"Crazy! The court is crazy!

100,000 iron horsemen go south, doesn't he care about the northern barbarians? ”

Huang Yinfang had a very bad time during this time.

Because of the relationship between the mysterious drug master, he and Xu Zhaoao, the Duke of Yueguo, were huddled together.

Some habits, such as lighting incense when sleeping at night, don't dare to lick the pen on weekdays.

Even drink water with care.

Although the lord of Bifeng Mansion was watching from the mansion in person, psychologically, the two old men were both afraid of death, so they were naturally cautious.

For people of their age, such a state of mind will drag down their bodies for a long time.

Therefore, when he knew that Qin Guogong led 100,000 iron horsemen to the south, Huang Yinfang's body collapsed suddenly.

He began to be sick in bed, but he still didn't dare to drink medicine.

Even the stove for cooking the medicine was kept in his own room, and his eldest son himself cooked the medicine.

Under such circumstances, Xu Zhaoao, the Duke of Yueguo, became the last pillar of the Nanhai scholars.

However, this old man is worthy of being a cabinet scholar, and he is still Zuo Zhuguo.

The psychological pressure bearing ability is much better than that of Huang Yinfang.

"Don't panic, for the imperial court, we are just internal troubles, and the Northern Barbarians are external enemies!

Unless Sunrise is dizzy, there will be no such decision.

According to the old man, this must be a suspicious plan! ”

As soon as Xu Zhaoao's words came out, the Nanhai Shi clan thought about it in their hearts and found that this was indeed the case.

After all, no matter how chaotic the South China Sea is, the result is nothing more than a change of country.

After all, it is still in the hands of the Han people.

But if you let the Northern Barbarians go, it will be a dead country!

No matter how stupid Emperor Xuyang is, he should not make such a choice.

Therefore, Qin Guogong's 100,000 iron horsemen went south, which must be a cover!

And such a situation is actually the core of Siniang's talk about Bentai's secret agent in the palace and Emperor Xuyang.

In the study of the palace that day, Tan Bentai opened his mouth and said:

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the South China Sea will be defeated!"

Emperor Xuyang asked him why he said this.

Tan Bentai only replied one sentence.

"The Nanhai Shi Clan, led by Huang Yinfang and Xu Zhaoao, will be defeated! Because they are already in their old age, no matter how shrewd they are, how old they are, how old their hearts are, all their thoughts and thoughts are the same.

How can the old age be innovative? ”

Subsequently, Tan Bentai took this as the core and talked about his concept of the trouble of the South China Sea.

In Liu Xin's memory, because the brothers were killed in the South China Sea, Siniang rushed from the imperial capital to the South China Sea in a hurry, missing this exchange with Emperor Xuyang.

And Emperor Xuyang opened the morning court the next day, and used all the back hands he had prepared, blocking the eyeliner of the South China Sea in the imperial capital.

And Qin Guogong did lead 100,000 iron horsemen to the south.

and 100,000 iron horsemen do not need to be dispatched from the imperial capital, so that they can blind the eyes of those old men in the South China Sea.

Second, it's like Xu Zhaoao can't believe it.

Qin Guogong rode south, and these people in the south would think it was a gimmick.

They will only wake up when the Iron Cavalry is actually under the city, but by then it will be too late!

And the iron cavalry going south, there is indeed a possibility that the northern barbarians will take advantage of it.

After all, these 100,000 iron horsemen are used to compete with the Northern Barbarians.

Without these 100,000 iron horsemen, the border pass is a target that will be randomly drawn by the Northern Barbarians.

There is always a mistake in 100 secrets.

The border is lengthy, and as long as one point is broken, it is a total loss.

Especially without these 100,000 iron horsemen.

With or without it, the meaning of what the border represents is different.

But since Emperor Xuyang dared to make such a decision, he would not have left such a big loophole.

The defense of the border pass was taken over by Wu Guogong at the first moment after the 100,000 iron cavalry was drawn.

And Wu Guogong's strategy is also very strange.

The key points of the border pass were all shifted to the right and came to the north side of the imperial capital.

It looks like he has let go of the opening on the left side and gone to defend the imperial capital with all his might.

