Turbulent Times Chapter 1339: The threat from the north

Being surprised, Zuo Xiaoyou sent envoys to meet with Wei Daoer and Liu Jicheng to negotiate, and the latter said that he was just taking the opportunity to continue fleeing south to Gaomi County.

Zuo Xiaoxiong didn't take the rebels from Shanggu County seriously, and even sent five thousand shi of food for a while, and sent some spies to watch, and then continued to lead the army to attack Dongkailai County.

Unexpectedly, when Zuo Xiaoyou broke through the county, Wei Daoer led 70,000 people to attack Zuo Xiaoyou's army suddenly. When the two sides were fighting like a raging fire, Guan Xiaotong led the hammer battalion to appear, and the final result was naturally Zuo Xiaoyou's disastrous defeat. Fleeing, part of the Hammer Battalion took the opportunity to enter Donglai County City.

And Wei Daoer and Liu Jicheng led the troops to escape, but instead of fleeing to Gaomi County in the south, they captured another county in Donglai County. Guan Xiaotong chased after him, and then took back this county.

In this way, it took Wei Daoer and Liu Jicheng more than a month to capture all the nine counties in Donglai County one by one, and then they were taken back by the Iron Hammer Camp led by Guan Xiaotong.

Of course, the imperial court will not be able to return the counties and counties recaptured by the Far Eastern Army.

And when the last county of Donglai County was controlled by the Far East Army, Wei Daoer and Liu Jicheng surrendered to the Far East Army.

Wang Junlin immediately ordered the formation of the seventh land battalion of the Far East Army, with Wei Daoer as the chief general. Wang Junlin rewarded Wei Daoer with a steel knife that cut iron like mud, and named the seventh land battalion Steel Sword Battalion, temporarily under the jurisdiction of the 70,000 rebels from Shanggu County.

As soon as the Steel Knife Battalion was formed, Wang Junlin ordered Wei Daoer to lead 70,000 people to Snake Island for intensive training in a concentrated training camp. By means of elimination, the full 50,000 people were selected, and the other 20,000 people were Logistics battalion.

As for Zuo Xiaoyou, after he fled back to his lair by the sea, he found out that the left behind general Zheng Dabiao had defected to the Far Eastern Army, and he was also surrounded by tens of thousands of sailors of the Far Eastern Army. , Zuo Xiaoyou was worried that Wang Junlin would cut him into pieces, so he swung a knife and killed himself by the sea.

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 navy as the main force, stationed in the former Zuo Xiaoyou's lair in Donglai County. Of course, they will go to Snake Island in batches for training in rotation.

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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 information gathered from all over the world.

Wang Junlin asked Shen Guoer to focus on the information about Luoyang Jingdu, Dongjun Wagangzhai, and Taiyuan Li Yuan for a closer look, and then looked at some information outside the Northern Pass, his expression suddenly became heavy.

"The Turkic people must take action within a year." Wang Junlin recalled that in history, the Turkic people should have had two or three years before their army went south, but now history has changed, and many things have been advanced. Thousands of cavalry go south, maybe it will be ahead of schedule.

There are reasons why Wang Junlin came to this conclusion. According to the intelligence outside the Northern Pass sent by Shen Guoer, since last autumn, many nomadic tribes on the frontier who had previously surrendered and protected them in the Sui Dynasty suddenly began to move around.

On the surface, it seems that the Great Sui's conquest of Goguryeo was defeated and the civil strife continued, which made these tribes see the weakness of the Great Sui, but Wang Junlin believed that there was definitely a shadow of the Turks behind it.

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 Da Sui shows it

Using one's own strength, the next time they send people pretending to be robbers to rob the people in Border County, they send a large army to kill some people fiercely, so they will naturally be honest.

However, in the current Sui Dynasty, how can there be any strength to show? Even if there is power, it no longer belongs to the imperial court, let alone something that Yang Guang can control.

Thinking of the hundreds of thousands of Turkic cavalry going south, countless counties and counties north of the Yellow River in the Great Sui Dynasty will surely lose their lives, Wang Junlin couldn't help but frowned tightly, but there was a murderous intent flashing deep in his eyes, and he sneered: " If the Turkic people dare to go south, don’t blame me for killing them.”

After arranging for Shen Guoer to send more spies to go deep into the northern grasslands to inquire about the situation of the Turkic people, Wang Junlin called Du Ruhui and Liu Ziming over to have dinner together, and told them to hurry up and hoard food and grass.

"The lord thinks that the Turkic people will go south in a big way within a year?" Du Ruhui saw that Wang Junlin was so serious about the matter, and even before Shen Guo'er sent someone to inquire about the specific information of the Turkic people, he had already started preparing for this matter. As if expecting the Turkic people to go south in a big way, he couldn't help asking questions.

"I fought several vicious battles with the Turkic people when I was in the northwest, and I know their habits very well. I believe that they will definitely go south in a large scale, but the time is not yet determined." When Du Ruhui and Liu Ziming spoke, they could only speak ambiguously.

"At that time, no matter whether there is an imperial order or not, the prince will personally lead the army to kill the Turkic people, right?" Liu Ziming has been with Wang Junlin for the longest time. People were slaughtered.

