Lu Xiangsheng is a person who loves soldiers as much as his son. He can make soldiers love and die for him. This is because he is sincerely good to every soldier, just like his family. If you are sincerely good to others, others can sincerely repay you.

Lu Xiangsheng was very surprised, why did Liu Jun soldiers fight so hard?

Lu Xiangsheng knew that top tyrants and nobles like the Liu family could not love soldiers like him and touch everyone with sincerity and sincerity.

Lu Xiangsheng, who was in power in the court, also promoted the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, which was in line with traditional values. For example, the Liu family was a rebel thief. Why did these people work so hard?

Thinking of this, Lu Xiangsheng ordered a few live-actioners to be arrested. Fortunately, they had just successfully caught a Liu Jun's live-actioner and were being questioned.

The person who had originally captured him wanted to kill the soldier and avenge the dead brothers. Even if they were not killed here and sent to the court, it would be a dead end. According to the court's laws, these traitors would be killed and executed.

But Lu Xiangsheng stopped their behavior. When Lu Xiangsheng saw that the soldier of Liu Jun was very young and looked quite strong, he seemed a little scared.

What impressed Lu Xiangsheng was that the other party's equipment was an ordinary soldier, and it was equipped with a waist knife, a dagger, a short knife, and a lot of items. Only the most elite personal soldiers in the court had such equipment, but the Liu family army was an ordinary soldier, which was really surprising.

Lu Xiangsheng asked, "Why are you a good innocent child? Confronting the court, this is a serious crime to kill the nine clans. Do you do this to be worthy of your ancestors and your parents?"

He was very scared of this soldier, but since Lu Xiangsheng asked him, he said in a trembling voice: "If I don't join the Liu family army, I can't survive. If I don't join the army, I won't even have to eat."

It is also a matter of being a soldier when eating food and joining the army. When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he felt that it was fine. In this era, as long as you have food, you can recruit soldiers.

Lu Xiangsheng said, "You are forced to follow the thief because of life. I will not blame you for your past resignation, but why did you see the arrival of the imperial army? Why did you not surrender and surrender to Liu Fuming?"

The soldier was very scared, but when he heard Lu Xiangsheng say this, he still said: "This is because the treatment of the Liu family army is very good. Even if he dies in the battlefield, he can get more than 40 taels of silver for burning silver. There are twenty acres of irrigated land in the family. For these forty taels and twenty acres of land, I am willing to do anything."

As soon as this sentence was made, many people were shocked. Most of the people present were officers, and their property was not only twenty acres and dozens of taels of silver.

But the other party was an ordinary soldier. In the court, only ten taels of ordinary soldiers died in battle and burned silver. Even these ten taels would be embezzled and deducted. According to Liu Jun's opinion, these people fought so hard because of such high pensions that they didn't care about death at all, and even believed that death was a way to make them rich.

Everyone was truly shocked. If Liu Jun could maintain this kind of pension system, how could the soldiers surrender? Where would anyone be greedy for life and fear death?

They asked the prisoner about the treatment of the Liu family army, and heard about the treatment of the Liu family army.

These people were completely silent. Their military pay was the same as the imperial court, and they didn't have much more. They basically kept one or two taels of silver per month, but they never deducted it. They also included food and accommodation, especially the food they ate. They actually said that there was meat for meals. This made many people refresh new knowledge again. Is this the Liu family in Linqing who raised soldiers or ancestors?

When Lu Xiangsheng heard the soldier say this, he said, "Impossible! Who in the world would raise soldiers like this? This person is a witch that confuses the public, disrupts the morale of our army, and goes to kill him."

The soldier was so scared that he turned pale and trembled all over when he heard that he had been pushed out and killed. But in the end he did not beg for mercy.

If the soldier begs for mercy, it would still make the generals feel a little bit balanced, but he did not beg for mercy, as if he was determined to die. This made everyone believe that what he said should be true. If it were not true, he would not be so afraid of death!

As an ordinary soldier, it is normal to eat food and serve in the army. There is no question of working for anyone or being loyal to anyone, but they have to do this and make them die willingly. This really requires real effort.

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he was not surprised that Liu Jun soldiers fought so hard and were not afraid of death at all.

Lu Xiangsheng was also a soldier. Although he loved soldiers as much as his son, he was still a noble person after all. He was a Jinshi and had a strong foundation. The things he did were mainly to win over the hearts of the people and let others work hard for him, but he asked himself that he could not come up with such conditions.

