Chapter 243: The Messenger
Until the herald went down, the hall was silent.
The Qichun army not only defeated 200,000 soldiers and horses, but also recaptured the heavily guarded Wuchang Mansion.
Although Wuchang Mansion is not as good as Jinling and Hangzhou, it is also an important town of two lakes.
If it is said that the Qi Chun army captured Wuchang for the first time, there is still an element of tricks, and this time it is a real siege battle.
When the Chuzhou army was exaggerated, the Qi Chunjun did not stop.
In the era of cold weapons, where are there so many battles of "winning more with less"?
It is mostly a balance of strength to confront each other.
The imperial court counterinsurgency army began to assemble Qichun in September, and the Qichun army was able to confront each other for a month and hold the small county town, which showed the difficulty.
Qi Chun did not have any famous generals, only the soldiers were about the same, and they could resist the rebels.
Not to mention that the Qichun army is more than the imperial army, but it is about the same, and it will cost more than 200,000.
In that case, it would be twice as many as the Chuzhou army.
Wuchang Mansion is only a thousand miles away from Jinling.
The owner of the horse village immediately became vigilant.
If the Qi Chun Army chooses the "Western Expedition", it will have nothing to do with the Chuzhou Army for the time being; If you choose the "Eastern Crusade", you will have to confront the Chuzhou Army.
But even if the Qi Chun army chooses to "march west", the Chuzhou army will not be at ease.
The Qichun Army can be different from the Bozhou Army of the third apprentice, and it cannot be the barrier of the Chuzhou Army.
There is a grudge against the Chaohu Water Division, and the two sides are friends and foes.
The Chuzhou army not only swallowed the Anqing Water Division, but also stopped the Chaohu Water Division, as well as tens of thousands of new soldiers in Luzhou.
Huo Bao was also silent, with a simple map in his head.
In the Huanghuai region, the white-shirted armies from all walks of life are in their own way, but they are also the earliest erosions.
Although the imperial court transferred Shandong soldiers to "recover" Xuzhou, there was no follow-up.
Most of Henan Province is still in the hands of the White Shirts.
Southern Zhejiang, Jinling area, Liangguang ......
Half of the imperial court has been lost, and they are all densely populated places, except for the capital, Shandong, and Shanxi, which are the corners and corners of the land with few people.
The most important thing is that the "Houqing" of the little sect leader and the "Daqing Kingdom" of Qichun are both there, and they have not been exterminated.
The two places proclaimed the emperor, directly provoking the imperial court and imperial power.
Now the soldiers and horses of the imperial court have shown fatigue, and the majesty of the imperial court and imperial power is gone.
Even now, it seems to be a peaceful place, and it won't be stable for long.
The imperial court is not far from falling apart.
The third is a stirring mood.
Troubled times produce heroes.
There are heroes like brother-in-law in the world, and heroes like Shou Tianwan, and they don't dare to fall too late.
Watching his brother-in-law go all the way, Tu San also had a faint thought.
His journey was not in Huainan Road, but in Henan Province.
Unify Henan Province!
The third step determined the direction of the expedition.
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A feast, everyone who eats is restless.
Waiting for the third apprentice and the others to rest, the owner of the horse village said to Huo Bao: "Qi Chun has solved the crisis, it's time to send someone over!" β
In the past, when the Chuzhou army sent invitations everywhere, they also asked people to go to Qichun.
But at that time, Qi Chun was besieged by the imperial army, and he couldn't do it.
If Qi Chunjun comes, it will not be to participate in the wedding banquet, but to redeem people.
The Chuzhou army is here, and Shou Tianwan's nephew Shou Ming is still pressed.
Shou Tianwan's parents are young, and the status of this nephew is not low.
Huo Bao thought about the progress of the city wall and said, "It will be closed in two or three days...... Don't say it's coming, even if Qi Chunjun really comes, there's nothing to worry about! β
Can't just wait for the Qichun army to move, in addition to the "Eastern Crusade", should the two state capitals adjacent to Taiping Mansion also be taken first?
First impressions matter.
The imperial court has been exploited too heavily, and the local people have been centrifuged by the imperial court.
Whether they believe in the Qichun Army or the Chuzhou Army is very important.
Otherwise, the Qi Chunjun has gone through that way, the young and strong are empty, and only the old and weak women and children are left, and even if the Chuzhou army wins, it will be harmful and unprofitable, but a burden.
