The former site of Taoguan City, five miles southwest of Changsha, the city of Tanzhou Prefecture, which was densely covered by wars, has become a place where flags are like forest camps. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Du Rang rebelled against Xiangzhou and took Tao Kan as a handsome reason for discussion. This city is now the base camp of the Chinese army where all the rebels gather.
I saw countless fast horses and guerrillas who sent messages, like hardworking worker bees, in dense and frequent exchanges. On the opposite side are the waiting gates of Changsha, those who raced to patrol the crowds of figures and piles of various equipment and materials.
Compared with the several places I have fought before, this Changsha city, as a Hunan Observatory, is undoubtedly more ambitious, and the Xiangshui River surrounds the danger of backwaters on both sides, so there is not much experience in conquering the big city. The rebel generals also had to be solemn and cautious.
However, relying on the momentum and scale accumulated in several states in Lianke, the rebels gathered under the city of Changsha now claim to be one hundred thousand. The terrible sight of the tide came.
And besides the joint camps of these rebels, there are a steady stream of troops and different flags joining every day; this also makes the army generals and officials who are following the south camp deputy Yali Li system and watching the enemy in Chengtou look horrified. , Even the Li family himself made a composure and said the scenes of building up morale, and after he promised Ruo Duo rewards to the nearby defenders, he hurriedly led the people out of the city's head.
In fact, seeing this scene reminded him of some of the unpleasant passing kings of Taining Jiedu. It was a nightmare in Yanzhou. He thought that the army of Gancheng was in Wang Xianzhi. In front of a mud-legged man with only sticks and door panels, he almost fled back to the state city with a triumphant victory and defeat; not to mention the frightening number of mountains and valleys.
He has already ordered the city’s officials, people, and people, regardless of whether they are high or low, to contribute their efforts to defeat the army and defend "the thief"; therefore, according to the hukou status, each household must spend one third of it. In order to ensure peace of mind, all businesses and owners have to donate 30% of their wealth.
Although the grass thief's large-scale offense made him a little numb for a while, he was a little overwhelmed and made a lot of fainting; but in fact, his experience as a director of Taining Jiedu is still there, plus a lot of homes. With the joint efforts of the department and staff to assist and advise, at least the current measures have been deployed, and there are no problems or omissions.
He can also take advantage of this rightful opportunity to make a good fortune; and he has even thought about how to make a lot of money after repelling the grass thieves in the future, by protecting the environment and the people. Up.
As for the fifty thousand army handed over to him by the imperial court, it is also necessary to have enough money to properly win over and drive them to sell their lives; it’s just that he was too ruthless to hold money, but he has ignored the rewards and rewards of these subordinates for a long time. The supply, in addition to the 1,000 tooth soldiers he brought out from the scattered Taining town that was beaten by Wang Xianzhi, and the three thousand Shence troops allocated by the court, and the two thousand local Tanzhou unity, can ensure priority In addition to adequate food and clothing;
There are several other soldiers, such as Jiangling Soldier, Qingzhou Soldier, Yunzhou Soldier, Nanyang Soldier, Yicheng Army, etc. They were originally prepared frontier soldiers drawn by the court from each town; Wang Duo, who led the soldiers out of the town, delivered them to him. After that, they basically asked this generation to find land on their own and eat well. Although the local people's sentiments and complaints were unavoidable for a while, the observation he was in charge of the money bag greatly reduced the possible bleeding and cost, so the left hand was turned to the right hand and the pocket was safe;
Moreover, even if someone tells his benefactor and recommender, Situ, Shizhong, Jiangling Yin, Jingnan Jiedu, all Dao Xingying soldiers, Ma Dutong, and Wang Duo, who was also named Lord of Jin, are also The sentence "I don't know the general situation" or "Regarding the general situation as important" came back.
As a result, bribery to flee into the army and seek to avoid disasters to benefit the public, but let the shogunate officials under him make a fortune; many people who followed him for nothing, even just here. Buying homes and properties in the local area has become the new owner, Tian Weng.
