In June of the first year of Jingde, an urgent report suddenly reached Luoyang, saying that Shile had reappeared in the Bohai Sea, gathered people to occupy Nanpi, and divided troops to attack the surrounding counties.

Zu Ti was shocked, and personally went into the palace to bow down to Pei Gai to ask for sin, but you used to say that Shi Le had been **, and he couldn't even pick up the ashes, and now he was "resurrected" again, isn't this the crime of bullying the king?

Pei Gai didn't seem to be annoyed, but comforted Zu Qi and said: "The truth is still undistinguishable, why should Qing ask for guilt first?" ”

Pei should know Shi Le, and to a certain extent, he also understands Shi Le, he thinks that after Shi Le's defeat, he knows that Xiangguo has nothing to defend, and it is possible to abandon the city and flee or break through, or change to obey and escape, but if you say that you set a fire first, pretend to **, and then take the opportunity to escape, the possibility is not very large.

After all, that guy has a reputation and is not good at trickery.

In addition, his two sons have died, the eldest son Shi Xing was executed after Luoyang was verified, and the second son Shi Hong was trampled to death by a horse, and his face is still recognizable, so Shi Le left his two sons to escape alone, which is even more illogical.

Therefore, Pei Gai estimated: "It is not known whether the remaining party pretends that Shile is still there, and uses the tree as a banner to attract people." "On the premise that the specific situation is not clear, Zu Shizhi, why are you in a hurry to ask for sin?

Let's say that although Zu Ti broke through Xiangguo, he was forced to stop because of the insufficient grain and materials, and only sent Feng Tie to open a road in the north and south, so as to enter Youzhou before Liu Kun. Nowadays, most of Youzhou belongs to Liu Kun and Murong Xianbei, while Jizhou is still in a state of chaos in addition to the central counties, Changshan, Zhongshan, Julu and Zhao counties in the west, as well as Zhangwu, Hejian and Bohai in the east.

Although the overall situation has been decided, the counties, counties, counties, and local forces are just waiting for the Chinese Dynasty to send people to receive them, and after all, thieves are everywhere and the displaced people are clogged up, not that it is easy to stabilize the situation by sending a few officials over. The Ministry of Officials is picking up suitable candidates for guarding the counties and counties of Jizhou, and then they have to ask the Ministry of War to allocate materials, and the Pivotal Department has to mobilize soldiers and horses, and protect how to bring hundreds of capable soldiers to a county order, so that it is expected to calm down the thieves in the territory in the short term.

So at this time, it was suddenly rumored that Shi Le reappeared in Nanpi, gathered people, and tried to seize the surrounding counties, and he couldn't help but panic. He immediately suggested that the soldiers and horses stationed in Xiangguo and Zhuoxian should be allowed to advance in parallel to find out the real situation and eliminate this army.

This is also reasonable, but there are two difficulties in the problem: First, the generals of the old ancestral army are being recalled one after another, and the generals of the old Guanzhong army will replace them. The Zu's brigades have been formed for a long time, and the generals' control over their headquarters is quite strong, because they have never been deliberately reorganized, so they far exceed the control of the old Guanzhong generals over their army, and it is not so easy to stabilize people's hearts and restore combat effectiveness. If such a force is sent out that does not know the soldiers, and the soldiers are even more suspicious, it will most likely be defeated.

Second, there is no grain to eat. Xiangguo, Zhuoxian and other places, there is no surplus food, but there will be enough for the defenders to eat as for the national treasury, the previous few major battles, has basically been hollowed out, this is still a few months away from the autumn harvest, if the bottom of the warehouse is scattered to fund the military, in case something happens elsewhere, then how to deal with it? Besides, transporting grain from Luoyang to Jizhou requires additional levy to be carried by people and sent soldiers to garrison, and the loss on the way will be huge, which is really more than worth the loss......

