Cultivating immortals, starting from immortality, bright moon toast together

Chapter 148

“The army has a law, and those who retreat without an order, draw ten and kill one, behead.”

Under the sun, the hundreds of soldiers who had just collapsed from the front battle were stripped of their weapons and armor, kneeling on the ground and shivering.

Soon, a group of superintendents walked over, and involuntarily pulled out dozens of unlucky eggs who were picked, and in their crying fathers and mothers, they pressed them to the ground and directly cut off their heads.

The splattered blood spray and rolling heads fell in the eyes of the soldiers who were not selected in the back, and suddenly made people tremble even more.

Some of them were even more frightened, but no one cared about him.

Even if it is a madman, sent to the battlefield, Wuyang follows and rushes up, which can consume the enemy’s bows and arrows to some extent.

Death also has to give me death on the battlefield.

The soldiers, who were accustomed to the cruelty of the battlefield, knew very well that if they did not send these first to the camp to rush the city, then it would be their turn to rush, so they did not have any sympathy and could not bear it.

It is always better for others to die than to die yourself, and cold-blooded people always live longer.

After dealing with a wave of defeated troops, the second wave of the first camp continued to carry siege equipment, shouting and killing towards the city wall.

Those Seven Star Gate rebels in the city are still too numerous.

Although nearly half of the nearly 10,000 rebels were newly recruited people, they were still farming not long ago and had little combat experience.

When defending the city, many rebels were busy and made many mistakes.

Some don’t even dare to kill people, even if it’s just throwing a rock down the stairs, they have to close their eyes.

But I can’t stand up to the many others.

Tens of thousands of rebels, even if they are divided into several rounds and take turns to guard the city, it is enough to fill the four city walls.

Relying on this sufficient strength, Lu Yuan sent troops to attack several rounds, leaving thousands of corpses at the foot of the city, but still failed to shake the city defenses.

The city still stood firmly on the ground, and the soldiers who impacted were like ants shaking trees, seemed so insignificant.

“You can’t fight like this. ”

After watching the attack and defense of the city for a day, Lu Yuan looked at another wave of retreating Xiandeng camp, and his brows frowned slightly.

Shaoyang Fucheng is a big city after all, not comparable to those simple camps that were fought in Changning before.

The city is three feet high and two feet thick, and all kinds of towers and arrow towers on the city wall, wood and stone rolling oil, can be said to be armed to the teeth.

To fight such a strong city, there are 10,000 defenders, and it will not take a year and a half to drop 50,000 or 60,000 corpses, which is not something to take.

But Lu Yuan’s remaining time was only six months, and there were only 20,000 people under him.

How can there be so much time and manpower slowly consumed under this city.

“Master, this city is strong, just rely on strong attacks, I am afraid it will be difficult to break the city.”

Zhou Qing also observed the whole siege process on the side, and at this time, he also felt that this city was difficult to fight, and he couldn’t help but have a headache.

In fact, even in such a martial arts world, it is not easy to fight and attack the city in ancient times.

Otherwise, the previous imperial court fought the Jinghai Kingdom in the south, the Pingshu thieves in the west, and the Liang people in the north to fight Guangling County, which would not have been delayed for a long time, and there would have been little progress for several years.

Your army is strong, but the enemy is determined to hold on to the city, what can you do if you can’t fight it?

You can’t really risk multiple times the losses and spend a huge price to attack.

If this is the case, I am afraid that if a few cities are not built, their own people will die first.

Even if he didn’t die, a mutiny was indispensable.

In the end, the battle was not won, but he lost miserably first.

Therefore, the Liang people in the north fought Guangling County for three years, mobilized millions of troops before and after, killed more than 100,000 people, consumed countless costs, and finally could only withdraw their troops in ashes.

The imperial court fought the Jinghai Kingdom, and almost emptied the two counties of Nanhai and Yulin in the south, and it took three years to barely take it.

As for Nishikawa in the west, it is still fighting.

And what about those Miao people in Dongting County, who claim to be hundreds of thousands?

In the face of the dynasty that was determined to hold on, even if there were only 30,000 or 50,000 officers and soldiers in the whole county, it was not a year without much progress, and so far it has only occupied four counties.

Lu Yuan himself originally relied on death to hold on and divided the Miao people into two sections on the Shaoyang Mansion.

But I didn’t expect that it was my turn to face this turtle shell at this time.

“How about the grain and grass storage in the city?”

Lu Yuan frowned and pondered for a while, then turned his head and asked.

“Food in the city?”

Zhou Qing was slightly stunned, and then reacted, his master wanted to besiege the city and surround the enemy until he ran out of food.

This is the most commonly used means when the army is attacking the city.

However, Zhou Qing really didn’t know about this matter. After all, he is also the same as Lu Yuan, he has only come here for a short time, how can he know the situation here.

