Near the entrance of the Hong River Valley, Lei Mang, one of the seven Lei brothers in Xialu City, had no expression on his face after hearing the report from the sentinel.
This time, Yang Wanwan attacked Xialu, and after he succeeded, his arrogance immediately rose. For Wang Gui, it was somewhat better, but for Lei Mang, who had a relatively small number of people, some noses were not eyes.
Even in the follow-up attack on Xiabian, Yang Wanwan had no intention of letting Lei Mang follow him. He even heard that he even uttered arrogant words in private.
As for the big ones among Xialu, of course most of them were taken away by Yang Wanwan and Wang Gui, and the rest were some second-rate goods that Lei Mang had to work hard to transport all the way back...
This made Lei Mang feel a little unhappy. After all, he represented the seven brothers of the Lei family in the war. Even if he was not a big king, the little king always had to be counted?
The original system of Di people was not very good, but now...
Not much better.
The previous King of Di Ren died suddenly in his prime, and there was no time to explain or nurture the next generation of King Di Ren, which led to disputes among the three families. Although the three families are temporarily united, it does not mean that there is no peace between the three families.
We can instantly put aside the barriers, advance and retreat together without any ambiguity, and pursue common prosperity.
It is extremely difficult for future generations to achieve such a great awakening. Is it possible for Di people to achieve it now?
It is almost obvious that Yang Wanwan wants to use his meritorious service to raise the flag, and then suppress Wang Gui and the Seventh Lei Brothers. The Seventh Lei Brothers also have many people under their command, including Lei Mang himself.
There are several villages, but there are only a few of them. He has the right to control these villages. Even though Yang Wanwan has more nobles than Lei Mang, this power cannot be taken away at will.
In fact, even the former King of Di Ren could not directly command his subordinates.
If you really want to think about it, you have to find a slightly tenable excuse, and you can't do it too often, otherwise your subordinates will turn against you.
It is precisely because of this tradition of the Di people that Yang Wanwan’s original strategy was to win over the villages from all over the country, and then try to gather the middle-level people to fight against the upper-level people. When Yang Wanwan started, there were also villages under the seven Lei brothers.
I have contacted them, and even secretly expressed that they would follow Yang Wanwan. When Yang Wanwan takes over the position of King of Di Ren, he will increase the authority of these small villages, and they will be eligible to participate in tribal meetings and so on, more or less.
Also bought some hearts and minds...
Wang Gui is more cunning. Sometimes it is clear that he is the one who files complaints and reports in private, but when things get serious, he often pretends to be a good person to gain a good impression from others. Normally, he always has a smile on his face.
, the kind with evil in the belly. I remember one time the leader of a village had a bad temper, and then he was provoked by Wang Gui. He made a fool in front of the old Di Renwang, which made the old Di Renwang furious. Although he said
In the end, his life was saved, but Wang Guiming said that the leader of the village had a straight temper, but in fact he was very vicious. He made the leader of the village angry with his father when he was young and threatened to kill his father...
Of course, the actual situation is that the leader of the village did not actually do anything, and he shouted out loudly when he was young and ignorant. However, we cannot say that Wang Gui is lying, and then just spread it in front of the public, and suddenly the leader of the village will be
The prestige and character are about to reach negative numbers, and soon the village will fall apart.
Therefore, Lei Mang doesn't know very well what the other seven Lei brothers think, but Lei Mang feels that Yang Wanwan and Wang Gui are not very honest. Let's not talk about Wang Gui's viciousness, but just talk about Yang Wanwan.
There is a great success at the moment. There are not many people but there are "tens of millions" all day long. If there are more people, how much more people can't stop shouting!
In the past, when the old Di Renwang was here, Lei Mang always supported the old Di Renwang in order to please the old Di Renwang. He even acted as a vanguard to suppress other villages and took the opportunity to expand his own strength. He offended many people.
There are quite a few. In the past, the old Di Renwang was suppressing it, and no one was engaging in Lei Mang. Now that the old Di Renwang is dead, the previous hidden dangers have been revealed.
