It doesn't have to be like that. Zheng Liqi sighed and said, "It's good that my Fujian Road is good, not only with King Zhao, the waste prince, but also with King Zhongshan, so the worst situation is like this right now." It is better to have the prince of the clan to rely on than to rely on those heroes who have risen up in the troubled times, and my generation can also maintain the body of the pure minister of the Great Wei, and I am not afraid of the worry of ruining my reputation in the future. ”

Yang Shiwei's face was withered, his expression was dead, only in the depths of his eyes, there was still a little bit of light flickering, but Zheng Liqi saw that there were tears flickering in his eyes.

"I also had hopes for the King of Zhongshan." After half a ring, Yang Shiwei said, "However, when the thieves were on the verge of the border, they moved the army and civilians to the Eastern Domain, obviously the pattern was too small......

"My father-in-law is too pedantic." Zheng Liqi sighed, "This is a retreat as a strategy, rather than staying here in Fuzhou and continuing to fight for power with King Zhao, or even being suppressed and used by him, or being regarded by outsiders as a constraint on power, it is better to simply get out of the way and let King Zhao toss ......"

"That means it?" Yang Shiwei is not a dull person, when he said, "Is it the King of Zhongshan who thinks that King Zhao will be defeated?" ”

"And it was a fiasco." Zheng Liqi's face was expressionless, and he said after half a ring, "To be honest, I still think that the victory and defeat are between five and five, but as the situation becomes more and more collapsed, money and food are becoming more and more tight, King Zhao marches and arranges the formation, and the ability to restrain the army is completely lost. ”

Yang Shiwei was silent for a while, and said after a long time, "King Zhongshan is also the prince of the clan, so he will sit back and watch King Zhao lead 100,000 officers and soldiers, and the good family of Great Wei will go to death?" ”

"Otherwise, what can I do?" Zheng Liqi also sighed, those of them who have become a big official in Dawei are obviously impossible to withdraw from the current system, sit back and watch the success or failure of the 100,000 army, and then win Fujian Road in one fell swoop, this is actually the shallowest involved, and the fastest way to relieve the chaos on Fujian Road! If it drags on for a long time, they will fight for power with each other, and more people will die! ”

Yang Shiwei snorted, and did not mention anything about forbearance for the country. This kind of talk is too naïve, only those book beetles who have died reading books can say such naïve things.

In this situation, not to mention the decades-long struggle between the Zhongshan Mansion and the Zhao Palace, that is, in terms of reality, the two princes are in charge, and who do the officials, gentry and soldiers listen to? Who will take the initiative to back down when they have the opportunity? Even if King Zhongshan really acts as a junior and sincerely assists King Zhao, how dare King Zhao accept it? Even if King Zhao dared to accept it, how could the people around him, those in the circle of influence, take out part of the power in their hands and hand it over to the people of King Zhongshan's family? Without a position and no power, what does the King of Zhongshan do to do what he wants to do and display his ambitions?

The political power struggle was originally so cruel that it even cost the lives of a large number of innocent people.

"Money and food, people, I will still do my best." Yang Shiwei said gloomily, "No matter what, if this battle is won, Fujian Road will retain more vitality, which will be more beneficial to the overall situation." ”

"Dafu thinks that the King of Zhongshan can't quell the chaos?"

"Even if he can quell the chaos, it's a war disaster, and I don't know how long it will take."

Zheng Liqi was also a little apprehensive about Yang Shiwei's judgment, but things had reached this point, everything could only go according to King Zhongshan's plan, and there was no other way to go.

And today's conversation is not Zheng Liqi's panic...... Since the Xiang army gathered in Fuzhou, robberies are frequent, robberies and murders are also very many, the original Taiping Fuzhou everywhere, is simply a mess, now the army has been in Jianzhou, there are some fleeing Xiang army, taking advantage of the situation to rise up rangers and scoundrels everywhere, Zheng Liqi will mention the criminal division of the arrest and theft camp exhausted,

Under the command of officials, the effect is still not good, which is people's confusion.

