Before Wang Pu could speak, the vulgar man had already bowed to Wang Pu and fell to the ground, singing: "Huang Xiyong, the Promoter of Jining Mansion, met the general."

Wang Pu frowned and asked, "Are you really the Promoter of Jining Mansion?"

Huang Xiyong said respectfully: "It's true."

"Why do you look like this?"

"The officials are forced to do so. Three days ago, the Bailian bandits captured Jining. The officials of the Hefu died and fled. The villain hid in the toilet in the backyard of the government office and escaped by chance. Later, he put on makeup and became a refugee and mingled out of the city. Fortunately, he met General Wang's official army here. Otherwise, he really didn't know when he could survive, alas."

"What did you say?" Wang Pu's face changed and he asked, "Half-loan bandits have captured Jining?"

"No?"

"Can this group of mobs conquer Jining?"

Huang Degong and Li Zushu, who were standing beside Wang Pu, also changed their faces. The Grand Canal that runs through the north and south capitals passes through Jining. If Jining is captured by bandits, the entire Beijing-Hangzhou Canal will be cut off in half. If this nail is not pulled out, Wang Pu cannot reach the capital by water, and the grain from the south will not be transported north!

If this news reaches the capital, the entire Beijing city will be in trouble?

Huang Xiyong said: "The three generals don't know that the White Lotus Sect in Shandong has already joined the bandits in Henan. The thieves have also sent an elite soldier to Shandong. The White Lotus Sect has become a climate!"

"The thieves sent elite soldiers to come?" Li Zushu nodded, "No wonder, the thieves are no longer as good as before. The thieves used to be just a group of thieves, and they can't do anything. But since last year, the thieves have recruited a group of capable people, and their strategies have changed. They no longer kill and rob and run around like before."

Chang Yanling asked Wang Pu: "General, if Jining is really lost, the waterway will not be accessible. Otherwise, we will go ashore here and detour to Qingzhou to the capital?"

Nanjing Governor Huang Degong suddenly said, "General, I don't know if I should say it?"

Wang Pu said: "Say."

Huang Degong said: "If Jining City cannot be taken back, the canal will be cut off, and the grain from the south will not be able to transport it to the north. In recent years, the north has been drought year after year. The capital, the tens of millions of people and soldiers from the nine sides are all pointing to the grain from the south to survive. If the grain cannot be transported up, the consequences will be unimaginable!"

Wang Pu nodded in his heart. The Huangdiyi had this insight, which was enough to prove that this person was not a martial artist.

Huang Degong continued: "Also, I thought that now is the best time to recover Jining, because the bandits have just captured Jining and have not yet established a stable foothold. If the court sends everyone to fight for the expedition in a few months, the bandits have already gained a firm foothold in Jining, and it will take a lot of trouble."

Wang Pu thought for a while and asked Huang Xiyong: "Mr. Huang, how many bandits are there in Jining City?"

Huang Xiyong said: "There are at least tens of thousands of White Lotus Cultists attacking Jining."

"Ten thousand people?"

Wang Pu couldn't help but hesitate.

Standing behind Wang Pu and having not spoken much, Zhen Youcai suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Most of the bandits rebelled were to support the elderly and the young. Among the tens of thousands of bandits, only three or five thousand people could truly have the power to fight. If the general could recover Jining in one fell swoop and clear the Cao Road, this would be another great achievement."

Wang Pu felt a little moved when he heard this. If he could make another great contribution on the way to Beijing, why not do it?

Wang Pu's eyes fell on Huang Degong and asked in a deep voice: "General Huang Gan, how sure are you to recover Jining?"

Huang Degong said happily: "General, are you really planning to retake Jining?"

Wang Pu said with a sigh: "Eat the king's fortune and be loyal to the king's affairs. The bandits captured Jining and blocked the grain transportation. The people and soldiers on the nine sides of the capital were worried about food being cut off. How could this general stand by and watch?"

Huang Degong bowed with his fist and said solemnly: "Even if the White Lotus bandits have tens of thousands of soldiers, the last general only needs three thousand elite soldiers in the headquarters, which is enough to recover Jining!"

Wang Pu said in a deep voice: "There is no joke in the army."

Huang Degong replied: "I am willing to issue a military order!"

"Okay." Wang Pu waved his hand and said to Zhen Youcai, "Youcai, come and get the map."

Zhen Youcai took two steps forward, took out the map from his arms and spread it on the deck, and everyone surrounded him. Huang Xiyong reached out and pointed on the map, and said to everyone: "Please look at the generals. This is where we are now. Three miles north is Luqiao Town, and fifty miles north is Jining City."

Huang Degong said: "It is only fifty miles from Jining here, and you can arrive in two hours of marching!"

Zhen Youcai said: "The key to the problem is whether the bandits in Jining City know that we have arrived in Luqiao Town?"

Wang Pu asked, "What do you think is talented?"

Zhen Youcai said: "It is impossible for these refugees to have no spies from the bandits. The villain thought the bandits would soon know the news, and then put their pockets in Jining waiting for us to come to our door."

Huang Degong said: "Even if the bandits set up a net of heaven and earth, the last general can stab him into a sieve!"

Wang Pu nodded and said, "It is a good thing for General Huang Shen to have confidence, but we don't know the details of the bandits yet. We can't do this battle recklessly, we have to think of a complete solution."

Zhen Youcai's eyes rolled and said, "General, the villain has a plan."

Wang Puxi said: "What strategy?"

Wang Pu is really admiring Zhen Youcai more and more now. This time, Wang Pu and his more than 200 servants under him were able to return to the Ming Dynasty alive and collect huge amounts of wealth from North Korea. Zhen Youcai should remember his first contribution!

Zhen Youcai said: "Turn the snake out of the hole!"

"Turn the snake out of the hole?" Huang Degong nodded, "If you don't have to attack the toughest, you can annihilate the bandits in the field, that's the best. I'm afraid that the bandits in Jining City will not come out easily."

Zhen Youcai smiled and said, "It depends on whether the bait we put on is tempting enough."

Li Zushu was impatient and shouted, "Mr. Zhen, don't keep it a secret. If you have something to say, you're so anxious."

Zhen Youcai said, "The whole plan of the villain is like this. Tonight, a large group of troops will be stationed in Luqiao Town. After tomorrow dawn, the troops will be divided into three groups. General Chang and General Li led the two thousand Jinyiwei to take the prison car and silver cart to the land, and set off to detour Qingzhou Prefecture to go to the capital. General Huang led two thousand elite soldiers to find a secret place in Luqiao Town to lurk. The general led the remaining more than a thousand elite soldiers to turn south on a boat, so as to confuse the bandits in Jining City, making them think that General Huang's three thousand elite soldiers had returned south."

"Good plan!" Huang Degong sighed, "In this way, the bandits in Jining City can't even think of a hole, unless they are indifferent to the large amount of gold, silver and jewelry carried by the general! If the bandits really dare to go out of the city to rob, they will be ambushed by our army and attacked from the front and back, hahaha."

Chang Yanling said: "But, isn't it too risky to really take Jiannu prisoners and silver carts to the land?"

"Of course this is just a trick." Zhen Youcai smiled, "In fact, there is no need to take the real Jiannu captives and silver carts to the land to take risks. Anyway, the bandits do not know the slave chiefs, so just get a soldier in the prison cart to pretend to be a scheming. As for the silver cart, it is even simpler. You only need to prepare two boxes of gold and silver in advance. Tomorrow, the brothers carrying the box pretend to accidentally knock it over. As for other boxes, just put stones in it."
Chapter completed!