On the eighth day of June in the third year of Dashun, Li Yanling arrived at Lishangluo County in Shangzhou with five hundred soldiers.
According to the route, he could actually go eastward via Yangzhou in Fengxiang Town and go to Jinzhou first. But Lao Li was a prudent person and thought it would be better to act together with the Dingyuan Army.
The imperial court has not officially issued an order to move the town, but it should only be in the next few days, and it will not be delayed for long.
The eunuchs were very careful about the saint's little emotions, and if they were frightened, Duoben would succumb.
But then again, the eunuch's attitude is also very suspicious, and they also have emotions.
If Jinshang Town is captured again, where will the saint go?
At this critical moment, even the eunuchs wanted to stand on the side of the saint. After all, the court was the only platform for them to dominate. If the court was in name only, what's the point?
Ximen Zhongsui was so anxious that he sent people to Lingzhou one after another to explain his interests and concerns, saying that if Shao Shude did not let off even the gold merchants, he was afraid that all the towns in the world would be cut off, and knowledgeable people would scold him. The external situation
It has deteriorated unprecedentedly and has become the public enemy of every town, with no place to die.
Shao Shude was unmoved, and only made it clear that the imperial court could manage Jingzhao Mansion well, and Weibei, Huazhou, Jinshang and other towns would not block the goods, personnel, and saints from Chang'an. They could continue to recruit talents from all over the world and implement the ZTE policy.
The situation is like this. The court is still delaying, but time waits for no one. After receiving the order, Li Yanling led his people south and arrived in Shangzhou with Wang Yu.
How many months to wait for the court? Then this year has passed. Zhe Zongben was still anxiously waiting for food and reinforcements to attack Shannan East Road.
"The king's envoy."
"Doctor Li."
After the two of them greeted each other, they sat down in the state office.
Li Yanling is the envoy of the Changyi Army, and Dr. Yinqing Guanglu sits at the top.
Wang Yu is the envoy of Dingyuan Army and General Xuanwei. He is sitting at the bottom.
Li Tong, the governor of Shangzhou and the defense envoy of Wuguan, was on the sidelines.
"What's Doctor Li's plan for the Jinzhou matter?" Wang Yu was a little anxious.
Since the end of the conquest of Helong, the Dingyuan Army has not been able to fight with the enemy with real swords and guns for some days, and its combat effectiveness has inevitably declined.
If an army is in a peaceful and comfortable environment for a long time, its combat effectiveness will decline even if it has sufficient food and pay and normal training.
In a peaceful environment, but you have to be mobilized from time to time, or stationed abroad, and receive a little baptism in the atmosphere of war, your combat effectiveness will decline slower, but it will still decline.
Only when food and wages are sufficient, training is normal, and regular battles are fought in the battlefield can combat effectiveness be guaranteed. Of course, if there are continuous bloody battles and too many veterans are killed or injured, that is another matter.
The Dingyuan Army, like the Tielin Army and the Wuwei Army, has not fought a serious battle for several years.
The Tianzhu Army was established later than them and has less seniority than them, but wars have continued over the years. Do the Tielin Army, Wuwei Army, and Dingyuan Army have the right to pretend to be the big brother and look down on others?
Therefore, Wang Yu was in a hurry and led his men eastward to test their skills against the Zhao family first, and then fight Zhu Quanzhong.
The soldiers of Shannan East Road were originally Cai thieves, but after so many years of peace, how much skill do they have left?
Gold merchants and other nest thieves are the best examples. They don’t train so diligently and have fallen into depravity.
Might as well recruit new people!
According to the commander-in-chief, an army with a perfect score of 100 can easily reach 60 if it recruits honest farmers from the fields, provides them with adequate food and pay, trains regularly, gives strict orders, and issues qualified equipment. Went out to fight.
Beyond sixty points, the improvement speed becomes very slow and the cost increases sharply. It is much more difficult than going from zero to sixty points.
Everyone is well-fed, well-trained, has qualified equipment, and has strict military discipline. However, one of them is tall, strong, and has superb martial arts skills. The other party has not eaten anything good as a child, has a thin body, and only has martial arts skills. After several years of rough training, there will of course be a difference.
Personal martial arts are not that important in battle, but they are useful after all. Otherwise, what is the purpose of assessing archery skills in the army?
Of course, the actual situation is more complicated. The outcome of the war is subject to the situation of both sides at the time, morale, terrain, weather, command and even various accidental factors. The stronger may not necessarily win, and the weak may not necessarily lose. It must be analyzed in detail.
In Wang Yu's opinion, it would be better to disband all the Jin Shang and other nest armies and recruit new ones.
Their current level and morale may not be as high as the 60 points mentioned by the commander-in-chief.
"Wang Junshi, the gold merchant matter will have to fall on you." Li Yanling looked at Li Tong and said with a smile: "Li Shijun, your brother is stationed in Jinzhou without saying a word. Could it be that he was kidnapped by the sergeant? ?”
Li Tong was a little embarrassed.
He and his brother moved to another place and refused to move to another town rashly.
The king of Lingwu County sent people to persuade him to move the town to Xingning. It sounds better than the gold merchants, but who knows what the situation is there?
Can the governor of Pizhou be concurrently appointed by the Jiedu envoy as usual? Can the local officials of Ning and Qing be appointed by themselves?
If the goods in the town need to be donated, how much should be donated?
If we need to send troops to fight with other towns, how many troops should be sent? What will happen if we don’t send troops?
There are a large number of old brothers who are gold merchants. They used to be alone, but now most of them have land and families. Some people don't want to go through the trouble of moving at all, some people have doubts and are afraid of being cheated, and some people have hidden secrets for a long time. His ambitions are stirring up trouble everywhere.
