Chapter 119: A God-Sent Opportunity
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Yan Bi's suggestion was a temptation, and he really wanted to know what kind of person this aspiring military master was. If Lu Zhe resolutely did not kill, he would understand, but his evaluation would be lower in his heart. If he made a hesitant demeanor, he would be very disappointed that he would only use Lu Zhe as a ladder to climb up. Unexpectedly, Lu Zhe immediately agreed just after thinking about it, which really surprised him.
As said, those who do great things are most afraid of hesitation, even if they don't know what is right or wrong, and it is better to do wrong at the end than to hesitate and make a decision.
It's nothing to do, it's just a kind of courage that the superior should have, and he doesn't even have the courage to basically make a choice, so what else is there to do!? Being able to kill decisively in the face of problems is one of the first conditions for those who do great things.
Lu Zhe didn't know that Yan Bi was tempting, he just thought that this suggestion was very right, after all, Yan Bi was the one who organized these people's defense, much stronger than him, who didn't know anything when he first arrived. Since Yan Bi suggested killing, there must be a reason to kill.
Moreover, he doesn't know the people inside at all, and the attitude of modern Chinese people towards strangers is the discipline of "don't care if he lives or dies". He doesn't care much about the life and death of those people inside, why not make a gesture of following the advice?
After making a decisive choice on the spot, Lu Zhe could see an attitude of "encountering the Ming Lord" from Yan Bi's expression, which made someone who had read too many Three Kingdoms novels have a sentence in their hearts, "The monarch chooses the minister." The minister also chooses the king", and suddenly I don't know what Lu Dao is for, and I have a trace of satisfaction of "recognizing the Lord".
If Lu Zhe knew that Yan Bi had killed Baili Qu and killed his colleague Zhao Chong before. I wonder if that trace of satisfaction will disappear? However, with his "different from ordinary people" thinking, it is estimated that there are many possibilities to shout "poisoners".
Whether Yan Bi has the talent to be a poisoner is still unknown. However, this person was suggesting: "Military master, I think that the school of men and horses that are now coming from Yiling is not the key, we might as well first pacify or exterminate the more than 6,000 people outside the camp, and then divide the army to sweep away or collect the various chaotic troops that are still circulating?" β
I remember that when he set off from Jiangling, Tu Sui asked Song Boduo to listen to Lu Zhe's advice before deciding what to do. However, Song Bo didn't talk to Lu Zhe at all along the way, so he didn't talk about any inquiries, and it was conceivable that Song Bo, as a school captain, planned to act according to his own ideas.
Of course, Lu Zhe didn't know what Tu Sui had commanded, but it was very important to keep Yiling's vitality for the next southern invasion, and he said simply: "Yes!" βγ As for what Yan Bi planned to do, he would look at it first, but he could also take advantage of this controllable situation to see how capable the person who had just been retracted.
When Lu Zhe did not come, Yan Bi could naturally give an order without scruples, and after the main owner came, Yan Bi could only make suggestions in the form of suggestions, and then Lu Zhe issued an order.
Of course, the manipulation of listening to advice and puppet moves are two concepts, and Lu Zhe has his own ideas. At his command, the elderly, weak, women, children, and wounded were gradually concentrated in the center of the camp to make room for the incoming soldiers.
These old and weak women and children cheered heartily when Lu Zhe came. Lu Zhe, who had served as the lord of Yiling, was already regarded as a protector. Most of their relatives are now soldiers under Lu Zhe, and now they cooperate to protect their relatives and themselves, and they all try to follow the guide quietly as much as possible.
The men who had just been temporarily appointed as the chief and deputy commanders were also very efficient, and in about half an hour, three teams were gathered near the camp gate.
Lu Zhe finished arranging the archers. He ordered the leader of the two teams: "After leaving the city, shout 'all squat down and don't move', those who obey the order will be let go, and those who dare to collide will be killed!" β
The four temporary appointees were again in response to a chorus of different syllables.
Lu Zhe looked at the chief and deputy leader of the other team: "You are responsible for monitoring the people who are squatting." Wait for the clearing on the right side of the camp to be cleared and bring these people over in batches. β
The instructions are very simple and easy to understand. They certainly didn't have any doubts.
