What is the purpose of Chapter 98?

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Meng Rang broke through to the south with more than 2,000 men, but he did not enter Mengshan, did not even cross the Surabaya River into Biancheng, but temporarily stationed himself in a secluded river valley downstream of Sushui on the grounds that the army was exhausted and in urgent need of rest.

The reason is self-explanatory, Meng Rang was worried that he would be swallowed by the Xuzhou rebels.

The Xuzhou Righteous Army has occupied Mengshan, and its strength is obviously stronger than the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army, and the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army is forced to be divided into two because of the need for survival, and Meng Rang is only a partial division, and the fierce battle in Yangguan for several days, the casualties are large, coupled with the lack of food and clothing, the morale is low, and it is not the opponent of the Xuzhou Righteous Army at all. Although at the moment of life and death of the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army, the Xuzhou Righteous Army took the initiative to go north to respond, but the two sides were very unfamiliar and did not understand each other, especially the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army, which was the weaker side, had been struggling the life and death line since the flag was raised, and the vigilance was very strong, always guarding against being "eaten" by others, so before the wound was not healed, before the body was not restored, and before the Xuzhou Righteous Army did not have a comprehensive understanding, the trust between the two sides was extremely limited. This is the reason why Meng Rang did not dare to enter Mengshan rashly, or even cross the Surabaya River rashly.

Li Fengyun was a little depressed.

Before he left Bian Cheng to go north to meet the Changbai Mountain rebels, he had secretly told Han Yao and Chen Rui, asking them to prepare to annex the Changbai Mountain rebels by force, but Meng Rang seemed to see through his thoughts, not only politely refused Li Fengyun's invitation to enter Mengshan, but even the Surabaya River was unwilling to cross lightly, which made Li Fengyun's annexation plan impossible to perform.

It's just that it can't be annexed, Li Fengyun doesn't care, on the contrary, he appreciates Meng Rang's vigilant behavior, and carefully sails the boat for ten thousand years, this Meng Rang is very scheming, and scheming is the basic condition for doing great things, especially in the era of competing for hegemony, what do you call a tyrant without scheming? It's just that in this way, Li Fengyun is very passive. Since you have rescued people and done good people, then good people must be done to the end, and you must solve the problem of eating and drinking for the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army, otherwise your previous efforts will be in vain, not only did you not win the name of righteousness, but did not win the gratitude of the other party, but made an enemy for yourself, why bother?

It's hard to be a good person, Li Fengyun sighed secretly, and was very generous in front of Meng Rang and the generals of the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army, with a smile on his face, without the slightest displeasure. However, if you live the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, then I don't need to put a hot face on my cold ass, if you don't trust me, why should I be amorous?

Li Fengyun waved his hand, said goodbye in a dashing manner, and crossed the river with three regiments and returned to Bian Cheng.

Chen Rui, Yuan An and the generals were very happy to see Bai Shuai return safely. Hearing that Meng Rang and the Changbai Mountain Rebels were stationed in the valley on the other side of the Zhushui River more than ten miles away, and had no intention of crossing the river into Mengshan for the time being, everyone knew that Bai Shuai's sinister intentions were seen through, and they refused to send them to the door. Bai Shuai also has times when he is deflated. Everyone looked at each other, smiled heartily, and left Meng Rang and the Changbai Mountain Rebels behind. My stomach is growling with hunger, how can I take care of the poor relatives around me?

The situation in Mengshan is temporarily stable. Lü Xingxing and Guo Ming occupied Surabaya County and confronted the official army at the key pass of Fangshan. The defense facilities at Bian Cheng and the key passes of Beiwei Mountain are still under construction. Han Yao has taken control of the city and is currently implementing a series of military and political measures to ensure the safety and stability of Mengshan, while ensuring the safety and stability of Mengshan, ensuring that the soldiers of the righteous army, the miscellaneous soldiers and their families can be fed and clothed, and that the lives of the original residents of Mengshan will not be greatly affected. Han Shou and Zhang Xiang are reinforcing the defenses of Nanwu City, and there is no sign of an attack on Mengshan in Linyi, Langya Mansion, which is very abnormal. Xiahou Zhe, who stayed in Nancheng, also reported that he was safe, and the scouts sent to Tengcheng and Changxi did not show any signs of cross-border attacks by the current Pengcheng army.

