Chapter Ninety-Five: Hearing the Wind and Treachery
Yanbei's arrangement is not special. On www.biquge.info the one hand, Yan Dong gained prestige and support in Lelang County, and on the other hand, he supported Wang Yi in Goguryeo to open the way to power with money and treasures, while Jiang Jin provided them with the necessary military support in Xi'an Ping County.
That's right, this young man with an ambitious face had his ambitions swelling again after defeating Meng Yi, intent on overthrowing the Han dynasty's rule in Lelang County and the Goguryeo king's kingdom.
It's going to be a long-term business, and it's expected to cost a lot of money, but it's also going to be a big enough payoff if it's successful.
If everything can go smoothly according to Yanbei's ideas, maybe in a few years, there will only be one voice in the large area of land east of Liaoshui, and that is Yanbei!
For Goguryeo, Yanbei was very contemptuous in his heart, and when he was still in Xianbei last winter, he got some book slips, including about Goguryeo. In the early years of the Han Dynasty, Lu Xuan, the king of Yan, betrayed the Han Dynasty, and his retainer Wei Manling led thousands of subordinates into Korea, and later made the end of the road to Jizi Korea, and established the Wei Dynasty for 90 years, although it is still under the rule of the King of Korea, but it is actually the same as the counties under the jurisdiction of the Han Dynasty.
The name of the high-ranking official in the country is already telling.
If Wei Man can subvert this kingdom, why can't Yanbei?
With its soldiers and horses to attack Lelang, Lelang is in chaos, you can wait for the opportunity to kill Lelang Taishou Zhang Qi, blame Goguryeo, when Jiang Jin led the army to occupy Lelang is division famous. At that time, if there is no external pressure, with the troops of Yanbei and Liaodong, they only need to send the generals to Goguryeo, and they can level their small countries and make their capitals all over the city to drop the flag!
The three of them all left the Zhongjun tent, and Yan Bei sat cross-legged in front of the map, stroking the vast territory of Liaodong, Lelang, and Goguryeo on the map with his palm. If he can successfully seize these three places, the area under his name will be enough to compete with the remaining half of Youzhou, and when the time comes, the emperor will be far away, and even the imperial court will not be able to help him!
Controlling the land of nearly four counties is not only to satisfy Yanbei's personal selfish desires, but also to raise soldiers.
Now the number of soldiers and horses in his hand plus the Wuhuan cavalry of Su Fuyan, the king of Qiao, has exceeded 20,000, and so many soldiers who have left production cannot be raised by a single Liaodong County. Looking at the entire Youzhou, Liaodong is a notoriously poor place, and there is nothing left after a year's taxes and grain taxes, and when the treasury is consumed in the autumn and winter of this year, what will he use to support these 20,000 mouths?
It is necessary to have more land and more money and food to ensure the quantity and quality of the soldiers and horses under his command.
Not to mention whether Liu Yu is willing to lead his soldiers and horses to occupy Liaodong and return to Han land, even if Liu Yu is willing, who in this world can forget that he Yanbei is from a rebel army? At least Yan Bei himself can't forget that since he is a rebel, only by holding the military power firmly in his own hands can he sleep with peace of mind.
Early the next morning, the corpses on the battlefield outside the camp have been cleaned up almost, the dead subordinates of the rebels were transported by carts to the southwest of Xiangping City under the first mountain for burial, as for the corpses of those enemies, they dug a few big pits under the north mountain in the north of the bluestone bridge, buried the soil and hastily did things, Sun Qing, who was born to jump out, looked for a stonemason in the city very seriously this time, and threatened to build a stone tablet. Yanbei was not keen on this matter, so he didn't care about him.
There was no war on this side of Qingshiqiao for the time being, and because Yandong was preparing to secretly set off for Lelang, Yanbei asked Fu Zhi to temporarily take charge of Liaodong affairs, and sat in Xiangping with Sun Qing, encouraging the people in northeastern Liaodong who were not affected by the war to start spring planting. This winter's food needs to be solved urgently, and the top priority must not be sloppy.
Sprinkle scouts to Liaoxi to monitor Gongsun Zhan's movements, and at the same time strictly guard against Gongsun Zhan's surprise attack along the Liaoshui line. And Xiangping City has also begun to recruit craftsmen to burn molten iron, but unlike Yuyang, there is no tradition of iron, so you can only start from scratch, but even if it is difficult, you must start operating an ordnance workshop, after all, more than 5,000 weapons that cannot be used have been collected on the battlefield, and those worn armor also need to be repaired.
It is a matter of great investment and little effort to make weapons, but even if you don't use it now, you will need to use it in the future.
Therefore, Yanbei could only suspend Wang Yi's itinerary and leave him in charge of this time for the time being. After all, Wang Yi is a descendant of a blacksmith, and when he was a child, he learned a lot of iron-making skills from his family, and in the early years, the weapons of Yanbei and others were repaired by him personally, and even the smuggling of iron weapons in Yuyang was also responsible for him, and it was a good choice for him to be in charge of this matter.
Idle and miscellaneous affairs are on the right track, and the only thing Liaodong needs to worry about is Meng Yi, who fled all the way south.
Leaving Zhang Jaw Gaolan to guard the bluestone bridge, the remaining soldiers and horses began to press out an encirclement net to the south, and Yanbei wanted to teach Meng Yi to plug his wings and escape!
In the evening, news came back from the south that Meng Yi ran all the way south to Xinchang, where he fought a small battle with Wang Dang, who was guarding the garrison, and both sides suffered casualties on both sides, and then continued to flee south.
