Chapter 332 Qi Yanzhou Leads Troops to Support Linzhou City
Before Ye Chutang left Renxin Medical Clinic, he looked at Xia Chuanbai.
"Uncle Xia, my maid knows some medical knowledge and will come to the clinic to help you later."
The person she was talking about was Shan'er.
Shan'er had followed Ah Man around to provide free medical treatments before, and he knew all the herbs, so there was no problem for him to be a medicine boy.
Xia Chuanbai didn't want to trouble others, so he quickly refused.
"Mrs. Qi, I can do it myself, I don't need anyone's help."
"Yes, after I left, Shan'er would be free. Let her come and learn more about medicine from you. Is that okay?"
Ye Chutang used the excuse of studying medicine, and Xia Chuanbai couldn't refuse.
He smiled and said, "Of course, I will teach that girl named Shan'er as long as she is willing to learn."
"Thank you for your help, Uncle Xia."
After Ye Chutang finished speaking, he and Xia Shu went to Yinghua College to take over.
There were few pedestrians along the way.
In order to mobilize as many people as possible to shovel snow on the road, Qi Yanzhou offered a wage of thirty cents a day.
All the people who were able to work went there.
Came to Ying Wah College.
The little girls were a little unhappy when they learned that they would have to temporarily change their teacher for a period of time.
Xia Shu used to practice medicine outside, and it was common for her to treat children.
So she is very good at coaxing children.
It wasn't long before the children accepted her as their temporary teacher.
Ye Chutang was relieved and gave instructions with a smile.
"You must be good and learn medicine from Master Xia. When the teacher comes back, he will test you."
"Yes, Master Ye."
Because she had classes in the afternoon, Xia Shu stayed in the academy.
After leaving the academy, Ye Chutang went to the warehouse in the western suburbs.
The warehouse was filled with food and winter clothes ready to be sold to Chen Kui.
She did not alarm the people guarding the warehouse, she sneaked into the warehouse underground, and put everything inside into the space.
Then appeared at the front door.
The man guarding the warehouse recognized Ye Chutang and immediately saluted her.
"Your subordinate greets the Madam!"
"I've already taken everything out of this warehouse. You don't need to watch over it anymore. Go help shovel the snow."
"Yes, ma'am."
When Ye Chutang returned to the Qi family, Qi Yanzhou was not there.
He hadn't been home since last night, apparently busy clearing the road.
Qingping saw Ye Chutang coming back and brought him a letter.
"Madam, this is the letter the master just sent to you."
Ye Chutang took the letter and opened it.
"Atang, the road to Linzhou City is already open for 200 miles, and 300 miles can be opened before dark. If you are ready, you can set off."
After reading it, she smiled and said, "Sure enough, the power of money is infinite."
She went to see An An and Le Le, then set off on horseback.
The first fifty miles had been paved into a road, with the people holding shovels and sweating profusely.
The remaining hundred miles were only wide enough for one person and one horse to pass through, and no one was seen.
At the end of the road, the National Protection Army was shoveling snow.
Qi Yanzhou didn't expect Ye Chutang to ride the horse so fast. It took her just over two hours to travel more than two hundred miles.
Looking at Ye Chutang's eyes that turned red due to the cold wind, he felt distressed.
"Atang, thank you for your hard work."
Ye Chutang was dressed warmly and wore airtight animal leather gloves, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed.
She wasn't cold at all, but it was all white, which was quite irritating to her eyes.
In addition, the wind was very cold and the air was a bit dry.
She blinked to ease the discomfort in her eyes.
"I'm fine. You've been busy all day and all night, and you've worked even harder. Have you eaten?"
Qi Yanzhou nodded, "Everyone brought water and dry food, and they have eaten."
After saying that, he looked in the direction of Linzhou City.
"I sent letters to all the counties and towns with a Saker Falcon, offering a wage of 30 wen a day, and asked the government to help the people shovel snow to clear the roads. If everyone works together, the efficiency will be higher."
In this way, every county and town can clear a section of road.
He only needs to connect the various sections, which saves a lot of time.
Ye Chutang rubbed his eyes and asked, "Before midnight, this road should be able to reach the border of Linzhou City, right?"
"Yes, there are still more than 500 miles left. Can the 'Ghost Thief' transport the food to Linzhou City?"
Ye Chutang nodded affirmatively, "Yes."
"Atang, it's still early, you should find a place with thick snow to avoid the wind."
Ye Chutang nodded, "Don't worry about me, go and get busy."
As the sky grew darker, the National Protection Army was so tired that they could hardly swing their shovels.
Everyone held their breath and persevered.
Ye Chutang took out some spiritual spring water, some hot food, and strong liquor from the space.
"Everyone has worked hard. Eat something first and rest for a while before continuing."
The National Protection Army was tired and hungry, and had no resistance to the steaming hot food.
"Thank you ma'am."
Knowing that time was running out, everyone wolfed down their meal and continued shoveling snow.
