"On the eighth day of the first month of this month, Fan Shangshu beheaded Pei Hongce on the grounds that the war was unfavorable. When the generals heard that Hongce was dead, they did not dare to enter the city. The sound of reading the military newspaper of Zhao Ziming echoed in the Chinese military tent. The generals of the Xiongwu battalion were rarely quiet, and there was no noise in the entire tent except for the occasional uninteresting singing and a few times by Xia Worm.

"Those who are thieves above the fifth grade are eleven people, and those who are thieves above the seventh rank are forty-three people......" Zhao Ziming secretly glanced at Li Xu and Yu Wenshi, who were sitting at the top, and tried his best to make his voice calm. He didn't know how the two adults felt after reading this military book for the first time, the chief general and the supervising army. Anyway, Zhao Ziming knew that any general who had a little common sense about the factions of the Great Sui Imperial Court would twitch his heart and liver after seeing this military report. Just like he is now, every time he reads a familiar name, his stomach, intestines, liver, spleen and kidneys tremble together.

This list is too terrifying, I really don't know how Fan Shangshu, who stayed in the Eastern Capital, did it. He almost forced all the young Zhuang disciples who remained in the Eastern Capital among the seven surnames of the dynasty to the side of the rebels. And the fathers of these people are either close ministers by the side of the current saint, or they have a heavy army in their hands at this time.

"On the tenth day of the first month, the rebels worshiped Yang Gongdao as the general of the expedition to the east, and Yu Rou was the chief of the march, and sent troops to guard Cidao!" Reading this sentence, Zhao Ziming trembled in his heart, Yang Gongdao is the second son of Guan Wang Yang Xiong, Yu Rou's father is Yu Shiji, an important minister next to the emperor, and the party henchmen of the two families together account for 20% of Wenchen. Barely calming down, he continued to read the text in the military book, "Bai Laiyuan is the general of Pingnan, and Zhou Zhong is the vice-president, and he takes Yique Dao." Bai Han Shicao was a rebellious general, led the troops to attack Xingyang, and sent Lang to attack Gu Jue and Zheng Yan to attack the Tiger Prison Pass! ”

Several civilian officials took out a map of the Great Sui army and sketched the enemy's movements one by one with charcoal. This map of the situation in the counties of Henan made by the emperor during his lifetime is very detailed, and every mountain, road, and river around the eastern capital of Luoyang is clearly marked. Yang Xuan felt very tolerant, and he entrusted him with important tasks for the noble children who came to surrender. Today, these sons of the family lead the rebels, blocking all access to Luoyang from the water to the land.

"Wei Fusi is a thief, and he drafted a document for it, and sent an envoy to lobby the counties around the eastern capital......" Zhao Ziming vaguely felt that there was a fire burning around him, he turned his head slightly, and saw the blood-red eyes of Governor Li Anyuan.

"These losers!" Li Anyuan couldn't bear it anymore, and finally scolded his voice. As soon as he took the lead, Zhao Ziming's reading of the army was immediately drowned out by the scolding of the generals.

"What's the matter, the backbone is softer than a!"

"Lord Fan is reckless, isn't this forcing everyone to join the enemy?" Zhao Ziming reluctantly stopped reading, and while whispering for the thief, he pouted in the direction of Yu Wenshi's seat. But his small actions not only did not attract everyone's attention, but brought more criticism.

"Nothing can be a reason to be a thief. These gentlemen have eaten for so many years in vain! Li Mengyu retorted loudly. In the eyes of him, who was born in a poor family, he should do more work if he eats more food. The children of the family were born to enjoy the benefits of the imperial court, and it is natural that they should pay more for the country. And the rebels attacked the city, but they threw themselves into the enemy and scrambled to be the first, and it was not only their parents and families who were sorry.

"***, usually it looks like a person with five or six people. It's all silver-like wax tips! "It was rare for Murong Luo and Li Mengwei to agree once. He has survived in the army for half his life, and if he was not appreciated by Li Xu in the end, he may not be able to survive until he is sixty years old. And those children of the family, with the title in their mother's womb, were born with official seats, and what ordinary people struggle for a lifetime can't get, they may reach out and someone will send it to the palm of their hand. Just fill in the gaps, that is, start with the six products. Whether they are rewarded for their military merits or the herdsmen's merits, they will always reap greater credit than others for the same actions.

