"The Han family holds a blade like frost and snow, and the prisoner Qi Tiankuan has nowhere to escape. The head center, Ya, accompanies the soil, and the blood splashes the corpse through the battle jacket."
"Dunhuang Lyrics and Songs"
—I am the dividing line —
In the Palace of the Prince of Qi in the city of Yidu in Qingzhou, Pinglu Jiedu/Wang Jingwu of Qi King, who had just been ill, had a haggard and weak face lying in the arms of Ji concubine, and slowly stopped drinking and drinking. After learning Shimi’s ginseng soup, he listened to the routine reports of the external members of the curtain.
At the beginning, he was very angry at Wang Shifan's boldness, but after all, he would not be severely punished and held accountable for this sole adult son and heir; instead, he could only severely execute those close friends who drove and instigated him afterwards. Call it punitive foot ring and house arrest.
Then, through torture, it was traced back to the prime minister Wang Duo, Cui Anqian and others that he had a close relationship with the prime minister, and the dark center was on the court’s Jieya Judge Zhang Jun; but this time, Judge Zhang Jun also had some whispers, and that’s it Yaoyao escaped and the family disappeared.
And Wang Jingwu couldn't continue the investigation in the right way. However, the consequences that have already been caused are for him as the leader of the Ping Lu Army (Qingzi Town) to bear; after all, Wang Shifan is his biological son, and the soldiers directly under his government have come forward.
Therefore, in the following days, the most intuitive change is that there is no more sea-going ship that can dock in the coastal port city of Qingzi Town; it seems to have completely disappeared in a short time. The navy warship with the Taiping Qingqi flag also sailed into Surabaya grandiosely, dividing the newly occupied Haizhou by the Pinglu Army into two halves in disguise.
But these external changes are just the beginning. After the business of selling alkaline earth, dyes, and medicinal materials was interrupted, there were unavoidable voices of dissent and questioning within the Pinglu Army; after all, before this, everyone could live without these items.
But the so-called basic principle of "from luxury to simplicity", after enjoying the profit sharing brought by the sales of these products, and at the same time accustomed to the rich products imported from the south such as sugar, wine, tea, cotton cloth, canned food, etc., this is not the case. It's so easy to let go; in fact, most people are accustomed to using these things as rewards to win over the military's heart.
Fortunately, the Taining Army (Yanhai Town) and the Wuning Army (Xusi Town), who had sought to form an alliance before, have sent a large amount of money silk; this is how the agitation of the family and ordinary sergeants in the generals is suppressed. . However, he was somewhat uncertain about whether he was really going to be directly hostile to the Taiping Army.
Although he cannot show the slightest weakness and set up to be tougher, he did not seek the possibility of re-contacting the other party in private, such as re-appointing the "outside member" who had been suspended in the Pinglu army. Get it back and discuss an agreement acceptable to both parties.
When he thought about it, it was just the lives and deaths of dozens of scumbags. With appropriate compensation and subsequent benefits, it could be dealt with. But the other party also disappeared without a trace; while the local sea-going ships in Qingzi Town disappeared once they went to sea; one group went to sea without a group.
As for the local navy forces in Qingzi Town, compared to the reputation of the top three towns in Huaishang, it is indeed somewhat inconsistent. Neither Dongmou Shouzuo (Ping Haijun) in Penglai Port, Dengzhou, or Donglai Shouzuo (Tuanjie Camp) in Banqiao Town, Laizhou, cannot compete with the Taiping warships swimming offshore;
On the contrary, the Penglai town soldiers (turning the strong army), who were born in water transporters, can still compete with the invading Taiping boat divisions in the Lianshui and Surabaya basins, using their familiar geographical location and the flexibility of manoeuvring ships. But this is not a long-term solution, unless he is really determined to go to full-scale war with the Taiping Army.
However, while he was hesitant, the situation in the Central Plains changed again. The defeat of Qin Zongquan, the most powerful thief commander on the Huai River, prompted him to make up his mind from a lot of lucrative dreams, forcibly suppressing and unifying the voices and dissents within Qingzi Town; determined to fully support Wu Ning Jun and Tai Ning The army, against the threat of peace thief who may come;
However, it is full of irony that he is about to launch counterattacks and offensives from several directions simultaneously from land and water to the Taiping thief in Haizhou. After a particularly cold and heavy snow, he is patrolling the camp. Wang Jingwu, who had returned from the food, suddenly fell ill. After all, he was close to the forty-nine year of his life.
Although it was only the most common cold syndrome at the turn of the seasons, it was enough for him to lie groggy on the bed for more than half a month; it also delayed the first sudden opportunity to use soldiers; he was gathered in the winter. The morale of the soldiers has also eroded a lot. However, the situation has changed again.
Wei Jun from Hebei was defeated again, just like the result of several previous invasions in Henan. After losing a lot of equipment and horses, he finally retreated from the frozen ice of the Yellow River.
However, waiting for them in Hebei is the Heyang Army who invaded the territory of Weizhou and threatened the city of Daming Fu. They were greeted with leisurely "enthusiasm." Perhaps Wei Bozhen's traditional arts such as defeating and changing coaches will be routinely performed; therefore, it cannot be counted on in a short period of time.
