After successfully receiving Huaiyin, the Jin army attacked the rest of the cities in the Jianghuai area all the way, invincible and invincible.

Soon, the Jin army mobilized heavy troops to besiege Guangling, another important town in Huainan.

Under the cover of the rain of arrows in the sky, the soldiers of the Jin army carried the ladder, pushed the curtain, pushed the city wood, braved the enemy's arrow rain and fire oil, and rushed towards the city wall of Guangling with flying steps.

This kind of Jin soldiers have hideous looks on their faces, holding weapons, looking down from above, only to see them rushing towards the city like a vast ocean, and like dense ants piling up, looking at it makes people's scalp tingle!

The drums of war thundered, and the flags flashed.

Up and down the city of Guangling, the screams are endless, and the sound of fighting is even more earth-shaking, the smoke of gunpowder is filled, and the mourning is everywhere.

However, at this critical juncture, the guards in Guangling City, Wei Liao, that is, the military of the three states of Yuzhou, Zhengdong, Yang, Henan, and Yan of Wei, the military of the three prefectures of the Wei State, did not have the slightest panicked look on his face, but calmly gave orders to the generals under his command.

"Zheng Yang, are you all ready?"

"Back to the Grand Governor, everything is ready."

"Good!"

Wei Zheng nodded heavily, looked around again, and asked Suo Chao, the general on the side, "Suo Chao, are the war horses and dry food ready?" ”

"Back to the Grand Governor, the war horses and dry food that the last general was ordered to prepare have been prepared, enough to supply the army for three days!"

"Good!"

"Yes!"

Although everyone was a little suspicious of Wei Zheng's military order, they did not dare to disobey it.

There are more than 10,000 defenders in Guangling City, plus the soldiers and horses stationed in Yangzhou, Wei Zheng can mobilize 30,000 or 40,000 troops, but now he wants to abandon the city and flee?

You must know that Guangling City is very strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, if there are more than 10,000 soldiers waiting for help, the food in the city can support them for more than half a year! No matter how strong the Jin army is, gnawing such a hard bone in Guangling City, I'm afraid that it won't be able to gnaw it down in three or four months, right?

What's more, the Wei army has other reinforcements!

Now that Wei Zheng is doing this, it is tantamount to defecting to the enemy and treason.

But everyone didn't dare to have any objections, because Wei Zheng was in a high position and was the governor of the various ministries, and the military affairs of Yanzhou, Yuzhou and Yangzhou were all managed by Wei Liao, and Wei Zheng was also given the power of the fake festival by Ran Min.

After the meeting was dismissed, Zheng Yang couldn't figure it out, so he followed Suo Chao, and couldn't help complaining: "General Suo, our army obviously still has enough military strength to hold Guangling and wait for reinforcements, but why did the Metropolitan Governor let us abandon Guangling City and lose the entire Huainan to the Jin army?" ”

"You must know that once Guangling is lost, Huainan will not be protected, and the entire Yangzhou will also fall into the hands of the Jin army. Did the Metropolitan Governor do this, did he want to be like the traitor Zhang Yu and want to return to the Jin Kingdom? ”

Suo Chao shook his head lightly and said, "Who knows?" However, our Metropolitan Governor is the uncle of the king, and the Metropolitan Governor had eight friendships with the king's father back then, and if you want to say that the Metropolitan Governor will defect and kill me, I don't believe it. ”

Hearing this, Zheng Yang nodded as if he didn't understand and didn't ask any more.

In Guangling City, the Wei army still has more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, so it is not difficult to break through. At night, Wei Zheng personally led the army to break through at night, and the Jin army was caught off guard for a while, because they didn't expect that the Wei army, which was still desperately defending Guangling City during the day, would break through at this time!

The Wei army then broke through successfully, leaving the Jin army with an empty city.

In the early morning of the next day, when the Jin army launched another attack on Guangling City, there was not even a single Wei soldier in sight. Someone told Yin Hao, Yin Hao still wondered in his heart, he took Guangling City in such a daze?

