Governor please stay

In the new year, there seems to be a breath of death coming. Wang Wei, Chen Yuankang and others all feel the pressure of the drastic changes in the world situation.

Whether it's Lan Jing or Xiao Yu, it doesn't matter where they are.Everyone understood that once the preparations were made, the Northern Expedition aimed at destroying the country would begin, and blood flowing into rivers would become the norm.

"My lord, during the Northern Expedition, we selected the best among the best in the army, and used a small number of the most elite soldiers as commandos, and the results were excellent. Now we can fix this part of the organization. With 500 people as a battalion, forming a few elite battalions will be enough." Can handle all kinds of emergencies.”

Chen Yuankang suggested to Liu Yishou, trying to dilute the uneasy atmosphere brought about by Xiao Yu's death.

"Well, yes, that's how the White Robe Army played back then."

Liu Yishou nodded slightly and said.

In history, the overall performance of Nanliang's army was very hip, but occasionally it performed brilliantly in small-scale battles. The organization and establishment of many troops at the grassroots level are good, and it is not completely worthless.

It is a very scientific approach to organize an elite unit with less than a thousand people and pass the feedback from existing actual combat.

"You should discuss this matter with Yang Zhong. We will draw elite soldiers from his trilogy to form two infantry battalions, recruit elite soldiers from the old Baipao troop to form a battalion, and recruit elite soldiers from Peng Le's cavalry team to form a battalion. Set up three infantry battalions and one riding battalion.

Whether it is food, salary or equipment, give the best, and only choose old brothers with families in Lianghuai. "

There is no doubt that these parts will be the sharp knife of the future Northern Expedition.

Chen Yuankang nodded slightly. With the fall of Xiao Yu and Xiao Yu, cutting off the power of the domestic vassal kings, and then taking back Luoyang in the Northern Expedition, is already the focus of the next step, and it is imperative to reorganize the elite trilogy.

At this moment, Yuan Shikang gently pushed the door open, handed a sealed bamboo tube to Liu Yishou and said, "My lord, something serious has happened. General Yuwen has sent a battle report."

What kind of battle is it for those who don't touch fish during the Chinese New Year?

Liu Yishou unwrapped the sealant with a strange face, blaming Yu Wentai for being a workaholic.

He read the battle report sent by Yuwentai's people at a glance, the more he read it, the more incredible he felt.

"My lord, what did the battle report say?"

Wang Wei asked suspiciously.

"It's hard to say, you can see for yourself."

Liu Yishou sighed softly, and passed the letter paper to Wang Wei and others.After everyone had finished watching, they looked at each other in blank dismay, feeling unbelievable, just like seeing a cat being beaten by a mouse.

The year is approaching, and big events are happening frequently!

Ever since Xiao Ying came to Guangzhou, she couldn't bear the hot and humid climate here, and her health has not been very good.Just at the end of last month, Xiao Ying caught a cold and died.

Although Chen Baxian was in charge of Xiao Ying's army, he was the other party's apparent subordinate.Once Xiao Ying died, the power of the Xiao clan in Guangzhou became unbalanced, and a new round of internal fighting began!

The old coin Xiao Bo contacted Chen Baxian, hoping that the other party would take refuge in him and send troops to attack Shaoguan together.When the time comes to support Xiao Gang, hold Guangzhou, Hengzhou, Xinzhou, and Chengzhou in his hands, and then threaten the Gaozhou, Yazhou, and Luozhou occupied by Mrs. Xian and Feng Bao, great things will happen!

I have to say that although Xiao Bo's suggestion is not feasible, it is indeed very attractive.These small states formed by Xiao Yan after the restructuring were almost equal to the land of a county. With so many counties added up, the land population is also very scary.

But this matter was learned by Xiao Tian, ​​Xiao Tian invited Chen Baxian to a banquet, intending to put poison on the banquet, poisoned Chen Baxian and his generals, and then annexed his army.It's just that the matter is not confidential, Chen Baxian found out in advance.

Chen Ba used his strategy first, on the surface he was going to a banquet, but in fact he took control of Panyu City quietly!

Knowing the defeat, Xiao Tian gathered up the remnants and fled Guangzhou, and came to Gaoyao County (Zhaoqing City) to defend the city!Not to be outdone, Chen Baxian directly supports Xiao Gang in his position, and uses Xiao Gang's banner to recruit and surrender!

