Chapter 100: Yizhou is in danger! Jiannan is in danger!
Beacon fires ignited from the mountains, and the entire Maozhou City was awakened by the smoke.
There are 20 million households in Daqian, and military households account for 2 million. However, most of the people in Daqian live in the interior of the plains, and there are not many people in the border areas. It stretches thousands of miles from east to west and nine thousand miles from north to south.
This also means that not every place on the border of Daqian can be taken care of.
An example of Da Qi paying attention to one thing and losing another is right in front of us. Qi Qiang died because the border troops participated in the civil war, resulting in the border areas being lost and the invaders entering the pass. The people were in dire straits. Qi lost the people's support and gave up the throne to Qi Qi.
Daqian seems to have strong soldiers and horses, but in fact there are not many soldiers that can be deployed. Apart from the government soldiers who are taking turns to be repaired, the only combatable soldiers in Daqian are the northern and southern government forbidden troops.
But for the gain and loss of a border area, the imperial army is mobilized. If the four border states are frightened by a declaration of patriotic status, they will take off the mask of weakness and transform into hungry wolves, even if they are as powerful as tigers. , but a tiger cannot hold back a pack of wolves.
"Light the smoke and tell the men who are garrisoning on the top of the mountain to withdraw." Su Ce always kept his military manual at hand, because Su Ce knew very well that he was different from generals and people from noble backgrounds, he was just a wild man from a soldier.
And war is never a simple black and white pair on a chessboard.
Strength and courage coexist, sacrifice and cowardice intertwine, and the killing on the battlefield will infinitely amplify the evil and fear in people's hearts.
Su Ce had been in the army for more than four years. He had not experienced many fights, but they were all fierce battles with near death. Among them, the most unforgettable one for Su Ce was the battle against Hungry Hu at Beacon Fort.
That night, Su Ce saw the evil deeds of the other five men in the garrison. Killing the enemy or being killed by the enemy had nothing to do with morality, but they were all forced to stand between life and death.
Su Ce thought of the document that arrived with the last batch of military equipment yesterday. It was a document given to him by Zhao Zaixiao, the king of Shu.
"In this battle, I have to cut off my own way of survival. When Gu leads his troops, I can ride on the boat if I want Xichuan's blood!"
There was no strategy or guidance, but this document let Su Ce know that Prince Daqian of Yizhou City had been driven to menopause, otherwise Zhao Zaixiao, who had no plans to spare, would not have used such a desperate tone.
The gains and losses of one place and one city will not make people in Dagan feel distressed, because there are hundreds or even thousands of Dagan in a small town like Maozhou.
What a place of death!
Only by cutting off one's own way of life can one cut off the enemy's way of life.
After Su Ce finished reading the document, he just closed it silently and said one word in the direction of Yizhou: "Promise!"
Soldiers, obey orders!
General, you must obey orders!
The situation was worse than Su Ce's imagination. Su Ce thought about escaping, but the two years in Zhe Chong Mansion and his family in the north of Chang'an made Su Ce unwilling and afraid to think about escaping.
The nobles gathered in Chang'an, and the army went out to war. The nobles were appointed as generals, and their families were in Chang'an.
This is one of the reasons why the gate should not be reused.
Because the name of the general is guarding the border, and he is already on the border. How can he talk about going to Chang'an! Let the general lead the army, how can you feel at ease when you are doing great work!
"How many arrows are there?"
As soon as Su Ce finished speaking, the commander of the army responded: "Three thousand crossbows! One hundred thousand crossbow arrows! Five hundred thousand arrows!"
"Not enough!" Su Ce frowned. These arrows seemed to be many, but they were not enough for the tens of thousands of soldiers in Maozhou to defend the city.
"The King of Shu sent someone yesterday to say that this is all the armaments that Yizhou can mobilize!" Army Sima said helplessly.
