In Chang'an, while Feiqian was thinking about the future direction of the army in the Lecture Hall, Xu County, another administrative center of the Han Dynasty, was also discussing matters related to the army.
"Now the battle between Qingxu and Qingxu is fierce. Jiangdong's rebel army has increased its troops one after another, and its army has reached nearly 100,000... auxiliary troops, transporting grain and grass, tens of thousands of auxiliary troops, the total number may be 150,000..."
"New reinforcements arrived from Jiangdong, and Xiapi was besieged for several days...According to military intelligence reports, the bandits from Jiangdong dug up earth and surrounded it. The earthen wall was higher than the city wall of Xiapi, and arrows rained across the sky...Xiapi was full of fighting spirit.
, not afraid of powerful enemies, killed and wounded thousands of Jiangdong bandits... However, our army also suffered many losses..."
In the Chongde Hall, Emperor Liu Xie was staring at the map, listening to others' accounts, and imagining the battle of Qingxu in his mind.
These others are, of course, a group of "lovers" headed by Xi Lu.
After Xi Xi arrived in Xu County, he quickly adapted to life here and even felt a little at home.
Sweet air, familiar atmosphere. There are no annoying or disgusting exams, only "high-quality" people, wearing luxurious clothes and exquisite jade, relaxed and comfortable.
The key is that there are still people who keep inviting Xi Xiu to the banquet, and then he only needs to tell a few specious information about the Hussars during the banquet, especially revealing some of the "dirty and messy" situation of Chang'an Sanfu.
It has been highly recognized by many people and even praised beyond imagination.
An "enlightened" thinker, a fighter who dares to tell the "truth"...
A banquet and a souvenir as a thank you after the banquet cost 20,000 yuan.
A longer cultural gathering would still cost 50,000 yuan.
If he came forward to tell the "anecdotes" of Qiusi again, and joked about the third assistant in Guanzhong, it would still require an appearance fee of 100,000 yuan to recruit Xi Liu...
pretty.
How long have you been in Xu County? Xi Lu has become noticeably fairer and tenderer. He can’t even fit into his original clothes, but it doesn’t matter. Now the money coming in is like running water, so he can buy new clothes, new accessories, and new clothes.
Just the brocade robe!
At the beginning, Xi Xiu felt a little awkward. After all, he had to pick out the bones from the egg, which was somewhat uncomfortable and uncomfortable. But after a long time, he got used to it. Can't there be bones in the egg? Not only
There are bones and hair! There are eyes, feet, a heart, liver, spleen and stomach!
Otherwise, why would you call it a hairy egg?
As for whether these new clothes and new decorations were produced in Sanfu, Guanzhong and northern Sichuan, these people and Xi Lu ignored them.
"Your Majesty... Xiapi is guarding Xiapi with the city. I will surround Xiapi to the death and not lose it... If Xiapi can be defended, our army will be greatly strengthened. The Jiangdong bandit army will not be able to stay for long... they will retreat when they run out of food..."
"The general will march into Xiapi in the near future. By then, a battle will definitely turn the tide of the war in Xiapi..."
"The general raised one hundred thousand troops and wanted to join forces with Jiangdong's children to hunt Yu Yang, but he already won three points without a fight..."
After Xi Liu finished speaking, the rest of the people also spoke one after another, waving their long sleeves, as if the Jiangdong Army would be wiped out in the next moment.
The emperor Liu Xie listened and nodded a little excitedly. Although he could not personally visit the battlefield and command the fighting, hearing these battle reports could allow Liu Xie to satisfy part of his fantasies. He nodded repeatedly, looked at the map and said: "
The memorial that the general sent a few days ago also said that the rebellion in Jiangdong will be put down soon... In fact, I..."
Liu Xie suddenly stopped mid-sentence. The "lovers" around him were waiting respectfully, as if they were willing to wait until eternity.
"Actually, I don't want to see this..." Liu Xie let out a long sigh, "Aren't all the people who are fighting here and there just men? What do these people want to do? When I think of the war,
There are so many people who have been displaced, and my heart... is hard to calm down..."
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"
"If the great man wins the emperor, then the people will also be blessed!"
"Your Majesty's benevolence and virtue are unparalleled, comparable to those of Yao and Shun during his lifetime!"
