The development of the matter was almost as Kang Long originally expected. The Ghost King was not a member of the Khitan army, but just a person sent by the Khitan army's counselors.
Kang Long and others annihilated the Ghost King's Gui Luo Wei, and at the same time accidentally captured a Khitan counselor on Dongsha Island. This counselor named Shan Yi was originally a Han from the Yan region.
After the Six Prefectures, many Han people in the Yan region fled back to the Central Plains, but a small number of them could not leave their homeland and stayed, eventually becoming Khitan citizens. He was one of them.
Shan Yi was originally a down-and-out scholar, but he unexpectedly became a counselor of the Khitan Kingdom.
From him, Kang Long and others had a clear understanding of the situation in Khitan.
The Khitan Kingdom now attaches great importance to the culture of the Central Plains. Ever since it occupied the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, two different opinions have emerged in the Khitan Kingdom.
One was the military, represented by Beiyuan King Yelu Zong, who advocated using force to invade the Central Plains all the way south and conquer the Central Plains Dynasty.
The other type is the counselors and civil servants represented by Xiao Geliang, the king of the Southern Academy. They advocate learning Han culture and understanding the customs and characteristics of the Han people, so as to lay the cultural foundation for future domination of the Central Plains.
The leader of the country, Yelu Deguang, was inclined to the opinion of King Beiyuan and wanted to conquer the Central Plains Dynasty by force.
The power of the Demon Sect is mainly dependent on the King of the South Campus, but this time the king Yelv Deguang personally led the expedition, they still sent people to follow them, hoping to end this war as soon as possible, and then the Khitan could establish a capital in the Central Plains and unify the world.
The Ghost King relied on his strong Xuan Gong. This time he heard that the Jin Dynasty sent his own troops to escort grain and grass to the front line, so he wanted to take this opportunity to cut off the supplies of Yedu, thereby breaking down the resistance of the defenders of Yedu.
I thought that with more than 80 Gui Luo Wei who had been personally trained by him, as well as the extremely resourceful strategist Shan Yi, and the escort Feng Chenfeng who secretly agreed with him, this grain robbery would be easily won.
, or even more ideally, after capturing the grain team, they took the opportunity to disguise themselves as Jin soldiers, sneaked into Yedu, opened the city gate, captured Yedu in one fell swoop, and established immortal achievements. However, the Ghost King had countless calculations, but he failed
No matter how unexpected it was, Kang Long was a variable in the process, and in the end the whole army was wiped out and he escaped alone.
The grain ship resumed its previous formation and sailed towards Yedu at full speed, but this time Kang Long became the escort of the grain team.
Kang Long organized the captured three-masted ship into the grain transport team, moved two spare crossbows from the red flagship and placed them on the bow and stern of the ship, which he named the black flagship.
When Feng Chenfeng served as the escort, in order to facilitate the work of the Ghost King, he never sent a scout ship to explore the waterway ahead. Kang Long changed Li Hu's Yidu soldiers to the scout capital, and took the black flagship ahead to be responsible for exploring the route.
This time, under his command, they were able to quickly defeat the Ghost King's ambush. This was naturally due to Kang Long discovering Feng Chenfeng's plot in advance, predicting the enemy's opportunity, and leading a battalion of armored soldiers to make clever arrangements, thus annihilating the Ghost King's ambush in one fell swoop.
Although the whole battle was so easy and simple, in fact, if Kang Long had not arranged it well in advance, he might not have been able to defeat the Ghost King's ambush so easily.
First of all, Kang Long and his four soldiers chose the landing place very well. They landed at Luancaotan, about three miles away from Shahukou, bypassing the eyes arranged by the Ghost King, and went from the reed-covered beach to East and West Sand Island.
From the rear, it surrounded the back roads of the two islands.
The Red Flagship sailed directly to the vicinity of Shahukou, attracting the attention of two ambushes of the Ghost King. The two ambushes on the beach suddenly rushed out. Kang Long personally took action, seized the Ghost King's treasure ship, and lurked in the treasure ship. Jing Jing
Wait for the Ghost King to come and implement the second step of the plan, sneak attack on the bloodthirsty Ghost King.
The ambush troops on Dongsha Island, led by Shan Yi, were still waiting for the Ghost King's order, but unexpectedly they were quickly annihilated by the two capital soldiers led by Li Jixun.
Everything was carried out in an orderly manner according to Kang Long's calculations in advance. Due to Kang Long's precise calculations in this battle, the five hundred soldiers dispatched actually suffered no casualties during the battle.
Li Jixun and Hua Tian had heard about the vicious reputation of the Bloodthirsty Ghost King, but no matter how they guessed, they never expected that this battle would go so smoothly.
This was the first time in their lives that they had experienced zero casualty battles.
No one expected that the seizure this time would be extremely rich. Now, the two battalions of armored soldiers led by Hua Tian and Li Jixun have all sworn to serve Kang Long. In this situation, even Hua Tian and Li Jixun can't
There is no way to change it anymore.
Besides, the two of them didn't want to change anything at all. After all, they both took the 500 taels of gold rewarded by Kang Long and had already sworn allegiance to Kang Long. What a change.
