Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 655 Crisis erupted
Fan Ning breathed a sigh of relief after observing for two days that the fleeing soldiers did not show any disease. At this time, the whole camp became tense. With an army of 10,000+, if a disease breaks out, it will be a big deal.

Several strict orders issued by Fan Ning immediately became popular among the people. It is strictly forbidden to drink unboiled water, and it is strictly forbidden to defecate anywhere. The latrines must be disinfected with quicklime every day. , must be immediately sent to the hospital for isolation.

After a few orders were issued, the Song army began to fully implement them, even a bit of a panic. In one tent, a slight headache and brain fever were immediately exposed by others, and then they were forced to be sent to a medical camp for isolation and observation.

Fan Ning was even more worried that the Xixia army would drive patients away to surrender to the Song army in order to infect the Song army, so he specially ordered to strengthen the guard, increase the number of outpost towers, and increase the number of sentry towers from fifty steps to twenty steps. People in the camp of the Song army had to identify themselves a hundred paces away, and all those who tried to rush into the camp were shot and killed.

Strengthen the outer patrols near Xingqing Mansion, shoot and kill all Xixia people when they encounter them, and burn their bodies. The outer patrols must be monitored in the patrol camp for five days before they can enter the big barracks.

This order still had a very good effect. Every night in a row, dozens of Xixia soldiers who tried to escape were shot and killed by the Song army.

Patrols on the river were also stepped up to prevent sick soldiers from escaping the Yellow River and the Tanglai Canal.

On the morning of the fifth day, Fan Ning listened to the report of the messenger Chen Yan, the commander of the capital, in the big tent of the Chinese army. The [-] party cavalry came from these thirteen tribes.

Chen Yan did not have time to write a written report. Fan Ning listened to the oral report. In fact, it was very simple. The thirteen tribes did not resist and were all wiped out by the Song army. More than 10 men were killed and nearly 50 women and children were captured. , ready to be temporarily resettled in Dingzhou, seized one million cattle and sheep, more than [-] horses, millions of sheepskins and cowhide, and a large amount of other property, including as much as [-] taels of silver alone.

At this time, Xingqing Mansion can be described as a hell on earth. The epidemic began to appear in more than a month, and a large number of people showed symptoms of fever and diarrhea. Until the outbreak of the epidemic, and at this time, the epidemic has spread, and patients have appeared everywhere in the city, and even the army has been infected by the epidemic.

For more than a month, the government in the city tried every means to isolate, burn the corpses, and bury the polluted water sources, but to no avail, the disease has spread on a large scale.

As a last resort, the army had to order martial law throughout the city, no one was allowed to go to the streets, and those who disobeyed the order would be shot to death. This actually left the people in the city to fend for themselves.

As soon as night fell, the Empress Dowager Liang summoned Xiangguo Liang Yibu urgently. When she saw Liang Yibu, she threw a memorial in front of Liang Yibu, and immediately cursed, "I will ask you to take it out within three days. The solution to the epidemic, this is your solution? You actually asked me to surrender to the Song army, what is your intention?"

Liang Yibu said with a mournful face, "I really have no choice. You know how serious the epidemic is now outside. A month ago we distributed 90 servings of porridge every day, but yesterday we only distributed 60 servings, which has decreased in a month." 30 servings of porridge, what terrible things happened in it, can't you guess it?"

"Then surrender?"

"Queen, now we have nothing to do but surrender. You didn't know that a letter and a sword were shot outside the city yesterday, right?"

Empress Dowager Liang was taken aback, "What kind of sword, what kind of letter, why don't I know?"

"I heard that it was a letter of persuasion. Tens of thousands of cavalry in Helan Mountain have been wiped out, and thirteen tribes have also been wiped out by the Song army. I heard that the sword thrown is Wei Minglang's saber."

"I ask you where Xinhejian is now?" Queen Mother Liang's voice became severe, and she actually concealed such an important matter from herself.

"I don't know, it should be in the hands of the military!"

The Empress Dowager Liang immediately turned her head and said to the guards: "Hurry up and call the capital Roma to meet me!"

The guard saluted and hurried away.

Only then did Queen Mother Liang turn the topic back to what she cared about, "How serious is the epidemic situation now? Have you gone door-to-door to count and remove the dead bodies?"

Liang Yibu shook his head, "Government government servants died and fled. There are no more manpower. I asked the army to do an inventory, but the army refused, saying that the soldiers were infected and we couldn't bear the responsibility."

