Chapter Ninety-Eight: Military Discussion (2)

Tian Jiucheng's rebellion occurred in the first year of Jianwen, and in another time and space, it was the thirtieth year of Hongwu, but it was the same in terms of specific time, because in this time and space, the Hongwu Dynasty was only twenty-nine years, mainly because Zhu Yunwen wanted to build Suiyuan City and control the fertile pastures south of Yinshan, and the resulting chain reaction. For Sun Tzu's ambitions, Zhu Yuanzhang of course fully supported, but because King Yan was suspected of assassinating the prince, Zhu Yuanzhang sent King Ning to attack, but he was defeated in Mobei, and also took in a Ying Gong Fu Youde, and the northern border was empty, Zhu Yuanzhang had to continue to mobilize troops to the north, King Zhou led the army to garrison Daning, and King Yan was stationed in Beiping.

So when Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, the situation he faced was even worse than another time and space, he ascended the throne two years ahead of schedule, and he was only twenty years old, and King Zhou, King Yan, Feng Sheng, Wang Bi, etc. all embraced the army, eyeing the tiger, Zhu Yunwen did not dare to relax for a day, so when Tian Jiucheng's rebellion came as scheduled, Zhu Yunwen had no time to take care of it.

Therefore, although Tian Jiucheng called himself "Emperor of the Han Dynasty", and the year name also used the "Dragon and Phoenix" era name of Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming, and the provocation of the imperial court was very strong, Zhu Yunwen did not listen to everyone's advice and sent Geng Bingwen to lead troops to suppress it, but sent Xiping Hou Muchun to mobilize the guards of Sichuan and Shaanxi to suppress it, leaving Geng Bingwen in the court, and at the same time continuing to increase troops to Zhending.

Facts have proved that this is right, Tian Jiucheng's rebellion was less than a month, and Zhu Di, the king of Yan, rebelled.

In order to ensure the strength of the Pingyan front, the imperial court transferred a large number of troops from the northwest, resulting in the lack of troops in the hands of Xiping Marquis Muchun, and it was very difficult to quell the rebellion.

After Tian Jiucheng's rebellion, he did not attack Hanzhong in the east, but went west to capture Luoyang, Huizhou, Chengxian, Fengxian and other places, connecting the local Qiang and Han poor, of course, this also benefited from Tian Jiucheng's Qiang identity, Tian Jiucheng's rebels were once shocked, and the poor people from near and far defected, and the situation in Hanzhong was also quite tense for a while.

Xiping Hou Muchun adopted the strategy of encirclement in the northwest and southeast directions, with the help of the mountain of Daba Mountain, step by step to compress the activity space of Tian Jiucheng's rebels, and finally compressed it to the old nest --- Mamian Mountain, and then mobilized superior forces to encircle and annihilate it, Tian Jiucheng, Gao Fuxing and more than 5,000 subordinates were captured, and the imperial court adopted the method of "punishing the evil accomplices and releasing the coercion" to behead Tian Jiucheng and others to show the public, and ordered Jiang Guan to move the Ningqiangwei garrison from Huizhou to Yangluping, and controlled this place where soldiers must fight. It's just that Wang Jingangnu and others have been on the run and have not been arrested, and Tian Jiucheng, Gao Fuxing and some of the so-called "kings'" family members are also on the run......

These things are not a secret, Xu Huizu and others know a little about it, but now that they suddenly heard that the Shandong Rebellion and the Shaanxi Rebellion in the past are so implicated, Xu Huizu's face is a little solemn, originally in his opinion, the Shandong Rebellion is very easy to pacify, and the bandits are all rabble, so there is nothing to worry about; But with the rest of Tian Jiucheng's troops, it was different, Tian Jiucheng's rebellion lasted for nearly two years, and those who survived must be outlaws, much stronger than the battlefield Xinding who suddenly rebelled, maybe this is the reason why the Qingzhou rebellion spread to such an extent in just one month.

After Liu Sui and Hong Fang introduced the situation, the military discussion moved on to the next topic, how to quell the rebellion.

"Fengtian carries the emperor's edict and says:"

"The rebellion in Shandong, between October and October, spread to several counties, the state capital is erosive, bandits are rampant, the people are homeless, and it is the time of winter and spring, the weather is cold, the suffering people are dead and wounded, and the suffering is unspeakable! Every time I think about it, I can't help but cry, ashamed of the spirit of my ancestors! ”

"The people of the world, all my people, the people are in trouble, I have great mercy on them!"

