"As far as I know, the batch of grains and grasses in our Dongyun Village were originally transported before nightfall today. They were transported to Yuyang Palace through Water Grain Ferry and Chenshan Village. The slowest arrival to Yuyang Palace is the evening after tomorrow."
Lu Letian calmed down and took a branch to draw pictures on the ground.
At this moment, he felt sad and knew that the best way to avenge those who died in battle was to completely defeat the other party's strategic intentions.
He had an amazing memory, but at this time, he casually drew a marching map.
He drew a circle in two places between Dongyun Village and Yuyang Palace, and said, "Brother Guo, it is too late to raise food and grass elsewhere and send it to Yuyang Palace. We can only try to raise food and grass by ourselves not far from Yuyang Palace. I carefully thought about the arrangement of troops on both sides. Only Anyang Town and Niping Town are suitable. The water networks around Anyang Town are dense, which is not conducive to the battle between the army. Therefore, neither side has deployed before. There are many fertile land and many wealthy households there. There should be surplus grain. Niping Town is a big porcelain burner that makes mud embryos, and many wealthy businessmen. Why don't we do it separately and go to one place?"
Guo Que said, "Most of the wealthy families in Anyang Town are farmers?"
Lu Letian was slightly stunned and said, "It's not all. Some are grain merchants, and there are also some weaving workshops."
Guo Que frowned and said, "Then I feel that there is no need to go to Anyang Town. Everyone knows that there is food in their place. Even if Situ Qingcheng and the others are not careful, the military generals of the Yuyang Palace will send people to us when they know that there is a problem with the transfer of food and grass on our side."
Lu Letian was stunned and subconsciously said, "Yes."
The knowledge on paper is always shallow. At this moment, he realized that when he and his classmates were doing sand table deductions in Chang'an, he seemed to have overlooked a very important point, that is, there are many smart people in the world, not only those who are smart. There are many smart people on his side and the other side's high- to low-level generals, and even ordinary soldiers, who will make a lot of responses based on the situation.
But in the sand table where they talked about war on paper, many smart people turned into a small flag on the sand table, and they would not move.
The small army of hundreds of people on the sand table seems inconspicuous at all, but at this time, dozens of people may play a key role in the real battlefield. To truly plan, you must not only consider the enemy's response, but also consider what other generals on your side can do.
"It's great to go to places where there are many wealthy businessmen. Those rich businessmen in the local area will have private warehouses. On the surface, they can't squeeze out money and grain, but if they beat them dozens of military sticks, they might be able to make a pile of grain. If you beat them halfway, you think you can't squeeze out oil and water. If you really want to kill them, they can still take out a bunch of them for you." Guo Que smiled and said, "But they will have some protections. It may not be possible to go alone. Let's go together to be safer."
Lu Letian looked at Guo Que for a moment.
Guo Que smiled again and said, "You forgot that I have been a military advisor for bandits for several years. I have dealt with such rich businessmen the most."
Lu Letian nodded, looking at the smoke ignited in Dongyun Village, he had the urge to go in and kill a few people before leaving, but thinking that this was meaningless, he still sighed in his heart and said, "Let's go to Nipin Town first, but as you say, I can think of this, maybe Situ Qingcheng and his staff can think of this, so I have to think of some other ways on the way."
“That’s right.”
Seeing that Lu Letian had at least recovered his energy, Guo Que patted his butt and stood up. Lu Letian also knew what he meant. The two of them saw the direction and said while walking.
The two have this kind of friendship on the battlefield of life and death, and they have no scruples when talking.
Lu Letian asked a few questions about the content of the teaching of Mingyuexing Pavilion, but then sighed that he was really not down-to-earth compared to Gu Shiwu. The great principles he told in all the academic halls and almost all the teachers in Chang'an City could certainly make the young scholars excited, but they were not as useful as the ones in Mingyuexing Pavilion.
You go out to fight not to die, but remember that your intention to fight is to make contributions.
Remember your true hearts at that time.
It is better to make great achievements than to make small achievements.
Make great achievements, make extraordinary achievements, and make more achievements.
The more you make meritoriously, the more you will benefit from when you come back.
This truth is true and can be remembered by these people.
Lu Letian sighed for a while, and couldn't help but ask Guo Que, "Brother Guo, what was your original intention of making contributions?"
Guo Que said naturally, "I will glorify my ancestors and sleep peacefully."
"Sleep peacefully?" The four words "Guangzong Yaozu" are not difficult to understand, but the four words "Sleep peacefully" are unable to understand Lu Letian.
Guo Que took two licorice, chewed one by himself, and handed it to Lu Letian, and then said, "My teacher specializes in swordsmanship, but because it is indeed the inheritance of the Five Doks of Rice Sect, he dare not show his swordsmanship. He was poor all his life, and even the money he bought the coffin when his parents were buried was borrowed by our brothers. Even so, when he passed away, he told me that in fact he was not stable every day, he would sleep and be afraid that someone would come to kill him, saying that he was a crooked way. He was not lucky and did not meet someone like Gu Daoshou. I was lucky. When I got back to gain fame, I would not have such concerns as him."
