Section 31 Attacking from All Sides (3)
Luo is a Cangzhou Dongguang clan, Luo Ye's brother Luo Yin was an official in the Chang'an Military Department, and Wang Miao is a knowledge, after Luo Yin resigned and returned to his hometown, he lost contact with Wang Miao. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Originally, Wang Miao intended to go to Cangzhou and his party, and when he was in Chang'an, he heard Luo Yin talk about his brother serving in the military under the command of the envoy of Lu Longjiedu, and inadvertently heard Zhang Yin mention that there were two soldiers and horses stationed in this river, both of which were deserted and exiled here, and the commander of the sixth army was Luo Ye.
He remembered that Luo Yin had mentioned that his brother's name was called Luo Ye, and this was because he heard that the Fifth Army and the Sixth Army were intent on merging, so he suddenly remembered and asked.
"I do know his brother, but I have only heard of Luo Ye's name. Wang Miao shook his head.
"The situation of the Sixth Army is also very bad, last month, the Jiedu Embassy allocated the money and silver for the first half of the year, but it was discounted, almost causing a mutiny, it is estimated that this time it is also Luo Ye's trouble, and he wants to plant the matter on our Fifth Army, if it is not good, it is impossible to say that the sword and soldiers will meet. ”
The thin man shook his head, this kind of thing is related to the belly of thousands of people, no one dares to say it lightly, even if it costs hundreds of lives, then it has to fight, otherwise this army will only collapse.
I'm afraid that this is the idea of the Jiedu Envoy, otherwise how would the Sixth Army know that the money and food from the Jiedu Envoy will be delivered today?
Wang Miao wanted to lobby Zhang Yin and persuade him to go south with him to join the Huaiyou Army, but he didn't expect that the topic had not yet been opened, but he encountered such a thing.
However, from the observation and understanding during this time, as well as the words of the other party and himself, he can also hear a lot.
Now the Lu Long army due to the penetration of the Khitan in the north, the northern states have been basically controlled by the Khitan, and the situation in the states south of Youzhou is not very good, as the Khitan people go south, the situation of encroaching on the land of Youyan Prefectures is becoming more and more serious, and there are quite a lot of cases of improving the fields for pastureland, and the battles caused by this occur frequently, but under the favoritism of Liu Shouguang, this situation is becoming more and more intense.
Wang Miao estimated that if he continued like this, he was afraid that there would be a big mess in less than ten years, either the Khitans would completely annex Youyan, or there would be a big war.
In Wang Miao's view, it is more likely that the former is more likely, but this is more dangerous for the feudal lords in the south.
Seeing that today is not a good time, Wang Miao can't either, but I don't know if the dispute between the Fifth Army and the Sixth Army of the Right Wing Army of the Lu Long Army will be an opportunity?
Although he didn't know Luo Ye, he believed that Luo Yin and Luo Ye would definitely mention himself if they had a correspondence, and Luo Yin was afraid that he had also talked about himself with Luo Ye after returning to his hometown, so he had to think about how to cut in.
After waking up, Wang Miao found that the situation in Hejian City was suddenly tense.
Obviously, the people in Hejian City had been prepared for this, and in fact, from the time when the Fifth Army and the Sixth Army, two armies on the verge of being cut off on the right side of Lu Long's army, were moved to Hejian, many well-informed gentry knew that Hejian would not be quiet.
Without him, the Fifth Army on the right wing of Lu Long's Army was dominated by Pingzhou soldiers, while the Sixth Army was dominated by Danzhou soldiers, and none of them were soldiers from Hejian, that is, from the side of Xuanzhou.
These two armies have gone through many wars and reorganizations over the years, from the initial two armies with full strength, to now gradually reduced to only four battalions in each army, and the establishment of each battalion is only about seventy or eighty percent of the soldiers, and one army is only 15,600 men and horses.
The two armies facing to be eliminated, if it weren't for the fear that leaving these two armies in the north would easily cause trouble, it is estimated that Liu Shouguang would really prefer to hand over these two armies to the Khitans to deal with.
Now it is not so simple to dismantle an army, these soldiers are basically veterans who have been in the army for more than ten years, and many of them are father and son soldiers, brother soldiers, family soldiers, the relationship is intertwined, and the whole body is involved.
In less than the afternoon, Wang Miao had already received news that the Fifth Army and the Sixth Army had already had two rounds of fire mergers that were not large-scale, but very tragic.
The two armies respectively dispatched a brawl at the east gate of the battle field, which evolved into a formal battle at the gate of the battle, and the fire came down, and each side left more than a dozen corpses, so that the whole situation was almost out of control.
Early in the morning of the second day, a battalion of the Fifth Army, which felt that it had suffered a loss, took the initiative to fight and confronted the Sixth Army outside the camp of the Sixth Army again, which turned into a battle, and the casualties in this battle exceeded 100, and even in the end, both armies were all dispatched, and it was almost about to break out into a full-scale war.
