Chapter 69: A gloomy sigh

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In the middle of the night, Wei Yunyue took back Dragon City without blood, but he burned all the letters replied by the other party. As for the letter he wrote to the other party, one is not his handwriting, and the other is not his sigil, and he can die without admitting it.

The rebels were still crossing the river late at night, and the torches on both sides were as bright as day. Peng Cheng turned a blind eye. When Cui Deben received a report from his subordinates, he had already guessed that there was a bigwig in the Wei Mansion who wanted to fall into Dong Chun's ground, so he simply didn't show his head. In fact, it is not his turn to take care of the affairs of the military, so why bother with a mouse and meddle in it?

Dong Jun asked Wei Yunyue three times and twice, and Wei Yunyue just said, a certain official is small, and people are not birds, what can I do?

Dong Jun was so angry that he wanted to crack, but he was helpless. You don't dare to come out as a commander, you hide in the city and don't come out, of course you can not be a subordinate? It wasn't until midnight that Wei Yunyue said one more word, a certain person had already entered Longcheng, and the other party crossed the river and left.

After crossing the river, the rebels did not dare to delay and went north overnight.

Peng Cheng was the biggest obstacle to the eastward advance of the righteous army, and Li Fengyun was even prepared for the worst when he lost more than half of his losses. This kind of luck is not available every day, Li Fengyun knows it, and the soldiers of the righteous army also know it, all of them run forward with all their strength regardless of fatigue. Further on, there is only one last obstacle left, Tengcheng Yingyang Mansion.

From Pengcheng to Qilu is a spacious avenue, and there are post stations every thirty miles on both sides of the avenue. Li Fengyun ordered to cut off the post station transmission, take people away and snatch the horses away every time he arrived at a post station, and try his best to prevent Peng Cheng from passing the order to Tengcheng Yingyang Mansion, of course, the premise is that what Wei Yunyue said is true, otherwise it will be another matter.

After Peng Cheng suddenly appeared and left the army non-stop, some people were happy and some were worried, but soon a thunderous news made Peng fall into panic.

Dong Chun's 100,000 rushed to send a message to Pengcheng, and the traitors escaped from the encirclement, attacked Yongcheng for the second time, and fled to Pengcheng County, and it is very likely that they fled east to Qilu and fled into Mengshan. If the traitors are allowed to flee through Pengcheng, the military and political officials of Pengcheng will inevitably be guilty of dereliction of duty, and Dong Chun will be even more guilty. Therefore, Dong Chun ordered the county government and the Wei government to work together to intercept the traitors in Pengcheng County at any cost, and not let them escape into Lu County. Lu County belongs to the Qilu region, not in Dong Chun's military area, once the traitor escapes into Lu County, even if it is close at hand, Dong Chun has no choice, he and his army cannot cross the border without authorization, otherwise they will be complicit in rebellion.

Considering that the traitors robbed the heavy fleet, not only light and heavy weapons, but also armor and uniforms, the traitors attacked Yongcheng for the second time, and one of the traitors wore Yingyang uniforms, and it was for this reason that the county guard had a misunderstanding, so he flew to Dong Chun and scolded him badly, otherwise Dong Chun is still in the area of Weishui and Yingshui, like ants on a hot pot looking for traitors. Since the county guard of Qian County was misunderstood because of this, Peng Cheng may also have a misunderstanding and let go of the traitor, so Dong Chun specially issued a warning.

However, the degree of eastward advance of the righteous army was much faster than the degree of transmission of Dong Chun's orders. Pengcheng was indeed misunderstood because the rebels were wearing eagle uniforms and holding sharp weapons, but who would have thought that Dong Chunhui, a veteran of a hundred battles, would stumble and plant a big root on the domestic counterinsurgency battlefield and be tricked by a group of unknown bandits? If you can think of it, everyone can also be careful and vigilant, and maybe you can see the enemy.