Lu Letian remained silent.
Guo Que walked by himself but couldn't help laughing out loud, "There is a man named Huang Zhuoyi, who is three years older than me. He uses a knife. This time he got Gu Daoshou's Four Seasons Classics, and he benefited the most. He also came with the army to gain fame. But this guy gained fame only to marry a woman from their village. Originally, that woman also had a good relationship with him, but he was afraid that his identity would harm others. Now he returned to Wuji Temple and got fame and fortune. Then he would marry that woman and have a glorious life. We will all go to drink his wedding wine at that time."
When Guo Que said to us, he looked at what he said, Lu Letian nodded seriously.
When he looked at the road ahead again, his state of mind was completely different from before.
In the past, he was determined to compete with Gu Shiwu for a good and bad situation, as if he wanted to prove his excellence.
However, all this seems so naive at this moment.
Those slogans that I want to show off my strength in the prosperous times also seem particularly pale and powerless in the face of what ordinary soldiers said before their death.
It was not only these noble men in the Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty is more about ordinary people who just want to sleep peacefully, marry a woman they like, have a few acres of land, and just want to support their parents in their old age and send them to their death.
However, the more people who are separated from those gorgeous slogans and fight for these things in their hearts prove that they love the Tang Dynasty more with practical actions.
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According to the map in Lu Letian's memory, they probably would have to walk half an hour before they could get transportation tools such as horses or ox carts.
But what they didn't expect was that they soon saw a camp where there were more than a dozen carriages in the camp, like a caravan, but there was no unified sign. Moreover, the camp tents in the camp were messy, and some people even lay directly on the carriage carriages.
At this time, the sky was already bright, but these people seemed to have not woken up completely. Only a few people were walking gently in the camp, and they had not even started to start a fire.
Seeing Lu Letian appear in blood, the group of people were alarmed. Two of them were strong and looked like farm men and came up quickly, rubbing their hands nervously. As soon as they opened their mouths, "Are you soldiers on our side or the opposite?"
When Guo Que heard that these people were all Chang'an accents, he was immediately amused and said deliberately, "Which side of you are from?"
Although the two men saw that Guo Que and Lu Letian were obviously experiencing fierce battles, they were not fierce at all. Especially when Lu Letian was still a gentle scholar, they both breathed a sigh of relief and said, "We are just the ones who sell some things to Duke Pei."
Guo Que smiled and said, "Then we are not from the opposite side, we are from our own."
The group of people suddenly became happy, some shouting to make a fire, and some went to fetch water.
"You guys?" Lu Letian looked at the dazzling array of things on these people's vehicles, and was stunned.
The things on these cars look like vendors who want to go to the market, but now the rebels and Tang troops in Fufeng County have begun to strangle with one another. Where can there be a market in the battle area?
"We are from Lujiazhuang, so we follow the army to do some small business, and we have everything we need to eat and wear." An old man in his fifties looked at Lu Letian, explained a few words quickly, and asked, "I think you are so tired of wearing this piece of clothing. I have some clean clothes that suit your figure in my car. Do you want to buy one?"
Before Lu Letian could speak, Guo Que said, "Yes, please come here."
After saying that, he winked at Lu Le Angel and said softly, "Do some business first, and it's easy to talk about it next."
Lu Letian nodded and said, "I'm not good at dealing with them, just make the decision."
The old man came over with a brand new green cloth dress and said happily, "It's only two hundred copper coins, I haven't made much money."
Lu Letian always thinks that these people are tyrants and fighting for the country. They finally meet their own people and have to count money, but at this time he no longer has this mentality.
He just thought that if he lived a wealthy life on weekdays, he would never go to such a place to do business with the army.
He took out a piece of silver and handed it to Guo Que. Guo Que weighed it and handed it to the old man, and smiled, "Then I'll have to get some hot water to wash and give me some food."
The old man took the broken silver and happily made arrangements.
Guo Que then chatted with the two sturdy farmers, "Can you get the food and grass?"
When I heard that there was business again, a group of people gathered around and said, "As long as the price is right, of course I can do it."
Guo Que said seriously, "But this sound is a bit difficult, and it must be sent to Yuyang Palace the afternoon after tomorrow."
This group of people actually unfolded several maps and surrounded them to see where Yuyang Palace was.
"How much food and grass are needed?" They immediately selected someone to talk to Guo Que.
"The more, the better." Guo Que said, "There are 20 or 30 more carriages like you, all of which can be eaten. But there should be no delay. If you go too late, not only will you not be able to get the money, you may also be snatched away by the people opposite you or burned directly."
A group of people immediately started discussing again.
Guo Que quietly asked Lu Letian, "Do you have silver on you?"
Lu Letian handed his wallet to Guo Que. Guo Que was happy as soon as he weighed it and said softly, "There is a chance."
“There is a deposit.”
Chapter completed!