What kind of person is Yu Wentai? Seeing the chaos in Guangzhou, he sent troops to join forces by sea and land to attack Yi'an County in Yingzhou (northeast of Shantou), and he was defeated in one battle.

Yuwentai, who fought smoothly, continued to attack Haifeng, Lianghua, and Zengcheng in the south, and the momentum was like a broken bamboo. The front of the soldiers had already reached dozens of miles east of Panyu City!

However, what Yu Wentai was fighting was a wave of disregard for logistics, and wanted to take advantage of the civil strife in Guangzhou to take advantage of the fire!He didn't expect that Chen Baxian could quickly quell the chaos and drive out the Xiao clan who refused to accept him from Panyu City.

Seeing Yu Wentai's menacing approach with his trilogy, Chen Ba first fortified the wall and cleared the country, and at the same time contacted the local powerful in Guangzhou, promising to make great profits and join forces against the enemy.

At the same time, he also encouraged the soldiers under his command to reward the three armies with all the gold and silver looted from Xiao Tian's mansion.In addition, the soldiers under Yu Wentai's command were already very tired from fighting for a long time, and they just hung their breath and didn't fall down.

Under the influence of the right time, place and people, Chen Baxian fought fiercely with Yu Wentai's army ten miles outside Panyu City for three hours, and returned to Panyu City for rest until he was exhausted.

At night, Chen Baxian personally led his troops to attack the enemy's camp again, smashing Yu Wentai, beheading thousands and taking more than [-] prisoners.

Yu Wentai fled in embarrassment with his nephews and nephews, as well as a few parts.Afterwards, they took a sea boat to bypass a lot of occupied land, and fled to Houguan City, where soldiers and horses were stationed, before stopping.

Because of the special terrain, the territories captured before were all near the sea, and there was no danger to defend by land, so all of them were lost this time, and they were all captured by Chen Baxian's general Hou Andu.

What is even more worrisome is that the soldiers and horses that have been trained in many fierce battles before can be regarded as the foundation of Yu Wentai's life, and they were wiped out in one battle.

It is really appropriate to describe Yuwentai's surprise attack as stealing a chicken without losing money.

This army is under the command of Yu Wentai, but it is not Yu Wentai's personal armed forces.The army is gone, and he can only linger in Houguancheng (Fuzhou City). Of course, he must give Liu Yishou an explanation!

The business manager messed up his errand, so naturally he can't treat it as nothing happened, and he still has to "plead guilty" to the chairman.In the letter, Yu Wentai asked Liu Yishou to "select another talented person", and he will return to Jiankang to plead guilty and wait to be punished.

"Write a letter to Yu Wentai and ask him to guard Houguan City and stop taking advantage of merit."

Liu Yishou sighed, Yu Wentai's wave was purely his own tossing around.Going south along the southeast coastal area is indeed a good route to conquer Guangzhou, but there is a problem that this can only be used as a diversion, but not as the main direction of attack.

You can take it, but you can't hold it.Once it fails, it will be a thousand miles away.The mission Liu Yishou entrusted to Yu Wentai was to contain the troops of the vassal kings in Guangzhou. Even when he was in Jiangzhou, he wanted to open up the line of Bashan County, join forces with Yu Wentai, and give the other party an elite army.

Unexpectedly, Yu Wentai, who was going smoothly before, would actually float away!With a handful of kings in his hand, he blew up the leaflet!

If Yu Wentai's wave is more stable, it can be said that he can complete the task lying down.

"My lord, after the beginning of spring, it is urgent to go south from Jiangzhou and open up Shaoguan."

Wang Wei suggested with a serious face.

Xiao Ying's death, is it good news for Liu Yishou?

Absolutely not!

Those vassal kings and clans of the Xiao Clan are themselves negative assets, and they are all things that are held back by Chen Baxian's thigh!In the past, with the constraints of these people, Chen Baxian could only defend Guangzhou and other places.Now without these people holding back, Chen Baxian is going to go north to counterattack instead!

"Do you think Yu Wentai should be transferred back?"

Liu Yishou asked suspiciously.

"My lord, realize your shame and be brave. If Yu Wentai is transferred back to punish him, wouldn't all the generals in the army have to act conservatively?