Fortunately, the two of their masters and apprentices are not clear, and among the army, there are still people who are clear.

Soon among the volunteers who came to serve, a rebel leader named Tian Jing was summoned.

This person was originally in the capital city, serving as the governor of the cang, responsible for the storage of various warehouses in the city, and the storage of grain was also within the scope of his duties.

Later, Qixingmen rebelled, and he took the opportunity to escape from the city with some of his warehouse soldiers, and has been hiding in the countryside outside the city, relying on some hearts to provide powerful relief to the imperial court, which can barely survive.

It is precisely because of this origin that after seeing Lu Yuan coming to suppress the rebellion with the officials and soldiers of the imperial court this time, Tian Jing also did not hesitate, and brought his subordinate warehouse soldiers, as well as hundreds of volunteer soldiers supported by the relief and strong support, and rushed to join the army.

Lu Yuan’s evaluation of this person was that this was an available person who was now trustworthy and loyal to the imperial court.

Now that there is unrest in various places and people’s hearts are fluctuating, such officials are needed to stabilize the place.

He was all planning whether to arrange an important ministry for this Tian Jing and help him stabilize Luyang Mansion.

Tian Jing soon came, and after hearing the main general’s inquiry, this Yuan Cang Du thought.

For a moment, and then answered truthfully: “Return to the general, according to the imperial court system.”

degree, the rice warehouse set up in the capital city needs to be hoarded enough for two years in the city.

However, in recent years, fighting and rebellion have affected local agricultural production, and the amount of rice grain in the depot has been greatly reduced.

Now that the county has to support the money and grain of the Pingshu army, I and other localities have sent a lot of money and grain to the county capital.

Therefore, when I was originally the governor of Cang, the rice stored in the city was only enough to maintain the people in the city for half a year.

But some time ago, the Seven Star Rebels raised 30,000 troops and went north to attack Hengyang Mansion.

These 30,000 troops, counting the people carrying grain, that is 50,000 or 60,000 people.

With so many people, the entire rebel eats horses and chews, and it costs a lot of money. I am afraid that most of the storage in the city will be consumed again.

In the past few days, the rebels only cared about collecting manpower, and there was no time to collect grain and grass from the countryside, so the subordinate estimated that there was definitely not much food stored in the city.

There were already more than 30,000 people in the city, and now there are tens of thousands more rebels, so many people, the food in the city will eat at most for two or three months, and it may even only last for one month, and it will be exhausted. ”

Based on his professional experience, Tian Jing made such a judgment.

And after Lu Yuan listened, he couldn’t help but rejoice: “Can it only last for two or three months?” ”

Tian Tingn’s head was very affirmative: “Yes, at most two or three months.” My Luyang Province has many mountains and does not produce much grain. In previous years, the grain produced was just enough for the people in the province to be self-sufficient.

If you encounter a disaster year and a drought year, you have to rely on foreign governments to provide assistance.

After those seven-star thief rebels rose up, they hurriedly went north to attack Hengyang Mansion, in fact, there was no reason to go north to grab food.

Because the government has food, they can’t afford to support their 30,000 troops.

If these traitors wanted to maintain so many soldiers and horses, they had to go out and grab food. ”

When Lu Yuan heard this analysis, he couldn’t help but be even more pleased in his heart.

If it is true that as Tian Jing said, there are only two or three months in the city, no, or even only one month of grain, then he does not need to spend manpower to attack the city at this time.

It only takes two or three months to besiege these traitors and die of hunger in the city.

At that time, these seven-star gate thieves will either come out to fight him to the death, or they can only obediently surrender.

Either way, you win.

After having the bottom, Lu Yuan suddenly felt determined in his heart, and then looked at Tian Jing, and couldn’t help but smile: “This time it is thanks to the news of Governor Tian Cang, otherwise I would have taken this Xiongcheng, and I really don’t know what to do.” ”

Tian Jing did not dare to take credit, and said very wisely: “Xiaguan just said something within the scope.” As a governor of the warehouse, it is a sin to abandon the warehouse and leave. The general did not blame me, but allowed our army to serve in front.

Now that he can make up for the merit and help the general, the lower officer is already grateful. And how dare you take credit. ”

Lu Yuan smiled, and his good impression of this Tiancang Governor couldn’t help but deepen.

Know the progress and retreat, do not take credit, know how to give the credit to the boss. It is too wasteful to wait for such good subordinates and only be a military head colonel.

So he thought about it, and added that he had a plan in his heart, and said at this time: “Governor Tiancang’s ability would have been known.” The destruction of the city is the fault of the previous prefect, what does it have to do with you?

Takura Governor can lead troops to escape when the city is broken, and not follow thieves, this is Zhongyi.

