Chapter 2078 Gui Zijuan is sincerely convinced and bows his head.
The courtyard is not big, but the pressure it brings to Wang Chengwu is not small.
It was very quiet inside and outside, and no one could be seen. However, Wang Chengwu subconsciously felt that the people inside had an unprecedented aura. This was purely an intuitive feeling.
"Sir, Lord Wang is here." Heliande's title of "Sir Wang" made Wang Chengwu feel hot all over his body, as if he had eaten the ginseng fruit of Immortal Zhenyuan. His entire internal organs suddenly became transparent from top to bottom, with thirty-six thousand pores. Suddenly relaxed, there was no uncomfortable feeling anywhere, and the next step I took I felt a little bit swaying.
Am I an adult too? Really?
Wang Chengwu couldn't help but bite the tip of his tongue, trying to use the tingling sensation to wake himself up. He was about to meet a noble person, and if he said the wrong thing, it would be a sin that he would regret for the rest of his life.
"Oh, he's here, let him in." A clear and pure voice came out, which surprised Wang Chengwu. The voice was young, and he was a little indescribably excited. He was finally "getting to admire Tianyan".
Lowering his head and folding his arms, Wang Chengwu took a deep breath and stepped in. The door was open, like a study room. From the corner of his eye, he could see the books and paper signatures placed on the desk. Wang Chengwu did not dare to neglect and knelt down on one knee. "Wang Chengwu, a grass-roots citizen, has met your Excellency."
"Get up, there is no need to be so polite. A man has gold at his knees. A brave warrior who has won a battle should be treated like this. Sit down."
Feng Ziying is also looking at this figure who has no reputation in history. Maybe there is no such person at all, but in this time and space, he has jumped out, but these are not important.
Wang Chengwu followed the saying in the play, looking at the nose and nose, looking at the heart, eyes drooping, standing up but not moving.
Feng Ziying is a little funny. This Wang Ermazi's enthusiasm for being an official is really extraordinary. This is the best. With such motivation, he is not afraid that he will not work hard in the war.
“Sit down.” Feng Ziying said again.
Heliande then gave Wang Chengwu a hint, "Master Wang, if I ask you to sit down, just sit down and talk."
After receiving Heliande's reminder, Wang Chengwu sat down stiffly, with his hands on his knees and his **** half tilted, ready to stand up and reply at any time.
Heliande felt embarrassed when he saw it, but then he thought about it, wasn't it the same when he and his group met Mr. Feng before? Not to mention Wang Chengwu, a rebel leader with a rough background.
"You don't have to be so formal. I came to you just to have a good talk with you." Feng Ziying looked very calm and her tone was gentle and indifferent, which gradually calmed Wang Chengwu's anxiety.
"Returning to your lord, the ordinary people were ignorant before. Fortunately, Lord Helian reminded them, and they came to their senses. Now with your guidance, they can make some small contributions, and the ordinary people are very grateful." Wang Chengwu's eloquent words were also in the account. After training for a long time, I was stammering, but I finally shook it off clearly.
"No one is a sage, how can he have no faults? Now that General Wang can find his way back, it is not too late." Feng Ziying said with a smile: "The current crisis in Wubao County has not been completely reversed, and it still faces the risk of subsequent foreign enemy attacks from the north. , this is also the purpose of recruiting General Wang, I wonder what General Wang thinks about this?"
Wang Chengwu already knew about the two rebel teams heading towards Wubao County from the north. They used to be Austrian aid, but now they have become the biggest threat, directly threatening his future destiny.
Liu Dingfeng also told him the origins of Boyan Village and Baitang Village. He also knew very well that the group of people under his command were definitely incompetent in terms of combat effectiveness. The main force was composed of Yulin deserters and rebels. The soldiers and horses in the surrounding fortresses are comparable, but this battle is unavoidable.
Wang Chengwu has no intention of avoiding it. If he gives up at this time, his prestige in front of Lord Long Jinwei will be suddenly lost, his impression will be greatly reduced, and he may even become increasingly marginalized like Gu Xiuzhong now. This is something Wang Chengwu will never tolerate. of.
Wang Chengwu was very calm and stated his own weakness without hesitation.
Feng Ziying had no expression and just nodded slightly, indicating to the other party to continue.
"But Mr. Liu also told me before that they attracted a large number of small groups of rebels and disaster victims who joined them along the way. It is said that after Suide, the number increased to nearly 2,000 troops. Now they have captured Yihe City?" Wang Chengwu's mood Slowly calming down, his eyes became hot, "It is said that after they learned that we had eliminated the Waotian Banner, they stopped in Yihe City to reorganize their army?"
Feng Ziying didn't expect that the other party actually knew the news. He hadn't asked Liu Dingfeng and Heliande to tell the other party the news. This guy was probably timid, but it didn't look like him.
