Chapter 914: Provisional Standoff 14
The sky in the city of Los Angeles turned slightly white again,
"How many ran again last night......
The movements of the night one after another, the tossed glasses full of bloodshot Uncle Zhang, can't wait to inquire.
"Shangyang Palace and Beiyuan in the west of the city are better,"
"Copper camels, jade chickens, cultivation, and rich exchanges are all missing, and I'm afraid there are no three or four thousand of them......"
"The specific number of the remaining defense areas has not been fully checked and counted......
"Please rest assured ......"
An old counselor with a gray beard said slowly.
"The deserters are mainly newly recruited and trained ...... regiments"
"The armies and departments of this formation are still at peace ...... people's hearts"
"The military generals who are on the front line of defense are also powerful, and they are not afraid of changes in the army for the time being."
Uncle Zhang frowned, but he still couldn't help but not reprimand him on the spot, this kind of obviously exaggerated and optimistic rhetoric.
As soon as this precedent came out and opened a hole in the army, how could it be so easy to block, for the sake of the generals, they had to calculate the worst situation and possibility as much as possible. It is only for the sake of avoiding the need to shake and affect the morale of the military that it cannot be refuted in public.
However, this method also indirectly confirms and exposes the fact that it seems that the opposing Southern Army has also encountered some kind of difficulties, and in the case of launching an offensive by force, it has turned to this kind of gentle means of recruiting in front of the formation to weaken its own side in disguise.
If it weren't for the fact that the Battle of Luodu in the Northern Expedition was too tragic, and the Southern Army, which was corrupted by military discipline and wanton indulgence, was also particularly poisonous to the residents of the city.
If we really leave it alone or maintain the status quo, I am afraid that this momentum and trend of fleeing will eventually spread and spread to the various armies that have a close relationship with the local area.
"Immediately adjust the subordinates in front of the army"
Thinking of this, he categorically decided to make amends
"Since the first year of Tianguang (the empress succeeded to the throne)), the household registration that moved into the city of Nakto,"
"All of them will be transferred to the rear...... Reorganize and reorganize ......"
"Use the old household registration in the city to recruit the newly recruited army as a reserve for the front-line armies."
"It is said that all three roads are deployed, and they are ...... in daily operation arrangements"
"Give priority to the use of soldiers from Hedong and Western military backgrounds to patrol the frontier ......"
"Signs have been discovered, and they will be immediately detained on the spot awaiting trial......"
"No......"
Left and right have been ordered to go. ……
And on the position of the Southern Army, some of the prisoners of the Northern Army who had shouted were also eating with their heads buried in their heads, and they even wanted to eat their fingers with their fingers.
After being disarmed on the spot, the northern soldiers who fled one after another ate a full meal of wheat rice, salt vegetables, miso soup, and tofu as they wished, and then they were escorted out of the position.
What awaited them was a relatively heavy amount of enclosure and a reduced standard of basic food rations; After all, the food of the girder in front of the army did not come out of thin air.
But compared to the days of starvation and frequent interruptions in the camp of the Northern Army, it is better than a complete break of the word.
Therefore, in the private arrangement of the front marshal, some of the prisoners who had been specially selected after observation were also sporadically put back to the opposite side, so as to use this as an opportunity to attract more deserters.
According to the prior agreement and promise, as long as these people can bring in more than five fugitives, they will be exempted from the heavy labor and supervision in the army, and if the upper limit of five heads is exceeded, they can also be rewarded and placed according to the situation.
The higher the identity and rank of the head recruited, the more generous the rewards can be.
In the days that followed, although a considerable number of those who were released back one after another were found or killed on the spot because they were not secretive or could not justify themselves;
However, the remaining fish that slipped through the net still caused varying degrees of chaos and considerable scale of trouble to the camp of the Northern Army under the condition that the flowers could not bloom and the willows were planted unintentionally.
Obviously, did the high-level of the middle road army led by Wang Duanchen have been able to expect that such an impromptu off-the-plate move and a small episode promoted by the gap between the battlefields will produce gains and progress of different scales on the front of the two armies at the same time.
For example, perhaps Yang Si, the last military secretary of the Northern Dynasty, once again felt that his opportunity had come again.
At least, in the process of deserters appearing at the front and patrolling to capture and flee, he was able to resume most of the secret communication channels with those people in the Southern Dynasty after being interrupted.
