eurekapd Chapter 814 What to do if there is no food
Chapter 814 What to do if there is no food
"In that case, it's decided."
Zhang Renyuan spoke and made the final decision.
Li Xiaoyi only has a total of 100,000 troops. Even if he recruits soldiers temporarily, it is impossible for the number to exceed 150,000. Moreover, the soldiers recruited temporarily are all green hands who will only be chopped down on the battlefield. Therefore, there is no need to worry.
Two hundred thousand versus one hundred thousand, if it's just a standoff, Zhang Renyuan has the advantage.
Li Kaigu did what he said and took the Left and Right Yuqian Guards, a total of 95,000 troops, and the Left Wei Guards and Left Longwu Guards respectively, and marched straight to Yuzhou.
He wanted to enter Tingzhou through Yuzhou, intimidate Jianzhou, Fuzhou, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, and use an army of 100,000 to force Wu Sansi to change his strategy and mobilize troops to resist his attack.
The disadvantages of having few soldiers and a vast territory were immediately exposed.
Even if Wu Sansi became emperor, he would find it difficult to resist this predicament.
What's more, he had not had time to recruit soldiers, and the original garrison and the current garrison in various states and counties added up to less than 230,000.
They are too scattered, and it is very easy to defeat them one by one.
Wu Sansi didn't know what kind of situation he was facing and was still discussing borrowing grain with Lin Yongzhong.
When General Li Xiaoyi led his troops into Xuanzhou, he only brought enough food and fodder to last for one month.
Even though they later captured Xuanzhou and obtained supplies at the Xuanzhou Governor's Mansion, war is a test of national strength. The food and grass of the mere 19 states of Jiangdong plus Xuan and Rao states were not enough to fight a protracted war.
Because of this matter, Wu Sansi didn't get a good night's sleep for a long time.
He himself was just an average person, or to put it bluntly, he was not much better than a fool. After becoming emperor, he realized his shortcomings in this regard, so he wanted Lin Yongzhong to plan something for him.
Lin Yongzhong is not a god who has descended from heaven. He cannot produce food and fodder no matter how hard he tries. Jiangnan is a land of fish and rice, and there are many edible things. However, he cannot say it directly. He does not want to help Wu Sansi, that idiot, in disguise.
Seeing that Lin Yongzhong fell silent again after talking for a while, Wu Sansi became anxious.
"Yongzhong, Yongzhong, please say something!"
"Our food supplies won't last very long. You have to think of a way for me, right? Think carefully about whether we can get some more food supplies from those aristocratic families."
Lin Yongzhong looked at Wu Sansi helplessly.
Get food and supplies from the aristocratic families?
But Wu Sansi could still say such words.
Is that for food supplies?
That would mean the lives of these wealthy and powerful families!
Why were these aristocratic families willing to help Wu Sansi rebel? Did they really think that Wu Sansi was so capable and had the potential to be an emperor?
fart!
That’s because Emperor Taizong, Emperor Gaozong and the current Majesty have such bad attitudes towards the aristocratic families!
For their own interests, these people supported Wu Sansi to become emperor and became his ministers.
If Wu Sansi really asked these people for food and supplies several times, Lin Yongzhong could be absolutely sure that these aristocratic families would never give Wu Sansi a penny.
"What's the matter, Yongzhong? Even a man of your wisdom and strategy can't get more food and grass?"
Wu Sansi was extremely sad.
If even Lin Yongzhong can't do anything, what else can he do?
Among all the civil and military officials in the court, there could be no one more intelligent than Lin Yongzhong.
Those people could not think of a way to help him solve the current problem.
After a long while, Lin Yongzhong sighed.
"Your Majesty, if you want to obtain food and fodder from the noble families again, I'm afraid it's absolutely impossible."
"But if Your Majesty is determined to obtain food and fodder, and spare no expense, then I do have some options for Your Majesty to choose from."
Wu Sansi was puzzled: "Prime Minister, what is the plan?"
"Your Majesty, please choose. The first is that Your Majesty was assassinated, the second is that you had an affair with the King of Qin, and the third is that you violated the law."
"Prime Minister, which of these three strategies do you think is most desirable?"
"Of course, His Majesty was assassinated." Lin Yongzhong said.
Wu Sansi paced around the palace with his hands behind his back.
After a long while, he made up his mind.
"Only children make choices. I, Wu Sansi, want all three!"
……
The next afternoon, Wu Sansi chose to travel.
He toured around his imperial capital, Shanyin County.
But he had not gone far, only two miles out of the palace, when the carriage suddenly fell apart. Dozens of well-trained assassins rushed out from the houses on all sides, shouting and yelling at Wu Sansi and his guards.
"Eliminate the traitors!"
"Kill the false emperor!"
"Restore the mountains and rivers of the Great Zhou!"
"Kill the false emperor!"
Wu Sansi was horrified, and the imperial guards stepped forward to resist these well-trained killers.
The battle was about to break out, and the bodies of the Royal Guards and assassins fell one after another.
Wu Sansi, who was hiding behind, didn't feel sorry at all, but just looked around cautiously.
Soon, another group of people rushed out from the roadside teahouse. Their target was more obvious, and they rushed towards Wu Sansi's hiding place.
The Royal Guards divided half of their soldiers to resist these aggressive killers.
The battle became fierce, but Wu Sansi's reinforcements did not arrive.
At this moment, a group of people suddenly rushed out, and the leader was Lu Yi, the third son of the Jiangdong Lu family.
Lu Yi led his servants to rush towards the front battlefield between the Imperial Guards and the assassins. Before he could shout a slogan, he was shot dead by the Imperial Guards.
The servants who came with Lu Yi were furious when they saw their master being stabbed to death on the ground.
At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded:
"Brothers, kill the tyrant!"
"My Jiangdong Lu family has been blessed by the emperor for generations. How could we be willing to become such a traitor?"
"The young master has already sacrificed his life for his country, so we should also be prepared to die!"
"kill!!"
Wu Sansi, who was protected, showed an imperceptible smile.
Lu Yi's death was such a coincidence. He should have been pushed to the point of a gun by the hidden man planted by Lin Yongzhong, but he was stabbed to death by the Royal Guards soldiers at the first sight.
No matter what the other members of the Lu family think of him as the emperor.
Just today, Lu Yi died on the way to "assassinate" him. Those people in the Lu family have to give him money and food obediently, otherwise they will be regarded as traitors.
These people from the Lu family stabbed the Imperial Guards, but in the end not only did they not cause any casualties, but only the last person was killed.
The man looked at the corpses around him, finally swallowed his saliva, and put down the knife.
"Don't kill me, don't kill me, I surrender."
A guard glared at him and shouted:
"Lie down on the ground and don't get up, or I'll stab you to death!"
This young man, who looked not very old, lay on the ground obediently.
The Imperial Guards continued to deal with other killers, and the young man was naturally escorted by the two Imperial Guards at the back and brought to Wu Sansi.
Wu Sansi looked at this hidden chess piece and sighed in his heart.
This man had followed him for six years. Back then, he had spotted the young man, who was still a child, at first sight among the beggars' den, and had then taken him by his side.
But he never expected that six years later, this person would be willing to pay the price of his life for his great cause.