"No matter how thin a camel is, it is still bigger than a horse. Tuoba's accumulation of hundreds of years cannot collapse overnight. There must be a process of consumption, and this is one of them.
Secondly, the ancients said that if the trees are beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy them. Just like Gao Zhao, if you stand out too early, you will be worried about being attacked by a group.
Thirdly, when the West Sea emerged from the sky, both the people and the army were either refugees or a criminal army. The composition was too complicated. Moreover, it rose too fast, like a rootless duckweed. The foundation was too shallow to compete with the heroes.
This is the saying goes that before fighting against the outside world, one must first make peace with the inside...
Therefore, in terms of emotion and reason, internally and externally, this is definitely not a good opportunity to raise troops..."
Li Chengzhi was well-organized and Li Xiaoxian nodded frequently, feeling that it made sense.
"What about Guanzhong?"
Li Xiaoxian asked again, "Since Lang Jun said that if there is no chaos in Guanzhong, the world will not be lost. Why did Li Shao want to invite Lang Jun to take Guanzhong directly, but Lang Jun said that he was a master without any name?"
"When I say that if there is no chaos in the Guan, the world will not be lost, I only mean the Yuan and Wei Dynasties. For rebels like us, the more chaos, the better. But now the wind in the Guan is calm, the rivers are clear, and the sea is flowing. If I take it,
If you become an enemy of Guanzhong, you will even turn against the Guanzhong family and clan.
When all the heroes come together and the world becomes chaotic, Guanzhong will naturally be affected. As long as there are storms and storms from all directions, and there are wars and armies, even if I don't come, there will be people begging me to come..."
Listening to Li Chengzhi's talk, Li Xiaoxian's mind moved slightly, and he thought of what Li Shao had said while sitting down with Li Chengzhi.
No wonder Li Shao's expression changed with horror when he heard that Lang Junzhi "teached Wuming"?
Li Shao knew that the world was about to be in chaos. Guanzhong was located in the heart of the Yuan and Wei dynasties and was the main source of troops and food for the imperial court. How could he stay out of it and become a pure land?
He didn't want the war to spread to Guanzhong, or he had greater ambitions, but he didn't have the courage. That's why he bewitched Lang Jun and persuaded him to go directly to Guanzhong. He just wanted to use Lang Jun's name to fight against the imperial court.<
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But the question is, when Lang Jun leads his troops, who will have the final say?
Nowadays, the Li family of Jingzhou and the Li family of Longxi are still one body. Although they have different ancestors, they have the same ancestry. In addition, the county officials in the counties in Guanzhong are mostly controlled by the descendants of the big families in Guanzhong such as Li, Yang, Wei, Pei, Liu, Xue, Du and so on. Haoqiang County
I hope there is no one with these seven surnames. How can I willingly obey the orders of a junior?
Even if Lang Jun can fight these sitters, there is no need to fight with them internally. Instead of fighting with the Guanzhong clan and losing both sides, it is better to run Hexi well and wait patiently for the court and Gao Zhao, or even fight Guanzhong to pieces.
, it’s not too late to come out and clean up the overall situation.
Li Shao's expression changed drastically just because he guessed this...
Li Xiaoxian secretly breathed a sigh of relief and asked: "Then will Li Shao follow Lang Jun's advice and implement the plan of 'nurturing the bandits to respect themselves'?"
Li Chengzhi pondered for a moment and shook his head: "It's difficult!"
The execution of this strategy is a bit difficult: you can't use too much force and beat Yuan Chen to death with a stick, but you can't let it go too much to prevent Yuan Chen from causing trouble in Guanzhong, let alone letting it get bigger.
It should not be too blatant to avoid suspicion from the court, so this is definitely not a job that Li Shao can do alone. He needs to find a few capable and trustworthy helpers.
But everyone has selfish motives, and aristocratic families put family interests first. They were living a good life behind closed doors, but suddenly they had to send out troops and food, and they had to go against the imperial court. Every family was afraid of benefiting from it.
If the efforts are not equal and we are afraid of taking responsibility, how can we not blame each other and calculate?
