In the afternoon, the drizzle of rain hit the tent in the military camp, making a rustling sound, like spring eating leaves.
Almost everyone in the tent was dressed in plain clothes.
There are only two exceptions, Shangguan Shiyi and Mo Binwei. They have no close relatives who died in the city, and their status is equivalent to that of guest ministers. Unlike domestic slaves and direct subordinates, they do not need to pay heavy filial piety to their master's family. But they also wore plain robes to show respect for the deceased.
At this moment, everyone was surrounding the sand table, listening attentively to the former's explanation: "...there are only two hundred thousand soldiers, and among them there are important people such as the third prince under the knee of their great khan. Although it is still unknown how they sneaked into the imperial capital. Yes, but logically speaking, after they broke into the city and looted the city, they should have retreated immediately, instead of openly occupying the imperial capital and lingering there. "
"This matter is indeed suspicious." Su Yuwu nodded mutely. He looked haggard and his eyes were bloodshot, but his eyes were surprisingly calm. He said slowly, "Especially when they raided the imperial capital earlier. It is beyond everyone's expectation. It can be seen that among the Rong people, there must be some deep and scheming people. Not to mention that the fall of the imperial capital is really strange, which is hard to understand. Now these two hundred thousand Rong people know that our army is about to gather. "If you dare to stay in the city and not leave, you must have something inside."
The Qingzhou Army arrived near Yuzhu Town just before noon today.
Before the camp was set up, Su Xiu Ming, the commander-in-chief this time, sent his nephew Su Yuwu to the Xiliang Army to discuss with his nephew how to retake the imperial capital and avenge the blood feud.
And Shen Zangfeng has been preparing intensively for this matter these days. Shangguan Shiyi has been awake for several days, thinking about what backhand the Rong people have to dare to occupy the imperial capital of Wei for so long. .
Su Yu's dance was a coincidence, and Shangguan Shiyi got it just right. Shen Zangfeng simply summoned everyone to listen together.
"That's what Mr. Su said." Shangguan Eleven nodded gently, tapped several places on the sand table with his delicate index finger, and said, "I think there may be two reasons."
"Appreciate further details!"
Shangguan Eleven said: "The first is for the Rong people to repeat their old tricks and imitate what they did last time. But this time it is not to attack the city, but to annihilate our soldiers of the Wei Dynasty. Please look at these places on the sand table, Originally, there were only two barriers to the north of the imperial capital, one was Donghu and the other was Yanzhou. However, before Weiyuan Hou was suddenly assassinated, the Donghu army was leaderless and in chaos. Although Weiyuan Hou's eldest son Liu Bozhao was temporarily in charge of the overall situation. His prestige and talent are very mediocre. This time he just reluctantly sent a Donghu army to the imperial capital. According to the distance between Donghu and the imperial capital, this army should have arrived a long time ago, but there has been no news yet. Either something happened on the road or something happened. Even the Donghu Army has no intention of fighting at this moment, but is just trying to get through, so it delays its journey. "
Both Shen Zangfeng and Su Yuwu looked at each other with sinking faces and said nothing: when Marquis Weiyuan was assassinated, Shen Zangfeng had finally escaped from Yanzhou and was rushing towards Xiliang day and night; while Su Yuwu was We were busy mobilizing hundreds of thousands of civilians to build the dam, but we only heard about it after a while.
The sad news still weighs heavily on both of them.
Weiyuan Marquis Liu Sijing has a very high prestige in the East Hu. Even though Liu Sihuai, the Taiwei, tried to fight for power with him based on the holy opinions, when resisting the Rong people, Weiyuan Marquis, who had been guarding the border all his life and had never even visited the imperial capital, was much higher in the temple. , The captain who has almost never been in battle makes people more confident.
In addition, there has been no news about Liu Xixun, the next lord of Ranjuntang who was personally appointed and cultivated by Marquis Weiyuan during his lifetime...
