Chapter 35 Qianshuiyuan (Additional update for leader Xu Weiwei 996)
All the large and small gates of the five cities in Yanzhou were opened.
There are also sergeants guarding the wooden bridge between the east and west cities, each standing solemnly holding a stick.
On the mountain a little further away, a camp was also built with big flags flying.
There were even large groups of cavalry galloping outside, delivering military orders and suppressing the area.
After having its blood drawn once, Baosai Town basically had no resistance and surrendered to the new ruler.
Fu Cunshen put on the golden armor awarded by the commander-in-chief and had just come out of the Jiedushi's house.
"General Fu."
"General Feng."
After Fu Cunshen and Feng Yin bowed to each other, they got on their horses and rode off together.
"General Fu, how confident do you feel about setting up a town in Weibei?" Feng Yin suddenly asked.
His position in the military is very embarrassing.
He comes from a dental school family, is good at martial arts, and can run the army, but there are still many people who secretly ridicule him for getting into power by offering his younger sister to others, so as to annoy others.
But Fu Cunshen had never shown such emotions, which made Feng Yin feel good about him and made him willing to talk to him more.
Fu Cunshen was so happy.
He was a foreign general, and he came here midway. His promotion was not slow, and there must be people who are secretly grinding their teeth.
After all, there are only so many positions in the military, and there are even more people who have done meritorious service. Some people want to be officials, but in the end they only get financial rewards. Don't you have to vent your dissatisfaction secretly? Especially when your competitor is still a migrant.
As a result, Fu Cunshen and Feng Yin got closer and closer. One was Du Yuhou and the other was the deputy envoy. They got closer together and established a firm foothold in the Tianzhu army.
Yang Can, the Youyi envoy, was the son of Yang Yue and was a local general in Shuofang. Linghu, the wife of the military envoy Li Tangbin, was also born in the Xia Sui general, so the two had a good relationship.
Ten years have passed since the army was built from scratch, and factions have gradually emerged.
From Marshal Shao's perspective, moderate factional competition is acceptable, but severe internal strife is not allowed.
Now that he has prestige, he can suppress these generals. If it is passed to his son in the future, will he still be so stable?
By the way, Wang Jianji is an anomaly among the Tianzhu Army.
He is married to the daughter of Zhou Rong, a local general in Xia Sui, but he also has a good relationship with Fu Cunshen. He is currently regarded as the lubricant between the two factions, ensuring the unity of this army.
"Tianxiong's army has taken control of Yanzhou. Let's see when the commander will go south to Tongzhou." Fu Cunchen was worried. He felt that it was a bit risky for the commander to go south to Guanzhong. He was not worried about opponents, but worried about the situation in the north.
According to his observation, Li Keyong was a straightforward person, but he was not straightforward at all in using troops. On the contrary, he had many tricks and tricks. He was completely different from Marshal Shao.
Uh, let’s not talk about it.
Now everyone thinks that Li Keyong will use partial troops to guard the passes in the north and station heavy troops in the south to confront Zhu Quanzhong.
But what if he feinted a shot, diverted his troops to the south to hold off Zhu Quanzhong, and then took advantage of the favorable timing of the different troops entering the army to maneuver inside and defeat the Youzhou Army and Datong Army first?
If these two are careless, they may suffer losses.
It is still necessary to resolve the matters in Guanzhong as soon as possible to wait for changes.
"If we set up a town in Weibei, who can be the commander?" Feng Yin added: "The commander-in-chief originally wanted to take on the role personally, but after thinking about it over and over again, he recently changed his mind and doesn't want to be responsible for three towns by one person."
Fu Cunshen had never heard of these things. But so what? It was all a pretense, and he was not interested.
Of course someone will be interested.
Weibei is a big town, even if you don't count Huazhou, it has a population of nearly 800,000 in 30 counties across five states. It has a lot of resources, and it is proud of its ancestors and majestic.
Li Yanling, the handsome man, now has ten concubines in one go, and I don’t know how many people are envious of him.
"I heard that Li Pushe was ill, so he would not be able to take up the post of commander-in-chief of the Wei Dynasty. It is also impossible for Dr. Song to become the deputy governor of Zhenbei. General Sun of the former Tiande Army and Zhang Jun of the Zhenwu Army are both possible, but it seems that
It's unlikely." Fu Cunchen thought for a moment and responded.
He turned his mind to how to deal with Li Keyong.
The commander-in-chief has treated me with great kindness. Not only did he pay to bring his family to Lingxia, but he also rewarded me with horses, golden armor, and a mansion. How dare you not do your best?
"Forget it, no matter who he is. Maybe he is a civil servant like Xiao Yu, and the commander-in-chief is most at ease with civil servants." Feng Yin smiled and said: "Once troops are sent to Tongzhou, do you think Hao Zhenwei will do it?"
Raise an army to fight?"
"Nine times out of ten. He is very quiet now. The commander-in-chief was originally worried that he would attack Huazhou south, but he didn't seem to move out."
"To deal with this person, we have to find a way from the imperial court."
"really."
The two of them were chatting here, while the army over there, commanded by the prime minister himself, had just arrived at Liquan County after walking for ten days and 120 miles away.
Zhang Jun's butt hurt a little and he had to find a carriage.
At the beginning, he did feel that riding a horse was better, majestic and self-defeating.
