Chapter 165: Killing the traitor
In the first four years of the Longhua calendar, the confrontation between the northern strong, which lasted for a year in Longhua, finally officially started in mid-August. The Changbai Army, which had been repeatedly repelled by the Beiqiang Army, actually made a comeback and launched a fierce attack on the Beiqiang defensive position. Fortunately, the Beiqiang Army is also fully prepared to deal with the surprise attack of the Changbai Army at any time.
After a short defeat, they successfully blocked the advance of the Changbai Army on the second line of defense. Just when all parties in Longhua felt that the Changbai Army's efforts were in vain this time, the Sun State, the military alliance of the Changbai State, suddenly accused the Beiqiang Army of implementing a cruel and inhumane policy of captive and killing the Changbai Army.
Moreover, after their royal military council decided, the Beiqiang army was officially punished by requisition, in order to tell the Beiqiang army not to be so inhumane when treating prisoners of war.
This telegram from the puppet government of the Sun Country in Changbai naturally attracted protests from all sides in Longhua Country. It's just that this time it has become clear that the Sun Country, which has no choice but to send an arrow, has simply ignored the joint protests of European countries. He resolutely sent his regular division stationed in Changbai Road and began a large-scale invasion of Beiqiang.
At this point, the goodwill Longhua policy that the Sun Country has been propagating has finally torn off a layer of camouflage, and its wolf ambition to covet the land of Longhua is also known to everyone.
Just when the regular divisions and regimental troops of the Sun Country officially joined the practice of attacking the defenders of Beiqiang, the Beiqiang Junta, which was also prepared in this regard. Soon, the elite soldiers prepared in advance will be transferred to the area bordering Beiqiang and Changbai to resist the crazy invasion of the Sun Army.
It's just that this kind of resistance follows a mechanized division of the Sun Country, and lightningly takes advantage of the border with the Ice Bear Country to bypass the defensive line arranged in advance by the Northern Qiang Army. The sudden and frenzied march into Beiqiang Heihe Prefecture made a big gap in the military defense line arranged by the Beiqiang Army on the line of Changbai Road.
The Beiqiang Army, which itself had drawn the main force to the border, realized that Heihe Prefecture was about to be lost. Li Shichang, who is still in the presidency. Resolutely took the position of the president of Longhua Country and officially issued an order for the national war to the Sun Country. At the same time, he called on the warlords of Longhua countries to send troops to Beiqiang to support the menacing Sun State army.
In the face of the government of Longhua Kingdom, which took the initiative to announce the start of the national war, the military actions of the Sun Kingdom were slightly stalled when they were away from the capital of Heihe Prefecture. It's just that to the surprise of all the people, there are almost few warlords who respond to the national war order issued by President Lee. More telegrams, instead telegrams to remove them from power to atone for their sins.
At the same time, there are also many parliamentarians and warlords who have been sold by the Sun Country with money, and they have even proposed peace talks with the Sun Country. As soon as these telegrams came out. The army of the Sun Country, which had originally had the intention of temptation, finally entered the capital of Heihe Prefecture in a big way.
When a gang of traitorous warlords in Longhua Kingdom were engaged in a war of words with Li Shichang, they swallowed Heihe Prefecture, which occupied a quarter of the territory of the Northern Strong, in one fell swoop. At the same time, the Sun National Army, which opened up the communication channel with Changbai, brazenly began to gather troops to Heihe, preparing to occupy the remaining three states of Beiqiang in one fell swoop.
Just when some people of insight in the country lamented that there was no longer a protector of the country in Longhua. Xu Jiajun, who has been immersed for more than three years. In a situation that no one could have imagined, the troops were sent to Qiantang Road again. The crusade against this was defeated and lost that year. Governor Shang Xiaoren, who survived with a lot of funding from the Sun Country. The reason is simple. There are only three simple powered-up big characters 'Zhu Guo thief'!
Unlike the speed of the previous march into Qiantang, this time the Xu Jiajun, who was full of anger, directly mobilized three main divisions, close to 100,000 troops. With the guerrillas who had secretly infiltrated Qiantang Road in recent times, the army of the Xu family army broke through for hundreds of miles in one day.
This crazy way of attacking. finally made Shang Xiaoren realize that the low-key of the past three years has dispelled his wariness of Xu Bin a lot. Although with the funding of the Sun Nation, he expanded his army at no less speed than the rest of the warlords. One can even say that he now has the troops at hand. It is far more than when the Xu Jiajun counterattacked the Qiantang Army.
But in the face of the officers and soldiers of the Xu family, who have been sharpening their swords for three years, he is not enough to see the army that has been piled up with money. What he didn't expect was that three years ago, the people of Qiantang were polite to him, the governor, but now they have raised the banner of welcoming Xu Jiajun to crusade against this profiteer governor.
As he betrayed the interests of Qiantang to the people of the Sun Country, even the Qiantang Chamber of Commerce, which supported him back then, sat on the wall and watched very wisely after seeing Xu Jiajun play the slogan of punishing the country thief this time. Because the title of traitor is something that these people from business families cannot afford, they will be fixed on the pillar of shame in the history of Longhua Kingdom.
Even some of the military talents he hired with a lot of money back then, after realizing that the Xu family's army was really moving this time, Shang Xiaoren, the governor of Qiantang, was also lost. A group of people left the Qiantang Army very freely, so that many of the defenders of the Qiantang Army on the front line faced the Xu family soldiers when they came to the city, but there were no military orders and instructions from above.
