Surprised and suspicious, Zuo Xiaoyou sent an envoy to negotiate with Wei Daoer and Liu Jicheng, but the latter said that he was just taking the road to continue fleeing south to Gaomi County.
Zuo Xiaoxiong did not take the rebels from Shanggu County seriously. He even sent five thousand shi of food to make some noise, sent some spies to keep an eye on them, and then continued to lead the army to attack Dongkai Lai County City.
Unexpectedly, when Zuo Xiaoyou broke through the county, Wei Daoer led 70,000 troops to suddenly attack Zuo Xiaoyou's army. When the two sides were fighting in full swing, Guan Xiaotong led the Iron Hammer Battalion to appear. The final result was naturally that Zuo Xiaoyou was defeated and fled.
Part of the army from Hammer Camp took the opportunity to enter Donglai County.
Wei Daoer and Liu Jicheng also escaped with their troops, but instead of fleeing to Gaomi County in the south, they captured another county in Donglai County, with Guan Xiaotong chasing after them, and then recaptured this county.
In this way, it took Wei Daoer and Liu Jicheng more than a month to capture all nine counties of Donglai County one by one, and then they were taken back by the Iron Hammer Battalion men led by Guan Xiaotong.
Of course, the imperial court could no longer think about taking back the counties and counties recaptured by the Far Eastern Army.
When the last county in Donglai County was controlled by the Far Eastern Army, Wei Daoer and Liu Jicheng surrendered to the Far Eastern Army.
Wang Junlin immediately ordered the formation of the seventh military camp of the Far East Army, with Wei Daoer as the commander-in-chief. Wang Junlin rewarded Wei Daoer with a steel knife that can cut iron like mud, and named the seventh military camp the Steel Knife Camp. For the time being,
Under the jurisdiction of these 70,000 rebels from Shanggu County.
As soon as the Steel Knife Battalion was formed, Wang Junlin ordered Wei Daoer to lead 70,000 troops to Snake Island to conduct intensive training in a centralized training camp. Through elimination, the full complement of 50,000 people was selected, and the other 20,000 were selected as the logistics supply camp.
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As for Zuo Xiaoyou, after he fled back to his hometown on the seaside, he discovered that the left-behind general Zheng Dabiao had defected to the Far East Army. He was also surrounded by tens of thousands of Far East Army navy troops, and the troops he brought back were naturally killed and surrendered. Zuo Xiaoyou
Worried that he would be cut to pieces by Wang Junlin, he killed himself on the beach with a knife.
Wang Junlin immediately announced the establishment of the fourth water battalion, with Zheng Dabiao as the main general and Zuo Xiaoyou's original 20,000-strong navy as the main force. It would be stationed at the former Zuo Xiaoyou's home base in Donglai County. Of course, they would also go to Snake Island in batches.
Rotation training.
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In Fanyang County, in the palace of Prince Qin'an, Wang Junlin was teasing his precious son. Shen Guoer showed Wang Junlin a thick stack of intelligence collected from all over the world.
Wang Junlin asked Shen Guoer to focus on selecting the information related to Luoyang Jingdu, Dongjun Wagang Village, and Taiyuan Li Yuan and read it carefully. Then he looked at some information outside the Northern Pass, and his expression suddenly became heavy.
"The Turks will definitely take action within a year." Wang Junlin remembered that in history, the Turks were supposed to have two or three years before their army went south, but now history has changed, and many things have been advanced. Hundreds of thousands of Turks' cavalry went south.
, maybe also in advance.
Wang Junlin naturally came to this conclusion for a reason. According to the intelligence from outside the northern border sent by Shen Guoer, since last autumn, many nomadic tribes on the frontier who had previously nominally surrendered and protected the Sui Dynasty suddenly began to make moves.
On the surface, this was because the Sui Dynasty failed in its expedition to Goguryeo and the civil strife continued, allowing these tribes to see the weakness of the Sui Dynasty. However, Wang Junlin believed that there was definitely a Turkic influence behind this.
Because these nomads will only abide by the rules of the weak and the strong, in fact, let them become honest again, as long as the Sui Dynasty shows a
Use your own strength. The next time they send people disguised as bandits to rob the people in border counties, they will send out a large army to kill some people ruthlessly. Naturally, they will be honest.
However, how can the Sui Dynasty still have power to show at the moment? Even if it has power, it no longer belongs to the court, let alone what Yang Guang can control.
When he thought of the hundreds of thousands of Turkic cavalry going south, countless counties and counties north of the Yellow River in the Sui Dynasty would be devastated, Wang Junlin couldn't help but frowned tightly, but there was a murderous intention flashing deep in his eyes, and he sneered: "If the Turks If you dare to go south, don't blame me for going on a killing spree."
After arranging for Shen Guoer to send more spies deep into the northern grasslands to inquire about the situation of the Turks, Wang Junlin called Du Ruhui and Liu Ziming over to have dinner together, and ordered them to seize the time to stock up on food and grass.
"Your Majesty, do you think the Turks will move south in large numbers within a year?" Du Ruhui saw that Wang Junlin was so solemn about the matter. He didn't even wait for Shen Guoer to send someone to find out the specific information about the Turks, and he had already started to prepare for this matter. He was convinced. It seems that the Turks are bound to move south in large numbers, so I can't help but wonder.
"I fought several fierce battles with the Turks when I was in the northwest. I know their habits very well. I believe they will definitely move south in large numbers, but the time is not yet certain." Wang Junlin is a cheater himself, so of course Wang Junlin cannot give it to Du Ruhui and Liu. Zi Ming said, he could only speak vaguely.
