As a salted fish, I was forced to become the teacher of all ages

"Contact Xuanwuwei and Dongchang, and send people to investigate in the direction of Liaodong. If there is any change, send the news back as soon as possible!"

"Yes!"

"Take my token and go to the Tianjin Navy, and prepare for the battle as soon as possible!"

"Yes!"

A series of orders were issued, and Xishan was in a mess in an instant.

In fact, after reading the letter, Hua Manlou realized that the lives of his own father, Huang Zichao, Song Jie, and a group of young soldiers were in his own hands...or in other words, it was in the speed with which the war in the capital was resolved. The speed here is fast, so I can take people to Lanzhou Mansion to slash Tumet severely, and if the war on the capital's side falls into a quagmire, then my own father will naturally die.

What?You said that King Yiduan valued Huamanlou, so he would not attack his own father?

Don't be silly, anything can happen on the battlefield, a stray arrow flying anywhere can kill someone.What's more, it was Tumed who was fighting this time, and these barbarians probably wouldn't show mercy to Uncle Huai'an.

Besides, with Uncle Huai'an's temper, how could he be captured without a fight when the city was broken?The phrase 'defend the Lanzhou government' has already represented his determination.

Since ancient times, there have been many officials and generals who have perished with the city while the city is alive. This is unbelievable to many people in later generations: if the green hills are left, there will be no need to worry about firewood, and the city can be taken back, but there are no people. It's really gone, isn't it?

But sometimes things can't always be viewed on the basis of superficial utilitarianism, even if the spirit of integrity and righteousness is excluded, if the chief officer runs away when the battle is at a disadvantage, what will happen to the soldiers below?What about the people?

Therefore, Hua Manlou, who knew her own father's temper, was very anxious at the moment, and only wanted to quell the Liaodong rebellion as soon as possible, and the commander went to Lanzhou to support him.

however……

"Report!"

While Hua Manlou was anxiously analyzing the current situation in the Xishanwei Hall, the young soldier who had been sent to the capital’s Xuanwuwei earlier to inquire about Uncle Huai’an stumbled in and said hastily, “Uncle, it’s not good. Lah! The capital is under siege!"

Hua Manlou stood up abruptly: "What did you say? What's the situation in detail?"

The young man took a breath and reported in detail: "Uncle, my subordinates went to the capital to inquire about the old man's news, but before arriving in the capital, they heard the sound of killing, so the subordinates hid their horses and groped over to see Take a look, but I saw a group of people attacking the city gate..."

Hua Manlou's heart sank, and he quickly asked, "Is it the flag of the Liaodong Army?"

The boy nodded and said, "Exactly!"

Hua Manlou asked again: "How is the situation in the capital? How many people are attacking the city? Can the people from the three battalions provide support?"

"Uh..." The young man said with a wry smile, "Uncle, the city is full of rebellious troops, and my subordinates couldn't see how many people there were, let alone what happened to the three battalions. I just saw that those people were in a hurry to attack the city, so I ordered them to attack the city." Immediately report back..."

Hua Manlou took a deep breath, tried to calm himself down and said, "Okay, you can go down and rest."

"Yes."

Judging from the current situation, Peng Guang's news is still a step late. The Liaodong Army has already reached the capital—this is the worst situation.

Yesterday there were still people from the capital going to and from Xishan, but today the Liaodong army attacked the city and the capital did not send anyone to Xishan to send a letter for help.

In other words, it is very likely that the three major battalions have not received any news, and the idea of ​​​​the Liaodong Army should be to break through the capital before all parties have reacted. In this way, their own support is very important.

Hua Manlou was analyzing like this, when someone rushed in suddenly: "Uncle Hua! The Liaodong Guard is rebellious!"

Hua Manlou looked up in astonishment, but saw the person coming in with disheveled hair and blood all over his face. After entering the door, he howled and knelt down on the ground, weeping uncontrollably.

"You are... General Liu Shen?" Hua Manlou was dazed for a long time before he recognized him.

This person is Liu Jianian, a member of the Shenji Camp, and Huang Zichao's former immediate boss. Because of the good relationship between the Shenji Camp and Xishanwei, General Liu often came to Xishan to learn Buddhist scriptures...or in other words, he flattered Huamanlou, so Huamanlou Since I recognize him.

After recognizing this guy, Hua Manlou's heart sank again. He picked up General Liu who was kneeling on the ground and shouted, "What's going on in Shenji Camp? Why are you here?"

Liu Shen burst into tears, unable to form a sentence: "The camp was attacked... yesterday was fine, and the last general told his subordinates at night that even though the world is peaceful now, they should also pay attention to security, but... today's second update The camp was suddenly attacked at Shifen, there were rebels everywhere, and... and the Jurchens..."