I am afraid that everyone, including Li Shao, is thinking about how to grab grain from the fire and let the Longxi Li family take advantage of this chaos to gain maximum benefits and avoid losses. What about the other six families?
Moreover, many direct descendants of the seven surnames in Guanzhong hold important positions in the court. Under the influence of the inertial thinking of "obeying the emperor's orders", they do not dare to have the idea of against the imperial court for the time being.
Furthermore, the time was too short, and Li Shao was not able to coordinate the other six surnames to work together in the same boat before Yuan Chen fled north. Therefore, the strategy of raising the crown and self-respect will most likely end without any illness.
At most, it’s just another achievement for Li Shao.
Li Chengzhi knew this and still offered advice, but it was just to prepare for a rainy day, to point out Li Shao and to close the door on the central clan: Although it did not cause him to disobey orders, at least when Xi Kangsheng went north to recruit troops, it gave each family a reason to shirk the blame.
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This will allow Gao Zhao to struggle for a longer time to avoid defeat too quickly, and also buy some time for Xihai to develop and grow...
With this in mind, Li Chengzhi breathed a sigh of relief: "Today is February Ganjiu, and it has been twenty days since Chuan Kuai Ma hit the road. Shangdang is only three thousand miles away from Junji Mountain.
No matter how slow the messenger is, Li Liang should have received the emergency report, right?"
"If nothing else happens, we must have arrived. If it were faster, Li Da must have already raised his troops, and he might even have arrived at Zhangye County!"
"How can it be that fast?"
Li Chengzhi chuckled softly and looked at the map in the carriage: "Hurry up and make sure to get to Mokou County (now north of Gulang County, Wuwei, Gansu) before nightfall!"
"No!"
Li Xiao responded first and gently urged the horse to deliver the order.
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It's the Qingming Festival, and the vast Hanyang grassland is already green, and the area within a hundred miles that is no longer winter is full of withered colors.
The weak water river flows gurgling and sparkling, and fish as long as a foot will jump out of the water from time to time.
The warm sun is rising, and the frost and snow on the grass blades melt at the first sight, turning into droplets of dew that shine brightly.
The concubine served him to change clothes and wash himself. After drinking two bowls of hot broth and chewing two pieces of golden beef, Yuwen Yuanqing put on a thin blanket and lazily walked out of the back office with his concubine in his arms.
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More than a hundred retinues had already been waiting outside the yamen hall. When they saw Yuwen Yuanqing leaving the yamen, they first bowed and paid homage, then got on their horses and wanted to escort Yuwen Yuanqing to Guzang City.
Yesterday, Yuan Hui, the governor of Liangzhou, sent a messenger to summon him, giving him three days to go to the state capital to listen to the order. It is only more than three hundred miles from the racecourse to Guzang City, and there is a galloping road. If he rides fast, he can arrive in one day.
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But Yuwen Yuanqing didn't want to suffer the pain of the top wave, so he ordered his subordinates to prepare a carriage and prepare to travel for three days.
As for why Yuan Hui summoned him, Yuwen Yuanqing roughly knew something about it.
Only half a month ago, he received a letter home from his father Yu Wenfu from the capital. It specifically mentioned that Yuan Hui had succeeded as the governor of Dongliang Prefecture and planned to jointly send troops with Xiliang Prefecture and Dunhuang Town to patrol the border after the beginning of spring.
But the huge Dongliang Prefecture has an area of no more than Wuwei, and the two counties of Zhangye and Zhangye have only five or six thousand households, and the number of soldiers is even pitiful. One county is only worth a thousand, how many troops can be sent?
I guess I just follow the Yuan Dynasty and play the drum and goof around.
Since Yuwen Yuanqing was the military commander of Hexi Racecourse and the governor of Zhangye County (from the fifth rank), he must have been summoned to the state capital to obey orders.
But when it comes to sending troops, the number is only five or six hundred at most. If there are more, not to mention the soldiers who defend the city, even the government soldiers who hunt down thieves and eliminate traitors will have to be sent out.
