Amid the high mountains, the Yi Congjun left Luzi Pass and advanced toward Guanzhong.
After walking along the Yellow River for a while, the Shunyi Army and the Tianxiong Army turned into Jingyuan Town. Their original destination was Chang'an, then they went all the way south to Lantian, out of Wuguan to Dengzhou, and all the way east to Shaanxi and Guozhou. Now they have
After receiving the order, they all headed to Xianyang County to wait for orders.
The guards of Yinqiang escorted (delivered) 10,000 households of Hebei Dangxiang people who had just passed Suizhou and stopped temporarily. Duyu Housi dispatched 5,000 soldiers from Xia, Lin, Yin, Sui, and Yanzhou to take over their tasks
, Silver Gun is replenishing food and grass, planning to go south to Guanzhong via Yifang Post Road.
The Dingyuan Army has been transferred to Shuozhou to garrison, and the Tianzhu Army is temporarily staying in Guanbei.
There are more than 30,000 troops on foot and cavalry, which is quite large in scale and extremely powerful. For the people in Guanzhong, it has been a long time since Shao Shude left the pass to fight against Zhu Quanzhong. It has been a long time since so many troops have gathered in Guanzhong. This will definitely make them confused and uneasy.
What happened again? Is there going to be a change of dynasty?
The Thirteen Thousand Infantry and Cavalry troops of the Tielin Army, traveling swiftly and lightly, have arrived and stationed themselves near Longchi Palace.
Shao Shude summoned the generals of Feng'an Army in Longchi Palace: military envoy Qian Shousu, deputy envoy Han Xun, Du Yuhou Shao Desheng, and You Yi envoy Wang Qianyu.
Qian Shousu was an old man from Yuancong. He had been practicing military skills for many years. Whenever he got the opportunity, he eagerly studied command and battle formation knowledge. He also had several battle experiences.
Shao Shude always doubted him before, thinking that he was deep-minded and not loyal enough. But he never found any clues, so he continued to trust him and let him control the 7,500 cavalry of Feng'an Army.
In this Heqing battle, almost all the troops were deployed to the front line, and the Feng'an army stayed in Anyi without any problems. They did a good job of deterring the potential opposition forces on the ground in the four prefectures in Hezhong, ensuring the success of the battle ahead.
There will be no fire in the rear.
Han Xun was a surrendered general in Lingzhou. He hanged Han Lang and came to seek refuge with him. He had worked conscientiously for many years without any mistakes.
Shao Desheng is one of his own, one of Shao Shude's two soldiers in his early years. They have a close relationship and grew up together. Unfortunately, he has no special talents and cannot become a general. In the future, he will at most control an army and do some defense work. He is better in that
If you are loyal enough, you will be rich and honored.
Wang Qianyu is similar to Niu Li. He is Zhuge Shuang's provincial party member. Zhuge Shuang recommended the two of them before his death, and they have outstanding talents. Wang Qianyu is about to be transferred to the Tianzhu Army as deputy envoy, and will actually control this army, because in name
The military envoy Li Tangbin is still in Mianchi County and has no access to the troops.
"There's nothing more to say. The Feng'an Army immediately broke camp and headed for Chang'an." Shao Shude gave the order directly: "In Yushan City, Tianwei City is causing chaos. These thieves must be defeated by thunder."
"Commander, Hezhong..." Qian Shousu said hesitantly.
"Li Keyong has led an army of tens of thousands, divided into two groups, and headed for Xingzhou. Li Hanzhi also led the main force of the Zezhou army to attack Xiangzhou. The three armies moved forward, and Jin Jiang was worry-free. There are still ten thousand people left in Hezhong Mansion.
If there is any change in the remaining troops and horses, stationed at Fenglingdu, the national army at Pujin Pass will know about it." Shao Shude glanced at Qian Shousu, a little dissatisfied, and said: "I will leave the Tielin Army with 13,000 infantry and cavalry.
There are still 3,000 Baoyi troops stationed in Lu County on the left side of Longchi Palace, and there are Chishui troops in Shaanzhou who have retreated to replenish themselves. They can cross the river and go north at any time to reinforce Jin Jiang, no problem."
"The general no longer has any doubts, so he will lead the army to the expedition." Qian Shousu bowed and saluted.
"Go down." Shao Shude waved his hand and said.
After the Battle of Xiashibao, Wang Jian and his troops on the left wing of the Baoyi Army returned to Pinglu for rest and reorganization, the Chishui Army returned to Shaanxi County, the Guzhen Army retreated to Mianchi, and the Wuxing Army set up strongholds on the front line to resist the enemy.
The number of troops in Li Tangbin's hands has been greatly reduced. If you don't count the Tutuan countrymen, there are more than 20,000 people.
