Episode 215
In Daluo City, Jiaozhou, where the market is sluggish and the pedestrians are extinct, there are already irresistible rumors in the streets and lanes.
"Is this the officer and army fighting back..."
"This is the banner of grass thief from Guangfu..."
"How is this possible, the grass thief's lineup will be stronger than the official army?..."
"The soldiers and horses facing the battle simply couldn't move and they were defeated..."
"An Dan, who attacked the army outside the city, had his head chopped off and hung up..."
"The children of the hundreds of generations who followed him out of the battle, none of them have come back..."
"Could it be that the number of days in this Datang is going to change, it's so difficult for a grass thief to come all the way..."
"Then what should I do when I wait, should I continue to be a thief..."
Zeng Dagon, the new envoy of the quiet navy, who had stayed with Annan, was also in the gatehouse and listened to the enemy's sentiment from the front of the horse without expression. Bad news, bad news, in addition to bad news, bad news, even the several harassing troops he sent out to test the enemy's forces were beaten back by the loss of troops.
Moreover, the grass thieves had so many crossbows and their arrows were raining, and the array of lines was well-organized and distinct; the areas covered by them were full of casualties and few inferiority. The survivors all said that they were afraid that the famous Jianghuai crossbowmen, Xuanrun crossbowmen, and Zhexi crossbowmen in the southeast, or the Lingnan white crossbowmen and Xichuan crossbowmen flow; if not for the advantages of river water transportation, only I'm afraid that even the people who returned to report the letter will not be left behind.
However, this advantage of water transportation on the river surface does not necessarily last long, because as the riverboats full of grass thieves arrived, they also formed a decent local consortium with the attached local soil group. The temporary navy comes. Although the army is in a hurry and does not have any active attack capabilities, it is more than enough to intercept and guard the river.
Standing on the top of the city, you can even see them. They even collected river boats and built several pontoon bridges across the Zhuluan River to mobilize the horses and collections. They also blocked shipping and support that might come from upstream in a disguised form. This made Zeng Dagon, who always focused on integrating the forces in Jiaozhou City after seizing power, was unavoidable and stuck in the city.
Originally thought that after defeating the Turkish coalition forces under the city, in a short period of time under the chaos in Annan, there was no more existence that could contend with; it was just convenient for him to sort out the interior one by one and integrate the army; slowly regaining peace and stability in Annan In the whole territory, reporting victory to the court and seeking recognition of the title is just like what Gao Linggong did in the past.
But I never thought that the process of seizing power was easy, but it took more time and effort than he expected to gather and subordinate these powerful forces inside and outside Jiaozhou City and turn them into forces that can be supported and operated. Among them, it is necessary to deal with dissidents in a tough manner, but also to make good use of threats and deterrence by force, and more importantly, to compromise on the exchange of interests; not to mention that his allies are not completely single-minded, but need to be weighed and appeased, and even satisfied. Their respective interest demands.
It’s just that I never thought that the remnants of the tycoons who were uprooted by him were unwilling to give up, and they would be desperate to ask the grass thieves in Guangzhou for advice and help; never even thought that they would actually let them borrow. Arrived with foreign aid; in his original expectation, the grass thieves had already moved northward and there was not much left left;
Therefore, after regaining the entire territory of Annan, he continued northward along the "Tianweiyao" to recover the land under the control of Guan, Guangxi, and even all of the territory of the Guangzhou Dudu to obtain more soldiers and wealth. The long-term plan of the source. As a result, this unexpected factor suddenly intervened, and the stable situation suddenly took a turn for the worse.
Although he is known as the grand nephew of Zeng Yuanyu, a famous minister and ambassador to Pinglu Jiedu, in fact, among the famous "Ping Pirate Envoy" tribe, he can only be regarded as a little-known but obscure member; he used to follow Gao Pian in his early years. From Zheng Annan, he became a former small school who was specifically responsible for passing letters to the court and delivering good news. It can be considered to have established a relationship with Jiaozhou for a long time.