Li Fengyun recalled the three regiments that had previously supported Lu Xingxing from Surabaya City, and left Hai Dongqing to guard Bian Cheng, and then led the army back to Liyu.

The General's Office made a decision to immediately reorganize the army. The 16 regiments under the General's Palace, whether they were nine regiments stationed in the vicinity or seven regiments stationed in other towns, immediately began large-scale military training, striving to enhance their combat effectiveness in the shortest possible time and preparing for the upcoming large-scale encirclement and suppression of officers and troops.

Li Fengyun invited Wang Yang and 6 Ping to the General's Mansion and held a banquet to entertain them. Since their captivity, these two men have been operating with the rebels and are still in captivity.

Li Fengyun gave an open and honest account of the current situation.

"Although your future is already dark, you have your own beliefs, you have your own ideas, and you are afraid of affecting your relatives and family, so you have persevered. Insist well, you can understand, and you will not be forced to join the rebel army, let alone betray the emperor. If you want to be a captive, then keep doing it. Li Fengyun smiled, "However, the rice is not delicious." If you eat a certain day, you have to do something for a certain day, which is justified. ”

Wang Yang and 6 were honestly afraid. Along the way, the two witnessed the rebel army miraculously slaughtered out of the Xuzhou official army surrounded by the heavy encirclement, thousands of miles into Mengshan, although this move can not make the rebel army grow rapidly, let alone let the rebel army win the strength to compete with the official army, but this initiative is very remarkable, the potential is huge. The two often muttered together, full of curiosity about the mysterious and terrifying Bai Shuai, and of course, resentment and fear of him were also increasing day by day. Sitting face to face today, I thought that Bai Shuai was going to coerce them to join the Righteous Army, but I didn't expect Bai Shuai to be very reasonable, fully took care of their difficulties, and allowed them to contribute flexibly in the process of the Righteous Army. You can't eat it for nothing.

"As long as you can, you are willing to do your best." Wang Yang and 6 Ping immediately expressed their position.

"It is necessary to improve the combat effectiveness of the army in the shortest possible time, especially the actual combat capability." Li Fengyun bluntly said, "The officer's ability to command in battle is a fatal flaw. Before the start of the Eastern Crusade, the Weifu Army will definitely carry out a large-scale encirclement and suppression of Mengshan, so I urgently need your help. ”

Wang Yang and 6 Ping looked at each other and smiled bitterly, "A certain general is a defeated army, how dare he take on such a heavy responsibility?" ”

Li Fengyun sneered, "A certain solemnly warns you, a certain is dead, the righteous army is defeated, how can you be alone?" You are now alive and dead, so your relatives and family can be preserved, once the Wei Fu knows your whereabouts, or your body is found in the pile of dead people in Mengshan, can your relatives and family still be saved? ”

Wang Yang was silent.

6 Ping hesitated for a moment, and then said, "A certain person is a prisoner, how can he serve the people?" ”

"Who dares to disagree?" Li Fengyun said coldly, "Every nine days of training, an actual combat drill is conducted, and if a regiment or brigade is defeated, the officers are dismissed on the spot, and if they want to resume their military duties, they must defeat the opponent in the next exercise." In this way, everyone is vying to be the first, and if there are those who are not convinced, you can refuse the professor, and then what awaits them will be failure and severe punishment. ”

6 Ping didn't dare to say it again. Li Fengyun turned his eyes to look at Wang Yang. Wang Yang agreed with Li Fengyun's method, bowed slightly, and after a little thought, said, "If the general wants to achieve results in the shortest possible time, he must give a certain more manpower. ”

Li Fengyun agreed. In addition to Wang Yang and 6 Ping, the captured officers of Yingyang Mansion also had two captains and ten brigade commanders, most of whom were Wang Yang's subordinates. Obviously, Wang Yang wanted to use this opportunity to gain a little freedom for his subordinates.

