Fifteen days later, on August 14, outside Le'an County, Chief Su pulled out a knife and put it on Luo Ren's neck. He stared at Luo Ren with angry eyes and said angrily: "Is this your purpose?
Forcing us to rebel with you?"
Not only him, but also the generals guarded by King Qi and others around him stared at Luo Ren with their eyes wide open. If eyes could kill, Luo Ren would have died a hundred times already.
Luo Ren said with difficulty: "It's not me who wants to force you to rebel, but Lu Yuan who wants to force you to rebel. Now my wife and children, as well as your wives and children are all in Qingzhou City. They are all in Lu Yuan's hands."
"You may not be afraid of death yourself. If you have just committed a crime, as long as the court does not pursue your descendants, you may be willing to die. But now your children are controlled by Lu Yuan in Qingzhou City, and what he has in his hands
He himself knows that he cannot defend the city for a few days, but he will always have time to kill all your wives and children. The same goes for my wife and children."
Chief Su still didn't put down his sword and continued to speak sternly: "Your own wife and children were threatened by Lu Yuan and you couldn't help yourself, so you pulled us together to rebel? How did I, Chief Su, get to know a brother like you!"
Luo Ren said: "All my sons are in his hands. If it were you, what would you do?"
Chief Su didn't know how to answer for a while. He might not do the same thing as Luo Ren.
In fact, Luo Ren did not tell the truth completely. It is true that all his sons were in Lu Yuan's hands, but he had no way out because he accidentally slept with the royal concubine Lu Shi. Sleeping with the prince's royal concubine was nothing more than rebellion.
Being of a lower grade is a serious crime and is punishable by execution. Unless you have made great achievements, you can be exempted from being executed by execution, but I still won't survive.
Chief Su put down his sword, took it out and put it back into its sheath. He sighed and said in a deep voice: "Then we can only do the opposite!" Then Chief Su turned to the others and said: "Everyone's wives and children are far away.
In his hands, he first led the troops out of the station without authorization, and then eliminated the soldiers and generals from Qianhu Station in Le'an. He has already committed such a big mistake, and we can only follow him to rebel."
Although other people were still very angry and wanted to kill Luo Ren, most of them were rational and knew that they could not kill Luo Ren now. A few irrational people were also stopped.
Then Chief Su and the other two guards commanded a small number of troops to collect the bodies of the soldiers and generals of Le'an Qianhu Station who were massacred, while the other troops camped to rest.
Chief Su asked again: "Luo Ren, is King Qi leading this rebellion? Why did you rebel?" Several other colleagues also looked at him. They all wanted to be clear.
Luo Ren then gave them a rough explanation of what happened.
After listening to Luo Ren's words, Chief Su said softly: "No wonder King Qi did not ride a horse this time, but sat on a carriage. He also did not get out of the car to inspect the army, but just watched from a distance in the carriage. And every time we
When I went to see King Qi in the carriage, he would always lie down and sleep."
"I've actually been suspicious for a long time, but I thought it was His Highness King Qi who was sick or angry with the court. I didn't expect that you found someone to pretend to be King Qi. At the same time, you also left the real Zhu Su in the carriage, but you always gave it to the real person.
When Zhu Su was giving him medicine to sleep, we took a look and knew that Zhu Su was really there."
Chief Su just analyzed it. There is no point in pursuing this further. The most important thing now is what to do next.
Now that most military generals have been pulled aboard the pirate ship, the army can basically command with confidence. Of course, this is only a relative term. If a military general commands an army alone, his wife and children will be safe. , this general will inevitably lead his army to return to the imperial court, even if he does not survive in the end.
And if most of the wives and children of the generals in this army are safe now, it is inevitable that the entire army will kill Luo Ren and others and return to the court.
Chief Su and Luo Ren discussed the next move while working together with their own hidden agendas.
Chief Su took out a map of Shandong, pointed to the location of Qingzhou Mansion, and said: "Now we must send a trustworthy army back to assist Lu Yuan in controlling Qingzhou City. There is a large amount of food and grass in Qingzhou City, and it is probably impossible to capture other areas in the next period of time." There is a lot of food and grass in the area, so Qingzhou must be firmly occupied."
Chief Su looked at the map and continued: "There are mountains such as Yishan and Moushan in the south of Qingzhou. As long as we send troops to occupy Muling Pass, we don't have to worry about the south. But the east is close to Laizhou, and Changle County alone cannot hold it. Yes, we must send troops eastward, at least occupy Changyi and advance to the area of Jiaoshui (today’s Jiaolai River) to use Jiaoshui to repel the troops from Denglai."
"In fact, it would be best to occupy Laishan and threaten Laizhou, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to do it. It is even difficult to resist Denglai's soldiers with glue. It is impossible to send too many soldiers to the east, and Denglai's second mansion has Dengzhou guards and Laizhou guards. , Lingshan Guard, Jinghai Guard, Maoshan Guard, Chengshan Guard and many other guard posts, with a total strength of 70,000 to 80,000 people. The morale of our army cannot be too high, so we can only fight for time by resisting."
"In addition, we need to capture Binzhou to the north. Binzhou's coastal area is dangerous, with abundant fish and salt. The Pingfan of Gujing Cang, Lian Liao, and Jie are the gateways to the Three Qi Dynasties. They must be captured."
"With control of Muling Pass, Glue, Binzhou, and Qingzhou, we will be safe for the time being."
"However," Chief Su said with a wry smile: "Under normal circumstances, with the more than 30,000 people in our hands, it is absolutely impossible to capture these three places in a short time. Not to mention that we cannot use our main army to To attack these three places, we can only send partial troops to fight. There is no chance of winning."
At this time Luo Ren said: "But we have an advantage now, that is, most places don't know that we have rebelled."
"Going north from Qingzhou Fucheng, you only pass through Linzi County and Le'an County in front of you. Linzi County has no garrison and is defended by the three guards of King Qi, so there should be no problems in Linzi now. Just send troops to occupy Linzi and Le'an immediately. Make sure the news doesn’t leak out.”
"In this way, we can trick the city gates into opening and seize these places."
"I estimate that after our soldiers captured Muling Pass and Weixian County, there was a large-scale rebellion in the southeastern part of Shandong Province. Then we urgently notified the capital by sea, gathered local troops to defend the city, and sent troops to seize the lost fortresses within our jurisdiction. But this is a place we have secured, and we cannot defeat it with a hastily assembled army. We must have a large army sent by the imperial court to conquer it."
"This creates opportunities for the main army to take action."
Chief Su said: "That's it. And the 20,000 main troops we have must go east immediately." Chief Su pointed to a place on the map, and then said: "Occupy this place. Only by occupying this place can we If it doesn’t overturn quickly, it will be trapped in Ludong without making much noise and it will be over.”
