Chapter 716: Tangzhou (2)

The 20,000 people of the Shannan Army, under the leadership of Xue Hui, the general of Shannan Zhonglang, arrived in Tangzhou three days in advance. Although Tangzhou was still under the control of the imperial court, the people of Tangzhou had long dragged their families to Shannan or Jiangnan because they were afraid of the disaster of war.

The Jiangnan army camped outside the city. The 20,000 people of the Shannan Army who arrived before were all stationed in Tangzhou City under Xue Hui's order. This is also normal, and it is also where Kong Sheng's military order lies. However, many of the people in the city fled in panic, and many lawless people in the Shannan army, who did not have much military discipline to speak of, took the opportunity to loot the people's property, and many of them even broke into the houses of the people to carry out open fire and loot, causing the few people left behind in the city to complain.

Afternoon. Kong Sheng took Li Biao and Li Hu's 500 iron cavalry and more than 100 Shenlongwei soldiers into the city, and Xue Hui and other Shannan generals waited at the city gate for a long time.

"The last general will wait to meet the king of the county!" Xue Hui and the other generals bowed down, their expressions slightly respectful. Xue Hui is Xue Long's cousin, and he is also a big man above 10,000 people under one person in Shannan, although he is the deputy general of Shannan, but because Xue Long will not specifically manage military affairs, the Shannan Army is actually controlled by him, the deputy general.

This person has thin eyebrows, triangular eyes, a white beard, and a slender figure, pretending to be gentle and elegant, but giving people a gloomy atmosphere. Kong Sheng looked at the past at first glance, and his first impression of Xue Hui was not very good. However, he is the manager, and it is impossible for him to interfere with the decision-making because of his personal likes and dislikes and the appearance of his subordinates.

"The last general and others have been ordered to move to Tangzhou and take over the defense of Tangzhou, and it has been more than three days."

Kong Sheng smiled and nodded: "General Xue is exempt, wait and follow me into the city!" ”

Kong Sheng entered the city with a group of people, and just entered the city gate not far away, and walked along the central street in the city towards the county guard yamen occupied by Xue Hui. During his stay in Tangzhou for rectification, this will be Kong Sheng's temporary residence and base camp for orders.

Kong Sheng was quite dissatisfied with the Jiangnan Army along the way. Military discipline is superficial, military law is difficult to enforce, soldiers cannot endure hardships, and if the slightest march is too fast, the army's morale will be unstable, and the soldiers will complain.

If this continues, expecting such an army to confront the enemy of Fan Yang Iron Cavalry, not to mention conquering Luoyang City, is to fight against Fan Yang Iron Cavalry, it is all self-defeating.

Therefore, Kong Sheng believed that it was necessary to carry out the necessary rectification of the Jiangnan and Shannan armies in Tangzhou. The combat effectiveness will not be improved for a while and a half, but the military appearance and military discipline must keep up. Otherwise, the Northern Expeditionary Army would be like a moth to a fire when it entered the territory of Henan, and the army would be defeated like a mountain.

Halfway through the road, a shrill woman's cry for help suddenly came from the house on one side, mixed with a few rude insults and the chaotic sound of people turning over their horses. Kong Sheng frowned, stopped, glanced at Xue Hui and said coldly, "What's the matter?" ”

Xue Hui chuckled in his heart, knowing that it must be his own evil pawns who were harassing the people's houses. He has been turning a blind eye to these evil pawns for the past two days, because he thinks that the big war is coming, and it is not impossible for these soldiers who don't know if they can save their lives on the battlefield to "relax". Anyway, sooner or later, this Tangzhou will also be a battlefield of war, and these people will have to flee their homes sooner or later, and they will not be able to take away some of their family wealth.

Besides, the Shannan soldiers came to Henan to quell the rebellion, and in order to protect the people of Henan, what did they get by taking away their family wealth? The so-called upward and downward effect, Xue Hui's savior mentality invisibly affected the Shannan soldiers.

Xue Hui smiled reluctantly, and arched his hand: "The last general will send someone to take a look, and the county king, please enter the county guard mansion to rest first!" ”

Kong Sheng shook his head and glanced at Rayong.

