Chapter 134
"Second brother, do you want the Wang and Xu family to be one?"
After everyone left the lobby, the head of the Wang family rubbed his forehead and asked tiredly:
"You talk first, what do you think the Xu family wants. To be honest."
Wang Ping and Wang An had already discussed this issue privately together. The conclusion they came to was very simple: the Xu family wanted to be a vassal state.
In the Yuan Dynasty of Tatars, such people were called the Marquis of the Han Army; in the Jin Dynasty of the Jurchen, they were the Han Bo Ji Lie.
The Xu family is not much different. The only difference is that seeing Xu Muhe urgently wants to send his favorite son to Jiangnan, the Xu family’s choice is probably to be a pawn of the Great Zhou Dynasty?
Well, according to the Han people, should this be the Jiedushi?
A semi-independent kingdom.
"The Xu family is invincible."
After Wang Ping revealed his guesses, he whispered to summarize:
"In the future, at least our Qingzhou Prefecture will probably be the Xu family's world. Why should our family fight against them? Besides, if our family takes the initiative to invest, the Xu family will have to treat our Wang family well, even if they have a wealthy horse bone in the market."
Old Master Wang sat on the chair, holding his forehead with his hands, thinking quietly.
Wang Ping, Wang An and others surrounded the lower position and waited patiently for the head of the family to make a decision.
They are very confident now. If the old man does not have greater ambitions, he will definitely agree with their proposal.
In fact, when Wang Ping, Wang An, Wang Qi, Wang Wei and others made this decision, there was another important goal that attracted them - if the Xu family really became an independent kingdom, the Wang family who took the initiative to surrender should be considered a young follower, right?
If the Xu family has a prefecture in the future, it should be given a county to the Wang family. If there is a province, it would be unreasonable for the Wang family to have a prefecture.
"You can do the marriage that you mentioned first."
After a while, Mr. Wang made a decision:
"Select a good girl from your family and don't turn your in-laws into enemies. You can ask for a girl from the Xu family, but if they don't agree, don't force her."
"As for Wang and Xu, don't worry now. This time, your brothers sent troops to Wulian Mountain with the Xu family. Watch more and listen less. Then carefully consider whether the Xu family really has such great ambitions. If so, who wants to be the governor."
"After you see it, let's decide what the Wang family should do next."
We? Decide?
Wang Ping tried hard to suppress his ecstasy mood, bent down slightly and said softly: "Yes, don't worry, dad."
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February of the lunar calendar is not a good day for the Han people to send troops, because February 2 is the traditional spring plowing and the day when the farming begins. For the Han people, land and harvest are the most important things.
But the fort owners are very clear that if the threat of refugees from Wulian Mountain is not eliminated, even if the harvest is good this year, there will be no good fruit.
The current situation of the powerful families in Zhucheng is the best reference.
Therefore, this time, the several powerful troops in Rizhao were far more active than before to quell the Japanese riots and jointly suppress the bandits.
Of course, everyone firmly believes that the Xu family, who can annihilate a Tartar Mengan, will definitely destroy the main force of the Wulian Mountain refugee group, which is also an important reason for the active dispatch of troops.
Who doesn’t like the battle that will win?
On February 15th, the coalition forces gathered at the Rizhao Wang family, which was closest to Wulian Mountain.
This time, the Xu family's new army was still dispatched. Moreover, although other fortress owners in the alliance had agreed to bear the new army's food and grass consumption for 20 days, they still brought more than 200 large trucks and more than 1,000 auxiliary soldiers.
In addition to the Xu family, the four Wang, Ding, Bao and Zhang families in the alliance sent 5,000 troops, which is almost equivalent to bringing all the strong men who can be dispatched during the busy farming season.
In addition, the Xin family, Zhucheng, Zhu family and Tao family, which are not part of the Fort Alliance, have also gathered more than 3,000 people to help.
Obviously, these Zhucheng tyrants are hoping to wipe out the refugees in Wulian Mountain and grab some people to return to make up for the losses last year.
In this way, there were 8 powerful troops who actually participated in the Wulian Mountain Battle, a total of more than 12,000 people.
Although it is still very primitive, this is indeed the first time that the Great Zhou court had a Han armed force with more than 10,000 troops appeared in Jiangbei after the Great Zhou Dynasty moved south.
However, Xu Shiyang did not lead this huge army to take Wulian Mountain, but instead set up a joint camp around the entire Wulian Mountain, forming an encirclement of Wulian Mountain first.
Afterwards, he leisurely ordered the new army units to perform martial arts at the foot of Wulian Mountain...
First of all, in order to attract the attention of refugees on the mountain, as if the opening gongs and drums were played, 2,500 new army infantry were fully armed around the entire Wulian Mountains. The soldiers marching neatly while singing high-spirited battle songs.
In just two days, the new army infantry troops circled Wulian Mountain, and almost no one fell behind during this period, showing strong strategic marching capabilities in front of allies at the foot of the mountain and refugees on the mountain.
Afterwards, after only a little rest, the new army carried out various queue conversions that seemed quite complicated to the people of this era: turning left and right continuously, the marching formation quickly changed into an anti-cavalry phalanx, the infantry teams cooperated closely to cover each other's attack, and the officers as the core, which lacked practical significance, and the entire army was neatly rotated.
After the daily training, during supper, Xu Shiyang ordered the logistics troops to line up dozens of large pots and steam dozens of cages of fragrant wild vegetables, pork stuffed buns and steaming sorghum porridge that make people drool.
This is a rare delicacy during the Chinese New Year. Even the people of the fortress who live relatively stable life will be polite, not to mention the refugees on Wulian Mountain who have eaten the first meal but not the next meal.
After dinner was ready, a row of loud auxiliary soldiers, holding a wooden trumpet, shouted loudly at the direction of Wulian Mountain:
"Brothers on the mountain! We are the new army of Juzhou! We are our Han team! We are not Tartar bandits and will not kill people indiscriminately! We also know that you are really unable to survive as refugees and have no choice but to climb the mountain, so Lord Xu specially sent us to invite your brothers to go down the mountain to eat food!"
"Get down quickly! There is nothing to eat on the mountain, what's the point of staying there? After going down the mountain, we will give you some land. As long as we work hard, we will always be full! Work hard for a few years, and maybe we can still marry a wife for your family to leave a family!"
"Brothers, think about it carefully. You have also seen the power of our new army soldiers! Wait a few more days and the soldiers go up the mountain. What are you going to resist? If you can't stop them, don't you still have to go down the mountain? Why don't you go down the mountain now for a good meal! Work hard in the future and we will all live a peaceful life!"
After shouting the above statement, all the blockade forces took a hundred steps back and waited quietly.
There was a dead silence on Wulian Mountain, but Xu Shiyang rode on his horse and could clearly see countless refugees hiding in the deep dense forest and looking at this side curiously.
Most of the strong men were holding simple weapons such as sticks or stones, and they were obviously very alert.
Chapter completed!