"Then you won't ask Du Luowei for help?" Queen Mother Liang said angrily.

Liang Yibu sighed, "He has no prestige in the army at all, most generals don't buy his account, and no one will carry out his military orders."

Empress Dowager Liang was taken aback immediately, Du Roman Tail was her grasp of the army, if Du Roman Tail failed in the army, wouldn't it mean that she had lost control of the army?

Liang Yibu understood the empress dowager's worry, and quickly explained: "The meaning of the humble minister is not that the army is not loyal to the empress dowager, but that the Duroma tail is too bad, greedy and brutal, and incapable of fighting, the army is very resistant to him. "

"Didn't you recommend him?"

Empress Dowager Liang glared at Liang Yibu with dissatisfaction, "At the beginning you praised him to the sky and strongly recommended him to me, so I reused him, but now you say he is not good, it seems that I have used him improperly?"

Liang Yibu was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly said: "Queen Dowager, please calm down. Du Luowei did behave very well before and was loyal to the Queen Mother. That's why I recommended him. I didn't know that loyalty can't be taken for granted. Loyalty without ability will cause trouble. I It is only recently that I have seen through this person, and I am too greedy."

Empress Dowager Liang was very disturbed, and the army must firmly control Zhu, otherwise, if there was a mutiny, she would die without a place to die.

Liang Yibu persuaded again: "Queen Mother, we can't last for a few days. We don't have medicine, and we can't be quarantined. The food can only last for more than ten days. The final result is either death from illness or starvation. Surrender to the Song Army! At least we can save The prosperity and wealth of our family can at least keep half of the people in the city, Empress Dowager, don't hold on anymore."

Empress Dowager Liang remained silent, but she was actually a little tempted. She summoned her brother today just to listen to his persuasion.

At this moment, the sound of shouting and killing suddenly came from a distance, which was very clear at night. Empress Dowager Liang was taken aback. Is this the Song army attacking the city?

I saw a person crawling in from the outside, and said anxiously: "Queen Mother, there is an army mutiny in the city!"

Empress Dowager Liang was taken aback, and the teacup in her hand fell to the ground. She panicked and said, "Yibu, think of a way, it must be the rebellion of those bastards."

Of course Liang Yibu knew that this must be the rebellion led by the emperor's uncle Li Chengyu.

Li Yuanhao's two younger brothers, the second brother Li Chengyu is a good old man who has little desire for power and spends his days drinking and cooking eagles. He demanded the implementation of the regent system, so he came to be the regent, failed in the power struggle, was exiled to Hexi, and died in a fierce battle with the Song army a few days ago.

Although Li Chengyu was a good old man, the other royal families raised him up to oppose the Queen Mother Liang. The Queen Mother Liang had long since discovered that the army was unstable, so she continued to use Luowei, the capital of Huaizhou, which was defeated in the army.

Unexpectedly, there was still a mutiny.

After all, the Empress Dowager Liang was female and young, so in the face of a sudden mutiny, she could only turn to her brother Liang Yibu for help.

Liang Yibu was indeed calmer, he thought for a while and said: "Close the palace gate first, then the queen mother will control the emperor in her hands, and I will go find rescuers."

Empress Dowager Liang also calmed down, and she immediately ordered the palace gates to be closed, and all the palace guards went to the city to prepare for battle.

Liang Yibu ran out of the palace. He also thought of one person, not Du Luowei, but General Zang Wenmu. He was also a Qiang. Not being reused.

Zang Wenmu has 1 people under his command. If they can win him over, they still have a glimmer of hope tonight.

A fierce battle broke out in the city, and the fuse was Wei Minglang's sword. Wei Minglang was killed in battle. Many royal families who supported Wei Minglang immediately turned to support Li Chengyu. They had already prepared to launch a mutiny after Wei Minglang returned to the capital.

As soon as Wei Minglang died, the mutiny broke out immediately.

Although the capital of Rome was hated, the army supporting the emperor and the queen mother still had the upper hand, and serious internal strife broke out between the two armies in the streets and alleys.

As soon as Liang Yibu ran out of the palace, he ran into Zang Wenmu who led an army to defend the palace. Liang Yibu was overjoyed and hurriedly took him back to the palace but saw the queen mother and prince.

Zang Wenmu knelt down to Empress Dowager Liang and said: "Please rest assured, Empress Dowager, those rebel soldiers are only a few, and they will not make a difference. I will do my best to wipe out the rebel officials."

Empress Dowager Liang breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said, "Everything depends on the general."

(End of this chapter)