Wang Miao didn't expect that he would be able to see such a scene in Hejian, it was really incredible, Lu Longjun would actually have such internal strife because of the security of money and food, which may be unimaginable in other feudal lords, but it is really not uncommon in the Heshuo area.
The army of the three towns of Heshuo itself is full of factions, and the Jiedu envoys can often only control their own pro-army tooth soldiers, and even the tooth soldiers will gradually become bigger, which in turn determines the fate of the Jiedu envoys, which is a frequent occurrence in the Heshuo area at the end of the Tang Dynasty.
In order to ensure their own status, they often treat untrusted troops harshly, and even deliberately withhold food and salary, and through this means, the army's combat effectiveness is gradually weakened, and then it collapses, and finally achieves the goal of eliminating hidden dangers.
Wang Miao also knew for a long time that the situation in the three towns of Heshuo was very bad, but only when you were deeply exposed to these facts could you know how bad it was.
For the sake of the food that should have been distributed in place, the two armies that belonged to the same Lu Long Army could go to war head-on, and if you didn't see it with your own eyes, you really couldn't believe it.
Wang Miao stayed in Hejian City for three days, and the situation in Hejian City slowly calmed down, and it is said that a secretary from the Jiedu Embassy came to forcibly suppress this matter.
But everyone knows that although this matter was forcibly suppressed, it failed to solve the fundamental problem.
Without him, the amount of food and salary distributed by the Jiedu envoy was limited, except for the Ya Army, the other armies could only be distributed according to 60%, or even gradually reduced to 40%.
Even though it caused many mutinies and riots, the Jiedu Embassy was still the same.
For Wang Miao, this is a rare opportunity.
When Luo Ye received the name, his face was cloudy.
He had heard of this person, his brother mentioned this person when he was in Chang'an, and later after resigning and returning to Dongguang, he returned to his hometown to visit relatives, and his brother mentioned him again, saying that he had great ambitions, and the key was that he was the descendant of Wang Rong, the original German army.
Now the Chengde army is controlled by the Zhang family, but the Wang family is quite famous in the states of the Chengde army, but the Wang family was almost slaughtered by the Zhang family, so the foundation has been lost, although it has an impact, but it is difficult to change the overall situation.
I didn't expect this guy to appear here, and it was only after the clash between the Fifth Army and the Sixth Army that he came to post it.
To be honest, Luo Ye was also tired of the situation in front of him, if it weren't for the fact that there were more than a thousand brothers below, he really wanted to leave this stall and go back to his hometown.
The Luo family is also a big family in Dongguang, and there is no shortage of this bite to eat, and when he joined the army, he also came to the majesty of the heroic soldiers of the three towns of Heshuo, but he didn't expect that in just ten years, the three towns of Heshuo have fallen into such a situation, and it is difficult to even ask for food and clothing.
Luo Ye also knew that this time the Sixth Army was actually lost, but he couldn't take care of it a lot, the more than 1,000 brothers, as well as the wives and children behind them, all relied on this little food, and last month the Jiedu Embassy was nominally going to pay sixty percent of the salary, but the rice and wheat sent were not only short of two catties, but the money and silver were directly discounted by four percent, and the cloth was not.
asked what was going on with the envoys of the Jiedu Embassy, saying that they were going to raise food and salaries for the Fifth Army, and this introduction was laid at that time.
Luo Ye didn't know that this was a trick by the Jiedu Embassy, but you couldn't crack the trick.
Just like people say, a piece of bread is so big, break it for you more, others will naturally have less, and there is only so much that the Jiedu envoy can take out, and there can be no such thing as a bowl of water, so whoever has strong combat effectiveness, who has more horses, and who has a loud voice, will naturally be able to make more money.
Therefore, as soon as the Fifth Army's rations were delivered and more than the Sixth Army's harvest last month, the fire trigger naturally ignited a little.
No one can swallow this breath, even if the Fifth Army still has two battalions of cavalry, while the Sixth Army only has one battalion of cavalry, and the number of infantry troops in the third battalion is much less than that of the other party, but the Sixth Army still has no hesitation to fight this time.
If you don't even have the courage to fight, then the next ration will be less, and people will ride on your head and.
It's just that the price of fighting for this breath is also heavy, dozens of brothers died in this battle, all of them are old brothers who have followed him for many years, they did not die in the hands of the Shatuo people, they did not die under the iron hooves of the Khitans, but they were folded in the hands of their own families, and this pain and anger made Luo Ye almost depressed.
The Fifth Army didn't do well either, but so what? After all, they were all miserable people, and they were like killing their father's enemies for this little food and supply, and it was sad to think about it.
Now in the entire Hejian City, neither the Fifth Army nor the Sixth Sergeant dare not go out of the camp, and they are always on alert and ready for battle, and they can be pulled out and put into battle at any time.
But can this situation continue like this? There is no intention of mediation on the Jiedu Embassy's side, and Luo Ye can even feel the full malice of the secretary in charge, they just hope that the Fifth Army and the Sixth Army can fight completely, and it is best to fight to the death, this is what they are most happy to see.