Hua Manlou was shocked again: "Jurchen? You mean, the Liaodong Army colluded with the Jurchens and killed them in the capital?"

"Yes... yes, if it wasn't for the Jurchen cavalry, why did the Shenji Battalion lose so badly? Only the last general escaped from the siege and wanted to go to the capital for help, but there are Liaodong guards everywhere outside the capital..." Liu Jianian wept on the ground, crying It looks like a child in his forties.

Seeing him like this, Hua Manlou felt more and more depressed. She endured and endured and finally couldn't hold back, and roared: "You are responsible for guarding the capital inside and preparing for war outside, and this is the result? Your Majesty raised you. For dry rice? You...you..."

Halfway through the roar, Huamanlou suddenly remembered a very important thing: besides some special firearms such as airships and giant cannons in Xishan, some Shenji camps in Xishan also have them. The Jiying should be the most elite unit in Dazhao except Xishan, but now they have been taken away before the war started, this...

For a moment, Hua Manlou was covered in cold sweat: "Don't be so busy crying. After the Shenji Camp was attacked, where are the firearms? Did the firearms fall into the hands of the Liaodong Army?"

General Liu Shen wiped his tears and said: "The last general... The last general ordered someone to set fire to the firearms warehouse when he saw that the situation was wrong. The rebels should not get much..."

Huamanlou breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words, he kicked Liu Jianian away, and roared outside: "Come here, send an order! The entire Jinov team took off and went all the way to the direction of the capital to find out the whereabouts of the Liaodong Army." situation!"

"The entire reconnaissance company is dispatched to investigate the movement of the Fifth Army Battalion and the Three Thousand Battalion! If the other two battalions are also attacked and encounter their remnants, tell them to move closer to the west mountain!"

"Block all the main roads of Xishan, and stop anyone who wants to enter Xishan!"

Hua Manlou originally thought that the Liaodong army's attack on the capital was the worst situation, but he never thought that there is no worst, only worse: if the three major battalions have been impacted to varying degrees or if they are not scattered at all, then relying on themselves Can the remaining 3000 people of Xishanwei retreat from the thieves?

If you can't retreat, your own father...

Is there any help?

552. Dead Zhao Bihua

In the following time, although he was burning with anxiety, Hua Manlou still did not act rashly. Instead, he collected the news collected from all parties one by one, hoping to find out the situation of the Liaodong Guard and the deployment of troops as quickly as possible. , and their current operational objectives.

And as the news slowly came back, Hua Manlou finally figured out what happened in Liaodong.

In fact, the Liaodong Rebellion started a few days ago... or even earlier, when Yao Zijie, the general soldier of Liaoji, came to power.

What kind of character is Yao Zijie?

In the eyes of many people, General Yao loves soldiers like a son, has a bold personality, is not greedy for money and lust, can be described as...

A weirdo?

That's right, to a certain extent, he is indeed a weirdo, because most of the generals under the guard system regard the soldiers below as private slaves, and it is not uncommon for them to eat empty wages and drink soldiers' blood, so it is kind I have never taken these big soldiers as individuals, and it is rare to give small favors occasionally.

But Yao Zijie was different. After he took office, he distributed all the part he should take from the unspoken rules to the people below. Out of pocket subsidies to some particularly difficult soldier families.

Isn't this method of winning people's hearts complicated?

It couldn't be simpler, Huamanlou knows how to do it better than him, otherwise how would Huamanlou be enshrined as a god in Xishan?

But Yao Zijie relied on this skill...or with the financial support of King Yiduan, he controlled Liaodong up and down for several years, and everyone looked up to him.

Not only that, Yao Zijie has also punished some profiteers, because, well, this group of people really screwed the Jurchens enough.

What is the Jurchens doing at this time?

Digging ginseng and hunting, at least that's what Jianzhou Jurchen did.

Ginseng is basically of little use whether it is placed in the Jurchen Department or in Korea.But Dazhao's consumer market is huge, and people in the Celestial Dynasty have always regarded ginseng as a treasure, so this created a business.

Where there is business, there are profiteers. This group of profiteers often do everything they can when they trade with foreigners. Tatars and Wala have some things to talk to the Jurchen about, such as: why the salt they buy is always mixed with sand, Why are the high-end cloth and silk in the Central Plains different from those sold on the grasslands, and why the leather goods and medicinal materials they regard as high-end products are often worthless in the mouths of merchants.