At that time, the Jin army entered Guangling with a vigilant heart, found the residents of the city and inquired, only to know that the Wei army really abandoned the city and fled.

Yin Hao couldn't help but ask: "Why did the Wei army abandon the city and flee?" ”

The left and right looked at each other, and the second monk was confused.

At this time, Zhang Yu, the general of Zhenxi, replied: "Most of the problems in the country of Wei are the ones that have problems, otherwise Wei Zhengyan can lead his troops to retreat and give up Guangling?" ”

Hearing this, Yin Hao nodded, as if only such an explanation was reasonable.

At this time, another junior colonel came to tell him that a dozen people claiming to be the leaders of the rebel army asked to see him.

Rebel leader?

Yin Hao was stunned, but he heard that someone wanted to see him, or something to see, so he also asked people to bring them in.

"Are you the leader of the rebels?" Yin Hao asked immediately.

One of the rebel leaders replied, "Yes." Governor Dadu, we are all rebels who rose up in the pseudo-Wei Dynasty, and those present come from all over the world, all from Qing, Yan, Henan, and Yang states to join you! ”

"yes, yes! The pseudo-Wei usurped Zhao and stood up, unpopular, although the reform, the law to try to be strong, but we are all the original northern scholars of the family of the village, from generation to generation. Now that Ran Wei is in the Central Plains, exploiting our Shi clan and enslaving my people, our Central Plains Shi clan has long been dissatisfied with it, and I hate Ran Min's implementation of the Juntian system, the destruction of Wubao, and the dissolution of Zhuang households! ”

"Now we heard that Wang Shi went north and wanted to recover the Central Plains, so we all rushed to join him. May the general take us in, and I will wait for the saddle before and after the horse, and follow the work of dogs and horses! ”

Hearing this, Yin Hao nodded even more and said, "It turns out that the puppet Wei regime is so unpopular in the Central Plains!" ”

At this time, Xie Shang, who was on the side, couldn't help frowning when he heard this: "General, in fact, Ran Wei is still quite popular in the Central Plains. It's just that Wang Meng changed the law, deprived the northern scholars of their privileges for thousands of years, and greatly oppressed their living space, so Ran Min is not unpopular with the people, but from the heart of the Central Plains scholars! ”

"Haha, I don't know?"

Yin Hao squeezed his eyebrows and said: "But the so-called people's hearts are not the hearts of those untouchables, but the hearts of the scholars!" The heart of the scholars is the heart of the people. If there are no scholars to pay taxes and increase the income of the national treasury, if there are no scholars to export their talents and add talents to the society to govern the country, how can the country prosper and maintain long-term stability? The so-called untouchable hearts are not worth mentioning! ”

Xie Shang didn't care about this, but in the end he didn't persuade anything.

Everyone knows that whoever wins the hearts of the people wins the world.

But how many dynasties can really win the hearts of the people?

Xie Shang is also a scholar, but he is a person of insight among the scholars, so he does not dare to agree with Yin Hao's opinion.

Xie Shang was born in the Xie family of Chen County, and was the son of Xie Kun and Xie An's brother.

Who is Xie An?

It was the one who successfully thwarted Huan Wen's usurpation, and as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in the face of the invasion of the former Qin, defeated the former Qin army with 80,000 troops in the Battle of Weishui, which caused the former Qin to collapse, and won decades of quiet peace for the Eastern Jin Dynasty!

As a descendant of the Xie clan of Chenjun, Xie Shang's talent is naturally very outstanding.

When Xie Shang was young, he was extremely intelligent, proficient in music, good at dancing, good at calligraphy, and good at speaking. is romantic, and there is a saying that "the demon in the west of the town is smelting".

In his early years, he had a reputation, and successively served as Huiji Wang You, Huangmen Shilang, Jiang Xia Xiang, Jiangzhou Assassin Shi, Shang Shu Servant Shooting, etc., and is now General Anxi.

