1356 Beasts
The uproar and noise of the people under his rule, Ma Qiu did not foresee it, after all, the state itself is relying on tyranny to maintain, and many long-standing contradictions have been suppressed by tough means, once the people realize that the country is no longer as strong as before, a counterattack is inevitable!
Previously, Ma Qiu had a kind of torment that life was worse than death, and the reason was that Xie Ai created such a situation, as the town guard of Yedi, whether it was war or peace, there were many hidden dangers.
Making such a decision can be regarded as a double evil, and he can still have a way to serve the people in a turbulent tide, but once he makes a decision that makes the Lord feel jealous, then he will be helpless and obediently wait for death.
Although he had been prepared in his heart, the surging tide of the people still shocked Ma Qiu. In just two or three days after the two armies confirmed that they would negotiate peace with the Jin army on the front line, the voices of righteousness in various places rose one after another, and quickly spread to the entire Yedi. And there are many chaotic people who are not small in scale and even dare to directly impact the military defense of the Qiang army!
Ma Qiu naturally knows that Xie Ai has never relaxed his infiltration of Yedi in the past few years, but he has no lack of confidence in himself. But the current turbulent situation told him with facts that he still underestimated Xie Ai's infiltration of Yedi, and also overestimated his ability to control Yedi.
But fortunately, Yedi has been damaged by the war before, and since then it has been the front line of the confrontation between the two countries, and there is no longer a powerful township portal in the realm. Otherwise, the outbreak of the civil tide will be even more ferocious, and it may be possible for the Fangtou Jin army to take advantage of this popular tide to storm all the businesses in Yedi.
The current tide of the people only stopped at the riots, and did not shake the foundation of the Yedi army. But even so, the situation is not optimistic, if the army in this realm is the skeleton that constitutes the entire defense line, then many Jin Hu Lingmin are the flesh and blood scissors filled in the skeleton, and now the flesh and blood are cut by knives, and only the skeleton can be maintained.
Therefore, Ma Qiu immediately sent a letter to Xie Ai, warning him not to take advantage of this to continue to clamor the people's feelings, otherwise the peace talks would be suspended immediately, and he would also snipe the troops who fought all the way. At the same time, he sent people to quickly spread the book to the country, hoping to get a decisive reply from the lord's family.
Xie Ai of Fangtou replied very quickly, only saying that the reason why he had previously told the villagers in Yedi to accept the return of the army was because the consensus on the peace talks had not yet been reached, so it was natural to make preparations with both hands. Since Ma Qiu also has the sincerity to negotiate peace, he will naturally no longer clamor to the people to attack the military defense of the Qianjun army so as not to cause extraneous complications.
"Since Wang Shi went north, he has always been based on daring to fight hard, and he has not hoped that the people's feelings will harass him and cause trouble. The people of Hebei, most of them are the remnants of the chaos after the catastrophe, and they are the blood and bones of the treasure of my Zhuxia inheritance, if there is still the idea of seeking war, Fangtou has thousands of pillows and armor, and there is no need to incite the people to disrupt the enemy's formation. If I dare to make such a dangerous plan, and drive the people of Yedi to rush into battle with love and righteousness, the general of Xingtai will not be spared! ”
Xie Ai's words were not prevaricating, and the general did indeed state that no matter whether they were really attached to the righteousness of the king or took advantage of the clamor of the situation, it was not appropriate to drive them to attack the military formation of the army in exchange for fighters.
Although the country is strong in the outside world, the combat effectiveness of its army is still guaranteed, and those people in the field are absolutely dead and lifeless with their blood, and there is no way to estimate the number of people who have died. Now, in the eyes of the general, these people are no longer the war potential under the command of the Qiang State, but the foundation for reconstruction after the recovery of Yedi in the future, and they cannot be wasted here.
Moreover, when General Shen struggled in the Jiangdong quagmire in his early years, he was indeed a means of inciting public sentiment and controlling public opinion, but when the Northern Expedition was really useful, especially when it was a direct war, he rarely encouraged the people to participate in the war.
On the one hand, ordinary people will never be opponents of soldiers, and even if they win by sacrificing too many lives, they will lose more in the long run, and they will overdraw the potential for future social revival. On the other hand, people are easily restless, they do things with passion, they are a force that is not easy to control, or they can help, but there is also the possibility of bad things.
Although there have been a few seemingly dangerous moves, the main test is the ability of General Shen and his subordinates. As for being greedy and going to risk, hoping that the people will have the courage to sacrifice their lives in order to succeed, they have not done it once.
Moreover, with the beginning of the peace talks between the two sides, General Shen Da was already seven or eight points sure that he would avoid this realm without using swords and soldiers, and completely recover Yedi. In this case, there is no need to clamor for the people to send their lives to build fighter planes.
Later, Xie Ai did in the name of the governor of Fangtou, and ordered all parties in Yedi to raise righteous people, saying that Wang Shi had a strategy to fully recover Yedi, and the villagers only needed to wait for the righteous to enter the rule, and the expulsion of thieves and captives was undertaken by Wang Shi, and the righteous people were not in danger.
This edict is still quite effective, the people in Yedi Township are weak and the people who have revolted are already strong townsmen, and they really want to directly impact the defense of the army, and they are actually a little weak in their hearts.
Now that he has received such an order from Fangtou, the people's hearts will naturally gradually become stable, and the chaos at the beginning will no longer be restored. After realizing that the kingdom of Karma was already in a false state, their confidence in Wang Shi was also bursting, and they never doubted the possibility of Wang Shi recovering Yedi, but they were also worried that they would be counterattacked by the last counterattack of the Qiang army, so they moved closer to the place where they thought they were safe.
