stable base and sufficient craftsmen and raw materials are available to improve the firearms can the tactics be changed.

Unfortunately, although Huai'an City is an important city, it is not a military city. Therefore, the Huai Army was unable to seize iron armor, and there were not many cases of crossbows.

There were very few war horses, and there were only about 30 horses collected in total. There were only a handful of cavalry among the Huai Army, including Lu Si, who could not ride.

Therefore, we can only raise these thirty or so war horses first and ask those cavalrymen to train them so that each battalion can contact each other.

On the way back to the city, Lu Si looked a little thoughtful, and Sun Wujin followed him and didn't dare to talk too much.

It was noon when he returned to Caoyuan. Lu Si went to have lunch, and then stayed alone in Zhenfei's public room on Caodu Road.

After a long time, Lu Si got up and poured some water into the inkstone on the table, put it in the ink cake and started grinding the ink. After grinding it, he spread a piece of white paper, picked up Lu Zhenfei's favorite Xuan Pen and wrote it on it.
Chapter completed!