In fact, it was completely enough for him. Hu Zhen's troops were more limited than his, and he was more defensive than aggressive. In the direction of Ruzhou, Ding Hui, Ge Congzhou, and Yang Shihou were attracted by Tang and Deng Sui, but I heard that recently
After some of them were transferred back to rest and recuperate, the number of troops was even smaller, and they did not have enough strength to break through the front line of Xiaoshan.
In addition, Xie Bin's 3,600 cavalry troops are still in Lingbao, and they are already the outer town army of Shaanxi and Guo.
There are still more than 3,000 soldiers under Wang Bian's command in Huazhou - recently, 2,000 elite troops have been transferred to supplement the battle losses of the three armies of Chishui, Wuxing and Guzhen. Fengxiang, Xingyuan and other towns have also sent some elite troops to also join the battle.
The three armies of Chishui suffered greater losses.
"Commander, Pei Tong has already set off." After seeing a group of generals leaving, Zhao Guangfeng walked in and reported.
Pei Tong is the Xige Jijiu, responsible for external liaison, intelligence and instigation of rebellion, so he naturally has to leave early.
"What's going on in the court?"
"The saint has been persuaded by hundreds of officials to be escorted by part of the imperial army. He took his concubines and the prince out of Qixia Gate and headed towards Lantian County."
"When we get to Lantian, where can we run?" Shao Shude smiled and said, "Could it be that we are going to Shangzhou?"
Zhao Guangfeng's expression remained unchanged and he said: "The saint stopped at Nanshan and stayed overnight in Shacheng Town."
In fact, the Shence Army's pay dispute no longer lasted only one or two days, but lasted for a whole year.
Last year, Shao Shude sent troops to attack Zhiguan and Wangwu started. And further forward, the fighting on the Heluo line made the water transportation intermittent, which was very unsatisfactory.
The towns in the south saw that their supply of goods was always being blocked, which dampened their enthusiasm, so they offered fewer vassal towns and the number was greatly reduced.
Shao Shude was not sure whether continuing the war would cause the imperial court's finances to collapse in advance. Historically, after Zhaozong was kidnapped to Luoyang, there were very few vassal towns that offered sacrifices, and they were all supported by Zhu Quanzhong - Xiangyang Zhao Kuangning was still offering sacrifices at that time, but the army was defeated
After he fled to Yangzhou and attached himself to Yang Xingmi, he was also scolded by Yang for "losing his property to thieves", which shows the attitude of all towns in the world at that time.
Two wars broke out in the Central Plains this year, which were devastating to the imperial government's finances. The first was the Battle of Heqing, which interrupted the Bianshui-Yellow River-Weishui River route; the second was the battle of Yang Xingmi's attack on Qizhou, and the battles between Hubei, Yue, and An were
, the five states of Huang and Qi were all involved, and the Yangtze River-Hanshui River-Gold Merchants-Guanzhong salary route was also cut off.
As for the vassal towns in central Sichuan that had originally submitted a small amount of donations, due to the critical moment, they almost unanimously stopped submitting donations, which continued to make the imperial court's financial problems worse.
In the past half year, the most important source of income for the imperial court, apart from Jingzhao Mansion, was only the goods provided by the vassal town directly or indirectly controlled by Shao Shude - Hedong Li Keyong seemed to have also provided a lot.
It's amazing, maybe he really made a fortune in Youzhou.
In fact, if we don't raise the 40,000 to 50,000 soldiers and horses of Shence Army, it will still be enough to maintain the operation of the imperial court.
You can only choose one between Nan Ya Bei Division and the Forbidden Army.
The officials chose to pay themselves and greatly reduced the rewards of the Shence Army, causing great dissatisfaction among the army.
Currently, the main ones causing the rebellion are the more than 3,000 Xu Zhen generals from Yushan Du Shi Zan and the 5,000 Youzhou soldiers from Tianwei Du. Those escorting the saint to Shacheng Town are the 3,000 soldiers from Ximen Zhao of Peng Ridu. The rest of the armies are responsible for the rebellion.
Watching from the sidelines, some people started looting in Chang'an, some tried to maintain order, but in vain, and one even broke up. I don't know if they wanted to become thieves or what.
"Sometimes I think about it and find it incomprehensible." Shao Shude suddenly sighed: "At this time, the princes in the court still only care about themselves and have no sense of the overall situation. Have they really read the books of saints? How can they be so short-sighted?"
"Of course I have read the book." Zhao Guangfeng also sighed: "There are hundreds of people, all kinds of people, they only think about themselves and don't want to think about other people. Stop paying the salary of hundreds of officials? Difficult! Hundreds of officials themselves will
disagree."
"Will the hundreds of officials who fled to Shacheng Town cause something else to happen?" Shao Shude used to think that he had locked the Chang'an monarchs and ministers in a cage, and they would be discouraged and never want to deal with it again. But in the past year, Cui Zhaowei said several times
He then sent someone to invite him to the capital to "discuss major plans."
