Chapter 647: Faint Monarch and Traitor
"The Emperor is in some trouble right now."
Listening to the generals confiding their dissatisfaction for a long time, Luo Cheng finally said slowly.
A few years ago, he put his former guards generals Zhang Liang and Wang Junkuo in charge of setting up an intelligence department, Zhang Liang was full-time to investigate intelligence, and Wang Junkuo was responsible for assassination. In the past few years, Luo Cheng has thrown a lot of money into it, and Zhang Liang and the others have also done their best, so his two organizations in the dark have developed quite rapidly.
A large intelligence network has been set up, and there is a set of personnel for collection, analysis, and transmission.
Luo Cheng fought in Mayi, and he had been paying attention to the movements in Liaodong's home, the imperial court and various parts of the Central Plains through the shadow two guards.
In the past few months, Liaodong's hometown has been very quiet, and after he brought Feng Lun, Li Baiyao, Duan Da and others out, Hou Mo Chen Yi, Wei Zheng, Du Ruhui, and Fang Xuanling stayed behind, and everything was in order. The Yuan clan in the domestic city did not dare to make any changes, and everything was stable.
However, in the Central Plains, the situation is not very optimistic.
The emperor was besieged by Yanmen, and the soldiers and horses from all over the country were kings, so the Central Plains was empty, and the already chaotic Central Plains lost its bullet pressure. For a time, hundreds of ghosts walked at night, adding chaos to chaos.
Among them, Li Mi is the most eye-catching.
This guy has been silent for a few years or came out again, he first voted for Meng Rang, and then divided his troops to the north, and in a short period of time, he broke through several counties, and captured Xingyang, the eastern gate of the eastern capital, and also broke Xingluocang, the largest granary of the Sui Dynasty.
Li Mi opened a warehouse to release grain, and called on bandits from all over the world to Luoyang, and in a short period of time, the soldiers and horses grew to more than 400,000 people, which was very terrifying.
Li Mi quickly broke through Xingyang Pass, and the soldiers and horses directly arrived at the periphery of Luoyang.
The emperor was in a hurry to go south from Taiyuan, in fact, there was a big reason because Li Mi had already arrived in Luoyang City.
Although the emperor returned to the eastern capital before Li Mi broke through Luoyang, and brought back several generals, it only slightly alleviated the crisis in Luoyang.
When the emperor entered Luoyang, Li Mi took the initiative to relieve the siege of Yanshi City and retreated his soldiers and horses to the Tiger Prison Pass in Xingyang. On the surface, of course, it was the emperor's dragon power that shocked Li Mi, but Luo Cheng analyzed the intelligence.
Knowing that Li Mi is just temporarily avoiding the emperor's edge, he still controls the important fortress of Tiger Prison Pass, which means that Li Mi still has the initiative.
He can attack again at any time, or retreat.
As it turned out, Li Mi's retreat was not without effect.
As soon as he retreated, Yu Shiji and others slapped the emperor's ass, saying how the emperor was so good, scaring Li Mi and so on. On the other hand, the urgent rebellion reports from various places were sent to Beijing like snowflakes.
Yu Shiji and others continued to conceal most of the serious reports, and then found reasons to ask the emperor to let Li Jing, Xue Shixiong, and Yang Yichen return to their stations.
Yu Shiji and others asked Li Jing to go to Ping Dou Jiande, let Xue Shixiong go to Ping Wang Xuba, let Yang Yichen go to Ping Wei Dao'er, let Zhang Xutuo go to Ping Li Mi, and let Li Yuan go to Ping Mengrang.
At the same time, Pei Yun also invited the emperor to visit the Jiangdu.
In fact, several prime ministers also knew that the situation in the Central Plains was not optimistic at this time, and several large rebel armies were known as 120,000 people, especially Li Mi, who occupied the tiger prison and supported 400,000 people.
