Yang Guang, after all, is just a matter of quantity and won’t give too many soldiers and horses to form warlords. The 20,000 people given to Xiao Xian have also been well thought out. There are also 20,000 troops in Yu Juluo’s crusade against the Jiangnan rebellion. At the same time, Wang Shichong, who is responsible for Jiangdu Cheng, was granted permission to recruit and expand troops against Du Fuwei on his own, which is almost so much strength.
Since the scale is limited to 20,000 people, regardless of the number of chaperones, Xiao Xian was allocated the original soldiers of the counties in Jiangdong, which were also suitable for the land war. When the imperial court made an expedition to Koguryo, most of the soldiers of Wu were transferred to the war. Except for the soldiers of Dongyang County in southern Zhejiang and Yongjia County, who were sent to Donglai to stay in Chen Ling as garrison troops, the soldiers of northern Zhejiang and Danyang all went directly to fight in Koguryo. When these county soldiers originally went out, more than 30,000 people fought for survivors in a year and a half, but almost 20,000 were now taken back to
However, similar to the conditions given to Wang Shichong, Xiao Xian has also been allowed to recruit extra troops to expand its army. At this time of chaos, the imperial court will not limit the number of soldiers to death for local etiquette and generals who have direct anti-thief wars. After all, it is possible to fight this thing and rebel bloody battles. If the loyalist generals are bound and cannot recruit soldiers to make up for the war damage, it will be almost the same as being tied up by the peasant army.
The imperial court’s control over local generals is more based on their salaries. For example, if the troops are purely military commanders and there is no local political wealth, then the amount allocated for military salaries will be directly paid to you to support 20,000 soldiers. The salaries can’t be changed to make the generals raise more money and can’t afford it.
And if we want to restrict the military and political factions-don’t be so unrealistic. At this point in the great cause year, Zhang Xutuo is considered to be the representative of Xiao Xian in this kind of faction. It is definitely not the earliest and will not be the last batch. This treatment is unremarkable. Then the control of money and grain will trouble some courts. Generally, it is to reduce the local money and grain tax and pay the amount required by the court to keep the soldiers. However, if the local officials extort and increase the excessive tax, the court will not be able to control it.
Xiao Xian is now trapped in the sea for many years, and it has finally won the trust of the imperial court. After he left Danyang and arrested ambassadors in six counties of Jiangdong, the county chiefs of the six counties all had to follow his plan, and he himself had a feudal industry dock in Wujun. Moreover, I heard that Yuhang County and Qiantang County, now Xiao Xian’s office in Shenfaxing has not been broken by Liu Yuanjin’s thieves. It is still easy for Xiao Xian to raise more food.
When the sea army came and Xiao Xian met, it brought not only 10,000 people, but more than 30,000 people-the other 20,000 people were recruited from the base behind the enemy’s back in Pidao, along the coast of Koguryo, and the people who were willing to defect were led by Feng Xiaoci, Lv Yu and Du Guyanshou.
Some generals of Pidao Army, Zhongyuan and Hou Mo Chen have been purged by Feng Xiaoci in the past six months. Who let them not see the situation clearly? Will the imperial war against Koguryo be over this year? As a result, due to miscalculation, the first soldier officer of Houmo Chen found that he still had to rely on Xiao Xian to maintain the situation and had to be sent back to China as the second crop of cannon fodder. Feng Xiaoci died and was loyal to Xiao Xian’s hardcore slow work, which disintegrated the differentiation and disintegration of Dugu Yanshou, who was a wise man. When Houmo Chen’s officers were cleaned, have it both ways re-stated his loyalty and got the stay.
There are 40,000 soldiers who have been sent to Danyang County to ask for thieves, and all of them are Goguryeo’s bloody battles. The veterans are much more elite than the newly recruited soldiers in Yu Juluo. This situation has made Xiao Xian tough before he officially asked for thieves. In the past two years, the layout has finally been white.
