son-in-law

Chapter 1012
The process of resisting Jurchen's fourth southern expedition lasted for two years.In the first half of the time, various forces in Jin and Shandong fought epic battles with the Jin army; in the second half, it was the wars in the south of the Yangtze River and the southwest that attracted the attention of most people in the world.But in addition to this, there are naturally large and small waves in the Central Plains region north of the Yangtze River and south of the Yellow River.

In the first half of the first ten years of Jianshuo, Xuzhou once became the last blocking point before the Jurchen launched the Jiangnan War. The causal connection of this battlefield has to be extended to the actions of all parties before the war started.At that time, the Huaxia Army mobilized means to kidnap the puppet Qi emperor Liu Yu in Bianliang, and then threw Liu Yu's blame on the Wu Dynasty anyway. Sending troops to help, but also dragging the Huaxia Army into the forefront of the war.

The behavior of the two parties who seemed to throw the pot at each other was actually aimed at fighting against Jurchen. In response to Jun Wu's move, Ning Yi ordered Liu Chengzong to lead more than [-] people under his command to Xuzhou to help him fight back and defend the city.In the tenth year of Jianshuo, when the Jurchen East Route Army arrived in Xuzhou, Liu Chengzong led his own army and more than [-] troops under Li Anmao's command to occupy the city for three months, and then broke through to the north.Since Zongfu Zongbi was not firm in his will to launch a war here, the war did not develop to such a tragic extent.

It is true that we can fight side by side when defending the city together, but when we break through and turn to battle, some things will separate you and me.Li Anmao, the prefect of Xuzhou, was originally under Liu Yu's command, and his heart was towards the Wu Dynasty. At the beginning of the war, the Huaxia Army, who had been recruited for the overall situation, sent troops. When Xuzhou fell, he naturally wanted to bring his army back to the south of the Yangtze River.

——This was not a big deal at first. The Huaxia Army was expensive and not expensive, and he didn't covet the [-] miscellaneous soldiers under his command. But before the battle with Jurchen, the two sides had been together in Xuzhou City for half a year. To prevent these troops from holding back, the work of propaganda, infiltration, and recruitment must be done.After evacuating from Xuzhou and seeing the combat power of the Huaxia Army, some middle and lower-level officers of the Li Army had already made plans to join the Huaxia Army after more than half a year of infiltration work. Therefore, as the retreat progressed, Li Anmao They were directly seized power, and as soon as more than [-] people changed hands, they changed black flags.

After the preliminary completion of the integration of Xuzhou, due to the critical situation in Shandong, Liu Chengzong and others moved northward to support Zhu Biao, Wang Shanyue and others in Liangshan.However, due to the raids and raids by the Jurchen East Route Army all the way south, Shandong starved for thousands of miles. Although Liu Chengzong had an army in his hands, he was short of supplies, and the supplies on Liangshan were also extremely poor. In the end, he went to Shanxi to mediate and borrow A group of grain and grass supplies, thousands of people supporting Liu Chengzong crossed the Yellow River to face Wan Yanchang.

The tens of thousands of Li troops who had just been incorporated had no choice but to stay on the south bank of the Yellow River to fend for themselves.

In order to lead the army to carry out subsequent reorganization and survival, Liu Chengzong left here a leadership team composed of more than [-] people who are good at political work and organization, and the leader is Zou Xu, the deputy chief of staff of the division.This is a leader among the young officers of the Huaxia Army. He made his mark during the battle against Xixia, and was later taught and trained by Ning Yi. Although he was still the deputy chief of staff at the division level, he handled things neatly and had the ability to be independent... …

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"Zou Xu, I'm also very impressed with this person." Qin Shaoqian said as the night wind blew past the barracks outside Hanzhong City, "He is one of the most talented of your early disciples. He has a decent name and acts like you. It's very similar. After the Xixia battle, the Jurchen came to demonstrate and brought the head of shopkeeper Lu. He was one of the main receptionists, and he was neither humble nor overbearing. You said at the time that this person is useful."