Luo Yong nodded knowingly, and immediately led his Shenlong Wei Fei to leave. Not long after, there was a more fierce fighting sound in that private house, Luo Yong's angry rebuke was clearly audible, Kong Sheng's face sank, and Xue Hui's face became even more ugly.

Kong Sheng took the lead and went straight into the house.

In a small mansion, more than a dozen Shannan warriors were untidy in armor, carrying pockets of various looted property, confronting Rayong's Shenlong guards, and the conflict was imminent.

An old woman in her fifties and a girl of thirteen or fourteen years old fell to their knees with mournful faces, choked up and fell to the ground.

Kong Sheng said in a deep voice: "Rayong, why is this? ”

Luo Yong took a deep breath: "King of the county, these Shannan soldiers ignore military discipline, wantonly break into people's houses, fight with open fire, rob the people's property, the last general does not listen, and they want to fight with the last general and Shenlongwei with weapons, it is simply audacious!" ”

Kong Sheng's angry gaze was projected on a Shannan evil pawn who was leading the way in the courtyard, and Xue Hui jumped in with an arrow and reprimanded: "Presumptuous! Dare to rob the people's property, the crime is not punishable! Come on, take these bastards down on Ben General! ”

This group of evil soldiers of the Shannan Army didn't take Luo Yong's people in their eyes, how did they know about the existence of Shenlongwei, anyway, they only recognized Xue Hui and their bosses, and the others didn't pay attention to them.

But Xue Hui broke in and scolded him angrily, and these people knew that they were in trouble.

Xue Hui ordered people to take away these robbers, and then he smiled and asked Kong Sheng for his guilt: "The king of the county, it is the last general who has no way to govern the army, which leads to the evil pawns to loot the people's property, please rest assured that the last general will definitely punish him severely!" ”

Kong Sheng nodded slowly, this is not a big deal, he will not be angry with Xue Hui because of this. He walked over slowly, leaned down and comforted the weeping old woman and said, "Old man, you can take inventory, if you are missing half of your belongings, you can go to the county guard yamen to find me, this is my name." ”

The old woman wiped a handful of tears, looked at Kong Sheng suspiciously, saw him smiling, noble temperament, guessed that it must be a big man in the official army, and then thanked Liansheng to take the post.

Xue Hui raised his eyebrows when he looked at it.

Kong Sheng turned his head and glanced at Xue Hui: "General Xue, we are officers and soldiers, not bandits and robbers. It is a big taboo for officials and soldiers to plunder people's property and harass people's homes. This king suggests that you deal with it strictly and severely, and strictly prevent such disturbances from occurring. ”

Xue Hui smiled and promised, but in his heart he didn't think so.

After Kong Sheng entered the city, order in the city became orderly. Because of the existence of Kong Sheng, the incident of evil soldiers disturbing the people in the Shannan army has been greatly reduced, and after Kong Sheng's two notices to the people were issued, the people in the city gradually settled down, not to mention those who had fled, and the people who were ready to flee were ready to wait and see for a while. The people in the city were stable, and the shops began to open for business, and the deserted Tangzhou City gradually returned to its former prosperity.

Li Biao, Li Hu, Wu Xian, Wu Xian, these fierce generals under Kong Sheng, were ordered to go deep into the army to rectify the whole army, and the various scouts sent by Kong Sheng also dived into the depths of Henan at the first time, and even according to Yang Tong's suggestion, Kong Sheng decided to combine the Shannan and Jiangnan armies together, break the original structure, and reintegrate into infantry battalions, cavalry battalions and bow battalions. This took the basic method of his military training in Xiayi.

But this line of thinking caused Xue Hui and Jiang Nanjun to secretly resist and reject. In fact, there are some differences between the Shannan Army and the Jiangnan Army, Kong Sheng is in Jiangnan, and his authority has long been implemented to every Jiangnan Army soldier, but the Shannan Army does not have too deep perception of Kong Sheng and the so-called imperial commander-in-chief Shannan Jiangnan Military and Political Affairs, and Kong Sheng's deterrent power in the Shannan Army is far from enough.

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