Therefore, it was finally decided that the troops of Xiangguo and Zhuoxian would not move first, and ordered Xie Feng to lead the Qingzhou garrison to cross the river and go to the Bohai Sea. As for the issue of grain and straw materials, Pei Wei suggested: "It can be levied and distributed on the spot in the plains, Qinghe and other places. ”

To tell the truth, all the counties in Jizhou, including the plains and Qinghe, whether it is the grain of the treasury or the valley of the scattered people, have been looted by the thieves before, and even the common people have nothing to eat, how can they support the military again? If you still scrape the ground, it will cause everyone to be bandits, and Hebei will be in chaos.

It's just that although there is no grain in the county and no grain for the people, some things can still be found in the fort of the Hao clan. I think that when Shi Le occupied Hebei, in order to stabilize the situation as soon as possible, he was forced to compromise with the old Jin family, basically ensuring the safety of his family and property.

Therefore, Pei Wei said: "There are Hua's, Zhang's, Lu's, Chang's, etc. in the plain, and Cui's, Zhang's, Nie's, Fang's, etc. in Qinghe. ”

When Pei Gai heard this, he couldn't help frowning and muttering.

Since the Han Dynasty, Hebei has a lot of surnames, and after the Jin Dynasty, the end of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms and even the Northern and Southern Dynasties, many families not only did not fall apart, but became more and more wealthy and powerful in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the so-called "five surnames and seven hopes", including Qinghe Cui, Boling Cui, Zhaojun Li, the three families are in Hebei, and Fanyang Lu is not very far away. The family is high, the wealthy family is strong, it will be a harm to the country, Pei should have been thinking about how to weaken them, if as Pei Wei said, to exchange officials for grain and grass, then it is not to support them?

Among the seven phases, only Shangshu's right servant Yin Qiao was from a lower background, although he called himself Chenjun Yin's family, in fact, he was not next to the Zhenggen Yin Xian and Yin Rong brothers who saw Tao Kan's subordinate officials, of course, now the Yin Xian brothers have to rely on their momentum, not only add Yin Qiao into the family tree, but even call him "uncle", so it is more able to understand the psychology of the Son of Heaven who does not want the family to sit big. Seeing Pei Gai frowning at the moment, Yin Qiao Nai proposed: "They have rebelled, even if they are willing to provide military supplies, they are just atonement for their sins, why should they be awarded a knight?" It is better to recruit his children......"

In order to prove that you are sincere in China, it is logical to send your children to Luoyang. Of course, to put it mildly, it is to pretend to say that the children of various families will be recruited into Luoyang to confer officials, and as for how they will be released after they arrive in Luoyang, it will be left to the imperial court. The officials can be inspected and selected, and those who are really capable can't be used because the family is proud or lowly, right? If you don't have the ability, then hold on to the halberd for the time being, and then go home every few years.

For this suggestion, Pei Gai could barely accept it, so he immediately issued an edict, and at the same time asked Hua Heng to help contact each other in order to respond to the call of the country.

By the time Xie Feng received the order, it was already August, and he immediately ordered a team of soldiers and horses to cross the river to the north. First, Qingzhou is also short of food, and second, Xie Feng did not take the remnants of the thieves in his eyes, so although the leaders are all elite, the number is not much, and there are only more than 3,000 Ma Bujun. Immediately in the plains and Qinghe counties, he collected thousands of grains from each family, and then went straight to the Bohai Sea to kill.

At this time, the soldiers ...... Or it should be said that the rebels have seized Dongguang County and are besieging Dong'anling. Xie Feng sent people to spy on them, saying that there were no less than five or six thousand people in chaos, but they were poorly equipped and lacking in weapons, so he immediately led his troops to rush over, killing them in one meal, beheading nearly a thousand, taking double the prisoners, and scattering the rest. Then the prisoners were interrogated, and they all said that they were originally just homeless people and bandits from Bohai and Zhangwu counties, and they had just been recruited by Zhao Bing from Nanpi to recruit some Chen Gu and make them the forerunners.