There is a big plan with a hammer!
Isn't it just a trivial matter of killing eunuchs? Who doesn't know yet?
Shao Shude doesn't understand. You are all in this situation, why are you still fighting? Are you really low in IQ?
Later, he gradually felt relieved. History told him that sometimes people’s IQs are horribly low!
Nan Ming is acting like a fool. Are they still fighting among themselves? Who cares about the overall situation? Are they all thinking about themselves? Even if only one county is left in the end, they will probably have to fight over each other.
Historically, when the emperor and ministers of Chang'an went to Luoyang, Prime Minister Liu Can wanted to punish dissidents, which led to the disaster of Baimayi.
These rotten people are hopeless!
"Commander, it doesn't matter." Zhao Guangfeng had actually considered this matter. After all, he was a civil servant and knew the moral character of this group of people very well. He just heard him say: "No matter the prime minister or the middle-ranking official, it is not important at this time."
It will be detrimental to the saint, otherwise he will die without a burial place. Even if it causes a little trouble, once our army arrives, it will be easy to clean up the mess."
"That's right." Shao Shude nodded and said, "Let's leave it like this. In a few days, I will go to Beijing and wipe out all the demons and monsters."
"Commander—" Zhao Guangfeng hesitated for a moment, then asked: "Does the commander need to be a court official?"
"What's your identity?" Shao Shude asked.
He is now a military envoy, a foreign official. Although the King of Xia has a rank, it is a title.
Zhao Guangfeng thought for a while and gave the answer: "I thought about it and found that only the position of Grand Master is still vacant."
Shao Shude was speechless.
Among his many titles, one is "Inspector Taifu", but this is an inspector, not a "right life", and can be understood as "agent" and "temporary".
In fact, there are too many additional titles for vassal commanders in various towns across the country, such as Grand Master of the Inspectorate, Sikong of the Inspectorate, and Situ of the Inspectorate. But what Zhao Guangfeng is talking about is the Grand Master of Zhengming, not the Inspector.
This is a bit interesting.
"It's better not to give it up..." Shao Shude hesitated: "It's not very beneficial."
Some people have already called him "Living Dong Zhuo". If he becomes Grand Master again, wouldn't it mean that he has confirmed the black material others have placed on me?
"Commander--" Zhao Guangfeng insisted: "The Grand Master, the Grand Tutor, and the Grand Protector are the three divisions. Although they have no overall responsibilities, they still have the responsibility of teaching."
"Who should be taught?" Shao Shude realized something as soon as he spoke.
"Train the saints!" Zhao Guangfeng said: "Grand Master, isn't the method taught by the emperor justifiable? If the commander-in-chief does not want to, he can also seek the post of minister. The minister is in charge of hundreds of officials, and his appearance is dignified. The imperial dynasty
In Wudezhong, Taizong was the king of Qin at the beginning, and even though he had a taste of his position, he was no longer in the position of emperor."
Shao Shude thought about it. Isn't this the official position that Li Maozhen sought in history? The court was unwilling to give it, so it bullied the saint. It can be said that among the warlords in the late Tang Dynasty, Li Maozhen and Wang Xingyu were the most arrogant.
His face was trampled under his feet over and over again.
The emperor was also a fool. Li Keyong led his army into Guanzhong, defeated Li Maozhen, and wanted to kill him, but Zhaozong refused. In other words, Li Keyong still had some feelings for the court, so he left with a cold snort, and later said that he would not be able to kill him at this time.
Kill, Li Maozhen will have to bully the court later - it's a pity that he got it right.
Thinking of this, Shao Shude came to his senses and said resolutely: "No! I am not seeking any official position in Beijing this time. I have to be crowned king, which has made many people jealous, and today there are only three kings with different surnames! Li Ke
How can you have no idea if you use it? The grand master just gives it back, the minister is simply asking for trouble, which is what a wise man would not do."
After that, he glanced at Zhao Guangfeng. This man had good business skills. As the Sima of the Prince's Palace, he managed a lot of departments that were running well. But he was too utilitarian and always wanted to flatter him.
The key is that we still haven’t hit the mark. Look at the flattery of Chen Changshi...
Shao Shude waved Zhao Guangfeng to retreat, and then walked around the room.
Recently, my mentality has been a bit wandering, so I need to stabilize myself. Cao Mengde is prone to wandering, and I, Shao Meng Shude, must take this as a warning.
Have you ignored your adopted brother's feelings? He has full potential to be a troublemaker now.
He seems to be somewhat loyal to the imperial court. He went to Beijing this time to cut through the mess quickly and finish the few important things that need to be done, and then return to Anyi.
Perhaps, you can give your sworn brother a title to appease him?
I admit, I spent too much time reading news about Ukraine today...