Yuan Hui is not a domineering person, and he will not embarrass him.
With this guess, Yuwen Yuanqing boarded the carriage.
But before I could even sit still, I suddenly heard the sound of a gong.
He was startled, thinking that this was the Dianmu Mansion Office, where did the thief come from?
As soon as he opened the curtain and was about to ask something, he saw another rider running in in panic: "Captain, the enemy is attacking!"
Yuwen Yuanqing was horrified and jumped out of the carriage with some hesitation: "Is Tuyuhun coming?"
The Hexi Racecourse is at the halfway foot of the Qilian Mountains, and the south of the mountain is the boundary of Tuyuhun. It is about five or six hundred miles away from Fuai City, the old capital of Tuyuhun.
However, Hexi is a vast country and sparsely populated. There are not many people living there, and there is not much food in stock. There is nothing to grab, so it is like a piece of chicken ribs.
Furthermore, Tuyuhun and Nanliang have been colluding with each other in recent years and have been plotting against each other, so they are still at peace with Hexi.
In the past two years, Tuyuhun suffered losses in succession, and once he suffered a big loss, he and the Yuan and Wei Dynasties had become mortal enemies. Therefore, it was impossible to avenge a big revenge, but it was not surprising to avenge some small ones first.
"Nine times out of ten!"
The incoming general announced urgently, "The riders are all wearing felt hats and leather robes, so they must be barbarians. The lineup is extremely neat, and the military discipline is very strict. No herdsmen noticed it until five miles away from the racecourse..." Already five miles away?
Yuwen Yuanqing's scalp felt numb: "How many enemies are coming?"
"I don't know, it's all over the mountains and fields, everywhere..."
Before he finished speaking, Yuwen Yuanqing was suddenly stunned, as if frozen.
"Rumble, rumble... rumble, rumble..."
It's like thunder in the sky has spread thousands of miles away, and you can already hear the booming and muffled sound in your ears.
And the feet under my feet were like a dragon turning over the ground, trembling faster and faster, becoming more and more clear...
Although Yuwen Yuanqing had not fought many battles, he had been the captain of Dianmu for nearly four years and worked with horses all day long. How could he not know that this was a battle of thousands of horses galloping?
The commotion was so loud that if there were not tens of thousands of enemies coming, there might be five or six thousand. And there were only a thousand herdsmen in the horse farm. Even counting the women, the old and the weak, there might not have been that many.<
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It’s over...
Yuwen Yuanqing felt that the sky was falling.
"Captain, run away..."
One of his subordinates shouted quickly, and Yuwen Yuanqing was shocked.
Yes, escape...
How can you take care of your concubine at this time?
Even more agile than a monkey, Yuwen Yuanqing jumped on the horse in just one breath. After a few shouts, more than a hundred followers followed closely.
But after only running for more than a hundred steps, Yuwen Yuanqing suddenly let out a "call"!
Still running around with bird feathers?
As far as the eye can see, there are cavalry everywhere, and the darkness is like an endless wall.
If you look to the left and right, you will see something like this, surrounded by iron barrels in the middle.
Yuwen Yuanqing's whole body was cold and his thoughts were all gone.
Although he didn't know much about military matters, he had at least read a few military books: It was clear that the enemy had arrived and he surrounded the racecourse last night. He was afraid that there would be too many changes at night, so he waited until early morning to launch his attack.
At this time, the racecourse must have been completely surrounded...
What to do, fight to the death?
Just as I had a thought, I suddenly heard a loud roar: "Kneel down and don't kill, kneel down and don't kill!"
Why is this order so familiar?
Although it was shouted in Xianbei dialect, Yuwen Yuanqing was very sure that this was by no means the first time he heard it.
It seems that it was the Han people who shouted last time...
With this hesitation, the courage he had finally gathered disappeared. Yuwen Yuanqing gritted his teeth and threw the knife in his hand to the ground: "Surrender!"
If it doesn’t surrender, what’s the use?
There are only over a thousand herding soldiers in the racecourse, and there are several times the number of enemies coming. How can they be their opponents?