"..."
A messy meal of compliments.
Amidst these boasts, Liu Xie shook his head. He didn't know whether it was because he was a little dizzy from the boasts, or because he already liked such boasts...
In later generations, education scholars often argue endlessly about whether education should be praised or criticized, whether strict education or encouraging education should be adopted. They can even give each other ten thousand examples to accuse each other of their mistakes, but most of them
In most cases, when these experts debate or criticize each other's position, they forget, or deliberately forget, a major premise, which is "education."
No matter which method is used, in the final analysis, it all comes down to "education", and strictness and encouragement are just means and methods, just like food is to make people full and to grow. Some people like to eat sweets, others like to eat
Salty, too much sweet food can lead to diabetes, and too much salty food can lead to high blood pressure. So basically, anyone with a little bit of brain knows that no one eats only one flavor since childhood...
…
Life has various flavors, and there cannot be only one method of education.
Eating is a matter between the eater and the cook, and education is also a matter between the educator and the educated. Just blindly listening to what others say is good to eat, and always eating a single food, is
It will eat dead people.
No matter whether the food is sweet or salty, if it is too much, it will definitely not be good.
As for why there must be some people who are mindlessly bragging about a certain way or a certain taste of food, it’s so good, so good that it’s like a panacea and you can become an immortal as soon as you take it? Then it depends on whether they are
I'm selling that food...
Just like now, Xi Liu will occasionally insert a few words about the benefits of the general, and compare it with the bad government of the Hussar General, forming a situation where the General is good at everything, and the Hussar General is in dire straits and everything is bad.
Poor description, anyway, you can get money for saying this, you just need to use your words and feel free to express yourself, wouldn't you be a fool if you don't do it?
When Liu Xie mentioned the bad governance in Husbandry, he couldn't help but frown.
Although Liu Xie was concerned about the Qingxu Battle, it was obvious that he had no way to go to the battlefield to see it in person, so he could only listen to the voices of certain parties to convey and report. In this process, even Liu Xie had a choice
, however, he will still inevitably fall into an information cocoon.
Just like Liu Xie's information about Fei Qian.
Liu Xie's impression of Fei Qian has always been pretty good.
Liu Xie still remembered that Fei Qian took him to the Yinshan Mountains, saw the desert, climbed the mountains, and passed the rivers. He ate food from farmers and drank water from the army. It was a kind of life that Liu Xie had never experienced before.
It was like taking Liu Xie out of his original confinement circle and into a whole new world.
However, the new world is not all smooth sailing, nor can everything you wish for come true.
Outside the comfort zone, there is some pain.
The bitter and inedible paste, the farmer’s surprised and scrutinizing eyes, the biting cold wind in the wild, the pain all over the body caused by the long journey...
After the excitement period, it quickly entered the refractory period, and then fell into the exhaustion period.
Just like we often say we will go to a snow area once in a lifetime to see the blue sky and green grass, but when we really want to leave the warm nest and the home we are accustomed to, we hesitate...
Obviously, no matter what vows or willpower, it is not enough to smooth out this huge gap in life, at least for Liu Xie. Liu Xie is used to being greeted by people nodding and bowing every day. He is used to it.
He doesn't need to worry about food, clothing, housing, and transportation. He is used to being on the safe side, used to being aloof, and used to staying in a place where wind and rain can't invade him, and trivial matters can't disturb him.
I left, but I miss you a little.
After all, you will be particularly concerned about what you can't get.
But after all, we are far away now.
How much of Feiyan is there in the world? Isn’t it because of long-distance love? If you want a warm hug, there is only a waving shovel next to you. When you have a stomachache, you can only say "drink more hot water" from far away, but there is prepared Siwu Tang water nearby.
From time to time, a wise person like Xi Lu would describe the evil in the distance and the good in the near place.
How "evil" is the so-called "evil government" of Qiusi really? The people in Sanfu are in such dire straits every day? Obviously, there is no absolutely perfect system in the world, and of course it is impossible to let people under the system
All people are absolutely comfortable and happy.
Here in Cao Cao, the ones who are comfortable are the sons of the gentry, such as people like Xi Lu, but over there, people like Xi Lu are not very popular, so in this hall at the moment, the so-called "people" are
Here and there, the groups they refer to are fundamentally different.
