Volume 3: The Land of Jingchu Chapter 268: The army has not yet moved, but the food and fodder have gone first
"That sinister guy Mohuken! He must have noticed something!" After the messenger he sent privately came back, Wangkong angrily accused Mohuken of being "sinister".
Wangkong's three trusted headhunters said worriedly, "He already knows our purpose. I'm afraid he won't cooperate with us sincerely."
"No, he can't possibly know our purpose. He just wants to weaken the Han people and other tribes..." Wangkong looked a little crazy.
As expected, his persistence in his goal had made him lose his composure, and his intelligence plummeted to "Song Xian-"
Xi Yuan stammered, "But... I'm afraid he also wants to weaken us, right?"
"As long as we can reach Bachu, everything will be worth it!" Wangkong made the decision with red eyes.
Like most people in Wuxi, the Mohuken tribe mainly worships the white tiger. Wangkong learned how to "sow discord" and "sneak into Chencang", but forgot that there is another phrase, "seeking the skin of a tiger"!
Compared with Wangkong, Mingtan and Gou Cang were really angered by Mohuken's "arrogance".
There was no need for Chen Gong to come up with any ideas, the Yue Alliance had already decided to go to war with the Wuxi people.
Although Mohuken killed the other two elite men last year and controlled all the Wuxi barbarians, even though he monopolized the channels for the Wuling tribe to convert barbarian soldiers, there were still many tribes that pretended to obey the brutal and insidious Mohuken.
After killing the other two Jingfu a year ago, Mohuken changed the name of his tribe to "White Tiger Tribe", saying that he was the reincarnation of the White Tiger and the king of all tigers. However, just pacifying the opposition within the Wuling Barbarians took up most of his energy.
It is true that there are many Wuling barbarians who worship him, but the internal situation is by no means stable.
As Shanyue people, the number of conflicts between them and Wuling barbarians was far greater than that between them and the Han people.
Gou Cang and Ming Tan also wanted to take this opportunity to work together to kill Mo Hu Ken!
Afterwards, the two sides began a primitive battle in the Wuling area...
In response, Chen Gong said he didn't understand.
Although Mohuken's status among the Wuxi people was like that of a "common leader", at most all the major tribes gave him some authority, but he could not use his power as he pleased.
Just like Meng Huo, the King of the Southern Barbarians in the novel, if he wanted to ask for support from other tribes and cave masters, he had to go to them and ask for them, and he couldn't directly raise a coalition force.
Therefore, in terms of numbers, the Yue people clearly have the advantage!
However, the Yue people had no intention of taking advantage of this advantage. Instead, they divided their warriors into smaller groups and scattered them across the mountains and forests of the Wuling Mountains. Over the past month, dozens of clashes have broken out between the two sides, with the largest involving only a few hundred people on each side...
Chen Gong tried to give them advice, but was rejected by Wangkong on the grounds that "Military Advisor Chen does not understand mountain warfare." Although Gou Cang and Mingtan were relatively friendly to Chen Gong, they obviously did not really regard him as a "military advisor."
The reason why they called him here was mostly as a "hostage". After all, they didn't trust the Han people.
"General Han, just watch us fight each other! We have brave warriors and the Wuxi people are no match for us," said Mingtan.
"That's right. Although Mohuken is insidious, we also have the insidious Chief Wangkong, so there is no need to worry." Gou Cang also echoed.
Chen Gong: ...
I don’t know who taught these people to speak Chinese.
Wang Kong nodded slightly with some pride when he heard this, and then said with a guilty conscience: "The Han people have a saying that food and grass must go first before the army moves... So I think we should put the grain transport team at the front!"
Chen Gong: ???
Could it be explained this way?
Seeing that Chen Gong did not respond, Wang Kong breathed a sigh of relief - after all, except when they were talking to Chen Gong, they were all speaking Shanyue language.
Therefore, Chen Gong should not understand, and Wang Kong was not afraid of fooling him in front of him, but... he felt a little guilty after all.
Chen Gong also put in a lot of effort to avoid revealing any flaws!
"So, is that so?" Mingtan was also surprised.
When the Shanyue people went to war, they seldom transported food and fodder, but carried with them enough for ten days or half a month.
"That's right. This time we have a large number of people, and we are going deep into the Wuling Mountains. We must escort food and fodder like the Han people." Wangkong said.
"Then... the mission of escorting food and fodder must be very dangerous, right?" Mingtan said cautiously.
Although the Shanyue people are very brave, that doesn't mean they are all stupid. When they heard that those transporting food and grass have to walk in the front, they felt it was very dangerous.
"This time, the task of escorting food and fodder will be handed over to our brave Xiu Snake Tribe!" Wangkong said generously.
Upon hearing this, Mingtan and Gou Cang felt embarrassed but also smiled with relief.
This Han Chinese way of fighting should be performed by the most "sinister" Wang Kong!
That afternoon, when the headhunters saw cartloads of food and fodder being transported to the Snake Repairing Tribe's base, they were also confused.
When they learned that they were responsible for escorting the food and had to "go ahead", they thought that the Hook Snake Tribe and the Ming Snake Tribe were teaming up to bully them, and they clamored to settle the score, but were stopped by Wangkong.
Only Si Tong, Xi Yuan and Tao Guang, three of Wang Kong's confidants, knew that this was a "request for help" from Mohuken... or rather, blackmail!
Since the war with the Yue people, Mohuken has not only been tough on the battlefield, but also the most "brutal" middleman outside the battlefield.
In the name of "assisting in defense", they extorted "protection fees" from the garrisons of the four southern counties of Jing; on the condition of "letting the enemy enter the four southern counties of Jing", they demanded "benefits" from the powerful people of the four southern counties of Jing; under the banner of "win-win cooperation", they repeatedly coerced Wangkong to tip off, and now they are directly demanding supplies...
Previously, the powerful people in the four southern counties of Jing joined hands with the people of Wuxi to rebel once, which indirectly prompted the ceasefire between Liu Biao and Yuan Shu. After the northern front of Jingzhou was pacified, the Jingzhou Prefecture turned around and suppressed the rebellion in the four southern counties of Jingzhou.
Therefore, the relationship between the current Jingnan garrison generals and the local powerful families is very "delicate".
The Jingzhou Prefecture did not have the strength or the courage to shake off the local warlords and eat alone, so it only held accountable those who had led the rebellion and had not had time to surrender, and did not hold the rest accountable too much.
After all, eradicating the powerful people in Jingnan is not in the interests of the Nanjun families!
The structure of Liu Biao's Jingzhou Prefecture was initially built on the foundation of the Nanjun aristocratic families. It was highly dependent on the family and was originally a "lame" warlord.
However, at the same time, the Jingzhou government no longer trusted the powerful people in southern Jingzhou and sent its trusted confidants to be stationed there, the "core" of which was Liu Biao's nephew Liu Pan.
The real core of Jingzhou Prefecture is Nanjun and Nanyang Prefecture in the north of Jing. It is "separated" from the four counties south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, the person in charge needs to be able to respond to emergencies and have the Jingzhou Prefecture trust him to allow him to respond to emergencies.
Liu Pan himself was known for his bravery and fighting skills, and he also had a close relationship with Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou, so it was reasonable for him to be in charge of a region.
At this time, Liu Pan was also in Changsha County. After collecting supplies, he sent them to the Wuling area south of Wuling County and entrusted them to Mohuken.
During this period, there was a young general who was very dissatisfied with this behavior. He advised Liu Pan that he only needed 2,000 troops to make Mo Huken dare not look north, but he was reprimanded by Liu Pan...
