When Yan Kui received Di Yi's order for him to rush to Yuhu Beach to support, Yan Kui was puzzled.

What puzzled him was that the Zhou army had not yet withdrawn to Yuhu Beach.

You must know that according to pre-war intelligence estimates, the Zhou army's grain stocks at this time have been exhausted for several days, and under the watchful eye of hundreds of thousands of Jin troops, the Zhou army has not withdrawn to the Beiling border after several days of food cut-off.

Is this preparing for total annihilation?

The military attache who came to give the order opened his mouth to answer Yan Kui's doubts, during this time Yan Kui was busy "rampage" in Nanling, and he didn't know anything about foreign affairs, so he didn't know about the recent major events in the Zhou army in Beiling.

Four days earlier, the Zhou army had mutinied, and the deputy marshal Ning Dewu led two thousand cavalry and surrounded Ji Linbing's tent.

Then, in front of the whole army, he took out the decree of the Empress Dowager Ning, and seized the position of commander of the Western Zhou Dynasty with the support of Lu Ba and other Western Zhou generals.

The former commander of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Ji Linbing, was demoted to a seven-rank partial general and deprived of the command of all the soldiers and horses under his command.

This mutiny had a great impact on the Western Zhou army, when the Zhou army was facing a shortage of food, and the general pass was frustrated, coupled with the two defeats of Nanling and Beiling, the army was depressed, everyone thought about moving, Ning Dewu seized power, and the Zhou army directly fried the pot.

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The Ji Lin soldiers led by Guo Tian were die-hard, and when they learned the news of the mutiny, they immediately gathered soldiers and horses close to Ji Linbing's side, totaling more than 200,000, and prepared to suppress Ning Dewu and others, re-support Ji as the commander, and set things right.

But he didn't expect Ning Dewu to be a good move, so he grabbed the key point of Guo Tian and others in advance, put Ji Linbing under house arrest by his side, and made Guo Tian and others throw a mouse.

Then Ning Dewu moved out of the Empress Dowager Ning, set up the banner of loyalty and righteousness, and asked Guo Tian and others if they wanted to rebel, and in this way, they pulled the originally wavering Song Han brothers to his side.

Like Lu Ba, Song Han did not have any dealings with Ji Linbing or the Ning brothers, he belonged to the neutral faction in the court, but Lu Ba was loyal to the royal family, while Song Han was loyal to the Western Zhou court.

Ning Dewu has Yi Zhi in his hand and occupies the righteousness, although Song Han is not happy with the other party's mutiny, he will not sit back and watch Guo Tian lead troops to fight.

In the end, under the intervention of Lu Ba and Song Han, Ning Dewu invited Ji Linbing and started negotiations with Guo Tian.

After nearly half a day of negotiations, the two sides reluctantly reached a consensus: even if Ning Dewu served as the commander of the Zhou army, Ji Linbing would not be demoted to a partial general, but as the deputy commander of the army, he would assist Ning Dewu.

In other words, Ning Dewu and Ji Linbing swapped positions, and the handsome banner of the Zhou army on the front line changed from Ji to Ning.

At the same time, in order to prevent another dispute between the two sides, another mutiny, Ji Linbing was forced to hand over most of the military power, leaving only 100,000 white feather flying horses still under his command.

Of course, in exchange, Ning also released Ji's personal freedom and let him return to the station of the White Feather Flying Horse, no longer subject to Ning Dewu's control.

Judging from this final result, Ji Linbing was obviously hit hard in this negotiation and was in an absolute inferior position, but it is also understandable that Ning Dewu has the will of Empress Dowager Ning after all, and naturally occupies the righteousness, and has the support of the two bigwigs, Lu Ba and Song Han, and it is expected that he will have a big advantage to win.

In fact, this is also related to the current predicament of the Zhou army, the loss of peace, and the long-term attack of the general, Ji Linbing, the commander, has to bear a lot of responsibility, which also makes his reputation in the Zhou army plummet.

As a result, many generals and soldiers were suspicious of Ji Linbing's command and no longer trusted him as much as before, so Ning Dewu came up with a decree at this sensitive moment, and it was natural that the mutiny was successful.

