Chapter 53: The body can't reach it, the heart yearns for it
Horses are very expensive in the Dajin Dynasty. Although Yulinlang in the Yulinwei was poor, most of them were good families in the capital, and their families were not particularly poor. Even in the Yulinwei, only one or two people could ride horses.
It’s okay to say that the horses for people to ride are the war horses trained to rush on the battlefield. The Zhenbei Army has been in the northern border for decades, and its cavalry has only 5,000, and most of them have been in this war.
The farmer in Yunzhou City became a little richer because he was close to the horse farm, but he only raised about 15,000 cavalrymen. Of course, there were more than so many horses, about 17,800 war horses.
These war horses are all treasures of Yunzhou City. When Zhong Xuantong was in Yunzhou, he was a general and ran to the horse farm of Yunzhou City every few days. He often called himself a groom, and was even more precious to the more than 10,000 cavalry under his command.
Now, as soon as Li Xin spoke, he would unify all the more than 10,000 war horses.
"Borrow away" is naturally more presumptuous.
Zhong Wu coughed, lowered his head and smiled bitterly, "The Taifu is the first-class dynasty in the dynasty. In theory, no matter what the Taifu's orders are, the last general should obey it. However, the more than 10,000 war horses in Yunzhou City are the lifelong efforts of my father. Now that my father has returned to Beijing to recuperate, I can't just send all these war horses out by turning around?"
He lowered his head and said, "Why don't you... write a letter to your father?"
Li Xin said, "I didn't say it's just that you have something from your family. I said I'm borrowing it. When my business is done, I will borrow one and return two of you. I have a lot of relationship with the Zong family and will never harm the Zong family."
Zhong Wu frowned deeply.
In fact, his father Zhong Xuantong has basically completely withdrawn from the front line and returned to the capital to retire. He has the final say in the matter in Yunzhou City. He pushed him to his father, which is a tactful rejection.
Even a ninth-rank official in the court could hear what he meant, but the tutor of the current dynasty seemed to be completely unaware of...
Zhong Wu sighed and lowered his head and said, "Is the Taifu going to lend me more than 10,000 cavalrymen from Yunzhou City?"
"No one."
Marquis Jing'an said slowly: "I can compensate two if the war horse dies, but if there are any casualties in the Zhong Family Army, I can't afford to pay anyone."
Zhong Wu frowned and looked at Li Xin, and said, "I want to hear what the Taifu has plans."
"There is no plan, it is just to rescue the enemy. In the past few months, the Xianbei tribe has attacked Jimen Pass like crazy. It can even be said that all the elites have been released, especially the people from Yuwen Zhao's headquarters. There have been so many people. Now the Xianbei tribe is weak, and it may be able to directly attack Huanglong."
"The population of the four Xianbei tribes has exceeded one million."
Zhong Wu frowned and said, "It will be estimated that there are about 200,000 Xianbei people in Jizhou, which means there are at least 800,000 Xianbei people outside the pass. Even if there are not many young and strong people left in these 800,000 people, they can calmly support Yuwen Zhao back to help."
As he said that, he glanced at Li Xin and slowly spoke: "The Taifu may not have seen the power of the Xianbei people. A thirteen or fourteen-year-old child in the Xianbei tribe can shoot and hunt, and he rarely fails within fifty steps. At this time, not to mention that the Taifu brought more than 10,000 people out of the customs, even if all the soldiers in Yunzhou City followed the Taifu out of the customs, they were surrounded by both sides and wiped out the entire army."
"So I'm not going to lead the family army."
Li Xin smiled and said, "I only need to farm the horses of the family army. If I don't come back afterwards, General Zhong will ask for it again. If I come back, wouldn't it be nice to compensate General Zhong the war horse twice as much?"
Zhong Wu looked at the teenager who was a teenager younger than him and lowered his head and said, "Taifu, let me think about it..."
"No need to think about it, I've thought it all for you."
"This time I brought a total of 25,000 people here. Now I am outside Yunzhou City. I am not going to take all these people away. I only brought 15,000 people. Then I brought 15,000 war horses from Yunzhou to make more than 10,000 cavalry. The remaining 10,000 people are left to General Zhong to defend the city. Yunzhou City can hold the city without cavalry."
As he said that, Li Xin said, "These are the imperial guards in the Zuoying of Jingji, and their elite level is no worse than Yunzhou City."
Zhong Wu remained silent for a long time, then sighed a long time.
"Taifu, you can give it to you, but I want to write a memorial to the court, and I need to sign and print it."
Li Xin smiled heartily and took out a blank piece of letter paper from his sleeve. The words Li Xin were written on the lower right corner of the letter paper, and a vermilion-red Li Xin private seal was added.
"I know that you are cautious in planting your family and like to let others establish a document. I have prepared this thing before I come. How can I fill in the blank spaces of the general?"
Zhong Wu took the letter blankly, looked at Li Xin with a look and said in surprise: "Is the Taifu not afraid that the general will harm you?"
With Li Xin’s genuine private printing and signature, and with such a blank piece of letter paper, it’s easy to create Li Xin’s evidence of guilt, and it’s easy to even produce evidence of Li Xin’s rebellion. After all, the letter on this letter paper is genuine…
Marquis Jing'an laughed in silence: "It seems that General Zhong has been staying in Yunzhou for a long time and still doesn't know what happened in the capital. Now that there are many people who harm me, it won't hurt anymore."
He stood up and said to Zhong Wu: "Since General Zhong agrees, I will go and get the horse."
He looked back at Ye Mao and said in a deep voice: "Ye Mao, go outside the city to select 15,000 people to enter the city. First, we will get familiar with the horses. Tomorrow morning, we will leave Yunzhou and head north."
Ye Mao nodded immediately and bowed and said, "I'll go here!"
The big man didn't hesitate and immediately stood up, pushed the door open and walked out. Zhong Wu stood up and was about to call Ye Mao, but before I could speak, Ye Mao had already walked away.
Zhong Wu sat down helplessly and smiled bitterly: "Mr. Ye is really impatient."
"There's no way."
Li Xin lowered his head and drank a sip of tea, and said slowly: "This battle has almost been completed. The Ye family's decades of hard work have been ruined. In the past month, he has nightmares almost every day. In his dream, he is going to seek revenge from the Xianbei people. If he doesn't let him go, he will go crazy."
Zhong Wu shook his head and sighed.
"It seems that if Mo Jiang didn't nod just now, Mr. Ye would never give up with me."
"The more than 100,000 people in the hands of General Zhong, so why should General Zhong be afraid of Ye Mao as a lonely man?"
Li Xin put down the teacup, turned to look at Zhongwu, with a sincere expression.
"Thank you, General Zhong."
The Zhong family army is all in Yunzhou City. Zhong Wu can make the decision on everything about Yunzhou City. If he doesn't want to agree, this matter will not be discussed.
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Zhong Wu also drank a sip of tea and sighed: "The Zhenbei Army has been fighting very hard for the past six months, and the generals have seen it. They want to send troops to rescue him several times, but Yunzhou cannot leave people. They can only watch the barriers to the Great Jin Dynasty left by Mr. Ye have been worn out bit by bit."
"I will feel deeply ashamed."
He stood up and bowed deeply to Li Xin.
"If you have the responsibility of the martial arts, otherwise you will be willing to follow the Taifu out of seclusion like Duke Ye, regardless of life or death, you will also seek the bad luck of the Xianbei people!"
He looked at Li Xin with a sincere voice.
Chapter completed!