Chapter 437: Two Birds with One Stone
Although Shi Da was still skeptical, he couldn't refute the words of the King of the West at this moment, this Tianjing Incident killed each other, which caused the Heavenly Kingdom to be greatly injured, if King Qin's battle of hoeing and rape was killed again, the Heavenly Kingdom would be even weaker, and Wei Zhijun in Huaishang was easier to take refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty than Yang Fuqing.
Shi Dakai didn't say anything at the moment, what is it for the dignified Wing King to endure a little grievance for the great cause of heaven, after all, there is a wrongdoer, a debtor, his biggest enemy is Wei Changhui, and the rest of the soldiers in the North Hall are also innocent after all.
After figuring out this section, Shi Dakai no longer dwelled on the matter of entering the army immediately, but instead discussed how to disintegrate the Beidian army in the city, believing that as long as the army of King Qin only asks the first offender and does not ask about coercion, the probability of surrendering with the middle and lower generals of the Beidian army will be very high, and it will also defect when the city is really attacked.
The King of the West did not refute the words of the Wing King this time, and when the Wing King said that who under his command and who and who on the north side of the hall had the old and could be co-opted, the King of the West did not agree to it.
After discussing for a while, Shi Dakai suddenly talked about the shortage of food in the army, and wanted to borrow a batch of grain and grass for emergency. Xiao Yungui didn't blink his eyes and ordered someone to invite Zuo Zongtang and asked him to transfer a batch of grain and grass to Dasheng Pass to the soldiers and horses of the Wing Palace.
Shi Dakai was immediately overjoyed, knowing that there is no food and no soldiers, if the West King takes advantage of the lack of food in the Wing Hall to dig the foot of the wall, although Shi Dakai can guarantee that his veterans in the Wing Hall will not fall to the West King, but he cannot guarantee that the newly attached East Hall and the North Hall will not defect to the West King. Did you guess wrong? King Xi is really a man who stands up to the heavens and the earth, and he only has heaven in his heart, and he has no selfish thoughts?
It wasn't until he walked out of the camp of Xiaolingwei in the West Hall unimpeded that Shi Dakaiwu didn't understand the true face of the King of the West, he seemed to be saying to himself on the horse, and seemed to be asking Zhang Suimou: "Could it be that the King of the West is really for the Kingdom of Heaven this time?" ”
Zhang Suimou's face was still solemn. He frowned and said: "I can't see anything now, and when I enter Tianjing City, I will know the way, if he is willing to follow the order of the Heavenly King, he is still the Western King of Heaven, otherwise it will be the second Eastern King Yang Xiuqing." ”
Shi Dakai sighed lightly and said, "Suimou, whose fault is it that you said you have come to this point?" ”
Zhang Suimou was speechless for a while, and Shi Dakai then said slowly: "Is there anything wrong with the East King?" He helped the kingdom of heaven to lay a huge country, if there is no king of the east, I am afraid that we will not even be able to get out of Guangxi. Is Wei Changhui wrong? Changing places, maybe I can only be forced to kill people out of desperation. The king of the West is not even more wrong. He didn't get involved from start to finish. And me? What did I do wrong? Is it wrong that Wei Changhui was not decisively stopped at the beginning? ”
Zhang Suimou said: "It is the king of the north who has a bad heart and has turned grass into a demon, which has nothing to do with His Highness." If it weren't for his perennial ignorance of the military and politics, why would the East King be like this? If it weren't for the fact that he didn't know who he was hiring. Why is the north temple murderous? If he hadn't ......"
Shi Dakai was stunned suddenly, then raised his hand to stop and said, "Maybe the Heavenly King is really wrong." But we know these words. It doesn't have to be said. Following Shi Dakai to gaze at Tianjing City in the distance, he sighed lightly: "Thinking back to the time when Jintian Village raised troops, the big guys shared weal and woe to kill the Qing Demon together, but I didn't expect that many brothers did not die at the hands of the Qing Demon, but died at the hands of their own people." ”
Zhang Suimou suddenly said: "Maybe this is what Xidianjun said, this is a test given to us by God the Father." ”
Shi Dakai smiled bitterly. Nodding slowly, he said: "It is indeed a test given to us by God the Father, after I go back, I will tell everyone what I heard in the West Temple, many brothers actually still have doubts......