Xu Zixian has been dormant for a long time, after this battle, Fuzhou will be quickly covered, and the imperial court will not be able to control it, this opportunity is Li Gu's stupidity, Pu Shougao's push, as well as Li Kaiming's ambition, and King Zhao's ignorance and ignorance to push together.

This is the real time when heaven and earth are working together, and the heroes are not free.

If we don't take this opportunity to really succeed, will we have to wait for the next great opportunity that is difficult to recover?

In this way, the Zhongshan Wangfu first emphasizes the military, Fuzhou is the capital of Fujian Road, and it is also the sight and place of the military states, if it is handled properly, such as Zheng Liqi's suppression of thieves and peaceful places, Yang Shiwei's civil affairs to stabilize people's hearts, and Fuzhou to stabilize the people's minds, then in general, the military states can be decided without a single arrow.

As for the subsequent adjustment of the garrison, the officials, and the real rule, that will be a matter for the future.

Although Yang Shiwei did not go into the matter, he had long respected Xu Zixian, and he was also the first group of people in Fuzhou to get close to the Zhongshan Palace, but the old prefect was too public-minded, and at the beginning of Xu Zixian's withdrawal, he knew that Yang Shiwei must be dissatisfied, so he would have Zheng Liqi's signal today.

"It's not wrong for the Zhongshan Mansion to plan like this." Yang Shiwei was silent for a moment, but still said, "But listen to his words, but also watch his deeds, if you can really quickly extinguish the Liukou and stabilize the southeast, of course it is an important clan town and a pillar stone in the southeast." If it weren't for that, the old man would be tired, and the old man wouldn't want to participate in this kind of dumping and intrigue. ”

Zheng Liqi can be regarded as having successfully completed the task, and his inner thoughts are exactly the same as Yang Shiwei, if Xu Zixian can't defeat the rogues, connect the military disasters, and concentrate on the matter of internal fighting, then there is no need to follow the king of Zhongshan all the time, it is better to hang the crown and beg to go.

The two big men on Fujian Road glanced at each other, and they both noticed the wry smile on each other's faces.

"I hope that the king of Zhongshan will break the thief as soon as possible."

The twilight hung westward, there were clouds on the head, and the cold wind came suddenly, blowing the corners of the robes of the two high-ranking officials, so the two had no intention of talking anymore, Zheng Liqi hurriedly said goodbye to Yang Shiwei.

……

The battle against the Liukou was barely fought at the end of November in the winter of the fifteenth year, until the twenty-first day.

On the 19th, the officers and soldiers arrived at the foot of the Nanping Mountain in Jianyang, and Jianyang is also considered to be mountainous in the whole Jianzhou, although it is mountainous, after thousands of years of development, the acres of land are not small.

Along the mountain, it is green and lush, as long as there is no place for mineral excavation, everywhere is green and green, even in the depths of winter.

This is completely different from Daibei at this time, the land of Daibei, even in spring, except for the crops planted by the people, it is full of yellow, and there is no trace of green.

It's just that there are too many mountains in Jianzhou, and the entire state is governed, whether it is a city or a market town, a village, or even a field of acres, only a few plain areas, and the rest of the buildings or acres of fields, or on the hills, or along the slopes of the mountains to build and cultivate, the situation of the entire Fujian Road, in fact, is about the same, only the vast plains in Fuzhou, but also the Minjiang River and other water flows gradually impacted.

After the officers and men entered Jianzhou, they were devastated, and Li Kaiming's method of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness was quite in place.

Nineteen days later, King Zhao issued strict orders continuously, and the armies accelerated the pace of marching, and even reprimanded many generals of the Xiang army for this, and the generals of the forbidden army were also reprimanded.

Under the strict order, the marching speed of the various armies was barely increased, and it was quite obvious that the number of mutiny and fleeing box troops also increased suddenly, and even during the march, there were many corpses of the soldiers of the box army on both sides of the road.

On the evening of the 19th, a small number of sentry cavalry of officers and soldiers encountered the thief sentry horse.

