When the urgent news of the Xuzhou Incident came, I, Zhang Shengren, was actually a little confused.
He knew that Wuning Town was somewhat unreliable, but he did not expect that at this moment when Zhang Zhou's tendency to dominate the world was very obvious, and the combat effectiveness of Helong's elite troops, the main force of the empire, exploded, there would still be people who were so indifferent.
However, I, Zhang Shengren, was still very calm in appearance, and he smiled contemptuously.
"Wang Jun is ignorant of current affairs, Xue Huairang, and Pan Huankong have courage but not brains. Who can capture and kill them for me?"
Yang Jiye, Gao Huaide and others rushed forward and asked for battle.
Li Cunhui, who was beside Zhang Gao, also stood up and said, "Sage, let me go."
Yang Jiye looked at Li Cunhui with some dissatisfaction, "Third brother, you are already Li Weigong. Why are you competing with your younger brothers for so little credit now?"
Li Cunhui glared at Yang Jiye fiercely, then turned to Zhang Hao and said, "I don't need to bring more soldiers and horses. I only need five hundred horsemen from the right feather Lin Guard."
However, your Excellency needs to give an order to An Taiwei, the defense envoy of Jiaodong Province, to select three thousand elite cavalrymen from each garrison in Jiaodong Province.
In addition, the imperial guards of Qingzhou Prefecture, Pinglu Town’s children and ministers, will be taken away. With five thousand people, we should be able to put down the unrest in Xuzhou.”
Zhang Gao looked at the confident Li Cunhui, pondered for a moment and said: "What I want is not just to quell the unrest in Xuzhou."
Li Cunhui raised his hand and said, "I understand that the reason why I want to take away Liulang's credit is because I am afraid that he will be reckless.
Wuning Town in Xuzhou is called the Forbidden Army, but it is actually the former Xuzhou Wuning Army. They have a large amount of land on both sides of Surabaya, and most of the family members of Wuning Town are here.
After I go south at night, I will not attack Xuzhou City, but will take the family members of Wuning Town on both sides of Surabaya as hostages and force them to release Dalang."
Li Cunhui still understands Zhang Yan's thoughts. As a member of the imperial army, Wuning Town actually rebelled. This is quite shameless.
If Zhao Kuangzan, the son-in-law, suffers another injury, the saint's face will probably be even less glorious, and it will be like being slapped twice.
Therefore, Zhao Kuangzan must be kept, because anyone with a discerning eye knows that the emperor is 'fishing' in this turmoil. But if Zhao Kuangzan is lost, it is like catching a fish, but the price is to use his son-in-law to make a nest. This is ugly.
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Zhang Gao thought for a while and said to Shaojian Dong behind him: "Send a lieutenant to Zhang Liecheng and ask him to go with Duke Wei.
Tell him that the first group of people who came out to make trouble in Wuning Town, as well as all the officers above Yuhou who made trouble, are not prepared to take any of them."
After saying that, Zhang Gao thought for a moment and then continued to give instructions, "But at the same time, I have to tell Zhang Liecheng that I will also issue an edict pardoning the people in Wuning Town and let Duke Wei take it with him."
The words "taking the blame" suddenly arose in everyone's mind. The emperor wanted to use the edict to pardon Wu Ningzhen and show that he would risk everything for Zhao Kuangzan, and first get his son-in-law back.
Apart from anything else, Zhang Yan, the Emperor of Shaoming, has a strong reputation. As long as he promises, he will definitely do it.
Therefore, if the family members in Wuning Town were taken hostage and received an edict of pardon, Zhao Kuangzan would definitely be released.
But this solution was too frustrating for the emperor. Unless a circle of people were killed, it would not be enough to deter newcomers. Therefore, Zhang Liecheng was the one who took the blame, and it was not easy to take the blame.
Because you can't just come up and say that the emperor's edict doesn't work. In that case, you would be telling the whole world that either the emperor can go back on his words, or you, Zhang Liecheng, want to rebel.
Therefore, it is very important to take the blame appropriately, neither implicate the emperor nor involve yourself.
As soon as they heard the emperor mention this issue, Li Cunhui, Yang Jiye, and Gao Huaide immediately looked at the matter with their noses and noses.
Only Pan Mei and others, who were not yet in high status, seemed a little confused. They didn't know why the emperor would let Tangtang Jiaocheng's Duke and the commander of the royal guards do such a thing.
But others knew that it was obvious that the reason why the emperor asked Zhang Liecheng to take the blame must be because of the Hexi Chamber of Commerce.
It seems that apart from Cao Wanjin and Kang Jinshan from the Hexi Chamber of Commerce, Zhang Liecheng also had to do a good job in order to escape successfully.
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Xuzhou.
Wang Jun is much smarter than Zhang Yan, Pei Yuan, Guo Tiance and others thought. He understood one problem very well, that is, to make trouble, he would only have a chance when the emperor did not return to the Central Plains.
Once the emperor comes back, not to mention the 40,000 to 50,000 elite Helong troops, the emperor's own prestige will be able to deal a huge blow to rebels like them, and may scare some people into defecting on the spot.
Therefore, according to Wang Jun's plan, after taking Zhao Kuangzan hostage, he should immediately raise the banner of the Qing emperor in the name of Zhao Kuangzan and spread the word to all directions, directly mobilize his troops to the west, first capture Shangqiu Mansion, which is Songzhou, and then intimidate Tokyo.
Now, the only people in the entire imperial court that can be recruited are 3,000 people from the inner chambers of Hanshan City, and the rest of the imperial troops and imperial guards in Beijing total less than 2,000 people.
With such a weak force to protect the two capitals, as well as to protect the safety of the queen and the princes, it was inevitable that they could only defend Luoyang and Kaifeng.
