Chapter 895: Interests Decide Everything
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In mid-August, Zhou Yiwen rebelled against Shimen in Wenzhou. Eight counties and five counties in Wenzhou responded, but due to insufficient preparation, the two counties of Gaotang and Beixing were defeated successively. And what makes everyone in the world feel strange and weird is that the reason why Zhou Yiwen is not prepared is that his good third brother Zhou Jinwen once again stood on the side of the Han army!
Zhou Jinwen, who realized that something was wrong, changed his face and rushed out of Shimen County, and went all the way to Wenyang City to catch up, and then asked his entourage to return to the city to report to the county government yamen.
Facts have proved that Zhou Jinwen's caution is correct, and there are people from all over Shimen County who are involved in the conspiracy. Although Shimen Taishou is not among them, it is still hollowed out and has no power.
Some people say that this is simply someone pulling the banner of the Zhou family to make a tiger skin, and the person in charge of the matter cannot be Zhou Yiwen. Otherwise, Zhu Biao would not have let him go so lightly before.
Some people say that this is a plan of the Zibo Imperial Court.
There are also people who agree with Zibo's plan, and go one step deeper: Zhou Yiwen came out to be a big banner, and Zhou Jinwen jumped up to expose the whistleblower, which is the Zhou family's method of placing bets. After that, no matter which side wins, the Zhou family has their bloodline preserved.
When the family has to stand in line, this is their usual method.
But no matter what the people say, the chaos in Wenzhou has risen. Wang Renqing hurriedly borrowed the remaining soldiers and horses from the counties, and ordered Wang Shao to lead 10,000 troops to Gaotang to resist the threat of rebels from the west. Then the remaining soldiers and horses were stationed in Beixing and Wenyang, which could not guarantee the transportation of grain and grass materials to Langzhou.
The regular army in Wenzhou was no more than 60,000.
Because of the rebellion in the five counties, he was reduced to rebels and sergeants who were killed and wounded. The total number was close to 20,000 troops. The rest of the soldiers were also in turmoil, Wang Renqing was quite knowledgeable, and knew that under such circumstances, it was the next policy to rashly raise troops to attack the three counties of Shimen.
Zhu Biao's foundation in Wenzhou is too shallow. Many people still think of Lao Shuai. Thinking of the good of the Zhou family. Moreover, the Han army and the Wenzhou army fought several times, and every time the Wenzhou army killed a soldier, it was a family's hatred for Zhu Biao.
How many people are there in the eight counties of Wenzhou? But 500,000 households.
The families of the Wenzhou soldiers who died in the war, and the families whose interests were implicated and damaged, at least one-fifth of the people in Wenzhou have a hostile attitude towards Zhu Biao. That's a huge force.
If these people can then start their relatives and friends, so set off a wave. Wang Renqing was terrified when he thought about it.
The situation in Wenzhou and Cizhou, which were defeated by the Han army all the way, was completely different.
Therefore, Wang Renqing first seeks stability. First stabilize the situation of the five counties, at least the three counties of Gaotang, Wenyang, and Beixing. Don't drag down the army of Langzhou, and then start to deal with the rebels on the opposite side.
The stalemate entered September, Wang Renqing did not move, and the rebels did not dare to move. The total number of troops in their hands is only a little more than 10,000 people. There is no power to fight back against Wang Renqing. The Gao Tang Army is an insurmountable mountain in front of them.
All the rebels can do is play the emotional card. Send someone to contact and persuade Wang Shao. Wang Shao was unshaken, and only real soldiers could know the strength of the Han army. Just like Zhu Biao said at the beginning, after the army left, the two states of Ciwen were reversed, so they would go back to the division to fight!
The rebels recruited aggressively in a limited amount of time, and by the end of August, their strength had swelled to 30,000 or 40,000. However, many people did not even have leather armor, only a knife and gun.
Such an army is also the cannon fodder in the rogues. Not at all an opponent of the regular army. But with 30,000 or 40,000 people, the rebels are huge.
Taoqiu City is still standing intact on the ground. The Qi army once transported more than 100 large, medium and small thunderbolts to the front line. But there is no master in Qi who can withstand Zhu Biao in China!
The national teacher of the Qi State. It is also the great sacrificial wine of the Jixia School Palace, the only grandmaster on the face of Qi Guoming, and a master of innate swordsmanship. Joining forces with the Qi royal family to worship the Great Elder, the boxing grandmaster who had already stood on the side of Tian Wu, Tian Cheng and other three princes, with hundreds of masters and thousands of people who dared to die, could not stop Zhu Biao's direct assault on the thunderbolt car formation.