Therefore, when Yang Wanwan and Wang Gui intentionally or unintentionally squeezed out Lei Mang and made Lei Mang responsible for some tasks that were not profitable and produced no results, others would not say anything to Lei Mang.
After all, Yang Wanwan's previous achievements are there. If he can really win the battle and make new achievements, it is impossible to say that the Di Renwang will really fall on Yang Wanwan's head!
But perhaps things in the world are often like this. When you are most excited, the greatest risks often lurk.
After receiving the report from the sentry, saying that Yang Wanwan and Wang Gui were defeated at the foot of Xiabian City and were escaping to Xialu, Lei Mang's thoughts started to stir.
The Han people in Xiabian did not pursue them fiercely. I don’t know what they were planning. But for Lei Mang, it was not difficult to send troops to rescue Yang Wanwan and Wang Gui. He only needed to send some soldiers over and guide some
Just break the troops and make some preparations here in Xialu, but...
Lei Mang hesitated.
If they abandon Yang Wanwan and Wang Gui now and go away, Yang Wanwan and Wang Gui will definitely hate themselves by then, and they may turn against each other in the future, making it difficult to continue to cooperate.
Similarly, if you go to rescue Yang Wanwan and Wang Gui, there doesn't seem to be much benefit. You might have to pay out part of what you originally earned. After all, if you go to rescue, you have to do the whole thing, otherwise you might as well not do it.
save.
"King, should we go to meet him..." a confidant on the side asked in a low voice.
There is a hint of Mang in Lei Mang's name, but he is not actually Mang at all.
Making a decision is not difficult, but the difficulty lies in taking responsibility for the decision. If you don’t have to take responsibility at all and you can stand and talk at any time without backache, what’s the difficulty in deciding something?
For example, those who accuse patients with depression of wanting to be rational, but how can these guys with no back pain understand that since they are depressed, how can they still have rational cognition and thinking logic?
Just when Lei Mang was still hesitating, a piece of news became the last straw for him.
Lei Zong and Lei Han, the seven Lei brothers on the other side, returned in defeat!
And it was even worse than Yang Wanwan and Wang Gui, one was dead and the other was injured!
"We... withdraw!" Lei Mang ordered, "Damn Yang Wanwan! He killed everyone! Withdraw! We withdraw!"
At present, there are problems on both the north and south lines. It is obviously a very bad situation. At this moment, the tree will fall and the hozens will scatter. No, if the tree is to come, it must be scattered first!
Otherwise, if the tree really falls, the one running the slowest will undoubtedly be the worst!
What Lei Mang didn't expect was that in Bazhong, another wave of coalition forces of Di and Shi people were also facing the threat of death...
There are cautious people, and of course there are arrogant people.
The consequences of arrogance are usually not very good.
The three-party coalition forces of the Ti, Di, and Ba people are not united in the first place, and when they encounter difficulties, they are even less likely to come together to resist each other and rely on each other. Instead, more often than not, they will each be in a difficult situation.
It is even possible that the wall will fall and everyone will push it!
So when the Palestinians took the lead in flying solo, the so-called coalition collapsed immediately.
Digging trenches, setting traps, and the previously discussed plans to ambush Gan Ning and Yan Yan, and give them a good-looking color, all became jokes in the end.
The mountains and plains were full of Ti people and Di people, fleeing from the wilderness.
Yan Yan and Gan Ning pursued them for a while, but again, after the Di people completely entered the mountain forest area, they gradually withdrew their troops and did not pursue them closely.
From Bazhong to Nanjiang, especially in the area where Nanjiang enters Daba Mountain, there are hundreds of corpses of Ji and Di people left behind. Some of these corpses were killed by the Han army, and many of them were killed during the defeat.
They trampled each other to death.
During the pursuit, Yan Yan found that many of the dead people were old and weak, and only a small part of them were young and strong, and he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
As for Gan Ning, he was still a young man, so he couldn't understand what the older Yan Yan was thinking at all, but he was a little proud. After all, this battle came all the way from Langzhong, even if he was facing
The troops of the Zhiren, Diren, and Ba people were not considered to be very powerful opponents, but they killed thousands of people, so it was considered a great victory.
