After the family banquet was over, the guests dispersed.
Concubine Pei sent her brother Pei Xia out and said a few words.
"Since Uncle Dao is working as a staff member for Fourth Brother, you might as well give me a few words." Under the dim moonlight, Concubine Pei's face seemed a little sad.
Pei Xia did not dare to be careless and immediately said: "My sister, please speak."
"The king's army has repeatedly defeated the Ji soldiers, so he is indeed majestic. However, I am worried that the Ye people hold a grudge and will take revenge if they are defeated in the future." Concubine Pei frowned.
"Isn't this a good fight? How could Xianmei think of defeat?" Pei Xia asked.
"If you don't have long-term worries, you will have immediate worries." Concubine Pei sighed and said: "It is no longer a secret that there is food in the capital. I heard from the king that it will probably be enough to last until February. If these few months
If we cannot win, Master Wang may not be able to continue."
Pei Xia was silent.
This problem is indeed very difficult.
To encircle a city, you do not need to place your swords and guns under the city wall without leaving any gaps. In fact, you only need to control the traffic arteries.
Transporting grain requires vehicles, and the vehicles must take the post road, so you can just cut off the post road.
If it's shipping, it's actually simple, just cut off the water transportation. What's more, winter is coming soon, the rivers are frozen, and shipping cannot continue.
As for people carrying it on their shoulders, or horses and donkeys carrying it, the efficiency is too low and should not be considered - in fact, this method is also very easy to prevent.
Now Jizhou soldiers are in the east of the city, and Guanzhong soldiers are in the west of the city. Although they suffered consecutive defeats, they persisted and did not retreat.
In the Mang Mountain (Mang Mountain) area in the north of the city, there was also the camp of the Ye soldiers' partial division, and in the south of the city, south of the Luoshui River, there were Xianbei cavalry raiding the city. Luoyang was actually still under siege, and external supplies could not be imported into the capital.
To be honest, if the enemy troops had not arrived after the autumn harvest, the situation would have been even more difficult.
"Mei, what do you want to say? You might as well say it bluntly." Pei Xia thought for a while and said, "Although you are a daughter, you are always smart. We all admire you, but there is no harm in speaking."
"If the King of Changsha fails in the end and foreign troops enter the city, many unspeakable things may happen." Concubine Pei said: "Let's not talk about the people, just talk about the officials and nobles inside and outside the city. If they are harassed, robbed or even
——”
Speaking of this, Concubine Pei looked sad. After taking a deep breath to calm her mood, she said: "For the current plan, we have to unite, otherwise we will have to be manipulated by others. I don't think Sima Ying is a wise person.
He can't listen to Da Jin's advice. If everyone unites together, he will not be able to succeed, so maybe he will be satisfied in the name of the crown prince."
"Luoyang cannot fall into the hands of others, at least not entirely into the hands of foreign soldiers." Concubine Pei finally said.
That makes sense! This was the first thought that came to Pei Xia.
It’s hard for others to tell, but what kind of beasts are under Zhang Fang’s hands?
Once they enter the colorful world of Luoyang and indulge themselves, they don't know how much trouble they will cause.
Therefore, even if the entire city cannot be protected, some areas must be protected, which requires everyone to work together.
"What do you think A-mei should do?" Pei Xia asked sincerely.
"Wang Hu has a high reputation for killing sixteen generals from Hebei Province. Gou Xi also fought vigorously, and even Mi Huang occasionally won a small victory." Concubine Pei said: "Contact them more, and we can all hug together to keep warm. Maybe
We can protect our respective families."
Pei Xia nodded and glanced at his cousin.
She worked so hard, probably because she was trying to win over the Forbidden Army generals for Sima Yue.
If it fails in the end and the generals unite around King Donghai, he will have the leverage to bargain with Sima Ying.
Sima Ying probably wouldn't be willing to leave her old home in Yecheng.
He does have limited intelligence, but he is not stupid. Once he leaves Yecheng and comes to Luoyang, his destiny is no longer under his control, just like Sima Yi back then - he initially brought an army of 200,000 to kill Sima Lun
, but more than 200,000 people are soldiers or temporarily recruited men, not professional warriors. You can't tie them to your side for life, they will have to be dismissed.
And since Sima Ying refuses to come to Luoyang, she is destined to be unable to control the court situation for a long time. It will be a bit difficult to dominate the government here because the conditions are not mature.
As time goes by, the court situation will most likely fall into the hands of the King of the East China Sea, right? If he gets the support of the generals of the Forbidden Army or the wealthy noble families.
What a good strategy, what a good strategy!
Hua Nu is really a good wife. Sima Yue made a lot of money by getting such a wife.
After the two talked for a while, Pei Xia said goodbye and left.
Concubine Pei put away the sad look on her face and stood quietly for a while.
What she did was indeed worthy of the Pei family and her husband, and was of great benefit to them. As for the side effects, they were all trivial and not worth mentioning...
****
The late autumn morning is crisp and cold.
The mist was like a veil, moving in the air, covering the messy battlefield.
Deep in the mist, a fiery red figure shouted loudly, and slashed down with great force with a heavy sword, almost hitting the same place every time.
Shao Xun got up before dawn to hone his martial arts skills.
He would feel particularly at ease when listening to the commands of the soldiers on duty and the footsteps of the patrols going back and forth.
People who stay in military camps for a long time may have this hobby. If the world becomes more chaotic, military camps will be the last place to settle down and provide people with an unparalleled sense of security.
After practicing the epee, Shao Xun threw the weapon to Wang Queer and thought about his own things.
