Cui Guiyuan was angry in his heart, but a person who has reached his level as an official will not put his anger on his face for a long time, he just said lightly: "It's not a big deal, tell the generals that I specially allowed Zhang to lead the camp to rescue each other, and I want the generals not to think about it, okay?"

The curtain guests and sergeants below all responded, and Cui Guiyuan looked in the direction of Tai'an, with a cold light in his eyes.

At present, with the rise of the orthodox Qing school, the Chinese officials of the DPRK have thoroughly mastered the lifeblood of the military generals and border soldiers, and the grain, grass, personnel, and generals are all in their hands; whether a military general can be promoted or not, and the combat merits are secondary, even the secondary, and the most important, whether they are in line with the wishes of the princes in the DPRK and the central government, and whether they are in line with the wishes of the civilian officials.

The princes of the court, from the bachelors of the cabinet to the green-robed petty officials of the fifth or sixth grades, fought with each other non-stop, but everyone was born in the imperial examination, and they all had a great consensus, that is, "if the martial arts are strong, the morality of the article is weak, if the military is powerful, the civil officials will have no way to live, and if the martial arts are prosperous, the country will be in danger." ”

A martial artist, who dared to laugh at him as the champion of the dynasty, to: "Seeing the country in danger and thinking that he is the step to advance" is really not to put him in the eyes of the champion and the head of the civil officials, if this wind is allowed to continue, it will turn the efforts of several generations of scholars and cabinet elders into flowing water, in order to crack down on the military generals, several generations of scholars in the DPRK and China, no matter which faction, as soon as they come to power, are to crack down on the military generals, from decades ago to set up a major case to close the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, to the present Zhang Huaifeng, Wu Zhangzhang and others worked desperately to belittle the military generals, and the civil officials spared no effort from generation to generation in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and finally had today's situation.

Today's military generals can not be responsible for their own food and grass logistics, can not leave their own station, see the civil officials to kowtow, if the civil officials are not happy, you can find a head by the military generals pants off a pass, in public humiliation of the generals, if the military generals have made meritorious service, the first merit is his top civil official, followed by the small officials responsible for logistics behind him, and finally let the military generals nod their heads to remember the merits, now even the small people know to take the test of the military champion, so many years of hard work, so many generations of efforts, in exchange for today's situation.

Zhang Shujiao must not be allowed to destroy this situation alone, and the generals must not escape the control of the ministers, absolutely not.

Cui Guiyuan looked at the empty camp and said secretly: "If you can't exterminate Zhang Shujiao, how can this official be worthy of his own moral article." "I made up my mind to teach Zhang to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys.

Under the city of Tai'an, thousands of militiamen dug a trench of several feet at the city, surrounding the city like an iron bucket, and tens of thousands of people lined up to prepare for the next round of attacks.

Hu Quan and Qin bandits stood on a high slope in the city, looking at the cloud-like crowd below, now that there are more people, they are like ants, and they can only see countless fireworks coming out of the Tai'an city wall in the distance, which is the fire caused by the ignition of the rocket launched, and the fire oil that the soldiers bravely fell down.

The open space outside the city was full of corpses, the moat that was originally thirty paces long, filled with corpses, many of which had begun to rot, and the sunlight shone on the corpses, and the corpses emitted a corpse smell for a while, and there were many thrown weapons and arrows in the middle.

The wandering militia didn't want to collect the corpses, let them rot, it was not the hottest time, and it was not easy to cause epidemics, and Hu Quan was reluctant to take the lives of his subordinates to collect some corpses.

Hu Quan said to Qin beside him: "Can you hear clearly? Cui Guiyuan will not send troops to rescue, if he really does not send troops, I can transfer all the soldiers and horses to the north, and now Deng Yi is about to transfer the soldiers and horses to him, just to capture Zibo Mansion, and conquer Zibo, you can attack Licheng on both sides." ”

Qin Bandit smiled: "Don't worry, I spent a lot of money to find out the news, do you know that the prefect of Tai'an Mansion Zhang Congzhe and Cui Guiyuan are not dealing with each other, this Tai'an Mansion prefect is a faction of the pro-guard husband and Prince Wu, Cui Guiyuan's name is Qingliu, but in his bones he is more orthodox than the orthodox, he can't wait for the city to be broken, and besides, the Tai'an city is broken, he has nothing to do, but if you send reinforcements, in case of failure, Cui Guiyuan will also suffer the crime, if you are Cui Guiyuan, you will not send troops." ”

Hu Quan smiled: "Okay, I will immediately send the soldiers and horses from the north to Deng Yi's men." ”

Qin bandit said: "Also, there is new news, the leader of the Yan soldiers is Zu Tingnian, one of the deputy commanders of Yan Town, he brought five thousand cavalry, and Zhang Shujiao came from Liaozhen, he only brought two thousand and five cavalry, but one person and two horses, and now they are all in Licheng, and it has been more than ten days, but Cui Guiyuan does not allow the Liao soldiers of the Yan soldiers to attack, and now the Yan soldiers and Liao soldiers you are worried about are eating grain and grass in the city every day. ”

When Hu Quan heard the news, he laughed wildly at the sky and said: "Cui Guiyuan is really a great hero of my Holy Sect, if I am in command of the court soldiers and horses, I only need to attack behind the cavalry when I attack the city, my Holy Sect is in danger, I don't want that Cui Guiyuan to actually stand still, I really want to give that Cui Guiyuan a nickname, just call Cui Guiyuan as immovable as a mountain, how about Cui Guiyuan?"