Without the thunderbolt car array, they could only rely on ladder trucks, wells, rushing cars and other equipment to attack the city, and after more than half a month, the Chengwai Qi army suffered 20,000 casualties, and nothing was gained.
In hand-to-hand combat in the small space of the city wall, the Hedong Army, which was based on the Mandarin Duck Formation, was like a fish in water, and it was so unhappy. The proportion of casualties among each other is not at all something that the Qi army can bear.
Zhao Shuming was completely helpless. The Taoqiu City in front of him was like a hedgehog piercing his hands, and he couldn't swallow it at all.
Yuanling County north of Wenyang.
Outside Guangyi County, Wang Shan kicked over the guy kneeling in front of him, pulled out his waist knife, and cut him down with the first hand.
He was angry and annoyed, he didn't forget if he hit the iron plate in Yuanling County, but he didn't expect to hit a nail in this small Guangyi County, and compared to the county town, he lost the deputy general Li Jiaming!
Everyone who fled back from the rout didn't dare to breathe, this moody lieutenant was irritable by nature, and he was not a good-tempered living bodhisattva!
"Lao Zhiquan and Wang Hun are cunning, and they directly sent these wastes to Lao Tzu, but they didn't move forward, clearly knowing that they were going to encounter hard stubble and wanted to preserve their strength!"
Wang Shan thought secretly in his heart, annoyed. Moreover, these guys were all defeated when they heard the news, and they didn't even know who led the officers and soldiers who killed Li Jiaming, and how many of them numbered!
A bunch of rubbish!
"Huang Ke, you go and gather the people who have come back, those people will be under your command from now on!" Wang Shan pondered for a moment and looked at his general: "Find a few people who can speak human words and ask what is going on!" β
Huang Ke's heart was pounding, suppressing the joy in his heart, and he went out in response.
This is the opportunity given to him by Wang Shan!
Although the leader of the pro-soldiers who is the main general is favored, there is no benefit. Moreover, his own soldiers are the foundation of Wang Shan, and he is only a leader, but he never has any of them. Now that he has the right to fight, he is leading the army alone. Take the team to sweep out casually and hug it, which is real money in thousands of taels. In the future, even if the team is dispersed, with these furniture, it will be a rich man.
And what about Wang Shan. In this team of big warlords and small warlords, Li Jiaming is one of the small warlords, and he is quite a strong one. Otherwise he would not be a lieutenant. Although annoyed that Li Jiaming was killed. let his subordinates fall into arrogance and majesty, but Wang Shan also regarded this as an opportunity, an opportunity to completely annex Li Jiaming's subordinates.
His troops and horses also had to do their best to meet with Lao Zhiquan and Wang Hun. And then...... Guangyi County.
was Wang Shanfa was ruthless, and after a while, Huang Ke came in with several people, all of whom were Li Jiaming's personal riders and knew what had happened in detail.
"Since you have defeated the people of the town, why did you finally defeat and even Li Jiaming folded in?"
"Your Excellency, General. It's not that the little ones don't make a lot of effort. It's that the sudden slaughter of a group of cavalry is too powerful. The general at the head was extremely brave, and he killed my general with one shot among the thousands of troops. β
"Cavalry? Who is that man? β
"Come to the enemy to fight the banner of the word ......"
"Shhh
Wang Shan took a cool breath, his eyes full of fear. Congratulations. Originally, he had no impression of this word, but at present, in Qi Kingdom, there is no surname more intimidating than this word.
Zhu Biao!
No, it won't. Battle of Taoqiu to the south. Although the imperial army was unable to break the city. But the Han army was unable to defeat the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of the imperial court in one fell swoop. Zhu Biao can't do without Taoqiu.
What is left......
It was changed to Zhu Biao's relatives and generals. For example, the few who the Han army killed in Cizhou at the beginning were like Zhu Zhenguo who killed the eyes in the wind.
"And then ......"
"General Xiao Li was also killed by the surname Zhu, and the team dispersed......"
This time, Wang Shan was not angry, he listened carefully to the story of the battle, and then nodded slowly. Huang Ke saw that he didn't have anything to ask, so he sent these people away and said, "General, there are only two or three hundred horsemen in his generation, and the last general is willing to be the vanguard." Sweep the countryside for the general, and take down the head of the person surnamed Zhu by the way! β
"Are you sure?" Wang Shan snorted: "Although Li Jiaming is reckless. But the courage is very strong, and he was the best general in the army in front of the old commander's tent. He was folded in the hands of the surnamed Zhu, not to mention you! β
"This Zhu family is really a collection of outstanding people, not to mention a Zhu Biao, Zhu Zhong and Zhu Tong don't mention the old nest, there are still talents who continue to emerge and become famous."