This is how the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Qichun Army came about.
However, the current development of the Chuzhou Army has been too fast, and it is somewhat unstable.
Sometimes, the size of the site is not the key.
It's Huo Bao, who has been hesitating.
The owner of the horse village sighed: "I really can't be idle for a moment!" β
He is lazy and doesn't like to worry, but he can't help but worry about it right now.
If you take this road, there will be no retreat.
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On the banks of the Qinhuai River, Jingwei Building.
Master Guo stood in the corridor on the second floor, holding a purple sand teapot in his hand, looking downstairs with a smile.
Because it was a meal, the lobby was ninety percent full.
Coupled with the guests in the box on the second floor, there is this achievement just after the opening, and Mr. Guo is very proud.
Or he thought of it first, and sent the second child over to buy the property.
I really got two cheap, and in the two days when the Chuzhou army just entered Jinling, I took over two restaurants and three houses with a market price of 70%.
The Chuzhou restaurant left one of his nephews to take care of the affairs, and the rest of their houses have been moved to Jinling with the Chuzhou army.
Second Master Guo came over worriedly, pulled the old man to the empty house next to him, and whispered: "Dad, something is wrong with the guests of Fu No. 3...... first called Xiao Er, and then called the shopkeeper, and the son went over, and they asked about the Chuzhou Army! β
Master Guo sneered: "What's wrong with that? Jinling City has changed its owner, and everyone outside should know about such a big movement, so of course they have to send someone to inquire...... As long as you don't go out of line, let him go, we are buying and selling people in the end; If it's out of line, ask someone to report to the prefect's yamen! β
"Tip with this! This appearance is also different from ours, with black and red skin. β
Guo Erye handed his palm to his father.
Master Guo's eyes froze.
In the son's hand is a pearl.
The beads are slightly larger than the rice beads, and the shape is irregular, but they are also pearls.
This bead is worth a few dollars.
Plus black and red skin, you can't be wrong, it's a seaside person.
"Go to report to the prefect's yamen, someone from Taizhou is coming!"
Master Guo pinched the beads, pondered for a moment, and made a decision.
The Guo family is a businessman, and they pay attention to "harmony and wealth", but they are not ordinary businessmen.
The eldest son and the third son are all under the Chuzhou army, and Master Guo is not easy to protect himself.
Otherwise, when I look back at the Chuzhou Army, I will also know that my own side has been touched.
On the side of the prefect's yamen, a few days ago, I caught the spy and had already caught the experience.
Hearing the report from Jingweilou, there were people who were going to arrest people, but they were stopped by the old adults under them.
Those who are not of my race will have different hearts.
The spies of different races in the Quartet can be caught, but this is a Taizhou person, so it is not good to catch it in this way.
No matter how many times Yuan Guozhen repeated it before, now he is under the banner of the White Shirt Army, that is, friendly troops.
How to deal with it still needs to be instructed by the government.
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The head catcher was not greedy for merit, and immediately reported to the prefect.
Song Lin just got the news and knew about Qi Chun, and he also sweated for the future of the Chuzhou army.
Hearing that his subordinates had come down to report, his heart moved, and he got up and said: "Since it is from Taizhou, then I will go to this house!" β
He deigned to descend and go to see people in person.
He thought clearly, the Chuzhou Army has just gained a foothold in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is not easy to make enemies everywhere.
There is no way on Qi Chunjun's side, there is a grievance with Chaohu Lake in front of him, and it is difficult to resolve it.
Taizhou, no matter what the intention is, it is better to make friends for the time being.
It can only be said that the prefect of Song is well versed in the three flavors of the Chuzhou army, and he is a faceless person.
Otherwise, how embarrassing is it, while "going east", Taizhou white shirts first draw the territory, while thinking about appeasing Taizhou white shirts.
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Jingwei Building, Fu No. 3 private room.
There were five of them, three of them were sitting, and the man on the throne was in his thirties, with a black and red face, dressed in brocade, and looked like a rich man in the country.
On the left hand is a middle-aged Confucian student, in his forties.
On the right hand was a teenager, seventeen or eighteen years old.
There were two other people standing at the door, no weapons exposed, but they were tall and tall, and they were two guards.
When Xiao Er served the food, the man sitting in the main seat beckoned the two guards to sit down.
"Second Master Xie!"
The two strong men thanked respectfully and sat down at the bottom.
