Chapter 181: Dark Clouds Top
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Jiyin County Taishou Wei Baoluan retreated to Jiyang City, and made every effort to defend the injustices and Jiyin line, and at the same time 100,000 people rushed to the eastern capital, and asked for help from the surrounding Xingyang, Dongjun and Liang counties.
The injustice and Jiyang are both on the north bank of the Jishui River, both of which are important towns in the west of Jiyin County, of which the injustice is only a few dozen miles away from Jiyin City, and it can't resist the attack of the Righteous Army Alliance at all, and Jiyang is more than 100 miles away from Jiyin City, such a long distance can play an effective buffer role, but Jiyin County currently has only one regiment of Eagle Yangwei, and dozens of township regiments and sects that have withdrawn from the first line of towns and towns in Jiyin and He, and there are only more than 1,000 people in total, even if they are all placed in Jiyang, they can't resist the attack of the Righteous Alliance.
However, once Jiyang fell, the Gyeonggi-shaped shì became severe, and the safety of the river and the Tongji Canal was severely threatened.
From Jiyang to the west more than ten miles into the territory of Dongjun and Liang County, the boundary line of these two counties is the Jishui River, and then along this boundary line to the west more than 100 miles into the territory of Xingyang, once into the territory of Xingyang, the first encounter is the trench defense line around the Great Gyeonggi, and along this line of defense less than 100 miles north is the big river, and dozens of miles south is the Tongji Canal.
Wei Baoluan directly retreated to Jiyang, which threatened Xingyang, Dongjun and Liangjun with the security of Gyeonggi and the waterway, forcing them to send troops for help. If the righteous army has always burned and plundered in the territory of Jiyin County, of course these three counties can stand by and watch, it is not their business, hang high, it's just that once the righteous army captures Jiyang and kills the Tianqian defense line along the Jishui River, it will inevitably burn the war into the three counties at the same time, and then the three counties will be passive, and in the end, even if they defeat the righteous army without danger, how can the emperor and the center let them go? The "culprit" Wei Baoluan cannot escape responsibility, and the magistrates of the three counties are also difficult to escape.
Wei Baoluan calculated well, however, the situation unfolded much more than he expected. He had just taken a breath in Jiyang when he received the latest news that after the white thieves captured Jiyin City, they opened a warehouse to release grain as soon as possible to help the victims.
How much grain is in the Jiyin warehouse, Wei Baoluan knows very well. Affected by the floods last year, the grain was not harvested at all, and it was impossible to meet the needs of the Eastern Crusade, so there was no choice but to call the inventory, but this was at the cost of giving up disaster relief, and giving up disaster relief directly led to a large number of deaths of the victims, the fields were barren, the contradictions between the government and the people intensified, and the traitors were everywhere. But if it is used to help the victims, it will be a drop in the bucket, and it will be gone in an instant.
The victims are now like hungry wolves, irrational, and if you close the gates of the city and refuse to give them help, you will cut off their hope, and put them to death, but you will be able to save yourself, but on the contrary, you will open the gates of the city, give them help, give them hope, but then because the food is gone, and you will not give them, and you will put them in a place of despair, it will inevitably provoke their monstrous anger, and the result will be catastrophic.
The white thief is crazy, the thief is crazy, he is so stupid, he is a cocoon to bind himself, and he brings about his own destruction. When Wei Baoluan heard the news, his first reaction was to gloat. No matter what the purpose of the thief is to open a warehouse and release grain, whether it is mercy and sympathy, whether it is to win the name of benevolence and righteousness, or to win the hearts of the people, it is an extremely unwise move, and it is simply not self-sufficient.
Why did the white thief make such a decision when he was in a good situation? Overflowing with compassion? Or is it a hot head? Or, is there something else going on? After Wei Baoluan gloated, he couldn't help but think deeply, and after this deep thought, he suddenly realized that the problem was strict. Dogs are anxious to jump over the wall, not to mention those ferocious traitors, once the food is gone, into a desperate situation, of course they will continue to attack, continue to burn, kill and plunder, and those who have completely lost their minds and are aroused by the traitors' monstrous anger will inevitably follow, so that hundreds of thousands or even millions of crazy people will emerge on both sides of the Jishui River overnight, they will be like a flood bursting the embankment, setting off earth-shattering waves, drowning a qiē, devouring a qiē, destroying a qiē.
The devil, the white thief is a devil who rushed out of hell, under his control, the Central Plains will usher in a terrible bloody storm, and countless living beings will be wiped out in this storm.
Jiyang couldn't hold it. Wei Baoluan fell into despair and terror, and once again asked for help from the eastern capital and the surrounding three counties. The white thief opened the warehouse and released the grain, he stood at the peak of morality, won the trust and expectation of all the victims, he exchanged the limited grain for the unlimited army, and the Nakahara shì was taking a sharp turn.
Wei Baoluan's estimate of the situation was already pessimistic, but the degree of deterioration of the shape was far greater than he expected. Just one night later, the bad news came, the grievances fell, and the rebels rushed to Jiyang like a roaring flood with countless victims.
At the same time, Zhai Rang and Wagang Zhuxiong also received this news.
About dozens of miles away from the north of Jiyang City is the place where the Yellow River is the old road, there is a manor here, and the owner of the manor is Jiyang Haowang Wang Yaohan and Wang Bodang brothers.