On the treasure ship of the Bloodthirsty Ghost King, there was actually five thousand kilograms of gold hidden, as well as countless other rare treasures. According to Shan Yi, these things were all plundered by the Ghost Luo Wei led by the Bloodthirsty Ghost King in the various state capitals of Jin Dynasty.
Got it.
It is said that the bloodthirsty ghost king, under the orders of the leader of the Demon God Sect, came to the Jin Kingdom to collect young boys with great potential and qualifications, hoping to train a group of masters and dead soldiers.
Shan Yi was sent by the counselor's office of Xiao Geliang, the king of the South Academy, to assist the bloodthirsty ghost king. But what shocked Shan Yi was that as soon as the bloodthirsty ghost king arrived in the Central Plains, he pretended to be a murderous and illegal thief, entering rich houses at night, robbing and killing, and a
In the past few months, dozens of crimes have been committed in ten states of Guangjin Prefecture, and countless gold, silver, jewelry, and antiques have been robbed.
This series of actions not only alarmed the officials of ten states within thousands of miles of Guangjin Mansion, but also alarmed many knights in the world.
The yamen of various states wrote documents to arrest the criminal robbers, and flew letters to the court. Local heroes and knights also organized several groups of people to search for these criminal robbers. However, they dispatched so many people, not only did they not get the bloodthirsty ghost king, but they killed him.
A lot.
In fact, Kang Long had heard about these things half a month ago when he left Luoyang, the capital. He naturally saw it in the manuscripts copied by the Guangjin Mansion in An Ye Hall, and he didn't pay much attention to it at the time. After all, in this era, the government forced the people to rebel.
It is also common for people who cannot survive to become thieves.
Those so-called criminal thieves may have been forced by some wealthy family to survive, so they committed murder and robbery.
But now that Gui Luowei has annihilated the bloodthirsty ghost king and obtained so many gold, silver, jewelry, rare antiques, and Shan Yi's explanation, it becomes clear that the Demon Sect has gradually begun to extend its tentacles to the Central Plains.
Presumably the Confucian Haoran Hall, which is the representative of the righteous way, will find out about this matter soon. Young Master Haoyu may soon notify the manpower of Jianghu Hall and Anye Hall lurking in various places to investigate this matter.
Kang Long naturally has no worries about these things now. The most urgent task is to escort the grain and grass to Yedu first and relieve the siege of Yedu.
Only when the Khitan army retreats will the people from the Demon Sect retreat. There is no other way.
In order to win people's hearts, Kanglong immediately took out 30,000 taels of gold from the goods and gave them to the soldiers of the two battalions.
Each armored soldier has twenty taels of gold, and his length is thirty taels. The captain has fifty taels, and both have heads of one hundred taels. The commanders of the two battalions, Hua Tian and Li Jixun, have five hundred taels each. The twenty who followed Feng Chenfeng
The soldiers were divided into four thousand taels in total, equivalent to 200 taels per person.
This move was done beautifully. Not only did the two battalions of a thousand soldiers send representatives to the yellow flagship to pat their chests and pledge their loyalty to Kang Long, but even the captains of each department secretly swore allegiance to Kang Long.
Although Hua Tian and Li Jixun were the commanders of the pro-military camp of the Jin Dynasty, their annual salary was only a hundred taels of silver. They worked hard for the court for a year, including their salaries and seasonal rewards. After one year,
They could only get an income of two to three hundred taels of silver, but Kang Long actually rewarded them with five hundred taels of gold at one time, which was equivalent to six thousand taels of silver and more than twenty years of income.
Nowadays, gold is precious and silver is cheap, and copper coins are the least expensive. One tael of gold can be exchanged for twelve taels of silver. Regardless of how much money and treasures Kang Long got from killing the bloodthirsty ghost king this time, he got it by himself.
Naturally, these things would not be turned over to the court and belonged to Kang Long's personal money. Although doing so violated the laws of the Jin Dynasty, if he were sued, Kang Long would inevitably be charged with the crime of confiscating his family and exterminating his clan.
But during times of war, these laws can only work on ordinary people, and have no effect at all on the officers who hold military power in the army.
Besides, these people join the army because they want to make more money and be rich all their lives. These days, whoever has money is the father, and they will follow him.
If you don’t have money, who will work with you?
By spending a lot of money this time to win people's hearts, Kang Long finally understood this truth.
If a superior wants to control his subordinates well, he must not only convince them with force and strategy, but also convince them with money so that they can serve him wholeheartedly. This is the highest state of both kindness and power.
Didn't you see that Ye Si Er was so proud of the two hundred taels of gold that he sneaked into Huang's flagship and revealed all the plans and arrangements of Dark Night Hall to Kang Long?
Even those boatmen who worked as coolies each secretly received five taels of gold from Kang Long as a reward. Everyone worked hard and worked hard. Who among the whole team would not praise Kang for his generosity?
I'm afraid that even if the imperial court orders someone to take over Kang Long's position as escort, these people will not agree. Kang Long's position as escort is truly confirmed, because no matter who is sent back by the commanders of the two battalions,
The military report and the secret report of An Ye Tang Ye 42 all reported this incident, and at the same time recommended Kang Long as the escort, and took the initiative to conceal the money gained from slaying the bloodthirsty ghost king, saying only that it was zero
With casualties, he broke through the Khitan's grain-stealing ambush and captured Feng Chenfeng, the former escort who was collaborating with the enemy.