Vol 3 Chapter 24: Discussion

Baisha County, Wengcheng.
Qi Guangbo, dressed in a uniform and scarlet cloak, stood in front of the Qingzhou map supported on a shelf, watching intently.
Behind him were the generals of the Yunzhou Army battalions. Ji Xuan was wearing armor with a waist and hip sword, sitting in the first place on the left.
The generals looked relaxed, and although they remained quiet, there was joy in their eyebrows.
In just three days, the nine counties on the border of Qingzhou were removed and the first line of defense was completely defeated, giving the army a solid backing.
Qi Guangbo kept his eyes on the map, and said lightly: "Everyone is in a good mood, you are in a good mood, you might as well get drunk tonight..."
The generals were taken aback for a moment, silently staring at each other, no one disputed.
Qi Guangbo instructed the lieutenant beside him, saying:
"Talk about the situation in the city."
The lieutenant stood up, looked around the table and said in a deep voice:
"Before the Qingzhou defenders retreated, they burned the grain and grass in the granaries in various places in the city. At the same time, a large number of quilts and cloths were burned together. In addition, the wealthy households, merchants, and wealthy families in the city had already withdrawn early. , There are only hungry poor people and refugees.
"The other nine counties are all like this."
"what?"
The generals were taken aback.
The lieutenant continued:
"Before this, the Qingzhou chief ambassador's yamen had already ordered the walls to clear the fields, and the villages outside the city had ten rooms and nine empty spaces, and there was not a little bit of food to be found.
Qi Guangbo, who turned his back to everyone, said with emotion:
"What a Yang Gong, who is not in charge of the army, I didn't expect him to be more cruel to the people. Are you still in the mood to drink?"
The generals were silent.
They have laid down the Qingzhou border defense line and have a back game, but whether they are stable or not is hard to say.
Ji Xuan groaned:
"Yang Gong did not intend to defend the nine counties and counties on the border in the first place. He evacuated the rich in advance, leaving only the refugees and the poor. He planned to give us this mess."
Uncle Qi Guang pointed his finger on the map of Qingzhou and nodded:
"Qingzhou is tens of thousands of miles, and there is some space for him to move around. Why should he stick to the border? Now that the court reinforcements have not arrived, he chose to entangle with us instead of fighting to death. This is the correct way.
"This trick is a great way to treat the human body."
When attacking the city, you can't wait for the worse the situation of the opponent, the better.
But once the city is occupied, all the rebels have to do is to maintain stability. If riots occur in these places, they will be hindered.
Of course, if only for the purpose of looting, these can be ignored, and it is a big deal to kill all the people.
This situation only applies to foreign aggression. Yunzhou rebels want to gather the hearts of the people and occupy the righteousness, so it is not easy to do so.
"He wants to use the poor and the refugees to drag us down, huh, just this time the siege militia was killed and wounded. These are excellent sources of troops."
Said a general.
Any strategy has two sides.
Ji Xuan glanced at him and said:
"Yang Gongjian clears the wild, burns grain and grass, and does not leave us a grain of rice. Our pressure will increase exponentially. This is cutting meat with a dull knife and slowly consuming our heritage. Of course, we are not afraid of it. "
Yang Gong's goal is obvious, to weaken the strength of the rebels as much as possible in Qingzhou.
All the generals here are smart and experienced, so it is not difficult to figure this out.
Qi Guangbo said indifferently: "The national teacher has been prepared for many years and has a profound background. Can Xiao Qingzhou be able to consume it? It can be used to promote the reputation of our volunteer teachers."
The generals looked at each other and smiled.
Qi Guangbo said, "It's time for the monks and soldiers of the Western Regions to appear. I have sent someone to ask the national teacher for advice."
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Qingzhou Chief Envoy.
In the backyard, the round table in the hall was full of delicacies, and Lina and Xu Lingyin were lying on the table eating and drinking.
The faces of the master and apprentice were the same, and they were bulging into buns.
"Eating fish and bacon every day, I have to squat for a long time when I go to the latrine." Lina said vulgar words without any psychological burden, despite her delicate features.
There is a lack of fresh fruits and vegetables on board.
"Master, I can poop." Xu Lingyin announced loudly, saying that he was better than Master.
"Should we save some for Brother Erlang?"
Lina said so, swallowing food faster.
On the way to Qingzhou by boat, Xu Erlang's mentor Zhang Shen and Li Mubai came to the door and brought his disciples to Qingzhou first.
Of course Xu Erlang couldn't let Lina and Lingyin stay on the boat, so they went on the road together.
"Erguo, Erguo is not hungry."
Xu Lingyin forcibly defined Xu Erlang.
