Chapter 4 The Four Directions of the World
The news of Xijing came back one after another, and after more than ten days, the people in Jiangning sorted out the details of the changes in Xijing. Gu Shida slaughtered the city three times, ransacked the whole city, the children of the families in the city were empty, and the property of the rich families was confiscated. Gu Shida also ordered Himeno to lead the soldiers to dig up the tombs of the emperors and concubines of the two dynasties, and stole all the burial treasures. The emperors of the old dynasties were buried on Jinglong Mountain, the emperors' mausoleums were beautiful, the Fu family drove the Yuan family out of Xijing, and also sent people to take care of it, and repaired it regularly, but it was not expected that Gu Shida would be greedy for gold in the grave.
The Fu family has only been passed down for three generations, and after the establishment of the new dynasty, the power of the family in the local area has swelled to the extreme, the authority of the inner court is very weak, and the mausoleums of Gaozu and Emperor Min are simpler, and they are still let Himeno lead people to dig up. After the death of the young emperor, he let the hundred officials share the food, and he did not even leave a single corpse.
Five days later, Xun Candle military generals 60,000 soldiers and horses, covering the Liyang City in the northeast and west of Xijing, annihilated the 5,000 Suchuan soldiers stationed in Liyang overnight, captured the gateway to the northwest of Xijing in one fell swoop, and entered Xijing. The next day, Xiao Yizhi's 20,000 soldiers and horses appeared in Lantian in the southeast of Xijing, and the 6,000 defenders of Lantian had no intention of fighting, so they abandoned the city at night.
Gu Shida slaughtered the city for six days, Xun Zhuwu sent troops to seize the two gateways in the northwest, northeast and southeast of Xijing, one master and one slave, one south and one north, forming a pincer attack on the Xijing Valley Shida Department. Xun Zhuwu sent the edict to the king, calling on the heroes of Qinzhou to drive Gu Shida out of Qinzhou and restore the Han Dynasty.
Gu Shida realized that King Qin's secret edict was actually a plot by Xun Zhuwu's family, causing him to miscalculate.
Gu Shida first knew that there was a secret edict of King Qin, but when Zhang Wen would hand it over to Di Xiang, Di Xiang would call on the county males in the west of Qinzhou to cut off the road for the Suchuan soldiers to return to the west. The situation made Gu Shida not dare to hesitate for a moment, so he wanted to plunder all the treasures of Xijing and return to Tianshui. Unexpectedly, Zhang Wen would hand over King Qin's secret edict to Xun Zhuwu. If the young emperor is not dead, if Xun Zhuwu wants to call on the princes of Qinzhou with only a secret edict from King Qin, he doesn't need to think about it. Ren understands that Xun Zhuwu's wolf ambition is not slightly weaker than Gu Shida, how can the princes of Qinzhou be used by him. Xun Zhuwu led the Xiluo army into Hedong Mansion, and they all relied on plundering the rich families to make a living. Although Gu Shida did everything to burn, kill, and plunder, he would not attack the powerful family hidden in the dock, and the power of the family in the western border of Qinzhou was still extremely strong. However, the family power in the east of Qinzhou almost uprooted Xun Zhuwu, Gu Shida fell into Xijing, Xun Zhuwu shrank his forces, and was not in a hurry to compete with Gu Shida in Xijing, but he was not satisfied with the title of the Marquis of Hedong, but to consolidate the occupied area, strengthen the rule of the occupied area, and eliminate the opposition forces.
Gu Shida killed the young emperor to cook, annihilate the imperial concubine, kill the ministers, sack Xijing, slaughter the children of the family, and so on, so that the Qinzhou family can no longer bear it, seeing Xun Zhuwu in Liyang attendance Wang Zhao, the Qinxi family also out of the dock fort, from the northwest and southwest directions to the suburbs of Xijing assembly.
Gu Shida knew Xun Zhuwu's plan, but he was helpless, and if he didn't leave Xijing, he would inevitably fall into the encirclement of Qinzhou Zhuxiong and Xun Zhuwu. Xun Candle Wu first entered Qinzhou, the soldiers and horses led by him were selected from the displaced people, although there were 150,000 people, Gu Shida was not afraid, but Xun Candlewu in Xiayi training in recent years, the combat effectiveness of the displaced army should be quite improved.
