Chapter 890: Yan Guo Aids Yao Xiang
Hua'an's idea of personally conquering Qingzhou was to tell Wang San and Deng Qiang, so that they could have the most basic mental preparations, and make targeted preparations on a certain distance, so as not to be too busy before the expedition.
After a simple discussion on how to send troops to Qingzhou, Wang San and Deng Qiang left separately, and in the entire hall, only Hua'an was left.
Hua An took out the information of the Great Jin royal family on the case and studied it again, although he could not find information related to his life experience, but after studying for several months, Hua An still mastered a lot of knowledge of the Great Jin royal family, and learned all kinds of information about hundreds of kings since the founding of the Great Jin Dynasty.
However, among these materials, some of them are recorded by historians, and some are records of barnyard officials and fields recorded by ordinary people, and it is very doubtful how credible it is.
After careful study in the past few months, Hua'an found that since the beginning of the 80,000 rebellion in the Great Jin Dynasty, many descendants of the Sima clan who were crowned kings were in a very great turmoil, and those who were killed, rebelled, and fled their descendants abounded, and the whole chaos became a pot of porridge, especially in the five years of Yongjia, the descendants of the Sima clan disappeared a lot in the process of fleeing.
These missing descendants of the Sima clan may have been killed by the Hu people, or they may have gone into hiding, of course, more people went to Jiankang City in the south of the Yangtze River and took refuge in Sima Rui, the Emperor of the Jin Yuan Dynasty, who had already proclaimed himself emperor.
When Hua An saw this, he often wondered, among these missing descendants of the Sima family, would one of them be his own father? If so, then why doesn't his own father know anything? Could it be that he was hit on the head halfway and lost the memory of his life experience? These questions have always wandered in Hua'an's mind and made Hua'an distressed.
Since the more than 200 fine works of Yan Kingdom have been wiped out by themselves. Yan Guo's investigation of his life history came to an abrupt end, which made Hua An suddenly lose the direction of the investigation, and had to look for useful clues in these complicated materials.
After reading the royal information for a while, Hua An felt a little groggy in his head, so. He strode out of the hall and paced on the platform outside the hall.
Standing on the high platform, looking up due west, the dilapidated palace of Luoyang City is in full view, although it has been very dilapidated, but Hua'an often sends people to clean it, for this reason, although it looks relatively desolate, but the scenery is still very good. In particular, the big trees in the palace are still preserved, which adds to the scenery of the palace.
Enjoying the scenery in the palace, Hua An's mood gradually calmed down, although it was impossible to find out valuable clues for a while, but it was still very useful to add some necessary knowledge. At least, the various intricate relationships with the Great Jin royal family. There is a clearer understanding.
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In the direction of Jicheng, under the henchmen sent by Yao Xiang, they arrived in the palace of Jicheng and went to the main hall to visit Murong Jun.
Murong Jun had already learned about the various circumstances in which Yao Xiang's army had captured Rencheng and had taken the initiative to withdraw to Taishan County, and had learned about the dangerous situation faced by Yao Xiang's army. For this reason, he immediately summoned the henchmen sent by Yao Xiang.
Yao Xiang strode into the main hall of Yanwang Palace, and saluted Murong Jun with his fists.
Murong Jun nodded, and asked with a straight face, "General Yao sent you here." Is there anything important? ”
"King Qiqi, some time ago, the Yanzhou Legion intercepted the weapons and salaries sent to our army in the direction of Jingzhou, General Yao was furious, so he led the troops to attack Rencheng, and quickly captured Rencheng, unexpectedly, that batch of weapons and military salaries were not in Rencheng at all, and the main force of the Yanzhou Legion was pressing step by step, for this reason, General Yao evacuated Rencheng and returned to Mount Tai, however, the Yanzhou Legion since the North King, received the continuous funding of the North King, and the strength is gradually increasing, forming a lot of pressure on our army, General Yao sent the last general to Jicheng to implore Wang Shang to allocate weapons and military salaries to strengthen the strength of our army, otherwise, our army is very likely to be unable to hold Qingzhou. Under the henchmen sent by Yao Xiang, Zhengse reported to Murong Jun.
Murong Jun was not very surprised when he heard this, after all, this situation had long been expected by him, and he had long known that Yao Xiang sent his subordinates to ask for weapons and military salaries.
"You've been tired all the way, go down and rest first! This king will allocate weapons and military salaries and send them to Qingzhou. Murong Jun looked at the general and said.
"Yes, Your Majesty, the last will be gone." The general answered, turned and left the main hall.
After the general left the main hall, Murong Jun looked at Murong Ke and said, "Fourth brother, Yao Xiang asked our army for weapons and salaries, how much should we give?" ”
Obviously, Murong Jun felt that since Yao Xiang had announced his attachment to the Yan Kingdom, it was very reasonable for Yao Xiang to ask for weapons and military salaries, but Murong Jun was a little hesitant about how much to give.
Of course, the reason why Murong Jun was hesitant to allocate weapons and military salaries was because Yan Guo was now preparing for war with all its might, and the consumption of various resources was very huge, especially weapons and military salaries were strategic resources, if too much was allocated to Yao Xiang, the resources owned by the Yan army would be much less, which would weaken the strength of the Yan army in a certain way.
