Chapter 28 Do you dare to bet?
?In early May of the second year of the Elephant, the general manager of Anzhou, Yu Wenliang, Duke of Qi, led his troops to raid Huangcheng, Huangzhou Prefecture. Yuan Jingshan, the general manager who had "attempted to make a rebellion", was killed.
Then Yuwen Liang sent an envoy to the states under Huangzhou to seize power. Because of the incident, the governors of each state were caught off guard. Some were killed and some obeyed. The Huangzhou General Administration fell under Yuwen Liang's control.
At the same time, Yuwen Liang, with his confidant general chief Du Shijun, was in charge of Anlu, and killed more than 20 "responsible accomplices" including Ru Kuan, the general chief chief officer, and cleaned up the states under the Anzhou General Office.
For a moment, everyone was in danger of being in danger of Anlu City. However, the General Administration issued an Anmin notice, writing that "all the followers of the rebels have been dealt with. If anyone attempts to commit illegal acts in the name of capturing the rebels, they will be severely punished and not lent." All parties finally settled down but the undercurrent began to surge.
Who knows whether it is true or not? In the end, the court has to draw a conclusion. A well-informed family began to quietly leave Anlu. The left prime minister, the Duke of Sui Yang Jian, was in power, and the governors led by the general manager of Xiangzhou, Yuchi Jiong, began to prepare for war, and the world was about to be in chaos.
Yuwen Liang, the general manager of Anzhou, is probably going to be with them. It seems that the Anzhou area will be in full swing soon. If the wise Emperor Wu had a spirit in the sky, he would not know what to think about seeing the scene of chaos in the Great Zhou world?
Huangzhou, outside Huangcheng, a group of soldiers are practicing.
They were five people in a row, two meters apart, twenty rows apart, and three rows were standing on the open space five meters apart. There were dozens of cavalrymen walking slowly around hundreds of meters ahead.
Yuwen Wen stood at the front of the team with his "confidant servant" Yuwen Shiwu. When the Lang Lord ordered Yuwen Shiwu to wave the flag in his hand, the cavalry began to trot, run quickly, and rushed towards the queue.
One hundred meters, fifty meters, thirty meters, twenty meters, ten meters, ten meters. As the cavalry got closer, the expressions and movements of the soldiers in the queue began to varied. Some legs trembled and some teeth fought, some were pale and sweaty, some were red in their eyes and some were twisting.
The cavalry roared through the queues, brought up rolls of dust and made the crowds look dirty. They ran away more than a hundred meters away and then began to turn their heads.
"Roll backwards all in place!"
With a shout, the front team of the queue changed to the back team, and the back team became the front team. Yuwen Wen led Yuwen Shiwu from the end of the team to the front team again, and waited for the flag to wave the cavalry to rush towards the queue again, and repeatedly rushed three times.
"Very good, everyone rest first!"
Yuwen Wen, who was covered in dust, shouted loudly at the group of equally dirty soldiers. Hearing this shout, many people sat cross-legged and rested with relief.
"Today is good, I didn't have any scared to cry when I wet my pants." Yuwen Shiwu spitted, and saw that the Langmao also sat on the ground and followed suit. "Langmao, is it useful to do this kind of tossing?"
"Of course it's useful. When you watch the cavalry rush over the mountains, you will know if impact training is useful."
This is the soldier Yuwen Wen picked from his father. First, he had to join the army shortly, second, he had to have bad habits, third, he had to have family. Of course, he did not speak loudly, but only picked more than 300 people and took his father to "friendly guest appearances".
The Northern Dynasties grew up with cavalry as their ancestors. Now Yuwen Wen has no choice but to practice cavalry, so he simply practices infantry. He doesn't want soldiers, he doesn't want to be alone, but he just needs to practice soldiers according to his own ideas.
The Anzhou General Administration has more than 100,000 troops under its jurisdiction, and the two states that the Huangzhou General Administration is reorganizing are close to 170,000 or 80,000. In the past month, he really wants to fight, and these more than 300 people can't even make a wave on the battlefield. Now they are practicing their own military training ideas. If the results are good, then they can summarize their experience and train their troops.
The recruits had never seen big scenes, and they had never even seen blood. The first time they trained the day before yesterday, when dozens of cavalry hit him and passed by him again, many people almost collapsed. Fortunately, Yuwen Wen had agreed in advance that he would allow him to squat down in place with fear, otherwise the formation would collapse and be trampled to death by the cavalry.