The spiritual spring water can replenish physical strength. Ye Chutang can feel that the speed at which the National Protection Army swings their shovels has increased significantly.
Just after the hour of Hai, the road reached the territory of Linzhou City.
Ye Chutang said to Qi Yanzhou: "Azhou, take everyone to get out of here."
"good."
Qi Yanzhou led the National Protection Army and walked back nearly a hundred meters.
After Ye Chutang made sure that no one was around, he used his earth-related ability to remove the outer packaging of the ten boxes.
The compressed biscuits were delivered to the Chen family’s backyard.
Also included is a diagram of the deployment of troops drawn by Sun Chu, as well as instructions for eating compressed biscuits.
The reason why she didn't send food and fodder over was because there was too much food and fodder to feed 50,000 people, and the merit points were not enough.
After finishing his work, Ye Chutang turned around and went to find Qi Yanzhou.
"The food and battle formations have been delivered to the Chen family, solving General Chen's urgent needs."
When Chen Ruoyun heard this, she felt relieved.
She bowed deeply to Ye Chutang.
"Thank you Madam Qi. Once we defeat the barbarians, the Chen army will be at the disposal of Master Qi."
Qi Yanzhou nodded and said, "The sudden invasion of the barbarians is probably not just caused by the leak of the news that the Chen family army is short of food. There may also be the handiwork of other countries. This may be a tough battle."
Although the barbarians are fierce, their army is not large due to the harsh environment in the north, the vast land and the sparse population.
The total number is about 300,000.
This time, they sent 100,000 troops to attack Linzhou City, and they seemed determined to win.
He guessed that the barbarians had prepared another 50,000 reinforcements.
If other countries come to help, the number of reinforcements must at least double.
Ye Chutang didn't know much about marching and fighting.
After listening to Qi Yanzhou's words, she asked, "If the neighboring countries really unite, how many enemies will we have to deal with this time?"
Qi Yanzhou thought for a long time before speaking.
"Beichen has four neighboring countries. Apart from the Beiman who is unable to take care of itself, there are Xiyi, Dongsang and Nanling..."
The Western Barbarians and the Northern Barbarians are what people often call barbarians.
Due to the harsh environment and lack of supplies, these two countries often harassed the border of Beichen State and robbed food and cities.
Dongsang is overseas.
They are best at naval warfare and usually only plunder ships and never go ashore.
Nanling is located south of southern Xinjiang.
Although its area is much smaller than that of Beichen Kingdom, it is rich and has great ambitions.
When they conquered Southern Xinjiang and wanted to annex Beichen Kingdom, their plan was ruined by Qi Yanzhou.
The northern barbarians hated the Qi family army, and the people of Nanling hated Qi Yanzhou.
If Xiyi is willing to take the lead in attacking Beichen Kingdom, Nanling will definitely get involved and send at least 100,000 troops.
If Dongsang is also persuaded, another 50,000 troops will be needed.
The Chen family army had 200,000 soldiers, and they must have suffered a lot of casualties in these ten days.
Even if Qi Yanzhou brought reinforcements, there would only be about 200,000 of them.
A battle between 200,000 and 250,000 might give them a chance of winning, but a battle between 300,000 and that's a bit risky.
After listening to Qi Yanzhou's analysis, everyone frowned.
Sun Chu kicked the thick snow pile beside him and said, "The heavy snow has blocked the road. It's too late to find reinforcements. We can only fight hard."
After that, he asked in confusion: "If it is really a three-nation alliance, why don't they attack together?"
If they had acted together, Linzhou City would have been breached long ago.
Qi Yanzhou spat out two words, "Lure the enemy."
And this enemy refers to him!
If the enemy had attacked Linzhou City with an army of 200,000 or 300,000 at the beginning, there would be no reinforcements to help Chen Kui.
A hundred thousand strong soldiers are equally matched with two hundred thousand weak soldiers.
Only in this way can we lure troops from surrounding states and counties to come to our support.
As he has been through many battles, he will definitely go with the reinforcements.
After Sun Chu understood the enemy's intention, he thought of another reason.
"The ice and snow have not yet melted, and the roads leading to the outside of Linzhou City are all blocked. Even if the enemy army takes Linzhou City, they cannot march south in one go and attack the capital of Beichen Kingdom."
With this reason in mind, there was naturally no need for Xiyi to reveal his trump card.
Qi Yanzhou nodded in agreement, "Indeed, so we are likely to be in danger when we go to support Chen's army this time."
"How about transferring all the troops stationed in Tianshan County?"
There are a total of 60,000 troops stationed there. If we all go to support Linzhou City, our chances of winning will be greater.
Qi Yanzhou objected, "No, the role of the garrison is to protect and deter local people, we can't all move them away."
If the enemy has already infiltrated, the consequences will be disastrous.
Transferring 20,000 is already the limit.
Sun Chu also knew that his proposal was not feasible, so he did not insist.
"I'll study the formation again."
If you can't attack by force, then use your wits!