Since Li Fengyun commanded the Southwest Lu Righteous Army Alliance to march westward into the Central Plains, Zhai Rang and Wagang Zhuxiong realized that the situation in Henan would deteriorate rapidly, and the Eastern Capital Army was very likely to go out of Beijing to fight the rebellion, and the official army's garrison of Tongji Canal and Dahe would also be very strict, and the living environment of the Wagang Army would become worse and worse, so they decisively withdrew from the front line of Tongji Canal and secretly assembled in the Yellow River between Dongjun and Jiyin County, and were active in the Wagang, Kuangcheng and Jiyang areas, so as to respond to sudden changes in the situation at any time.
The Wagang people were very angry about the attack on the Central Plains by the Southwest Lu Rebels, not only because the Qi people's hands were too long and they had crossed the border, which had threatened their survival, but also burned the war to Henan, bringing a terrible catastrophe to the Henan people, especially the innocent victims who were struggling on the line of life and death.
The Eastern Expedition will inevitably win, this is the consensus of the Wagang people, and from this consensus to deduce the future situation, it is not difficult to see that once the expeditionary force returns to fight the thieves, the Wagang people, as Henan thieves who directly affect the security of Gyeonggi, must be the key target of the official army, so Zhai Rang never dared to openly raise the flag to rebel, even if the disaster spread, after starvation, he gritted his teeth and insisted, to loot the Tongji Canal to relieve the victims, although this does not help alleviate the disaster, and is unable to save hundreds of thousands or even millions of victims, However, it can win the "favor" of the government and local forces, and establish a certain "tacit understanding", and this "tacit understanding" is the most basic condition for Zhai Rang and Wagang people to struggle to survive when the expeditionary force returns to carry out large-scale rebellion.
However, Zhai Rang and Wagang Zhuxiong's vision for the future was shattered by Li Fengyun and the Southwest Lu Rebel Alliance, which made them furious, especially when they received the news that Li Fengyun had opened a warehouse in Jiyin to release grain, they were even more stunned, and they hated to dismantle Li Fengyun into eight pieces.
From the standpoint of the government, Li Fengyun is a thief, everything Li Fengyun stole is stolen goods, and anyone who shares the stolen goods is also a thief. The victims were originally good citizens, but as long as they accepted Li Fengyun's relief, it was equivalent to sharing the stolen goods, and their identities quickly changed from a good citizen to a thief, and they were also heinous traitors. Hundreds of thousands of victims have become hundreds of thousands of traitors, then the eastern capital will never give any more relief, and the local government will no longer give any sympathy, and the officials and soldiers will raise their weapons and kill unscrupulously, and kill with peace of mind and righteousness, because they kill thieves who everyone has to kill.
Li Fengyun's opening of the warehouse and releasing grain, from a moral point of view, from the standpoint of the victims, he is doing good deeds and rescuing people, but from the standpoint of the government, from the point of view of the law, he is a crime, he not only kills people and oversells goods, destroys social stability, but also drags countless kind and ignorant victims into the water, putting countless innocent people to death, the crime is extremely heinous, and the crime is unforgivable.
The people of Wagang have reason to believe that Li Fengyun's move was deliberate, that he was too vicious, and that he deliberately used innocent victims to charge into battle for him and make meaningless sacrifices.
The food in the Jiyin treasury is very limited, and it is even difficult to maintain the combat needs of the rebel army, that is to say, Li Fengyun actually does not have the conditions to open a warehouse and release grain, but in order to continue to attack the Central Plains and expand the army without limit, he won the hearts of the people of Henan by opening a warehouse and releasing grain, and then deceived hundreds of thousands of victims to rebel with him, burn and loot together, and the final result must be that Li Fengyun exchanged the white bones of Henan people for his survival.
Zhai let out his anger, but the fact is already there, anger has no meaning, and it can't solve any problems, the most urgent thing at the moment is to find a countermeasure, do everything possible to reverse the situation, and do everything possible to save more innocent lives.
"Ming Gong, now there is no other way but to raise the flag." Bing Yuanzhen's expression was stern, and his tone was even more unquestionable, "With the reputation of Ming Gong in Henan, as long as you raise the flag and shout, Bing will gather." Only in this way can the Ming Gong gather the largest number of Henan people under the Wagang banner in the shortest possible time, and can protect the Henan people as much as possible, otherwise, not to mention those disaster victims, even we, the Wagang people, will be swallowed up by the storm set off by Li Fengyun. ”
"What problems can be solved by raising the flag?" Wang Ruxin shook his head and sighed bitterly, "After the Weifu Army returns to the Central Plains after the Eastern Expedition, what will we do?" Taking a step back, even if we formed an alliance with Li Fengyun, fought side by side with the Qi people, and persevered, but because the war swept Henan, coupled with the raging natural disasters, the population plummeted, and the fields were barren. Where will we go to find food next year? ”
Wang Ruxin's point of view is very realistic, as far as the current situation in Henan is concerned, if you want to save the common people, you can only rely on the support of the Eastern Capital, and although the Eastern Capital has the intention of using natural disasters to attack the local forces in Henan, it will never let the disaster worsen, so that the lives will be ruined, and the morally embattled dilemma, so the people of Henan have always pinned their last hope on the Eastern Capital and the government.
"Li Fengyun is here, the flames of war have burned to Henan, and it is purely self-deception to hope for the eastern capital." Shan Xiongxin looked angry and said sharply, "Li Fengyun's move is to force us to rebel, and the future situation is obvious, whether we openly raise the flag to rebel or not, we will be the target of Dong." Since it's all death anyway, what are you hesitating about? Raise the flag, fight side by side with Li Fengyun, and kill the eastern capital. ”