When the prince of no descendants found out that he had a baby, he went crazy

Chapter 206 204 Blurring the military affiliation and training workers
The sky was covered with dark clouds and there was lightning and thunder.

Soon, heavy rain fell from the sky.

Nourishing the long-dry earth and living things.

Gu Hua stood on the highest attic of the palace and looked out at the street, where many people were walking out of their homes.

"Oh my god, it's finally raining."

The people knelt on the ground, with tears or rain on their faces. Some people cried bitterly when they thought of the sad days brought by the disasters in recent years.

Gu Hua stretched out her hand to catch the rain water falling from the eaves, and then it flowed out through her fingers. She couldn't help but sigh that the disaster that lasted for three years was finally over.

Unfortunately, various forces have risen up and will definitely not stop just because the disaster is over.

Everyone understood that their ambitions had been exposed. Even if they stopped attacking the court, the emperor might not do anything to them in the early stage for the sake of stability. However, once the court stabilized the situation, only death and the extermination of all nine generations of their clan would await them.

Gu Hua knew clearly in his heart that what was about to happen was the true beginning of the troubled times.

As expected, Gu Hua then received news from the spies she had arranged to be scattered in various places, and various forces came back one after another, saying that various forces were trying to win over people.

He was eager to make a move, wanting to be the first to capture the capital and seize the initiative.

Wei Xingba, who was equally ambitious, was not willing to fall behind.

He also began to send troops to expand his territory with Shuzhou as the center, and to accept the defeated refugee uprising army that surrendered.

However, Wei Xingba had never noticed that every time he sent people to lead troops to attack other forces, before the battle, someone would shout: "Our Shuzhou army is mighty and invincible..."

This statement seemed to be correct, but it also made those who escaped think that Wei Xingba was just the vanguard of the Shuzhou army.

The real master of the Shuzhou Army behind him was Prince Li Xiao Junlin, who owned the entire Bashu fiefdom. He was just a general who led the troops to fight.

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Wei Xingba led an army of 100,000 well-fed and well-watered soldiers and attacked Qingcheng with great force.

Together they approached the city.

Levi stood on the city wall and looked down at the troops below, pursing his lips tightly, assessing the strength of both sides. The other side had nearly twice as many troops as theirs, and the situation was not optimistic.

"The Shuzhou army is mighty and powerful." Someone in the team shouted, "Why don't you open the city gates and surrender quickly? Are you waiting for us to beat you to a pulp?"

It is common to quarrel before a war.

But Han Jinyan, who was standing in the team, looked at the person who was shouting from afar across the crowd, and couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth, wondering whether Wei Xingba's decision to disperse the 10,000 royal guards was right or not.

This meant that there were shadows of the palace's personal guards in each of his teams. No matter which team he sent out, someone would shout out these words, which made the army's affiliation unclear.

Gu Hua originally asked 10,000 people to pretend to surrender in order to turn Wei Xingba, in a vague concept, into a worker who would help her expand her territory.

Otherwise, when she received the food and money secretly sent back by Han Jinyan and Shen Hongling to the place where he hid them, those things should have been transferred to her space.

The reason why those were left to him for raising troops was simply to maximize his utilization value.

After Wei Xingba led his troops to conquer the surrounding county cities.

That day, the army of Shuzhou arrived at Qingcheng. Seeing the people standing on the city wall and the tightly closed city gate, some people began to challenge: "Open the city gate and let us in. You are a bunch of cowards hiding in there. What cowards..."

Some of Levi's men on the wall lost their patience and began to retort: ​​"I won't open it, I won't open it. If you have the guts, learn from the rats and get in."

You called me a turtle and I called you a rat. For a moment, both sides started to curse at each other.

Han Jinyan was like a hot-blooded, impulsive recruit. He took out his bow and arrow and shot at Li Wei on the wall. When he missed, he couldn't help but curse: "Damn it, bear, if you have the guts, just stand there and don't move. See if I can hit you."

Hearing him say this, the corners of the mouths of the people around him twitched.

How can you say that? How shameless.

You shoot others with a bow and arrow and don't let them dodge. This is so shameless.

Levi on the city wall's eyes flickered, and he stopped his subordinate who wanted to step forward to help pull out the arrow. He pulled out the arrow himself, and secretly took something from it and stuffed it into his sleeve pocket.

Because it was getting late, the night was closing in.

The two armies stopped their initial challenge and started to cook to fill their stomachs so that they could continue...

Li Wei returned to his mansion in Qingcheng.

He opened the small note stuck in the arrow feathers alone and read the message on it, claiming to be from the woman he wanted to recruit last time. Only then did he realize that more than half of the other side's 100,000 soldiers were regular troops.

No wonder they were able to sweep across Shuzhou in such a short time. They were the same uprising army that spontaneously organized themselves after the disaster.

An army composed of refugees like them, relying on their large numbers, could capture some local government offices if they encountered regularly trained soldiers.

If a real fight broke out, Levi knew very well that they would have no advantage at all.

So, after seeing the reality.

Li Wei secretly contacted Han Jinyan.

Next, Yizhi led his men to fight against Wei Xingba's army several times, but all ended in failure. It seemed that he had no choice but to accept Wei Xingba's surrender.

As more and more people surrendered, Wei Xingba's army grew bigger like a snowball.

As a result, food and money were consumed at an increasingly rapid rate. The daily food and drink for nearly 200,000 soldiers was not a small amount.

All the money and grain in the granaries that Wei Xingba had plundered in Shuzhou over the years were quickly consumed like running water.

Because he had no foundation and insufficient logistical support, General Wei Xingba had to worry about feeding so many soldiers every day, and his temper became more and more irritable.

One of his subordinates suggested to him, "General, how about we also fight to support the war?"

Here, "fighting to support war" does not mean exactly what some modern adults mean. It means using the manpower, material resources and financial resources gained from the war to continue the war and thus expand the results of the war.

In ancient warfare, fighting to support the war also included that the army was like locusts, plundering wherever it went and leaving no grass behind.

If the common people encountered soldiers passing by with such a strategy, not only would their families not leave any food for them, but they would probably be plundered by those soldiers and would not even have a hair left for them to keep them warm.

The characteristics of the Jie army in ancient history were its fierce and aggressive nature and its unscrupulous war strategy, which included relying on war horses and weapons to fight, not carrying military rations, but solving the problem of food and clothing by robbing food from prisoners and civilians or directly using prisoners as food.

...That's how the two-legged beast got its name.

The real meaning of "fighting to support war" in their words is much more terrifying and horrifying than the real meaning of "fighting to support war" in modern times.

Wei Xingba, who was almost bankrupt and had little money and food to support his troops, nodded in agreement after a brief hesitation. In his eyes, nothing was more important than leading his troops into the capital and sitting on the supreme position.

In the eyes of the ambitious Wei Xingba, harming the people is now nothing.

He even felt that it was an honor for these people to sacrifice their lives and lose their interests for him, the future emperor.

And no one noticed how ugly the soldier who brought in the tea and lowered his head looked when Wei Xingba and his team made this decision...

(End of this chapter)