In mid-June, the soldiers and horses of the Eastern Wangfu were dispatched to Luoyang one after another, followed by the deterioration of the war in the north.

The Xianbei people's two large-scale attacks on Beichuan City, the capital of Beiwangfu, ended in failure, mainly related to the fact that the Xianbei people were not good at siege warfare. The men and horses on the left of Xianbei were mainly responsible for attacking Beichuan, but behind them there were people from the lower part who looted other counties in Beiwangfu. Later, there are Xianbei Wangbu and Bohai people who are responsible for the dispatch of grain, grass and soldiers and horses, and the division of labor is clear.

The domain of the Northern Wangfu has gradually been encroached upon by the Xianbei and Bohai people. From the beginning of the occupation of the main rivers and mountains in the north, by the end of June, the Beiwangfu occupied less than ten counties. The more than 30,000 soldiers and horses who remained on the front line of the Great Wall were also eaten away. The three sides of the northwest and east sides of the entire Beichuan City are almost in an undefended state, and the Xianbei people can come and go freely. Only on the south side of Beichuan City, there are nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses stationed in the imperial court Su Tingxia.

By the end of June, the number of Su Tingxia's troops had plummeted to 70,000. Before the war began, Su Tingxia's troops already had some intention of dispersing. This is mainly due to the lack of food, grass and supplies.

The imperial court was helpless against the embarrassment of the front.

There are no soldiers to recruit, and if they can't be recruited, they can even catch strong men or even rob them. But there was no food and supplies, but it could not fall from the sky, and even if the imperial court twice levied grain from the local government, it had little effect. Judging from Han Jian's receipt of the Luoyang local report, the imperial court was not careless in this grain requisition, and even moved to rob it. But in the end, the grain was basically not requisitioned, but the imperial court had to be asked to feed those who went down to collect grain.

Stealing chickens does not make rice, and the newly appointed head of the imperial court, Ning Yuan, is also controversial in this regard. Originally, Ning Yuan was confident that he could help the imperial court and the Eastern Prince's Mansion solve the embarrassment, but in the end, he did not solve the trouble, but became the one who caused the trouble. For this reason, Yang Rui did not ask Ning Yuan to enter the palace to lecture.

Yang Rui was already full of opinions about Ning Yuan, but now looking at the opportunity, he almost said nothing except to pull Ning Yuan off the horse. forced Ning Yuan to solve the food problem before the Xianbei people crossed the pass of Beichuan City. In order to give Luoyang City more buffer opportunities. When Han Jian knew what Yang Rui had explained to Ning Yuan, he probably understood that in addition to Ning Yuan being the one Yang Rui had been preparing to sacrifice for a long time, even Su Tingxia was listed by Yang Rui in the list of "death squads". Su Tingxia's existing army of 70,000 has not yet officially started a war with the Xianbei people, and has been listed by Yang Rui as cannon fodder for Luoyang to drag time. Han Jianxin said that if Su Tingxia knew that he would be "sacrificed" by the imperial court. Will there really be a rebellion.

The imperial court was also in the process of conscription. There is already a shortage of soldiers and food, and now the problem of lack of food has not been solved, but it is necessary to recruit soldiers first, and it is also the imperial court that feels that the defense of Luoyang City is empty now, and it cannot stop the menacing Xianbei people at all, so it has to strengthen the vigilance first. Conscription is one of them.

Conscription was originally difficult, but under the premise that the people around Luoyang City were hungry, conscription was unexpectedly smooth. Many desperate strong men simply choose to join the army to save their lives. After the imperial court opened the door to conscription. It has only been a dozen days, and more than 10,000 strong men have been recruited one after another.

This is more than the more than 20,000 people in Su Tingxia's department who were recruited more than half a year ago, and many of those strong men are local regimental training, and they have a certain foundation. Now these are completely ordinary people, and they can still recruit more than 10,000 people so smoothly, which also shows that the lives of the people around Luoyang are indeed not good.

If you have people, you must have weapons and equipment, and you must have generals to be responsible for training and dispatching. Obviously, these are what the imperial court lacks. Yang Rui finally recruited more than 10,000 people of her own, but there was nothing but people. In the end, he came to beg Han Jian to "help".

This made Han Jian very helpless.

The Dongwang Mansion itself could not transfer grain to the north to meet the huge needs of Su Tingxia's and Lin Zhan's departments. Not to mention the "hard currency" of weapons. When Han Jian expressed his current difficult situation, Yang Rui expressed "understanding". Just after Han Jian thought that Yang Rui had changed his sex, the next day, Yang Rui ordered to go to the large and small yamen around Luoyang to let the local people cast weapons with iron. And each household has a fixed amount of iron to be supplied.

For this reason, the imperial court still has rhetoric, according to Han Jian's understanding. The general meaning is that everyone is difficult to protect, why do they want a small family. It seems to be a righteous rhetoric, but the timing is to convert the production tools that ordinary people rely on the most for survival into war resources. Han Jian knew very well that even if it was the imperial court that won in the end, this iron would not be returned to the people. How much of it will be self-enriching or even wasteful is another matter.

Although Han Jian disagreed in his heart, it was Yang Rui's order after all. Han Jian finally couldn't help but say nothing.

Ning Yuan, who was originally in a hurry to collect grain, was forced by Yang Rui to levy iron, and he was suddenly busier. Han Jian went to Shangshutai several times to discuss things with Ning Yuan, but he didn't see him. In order not to be held accountable by Yang Rui and Dongwangfu, Ning Yuan simply came to the grassroots level alone. So much so that Shang Shutai is in a state of leaderlessness.