Liu Xie's feelings for Fei Qian only lasted for a moment, and then he quickly turned his attention back to the current battle of Qingxu. After all, the distance was too far, and the things nearby were visible and tangible.
Well, I can hear it.
Liu Xie stood in front of the battle map with his hands behind his back, as if he had become the commander of this battle, or the master of the battlefield. He was deducing, speculating, and trying to use limited information to make decisions about the future of the battlefield.
determination.
This is not the first time Liu Xie has done this...
Moreover, the number of participants and the scale of this kind of "seminar" or "evaluation meeting" of the Qingxu Battle are getting larger and larger. To a certain extent, it actually represents what Liu Xie wants to express.
A message conveyed.
As for whether this information is what others want, or whether it can be passed on, that is the next question...
The key to Qingxu is actually not a place like Xiapi, but the Chen family in this place.
To a certain extent, both Xiapi and Guangling belong to the "place of alienation".
From that time on Tao Qian, Old Tao could no longer control Guangling Prefect, and could only watch Guangling Prefect Hong Xing go out of the wall and wander to the Jujube side.
Later, Cao Cao laughed and asked Chen Deng to be the prefect of Guangling. He may not have wanted to take advantage of Jiangdong to attack the Chen family, or to use the Chen family to attack Jiangdong. Anyway, he only needed to let the Chen family and the Sun family fencing.
It would be a great pleasure, it would be best if both sides could suffer losses.
It’s just that Chen Deng was too sharp. In just two or three strokes, Sun Shiwan was overcome with orgasms and despair. Then when he saw that Guangling was about to be dealt with by Chen Deng and become the second Xiapi again, Boss Cao couldn’t sit still...
Immediately, Chen Deng became the governor of Dongcheng, and then died the next year. Sun Shiwan felt that he had an opportunity, and he winked at the Chen family and the Taishan Army. He waved a shovel and a hoe and started digging into the wall.
Sun Quan's political promises, financial inducements, and all kinds of sweet talk to the Chen family were not very effective. To put it simply, except for those white, rich and beautiful people who live in movies and TV series, most of them still pay attention to a well-matched family.
The Chen family also had no shortage of what Sun Quan could give.
Even if the Chen family had it, Sun Quan couldn't afford it!
Naturally, this is meaningless. Only one or two people can be fed by sweet talk. After all, there are so many clansmen behind the Chen family, and a large family has to live. We can't just say a few words to Sun Quan.
If you say nice things, just forget about your parents and clan members?
In Chen's eyes, Sun Quan is worse than Cao Cao.
After all, if Cao Cao wants to give Chen a bag or something, Cao Cao has the final say. What can Sun Quan come up with? Even if Sun Quan wants to buy a new pair of pants, he has to go through several rounds of review...
But in the eyes of different people, the situation is different.
Mr. Chen looked down upon it, saying that Chang Xi felt like he had found a treasure.
In fact, not only Chang Xi, but also Sun Quan of the Taishan Army sent people to contact them.
Regardless of whether there are fish or not, let’s lower the net and catch it first…
Sun Quan wants to be the Pirate King, and most of the people in Taishan are not bad either. They know that the current situation is most beneficial to the Taishan Army. As long as the Taishan Army remains standing between Qingxu and there is a threat from the Jiangdong Army, they can get a lot of preferential treatment.
If you are a good Pirate King, you will not defect to Sun Quan just because of a few words of deception. No matter how nice Sun Quan's words are, in fact, you will inevitably end up washing, cooking and mopping the floor for Sun Quan, working as a cow and a horse, and being ridden by Sun Quan.
Playing.
After Man Chong penetrated deeply into Qingxu, he also gave two secret reports and selectively selected some situations to report. Although it was superficial, he also pointed out the problems in it.
Of course, it is impossible for Man Chong to tell in detail. On the one hand, Man Chong has not caught anything concrete and substantive, and there is no video or audio that can be used as evidence. On the other hand, he has Yin Li with him. Although Yin Li
Li is relatively more inclined to Cao Cao, but Man Chong can't guarantee whether Yin Li is pretending, plus the memorial he delivers has to go through Qing Xu...