"Wait for the drums of war to blow!" After saying that, the appointed officer and deputy team member left, Lu Zhe turned his head to look at Yan Bi: "Who was in charge of the previous meal?" β
Yan Bi began to shout at a man named "Shang". Maybe it was word of mouth or some means of communication, and after a while, a person of about half a hundred came over with a bow bow.
Lu Zhe looked at the person who was a little frightened and a little restrained, and asked, "Is there enough water and grain to cook porridge?" β
Shang saw the person who asked him clearly, and he knelt down in an instant, and stammered a little: "You command, command." β
Lu Zhe didn't know if this person was nervous or stuttering, and said warmly: "Go down and do things." β
"Doing things?" Shang was confused: "You command, the villain, the villain must do it." β
Lu Zhe repeated what he had just said, and after Shang understood, he hurriedly did what he said.
Yan Bi stood aside and listened to Lu Zhe's various instructions, and finally settled down. He believed that those instructions were very correct, which meant that Lu Zhe was not empty of ambition and talent. If he has no ambition and no talent, he will definitely die by following such a person.
The soldiers in the barracks are not the Qin army, and they are destined not to be arranged and distributed in the form of the Qin army, and after the various orders are implemented, the two teams of 1,000 people are basically divided into two chaotic regiments and concentrated in front of the camp gate. On the left and right sides of the camp gate in front of this thousand men were archers who were divided into hundreds. Behind them were the five hundred soldiers who were arranged to gather those who cooperated with the squatting people.
The manpower was distributed in place, and Lu Zhe did not lead the army out of the camp gate very heroically, but let people protect him on the high platform built in the camp.
The position on the high place has a wide field of vision, and Lu Zhe can see at a glance that the fire is spreading everywhere in Yiling, and the number of people in front of the camp has increased by more than 10,000 after a long time.
Protecting oneself and giving orders to his subordinates in a safe place is what the head of an army should do. As for charging into battle, the lord of an army ran to fight himself, which was a choice that would only be made in an emergency moment.
Yan Bi praised Lu Zhe for not doing things by himself and running to a safe position. The current situation is different from just now, just now Lu Zhe had to lead more than a dozen people to fight and charge. Now Lu Zhe has 3,000 subordinates. No matter how risky you are, you don't know how to protect yourself, even if such a person has the ability to do great things, he will suddenly die one day in the future. What's the use of achieving great things before you die?
Knowing that in this environment, he didn't get carried away to control but handed it over to his subordinates, Lu Zhe actually didn't think about it that much, he just moved because the position of the arrow in his shoulder was too painful!
Lu Zhe looked in the direction where Song Bo's first school was located, and calculated in his heart how long it had been since he was separated from Song Bo to now, and came up with the answer that it had been almost two hours, he was a little confused, and thought: "Two hours have passed, why hasn't Song Bo made any moves?" β
Yan Bi, who was standing on the side, looked in the direction that Lu Zhe was looking at, and he was also thinking, "Presumably where the Qin army is located?" It's just that it is destined to be unable to intercept the people led by the Zheng clan and the Zhao clan. What's the use of arming there, it's better to break off and enter Yiling to quell the rebellion, and miss the opportunity to clean up the chaos in Yiling. β
With all the hands in place, Lu Zhe looked at Meng San who was holding a drumstick below him, and shouted: "Beat the war drum!" β
The drum beat "thump, knock knock...... the sound is continuous, and there is no rhythm to speak of. But then again, it is advisable to use this kind of temporary appointment of officers and mixed ranks as a mere signal. What does it mean to agree on a few sounds, isn't that nothing to do?
The camp gate slowly opened again with the sound of "clicking" timber squeezing, and the crowd outside started to stir again when they saw the camp gate open.
A few excited people ran towards the camp gate, and the archers did not hesitate to shoot their arrows. Shoot over one or twenty impactful people in an instant, so that those commotion crowds just dare to squeeze each other in place and dare not approach again.