So this made him very helpless. When fighting such an army, they would not have any advantage.

In the past, he could ask the court for some money and grain rewards through his own identity, making his Tianxiong Army better than other Ming troops. Moreover, Lu Xiangsheng could also win rewards from the court. The soldiers fought, rewarded them if they had made merits and punished them if they had made mistakes. They were very fair and strict, which was also the reason why everyone was willing to work for him.

This made their conditions better than other Ming troops of all races, and the soldiers were willing to work hard for him, but compared with the Liu family army, this was far inferior and had no advantage at all. In comparison, they were just beggar soldiers. The captive of the Liu army soldier who spoke to them was equivalent to their officers. How could they fight with others in this way?

Lu Xiangsheng finally figured out why Liu Jun tried so hard. After figured out, this made him feel heavy. The other party was a rebel, but their approach and treatment were better than those of the regular army of the court.

Lu Xiangsheng was also a senior official of the Ming court. He knew that the Ming court's administration is very corrupt now, but what endangers the Ming Dynasty is not the administration, but the military issues of internal and external difficulties. He had to solve the military problems and then rectify the administration in order to revive the Ming Dynasty.

After their efforts, they successfully wiped out the bandits, but suddenly, they jumped out of the Liu family, a stronger and more powerful enemy.

The Liu family was originally just a local rich man, rich but not powerful, but when they were transformed into military strength, they were so amazing and terrible that the court regarded the Grand Canal as the lifeblood of life and death, but his lifeblood was cut off by the Liu family, which made them unable to accept it no matter what, so they could only fight with the Liu family.

However, Lu Xiangsheng was not optimistic about the bloody battle with the Liu family, because the imperial army had been extremely tired after continuous combat, and they were all very short of food. More importantly, the Liu family had completed control of Shandong, and even the King of De Lu fell into their hands one after another.

In the eyes of others, the two princes fell into the hands of the rebels, which meant that the prestige of the court had plummeted. You should know that the loss of the prince was a very serious crime. When the emperor went to worship the Taimiao, he had no face to see his ancestors.

Lu Xiangsheng had a different view. His different view was that since the Liu family army had already taken over the two royal palaces, it meant that they had plundered all the property in the royal palace and obtained a large amount of military supplies. It should be noted that both King De and King Lu had been passed on for several generations of inheritance, accumulated huge wealth, and became one of the richest forces in the local area.

Among the four major families in Shandong, the Liu family was originally the weakest, but he jumped up and won the other two strongest ones in one fell swoop, gaining their strength and resources, which would make them stronger. The Liu family in Linqing was already very difficult to deal with. After digesting the De Palace and the Lu Palace, their strength would only be stronger.

Lu Xiangsheng knew one thing: Shandong was messy and poor by the four major families, but this did not mean that Shandong was poor, but Shandong's wealth was basically concentrated in the hands of the four major families. Now that the Liu family has controlled the three major families, it means that he has completely controlled the local area and his strength has become stronger. In this way, the Liu family will be more powerful in the disaster.

At this point, Lu Xiangsheng suddenly realized that the Liu family had become a force that was even more terrifying than the bandits. What was even more fatal was that it was entrenched in a strategic location. The situation in the north of the Ming Dynasty took a sharp turn to a point of collapse.

Lu Xiangsheng understood one more clearly, that is, since the Liu family had already become such a terrible enemy, the court should make a calm arrangement and wipe out him in an orderly manner. Now, in order to regain the Grand Canal, the court actually sent a main force in winter.

This aspect reflects the court's determination to quell the rebellion and vows not to be at peace with the thief, but Lu Xiangsheng thought of a terrible result.

This is what to do if you lose?

They are the last mobile and powerful force that the imperial court can gather.

If they must be defeated, it means that they will not be able to get a legion of the same level in the whole year next year.

If the Liu family overcomes this hurdle and gives them more room for slow development, it means that the situation will further collapse.

Thinking of this, Lu Xiangsheng immediately wrote to the court, asking the court to allow him to give up his siege of Nanpi, withdraw back to Cangzhou, station troops in Hejian, and suppress the enemy's attack. When the flowers bloom next spring, he will use troops to Shandong again.

Of course, Lu Xiangsheng's letter can only be said to be a suggestion, not that he could make the decision himself. He would never dare not fight until the official imperial edict arrived.
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