Therefore, after a period of "stocking", these troops now have a very large amount of unrealized balance; some are routinely paying for their wages (which is more conscientious); some are unbearable and escape privately but deliberately do not make up for the army. Uh, and if you don’t come down, continue to eat empty clothes and food and steal your military status on the spot, and you will have to take advantage of both ends;
As a result, after some corps were promoted to beat the drums, less than three or four out of ten were able to gather on the school grounds. Then, when some corps heard that they would go to the city to defend the enemy, they scattered some on the spot in horror. There were soldiers of local origin, and it was time to quickly take off their robes and take them back home.
In the end, even if he opened one eye and closed one eye, he didn't count the local soldiers who came from those places with knives, guns and drums. In fact, the available officers and soldiers barely had more than 30,000 heads. So he decided to open up the military treasury of the prefectures and towns, and arm these miscellaneous native troops to serve as the shortage of the army.
In this way, it is possible to collect a sum of "installation money" for the tax collection; when the battle of defending the city begins, the weapons and armors that are defying and corrupt, and the posts that have been falsely reported can be wiped out on the grounds of war damages. Furthermore, you can also ask the court for money and food for rewards, and even more to tell you about your life and future. . .
All of this is perfect and there is nothing wrong with it, except for the grass thieves who are uncontrollable factors outside the city. How about sending a messenger to delay the negotiation with Wei Snake? In this way, I also have more capital to organize the internal and stick to it. Well, I sent the fan Zhongchu I hated the most. You must know that he relied on the status of the imperial court to grant Yushili, and he has often criticized many of his actions. .
It is also said that the enemy now has to pity the people with the same hatred of the enemy, and now give him a chance to practice what he said to protect the people, see if he still has the face to shirk it, so the grass thieves who can deceive are day by day, even if they are. It's not a pity to be chopped off by these mud legs, instead, it's a trouble of irritability all day long.
He thought about it, he heard a mountain of howls and exclamations, and then a few visible black spots swept across the city with a broken arc, and crashed into the residential area of the city, and was shocked. There was a jittery movement. Suddenly, his face was earthy and he shouted in a drake-like tone-shifting voice:
"Where is the guard, come and take me to the safe haven..."
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In the city of Guangzhou, in the Fanshan Pavilion, which was originally the Cishi Mansion, the main hall that was used to entertain the guests has long been emptied, and only the bright four walls painted with cranes and pine lacquer paintings are left.
On a particularly magnified sand table representing the southeastern half of the world on the Rebel’s strategy route, the geographical models of undulating mountains and rivers, large and small counties, towns, passes, and villages have all been marked with signs Cheng Yijun. Small flags of various ministries.
Especially now as the main direction of the army’s main attack, the Hunan Observatory’s jurisdiction over the Yong, Shao, and Heng states, almost most of them are occupied by densely packed signs, and even the Lianzhou, Daozhou, and Daozhou, which are on the side as the divisional divisions Binzhou is no exception;
It's just that the logos in different colors also represent different states such as the complete occupation, partial occupation, the state of being sawing with the local soil groups, the official army, and even the main points of the siege or being trapped.
The response and response to this court can only be described as dullness and faintness, mediocrity, and incompetence; the state and county soldiers, united, and regiments that can be organized by the local government, are in the morale of the rebels. In front of him, it has become a lot of jokes that run away at the first touch;
Their fighting will and determination were not as good as the local regiments set up in various places, the townsmen and the like; so much so that before the rebels were not up to the front, there were still formed officers and soldiers who turned into bandits and looted them on the spot, and then they were looted by local natives. A wonderful example of disarming and annihilation by regiment soldiers. Of course, this is more or less related to the fact that Jiangxi has not heard of soldiers for a long time.
Under this great momentum of advancing vigorously, in fact, not long since the beginning of the Northern Expedition, all kinds of trophies from the front have been flowing, full of dangdang vehicles transported to the rear. Along with it, there were successive news about the front, which served as a reference for Zhou Huaian to grasp the movements of the rebels and the material for daily deductions.
This is also part of the private agreement reached between Zhou Huai'an and the rebel generals who participated in the Northern Expedition; in addition to maintaining the rear grain road and routinely transferring some military supplies; they obtained various goods from the battlefield that could not be released temporarily. Or the materials and special products that are not available for a while, as long as they are transported to Guangzhou by the return transportation team, they are evaluated and distributed by someone;
Then it turns into a variety of light, expensive and portable gold, silver and treasure goods, or food, grass, and armor needed by the army, which can be picked up by people or sent back by special escort. This can also be regarded as a special environmental product derived from the flea market that was interchangeable in the military.