The second master took a bite of the dish and said, "It's rare, it's really the taste of the capital...... When I entered Beijing last year, I ate this red stewed hoof tendon in a restaurant in Beijing...... This restaurant is really not a false name, no wonder there are many customers! β
The young man next to him said: "Second brother, this is Jinling City, it looks too lively!" Compared with here, our Taizhou is like a countryside! β
The Confucian touched his beard and said, "I just don't know if it's really lively or fake lively!" β
Something is wrong with the excitement.
According to the information they received, Jinling, which was occupied by the Chuzhou army at the end of September, has been in the past month for a month.
But inside and outside Jinling City, there are no traces of war.
When they entered the city, they saw that the people were peaceful all the way.
and the guy and the shopkeeper just now, when they mentioned the Chuzhou army, they were full of good words, but if they were asked where they were good, they couldn't understand.
I can't say that these words are all clichΓ©s, they were taught by people arranged by the Chuzhou army, and they were deliberately shown to outsiders.
It can only be said that these people were unlucky, and they met Guo Erye, who was not good at words, and accepted the wrong information.
Not to mention that a few of them were strangers asking, even if their father and brother asked, Guo Erye's temperament is here, and he can't tell it in his heart.
"Second master, the Chuzhou army whitewashed the peace, I'm afraid it is not enough confidence!"
The old Confucian came to a conclusion.
The second master nodded and said: "Among the people from all walks of life who have a name now, this Chuzhou army is the most inconspicuous...... But if you really want to talk about it, you can't underestimate it, after all, they have a little sect leader in their hands! β
Nowadays, the people of Jiangnan and Jiangbei have continuous natural disasters and continuous wars, and they believe in Maitreya.
The statues of the gods enshrined in the home, in addition to the Maitreya Buddha himself, there is also the shadow of the Maitreya sect leader.
The little sect leader is the son of the Maitreya sect leader, and in the eyes of outsiders, the soldiers and horses under the little sect leader are the authentic white-shirt army.
The Confucian scholar said thoughtfully: "I can't really cross Jinling and send someone to Bozhou...... What the Chuzhou Army relies on is just a small sect leader, but the little sect leader is not only the little sect leader of the Chuzhou Army, we can also ask the uncle for a title! β
The young man was curious: "Mr. Xie, what title do you want for your eldest brother?" That Huo Wuye has been hung up as a captain, and there is a higher title than a captain? β
Confucian said: "It is true that Taiwei is the third duke, but in the end he is still a subordinate." β
"The Lord?"
The second master interjected.
Confucian Sheng nodded: "Maybe you can give it a try!" β
At that time, it will not be the Chuzhou Army that is justified in Jiangnan, but the Taizhou white shirts.
Song Zhifu stood at the door, listened completely, and was speechless.
What are these guys?
Haven't you heard the idiom "the wall has ears"?
Sitting on the territory of the Chuzhou Army, he was ashamed to comment on the Chuzhou Army, not to mention, but also to talk about the follow-up small calculations.
Song Lin has always acted cautiously, but he can't help but be contemptuous of the Taizhou army because of these people.
As early as May, the Chuzhou Army organized an intelligence structure to probe information from all sides.
The Taizhou White Shirts are one of the forces that cannot be bypassed.
Therefore, everyone also knows a lot of news about the Taizhou White Shirts.
Yuan Guozhen was not the first rebel force in Taizhou.
He is a salt merchant, five siblings, a large number of clansmen, and a tyrant in the local area.
When his fellow villagers rebelled, he was framed by the enemy and falsely accused of being an accomplice of anti-thieves, and was wanted by the local yamen.
Yuan Guozhen took a few brothers to the sea, occupied the island, became a pirate, and began to really gather people to rebel.
It is considered a person who has been forced to rebel.
Therefore, Yuan Guozhen has been very repeated in the past few years, and the court surrendered when he surrendered, and then encountered injustice and rebellion.
Until last year, when the Huanghuai Rebellion and the White Shirts rose up, Yuan Guozhen also raised the banner of the White Shirts.
The "second master" in this private room should be Yuan Guozhen's second brother Yuan Guohua.
In his early years, he brought gold, silver and jewelry to Beijing to launder the identity of several wanted criminals for his brothers.
That "Mr. Xie" should be Xie Xian, the number one staff member of the Taizhou Army, who claims to be a descendant of Xie An.
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