In rations to Xiao Xian also don’t worry-half a month before Xiao Xian’s army arrived in Danyang County, Wu Shihuo had privately hoarded hundreds of thousands of stone rations outside Jingkou City and Jinshan Temple in the Yangtze River, all of which were collected from Xiao Xian and Princess Nanyang’s Jiangnan fief or purchased before, which was enough for the excess troops to fight.
People who don’t know the geographical situation of Jinshanzhou really don’t wonder how it is possible for a Jinshan Temple to hide so much rations. As soon as Xiao Xian was familiar with the history of his past life, the most admired figure was the history of Zheng Chenggong, the country’s surname. Zheng Chenggong defeated Ryukyu, and at the peak of his life, he organized a siege of Nanjing, the southern capital. Zheng Chenggong’s tactics were to lead tens of thousands of troops into the Yangtze River by sea, regardless of the gains and losses of visiting coastal cities, and directly besieged Nanjing after Zhenjiang landed. Zheng Chenggong’s military rations came from the Jinshan Temple in the heart of Zhenjiang, which was
So Xiao Xian is just stealing from Zheng Chenggong, and he will make a plan in the future.
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There is a wonderful feeling that the descendants of Nanliang returned to Xiao Xian, the ancient city of Danyang. In the year when he was born, Nanliang had fallen for 26 years, and Xiliang was the capital of Jingchu and Jiangling. When he was four years old, Xiliang returned to Sui’s grandfather and took him to escape to Chen Guocai, which was the first time in his life. Then, when he was six years old, even Chen Guo was destroyed, he never came to this ancient capital of Southern Dynasties.
When I was a six-year-old child, my memory was always vague. Now Xiao Xian is twenty years old. That was twenty-two years ago.
Full of regrets, Xiao Xian stepped into Taicheng to stay in Danyang’s official residence-this was originally the six offices of the imperial court before the demise of the Southern Dynasties. When the Sui Dynasty destroyed Chen, the palace was leveled, but at least some of it was left behind. The courtiers’ offices were left to local officials to change it. The bureaucratic offices in Danyang were always higher than those in other counties, so some specifications and areas were also magnificent. After all, they were all changed by the central government of the former power.
Xiao Xian, the lobby of the left-behind mansion, sits quietly on both sides, and he is not too polite to come straight to the point.
"The imperial court ordered us to fight against thieves for three months, and don’t delay the next year’s levy of Koguryo. What are the general plans of the generals today? Although you can speak frankly-but you can first listen to an official who called in Qiantang county magistrate Shen Faxing today to state a thief’s situation, and everyone can know yourself and know yourself. Shenjun county magistrate is well-guarded in all counties. Now the jurisdiction is the forefront of the thief’s army fighting, and it is still a few days ago that he broke through from Tianmu Mountain to Danyang to report the thief’s situation."
All the civil servants promised to call it Shen Faxing, so they went straight to the point. "Good teaching left-behind adults learned that nowadays, theft and erosion are mainly restricted in Lanling County, Wujun County and Huiji County. Lanling County is at the forefront of the war, but the county town has lost Danyang, bordering Liyang and other counties. The situation in Wujun County is even worse. Yuhang County, Yuqian County and Qiantang County are the westernmost close to Tianmu Mountain, and the township soldiers are guarding it, which is equivalent to the western part of Hangzhou being returned to the court before the imperial court abolished the state and changed to the county, while Huzhou, the original three counties in Most counties in Suzhou fell into the hands of Liu Yuanjin’s thief army. In July, the thief situation was not serious in Huiji County in the south of Zhejiang Province. Later, after Yu Juluo repelled Guan Chong, Guan Chong led the remnants to cross the river and fled to Liu Yuanjin, which made Liu Yuanjin’s power soar. Later, Huiji County fell and became the base area behind the thief army. "
Xiao Xian and several generals saw a map. The thief army occupied about two and a half counties with an area of nearly 20 counties, covering 150,000 people and nearly one million people.