"If you are not hungry, there is no way..."
Lina said seriously.
Council Chamber of the Chief Executive.
Xu Erlang picked up the blue and white tea cup, took a sip of the hot tea, and remained silent to listen in.
The head of the pearwood long table, sitting in a scarlet robe, Qingzhou chief ambassador Yang Gong, the patriarch of Ziyang, who was born in Yunlu Academy and has a well-known literary reputation in the Central Plains, has lost a lot of weight.
He hasn't slept for half a decade, and his clear face can't hide his fatigue, but his eyes are still sharp and his spirit is still strong, as if he has endless power.
"...The situation in Qingzhou is like this at present, the border has not been maintained."
Yang Gong finished his long speech, picked up the tea cup, moisturized his throat, and looked to Zhang Shen:
"How about your words?"
Among the two classmates who came all the way to serve as aides, Zhang Shen majored in the art of war, a talent that Yang Gong needed urgently.
Zhang Shen nodded and said:
"If it were me, I wouldn't let those wealthy merchants, squires and prominent families leave. The rebels would definitely choose to use war to support the war. The day the city breaks is the time when their family is ruined.
"If you don't want to destroy your home, then help defend the city, so that you can consume the strength of the rebels. However, this is when the court has reinforcements. Ziqian, you are a good compromise."
With that said, he looked at the proud disciple, with a heart to test the school, and said with a smile:
"Farewell, you come to analyze the situation in Qingzhou for you."
The prefects of Qingzhou, all commanders, punishment and prosecutors, as well as their civilian officials and military commanders all looked at it.
Xu Xinnian is not stage fright, he straightened his back, his eyes slowly sweeping across the crowd:
"This official believes that for how long Qingzhou can guard and how to guard it, first of all, you adults must understand three points.
"One: Yunzhou's environment!
"The climate in Yunzhou is humid and warm, the land is fertile, and every household has surplus grain; and backed by the ocean, there are countless salt fields. In the past two decades, the rebellious party has secretly eroded the court's water transportation yamen and secretly transferred countless iron ore. There is no shortage of salt and iron. .
"In such a rich and prosperous place, Governor Yang wanted to use the refugees and the poor to drag down each other, and it was nothing but a drop in the bucket."
"So according to Mr. Xu's intention, the strategy of Governor Yang is not appropriate?" Qingzhou prefect frowned.
Xu Xinnian shook his head: "President Yang's strategy will naturally not go wrong, but the focus must be changed. Don't think about dragging them down, but instead lose their talent."
He looked at the map of Qingzhou and Yunzhou on the wall behind Yang Gong, and said in a deep voice:
"We are back to Yunzhou. Do you still remember the nickname for Yunzhou?
"Bandit!
"Since the emperor Gaozu, Yunzhou has been occupied by the rebellious party of the previous dynasty and turned into a mountain bandit. It is a disaster. For six hundred years, the problem of banditry in Yunzhou has not been resolved.
"Masters, can you still remember how many people were there in Yunzhou when the Yellow Book was recreated last time?"
The officials looked at each other, no one knew.
They are Qingzhou officials, how could they know about Yunzhou.
Yang Gong tapped his finger on the table, and swept across the officials with some dissatisfaction, and said slowly:
"The last time was in the 30th year of Yuanjing. There were 830,000 registered households in Yunzhou, with a population of about 3.5 million."
This is the data eight years ago.
Xu Erlang arched his hands and continued calmly:
"If I remember correctly, every time the Yellow Book is recreated, the population of Yunzhou has dropped sharply. This is the price of banditry rampant."
At this time, the officials already understood what he wanted to say.
"Population limits the number of their troops. In addition, in the past few decades, training and raising soldiers have been carried out secretly." Xu Erlang tapped his fist on the table lightly, with a loud voice:
"The shortcomings of elite soldiers are the biggest flaw in rebelling against the party. Regardless of all costs, try to use their talents as much as possible. This is what we have to do."
"Reasonable!" Everyone nodded slowly.
Zhang Shen Yang Gong and Li Mubai smiled at each other.
Xu Xinnian stretched out and said:
"Two: combat power!
"The combat power of the transcendent realm is a factor that cannot be ignored in a war. Sometimes, a transcendent powerhouse can even reverse the victory or defeat in a conventional battle."
The reason why he used "conventional" battles is because there are very large battles in the world, such as the battle of Shanhaiguan.
The kind of war that swept all the major forces in Kyushu, it is difficult for an extraordinary power to turn the tide of the battle. It is not that the extraordinary is not strong enough, but that there are too many extraordinary masters in the field, which is not unusual.
Of course, it's another matter if it's a super-grade or a first-grade martial artist.
