At the beginning of the new year, the war between the Southern and Northern Dynasties once again started in Yidu.
No one has investigated how the war started. It is said that it was because the civil strife in the Southern Dynasty continued. In order to quell the civil strife, Xiao Yi, the powerful minister of the Southern Dynasty, wanted to temporarily quell the civil strife. Therefore, the Southern Dynasty came fiercely, and Yidu was unprepared.
Defeat and retreat.
The Northern Dynasty ordered General Zhou Guang of Guanlong to take command and rushed to the rescue. However, the battle ahead was tense, and Zhou Guang had to abandon the army halfway and traveled alone day and night. He first arrived in Yidu to take charge, but in the end it was too late.
The day before Zhou Guang arrived, the gates of Yidu were breached by the Southern Dynasty. The flag of the Xiao family was flying on the tower of Yidu City.
Zhou Guang Ruoran was brave and blocked the Southern Dynasty army in Hedong County by himself, preventing the Southern Dynasty army from entering Zhijiang County.
When the news spread back to the Northern Dynasty, the courtiers heaved a sigh of relief and praised Zhou Guang one after another, fearing that they would not flatter Zhou Rong in time.
Jun Ci is also always paying attention to the war ahead. The military training is getting harder and harder, and the surrounding bandits have been basically wiped out. Jun Ci begins to organize them to go to distant places in a planned way.
There are rotating days of rest in the army. Jun Ci will slightly adjust the days of rest. Some people can take two or three days off in a row. If they really can't make it back, they can also lie about sick leave.
This was to prevent Zhou Rong from finding out about this issue and using it as an excuse to confuse the Central Guards.
However, Jun Ci tried his best to guard against it, but in the end, he failed to guard against it.
As soon as Zhou Guang stabilized the war, Zhou Rong decided that the service terms of each county had expired and he wanted to demobilize personnel and recruit new soldiers.
"He is setting up spies for us outright!" After receiving the news, Wu Zheng punched the table.
Jun Ci looked at the documents sent from the palace, which contained a list of people who needed to be returned to their original places of residence.
It is true that everyone has completed their service, Zhou Rong did not have personal interests, this is also the rule of the court, Jun Ci has no choice, and this is not only the case for the Central Guards, but also for the four armies.
"Let him change, Zuo is just an ordinary soldier." Qin Xiao didn't care.
They are the main force of Jun Ci. Zhou Rong cannot replace them even if he wants to. After all, they have official positions. Unless they violate military law or become physically disabled, Zhou Rong can only transfer them but cannot transfer them.
They replaced.
Zhou Rong can only use this method to set up his spy now, and wait for people to come in and stare at them carefully.
"There are hundreds of people to be replaced, how easy is it to keep an eye on them?" Liucheng found it particularly troublesome.
"Why keep an eye on them?" Huo Qingqu smiled softly, "They are all transferred from various places to serve. Last year, we had the right to choose from the military competition. The general went there in person, and we could always eliminate some. Ordinary people can't stand up, so they can only be selected.
If you are trapped in each group and train day and night, you will not be able to make big waves."
Jun Ci nodded. She did not take this matter to heart and informed them. Instead, she wanted to explain the pros and cons to them in advance: "Compared with the eyeliners, disrupting the morale of our military is the most important thing. If you can't recruit new recruits this time,
Treating everyone equally will lead to division over time."
Regardless of the fact that these recruits are recruited from all over the country, 90% of them are from farmers, so they can be treated differently. Sowing discord among the soldiers will also cause disaster.
Several people were shocked and hurriedly said: "General, don't worry, we won't treat you differently."
They are generals. If they instruct the people below to carefully guard against new recruits, this new and old trend of rejection will immediately form.
If the people in an army are not united, they will fall apart without any external force.
After seeing that they all understood, Jun Ci tapped his fingertips on the table, as if hesitating.
Several people looked at each other, and Liu Cheng said: "General, if you have any orders, just tell them directly without any difficulty."
Jun Ci's eyes first fell on Liucheng, and then glanced at the rest of the people who looked worried: "I have a guess, I don't know whether it is true or not."
"Guess?" Wu Zheng said, "The general is far-sighted. Since he has a guess, I'm afraid it's almost impossible for him to tell me."
After thinking for a moment, Jun Ci still said: "I am worried about the lives of these repatriated people."
As soon as the words fell, there was silence in the tent. Almost everyone held their breath for a moment. Several people looked at each other with actual horror in their eyes.
Zhao Chun even swallowed his saliva before speaking with difficulty: "General, what does the Prime Minister mean, that the Prime Minister may send people to intercept and kill these repatriated people?"
This is too crazy!
These people are ordinary soldiers who were repatriated because they had completed their service. They are not Jun Ci's confidants. Just because they served in the army to protect the army, the prime minister would kill innocent people indiscriminately to this extent?
It’s appalling!
Even Qin Xiao and Wu Zheng were shocked.
"The general's concerns may not be unfounded," Liucheng said after pondering.
He has been in the army for a long time and has seen more darkness than Qin Xiao and others.
These people are of no importance and are not people of high status. It is not difficult to kill them, but when the news is released, it is enough to make the entire Central Guards feel panic.
There are 20,000 soldiers in the army, the largest number of ordinary soldiers. They are not outstanding. They will be repatriated when their service is completed. However, if they know that their lives are not guaranteed because they serve in the Central Guards Army, they will not wait for them to go to the battlefield. The fear of death will be over.
It makes them panic, and they will try their best to escape from the Central Guard Army, or to fight against the Central Guard Army.
"Crazy!" Wu Zheng gritted his teeth and choked out four words.
The blood of two thousand officials in Heyin was stained with blood, and their blood has not dissipated to this day. It can be said that this is the outcome of the change of power, and the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit.
There are hundreds of innocent people in the Central Guards. Once they are repatriated, their weapons and uniforms will be confiscated, making them defenseless.
How many families are they the backbone of?
Just for your own selfishness, do you want to waste their lives like this?
"If Da Cheng really did this, how would he remove himself cleanly?" Zhao Chun was still a little unable to accept it.
If you want to use this to disrupt the morale of the Central Guard Army, things will naturally get bigger. But once it gets bigger, who is the murderer? Why target the Central Guard Army and Jun Ci?
Does Zhou Rong not care about his own reputation? Injuring the enemy by one thousand and damaging himself by eight hundred just to disgust Jun Ci?
The Central Guard Army has made Zhou Rong so fearful that he doesn't care about it?
"Bandits." Huo Qingqu said two words coldly.
Several people were suddenly startled.
Over the past few days, they have been suppressing bandits everywhere, and apparently they have not been caught, but the news has long been known to everyone in Kyoto.
After all, the people in the Central Guards suddenly became rich, and it was absolutely impossible to force tens of thousands of people to make a fortune in silence.
If the dismissed people are intercepted and killed on the way, they will be turned into bandits to take revenge.
So these people are complacent when they get benefits and are very grateful to Jun Ci. When the news comes back, they will be more frightened and complain about Jun Ci. If they don't train their troops well, they will go to rob their homes and homes, causing them to be killed.
Most people in the world are mediocre and follow the crowd. In the test of life and death, not everyone can stick to reason and be grateful.
When Huo Qingqu said this, Qin Xiao and others, who were originally doubtful that the Prime Minister might attack the repatriates, suddenly felt that this was by no means an unfounded speculation.