On September 28, Gu Shida drove hundreds of thousands of people from Xijing out of Xihua Gate, and ordered the soldiers to set fire to the Dongtai Gate, and all the palaces and temple houses in the palace city, including Yanqing Palace and Biquan Palace, fell into the sea of fire, and ordered the soldiers to set fire to the houses from the East City, and nearly 200,000 troops of Xun Zhuwu and Qinzhou surrounded Xijing, sitting and watching the prosperous Xihua fall into a sea of fire.
The Suchuan soldiers marched west along the Weishui, followed by dozens of people who had been forced to relocate. The road out of Xijing is rugged and unbearable, and hundreds of thousands of people walk on the rugged mountain road at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, lacking food and clothing, and the number of people who die on the road is unknown.
When the fire in Xijing was extinguished, what was left to Xun Zhuwu and Qinzhou Zhuxiong was a stretch of ruins within a radius of dozens of miles. Xun Zhuwu led his troops and horses to station outside the ruins, and ordered the heroes of Qinzhou to pursue the Suchuan soldiers who returned to the west.
Although the Zhuxiong of Qinzhou and Gu Shida have a national hatred and family feud, they are unwilling to face the Suchuan tiger and wolf soldiers, and chase after them, but they do not detour from the trail to intercept them.
Gu Shida put the displaced people behind the army, separating the Qinzhou Zhuxiong who were chasing after him; It also did not dispatch troops to cover behind the palace, but only opened a considerable distance between the army and the displaced people, and used heavy troops to deter it, so as not to overwhelm the array of the homeless people.
Weishui out of the sky, through the northwest of the Qinling Mountains, into a long and narrow river valley terrain, Qinzhou Zhuxiong pursued the Suchuan soldiers, but let hundreds of thousands of people in the middle, hundreds of thousands of people in the Weishui River valley to form a flow of people dozens of miles long.
The Zhuxiong of Qinzhou knew that if Gu Shida was allowed to bring these hundreds of thousands of displaced people to Suchuan, the strength of Su would be greatly increased, and it would not take long for Gu Shida to have the ability to invade Qinzhou again; However, they did not dare to include the displaced people in their own army array, so as not to let Suchuan take advantage of it. When pursuing, from time to time, they sent out elite cavalry, sprinted to the crowd of displaced people, and slaughtered wantonly, even more than the Suchuan soldiers.
The displaced people were not allowed to move forward to avoid the Suchuan soldier array, nor were they allowed to retreat to the Qinzhou soldier array, and under the sword soldiers, they had to climb to the steep mountains on both sides in order to avoid the military disaster.
When Gu Shida led the Suchuan soldiers to Chencang, there were less than 100,000 displaced people following them, and the corpses on the road from Chencang to Xijing were not counted, but the displaced people who barely fled into the mountains and mountains were not clothed, fed, and unable to survive the cold season that had quietly come.
Qinzhou was in turmoil, while the southwest and northeast were much calmer. Rong Yanmen's Western Expeditionary Army seemed to have kept the combined forces of the Wu and Luo families out of Shujing Rongcheng, and could not continue to advance another half step towards the hinterland of Chengdu and Chongqing. Hundreds of thousands of Hulan troops invaded Youji, and attacked the entire territory of Youji in a few months, only Fanyang, a single city, stood in the northern border of Youji. After several offensives were launched, they found that the soldiers and civilians in Fanyang City had a strong will to resist, so they besieged Fanyang City with 100,000 horse infantry, and served 100,000 displaced people, dug several Shenhao outside Fanyang City, built a fortress, and surrounded Fanyang City with Shenhao Fortress; The rest of the troops went to various parts of Youji to clear out the resistance forces in various places. At the beginning of October, except for the resistance forces hiding in the dangerous mountains, the resistance forces on the Youji Plain were almost empty. Since the main combat power of Hulan is in the territory of Youji, the invasion of Youji by the Wuhu Army is quite limited and has not achieved much results.