Xiao Xian now brings the highest level in the generals, that is, several Lang generals, and it is Qin Qiong’s turn to question the situation "but I don’t know how many soldiers and horses are preparing for the thief army now? Is it still comparable to sticking to the local county government soldiers? "
"The thief army has a population of one million, and it can always forcibly pull up more than ten thousands of troops. The morale of the soldiers who have stuck to five or six county governments is very low. The court just sent Yu Juluo and Dong Chun, who had failed to suppress thieves before, to the court to behead them and express their feelings. After the prison torture, they were angry and died. It was reported that Jiangdong had previously fought military and horse officers, and everyone was afraid that they could not."
Xiao Xian didn’t intend to save Yu Juluo from dying. After all, if these two people were rescued, would they be killed by Yang Guang? It’s hard to say that history has changed too much. It’s also an obstacle for them to become independent in Jiangdong. It’s no pity that these two people died in Xiao Xi’s eyes of conference semifinals.
However, the matter of low morale still needs to be solved. Since the soldiers in the underworld are already vulnerable to the first world war, let them guard the city.
"It’s just that the newly recruited government soldiers are counting on it. We can break the thief-Zhu Zhuzhu will obey orders by bringing back 40 thousand chosen men from Koguryo."
"Please stay behind!"
"To the whole, Zhou Shaofan, you two led ten thousand troops from Jiangnan River into Taihu Lake along the north shore, and separated a small number of troops to harass the counties along the Taihu Lake, so that the thief army did not attack our main direction, and Qin Qiong and Feng Xiaoci led twenty thousand troops from Liyang to Wujin County, Lanling County, and other places. The rest was headed by the official himself-let’s go and prepare."
Chapter 29 Force the thief to fight a decisive battle
The original guard residence of Huiji County has just been changed to grass. All the decorations of Liu Yuanjin’s Palace have not come yet. Just tearing down the original official plaque is regarded as investment, which makes Liu Yuanjin preside over the celebration banquet and celebrate the downfall of the former court thief generals.
"Brother Zhu, come and have a drink today!"
"Mr Big said is! Yang Guang’s nonsense ruined the king’s life. How tight did he bite the two Hu dogs, Yu Juluo, two months before he lost the country? If it weren’t for Jiangnan people’s hearts and minds, we can raise troops to rally again and again. It’s still two words. It’s good that the bad king himself has abolished his own minions. It’s a gift to give me Jiangnan counties. It’s time to go more and come to Mr. Boss. I don’t want to play virtual. I respect you-I’ll do this altar at will. "
Shang Zuo servant shot Zhu Gui said, picking up an altar and having drunk most of the pure grain, brewing Kuaiji carved rice wine. He put his mouth up and began to pour glug. Just a few times, he introduced two or three liters of wine into his throat, and it was so rude to call them an emperor and a left servant shot, but they were still big brothers and good brothers.
Huiji rice wine is a kind of rice wine which increases the proportion of glutinous rice in the brewing formula. The degree of glutinous rice wine is higher than that of ordinary northern grain brewing wine. At least 10 to 15 degrees, two liters of wine can be drunk at a time, which is equivalent to blowing seven bottles of beer in the future. It is really generous that rice wine brewing consumes twice as much food as ordinary rice wine. Since the increase of grain levy and tax distribution in the imperial court, people rarely brew this kind of wine again, and there are many administrative measures to prohibit it.