Anyway, no matter what, after Yao Zijie punished these profiteers, he got in touch with the Jurchen Ministry and established a friendship. After several contacts, Yao Zijie was not only successfully regarded as a guest by the Jurchen, but also became their agent for selling fur and ginseng , and even the Jurchen Ministry helped him with some things. For example, when the Tatar tribes plundered Liaodong in the tenth year of Guangxing, the Jurchens fought side by side with the Liaodong Wei.

In short, Yao Zijie took control of the entire Liaodong with these seemingly inconspicuous little actions, but his purpose was to help his former savior King Yiduan raise his troops, that's all.

But what...

In the words of King Yiduan, the variable is coming.

Before the Battle of Datong, Emperor Guangxing initiated the reform of the military system, and then Hua Manlou transformed the defense forces of the six southeastern provinces into naval forces during the Pingwa period and made it a reality.After Pingwo returned, both Emperor Guangxing and the court saw the benefits of reforming the military system, so Nine Sides became the next goal of reform, but this was enough to make Yao Zijie's deployment in Liaodong fall short in recent years. .

Therefore, Yao Zijie used various excuses to delay the reform of the military system, and at the same time secretly contacted King Yiduan, telling him that the situation was urgent and could not be moved, after all...

It was the middle-level officers who were most impacted by the reform of the military system, but Yao Zijie controlled the entire army through the middle-level officers, and once these people were removed or transferred, how would he control the guards in Liaodong?

Moreover, if a new batch of soldiers were replaced, it would be difficult for him to use the same means to win people's hearts - after the reform, it would no longer be the guard system, but the recruitment system.

In other words, when the time comes, the soldiers will really belong to the imperial court, and the military pay will also be paid by the imperial court, not something he can just spit out to buy. This matter is very serious, and...

This incident was the main reason why King Yiduan took the risk and assassinated Emperor Guangxing in the capital.

And when King Yiduan decided to raise troops, Yao Zijie responded immediately after receiving the letter, and he used a very refreshing reason: remonstrance.

What is a military remonstrance?

Remonstrated with mutiny, and tried to force the emperor to withdraw his unjust orders to the soldiers.

Then why do you want to remonstrate?

Because Yao Zijie told a big lie: the imperial court wanted to reform the military system, and after the reform, all the old and the weak would be expelled from the military, and they would not be paid a penny, regardless of whether everyone lived or died.

So, as a general who loves his soldiers like his son, should he bring all the soldiers who admire him and regard him as their reborn parents to admonish him?

The middle-level officers who were already quite resistant to the reform of the military system would naturally respond to this matter, and the soldiers below were filled with righteous indignation because of the lag in information...even because the officers deliberately blocked the news and advocated the court to kill donkeys everywhere. Yao Zijie, who is like a soldier, wants to speak up, so no one doubts the lie they told together, so...

Hua Manlou was scolded bloody - he was the one who initiated the reform of the military system.

Yao Zijie's letter of advice described Huamanlou with words such as "treacherous", "little man" and "unkind and mean", and denounced him as a national traitor, because his nonsense would leave Da Zhao with no one to guard. On the border, it is also said that the dead Zhao will spend...

I have to say that when Hua Manlou received the news, she was really angry.

In short, after Yao Zijie raised his troops, the eight guards including Guangning Guard, Gaizhou Guard, Jianzhou Guard, and Shenyang Guard all mutinied. They first blocked the road and cut off all the information channels from Liaodong to the capital, and then coerced all the local officials to join forces. They remonstrate together, and those who disobey will be killed immediately.

The incident happened suddenly, and by the time Yongping Mansion reacted, the army had already assembled and killed the city of Yongping...

At around noon yesterday, the Liaodong Army arrived [-] miles north of the capital and set up camp. After an afternoon of rest, the Liaodong Guards took advantage of the darkness to disperse the three major battalions in one fell swoop.

That's right, the eight guards, even the shrunken guards, have more than [-] frontier troops, and there are also Jurchen troops who came to help their friends to remonstrate, so the three major camps that had been scattered for a long time were caught off guard in an instant. It's all messed up.

However, the Liaodong Army did not stop there. Before attacking the camp, they blocked the road leading to the capital from the three major battalions, and successfully killed and retreated the people who had reported to the capital. Then two tentative sieges were launched after daylight, and that's all that's happened so far.

553. How to consume?

As more and more news came back, Hua Manlou's face became darker and darker.

In fact, as long as there are one or two reliable officials in the area from Liaodong to Yongping Mansion, there will be no such thing as soldiers approaching the city.