However, even if there is news about Liu Xixun, Shen Zangfeng and Su Yuwu don't think he can play a big role now. Because Weiyuan Hou was taken advantage of by the Taiwei with the help of the imperial court, in order to prevent Liu Xixun from suffering the same disadvantages, Weiyuan Hou arranged for him to enter Yiwei after his hair was tied, so that he could make friends with the wealthy children in the capital. In order to avoid being like Weiyuan Hou, who has never been to the imperial capital and has no particularly capable help in the court. When faced with the Taiwei's pressure from the imperial court, Weiyuan Hou found it very difficult to cope with it.
... Because of this, Liu Xixun's foundation in Donghu is very shallow, and even many soldiers are very unfamiliar with his name.
Not to mention that in the previous three years when he went to the border, Liu Xixun was plotted by the Taiwei family and failed to be among them, so he suffered a big loss.
Originally, if Marquis Weiyuan had always been around and had him as his backing, if Liu Xixun could escape this time and return to Donghu, Marquis Weiyuan would protect him and grow up.
But now that Weiyuan Hou is gone first, Liu Xixun... what does it matter
Without Marquis Weiyuan, would Liu Xixun have a bleak future? Although Weiyuan Hou has no particularly outstanding descendants except Liu Jizhao, he has many descendants and nephews. There may be people among these people who sincerely obey the arrangements of Marquis Weiyuan, but it is impossible for everyone to be willing to watch Ranli Hall fall into the hands of a distant brother. They didn't dare to make any changes when Marquis Weiyuan was around. Now that Marquis Weiyuan was assassinated and Liu Xixun disappeared, how could there not be a few people who couldn't restrain themselves
This can be seen from the fact that Liu Bozhao took charge of the overall situation and this news came out nearly half a month after Weiyuan Hou was assassinated.
Liu Bozhao obviously obtained this status by relying on his status as the eldest son and the compromise of all parties. If it weren't for the current situation, Liu Bozhao might not have had this opportunity. But even if his brothers and nephews no longer fight and work together to help him, he really is not a person with the ability and courage to preside over a Donghu.
Otherwise, why would Marquis Weiyuan abandon his eldest son and choose Liu Xixun
For the three major frontier armies of the Wei Dynasty, although the Donghu Army did not encounter the worst situation - surrendering to the Rong people or even colluding with the Rong people - due to the assassination of Weiyuan Hou, a veteran general, internal fighting in Ranli Hall and the temporary election of a leader With mediocre talents, the combat effectiveness of the Donghu Army will definitely be affected.
"Mr. Shangguan means that the Rong people believe that the current Donghu Army cannot stop their retreat. Even if the Xiliang Army and our Qingzhou Army come, they still have a retreat to the north, so they dare to stay in the imperial capital?" Su Yuwu frowned He said, "You even dare to turn around and attack our two frontier armies? Isn't this impossible? Even if the Rong people despise the Donghu Army after the death of Weiyuan Marquis, both the Xiliang Army and our Qingzhou Army are The elites of the Wei Dynasty also fought against the barbarians from time to time, but the Rong people were not necessarily more powerful than the Di people and Siamese. Besides, the real fighting strength of the Donghu army was only affected by the departure of Weiyuan Hou. It’s impossible for Rong people to be so confident in such a short period of time.”
It's almost stupidly confident.
"Judging from the situation when the imperial capital and Yanzhou were besieged last time, the person who came up with this idea among the Rong people is very courageous, and his ideas are open and unrestricted." Shangguan Shiyi said calmly, "He may not dare to take risks. This risk. And..."
Not paying attention to the disapproval on Su Yuwu's face, Shangguan Shiyi continued, "Furthermore, this person's previous practice of sending men to guard the main road and the sky and cut off all alarms also shows that he has a careful mind and is good at riding and shooting. At that time, due to civil unrest, the imperial master was ill, and Wei Gong was demoted, the government was in chaos. Even if he took risks, he was still sure of it. Not to mention that the timing of the Rong people's retreat was just right, and the Wei Dynasty was overthrown. Both civil and military officials concealed the past, which shows that the person behind the scenes has an exquisite grasp of the battle situation and opportunities. "
"With such a figure in the Rong people, every move should be backed up." Shangguan pointed at the sand table at eleven and said, "So I initially thought it might be the Rong people repeating their old tricks. Although these days, in order to To rescue those who broke out of the Imperial Capital, the spies of the Xiliang Army have spread over more than two hundred miles of the Imperial Capital, but no trace of the ambush has been found, but it seems that the men who went to the Vast Sea Desert have not returned yet, right?"