As for the city of Nanpi, it is indeed claimed that there is Shile in charge, but it seems that no one has really seen it......

When Xie Feng heard this, he knew that most of the so-called "Shile" was just a Xibei goods, or even Xibei goods were not served, and he just made a banner, and he felt a little regretful.

If Shi Le really didn't die, and saw him in Nanpi City, wouldn't he have a chance to capture this fang? From now on, if you make a contribution to the world, it is possible to climb directly to Zhen Sui's head, and the old generals of the Zu clan will be ashamed of this, and they will not be able to raise their heads in front of their own family and even all the old generals of the Pei family.

It's a pity, it's a pity, it's a fake.

So he continued to move forward and successfully recovered Dongguang County, the former guide skin. When they arrived at Nanpi, the city gate was opened, and only some old people crouched in front of the door, reporting that the rebels knew that the heavenly soldiers were coming, and they had abandoned the city and fled north. Xie Feng was triumphant and rode his horse into the city, but then the drums sounded, and the ambush soldiers rose up, killing him off guard.

Xie Feng lost so badly this time, he had several wounds on his back, and he finally won the door, and then picked up the soldiers next to him, there were less than five hundred people! Seeing the enemy chasing after him, he did not dare to fight anymore and was forced to retreat to Dongguang.

The rebels chased to the foot of Dongguang City, but they did not attack the truth, they relied on the terrain to set up an ambush, and they wanted to attack the city in the short term, but they seemed to be unable to catch it and shot an arrow into the city. Xie Feng asked the literate colonel to read it to him in the army, but he was also forced to read a few words, but if he could find someone to recite it, why bother to read it himself? Those ink blots that twist and turn, I have a headache when I look at it, and then I finally understand who the thief in front of me is.

Hurriedly sent a fast horse to present the book to Luoyang.

It turned out that there was indeed no stone in Nanpi City, but Kong Chang fled here after breaking through the siege of Xiangguo and gathered to make trouble.

It should be said that the three counties facing the sea in the east of Jizhou, namely Zhangwu, Nanpi, and Leling, are relatively poor, and cannot make full use of the benefits of fish and salt, but are hindered by large areas of saline-alkali land along the coast. As a result, the counties are sparse and Bohai is relatively better, because the area is large enough, and the population in the west is slightly dense, and the wealthy families are scarce, so Kong Chang took the opportunity to occupy the weak place of local power.

Kong Chang claimed to have summoned 30,000 people into exile, occupying almost the entire Zhangwu and half of the Bohai Sea. In his letters, he claimed that in Jizhou and even in the south of Youzhou, he was familiar with geography, knew the people's feelings, raised his arms and shouted, and 100,000 people could also be killed, even if the old business of the Zhao family could not be restored, the Chinese could not be leveled in a year and a half.

He immediately asked for it to be attached, saying that as long as he forgave his past and gave him the guardian of a county, he was willing to disperse his people and surrender.

However, Pei Gai read this arrow book, but shook his head with a sneer, and said: "The rest can be forgiven, but only the Shi family, Xuan An, and Kong Chang will never be forgiven!" ”

Xuan An and Kong Chang can be said to be Shi Le's right-hand man in the military, and in the later period, a Shi Hu has always been a servant for the tiger, and theoretically he is not among the pardons. Especially if this kind of guy is willing to forgive, then who believes that my Hua is a thief in the sky, and wants to pay back a trillion of a peaceful world?

It was ordered to draw up a plan and wait for the autumn grain to be put into storage, and then it was the division of the Great Zhang Tart.

At the same time, under the leadership of Guo Mo and Yang Qing, the Pivotal Department was also planning to launch an offensive against the enemy in Hanzhong.

Moreover, it was said that Zhou Yu was dead, and the information could not be kept secret for a long time, Li Xiong was overjoyed to believe it, and immediately ordered Li Shou and Li Ban to attack Hanzhong. At the same time, Wang Xuan of Jingzhou got the news and once again made great efforts to go westward.