Huang Ke was furious, puffed up his chest and said: "When it comes to bravery in the army, I, Huang Ke, can't do it." But the battle depends on knowing the soldiers and strategizing, Li Jiaming's brave husband, what is the praise? β
"The last general is willing to make a guarantee. When I couldn't take the thief's head, I cut off my own head. β
"Okay, it's worthy of a certain family. Since you have such courage, you will take command of the headquarters, and I will give you another 1,000 men, and then you will go to Lao Zhiquan and Wang Hun, and let them also lend you some soldiers and horses, and gather 3,000 men to sweep the countryside and villages! Wang Shan laughed.
Huang Ke went down to reorganize the troops and didn't mention it. Zhu Zhenguo's side, "Tiger head, how do we lose?" When he woke up from a nap, Zhu Zhenguo asked his own soldier Li Hudao.
"Twenty-one men were killed and fifteen wounded, and eleven of them were afraid that they would not be able to fight again." Li Huyu reported: "The rebel subordinates captured and killed seven or eight hundred people who surrendered. Some of them scattered, and only five or six hundred of them could return to the enemy camp. β
Zhu Zhenguo was not only a little worried, he only had more than 300 horsemen in total, although there was a curved infantry behind him, but he was used to cavalry, and he was very indifferent to how to use the infantry. This battle damaged one-tenth of the cavalry, and this battle was relatively smooth! This result not only distressed him.
"Adults don't have to be heartbroken. This is completely the Wenzhou soldiers' own fault. If it is the blade of our army, then it is the general cavalry. More than 300 people sprinted to 2,000 rogues, completely killing chickens, and it was possible to kill only ten of them. β
"But we have to rely on them to fight." Zhu Zhenguo shook his head, his heart sullen.
"The concession battalion inspected the captured rogues, and all the bloodied and leaders were singled out. The good family who is coerced can be included in the baggage camp. β
Li Jiaming is not only brave in battle, but also very good at looting. According to the preliminary inventory and seizures, there were tens of thousands of taels of gold, more than 73,000 taels of silver, more than 10,000 taels of money, and countless pieces of jewelry and utensils. In addition, there are more than 300 stones of grain and 1,000 horses of silk......"
More than 200,000 taels of silver is a floating fortune that can never be scavenged from a small town. There should be Li Jiaming's previous accumulation.
Zhu Zhenguo had money in his hands, and the soldiers who died in the war first received a bereavement pension of 100 taels of silver each, and then added 10 taels of silver for the burial. For the two disabled, the resettlement fee of 50 taels of silver per person will be left in the newly rescued town, and the medical food will be paid. The remaining nine seriously wounded were twenty taels of silver each, and the four lightly wounded were ten taels of silver each. The rest of the cavalry. Five taels of silver per person. The infantry armor was not mixed into the battle, but only cleaned the battlefield and took prisoners, each of whom was a tael of hard-earned money.
At the same time, Zhu Zhenguo announced. The salary of the whole army has been tripled!
He is buying people's hearts and forcing the soldiers to fight bravely.
For the dead are a hundred and ten denarii, and the immortal and crippled fifty denariarii. The latter number is not small, but people are crippled, missing arms and legs, in troubled times, it is better to live than to die, it is better to die happily. Earn more money for your family.
Zhu Biao understood this truth very well when he ran Hedong, but he did not change the rules of pension in the army, at most he arranged the wounded soldiers as much as possible. For example, after returning to the place. Let them serve as the lieutenant chief, the pavilion chief, or the head of the people, or the officials of the pavilion.
Zhu Zhenguo naturally understands very well. But again, he didn't change at the moment.
Person. Let's face it. Interests decide a qiΔ.
Who made them the superior ones?
"I know that some of you are from good families. Now it has come to this point. Who harmed you? β
"Is it the government?"
"The government forced you to have no way to live, no way to live?"
"Nope! No! β
"It's the rebels who are harming you, and they're the thievesβ"
"Think of your family, your parents, your wives and children. Think about the old days, and look at the present......"
β¦β¦
ββ¦β¦β¦β¦ Point out the wicked thieves and traitors among you, and the rebels who have the blood of innocent people on their hands. See if there are any enemies of yours and point them out. Say it, and you will take revenge yourselves............"
More than 400 prisoners. In the wide-eyed eyes of the people in the small town, Shengsheng was reduced to three hundred.
More than 100 lives made the people of the town look at Zhu Zhen's eyes, and there was an extra layer of awe in gratitude.
