Chapter 24 The Battle in Qingzhou

On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, the weather in Daxing City was still cold, and the wind that had stopped for a few days began to blow again, and thousands of horses were galloping on the official road leading to Luoyang. The roar of iron hooves and the neighing of war horses drifted away with the wind. This unit is not under a flag, and people do not know where they are going and what they are doing.

"Lord Wang, everything is ready, just wait until you get to Qingzhou and you can let it go, but Feihong has not yet heard from Qingzhou, I don't know what the specific situation in Qingzhou is, I hope it will not exceed our estimates, otherwise it will be a little troublesome to deal with." Fang Xuanling really deserves to be a master of internal affairs, and before he got the specific news from Qingzhou, he had already arranged everything almost properly, if Yang Xuan was allowed to deal with it, it was estimated that he would have a big head.

Of course, this group of people is Yang Jun and his party, and they are ready to send troops to Qingzhou just after the Shangyuan Festival. On the sixteenth day of the first month, he entered the palace and asked Emperor Yang for instructions to send troops, and decided to send troops today, although he still did not get the news of Feihong, but it is estimated that it will be these days. From Daxing to Qingzhou, even if the horse is fast, it will take some time, and Feihong is Qingzhou that has just arrived during the New Year, even if there are carrier pigeons to deliver the news, it will take a while. However, now that he has a think tank by his side, even if he gets news on the road, he can analyze the situation as quickly as possible, so Yang Yong doesn't want to wait any longer.

Another reason is that after Yang Ming entered the palace and received instructions, he went back to the house to prepare a dowry and go to the Yin family to be hired, if he didn't hurry up and get hired, when Yang Jun returned triumphantly, maybe Yin Mingyue would have already become his wife, and the fate of his parents in this era is not a joke.

When Yang Jun went to the Yin family to be hired, the Yin Shishi still vaguely refused at first, although he also knew that his daughter and Yang Jun had a little thing, but it was taboo at first sight for a minister and a prince to form a marriage relationship, so it couldn't help but be imprudent, if Yang Jun was the prince, it didn't matter, but there was also an imperial grandson, and he was the minister appointed by the emperor to assist the imperial grandson in managing Daxing City, which was difficult to do. In the end, Yang Xuan proposed to give marriage to Emperor Yang, and when it came to this, Yin Shishi also knew that the emperor should not care, and the emperor's grandson was still young, so there should be no problem, so he agreed.

Yang Jian proposed to marry Yin Mingyue after returning from the rebellion in Qingzhou, and Yin Shishi also agreed, after all, the danger of Yang Jun going here is still quite big, after all, the rebels are known as millions, and Yang Jin's direct subordinates are only 4,000 people, and it is not an overnight thing to win, in case there are three long and two short, and his daughter does not have to be widowed. It's just that what Yang Jian didn't know was what kind of thrilling thing he would experience when he married Yin Mingyue.

"Well, it's okay, Feihong will be able to pass the news over in just a few days, we don't need to go too fast, although these thousands of people have been on the battlefield, but after the reorganization in my hands, there has been no real combat with real swords and guns, and I don't know what the specific combat effectiveness is, otherwise I really don't have the confidence to directly invest in the Qingzhou battlefield."

"According to the news of Feihong and Qianqiu, there have been a lot of robbers near the official road from Luoyang to the capital recently, which is just right for us to train and test their combat effectiveness." Yang Xuan said, even if it is an elite, but after the reorganization, I have not been on the battlefield again, I don't know what the specific cooperation will be, after all, the team has changed, and it is usually only basic training, at most it is some confrontation training, but everyone is basically familiar with it, and you don't need to look at what tactics you use, but this time it is different, facing a rebel army known as one million, a little careless, and the whole army is wiped out in minutes.

Of course, after Yang Yong's decision, the doom of those robbers and bandits had already been decided.

After several battles against bandits, the cooperation of these thousands of people became higher and higher, and there were some problems at first, but later, only one or two hundred-man teams were needed to destroy the bandits. In the face of such a result, Yang Jun also shamelessly said a sentence that everyone admired: "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth." ”

Of course, the people near the official road did not know that the bandits had disappeared, and when more and more caravans passed by there and were no longer threatened, they knew that the bandits and robbers had long since disappeared.