Things are not that simple!
Unless, like Zhu Mei, she could lead the Fengxiang Army to the prosperous Dongchuan to make a fortune, and be stimulated by the huge long-term interests of unifying the two rivers, it would be possible to convince the majority of people and then coerce a few.
The three states of Xinning are a mountainous area like the gold merchants, with a household registration of about 200,000, but there are also more than 100,000 gold merchants, and they are still in a key position. Unlike Xining, they are surrounded by Shao Shude's forces and have no development prospects.
Even if you can appoint officials by yourself, officials are also human beings and will have their own ideas. In such an environment, is he loyal to you, or is he secretly loyal to Shao Shude?
Over time, I'm afraid it will be riddled with holes and no one around you can be trusted.
"Why do you want to do so much?" Wang Yu suddenly said loudly, which startled Li Tong and swallowed back the words as soon as they reached his lips.
"Tomorrow I will lead my army south to Jinzhou. As for those few crooked melons and cracked dates, it's okay if I don't let them go to Hexi. Why are there so many things? If you don't obey, I will fight." Wang Yu stood up directly and said:
"Doctor Li, you can go with me tomorrow. I'll keep you safe. Badger, you have to go too. The commander-in-chief has promised you the post of governor of Xiazhou. It's a nice place, so I can still muster some strength."
Li Tong's face twitched again when he heard the nickname "Badger", could you please stop shouting? I'm the fucking governor now and the defense envoy of Wuguan!
Wang Yu left the hall directly and went to "play" surrounded by his soldiers. As for what to play, Li Tong could think of it with his toes. These unruly warriors in Shangzhou have been very honest since the day before yesterday. They have never been like before.
That kind of momentum.
Li Tong once heard his father say that if he died unfortunately, the army would recommend Wang Yu to be the commander. As for the "public recommendation" method, Zhang Goulang even scolded Wang Yu the day before yesterday, saying that he would send him to be a fake son.
Challenge, ended up visiting him in the evening, drank half the night, and almost got married.
None of these warriors are normal!
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Jin, Shang, Jun, Fang and other states were commonly known as "Hanshang states" in the Chinese dynasty. Because they were mostly distributed near the Han River or had tributaries leading to the Han River, they could be divided into one unit geographically.
During the Jianzhong period, Zhu Si rebelled, and Dezong visited Xingyuan Prefecture. It happened that Li Xilie rebelled in Huaixi. According to Dengzhou, the southeast tribute road was cut off, so he adopted the luck road proposed by Wu Qi that year and took the Jin Road to transfer his wealth.
It was transported to Xingyuan Prefecture via Jin and Yangzhou.
In the early years of Shaoxing in the Song Dynasty, the Jin people invaded the Han states from the south of Guanzhong and peeked into Sichuan.
In the second year, the Jin soldiers attacked Shangzhou first, and the defender Shao Long ran to Jinzhou. In the third year, they attacked Shangjin, Xunyang in Jinzhou and Zhoucheng in Jinzhou. Wang Yan, the governor of the town, retreated to Xixiang County in Yangzhou. The Jin soldiers pursued again.
When they attacked Raofeng Pass, which was guarded by Wu Jie, Wang Yan led his troops to reinforce them. As a result, both of them were defeated. One fled to Yangzhou, the other to Dazhou, and Sichuan suffered a great earthquake.
The advancing route of the Jin people was the old route of the Tang Dynasty.
Wang Yu, Li Yanling, and Li Tong also took this route when they led their troops south.
The armored cavalry stayed in Shangzhou, along with 2,000 infantry. Wang Yu led the Dingyuan Army with 5,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry, plus more than 1,000 Li Tong and 500 Li Yanling, heading south along the mountain road.
Five days later we arrived at Manchuanguan Pass (near today's Manchuanguan Pass Town, Shanyang County).
It then took another two days to arrive at Shangjin County. This way we marched along the Jiashui River Valley, there were post roads, but they were all mountain roads.
Li Yanling observed carefully on the road and secretly sighed that it was indeed inconvenient to transport goods. If goods from the southeast were to be transported to Beijing via this route, the cost would be much higher than via water transport from Henan.
Not far to the west from Shangjin is Juoyang County in Jinzhou, dozens of miles to the west is Xunyang (today's county), and then more than a hundred miles to Lisuo Xicheng County in Jinzhou (today's Ankang).
On the night of the 15th, Yuan Shen, the general from Shenkou Town between Huoyang and Xunyang, sent an envoy.
Li Yanling was very happy and held a banquet that night.
There are two thousand soldiers in Shenkou Town, so the position is very important.
During the Baoying period, Daizong played some tricks. He first appointed Lai Gui to control Xiangyang, and then issued a secret edict to Lai Gui's general Pei Mao, asking him to send troops to attack. Pei Mao was defeated, fled and tried to defend Xiangyang, but
He was caught anyway and sent to the capital, where Emperor Daizong issued an edict to kill him.
There is a city in Shenkou Town, and to be honest, it is more important than places like Xunyang and Juiyang. Yuan Shensu heard of the king's bravery and did not dare to resist, so he raised his troops and returned.
Of course, this may be just one reason. Isn’t Marshal Shao’s reputation terrifying?
It is unusual for someone to surrender due to multiple factors.
Now it depends on Li Bai's response. Anyway, things haven't gotten out of hand yet.
The gold merchant must be captured no matter what, there is no doubt about this. The warriors are short-sighted and dare to take action when their heads are hot, but it would be a pity if Li Bo was as impulsive as them and did not want to move the town.