The progress of the war in Yuejun was also very slow, Xu Ruyu did not seem to be in a hurry to take the entire Yuejun, and after the gift of his youngest son Yulin, Xu Ruyu set out to improve the political system of Jiangning. The common people mostly turned their eyes to the chaotic Qinzhou, but the heroes who were aspiring to touch the world were more interested in the political changes in Jiangning. When Yiguan was in Jiangning in the far south, the world was convinced that Yiguanyuan's dedication to Xun's "Zhixian Policy" was from Xu Ruyu's instructions, and the complete "Zhixian Policy" could only be found from the Jiangning political system.
At the beginning of October, Jiangning formally established the council hall, the pawn system came out, Fang Su came out, Kou Zichan resigned from the post of senator because of Qin Zhongshu's affairs, and withdrew from the list of Jiangning princes, and led the council of the council to compile the Jiangning code with the post of council and political capital, and added the title of Qingfeng Mansion to the confidential counsellor to assist Xu Ruyu in acting government affairs.
Fang Su was one in his Chinese New Year's Eve, and he was the leader of the council Zuo Cheng, and also the senator of Qingfeng Mansion, officially ranked among the princes of Jiangning along with Shao Haitang, Xu Boying, Mei Tierui, Yi Guanyuan, Yun Qingxu, Jiang Lingtian, Meng Yi and others.
After the Battle of Yi'an, Luo Shanyang escorted the Yan clan back to Quanzhou for trial, and for unknown reasons, more than 100 Yan clansmen, including Yan Qingyi, escaped. Luo Shanyang was relieved of his position as the commander of the Quanzhou Water Camp because of this incident, and was recalled to Jiangning's private residence. The council hall was established, and Luo Shanyang served as the left signator of the council hall. Kou Zichan and Luo Shanyang are both ministers who moved to the left, but at the same time they served as important members of the council hall, which can't help but remind people that the council hall is just a place for Xu Ruyu's idle ministers who moved to the left.
Soon after the establishment of the council hall, Xu Ruyu ordered Fang Su to take charge of the administrative refusal on his behalf, and Shui Ruying served Qingfeng as a servant, but in the eyes of the world, Xu Ruyu's move was not to actually improve the status of the council hall, Fang Su and Shui Ruying were able to exercise the right to refute on behalf of him, but because of his title of senator of Qingfeng Mansion and serving in Qingfeng Mansion, it can be seen that Xu Ruyu used his close ministers to control government affairs and his own intention to specialize in military affairs.
Xu Ruyu's original intention of setting up the Changshi Mansion, Sima Ya, and Zhengtang was to separate the military and the government, and after the establishment of the Political Affairs Hall, the Changshi Mansion, Sima Ya, and Yanwutang were directly led by the Qingfeng Mansion to govern the military inside and outside Jiangning.
Jiangning's adjustment of the political system, at the time of the chaos in Xijing, can be understood as an adjustment that is more conducive to dominating the world.
Xu Ruyu further improved the military system of the Jiangning armies, adjusted the layout of Jiangning's military forces, and formed three centers of gravity. The core area with Jiangning as the center is garrisoned by the Wuwei Army, Qingfeng Cavalry, Qingfengwei, Jiangning Water Camp and other armies, but the combat power hidden in the Yanwutang is difficult to estimate. General Ce, General Wei and senior generals above the rank of lieutenant include Zhang Zhongdao, Wei Yan, Ji Ziheng (General Jiangning Shuiyingwei), Fan Wenlong, Ziyang Yalan, Luo Boyuan, Peng Muqiu and others. Peng Muqiong is a female guard captain with the rank of colonel, and is also listed among the senior generals in Jiangning.
With Fengling as the center and gradually transferred to Wuzhou, the Fengling camp was headed by Wei Yu, under the jurisdiction of the Su Guard Army, the Xiao Guard Army, the Five School Army, and the Jiangning Water Battalion, and the high-level generals above the school captain level included Wei Yu, Feng Yuanyuan, Xing Kunmin, Xiao Wuye, Ban Zhaolin, Yang Shang, Zhou Shilong, Li Gonglin, Shen Binglu, Xue Mingrui, Jun Shushui (Jiangning Water Camp Captain) and others. The Fengling camp commanded more than 100,000 troops, and the strategic intention was obvious, in order to guard against military pressure in the direction of Nanping.