After all, you see, according to Da Zhao's urinating nature of using literature to control military, Liaoji's general army is subject to the governor of Liaodong. In theory, Yao Zijie needs the governor's consent to mobilize any troops.

however……

For so many years, Yao Zijie has been willing to buy people's hearts downwards, so how could he not attack upwards?

Therefore, before the incident, Yao Zijie mobilized troops and horses on the grounds of "there are changes in the Tatar tribes that need to be guarded against" and "routine drills", so that the guards of Jianzhou Guard and Sanwan Guard, which are farthest from the capital, will be the same as the Jurchen Ministry. Moving all the way to the area of ​​Yongping Mansion, the governor of Liaodong had no precautions or doubts about this matter, and he didn't even go through the proper procedures and allowed Yao Zijie to mobilize troops at will.

after all……

Over the years, the governor of Liaodong and Yao Zijie, the general of Liaoji, can be said to 'complement each other', so he didn't bother to take care of the military affairs at all, anyway, he got the money, didn't he?

If the governor doesn't care, then the people below will ignore Yao Zijie's actions, which makes him transfer the troops to Yongping Mansion almost without any obstacles.

So, with so many soldiers and horses gathered in Yongping Mansion, the prefect of Yongping should intervene, right?

But Yao Zijie was holding a note approved by the governor of Liaodong, and the reason he said was still that the Tatar tribes had made a big move, and he would take people to Daning to destroy it—the military situation was urgent, and there was a letter from the governor, so Yongping The magistrate didn't care too much at all, he only cared about whether the Tatars would come to his Yongping Mansion.

So the magistrate doesn't care, who is willing to meddle in the county magistrates along the way?

So in this way, Yao Zijie not only passed through the Shanhaiguan pass, but also brought soldiers and horses to the Zunhua area.

Zunhua is only three hundred miles away from the capital, but the magistrate of Zunhua didn't bother with this unusual thing--the end-of-year evaluation is coming soon, and the evaluation is related to whether the county's elders will be promoted after the year. ?

Therefore, for such a large-scale, unusual, and unruly mobilization of soldiers and horses, no one thought of reporting to the capital at the moment Yao Zijie raised the incident. Instead, Huang Zichao, who was far away in Lanzhou, got the news first. This……

It is no longer just a sentence of corrupt government that can be summed up.

Not only that, Yao Zijie has been buying mules, horses and even donkeys on a large scale all the way, just hoping to be faster in the incident, and Xuanwu Wei didn't bother with this seemingly more unusual matter, and even the slightest doubter Yao Zijie perfunctorily excused him with the excuse of buying food for escort.

Therefore, Yao Zijie already had a large number of mobile forces when he started the incident, and because he didn't care about the life and death of the livestock, he was able to transfer Zunhua's soldiers and horses to the Shuntian Prefecture area in a very short period of time, and he could also use this to block the news ——Anyway, all he wants is a time difference of one or two days, as long as the three major battalions are broken up before the capital reacts.

Things went smoothly beyond Yao Zijie's imagination, so the magistrate of Zunhua died on his concubine's bed, the magistrate of Yongping was stuffed upside down into the well, and the governor of Liaodong...

The governor of Liaodong may not know about Yao Zijie's rebellion until now.

What made Hua Manlou even more ashamed was that the performance of the three major battalions was truly a shame for their Beijing battalion name.

The Shenji Battalion didn't have a large number of people. They were caught off guard by the Liaodong tribes and the Jurchen tribes, and they fought back sporadically. They also gave Liu Jianian time to react by setting fire to the munitions warehouse, but the other two battalions were caught off guard. The bottom didn't respond.

In the past, the [-] Battalion was inspected by Emperor Guangxing and regretted it. They also carried out a large-scale rectification movement. Seriously.

then……

Then they died in the wine field.

The Liaodong Army, which abandoned its supplies and supplies and marched towards the capital lightly, had a large amount of food, grass and siege equipment, and even a small amount of firearms. They bought a group of Jurchens, but the things were taken by others after all.

"Uncle, we also discovered that even if the Liaodong guards don't rob the three major battalions, there is no shortage of food and grass in the short term." The 'company commander' of the Xishan reconnaissance company and Hua Manlou reported: "They bought too many mules and horses. That’s right, those who were exhausted from Zunhua’s gallop all the way to the capital are enough for the army’s rations for three days. In addition, they also imitated the grassland people’s way of driving a batch of cattle and sheep at the end of the team. These are enough for the army to eat for some time gone."

Hua Manlou frowned upon hearing this.

From this point of view, Yao Zijie had made all the preparations, and Hua Manlou even dared to guarantee that he had no plan to disperse the three camps, but he never thought that things would go so smoothly.