After practicing this for two days, they have performed much better today. At least they can stand firm. They should be "numb" after adapting to the situation for a while. As for standing with them, they are to prove that this is training rather than a rich man playing with them for fun.
Rest for a while and continue training. What you practice is to turn left and right, raise your left and right hands, and lift your left and right legs quickly and correctly. Things that seem simple and abnormal to modern people are quite difficult for ordinary people in this era.
Therefore, as a measure to promote training enthusiasm, Yuwen Wen has regulations on dining. Each team conducts left and right practice competitions. The top ten 50 people with the best performance are considered first-class brown rice and meat. The top ten 50 people with good performance are considered second-class brown rice and pickles. The top ten 50 people with slightly better performance are considered third-class brown rice and pickles. All the others are drunk!
"Monday, everything is ready!" Several soldiers rode horses to the training ground. These were the stupid and bold people who followed Yuwen Wen to Luguan City to "enter the tiger's den" that day. He was very satisfied with the other party's performance and accepted it as personal soldiers.
The five people in the head of the silly and bold are named Chen Wudi, all of whom are scouts directly under the army of Yuwen Liang, the general manager of Anzhou. Yuwen Liang certainly would not stop him when he saw his son asking for a man. The five of them were also very impressed by the bravery of Xiyang County Duke that day, so Yuwen Wen's personal military team took shape.
The escorts who had followed the convoy south to Anlu, he left them to serve as a guard for his wife, and he had to choose again when fighting.
"Very good. You guys will go back to Anlu with me in the afternoon and bring the things with you." After saying that, Yuwen Wen turned around and ordered Yuwen Shiwu: "From the afternoon, you will be responsible for training new recruits, so follow the steps in these few days."
"Remember, don't beat and scold at will or make things difficult for intention!"
"What kind of trouble did I let you take off your body and run around the city for three laps!"
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On the afternoon of the next day, in the eastern suburbs of Xiaochang City, Yuezhou Prefecture, more than ten riders escorted a carriage from the southeast. Some people and carriages gathered outside the pavilion ten miles ahead, as if two groups of people were walking and seeing off.
"Resting for a while, and then entering the city later." Yuwen Wen looked at the sun that was sinking in the west and ordered his followers to rest. The group slowed down their horses and walked slowly towards Shiliting.
Huangzhou Prefecture is under Huangcheng, about 1230 miles away from Xiaochang City, Yuezhou Prefecture, northwest. He led Chen Wudi and others from Huangcheng to Xiaochang yesterday afternoon, and rested at the halfway station for one night and continued on the road today.
"My Duke, what's the use of collecting these many horses' hairs?" Chen Wudi collected the manes on horses who died in battle recently as Yuwen Wen's instructions in the past few days, but he really couldn't think of what the use of Duke's request for this thing.
“Make a torsion spring.”
"Ah? Niuli stall yellow?" He and several personal soldiers looked at each other and didn't know what the "Niuli stall yellow" was. Yuwen Wen didn't say much, and he got off the horse and walked over when he saw him coming to Shili Pavilion.
Outside the pavilion, there were indeed two groups of people who "sent to each other ten miles away". The leaders on both sides were young men. In Yuwen Wen's opinion, the two were full of "baby feelings".
"Sizong, you should take care of yourself too. The city is not as good as the battle in the fort is coming." A man in brocade clothes turned over and said goodbye to the man in purple who was seeing him off.
"It's okay, if the King comes, he will definitely distinguish right from wrong. He will not kill innocent people like them!" The purple-clad man bowed his fists and said, "Peace all the way!"
Yuwen Wen happened to hear what the purple-clad man said, and then replied in an uneven manner: "Brother, who do you think you are killing innocent people?"
Everyone present looked at him all the time when they heard the sound. The purple-clad man said without changing his expression: "Langlang Tiankong, the general manager of Anzhou attacked and killed the general manager of another state without receiving the imperial court's order. How many people in Anzhou are implicated because their family is destroyed and their people are still afraid of criticism?"
The old servant beside him couldn't stop him, so he had to squeeze out his smile and say to Yuwen Wen, don't take it to heart.
"Do you have to ask the court to wait until the order is coming? At that time, Yuan Ni came to the door and wonder how many heads are there for me to cut off?" Yu Wen Wen sneered.
"So everyone was beheaded on the spot? If there wasn't a ghost in his heart, why didn't he put him in prison for someone to be questioned by the court?" The purple-clad man said sarcastically, regardless of the old servant's pulling.