In just a few breaths, the servants knelt on the ground. Immediately, more than a hundred horsemen rushed up. They turned over and dismounted, drawing swords and ropes.
Seeing that they were not like barbarians who rushed up and killed them, but were in a group of three, with one person holding a knife for defense, and the two of them working together to tie up the prisoners. Yu Wen Yuanqing breathed a sigh of relief, while wondering in his heart: When will the barbarians also appear?
So organized?
After watching it for a while, Yuwen Yuanqing was even more surprised and confused.
Looking at what they were wearing, they were all wearing leather robes and felt hats, and they looked like they were riding wild horses. But the strange thing was that when the soldiers came close, he didn't smell much fishy smell?
If you take a closer look, you can see that most of their faces have black eyes and black hair, and they don't look like barbarians. Most of them have blue eyes and purple beards, or blue eyes and yellow beards. But like this, not one of them can be seen among ten people?
At this time, the racecourse must have been completely surrounded...
What to do, fight to the death?
Just as I had a thought, I suddenly heard a loud roar: "Kneel down and don't kill, kneel down and don't kill!"
Why is this order so familiar?
Although it was shouted in Xianbei dialect, Yuwen Yuanqing was very sure that this was by no means the first time he heard it.
It seems that it was the Han people who shouted last time...
With this hesitation, the courage he had finally gathered disappeared. Yuwen Yuanqing gritted his teeth and threw the knife in his hand to the ground: "Surrender!"
If it doesn’t surrender, what’s the use?
There are only over a thousand herding soldiers in the racecourse, and there are several times the number of enemies coming. How can they be their opponents?
In just a few breaths, the servants knelt on the ground. Immediately, more than a hundred horsemen rushed up. They turned over and dismounted, drawing swords and ropes.
Seeing that they were not like barbarians who rushed up and killed them, but were in a group of three, with one person holding a knife for defense, and the two of them working together to tie up the prisoners. Yu Wen Yuanqing breathed a sigh of relief, while wondering in his heart: When will the barbarians also appear?
So organized?
After watching it for a while, Yuwen Yuanqing was even more surprised and confused.
Looking at what they were wearing, they were all wearing leather robes and felt hats, and they looked like they were riding wild horses. But the strange thing was that when the soldiers came close, he didn't smell much fishy smell?
If you take a closer look, you will see that their faces do not look like those of barbarians. Most of them have black eyes and black hair, some are blue eyes and purple beards, some are blue eyes and have yellow beards. However, there is not even one person among ten people. At this time, the racecourse must be
The siege is blocked...
What to do, fight to the death?
Just as I had a thought, I suddenly heard a loud roar: "Kneel down and don't kill, kneel down and don't kill!"
Why is this order so familiar?
Although it was shouted in Xianbei dialect, Yuwen Yuanqing was very sure that this was by no means the first time he heard it.
It seems that it was the Han people who shouted last time...
With this hesitation, the courage he had finally gathered disappeared. Yuwen Yuanqing gritted his teeth and threw the knife in his hand to the ground: "Surrender!"
If it doesn’t surrender, what’s the use?
There are only over a thousand herding soldiers in the racecourse, and there are several times the number of enemies coming. How can they be their opponents?
In just a few breaths, the servants knelt on the ground. Immediately, more than a hundred horsemen rushed up. They turned over and dismounted, drawing swords and ropes.
Seeing that they were not like barbarians who rushed up and killed them, but were in a group of three, with one person holding a knife for defense, and the two of them working together to tie up the prisoners. Yu Wen Yuanqing breathed a sigh of relief, while wondering in his heart: When will the barbarians also appear?
So organized?
After watching it for a while, Yuwen Yuanqing was even more surprised and confused.
Looking at what they were wearing, they were all wearing leather robes and felt hats, and they looked like they were riding wild horses. But the strange thing was that when the soldiers came close, he didn't smell much fishy smell?
If you take a closer look, you will see that their faces do not look like those of barbarians. Most of them have black eyes and black hair, some are blue eyes and purple beards, some are blue eyes and have yellow beards. Actually, there is not one person among ten people?