However, the spies of the Northern Barbarians checked and found that the mouth on the left led not to the Central Plains of the imperial capital, but to the west.

That is, Sichuan Province!

When this matter reached Sichuan, the first thing the Duke of Shu did was to kill one of his concubines!

This shows the anger in his heart.

The Duke of Shu also had antipathy, but he could not tolerate the invasion of the Northern Barbarians.

Because Beiban is more difficult in his heart than Zhengyang.

Once the Northern Barbarians invade Zhengyang and open a border pass, it will be like a corrosive poison that is difficult to get rid of.

For his future plans, this is absolutely not allowed.

He also understood Emperor Xuyang's plan for the first time.

The gap of 100,000 iron horsemen, Emperor Xuyang was transferred to the Duke of Shu.

If he doesn't take out the hidden family funds, this gap will not be closed.

If it is taken out, then the identity he has been hiding so hard will be exposed.

This is the second question that Tan Bentai and Emperor Xuyang talked about.

"Zhengyang is now suffering from internal and external troubles, but this is not necessarily a bad thing.

Sometimes, when a bad thing is taken to the extreme, it is also a good thing.

Just like now, the gap of 100,000 iron horsemen can be filled by the Duke of Shu.

And he'll be able to fill it in.

But if the Duke of Shu is not opposed, then he does not have the ability to fill this hole.

For me Zhengyang, it's a bad thing! ”

On this night, Emperor Xuyang put his queen under house arrest, which also means that he announced that the Duke of Shu had rebelled, and he knew about it and made a choice.

Ten days passed.

Qin Guogong's iron cavalry came to the city of Zhejiang without hurry.

And in these ten days, the Nanhai Shi clan still didn't believe that the Qin State Guild went south with 100,000 iron horsemen.

So they focused on internal troubles.

The forces of the Clear Water Dragon King and the Dry Land Dragon King were completely dispersed.

However, this is also because the purpose of the Dryland Dragon King has been achieved, and most of the water conservancy he wants to build has been completed, and the rest is no longer within the South China Sea.

He couldn't do it anymore.

During this time, he was almost rushing for time, and Zhou Li, the dragon king of the dry land, basically didn't close his eyes, and when the army of the South China Sea surrounded and suppressed, he directly dispersed his subordinates.

And the Qingshui Dragon King is in a similar situation, during this time, the two 'Dragon Kings' have become close friends.

The Qingshui Dragon King's men finally escorted the two out of the encirclement, and were finally met by Ma Dakui's mountain bandits.

The four Kou are finally in one place.

And the two 'dragon kings' subordinates were disbanded on the spot.

These people are the people of the South China Sea, and when they take off their uniform clothes and throw away their weapons, who can see that they are anti-thieves.

The encirclement and suppression of the South China Sea army turned into a joke.

Qin Guogong's 100,000 iron cavalry went south, and these armies hurried to Zhejiang, but they ushered in Zhejiang's defeated troops.

Zhejiang, fell.

But one day, Qin Guogong attacked the gate of Zhejiang City.

Huang Yinfang, Xu Zhaoao and other leaders of the South China Sea had already evacuated when Qin Guogong was close to Zhejiang.

Their private soldiers had already found out the truth.

In order to prevent Qin Guogong from chasing them, they hid this truth and secretly left.

Qin Guogong didn't know that they were fleeing, but he was still not in a hurry.

Of course, this is all the conjecture of Xu Zhaoao and others.

Qin Guogong didn't care about this group of old literati at all.

Just like Emperor Xuyang said to him.

What is there to kill such a group of old men who are about to enter the ground, and it is a big deal to take the four provinces of the South China Sea safely.

Therefore, even if Qin Guogong knew that Xu Zhaoao and the others had fled Zhejiang in advance, he would not chase the land.

After all, even if they ran away, where would they escape?

Go to sea?

How many waves can these old bones withstand at sea.

100,000 iron cavalry took Zhejiang City almost unharmed, and then chased the remnants of the South China Sea to the south without leaving a single soldier.

And the amazing thing is that the city of Zhejiang, which no one cares, is incomparably harmonious and peaceful.

