Chapter 269 Ye Mingsheng’s plan! (Subscribe!)

Feeling the admiration of his men, a smile emerged on Ye Mingsheng's face. He pressed his hands together, and the military camp, which was bustling with noise a second ago, suddenly became silent.

Standing on the watchtower, under the gaze of the soldiers of the Third Battalion, Ye Mingsheng shouted loudly:

"This battle is not over yet. You still need to work harder to kill the Khitan bandits. As long as you have the Khitan's head, I, Ye, will reward you generously. There are many unowned fertile fields in Fengzhou. It depends on whether you dare to take them!"

Ye Mingsheng's promise made all the soldiers in the camp excited, and their eyes were full of desire. In order to prevent the whole pot of soup from being spoiled by one fish smell, Ye Mingsheng, in addition to recruiting the bandits of Guo Zhiping's army,
He was very strict with the soldiers he recruited. He did not accept any gangsters or thugs. Instead, he recruited only honest farmers and hunters.

In feudal society, for these country kids, nothing can make them crazy and make them risk their lives to kill the enemy bravely more than land...
"Kill the Khitans!"

"Swear loyalty to the Lord!"

The soldiers shouted loudly again, their voices three times louder than before, expressing their loyalty to Ye Mingsheng.

After saying a few more words, Ye Mingsheng ended his speech and led all the generals to his central military tent.

"I was wondering why your Excellency is so calm and composed. It turns out that you have it all planned out. With your Excellency in charge of the central army, those Khitan dogs are nothing to you." As soon as Liang Xuezhan entered the tent, he started to flatter Ye Mingsheng again.

"By the way, sir, you still don't know what that thing is called?"

In response to his question, Ye Mingsheng smiled slightly and said lightly:
"These things are called grenades, but there are only a few of them, and they are all gone!"

Ye Mingsheng's words immediately froze the smiles on the faces of the generals in the tent...

Ye Mingsheng was not surprised by the expressions of the crowd and continued to speak;
"This grenade is extremely complicated to make. We spent a lot of money to hire a craftsman to make it. It took several months to make less than a hundred grenades. We just threw all of them out!"

Hearing what Ye Mingsheng said, He Jingyun, Liang Xuezhan and others were stunned for a moment, and then a look of as if it was natural appeared on their faces.

In their opinion, this thing called a grenade completely overturned their previous understanding of firearms. It was easy to use and extremely powerful. Such a thing should be very valuable. It would be strange if Ye Mingsheng could produce batch after batch!

Looking at the facial expressions of He Jingyun and Liang Xuezhang from the corner of his eyes, Ye Mingsheng's expression was calm and did not change, but he sneered in his heart. The reason why he took out these grenades now instead of taking them out at the beginning to give the generals confidence was not just to deal with the Khitans...
Ye Mingsheng was also on guard against some of his so-called "own people!"

Liang Xuezhan is Chen Dechang's man. If Ye Mingsheng guessed correctly, he has orders from Chen Dechang. As to whether he is monitoring himself or has other intentions, Ye Mingsheng has no idea.

What he can do now is to impose flexible restrictions on Liang Xuechang as much as possible, making full use of his abilities as he is doing now to contribute to his career and resist foreign enemies, but also preventing him from becoming bigger in the Third Battalion and causing any waves.

As for He Jingyun, from the moment Ye Mingsheng received the order from Chen Dechang and learned that He Jingyun became the deputy general, he knew that Chen Dechang was beginning to be wary of him, and it was very likely that He Jingyun had already established contact with him and became a chess piece for Chen Dechang to check and balance him.

Although it was somewhat surprising that Chen Dechang and He Jingyun could reconcile, Ye Mingsheng still ordered Huo San to start an investigation.

Sure enough, what he thought was right. Huo San got the evidence. Someone saw Bai Renxuan disguised himself and secretly visited He Jingyun...
Ye Mingsheng was extremely angry at Bai Renxuan's repeated behavior. He had to use a lot of restraint to prevent Huo San from sending people to disguise themselves as bandits and kill Bai Renxuan.

After knowing that He Jingyun and Liang Xuechang were the two hidden pawns that Chen Dechang had planted around him, Ye Mingsheng became more vigilant.

He knew very well that as long as he took out the grenade, Liang Xuezhan would definitely try every means to find out about the grenade and then report the matter to Chen Dechang, and then Chen Dechang would definitely ask him for it.

As a general under Chen Dechang, Ye Mingsheng now needs the firearms, food, weapons and other supplies provided by Chen Dechang, as well as the banner of the Zhenwu Army, so as long as Chen Dechang opens his mouth, he has no way to refuse Chen Dechang's request!
This is partly why Ye Mingsheng did not play the grenade, a card that he had hidden for so long, until now. It was to reduce Liang Xuechang's knowledge of grenades as much as possible so as to implement his second step plan of replacing Chen Dechang with a cat as the crown prince.

As for the other reason, it is also very simple!
Ye Mingsheng took such a big risk and stayed here waiting for help, not just to repel the Khitans and ensure his own safety!

What he wanted was to completely wipe out Yelu Yan's troops who were advancing boldly. Even if he could not completely wipe them out, he wanted to inflict severe damage on Yelu Yan so that the Khitans in the Songmo area would be afraid and would not dare to plunder Fengzhou so wantonly!
The Khitans' constant looting has a huge impact on Ye Mingsheng's subsequent economic development plan for Fengzhou. With such a group of barbarians constantly around and threatening your safety, who can calm down and engage in production?
Therefore, Ye Mingsheng must kill their arrogance and use thousands of bloody heads to make them remember the lesson!

Ye Mingsheng knew very well that it was useless to be gentle, courteous, modest, righteous, polite, wise and trustworthy when dealing with this group of foreigners who believed in power and strength. Even if they signed an alliance, they might go back on their word at any time and use the treaty to cover up their own mistakes!

Only if you have strong power will these alien races respect you, be wary of you, and not dare to provoke you easily!

Therefore, this time Ye Mingsheng wanted to let the Khitans see hope, attract them firmly to the camp, and then wait for the arrival of reinforcements to surround Yelu Yan from all sides, wrap him up like a big dumpling, and then swallow him in one bite!
But if the grenades had been used at the very beginning, what would have happened if the Khitan army, seeing no hope, had run away?
Ye Mingsheng’s plan was completely ruined soon?
Now Ye Mingsheng is very worried that Yelu Yan, who has suffered a serious injury, will run away early!

(End of this chapter)