Educated by a feudal literati .......

Xu Shiyang felt very unhappy.

Should there be the majesty of a lord in front of his subordinates?

Or do you think of yourself as the emperor directly?

After all, the officers below seem to have regarded themselves as lords or emperors, don't they see that they are afraid to avoid them one by one when it comes to the interests of the surname Xu in Qingzhou?

Since ancient times, most of the ministers involved in the emperor's family affairs have not ended well.

So they don't even want to give their opinions?

'Digging the feudal tumor is not deep enough. ’

This is also something that cannot be helped, most areas of Qingzhou are still a typical Chinese-style feudal society in essence, and even the new army, which has the fastest modernization process, is actually not much better.

This is a very frustrating fact.

What's even more unpleasant is that so far, without these guys with deep-rooted feudal ideas, Xu Shiyang can't do anything.

Reform is still superficial.

"There's a lot to do."

Xu Shiyang smiled bitterly and said to himself:

"On the surface, it is easy to get my compatriots to stand up, but it is too difficult to make people stand up on the inside, and I don't know if I can achieve one-tenth of my goal in this life."

……

The marriage is still up to Xu Muhe.

In fact, in addition to the marriage, Xu Muhe will also ask for more promises from Wen Xianggong, including a document confirming him as a festival envoy - once the main battle faction comes to power, it will take effect immediately.

Xu Shiyang no longer raised any opinions on these matters, and left it all up to his father to bargain with Wen Xianggong.

On the surface, Xu Shiyang seems to be a little discouraged and seems to intend to focus all his energy on the military.

Of course, what Xu Shiyang thinks in his heart, he doesn't say it, and others can't see it.

It's just that for a long time after that, he really focused his main energy on army building and preparing for war.

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In mid-November of the thirteenth year of Jianxing, the Qingzhou Army launched an attack on Dengzhou Mansion.

This time, the Qingzhou army was divided into three routes, all the way from Laizhou Mansion to attack Zhaoyuan, preparing to attack Dengzhou Mansion through Zhaoyuan and Huangxian.

The other way mainly attacked the Qixia and Fushan lines, and then went slightly north to attack Dengzhou Mansion.

The third route is to attack Wendeng through Laiyang.

At the beginning of the operation, the march of several troops was relatively smooth, and only the first army was met with more resolute resistance from a loose local alliance of dock forts in Zhaoyuan.

The Qingzhou army concentrated artillery bombardment for three rounds, and then the forbidden army launched a charge, and the battle soon ended when the resisters realized that the opposing army was a genuine Great Zhou official army.

When interrogating the captured Wubao owner, he learned that Dengzhou's resistance was relatively strong, and the biggest reason was that there were gold mines in Zhaoyuan, and Dengzhou Prefecture further east had a port facing Liaodong, which could maintain a minimum economic level through gold mining and trade with Liaodong.

Therefore, Dengzhou Haoqiang is not as eager to hug Qingzhou's lap and live a slightly calmer life as the owner of Laizhou Wubao.

Of course, in the face of absolute force, this determination to resist is of little significance.

The Qingzhou army captured Zhaoyuan in low November, occupied Huangxian on the fifth day of December, and arrived under the city of Dengzhou on the eighth day of the first month.

The Dengzhou side merged with some of the dock fort owners who had fled to Dengzhou in Zhaoyuan to form an army of more than 8,000 troops, ready to defend to the death.

The defenders were quite numerous, but they were all rabble.

Although the miners should be very good soldiers, the owners of the dock fort are very heavy on the people at the bottom, and the gap between the top and the bottom is amazing, and the militia has no determination to fight to the death for the lord of the dock fort.

Moreover, there was maritime trade and gold mines in Dengzhou, but the owner of the dock fort was unwilling to give his soldiers and equipment - probably because he was afraid that the people of the fort would rebel? As a result, the militia equipment in Dengzhou was not much different from that of the homeless beggars.

What's even worse is that they are facing the Qingzhou Army, which has always had a good reputation and has a good reputation, as well as the genuine Great Zhou official army with a righteous reputation.

After all, the Great Zhou is still the official government in the hearts of the people, no matter how you say it, the reputation is also there, in the eyes of the people, fighting against the official army of the Great Zhou is a rebellion - although the rebellion now does not seem to be as terrible as imagined.

Before the two sides could start the war, the defenders of Dengzhou began to flee on a large scale, many went up to the mountains to become bandits, and more simply joined the Qingzhou army.

These surrenders revealed all the deployment and status of the lord of Dengzhou Wubao to the Qingzhou army.

At present, although Dengzhou has a large number of troops, the people are panicked and have a feeling that they have no fighting spirit.

After the Qingzhou army arrived at the city of Dengzhou, after waiting for a few days, the second army arrived at the city of Dengzhou on December 11, and the next day the Qingzhou army defeated a local army that came from the south to reinforce and captured more than 500 people.

The Qingzhou army waited for another day, and sent prisoners to shout to the head of Dengzhou Prefecture, saying that Qingzhou would treat prisoners preferentially, and those who voluntarily surrendered could be treated equally as civilians in Qingzhou.

On December 13, the Qingzhou Army launched an offensive.

Tactically, the shield car was used to cover the artillery bombardment, and the main target was the south gate of Dengzhou, and the other city gates were lightly spared.

The defenders, who lacked unified command, were fooled, and most of the most resolute resistance led their troops to gather at the south gate, desperately reinforcing the walls under artillery bombardment.

Dengzhou is different from Laizhou, Yanzhou, and Qingzhou, the city was lightly damaged in the previous ten years of war, and as a capital city, the city wall is relatively very strong, far from the small cannons that the Qingzhou army can assemble can deal with.

Now the Qingzhou Army's approach is nothing more than using the momentum of artillery to suppress the opponent's military morale.

The next day, five ships of the Qingzhou Fleet with the "Waiting for Yingzhou" as the core arrived at the battlefield to complete the blockade of Dengzhou Port.

On the night of the 14th, there was a militia rebellion in Dengzhou, and the mutinous militia opened the east gate of Dengzhou, where the strength was relatively weak, and two quarters of an hour later, the Qingzhou army was headed by the trap soldiers, and a large number of selected soldiers swarmed in, and successfully attacked the city of Dengzhou.

Subsequently, the forbidden army captured the west gate of Dengzhou and entered the city from here.

Before dawn, only the Qingzhou naval army, which was less than 200 people, accepted the surrender of Dengzhou Shuicheng.

At this point, the defenders were defeated, a large number of militiamen surrendered to the Qingzhou army, and only dozens of dock fort owners and their sons, nephews, and cronies, a total of more than 300 people, still insisted desperately on the south gate tower.

Xie Zhen, the commander-in-chief of the Qingzhou Army in charge of operations in the Dengzhou direction, did not like to show mercy to his Han compatriots like Xu Shiyang, and he believed that he had done his best to the resisters.

So, under the cover of the shield car, the Qingzhou army dug a tunnel under the south gate tower and stuffed a large amount of gunpowder.

In the early morning of the 15th, under the watchful eyes of all the surrenderers, the Qingzhou army blasted the tower of the south gate of Dengzhou, and after a loud bang, all the resistance of Dengzhou was strengthened into powder.

On December 17, Wendeng County opened the city without blood, and the third Qingzhou Army entered Wendeng.

At this point, Dengzhou was brought under the control of Qingzhou.