Chapter 98: Pretending to be Poor
As the sun is at noon, the battle to attack Yizhou has been completely over, and the cleaning of the battlefield is coming to an end.
Under the sudden and fierce attack of the coalition forces, all the Jin troops in the city were destroyed, and the last stronghold, the government office, turned into ashes in the sky-storming fire.
Pusan Sahe died of self-immolation. As a Jurchen, he was considered loyal to the Jin Kingdom. The city was broken so suddenly and defeated so quickly that almost all the orders he issued in the government office were not implemented, and even did not pass it at all.
Most of the government offices were burned down, but the warehouses in the city were basically preserved. All the food, equipment and money fell into the hands of the coalition forces, which was a great harvest.
The specific number needs to be counted, but you can already see the approximate number from the treasury's account book.
Meng Jiucheng was happy, Peng Yibin was happy, only Liu Yingying realized her hastyness and regretted it. Cheng Fu also looked embarrassed and complained in his heart, feeling that the price was a little too high, and it was difficult for Liu Erzu to explain.
When the materials were counted, Meng Jiucheng and Peng Yibin began to divide the spoils, and Liu Yingying couldn't sit still. After thinking about it, she was really worried that her father would be blamed, so she had to come to Meng Jiucheng again.
"Haha. General Liu is good at magic!" Meng Jiucheng smiled strangely and welcomed Liu Yingying, who was resuming women's clothing, into the house.
Liu Yingying entered the house, a little embarrassed, and was uncomfortable sitting in the chair. After a while, she said, "Gen. Meng, forgive me. My family, Liu Yingying, is the daughter of General Liu. It was against the principle of "meeting with sincerity" before, so-"
"This is good, this is great." Meng Jiucheng poured Liu Yingying a cup of tea, turned back to the table, sat down, and looked at it carefully.
Her skin is very white, her pair of black eyes, and the girl of fifteen or sixteen shows a unique beauty, like a blooming flower.
Liu Yingying was a little annoyed by seeing it, but when she came to ask for it, she had to suppress her emotions and tried to look gentle, and said slowly: "General Meng, this is really hard to say. It's all because I was young and did not know anything about affairs and made a decision. Without my father's consent, I had to use seized materials to exchange for Qianli Miles and the stone throwing machine. Now when I think about it, I am afraid that my father will punish me. You don't know that my father is very strict with his children."
Little girl, pretending to be pitiful here! Meng Jiucheng looked at Liu Yingying's intentional appearance and wanted to laugh very much. He rubbed his nose and held back.
"General Meng——" Liu Yingying looked up at Meng Jiucheng and continued to beg in a low voice: "Look, can we discuss it again? If this result is the result, I will not even dare to go back to my family, which is really difficult!"
Meng Jiucheng laughed and joked, "It would be easier if he didn't dare to go home. Go to the territory of a certain family to play for a while and wait until General Liu's anger is gone before going back!"
Liu Yingying was very playful, but this was not a solution to the problem after all. She curled her lips and looked at Meng Jiucheng pitifully.
Meng Jiucheng scratched his head, thought for a while, pretended to be helpless and smiled bitterly, and said, "Since Mrs. Liu is so embarrassed, Meng can divide the materials originally intended to be given to General Liu into two, and our army has only one. Mrs. Liu, what do you think?"
Liu Yingying's eyes lit up, she nodded quickly, stood up to salute again, and thanked her happily: "Thank you General Meng for your understanding, and thank you for your fulfillment."
Meng Jiucheng stretched out his hand to help him and smiled, "Meng has fulfilled his wife, and the girl also needs to help her. How about it?"
"How to help?" Liu Yingying asked, with a look of suspicion and vigilance on her face.
Meng Jiucheng made a gesture, signaled Liu Yingying to sit down, and said slowly: "I want to ask General Liu to send troops. The two families will continue to fight together to attack the prefectures and counties occupied by the Jin army..."
After the Jin Dynasty moved south, the strategic focus shifted. Shandong and Hebei could no longer send too many troops, so they could only draw troops from various places to suppress the Red Coat Army, which was a pieced together army.
For example, Yizhou defended the family Pusanliu family, Suzhou controlled Guarja Sierge, Xuzhou controlled Heshilie Huanduan, etc., were all ordered to lead troops to obey Pusan'anzhen's orders and attack Yang Aner in the north.
In other words, the Jin army in many prefectures and counties now has very few troops, and can only barely protect the city and town, and cannot take the initiative to attack.
Therefore, Meng Jiucheng felt that taking this opportunity to gather the Jin army in several places would not only weaken the overall strength of the Jin army, but also expand the space for strategic activities, and obtain seized materials. This would be a great opportunity. When the main force of the Jin army freed up his hands to attack, there would be no such good opportunity.
Of course, what Meng Jiucheng wanted to capture most was Haizhou. Once it was taken down, it would basically remove the threat from the south. According to the current military strength, if we wanted to scare the enemy in Haizhou, we still needed more than 3,000 troops to help. There was nearly 20,000 troops, which was enough to prevent the Jin army from going to fight. The result of defending the city to death was to defend the death.
Liu Yingying seemed to understand and nodded repeatedly, but after learning from the lesson, the girl became more cautious and did not dare to make arbitrary claims again. After all, whether to send troops or not is related to interests, it still needs to be negotiated and confirmed.
"Have General Meng told Ambassador Cheng?" Liu Yingying first asked, and then explained to herself: "I am indecisive, but my father will not listen to me if I send troops to fight such a major event."
"Of course I have to say it to Ambassador Cheng." Meng Jiucheng smiled faintly and said, "There is General Peng, and Miss Liu will help you. Meng feels that it is not a big problem."
Liu Yingying understood why Meng Jiucheng was so easy to talk to. With the seized materials, my father would probably be very moved. Not to mention Peng Yibin, the loss in this battle was not great, but the gains were extremely abundant.
"Then I will go back, present the list of supplies to my father, and then state the benefits of sending troops to help the war." Liu Yingying hurriedly expressed her intentions in showing her concern for the matter and her generosity for Meng Jiucheng.
Meng Jiucheng smiled and waved his hand, saying, "Let the list be made, and when someone discusses with Ambassador Cheng, it will not be too late for Miss Liu to leave tomorrow with her letter and list."
After the matter was settled, Liu Yingying said goodbye and left. She fought back half of the supplies, and there was a Qianli Mile Mile and a stone thrower. The girl thought it was very good. Even if her father was responsible, it would not be very serious.
After seeing off Liu Yingying, Meng Jiucheng went to discuss with Peng Yibin and Cheng Fu to determine whether to continue to attack and expand the territory or to stop the battle.
As Meng Jiucheng expected, the result of easily defeating Yizhou made Peng and Cheng very shocked, but also very excited.
Chapter completed!