"You mean there are Manichaeans among the scouts? Also in the brocade guard? ”

Zhang Shu was not stupid, and when he heard Yu Jie's words, he also found that something was wrong with the situation.

"Before leaving, the adults had already said that the Manichaean uprising in Wuping and Lianzhou at the same time was obviously a long-term plan, and no one knew to what extent Guangdong and Fujian had been infiltrated by the Manichaeans. It's normal for some of these soldiers to have Manichaean people to ventilate and report to them, but is it just a brocade guard...... It's not something we should be in charge of, and I think adults will make their own arrangements. ”

Yu Jie's eyes seemed to appear in front of Qin Shou's compassionate face again, and he shook his head as if he wanted to throw Qin Shou's face out.

"Jinyi Wei ......"

Zhang Shu muttered, glanced at Yu Jie, and felt the same way.

"Manichaean spies lurk in the army, and you can't just let it go all the time."

"What if there are Manichaean spies lurking? Could it be that we can check everyone? Now that the army has arrived in Lianzhou City, if we strictly investigate the Manichaean spies, the army will definitely be fluctuating, and today has just gone through a war, if the morale of the army is shaken at this time, I am afraid that it will do us all kinds of harm and no benefit. ”

Yu Jie sighed and said helplessly.

Now the 20,000 soldiers who come to Lianzhou are basically people from the east and west of Guangnan, and there are people in various state capitals, and there are naturally those who were born in Lianzhou. It doesn't have to be that there is a problem with the box soldiers in Lianzhou, and it doesn't have to be a problem if it is not the box soldiers in Lianzhou, there are many scouts sent out, and there are also people who died in the first battle, and it is also difficult to check it now.

Of course, if you have to check, you can naturally find some clues, but in Yu Jie's opinion, this is obviously more than worth the loss.

Originally, the vast majority of soldiers did not know that Manichaeism was lurking in the army, and if the action was too big and everyone knew about it, the army's mood would not be able to let these soldiers who had managed to gather a little blood to fight.

Zhang Shu was silent for a while, the more than 1,000 people in the Beiwei army were fine, and he was really in charge of tens of thousands of troops, and Zhang Shu knew that things were far from being so simple.

"How are the casualties of the army today?"

"More than 3,000 people were injured, and I am afraid that more than 1,000 people died, and in addition to the people who died at the hands of the Manichaeans, there were not a few people who trampled on each other to death."

These numbers have been counted here before the camp, in addition to the number of beheadings, after all, it represents silver and official position, although as Zhang Shu's deputy, all the generals directly reported the casualties to him a little unruly, but it is also a matter of urgency, and there is no way to do it, Yu Jie believes that Zhang Shu himself understands.

"After all, these soldiers have never been on the battlefield before, and it is good to be able to do this, and those Manichaeans cannot be underestimated, holding ordinary sticks just by relying on those evil words to confuse the public, they can make the imperial court wear a stubborn army to suffer such heavy casualties, this time Lianzhou is in turmoil, I am afraid it will not be so easy."

Yu Jie paused for a moment and continued.

Lianzhou City, on the way here, they have received news that it has been occupied by the Manichaeans, and the Lianzhou prefect Wei Dongyi was killed by the Manichaeans, and the whole family is now unknown whether they are alive or dead. According to the news from Jinyiwei before, the Manichaeans opened the city gate inside and outside Lianzhou City, and some of the Lianzhou Xiang Army had already entered Manichaeism, and the rest were directly dismissed by Jia Yidao.

Occupying Lianzhou City, Manichaeism released more than 200,000 people, but the news from Jinyiwei is that there are nearly 50,000 Manichaeans gathered in Lianzhou City, in addition to tens of thousands of ordinary people who are coerced by Manichaeism, plus tens of thousands of people in Lianzhou City, there are almost more than 100,000 people in Lianzhou City now.

Perhaps it was because of the large army sent by the Guangdong pacification embassy to quell the rebellion, the Manichaeans in Lianzhou City did not wantonly capture the surrounding prefectures and counties, but gathered in Lianzhou City. The intention of doing this is naturally obvious, that is, the Manichaeans want to first solve the rebellion army of only 20,000 or 30,000 people in the imperial court.

"The Manichaeans want to rely on a rabble like this today to defeat our army of nearly 30,000?"

Zhang Shu sneered, but after finishing speaking, the expression on his face was a little more ugly.

is such a rabble, so that he, the master of the chaos, has completely lost his square inch, no matter what the reason is, for a long time in the future, it will be a stain on his Zhang Shu that cannot be erased at all. If it weren't for Yu Jie's strong request to follow. If he hadn't died in battle at this moment, then he would no longer have the face to see Jia Yidao, and in the same way, he would have no face to return to Yuejia Village after losing all the face of the Weijun Army.

"Manichaeism is naturally a rabble of ordinary people, but don't you forget, since Manichaeism has spies in the army, how can it not know our details? They dared to take the initiative to go out of the city to ambush us, thinking that in addition to temptation, they also had the idea that we are also a rabble. Moreover, the Manichaeans occupy Lianzhou City, do you think that with this army, we can take Lianzhou City without siege equipment? ”

Yu Jie, with a bitter smile on his face, said helplessly.

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, what is the performance of these soldiers today, Yu Jie is all in his eyes, and even the performance of the Beiwei army is actually unsatisfactory. The Beiwei army is indeed well-trained, but after all, they have never really fought with people on the battlefield before.

If it weren't for the fact that he led the Beiwei army to rush forward, I am afraid that the performance of the forward battalion was not as good as that of the Manichaean rabble, and it was normal to collapse at the first touch. There was a back-to-back army to supervise the battle, and there were more than a few steps in front to lead the back-to-back army to rush and kill, plus there was a reward for promotion and wealth, so he barely fought a miserable victory.

In the battle with the Manichaean rabble, almost a quarter of the number of people was directly reduced, and there were almost tens of thousands of Manichaeans in Lianzhou City, even if there were only die-hard people, but there were still twenty or thirty thousand.

With the city of Lianzhou in hand, Manichaeism has taken the lead. The army did not carry much siege equipment. It is basically impossible to rely on this army of more than 20,000 people, which is not much stronger than those Manichaeans, to capture Lianzhou City, which has at least more than 10,000 Manichaean diehards and more than 100,000 people.

This point, before leaving, Yu Jie's had mentioned to Jia Nidao, what if the Manichaeans had already captured Lianzhou City, but Jia Nidao still ordered the army to set off as soon as possible, and the rest did not say much.

Now it seems that the rest of the steps are in a word, and the army is in a dilemma.

"Adults never do things that they are not sure of, and you have also reminded adults that they have other arrangements to come."

Zhang Shu was silent for a moment, and out of trust in Jia Yidao, he forced a smile.

"You're right, my lord wants to have an arrangement. Therefore, you have to do this main general, and you have to rely on yourself to carry the reputation of the Wei Army. ”

Yu Jie patted Zhang Shu's shoulder and smiled.

(End of chapter)