[Chapter 4, Volume 4]

Chapter 462 Chapter 123 'Chaos'

The armies that were sent out to quell the 'chaos', instead of quickly and effectively quelling the civil uprisings in various places as expected by the imperial court and the county clans of Zhuzhou, were defeated and retreated! What's more, there were generals who could not restrain their subordinates, so that their subordinates mutinied, and the people who joined the people to capture the prefectures and counties, plunder the treasury, and 'rape'. Burn and kill such horrendous things!

"The world is mostly in the hands of the scholars, the previous Great Wei Dingding, from Gaozu below, Gaozong, Taizong, Xuanzong III to the 'fine' to rule, open the Wei room for a hundred years of prosperity. The blessing of the ancestors stretched to a few decades ago, and it was only because of the neglect of the first emperor that it 'revealed' a significant decline. "Throw another urgent document back on the table - the content of the document is that the army recently sent to Bozhou to quell the 'chaos' was besieged by a mob, and there was a shortage of military rations and the morale of the army was shaken under the defeat of the battle, but fortunately, the leader of this army was decisive in killing, and after noticing that someone was spreading rumors in the army, he killed dozens of people in a row, and showed the whole army to the public, temporarily suppressing the whole army. However, there were mobs outside and lack of food and grass inside, and the chief general didn't know how long he could last, so he wrote dozens of blood letters, tied them to arrows, and 'shot' out of the encirclement.

Shen Zangfeng shook his head, "In the past hundred years, although the Great Wei Frontier has been burning with wars, the border army is no stranger to going into battle. However, within the borders of the country, there have been no sword soldiers for a long time. The Yanzhou army can still get involved with the pillow because of the baggage, as for the Imperial Forest Army and the government armies everywhere, they have been idle for too long. The lack of tempering of the soldiers is one of them, and the most important thing is that the salary commission in the army is too serious...... The army that is nominally full of battalions is actually only five or six out of ten, and this is not counting the idle men they temporarily recruited in the past to conduct perfunctory checks...... All in all, the Wei army's combat power is not much stronger than that of the common people. ”

"But the common people's 'anger' can be said to be usable. These soldiers were not the same, they were at first influenced by the princes of the court and the central government, thinking that they were just like oppressing their neighbors in ordinary times, and they happily left Beijing. However, after the 'confrontation', he knew that he was powerful, but he immediately weakened his courage! Shen Zangfeng's face was gloomy, and he said, "For example, the chief general who wrote this document asking for help, from the time he rushed to Bozhou to the siege, and then to the issuance of this request for help, it was only a few days in between, how could there be no food and grass in the army?" It can be seen that they thought that they would win as soon as they arrived in the local area, or they thought that this time the 'chaos' was just like some people they had bullied when they usually ran rampant in the countryside, in short, they did not wake up, and they were afraid that they did not bring enough food and grass at all, so they were robbed! ”

He sighed, "I'm afraid it's too late to send someone to rescue you when you go to the imperial capital!" ”

At this moment, there are no outsiders in the study, except for Shen Zangfeng, only Shen Xuan and Shen Zhou, two brothers, both with solemn expressions.

After listening to Shen Zangfeng's words, Shen Xuan stroked his head and said: "This army is not hindered in the overall situation, and it doesn't matter whether it is saved or not. The situation in the world that Feng'er said is ......"

"Empty pay is wrong for the country!" The Shen family is a martial heirloom, and it is also responsible for guarding Xiliang and resisting the invasion of the Di people, as a member of this sect, Shen Zhou is naturally very clear about the empty salary in the army. In fact, due to the long period of peace in the Great Wei, except for the border troops who needed to 'confront' Rong Di frequently, the combat strength of the army in the hinterland of the Great Wei was not very good...... This is still a relatively nice statement, but the truth is that these troops have no chance to go into battle anyway, and it has become a habit for the bosses to eat at ease and the corporals to be loose in military discipline......

In the long run, it is said that it is the army, and many battalions are actually like scoundrels and ruffians.

Where is it so easy to ask them to quell the 'chaos'?

It's just that whether it is the saint or the officials of the court, including those who have never been out of office but have great prestige among the mulberries, their food must be 'fine' and their clothes must be 'fine', and what they see in their eyes is a group of 'flowers'. I am used to being high, and although I have heard of the erosion of the army except for the border army, I didn't expect them to be so unbearable.

It was an understatement that gave the order—and this kind of order affected the soldiers—but only to pacify some mobs who had not enough to eat and rebelled, and not to go to the frontier to fight with Rong and Di.

As a result, this peace and 'chaos' made the entire Great Wei 'chaos' add 'chaos' to 'chaos'!

