Chapter 1305 Empty Salary

"Since the senior sister left, in the Qiang army, as before, there began to be arguments, several generals, no one obeyed anyone, and it was a mess. Huoran? Wen??? ．?ｒ ａ?ｎ?ｅｎ`ｏｒｇ”

Sheng Yue said: "No, now the Qiang army is divided into three factions, one faction advocates entering the capital to surrender, one faction advocates attacking the Song army, and the other faction advocates retreating to Liangzhou."

By the way, senior sister, there are several generals who have been thinking about you, hoping that you can return to the Qiang army. ”

Oh?

Retsuki and I glanced at each other.

"Senior sister, I am looking for you this time, just hoping that you can help me find a few supporters in the Qiang army and pass on the word to them. ”

"Proponent supporters?" Sheng Yue nodded: "This is not difficult, but senior sister, in the current situation, even if you can win over a few generals, it will not help." ”

"This doesn't matter, as long as you send a message and tell them that in three days, the Song army will attack the capital, and I have a way to repel the Song army. ”

This is the method that I have discussed with Lianhua before, as long as she takes the opportunity to win over a part of the Qiang army, and when the time comes, I will lead the army to attack the city, and she will pretend to defeat me, so that she can establish prestige among the Qiang people and convince the whole army.

In that way, the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Baima Qiang tribe naturally took refuge in Lianhua, so that she could replace the position of the original Qiang King and become the new Qiang King.

As long as he becomes the new king of Qiang, then everything is easy to say, occupying the capital and becoming the new king of Western Xia is an ironclad thing.

Hearing Lianhua's words, Shengyue's eyes turned on me, and she had already vaguely guessed the deal between me and Lianhua.

"Good. Senior sister, I'll go back to the army and help you spread the word. ”

"Thank you, junior sister. Lianhua stretched out her hand and gently hugged Sheng Yue.

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The next day, Sheng Yue came to the inn again to meet us.

"Senior sister, the words have been brought, but several generals are still maintaining a wait-and-see attitude, and no one immediately agrees. ”

Hearing this, I smiled: "It seems that it is my turn to play." ”

Lianhua and I have already discussed a set of plans, as long as Shengyue brings the words, other things will be easy to say.

I immediately gave some money, then mixed in the caravan, left the capital, and with the help of blood induction, found the Qilin Blood Army encamped ten miles away in the distance.

Then I met Natsu.

As soon as he saw me, Xia was very happy: "King Chitose of Liang, you finally appeared, around us, there have been several spies of the Western Xia cavalry, and I am still saying, do you want to take down those spies." ”

"Take it all, prepare immediately, and start a war with Western Xia. I said, "Prepare some large iron shields." ”

"Big iron shield?" Xia asked me, "How big does it be?" ”

"The bigger the better, and it's better to have one person tall. ”

"Such a big shield, Yan'an Mansion should have it, but we are afraid that there is no one in our army. Xia said.

"Yan'an Mansion, what's the current situation over there?"

"The prefect over there has long been frightened by the entry and exit of the Baima Qiang tribe, and when he saw that I led the army to drive away the Baima Qiang tribe, I am very grateful, and I must leave our army to be stationed in Yan'an Mansion, but I refused. ”

"Oh?" I thought was a little strange: "They don't have defenders of their own?"

"Yan'an Mansion is located in a remote area, and there were some defenders before, but in recent years, the Song and Jin countries have been at war, and the relationship between Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty is good, and they have been trading with each other, so the defenders of Yan'an Mansion have gradually relaxed, and many officials, most of whom rely on empty salaries, fill their pockets.

Until this time, the Baima Qiang tribe attacked, and the defenders who could be mobilized were less than five hundred, and they were scattered at the touch of a button, and they could not be defeated at all. ”

"How do you eat empty wages?" I asked.

"For example, the imperial court allocated a quota of 10,000 defenders to Yan'an Mansion. Then the garrison of Yan'an Mansion ate 1,000 of the 10,000 places and used them to support private soldiers.

Then distribute the remaining 9,000 places to the generals under him. And those generals took out part of the quota from it to support their families.

If this continues, the number of places that will finally fall into the hands of the conscripts is only five hundred, and there are still some old, weak, sick and disabled people. ”

Forehead.

After Xia's explanation, I finally understood that it was still such a method of eating empty salaries.

These officials are really good at finding a way.

This Great Song Dynasty, no wonder in front of Temujin, is not vulnerable at all, it turns out that it has decayed to such an extent!

Of the 10,000 soldiers, only 500 old, weak, sick and disabled remained, and it was no wonder that they were undefeated.

It seems that when I return to the army, I must put this Yan'an Mansion in order.

I thought about it and asked Xia: "How long does it take to go to Yan'an Mansion here?"

"Come and go, two days. Xia did the math and replied.

"That's okay, then you can send troops to Yan'an Mansion and 'borrow' some heavy shields. ”

"Okay, how many noodles do you want?"

"Look, the more the merrier, if you can move here, you can move all of them, anyway, in Yan'an Mansion, this kind of heavy shield should not be configured too much. ”

Xia saluted me: "Okay, since that's the case, then I'll go in person, and I'll set off now, and the command of this Qilin Blood Army will be returned to King Liang." ”

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When Xia left, I immediately ordered the Qilin Blood Army to disperse in all directions, preparing to outflank the army of the 100,000 White Horse Qiang Clan.

Although the number of the Qilin Blood Army was half as small, and I had never heard of the doctrine of infantry surrounding cavalry, I decided to do it.

The most fundamental reason was not to kill as many Baima Qiang cavalry as they wanted, but to drive them away from the outside of the capital.

In the state of not being supplied, these cavalry of the White Horse Qiang tribe could not support it for long.

In the evening, I urged the Qilin Blood Army to launch the first round of attacks on the Baima Qiang tribe.

These Baima Qiang cavalry have long been old fritters, and they have fought with the Qilin Blood Army before, and they know that even if they are cavalry, they can't beat them, so after seeing the Qilin Blood Army appear, they will be decisive as soon as they meet.

All right.

In this cover-up, at most, he grabbed a few war horses and killed a few flute-headed soldiers.

I immediately ordered the Qilin Blood Army to redeploy outside the range of the ballista and disperse to surround the capital of the Western Xia Kingdom.

The next day, I didn't attack, I just kept quiet.

During this period, the forbidden army in the capital rushed out a team of people, about 3,000 people, probably to try the combat effectiveness of the Qilin Blood Army, but only in one face, in half an hour, they were killed and abandoned their armor, and fled in embarrassment.

And the ballista is only suitable for defending the city, but it is not suitable for attacking, and it is not useful at all.

After this battle, the capital suddenly became honest.

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On the third day, Xia finally returned from Yan'an Mansion, bringing five hundred heavy shields and five hundred pairs of heavy armor.

Just in the right place.

I immediately equipped the five hundred Qilin Blood Army, and then prepared to attack the city.