In order to avoid another siege of Luoyang like the Siege of Yanmen, they tried to find a reason to persuade the emperor to go south to Jiangdu. On the surface, they naturally went to Jiangnan to relax, but in fact, they were still very afraid of Li Mi's strength.
The Jianghuai rebellion was lighter.
On the other hand, since Xingluocang was captured by Li Mi, it is also always threatening the military and civilian grain in Luoyang City, although there is a large granary outside Luoyang City, but after Xingyang was captured by the rebels, the grain in the southeast can no longer come.
The latest news that Zhang Liang sent to Luo Cheng was that the emperor had not yet decided whether to tour the Jiangdu south, but Li Mi was already plotting to prepare for another attack.
Zhang Xutuo, the pacification envoy of Henan, had been ordered to lead his troops to crusade against Li Mi, but he only had 10,000 soldiers and horses who had returned from King Gangqin, and these soldiers and horses were very dissatisfied because they failed to get the emperor's reward, and the army had no heart to fight.
"Li Mi shouldn't be able to become the climate, right?" Song Laosheng said suspiciously, when Li Mi rebelled with Yang Xuangan before, he was killed by them.
"At that time, at this time, the situation is different. Two years ago, Yang Xuangan rebelled, shaking the world, but he couldn't conquer the Tiger Prison Pass. But this time, Li Mi broke through Xingyang County and Tiger Prison Pass in a short time, and even took Xingluocang, Li Mi now wants grain and food, soldiers and soldiers, and even there are rebellions in all parts of the world, and they are also sharing his pressure. ”
The fourth child disagreed.
"Didn't Zhang Shuai already lead his troops to crusade, Li Mi just took advantage of the opportunity of the soldiers and horses from all over the country to go north to the king of Qin, so there were no tigers in the mountains, and the monkeys were the kings. Now that Zhang Shuai is back, how many days can he still jump? ”
Luo Cheng just sighed.
After learning about the situation in Henan, Luo Cheng had already sent a letter to his teacher Zhang Xutuo as soon as possible, telling him to be careful of Li Mi. Li Mi still has the ability, he is not as brave as Yang Xuangan, but he has a lot of scheming, last time he was just a general under Yang Xuangan, but now he is the commander, and there are no restrictions on the use of troops.
In addition, there are too few soldiers around Zhang Xutuo, and the morale is not high.
All these factors can affect the outcome of the war.
Yu Shiji and other prime ministers are now busy trying to figure out how to coax the emperor to leave Luoyang and go to Jiangdu, and they want to make the emperor not know the real situation outside, so they are also working hard, how can they pay attention to Luo Cheng and others in the north.
They didn't have a good relationship with Luo Cheng in the first place, so now that Luo Yi left Beijing, they could wantonly suppress Luo Cheng.
deliberately pretended to forget the battle in Daibei, and deliberately pretended not to know that Luo Cheng and they had achieved great success.
They all knew the war situation in Daibei, but they were deliberately hiding it from the emperor, and every time they downplayed the matter, they didn't mention it if they could.
If you want them to ask for credit for Luo Cheng, it is even more impossible.
So now that Luo Cheng has won a big victory, they shouldn't know.
Originally, Luo Cheng should have been summoned south to Luoyang to give a reward, but under their interference, the emperor and the court did not react at all.
The ship of Da Sui, under the control of those rotten crews, has already entered the water and will sink soon.
"What a disappointment!"
Shan Xiongxin said, "It's so disappointing. ”
Luo Cheng put away the thoughts in his heart and smiled.
"Actually, it's not so uncomfortable, after all, we won, and we won so beautifully, our harvest is also very rich, even if there is no reward and reward from the imperial court, these trophies are enough for us to use to reward meritorious soldiers, compensate the dead in battle, and comfort the wounded soldiers."
"Anyway, this war is over, and we have won, so now we leave Daibei and we return to Liaodong, which is the home of our loyal soldiers."
"Let's go home!"