Now Li Ting somewhat understood what Guo Ning's overall plan was.
He did not respond, but frowned and fell into deep thought.
"So what is this? Liulang, Li Er, what kind of riddle are you trying to solve?"
"That's right, the more I listen, the more confused I become."
Some people were confused and others asked questions.
Li Ting's younger brother Li Yun shouted with a cold face: "Shut up! My brother is thinking about it!"
The three or four people who spoke immediately fell silent, and the other three or four people turned to look at Guo Ning's expression.
Guo Ning just pretended not to see Li Yun's violent attitude.
Brothers Li Ting and Li Yun are less than 20 years old, but they can lead nearly a hundred people to stay calm and willing to follow and serve during the great defeat in the past two years. It is not easy. Li Ting's character is even more unruly.
But Guo Ning doesn't care about this.
None of the people in this room are evildoers, otherwise they would not have close contact with Guo Ning. But how can a defeated leader who can lead his subordinates to struggle for survival in troubled times be easy for them?
Some are unruly, some are deep; some look crude, but are actually murderous without blinking an eye, and some... such as the ancient Wang sitting by the door, it is clear that he will waver at any time.
Guo Ning has Guo Ning's thoughts, and everyone present also has their own thoughts. Whether they can win over their hearts is a matter for later, and we can take our time; at the worst, we can get together and disperse, and go their separate ways.
There is no need to think so much at the moment, Guo Ning just wants to gather them for his own use and get out of the current predicament.
He believed that with Li Ting's knowledge and agility, he would know that this was the best way.
The room was quiet for a while. Only Monk Luo was holding a big bowl, added mutton twice, and kept eating. Lu Han was scraping the bottom of the pot with a spoon and stared at the fat monk for several times.
Eye.
After another long while, Li Ting nodded solemnly: "Good idea, good idea! Guo Liu, you are smarter than I thought!"
Guo Ning smiled: "Thank you for your praise, you Li Erlang is also very smart."
Everyone else said: "What is the idea? Who are the rebels you are talking about? You two should talk quickly, don't make us wait any longer!"
"Speaking of the rebels of the Jin Dynasty... Hehe, there are quite a few who have risen and fallen in recent years." Li Ting said slowly: "The only ones I remember are Zhang He in Jizhou and Li Zhi in Damingfu.
After all, there are Yin Xiaoer from Xianzhou, Xu Tong from Mizhou, etc. But the most famous and powerful one is of course our neighbor, the one currently stationed in Dingxing County, Zhuozhou..."
Several people shouted together: "Yidu Yang An'er!"
In recent years, the governance of the imperial court has deteriorated. On the one hand, the oral taxes, material money, and various miscellaneous taxes that the people bear have been increased layer by layer, and they have tried their best to exploit them, and only paid money to fool the people; on the other hand, in order to protect the Jurchen military households in the fields, the imperial court
In order to improve their livelihood, they also wantonly deprived hundreds of thousands of hectares of land that the people had cultivated for generations. In this case, thieves and bandits were common in various places.
The Yang An'er Li Ting mentioned is a famous contemporary bandit.
It is said that this gentleman was originally engaged in making saddle materials, so the people in the city called him Yang An'er, so he named himself Yang An'er.
During the Taihe period, the Song people were good at launching border provocations, and Yang An'er gathered the people, raised troops across Shandong, and plundered the state army in response. Both the east and west routes of Shandong were disturbed by this, and they repeatedly dispatched troops and generals, but suffered a lot of losses.
There is nothing you can do against him.
Later, the Song and Jin Dynasties negotiated peace, and the imperial court mobilized a large army to enter Shandong, which forced Yang An'er to surrender.
Because of his elite troops, the imperial court actually gave Yang An'er the false title of defense envoy, and he continued to lead his tribe of more than a thousand people, nicknamed "Tiewa Dare to Fight Army".
The year before last, the imperial court was preparing for a battle with the Mongolian army outside the boundary trench, and urgently mobilized troops from various military divisions in the south to go north for reinforcements. Yang An'er's Tiewagang Army was also among them.
When he arrived at the Jiming Mountain area north of Dexing Prefecture, he refused to patrol. For this reason, he had conflicts with senior officials such as Wanyan Chengyu, Duji Sizhong and other senior officials in official documents, and fought many lawsuits.
From this, Guo Ning, Li Ting and others knew Yang An'er's name. Although this person was a bandit who had been recruited not long ago, he still held the title of defense envoy and deputy commander, and fell into the eyes of Guo Ning and Li Ting.
He is a big shot with a very high status.
Soon after, the imperial army was defeated, and Yang An'er's troops left the battlefield faster than anyone else. More than a thousand of the Tiewagang warriors threw their legs away and walked away like the wind, until they settled in Dingxing County, Zhuozhou.
Dingxing County is in the southernmost part of Zhuozhou. Twenty miles further south is Ansu Prefecture, where Guo Ning settled, and twenty miles southeast is Rongcheng County in Anzhou. Wuguandian, where Li Ting is based, is in Rongcheng County.
He was in the city and county, so he called Yang An'er his neighbor.
Because of his official status, Yang An'er had a lot of airs. The garrison was located very close to each other, but he had very little contact with Guo Ning, Li Ting and others.
At this time, Li Ting mentioned Yang An'er, and everyone nodded: "What next?"
"Now that the situation is in ruins, we all can see that the imperial court is weak and the world may be in chaos. How can we not see that Yang An'er has been a rebel for many years?" Guo Ning said: "I dare to say that at this moment,
, this person is already planning to return to Shandong, he has other plans!"
It is a natural tendency for a fox to die on a hill, and no one doubts this. Only people ask: "This guy wants to go back to Shandong, what does it have to do with us?"