Adjust the deployment of troops in Jiangning, merge the Baishi camp with the Guangling camp, and Zhang Xu will be the commander-in-chief, under the jurisdiction of the Qingwei Army, the Zhongli Army, and the Yongyang Water Battalion, and the senior generals above the captain level are Zhang Xu, Mei Liting, Ning Yueshan, Fenglin and others. Ding Mianchen and Xu Zhaorong were also transferred to serve as Qingwei and Zhongli lieutenants respectively.
The intention of the military adjustment on the north bank of the river is particularly obvious, and the abolition of the Baishi camp and the formation of the Guangling camp with Guangling as the center is to cancel the strategic intention of the Baishi camp in the direction of Yongning, and to concentrate the strategic direction on the north bank of the river to the East China Sea family.
Compared with the Fengling camp, the military strength of the Guangling camp was slightly weaker, with a combat strength of about 80,000 to 90,000, and if Xu Ruyu really intended to launch an offensive against the East China Sea, he should at least gather more than 200,000 troops on the north bank of the river. However, some people think that the establishment of such a large number of Fengling camp is to take into account the unfinished Yuejun war, which allows Jiangning to invest at least two-thirds of the combat power in the Fengling camp, as well as the combat power of the Wuwei Army and the Qingfeng Cavalry. If we take into account the response in the direction of Yongyang, the battle in Yuejun has entered the second stage, and Jiangning still invests more than 100,000 troops. The mobilization of a large number of troops on the inner line does not put much pressure on the supply of grain and grass.
Wuhu Shuiying is isolated in the sea area northeast of Qingzhou, led by Li Yin, and the generals above the rank of captain include Li Yin, Jun Xiaoyun, Lou Qingzhi and others.
In addition, Xu Ruyu established a complete garrison army in Jiangning, guarding the place, and the senior generals above the rank of captain of the garrison army included Peng Fengyuan, Li Yi, Lin Seng Shen, Ning Yueshan, Sun Lai, Zheng Ke, Shen Yi and others.
Jiang Ning didn't feel cold in October, Xu Ruyu wore a green shirt, sat in front of the long case, pressed the scroll with his right hand, but his eyes fell on the empty place, thoughtful.
The Nanping Western Expeditionary Army was blocked outside the Rongcheng Gate, but Xu Ruyu knew that Rong Yanmen was by no means as helpless as he appeared, but Jiang Ning's hesitation in the Yuejun War had traces. The cold season has gradually entered in the north, and the Anyang battalion and the Hulan iron cavalry have assembled in the Anyang riverside area, and the intention of targeting Hanoi Province is very obvious. The three families of Qinghe Li, Qingzhou Yi, and Fenjun Xun formed an alliance with Guan Yinggong's camp of displaced people in Bianzhou. Bianzhou and Hanoi face each other across the river, and the camp of displaced people from Guan Ying Gong is stationed along the south bank of the river, and responds to Hanoi Province on the north bank. The main force of Hulan directly entered Hanoi Province from Anyang to attack the city, and the threat of the camp of displaced people on the opposite bank must be taken into account. The Hulan army is not good at attacking the city, and the Anyang battalion army is a surrendering army, and the morale is low, and it is not conducive to storming the city. If you want to nibble away at it, you must first remove the threat of the camp of displaced people on the south bank of the river.
The Hulan people are not good at water, and there is no boat master, the river is turbulent, the waves are high and the water is dangerous, and Ling Xun will not appear until late November, and it will gradually freeze. At that time, the Hulan Iron Cavalry could quickly cross the river and attack to the depth of the south bank of the river.
Kou Zichan said that everyone in Hulan commented on Helan Rongruo's wisdom first, followed by Chu Shize; Xu Ruyu thought that Chu Shize was weak and sickly, did not practice martial arts, and in Hulan, which advocated martial arts, Chu Shize would probably be ignored, and his wisdom should not be under Helan Rongruo, otherwise Helan Rongruo would not recommend Chu Shize as the commander of the Hulan army that invaded Youji, but Helan Rongruo only held the title of deputy marshal.
Qingzhou Yishi, Fenjun Xunshi, and Qinghe Li are actively preparing for the possible surnames of the river crossing the river on the south bank in response to the possibility of the river being frozen by Hulan, repairing the city, building a dock, and a fort. Although it is not yet known how the Hulan Iron Cavalry will cross the river, Xu Ruyu feels that the Hulan Iron Cavalry will not stay until the river freezes.
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