It was already dark after leaving Li Shuang's residence. Since he would leave the city early tomorrow morning, Yu Zhu asked Huang Dagen to summon several fire chiefs from his team to hold a lamp all night to discuss the matter of food requisition. The fire chief Chen Hu was a short, stocky, middle-aged man.

, he first said: "Why don't we collect grain from Jinyuan County, where the government is located?

"Chongqing Prefecture has a total of four counties. In addition to Jinyuan County, where the prefecture is located, there are three counties: Jiangyuan, Xinjin, and Yongkang County. Yongkang County has the most distant food collection task and the heaviest task. As soon as he finished speaking, Cao Ergou retorted:

"Jinyuan County is close to farmland and has many farms, but Pan Tongzhi all appointed his cronies to collect grain. Some villages have already

We have requisitioned food many times, and the people are miserable. How can we requisition it again?" Cao Ergou was only twenty years old, the youngest among the fire chiefs, and also had the hottest temper. "What about Jiangyuan and Xinjin counties?" The proposer was

Fire Chief Wang Youfu, he is a middle-aged yellow-faced man in his thirties, with a passerby face. "No,

These two counties are crisscrossed by water and swamps. Although the population is large, bandits are particularly dangerous. Although there are many grain fields, they are all located at the intersection of river branches. To obtain grain, water troops are required. In addition to Liu Zhong, our team has experienced fire soldiers.

Water battles and the other four fire battles are better than foot battles, and yousi does not provide warships, so what can you do?" Huang Dagen said.

"How about we go to Yongkang County?" After everyone discussed for a long time and still had no result, Ouyang Xuan suggested. As soon as this was said, everyone was silent. Ouyang Xuan had just joined the team and made this suggestion that was either stupid or bad. If

Without his outstanding performance before, if he were not the "second in command" of the team, someone would definitely stand up and refute this proposal.

"Brother Xuan, what are you talking about? Can we go to Yongkang County to collect grain?" Yu Zhu was also puzzled that Ouyang Xuan would say such useless words.

"There is no food available in the forts along the way, no food in Yongkang City, and no food left in Hengyuan Town. But what if we go to the mountains? Is there no food in the mountains?" Ouyang Xuan said. In his memory, Huaiyuan Town is Hengyuan Town.

There are two towns and dozens of villages in the mountains of the original town. During the current war, the population should be quite large, and it is estimated that food can be collected.

"Brother Xuan doesn't know. Hengyuan Town goes up the river for a hundred miles into the mountains. There are villages along the way. Although the population is large, it is a mixture of Tibetan and Qiang people. The folk customs are fierce and unyielding to the king's culture. Where can we get food?" Yu Zhu said. "

Lord Yu Jie is in charge

At that time, the military was at its peak, and the army of Yongkang County was sent to collect grain. The army of thousands of people was defeated by bandits and mountain people and returned in rout. How could this small number of people in our team collect grain? Moreover, this time the grain was robbed from Hengyuan Town.

The bandits come from the mountains.”

"But Jinyuan cannot collect food. If we go to Jiangyuan, there are no warships available in Xinjin. It is better to try our luck in the mountains. The bandits have food!" Ouyang Xuan added.

Ouyang Xuan's words caused everyone to talk about it. Just when they were arguing, Yu Zhu thought for a moment and made a decision: "Tomorrow we will go to Hengyuan Town first, and then go into the mountains to try our luck."

Before setting off early the next morning, a military junior high school officer brought a few people over, saying it was Pan Zongzhi's order to replenish the manpower for the grain collection team. Ouyang Xuan saw that most of them were short and thin people. However, three of them were...

Let him remember it secretly. A scholar named Yang was originally a military scribe because he disobeyed his superiors.

Si was punished. A grocer named Zhu Tiaozi was arrested and sent to the army for tax evasion and tax evasion. The third apprentice named Li Saner disobeyed the master's instructions and damaged the blacksmith's tools by operating indiscriminately and was turned over.

After the newcomers were divided into groups, Yu Zhu led everyone to Hengyuan Town by water.

This time Chongqing Mansion also refused to send a boat, so everyone crowded into two boats borrowed from Hengyuan Town. Although sailing against the current was not fast, it was better than saving energy. Saving energy these days means saving food. Everyone took turns.

After paddling, we arrived at Yongqu Township before noon. When the boat arrived near the shack of old man Wang Da, Yu

Zhu let the boat dock, let everyone stretch their bodies, and arranged for some people to go to Hengyuan Town through the official road. These two wooden boats were a bit crowded with more than fifty people on them. The water was deep in the lower reaches of the river and there was no danger, but as it went further

The smaller the amount of water upstream, the more water-filled ships may run aground or even capsize when encountering shoals.

While Yu Zhu was assigning people to travel by land and water, Ouyang Xuan took some horse meat and found Wang Da's shack. Ouyang Xuan had a special feeling for Wang Da. The old man was not only the first person he met in this world.

, or a savior, he has secretly decided to wait until he has a firm foothold.

, we must find a safe place for the old man to retire. It was noon, and Wang Da was preparing meals in the house. When Ouyang Xuan gave the horse meat jerky to the old man to say goodbye, he told Ouyang Xuan an important news: I heard this morning

I heard the neighing of horses and the sound of hoofbeats, as if

A horse team passed by the official road of Yongqu Township and headed towards Hengyuan Town. Ouyang Xuan was secretly shocked after hearing the news. He immediately went to tell Yu Zhu the news. Yu Zhu then sent someone to sneak through the reeds.

Go to Guandao to find out what's going on. Not long after, Cao Ergou, who went to check, brought back

The news that there was horse manure on the official road confirmed Wang Da's statement. Obviously, the official road must not be walked. At that time, Yu Zhu decided that some people would still walk by water and some people would take the small road. Although the small road was difficult to walk, there were weeds passing by.

And small trees can provide cover, making it difficult for Mongolian cyclists to find them.

Just when everyone was preparing to take action, Ouyang Xuan, who had woken up from his deep thoughts, pulled Yu Zhu aside and whispered: "Brother Zhu, I don't think we can walk on the waterway!"

"Why can't I walk?" Yu Zhu asked puzzledly.

"If you are discovered by Tatar soldiers while walking by water, the width of the river is within the range of an arrow. The Tatar soldiers are condescending and are shooting arrows into the river. How can you resist them? You can't escape as fast as a horse..." After hearing Ouyang Xuan's words, Yu Zhu broke into a cold sweat.

As soon as he carried it, he hurriedly asked everyone to take a small road and hide the boat in a secret place in the reed swamp. Ouyang Xuan's words were not without reason. He remembered that there was a record in the history book that the Mongolian Army Supervisor Marshal

When Niulin invaded Sichuan, because the naval force was not as powerful as the Song army, he sent cavalry to ambush at strategic points on both sides of the river, and used bows and arrows and trebuchets to attack the Southern Song navy. This tactic was used many times, and was even used in the Battle of Mahujiang.
Chapter completed!