The details were already clear to Su Ce just by looking at Army Sima's expression. It was strange that the Yizhou army had been slow to move. Now that Army Sima said this and the letter, Su Ce was even more sure of what he was thinking. Thoughts, something big happened in Yizhou!
"Those involved in the case, punish the three clans!" Zhao Zaixiao looked at the Yizhou clan who came to the Shu Palace to plead for mercy, but he did not give any face to the famous and wealthy clan leaders in these places.
Yizhou is the richest place in Jiannan Road. Recovering central Jiangxi and conquering Liuzhao have always been the main priorities of the Ministry of War.
For twenty years, Yizhou Arsenal has become one of the top ten arsenals in Daqian.
The armor and weapons in the arsenal are enough to arm two hundred thousand soldiers.
Crossing Qinba, only because of the construction of a plank road, two county officials died when Daqian was in Mu Zong, so a plank road was built.
He also allowed the armor and weapons of the generals to be continuously transported to Yizhou, in order that one day, the Yizhou arsenal would be activated, and Daqian could regain central Jiangxi and conquer the Liuzhao.
But Zhao Zaixiao, who had been to the arsenal, now only thinks about killing people!
Not killing him would not be enough to vent his anger, and not killing him would be a pity for the two princes and hundreds of thousands of people buried beside the plank road.
"One hundred thousand armors, one hundred thousand leather armors, fifty thousand vests, three hundred thousand horizontal swords, ten thousand Mo swords, four hundred thousand crossbows, and tens of millions of arrows!" Zhao Zaicheng muttered the numbers calmly, but his heart was infinite. anger.
Zhao Zaicheng looked at the so-called celebrities in the hall who were still quoting scriptures, asking him to treat virtuous corporals and appease the so-called celebrities in the vassal area. He felt sick in his heart, and at the same time he made up his mind that even if the prince no longer wanted, he would still eliminate these moths in Jiannan Road. .
Zhao Zaixiao stood up suddenly, kicked down the table in front of him, and walked towards the screen behind him without looking back.
"Kill!" Zhou Zheng stepped out from behind the screen. Zhou Zheng, who had not worn armor for a long time, felt the friction of the armor on his body, and the blood in his body flowed rapidly. The dull Zhou Zheng before was already dead.
Looking at his frightened uncle, Zhou Zheng remembered how gentle his patriarch was when he was a child.
But now Zhou Zheng just wants to cut off that gentle face and see if there is a face of a greedy devil underneath.
"Pfft!"
"Pfft!"
"Pfft!"
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The sound of the sword colliding with flesh evoked the killing in Zhou Zheng's heart.
The expressions of the surrounding soldiers were blocked by the visors on Tushita, and all that could be seen were pairs of eyes filled with hatred and indifference.
"Your Majesty, come back!" Zhou Zheng did not take action after all, because Zhou Zheng did not want his sword to be contaminated with blood soaked in greed.
"Go!" Zhao Zaixiao closed his eyes. At this moment, he finally realized the helplessness of his brother, the powerful prince in Chang'an City.
"No!" Zhou Zheng held the handle of the knife and turned to leave.
Colonel Zhao Zai looked at Zhou Zheng's back. The people from that small fort were all good!
"Come here, send a messenger back to Chang'an quickly to inform your father and the prince that we are recruiting the Sixteenth Guards and the Yulin Guards. Yizhou is in danger! Jiannan is in danger!"
"The order of the King of Shu, slaughter!" Zhou Zheng rushed to the outside of the Yizhou camp on horseback and shouted inside. The soldiers who had been prepared for a long time filed out. Twenty thousand infantry entered the city, and twenty thousand cavalry came with a thousand people. As a team, they patted their horses and ran in all directions.
Su Ce, who was far away in Maozhou, didn't know that when the Tubo people were approaching, King Zhao Zaixiao of Shu chose the strongest option without any compromise or retreat.
The battle on the front line was unknown, and Yizhou's army dispersed to the states in Jiannan Road, aiming their swords at the wealthy families in each state.