During this process, the Sanjiang Patrol Army sent several regiments of escort teams in turn to deal with the refugees and bandits who were born because of the wars along the way. It was also a kind of disguised training and actual combat atmosphere experience.
Therefore, Zhou Huaian now has two different sets of accounts in his hands. One set is placed on the clear and easy-to-understand part. It is designed to correspond to the left-behind ambassador Meng Wei who is dedicated to lead the defense, and those who have begun to indulge in banquets and entertainment and show three days of fishing and two days of drying the net. Lin Yan, deputy envoy, to meet their most basic support and dispatch needs;
Another set of more complicated and thorough internal accounts is used to maintain the daily operations of local farming and governance, as well as the need for secret material and financial accumulation. It is also the root of his governance of these places.
As a peasant uprising army accustomed to the four outflows, naturally it does not care much about these details; but as a potential emerging power base modeled on the Five Dynasties Southern Han regime, it is completely indispensable.
At this time, someone notified him, and cautiously walked to Zhou Huaian, who was standing on the edge of the sand table, holding the putter while watching and operating.
"Report to the deputy leader, the search for the spies in the city has found another thing..."
Zhong Yi, now the third lieutenant of the Guangzhou City Patrol Brigade, whispered
"Oh, but what's the situation? Come and listen quickly..."
Zhou Huaian couldn't help but let go of his deduction.
In fact, after capturing the remnants of the government from Dongke Village, he was quite focused on arranging manpower to track down; in the selection of candidates, he completely abandoned the leaders of the old rebels, and let these people who had little relationship with the descending army be selected. People are responsible. However, in the General's Mansion, there was some disapproval about this, and there was no further article, and the investigation came to a halt.
But now that he has regained control of the Cantonese government in disguise, he did not hesitate to add manpower and resources to restart this work; it was only after a fierce action that he was indeed cleared out by mistake. There are many places where dirt and dirt are hidden, but there is still a lack of key clues for the righteous person to track down.
"Didn't you always suspect that the Grand General's Mansion, and even the insiders who secretly communicated with the official mansion in the left-behind Division, have been unable to find the essentials for many times..."
Zhong Yi said quite cautiously.
"So I just leave a few live baits... Let the investigating team and the census team stare at each other day and night... and make people go around and check the surrounding area with excuses, doing the horror..."
Zhou Huaian couldn't help but sighed slightly. This subordinate had already learned the law enforcement of fishing without a teacher.
"As a result, there were really a few people who secretly suspected that there was a ghost, and couldn't help but rushed to other places overnight... and four of them all tried their best to get out of the city..."
"The last one who was left was the suspected array and went to several places, and finally he was silent in the Qingyuan Mansion inside the Dadongmen..."
Having said that, he breathed slightly.
"So I am humbled and dare not to be expert, so I hereby ask the deputy leader for the next move..."
"It turned out to be Qingyuan Mansion..."
Zhou Huaian couldn't help but sigh.
If he remembers correctly, this is the military supporter in charge of military resources, food, weapons and equipment in the General’s Mansion. Huang Xin, the nephew of one of the "Eight of the Yellow Clan", is exclusively occupied in the city. It is the place where concubines and banquet guests are entrusted; a characteristic garden originally belonged to a naturalized Hu Dajia, who spent a huge amount of money to manage it. .
And this Huang Du ambassador was once regarded as Zhou Huai'an, the grain judge's direct supervisor in name. No wonder even if he is bold enough to be like a bell wing, he has to worry about his own thoughts. However, since Huang Xin and his family members went north with the General's Mansion, there are only some old and weak ones who are used to look after the house. In this way, the scope of investigation has actually been greatly reduced. .
"Continue to investigate, why don't you do it... Don't want to tolerate it"
After Zhou Huaian made such calculations, he faced Zhong Yi's righteous words.
"I just need to pay more attention to some methods and techniques... I need you to make a reason and speak out..." (End of this chapter)