Being able to enlist his subordinates and obtain local powerful funding is the ability.

Faithful and capable, how can such talents not be reused in troubled times?

The Pingyang County side is the logistics center of our army, which is related to the safety of the army. Now there is no local county order, and so far it can only rely on military control to maintain order.

How can it work in the long run?

Now that Luyang Prefecture has recovered most of it, the missing local officials must also be replenished.

The position of Pingyang County Commandery, I think Tiancang Governor is very suitable.

In this way, you first go there to manage government affairs, and later I will recommend it to the county government, and when the official appointment is made, you will officially do the Pingyang order. ”

A huge sense of happiness instantly flooded Tian Jing at this time.

Any official, who does not want to be promoted and get rich?

But Tian Jing is just an ordinary person, and there is nothing to do with the backers, such a background, how difficult is it to rise?

Therefore, even if he works diligently and conscientiously every day, he has been an official for more than ten years, and now he is in his thirties, and he is only a cangduan of the eighth grade.

That’s it, the speed of promotion is quite fast.

If you change to other people who mix a little, I’m afraid they are still spinning at the level of the ninth rank!

But now, General Fenwu in front of him just mentioned it, and he was promoted from the eighth grade to the county order of the seventh grade.

Spanning two levels in a row, the most important thing is to change from the original auxiliary officer to a landlord officer, which is a qualitative leap.

Tian Jing did not doubt Lu Yuan’s words.

In this chaotic era, especially the frontline battlefield, the rights of a general like Lu Yuan can be said to be great.

He recommended a person to be the county order, even if it was for the victory of the front-line army, the county government would not refuse.

So I was promoted.

Thinking of this, Tian Jinger didn’t say a word, and directly bowed to the ground: “General Jing Xie was promoted, knowing the grace of encounter, the subordinate dare not forget it in this life.” In the future, the general had an order, and the subordinates did their best, but did not dare to push back. ”

Bureaucrats, forming parties for personal gain, is almost instinctive.

Although Tian Jing is a capable and practical official, this does not prevent him from finding a backer for himself, which is the case at this time.

“Get up.”

Looking at such a good Tian Jing, Lu Yuan was very satisfied in his heart, this kid was not promoted wrong. Then he instructed: “Pingyang heavy land, in the future, it will be handed over to you, don’t let me down.” ”

“Yes, even if the subordinate officer is exhausted, he does not dare to live up to the general’s trust.”

Tian Jing immediately expressed his position.

Lu Yuan nodded, and then didn’t say more, letting people go down.

Promoting Tian Jing was not a hot idea in his head, but a well-thought-out plan.

First of all, Luyang Prefecture is now full of official shortages, and the counties are now only maintained by military control, and cannot resume normal operation and production. In the long run, it is really not a solution.

Secondly, since it is planned to besiege the city here for a long time, the army really needs a stable logistics base to provide food and grass for the army.

As the chief official of Pingyang County at the base, Tian Jing is very suitable.

Finally, now the Great Yue Imperial Court is seeing that it is becoming more and more unworkable.

Lu Yuan led the army all the way, and what he saw everywhere was that not only the people were living in dire straits, but those local military leaders and powerful people also greatly reduced their awe of the imperial court and began to support their own dignity.

As the largest military leader of Dongting County, although he now respects the name of the imperial court, he has not thought of rebelling for the time being.

But one cannot fail to think long-term.

At this time, Lu Yuan felt that he could actually try to weave his own henchmen in the county.

There is no need to go too far, just arrange some of your own henchmen in the local prefecture and county to hold key positions.

In this way, when the time is needed, the local situation can be quickly grasped.

The field scene in front of him is just a chess piece that is casually planted.

Lu Yuan is still planning to ask the county government to transfer someone he is familiar with to come over and become the prefect of Luyang, and cooperate with him to suppress the rebellion.

As for who this familiar person is, of course, it is his friend Sun Siwen.

Sun Siwen is now in the position of Sima of Zhengliupin, and he has also been doing it for two years, and his political achievements are not small on weekdays. In the annual assessment of the county government, they are all of the highest class.

Now the prefect who has been promoted to the fifth grade of the two levels is faster, but the Luyang Mansion is a war zone, and those dangers are not mentioned.

Just because the capital city has not yet been laid, it makes people wonder whether this prefect can do it for a long time?

After all, here in Luyang Mansion, in addition to the traitors of the Seven Star Gate, there is also an army of 100,000 Miao people.

Such a place is by no means a good place for officials.

Therefore, Lu Yuan felt that if he nominated himself, the county government should not refuse his request.

Therefore, the location of Luyang Prefecture, Sun Siwen should be stable.

And with a friend looking at his own back, he can also rest assured to suppress the rebels.