"Something ugly is going to be said in front." Li Fengyun warned, "If there is one fugitive, the rest will be affected. At the moment of the great enemy, life and death hang by a thread, and a certain knife will never have the slightest mercy. ”

When the righteous army was training in Mengshan, the holy decree of the eastern capital was also transmitted to Qilu and Xuzhou.

The emperor issued an order to remove Dong Chunzuo Xiaowei from his post as a general, remove him from his post as the inspector Peng Chengtai, and reappointed him as the Taishou of Wenshan, and took office on the same day.

Wu Benlang got Liang Dezhong's wish, temporarily took charge of Zuo Xiaowei's mansion, and was in charge of the Xuzhou military, but the emperor gave him a task to kill the traitors within a time limit, return the robbed heavy soldiers, and severely punish him if there was any mistake. Liang Dezhong felt quite troubled, and he was even more bitter about the emperor's edict. Now the thieves are not in Xuzhou, but fled into Mengshan in the Qilu region, although Mengshan and Pengcheng County are adjacent and close at hand, but even if there is only one step, if Liang Dezhong wants to cross the border to chase and kill, he also needs the emperor's edict and the authorization of the Wei Fu, otherwise it will be a conspiracy to rebel and be killed.

Pengcheng County Cheng Cui Deben also got his wish, temporarily acting as Taishou and responsible for Pengcheng political affairs.

Both of them have their own interests, and if they want to realize their own interests, they must fight against thieves, so after urgent consultations, Cui Deben continued to recruit the Zongtuan Township Regiment in Pengcheng to form a local army, and actively sought to join forces with Lu County and Langya County to suppress the thieves.

Liang Dezhong hurriedly played to the Eastern Capital, once again detailing the current situation, and used this as an excuse to ask the Eastern Capital for authorization to cross the border to pursue and kill. Considering that the Xuzhou army was about to go on the Eastern Expedition to ensure the safety of the Tongji Canal, and that the army of thieves was insufficient, Liang Dezhong built a new capital to the east, and immediately requisitioned the Zongtuan Township Regiment in Pengcheng to form a local army, and granted the administrator of Pengcheng the right to command the army, so that the Wei government could use the local forces of Pengcheng to quickly and thoroughly kill the traitors.

The emperor was extremely concerned about the situation in the Qilu region, and the information he received was conflicting. Dong Chun of Xuzhou said that the traitors in Xuzhou fled east to Qilu and hid in Mengshan, which will definitely affect the situation in Qilu in the future. Zhang Xutuo, the county of Qi, said that thieves in Qizhou were extremely rampant, and Yan zhòng endangered Qilu's safety. And Lu Jun Taishou Duan Wencao said that there are only a few small thieves, so there is no need to worry, and the situation in Qilu is very stable, but some bureaucrats deliberately exaggerate and confuse the public, trying to mislead the emperor and the center, and have ill intentions.

The emperor didn't know that the news was true, and whose words were not credible, so he had to order Zhou Fashang, the deputy commander of the naval army in charge of the heavy task of Qilu suppression, to investigate clearly and immediately return to the Eastern Capital. If the Qilu thieves are rampant, then the Right Houwei Mansion must concentrate its forces to fight the chaos without delay.

Although Zhou Fashang was busy day and night for the Eastern Expedition in the camp of the Donglai Water Division, he did not neglect the situation in the Qilu region. If the sailor wants to cross the sea expedition, the condition is that Qilu is stable, and according to the information he has obtained, the situation in Qilu is indeed stable, so far there are only two traitors as a disaster, and no city has been captured, and the thieves are still wandering in the mountains and wilderness, and Qilu's safety is not endangered at all. The reason why this matter spread to the Eastern Capital and attracted the attention of the emperor and the central government was purely the selfish motives of local bureaucrats and local forces, who wanted to confuse the situation in order to fish in troubled waters, and took advantage of the convenience of the Eastern Crusade to bend the law for bribes, enrich their own pockets, and satisfy their own selfish desires.

Zhou Fashang hurriedly played the eastern capital, scolded the Qilu bureaucrats and local nobles for a bloody head, a group of shameless people, for personal selfish interests and disregard the interests of the kingdom, insisted on a few thieves who stole chickens and dogs as rebels who burned, killed and plundered, lest the world be chaotic, what is the intention?