As for the Lu Longjun/Yanjun, who have stopped fighting for the time being facing across the Yellow River, it is even less hopeful. On the contrary, it is fortunate that as King Yan Li Keju tried his best to replace Bei/Hedong, he had no time to trouble himself or react accordingly in a short time.
In fact, the Yanjun across the river from Dizhou in Qingzi Town was the most suitable target in Wang Jingwu's eyes; because the other side was the two states of Cang and Jing, which were occupied by Lu Longjun, the homeland of the Henghai (Jedushi). The annexation took only a few years, and the foundation was not stable and the hearts of the people had not yet been fully attached; it coincided with the expedition of Youzhou’s main labor force.
And he also holds in his hands Zheng Hanqing and his family, who had escaped by crossing the sea after being attacked by Lu Longjun. In the name of protecting and supporting this resettlement, he can send troops to attack all parts of Cangzhou and Jingzhou in Hebei.
But in the end, a missed opportunity is a missed. The Taining Army's Julu King Zhu Xuan and Lu King Zhu Jin, who are only getting better right now, were besieged in Yanzhou (now Laiwu, Shandong) by the Eastern Capital Army and the Tianping Army after defeating the Wei Army; he couldn't just ignore it.
In addition to the most basic lip and tooth cold and the recent covenant of common advance and retreat, the land of Yanzhou still has 80,000 households and a population of more than 400,000; there are also Tieye 13, Tongye 18, and Tongkeng four that have been inherited through the generations; Xishan is a place known as the center of the Central Plains for mining and smelting; it cannot fall into the hands of these peripheral forces supported by the Taiping Army.
In fact, he had prepared for the worst in his heart. If the Taining Army’s fundamental ground is difficult to preserve, he will also try his best to support the Zhu brothers’ breakthrough and retreat, and don’t give a city a way out, and then go with the Tianping Army and the Eastern Capital Army, and then pull on the Wuning Army. At the same time, they divided up the remaining land and mining and metallurgical sites of the Taining Army.
In this case, he can use the Wuning Army as an arrival and echo, and make peace with the long and exhausted Tianping Army and the Dongdu Army; then he will use Daodizhou to ride through the frozen Yellow River and attack the Yan Army in Hebei. The occupied states of Cang and Jing thought that Zheng Hanqing would be a sign of supporting the former Hengjun navy Jiedu to expand the population of their own territories.
In this way, even if the Taiping Army really swallows the world and enters the Central Plains in the future, relying on this huge territory and tens of thousands of people, it is inevitable to negotiate and game with it, as a bargaining chip and price for advancing and retreating, and seeking in the new dynasty. It is like the Zhu clan of the Eastern Capital Army and the Cao clan of the Tianping Army.
Of course, this kind of inner calculations and planning cannot be understood clearly, otherwise, if he is spread out by people with a heart, his position as a handsome man will not be secure. Therefore, he would happily test concubine Ji after each bedtime, whether he had said a dream and then dealt with it.
Thinking of this, he suddenly stretched his concubine Ji's body, and said to the outside world:
"In that case, let Erlang (Wang Shifan) come out to work..."
Compared with the eldest son and younger brothers who died early, Wang Shifan, the second son of the governor, is different from other vassal government offices. He likes literature and making friends with scholars because of his humanity and elegance. Qingzhou (Langya County) has always been a place where the style of writing flourished. Now it seems that Wang Shifan is not immune to its influence, and he thinks it is an act of following Ban Dingyuan.
Since Wang Jingwu decided to show his strength and determination to the Taiping Army, it didn't matter whether he was punishing or admonishing him. Anyway, he still wants to live longer, and there are several sons who can take care of his life; then I might as well support this somewhat overcorrected second son on the front desk to act on his own initiative.
However, not long after this, in Dizhou (now south of Yangxin, Shandong), in the unremarkable shacks on the bank of the frozen Yellow River outside the city of Zhouzhi. Solomon, one of the representatives of the Taiping Army's foreign affairs whom Wang Jingwu missed, also welcomed a line of visitors with helmets and armor in the cold wind that leaked from all sides.
I saw the leader Jiangbian's hands and feet thick, dark skin, and full of weather colors far beyond his real age, but it was the local Dizhou governor and patrolman Zhang Chan; I saw him throwing down the guard behind him so as to be alone. In this leaky shack, there was no outside but a melancholy face toward Solomon and said:
"The news has come from Yidu that the commander (Wang Shifan) has returned and he has been appointed as a deputy envoy to the General Administration. I don't know what you plan to do next."
"Since Wang Zhenshuai intends to confront the enemy, the important thing now is not how our Taiping Army is; it is about the future in the next situation. Which step can you do for Zhang Mingfu..."
Solomon, dressed in a commoner coat, said calmly and calmly:
For him, the best result is to get up wherever he fell. Now it is clear that the long-term operation and penetration has finally come into play, and an opportunity for revenge and hatred and meritorious rewards is sent to him. In front of. (End of this chapter)