They have enjoyed so many eye-catching preferential treatments, but when it really comes time to be loyal to the country, they are turning back faster than one another.

"Gentleman, pampered since childhood, of course I didn't have kneecaps!" Everyone scolded one after another, forgetting that the Lord of the Prison Army, Yu Wenshi, was also an out-and-out gentleman. Not counting the Yuwen clan and other wealthy families in the army, there are seven families in the Great Sui Dynasty, but among the seven families, except for the imperial prince Yang family, the strength of the remaining six families can be pieced together to compete with the Yuwen family, a wealthy family in the army. If Lai Yuan, Zheng Yan and others are gentlemen, Yu Wenshi and others are gentlemen, and their family background is only better than these sons and brothers who have defected to the enemy, not worse than any of them.

Yu Wenshiji's face was as gloomy as water. He was angry, but reason told him that this was not the time to be honest with the generals. The Xiongwu Battalion has just been transformed from a temporary establishment to a regular army of the Great Sui, and people with a very strong family background will not go to the Xiaoguo Camp to seek a career. Therefore, except for him, the prison army, no one else in the entire Xiongwu Battalion is not a nephew of the family. If you turn your face with everyone because of a few complaints, you are definitely a very small minority at this moment.

Now that he has decided to make a career in the Xiongwu Battalion, he doesn't want to be left out of the circle by everyone. As for when he made the above decision, Yuwenshi and himself are not very clear. Maybe it started at the moment when he was misunderstood by his father when he interceded for Li Xu! Anyway, since then, Shi Ji has deliberately stopped taking advantage of the shadow of his father and family, and tried his best to solve a series of problems with his own ability.

He looked at Li Xu out of the corner of his eye, but saw Li Xu looking at him comfortingly with a very understanding eye. Yu Wenshi couldn't help but be stunned, he never expected that at this time, Xu Zi would be able to keep a cool head. You must know that the reason why Yang Xuangan entrusted Yang Gongdao, Han Shicao and others with important tasks without suspicion is to make full use of the identities of these guys. At present, no matter how the reinforcements want to approach Luoyang from any direction, they must first fight a vicious battle with the children of the family who have surrendered to the enemy. In the event of defeat, the imperial court's military law does not allow for child's play. And in case of victory on the battlefield, how to deal with those children of the family will be a difficult test for the leader leader.

"Ha, the stupid boy doesn't know the background of these people!" Yu Wenshi suddenly understood why Li Xu was indifferent to the name on the military book, and he couldn't cry or laugh. At present, this stupid and stupid general is estimated to have heard of the names of these people in the military book for the first time, so he has not linked the names of people with the family behind them!

"It seems that being confused also has the benefit of being confused!" Yu Wenshi and Li Xu's performance were completely angry, sat up straight, and treated the people and things that the generals in front of him had nothing to do with him.

"It's not easy to laugh and scold people!" Li Xu secretly admired Yu Wenshi's cultivation in his heart. After receiving the military letter, he had already secretly studied the names of the people on it. has no merit, but he has achieved such a prominent official position at such a young age, the origin of these people, even if Xu Zi is stupid, he has guessed a thing or two. However, unlike the generals, he did not fail to link the defection of Han Shicao and others with their origins. Although in his short career in officialdom so far, Xuzi has clearly felt the rejection of the proud family. But he remembered what Xu Dayan had said to himself in a tavern, "If someone despises you because of your family background, you can ignore this kind of abuse, but don't spoil your mood because of it." But if you feel inferior just because of the other person's background, or don't want to associate with him, it's your own fault. It's no different from being an indiscriminate person who despises you! ”

These pieces of advice from Big Eyes, Xuzi never dared to forget. Although in a few moments, he is still very sensitive to people's origins. But more time, he tried to see Yu Wenshi and Li Jiancheng as his own kind. The fact that he does not deliberately distinguish between the differences in their status is the real reason why he does not join the ranks of denunciation today. In addition, pushing himself and others, Xu Zi did not dare to guarantee which of the two behaviors he could choose between the defeat and retreat to the city and being beheaded by Fan Zigai to show his head to the public or surrendering Yang Xuangan. From the books he read, he admired the former. But his instinct to survive told him that the latter was closer to reality.