It was only because he was willing to fight desperately on the battlefield and suffered dozens of wounds so that he was gradually able to get ahead; after pacifying Annan, he was recommended by Gao Pian to General Zuoweiwei, Yingzhou assassin, and the east recruited deputy envoy Zhang Zimian. Under his command, he got a place as a right forward;
In the end, he was able to take part in the decisive battle where Wang Xianzhi was defeated in Shenzhou East and Huang Mei was chased. Although he had not won the first victory of the king thief, he also attacked and captured Liu Yanquan, a thief chieftain, and forced to land on the remaining three. More than a thousand; based on the accumulated merits, he served as Wuwei Zhonglang general and the left-wing soldier of the Zhongwu Army.
But the good times didn't last long. Zhang Zimiao, the benefactor and senior official in his prime, soon was framed by the Korean-Chinese party struggle because of his high merits, and was convicted on the grounds of embezzling the rebel's gains, although the prime minister Zheng Qian was in court. I try my best to keep it, but I still want to go back to the hometown of Yinzhou (Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province) since then;
As a powerful general under his command Zeng Dagon, he was originally not spared and was quickly pursued and resigned; but later he re-appealed to the uncle Zeng Yuanyu of the distant house to keep the title of Wuwei Zhonglang, but he has never been able to lead the army. It can only be used as a facade in the tooth tent. This time, he begged Annan to go far out of the occupied thief territory and tried to recover. It was also his biggest adventure in his life and his desperate speculation in the future.
As his uncle Zeng Yuanyu, he only gave him a stack of blanks and a thousand pieces of silk as his capital, and promised that he would operate in the court after the incident was completed, and be regarded as the governor of Jiaozhou and the envoy of Annan; In contrast, it was another envoy, Cui Anqian, who gave more private help. Not only did he privately donate resources, armor and strong men, but also acquiesced to him to continue to raise his needs in Shu with his own Yu Ze.
But he couldn't help looking at Shu and wanting more, such as leaving this Jinghai Jiedu to become a more justifiable Jinghai Jiedu, and even serving as the Protector of Annan.
Although Jinghai Jiedu is only a newly established small military town, it is also a Jiedu who is dedicated to the development of government construction. Compared with the inland Jingnan, Jiangxi and other places, it is somewhat discounted in power. The observations and strategies of the people, but they do not choose to deduct the belongings of the town; in theory, as long as the local financial resources allow, you can recruit more troops and self-employed officials.
Coupled with the routine authority to conquer the Siyi under the name of Annandu, it can be said that it is more like a vassal town than most vassal towns in the country. Or take this trip to photograph the land of Lingxi and Lingdong.
However, the destruction of An Youquan’s army completely frustrated his hopes; you must know that this soldier and horse that was hard to piece together, but he used the evidence to sweep the surrounding areas of Jiaozhou and deter the barbarians, and he It happened to be in Jiaozhou City to clean up the follow-up situation and integrate resources, but did not want to be destroyed in the hands of the grass thieves in one day.
Although the city claims that there are still tens of thousands of horses available, most of them are the native soldiers that he has annexed but the hearts of the people have not yet been fully annexed; the remaining are nearly 3,000 soldiers and regiments gathered from various places, and there are also big households in the city. , The variegated armed forces forcibly collected by the rich businessmen; in fact, there are less than a thousand core personnel directly controlled by him, of which only a small part are the Shu soldiers he brought along, and most of them are on the spot. Contributions
Originally, there were three thousand soldiers in the city that were left behind by the envoy of Jinghai Jiedu, and two thousand soldiers gathered in the place; however, after the defeat with his confidant general An Youquan, he basically lost all his losses; therefore, Under the control of lightness and weight, he prefers to send out the soil groups that show signs of instability in batches to consume them in disguise in the name of testing the thief, but this is the core of the situation that must not be used to suppress the situation. Strength, there is the slightest loss and loss.
Although he can forcefully recruit from the city in the name of defending the soil several times as strong as this, he can drive them to help defend the city under the supervision of swords and guns, but it is true that he hopes that they will go out of the city and fight the thieves without chaos. I think too much.