In the battle with Meng Chao's men, their small group suffered nearly three hundred casualties. At the end of the battle, only this number of capable warriors were left, if you don't count the young children.
Among the injured, there are probably dozens of people who can return to the team, but there are only so many.
Shao Xun was a little emotional.
Many familiar faces are gone, such as Liu Tong, the team leader under Yang Bao, and Zhong Badger, the team leader he appointed himself - who died of injuries.
Many of the seedlings he had once been optimistic about died and became disabled, and his expectations and efforts were in vain.
Many officers and soldiers who had gained his initial trust quit, and would have to go through the process again to train new people.
All in all, half of the troops that were built up with so much effort were lost in one battle - not only the men were lost, but also their energy.
After defeating Meng Chao, many defeated soldiers came to join them, in groups of three to five. The total number of soldiers was quite large, so that the total strength of their group exceeded 800.
However, the origins of these soldiers are complex, they even speak different dialects, and they are in a state of low morale, which has actually lowered the average level of the entire building.
There is no doubt that he still needs to spend a lot of energy to rectify it.
Of course, the more important point is: to cultivate more of our own people.
Shao Xun is sure that Wu Qian, Chen Yougen, Huang Biao and others can be trusted. There must be dozens of such people in total. Some of them can even run away with him, that is, if the court wants to arrest him, these people will not
Stand on the side of the court.
In addition to these dozens of people, others can respect military orders, but they will not become his private persons.
The direction of future efforts is to train more individuals and place them in suitable positions.
Outside of the military, his network of contacts also began to slowly expand.
Not to mention Mi Huang, people from the Yingchuan Yu family, the Donghai Xu family, and even the Runan Zhou family began to realize his value, no longer relied on their status, ignored him, and looked down upon him in various ways.
This is a good start.
Because of his origin, he has no favorable impression of these aristocratic families, but he is also a pragmatic person and knows that it is impossible to eliminate the aristocratic families as a whole, so there is only one way: divide and disintegrate, win over those who are willing to cooperate, and exclude or even attack those who are not cooperative.
To put it bluntly, it is a united front.
Calculate carefully, there is a long way to go, and the most important thing is to continue to accumulate capital, make friends with noble people, establish meritorious deeds, and gain reputation.
Otherwise, given the circumstances of my background, to put it harshly, I can't even keep up with the heat of eating shit.
After he finished introspecting, he saw Mi Huang who had changed into a soap-colored official uniform and was about to go out.
"Go back to Luoyang." Mi Huang said with a smile.
"Look at the happy look on the governor's face, could it be something good happened?" Shao Xun joked.
"It's really a good thing." Mi Huang thought for a while and decided to reveal the truth: "I received news that Sikong Yu wanted to reorganize the Kingdom's army."
"Why?"
"Didn't Wang Bing suffer a huge defeat? There are only a few of the 1,500 people left." Speaking of this, Mi Huang laughed so hard that his mouth almost burst, and he continued: "He Lun's hand.
The number of soldiers was less than a thousand, so Sikong decided to recruit new soldiers and rebuild the kingdom's army in Luoyang."
"How many people are recruited?"
"Two thousand troops at the top and a thousand men at the bottom."
"This is the establishment of a sub-state."
"It's the establishment of the sub-state."
"What kind of soldiers are you planning to recruit?"
"People from Luoyang City."
"How can they recruit people from Luoyang City?!" Shao Xun was shocked and said: "They can fight?"
Mi Huang said helplessly: "Now that business travel has stopped, there are many people in the city who have no food and clothing. If we don't recruit them, who can we recruit? Besides, I have seen those people before, and they are not thin, so they should be able to do it."
"The supervisors and guards are ignorant, and the people in the city are wandering and cunning. When they enter the military camp, they will only bring bad atmosphere. Let me put it bluntly, they are worse than the servants of rich families." Shao Xun advised.
"Is it really that bad?" Mi Huang thought for a while and seemed to really mean that.
There are shops in his hometown in Donghai, and he often goes to the market. The market people he sees are indeed not that good. It is definitely true to say that they are snobbish and cunning. The people in Luoyang, the capital of the country, should be more serious, right?
"If we really recruit people from the city into an army, and lead our own soldiers to fight head-on, we can beat them to the point where they kneel down and beg for mercy, and hand over all the coffins of my parents - they will really do it." Shao Xun said seriously.
said.
Mi Huang was happy, shook his head and said: "The deal is done, it's useless to talk more. In fact, everyone does this. It doesn't matter whether you are a city citizen, a farmer, a servant, or a barbarian, you can be drafted when you are over thirteen years old.
You can become a soldier with a wooden spear, but how about fighting a war?"
"If you want to win the war, you can't be so hasty." Shao Xun said: "We haven't fought much before and don't know much about it. But since the kings revolted, there have been many wars in various places, and there will always be people who will learn how to fight. Over time,
We will slowly figure out what sources of troops are good, how to train them, and how to improve their combat effectiveness. Let’s put it this way, I think the battle is a bit rough now, but in five or ten years, the level will definitely improve. Everyone knows
While we are making progress, we have regressed. If we use Luoyang people as soldiers, we will suffer defeat."
Mi Huang didn't expect the problem to be so complicated, so he was a little hesitant.
"Forget it, I'll go take a look first." Mi Huang sighed: "Maybe - things are not as simple as you and I thought. I suspect that He Lun and Wang Bing are interested in our troops, so go and find out first."
When Shao Xun heard this, his face became serious.
"It's not necessarily a bad thing." Mi Huang said comfortingly, "I'm leaving first."
Chapter completed!