Seeing that there were only a few lieutenants and hundreds of households training soldiers on the school field, and there were no generals of more than 1,000 households at all, and even those soldiers were practicing weakly, Deng Gouzi couldn't help but sigh helplessly.

Needless to say, those adults must still be alive in the gentle township, so they didn't come to the school.

This has been going on for months, and most people have long been surprised.

Although Deng Gouzi thinks this is not good, he is only a small hundred, and what qualifications does he have to admonish his boss.

And many of his top bosses are Xie's children, where does he dare to speak out.

The Southwest Army was nominally the army of the imperial court, but in fact, many people knew that almost all of the people in charge of the entire army were the people of the Xie clan and their henchmen.

Therefore, the Southwest Army is not so much the army of the imperial court, but the private army of the Xie family.

Since the second prince ascended the throne, his biological mother Xie Guifei was promoted to the queen mother, and the Xie family headed by An Guogong has also completely gained power, which can be described as the limelight.

Regarding the shocking rebellion that took place in the capital, Deng Gouzi knew that the truth was definitely not as simple as Bang Wen said.

As for what role the Xie family played in this, he guessed a little in his heart, but he didn't dare to delve into it.

After all, this is a matter of heaven, where does he, a small hundred households, dare to inquire casually.

After the Xie family gained power, another incident happened in the southwest army: a large number of official women from the capital were escorted to the southwest, and then they were confiscated into the local official camp and became officials.

These are all female relatives from official families in the capital, and many of them are former official wives and daughters.

This incident greatly excited all the officers and men in the southwest.

Deng Gouzi was also very surprised when he first heard the news, and he didn't understand why so many official daughters were accepted as officials.

In the past, even if there were, it was a very rare case, where would there be so many at once.

Later, Deng Gouzi inquired and learned that after the new emperor ascended the throne, he set up a new ministry called the Royal Governor's Mansion, referred to as the Governor's Office.

This government was endowed with the power to supervise hundreds of officials, reconnoiter the people, arrest and interrogate.

What is even more exaggerated is that this anti-judicial office is under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor, and the prisoners can be directly arrested and tried without the consent of the three divisions of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Criminal Department, and the Dali Temple.

Deng Gouzi has never heard of any institution with so much power, and this is simply to arrest whichever one you want.

After the establishment of this government, it began to hunt down traitors associated with the eldest prince, most of whom were civilian officials.

As a result of this event, a large number of civil officials in Beijing were beheaded and beheaded, and among their families, the men were either beheaded or exiled, and the female dependents were confiscated into official duties.

This is the origin of this large number of new officials.

Deng Gouzi asked himself if he was a soft-hearted person, but when he saw these official tricks with his own eyes, he couldn't help but feel very moved.

I saw that the precious clothes worn by these official ladies were so dirty that they couldn't see their original appearance, all of them were dirty, and their faces were covered with dust, like beggars.

Many of the ladies had panicked expressions on their faces, while others were numb, like walking corpses and nothing but despair.

From the clothes, Deng Gouzi saw that there were many female relatives who were originally official wives and young ladies who were even more ashamed and miserable.

These originally high-ranking official wives and daughters are now like fish on a chopping block, unable to do anything but cry bitterly.

Such an end is really worse than a beggar.

Compared with the tragic fate of these female dependents, the officers and soldiers who were waiting for them to come were at the other extreme, and they all looked at these officials who were originally the daughters of the official family with a look full of greed and desire.

Although these women look no different from beggars.

But these are all genuine official wives and daughters, and no matter how bad they are, they are also the maids of the family.

The thought of being able to crush these women who they could never dream of and wantonly humiliate them suddenly made many officers and soldiers excited.

Of course, not all female dependents will become officials.

Those young, beautiful, and noble female dependents are usually picked out in advance by senior officers of more than 1,000 households, and become their exclusive confinement. Only the remaining female dependents who are selected will become officials.

But even this is enough to excite the officers and soldiers at the bottom.

You must know that the southwest is located on the border, and there are few people, so there are naturally fewer women.

Here, even a sow will be looked at differently, let alone these official daughters from the capital.

Because many female dependents were taken into custody by senior officers of more than 1,000 households, these officers who had been in drought for many years were immersed in the gentle countryside day by day.

Now don't talk about training soldiers on the school field, I rarely see myself on weekdays.

The so-called upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, because the officers above are like this, the low-level soldiers below are naturally more uninterested in training, and almost run to the military camp as soon as they have time.