In fact, what really led to this evil result was the fierce contradiction within Pengcheng that Dong Chun was worried about, which not only made Pengcheng let go of the traitor, but also after the truth was revealed, Pengcheng County Cheng Cui Deben and Peicheng Yingyanglang Wei Yunyue, in order to reduce their responsibilities to the greatest extent, without exception adopted an attitude of non-cooperation with the Wei government. The reason is very simple, the Wei Mansion bears the greatest responsibility in this matter, if the Wei Mansion remediates in time, makes amends, and encircles and annihilates the traitors at the last moment, the Wei Mansion has the opportunity to atone for its crimes, and will definitely try its best to shirk its responsibilities and drag Cui Deben and Wei Yunyue into the water together. On the contrary, by letting the traitor go and putting Wei Fu to death, so that Dong Chun, Dong Jun's uncle and nephew did not even have a chance to resist, Cui Deben and Wei Yunyue could take the opportunity to fall into the well, beat the water dogs, and put all the blame on Wei Fu to alleviate their own dereliction of duty.

The rebel army rushed north along the avenue, and rushed in the direction of Lu County day and night, and the army passed Yongxing County on this day, and there were only more than 100 miles away from Lu County.

Zuo Xiaowei's general Dong Chun and Wu Benlang's Liang Dezhong were also in a hurry to go north, day and night, and on this day they crossed the Tongji Canal and Suishui, and there were still more than 150 miles away from Pengcheng.

On this night, Dong Chun was in Fuli County and received a secret letter from Dong Jun. The thing that Dong Chun most didn't want to see was inevitable. The county guard of Qian County regarded the traitor as the Eagle Yang Guard, and the Pengcheng Wei Mansion and the county government also regarded the traitor as the Eagle Yang Wei, and the traitor sang a triumphant song, crossed Peng Cheng without danger, and fled.

Extrapolating from the point of view of time, both sides did not have a moment's delay, they were marching day and night, and the distance between them was always three or four hundred miles, that is to say, unless Dong Chun and Liang De were flying in the sky with their wings, they would not be able to catch up with the traitor no matter what. As for the Yingyang Mansion in Fujicheng, or the places such as Fan County, Xue County, and Chang Xi on the northeast border of Pengcheng, it is estimated that after the traitors deliberately destroyed the post stations along the way, they completely cut off the connection with Pengcheng, and they did not know that the army they saw wearing Yingyang uniforms was a traitor from Qian County. If the traitors knew that they were in control of their victory and took the opportunity to burn and plunder, then these border counties and towns would most likely be severely damaged.

Dong Chun was angry and helpless, and finally turned into a gloomy sigh. This is an incredible thing, not to say that he himself does not believe it, his political enemies do not believe it, and the Eastern Capital and the emperor do not believe it even more, they will think that this is Dong Chun's deliberate act, with some ulterior political purpose. Maybe Dong Chun thinks that this matter is his shame, a great shame, and he still let the traitor escape after paying a heavy price, but once the truth is placed in a specific context and is related to complex politics and interests, then there will be countless interpretations of the truth, and each interpretation is getting farther and farther away from the real truth.

The current background is the Eastern Crusade, and the war is just an extension of the political system and a means to solve the political problem, so tracing back to the source, the core of the current political policy of this dynasty is reform, and it is difficult to reform from the "gate lord clan" to the "centralized system".

Since the Wei and Jin dynasties, Middle-earth has fallen into a long-term division, and the clan government of the gate lord clan has risen in Middle-earth and lasted for more than 400 years. Now that Middle-earth is unified, the two generations of emperors and reformist forces have been doing their best to rebuild the centralized system, but the resistance encountered is unimaginable, because this is directly related to the possession of power and wealth by the gate lord clan, if the power and wealth of Middle-earth are concentrated in the emperor and the center, then what should the gate lord clan do? The first emperor reformed by moderate means, but the results were limited. After inheriting the great unification, the present party was determined to carry out reforms and accelerated the pace of reform by radical means, with the result that all kinds of contradictions intensified in an all-round way, and the conflicts between reformers and conservatives became increasingly intense.

