Chapter 537: Process

It was not the first time that the displaced people and deserters on the Shu side had wandered to the Liang State to rob and steal, but because each time it was very small and did not hurt anyone, the Liang side only negotiated with the county officials and garrisons on the opposite side.

I don't know when Liang Guo no longer informed the Shu side when he received reports from the people, but just appeased the people.

The officials and garrisons on the Shu side still thought they were troublesome, and they didn't want to stiffen the relationship with their Shu generals, so they didn't want to mention it.

How do you know that the reason for war was set at that time.

When Zishui and Yuanshui flooded, Liang Guo took advantage of disaster relief to transport a large amount of grain and grass to the front line, escorting soldiers several times as needed.

And the Shu side is not busy with disaster relief, but to scrape the relief silver and grain allocated from above, and at the same time suppress the voices of the people, so as not to receive the news from Shu.

They are so busy, how can they still remember to guard Liang Guo? I thought that Liang Guo was busy with floods like them.

As a result, it happened so suddenly, the day before Liang lost a batch of grain, and in the evening it was found out that it was done by the soldiers on the side of Shu, and they also said that they had noses and eyes, names and surnames.

But those men were carrying the alms that had been allocated from above and the chiefs to trade with the merchants in exchange for silver.

This whereabouts cannot be said, and the other party was menacing at the time, and the person who dealt with it was inexperienced, so he was a little hesitant.

Before they could figure out Liang's intentions and try to cover up their embezzlement of relief grain, the Liang army attacked the next day.

When the matter was big, their first thought was to cover it up, so although they resisted hard, they didn't want to report it to Shudu.

But they also deducted the soldiers' salaries and grain and grass, most of these soldiers were Chu soldiers who were demoted six years ago, because Emperor Shu did not trust the Chu generals, so he changed all the generals.

The relationship between the two sides was originally antagonistic, the new general did not cherish the soldiers, and the soldiers naturally did not sell their lives.

Anyway, they are fellow villagers, and they have drunk wine together and visited kilns.

So the general above gave the order to hold on to the end in a hoarse voice, but the soldiers below rushed out like child's play, and saw the familiar person and said hello from afar, while lazily fighting guns and knives, while still having time to greet, "What did you eat today?" ”

"Of course it's dry, can you go to the battlefield without eating it? I'm doing a lot of hard work. ”

Shu Bing pouted and said: "What we eat is thin, some time ago they took advantage of the high price of grain and exchanged the military ration for silver, so there is not much food in the army." ”

"You're a big soldier, how do you know so much?"

The Shu soldiers gently slapped the gun in their hands on him, ignoring the increasingly urgent drums on the city tower, and pouted: "I know a lot, the one guarding the grain depot is our flag chief's brother-in-law, and he watches every time they go in and out to get grain." ”

Liang Bing saw that he was beaten, so he also knocked the other party with the back of his knife to show that he was beating very seriously, and shouted: "That can't let you eat thin, what we do is hard work, it's better to come to us, although the salary is not paid on time, there are still some, at least you can eat dry." ”

The Shu soldiers were envious, "The general has not been changed, and the generals above you are all from our Chu, of course they feel sorry for you, we have changed the Shu people since the captain, and they don't treat us as people at all." ”

"Then what are you still doing in a daze, it's better to follow the general, you know, the general has always loved soldiers like sons, even if he is wronged, he will not be wronged by us."

Shu Bing pondered, the movements in his hands became slower and slower, and Liang Bing on the opposite side simply stopped fighting, stretched out his hand and put his hand on his shoulder and said: "You want to come over, I will talk to Zongqi, he is also from our Chu, and he will not embarrass you." When the time comes, you will be reassigned to the general, do you really want us to fight around? ”

He pointed his hand and asked, "Look, these two sides are our Chu people, and some of them are still related to each other, just to fight for Liang Shu and give a life in vain?" Thanks to the panic? ”

Shu Bing hesitated: "If we repeat it like this, will the general be angry?" ”

"What's angry?" Liang Bing said: "Our Chu State is gone, who is not to vote, the generals are all in Liang State, what is he angry about?" ”

It just so happened that Shu Bing's stomach screamed, there was no way, a big man, if he still had to go to the battlefield, he would eat a bowl of porridge that was a little thick, and he would not be hungry at all.

He simply threw the gun in his hand to the ground and shouted, "Okay, Lao Tzu voted for you." ”

After saying that, he waved his hand backwards, "Brothers, it's not interesting to fight, let's vote for the general." ”

This general is naturally Xiang Shan, they have always called him that, even if they have returned to Shu, they are used to calling Xiang Shan like this.

He is a veteran, and what he said is still very effective, and the few Shu soldiers who were following him at the moment also lost their weapons, and they surrendered as soon as they stripped off their armor.

Liang Bing saw Yile and hurriedly pulled a few of them behind him, "Hurry up, go behind you, and go back to my brother to invite you to drink." ”

Seeing this, the Liang soldiers behind cleverly didn't move towards a few people, and then pushed them to the back.

When other Shu soldiers saw it, they also followed suit.

The surrender of several veterans was still inconspicuous, and the generals who supervised the war did not notice it for a while, but he just wanted to pretend that he couldn't see it.