Guo Ning paused and raised his voice: "Once this person returns to Shandong, he will be like a dragon swimming in the sea, and the plains will make waves. From this, the armies, states, governments, and roads in the east and west of Shandong will definitely be in a state of distress. Facing the Mongols moving southward,
If there is a threat, it will be difficult for the court to respond with all its strength."
The person who asked the question subconsciously asked again: "What next?"
Everyone else present sighed.
Monk Luo stood up and got off the couch, grabbed the man's shoulders and asked him to sit in the corner of the room: "Sit here, don't interrupt. Look back and think about it slowly, you will understand!"
Turning back, he put his hands on his hips and took two steps in front of the case: "With Yang An'er making a fuss, we can live in peace for a while. What Liu Lang said is that our way of survival lies in two ways: surrendering to the imperial court and betraying the imperial court.
Between...even..."
Guo Ning glanced at him and shook his head slightly.
Monk Luo immediately stopped talking, raised his head, laughed loudly, and touched his head: "Shandong is very good, you can go!"
Everyone present had escaped from the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Many of their comrades-in-arms and family members had not been killed in the war. Although they had no long-term strategy, they were completely disappointed and tired of the Jin Dynasty.
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In the past year, the loose and chaotic situation in Hebei states has satisfied their desire to avoid the imperial court.
Nowadays, the atmosphere on the front line in northern Xinjiang is becoming increasingly tense, the imperial court is deploying troops intensively, and the threat from the Mongols is real. It is inevitable for the defeated troops to leave Hebei.
However, if the new place of residence is still covered by the authority of the imperial court, everyone will never escape the consequences of being involved in meaningless wars, and may very well be used as a scapegoat. This is unacceptable to anyone.
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Just now, Guo Ning spent a lot of time describing the situation of all parties outside Hebei. The key to his judgment of the situation lies in whether the power of the imperial court is strong in a certain area, and whether there are strong enemies outside the imperial court that cannot be resisted.
Only an environment where the imperial court's rule is loose and there is no concern for large-scale killings by foreign enemies can meet the wishes of the leaders present and even the countless defeated soldiers in the mountains and fields, and is the next destination they are willing to go to.
If a giant bandit like Yang An'er really returns to Shandong to cause trouble, Shandong will fall into a state of emptiness for a long time, just like the situation near Anzhou in the past two years.
It's great. It is indeed the place that best meets the requirements.
It is indeed a good place to live peacefully in troubled times!
Several leaders of the defeated troops smiled happily and said, "Then go to Shandong! Go to Shandong!"
Li Ting tilted his lips and sneered twice.
When I saw Guo Liulang this time, I felt that his whole person seemed to have been reborn, and he was very different from the simple warrior he used to be. At this moment, he kept talking about living in peace and finding a way to survive... In fact, what he was thinking about was not what others thought.
I can’t see it. Can’t I, Li Ting, see it?
This guy said that he wanted temporary stability and led everyone away from the court system. But if the situation really changes drastically, he will be the rebel who takes advantage of the situation!
That's right, Guo Liulang just wanted to seize an opportunity to rebel! In his eyes, Yang An'er was just a tool to clean up the power of the imperial court, a pawn who was the vanguard of the king!
Thinking of this, Li Ting's face became more and more ugly. A feeling of regret suddenly arose in his heart: I am also dissatisfied with the imperial court! It's not like I haven't thought about rebellion or anything like that! Alas, such a dignified event was given to Guo Guo
Rokuro was the first!
At this time Guo Ning asked: "Do you have any other advice from Erlang?"
Li Ting was stunned for a moment, opened his mouth, and quickly cheered up: "... Maybe I can go to Shandong. However, I still have a question."
"Speaking."
"How can you be sure that Yang An'er is about to return to Shandong? You are not the roundworm in his belly!"
Regarding Yang An'er's movements, it actually came from Guo Ning's big dream a few days ago. In the dream, Guo Ning briefly scanned the relevant history books, and thus knew that Yang An'er returned to Shandong from northern Xinjiang and made a huge fuss. Unfortunately,
After the Song and Jin Dynasties, the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty conquered the world, and there was no emperor named Yang. This shows that Yang An'er's ending is probably not good.
Knowing this, it is not difficult to calculate the situation in this life and look for signs that Yang An'er is preparing to return to Shandong.
Guo Ning was silent for a while and said: "Zhongdu issued an order last year to rein in the defeated troops and rectify the front lines. From Anzhou, Ansu Prefecture to the southern line of Zhuozhou, there has been no movement. Anzhou and
Ansu Prefecture was delayed because Tu Dan, the governor, and Xiao Haohu had their own agendas. As for the stability in southern Zhuozhou, it was because Yang An'er was still figuring out his next move and didn't want to cause more trouble. But..."
Guo Ning stretched out his hand and tapped on the map: "Once Yang An'er makes up his mind, he will use troops everywhere under the banner of the imperial court to raise food and supplies, enrich military equipment, and unite people and horses. Li Erlang, you are over there in Wuguandian
, have you heard anything?"
Li Ting frowned. In the past few days, he really didn't pay special attention to the direction of Zhuozhou, but if you talk about the rumors...
While Li Ting was thinking about it, Dingxing County, Zhuozhou.
Armored soldiers were streaming out of the city gate, and there were also cavalry galloping out.
On the high slope outside the city, a middle-aged man in gray robe with sharp eyes said solemnly to the generals beside him: "I have been waiting for them for two months! It has been difficult to make a decision for two months, and I am going to die. I am so resentful."
Who will come? This time we won’t delay any longer and will wipe it out as soon as possible!”