Qin Bandit said: "He added Yan Liao soldiers under his command, I am afraid that there are no less than 50,000 soldiers and horses, and the elite soldiers and horses of my Holy Sect are only 5,000, most of them are cannon fodder soldiers, presumably they can't be beaten, but the Heavenly Aid Holy Sect, the civil officials of the court, are good at intrigue, and the article is rhetorical, the Emperor is fortunate that the Emperor has closed the Dadu Governor's Mansion, otherwise, we will all die in the place where we are buried?"

Hu Quan has never been interested in the political system, and said: "As long as there are more people like Cui Guiyuan in the court, our life will be better." Qin bandit said: "At the beginning of the founding of the dynasty, there was a metropolitan governor's mansion, with the military general and the imperial family as the metropolitan governor, and the unified deployment of soldiers and horses, at that time, the Great Zhou Dynasty could mobilize 600,000 soldiers at most at a time, but a few decades ago, the metropolitan governor's mansion was withdrawn, and the military power was taken by civilian officials. ”

Hu Quan said: "I also know this, the power of the Metropolitan Governor's Office is too great, and the emperor can't control it, so the military power is sent to the governor, and the military general can no longer do it if he does the general army, a general soldier, even if he does not eat empty pay and does not drink the blood of the soldiers, he can bring up to 8,000 soldiers, hum, a general soldier should have more than 30,000 soldiers, you see which one of the several military towns in the Great Zhou Dynasty can do it, in the past few decades, fighting female straight people, fighting one defeat after another, fighting the Turks is a little better." ”

Qin Bandit said: "Don't worry about it so much, as long as Tai'an is broken, we can get more than 100,000 people and take them into the army, presumably the military strength will definitely increase greatly, and we can develop to Henan and Hebei, and even hope to attack Guanzhong one day." ”

While the two were talking, the following was ready for another attack, and the trumpet was blown again, and another big attack began, countless people set up the ladder, the ladder was as big as a high platform, and the ladder was specially placed on it, and the archers below, the shield hands above, followed by a large group of stragglers, and a new round of impact began.

The opposite Tai'an city also broke out with boundless momentum, the stone ballista pulled, countless stones, the big one is like a millstone, the small one is like a watermelon, it bounced into the sky in a squeak, and fell down with the sound of the wind, after reaching the distance, the archers began to release arrows, just in front of Hu Quan's eyes, a shield car was hit, the shield car broke several pieces, and the wandering militia behind fled in panic, but before taking a few steps, they were shot like hedgehogs, and the militia shooters who followed the siege vehicle also began to counteract on the city wall, and from time to time a figure was hit and fell from the city tower。

Hu Quan looked at it and said: "This strength can't be attacked, even if these cars are close to the city wall, there are too few people to send them at one time, I'm afraid it's useless." ”

Qin Bandit said: "I didn't expect to capture such a big city, I wanted to besiege them." ”

Since the beginning of the army, the militia has greatly developed, Hu Quan changed the previous armor soldiers to pacesetters, and desperately expanded, now the strength of the militia has increased, not only the number has increased, but also in the quality has increased, for example, the siege of the city, the former militia, will not make ladder shield car and other things, and do not know how to arrange the troops, and now the militia, with a large group of officers, they are headed by Hu Quan, there is a faint trend of a military aristocratic group.

Hu Quan said: "Hu Haima has lost the battle, I don't know what Gongzi means?"

Qin Bandit said: "Now is the time to employ people, there is a great shortage of generals, Gongzi punished him for a few days, and planned to let him lead the troops again." ”

Hu Quan said: "My Holy Sect soldiers, if we want to continue to win, we must reward and punish clearly, Hu Haima lost the battle, and he should be beheaded." ”

Qin Bandit said: "Childe's thoughts, can't you guess?"

Hu Quan said: "It depends on the son's vision and mind, to take the world, in fact, not only to strategize, but also to have vision and mind." ”

Qin Bandit smiled: "Brother Hu is willing to help Tiangongzi take the world?"

Hu Quan smiled: "Whether you can take the world is not yet known, if it is a virtuous son, I am a martial artist, what can't I do." Qin Bandit smiled and only said: "If the son is not virtuous?" Hu Quan said: "This day is not allowed, I am a martial artist, what can I do?"

The two talked and laughed, the front attack was rout again, only one siege vehicle drove under the city wall, but there were too few people on it, although the city wall, but the other party and the wall also gathered a lot of soldiers, the two sides fought on the wall for a while, and finally because they were outnumbered by the other party cut down the city wall, the other party foiled this attack, the soldiers on the wall Xiang Yong raised their weapons and shouted loudly, and then Hu Quan saw an old man in official uniform standing in front of a big drum with a hammer, shaking his aging body, desperately beating a drum, standing behind him are some people who look like his family, it seems, that is the prefect of Tai'an Mansion Xu Congzhe boss。

Qin bandit said to a shooter beside him: "Can you shoot him?" At this time, Zhang Congzhe was going to the city tower and shot him to death, which could greatly damage the morale of the soldiers defending the city.

