V4.Chapter 36

Yanzhou.

Shen Zang Feng went back to the general's mansion after patrolling the camp. Just sat down in the study, not finished a document, but listened to a rush of footsteps outside the door, followed the door of the study was banged - Shen Cangfeng nodded slightly, Shen fold went to open the door, and saw Su Xiuming's old servant in front of him, Su Shuishui, sweating all over his head, stepped in, hurriedly said: "three childe, please hurry to the main hall to discuss!"

Su Xiuming sent Su Xiuming to assist him in February after su Xiuwei led the 20000 Xiliang troops to Donghu for help. The emperor was worried that Shen Cangfeng would be young, and that there would be negligence when he sat in this eye joint bone and an important city. And Su Shuishui is the son of Su family. He said that Shen Zanfeng grew up by relying on his old age. He has always been a steady man. Otherwise, Su Xiuming came to Yanzhou with only one old servant and would not choose him from many children.

At the moment, Su Shuishui is so flustered. Shen Cangfeng's heart sinks. He puts down his pen, gets up and asks, "but there's news from Donghu?"

Sure enough, Su Shuishui shivered her lips a little. Jane said in a short way, "I heard that Liu family was defeated."

"Ah!" Suddenly, Shen dieI didn't guard against the sound of low exhalation!

“…… Although Rongren claimed to be 300000, according to the previous return on horse hunting, it was only 240000 at most. How could Donghu's army and horse have been defeated when they had more than doubled and occupied the advantage of guarding the city?! Is there any mistake in the letter? "

When Shen Zang Feng hurried to the main hall, he happened to hear a high voice from a ministry who was in a hurry, even angry.

The Ministry is called Liu Xi, a deputy general of the East Hu army, a branch of Liu's family, who attacked Yanzhou. After the collapse of Yanzhou, a part of the Donghu army returned to Donghu's home, while Liu Xi stayed and watched the Yanzhou's supplies for the Lius. Before the Yanzhou rebellion, the Lius had suffered enough. Even though they knew that Su Xiuming and Shen Zanfeng would not move any hand or foot against Donghu's supplies when the soldiers invaded, they were not sure how to leave their own people here.

Now in Yanzhou City, Liu Xi and Shen zangfeng are in charge.

I think it's because Liu Xi is the identity of Liu's family, so Su Xiuming first told him that he came more urgently, but he was a step ahead of Shen zangfeng.

"I would not have been defeated," said Su Xiuming's guard outside the hall, but there was nothing on the eye bone to report. Shen Cangfeng entered the hall, but Su Xiuming's face was blue and his eyes were angry.

However, his anger was not due to Liu Xi's impertinence, "but what if 80000 servicemen revolted?"

"What?!" Liu Xi exclaimed, including Shen zangfeng, who had just entered the gate, and stopped in amazement!

Shen zangfeng calmed down and asked, "how can the serviceman turn against you?"

Although Yanzhou is adjacent to Donghu, it is necessary to transport the baggage of the city to all parts of Donghu, especially in the case of large-scale invasion by the soldiers, the number of servicemen used is extremely large. Because almost all the young and strong men of Donghu were conscripted into the army, they were usually drawn from the neighboring Youyan states.

This time, due to the emergency situation, even from Xinzhou, which borders Youzhou, as well as the northern part of Fengzhou and other places, a number of people were temporarily recruited for service.

Although it is said that this move causes more resentment among the people, it is better than being beaten in by the soldiers.

And in order to prevent the revolt of the servitude men, these people never give them enough food and weapons, but they are required to serve heavy corvee all the time, and they fall on the ground to rest almost at a slight rest. Rao is so, and there are also soldiers to keep an eye on - all these are for once they make trouble, they can easily send troops to suppress it!

Su Xiuming said: "I don't know who spread Xinzhou's story to Donghu. Xinzhou's servant asked to go back to his hometown to protect his wife and children. These people haven't calmed down yet. The servants in other places are also called on to return home together. Liu's family killed the first few troublemakers. As a result, the scene subsided at that time. But in the middle of the night, Xinzhou serviceman suddenly made a mess, killed the Liu family to supervise their soldiers, robbed the horse blades, and fled to Xinzhou! But before these shameless and unruly people left, they burned the baggage that they needed to send to the front line in three days! "

The thing about Xinzhou is as follows: this state is close to the sea and rich in marine products, so most of the population of the state lives near the sea. In April, there were hurricanes and huge waves on the sea. From the south to the north of the state, they almost swept all the way. In about a few days, they turned from a middle state that could barely survive to a hell on earth with ten bedrooms and nine empty skies. Even the state government failed to survive.