Zhu Xian drank a lot of alcohol and complained again when he thought of this. "Ha … you want me to say that four or five counties in the south of the Yangtze River and around Wujun have been planting rice for two years. If it weren’t for the bad king’s levy on the south of the Yangtze River, I’ll raise those rice in the north, if I can eat it all? If you don’t let us brew rice wine, we must learn to make bamboo cane wine from Wu Jun’s satrap-or squeeze sugar and dregs to make wine! It’s disgusting to think about it. "
"Zhu Xiandi is right-but my brother will sit in the mountains and rivers in the future, and don’t want the bird in the north to be poor and convenient to divide the country. It is good for Jiangdong to enjoy his brewed times and people’s cream to feed himself. It is good for the north to take Yang Guang’s bird position and help him raise a hungry ghost in Yanyu and Youji. Isn’t it full? Ha, ha, ha. Have a bird’s hair and bamboo cane wine then? It’s enough to drink rice wine and smash an altar. "
"Happy! Mr. Liu is really knowledgeable. Let’s try to drink an altar and smash an altar today! "
Zhu Zong obviously drank too much in the lobby, and directly picked up an altar of rice wine that had not been sealed, picked it up and smashed it to the ground. Liu Yuanjin sat in the main seat and didn’t mind at all. Instead, he laughed and even drank two bowls. At that time, Zhu Zong gave him another way to entertain him. It can be seen that the bandits, thieves and warlords were uncontrollable
After drinking for a long time, Liu Yuanjin’s enlarged bowl seems to suddenly hear the good news that Yu Juluo was killed, and the joy is almost over. Calm down and say, "It’s a pity that the brothers can’t drink together today."
Zhu Zun is holding a Dongpo elbow-now the cooking method of Dongpo pork in Xiao Xian has been popular in Jiangdong Counties. After all, the lack of cattle and sheep in Jiangdong can make pork, an original unpalatable animal, comparable to cattle and sheep, which is very attractive to this people. And Huiji County, which is rich in carved wine, is easy to get raw materials in Jupp-where it is chewed according to the case.
Hearing Liu Yuanjin’s words, Zhu Zang followed with a wave of his greasy hand. "The boss said that the second brother was careful. What can the bad king send now that he can be more famous than Yu Juluo?" If you don’t change people, you won’t know the soldiers. Just send me swords, guns and armor again. Hahahaha, so I won’t even build the weapon supervisor. "
Liu Yuan went deep into the country, but he was always better than Zhu Zang. Some words still didn’t come out. It seems to him that Guan Chongfei had to go back to the front line of Lanling County to find out the news. It was not because Guan Chongfei was a native of Jinning County of Lanling County. At the beginning, Liu, Zhu and Guan started their troops in Kuaiji County, Wujun County and Lanling County respectively. Later, some Zhu and Guan, who were the first to bear the brunt in the north, were scattered by the imperial attack forces twice before crossing Zhejiang to serve him as Liu Yuanjin.
However, since the warlord must be selfish, especially the Shouyi base area, it’s best not to lose it. It’s all gone with the times. It’s normal that Lanling County is away from the newly appointed Danyang left-behind attack point of the court. He went back to find out information and arrange defense recently.
Read here Liu Yuanjin silently calculated that it seems that Guan Chong left for Lanling County to get information for four or five days. Lanling is not far from Huiji, but it is six or seven hundred miles away. If the news is urgent, there should be an echo. Now there is nothing going on. It seems that there is nothing to fear from the newly sent generals of the imperial court.
Think of the devil and go to Liu Yuanjin’s fanciful palace. The door crashed and hit a tall, strong and vicissitudes man. He trotted directly to the courtyard without a horse. If someone in Yang Guang’s court dared to be so polite, I don’t know how many times he died.
"Liu Dage bad! Disaster! " Guan Chong rushed into the hall and didn’t salute. First, he fished an altar of carved wine, filled a big bowl with a mouthful of stuffy interface, and said, "Cudgel went to Liyang County, the frontier of Lanling, and turned to find out the exact news. The court sent Xu Du Wei Xiaoxi, the chief of Danyang, to lead troops with 20,000 or 30,000 people to come to Jiangnan to crusade against us instead of being beheaded and spit, and the court said it was for 20,000 people. But Cudgel looked at this Xiao Xian, and there must be more than 20,000 private soldiers.
Liu Yuanjin one leng "is thirty thousand people than Yu Juluo had soldiers some good brother will be so panic? A surname Xu Ma? Hahahaha, can a small white face climb by sleeping with Yang Guang’s daughter be sharper than a Turkic Tatar general like Yu Juluo who has been killed for more than ten years? "
Liu Yuanjin was born in Huiji Township, but he didn’t have much cultural knowledge. Although he was unfamiliar and didn’t understand the courtiers, it was always a serious injury. Therefore, he could say such words, and Zhu Zun was a Wu Jun arise. After all, Xiao Xian had worked as a Wu Jun local official for several years, Zhu Zun must know something. After listening to Guan Chong’s words, his face changed.