But after only two days, my butt couldn't bear it anymore and I had to find a carriage in Xianyang. Although it was still uncomfortable, it was finally better and not so uncomfortable.
The control of an army of 40,000 is also a troublesome matter.
There are too many generals in the army who are dawdling around. They are good at drinking and flirting with people on weekdays. They are also very energetic about playing and outing with ladies. They even win a lot of favors by virtue of their status as a strategic general. But this time they have to go into battle.
, all of them looked sad, not knowing how to do this or understanding that, and asked for instructions one after another.
But the problem is, Dashuai Zhang doesn’t understand either!
And Zhang Jun was a little angry when he talked about this. They are all generals, descendants of dental school families, and some are famous generals. Why are they all so indifferent?
Occasionally, there are a few people with outstanding talents, but most people are mediocre and inferior, and they will not show up in the end.
The Shence Army was originally a frontier army, under the jurisdiction of Longyou Town, stationed in Taozhou, with an army of 2,000. After the Anshi Rebellion, it was transferred eastward. After a series of battles, it made many contributions and eventually became the Forbidden Army, growing to the age of eighteen
With more than ten thousand people, he once controlled the entire Guannai Road, parts of Helong and Shaanzhou in the east of Guandong.
But since Xianzong, the Shence Army has hardly participated in battles and has deteriorated relatively quickly.
The reward for sergeants was three times that of the vassal army and even other forbidden troops. It was internally self-contained, and the generals were promoted on their own terms. No one dared to check the accounts. During the Zhenyuan period, a supervisory censor went to check the accounts. As a result, he was punished with forty canes and was exiled to other places. .
The Shence Army was so "good" that it attracted too many dignitaries and wealthy children to join the army. The generals took the opportunity to "generate income" by using their military quota. Naturally, this combat effectiveness was a problem.
In addition, the older generation of soldiers who can fight is gradually withering away, such as the former veterans of the frontier army, the recruited warlords who surrendered, and the tributary chiefs of the Western Regions who stayed in the capital after the fall of Longyou, as well as the school officials of Anxi and Beiting and their descendants. After getting old, the vacancy will be filled by the "floating young man" in the capital, who can be beaten.
Zhang Jun had heard about these situations, but he always felt that with more soldiers, high armor coverage, and sophisticated equipment, he couldn't even beat the miserable Jingyuan soldiers, right?
Moreover, of the 40,000 people who left the army this time, 20,000 were naughty and rough-and-tumble young people, not to mention this. But there were also 20,000 people who came from Ziqing, Tianping, Taining, Wuning, Hedong, Xuanwu, Yiwu, and Yiwu. OK, the soldiers recruited from Shuofang Jiuzhen. Although they have only been trained for less than two years, they should be able to do it, right?
Generals don’t know how to use soldiers! Zhang Jun felt that he seemed to have committed a taboo in using soldiers.
The army stayed at Liquan for two days.
During this period, people kept leaving the military camp privately and going to nearby counties to have fun. Most of them were young men from Chang'an. They spent a lot of money and almost wiped out all the meat, wine, fruits and vegetables in the city. There was no way, the food in the army was so poor that they couldn't get used to it!
Zhang Jun took the time to inspect the military camp and found that some people were sunbathing, drinking, painting, and bringing prostitutes into the camp...
There were only three or four people with less than 10,000 people who still maintained a certain degree of discipline and did not act like this.
"Which army are you from?" Zhang Jun asked, pointing to a relatively neat-looking unit.
"From the Shenwei Army." A general with a handsome head replied.
Oh, yes! I almost forgot.
Only then did Zhang Jun remember that Liu Chongwang seemed to have mentioned that the left and right Shence Army would be the main ones sent to the expedition, but the rest of the Eighth Army also sent some people. After all, they had a share in recruiting troops in the first place.
"What's your name?"
"Don't think about it anymore."
"I will reward Wu Zangdu with five hundred pieces of silk."
"As commanded."
Zhang Jun was in a better mood. After all, he still had useful talents. When the time came for the two armies to fight, he would put those who could fight in the front and those who couldn't fight in the back, so as to defeat the enemy in a majestic formation.
Shao Shude, the king of Lingwu County, entered Guanzhong twice to fight. It seems that he always defeated the enemy in array. This trick should be easier to use.
On the fifth day of September, Zhang Jun ordered the army to set off and continue westward.
This time the march was a little faster, and it seemed that everyone had some experience. After marching 290 miles in fifteen days, they arrived at a place called Qianshuiyuan, near where Taizong once defeated Xue Rengao.
Zhang Jun ordered to set up camp here to find out the news and gather his troops at the same time.
During this fifteen-day march, some troops were able to move normally, while others were walking slowly. Because there were many people left behind, the front and rear were stretched too far, and they had to be gathered together.
"Recruiting envoys, there have been many wars here." Liu Chongwang, the judge of the camp, said while looking at the nearby mountains, river valleys, and forests.
"Tell me and listen." After marching to Jingzhou with 40,000 people, Zhang Jun felt very tired and now felt that fighting was really not that easy.
"In the first year of Wude, Emperor Taizong defeated Xue Rengao here and captured more than 10,000 people."
"In the eighth year of the Dali calendar, Hun Yao defeated Tubo."
Zhang Jun was very happy after hearing this.
What is a lottery? This is a lottery! The previous two troops dispatched from Chang'an were victorious, and this time should be no exception.