After Yu Wentai came back, how could he raise his head and be a man under the contemptuous eyes of others? "

Chen Yuankang denied Liu Yishou's opinion, and what he said was very reasonable, everyone nodded together.

"By the way, was it the Sand Sculpture King who shot and killed Chen Baxian's brother?"

Seeing that Chen Ba was about to rise up first, Liu Yishou suddenly asked a question related to it.

Wang Wei and the others were taken aback for a moment, then nodded and said, "It seems that there is such a thing."

"The Sand Sculpture King will fight in the future, let him wear a mask."

Liu Yishou suddenly felt that Hu Luxian seemed to have offended too many people.

For example Gao Huan, for example Chen Baxian and so on.

Chapter 556 Shaoguan Storm

The drastic changes in Guangzhou, the internal fighting of the Xiao clan surfaced from the water, but in the end, Chen Baxian, an outsider, took advantage of it, which made people feel a lot of emotion.

The story of the three monks without water always happens again and again.The culprit among them is none other than Xiao Yan, the self-proclaimed "Holy King" back then!

When Xiao Yan arranged for the chief executives of the southern counties, he really put some thought into it.

Isn't the imperial court unable to control Guangzhou so far away?Well, I'm going all out to mix sand!Let you check and balance each other.

The prefects of all counties, but all counties that are better, are basically controlled by members of the Xiao clan.

Of course, in order to prevent these Xiao clan members from uniting to rebel, Xiao Yan's arrangement is also very interesting. He arranges the children of different branches from far and near in neighboring counties.

Although they are both surnamed Xiao, many of their relationships go beyond the fifth server!If the in-laws are included, the relationship between them is even worse than that of people with foreign surnames.

This seemingly inconspicuous operation is now fermenting wildly in the Guangzhou incident.

Xiao Zifan, the prefect of Shixing County (Shaoguan), is a typical example.

In this turmoil, Siheung County is besieged on all sides.Surrounded by rebels.

The connection with the imperial court in the north has been cut off by Xiao Bo in Nankang County. In Guangzhou in the south, Chen Baxian has suddenly emerged and defeated the official army who came to suppress the rebellion, um, that is, the Yuwentai Department.

Logically speaking, Xiao Zifan should also surrender quickly, but why didn't he surrender?

Because he is not the clan of Xiao Liang, but the clan of Xiao Qi from the previous dynasty!From Xiao Zifan's point of view, the fight between the Xiao Clan King and Liu Yishou was nothing more than two tigers fighting outside the door, and it was none of his business!

The power of the Xiaoliang clan was emptied by Liu Yishou, Xiao Zifan didn't feel much in his heart, after all, Liu Yishou was very good at handling the clan's children, and his former clan didn't want to participate in it at all, and he didn't think it would be affected.

So when Chen Baxian sent someone to persuade him to surrender, Xiao Zifan refused!

Are you kidding me? It's too late for him to dodge this kind of thing. How could it be possible for others to participate in a few words?

However, misfortunes never come singly, Xiao Zifan is not interested in rebelling, while the powerful Hou family in Shixing County is very interested in following Xiao Gang in rebelling.

Hou Andu, the leader of the Hou family, led troops to attack Shixing County, but was defeated by Lu Xida and his younger brother Lu Guangda.

Hou An couldn't steal chickens and lose a lot of rice, so he had to take the remnants south to seek refuge with Chen Baxian, who was entrusted with a heavy responsibility.

After this battle, Xiao Zifan was scared out of his wits.This gang of local tyrants is lawless, and they don't accept control on weekdays, and they make trouble when there is trouble.

The local tyrants in Shiheung County are not just the Hou family!Now there is Hou Andu, who knows if there is another house behind?I escaped once, can I escape every time?

Xiao Zifan is not a hero, he was terrified!

Taking advantage of the window period when Yuwen Tai's troops attacked Guangzhou, and Chen Baxian was too busy to take care of himself, Xiao Zifan took two generals under his command, Lu Xida and Lu Guangda, and the three of them smeared the soles of their feet together!

Why didn't brothers Lu Xida and Lu Quanda kill Xiao Zifan and surrender to Chen Baxian?

In fact, this kind of thing is also easy to understand, because they are from Xincai, and they were born in Fufeng County, Qiaozhizhou County, rather than local tyrants in Shixing County.