Compared with the more than 300 corpses on the battlefield, this can be said to be more than 100 people slaughtered, which is more deterrent.
The Wenzhou rebels failed to attack Gaotang and Yuanling, and could not threaten the grain route of the Han army in Langzhou, but no matter what, it could always be said to be an army before. No matter how sparse their combat effectiveness is, they also have military discipline and military regulations.
But at the end of the first month of September, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, the 40,000-strong rebel army had changed dramatically. When the Cizhou army began to make some moves and attacked the three counties of Shimen, this army, which still looked like it, suddenly exploded.
Scattered into more than a dozen large and small groups of people, first wanton Shimen three counties, and then to move, by Yuanling, Nandongming, the tide poured in.
Plague the people, besiege the city and take the county.
They were unable to take the two counties, but there were some counties that could not withstand the offensive of the rebels.
Wang Renqing saw that the rebels' posture was about to erode the place. It seems that the people behind it saw that the Cizhou Army was about to be dispatched and knew that the prospects were not good, so they simply gave up this chess piece. Let them turn the army into bandits and completely corrupt the place, so as to hinder the Han army.
Zhou Jinwen's eyes were red, and he cried that his brother was really used by a traitorous villain. After this change, the reputation of the Zhou family will be completely rotten in the future.
Wang Renqing sent people to contact Cizhou in a hurry, asking the Cizhou army to advance back and forth as quickly as possible. Another 10,000 soldiers and horses were allocated to Wang Shao, and he commanded 20,000 soldiers to try his best to strangle the rebels. Third, he also had to 'keep the enemy out of the country' to keep Wenyang and Beixing counties safe, maintain the smoothness of logistics and transportation, and do his best to block the rebels in Yuanling and Dongming. In the end, he had to ask Zhu Biao for help, asking Zhu Biao to send a group of capable officers, and then he recruited a group of brave and brave men from the army and the people to kill the rebel bandits on a small scale with mobile against mobile.
Zhu Biao agreed. So at this moment, there is Zhu Zhen. He was the head of the ten military horses sent back by Zhu Biao.
And his horse team of more than 300 people was recruited from the people, and they were dragged to the battlefield after a simple training. The 500 infantry armor is the regular army of Wenzhou, and its training quality is much stronger than that of the cavalry.
Changfeng County.
Li Panlong has been making thunderbolts for a month. As early as twenty days ago, the thunderbolt roaring under the city became a symbol of the Changfeng battlefield.
At most, the Han army operated more than 100 thunderbolts to bombard.
Although these thunderbolts made in a hurry will have to be repaired in less than two days, or even completely invalidated, there are not so many equipment soldiers in Li Panlong's army who can operate the thunderbolts, and the accuracy is quite problematic. But after all these days, He Qing in the city was still beaten to the ground.
The city wall of Changfeng County was also destroyed in three places.
He Qing once organized elite soldiers to sneak attack at night, but who is Li Panlong, who is more fine than a monkey. He Qing stole chickens and rice, and the 1,000 elite soldiers he killed were swallowed by Li Panlong.
The two of them fought back and forth several times. It can't be said that Li Panlong can win every time, but relying on his strong strength, he can always have the upper hand.
The morale of the Puzhou army in the city was declining. Only at the end of mid-August did it suddenly recover. Li Panlong was not in a hurry when he saw it. He knew that this must be someone outside who had informed the Shijia army in the city of the news of the Wenzhou rebellion. Time will wear off. And when the surging hope is shattered, the inner loss and depression will be greater and deeper than before.
As Li Panlong expected, now that September was about to end, the Han army was still staying outside the city as steadily as Mount Tai, and the thunderbolts continued to bombard, not affected by the Wenzhou rebellion at all.
The morale of the Shijia army in the city fell to the valley.
"General, look-" Wang Guang, who was in high spirits, rushed into the battalion commander, holding a crossbow bolt with silk in his hand.
He is the cavalry commander left by Chen Mengren's troops in Changfeng County. In this month, except for the patrol sentry, it is the patrol post, but it is suffocated.
Today, when I was patrolling Changfeng Castle, I saw a crossbow wrapped in silk piercing the ground. Riding his horse closer, he leaned down and picked it up.
Wang Guang did not dismantle it. The words written on the silk are very clear, and they are to be presented to the main general.
"General, this should be a descending book, right?"
Wang Guang looked at the silk very curiously. This scene was very familiar, very familiar, but he had never really seen it.
"It's really a drop book. Jianyi Zhonglang will Wu Ziqi. "But is it true or not?
Li Panlong thought about this. (To be continued)