"Yanzhou Lu Haozhi has become a climate, and Cao Jianlin, Xu Zongwen and others in Youzhou have never been ambushed, let alone the rest of the place!" Shen Xuan frowned and said, "Now it's a spark and it's about to burn the prairie fire...... The one I am worried about is Donghu! ”

Speaking of which, although the Shen family is responsible for guarding Xiliang, they also know Donghu well and are very familiar with it. This is for a reason, because the Shen family and the Liu family have been competing for the military salary of the imperial court in the court for many years. Each of the two families has a place that needs to be guarded, and this kind of thing has always been a must. In order to suppress the opponent, it is natural to be 'chest' about everything that happens to the opponent, so that you can find opportunities to make a big fuss.

Now it is no exception - due to the big 'chaos' in the two states of Youyan in the rear, even if the Liu family is forced to take out their own treasury to stabilize the morale of the army, the situation is already precarious, and even the town has been lost!

The Liu family is not a fool, they can feed the entire border army with their own strength, even if the treasury that the Liu family has accumulated for hundreds of years can hold up, it will not be necessary to raise it for a few years!

Shen Zangfeng saw that Wei Zuo had declined as early as when Great Wei was still peaceful, and if the Liu family didn't wake up at this time, how could they be ranked among the six valves in the sea? In order to retain Shen Zangfeng's strength to deal with the world's chaos, how could the Liu family not leave a hand?

In this case, it is impossible for the Liu family to take out all the treasury to support the border army - at this moment, the Liu family is starting to lose the town, and they will lose even more in the future!

It is estimated that at that time, except for the location of the ancestral hall of the Liu family and several retreats to prevent the extermination of the Rong people from being defended by the Liu family, the rest of the places will be abandoned by the Liu family. In order to gather superior forces - mainly the 'private' soldiers of the Liu family and the most 'elite' part of the border army to guard their bottom line - so that once the road to the rich heart of the Great Wei is awayed, whether the Rong people will stay in Donghu and fight with the Liu family or drive straight into the hinterland of the Great Wei to plunder the great rivers and mountains of the Central Plains, it is not necessary to think about it!

Beirong and Qiudi are both very bitter and cold places, which cannot be cultivated, and the Rong people and Di people will not cultivate.

They commit crimes every year, but in fact, they don't have a grudge against the Wei people from the beginning. It is nothing more than that when the grazing is insufficient to supply the tribe, they want to fight a dozen autumn winds; Second, he was jealous of the prosperity and wealth of Great Wei.

The Rong people are not stupid, the 'private' soldiers of the Liu family and the 'elite' in the border army are all brave men who fight with them almost every year and are tempered in real blood and fire. And the army inside the Great Wei has been raised in vain for nearly a hundred years, even if the Rong people don't know that the Great Wei is completely vulnerable except for the border army, but an army that has never been on the battlefield and a division of a hundred battles on the battlefield must be 'engaged', and fools know who to choose as the enemy!

And what did the Rong people invade Great Wei for? It's not about plundering the wealth of the population!

Donghu place, even if it is the Sangzi land of the Liu family, where is the prosperity of the imperial capital comparable to?

As long as the Liu family gives way out, the Rong people will leave at most one of the men and horses to prevent the Liu family from attacking the Great Wei court back and forth, and then they will definitely do their best to wave their troops to the south and take the hinterland of the Great Wei Dynasty - the first thing to bear the brunt after Donghu gives way out is the two states of You and Yan, these two states, and now the popular rebellion led by the Qin family in Yanzhou has been extinguished...... In other words, Qin Hu and the others had already been exterminated by the 'private' soldiers of the Liu family who escorted Liu Jizhao and others to make meritorious contributions in September last year, when they returned from the three years ago.

But the 'private' soldiers didn't catch Lu Haozhi, so they left Yanzhou because the day of Liu Jizhao and others was approaching.

So the ministers of the court and the central government did not have time to rejoice in Yanzhou Ke'an, and received an urgent report that Lu Haozhi escaped by luck when Qin Hu and his gang were ambushed, and encircled the old department, and rebelled against more than eighty percent of the local generals and soldiers in Yanzhou in the Yanzhou army.

If Zhang Lesui of Yanzhou Daxingtai had not been forcibly brought back to the imperial capital by Liu Jing for impeachment, he would definitely have been unable to escape death!

Upon hearing this news, the Holy Lord and the princes of the court and the central government urgently ordered the Liu family's 'private' soldiers to go with the Imperial Forest Army to quell the 'chaos' and recapture the state city! However, because of the tight terrain, Yanzhou is a city with a deep moat, which is far from being comparable to ordinary cities. Not to mention that the city has been piled up for many years to supply the surrounding states and counties of grain and grass, it can be said that the burden is like a mountain, Lu Haozhi has a heavy army, countless grain and grass, and it can be said that he is handy to defend the city.

The 'private' soldiers of the Liu family, who were pinned on high hopes, were indeed brave, and they left the useless Imperial Forest Army to kill the city several times, but they all went to the city because of the lack of people...... They were just to escort Liu Jizhao and the others back to Beijing, with the suspicion of the saint, where did the Liu family dare to send more people? However, in order to prevent bandits along the way, there were only a few hundred people at full capacity.