Seeing that Xie Shang stopped talking, Yin Hao thought that Xie Shang couldn't refute him, so he said even more proudly: "Renzu (Xie Shangzi), the gap between the scholars and the common people is a world of difference. The common people were born to serve our scholars, and when cattle were made of horses, Ran Min attached so much importance to the common people and belittled the scholars, that was the way to self-destruction! ”

"The general is wise!" Zhang Yu hurriedly slapped a sycophant.

Yin Hao was sought after, and he was even more proud, saying: "When the ancestors of the Northern Expedition, there were also heroes from all over the world who came to return to Shun. Now that I Yin Hao's Northern Expedition, there are also so many people with lofty ideals who have come to join, which shows that we will definitely win in the north this time! ”

"With the help of the public, why worry about big things?"

Xie Shang was no longer able to complain.

Zu Ti didn't do this with Yin Hao back then.

Before Zu Ti was in the Northern Expedition, Zu Ti suggested to Sima Rui to send troops to the Northern Expedition. But Sima Rui only wanted to keep Jiangnan at that time, and he had no ambition to go north at all. In order to win the hearts of the people and not lose his face, he appointed Zu Ti to an official position, gave him enough food for 1,000 people and 3,000 pieces of cloth, and asked him to organize the army by himself.

Zu Ti was not discouraged by this.

He took the people of his hometown who came with him, formed a team, and crossed the Yangtze River to the north.

When the boat approached the center of the river, Zu Ti was paddling.

"If I can't take back the Central Plains." He vowed, "It's like a river flowing eastward!" ”

After crossing the Yangtze River, Zu Ti stationed his army in Huaiyin, recruiting troops and horses, and sending people to make weapons.

The people of the Central Plains were very supportive of Zu Ti and helped him move forward smoothly.

Within a few years, Zu Ti's army regained a large area of land south of the Yellow River, and just when Zu Ti was facing a great situation and was about to continue north, Sima Rui was worried that Zu Ti's merits were too great and threatened his rule, so he sent people to contain Zu Ti.

Seeing that he was no longer trusted and that the ideal of recovering the Central Plains would not be realized, Zu Ti finally became ill with grief and died of hatred.

But how did Zu Li treat the scholars of the Central Plains, that is, those big families?

In the early days of Zu Li's Northern Expedition, there was a shortage of funds, so Zu Ti came up with a method. For those who voluntarily donate copper and iron and the like, they register and make a register to give spiritual praise, and those who are unwilling to take out these physical objects and refuse to donate money have discussed a good way.

The strange thing is that when Zu Ti implemented this method, he was not criticized by many people, on the contrary, the people still supported and supported it very much, and felt that when the country was in danger, the big families on the rich side should make real contributions and contributions to the country, which is really a matter of course.

Of course, in his 8-year Northern Expedition, Zu Ti robbed the giants to maintain the normal operation of the army, and the probability of such a thing happening is very rare after all.

If Zu Ti always used the gold, silver and jewelry he had stolen for military expenses for the purpose of robbery, not only would he not be able to maintain the high morale and combat effectiveness of the troops, but also because the frequent robbery of local large households would also hide huge risks.

You must know that in northern China, which was chaotic at that time, almost all the big families raised a strong family, and in order to prevent the bandits from eating big families from coming to the door, the forts built were also very strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

If Zu Ti has always used the robbery of these large households as the main source of military spending, it can be said that he is killing himself. The team led by Zu Ti was mainly active in the north, and it was not wiped out during the 8-year Northern Expedition, but on the contrary, it was supported and trusted by more and more people, which very well shows that Zu Ti robbed a large household, and it was really a helpless situation, and it was not a way to let the army survive the immediate difficulties.

No matter how you say it, this small flaw can't affect Zu Ti's tall image.

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Chapter 0406: The Scholars and the Common People