As a soldier, especially a soldier in troubled times, I feel deeply about the corruption and incompetence in politics. I am heartbroken and have no intention of fighting anymore. Since we want to plunder, we will plunder together; since we want to destroy, we will destroy together! Anyway, the country has been destroyed.
, we still have money, it doesn’t matter who becomes the emperor, we have enough money and confidence.
Therefore, political corruption creates military incompetence.
Throughout Chinese history, let’s take the Qing Dynasty, which is the closest to us and is also a dynasty that the public is relatively familiar with. Looking at the corruption and incompetence of officials in the late Qing Dynasty, I really want to pull them out of the history books and give them a beating. This is a historical routine.
,This routine can be applied in various fields.
Haha, history is a very interesting thing.
Hou Jing rushed into Wei Can's military camp, and the people on his left and right were hiding from Wei Can.
I don’t know what Wei Can was thinking. Maybe he was also indignant at this powerless state; maybe he wanted to fight a passionate battle to improve the morale of the Nanliang Army. In short, Wei Can did not avoid it.
He threw away the crowd, scolded his disciples, and ordered them to fight hard. After that, most of the soldiers died in the battle, and Wei Can was also killed by Hou Jing.
In this battle, Wei Can's son Wei Ni, three younger brothers Wei Zhu, Wei Jing, Wei Gou, his younger brother Wei Ang, and hundreds of relatives were all killed.
How could an emperor like Xiao Yan have the dignity to be so loyal to Wei Can!
Liu Zhongli learned that Wei Can was attacked, so he threw down his chopsticks and led his troops to rescue him. However, when he arrived, Wei Can had already been defeated. He fought against Hou Jing, but was also defeated by Hou Jing.
"Southern History" says:
Liu Zhongli and Hou Jing fought. Neither of them knew who the other was. They fought for 3,800 rounds. The sky was dark and the earth was dark, and the sun and the moon lacked light...
Ahem, Bear is a bit exaggerated, okay, a bit exaggerated.
During the battle between the two, Liu Zhongli was struck in the shoulder by Hou Jing, and his horse fell into the quagmire and could not move. At this time, the cavalry commander Guo Shanshi came to the rescue and saved Liu Zhongli from becoming a ghost.
After that, Liu Zhongli's energy dissipated and he no longer mentioned the battle. He looked arrogant, cruel, insulting and contemptuous of the generals.
Shaoling King Xiao Lun came to encourage the army every day. As time went by, Liu Zhongli also stopped seeing Xiao Lun. Xiao Lun was very angry, but had no choice but to do anything, and a rift developed between the two.
However, Liu Zhongli ignored Xiao Lun. He often held banquets and grand gatherings, and watched singing and dancing during the day. Not only that, he also tortured the people and insulted his concubine.
Even when his father, who was trapped in the city, went to the city to question Liu Zhongli, Liu Zhongli talked and laughed freely.
He also had a feud with Prince Xiao Gang's son, Lincheng Gong Xiao Dalian.
Hou Jing climbed up to the Zhuque Tower to talk to Liu Zhongli, and then threw a golden ring to Liu Zhongli. From then on, the military camp did not fight. All the troops came to ask for battle every day, but they were all rejected.
Lu Simian believed that this was in disregard of the facts. Gou Xiong also agreed with Lu Simian's views on Liu Zhongli's smear campaign.
The situation at that time was that if the armies could not unite and act alone, they would not be able to break the siege of Taicheng. However, it would not be easy for the armies to unite as one.
The pride of the generals and the laziness of the soldiers have long been a stubborn disease that is difficult to cure. Without strict orders, who is willing to advance? But among the Liang Jun generals outside Taicheng, none of them has talent, virtue and fame that can overwhelm the others.
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So he retreated to the next best thing and found the person with the strongest military strength. So Liu Zhongli was pushed out.
Liu Zhongli himself was also capable. According to historical records, he was "a man of great strength and courage, but little courage. He was eight feet long and had bright features." He Ba Yue came to attack Fan Deng (today's Xiangfan City, Hubei Province and Deng County, Henan Province). He was Liu Zhongli.
He was able to fight back He Batayue and fight him back, which shows that Liu Zhongli is not an ordinary person.
It is a pity that when Liu Zhongli faced these old gang leaders, he was not qualified enough to command these great masters.
Just like the difference between working for the private sector and working for the public sector:
When working for a private employee, the boss values the employee's ability. Without ability, no matter how senior he or she is, the employee will be rejected by the boss.
When you work for the government, you look at seniority. When you say "seniority", oh, that's great, that's terrible. Wherever you go, you have to be carried, even the new factory director, in these
In the eyes of senior staff, they are all young men with short hair and yellow mouth. If he dares to recruit these senior staff, he will dare to rely on old people to cause trouble in the factory.
So, Liu Zhongli faced this bunch of seniors, who could he command? Except for Wei Can, Wei Can didn't know what he thought, and he died in the battle at the beginning. What's the use of leaving Liu Zhongli as a bare commander.
After becoming the governor in this situation, Liu Zhongli was not convinced or recognized by everyone, so no one listened to him. If he wanted to fight Hou Jing, he could only lead his own troops to fight. But it is obvious that this situation cannot be solved by one person.
Those who have the ability to turn the tide can be sent forward by one of their own troops. Therefore, Liu Zhongli was unwilling and the other armies had the same idea, so it became a stalemate without fighting.
In fact, the attitude of Pei Zhigao and others towards Liu Zhongli was already shown when he was elected as the governor. According to records in "Southern History", although Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling, authorized him, he only authorized him.
What's the use? What Liu Zhongli lacks now is not power, but the qualifications to command these old gang leaders.
Regarding the stalemate without fighting, everyone did not look for reasons within themselves, but instead came to blame Liu Zhongli.
