Five-five, rectification
Li Qi led a large army to Linqing for a short rest.
On the other hand, Li Siyuan sent Li Conghou, the queen of Bianliang, to lead 50,000 troops to Wei Bo for reinforcements.
After Li Conghou led his army to Bianliang, he first sent the cavalry general Meng Hanqiong to lead 500 cavalry to Weizhou to contact Fang Zhiwen. Somehow, there was a rumor among Wei Bo's army that the imperial court would send troops to kill them when they refused to obey orders. As a result, on the night of Meng Hanqiong's entry into the city, Wei Bojun launched a mutiny, and the rebel army attacked Fang Zhiwen and Meng Hanqiong's pro-army garrison separately.
For a time, there was a great chaos in Weizhou City, Fang Zhiwen and Meng Hanqiong saw that the chaotic army was strong, and after getting together, they rushed out of the city under the protection of the pro-army. The rebel army just wanted to drive them away, and they didn't really stop them, after these two people left the city, they went to Nanle first, and immediately sent someone to Li Conghou for help.
Wei Bojun has been very experienced in revolutionary struggle for more than 100 years, and it has become natural for him to engage in mutiny. This Long Hui was originally the commander of the Silver Spear Army, and he was also very familiar with the mutiny, knowing that Li Siyuan's side would definitely not spare them, he immediately sent someone to deliver a letter to Li Qi in Linqing.
The letter said that Wei Bojun had been bewitched by Li Siyuan, and now he had lost his way, put things right, regained his allegiance to Jinyang, and was ready to fight resolutely against Li Siyuan's rebellious regime, and asked His Majesty the Emperor to send troops to support him as soon as possible.
After receiving Wei Bojun's letter of refuge, Li Qi was overjoyed, and immediately led the army straight to Weizhou, and at the same time ordered the generals Zhang Qianzhao and Fu Yanqing to go to capture Bozhou.
At this time, Li Conghou had already led his army to cross the Yellow River from the Desheng ferry in Shanzhou, and the army had only crossed half of the river when he received the news that the Weizhou rebellion had led the northern army into the city. Two days later, Fang Zhiwen and Meng Hanqiong only led a few hundred remnants of the army to meet Li Conghou in Lanzhou, and after listening to the report of the two, Li Conghou had to be stationed in Huanshui, Lanzhou, and confronted the northern army, while sending people to report to Luoyang.
Linqing to Yecheng 200 miles away, the cavalry army can arrive in only half a day.
As a pro-army cavalry general, Yuan Renxian led 5,000 forbidden troops to Yecheng, Weizhou, to control the situation, when the sun above his head began to set westward, Li Qi's Son of Heaven honor guard appeared on the avenue outside the city.
Yuan appointed all the Wei Zhou troops to line up on both sides of the avenue outside the city to welcome the arrival of the Son of Heaven.
Although the Weizhou soldiers were terrified in their hearts, in front of the five thousand elite armor, they still obediently obeyed the general's orders and left the camp under the leadership of the military academy.
Li Qiqi rode slowly in front of this team, feeling very disappointed in his heart. He knew that this army was bad, but he didn't expect it to be so bad, the armor on his body had shabby leather armor and bamboo armor, there was very little iron armor, and most of the clothes were in tatters. He was very strange that such an army like a flower child, how could it call for wind and rain in the late Tang Dynasty and openly oppose the court, and even affected the general trend of the world several times.
The rebellion of the Wei Bo army was the beginning of the decline of the Later Liang Dynasty, and the cause of Zhuang Zong's death was also the rebellion of the Wei Bo army......
In the eyes of these ** people, the court law and discipline are not bullshit.
Li Qi's expression was serious, and he entered Yecheng in silence all the way.
When he arrived at the military office, Li Qi was silent for a long time, but his mood was a little complicated, he looked at the subordinates present and asked, "This Wei Bobing has been suffering for a long time and is capricious, what do you think?" ”
"Since the Tang Dynasty, the etiquette and music program has often collapsed, the army has been arbitrary, and the discipline has been corrupted, which is really the connivance of all military towns, and the chronic disease has been deep. Wei Bo's armies should be reorganized and strictly disciplined. Lu Yan said.
Xia Ruqi's face was fierce, and his eyes were cold: "This Wei Bojun is the most impermanent, the first emperor tasted preferential treatment, and used it as a silver spear to serve the army, and I tried to serve as a military envoy, but I didn't expect them to turn their backs on the first emperor at a critical moment, it is really the heart of a wolf, if they are all punished, they will never be troubled!" ”
Li Qi listened to his words, but calmed down, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "In this world, there has been chaos for a long time, these soldiers, where do they still have any loyalty, as long as they can survive...... But it is true that this cancer must be cured, and they cannot be allowed to continue to exist here. Ordered to go down, first according to the standards of the Beidi Tun Army, recruit military households in various parts of Weibo......"
In this era, due to years of war, the North China Plain, which was full of green and flat fields, was now full of devastation, sparsely populated, ruined walls, and famine everywhere. As long as the banner of recruitment is erected, someone will come to serve, and the premise is that there must be money and food.
In this troubled era, being a soldier and eating food is one of the few ways for the poor to live......
What Li Qi lacks now is not money and food, but population.
"This was originally my fiefdom, so there will be no more festival envoys, and in the future, Wei Bojun will be handed over to the students who came out of Jinyang Academy to take charge, so that they can have a place to practice." Li Qi said lightly, no one else can find fault with this, because when he was the crown prince, he was awarded the title of King of Wei, and this Wei Bojun Town was his fief.
With an edict, Wei Bojun revoked the town number of the Tianxiong Army, which had been used for more than 170 years, and was renamed the Zhenning Army and reorganized into the Fifth Army. After learning that the military office of the Zhenning Army was located in Jining, in the north, the barracks cried - "The young man is at the border pass, and the gray hair is returning to his hometown", this is not a joke, since ancient times, the border is simply nine deaths.
However, judging from the tone of the emperor's edict, there was no room for negotiation, and Wei Bo's army was reorganized and distributed after equipment and training.
Wei Bojun lived in the barracks with his family, and Long Hui was helpless against the old people who were wailing and crying.
He Jian looked at the tearful Long Hui and the sad atmosphere of the full camp and felt very strange, and finally waited for Long Hui's mood to calm down a little, then stepped forward and arched his hand: "Commander Long, the order of the Son of Heaven is to reorganize and train first, besides, the army is to move to the north of the town, and it is only Tuntian, and the treatment is comparable to that of the forbidden army, how can it be like a dead person?" ”
Long Hui said angrily: "Since ancient times, it is good to be able to come back two out of ten out of ten soldiers here, you are a fool to be Long?!" ”
He Jian shook his head and sighed: "Over the years, there have been no less than 100,000 garrisons in Jinyang to the north, and I haven't seen anyone die for no reason. People's lives are ten or a hundred times better than you are now, and when you see it with your own eyes, you will know it, and don't listen to rumors. Now let's change their clothes first, you look at these ones dressed in tatters, where they still look like an army. ”
Long Hui, Zhao Yuji, Zhang Yuan and other military academies saw Xia Luqi and Yuan Ren looking at this side from a distance with their cavalry, knowing that if they resisted, they would only be slaughtered, and where could they please go, so they had to coax the camp to calm down and let the generals line up in the school field.
More than a dozen oddly shaped carriages with four wheels drove in from outside the wide open camp gates......