Not only that, after the disaster, it should be the imperial court or the government to relieve the disaster and exempt from the labor tax in order to recuperate the people. But in April, the first emperor was still aggrieved that his fengci water hall could not be rebuilt, and he could only build a Hanyuan building. How could he care about the life and death of Xinzhou people?

So Xinzhou is full of sorrow and no one cares.

Because the state yamen was destroyed in the hurricane, the state officials were buried alive in the collapsed houses, and the rest of the officials suffered from their own families, too late to care about themselves, who is impatient to manage the people?

In this way, the whole Xinzhou is a mess without a leader! In this case, some of the former liberties and scoundrels in the state gathered to take advantage of the fire and loot -- they were afraid of the government, but they tried to plunder money and goods and forcibly abducted the women of the people several times. Without the interference of the government, they became more and more courageous -- and in the first month, the army made a large-scale invasion, and most of the young and strong people in Xinzhou were recruited to Donghu to serve as laborers With the support and protection of the man in charge, there is no room to fight back under these hands!Of course, although no one is in charge of Xinzhou, Donghu also knows about it. But at that time, the soldiers had been in the city. In order to stop the confusion and influence the overall situation, Donghu ordered that this information be concealed from the Xinzhou servicemen.

But after a few months of concealment, it's finally punctured.

Originally, these people were reluctant to leave their families and go to serve in the bitter Donghu. It is true that they are afraid of the punishment of the court and the slaughter of the people after the army invaded the Central Plains, and they may not escape. That's why I have to bite my teeth.

But now the soldiers haven't come in yet. Their family was robbed by heaven first and then by the villains in the countryside. Can they not worry about it? Rong people came in, and Donghu, Yanzhou and Youzhou were all here to Xinzhou. But don't go back to have a look now. I'm afraid I won't have a chance in the future!

In addition to Xinzhou, other states, though not so tragic, are not very peaceful. Surprised by the example of Xinzhou servicemen, even though Donghu told them that Xinzhou was the only place where they suffered from natural disasters, since people have doubts in their hearts, they can't be trusted to hear anything - can the government cheat Xinzhou servicemen, can't they? If you don't go back to see it with your own eyes, you won't be relieved after all!

The servants are going home.

But how could Donghu release people?

On the border, the Donghu army and the Rongren are fighting to death. At this time, there are some problems with the baggage. One of the problems is the overall collapse! Moreover, once the army of Donghu is not enough, these soldiers can also be temporarily issued weapons, and the supervision team can catch up with the battlefield for temporary resistance, so as to avoid a sudden break for the soldiers to march in - in a word, Donghu is absolutely not willing or able to let people go.

"How could the soldiers and soldiers in the front line, who had been killed so hard and had no food on an empty stomach, not be defeated?" Su Xiuming, as commander in chief of Yanzhou at the moment, naturally has no time to sympathize with Xinzhou servicemen from his standpoint, but he deeply feels that these people are reckless, and they are just sinners of the country. At the moment, after roughly speaking, he said, "when you return to Xinzhou from Donghu, you are bound to pass through Yanzhou and Liuxi. You will lead the Donghu army to 10000, ambush on the road you must take, and you must wipe out all the escaped servicemen! The owl's head and legs are broken, and they are introduced to Donghu, and the police are the best! "

Now there are hundreds of thousands of servicemen serving in Donghu. If they all learn from Xinzhou servicemen, they should not fight this battle.

Liu Xi's eyes were red when he heard that Xinzhou servicemen killed the soldiers and led to the defeat of Donghu. Even if Su Xiuming didn't give such an order, he would have to ask for his order to go after them. Now he has nothing to say.

Su Xiuming added: "although there are tens of thousands of servicemen who have escaped, they are all mobs. Even if they snatch some horse weapons from the soldiers, they will not be able to compete with your elite. But now the troops are tight. We must make a quick decision in this war. I will give you five days! Five days later, regardless of the outcome of the war, you have to come back and report! "

Liu Xi said: "general, since Donghu was defeated in the war, he would like to help Donghu after killing the servicemen in Xinzhou!"