"Everyone, be quiet and listen to General Zhao Changshi's book!" Seeing that Yu Wenshi was not angry, Li Xu also put away the idea of playing a round for the generals. patted the table in front of him and ordered the generals to be calm.

“…… The bandit Han Xiangguo raised troops and gathered more than 100,000 people. Lu Hun, Xingtai, and Yangcheng have fallen into the hands of thieves. According to the Hanoi Taishou Urgent Report, the thief army has gathered more than 300,000 people. July 13 of the ninth year of the Great Cause. Zhao Ziming finally finished reading the last sentence of the last military book, raised his sleeve and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead.

According to the information in the military documents, the number of rebels has now risen to 300,000. General Yuwenshu ordered the generals from all walks of life to go to the rescue of Luoyang day and night after receiving the military letter. But in the current situation, the first reinforcements to arrive near Luoyang may not end up with any good results.

According to the laws of the Great Sui Dynasty, rebellion is an unforgivable sin. Those sons and buddies who defected to the rebels will definitely die after being captured. And what about the generals who captured them? Who can guarantee that he will not become a thorn in the side of Brother Gongzi's family in the future!

Everyone can see the hidden dangers, but no one can take the initiative to talk about some sensitive topics. Especially Li Anyuan, Cui Qian, and Murong Luo, who have been veterans in the army for many years, clearly know the powerful methods of those wealthy families. To be honest, it doesn't matter if you offend the emperor in the Great Sui Dynasty, at least the emperor will make you die clearly. And if a person with no background has a bad relationship with those families, he can't expect what cruel means the other party will take revenge. Those wealthy families have continued for several dynasties, and there are hundreds of ways to rectify people. Moreover, with the intertwined connections of these people in the imperial court, it is enough to ensure that they will escape the punishment they deserve after committing crimes.

Taking advantage of the silence of everyone, Zhao Ziming, the chief of history, commanded several low-level staff members to move wooden tables and use millet grains and calculation chips to pile up the landform near Luoyang. This is a method of analyzing the enemy situation pioneered by General Han Fubo Ma Yuan, which is slightly more intuitive than deducing the military situation on the map, but it is very difficult to operate. If it weren't for the insistence of Yu Wenshi and Li Xu, Zhao Ziming would not have gotten these troublesome ghost tricks at all.

After the undulating mountains and heavy city walls began to take shape, the generals' mood became even heavier. Huang Chip signaled that with several surrounding county towns being taken by the rebels one after another, the eastern capital of Luoyang has completely become an isolated island. Just now, some people secretly scolded Fan Zigai for being stupid, and he shouldn't kill important ministers without authorization, forcing so many people to be thieves. However, looking at the situation of millet grains and calculations, everyone had to admit that Fan Zigai's actions were largely a last resort. The enemy was outnumbered, and if there was no strict military order and unified command, Luoyang City would have long since become the rebel's pocket.

"Anyway, we're going to have to slow down!" Zhang Xiu, the captain of the pro-soldier school, was the most courageous and took the lead in coming up with a bad idea. "Anyway, the reinforcements are not just ours, let's delay on the road for a few days, and then rush forward when others open the road. As long as we don't fight those losers, no one can blame us! ”

Today, the Xiongwu battalion has only traveled more than eighty miles, and for a large army composed of pure cavalry, this speed is already unbearable. But Zhang Xiu also hoped that it would be slower, and it would be better to wait until the other troops and horses were over to counterbalance the rebellion, and the Xiongwu battalion would arrive at the scene "in time".

Do not seek merit, but seek no fault. His suggestion represented the thoughts of many officers who had just received their awards. It is not easy for everyone to get to this point today, there is no need to put your future and life into it in order to quell the rebellion. Besides, even if the Xiongwu battalion kills near Luoyang in time, how can the other party's more than 300,000 soldiers and horses be shaken?