At the gate of the camp, watching Shi Dakai and his party go farther and farther, a smile appeared on Xiao Yungui's face. Then he turned back to Zuo Zongtang and said: "Tomorrow, when the soldiers and horses of the Wing Hall come to move the grain and grass, they can reveal the news to the Flower Flag soldiers of Yang Fuqing's department." ”
Zuo Zongtang bowed his head slightly and said: "Yang Fuqing's department came this time, the grain and grass are not abundant, that group of Citi soldiers can't get rid of the habits of the rivers and lakes, it is very difficult for Yang Fuqing's regular Dongdian army to see, and the grain and grass are very small, after they arrived in Chunhua, this group of Citi soldiers went around robbing houses and houses, and they were simply a group of hungry bandits, if they knew that there was such a batch of grain and grass transported to Dashengguan, they would definitely be robbed halfway." ”
Xiao Yungui laughed predictively, and said in a low voice: "Yang Fuqing's Citi soldiers robbed the Wing King's grain and grass, maybe the two families will fight, and they won't be able to screw a piece, and we will have a name, and we will justifiably clean up this group of bandit-like Citi soldiers." Yang Fuqing can't fight Shi Dakai, so he can only obediently throw himself at us, it is killing two birds with one stone. With that, the two of them laughed together.
Yang Fuqing's subordinate Citi soldiers were one of the Tiandihui people who transferred to Jiangxi after the failure of the Guangdong Uprising last year. Since the long-term attack on Guangzhou, Chen Kai and others led most of the men and horses of the Heaven and Earth Society to go to Fujian to join the West Palace, and one of them known as 100,000 people and horses of the Heaven and Earth Society, under the leadership of Chen Rong, Deng Xiang, Lu Wei, Tan Xing, Tan Fu, etc., have taken Yongxin, Anfu, Fenyi, Wanzai north from Chaling to enter Jiangxi and other places, this autumn due to the oppression of the Hunan army and Jiang Zhongyuan, coinciding with the Taiping Army Yang Fuqing Department from Nanchang 3rd Road rescue Changsha, the two armies met in Wanzai on October 19 of that year, and soon the name of "Citi" appearedSince then, "Citi" has become the special name of this Tiandihui army that originated in Guangdong and was formed in Jiangxi and put into the Taiping Army.
But because this Citi Army is attached to the system, Yang Fuqing has no time to rectify, most of the Tiandihui Righteous Army are characters with extremely heavy habits in the rivers and lakes, and over time, the banditry is even heavier, from the beginning of the pit and abduction to the blatant robbery in the back. When Yang Fuqing was planning to deal with it strictly, he didn't expect that the Tianjing Incident occurred, and then Yang Fuqing had to temporarily give up the idea of reorganization. Later, when he entered the king of Qinwang in Beijing, Yang Fuqing was worried that this Citi army would have an accident sooner or later if it stayed in Jiangxi, and it would threaten his back road, so he brought 30,000 Citi soldiers with him.
These Citi soldiers were originally claimed to be 100,000, but counting the old and weak women and children, after returning to the Taiping Army, only 30,000 soldiers were left to use, and the number was greatly reduced, and the rest of the old and weak women and children stayed in Jiangxi to farm.
Because the Citi Army was not from the orthodox Taiping Army, it was looked down upon in the Dongdian Army, and the grain, grass and materials it often received were the least and worst, and it was even worse after leaving Jiangxi. Yang Fuqing's grain and grass were also poor, so there was very little grain and grass distributed to the Citigroup, so the Citigroup began to collect grain everywhere and make grain and grass by itself.