Naturally, there are a large number of people in Yenan who go straight to Fangtou, and as for the Yebei area, which is farther away from Fangtou, the first choice is, of course, the Shangyanpi area where the Fenwu army lives. In a very short period of time, nearly 10,000 people from Yedi gathered in Shangyanpi, and there was already a faint atmosphere of a stronghold behind enemy lines.
At this time, Ma Qiu realized that the situation was completely out of control, many things did not need to be done deliberately, often only needed to make a beginning, and then all kinds of results would come one after another, or he had a lot of military strategic talents, but his insight into the hearts of the people and the development of world affairs, how could he compare to Xie Ai and General Shen behind him!
Han and Hu are not separated, this is the bottom line that Xingtai has always adhered to since the beginning of the war, and it is even more necessary to exterminate the country represented by the thief and rebellion.
General Shen decided to negotiate peace, in addition to giving Xingtai more time to gather and dispatch forces and launch a decisive battle, there is also a meaning, that is, to force the country to show cowardice!
At present, the state of Qian, so it can still be ruled in Hebei, is based on Shihu's reckless military force, as well as many tyranny and oppression, as well as the prestige of the state of Qian, which was once the overlord of the north. Although the general trend of being strong in the south and weak in the north has become known to the whole world, not only ordinary people, but even the high-ranking officials of the two countries are a little unclear.
Now General Shen is going to use this incident to explain to the world what step the gap between the two sides has become: I can rush to the thieves' nest at the right time, kill a lot and then leave with a swagger, and then press your neck and let you negotiate peace with me!
As for the more far-reaching impact of this matter, don't say that Ma Qiu can't understand it at the moment, even General Shen is watching the situation progress in the hope of digging out greater value.
In fact, the situation has developed to this point, and it has already departed from the Fenwu army under Xie Ai's goal of rescuing Shen Yun and returning to the division at the beginning, and there are already a large number of righteous people in Yedi around, even if Ma Qiu wants to gather the crowd to kill again, in fact, he has missed the best time, it is too late.
What's more, Fangtou's military strength has also been assembling and dispatching, and Ma Qiu can't attack and kill the Fenwu army in a short time, so he will have to face the onslaught of Fangtou's Wang Division, and even the threat of Wang Shi from southern Hebei later. Annihilating the Fenwu army has become an extravagant hope, and even the tens of thousands of troops in Yedi may be besieged and killed by several royal divisions before the arrival of the Shihu army!
Therefore, sometimes the general really can't be too weak, and when he should be reckless and fierce, he will lose his heart if he cares too much. Originally, Ma Qiu also planned to besiege the Fenwu Army as a bargaining chip, in order to find a fighter in Fangtou, but General Shen grasped the psychology of throwing a rat and a mouse taboo, and first threatened Ma Qiu with the lives of those nobles of the Qiang Kingdom, forcing him to submit to the soft and negotiate peace.
As soon as Ma Qiu bowed his head here, it meant that the strong and vicious Qianguo in the eyes of the people of Hebei showed his cowardice, which would naturally lead to a large wave of resistance and counterattack. This sentiment of the people temporarily became the guarantee of the Fenwu Army, so that Ma Qiu lost the chips he thought he had in his hands.
And the matter is not over yet, Ma Qiu is limited by his vision or talent, and he can't fully realize the sinister calculations behind the peace talks, but the lord Shi Hu is fierce and cunning, and he may not be in trouble.
However, now that the tens of thousands of Karma troops in the entire Ye Land have changed hands, they have become a bargaining chip in the hands of Wang Shi, and if Shi Hu refuses to bow his head, he will have to risk that these tens of thousands of Karma troops will be completely annihilated in this realm.
Although Shi Hu has been fighting in the past few years, and the scale of the people with armor in the country is even more than that of the ancestor Shile period, he can't help but discard the loss so heroically, and the southern Hebei has already lost tens of thousands, if the army here in Yedi is also lost, it is really heartbreaking!
Of course, these are all theoretical possibilities, in fact, at the moment Wang Shubu can not achieve coordination, if Ma Qiu can decisively give up Yedi and withdraw at this time, it is difficult to stop it with the strength of Fangtou alone, and it is almost impossible for Shen Mu's department in southern Hebei to arrive in time to intercept it.
But does Maqiu have the courage? The lives of a few Shi Hu can force him to retreat, and it is impossible for him to give up Yedi, a strategic place in the country. Therefore, he is destined to stay here and become a bargaining chip for Wang Shi to blackmail Shi Hu⊥ after Shi Hu has any instructions to pass back, between the round trip, Wang Shi's layout must have been completed.
What's more, at least so far, Xie Ai's sincerity in negotiations is still full, although the Fenwu army is no longer in danger of sudden annihilation, but still fulfills the previous agreement and gives Shi Kun, one of Shi Hu's sons among the captives, to Ma Qiu.
"Xing, remember this painful experience, and don't forget Wang Shilie. If you dare to act against the king after you return, next time you fall into my hands, I will chop you inch by inch! ”
When sending Shi Kun back, Shen Yun was still a little reluctant, he had a lot of hard work all the way south, he didn't have time to contact these captives, and now that he was about to send people out, he knocked on Shi Kun's skull to intimidate. If it was just Xie Ai's order, he might have to hesitate, but since he understood that it was the general's order, he naturally had to obey it.
Shi Kun was not a powerful prince of the Qi Kingdom, after this catastrophe, he was already described as withered and haggard to the extreme, and then he was so intimidated by Shen Yun, he just trembled and stood upright, nodding desperately, and waited until Shen Yun glared and shouted, "Is it dumb", then he suddenly became agitated and cried out loudly: "Remember, remember"