After receiving Liu Ling's order, General Du Yi, the commander of the Fuyuan Army, personally led 20,000 troops and set off. General Liu Mao, the Hou Tinghou of Yingzhou, prepared supplies for the army early in the morning and then personally sent Du Yi ten miles out of the city.
"Old Du..."
Liu Mao opened his mouth, but swallowed the rest of his words. Du Yi's military talent is undoubted, but he lacks a little ability to figure out other people's thoughts. He and Liu Mao admired each other during the Battle of Yuzhou.
, so they gradually became good friends. Although Yuzhou and Yingzhou were hundreds of miles apart, the two often exchanged letters. He was a soldier and did not like the convoluted things of literati, so he asked Liu Maodao directly:
"If you have something to say, just say it. Hesitating is not your style."
Liu Mao sighed and said: "If the prince's guess is correct, if there is a commotion in the capital, Ouyang Zhuan will definitely not be able to sit still in Qingzhou. The Qingzhou Mansion still has at least 500,000 shi of food in stock. Once Ouyang Zhuan jumps over the wall...
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Du Yi also thought of this, and he sighed: "I don't know what those guys from the Ouyang family are planning to do! Knowing that it is impossible to succeed, but still rushing like a moth to the fire, this is not asking for death.
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Liu Maodao: "It's not just a day or two that the Ouyang family has big plans. Ouyang Ren and that guy are better off. They don't have such big ambitions. They just want to restore their Ouyang family's position of being the most important in the court. And Ouyang Zhuan
This man is different, he thinks about being the emperor all day long."
Du Yi looked around and saw that there were no outsiders. He smiled bitterly and said, "Isn't it a little inappropriate for Your Majesty to ask us to take the initiative this time? Ouyang Zhuan couldn't have been wary of us. Once the army passed by, he would have been forced to do so even if he didn't.
.If there is no hope at that time, he will burn down the Gyeongju Warehouse and fight to the detriment of both sides. Even if it does not affect the overall situation, it will be enough to disgust people for several years."
Liu Maodao: "Your Majesty is indeed a little hasty in this matter. It would be safer to send people to capture Ouyang Zhuan secretly than to send a large army to conquer him. We only need to send two to three hundred personal guards to sneak into Qingzhou Mansion and find the right opportunity to capture Ouyang Zhuan."
Can the rest of the people jump up and down?"
Du Yidao: "Your Majesty must have his reasons for arranging this. Your Majesty stands higher and sees further than us. He won't think of this. All we have to do is follow your orders. In addition... Mr. Zhou Yangong seems to be away from home."
Qingzhou Mansion is not far away, I want to take Mr. Zhou to the camp along the way. If Ouyang specially sends someone to embarrass Mr. Zhou, if we watch helplessly, won't it chill the prince's heart? "
Liu Maodao: "I thought of this section just now and wanted to remind you. Since you have thought of it, I don't need to say anything more. Zhou Yangong is also a famous person in your majesty's place, and it is a certainty to enter the army. Su Xiu has fallen.
Now, I guess it will be Zhou Yangong’s turn to soar into the sky."
Du Yidao: "But don't mention it yet. Zhou Yangong is really a great person. Anyway, if I were asked to go to Xingqing Mansion to be Weiming Xiaoxiao's lobbyist, I would definitely not be talking about an army of 400,000. Maybe it would be a fight against the enemy.
A machete around your own neck."
Liu Maodao: "Didn't Wei Mingxiao fall in love with those three fat and oily counties of Zhou?"
Du Yidao: "Why do I smell like Shanxi vinegar?"
Liu Mao sighed and said: "Okay, okay, I have to say goodbye after a long journey. I will go back first, and I will serve you wine when you return to the army."
Du Yi responded and urged the horses to speed up. He didn't care whether sending troops this time would scare off the enemy, but he really didn't pay attention to the 7,000 food protection soldiers in Qingzhou Mansion. If the 20,000 soldiers just came from the battlefield
The elite soldiers who were pulled down couldn't kill the 7,000 food guard soldiers who had basically no fighting ability, so he, the commander of the Fuyuan Army, might as well find a piece of tofu and kill him.
Watching his friend drifting away, Liu Mao sighed deeply. There was one sentence he wanted to remind Du Yi, but after holding it back for a long time, he changed it with another topic. He wanted to remind Du Yi that the prince asked him to go north for no purpose.
It must be Gyeongju.
The 20,000 Fuyuan Army marched forward at a very fast speed. From a distance, it looked like an angry dragon, meandering forward. The smoke and dust stepped on by the soldiers flew up high, just like the dragon beside it.
Waves of auspicious clouds.
Besides, Zhou Yangong in Ping'an County took over the post of Ping'an County Magistrate for a few days after dealing with Su Hui's matter. Arrangements were made for several days to resettle the victims and open warehouses to distribute grain. The garrison in the county was killed by Wang Xiaoniu.
After everything was done, they had to recruit new people. No one of the wealthy families in the county dared to act like a big-tailed wolf in front of Wang Xiaoniu's butcher's knife. The families whose sons died could only tolerate this for the time being.
Even the county magistrate Su Hui was cut into two pieces. Who can be richer than the county magistrate? He is related to the bachelor in the capital. Even after Su Hui died, no one came from the capital. Everyone is here
Ping'an County was considered to have a good reputation, and it was very different from the people in the capital at that time. So some people endured their grievances, some vented their anger, and just waited for God to open his eyes and strike with thunder to kill that bastard called the Imperial Envoy. Everyone lived well in Ping'an County
Today, if the imperial envoy had not come, could this disaster have happened?