"Mr Big this Xiao Xian is to be reckoned with-although Xiao Xian climbed up by sleeping with his wife, I heard that when the bad king conquered Goguryeo, he also hung out with him for two years. I heard that he had built some feats, but I don’t know that it was somewhat Yang Guang’s son-in-law who favored him and even gave him credit, but even though Xiao Xian’s fighting was not so good, there were two points that had to be prevented.
First, Xiao Xian is a descendant of Xiao Liang, the former royal family of the Southern Dynasties. Although the prestige of Xiao’s Jiangnan was swept away by the state of Chen for more than 30 years, there are still a few places where the millipedes died but did not become stiff. It is hard to say that the Xiao family in Lanling County has been intertwined for more than 300 years, and you can’t erase the second brother’s territory even if you change dynasties.
Two years ago, I heard that Xiao Xian’s grandfather Xiao Yan was rebelled against the Sui army by our three armies twenty years ago. At that time, even the master had to support Xiao Yan with high wisdom. Before Nanchen’s national subjugation, Xiao Yan was granted the title of East Yangzhou secretariat by Chen Shubao, and Xiao Xian later served as county magistrate in Yuhang and Wujun for several years. After a long time, the sheriff was forced to leave Xiao Xian, and many people said that Xiao Xian was the result of Yang Guang’s argument that it was the imperial court. Since Jiangnan overtaxed the grain tax in accordance with the law of rent, rent and tax exchange, it was necessary to reduce the corvee. Finally, Yang Guang fired Wu Junzhi. Before Wu Jun started to fight, many people read Xiao Xian. Every time they said,’ If Xiao Jun is going to make a rebellion against the imperial court’, we should not be underestimated. "
Liu Yuanjin quietly listened to Zhu Zang’s analysis, and his look became more serious. "So Yang Guang is not stupid. He changed his strategy. This is because he doesn’t want to attack and kill blindly, but wants to divide and disintegrate the people in Jiangnan. In this case, I can’t deal with Yu Juluo’s time, so I’m afraid that it won’t be long before people’s hearts will be slowly drawn over by Xiao Xian. Now I will point my troops to Lanling County and guess that the decisive battle will take place in Xixian area.
The thief army has always been ready to do it. Three thieves first negotiated a quick strategy. Liu Yuanjin, who just escaped from Zhejiang for more than half a month, picked up his main forces again. Then he crossed the river north and entered the boundary of Wujun County. He went straight to the tin area at the junction of Yanguan County and Jiaxing County.
Liu Yuanjin and others’ analysis seems that Yu Juluo was very strong in the battlefield before, but he was mentally retarded in winning people’s hearts, or that the characters dealt with by the basic roles had no future in the battlefield, so they had to stand firm and clear the field, passively avoid the war, and let those Hu generals fall into the sea of people’s war in Wang Yang, while Xiao Xian belonged to the prestigious faction in the south, but the battlefield strength was rarely heard. It is natural for such people to do the opposite and not give him the opportunity to win over and divide people’s hearts and defeat each other in an upright battlefield.
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At the peak of the forces of the three bandits and bandits, Liu Yuanjin can hit the hardcover soldiers in the 150,000-strong, with more than 50,000 people and nearly 100,000 miscellaneous soldiers and auxiliary soldiers. This time, I heard that Xiao Xian has a lot of troops, and Liu Yuanjin did not dare to leave 20,000 auxiliary soldiers in the home front, and 10,000 soldiers guarded Huiji. Wujun counties themselves brought 40,000 soldiers and 120,000 auxiliary soldiers to fight in Xiao Xian.