"At that time, whether there is an imperial order or not, the prince will probably personally lead the army to kill the Turks, right?" Liu Ziming has been with Wang Junlin for the longest time. He understands Wang Junlin's feelings about his family and country, and knows that Wang Junlin hates the slaughter of his people the most. .
"You also know that with the current power of the imperial court, there is no capital to deal with another large-scale war. It is simply asking for death to deal with the entire Turks with the power of the two northern counties of Taiyuan and Honghua."
"The court, huh, the emperor and the people in the court probably still think that the Turks are allies of the Sui Dynasty." Du Ruhui sneered sarcastically. He was extremely disgusted with the emperor and the various noble families who controlled the court.
In Du Ruhui's view, the once glorious Sui Dynasty is now like a sick man suffering from tuberculosis. On the surface, he still has a strong skeleton. In fact, he may not be able to fall down if the wind blows one day.
Right now, my prince can only keep the Sui Dynasty alive, but if he wants to scare the Turks like he did back then, he will probably have to take action.
Wang Junlin gave Du Ruhui and Liu Ziming a copy of every piece of information sent by Shen Guoer, so they knew very well how corrupt the situation in various counties in the Sui Dynasty had become.
Even so, those people in Luoyang are still spending a lot of money to prepare the huge annual ceremony for various countries to worship the Sui Emperor, and they are still dreaming of a prosperous and powerful country. It is really ridiculous.
However, when the Sui Emperor Yang Guang in Luoyang City was receiving envoys from various countries who had appeared from nowhere to defraud money and benefits, more local thieves had already rebelled on this grounds.
Nowadays, the big bandit leader who was originally named in history has occupied a county. Some smaller thieves lead ten or twenty thousand people to attack the county town, and there are dozens of people who claim territory and become kings.
These rebels did not pay any attention to the county soldiers who came to conquer and defend the city. However, the civil and military officials in those counties were extremely cowardly. Most of them were defeated repeatedly in battles. They also "sent" batches of armor and weapons to the rebels.
But before, there was the old general Feng Ciming who fought
The example of being killed on the battlefield and being convicted, even implicating his three sons, led many officials to become officials directly under the rebels in order to avoid the court's guilt after being defeated, without even taking off their official uniforms.
In this way, the arrogance of the rebels around the world and the erosion of the situation will be further aggravated.
"Now that the world is in complete chaos, I have carefully read the information sent by Guo'er. Since the beginning of this year, people everywhere who have brazenly rebelled are no longer just refugees and bandits who cannot survive." Wang Junlin said with emotion.
Du Ruhui said: "What the prince said is absolutely true. Nowadays, there are all kinds of rebels in the world, and all kinds of monsters and monsters have appeared. It is true that evildoers emerge from troubled times."
The situation that Wang Junlin and Du Ruhui mentioned would have to wait for more than a year in history, but now it has happened in advance. Influential local families, some martial arts families, some want to take advantage of the change of dynasties to establish achievements and become green forest heroes, and even various martial arts heroes.
Various deceptive cults have emerged, claiming to have boundless magical power. In a short period of time, they have gathered hundreds of thousands of followers, doing whatever they want in the local area, and the government is obedient to them.
There were even some soldiers who rebelled. Although the direct reason was the inability to distribute food and grass to the imperial court, there were obviously aristocratic families involved behind the scenes. No matter which rebels they were, or what nature they were, local county soldiers and
The county soldiers always lose more than they win, and there are even many officers and soldiers who will collapse at the first touch whenever they encounter rebels."
Liu Ziming was always concerned about the plight of the people in the world, and sighed: "I don't care where those rebels came from. Now there is a prince who went on a killing spree in various counties in the Central Plains last year. Whether it was for rebellion or other things, he at least did not treat the people.
I will continue to kill innocent people indiscriminately, but what the court did is really too much."
Speaking of this, Liu Ziming looked indignant and gritted his teeth and said: "In March of the first year of the year, I don't know which fool wrote to the emperor and actually suggested that officials from various places move all the people to live in the city, and only cultivate the fields near the city, the countryside and
All the fields in remote areas were abandoned in order to starve the bandits to death."
"Such a ridiculous statement. After several days of discussion between the emperor and Pei Shiju, Yu Shiji and others, he actually agreed to this strategy, and even issued an order for all counties and counties in the world to adopt it. As a result, the officials of each county and county were naturally overjoyed.
They took the opportunity to build a city and relocate and made another big profit. But after they finished making money, they forced many people who did not want to join the thieves to do so. Not to mention the rise of rebels in the northern counties, the area controlled by the imperial court is still
There is not much area controlled by thieves. Even the wealthy Jiangnan has a large number of rebels."
"Speaking of which, not all county officials are useless or mediocre people. The county soldiers of Qi County defeated all the bandits in the county, killing them and chasing them away. Although Qi County is worse than our Fanyang County
It’s a lot, but compared to other counties in the world, it’s still a blessed land.” Du Ruhui said while reading the information.
Wang Junlin smiled and said: "Ruhui is talking about Zhang Xutuo, the Yingyanglang general of Qi County! I also read the intelligence and said that Zhang Xutuo led 10,000 county troops to defeat Lu Mingyue, the giant bandit of Qi County. At that time, Lu
Mingyue is said to have a hundred thousand troops. I heard that the emperor was very surprised when he heard about it. He also knew that the previous conviction of General Feng Ciming and the harm to his family had a great impact on the enthusiasm of the generals in the world to suppress bandits. Luoyang was preparing to confer an official title on Zhang Xutuo.
Get a knighthood and set an example!"
At this point, Wang Junlin suddenly remembered something, his expression condensed slightly, and he ordered: "Whoever comes, please immediately send an order to the Military Intelligence Bureau and ask them to check if there is Qin Qiong among Zhang Xutuo's generals?"