“……” Su Xiuming thought for a long time, and Fang said, "Yanzhou is an important place, and it's too thin to rely on the garrison of 20000 Xiliang troops alone. And it's not very useful for you to bring 10000 Donghu troops to the rescue. Now that the new emperor ascends the throne, I'm afraid that the news of Donghu's defeat will be introduced to the capital of the emperor. The imperial forest army should make some moves. "

"But at the end of the day, I heard that the imperial army was weak..."

"That's because you haven't seen xuanjiawei!" Su Xiuming shook his head and said with a dignified look, "this matter doesn't need to be discussed any more. It's settled!"

Seeing Liu Xi, Su Xiuming frowned and said simply, "do you want to try military skills with your body?"

Liu Xi was sent away, only his own uncle and nephew were left, and his private address was restored. Su Xiuming's worried nephew said: "Liu family has lost nearly half of the important town now, even if the imperial forest army sent xuanjiawei to help, I'm afraid it won't help!"

Shen Cangfeng frowned and said: "xuanjiawei is known as elite, but it is only for the Royal Army. No matter how meticulous and harsh Gu Xiaode trained them, the emperor is used to Chengping after all. These people have never been to the battlefield, how can they compete with the frontier army? "

But he added, "but there are a lot of soldiers in the royal forest."

"Though the number is large, the military discipline is loose and the armour is corrupt, and it is more limited than the mob." Su Xiuming sighed, "it's not convenient for me to say in front of Liu Xi just now - if Donghu can't keep it, the emperor will be in a hurry! Our relatives are all in the imperial capital, where the 300000 imperial forest troops, for me, it's just a matter of looking at it. It's hard to have a comprehensive family of scholars depending on your 20000 Xiliang troops. If so, we can't stay here. "

Everyone knows how hard it is to fight in Yanzhou. Even if Su Xiuming and Shen zangfeng had Mo binwei as their internal agents before, it was very hard to fight. Although the baggage in the city is very eye-catching, compared with the cloud like nobles and towering Imperial Palace in the capital of Wei Dynasty, it is very cloudy. Rong people are not stupid. As long as they take down Donghu, the next step is to take the capital directly. For Yanzhou, we can only encircle but not attack.

"If Donghu cannot be defended, we will return to Gongwei, the imperial capital." Shen zangfeng said to himself, "but if Yanzhou gives up like this, you, Xin and Feng will lose their barriers. I'm afraid it's a life-threatening situation! Would you like to wait for a few days and wait for the horse to find out the details? "

Su Xiuming pinched his beard, thought for a moment, and said, "it's OK."

But he said so. As soon as Shen zangfeng left, he called in Su Shuishui: "go and pick two bodyguards who haven't taken a picture with feng'er and are good at it."Su Shuishui answered, and at Su Xiuming's command, he said, "then he found a chance to cut feng'er down Remember not to cut the key, but not too lightly. Make sure that he is in a coma on the spot and can't see things for several days! "

Su Shuishui was shocked: "master?!"

"The child is still a little softer." Su Xiuming said, "once the Donghu cannot be defended, it's a foregone conclusion that Rong people will enter the Central Plains.". What if he can't bear the fall of Youyan and other states? That's the so-called 300, 000 soldiers, actually there are more than 200, 000 soldiers. Our Qingzhou army can't reach the imperial capital at any time. The imperial forest army can't say how much it's used. After all, it's the Royal forbidden army. The first one to protect is the royal family, not our gentry! We can only count on Xiliang army's intentions! How can we continue to delay here? "

He hums, "I don't care about the people in these states at all. I just stopped Liu Xi from rushing to Donghu. I left him to guard Yanzhou. If you can't keep it, it depends on the lives of the people in these states. In short, while Liu Xi is going to hunt down Xinzhou serviceman now, let's make a big deal about the assassin's sneaking into Yanzhou. Then I'll fall down with feng'er. You remember to explain to the guards and make a big deal with them. Immediately gather the whole army to escort feng'er and me back to the capital! "

He added, "do remember to emphasize that we are all unconscious and in danger. Otherwise, it would be harmful to our family to abandon the city and escape!"