Chapter 126: The Situation in Miao Village
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After learning from Lu Changan about the information transmitted back by the spies, Yang Jing decided to rush to the military camp of the Yuezhou Army overnight to investigate the case of the mysterious death of Zhao Gaoyi, the commander of Yuezhou.
People often say that the people do not raise officials and do not hold them accountable, and the sergeants of the Yuezhou army think that it is the Tu sorcerer who is making trouble, and now they take advantage of the long-accumulated grudge between the two sides to go to Miao Village to pick quarrels and provoke trouble, and act without authorization, which is considered a violation of military discipline, and it is naturally impossible to go to Baling County to report the case.
And Miao Village has been besieged, and the people inside can't go out, and they can't report the case, so Yang Jing doesn't have a suitable identity to meddle in this matter, and the identity of the secret agent of the Imperial City needs to be kept secret, and Yang Jing is also distressed.
But Yang Jing also knew very well in his heart that although a military town like the Yuezhou Army had not experienced a war for many years, it had an advantage in armament and numbers, and if a conflict broke out between the two sides, the people of Miao Village would suffer a big loss.
Moreover, the Yuezhou army is the army of the Great Song Dynasty, and it dares to violate military discipline, and at the cost of causing a riot, it is necessary to besiege Miao Village.
It is indeed an indisputable fact that the hatred caused by the long-standing grievances between the two sides is difficult to eliminate, and it is not impossible that the accumulated hatred has been ignited by the explosion point of Zhao Gaoyi's death, and the process of quantitative change to qualitative change has been completed.
But are there other, more obscure reasons for excluding this factor?
Even if Yang Jing can strategize and win a decisive victory, it is impossible to make assumptions out of thin air, if he wants to solve these problems, he can only conduct on-the-spot investigations, as long as the cause of death of Zhao Gaoyi, the commander of the Yuezhou Army, is revealed, the matter will be half clear.
After the initial direction was set, Yang Jing hurriedly said goodbye to Xia Zhi, Tang Chong was very familiar with the situation in Miao Village, and he should have taken it with him, but he had to take care of Li Yu, after thinking about it, Yang Jing still decided to leave Tang Chong behind.
Lu Changan, as the owner of Longxiang Silk Village, deliberately trades with mature seedlings on weekdays, and has a lot of eyeliner in Miao Village, so he naturally wants to follow this time.
Yang Jing originally wanted to go to Song Ci and borrow one or two of Li Zhun and other masters to use him, but Song Ci was busy with the end of Yan Lichun's case at the moment, and Li Zhun and others would escort Yan Lichun and other important criminals to Beijing in a few days, and they would not be able to withdraw from them.
The people in the county government are idle, but they didn't come to report the case, and it is impossible for the people in the county government to follow Yang Jing to do things openly.
Long before becoming a pusher, Yang Jing began to convene and cultivate his own team, but in the end, he found that the development speed of the team was too slow, and it took not only energy but also a lot of time to cultivate a team like Li Zhun and Liu Hanchao who could be handy, which also led to a situation where Yang Jing was unavailable, overstretched and embarrassed.
However, at the critical moment, Yang Jing remembered someone, although he was worried that if he went late, the crime scene in the barracks would be destroyed, but the so-called sharpening knife did not mistake the woodcutter, before leaving, Yang Jing still came to his manor.
After two or three months of construction, the manor has long been transformed, and the laborers have also built the prototype of the manor, and all that remains is decoration and decoration.
Old man Chen Chao's body has long been raised, and his whole body is in good spirits, as if he has returned to the healthy state of fishing by Dongting Lake, and Chen Shuisheng is no longer the stunned boy who has never seen the world.
Because Yang Jing was busy with official business, he rarely came to visit, although he felt guilty, but he was helpless.
After all, Chen Chao is old and has enough eyesight, so he can see that Yang Jing is in a hurry, and he doesn't dare to pester Yang Jing for too long, so he urged Yang Jing to do his own business after a while.
Yang Jing could see that the father and son of the Chen family were no longer outside, as if they were family members, so he was relieved to take Wang Bu away.
Wang Buliu was rescued by Yang Jing, the old husband and wife lived in the manor, and helped Chen Chao manage the manor on weekdays, and Yang Jing even handed over the medicine garden to him to take care of.
This old man is proficient in hundreds of miscellaneous studies, has a wide range of knowledge, in his early years, he also traveled the rivers and lakes, he is very clear about the forces of various ethnic groups in the south, and even knows Miao dialect, when Yang Jing employs people, he is definitely the first choice, after boarding the carriage, he talked to Yang Jing about the situation of the Yuezhou army.
When it comes to military affairs, the Song Dynasty gives people the feeling that there is only one word, that is, weak!
The shame of Jingkang and the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty will not be said, but it is undeniable that in the early Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the Song Dynasty's army was very strong.
If the ancient army is ranked, the Song Dynasty army led by famous generals such as Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and Liu Guangshi is enough to rank in the top five, which shows that the combat effectiveness of the Song Dynasty army is not good, it is just a one-sided misunderstanding.
In the early days of the Southern Song Dynasty, because of the military achievements of Yue Fei and others, the combat effectiveness of the Song Dynasty army also reached its peak, and there were many classic examples of winning more with less.
For example, the Jin State was stronger than the army of the Song Dynasty, but in the face of the Meng Yuan, they only lasted less than 30 years and perished, while the Southern Song Dynasty resisted Mongolia for more than 50 years, and the later Southern Ming Dynasty resisted the Qing Dynasty, which was only a short 20 years, which shows how tenacious and unyielding the Southern Song Dynasty was.
Due to the reform of the military system, outstanding military talents continued to emerge in the Southern Song Dynasty, and there was very little fault line among generals.