Yan Bi's attention was no longer here, he trembled his eyebrows, and kept thinking about something in his heart. If he could hear it, it was he shouting in his heart: "Stupid captain." This is the credit of heaven to help Lu Zhe get this world-famous (non-typo)! β
Raising his hand and pointing at the middle-aged man who slowly drove out of the camp gate, Lu Zhe asked, "What is this person's name?" β
Withdraw from your thoughts and make another recognition. Yan Bi replied: "This person, Wu's name is Liao, he was originally from Wu in Chu State, and he was the 'right leader' of the Chu army. β
Lu Zhe said suspiciously: "Right collar? β
Yan Bi explained: "The right leader is the leading officer in the Chu army. The Chu army has different systems, most of them lead 3,000 people, and as few as 100 people, depending on how much attention they receive or how much wealth they have. β
The right leader is actually the middle-level commander in the army of the Chu State, as Yan Bi said, the army of the Chu State is generally not uniform in number, they form an army in the form of a tribe or clan, and they can also rely on recruitment to form troops. However, the Chu army has one thing in common with the Qin army, that is, there is no military salary.
In fact, from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Great Qin Dynasty's domination of the world, except for Wei Wushu, who had been paid, the rest of the soldiers have always been regarded as a kind of labor, and soldier service is obligatory.
What is Wei Wushu? They were professional soldiers of Wei during the Warring States Period, and it was not out of respect or anything that they would have a military salary, but that the men in their prime were the pillars of the family, and other people could go home to farm or something after serving for a quarter, but they could not go home to help the family produce, and Wei had to pay military salaries in order to make up for the losses of these families.
Later, Wei Wushu was not defeated on the battlefield and disappeared, but because after losing Hexi and other important places, Wei really had no money to raise such a heavy infantry unit with valuable armor and military salaries, which made Wei Wushu disappear in the long river of history.
The soldiers of the Qin State did not have military salaries, but the title was able to receive a salary, for example, Lu Zhe's duke was able to receive 350 stone Lumi. Note that it's rice, not grains like beans. At this time, the degree of rice is difficult for later generations to imagine.
After thinking about it, Yan Bi, who had made up his mind in his heart, looked at Lu Zhe, who had not yet taken off the arrow, and said worriedly: "Military master, do you go down first and call the doctor to heal your wounds?" β
Originally, Lu Zhe also wanted to treat the wound first, but the medical skills in treating the wound were really not good in these years, who knew how long it would take, and he didn't have much time to waste in this emergency.
In addition, there is no special medicine that can quickly stop the bleeding now, you must know that Lu Dao Lu Zhe and the others may need to lead the team to pursue the enemy, but they don't want to lose too much blood and die on the way to pursuit. So it still hurts though. However, if you don't pull out the arrow, you will no longer bleed, and you can only maintain this heroic image of leading the command with the arrow.
A thousand soldiers came out of the camp with the help of archers. After they came out, they began to shout according to Lu Zhe's instructions, "Squat down to live, not squat to death." At first, the chaotic people didn't care at all, and those who wanted to survive after being killed in a row knew how to squat.
Wu Liao's homonym is "boring", but this person's style of leading troops is not in line with boredom at all, and even attracts the attention of Lu Zhe standing in a high place.
Five hundred soldiers rushed out all the way under the leadership of Wu Liao, and they shouted words in Chu Yin, but they rushed up and slashed regardless of it, killing those who were already squatting in fear, and some of the people who stood and didn't know if they wanted to resist scattered and fled.
A burst of slashing and expulsion made the already more chaotic scene even more chaotic. The other team of 500 had to follow behind to clean up the mess and shout again to the people who were moving to squat on the ground and not move.
"......" Lu Zhepo scolded: "This person is a reckless man?" Do something brainless! β
Yan Bi: "The military master forgives the sin, the Chu people have the courage to fight and pursue indomitable, and Liao may be negligent for a while." β
Lu Zhe said again: "...... However, the momentum is good, and if you know how to fight in formation, you can be a chisel striker. β
Yan Bi: "......"
Of course, Lu Zhe understands the principle of making the best use of people, but if Lu Zhe leads the army again in the future, Wu Liao is estimated to be the one who fights to the death as a striker.
Constantly slashing and slashing those who did not obey, a thousand people were like a wave swept by the crowd of people who either squatted down or were killed. This killing oppression effectively kept pushing forward, and behind it were countless people crouching on the ground.
Occasionally, someone squatted down and tried to stand up, and the soldiers assigned to supervise immediately ran over without making a sound, and a few soldiers stabbed them with spears, and those who dared to stand up were killed immediately.