And if the imperial army takes the risk of attacking, then concentrate its superior forces to defeat them.
If they don't leave the city, they can capture all other cities and use the looted money to recruit more desperadoes.
Finally, Luoyang and Kaifeng cities were used as bait, and they promised not to seal the sword for three days after the city was broken. I believed that they would get an army with high morale, and it would not be difficult to break the city.
At the same time, Zhao Zailihui personally led the former Wei Boya soldiers he recruited to Hua, Wei and other states, destroying the pontoon bridges on the Yellow River and delaying the troops from Hebei in going south for rescue.
In addition, there are still comrades in Chang'an and Luoyang who are responding. As long as one of them succeeds, a big deal will be decided. Especially in Chang'an, the chance of success is still very high.
As a result, the emperor's army was blocked north of the Yellow River, but the families of his generals were all in Henan, Guanzhong and Helong.
With such rumors spreading everywhere, no matter how heroic Emperor Shaoming was, he could not stop soldiers who were worried about their families from fleeing.
Troubled times will come again, and the 'good times' will return to the past where the sword in hand means truth!'
It's a pity that the idea was perfect, but it got stuck on the first step.
Wang Jun's strategy is all about speed. If the speed is slow, the Tokyo court will begin to recruit guards and patrols from various places, that is, athletes from the Bow and Arrow Club and the Gun and Stick Club.
These people may not necessarily have very strong combat capabilities, but as long as they are led by a capable general and can hold on to towns such as Shangqiu Prefecture, which already have high walls and thick walls, there will be no problem.
As long as they prevent the rebellious Wuning army from entering the hinterland of the Central Plains, they will have succeeded.
Therefore, as soon as Zhao Kuangzan was under control, Wang Jun asked Li Yuanzai, the commander of the Zuoying of Wuning Town who had conspired with him and the former commander of the Wuning Army's Yanei Infantry Army, to immediately summon the Wuning Army to attack Shangqiu Prefecture.
As a result, after Li Yuan saw Zhao Kuangzan being held hostage, he couldn't help but open the Jianghuai provincial treasury and move the large amount of gold and silver stored there to his home.
When the soldiers under his command saw him like this, they suddenly felt that the world was back again. They were in teams of three and five people, plundering street by street and village by village. As long as they were not the family members of Wu Ning Army, no one could escape.
Poisonous hand.
Xuzhou is located at the strategic point of water and land, and is a key node in the trade between Zhang Zhou and the Southern Tang Dynasty. The stable situation in Zhang Zhou in recent years has given some merchants confidence, so Xuzhou Prefecture has developed very well, and there are many wealthy merchants in the city.
Thousands of soldiers of the Wuning Army were plundering like locusts. The city was in flames and screams were everywhere.
At the end of the riot, the scum of the former Jinya soldiers recruited by Xue Huairang, Pan Huan and others couldn't hold back anymore and joined in the robbery.
They came from all over the world, and the Wuning Army had been looting for two or three days. When there was no money to be made, these people simply stopped and robbed the families and relatives of the Wuning Army in the city.
Okay! This tastes just right!
So, let alone the war, the two gangs started fighting, which was similar to the underworld in later generations. Even Xue Huairang and Li Yuanzai couldn't stop it.
The two sides fought fiercely in Xuzhou City for two or three days before finally being mediated.
As a result, time was wasted. Whether it was Wu Ning's army, Xue Huairang or the thieves and assassins recruited by Pan Huan, they all made enough money in Xuzhou City. They were all busy transporting gold, silver, brocade and silk back home, and no one could do it.
I don't want to go out and fight for my life.
Are you kidding me? It makes me weak even just listening to it!
A foreigner from Hedong actually wants to go all the way to Tokyo to fight with those steel monsters in Hanshandu. Do you think they are fools?
Wang Jun was dumbfounded. Only then did he suddenly realize that, not to mention how awesome people like Zhang Yan were, even Liu Zhiyuan, who he thought was a little hesitant, was also an amazing person. He could at least make people
Hedong had to kill tens of thousands of people before they reluctantly obeyed the military orders.
No wonder Hou Yi, that bitch, asked Guo Wei and Bai Wenke not to participate, and then kicked him out as if he had been bitten by a dog. Looking at it this way, it was indeed true.
If Guo Wei or Bai Wenke were here, maybe we could suppress these thieves and killers below and let them act in accordance with military orders.
Xue Huairang and Li Yuanzai are useless, they can't achieve anything big at all.
However, just when the Xuzhou turmoil planned by Wang Jun was in chaos, Liu Renzhan, the governor of the Shouzhou Qinghuai Army in the Southern Tang Dynasty, acted very quickly.
As the only remaining famous general in the Southern Tang Dynasty, Liu Renzhan had a clearer mind than anyone else.
An emperor like Zhang Yan was fundamentally different from the Emperor Zhuangmiao of later dynasties.
Emperor Zhuangmiao expelled all those close to him, favored sycophants and actors, and attributed the victory of most of the world to himself.
Moreover, most of the warriors in Daibei and Hedong were promoted and re-employed by his father Li Keyong, and Emperor Zhuangmiao could not have full control over them.
Emperor Shao Ming was the first generation from a young age, and all the famous ministers and generals of Zhang Zhou grew up with him. Unlike Zhuang Miao who drove away his confidants, Emperor Shao Ming's confidants were always around him.
Therefore, Liu Renzhan did not believe that Wang Jun and others could succeed, let alone that anyone could leave the emperor on the grassland.
So his request was very simple. Through this turmoil, he could get back the land of Huainan. Even Liu Renzhan in Huaibei didn't ask for more. As long as he could get Huainan back, he could still build a fairly solid defense line.
From then on, you can rely on the two strong fortresses of Shouzhou and Chuzhou to deal with the Zhou army.