Ning Yi nodded: "At the beginning, a group of people from Xiaocanghe produced many outstanding talents, but today, there are not many left, and many people died on the battlefield unfortunately. Now Chen Tian's position At the highest level, he partnered with Qu Zhengyan as the chief of staff. Chen Tian's descendant is Zou Xu. He is very capable. It was my intentional delay. It should be clear about these things, so this time in Xuzhou, Liu Chengzong gave him this opportunity to be alone...I also ignored it..."

Qin Shaoqian nodded and read the information Ning Yi gave him again.

It was in the autumn of the tenth year of Jianshuo that Zou Xu took over the nearly [-] troops.This was almost two years ago.

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No matter from which point of view, the recruitment and deployment of the tens of thousands of troops originally under Li Anmao's command was not an easy task.

First of all, after the establishment of the puppet Qi, Xuzhou was already the territory of the puppet Qi Liuyu, and the establishment of the puppet regime was originally to exhaust the Central Plains.Li Anmao's heart was attached to the Wu Dynasty, and when the time came, he wanted to seek the right way, but the so-called army under his command was originally a puppet army with no fighting power. Just to make up for it, its combat effectiveness may only be slightly better than that of the Han army in the late period of the Southwest War.

Liu Chengzong led 8000 people to defend Xuzhou with him. In order to be safe, he must hold command and control in his hands-although Li Anmao is passionate, he is always loyal to the Wu Dynasty. After Xuzhou defended for three months, he meant that all People were crucified to death in Xuzhou and guarded until the last soldier, so as to minimize the pressure on the Jiangnan defense line.It was impossible for Liu Chengzong to accompany him, so he directly knocked out Li Anmao during the meeting, and then seized power and transferred it.

In this way, although the transfer of the upper-level command authority has been completed, within this miscellaneous army, people are not yet psychologically prepared for the disruption and thorough reorganization of the entire army ecology.After Liu Chengzong and others decided to go north, what was left to Zou Xu's working group was a troop that didn't have enough food, no combat power, and not even enough centripetal force. The literal number was close to [-], but in fact it might explode at any time. Start a ticking time bomb.

Of course, under the circumstances at that time, no force in the entire world could be called "easy" to survive.

Jindi experienced the turmoil of Tian Hu's death and Liao Yiren's betrayal successively. Lou Shuwan and others also hid in the mountains and struggled to survive.

Zhu Biao and Wang Shanyue experienced the tragic rescue of the Daming Mansion, with heavy casualties. Countless companions were arrested and massacred.

In the south of the Yangtze River, the army of the Jurchen East Road is about to overthrow.

In the southwest, what the main force of the Huaxia Army needs to face is also the threat of the strongest army in the world led by Zong Han and Xi Yin.

This army can only be thrown out like an abandoned child.Even at that time, Ning Yi did not have too optimistic expectations for the future of these 5 people. He made some suggestions to Zou Xu's working group thousands of miles away, and at the same time gave them the greatest freedom.Under such circumstances, Zou Xu struggled to reorganize the army.

On the one hand, for more than a year, Zou Xu contacted local landlords and powerful clan forces, adopted the method of uniting one against one, using war to support war, and obtaining external resources as much as possible to maintain his own survival;

On the other hand, without the support of the main force of the Huaxia Army led by Liu Chengzong, he made huge adjustments and cuts to the army. First, some people were eliminated from the battle, and some people were also lost in long-distance transfers, and then they actively disarmed. , maintain the core combat force at the scale of more than 11 people, plus the two splits in the middle, until the winter of the [-]th year of Jianshuo, this army moved thousands of miles, was covered with bruises, and took root near Funiu Mountain in the southwest of Luoyang. root.

Being able to achieve such an effect, Zou Xu's leadership ability is undoubtedly evident.At that time, the Jiangnan War was over, and the Southwest War was about to start. Although this army supported the war and played some elites, its overall strength was much worse than that of the Jurchen West Route Army. In the past year, there were endless battles and lack of supplies. , His vitality has been injured, and Ning Yi does not intend to put it into combat in the end, but to let him recuperate, and prepare to use it as a key force to capture Luoyang, Bianliang and other places in the future.