Deng Gouzi often saw that the gate of the camp was full of people, all of whom were soldiers waiting to go in and vent.

Seeing this scene, Deng Gouzi couldn't help but feel deeply worried.

If this continues, military discipline will be completely chaotic.

This military discipline is in chaos, and it will be difficult to get it back.

Deng Gouzi didn't understand why Grandpa Guo, who was far away in the capital, would send so many prisoners and daughters to the southwest.

There are many women in the army, which can easily lead to the discouragement of the army, isn't it clear to Grandpa Guo himself?

Regarding this matter, Deng Gouzi blamed An Guogong, but in fact, An Guogong himself did not know.

Since the second prince had just ascended the throne, there were too many things that An Guogong needed to plan and prepare, and he had no time to be distracted from other things.

At the beginning, the Criminal Department's treatment of these prisoners and their dependents was completely out of the sake of currying favor with the Xie family, so many officials were deliberately sent to the southwest camp.

This is because for the local guard posts, the official tricks are extremely popular with the local officers and soldiers, and they are often in short supply and have to break through.

At this time, the Xie family's power was in the opposition, and the criminal department, which had just been purged for a round, naturally wanted to try its best to please the Xie family, so there was such an arrangement.

An Guogong's nephew, Xie Changping, knew about this, but he felt that it was a good thing for the Southwest Battalion, so he not only did not blame the officials of the Criminal Department for being troublesome, but also praised it.

This undoubtedly stimulated these officials even more, so they continued to send more and more prisoners' daughters and dependents who had been "cleaned up" by the Detective Office to the southwest as official officials, but none of them were given to other local security centers.

Deng Gouzi was not a saint, he also had physical needs, and he also patronized the camp.

But when he saw those officials lying there with a blank expression like a dead man, he suddenly felt a feeling of nausea, and then turned away, never to be there again.

He didn't dare to imagine how he would feel if his wife and daughter fell into the same fate one day, and he probably wouldn't be blind if he was really dead. The thought sent him shuddering.

After hastily finishing the exercise, Deng Gouzi returned to his tent to rest, still restless, and wanted to do something.

He felt that he couldn't go on like this, and he wanted to write a letter to Grandpa Guo to report to him about the current situation of the Southwest Battalion, hoping that he could take care of it.

The reason why he had this idea was because Grandpa Guo had the grace of knowing him. It was the grandfather of the country who saw him fighting bravely and promoted him from an ordinary soldier to a small banner, then a flag commander, and finally to a hundred households.

It was also the grandfather of the country who told him to learn to read and write, and only when he was literate could he understand the military book, so that he would have a better future in the future.

He did all of them, and it took him a few years not only to learn to read and write, but also to read several military books, which he found very beneficial.

Grandpa Guo is right, if you want to become an excellent general, you can't just rely on bravery, you must also be literate and read more.

It is precisely because Grandpa Guo has the grace of knowing him that he doesn't want the Southwest Army cultivated by Grandpa Guo to erode like this, so he has such thoughts.

After thinking about it for a while, he finally decided to do so, and he should write the letter and send it to Grandpa Guo as soon as possible.

After making up his mind, he didn't even bother to eat, and began to ponder how to write the letter.

Although he is literate and can barely read military books, he has never tried to write a letter in person, especially since the person to whom this letter is sent is still a noble grandfather.

He was afraid that he would not write well and annoy Grandpa Guo.

So he began to flip through the book while trying to find some elegant words to express his meaning.

Tossed until late at night, he only wrote a hundred words.

And it was changed again and again, so that there was discarded stationery everywhere around the bed.

While he was still trying to conceive the letter, he felt the ground shake.

At first, he thought it was his own delusion, but soon he realized that the ground was really shaking.

This kind of vibration is very regular, and it is getting closer and closer, and it is definitely not the earth dragon turning over.

Deng Gouzi suddenly thought of an extremely terrifying possibility: Could this be that a large number of people are approaching?

Thinking of this, his face suddenly changed, and he immediately rushed out of the camp to find out the situation outside.

When he walked out of the camp, he immediately saw a scene that made his eyes breathe fire: he saw the soldier in charge of the guard on the high sentry tower dozing off, completely unaware of what was happening.

Not only these sentinels, but also the soldiers who were in charge of patrolling around them were also standing together in twos and threes to chat or laze off.

This situation was unimaginable before, but in the past few months, the soldiers below have become more and more lazy as the senior officers have all immersed themselves in gentleness and neglected discipline.