Li Mubai suddenly asked: "Who is the enemy coach?"
Yang Gong said: "The surname is Qi, the name is Guangbo, an unknown person."
Zhang Shen raised his eyebrows: "An unknown person is commanding the three armies?"
Yang Gong slowly said: "Anonymity does not mean incompetence. On the contrary, this person is extremely powerful. He sent troops to drive away the refugees, and then let the masters confuse the refugees to paralyze the defenders, and easily approach the city wall. Huangling County in the border is that. I was caught off guard in this way, and only persisted for a day before being broken into the city."
Zhang Shen sneered and said: "The generals who defend the city are kind and let the refugees come near.
Qingzhou Commander Zhou Mi sighed and said, "I have died in the line."
Li Mubai said: "That is, for the time being, I don't know whether this coach is a transcendent state."
Yang Gong said with an "um":
"Except for the Jialuoshu Bodhisattva and Xu Pingfeng, who are responsible for the containment and supervision, there is no transcendent state among the rebels for the time being. However, it is most likely that they are hidden and have not come forward."
As a four-rank master of Confucianism and a great Confucian whose literary name is well-known in the Central Plains, Yang Gong has no obvious flaws and shortcomings in talent and character.
The arrogance and underestimation of the enemy will not happen to him.
"The court also has no shortage of extraordinary masters." Xu Xinnian said.
At this moment, the first thing that flashed in the minds of the officials was not the Sun Xuanji of Si Tianjian, but the Xu Qi'an, who had a reputation as a raging fire.
"The third point is reinforcements!"
Xu Xinnian's expression was solemn: "The official's meaning is the reinforcement of both sides. Buddhism and the Yunzhou rebellious party are already in collusion, so the troops of the Western Regions will invade the border sooner or later."
"Once the imperial court is forced to fight on two fronts, Qingzhou's available reinforcements and military needs will be greatly reduced. On the other hand, the Yunzhou rebels will be even more powerful. This is also related to the second point of combat power."
The atmosphere in the chamber was solemn, and everyone frowned secretly, with worry hidden in their eyes.
The Yunzhou rebels are coming fiercely, and the refugees in various parts of the Central Plains are in disaster. Qingzhou has difficulty in blocking the rebels.
Now it is facing the invasion of the countries of the Western Regions. Under the two-line battle of the imperial court, Qingzhou will definitely not be able to take care of, because the power of Buddhism is well known.
There may even be situations in which Qingzhou is still fighting hard, and the Western Regions troops hit the capital.
"It would be great if the troops of the Western Regions could not dare to invade the border." Qingzhou prefect said with emotion.
Foolish dreams...As a military commander, Commander Zhou laughed in his heart. If Wei Gong were alive, he might make Buddhism jealous and dare not go to war.
Now Dafeng, who can make Buddhism jealous?
Even Jianzheng Buddhism is not afraid, because this behemoth dominating the Western Regions has no shortage of top masters.
But such a rare handsome talent as Wei Yuan is one of the few in Kyushu.
"This is a dead end!"
Li Mubai, who is good at chess, slowly shook his head: "We can't contain Buddhism~EbookFREE.me~It is inevitable that Buddhism will move eastward."
Yang Gong let out a sigh of relief slowly: "Therefore, what I am waiting to do is to sacrifice my life and try to fight off the elite of the rebels. The rest will be handled by the public."
Really helpless.
"As soon as Wei Gong died, the Yunzhou rebellious party rebelled. The Western Regions Buddhism deceived me and no one in the Central Plains, tore up the covenant, and turned to each other. I have no choice but to wait..." The Qingzhou prefecture was heartbroken.
Xu New Year was silent, the Buddhist monasteries of the Western Regions were strong, with many soldiers, and the Arhat Bodhisattva sitting in the seat of Alan Tuo. Such behemoths cannot be controlled by conspiracy.
At this moment, he suddenly saw two more people in the corner of the chamber, one of them dressed in white, with unremarkable looks, temperament, and height. The other person's Lei Gong's mouth has ugly features like a monkey, and his eyes are blue and clear, as if he can see through people's hearts.
"Senior Brother Sun, why are you here?"
Xu Xinnian was taken aback.
He knew this second disciple of the supervisor.
When did he come.......... Yang Gong and others were shocked, they turned their heads to look around.
Yuan Hufa glanced at the crowd, and then said:
"Their heart tells me: Who is this? Why is he here? Sun Xuanji? Isn't any of Jianzheng's disciples normal?"
After Yuan Hufa finished speaking, he was taken aback, and quickly dismissed the relationship, pointing to Xu Xinnian and said:
"He said the last sentence."
Xu New Year: "!!!"
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