More importantly, Gan Ning finally followed Yan Yan's advice, attacked the Ji-Di coalition, and rescued a large number of plundered people. When these people thanked Gan Ning profusely, they held their heads and mourned each other.
When seeing his relatives, Gan Ning felt proud and happy, but also quite sad. Anyway, his emotions were very complicated.
The people were saved, but now there are some thorny problems. The area around Nanjiang City is full of dungeons. The average young man can survive in winter, but there are still many people among the people.
Women, children and children, if they don’t have a shelter in this deep winter, they may not be able to survive the winter even if they are rescued!
"Where is Nanjiang Mamoru?"
Gan Ning asked the clerk.
When they arrived in Nanjiang, Gan Ning discovered something very interesting.
Nanjiang was not captured!
Maybe it's because they're not good at attacking cities, or maybe they feel that Nanjiang is not a big city and knocking it down will outweigh the gains. Anyway, I don't know the specific reason. Anyway, Nanjiang's city wall is intact, and the people inside the city have not suffered.
.
To a certain extent, Nanjiang is considered good, right?
After all, no soil is lost, right?
But the more interesting thing is still behind. The clerk from Nanjiang lowered his head and said: "General Qi... This, the county magistrate, um, is missing..."
"What do you mean missing?" Gan Ning frowned.
The clerk still lowered his head, "He just disappeared... When the thieves attacked the city, he disappeared for some reason..."
Gan Ningba smacked his lips and said, "Run away?"
The clerk lowered his head further and remained silent.
Escape from battle is not something worthy of honor, whether it is for the civil servant series or the military general series. Let alone facing a military chaos of the level of Di people, Jin people and Ba people.
Yes, that's right. Even if you run away, there is still a difference between fifty steps and a hundred steps. Just like the results of tax evasion of 10,000 yuan and tax evasion of 100 million yuan are definitely different.
"Where is the county magistrate? Call him over!" Gan Ning said in a deep voice.
The clerk still didn't raise his head, "Report to General, County Magistrate... Before the thieves attacked, the County Magistrate came to the formation to supervise the troops. Unfortunately, he was injured by a stray arrow, and now he is recovering in the city..."
"Hey!" Gan Ning couldn't help laughing, "There is no county guard in Nanjiang, the second county magistrate is injured, and the city is still intact... It's not easy..."
"It's all thanks to the fathers and the people in the city who stayed calm in times of crisis and worked together to protect Nanjiang..." The clerk never raised his head from the beginning to the end, "Nowadays, people are living outside the city. It's difficult to distinguish between good and evil. This is not what the people in Nanjiang City want."
You are cruel, but you are unable to provide relief. Please ask the general to lead the refugees back home quickly, which is the right way..."
"Huh?!" Gan Ning raised his eyebrows, then glanced at Yan Yan who didn't say a word from beginning to end, and then waved his hand, "I know, you can go down first!"
The clerk nodded and bowed and left.
Gan Ning watched the clerk leave, sneered, and said, "Old General Yan, how many lies did you say this guy... told?"
Yan Yan stroked his gray beard and said after a moment of silence: "It should be...how many truths are there..."
"Huh?" Gan Ning turned around, his eyes widened, then nodded, grinding his teeth, "Hey! The old general still sees clearly! This guy... hum..."
Yan Yan stopped talking again.
Gan Ning rolled his eyes and moved closer, "Brother Yan, brother, please give me the rules..."
Yan Yan smiled, his gray beard trembled, and he shook his head.
"What do you mean?" Gan Ning asked.
Yan Yan sighed and said: "It's not easy..."
Gan Ning and Yan Yan also knew that these refugees could not stay here in Nanjiang for a long time and needed to go to Central Sichuan to make arrangements. However, on the one hand, Central Sichuan itself had not been pacified yet, so no one could come to accept this matter. On the other hand, even if there were people
If you are willing to take over, you also need money and food. You can't just let these refugees really become refugees and plunder them all the way back?
If this really comes to that, I don’t know how many more tragedies will happen among these refugees!