Cai Qingzhi said from the side: "Counting the days, the spies along this journey will be able to return at least the day after tomorrow."
"Both men and women of the Rong army are good at riding and shooting. The men between ten and sixty years old can ride a horse." Shen Zangfeng said slowly, "This time, there are 200,000 Rong soldiers attacking the imperial capital, 80,000 siege of Yanzhou, and 300,000 soldiers. For their clan, nearly half of their troops have not been used yet. If they use the 200,000 soldiers who occupy the imperial capital as bait to attract our Wei army to the imperial capital, and then use an ambush to plot against them... From a geographical point of view, they can only pass through the vast sea. Gobi, plotting against the Eastern Hu Army, but compared to the nearly 300,000 soldiers occupying the imperial capital and Yanzhou, and the third prince of the Great Khan in the imperial capital, it is not cost-effective. "
"Although the vast Gobi Desert is vast, how can there be no trace of hundreds of thousands of soldiers? If the number of soldiers is too small." Shangguan Shiyi hummed, "This time there are 300,000 Xiliang troops, and the rear army is still moving. The number of Qingzhou troops is 250,000, which is nearly three times the number of soldiers occupying the imperial capital. Even if something goes wrong with the Donghu army, the soldiers in the imperial capital and Yanzhou will not be able to escape encirclement and annihilation. , after all, this is our territory, the Wei Dynasty.”
Su Yuwu frowned and said: "Mr. Shangguan, what do you think is the other reason why the Rong people occupying the imperial capital are delaying to leave despite knowing that we are waiting for the army to come?" Although the spies from the vast sea and Gobi have not returned yet, nor have they There is news of something happening, but the Wei Dynasty has already suffered a loss once when the Rong people pretended to retreat but left an ambush in Wei. Could Shen Zangfeng be more careful this time
Besides, last time the Rong people not only concealed the truth, but also caught the imperial capital and Yanzhou off guard - Lu Hao's rebellion had just been put down at that time. Yanzhou was in turmoil and its military strength was empty; in the middle of the court, it happened that the previous emperor had died and the new emperor had ascended the throne. All kinds of personnel are busy. For example, the mutiny of the citizens of Shinshu caused the Donghu Army's defeat and the need to be liquidated... Urgent documents were flying in from all over the place, and the Wei people had always been paralyzed by the barbarians' attitude towards the devil's grass. main idea…
The Rong people also took advantage of Wei's internal and external difficulties to take advantage of it.
Instead of singing and dancing to bring peace, even if the common people could barely survive in their hometowns, how could these soldiers be so easy to hide? Not to mention several armies lurking down. Do you really think that both Tan Ma and Li Shu of the Wei Dynasty are dead? This time, the two frontier armies converged and pressed forward. It was a real battle force. How could ordinary conspiracies and tricks make a difference
The sand table was right in front of him. No matter how hard he looked or thought, he couldn't figure out where the nearly 300,000 soldiers could survive and what their purpose was from occupying the city.
After Shangguan Shiyi heard this, he did not answer immediately. Instead, he looked around at the people in the tent and saw that they were all important people in the Xiliang Army or the Qingzhou Army. For example, Mo Binwei was also sent by the Shen family's in-laws, but he still Worried, he cupped his hands towards Shen Zangfeng and said, "This matter can only be discussed with Brother Shen. As for the others, please listen to Brother Shen and decide whether you can tell them!"
"Huh?" The others responded, but Su Yuwu couldn't help but be startled - he is both Shen Zangfeng's direct cousin and Shen Zangfeng's wife-in-law, and he also has a blood feud with the Rong people. This is not enough to listen to this second speculation. ? What is this secret? (To be continued)