In the end, after a period of delay, in the face of the situation that the army's morale was scattered and the people enthusiastically supported Xu's army Qiantang, as long as the officers who did not want to die chose to surrender in Kaesong. So much so that the Xu Jiajun who attacked Qiantang Road, except after a few encounters with the Qiantang Army at the border.
The defenders of the cities encountered in the territory of Qiantang can almost be described as describing themselves from the wind. The speed of the fall of the Qiantang Dao Prefecture made Shang Xiaoren's heart tremble, but there was nothing he could do. Even the advisors sent by the Sun Kingdom to the Qiantang Army, in the current situation where the domestic military and civilians are angry at the invasion of the Sun Country, there is no instructions from the officers at all.
After all, the Longhua Kingdom in this time and space is undoubtedly higher than the strength and heritage of Huaxia in the previous life. In addition, the Longhua Dynasty also had the reputation of a great power in the East in this time and space. If he hadn't been the lord of the Sun Country back then, and married his beloved daughter to the prince of the Longhua Dynasty at that time, I am afraid that the Sun Kingdom would have become a Taoist government in the Longhua Kingdom back then.
Even if it went downhill with the Longhua Dynasty and was finally overthrown by a group of warlords who stayed abroad, the soldiers of Longhua were not afraid of these little dwarfs in their hearts. It's just that in the face of weak national strength and the fact that the other party is a military and economic power in the East, I'm afraid no one will take them seriously.
In matters related to national righteousness, the Longhua people of this time and space are surprisingly unified. As a result, the military advisers who were regarded as persona non grata in the Qiantang Army could not take over the vacancies left by those military advisers of the Longhua State at all.
There have even been cases where after the military advisers of the Sun Kingdom gave orders, they were not completely carried out by the troops. On the contrary, after being arranged by Xu Jiajun in advance to the military headquarters of the Qiantang Army, he turned into an anti-Shang Xiaoren uprising without waiting for Xu Jiajun to attack.
This kind of situation of not being able to help and adding to the chaos finally made Shang Xiaoren understand that there are some things that cannot be touched. There are also some benefits that cannot be taken casually. He is just based on the advisers of the Sun Country, and he deliberately picks out some things that the people will not react too to, and accuses Li Shichang of being wrong.
At the same time, it is also in line with the initiative of some domestic parliamentarians, proposing a free discussion of peace talks with the Sun Country. But why did that stunned young Xu Bin accuse him of being a traitor?
If you sell the interests of Qiantang Dao, this kind of thing is not done by other Shang Xiaoren alone in Longhua Kingdom. Even the revolutionary army, which still maintains the land of the three roads, doesn't there still have a lot of customs interests in the hands of the people of the Sun Country? Why doesn't anyone say he's a traitor?
Shang Xiaoren felt that he was very wronged, but in the face of this situation of being unable to argue with all kinds of words, coupled with the betrayal of relatives. What he can leave is undoubtedly to continue to stay in Hangcheng, the capital of Qiantang, and wait for death, or to flee quickly when the Xu family army attacks here?
Shang Xiaoren, who really didn't want to give the savings he had earned over the years to Xu Jiajun, finally made the move of abandoning the city and escaping. It's a pity that the troops who escorted his belongings arrived at Ninggang Mansion, which is a hundred miles away from Hangzhou. His horse team was attacked by a group of unidentified armed men, and all of them, including the Sun Nation military advisers accompanying the convoy, were shot dead without exception.
Even when the local Qiantang army came to the scene, they found that it was an empty convoy and corpses all over the ground. As for Shang Xiaoren, who was well-known in the position of governor of Qiantang, he was like a fat pig that had been slaughtered. Hanging from a few erected tree poles, alongside him was the unadulterous military advisor of the Sun Nation.
There are also a few big characters written in blood next to it, although the bloody characters are written very roughly, but as long as people who are familiar with the Longhua language know it. Those words are 'This is the end of the traitor'!
When the garrison of Ninggang Prefecture reported the news of the death of the governor's convoy to the rest of the cities that were still waiting. Many generals who were loyal to the Qiantang Army suddenly woke up. If it weren't for the death of the governor, I'm afraid that until now, they still thought that this governor would sit in Hangzhou and command them to resist the invasion of the Xu family's army?
As a result, they sent an order to the Governor's Mansion to resolutely resist the Xu Jiajun who invaded Qiantang, and the governor who was shouting and defending to the death on the back foot actually led the Governor's Mansion guards. Intending to escape from Qiantang by boat, he was killed by unknown forces on the road to Ninggang Province. This fate undoubtedly chilled many Qiantang generals.
Even the governor of the Zuihou Qiantang Army who could find a reason to fight back against the Xu Jiajun is dead, what is the point of them still holding on? Soon, the three main divisions of the Xu Jiajun were suddenly split into main regiments. Quickly after Shang Xiaoren's death, he smoothly took over the defense area that originally belonged to the Qiantang Army.
As for the Qiantang Navy, which has a small fleet of coastal defense, at this moment their captains of all sizes have also gathered in the command compartment of their flagship Qiantang ship. Consider whether they will surrender to the Xu family army or find another way out. Compared to the army, which has no way to escape, their navy is much more convenient.
Just leaving the familiar naval base of Qiantang Road, they will also become homeless children in the future. The navy is a big money-burner, how can any warlord raise it? (To be continued......)