"You also know that with the current power of the imperial court, there is no capital to deal with a large-scale war at all. To deal with the entire Turks with the power of Taiyuan and Honghua in the north alone is simply asking for death."

"The imperial court, hmph, the emperor and those in the imperial court may still think that the Turkic people are the allies of the Sui Dynasty." Du Ruhui sneered with a sneer on his face, he hated the emperor and the various powerful families who controlled the imperial court.

In Du Ruhui's view, the once glorious Sui Dynasty now looks like a man suffering from tuberculosis. fall down.

Right now, it is just that his prince can still keep the Sui Dynasty alive, but if he wants to beat the Turkic people in fear as he did back then, I am afraid that his prince will have to step in.

Wang Junlin asked Du Ruhui and Liu Ziming to send a copy of every piece of information that Shen Guoer sent, so the two of them knew very well how corrupt the situation in the counties and counties of the Great Sui Dynasty had become.

Even so, those people in Luoyang are still spending a lot of money to organize the huge ceremony of the annual pilgrimage to the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, and they are still dreaming of a prosperous and powerful country, which is really ridiculous.

It's just that when Yang Guang, the emperor of the Sui Dynasty in Luoyang City, was receiving envoys from various countries who came out of nowhere to swindle money and benefits, more local thieves had already rebelled on this ground.

Now the big thieves who were originally famous in history have occupied a county, and some small thieves have led 10,000 to 20,000 people to attack the county, and dozens of people have set aside land to become kings.

These rebels didn't pay attention to the county soldiers who came to conquer and guard the city. However, the civil and military officials in those counties and counties were extremely useless, and most of them turned out to be "given" batches of armor and weapons to the rebels after repeated battles and defeats.

And before there was the battle of old general Feng Ciming

The example of dying on the battlefield, being convicted, and even implicating three sons, caused many officials to go directly to the rebels and become officials in order to avoid the crimes of the court after they were defeated. Don't take it off. In this way, the arrogance of the rebels in the world and the corruption of the situation will be further intensified.

"The world is in complete chaos today. I have carefully read the information sent by Guo'er. Since the beginning of this year, people who are blatantly rebelling everywhere are no longer just vagrants who can't survive." Wang Junlin said with emotion.

Du Ruhui said: "What the prince said is very true. There are all kinds of rebels in the world today, and all kinds of monsters and ghosts have appeared. It is true that the so-called evils come out of troubled times."

The situation that Wang Junlin and Du Ruhui said had to wait for more than a year in the original history, but now it happened ahead of schedule. There are influential families in the local area, some martial arts families, some green forest heroes who want to take advantage of the change of dynasty to establish achievements, and even all kinds of deceptive cults popped up, claiming to have boundless mana, and gathered dozens of them in a short period of time. Thousands of believers can do whatever they want in the local area, and the government is obsessed with them.

There were even some government soldiers who even conspired against each other. Although the direct reason was that the imperial court could not pay the food and grass, there was obviously a powerful family involved behind it. And no matter what kind of rebel or what kind of rebel, the local county soldiers and county soldiers always lose more than they win, and even many officers and soldiers will be defeated as soon as they encounter rebels. "

Liu Ziming always pays attention to the tragic situation of all the people in the world, and sighed: "I don't care what the origin of those rebels is, now there are princes who committed murder in the counties of the Central Plains last year, whether it is rebellion or want to do other things, yes At least the common people will no longer kill innocent people indiscriminately, but what the court has done is really too much."

Speaking of this, Liu Ziming gritted his teeth with resentment on his face, "In the third month of the new year, I don't know which idiot wrote to the emperor, suggesting that officials from all over the country move all the people to live in the city, and only plant the fields near the city. All the fields in the villages and remote areas were abandoned in order to starve the bandits to death.”

"Such an absurd statement, after discussing with Pei Shiju, Yu Shiji and others for a few days, the emperor actually agreed to this strategy, and even ordered all the counties and counties in the world to adopt it. In this way, the officials of the counties and counties are naturally overjoyed , They took advantage of the opportunity of building the city and relocating to make another big ticket. But after they finished making money, they forced many people who didn't want to be thieves to become thieves, not to mention the rebels in the northern counties and counties. There are not as many regions as there are controlled by thieves. Even the wealthy Jiangnan has a large number of rebels."

"Speaking of which, not all county officials are useless or mediocre. The county is far worse, but compared to other counties in the world, it is considered a blessed land." Du Ruhui said while reading the information.

Wang Junlin said with a smile: "Ruhui is talking about Zhang Xutuo, the Yingyanglang general of Qi County! I also read the information, and it is said that Zhang Xutuo led 10,000 county troops to defeat Lu Mingyue, the giant bandit of Qi County. At that time, Lu Mingyue was said to have 100,000 horses. I heard that the emperor was very pleasantly surprised when he heard it, and he also knew that the conviction of old 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 is preparing to give Zhang Xu To set an example by conferring officials and titles!"

Speaking of this, Wang Junlin suddenly remembered something, his expression was condensed, and he ordered: "Come here, send an order to the Military Intelligence Office immediately, let them check whether there is Qin Qiong among the generals under Zhang Xutuo's command?"