Furious for a while, he waved his knife and was about to cut down the Shu soldiers who were dropping their weapons, intending to stop the mutiny, but this obviously angered the Shu soldiers, and the Liang soldiers who were mixed in shouted loudly: "Their Shu country does not treat our Chu people as people, they don't give us enough food, and they want to force us to go to the battlefield, what are you waiting for, brothers?" It's against him! ”

Several Liang soldiers around him immediately pretended to be Shu soldiers and coaxed: "Yes, it's against him!" ”

The Shu soldiers who happened to see this scene on the side: ......

But there is no way, the country accents on both sides are the same, the battlefield is mixed, and the people in the distance don't know whether it is the Liang soldiers or the Shu soldiers who are shouting.

And the Shu soldiers seen in the near distance were silent together, so things got out of control, the Liang soldiers were far away from the generals, but the Shu soldiers who were close directly dragged people off the horses.

The general's personal soldiers instantly confronted the Shu soldiers, and they themselves fought first, and the generals on the Liang army's side quickly commanded people to come forward to suppress it.

With lightning speed, he took down the Shu soldiers who intended to resist on the battlefield, and the rest surrendered, reaching ninety percent.

And the general on the tower of the city was so stunned that his fingers trembled with anger.

Further down, the Liang army proceeded more smoothly, after capturing the first city, the later Liang army captured two cities in this way with minimal casualties, and even the local people banded together to wound the city gate guards before them and let them into the city.

Because the further down the road, the more serious the disaster, the greater the loss of the people, and the more unscrupulous the local officials, even if the Liang soldiers do not come, there will be a rebellion in the local area.

Because the people really have no way to live.

And this is Chudi, and the people's sense of belonging to Shu is not strong.

Liang also had the same problem on his side, but fortunately, there was Xiang Shan guarding the Chu side, and the Jingnan Provincial Observation Envoy was still honest and strict, so the contradiction between Chu Min and Liang was not prominent.

The Liang army went very smoothly in the Chu area, but as soon as he came into contact with Shu, the progress began to slow down, and the Shu Emperor was not a vegetarian, he was caught off guard when he didn't know the problem, and after reacting, he was much more decisive than ordinary people.

In order to raise military rations, he copied several profiteers who colluded with the Three Emperors' uncles by iron-blooded means, and got a lot of grain from the Shu merchants.

The grain and grass were sufficient, and the Shu soldiers had the heart to defend their homeland, so they were at a stalemate for a while.

Xiang Shan and the others did not have a method of attacking, but their purpose was to subdue Shu, not to get a land full of resentment.

Therefore, there is no hurry or delay, if there is strong resistance, it will temporarily retreat, mainly defend, and if the opponent is tired of fighting, it will attack, almost marching at the speed of an ant.

And at this time, Ji Yuan had just led the mission to Fujian.

Ji Yuan sent an envoy to the Min State at this time, and his heart was clearly revealed, Emperor Min did not want to see him, and he couldn't understand why Chen Jian would agree to such a request.

For Ji Yuan, shouldn't he be driven away, and then Chen Bing borders to guard the other party?

Chen Jian asked lightly, "Your Majesty thinks that the power of the Fujian State can fight against the Liang State?" ”

"The Liang State is now at war with the Shu State, and we cooperate with the Shu State to flank the left and right ......"

"Your Majesty," Chen Jian interrupted him, looked up at him and said, "Now only Xiang Shan is fighting with the Shu army, Zhong Ruying and Lin Xin, not to mention that there are Lu Zhen and Cui Zheng in the rear, let's just talk about the garrison in Jiangnan, does Your Majesty think that the Fujian State can fight with the soldiers of the Jiangnan Province of the Liang State?" ”

Emperor Min choked, blew his beard and asked, "Why does the prime minister always grow the ambition of others and destroy his own prestige?" ”

Chen sighed when he saw it, "Then we have to wait for the prestige to be destroyed, Your Majesty, reunification is already the general trend of the world, and Shu State cannot stop it, let alone my Fujian State?" Think about the state of Chu, what a majesty, where is it now? ”

"It's ridiculous, you are the prime minister of my Fujian country, why do you talk about Liang Guo all the time?" Emperor Min said angrily: "Could it be that Liang Guo promised you something?" ”

If the Min Kingdom is destroyed, what will become of him?

As a courtier, shouldn't you die for your country? Is he thinking about the death of the country in every way?

Chen Jian was silent.

After the Qin, Han, Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties, the scholars have long been accustomed to seeing this world as a family, and it is not a foreign invasion, anyway, Fujian is only a few state capitals of the Tang Dynasty, isn't it normal to be unified?

When the ancestors of the Chen family could foresee it, Chen Jian was naturally prepared, what was there to be sad about?

Anyway, as long as the Chen family is prosperous, as for Emperor Min, Chen Jian meditated, if he hadn't had a good result for the Wu family now, he would have already taken his ministers to lower the beam, how could he have anything to do?

He waited for Ji Yuan to come this time, which was to negotiate with him on the treatment of Min and Wu, and after surrendering, how would Liang arrange them and how would he treat Min.

Last time, Ji Yuan only made two cursory clicks in the letter, and there were many loopholes, so he had to talk to the other party carefully.

In the past five years, through Chen Gu, Ji Yuan and Chen Jian have been in correspondence.