Chapter 681: The Situation Is Critical
It wasn't until Xu Huang was beaten so that his back was dripping with blood and he staggered away, that the people in the audience recovered from the shock.
Even the commanders of the three armies were dealt with like this for violating the law, let alone others?
For a while, the people were stunned, and suddenly felt an inexplicable peace of mind.
With Xu Huang's case in front of him, it is expected that the rest of the Guanzhong soldiers will never dare to violate military discipline and do something out of the ordinary to the people.
After Yan Yan was allowed to walk around the city at will, he first went to watch the military appearance of the soldiers in Guanzhong, and looked at the enthusiastic and high-spirited soldiers in Guanzhong, Yan Yan suddenly felt a deep sense of frustration.
In the past, he always thought that he was a famous general in Bashu, and his soldiers were all elite, but compared with the soldiers in Guanzhong, the gap was not half a star.
Today, when he saw Xu Huang leading by example and erecting the sanctity of the new law by rebuking himself with a rod, he was even more awe-inspiring.
Walking in the endless flow of people, Yan Yan saw that the people in Jiangzhou City were all relieved, and he felt more and more bitter in his heart.
Although the people support the benevolent Liu Zhang, this kind of support has not reached the point where they can be desperate for it.
If the military discipline in Guanzhong is not strict enough, causing the people to be angry and resentful, they may still fight hard, but Xu Huang's actions have initially established prestige among the people.
Yan Yan, who was dressed in civilian clothes, was like an ordinary old man in the crowd, inconspicuous at all, and no one noticed his existence.
Although Yan Yan was the Taishou of Bajun in the past, the people who had really seen him up close were very few after all.
And even if some people have seen Yan Yan, most of them have seen him wear armor, if they are not familiar with him, they will definitely not recognize Yan Yan when they are wearing it at this time.
With a worried look on his face, Yan Yan couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Ruosi, the elite of the Guanzhong Army, is so disciplined, can the lord hold Yizhou?" ”
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After Yan Puzhu's scolding of Xu Huang, the people in Jiangzhou City were obviously much more active, and they no longer kept hiding at home, but began to slowly return to their previous lives.
The soldiers in Guanzhong are really as Xu Huang said, they have no offense against the people, and they often have soldiers to help the people carry water and chop wood.
For a time, the people in Jiangzhou City had a great change in their sense of the Guanzhong Army.
Jiangzhou has been ke, and the remaining counties of Ba County have been cut off from the rest of Yizhou; In addition, there are too few troops in the county, and it is difficult to support them alone, and under Xu Huang's rumors, they surrendered one after another.
For the county orders that took the initiative to surrender, Xu Huang asked them to reinstate their original positions, and also focused on promoting many local scholars in Ba County. Xu Huang's posture also made the patriarch of Bajun Shi breathe a sigh of relief.
Of course, Xu Huang, as a commander of the army, was actually not qualified to appoint them as officials, but simply recruited these people to serve in the army.
But as long as he is a clear-eyed person, he can see that Xu Huang is releasing kindness.
After Ba County was completely pacified, Xu Huang hurriedly wrote a war report, reported the situation to Wen Zhao, and began to collect the grain stored in the county towns of Ba County, and ordered Dong Zhao to quickly transport grain and grass to Langzhong.
The soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, Xu Huang, as a generation of famous generals, naturally will not know this kind of thing.
If the army is allowed to transport grain and grass from Guanzhong to this side, it will not only consume a lot of manpower and material resources, but also take an extremely large amount of time.
If the grain and grass are collected from Yizhou, supplemented by the abundant grain storage in Hanzhong, it can completely ensure the daily consumption of the army.
What Xu Huang is doing now is to prepare the grain and grass for Wen Zhao, and hold Bajun until the arrival of the Guanzhong army.
However, not long after the initial decision of Ba County, Zhang Ren and others had already led the Yizhou army to kill Benlang from Guanghan County. What's even worse is that Xu Huang actually suffered from back sores and suddenly couldn't afford to get sick.
Inside the city of Jiangzhou, outside the county guard's mansion, many generals walked back and forth with anxious faces, wanting to wait for the results of the medical diagnosis.
Liu Pi, as Xu Huang's deputy general, although he was also very anxious at this time, he had to be calm no matter what.
However, in his heart, there was still some resentment.
When Xu Huang wanted to scold himself in public, Liu Bi strongly opposed it, believing that the lives of the three armies were all tied to Xu Huang, and he would never be punished.
Beating a military stick is not a trivial matter, if it is beaten hard, I am afraid that twenty military sticks can take people's lives.
More importantly, the person who beat Xu Huang with a military stick was Yan Pu, and he had no experience in beating people's military sticks, so he didn't know the severity of his attack at all.
At the beginning, on the high platform, the twenty military sticks came down, and Xu Huang's blood actually stained his back red. Even, Xu Huang's own muscles and bones are likely to be injured.
At first, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, coupled with the fact that his body was already very strong, he thought that he could survive it, so he didn't dare to speak out, and even Liu Bi didn't know about it.
After Ba County calmed down, the weather changed abruptly, and Xu Huang felt that the back injury not only did not improve, but began to deteriorate, and he couldn't afford to get sick.
In the past two days, Xu Huang has been feverish every day, and now he has actually passed out a coma.
It just so happened that Zhang Ren and others entered Guanghan County at this time, and they would soon attack Ba County.
Now the grain and grass of the army are basically gathered in Langzhong, although the terrain in Langzhong is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the defenders inside are too scarce after all.
The reason why Xu Huang put the grain and grass in Langzhong was because Langzhong was located in the middle of Ba County, and the Western Han River ran through this place from south to north, and the transportation was convenient.
More importantly, Langzhong and the West are united by Guanghan County, and it is not far from Zitong, the seat of Guanghan County.
If Wen Zhao led the army south, he would definitely attack Guanghan from the west of Langzhong, and then lead his troops through Guanghan County, continue to the west to kill Benshu County, and occupy Chengdu.
As soon as Chengdu is broken, the rest of the counties in Yizhou will not be able to pass on the rules, but they will be about the same.
Historically, Langzhong was also an extremely important city, which was later the seat of the Brazilian county, and the famous general Zhang Fei once guarded this place for more than seven years.
Xu Huang saw the importance of Langzhong, so he gathered all the grain and grass here.
Originally, after Xu Huang was ready to solve the matter in Jiangzhou, he led the army north to defend Langzhong, but he didn't expect that something would go wrong at this critical time.
Liu Pi was like an ant on a hot pot, surrounding Yan Pu and said: "The Yizhou soldiers are about to enter Ba County, but General Xu Huang has not woken up yet, so what should I do?" ”
Yan Pu instead looked calm and said, "20,000 soldiers and horses have already driven to Langzhong, General Liu Pi doesn't have to worry too much at all. ”
Liu Pi was furious and shouted: "General Xu is the commander of the three armies, if he has been in a coma, how can the soldiers have the will to fight?" Once Langzhong is lost, our army's rear road will be cut off, and Ba County will be occupied by the Yizhou army again! ”