“Sir, please don’t be suspicious. This is the news that the grassroots have learned from themselves.” Wang Chengwu saw that Feng Ziying was suspicious and said quickly: “My subordinates also have some friends in Suide, and they have been communicating with each other...”
"Oh?" Feng Ziying became interested and nodded with a smile, "It seems that I got the right person, please continue."
"To tell you the truth, when the grassroots rebelled and brought a group of people from Qingcaowu to attack Wubao City, they actually got the news from Suide that the people in Boyan Village and Baitang Village could not survive. After going down, there were several battles with the surrounding forts due to food problems, with each other winning and losing. Now they are reuniting and preparing to go south to find a way out. Suide and Jiazhou dare not go. Mizhi is too powerful and may be captured at any time. The Yulin Army is getting reinforcements, so the most likely possibility is that they are coming to Wubao to beg for food..."
"Your line also goes from the border fortresses in the area bordering Yulin Town in the north of Suide?" Feng Ziying asked carefully, "I don't see that your contacts are broad."
He did not expect that Wang Chengwu, a scoundrel from Qingjian, would actually have contacts with Suide.
You must know that it is normal for people in this era to stay at home and never leave the county in their lives. Moreover, the intelligence collected from the early stage shows that this guy initially led his troops to Yanchuan. The one who fled back to Qingjian after Bian was defeated should have been in contact with Nan Bian'er, but why did he get connected with Suide again?
"Sir, the common people were ignorant when they were young, so they liked to make friends and wander around. At the age of fourteen, they went out with others. They sold private salt, worked as a postman, and worked as a boatman. They also went to Huichengzi and Baichengzi to sell sheep skins. ,…”
Wang Chengwu glanced at the young man sitting above him who was too young. Seeing that the other person had a curious face and nothing unusual, he felt more at ease. "Every time I go back and forth, I have been in contact with the forts in the north of Suide, like We have dealt with Liushu Village, Yuerhe Village, Tumen Village, Mahe Village, Big Rabbit Falcon Village, and Boluosi Village, and private salt has also been sold to these places..."
"No wonder." Feng Ziying felt that she still had too little information about Wang Chengwu. These information were very important, but she knew nothing about them before. If Wang Chengwu had something to do with the people from Boyan Village and Baitang Village, then what would happen? It is a serious problem, but it seems not yet. "So you are very familiar with these forts, and you also know Boyan Village and Baitang Village very well?"
But it’s not to blame Liu Dingfeng and the others. They were not specifically interested in eating this bowl of rice. They were summoned temporarily by Li Guibao and the others before. It is commendable to be able to grasp so many situations in such a short period of time.
Besides, if Wang Chengwu didn't tell the story about Wang Chengwu himself, or if the old brothers who followed him didn't tell others about it, I'm afraid not many people would know that he had sold private salt in Suide and went out of the border wall to go to the Mongols. side.
Baichengzi and Huichengzi are the territories of the Tumut people, just outside the border wall of Yulin Town in the Hetao area, but they are now mainly controlled by Su Nangtaiji. Feng Ziying's original counterinsurgency in Ningxia was more related to the west. There are more dealings with divination and lost rabbits.
"I have also been to Boyan Village and Baitang Village, but I am not familiar with them. Among these forts, the ones that the grassroots are more familiar with are Big Rabbit Falcon Village and Boluosi Village. They are in the west, and next to Boyan Village and Boluosi Village in the east. Among the people in Baitang Village, only Yuerhe Village is familiar with it, but Yuerhe Village, Boyan Village and Baitang Village have always been at odds with each other and are old enemies." Wang Chengwu said honestly: "The grassroots news came from Yuerhe Village ."
"Yu'erhe Village is not small, right? I have an impression." Feng Ziying asked in a deep voice: "Why didn't they go south? Are they still living a good life? Aren't they all suffering from disasters?"
"It's not that good either. Boyan Village and Baitang Village should be the two strongest among the dozen or so villages in the north of Suide. The number of people in both villages exceeds 3,000, and as far as I know there are more Hundreds of Mongolians who came from Hetao also joined them, so the number of people including the old, weak, women and children was quite large. The total number of people in the two forts could be seven or eight thousand, but those who could truly be called elites and could go out and fight. There won’t be more than a thousand people, so we can gather eight or nine hundred people to go south this time.”
Wang Chengwu patiently explained that of course he would not hide anything from this Shangguan nobleman.
"For example, Yu'er Hezhai is much smaller, with a population of less than 2,500, and the number of elites that can be gathered to fight is only 200 or 300. If the war is fought around it, it is estimated that there will be a little more than 100 or 200 people, but it will take hundreds of people to go south. It would not be possible if they were to go south, so they were worried that if they really wanted to go south, they would simply not have enough men and horses. If they encountered an army attack or an attack by men and horses from other villages on the road, it would be very dangerous, so they were still looking for someone willing to join them. There are other villages going south, but the grassroots people have not received any other news so far."
(End of this chapter)