Chapter 308: Xie Yuan urgent letter
Chapter 308 Xie Yuan’s Urgent Letter
After taking a break in General Xu's mansion, and waiting for her general Yao Zhun to arrive, Ye Anlan returned to Mengshan with her many personal guards.
Xu Pingan, who still needs to recover from his injuries for at least three months, was left behind in Yuncheng by her. Together with him, there were also Xu Pingan's family members who came with Yao Zhun's army.
They have been in fear for so many days, secretly thinking that they would never see Xu Ping'an again, but unexpectedly, Ye Shi, who kidnapped them like a bandit, actually fulfilled their promise.
When Xu Pingan saw his family members, he also felt very complicated, but what he thought was that his new lord was really not afraid of him betraying him again.
What he didn't know was that Ye Anlan's seemingly outrageous trust in him actually all stemmed from Ye Anlan's strong confidence in handling him.
In addition to the large army stationed in Yuncheng on the surface, Ye Anlan still has a lot of deeply buried eyeliners in Yuncheng. If Xu Pingan really dares to turn his back on Ye Anlan after he leaves, Ye Anlan can immediately give an order to have him killed. to kill.
Although Fu Shiyu and others' martial arts were far inferior to Ye Anlan's, if they did their calculations intentionally or unintentionally, it would not be difficult for them to kill Xu Pingan.
Not to mention, Ye Anlan also sent Yao Zhun and his direct troops over.
Although Yao Zhun looks at the tiger, he is actually a rough and subtle man, yet shrewd. Under Ye's systematic training and years of war training, his direct line troops have already become a frightening elite army.
In addition, he also has an adoptive father who is quite good in medicine and has been escorting him all the time. If someone wants to plot against him, the difficulty can be said to be hell.
As for whether the Han family will send troops to attack Yuncheng in a fit of anger, they really want to do so, but the problem is that there is a drought on their site now, and large tracts of land are without harvest. The common people have been reduced to refugees, and now they have no skills at all.
Not to mention that they took the initiative to send troops to attack Ye Shi, they all wished to pray to God and worship Buddha now, and pray that Ye Shi would never beat them.
Since the situation is like this, Ye Anlan is not at all worried about those Ye family troops she left behind in Yuncheng.
She took her own bodyguard, Xiaoxing, and stayed overnight back to Mount Meng, but when she was halfway there, she received a long letter from Xie Yuan.
The letter was urgently delivered by Xie Yuan, who sent someone eight hundred miles away. He said in the letter that he planned to send someone to send a batch of military supplies to the soldiers of the Northern Army urgently, but he didn't have enough stock on hand to give it away, so he thought First ask Ye Anlan to borrow a batch of her spare food, grass and military equipment.
At the end of the letter, Xie Yuan also attached a detailed list. The types and quantities of materials on the list are very large.
Ye Anlan turned to the end and looked at the list, then turned back and re-read the reason why Xie Yuan wanted to send things to the Northern Army.
According to Xie Yuan, the more than 100,000 soldiers of the Dingbei Army have not received military pay, rations and ordnance from the imperial court for more than two years.
Although their military supplies have been embezzled layer upon layer before, they are absolutely two different things.
Xie Yuan said in the letter that according to his investigation, all the military supplies in the past two years or so were filled by Bai Qingzhi, the commander of the Dingbei Army and Marquis of Weiping, with his own private property.
He is the hereditary Marquis of Weiping, and their branch has been passed down to this day, including him, there have been a total of seven Marquis.
The first Marquis of Weiping was finally granted the title of marquis by virtue of his repeated meritorious service on the battlefield, while the third Marquis of Weiping added the words "hereditary and unreplaced" with his outstanding military exploits .
Afterwards, Marquis Wei Ping followed the ancestral precepts to keep a low profile, and started a career of guarding the border with no great achievements and no small achievements, and firmly defended the northern border with the lives and blood of the Bai family's children.
During the seven generations, the Bai family has accumulated a lot of wealth because of battle gains and royal rewards.
Perhaps in order to let the Bai family guard the northern border more wholeheartedly, the industries rewarded by the royal family to the Bai family, except for the mansion in Beijing and a small amount of fields and shops, are basically concentrated in the northern border states.
After hundreds of years of operation, the Bai family can already be regarded as a powerful party in the northern border.
If this were not the case, the Bai family would not be able to support an army of more than 100,000 people for more than two years.
Xie Yuan was not stingy with pen and ink, and expressed his admiration and admiration for the Bai family and the Dingbei Army in a very long letter.
This is the first time Ye Anlan has heard him praise a person or an army so much, but she can empathize with Xie Yuan's feelings.
Like Xie Yuan, she also admired this kind of general who guarded the frontier, who clearly had a large army in his hands, but was dedicated to fighting against the foreign race, and did not participate in the big event of competing for the world.
Compared to the various rebels who have already become a mess, and herself who only wants to stand alone, Ye Anlan feels that Bai Qingzhi is the most indispensable kind of capable person in this world.
In Xie Yuan's words, "Even if I die, Bai Qingzhi cannot die, even if the flag of the Xie Family Army falls, the flag of the Dingbei Army cannot fall either."
Of course, Xie Yuan didn't really plan to replace Bai Qingzhi to die immediately, and the situation in the northern border is not so serious that he has to choose between Xie Jiajun and Dingbei Army.
Xie Yuan just wanted to emphasize the importance of Dingbei Army, and wanted Ye Anlan to see his determination to support Dingbei Army.
The continuous subsidy for more than two years has consumed most of the family wealth accumulated by several generations of the Bai family for hundreds of years, and the remaining half is because they are all in the capital, and Bai Qingzhi has no way to use it.
Now the Dingbei Army is not only seriously short of ordnance, armor, and war horses, but even the military rations have begun to save in a planned way.
It's not that Bai Qingzhi doesn't know how to be in charge of the family, and he didn't prepare enough military rations in advance. They just couldn't help but watch as they had nowhere to go when they were full.
Because a lot of military rations were distributed to help the people, the Dingbei Army is now guarding the border almost every day hungry.
Seeing that the autumn grains will come down in more than a month, the barbarians who would go south to plunder every time at this time are already ready to fight and prepare their troops. For more than half a month, several urgent reports were sent to the shrunken court, hoping to get support from the court.
However, all the urgent reports came to nothing, Bai Qingzhi had no choice but to risk being angered by the court, and brazenly borrowed food from the surrounding rebel forces to tide over the difficulties.
He found three companies, but none of the three companies were willing to really contribute money and efforts for the soldiers of the northern border.
They didn't want to offend Bai Qingzhi, but they also didn't want to give Bai Qingzhi the food, grass and military equipment they had hoarded so hard, so they all cried poorly, and at the same time gave Bai Qingzhi something like sending a beggar.
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