And behind the calm and peaceful, there is a group of people from the bottom of the people.

If you investigate deeply, you will find that they are all from the South China Sea, but they have long left the South China Sea and drifted, and now they have returned to their hometowns.

Most of their rhetoric was that they heard that their hometown was in trouble, so they rushed back.

They have achieved a lot of success outside the home, and now they are back to help their former hometown.

Such people don't know geometry, and they are distributed in almost every corner of Zhejiang City.

And Zhejiang City was not slaughtered, and even Qin Guogong only sent a small group of soldiers and horses into the city to clean up, except that the clean-up work was completed during the day, and it ended quickly.

In the evening, all the cavalry of Qin Guogong withdrew from Zhejiang City. There are no managers in the city of Zhejiang.

Even the officials of the yamen are gone.

All the government personnel were either taken away by Huang Yinfang and other high-ranking officials in the South China Sea, or they were taken away by Qin Guogong's people.

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Time flashed and more than a month passed, and now it is May.

For more than a month, the situation in the South China Sea can be described as strange.

Even a pedant who is well-versed in history has never seen such a situation.

Since Qin Guogong took Zhejiang City without spending a single soldier.

The leaders of the Nanhai Clan seem to have been on the run.

Originally, there were still more than 200,000 soldiers in the South China Sea who could make a final desperate resistance.

100,000 cavalry against 200,000 infantry, the soldiers in the South China Sea have plenty of money and food, plus they are fighting on their own.

The 100,000 cavalry of Qin Guogong traveled thousands of miles from the south all the way to the south.

If you want to talk about advantages, it is actually on the side of the South China Sea, after all, the South China Sea has complex topography and many ridges.

It's not like the Northland, unstoppable!

It's not like the Central Plains, thousands of miles away.

If the whole army is united, in fact, it still has the capital to be able to fight.

It's a pity that I don't know who is demagogic in the army.

It's not that it's demagoguery, but that some people have publicized the situation in Zhejiang City in the army.

Even the Nanhai soldiers who did not have time to withdraw from Zhejiang City were put back after collecting their weapons and armor.

The area around Zhejiang City resumed the cultivation of farmland the day after Qin Guogong left.

Because of the South China Sea incident, the people of the South China Sea have long missed the best time to sow seeds.

The Nanhai clan has plenty of money and food at home, and they don't care about this year's harvest at all.

But for the people at the bottom, missing the opportunity to sow seeds is likely to give them one less harvest this year.

It's a matter of their lives.

Countless people have long been anxious.

But after all, it's going to be a war.

You have to save your life before you farm the land.

But when I heard that the people near Zhejiang City had started to reclaim, not only the South China Sea, but also the people in other places, even the soldiers in the army had other thoughts.

If it weren't for the fact that the supply of money and food in the army had increased several times, this news alone might have brought down the army in the South China Sea.

But in fact, when it really came time for the two armies to face each other, Qin Guogong just sent rangers to shout slogans around the army of soldiers in the South China Sea.

Say that you should go home as soon as possible, cultivate land as soon as possible, and collect grain as soon as possible.

He also said that if the South China Sea loses these landlords and gentry, the people's heaven and earth will become more.

There were even soldiers shouting how many acres of land there was in the South China Sea.

How much the landlords and gentry owned, how much the common people owned.

And once the landlords and gentry are exterminated, how much land will the common people receive.

Although most of the soldiers in the army are illiterate, after all, some numbers will be learned in the barracks.

Moreover, the cavalry sent by the Duke of Qin can be said to be preaching these slogans non-stop for twelve hours a day.

The Southern Navy also tried to send some cavalry scouts to block the attack.

But in front of Qin Guogong, in terms of scout warfare, the South China Sea side is not the opponent of these cavalry guarding the border pass at all.

It's not just about being jugged around.

The scout cavalry in the South China Sea suffered a lot of losses.

Even more odious is just a day later.

These scout cavalry, which originally belonged to the South China Sea, actually changed into the armor of the Qin State Army, held the Qin-character military flag, and swaggered through the market.

shouted even more excessive slogans in his mouth.

Also on the night of this day, deserters appeared in the South China naval camp.