If the emperor and the reformist forces want to promote and complete the reform, they must first have a stable domestic and foreign environment. The country is unified, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the environment is very good. Abroad, there was a great threat from the northern captives, especially the Turks, so it was necessary to wage war to contain and alleviate the threat of the northern captives to Middle-earth, so the emperor began to prepare for war, such as repairing the Great Wall to strengthen the defenses, and building canals to ensure north-south transportation. Then the emperor moved to the west, destroyed Tuyuhun, and stabilized the west. Now it is necessary to launch an eastward crusade to destroy Goguryeo in order to stabilize the situation in the Far East. When the situation in the west and the Far East is stabilized, we can concentrate our forces on dealing with the desert and the east, which is growing stronger. The Turkic threat to Middle-earth was nipped in the bud.

Waging a foreign war with the strength of the whole country can be imagined as the loss of national strength and the harm to the general public. The national strength is exhausted, the general public is scarred, how can the gate lord clan be left alone? Therefore, the conservative forces in the court were resolutely opposed to the emperor and the reformers starting one war after another. The sudden loss of the imperial succession to the emperor by Yang Xuan, the king of Qi, originated from the political struggle between reformers and conservatives.

In this political background, a rebellion broke out in the Xuyu area, and the traitors repeatedly cut off the canal and waterway, and Dong Chun was ineffective in fighting the rebellion, not only failed to kill the traitors, but let the traitors flee to Qilu, and the reasons behind it are clear at a glance. You, Dong Chun, are conservatives in the court, and you oppose the Eastern Crusade, so even though you rebelled, sheltered the traitors, and tried to prevent the emperor and the central government from carrying out the Eastern Crusade.

Dong Chun was angry that the means used by political opponents were too despicable, and they could be described as doing everything they could, which made people unable to guard against it; Dong Chun felt deeply helpless that in order to ensure that the Eastern Crusade began as scheduled, and to ensure that the domestic political situation was stable during the Eastern Crusade, the political enemies in the court wanted to drive themselves out of Xuzhou, drive them out of the army, and deprive themselves of their military power at any cost; Dong Chun sighed gloomily that the opponent's plan succeeded, they successfully drove themselves out of Xuzhou and deprived themselves of their military power, so it is not difficult to think of the strength of the opponent, the Eastern Crusade is in fact unstoppable, and Middle-earth will have to pay an unimaginably huge price for it.

It was a foregone conclusion, and Dong Chun also lost the motivation to suppress the thief, but what made him deeply ashamed was that he had fought all his life, and he had planted a big heel when he was about to die, and he didn't even know who his opponent was.

The thief must be found, and you must know who the thief is.

Dong Chun returned to Pengcheng, and while reporting to the Eastern Capital, he hurriedly wrote to the county guard of Lu County, briefly describing the process of a group of Xuzhou thieves entering Lu County. This gang of thieves is cunning and cruel, and it will have a heavy impact on the situation in Lu County and even Qilu, so Dong Chun warned the county guard of Lu County that in order to prevent trouble, it is better to kill this gang of thieves, once they are allowed to flee to Mengshan to form a climate, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Due to the fact that the rebels cut off the post station transmission, the Fujicheng Yingyang Mansion failed to receive the order of the Pengcheng Wei Mansion, and remained in its own camp, and did not know anything about the rebels who were fleeing from Pengcheng County in the north. The rebels feared that they would be blocked by the Fujishiro Eagle Yang Mansion. The soldiers and the old and weak women and children who marched with the army ran for more than 400 miles in three days, almost sleepless, and the spirit was already exhausted, and there was no combat effectiveness at all, so Li Fengyun led the army to leave the avenue after finding a suitable guide, avoiding the Fujicheng Pass, passing through the trail, from the direction of Gushan, Taoshan, and Hexiang, over the mountains and mountains, and entering the territory of Gucheng in Lu County.

Li Fengyun ordered to find a secluded place, set up camp, and rest for a day. and sent scouts to investigate the military situation in Zoushan County of Lu County and Tengcheng and Fan County of Pengcheng County.

Soon, a group of scouts who went to Zou Mountain to inquire about the military situation brought back a group of shepherds, and this group of shepherds immediately attracted Li Fengyun's attention, and he ordered Xu Shisan to immediately bring this group of shepherds to the big tent, and he wanted to interrogate them personally.