Kill those who dare to repeat in a row. Under the lesson of blood, slowly no one dared to stand up. The 1,000 soldiers advanced faster and faster, and then divided into two fans and swept away to the left and right. Standing on a high place, Lu Zhezhi said that the situation was initially under control, and all that remained was to pacify those people.
Lu Zhe said to the person next to him: "Let's go down." β
Going down doesn't mean leaving the camp. It's that there's no longer any need to stay up there and blow the cold wind.
Returning to the big tent of the Chinese army, the seven headless corpses that had been beheaded were not cleaned up. There was a strong smell of blood everywhere in the tent.
"Lift it to the side."
Naturally, the pro-soldiers should "Hey! "Obey fate.
They lifted the headless corpse with the severed head and carried it to the side of the tent, and when they lifted it, a large amount of black blood flowed from the neck of the headless corpse, and the person who lifted the shoulder on the side of the foot was drenched.
Lu Zhe walked over to see Su Qiao, who was placed flat on the side tent, due to too much blood loss, Su Qiao's face was pale and there was a cyan color, and it didn't look hideous from his face. He was now fully convinced, as they had reported, that Su Qiao had died of blood loss.
"Where do you guess the Zheng clan and the Zhao clan have the highest chance of marching into Gangneung from?"
"Back to the military lord, there are two avenues from Yiling to Gangneung. When the military master and captain Song Bolai did not encounter the two clans' rebellion, then this way can be ruled out. On the other hand, he thought that Song Bo must be arming, so he never saw the Qin army marching in. Now I don't see the fire and fighting in the place where Captain Song is deployed, there are more Chu people in the Zhixu clan and the Zhao clan, the Chu people are good at waterways, and most of the boats and boats around them have disappeared, so I think they should be the one who walks close to the foaming water. β
"Waterways? It's no wonder. Song Bo sent people to investigate all the way, and indeed only found a small group of rebels on land. Do you know how many boats and boats can carry in Yiling? β
"The number of small boats is too large to count, the last time an army brought twenty boats of grain from Ba County down the river to stay in Yiling ......, the number of people on the boats will not exceed three thousand, they should be part of the vanguard first, most of them are along the river and rely on dense vegetation to avoid detection, wanting to march secretly."
It is not easy to march on both sides of the river, and Lu Zhe, who had personally led the team to exterminate the Baiyue tribe, knew this very well, and he thought about it for a while......
Lu Zhe touched his chin: "Hmm? There were only two schools in Jiangling's army, and Song Bo's school was sent to Yiling, leaving only Zhao Xi's school. I don't know how many soldiers Zhao Xi has? Could it be that the Zheng and Zhao clans used the people along the coast as bait and led the stronger people to raid Gangneung? β
Finally realized! Yan Bi cheered up: "Due to the edict of the First Emperor, all the southern counties have demolished the city walls, and Jiangling has no city walls, and it is difficult to defend with just a school of soldiers and horses under the city walls. The military master's guess is very likely! β
Lu Zhe thought about it and felt that something was wrong. For a while, I couldn't figure out what was wrong.
It stands to reason that the generals of Jiangling should have some considerations before they sent a school of soldiers and horses to Yiling, and Song Bo, who led the army, led the troops to Yiling for two hours but did not launch an attack. So does Song Bo have any concerns or is he waiting for something?
At the same time, the true number of the orthodox Qin army in Jiangling was only more than 5,000 soldiers. Since it is the main assembly area of the Southern Xinjiang Army, there are also at least 200,000 remnants of the Six Kingdoms, who can guarantee that the more than 200,000 remnants of the Six Nations will defend themselves in peace?
Thinking of this, Lu Zhe couldn't help but change color.
Taken in the great power of Great Qin, as long as one or two thousand people are careful in normal times, it can naturally make more than 200,000 remnants of the Six Kingdoms dare not move lightly, but now is not a "normal time" but a special period. It is conceivable that as long as the Zheng clan and the Zhao clan attack, among the more than 200,000 people, will there be few people who have the courage to learn from the two clans and raise their arms so much?
Not to mention 200,000 people, even 200,000 pigs are enough to choke!
Before Lu Zhe left Jiangling, he seemed to have heard that 200,000 prisoners were also on the way to be escorted by the 5,000 Qin army, and it seemed that he would arrive in Nanjun within half a month?