A fierce internal split broke out in January of this year. At that time, the original working group with only eight members confronted each other. It is said that a small-scale "rebellion" broke out, which was suppressed by Zou Xu.Two members of the working group and dozens of soldiers fled with injuries. At that time, Fang Chengye, who had returned from the North, was ordered to go to the vicinity of Luoyang. After learning about the situation, he contacted Zhuji Force to initiate an investigation procedure.

At that time, when the Southwest War was in full swing, Ning Yi was constantly gathering strength to prepare for the subsequent battle of Wangyuan Bridge.As for the changes that happened near Funiu Mountain, he was naturally unable to judge for a while, so he could only order the external personnel who still had the capacity to carry out verification according to the procedures under the premise of keeping it as secret as possible.The entire investigation process has been confirmed by many sources, and the dust has just settled at the end of April.

The results of the investigation showed that the Huaxia army entrenched in Funiu Mountain at this time had been completely transformed into a monopoly controlled by Zou Xu. This was not the biggest problem. The real problem was that Zou Xu had , has been dominated by material desires and pleasure emotions. Near Ruzhou, there was an act of killing landlords and seizing their wives and concubines. After arriving at Funiu Mountain, they joined forces with Luoyang prefect Yin Zong and others, and some of them received a large amount of supplies from them. Even the case of women happens.

According to the results of various investigations, after arriving at Funiu Mountain, the local gentry prepared several villas for Zou Xu in nearby counties. Zou Xu looked normal in the army, but he often went to the city to enjoy himself.These things were only vaguely noticed at first, and since Zou Xuzhi's army was quite rigorous, no one said anything hastily.In January of this year, the battle situation in the Southwest was tense. After the news that Huangming County was breached, other members of the working group thought that they could no longer just sit back and watch the war situation develop. Now that they had taken a breather, they should make further plans. Both sides Finally, they made an attack at the meeting and confronted each other.

Zou Xu himself is capable and powerful, but the other people in the working group are not fuel-efficient lamps. The two sides made the matter clear, and the working group began to impeach Zou Xu. Among the eight people at that time, only Zou Xu was on the side. There are two other people.So Zou Xu launched an attack, and among the five people who confronted him, three were killed after that, and hundreds of soldiers of the Huaxia Army died in this internal strife.

After Fang Chengye and others intervened, Zou Xu once tried to catch all the insiders, and finally gave up after the possibility of this was shattered.He had a meeting with Fang Chengye and others, and then expelled them without further excuses.Fang Chengye immediately sent back a message, and only then did Ning Yi know that such a vicious act of betrayal had broken out in the north during such a fierce battle in the southwest.

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"What I have with me is just a summary." The soldiers on patrol in front came over and saluted Ning Yi and Qin Shaoqian, and Ning Yi also returned the salute, and then said, "Fang Chengye's investigation in that area is relatively detailed, Zou Xu is in control After recruiting [-] troops, since Liu Chengzong's troops had already left, he had no leverage to forcefully suppress them. Within the army, he could only rely on checks and balances of power and intrigue to divide the original middle-level generals in order to maintain the command of the working group. From the means On the face of it, he did a pretty good job."

"Externally, he knows that he does not have the advantage of harmony, so he always unites one group of gentry forces to fight another group; the battle is constant, so he can maintain external pressure and maintain relative stability internally; and in such battles , Dividing and streamlining the troops is actually similar to the methods adopted by Jin Guo. If the 20 miscellaneous soldiers are treated equally, it will be difficult for him to maintain power stability with a working group of more than 1 people. Adjusting layer by layer, the army is also divided into three, six, and nine ranks. In the end, although there are only more than 5 core troops left, the combat power of the entire army has far exceeded the previous [-]. Such a planning ability , if it is used on the right path, it can accomplish great things.”

When Ning Yi said this, Qin Shaoqian smiled and said: "In some respects, I have really won your mantle."