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On the afternoon of the seventh day of the first lunar month, Ning Dewu officially took office as the commander of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Jin army, and then issued the first order after coming to power.

Stop the withdrawal of the army, collect grain and grass in Beiling Mansion on the spot, arrange a defensive line to hold on, and transport grain to the rear as soon as it arrives, and then counterattack the Jin army.

As soon as this order came out, most of the generals had no objections, only Ji Linbing strongly objected, and once again took out the previous short-sighted theory of the people, but was denounced by Ning Dewu as nonsense, and then still insisted on the grain requisition order.

Ning Dewu is the boss, and when he gives his command, Ji Linbing can't stop it, so he brushes his sleeves away angrily, and when he leaves, Ning Dewu is even more unscrupulous.

Zhou Jiang, who was assigned the task of requisitioning grain, asked Ning Dewu whether there was a specific charter for requisitioning grain, whether it was by household or per capitation, how to convert rice and flour and miscellaneous grains, and whether gold and silver could be used to offset the requisition.

When Ning Dewu heard this, he smiled faintly and said something that made these generals who were killed by the sea of swords and fires all feel cold.

"The army has run out of food, the situation is urgent, and there is no room for any more regulations, the words of this commander are placed here, I don't care what you do, I have to scrape the ground and give me enough to transport food before the rear.

As long as the army has no worries about food and grass, it is worth it for the people of Beiling to die. ”

As soon as these words came out, it directly highlighted the nightmare that the people of Beiling were about to face.

And this is indeed the case, since the eighth day of the first lunar month, the Zhou army sent a large number of grain collection teams to rush to various places, counties, towns, towns, villages and villages.

After the Zhou army took away the grain from the treasury and grain store, they robbed the people's rations from house to house, regardless of whether they were large households or civilians, and they did not escape the poisonous hands.

During this period, because of the low quality of some Zhou generals and soldiers, robbery, extortion, and adultery. Lewdness, murder and even murder occur from time to time.

However, in a few days, the entire Beiling Mansion, except for Mengcheng County, which was previously recaptured by the head of the war, the territory occupied by the rest of the Zhou army almost turned into a purgatory where demons danced............

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"Bastard, bullying, plundering the people, Ning Dewu is also worthy of being handsome."

Yan Kui was furious when he heard what the herald said about the atrocities of the Zhou army in Beiling.

As a reborn, Yan Kui will not be entangled in the wars and conquests between countries, and he also understands the life-and-death fight on the battlefield, and even he can accept a general's killing of prisoners from the perspective of war, but Yan Kui can only not bear to even if the army bullies the people and wantonly kills civilians.

There is also a bottom line in war, if you kill all the enemies, at most you will be brutal and killed, and many people may be disgusted with you, but they still treat you as a human being.

But it is different for those who send troops to slaughter those unarmed civilians, such people are not worthy of being human beings, they can only be called beasts, spurned by the world, and left a stench for thousands of years.

Although Ning Dewu did not massacre the people now, he robbed all the rations of the people of Beiling, in the current cold winter wax moon, everything is not born, the people have no rations, they can only starve to death, what is the difference between the current practice and the slaughter of the people with a knife.

Yan Kui scolded Ning Dewu, and the military attache was also angry: "Beiling is my Great Jin homeland, Ning thief is so evil, Di Shuai and the generals are extremely angry.

Before the last general set off, Di Yi had gathered about 200,000 troops in the general Guannei, preparing to defeat the Zhou army and recover Beiling.

Sending you to lead your troops to Yuhu Beach is to assist General Tang in cutting off the back road of the Zhou army, and secondly, to let you, the "Yama Luo", see if you can wait for the opportunity to stab the rear of the Zhou army, so that the Zhou army cannot echo from the beginning to the end. ”

Yan Kui nodded: "I understand what Di Shuai meant, if you go back and help me bring a word, Yan Kui will make the rear of the Zhou army unpeaceful." ”

On the fourteenth day of the first month of the fifteenth year of Liyang, the day before the Lantern Festival

Yan Kui led 15,000 people from Qingyang County, went to Jinglongling, and marched to Yuhu Beach in Beiling Prefecture.