Moreover, the army of the Northern Song Dynasty mainly came from the forbidden army, as well as the military system dominated by criminals and prisoners, but after the reform of the Southern Song Dynasty, an effective recruitment system was formed, and the annual recruitment accounted for a large amount of financial expenditure, and the military resources were strictly selected and trained, and the combat effectiveness was naturally incomparable.
The strongest combat strength in the Southern Song Dynasty was basically the conscription system of the border guards, and the number of the central forbidden army was drastically reduced, for example, during the Song Gaozong period, the forbidden army was less than 80,000, and the strength of famous generals such as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong far exceeded this number.
Moreover, the militia system of the Southern Song Dynasty has also achieved remarkable results, which is somewhat similar to the militia system of later generations, and the Southern Song Dynasty also knew that the northerners were good at fighting, adhering to the idea of tolerance, and collected many northern refugees, called naturalized people, and the combat effectiveness of these people was also extremely strong.
Yang Jing, like everyone else, thought that the Song Dynasty's army was weak at first, but after listening to Wang Buliu's overview of the Song Dynasty's army, he was also a little surprised.
Not to mention anything else, the importance attached to the development and manufacturing of weapons in the Southern Song Dynasty was enough to make Yang Jing excited.
The Southern Song Dynasty not only retained the large ordnance that the Han people were good at attacking the city and plundering the land, but also developed many defensive tools with extremely powerful defensive capabilities in order to defend against the enemy's highly mobile cavalry, and began to develop semi-firearms with gunpowder.
Baling is not close to Miao Village, and it is even more boring to travel at night, but with Wang Buliu's well-informed living dictionary, in his fascinating speech, Yang Jing's carriage unknowingly entered the territory of Miao Village.
At this time, he had a full understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Yuezhou Army and the rationing of personnel, so he would not be blind.
The Yuezhou Army belongs to the local military town, although it has been peaceful for decades, but it has been in constant friction with the local Tu people, has participated in a lot of counterinsurgency, and its combat effectiveness has been relatively intact, although the military discipline is loose, but the blood of the sergeants is still there.
In addition, the current tense situation in the north is said to have been entangled with the Mongols, and the military towns in various places are also in full swing to prepare for war, so the combat effectiveness is naturally not weak.
As soon as Yang Jing and the others entered the Miao Village, they felt a sense of suppression and oppression, the official road had been trampled into potholes and mud, full of footprints, horseshoe prints and rut marks, and the fire at the foot of the mountain could be vaguely seen, as well as the noise drifting in the wind.
There was also a bonfire lit in the Miao village on the mountainside in the distance, reflecting most of the sky, and it was obvious that both sides were on alert.
"My lord, go to the barracks first, or Miao Village?" Although Lu Changan took the secret agents of the Imperial City Division, Yang Jing was the newly appointed Jiangling Mansion and the highest official of this operation, so he naturally had to obey Yang Jing's orders.
"Let's go to Miao Village first. Yang Jing pondered for a moment and immediately made a decision.
Investigating the cause of death of Zhao Gaoyi, the commander of Yuezhou, is the best option to fundamentally end the confrontation between the two sides, but after all, the investigation takes time, and the military camp is not just going in, and if war breaks out between the two sides during this period, everything will become meaningless.
As the Imperial City Division, Yang Jing's first task is to supervise the people's situation, if there is a Miao rebellion in Jiangling Mansion, to put it mildly, he will be the secret inspectors of the Imperial City Division of the entire Jiangling Mansion, and they will be to blame.
Therefore, Yang Jing still decided to suppress the emotions of both sides first, and wait until the situation eases down a little before conducting an investigation.
Whether it is Lu Chang'an or the accompanying secret chazi, or Wang Buliu or Yang Jing, they are no strangers to the terrain route of Miao Village, although the Yuezhou army is stationed at the foot of the mountain, they still find a hidden shortcut to the mountain.
It was only when they arrived at the mountain pass that they found that the Yuezhou army was really not vegetarian, and this time it was also decisive, and they even blocked all the main roads down the mountain, no wonder the people in Miao Village couldn't go down the mountain for help!
"Your Excellency... How should this be?" Lu Changan was also at a loss, so he had to ask Yang Jing.
The two sides were already tense, if they broke through, maybe they would explode at a point, but they would do bad things, Yang Jing thought about it, and then asked Wang Buliu: "What advice does Mr. have to teach me?"
Wang Buliu glanced at it, in addition to Yang Jing and Lu Changan, there were also two Imperial City Secretaries who were dressed as merchants, and there were only five of them, which was not too eye-catching, so he said to Yang Jing.
"My lord, this barracks is not easy to enter, but there is a place that is easy to enter..."
Yang Jing knew that Wang Buliu was resourceful, and when he saw him speak, he really lived up to expectations, and immediately overjoyed, and looked at Wang Buliu's fingers, but saw that there was a large shack area next to the barracks, and there were many military servants and auxiliaries sleeping horizontally around a few bonfires.
These were laborers who accompanied the army, and were responsible for building barracks, digging trenches, building fortifications such as horse barracks, and building horse bars, as well as miscellaneous tasks such as taking care of horses and cooking for the army.
These people were not regular sergeants, and their salaries were very low, and they dug these sentry posts and trenches and fortifications besieging Miao Village.
It was already night, and after a day's hard work, these people had already fallen asleep, and because their camp was outside the barracks, they could not get close to Miao Village, and they were used to being called again, as low as cattle and horses, and extremely unvalued, and the sergeants guarding were very loose.
If you want to blend into the labor camp, it is very simple, as long as you stay in it for the night, and the next day you can take advantage of the time to build the fortifications, you can easily pass through the barracks, and then go up the mountain to Miao Village!