The two sides fought in several hills near the foot of Nanping Mountain, fighting horses and hedging.

The thieves often wore a fanyang hat, or a red turban, which was the standard attire when they were raging in the Central Plains.

The thieves, on the other hand, have multiple bundles of armor, most of which are serious iron-scale armor, and there are also many hastily made piercing armor.

In the iron armor, there are still leather armor or cotton armor, double armor in the body of the enemy horse, whistling, dozens of horses as a share, roaring around a thousand horses, gradually gathering in all directions of the hills.

At the beginning, the sentry cavalry battle was on the scale of a few dozen people, but it soon ended in a crushing defeat for the officers and men.

There are very few cavalry in the forbidden army, adding up to only more than 200 people, and most of them are sentinels, scouts, and military orders, generals and private guards, after the sentry cavalry battle gradually increased in scale, the generals of the forbidden army released all the cavalry, hoping to make a good start, but the thieves not only fought more and more cavalry, and gradually became a trend of suppression, and all had armor, but less iron helmets.

The cavalry of the forbidden army was gathered in a hurry, not to mention the lack of experience in hedging, and even the armor was not as good as the thief, and most of the cavalry of the forbidden army only had leather armor or cotton armor, because they were originally sentinel scouts and did not need iron armor.

And with will, bravery, troops, and armor, everything is inferior to others, and the fiasco goes without saying.

Fortunately, the speed of escaping on horseback was extremely fast, before dusk, when King Zhao and his party arrived near the battlefield, the cavalry battle had ended, the officers and soldiers were defeated, more than 160 horsemen, only dozens of horsemen fled back to the army's large array.

So far, the officers and men of the recruitment have lacked the means to deal with the harassment of the enemy cavalry on both flanks, and there is even a faint worry that the logistics and grain routes will be attacked.

King Zhao had to retreat more than 10,000 troops and set up camps along the way to protect his side's grain routes from being disturbed by cavalry.

On the 21st, when the army arrived at the foot of Nanping Mountain, you can see with the naked eye the ups and downs, like a mountain with huge waves, and you can also see that under the foot of the mountain, in front of many barren farmland and abandoned villages, there is a three-foot-high city foundation, about four miles in a radius of about four miles.

The county seat of Dawei, the capital city, including the Beijing Division, are generally built in this way.

Except for a few mountain forts, most of the castles were built on the side of the water flow, in addition to being a moat in wartime, it was also convenient for the residents of the city to get water, otherwise only with wells, the city's water could not be guaranteed at all.

Jianyang County is more than four miles wide, there are 50,000 or 60,000 people living in it at ordinary times, because there are many iron ores, trade is prosperous, there are many commercial banks and shops in the city, and there are not many merchants who come and go.

Outside the city, there are several official roads that can accommodate two large cars in parallel, and the official roads are all made of rammed earth, and the regulations of county roads or state roads are about the same, relatively narrow, and there are no trees and drainage ditches on both sides, so after a long time, the middle is concave, the sides are convex, and after a long time, there are no cars, horses and pedestrians, and then the grass grows.

The county seat of Jianyang in front of us is in sight, the surrounding villages are almost in ruins, and there is no trace of the official road, only the thieves and horsemen are faintly on the north and south sides, and the occasional smoke and dust are seen, which makes the officers and soldiers of the brigade suspicious.

More than 60,000 Xiang troops and more than 10,000 forbidden troops, plus thousands of people, began to camp along the way.

King Zhao used the Xiang army to protect the grain road behind him, but he still seemed to be overstretched.

"King, this battle should be attacked quickly, and it is not appropriate to delay the confrontation with the thief." Although Liu Guangsi is arrogant and conceited, but after all, he is also a veteran general who has fought for 30 years, and the current situation, especially the unfavorable cavalry battle, also makes him faintly vigilant. ”

As soon as these words came out, the morale was really boosted, and quite a few of the Xiang troops were rubbing their hands, and some of them looked like their index fingers were moving.