The troops bypassed Luoyang City and continued to advance, it was not that Yang Jian didn't want to go in to see Luoyang, which had the city of the eastern capital, but under the order of Emperor Yang, many soldiers from the south had begun to gather in Luoyang City, and Luoyang was now a place where dragons and snakes mixed right and wrong, and he didn't want to get involved, let alone delay the trip.

"Master, Feihong has the latest news from Qingzhou." When staying at the Liyang Post House, No. 2 knocked on the door of the room where he was discussing with Fang Du, Li Jing and others with a message.

"Oh, read it out so everyone knows." Yang Jun said, lest he have to wait for the meeting to pass it on one by one.

"Yes."

"According to the intelligence investigation of our Qingzhou detachment, the Qingzhou rebels claim to be one million, but only 200,000 actually have a certain combat effectiveness, and the others are all displaced people who have been coerced together, about four or five hundred thousand. There are no more than 10,000 people with regular equipment, and they have all been looted from the government and local troops. ”

"Among them, Wang Bo gathered more than 50,000 people in the Changbai Mountain area, and now it has grown to 150,000 people, and is attacking Qi County and Beihai County, Qi County except for Licheng (now Jinan) has not been captured, other places have been captured by the rebels, and Beihai County is also in danger."

"Liu Badao, a wealthy man in the plains, raised troops with Douzikeng, gathered more than 100,000 people, and the so-called 'Uncle Army' was attacking all parts of Bohai County, and at the same time attacking Licheng with Wang Bo."

"The rest of the uprisings are continuous, but none of them are on a large scale, and the local governments should be able to solve them on their own. It's just that the officials of the occupied areas of Qi County, Beihai County, and Bohai County are dying and fleeing, and there is chaos everywhere. ”

"That's what happened." Number Two read for a long time, and finally read all the information.

"Well, give the order to the Hidden Danger Squad to try to infiltrate the rebels and assassinate their senior leaders."

"Tell me what you think about the current situation. Let's talk about it. Yang Jun spoke.

"I don't think the situation is very bad now, it's much better than I imagined, at least knowing that the rebels' million is an exaggeration, and the rebels are only confined to the three counties, and they are not too out of control." Fang Xuanling said that this is what he is most concerned about, if the affected area is too wide, then he will have a headache, and it is not easy to arrange officials.

"I think the most important thing at the moment is the problem of our troops, we only have more than 3,000 available troops, while the other side has nearly 200,000 people, we must have 50,000 soldiers and horses to be invincible, but where these come from is the key." Du Ruhui, the Sima of the Prince's Mansion, is currently in charge of the military, and of course he has to consider the issue of soldiers.

"The number of soldiers is not a problem, when the time comes, we will borrow all the way, borrow two or three thousand people from each county, and the original strength of Qingzhou should be about the same, but these have not been solved, and the borrowed ones will have to be repaid after all, even if they are forced to stay, they can only leave a small part, so what we have to do is to expand the troops immediately after the end of the counterinsurgency."

"The rebels are our main source of soldiers, you know. And what we have to think about is how to win this war, what does the pharmacist think about this? After Yang Jian finished saying his thoughts, he asked Li Jing.

"There are two questions, one is how to fight. Whether we are fighting a local war or a global war, I think with our strength we should be able to fight only a large local war. The second is where to fight. Whether to fight from behind the rebels or from the front, we have the support of Qingzhou's troops, and it is not necessarily a failure, but I am afraid that there will not be many of these more than 3,000 people left. My suggestion is that the prince will transfer troops and horses from various counties, regardless of whether they can be integrated or not, as long as the rebels can be held back on the frontal battlefield, the prince's 3,000 men can use the methods of guerrilla warfare mentioned in the prince's soldier's book to consume the opponent's vital force little by little. "Sure enough, it's the god of war, just by reading a few military books, he can already plan so well, if he really leads the army for a period of time, who is still his opponent?

"Well, what the pharmacist said is right, we should open up two battlefields, attract them head-on, and encroach behind enemy lines, and strive to quell this rebellion at the lowest cost." Yang Jun made the final decision

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