Qiming 1158

Chapter 881 Gossip Attack
Zhao Yucheng remembered that the quartermasters mentioned it when they sent information to the peasant army.

They said that Shao Hongyuan and Qi Fang were at odds, and the two sides were in conflict. Shao Hongyuan wanted to fight, but Qi Fang did not want to fight, which caused Shao Hongyuan to advance alone and lose many times.

Qi Fang did not intend to cooperate sincerely with Shao Hongyuan at all, and the two were at odds with each other.

According to the report of the secret agents who entered the Song Army, after Feng Shixing arrived as the supervisor, he and Shao Hongyuan attacked Qi Fang, quickly seized Qi Fang's handle, took him down, dismissed him, and quickly sent him to Lin'an to be convicted. , resulting in a given fact.

Then Qi Fang's hard-core cronies were also wiped out by Shao Hongyuan, disarmed quickly, and won.

The remaining tens of thousands of troops were leaderless and very chaotic, but they were very dissatisfied with Shao Hongyuan who played the black face, and there were faint signs of doing something against Shao Hongyuan.

At this time, Feng Shixing stood up to appease people's hearts, declared Qi Fang's guilt, and made a public commitment, deciding to only blame Qi Fang and his main cronies, not the entire army.

So Qi Fang's old department did not make trouble, but chose to accept Feng Shixing's instructions.

In their view, at least Feng Shixing represented the Central Privy Council, was a civil official, or was the top scholar among the jinshi, the champion. He had natural attributes to suppress this group of big-headed soldiers, and he ruled them as a matter of course.

The amblyopia of the big-headed soldiers for the attributes of the central scholars and civil servants was created by the painstaking efforts of the Song Dynasty for hundreds of years, not to mention Feng Shixing or the champion. Of course there will be similar adoration plots.

After entering the army, this kind of plot will also be brought into the army.

At the moment, it is this group of big-headed soldiers who are afraid of Feng Shixing, a former champion of the Central Privy Council, and dare not confront him.

What Feng Shixing said, they listened to what Feng Shixing said, and they believed him if Feng Shixing said nothing, so the army was initially stabilized, and Shao Hongyuan was able to dominate the army with Feng Shixing's support.

Without Feng Shixing's appearance and position, it would be too difficult for Shao Hongyuan to do this alone, and it would easily cause civil strife in the army.

Not to mention that he has been defeated twice in the face of the peasant army, and for now, he has no prestige at all.

Feng Shixing and Shao Hongyuan originally planned to slowly reorganize the army, dismantling and reorganizing Qi Fang's old troops, so that they could direct command and reduce possible troubles in the future.

The only leader in the Song army was Shao Hongyuan.

Among the [-]-[-] Song troops, most of them belonged to Qi Fang's former subordinates, and Shao Hongyuan's trusted subordinates were only a few thousand, and they belonged to a small number, and could not represent the vast majority of Song soldiers.

In other words, the current Song army is actually unstable and uneven.

After some analysis, Zhao Yucheng found his deputy, Du Qi, and discussed with him about the factional conflicts within the Song army. The two quickly reached a consensus.

Zhao Yucheng decided to spread rumors among the Song army, that Shao Hongyuan did not intend to let Qi Fang's old army go.

The reason why he said this before was just an expedient measure, in order to stabilize people's hearts and to plan for the future.

In fact, Shao Hongyuan hates Qi Fang for killing thousands of his subordinates and losing many times. Although Qi Fang has fallen, Qi Fang's subordinates are also a group of people who directly caused Shao Hongyuan to suffer losses. They are also guilty.

Shao Hongyuan did not intend to let anyone go. He not only wanted to incriminate these people, but also used the war to let them enter the mountains one by one to die.

In fact, Shao Hongyuan was not at all sure that he could defeat the peasant army in Luoxiao Mountain. He just wanted to use the lives of tens of thousands of them in exchange for his victory and make up for the losses he suffered before.

And if he wins, then Qi Fang's old clan, who survived the war by chance, will also be purged by him, and he won't get any awards at all, but will only be killed by him for various reasons.

Because he is the general, he has this power, and he will make full use of this power to make the army his personal property.

After Zhao Yucheng made up this rumor, he felt that this was one of the possible means for Shao Hongyuan.

The Song army was full of disputes over factions, regions, and political inclinations. When two armies, which were still in hostile relations before, suddenly merged into one, there was bound to be a big problem.

The discord between the two generals will inevitably lead to collisions and battles between the armies, and they will become opponents to each other. The hatred of the real enemy may not be as strong as the hatred of this opponent.

There is no instructor in the Song army who can teach everyone to let go of regional disputes and take class as the guideline. Everyone is a hard worker and should unite to fight against the superior.

Based on this, the Ming army has a set of systematic ideological methodology, which can bridge the gap between soldiers from different regions, let them quickly form mutual trust, and form a strong synergy and organization, thereby improving combat effectiveness. .

At least in the Ming army group, everyone has a common identity, and the Luoxiaoshan peasant army, which belongs to the Ming army branch, naturally also has such an identity.

In the Song army, there is no such precious identity, so the Song army is destined to not be able to twist into a rope and become an absolute fighting force.

Therefore, it is absolutely feasible to use this method of attacking the Song army.

While Zhao Yucheng's offensive strategy was going on, Shao Hongyuan was still feeling a headache over Feng Shixing's death.

Originally, it was Feng Shixing who shared the pressure of the army and shielded him from the wind and rain. He could successfully complete the reorganization and reorganization of the army. After all, as a veteran, he still had the ability.

However, once Feng Shixing died of illness, the military situation that had just stabilized began to become somewhat turbulent again. Shao Hongyuan could clearly feel the change in the atmosphere in the army, those hostile and suspicious eyes.

This made him very uncomfortable, so it was a matter of course that he mobilized his army to guard around his main general's tent, so that he had some sense of security.

Then he tried to use rewards to stabilize people's hearts, rewarded some military expenses to the army, and sprinkled a wave of money, which was barely able to survive the first difficulty.

But the problems he faced were far from over.

I don't know when, a rumor began to circulate in the Song army barracks.

About Shao Hongyuan is preparing to use the war to complete the purge of Qi Fang's old department.

The gossip said everything with a nose and an eye, saying that Shao Hongyuan has always hated Qi Fang's failure to send troops to help him suppress the bandits, which caused him to lose his troops and lose his generals, so he always planned to take revenge on Qi Fang. Now Qi Fang has solved it, but Qi Fang's The accomplices have not been dealt with.

The so-called accomplices are, of course, their unfortunate group of big-headed soldiers and middle and low-level officers. Shao Hongyuan believes that they are also Qi Fang's supporters and are not trustworthy, so he is trying to get rid of them all to relieve his hatred.

The specific method is to use them to launch an attack on Luoxiao Mountain. As we all know, Luoxiao Mountain is so huge that [-] to [-] troops are like throwing a handful of salt into Poyang Lake.

Shao Hongyuan knew that this kind of thing was completely impossible to succeed, but he knew better that this matter was only good for him, not bad.

Not only can he clean up the bandit army, but also consume Qi Fang's old clan, and exchange the blood of the bandit army and Qi Fang's old clan for his own glory and wealth.

This is his wishful thinking.

There were even rumors that vaguely linked him to Feng Shixing's death, saying that Feng Shixing had just come to the military camp for a while, and even if he died of illness, it would not be so fast. There must be something tricky about it.

Who the hell caused Feng Shixing to die so quickly?

(End of this chapter)