On the other hand, Lu Haozhi, the Yanzhou army under his command used to be claimed to be 200,000, and after deducting empty salaries, the actual number was always around 100,000. If you deduct those who are unwilling to follow him and be purged by him, how can there be tens of thousands of actual subordinates? When it comes to the 'elite' among them, the three thousand capable warriors can always be selected! Lu Haozhi didn't rely on his family background to rise to the top, but relied on his talent to climb up from the cloth!

Hundreds against tens of thousands, although the Yanzhou army is not as 'elite' as the border army, even if the Liu family's 'private' soldiers can only take care of a few thousand at most......

After several times, the Liu family's 'private' soldiers suffered heavy losses, and their direct boss Liu Sijing, the Marquis of Weiyuan, was so distressed that he was so distressed that he was alive and alive, and while sending them an order to slow down the siege, he hurriedly wept for 800 miles in front of His Majesty, and even said that his 'private' soldiers were only good at fighting with the Rong people on the grassland, and were not good at attacking the city at all, and said that they were tired from fierce battles...... All in all, I want to increase my troops.

Before the reinforcement of troops and the arrival of siege equipment, he didn't want to let the soldiers he raised by him go to death for nothing!

Originally, this was also how it should be, tens of thousands of Yanzhou troops who were familiar with the topography of Yanzhou, under the command of a general who had been guarding Yanzhou for decades, still sitting on mountains of grain and grass, relying on hundreds of "elite" and "private" soldiers and tens of thousands of royal forest troops who looked mighty and majestic but were actually useless in battle, they wanted to capture it...... It's ridiculous too.

The problem is that the saint does not agree with the Liu family to capture Yanzhou.

The reason is very simple, Yanzhou has a lot of grain and grass, which everyone knows. This batch of grain and grass is especially important to the Liu family.

For the saint, the Yanzhou army can be opposed, can't the Liu family be opposed?

But this time the saint does not allow it and cannot blame the saint, at this moment the three Shen family in the study know that if it were not for the imperial forest army to behave too badly when attacking Yanzhou, tens of thousands of people would not be as conspicuous as the hundreds of 'private' soldiers of the Liu family, so that when the imperial forest army felt that they were disgraced, they were deeply jealous of the 'private' soldiers of the Liu family.

Therefore, after they returned in vain, they unanimously praised the 'private' soldiers of the Liu family in front of the holy car, as if hundreds of people would definitely be able to take Yanzhou as long as they did their best......

When the Holy Lord listened, he was not at ease.

In fact, the truth is known to all the princes of the court, but these royal forest soldiers, even ordinary soldiers, are the children of the distant branch of the scholar clan. Is their attitude just the jealousy of young people?

Shen Xuan sighed: "Yanzhou grain and herbs are intended to be stored by Donghu, Youzhou and Yanzhou themselves for ten years, and there are so many burdens in such an important town, how can they be allowed to fall into the hands of the rebels because of temporary doubts?" The saint is old, and he listens to the words of his children and does this wrong! How could it not be that Wei Zuo has declined! Even if the Liu family has a heart of disobedience, but the intention of retaking Yanzhou will never be fake, if the saint is not at ease, the six valves in the sea, are you still afraid that you can't find someone who can contain the Liu family? Now that the Marquis of Weiyuan is not allowed to increase his troops to break the city, looking at the north, who else can break through the city with enough food, or Yanzhou City, which Lu Haozhi personally guarded? Over time, I'm afraid that Yanzhou Zuo will have to think about what he shouldn't have! ”

However, Shen Xuan also said this in the study, the saint is getting older, and because of the great 'chaos' in the world in the past few months, his temper has become more and more bad. Even the young and beautiful concubines such as Miao Jieyu and Zhong Xiaoyi, who have always been favored, are often to blame, and the eunuch palace people are sometimes beaten to death and angry...... The Shen family had already prepared plans after the death of Wei, but now that the saint himself is not angry, the other scholars have not come out to stop it, and the Shen family is too lazy to touch this mold.

"Feng'er has been fighting hard in Xiliang for the past three years, and even Qiu Di Da Shan Yu has been killed, which has made Qiu Di split, Wugu 'Meng' and Ayi Tahu each call Da Dan Yu and fight each other...... Shen Xuan squinted, looked at his son, who was full of heroism and looked more and more calm, and secretly thought in his heart, "It's just that my Shen family is already famous in this dynasty, if Dawei is still prosperous, I am afraid it will be difficult to escape the suspicion of a high-ranking master." It's just right to be 'chaotic' today! Now that my son has become famous, my Shen family doesn't have to be afraid of the Wei family's hidden bow and cooking dog! ”

…… It's just that the Shen family didn't plan to wade into this 'messy' water, so they happily chose to stand by and watch. But it doesn't mean that the scholars are all thinking like this, the next morning, there was news in the palace that Taishi and Situ knelt in the palace with hundreds of officials!