How the wealthy family started is not the salt wells in Jiannan, nor the abundant grain harvest, but Daqian's arsenal in Yizhou.
The sealed brand-new armor turned into rags and stones, the sharp horizontal knife greased with grease, the uniformly regulated bow and crossbow turned into bamboo pieces, the bow strings that cost a huge amount of money every year turned into hemp ropes, as for the heavyweights in the Daqian army. The sword of the weapon has also become a rattan.
As for the tens of millions of arrows and the bundles of thin bamboo joints, everyone who saw the arsenal just wanted to burn down the bamboo forest on the South Sword Road.
As for the whereabouts of these weapons, there is no need to think too much. The Tubo people are short of iron materials, but how can they shout out the boast of wearing 200,000 armors and 100,000 fine cavalry!
"King Shu, there's smoke going off in Maozhou!" A royal soldier rushed to Zhao Zaixiao and shouted.
"I know!" Zhao Zaixiao glanced at the northwest of Maozhou, hoping that Su Ce could hold on.
Yizhou's army numbered more than 40,000, and the armor and weapons were all taken out from the arsenals of various Zhechong prefectures. These were only self-defense weapons to guard against wild beasts, and the quantity was only enough for a short battle.
Su Ce didn't know that Maozhou's weapons and equipment were all obtained by Colonel Zhao Zai from the 40,000-strong army.
Daqian has fought for hundreds of years, and Jiannan Road has only encountered small groups of plunderers from time to time by the Tubo people who unified the plateau in the past ten years.
If you forget to fight, you will be in danger!
When Zhao Zaixiao arrived, he only thought that there were three or two giant rats, which would be a good opportunity to establish their authority, but he did not expect that there was a nest of giant rats in Jiannan Road, which had already eaten up the Yizhou arsenal in ten years.
"Tubo Zanpu, what a plan!" Zhao Zaixiao took a deep breath and walked towards the backyard of the palace. His princess was about to give birth to a child.
Rather than being powerless, it is better to take a breath. Zhao Zaixiao knew that he could not fall.
"Set up a sentry five hundred meters outside the palace, and all the soldiers will keep their armor at home!" Zhou Zheng rode back to the palace and ordered the palace guards. At this time, the infantry entering the city had already controlled the Xiang troops in the city, and they were investigating according to these days. The list of people arrested people one by one.
Greed is really the original sin of mankind. Zhou Zheng racked his brains and couldn't figure out where the Tubo Zanpu found the gold mine. The Yizhou arsenal was completely sold by the wealthy families of Jiannan Road. The account book, The Prince of Shu's Mansion had to sacrifice the lives of hundreds of guards to seize it. The figures inside made Zhou Zheng never imagine that the prosperity of Jiannan Road was actually supported by the Yizhou arsenal.
At this time, in addition to Maozhou, other nobles who came to Jiannan Road were leading their troops to encircle and suppress the wealthy families in Jiannan Road.
"One hundred thousand!" This is the number calculated by Zhou Zheng, a native of Jiannan Taoism.
The Fu Bing is a horizontal knife to intimidate all nations to the outside world, and a boning knife to cut flesh and heal bones internally!
Zhou Zheng inspected the Shu Palace over and over again. The royal guards used spears to inspect every part of the palace inch by inch to prevent the existence of secret passages.
There will be no chaos in the officialdom of Jiannan Road, because the newly arrived three envoys have stabilized the group of officials who took office in other places.
Zhou Zheng could already imagine the fate of the King of Shu. The King of Shu slaughtered the wealthy families in the vassal area, which would probably arouse the hostility of the wealthy families in Daqian.
And Sage Daqian also needs to give an explanation to the world, even if the King of Shu kills the people who deserve to be killed.
However, if the wealthy families scattered all over the world are twisted into a rope, the throne of Chang'an City cannot help but be pulled!