But with such vague and even obscure words, Lao Cao was so shrewd that he found out a few of Sun Quan's lost hairs hidden in the Man Chong Memorial without much effort.
The Chen family has been operating in Xuzhou for more than a year or two. Basically, everyone in Xiapi is named Chen. Generally speaking, Lao Cao cannot mobilize the troops here. The value of their existence is that on the one hand, they can contain the Taishan Army.
On the other hand, it can defend Jiangdong.
The existence of Taishan Army is similar to this.
But not everyone can break away from the cocoon of information and observe this issue from a higher perspective, especially those who are involved in the incident.
The Taishan Army is in such an information cocoon.
Perhaps there is a better, more subtle micro-manipulation method that can even be praised for thousands of years, and then you can swing your butt, twist your waist, and outline a coquettish posture between Cao Cao, Jiang Dong, and the Xiapi Chen family.
, get the maximum benefit with ease.
But if these leaders of the Taishan Army knew how to do this, maybe they would be more than just Taishan thieves in history...
Therefore, they were accompanied by a struggle in blood and water.
In spring, rain will bring hope to farmers, but it will bring despair to both soldiers and soldiers in the battle.
Especially the attacking side.
And he was also the attacker in the siege.
When the clanging golden sound finally sounded, many Taishan troops who were attacking the city withdrew from the front line. They were all listless and embarrassed, as if they had crawled out of hell. There was no sigh of relief, only endless exhaustion.
.
Another round of attack failed.
Donghai Administrative Office, Tan County.
The base camp of Changxi.
Outside Tan County City, tall mounds of earth have been built. No matter day or night, the peasants captured from all over the country are struggling to stand in the mud and water, stacking the earth higher and higher.
It would be best if they could be piled directly on top of the city on the opposite side.
There were corpses everywhere in the muddy water.
Of course, more of those with the Taishan Army are the people of Donghai County. In spring, the temperature is not high. Even healthy men, if they work in the open air and bear heavy physical labor in such weather,
With high-intensity mental pressure, coupled with insufficient rest and food supplies, it is difficult to survive for three days!
Some people were digging in the mud, and then they fell to the ground and could not get up again. However, the Taishan soldiers who were responsible for supervising the work could only come up and throw their wooden shovels to the next person. Civilian husband.
Cao Cao's army, from top to bottom, seemed to be unable to see these corpses.
Is the East China Sea considered Cao Cao’s territory?
It counts, but it doesn’t count.
Even if Cao Cao showed grace and mercy to the people of Donghai County, is it possible that the people of Donghai County would be grateful to Cao Cao and lead a secret passage into Tan County?
Obviously impossible.
Cao Cao is not a fool. He had already anticipated these problems when he ordered to raise the butcher's knife against Xuzhou. These people in Xuzhou are not in harmony with him. Yes, these people in the East China Sea, ordinary people are innocent, but in In this world, can the word "innocent" alone be used to exempt one from harm and then lead the world smoothly?
Tan County is not very big. There are two rivers on the left and right, one is Mu Shui and the other is Yishui. Tan County is between the two rivers. Therefore, if you want to continue going south, you must first get through Tan County.
Under the Tanxian city wall, the miserable situation was several times more miserable than at the mound!
The continuous spring rain, coupled with the fact that Tan County's city defense is not strong, has been weakened under the repeated attacks. Although these breaches have been blocked by the defenders with wood and stones, they still look like It looks like it will collapse at any time. The water level in the trenches around Tan County has also surged due to rain, and the suspension bridge has been damaged. However, several places have been filled with straw bags and become passages that can be attacked. There are also trenches around the passages. Inside, there were layers upon layers of corpses.
At this moment, another attack failed. When the Taishan Army retreated, all those who could move were also withdrawn. However, there were still some seriously injured people on the battlefield who were not completely dead for the time being. They were just rolling around in the mud and wailing, or She was calling her mother, or just moaning meaninglessly, but no one came to help, let alone rescue her.
Because everyone knows that if you are seriously injured in such a situation and there is dirt in the wound, even if you are not dead temporarily, you will not survive for a few days, so why bother? At present, in the Han Dynasty, in the feudal dynasty , the lives of these ordinary people are so worthless, let alone worthy of pity.