The archer was one of Hu Quan's pacesetters who was extremely good at foot shooting, and after he made an estimate, he said: "My lord, if I can go a hundred steps in front of the city gate, and then don't blow the wind like today, and the official is still standing there, the little one is fifty percent sure." ”

Hu Quan said: "Don't worry, the next time he goes up to the city tower again, you find a chance to go again, I will send someone to cover your shooting, if you miss a hit today, then the other party will definitely be alert, and if you are alert, then it will be difficult to start again next time." ”

Qin Bandit also said: "That's the truth. ”

Hu Quan said to the people around him: "I immediately sent my general order, and ordered Zuo Mingyu, Guo Tianliang, Lao Huihui and other departments to immediately reinforce Deng Yi, and set off today, striving to go to Zibo in three days, and join Deng Yi, I want him to quickly defeat Zibo Mansion, now the county town can no longer support our army, only in the breakthrough of the city, can we support my Holy Sect army." "At this time, the logistics of the militia all rely on robbery, since the beginning of the army, dozens of counties are broken, each county is broken, the most important thing is the military food equipment, there is no need to worry about the militia soldiers in the past, but now the militia is up to 100,000 people, just by robbing the county is no longer useful, now it is the city to rob, only the city will be robbed, in order to support this more and more army.

But in other words, the dozens of county towns that the militia has robbed have become empty and ghostly towns, wherever the militia passes, the rats will starve to death, rob a place, they will rob the next place, they plan to rob the city, but once the city is robbed, then this prosperous city, the city will be in history, the militia is the longest than destruction, and the Qin bandits still think that it is not enough, he sent people to destroy spring ploughing everywhere, and decided that the people here can not get any food, only the people are hungry, it is possible to rebel with the White Lotus Sect。

The two discussed some more things, and then separated, both of them were in high positions, and they were usually extremely busy.

In Fangjiazhuang, Fang Juren looked at his nephew Fang Yingchen in front of him, Fang Yingchen was kneeling in front of his uncle, shouting and scolding.

Fang Yuping took a few servants to the front of the room gently, only to hear Fang Yingchen's voice coming, only to hear: "Uncle, you can't send troops to attack, my family village has just defeated the militia, and its own vitality is also greatly damaged, besides, that Zhang Congzhe is a traitor in the DPRK, and my uncle sent out the family soldiers, didn't he help the traitor party in the DPRK, the traitorous party did all kinds of evil, bewitched the saint, and the party of Wei Eunuch and the thief in the DPRK was in turmoil, if the uncle sent troops, he just helped the traitor party in vain." ”

Fang Yuping asked the subordinates beside him: "But this is the same thing?" Mother Long below said: "Today, a large group of officers and soldiers crossed the border from here, an official named Geng Ruji, the same year as the master, I heard that after the Fang family soldiers defeated the militia, they came to the door to ask for a loan, the master is not as good as how to answer for a while, Young Master Fang Yingchen desperately dragged the master and did not let the master send troops. ”

Fang Yuping listened to it for a while, Fang Yingchen turned over and over again the words of traitors, thieves, etc., anyway, Zhuang soldiers who could never send Fang family soldiers.

Since Zhang Jiayu and Wu Chuanyu defeated Hu Haima's wandering militia, the wandering militia did not dare to make trouble in this area for a while, and the wandering militia did not have the strength to attack here again, and Cui Guiyuan closed the gate of Licheng, so that the exiles had nowhere to vote, for a time, countless exiles who were unwilling to vote for the White Lotus Sect gathered outside Fangjiazhuang, and Fang Juren was organizing spring ploughing during this period of time, due to a big victory, the wandering militia could not destroy the local spring ploughing, Fang Juren recruited displaced people, trained soldiers and horses, for a time, there was the momentum of the majestic side.

Not long after, Fang Juren waved his hand, Fang Yingchen went down, although Fang Yingchen is also his nephew, but can not be regarded as a close relative, several of his close relatives have been sent to the divine capital, as a training ambassador, send his own son to study in the divine capital, not only to save his son's life, but also the court in order to prevent these military training envoys from really sitting big in the future.

After a short time, the servants below invited Wu Chuanyu, Zhang Jiayu, Fang Yingzhi, Fang Yinglong, Zhou Xianfa and other generals to come up, after this battle, some of the characters who showed their military talents were raised, and when everyone sat down, Fang Juren said: "What do you think?"

Zhang Jiayu spoke first: "Master Juren, Tai'an and I will be saved, Master Juren can know that the reason why the militia do not dare to attack is precisely because the main force of the militia is besieging Tai'an, so that they cannot divide the troops, if Tai'an falls into the hands of the militia, so that the militia is empty-handed, then they will definitely come to attack Fangjiazhuang, so it is better to strike preemptively and defeat this large force of the militia, at least the militia will not be able to attack this part of the Fang family within a year." ”