Coupled with the fact that the southwest has not experienced a major war for many years, this has made the soldiers let their guard down even more.

Deng Gouzi didn't care about reprimanding these soldiers at this time, because he was already sure that a large number of men and horses were indeed rushing towards them at a very fast speed.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Ring the alarm, quick! Deng Gouzi screamed as he rushed to the alarm bell as fast as he could, and rang it hard.

The shrill bell soon resounded throughout the camp, waking many of the soldiers who were still asleep.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Hurry up, get ready for battle, hurry! Deng Gouzi barked loudly as he rang the bell.

However, compared to his extreme nervousness, many of the soldiers who were awakened were still scrambling to put on their clothes, shoes and socks.

Due to the dim lighting in the barracks, many people even collided with their colleagues in a panic, and the scene was even more chaotic.

It's no wonder that these soldiers are so procrastinating and chaotic, it is really because the southwest region has not fought for many years, and at most they only occasionally send troops to clear out the wandering long-haired clan.

In addition, this is the southwest battalion, although An Guogong has transferred most of the soldiers to the capital and Jiangnan to guard, but there are still 20,000 troops stationed.

The soldiers here could never have dreamed that someone would dare to attack the camp.

But the least likely scenario has happened, which is why the soldiers are so flustered.

However, time was running out, and just as some of the soldiers were dressed and armored, and carrying weapons, the mysterious centaur had already been killed.

When Deng Gouzi saw the true faces of those people clearly, his whole face suddenly turned pale, and he almost couldn't believe his eyes.

The other party was not the long-haired man riding a short-legged mountain horse as he imagined, but a fierce Hu man riding a tall horse.

How could the Hu people outside the gate suddenly appear here?!

Before he could figure it out, a round of black arrows suddenly flew from among the incalculable number of Hu people, and landed on the camp like a raging storm.

Under this round of arrow rain, hundreds of soldiers were shot on the spot and fell to the ground.

Even Deng Gouzi himself was shot in the back by one of the arrows as he retreated, and blood flowed.

Under the intense pain, Deng Gouzi had only one thought in his heart: Grandpa Guo, come back quickly to save the southwest!

After this round of arrow rain, countless Hu people rushed directly into the camp on horseback, killing people on sight like wolves rushing into a sheepfold.

For a while, the entire camp was in chaos, and screams rang out.

Behind these Hu people, there were thousands of long-haired people riding mountain horses, who also killed the Han people when they saw them, and shouted while killing, and were extremely excited.

No Han soldier could have imagined that a massacre specifically targeting the southwest would come so suddenly and unexpectedly.

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When the news that the southwest camp was captured by the combined forces of the Hu people and the Changmao tribe and the annihilation of the 20,000 troops in the camp reached the capital, the Manchu dynasty was in an uproar, and many people could not believe that this was true.

Who would have thought that the Hu people would cross thousands of miles across the inaccessible southwest plateau, and unite with the local Changmao tribe to attack the southwest region of the Great Wei.

Hasn't this Hu people always been at odds with the Changmao clan? How did the two sides come together?

Moreover, by doing so, the Hu people undoubtedly placed themselves in the inland areas of the Great Wei. Aren't they afraid of being surrounded and suppressed by the allied forces from all over the Great Wei?

But in any case, it is an indisputable fact that the Hu people invaded the southwest region.

It is not even known how many Hu people have invaded, and how many more Hu people will enter the interior through the southwest plateau, which is the most headache.

In order to deal with the invasion of the Hu people, the new emperor Shuntian urgently convened his ministers to discuss countermeasures.

As a general of the Southwest, An Guogong will naturally not be absent.

It's just that his face is very ugly, and the iron is a little scary.

Many ministers knew the reason, because An Guogong's eldest grandson, Xie Changzhi, and many members of the Xie clan died in this sneak attack.

Perhaps compared to the more than 20,000 Southwest Army annihilated by the whole army, the death of the eldest grandson Xie Changzhi is the biggest blow to An Guogong.

Anyone who knows a little about An Guogong knows that among the several grandsons, Xie Changzhi is the most outstanding and valued grandson that An Guogong has brought with him since he was a child.

Even Xie Changzhi's name was taken by An Guogong himself.

The ambition of Kunpeng is also.

Judging from this name alone, it can be seen how high An Guogong's expectations are for this eldest grandson.

However, it was such a grandson who was particularly valued by An Guogong, but he died in this surprise Hu people's sneak attack.

Therefore, An Guogong, who has always been invisible, will show such an expression very rarely.