Of course, on the bright side, he has lived in Hanjiacang City for a long time in the fraud case, and has been rewarded and promoted to the title of the Generalissimo of the World's Soldiers and Horses; It's just that even a discerning person can see that the gold content of the official position and power that this court, which is about to be forced to the last step of exhaustion, is just a kind of comfort that is better than nothing.
It is said that in the city squares of Beicheng that have not yet fallen, those military and civilian people who have long been looted and cannot live can survive have handed over the vast majority of young and middle-aged people to accept unified management; In order to be unable to survive the torment of a shriveled stomach, they sent their wives, daughters and sisters to the nearest military camp to "take the initiative to ****", just to be able to get a thin porridge mixed with sand to satisfy their stomachs.
As a small number of insiders in the upper echelons, when the situation has reached this point, those people in the country and the DPRK openly advocate that people should not be haste, be patient, and endure and support some hope and turnaround, but they are just the moon in the water and the flower in the mirror to fill the hunger.
Although there is still food in the official warehouses and military lands, people are still starving to death in the city, and from time to time mutilated bones are found, in remote corners or forgotten ruins.
Of course, the time that can be given to him to choose and turn around is becoming less and less, and it is becoming more and more cramped.
Although with the urgency and urgency of the war, the forces originally stationed in the Great Inner Forfeit were constantly drawn out, and as the forces and backbones considered reliable by the Generalissimo's Office, they were strengthened and enriched into the armies, and gradually emptied;
But beside the young empress, he was still strictly watched by the regent's cronies, and there was not much opportunity to take advantage of it, and he only came to replace a few temple people who could communicate and carry things............
Huaidong
In the courtyard at the end of summer, there are still hot and weak cicadas chirping,
As the mascot in the Huaidong Army, Schrödinger, a gray cat dressed in uniform, was pulling a large black object, and then scratched, scratched, torn and bitten, and found that he was really helpless, so he showed a kind of disgusted expression, and jumped on the branch with his tail wagging his tail, and climbed without a trace in a blink of an eye.
"What is this......
The person who snuggled up to me and read a book asked with some confusion.
"It's ugly...... Can you really eat it?"
"This is a new product of the logistics department, the so-called sauce meat ...... that has just been mass-produced."
I smiled.
"Pork belly strips marinated in local miso"
"As long as you slice it thinly, you can stew it with wine and vegetables......
"The key is that no matter how hot the weather is, it can be put on for a long time without fear of moldy worm......s."
"If you're greedy, it's okay......"
Then I waved my hand again, and a moment later someone brought me a basket of food that still smelled hot and cooked meat
"This is one of the letters that the Dapeng bird sent me back in Cangzhou, Hebei Province."
"The famous donkey meat is burned......"
Strictly speaking, this thing was not sent by him, but was actually sent back together with more than a dozen cooked chefs and apprentices who are good at making donkey meat and roasted donkey meat, and the finished products were made from local materials in Huaidong.
In addition to Yue Pengju, who was placed in Cangzhou alone, he was able to show his strength in Hebei, disturbing the situation in a huge area with a small number of troops, angrily brushing up on the miscellaneous troops in those places, and desperately driving away Zhang Bangchang's relatively empty rear territory; In addition to the series of good news for the new civil engineering project of dredging and connecting the Cangzhou Canal, it is a disguised escort.
In addition, the Silla domain has also made progress and good news.
Before leaving, Wu Jue, the chief instructor in Gwangju, used a small number of Huaidong soldiers and most of the locally trained directly subordinate vassal soldiers to fight a beautiful ambush in the western governor's palace of the Baekje Kingdom in the mountains near Gyeongsang-do.
Use a small number of firearms and firecrackers to bluff in front of the enemy, and then use a large group of men and horses to attack the enemy line from the flanks and rear, and kill the opponent to the ground.
Nearly 10,000 were killed on the spot and disarmed, and the number of escapees was several times greater; He also beheaded the so-called deputy governor of Zhenxi who led the troops, and after two knots, he took a large number of assassins of various names, grass-headed official positions and indiscriminate military positions of generals and others;
The so-called tentative counteroffensive that the post-Baekje state had easily organized came to an end, and in a short period of time, it did not dare to have the heart to attack the territory of the Huaidong Army.