Now, especially after the offensive and defensive changes, he does not have enough confidence and confidence. Those dissident voices and opponents in the city who have been suppressed will not take this opportunity to rebound and take the opportunity to cause chaos. After all, compared to those grass thieves who have come to mobilize and prepare relatively well, what he can really prove is only those hundreds of relatives;
For most people in the city who sat and watched the situation before and after, once they lost sufficient strength as evidence, the righteous status he held was the same. However, the upper layers of the Guardian Mansion that he had slashed away with a sharp knife slashed the chaos, but there were all kinds of intertwined origins in the place.
Although those people are unable to confront him head-on for the time being, they are in the dark with all kinds of tactics, prevarication and bad things in the dark; the taste of all kinds of dull knives cutting meat, but it makes people feel bitter and hard to tell; unless he can make up his mind to come back again A big liquidation to cut off dissidents. Otherwise, he has no doubt that as long as he has a chance, this generation will sell himself to those grass thieves without hesitation.
"Are you really going to borrow troops from Nishihara Man..."
A voice resembling a bell sounded beside him, but it was the former governor of Guangxi, and Li Zan, the deputy chief of Annan, who also operates Tiandu branch ambassador.
"This is the next choice for drinking poison to quench your thirst..."
Xiyuan is the collective name of the Zuojiang River in Guangxi in the Tang Dynasty. Since the imperial court established Jimozhou, County, and Dong in Lingnan, the local chieftain has been hereditary officials, called native officials.
Among them, Ningming, Longzhou, Chongzuo, Fusui and other places in the Zuojiang area are Huangdong areas, and Tiandeng and Jingxi areas in Youjiang are Nongdong areas. The Nong Zhigao’s rebellion that made Di Qing fame comes from here), in addition, most of the Jin family, Wei Clan, Zhou family, etc. each occupy one side; these Tu family surnames and many other large and small tribes are collectively referred to as Xiyuan quite.
And this Xiyuanman is not a good person, because it is mixed in the relationship between Nanzhao and Datang, and in addition to the perennial invasion and attack, he also often plunders and plunders. It is also a long time within the sphere of influence of Annan's capital. Time is the biggest unsettled factor of wartime peace; the Nanzhao man was able to invade Annan and fall into Jiaozhou, and it was these Xiyuan barbarian tribes who took advantage of the situation to start the chaos.
Although the current Xiyuan Man has been liquidated by the Gao Pian who recovered Jiaozhou more than a decade ago, many of them have been stunned and have been able to disappear until now; but they still can’t hold the entire Jiaozhou and even Songping City, everywhere. The people who have been slaughtered and mutilated by Nanzhao soldiers are deeply enmities.
Once the news of citing Nishihara's help is leaked, after he used the imperial name to ridicule the tiger skin as the banner, it is easy to become the command of thousands of people and shake the foundation that has not been established for a long time. Even the local soldiers under his command will largely leave behind.
But even if he was drinking a dove to quench his thirst, he still had to swallow the bitter wine; if he didn’t take advantage of this, he would basically have no future in the internal and external difficulties; what is buried in the bones? This hot and humid southern barren land is still well-known to the court, and it depends on the last fight.
I can only believe that the grass thieves on the other side of Guangfu also tried their best to send such a good combatant. If they are all destroyed here, not only will the place have no more power to resist; perhaps it will be possible to recover Lingdong and Lingxi in the future. Achieving a multiplier effect with half the effort; therefore, even if you pay some compelling price to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, it is helpless.
After sending away the somewhat unhappy and distracted Li Zan, he encouraged and determined himself so much that he stamped the silver seal of Duhu that he had not yet covered his heat on a letter. Then he commanded to the left and right who had gathered:
"Send more people to stare at the giants in the city... be wary of their abnormalities..."
"You can encourage the city to report to the public, and you will be rewarded for robbing two or three of the family's assets..."
"And make people publicize it widely in the market, and the grass thief will plagiarize and copy everything wherever he goes..."
"The big wealthy families also ransacked their homes, but the people of Li Shu were not spared. Both men and women were enslaved in the army, and the villages became scorched earth..." (End of this chapter)