"Except for the accomplices of the first evil of the sect and the most heinous people, the rest of the people are all pardoned, and if there is a meritorious performance of the first class, the court will give a reward!"

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When discussing the strategy of quelling the chaos, Tie Xuan first read out the emperor's holy decree, and also let everyone understand the strategy of the imperial court.

After everyone heard the holy decree, their expressions were different, it was good that they came from Beijing, they knew some rumors, and the officials in Shandong were a little angry, Li Yuchi paused for a moment, and arched his hand: "Lord Inspector, these chaotic people kill officials, rob grain and grass, and most of the squires in various places are poisoned by them, can the imperial court let them go lightly?" Do they just give up the rebellion and stop pursuing it? ”

"So, how are we going to deal with those soldiers who are loyal to defend the city? If you face the unjust souls under the butcher's knife of the rebels? ”

"Yes, sir!" Liu Sui also said: "In the first battle of Qingzhou, the guards of the King of Qi were buried in the sea of fire, and there was not one out of ten soldiers and civilians in the city, is it just that?" ”

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Listening to the boiling voices of everyone, Tie Xuan and Xu Huizu glanced at each other, Xu Huizu nodded slowly, Tie Xuan frowned, and slapped the table with a "snap": "You are so bold, you dare to question the emperor's holy decree, don't you want to resist the decree?" ”

"Don't dare!"

"The last general will not dare!"

Li Yuchi, Liu Sui and others knelt down one after another, so frightened that they didn't dare to say more.

"Listen, this official is not only the supervision envoy of the bandit army, but also the political envoy of Shandong, so this official will investigate the cause of this religious rebellion, if this official finds that there are corrupt officials and corrupt officials who oppress the people and promote the civil unrest, he will not be spared!"

"In addition," Tie Xuan picked up the cup and took a sip of water, and said with a relaxed breath: "In addition, the emperor will not be held accountable, the first evil, the accomplice and the most heinous people will not let go!" ”

"Moreover, these people who participated in the rebellion, the imperial court will move them to the Jilin Political Envoy Department to defend the border for the country!"

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"Oh," Li Yuchi and the others suddenly realized, and they kowtowed one after another, calling them "Emperor Shengming".

Seeing that everyone understood, Tie Xuan also smiled, and then suddenly said with a whole face: "This official announced the discipline, if the content of this military discussion spreads to the ears of irrelevant personnel and affects the process of quelling the chaos, this official will inevitably investigate to the end, do you understand?" ”

"Understood!"

After such an episode, everyone sat down and continued to discuss the specific strategy for quelling the chaos, but at that time, there was no free talk, and in general, Xu Huizu, Tie Xuan, Xu Kai, Cao Yushu and others were making decisions, and others just casually agreed.

The final strategy is as follows:

In order to appease the refugees in Dezhou and Cangzhou, the imperial court will allocate grain and grass from Henan, Tianjin and other places; In order to appease the refugees near Qingzhou, the imperial court would mobilize sailors to mobilize grain and grass relief from Jiangnan, and Tie Xuan was responsible for the grain and grass relief.

secondly, in order to exterminate the bandits, Guo Key, the deputy commander-in-chief of the bandits near Cangzhou, Dezhou, was in charge, and Geng Xuan, the secretary of Shandong, and Liu Sui, the secretary of the Shandong capital, were under his command; Xu Huizu was responsible for exterminating the bandits near Qingzhou, and the specific strategy was to send Cao Yushu's Second Guards Army to Qingzhou to attract the bandits to fight a decisive battle, and at the same time ordered Qu Neng's son Qu Tao to lead 4,000 cavalry to the east, and its task was to drag the bandits and annihilate them in the movement, and the Mongols surrendered Arutai and Mahamu to its control; In addition, he ordered Dengzhou, Laizhou, Aoshan and other guards to take the opportunity to go out and harass the bandits.

But just when Chief of Staff Xu Kai was laying out the strategy, a young staff officer hurriedly came in outside the door, and he hurriedly ran to Xu Kai's side and handed Xu Kai a piece of information.

Xu Kai unfolded it, suddenly turned around, and faced Xu Huizu: "Commander-in-chief, something is wrong!" ”

"What's wrong?"

"Tian Wanjia is the emperor!"

"What?"

Immediately, the crowd changed color and stood up one after another.

"Right now, in the Qi Wangfu in Qingzhou, Tian Wanjia ascended the throne and became the emperor, and the country name was 'Han Ming'"

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