"Are you a fish that missed the net?" Yuwen Wen Yin looked at a yin test, and everyone present changed their faces when they heard this. The purple-clothed man's face did not change, and first asked the brocade man to leave, then said loudly: "Even in the lobby of the General Administration, I will say so!"
"I am Yuwen Wen, the second son of the Anzhou General Manager, don't know the name of my brother?"
The entourages of the purple-clothed man were shocked when they heard this. The old servant stepped forward and apologized with a sweaty head, saying that his young master was encouraged to speak out without saying anything. He also asked the prince not to keep it in his heart.
Yuwen Wen said, "You don't even dare to report a name, but you have a ghost in your heart?" The purple-clad man said with a flushed face when he heard this and said without hesitation:
"I am Anlu Xu Shao, whose courtesy name is Sizong, and I am right and sit upright. I ask the county duke to go back and persuade the general manager. The left prime minister holds the righteousness of the court and does not want to hit the stone with an egg, which will cause trouble to the people of Anzhou!"
"Mr. Master, Master! My young master is ignorant. My husband is the governor of Yuezhou and has always been loyal to the court..."
Yuwen Wen snorted: "What? I am like a gossiping person? I have always convinced people with reason!"
After bragging with shamelessness, he changed his tone: "Could it be that Xu Langjun decided that the left prime minister was a loyal minister of the Great Zhou?"
“That’s right!”
"Hahahaha!" Yuwen Wen laughed to the sky, "Do you know why the Left Prime Minister General Zhao, Chen, Yue, Dai, and Teng were recruited back to Chang'an?"
"The princess of a daughter is about to marry a Turkic prince. She recruits the princes into the capital for one, one is etiquette and two is to assist the government in stabilizing people's hearts!"
"He wants to kill the royal family and do usurpation!"
"You are talking nonsense! Both the Zuo Prime Minister and his son were loyal ministers of the Great Zhou Dynasty. What evidence do you have to say that he is going to usurp the rebellion!"
"Very good." Yuwen Wen stared at Xu Shao and said word by word: "Do you dare to bet with me that the five kings were all executed by the left prime minister for committing rebellion within this year!"
"Go a bet!" Xu Shao twisted Yuwen Wen with blushed face, "What if you lose!"
"Whoever loses will take off all his clothes and runs around Anlu for three laps!"
The gust of wind blew, and everyone present was silent. Xu Shao was stunned for a moment and gritted his teeth to agree. The old servant begged Yuwen Wen not to take the words of the young master to heart. Yuwen Wen waved his hand: "Go away, I have no time to gossip, let your husband go back and eat delicious food and drink, what should he do."
"Monday, does this husband Xu want to be disrespectful to the general manager..."
"What do you want? Who dares to talk nonsense in front of the general manager?" Yuwen Wen led his horse over and turned over to ride, looked back at Xu Shao and said, "In a few months, I will look at your majestic posture at the top of Anlu City!"
"I will return the original words!" Xu Shao turned around and left angrily, almost hitting the pavilion.
My soul is calm. Yang Jian is a loyal minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty. How dare I compare prophecy with me? Then I will let all the young and old in the city come out to see you run around!
Yuwen Wen rode on the horse and kept sneering. According to the historical trajectory, none of them lived until September after being recruited back to Chang'an in June.
He didn't want to be a loser, so he had to fight back no matter what. Now that his father holds An, Huang Erzhou can fight. Now the history is one month ahead of schedule. The five royal vassal kings may not survive in August, and then they can see who is right and who is wrong.
Wait, the name Xu Shao is a bit familiar... Anlu Xu Shao? Isn’t he the elementary school classmate of Emperor Gaozu of Tang Dynasty Li Yuan!
Xu Shao was named Sizong and was born in Anlu, Anzhou. He studied in Anlu Township when he was young. He was classmates with Li Yuan, the son of Li Bing, the then general manager of Anzhou. Later, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty and appointed his old classmate Xu Shao as the governor of Xiazhou.
A generation of military god Li Jing led his troops to fight through Xiazhou because of the changes in the enemy situation. Li Yuan, who was unaware of the truth, became suspicious and secretly ordered Xu Shao to kill Li Jing. Xu Shao appreciated Li Jing's talent and pleaded with Li Yuan many times before he took back his orders and let Li Jing escape.
In the fourth year of Wude (621 AD), Xu Shao died of illness and was marching. When Li Yuan found out, he cried loudly.
Since that's the case, I can't let you go easily...
Chapter completed!