The food in the wing hall was better, and it was finally bought with silver money, but if there was no IOU, the people near the Daimyo Tianjing of the Wing King still bought it. Yesterday, the Xidian Army packed up a Citi army of more than 300 people, but there were 30,000 Citi soldiers near Tianjing, so Xiao Yungui thought of using this opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.
After returning to Dasheng Pass, Shi Dakai immediately ordered people to prepare, and sent Shi Zhenji to take 2,000 men and horses to the West Hall camp early the next morning to get grain and grass.
Early the next morning, Shi Zhenji led 2,000 men and horses to the West Hall camp to get grain and grass, and the West Hall was extremely enthusiastic, so that Shi Zhenji and others felt the enthusiasm of the brothers' troops. This is near Tianjing, in the hinterland of the Heavenly Kingdom, there are no demons, and even the Beidian army has shrunk into the city, so why send more soldiers and horses to escort it? In fact, Shi Zhenji was still worried that he would have too much contact with those strangely dressed Xidian soldiers, and his soldiers would miss him.
After leaving the Xiaolingwei camp, he traveled more than 20 miles, and he didn't expect a few people to come out of the woods in front of him, there were tens of thousands of people, but he didn't play any banners, and a big man led by him was also wrapped in a red scarf on his head, calling for the army of the Wing Hall to put down the grain and grass and leave.
Shi Zhenji was furious, stepped forward to ask, the big man was anxious, and seemed to be afraid that there would be a wing hall army near the Great Victory Pass, so he whistled, and more than 10,000 people rushed forward to grab food.
Shi Zhenji was furious, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to protect the food, and after the two groups of people crowded together, they first started to move the knife and then moved the knife, and soon fought in the chaos. Although the winged palace soldiers are elite, the number is small after all, and the group is even more hungry and crazy to grab food, and the winged palace soldiers can't stop it, so they have to retreat with the wounded. The gang grabbed the food, collected the body, and quickly retreated.
After Shi Zhenji fled back to Dasheng Pass to report to Shi Dakai, Shi Dakai was furious, and immediately ordered soldiers and horses to bring Shi Zhenji to come, but when he arrived at the place of grabbing grain, everyone was gone. Shi Dakai was still angry, so he took the soldiers and horses to search privately, and finally found a few lonely men, and only after asking did he realize that it was Yang Fuqing's Citi Army who grabbed the grain.
At that moment, Shi Dakai came to Chunhua with soldiers and horses to ask for grain and grass, and even asked Yang Fuqing to give an explanation.
However, he said that Yang Fuqing led the soldiers and horses to Chunhua, and he was forced to come this time because of helplessness, and he was always worried that the king of heaven would hold the east hall responsible, and he was even more worried that the king of the west would annex his own soldiers and horses, so he had been hiding behind the two people, and planned to retreat back to Jiangxi to be his own emperor when he saw that the momentum was not good.
The grain and grass for Yang Fuqing on this expedition were sufficient, and Jiangxi was rich, and there were enough grain and grass in several counties in the north, but he did not expect that after the army arrived in Chunhua, the granary was on fire for no reason, although the rescue was timely, but a lot of grain and grass were lost.
Then Yang Fuqing reduced the rations of the Citigroup Army to ensure the food and grass of his cronies, but Yang Fuqing of the Citigroup agreed that they would buy food everywhere, anyway, this is the periphery of Tianjing, not the land of Jiangxi, so if they rob it, they will rob it.
When Shi Da drove his troops and horses, Yang Fuqing got the news of the spies, and at first he also said that Shi Da Kai had killed, and hurriedly ordered people to light up soldiers and horses to prepare to meet the enemy, and then he figured out that it was his Citi Army who robbed the Wing King's grain and grass!
Yang Fuqing scolded the banditry Citi Army in his heart, he was really bold, and he actually grabbed the head of the Wing King, but he had to go to meet the Wing King. (To be continued......)