"I'm afraid anyone can think of this trick!" Don't General Murong Luo shook his head slightly, "Except for our Xiongwu Battalion, there are not so many war horses along the way!" If the cavalry walks slower than the infantry on the official road, I'm afraid that there is no need for those families to make trouble, and Lord Pei of the military department will be the first to rush out and get along with everyone! ”

Thanks to the supervising army Yu Wenshi and the gift, the war horses mobilized by the Xiongwu battalion when they went to Liaodong to meet the Yuanquan army were left in the army afterwards. After the battle of Liaodong, there were still more than 10,000 soldiers left in the Xiongwu battalion, but there were 15,000 or 6,000 horses that could be ridden and horses that could pull heavy horses. Before receiving the latest military report, everyone was proud of their army's marching ability and assault ability, but now, the ability to march has become the main factor that prevents everyone from being lazy.

"That's it, how good we are to be infantry, we can go as slowly as we want!" Someone muttered quietly.

"Yes, yes, let's take our lives, how can we fight with the sons of wealthy families!" Someone glanced at the high-ranking prison guards, and began to sneer again.

At present, the predicament faced by the Xiongwu Battalion is all caused by the children of a few families, and they hate the house and the house, so naturally some people look at the Yuwen Shi and are not pleasing to the eye.

"It's useless to say those whining words! If the rescue is not timely, the military department will definitely not give up with us" The marching commander Shi Zhao Ziming "clipped" the complaining person with his eyelids and reminded him dissatisfiedly.

A few of the people who said strange things shrugged their shoulders, and they themselves found it very boring. Among the generals of the Xiongwu Battalion, except for the superintendent Yu Wenshi and others, the other people's backgrounds are not very deep. Whether it is complaining or dissatisfied, the battle still has to be fought. Otherwise, the imperial court will investigate the responsibility for neglecting the fighter plane, and no one will understand no matter how much trouble everyone has, without the help of the important ministers.

Silence returned to the tent of the Chinese army, as silent as the weather before a thunderstorm. The generals no longer complained, but racked their brains to find a way to break the game. But in addition to violating the military order, there is no other way not to set yourself on fire.

Cui Qian and Zhao Ziming set their sights on Li Xu again, since the Battle of Nameless Valley, the two have become accustomed to taking Xuzi as their backbone. The dilemma that was almost unsolvable at that time was easily solved by Lord Lang with a fire. Now it's just a matter of thinking of a risk-averse countermeasure, and in the end it should be difficult for General Li to stop.

But Xuzi's performance disappointed everyone. From the beginning of the deliberations to the present, he has only maintained order a few times. The decisions that need to be made, Lang Jiang has not done any of them. The Yuwen Prison Army who was next to him was the same, frowning and closing his eyes, not knowing if he was thinking of a countermeasure, or if he was already taking the opportunity to fall asleep.

"Hey, Lao Zhao, where are the other reinforcements?" Zhang Xiu stabbed Zhao Ziming with his hand and asked in a low voice.

"I haven't crossed the Juma River yet, and the fastest one has been left behind by us for nearly a hundred miles!" Zhao Ziming thought about it and replied. "However, the reinforcements from the capital are said to have passed through Michi, a total of 40,000 elite forbidden troops, led by General Wei Wensheng, and dug the ancestral grave of Yang Xuangan's family in Huayin by the way, it is said that this can destroy feng shui!"

"This surnamed Wei is not a good thing!" Zhang Xiu spat on the ground and crushed it with his foot.

Seeking victory in the war by digging up people's ancestral graves, he can think of it! Several low-level generals from the Food Protection Army shook their heads slightly. Thinking about General Wei's behavior last autumn when he set fire to the bridge without waiting for everyone to return, this person's behavior this year is not difficult to understand in the eyes of everyone.

Hearing Wei Wensheng's name, Yu Wenshi and suddenly regained his spirits. "Where are General Wei's soldiers and horses, and what about the other soldiers and horses, Ziming, can you mark it clearly on the map?"