Yan Bei couldn't help but wonder, where else did this Meng Yi plan to flee to? There are no two cities to the south to the sea, could it be that this veteran of the battlefield still plans to escape back to Liaoxi by boat?
Immediately after the next night, he was told by the scouts who came from the starry night that Meng Yi led his troops to flee south to Wenxian after fighting with Wang Dang, and the defenders opened the city to greet him, and when Zhang Leigong arrived, Wenxian had been replaced with the banner of Chinese characters. At this moment, Zhang Lei was just rushing to control the cloud ladder, planning to storm the city.
"Wen County? Didn't they fall from the wind? Yan Bei was furious, kicked over a few cases, pointed at the scout and said: "You go back and tell Lei Gong that don't hurt the people if you capture the city, but those county officials? Not a single one to stay! ”
"Tell Wang Dang again, let him wait for me in Xinchang, and wait for me to go to Wenxian to besiege the city tomorrow!"
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At the same time that Yanbei planned to go to Wenxian to besiege the city, when Meng Yi's army was defeated, the soldiers guarding the bluestone bridge ran all the way west, and more than 100 people finally fled to the camp of the Gongsun Chan garrison.
Gongsun Zhanping withdrew Meng Yi's fugitive, and hurriedly convened the department to discuss the affairs of the Yangle City official office in the starry night.
"Zhonglang defeated Meng Yi and was defeated by the traitor Yanbei at Qingshi Bridge, and the news came back from the fugitives, so he summoned all the gentlemen to discuss here." The bronze lamp reflected the lobby as bright as day, and Gongsun Zhan looked at the lower generals of the hall and said: "Gentlemen, each has its own word, Meng Yi can't save it, how to save it?" ”
At present, Gongsun Zhan's account can be described as full of talents, Sima Liu Bei of other departments, Shi Guanjing, the commander of the army, Wang Men, Fan Fang and others, but they are silent when they hear the words...... They are also anxious now, even if they want to save Meng Yi, they are powerless.
After a few breaths, Changshi Guan Jing arched his hand and said: "General, at present, there is a new chaos in Jizhou, and all the soldiers from Youzhou have been transferred to Zhuo County to garrison Zhongshan Kingdom...... It's hard! ”
Last year, the Montenegrin thieves had no food for the winter, and there were small bandits on the edge of Jizhou to rob the people and the strong, Jizhou has not yet taken office, and the following counties lost their garrisons because of the previous Yanbei led the troops to leave, and the strong and strong in various places guarded Wubao, and those cities were killed. The Black Mountain thieves plundered the counties like locusts crossing the border, and in the blink of an eye, Jizhou became a purgatory on earth.
At this time, the imperial court did not care about the affairs of Jizhou at all, and Emperor Liu Hong had not held a court meeting for two months. There are rumors in Beijing that the emperor is seriously ill and can no longer continue, but the crown prince has still not been established, and even the new Xiyuan army was divided into two factions last year. One faction, led by Jian Shuo, a military academy captain who can control the general, supported the establishment of Dong Hou Liu Xie as the crown prince; The other faction was led by the general He Jin and the remaining captain of Xiyuan, and the two factions clashed constantly in Luoyang City, from disputes in the court to real fights in the market, and the conflicts continued to escalate.
At present, it is obvious that the general's faction has gained the upper hand, and the shogunate is like a court, and all the sages in the world are here, just waiting for the news of the emperor's death in the palace to come out, and they will show their skills.
Those outstanding talents who are at the center of the whirlpool of power are busy snatching the highest power in the world, where can they still take care of the Jizhou banditry?
As a result, the officials of Jizhou suffered from the seedlings.
In Youzhou, Liu Yu had already reached a secret discussion with Yanbei and Qiu Liju, although he knew the news that Yanbei led his troops to appear in Liaodong, but the news of Meng Yi's defeat had not yet come back, so he was not worried about this rebellion, and wholeheartedly recruited troops in Zhuo County to prevent the spread of Jizhou bandits to Youzhou, which also indirectly led to the difficulty of Gongsun Zhan's recruitment in Youzhou.
"I thought that even if Meng Yi couldn't defeat Yanbei, at least he could stalemate for ten months, but how did he know that more than 10,000 soldiers and horses would be defeated." Gongsun Zhan was a little discouraged, and at the same time, he was a little glad that he didn't rush into Liaodong at that time, he sighed and said: "But in this situation, if Meng Yi dies in Liaodong again, I am afraid that the traitor Yanbei will take advantage of the situation to fight all the way to the west. ”
Gongsun Chan is not worried about any war, he wishes that there would be more wars, but he has to wait for him to recruit enough soldiers to fight again, right?
"Gongsun Dudu, it's better to ...... Let's go down. Liu Bei stood up at this time, he was very aware of the current predicament in Youzhou, but he couldn't sit back and watch an old general like Meng Yi fall into the hands of the rebels, so with a little young man's shyness, he lowered his eyebrows and said: "Just go down, there are still one hundred and ten townsmen below, and ask the governor to allocate another four hundred, no, three hundred righteous followers, add more than ten horses, and go to Liaodong to rescue Meng Zhonglang." ”
Even if Liu Bei's eyebrows were lowered, the words he said shocked the four of them, Gongsun Zhan was stunned, raised his arm for a long time before asking, "Xuande...... Can you be sure? ”
Liu Bei shook his head, "Although I am not sure, but the friendly army is trapped, so I have to give it a try." ”
Gongsun Zhan nodded, and recognized Liu Bei's courage in his heart, waved his hand and said: "This will make up for your own horses, and give you five hundred righteous servants to protect your Liaodong line!" ”
"No!"