Although Xu Zongrang persuaded again and again, he couldn't persuade a few old stubborns.

These old people who have been smart all their lives, after a lifetime of knowledge, finally began to have some problems that ordinary old people should have at this old age.

That's stubbornness.

Especially Yue Guogong, he did not hesitate to behead hundreds of deserters in a row.

He believes that there are no rules.

Since the rules are set, then the rules must be obeyed, and those who do not follow the rules must have their heads cut off.

But as the commander of the whole army, Xu Zongrang was very clear in his heart.

Now the morale of the army has begun to be chaotic.

At this time, such a large-scale killing of the Quartet, I am afraid that the army's spirit will be completely dispersed.

In military affairs, Xu Zongrang is actually also a good hand.

He read through military books and was familiar with a series of tasks on the battlefield.

If you talk about the military on paper, Xu Zongrang is definitely a master, and the entire court can't find a few characters like him.

It's a pity that he lacks a little bit of actual combat experience.

What is even more regrettable is that although he is the commander-in-chief, the real ruling power of the army is not in his hands.

At this time, he began to secretly rejoice in his heart that he had made all preparations in advance.

Now it seems that the winning rate of the South China Sea has become more and more slim.

Xu Zongrang must also start planning for himself.

The Southern Army, under the condition of unstable military morale, forcibly started the war, and finally suffered several defeats.

The number of deserters in the barracks increased.

Cutting off the head alone is no longer effective.

As a result, the Southern Army could only begin to retreat continuously.

First, it entered Fujian, but the cavalry of Qin Guogong was left alone, and the mobility alone was enough to make the southern army suffer.

What's even more terrifying is that every time Qin Guogong's army passes by a place, it will never leave a single soldier to guard there.

On the contrary, all the landlords and gentry in that place were exterminated, anyway, these people did not lose, one counted as one, and they all supported the Nanhai clan.

Even if there is no support, it is a default to what the Nanhai Shi clan did, trying to silently follow behind him to pick up some bits and pieces to eat.

Not one of these people is innocent.

Of course, there are cases in extreme cases.

As if Qin Guogong had some incomparably accurate information, for some landlords or local officials who thought about the people, they would also raise it high and fall gently, without hurting the slightest.

But on the face, he always did everything he could.

This also made the landlords and gentry of Fujian, Guangdong and Southern Jiangxi feel cold.

And where the army of the Duke of Qin passed, the life of the people would become very good, and some of the same local villagers who returned to their hometowns in fine clothes would appear in due course.

And all the people were busy planting food, so naturally they didn't have the heart to think about why these people appeared at this time.

And as this situation slowly intensified.

The lineup of the Southern Army dropped from more than 200,000 to only 100,000.

And when the southern army retreated from Fujian to Guangdong, the number of southern troops was only a few tens of thousands.

And the vast majority of these tens of thousands of people are the henchmen of the Nanhai Shi clan.

It was also at this time that Xu Zongrang suddenly escaped from the barracks with a group of people.

Before that, he also tried to raid the big tent of Yue Guogong and Huang Yinfang, but unfortunately, these two old men are now extremely greedy for life and afraid of death, and there are many masters around them.

Xu Zongrang saw that he could not succeed, so he escaped from the barracks with more than 2,000 of his henchmen.

Yue Guogong couldn't believe all this.

The righteous son who has been raised by himself for more than ten years betrayed him like this.

Even betrayed his own biological father!

Huang Yinfang couldn't afford to get sick after this accident.

Because of the betrayal of the commander of the Southern Army, the Southern Army completely fell apart.

In less than a day, dozens of Nanhai warriors fled from the barracks with their men, some of them scattered and fled, and some went directly to the military camp of the Duke of Qin to surrender.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, Yue Guogong and Huang Yinfang found a few sea ships along the coast of Guangdong and fled to the sea.

Two old men. I didn't understand where I had failed.

In the end, they all came down to Xu Zongrang.

They believed that from the very beginning, Xu Zongrang had already thrown himself into the imperial court.

It was only at this time that they realized that some of Xu Zongrang's previous actions seemed to have other meanings.

It's just that now they've been completely defeated.