So what Gan Ning wanted to do with Nanjiang Shou was to provide Nanjiang with some food and grass so that these refugees could move to the next city or country, and then slowly arrange them one by one, so that this large group of refugees could return to their place of origin.
, or properly placed.
But it is obvious that the further back you go, the less you have to pay. As for Nanjiang, who is at the front, he obviously has to pay more, so Nanjiang is unwilling.
So, can we say that Nanjiang should pay first, and then the subsequent counties and towns should compensate for Nanjiang's shortfall?
Such a plan seems wonderful, but in fact it is simply not feasible.
Who will make up for it?
Which family has no hard-to-recite sutras?
If it drags on for a few years, it will all go to waste and become a bad debt, which will eventually be settled. Even in later generations, there will be countless such bad debts in all industries. Could it be that these people are not trustworthy?
Don’t even understand?
Obviously not, it's just that without a high enough level to supervise, promote and implement such cross-regional and cross-department matters, it is simply impossible to do it locally alone...
And now in Sichuan and Sichuan, bandits in Basi and Bazhong in Langzhong are rioting in Fangping, and chaos is breaking out in Chengdu in central Sichuan. Gan Ning and Yan Yan may not be able to understand the specific development direction of Sichuan and Shu. They can calm down the bandit chaos and rescue the refugees.
This is very good, not to mention that there are some areas in Brazil and China that have endured greater and more disasters.
These areas are really in trouble, and sometimes they can't come up with money or food.
Is it possible that Gan Ning and Yan Yan didn't care and forced all the localities from Nanjiang to ask for cooperation without considering the actual situation at all?
Moreover, according to the clerk, in Nanjiang, the county magistrate is missing, the county magistrate is injured, and the people in charge of the city are the village elders. Then the village elders group is unwilling to open the door, not allowing Gan Ning and others to enter the city, nor the refugees.
city.
Village elders, at some point, have become the mouthpieces of a group of people, representing the will of a city and a place. The key is that if it is as described by the little official, these Nanjiang village elders still have "gong"!
The county magistrate who was supposed to be the leader to resist the attack of the Di and Zhirenba people "disappeared" when the thieves broke out. And whether it was because he really escaped or for some other reason, this county magistrate must have been
He never showed up when he was fighting against the rebels, hence the word "disappeared".
The county magistrate "disappeared", but the county magistrate "stepped forward" and personally went to the city wall to supervise the battle. He was hit by a stray arrow, unfortunately seriously injured, and was recuperating at home. Let me ask, does such a county magistrate count as meritorious service?
The county magistrate was injured, but the village elder "stepped forward" and led the fathers and sons of Nanjiang to resist tenaciously and fight to the death. In the end, he ensured that Nanjiang did not fall into the hands of the thieves and kept the city intact. Such a village elder also said,
Is it considered meritorious?
So for such meritorious people now, if Gan Ning and Yan Yan used force...
That's not impossible, but basically it's nailed on the board. From now on, as long as this matter is mentioned in Nanjiang, even Bazhong, or Bashu, Gan Ning and Yan Yan's reputations will be over. After all,
Nanjiang didn't mean that he wouldn't give it at all, but he said that he couldn't give it that much, so he had to work hard to get some support through his teeth.
Ever since, the problem is stuck here, and it cannot be delayed.
Xiang Lang? Xiang Lang is in Brazil. Even if he rushes over, he is out of reach. If Xiang Lang comes over, the refugees will not know how many times they will freeze to death and starve to death. Besides, Xiang Lang only has authority over Langzhong, and Nanjiang is Bazhong.
There are basically two places.
This is the reason why Yan Yan never spoke before.
It's hard to say, and it's hard to handle.
Could it be that these refugees are Bazhong people, and then those in Nanjiang are not Bazhong people? Or is it that Nanjiang has defended the city and the damage is not that serious, so it must spend money and efforts to rescue these refugees? What's more, Nanjiang has defended the city and the damage is not that serious.
These village elders and the people in Jiangcheng did not say that they would not save them at all. They just said that they could only do some things within their capabilities and could only provide limited help. Is this wrong?
Suddenly, this problem was placed in front of Gan Ning and Yan Yan...