The peasant army marched slowly and lacked horses and chariots. Because Yuhang County and Qiantang County of Wujun County have been firmly held by the court official Shen Faxing, Liu Yuanjin’s troops were from Yanguan County and Jiaxing County, and even the Grand Canal could not March on two legs. Fortunately, it is convenient for Liu Yuan to raise food in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is also a line war and local supply, so it is unfortunate and bitter
Rao is so * * days from crossing the river in Huiji until the troops in Xixian County arrived. All the way, he came to the imperial army pioneers, such as Qin Qiong and Feng Xiaoci, to divide and surround Lanling County and fight thieves everywhere. Obviously, the situation is not optimistic.
When I first arrived in Tin County, Liu Yuanjin also wanted to spy out whether it was possible to continue the invasion. As a result, Guan Chonghui, a thief, broke out and brought a bad news-but Guan Chongs lair Lanling County ruled Wujin County, and the imperial army besieged the city but took it in five days.
Guan Chong jumped up first, grabbed himself, and told the thief to put the shoulder armor on the leaf-if the thief would wear a collar at the moment, there must be a later generation of black rice boss who taught his messenger the sense of sight-while picking up Guan Chong, he was suspected of being distracted and wrong-boned, and he shook the other side with a hand gesture and asked him.
"It’s impossible! Wujin County is the county of Lanling, and at least there are more than 20 walls that have been completely repaired. It is enough for you to leave military forces. How can it be taken in five days! "
"Servant shot … you … you’re going to let go and give up the ghost … ahem" The thief will also be deadly. Finally, he shouted that Guan Chong let go and coughed fiercely for a while before he got back. "Servant shot is no wonder that he won’t try his best to stick to it at the end. That Xiao Xian is really vicious. After the siege, he suppressed it with a crossbow and filled the river without posing as a storm.
But on the third day after two days, Xiao Xian personally went to the city early in the morning to make the defenders of our city answer, and then he pulled out a yellow silk letter from the front of the two armies and read it out in public, which was not Yang Guang’s will. This time, the traitor … The punishment … The first evil threat was never asked, the time was promised, and the south-bound rent-and-rent method was not easier. From then on, the taxpayer who doubled Van Dona went to the corvee; It is also announced that the repeated levying of taxes and levies and the addition of chaos are all great undertakings. In the past seven years, all the new local officials have been deceived and have been tried as Yu Juluo. "
GuanChong dumbfounded "is it so finished? You pig brains believe this nonsense? Well, it seems that you feel that you are "coerced" and can get away with it? Grandpa cut your two sides! "
The thief will plop on his knees and kowtow like garlic. "The servant will be wronged at the end of his life-if he has such a heart, will he break through and report?" And listen to the end will finish. "
Aside, Liu Yuanjin also stopped Guan Chong’s face and said with dignity, "Let him finish!"
Guan Chong, this is not good. The thief will continue to say, "This is nothing, but it is too good to hold Xiao Xian Wujun’s previous official, even Lanling. He is willing to believe too many people when he speaks; And Xiao County looks at Lanling for three hundred years, and the intertwined regime change can’t wreck the prestige. At the end of the year, although you don’t believe it, you can’t hold the hearts of the people in the city floating. Only after two days, the city’s very rich Dalian network and the private soldiers should take the north gate and put it into Xiao Xian, and some soldiers and horses can’t escape to report it. "
Liu Yuanjin’s heart was secretly shocked, and he said that if you can’t fight quickly, Xiao Xian’s prestige will be beaten to this Lanling County, and the bad weather will be an example.
Chapter 30 Killing thieves in a bloody battle
Two armies in the field in the north of Xi County, Lanling County are in position, and the peasant army in the west of Sui Army is in a state of tension.
From Sui and Tang Dynasties to Song Dynasty, the tin area was not an independent "prefecture-level city" level administrative division, but belonged to Lanling County/Changzhou Mianxian County. Of course, the "tin market" in later generations is now composed of two counties. The south side of the tin county is near Taihu Lake, and the north side of the tin county is near Xishan Huangshan Mountain and facing the Yangtze River, while Jiangyin County is.
(Note that the Sui Dynasty in Jiangyin County belonged to Suzhou for more than ten years and Changzhou/Lanling County for more than ten years.)