"Do your best!" Zhao Ziming nodded, grabbed the charcoal block and walked to the sheepskin map spread in the middle of the big tent. It is a very taboo behavior to inquire about the movements of friendly troops without permission, but not the commander. But at the time of stake, Zhao Ziming can't take care of it so much. "According to the latest military reports and hearsay from subordinates, General Wei has arrived here." Zhao Ziming drew an arrow near the stream in the northwest of Luoyang with a charcoal block, "Yang Xuangan personally led the team to meet it, and it is estimated that there will be a decisive battle in the next few days." He stopped, found another clean sheepskin, drew a dozen arcs on it, pointed to the one on the far right, and said: "We are here, and according to the marching speed of normal cavalry, we will definitely reach the north bank of the Yellow River in ten days." The rest of the marches were mixed with horses, horses, and horses, and the slowest march could be half as fast as ours. ”

"Hmm!" Yu Wenshi let out a long sigh. He understood the meaning of Zhao Changshi's words, even if he delayed the time, the first one to rush up and touch the head would definitely be the Xiongwu Battalion. Unless he, the overseer, uses his family strength to take all the responsibility, otherwise, everyone has no second choice.

"Is Luoyang City higher than the walls of Liaodong City?" Just when Yu Wenshi was in trouble, Li Xu also came over and asked in a low voice.

"Liaodong City can only be regarded as a thief village compared to our Luoyang in the Great Sui!" Yu Wenshi turned his head sideways, and couldn't help but mock again. Someone has grown so old and hasn't seen Luoyang City? A little contempt welled up in his heart. But Xuzi's words quickly turned his contempt into surprise.

"Although Yang Xuangan has a large number of people, he has no siege equipment, and in a short period of time, he can't capture Luoyang!" Li Xu circled around the chip, glanced at the sheepskin map again, and said in a low voice.

"Then we can't deliberately procrastinate on the road!" Yu Wenshi and loudly retorted. He had already made an oath in his heart that he would easily stop relying on the strength of his family. If he deliberately neglected the fighter, Li Xu, who had no roots and no foundation, would not be able to withstand a round of impeachment by the imperial historians.

"Don't delay, let's start working day and night from tomorrow, or Murong Bei will break off, and the people who can't keep up with the team will directly flash on the side of the road and wait for reception. Lieutenant Li set out with scouts, each of them riding in pairs, and anyone who met a horse on the road was directly detained! Li Xu nodded and gave Yu Wenshi a reassuring smile.

"You're going to touch Han Shixu!" Murong Luo exclaimed. Han Shixu is the son of the late veteran general Han Baohu, and after the famous general, he is known for being good at fighting. Although the family forces behind him seem to be easier to provoke than others, but in the way of using soldiers, Yu Wenshi and Li Xu together may not be Han Shixu's opponents.

"I'm not sure I can beat Han Se-cao!" Li Xu shook his head, not caring about admitting in front of everyone that he had poor skills in using soldiers.

"I, I didn't mean that. I mean, there are so many enemy soldiers, let's go, a drop in the bucket, not necessarily, not necessarily of much help! Murong Luo explained very ashamedly. Although the main general has a good temper, he was too impulsive just now, and he actually questioned the ability of Lord Lang to his face.

"I don't want to fight them, and I don't have a boat to cross the river!" Without waiting for Murong Luo to apologize to him, Xuzi grabbed the charcoal block and drew a circle on a city on the north bank of the Yellow River, on the bank of the Yongji Canal. "I'll fight this lonely city, and I won't provoke anyone on the south bank!"

Liyang, Da Sui Tun grain jumped into everyone's eyes. Yang Xuangan was able to feed an army of 300,000 troops, relying on the military rations stored in the Liyang warehouse. At this moment, the main force of the rebels was busy attacking the city on the south bank of the Yellow River, and the general Yuan Wuben, who stayed in Liyang City, was only a county lieutenant before and had no experience in leading troops.

Note 1: It is in the northeast of present-day Xingyang, Henan

Note 2: Yique Road, located on the bank of Yishui. The location of Cidao is ominous, and the position in this book is apocryphal by the author.

Alcoholic's note: Things are complicated at the end of the year, and it's late today. Try to post two chapters tomorrow, sorry.

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