Chapter 2079 Gui Zi Scroll is full of gambling, and you can’t do it unless you gamble.
Wang Chengwu has not received the news yet, but Feng Ziying has already received some information in this regard.
The rebel forces in the fortresses north of Suide are still increasing, and the momentum of continuing to move south is still expanding.
Of course, not all of them are here for Wubao, but the pressure brought by the disaster has forced people in these places to go out in search of food.
If the situation worsens, more people in these fortresses may also go south, not just the strong ones now.
This situation means that the disaster situation in northern Shaanxi is still getting worse.
This is also expected.
The drought started the year before last and reached its extreme last year, with many places experiencing no harvests. As a result, the victims of last winter and this spring turned into hungry people, and the hungry people turned into refugees and rioters.
This year is another year of severe drought. There are many places where the summer harvest has failed. It is very rare for places to have 30% of the harvest in a normal year. The situation is only slightly better than last year, but it is still a year of great disaster. This situation is aggravated.
The combination of disasters last year and last year means that there are too many people who cannot survive.
Feng Ziying can now imagine the scene of the peasant uprising in northern Shaanxi in the late Ming Dynasty in her previous life.
The whole family has nothing to eat. Looking around, everyone is the same. They have eaten everything they can, including grass roots, tree bark, birds and animals, even mice, and finally Guanyin soil. They are still hungry. What should I do?
If there was news somewhere that there was something to eat, why wouldn't you go?
Why not go?
Starving to death is death, being killed for grabbing food is also death, and maybe the latter can become a starved ghost.
In comparison, the people in these fortresses are actually much better off than other victims of the disaster. At least they can persist until now, but for them, if it continues, once even the horses and horses are eaten, they will
The ability to plunder food and other supplies from other places was lost.
Therefore, leaders who are slightly smarter and have far-sightedness will make decisions in advance instead of just waiting for death.
Wang Chengwu had already sensed that Feng Ziying was interested in the forts north of Suide.
But it's no wonder that there are dozens of forts in the series between the north of Suide and the border wall of Yulin Town, with a population of at least fifty or sixty thousand, and the number of soldiers that can be drawn out is at least nearly ten thousand, even if it is a screening process
There must be six to seven thousand elite among them.
Moreover, there are originally a large number of war horses in these forts. When the years are good, these forts and forts are also trained on horses. They are even more powerful than the civilians of these prefectures and counties. After all, they are also facing Yulin Town in the north.
The threat of border troops.
Although the Yulin border army turned a blind eye due to various reasons, these deserters were always the targets of being hunted and arrested. No one would care until they took it seriously, but it is difficult to say that one day there will be someone from above.
If the order wants to check and verify these people, all the border towns will go into war.
To be precise, these forts are actually not only within the boundaries of Suizhou, but rather from the Luguan Ridge between Baoan and Anding to the Jiahe River in the north of Jiazhou, stretching for seven to eight hundred miles.
However, the north side of Suide accounts for most of it.
Many of the people in these forts are Yulin deserters and rebels, and there are even some Mongolians who have fled in. They are skilled in bow and horse, and they have brought in a lot of horses. Although they are not good horses, these animals are useful for
The mobility of the army is self-evident.
"So the grassroots people got the news and got up to Wubao first. In fact, the grassroots people's original plan was to follow Boyan Village, Baitang Village and Waotianqi to pick up some leftovers to eat, but who would have thought
Shaking the Sky Flag is too ambitious, trying to force Gu Xiuzhong and I to fight together in Boyan Village, and we must capture Wubao City before the people from Baitang Village arrive..."
Feng Ziying pondered and said nothing for a while.
The people in Boyan Village and Baitang Village continued to expand as they went south, and more and more people joined their ranks, making them seem to be getting stronger and stronger.
In fact, this is also a choice made out of desperation. When they raise the flag of chaos, they actually have no choice.
If you don't accept someone's offer, it means that you are different and will naturally become the target of hostility from other rebels. Similarly, they must also consider how they will really encounter the small number of troops once they want to attack the city and break the stronghold.
It is a question of whether the resistance of the defenders is sufficient or not.
And these undisciplined rebels with low combat effectiveness can naturally become the best consumables, and they are put to use openly, otherwise why accept them?
However, it seems to have grown stronger, but the side effects will not be small. Just like Wang Chengwu's rebel army annexed Waitianqi's subordinates, it is also indigestion. It is impossible to integrate in the short term. The Boyan Village and Baitang Village
People and horses also face this problem.
So Feng Ziying was not too worried before, but now the people from Boyan Village and Baitang Village actually captured Yihe City, and stopped in Yihe City to reorganize the army, which made Feng Ziying feel dangerous.
Yihe City is sixty miles east of Suide City and very close to Wubao, which is about seventy miles away.
