Song Bokang's life has been very busy recently. On the one hand, he had to concoct reasons to attack Bailisheng, and on the other hand, he secretly mobilized troops and generals. In addition, he also had to spare his energy to deal with Cheng Dalei and sent people to evacuate Shuofang City, leaving Cheng Dalei with an empty city.
Although he was busy, good news kept coming. After exchanging Shuofang City for Xue Wenting, Song Bokang immediately sent someone to Jingzhou. Cui Xiang was in a happy mood and promised to give Song Bokang a batch of grain and grass support.
Now that Baili Sheng is the turtle in the urn, the Longzi Army agrees to assist, ensuring that Cheng Dalei will not secretly cause harm. In this way, it is a sure thing to eliminate Baili Sheng.
But this naturally cannot satisfy Song Bokang's ambition. After taking care of Baili Sheng, his next goal is to deal with Cheng Dalei and make himself the king of Liangzhou worthy of his name.
What needs to be done now is to concentrate on dealing with Baili Sheng and temporarily appease Cheng Dalei. Shuofang City has become like a deep pool, and Cheng Dalei has fallen into it. If Cheng Dalei did not have the courage of a strong man to cut off his wrist, it would be impossible to get out of this quagmire. Song Bokang
What needs to be done is to think of a way to intensify Cheng Dalei's consumption, so that it will be easier to deal with him when he comes back.
"Your Majesty, where can we find someone to give to Cheng Dalei?" Lu Luo asked.
"Hey, there are many homeless homeless people in Haojia, Wuwei, Jincheng and Liangzhou City where we are located. If we give them all to Cheng Dalei, we can avoid trouble." Song Bokang said.
There are many refugees in the empire. These people are either displaced because their homes were destroyed due to wars, or they are bullied by bully landlords, or they have no harvest due to natural disasters and man-made disasters. For various reasons combined, they can only go to the city to beg for a living.
There are such homeless refugees not only in Liangzhou, but also throughout the empire. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been so many people responding to Lin Shaoyu's uprising.
"Your Majesty, please give these people to Cheng Dalei. If he recruits troops from them, wouldn't we be helping him in disguise?"
"Hey, this is because you are worrying too much. The refugees in the city are either brave and ruthless people, or they are lazy people who like to relax and hate work. The rest are old, weak, women and children. How can we fight with these people? Haha, it's a joke. Even if Cheng Dalei can
Gather them together, but every one of them has to eat. How long can Cheng Dalei's family support them? Even if we harvest food in the fall...but do you think I will allow them to survive this fall?"
"Your Majesty, Gao Na." Lu Luo couldn't help but said.
Song Bokang waved his hand and said: "Don't say any more flattery. We must seize the time to handle this matter. We must do it flawlessly and not arouse Cheng Dalei's suspicion. At present, our most important thing is how to deal with Baili Sheng."
Cheng Dalei was prepared for a rainy day, and Baili Sheng was the primary enemy in front of him. Song Bokang had made a lot of preparations for him, cutting off Baili Sheng's food routes, sending troops from Wuwei and Jincheng, and encircling Baili Sheng's main force.
Don't attack.
If a tough battle were to begin, even if Baili Sheng could be won in the end, Song Bokang would suffer serious losses in troops. He was not willing to pay such a high price and wait for Baili Sheng to run out of food and fodder before annihilating the enemy in one fell swoop.
The place where Bailisheng is based is called Langshan Pass. Just by the name, you can tell that it is a dangerous place with barren land. Outside the pass is an endless grassland, where the extremely vicious Rong people live.
The city has been besieged for some days, and Baili Sheng has 30,000 troops in his hands. The two sides have not yet seen a single battle. But these 30,000 troops are invisible enemies, consuming the food and grass of Langshan Pass day by day.
The hall was in a mess, and the deputy generals, generals, generals, and generals... seemed like a man with eight mouths, wishing that all of them would be closed and everyone would listen to him.
"Fight, how can we fight? No one named Song will fight with us. Besides, Song Bokang's troops are far superior to ours. How can we be their opponents?"
"Song Bokang holds the imperial decree in his hand, saying that we are traitors. It means nothing if we die serving the country and the people, but even if our brothers die on the battlefield, someone will poke our spines."
There was a commotion, and finally someone looked at Baili Sheng and said, "Master Marquis, you might want to make an idea."
Bailisheng sat behind the handsome case, holding his cheeks in his hands and never spoke. He did not participate in the noisy arguments in the hall. Naturally, he was not happy, and wanted to complain, make noise, or even yell. But as a person in the same place
Lord, he must take responsibility, and there is no time to complain now.
"Hey, why don't you stop arguing and see if you can come up with a solution?" Baili Sheng said.
The hall gradually became quiet, and everyone lowered their heads and sighed. Baili Sheng's deputy general Chang Mingzhi said: "Master Marquis, maybe there is only one person who can help us right now?"
"Who?" Baili Sheng said: "Are you talking about Cheng Dalei? Don't you know that Song Bokang gave a city to Cheng Dalei, a villain like Cheng Dalei who is so unjust for profit, and now the two of them are colluding together?
Together."
Bailisheng sighed with sigh. He and Cheng Dalei had dealt with each other for a long time, and they didn't meet each other once or twice. But Cheng Dalei didn't care about their friendship at all, and this time he teamed up with Song Bokang to kill himself. Bailisheng was more interested in Song Bokang.
I don’t hate him very much, but I gritted my teeth when I mentioned Cheng Dalei.
"Master Marquis, what should we do? The food and grass in the pass can't last for a few days. If this continues, we can only stretch our necks and wait for others to behead us." The men started to make a fuss again.
"Master Marquis, I have a plan that may break the situation, but I don't know whether to talk about it or not," Sun Ming said.
"It's already come to this time, why are you so tight-lipped? Just say what you have to say." Baili Sheng said.
"So Song Bokang is determined to kill them all this time. We may not be our opponents when the two armies are facing each other, not to mention that Song Bokang will not fight us at all. There is only one way to break the current plan."
"explain?"
"We can't go east, so we can only go west. To the west is the vast grassland. Song Bokang said that we colluded with the Rong people, which is a heinous crime. We simply rebelled against the empire and went to join the Rong people."
After finishing the conversation, the hall was completely silent, with many people whispering and looking flashing.
The empire and the Rong tribe are life-and-death enemies, and guarding the border is to prevent the Rong tribe from invading. If everyone takes refuge with the Rong tribe, they will become the eternal sinners of the empire. But what the empire did this time is indeed sorry for them. Now, they have
Abandoned by the empire, he became an outcast that no one cared about.
Finally, everyone's eyes fell on Bailixheng, waiting for him to make his final decision.
After a long time, Baili Sheng stood up, raised his hands and said to everyone: "Everyone, we are soldiers of the empire in life, and the soul of the empire in death. If we die in this battle, we will die. We must not betray our country to survive."