When Murong Ke heard this, he thought for a moment, and said, "Second brother, we should try our best to allocate as many weapons and salaries as possible to Yao Xiang, the more the better." ”
"The more the merrier, why is that? Our army has expanded by tens of thousands, and we also need weapons and salaries! Murong Jun asked suspiciously.
Murong Ke thought for a while, and said: "Second brother, have you thought about it, once Yao Xiang's Qingzhou soldiers and horses are wiped out by the Yanzhou army, then, the entire Qingzhou and Yanzhou will be occupied by Hua'an, in this way, Hua'an's strength will increase sharply, and our army and Nanwang's troops may not be its opponent when combined, at that time, I am afraid that he will wave his army to the north and attack my Great Yan Kingdom first!" ”
Obviously, Murong Ke looked at the problem from a higher position, he was very aware of the importance of Qingzhou, and understood that once Qingzhou was controlled by Hua'an, Hua'an's strength would be greatly enhanced, and he could draw enough troops and horses to attack Yan Kingdom, once such a situation occurred, their Great Yan Kingdom would be very dangerous.
When Murong Jun heard this, he also understood the importance of Qingzhou, and for this reason, he also made up his mind to give greater funding to the Yao Xiang Army, so that the Yao Xiang Army could better contain the soldiers and horses of Yanzhou, so that Hua'an would not be able to attack in the direction of Yan, and in the future, cooperate with the main army of Yan State to attack Hua'an.
"Fourth brother, I plan to transfer the 50,000 sets of equipment that were originally allocated to the recruits to the direction of Qingzhou to solve the urgent needs of Qingzhou, as for the tens of thousands of recruits in our army, I will use the worn-out weapons for the time being, what do you think?" Murong Jun looked at Murong Ke and asked.
Murong Ke nodded and said: "Second brother has done a very good job, there is no war in Hebei at the moment, whether the recruits are well-equipped or not is insignificant, it is better to transfer these weapons to Qingzhou!" ”
Obviously, in order to enhance the combat effectiveness of Qingzhou's soldiers and horses, Murong Ke was out of the way, and he did not hesitate to sacrifice the equipment of the army under his command to arm Qingzhou's soldiers and horses.
Murong Jun nodded, paused, and said softly: "Right now, the craftsmen of Jicheng are repairing the garden of the palace, which is also a large expense, in order to support Yao Xiang in Qingzhou, the garden will not be expanded, and when the money is abundant in the future, it will not be too late to repair it." ”
In order to raise military salaries for the direction of Qingzhou, Murong Jun actually stopped building the garden of his palace, which shows that he attaches great importance to the direction of Qingzhou.
When Murong Ke heard this, he nodded and said, "Second brother is right, the garden can be repaired at any time, and once Qingzhou is occupied by Hua'an, our Great Yan Kingdom will be in danger, and it will not only be the garden that will be lost at that time." ”
Murong Jun nodded, and said with a straight face: "At present, Jizhou has been occupied by the soldiers and horses under Xie Ai, if our army takes the land route, I am afraid that it will be difficult to transport weapons and military salaries to Qingzhou, and it seems that we can only go from Liaodong County in Pingzhou to Donglai County in Qingzhou by sea and land." ”
Murong Ke nodded in approval: "What the second brother said is that we can indeed only go by sea and land, if we take the land route, we will definitely be discovered by the soldiers and horses under Xie Ai's command, and the weapons and military salaries that Jingzhou transported to Qingzhou at the beginning were not discovered?" Moreover, if you go to Qingzhou by sea and land, the distance is closer, and you can reach Donglai County in Qingzhou faster. ”
After thinking about it for a while, Murong Jun decided to mobilize 50,000 soldiers and horses and enough military salaries, and transport them to Liaodong County in Pingzhou first, and then from Liaodong County to Donglai County in Qingzhou by sea and land, and finally, send these materials to Yao Xiang's hands.
After the plan was decided, Murong Jun informed the henchmen sent by Yao Xiang of his decision, and asked him to return to Qingzhou first, tell Yao Xiang the good news, and let Yao Xiang be ready to receive it.
Subsequently, Murong Jun officially issued an order to transport all the weapons that were originally to be allocated to the recruits to the direction of Liaodong County, and in the treasury, enough military salaries were allocated, and along with these weapons, they were transported to Liaodong County, in order to prevent accidents on the road, the soldiers and horses responsible for escorting were as high as 3,000 people, so many soldiers and horses were enough to ensure the safety of this batch of materials.
It didn't take long for this batch of materials to be transported to Qingzhou to be prepared in the direction of Jicheng, and under Murong Jun's personal order, this batch of materials was transported to the direction of Liaodong County at the fastest speed.
More than ten days later, this batch of materials arrived at the southernmost part of Liaodong County, Mayoujin Ferry, and was loaded here, after all the weapons and military pay were loaded onto the transport ship, the fleet set sail and sailed towards Donglai County, Qingzhou, more than 100 miles away. (To be continued......)