However, Wang Xuan and Wang Shijiang are a waste of dim sum, and they are not good at both military and political affairs, but in terms of literature and art, such as calligraphy, painting, music, poetry, etc., he is the leader of the world, so Wang Dun specially appointed Sima Chenghe to join the army Huan to assist him.

I wanted to "cross the river with five horses", but later except for Sima Rui, who still guarded Jiankang and changed the title of King Danyang, the other four kings were ordered to return to the domain, and after the Jinhua Chan Dynasty, they were all demoted to county marquis, and in fact they were monitored by Chinese officials. Only Sima Cheng has no title, and he is appointed as the county guard of Xiangyang, and he still stays in Jiangzuo. Sima Rui proclaimed himself the queen of Jin, but Sima Cheng attacked the father of King Chen.

Sima Chengben was the second son of Sima Xun, the king of Qiaogang, and Sima Xun, the king of Chending, was the younger brother and had no chance to inherit the throne, but his nephew Sima Di had been killed by Shi Le in the city of Ningping, and the lineage was severed.

Huan Zhen instigated Wang Xuan to take advantage of Zhou Wan's death to attack Hanzhong again, but Sima Cheng said: "Because of the loss of the teacher, it is indecent, and the combination with Ba Yi is not wise, and the teacher will repeat his wish to make the king not do it." "It's a pity that Wang Xuan refuses to listen to him, what happened to the prince? Their old Wang family didn't take the Sima family in their eyes, but they ordered Huan Zhen to be the vanguard, and then led the boat division westward.

It's just that the water is shallow and narrow after all, and the big ship is sad, so it can only use small boats to carry troops on land and water, and as a result, when the gold was raided by Yang Hu, Huan Zhen was shot into a hedgehog by random arrows on the spot...... The front army was almost annihilated, and Wang Xuan was so frightened that he quickly ordered a U-turn and fled back to Xiangyang in one go. Sima assumed the rank of Xinhua and chased after him, Nai Rong pretended to see Wang Xuan, but Wang Shijiang mistakenly thought that he wanted to attack him, and was so frightened that he didn't even dare to stay in Xiangyang, landed on the shore to change horses, and fled to Jiangling......

The Jingzhou soldiers were weak, but it was not, Li Shou attacked Chuyang for more than a month, and finally captured this gateway to the west of Hanzhong, and then directly forced Nanzheng. On the other hand, Li Ban recovered Hanchang and other counties, and also entered the south gate of Hanzhong and encamped at the foot of Micang Mountain. Tao Zhan and Zhou Fu repeatedly asked Luoyang for help, so the 4,000 Guanzhong army stationed at the foot of Taibai Mountain entered Hanzhong from the Baoxiao Valley, cooperated with the Hanzhong army, and fought a victory west of Baozhong, defeating Li Shou.

It's just that in this way, the Hanzhong army went from being able to launch an offensive when Zhou was alive to being able to defend strongly. Therefore, the Luoyang side ordered the cardinal department to draw up a plan, planning to send additional troops and horses into Hanzhong after the autumn harvest, in order to fully force the retreat of the Di army, the Central Plains urgently needs to recuperate, and the restoration of the land must also be slowly calmed, and there is no possibility of extinguishing Bayi for the time being, but the bridgehead of Hanzhong must be preserved.

The prime minister consulted, and they all thought that they should recuperate for a year or two, and then first level Jiankang, and then destroy Bayi, only Tao Kan proposed: "It is difficult to attack Wu Yi when it is difficult to cut down Shu, but Wu is vast, and it is difficult to determine Wu Yi because of Ping Shu." It is to destroy Bayi from the Wei and Jin dynasties, and then send troops from Liangzhou, Henan, and Huainan to sweep Jiangzuo. He invited himself to go to Hanzhong Yukou and looked for an opportunity to discuss.

(Battlefield Literature)