However, some people were crying and others were laughing. The landlords and wealthy people were looking sad and gloomy, and the poor people were laughing. Moreover, Zhou Yangong ordered that all the garrison troops be selected from the children of the poor people, which would be considered as a gift to many families.
He found a stable job, and with his small salary, he could barely eat rice porridge for a month. Zhou Yangong had the right to arrange the deployment of personnel below the sixth grade, so it was not a bad idea for him to let Xie Huanran temporarily act as the county magistrate.
Got the rules.
Before the affairs in Ping'an County were finished, a huge piece of bad news came from Qingzhou Prefecture, more than a hundred miles away. Ouyang Zhuan, the governor of Qingzhou County, rebelled!
According to people who escaped from Gyeongju Prefecture, Ouyang Zhuan had sealed off the four gates of Gyeongju Prefecture, and then sent out food guards to arrest people door to door. All men over the age of fifteen must join the army, and each man was given a salary.
One weapon turned into a rebel army. Because there were too many people captured and too few weapons in stock, everyone was eventually given a white wax stick to use as a weapon. As for armor and the like, even
I can't even put together a uniform outfit of the same color.
The 50,000-strong army was just cobbled together. It is said that a swearing-in meeting has been held and they will attack Taiyuan Prefecture in the near future. Although the Gyeongju soldiers have low combat effectiveness, there is one thing that can be guaranteed, that is, there is plenty of military rations in the granary. Even if each person has two meals a day
They can eat even a thin meal, and the hundreds of thousands of dan in stock are enough for them to squander for a while.
On the day of the rebellion, Ouyang Zhuan couldn't wait to declare his accession to the throne as emperor, and the country was named Dayan. He appointed Ouyang Ke as prime minister, Ouyang Shen as general, Huo Dong as marching commander, and Cao Dan as vanguard officer. He raised 50,000 troops, known as the 100,000 expedition.
Emperor Xiao of the Han Dynasty Liu Zhuo, and now the vanguard officer Cao Dan's team has set off.
After Zhou Yangong got the news, he did not dare to delay, and immediately sent Wang Xiaoniu back to Taiyuan Mansion to report the news. For the sake of Zhou Yangong's safety, Wang Xiaoniu refused, and only sent five personal soldiers to go to Taiyuan separately to report the news. Both Zhou Yangong and Wang Xiaoniu knew that peace was safe.
The county is less than 150 miles away from Qingzhou. Since the imperial envoy Zhou Yangong is here, Ouyang Zhuan has no reason not to send troops to capture him and behead him to sacrifice to the flag.
That's why Wang Xiaoniu won't leave. The prince has left Zhou Yangong's safety in his hands. Even if he dies in battle, he can't let Zhou Yangong suffer any harm.
"Sir, let's go south. If we drive quickly, we can reach Yingzhou in less than five days. There are at least 20,000 soldiers under the command of Hou Tinghou. Besides, there are 40,000 Fuyuan troops under General Du Yi in Yuzhou. As long as
Let's pass the news on. If General Du Yi marches north, he will be able to fight Ouyang Zhuan's rebels in less than ten days."
Zhou Yangong shook his head and said: "We must send someone to inform Marquis Hu Ting and General Du Yi, but I will not leave Ping'an County."
Wang Xiaoniu frowned and said: "Sir, Ping'an County is too short to stop the army. Your sacrifice here is in vain. Your Majesty has placed great emphasis on you. Do you plan to bury yourself with Ping'an County?"
Zhou Yangong said: "I am an imperial envoy of the imperial court, a second-rank official. If I escape, the county guards and magistrates from all over the country will not flee one after another? Although Ping'an County is small, its city walls are intact. With a hundred veterans like you, how can we escape again?
In addition to the newly recruited local warriors, it is unlikely that we will be able to hold on for a few days. Ouyang sent people to kill me, so he will definitely not send too many soldiers and horses. As many as two thousand, as few as five hundred, we can wait for work and maybe we can still
Hit him back!"
He stopped Wang Xiaoniu's dissuasion and said: "Immediately send someone to inform Hou Tinghou. The troops under Hou Tinghou will arrive in five or six days at the latest. As long as we repel the first wave of bandits, wait until they return to Qingzhou Prefecture to move troops.
It will take several days to go back and forth. In other words, we only need to withstand one attack by the rebels, and we can wait until Hu Tinghou's army arrives."
Zhou Yangong stood on the city wall and pointed around: "The officials in Suining County, Huan County, Deyang County, Guting County, and Ping'an County should all be watching our side. If I escape first, I'm afraid these counties will
The officials will also flee. In this way, the thieves can easily gain access to five counties! I am deeply trusted by your majesty and the prince, and I will never leave Ping'an County."
He smiled and said: "Besides, our place is called Ping'an County, maybe it can keep us safe?"
Wang Xiaoniu couldn't think of any good words to persuade Zhou Yangong even when he used place names. Master Zhou's words were right. If even the second-rank imperial envoy ran away, how could the seventh-rank county magistrate resist?
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If Suining and Deyang counties are lost, the rebel army will be able to attack Anyuan. The king of Chu, Liu Yan, is in Anyuan, and his troops are not as many as those in Ping'an County. How can he resist the rebels? Although the troops of the Jianxiong Army are
The station is not far from Anyuan, but after all, water far away cannot quench the thirst of the people nearby.
Although Zhou Yangong and Wang Xiaoniu both know that even if they don't leave and stick to Ping'an County, there is no guarantee that the magistrates of several other counties will use them as examples. When death is imminent, no one will work with loyalty and save their lives.
It is more practical than anything else. If the rebels come, there is no guarantee that someone will not attack. But if the one who escapes is Zhou Yangong, it will be a great irony for the court.