200,000 prisoners plus more than 200,000 remnants of the Six Kingdoms, that is at least 400,000 people who are hostile to Great Qin. And the most terrible thing is that the 200,000 prisoners must be in the prime of life, if they take advantage of the situation to make trouble......
Yan Bi saw that Lu Zhe's face had changed greatly, and the corners of his mouth were strangely hooked.
"Yan Bi!"
"Job, in!"
After summoning Lu Zhe, he didn't have anything to say back and forth. He felt that all this was too incredible, it seemed that something had gone wrong at a certain point, could it be that the Qin army in history caused the failure of the first large-scale southern invasion because of turmoil?
In fact, where did Lu Zhe know that the remnants of the Six Kingdoms in the history of the Dao were simply escorted to fill the huge pit in Lingnan by resignation, and the so-called failure of the first southern invasion was just that Tu Sui was ambushed by the Baiyue people and died with an arrow.
Yan Bi, who has been through it from beginning to end, has already deduced it countless times in his mind, so he is not in a hurry at all. He believed that as long as Lu Zhe calmed down, he would inevitably find some clues, and he thought that Lu Zhe would not realize until he solved the turmoil in Yiling. I didn't expect it to be so soon.
Yan Bi saw that the expression on Lu Zhe's face was constantly changing, as if he was doing some kind of psychological struggle, and thought that Lu Zhe was thinking about how to get rid of the fire.
According to the idea of this former Yanguo County Cheng, what should be done now is to take advantage of the chaos to set up a bureau to kill Song Bo and take over the Qin army that has lost its command. Then LΓΌ Zhe gathered enough soldiers in Yiling. On the grounds of quelling the chaos, the Qin army in Yiling sat and waited for the destruction of Jiangling.
Once the Qin army in Jiangling is destroyed, then whether it is Tu Sui or Ren Huan, they will inevitably die in the chaos, after all, these two people are the main and deputy commanders, and they will be the two targets of the rebel army. Most of them are in the general school over there. They don't want to survive the more than 200,000 irrational rebels.
In fact, it doesn't matter if there are generals who survive, the Qin army in Nanjun only has two schools, Song Bo and Zhao Xi. Facing a chaotic army of more than 200,000. Zhao Xi's school will definitely be swallowed up by the chaotic army in Gangneung. Song Bo's branch is now in Yiling, and those generals can't count on it for a while. In the case of losing the army and the chaos, the generals who survived will also try their best to come to Yiling. As long as they come to Yiling, they don't have military power in their hands, and they don't have to be at their disposal.
The reason for staying in Yiling is easy to create, as long as Yiling remains chaotic, even if someone investigates it afterwards, it will definitely not be able to say anything.
With Lu Zhe's prestige in Yiling, and other means, if he did not strictly require the source of soldiers, he could organize at least 25,000 soldiers.
Yan Bi had thought about it, and he had come to a judgment from the last time that Lu Zhe was able to annihilate the two Baiyue tribes with 5,000 troops in less than a month, that is, Lu Zhe was still very capable of leading troops. (Actually, it's a Baiyue tribe)
As long as the Qin army in Jiangling is destroyed, Lu Zhe will be able to stay in Yiling reasonably in the name of holding on.
Yan Bi imagined that although it was impossible for the more than 20,000 troops to become elite after reorganization, it would not be a problem to deal with a rabble without an absolute prestige leader.
At that time, LΓΌ Zhe could choose to stay in Yiling to train the army, wait for the Qin army from other places to come over and then send troops to quell the rebellion, or he could take the risk of using various means to quell the chaos before the Qin army in other places did not react. No matter what he chooses, Lu Zhe always has countless means to achieve the opportunity to make meritorious contributions.
As for the secession or something, Yan Bi believed that Lu Zhe would not be so stupid, after all, now that Great Qin was in full swing, the exhaustion of all kinds of means he envisaged was also to take advantage of Great Qin's might. The sole purpose of the whole plan is to make this turmoil achieve Lu Zhe's prestige, and at the same time to make great contributions to this turmoil and be promoted.
"How on earth is he going to decide?" At this moment, Yan Bi was looking forward to it. (To be continued......)
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