This place was established by Liu Changzuo, the former magistrate of Yanzhou in the Song Dynasty. In view of the severe defense situation at that time, a fortress beacon was set up 700 miles west to Dejingzhai in Baoan County. After the Jin Dynasty took control of this place, it was renamed Hezhai and now it is a post station.
city.
The geographical location here is moderate, sixty miles from Suide to the west, eighty miles from Mizhi to the northwest, Jiazhou one hundred and twenty miles to the north, and less than eighty miles from Wubao to the east. Now the people of Suide and Mizhi
The strong officers and soldiers are already frightened. If they are allowed to stay in the city and defend it, they may be able to use it reluctantly. If they are allowed to go out of the city to fight in the field, it will simply cost their lives, which is absolutely impossible.
Reorganizing the army here can not only attract a steady stream of rebel troops from Suide, Mizhi, and Jiazhou to surrender, but once they feel they have enough strength, they can quickly march eastward and reach the foot of Wubao City within two days.
In an attack, if there are really 10,000 or 20,000 rebel troops, then Wubao City can really be destroyed even with human lives.
"Sir, I would like to ask you one more question. Yihe City is not big, and the surrounding Suide, Mizhi officers and soldiers, and even the Yulin Army further away, can go south and pursue them at any time. If the people from Boyan Village and Baitang Village stay there,
Where can we remain silent for a long time without fear of being surrounded? If they stay there, can they still produce food there?"
This is something Wang Chengwu cannot understand.
They were all dizzy with hunger and headed straight for Wubao. If they stayed for one more day, they would consume one more day of food. Considering that the number of people in Baitang Village in Boyan Village now exceeds at least five thousand, the daily food consumption would be
It would cost more than fifty dan, not counting the consumption of the horses. If it dragged on for three to five days, it would require two to three hundred dan of food.
Feng Ziying smiled bitterly.
There are two thousand stones of corn in Yihe Yi City, which were originally shipped to the Longzhou Fort line to supply the garrison of the ten pass forts in Yulin Town, and were temporarily stored in Yihe Yi City.
Who would have thought that the land just a few dozen miles under the nose of Suide City would be captured by the rebel army that suddenly moved south, and it would suddenly become the spoils of war for these rebels.
The people in Boyan Village and Baitang Village are now spreading the word, making the surrounding areas aware of the news, and the rebel armies from Suide, Mizhi and Jiazhou suddenly swarmed in.
Now it is no longer a problem of thousands of rebels. The total number of various rebels has exceeded 12,000, and it is still increasing. The other party is using this method to gather more people in order to
Defeat Wubao City in one battle.
There are many people who can see the conspiracy here, but no one can refuse. When you can't even fill your stomach, do you still care whether others take advantage of you or not?
If you can be used, it's because you still have use value. If you don't have use value, if you rush to the door to be used, others will shut you out.
But Wang Chengwu's question is also reasonable. Yiheyi City may be attacked by the army at any time, but it is regrettable that the Yulin Army has not had any plans to go south before.
Even if He Shixian at Yulin Guard receives his distress letter and immediately makes a decision and arranges troops to go south, it will take at least seven days to reach Suide, and this may be the fastest speed, involving mobilizing troops to arrange logistics supplies, etc.
Wait, maybe ten days is more likely.
The Minzhuang of Suide and Mizhi, who were close at hand, lacked enough courage to face more than 10,000 rebels. It was not entirely a lack of courage, but a wise decision. If they really wanted to go out of the city to fight this
In a battle, facing the rebel army composed of deserters and rebels from Yulin, they were more likely to fail.
"Chengwu, there is corn in Yiheyi City, which is enough for these rebels to eat for ten days and a half, but they will not stay there for that long, that is, they will come eastward within these three to five days. I
You are only given three days to reorganize the army. The next battle will determine the fate of you and everyone under your command, so I want to hear how you plan to fight this battle."
Feng Ziying sat firmly behind the desk, leaning on the back of the chair, her eyes falling on Wang Chengwu's face.
This is a warrior who is not short of bravery and knows how to advance and retreat. But winning this battle is not enough. More than 10,000 rebel troops really go south. This is not something that his two or three thousand people can handle. He hopes that the other party will move.
Thinking about it, especially since the other party is so familiar with the conditions of the fortresses in the north of Suide, there must be room for maneuver.
The appearance of this person was an unexpected surprise for herself. Without this guy, Feng Ziying would have considered giving up Fort Wu temporarily to avoid the limelight of the thieves.
Wang Chengwu took a deep breath. In fact, after learning about the threat posed by the rebels from Baitang Village in Boyan Village going south, he was considering this issue. If he was not sure, he would not dare to come to see this noble man, but he
It is also clear that even if he has some ideas, the risks are still huge and the probability of failure is greater, but he still has to try again.