When Qi Yanzhou, Sun Chu and Chen Ruoyun were discussing how to deal with the enemy, Chen Kui's housekeeper discovered a pile of neatly arranged large boxes that appeared out of nowhere in the backyard.
There were some evergreen shrubs planted in the backyard, but now they are propped up by boxes and their roots are broken.
The bushes lay in a disorderly manner on the box covered with dirt.
Qi Yanzhou had previously asked Hai Dongqing to deliver a letter to Chen Kui, writing that the "ghost thief" would deliver some emergency food to the Chen family's backyard on his behalf.
Chen Kui wanted to lead the troops and could not stay at the Chen family waiting for food and grass, so he told the housekeeper about it.
Although the butler had heard of many miraculous deeds of the "ghost thief".
But he did not believe that there was any power comparable to that of ghosts and gods in this world, and thought that the rumors were exaggerated.
Therefore, although he heard Chen Kui's words, he did not take them to heart.
So much so that when he saw the yard full of wooden boxes, he hadn't reacted yet.
"What's up with these boxes?"
The butler muttered something in confusion and came to the box.
Just as he was about to open it and take a look, he found three letters on the box.
One of them was a battle formation diagram drawn by Sun Chu.
One letter was written by Ye Chutang, explaining how to eat compressed biscuits.
One is a letter from Chen Ruoyun to Chen Kui.
The housekeeper recognized Chen Ruoyun's handwriting and immediately guessed that the boxes contained food and fodder.
"Why did the 'Ghost Thief' only send such a small amount of food and fodder? It's not enough to support the soldiers, let alone everyone in the Chen Mansion!"
But something is better than nothing.
"Perhaps the 'Ghost Thief' will send more food and fodder over later. I will send these to the general first."
After comforting himself, the butler immediately asked someone to lift the box onto the cart.
Chen Kui had been forced by the Western Barbarians to retreat to Linzhou City.
He was supervising his troops on the city wall to prevent the barbarians from launching a night attack.
It was almost midnight and Linzhou City was silent.
The sound of the wheels rolling on the ground was particularly clear.
Chen Kui said to his confidant beside him: "Go and see what's going on."
He guessed that food and supplies had been delivered.
But he didn't say it explicitly, for fear that he might have guessed wrong and left everyone happy for nothing.
"Yes, General."
As soon as the confidant left, Chen Kui's stomach made a "gurgling" sound of protest.
Like the common people and soldiers, he had not had a full meal for several days.
"I hope it's food and fodder, otherwise Linzhou City will be undefendable."
As soon as he finished speaking in his mind, his confidant ran over in a hurry with a happy look on his face.
"General, it's food!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the joy on his face faded.
"It's a pity that there are only eight boxes, which can't solve the urgent need of Linzhou City."
Chen Kui thought he had heard wrongly and frowned.
"Eight boxes? Why would food and fodder be packed in boxes?"
"I didn't know that the butler sent eight large wooden boxes."
As soon as he finished speaking, the butler climbed up to the city wall.
"General, I have brought all the food and fodder that appeared in the backyard. Here are the letters attached to the box. One of them is written by the young lady."
As he spoke, he presented three letters to Chen Kui.
Chen Kui took it immediately and opened the letter written by Chen Ruoyun first.
The letters were full of words of concern and comfort.
At the end of the letter, he wrote the information he cared about most.
Thirty thousand reinforcements will arrive in Linzhou City with more food and supplies to jointly resist foreign enemies.
"Just hold on for three more days."
After Chen Kui finished speaking, he looked at the eight wooden boxes under the city wall and sighed heavily.
With such little food, it would be hard to last even one day, let alone three days.
Although the food was much less than he expected, he knew that Qi Yanzhou had done his best.
Thinking of this, he quickly read the other two letters.
Chen Kui first looked at Sun Chu's deployment of troops and was surprised and excited.
"That's amazing! With these good strategies to defend against the enemy, the Chen army will surely defeat the enemy..."
He couldn't finish the rest of the sentence.
Without food, no matter how good the military strategy is, it will be useless.
He opened the letter written by Ye Chutang and cried for joy when he saw that the wooden box contained a piece of coarse bread that was equivalent to ten bowls of rice, which was "compressed food".
"No wonder there are only eight wooden boxes, that's enough!"
Before he finished speaking, he rushed down the city wall and opened the box.
Chen Kui looked at the neatly arranged compressed biscuits in the box and picked up one.
A piece of cake is not even as big as a palm.
He had no doubt that a piece of coarse bread was not worth ten bowls of rice, because Qi Yanzhou would not lie to him about food and fodder.
Chen Kui followed the instructions written by Ye Chutang, took a small bite of the biscuit, and drank a lot of water.
Soon, the feeling of fullness came.
He rubbed his belly and a look of joy appeared on his face.
"I never thought there would be such a magical food in this world! With this, plus the battle formation diagram, the Chen family army will definitely be able to hold out against the enemy for three days and wait for reinforcements and food!"
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