Han Jian couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this Xianbei person didn't come, Luoyang was in chaos first. The house leak happened to rain overnight, if it weren't for the internal war of the Wei Dynasty in the past two years that dragged down the people's livelihood, why would the Xianbei people come to make such a foreign appearance?

Subsequently, the first batch of soldiers and horses from the Dongwangfu had arrived in Luoyang, and they were also the most sophisticated soldiers and horses, which belonged to Lin Zhan. This group of soldiers and horses passed through Luoyang and did not enter, and were directly transferred to the north of the Yellow River to return to Lin Zhan's department. Along with it, the first batch of grain transferred from Jiangdu went north. With the food and resources allocated by Jiangdu, the pressure on the army has suddenly been reduced a lot. However, this only made Lin Zhan's department feel better, and Su Tingxia's department was still gnawing his fingers to live.

Knowing that there was grain and grass in the Dongwang Mansion going north, Yang Rui was angry and called Han Jian to the palace, and said a bunch of "looking at the back and ignoring the front", as if complaining that Han Jian did not transport the grain to the northernmost Su Tingxia Division, and in the final analysis, he was still complaining that Han Jian did not transfer the grain to the new recruits recruited by the imperial court.

"Your Majesty has filtered, and the northern soldiers and horses have their own ways to solve the immediate embarrassment." Han Jian retorted directly.

Yang Rui frowned and said, "Oh? You're saying that, as before, let your 100,000-strong army burn, kill, plunder, and do that shady deed, and then you can feed yourself? ”

Han Jian knew that Yang Rui was still blaming him for allowing Su Tingxia to fight in the past.

Yang Rui was a little amusement and sarcasm, but he didn't expect Han Jian to nod in the end.

"You won't really give that surnamed Su such a privilege to disturb the people, right?" Yang Rui almost broke out, and she was also a little angry in her heart. In her opinion, Han Jian's "bad moves" are the root cause of some harm to the people.

Han Jian spread his hands and said: "Your Majesty doesn't want to think about it, now that the north is being looted by Xianbei and Bohai people, how can we still have a chance?" It's to rob, the people don't even have their lives, and there are still robbers? ”

Yang Rui fell silent for a while.

These days, she has also heard a lot of things in the north, and now there are some thousands of miles of desolate people in the Beiwangfu, after Su Tingxia and the Xianbei people tossed twice, the Beiwangfu also gave birth to a few lonely cities that are still surviving. Su Tingxia's troops have always been stationary, and the Beiwangfu side is also defending the lonely city, and in the end, it is only the Xianbei people who are cheap.

"And what are you going to do?" Yang Rui thought for a long time, but didn't understand, so he had to ask Han Jian.

"I want to rob it, but this time it's not to rob my own people, it's to rob Hu Yi!" Han Jian clenched his fists and said.

Yang Rui sneered at this and said: "It is light to say, Xianbei people are brave and good at fighting, and they are good at living on horseback." Now its soldiers are strong and strong, and it can be said that it is invincible. With Su Tingxia's shrimp soldiers and crab generals, there is also a chance to rob Xianbei people? ”

"Hu Yi doesn't mean that he is a Xianbei person." Han Jian smiled.

Yang Rui pondered for a moment, but immediately understood, frowned, and said, "You mean Bohai people?" ”

"Hmm." Han Jian nodded, and said with a straight face, "Xianbei and the Bohai people have long been in adultery, and it is just a military alliance. However, both sides have their own covetousness. This time, the Xianbei people went south, and it seemed that the Bohai people were all there to help, and the Bohai people were also conscientious in dispatching and guarding the rear. But after all, the Bohai people can also see the situation clearly, if the Xianbei people occupy the great rivers and mountains of the Central Plains, how can there be anything to do with the Bohai people? Without the ties of the Central Plains Dynasty, the Xianbei people turned their heads and didn't destroy the Bohai Sea? ”

Yang Rui thought about it, and it was indeed the case.

"Then you're still going to rob the Bohai people?" Yang Rui frowned.

"How else? To cooperate privately with the Bohai people? Think the Bohai people are getting along well now? They saw that the Central Plains was in turmoil now, and even if they chose to cooperate, they would not choose to cooperate with our DPRK. On the contrary, it is better to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger, and let Su Tingxia send a team of soldiers and horses to warn the Bohai people, so as to open the opportunity to break the Xianbei camp from the side. Han Jian said.

Yang Rui was completely silent this time.

Han Jian's strategy is feasible, but it doesn't sound very reliable.

Now Su Tingxia's department can be said to be difficult to protect itself, and it has only been stationed for more than two months, and half of the people have been stationed alive. The matter of desertion is still becoming more and more strict, counting on such a group of people and horses, bypassing the Beiwangfu and advancing in the direction of the Bohai people, marching at least six or seven hundred miles, in exchange for harassment of the territory of the Bohai people, but in the end, it can only be that the people's hearts are not enough to swallow the elephant, and the bamboo basket is empty.

“…… Are you thinking too simply? Finally, Yang Rui raised his head and questioned Han Jian.

"So let's make a bet?" Han Jian smiled and said, "If Su Tingxia's men win, I will win, otherwise I will lose." ”

Yang Rui smiled coldly and said, "As a courtier, how can you make a bet with me?" …… Say, what's the stake? ”

Han Jian said with a smile: "If His Majesty wins, the matter of marching and dispatching in the future will be decided by His Majesty." But if Rui'er loses, after this war, you will marry the East Palace, and you will not ask about the court from now on. (To be continued......)