Not long after fleeing to the sea, the two old men were thrown into the sea by the crew of their fellow sailors.

These crew members and their men did not want to starve to death of thirst at sea with these two old men.

I heard that as long as you put down the butcher's knife and take off the armor on the shore, you can live a good life as an honest farmer.

Many of these crew members and the two old men's subordinates were originally from farming families.

In the South China Sea, how many scholars are willing to do these rude things like swordsmen?

When the good news of the South China Sea was transmitted back to the imperial capital, Emperor Xuyang took out a bamboo slip from his study.

This bamboo slip is the three-point suggestion, or strategy, put forward by the latter when he communicated with Tan Bentai that day.

The first point has naturally been achieved, and the last point has now been achieved.

"The people of the South China Sea are the most miserable. The readers of the South China Sea are the most useless.

My father used to say it when he was there.

If a scholar is not diligent, he will not work, but will only die studying.

Then sooner or later, the reader will die.

Therefore, the minister believes that the incident in the South China Sea is actually a misunderstanding of themselves by the scholars of the South China Sea.

If it is wrong, it will definitely fail in the end.

And they will be defeated at their own hands.

Therefore, the minister felt that His Majesty could rest assured that he could send troops to the South China Sea.

The minister can use his life to guarantee this time to go south, not only will His Majesty not spend too much money and food, but will not cost too many soldiers' lives, and you can get a better South China Sea! ”

And all of this has now been fulfilled.

Emperor Xuyang directly summoned him to the palace to face the saint.

The next day, Tan Bentai was directly appointed as the right general politician.

The official position has reached the fourth grade!

It can be said that it is one of the fastest and most rapid promotions among civil servants over the years.

The Tan family was also rehabilitated on this day.

And when the news reached the South China Sea, the South China Sea ushered in early summer.

On the coast of the South China Sea, in the middle of summer in May, the sun shines obliquely and the golden light is brilliant. In the fields, the people were busy, they were dressed in coarse cloth, and the sweat soaked the backs of their clothes, but they had no time to take care of them. The hoes and plowshares in their hands flew over, and the fragrance of the earth filled the air. In order to regain the time lost due to the South China Sea Rebellion, they worked in the fields like industrious bees, sowing hope.

At this time, a cavalry marched neatly through the heavens and the earth. The iron horses were clanging, and the hooves sounded like thunder, but they did not disturb the work of the people at all. The cavalrymen were dressed in battle armor and iron helmets, and their eyes were determined and imposing. Their appearance seems to add a bit of heroic atmosphere to this land.

The general led by him was dressed in a splendid robe and was full of energy. His eyes were deep, looking into the distance, and his heart was full of loyalty to the country and love for the people. Seeing the hard work of the people, he sighed and couldn't help reciting a poem:

"The South China Sea sows hope in May, and the fields are busy and people are happy.

The iron horse galloped like a dragon, and the army and the people worked together to protect their hometown.

Plough and sow seeds for the autumn harvest, and exchange hard sweat for abundance.

May the world be peaceful, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. ”

Although it was a poem that did not rhyme, it spread throughout the South China Sea shortly after the general recited it.

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"Senior brother, I didn't expect the matter of the South China Sea to be concluded so soon!

Fourth Senior Brother, is he really as godly as you say? ”

Xiao Qi, Liulang, and the dog San'er Liu Xin by themselves, and the four of them sat on the bow of the boat enjoying the warm summer sun.

Siniang's situation has been transmitted to the South China Sea in real time through the secret investigation team.

During this time, Liu Xin has actually been working hard to realize what Siniang and Emperor Xuyang said.

It wasn't until now, when the South China Sea really calmed down, that Liu Xin finally felt extremely relaxed.

The crackdown in the South China Sea took a full eighty percent less time than he remembered.

After several years of chaos, the number of people in the South China Sea has been reduced by more than 10%.

This decrease is due to the chaos of the past few years, the shortage of food in the South China Sea.

Most of the people were starved to death in his memory.

And now they are sitting on the official ship, swimming against the current.

The scenery on both sides of the strait is a wonderful scene of people sweating among the ridges.

Such a beautiful scenery really warms Liu Xin's heart.