"Privately speaking, I did look a bit like me earlier, first of all, I look handsome, right?" Ning Yi said, and both of them laughed, "Then it's the way of doing things, the earlier one A group of people first consider doing things, and their teaching methods are very radical, and some even use all kinds of methods. However, Zou Xu's actions are not only effective, but also very generous and relatively particular in many aspects, which I appreciate very much. The place."

Ning Yi paused: "Also, personally, Zou Xu was able to suffer from the lack of resources earlier, but at the same time, he knows how to enjoy the hardships. How can he get something delicious with limited resources? Under normal circumstances, he emphasizes appetite... This is actually very similar to me, and now that I think about it, this is one of my weaknesses."

Qin Shaoqian said: "It's normal to be hungry when there's nothing to eat. I don't think it's a big deal when things get better in the future..." He is also a dude who came from the prosperous age, and he has already enjoyed what he should have enjoyed in his early years. I don't think there's anything wrong with it.

Ning Yi sighed slightly, then patted him on the shoulder, without saying anything about it.

"The area in the Central Plains is indeed very barren, but there are always people who can survive. Zou Xu has been fighting all the way, pulling one side to fight the other, and has frequent contacts with some big clans and landlords. Last autumn in Ruzhou It should be regarded as a turning point. The concubine of a family should have been regarded as the children of officials and eunuchs. The two hooked up with each other and were later exposed on the spot. This may be the first time that Zou Xu has dealt with this kind of personal matter. The whole family, and then put a name on it, alas..."

"Then go to Luoyang...Actually, in terms of combat power, the few families that are still alive in the Central Plains have been reduced to the extreme at the moment. They are just some local rich men and some gangs of bandits. Zou Xu led the Huaxia Army In order to survive in that area, although he fought back and forth, his reputation has always been good. He will fight against one side and never attack his own boss. So for these people, paying protection money to Zou Xu, In such a chaotic situation, it is not too uncomfortable..."

Qin Shaoqian smiled: "Instead of paying protection fees to others, how can we draw them over and become our own people?"

Ning Yi nodded: "That's right, the matter in Ruzhou is hard to trace now, it's hard to say whether these people led by Luoyang Yin Zong took the initiative to design and corrupt Zou Xu, or Zou Xu came to this step naturally. But in general Said, Zou Xu has already had a showdown with Fang Chengye, and he will not accept the result of returning to the Huaxia Army and then accepting a trial, so he can only make up his mind and unite with some shabby settlers in the Central Plains to become the king of the mountain. Zou Xu himself has a lot of experience in running the army. In terms of ability, he is also very clear about the internal rules, rewards and punishments, and various things of the Huaxia Army. If there are people like Yin Zong who continue to transfuse blood, and if he is not excluded, he may indeed become a team in the next few years... ...a weakened version of the Huaxia Army..."

"... What are you going to do?"

"It's impossible to forgive him now." Ning Yi shook his head, "If Tang Minjie hadn't been thrown to the Kingdom of Jin, I really wanted to throw him to Funiu Mountain and have a ring with Zou Xu. Now...Leave it to Fang Chengye first, and explore the surrounding situation. It would be best if it can be resolved properly. If not, in a few years, we will sweep him together. The world is too big, and there are already many people who come to join in the fun anyway. gone."

The two walked along the barracks, Qin Shaoqian nodded and thought for a long time: "I now understand why you were so worried before."

"For a year, if you don't look at it, what should be corrupted will also be corrupted... For the next few years, this will be the most serious problem we face."

"Understood... class, meeting."

"Comrade Shaoqian...you are a bit high-minded..."

The galaxy spread in the night sky, and the two people in the military camp were chatting and laughing. Although they were talking about serious matters that would even determine the future of the entire world, they would occasionally hook shoulders.

The Han River flows south of the barracks.A great war that shocked the whole world has come to an end. Countless people are still listening to the wind on the thousands of miles across the land of Shenzhou. The follow-up impact is about to cause waves among the crowd. everything.

It has been 14 years since the Jurchen went south for the first time. The whole world is fragmented, and various flags have been changed on countless cities. At this moment, a new change is about to begin.

(End of this chapter)