Xincai (Xuanhu) is now under the control of Duguxin, the governor under the command of Liu Yishou.If he followed Chen Ba first, wouldn't he just wait for his family to be liquidated?

Not to mention that Liu Yishou wanted to clean up the overseas counties. If the Lu Xida brothers rebelled, wouldn't they pass the knife to the court to kill their relatives?

People like them who are officials in different places, especially generals, often have no choice whether to rebel or not.If you want to blame, you can only blame that you followed the wrong person and became Xiao Zifan's staff.

However, in Liang Guo's social environment, if the Lu Xida brothers from the common people's family want to succeed, they can only follow people like Xiao Zifan to make up for their shortcomings and mix their seniority and other opportunities.

Hou Andu had to follow Chen Ba first, otherwise he would not be able to protect his hometown.Local tyrants like them are unable to resist the rebels, and a little carelessness will be the disaster of extermination.

But the Lu Xida brothers are equivalent to "little officials". If they follow Chen Baxian, the family will not be able to keep them.On the contrary, if you resist desperately and make military exploits, you will easily stand out, and even if you die in battle, your family members will receive generous pensions from the court.How to choose, in fact, people with discerning eyes don't need to think at all, they can only go one way to the dark.

A group of people climbed mountains and waded to Jiankang. They were shocked to learn that Liu Yishou had returned to Shouyang, and they went all the way to Shouyang to plead guilty.

The prefect left the garrison and fled back to the center, abandoning the responsibility of guarding the land, this is a felony!Although Xiao Zifan is just a "literary lover", he is not a fool who does not understand the world.

Following the official procedure, they and their group are dead!But it's the difference between early death and late death.

Only by praying to the right God can one escape the catastrophe.

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"Xiao Zifan, you fled with your staff and led to the fall of Shixing County. You committed a heinous crime! Now you have the face to come back and beg for mercy?"

In the study room of the Shouyang mansion, Liu Yishou looked at Xiao Zifan, Lu Xida, and Lu Guangda who were kneeling on the ground pleading guilty, and scolded them coldly.

"Back to King Wu, Shixing County is surrounded by rebels, and Yuwentai's reinforcements were defeated by Chen Baxian. I was unwilling to surrender to the rebels, so I went to Shouyang to report the letter. What is my crime?"

Lu Xida clasped his fists and looked at Liu Yishou with no regret in his tone.

"Oh? You mean you ran well, right?"

Liu Yishou questioned with a grim expression.

Xiao Zifan desperately tugged on Lu Xida's sleeve, fearing that this young and energetic general in his early twenties would be tough against Liu Yishou.

It's human nature to run away if you can't beat it.But in this case, you can’t bring it to the table and say it.How else can we say that military orders are like mountains.

"King Wu, the local Marquis Andu of Shixing County rebelled and attacked the county seat, and we defeated him. The situation in Guangzhou is hopelessly corrupt. I waited for three lives to fill in, but it was just one line in the rebel army's credit book." , and please forgive our sins, King Wu, and allow us to pay for our crimes."

Xiao Zifan kowtowed and begged.

Thinking about the children of his former clan, Xiao Qi died just after he came of age.Now I still have to humble myself to beg a rich man who is far younger than myself to give me a high hand.The pain in my heart, only I know.

"Get up."

Liu Yishou let out a long sigh, but did not help the three kneeling on the ground.

"The Zhonghua Book Company still lacks someone to review books, so you should be an editor."

Liu Yishou looked at Xiao Zifan and said.

To be honest, the three of them gave up Shiheung County, and more than half of the blame was on Yu Wentai.In the area of ​​Guangzhou, the reason why many wealthy chieftains and local officials did not join Xiao Gang and Chen Baxian before was that they were worried that the imperial army would soon come to suppress the rebellion.

If you don't send it out, it's like jumping.

If Yu Wentai had been wandering around in several counties along the coast, breaking in from time to time, making it impossible for Chen Baxian to concentrate his troops and lead his troops northward from Shaoguan, it would be a great achievement.

Now that Yuwentai suffered a disastrous defeat outside the city of Panyu, those fools saw that the imperial court's soldiers and horses would not be able to reach Guangzhou for a while. Isn't it obvious what to choose?

Fortunately, Xiao Zifan and others ran fast. If they were later, it would be difficult to escape successfully even if they wanted to.