Pei Zhigao and Wang Sengbian said to Liu Zhongli:
"The general has millions of people, but the palace is destroyed. It is time to fight with all his strength, so why say more!"
It is estimated that Liu Zhongli himself was holding back his anger at that time, so he looked arrogant, cruel, insulting, and contemptuous of the generals, wishing to beat them all.
Gou Xiong believed that "Southern History" put all the responsibility for the inability to relieve the siege of Taicheng after the reinforcements arrived. Liu Zhongli needed to find a person to take the blame for the selfish situation in which the generals on all sides relied on their elders and did not obey orders. He was the governor at the time.
Liu Zhongli is the best person to take the blame.
"Southern History" records that among the armies outside the city at that time, Shaoling King Xiao Lun and Liu Zhongli were enemies. Prince Xiao Gang's son Lincheng Gong Xiao Dalian and Xiao Lun's son Yong'an Marquis Xiao Que were also in the same position.
Water and fire.
The same is true for other armies. They are guarding each other, are hostile to each other, do not trust each other, and cannot unite to rescue. They are all busy in intrigues.
The one who becomes Hou Jing is Xiao Yan; the one who dies is Xiao Yan; the one who dies in Nanliang is Xiao Yan.
Reinforcements arrived on the north bank, said to be one million, and the people supported the old and young and looked forward to the officers and soldiers.
But as soon as the officers and soldiers crossed the Huai River, they robbed each other and extorted gold and silver. They camped and stopped moving forward, suspicious of each other.
Hou Jing originally heard that so many reinforcements were coming and wanted to run away. When he heard about this situation, he asked Wang Wei in shock:
"Are these people reinforcements? Aren't they bandits?"
Wang Wei smiled and said:
"Your Majesty, they are reinforcements, but they are not supporting Liang Jun, but us." Hou Jing looked puzzled and added, "Why should we be afraid of such reinforcements? They are too busy to fight dogs and dogs themselves, so how can they help us?"
Do you care about us?"
When Hou Jing heard this, he thought it made sense! So he gave up the idea of escape.
Hou Jing has been besieging Taicheng for several months. The food supply in the city is about to be exhausted. Meat is cut off. Emperor Jian Wen's first-class meal only has one meat dish left. The sergeants boiled the leather from the crossbow bows.
The rats hunted the birds to satisfy their hunger. There were many pigeons gathered in the palace, but then they were all killed and eaten.
At the beginning, when the palace gates were about to close, the ministers were afraid that they would not have enough to eat. Both men and women, high and low, came out to carry rice. They accumulated 400,000 dendrobiums. They collected the money and silk stored in various palaces and 500,000,000 yuan. They all gathered in Deyang Hall and prepared fish, salt, and firewood.
When they didn't have enough, they gutted the minister's house and used it as firewood, chopped up the cushions and fed them to the horses. After eating, they stopped eating.
There was dried moss in the nectar kitchen in the royal kitchen, which tasted sour and salty, and was also distributed to the soldiers. The soldiers killed horses and sold the meat in the palace and central government offices. There was also human flesh in the middle. If you eat it, you will definitely get sick.
At this time, the inside and outside of the city were isolated and no news could be exchanged.
There was a suggestion called Yang Che'er, which was to tie a paper crow with a long rope and tie Xiao Yan's edict on it. Xiao Gang stood in front of the Tai Chi Hall and took advantage of the northwest wind to put it up, hoping to deliver the letter.
, But, unfortunately, after Hou Jing's soldiers saw it, they were worried about the way to win the magic spell, so they shot it down, um, shot it down! Therefore, the inside and outside of the city are still unable to communicate with each other.
Hou Jing was not idle outside, and poisoned the waterways. As a result, swelling and disease gradually became prevalent in the city, and most of the people died.
As for Hou Jing's army, life was not easy. He surrounded Taicheng, and the reinforcements outside surrounded him. Hou Jing knew that there was food in Dongcheng, but the road was cut off by the reinforcements. Now Hou Jing regrets that he captured Dongcheng.
When I arrived at the government, no food was brought here.
At this time, bad news for Hou Jing came: Xiao Fan, the king of Shaoling, and Xiao Dalian, the Duke of Lincheng, had arrived at the south bank again. Although they had not made any achievements, so many soldiers came over, but it directly affected Hou Jing's heart.
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Not only them, Xiao Yi, the king of eastern Hunan, whom Hou Jing was most afraid of, sent his son Xiao Fang and others, Sima Wu Ye, and Tianmen prefect Fan Wenjiao to come.
This - something is really not good!
Liu Miao from Pengcheng said to Hou Jing:
"I said, big brother, there is no way for us to be surrounded like this. It seems that the city cannot be captured. Now a large army has gathered outside. I heard that the army's food supply is not enough for a month. The road to transport food is blocked. There is no good place outside the city.
It’s been robbed. If this continues, we will be like the people in the city. Why don’t we sue for peace so that all the security forces can retreat."
After Hou Jing and Wang Wei discussed it, they sent Ren Yue to the north of the city to submit a letter to pretend to surrender and claim the land of Henan.
Xiao Yan, who had been confused for decades, suddenly had a high IQ. When he heard that Hou Jing was going to make peace, he angrily said:
"Isn't it just death? What's there to be afraid of! How can we make peace?! Besides, Hou Jing is a dangerous and deceitful thief. How can we believe him when he says we can make peace?"
However, now is not the time for Xiao Yan to show off his strength. The city is getting worse day by day, and there is no environment for him to show off his strength.
Xiao Gang came to lobby Xiao Yan again:
"Hou Jing's siege is urgent, and there are no reinforcements outside. Now I plan to make peace with him, and we will discuss it later."