After the military exercises, the entire army returned to the city.
Thirty cavalry from the teaching team escorted Shao Xun, Mi Huang, He Lun, Wang Bing and Yu Liang, and fell behind the main force.
When passing by Daxia Gate in the north of the city, Shao Xun looked up unconsciously.
Not far to the west is Jinyong City.
This city is located in the northwest corner of Luoyang and is not embedded in Luoyang City as a whole.
To be precise, among the three cities of Jinyong, only the south city is located inside Luoyang City, while the middle city and the north city protrude outside.
This is beneficial because it actually makes the northern section of Luoyang's city wall irregular. Once the enemy attacks Daxiamen, it will be easy for them to be attacked from the side by the defenders of Jinyong City, and the casualties will increase.
Several camps were set up outside Daxia Gate, and three to four thousand Hebei sergeants were stationed there.
These soldiers could not go home to take care of the farmland or reunite with their families, and they had long been filled with anger. Therefore, when faced with the people coming in and out of Luoyang, they often tried their best to extort money to subsidize the losses - in their minds, they
loss.
However, when they saw the heavily armed Chen Yougen and others, these people gave up again. They waved to them to enter the city quickly and not block the door. When the people saw it, they cursed one after another. The Hebei sergeant scolded them back, and there was a commotion for a while.
, which makes people laugh and cry.
"Garrisoned in Luoyang for five months, these people have been exhausted." Shao Xun thought secretly.
He went in and out of Daxia Gate many times, almost watching these Ye soldiers "rot" little by little.
He was not an elite soldier at all, just a farmer pulled from the fields. After some rough training and half a year of fighting, he gained some military experience. However, after five months of being idle inside and outside the city gate, the discipline in the camp became lax.
It is no longer the tight state it was at the beginning of the year.
Just like just now, my colleagues were quarreling with the people and businessmen, while other people were watching and had nothing to do with themselves, and even laughed and laughed. This is very problematic.
It is normal to hear that Sima Ying is trying to rebuild the new army. The less likely it is to pull young men from the fields to fight, the better. Maybe they can still mess around for now, but it will only become more and more inconsistent with the requirements of the times.
After entering the city, he went straight back to his mansion, followed by Mi Huang and Yu Liang.
After a while, Xu Lang, who received the news, made an excuse and came to visit.
There were many people in the Sima Yue shogunate. As the saying goes, there were no factions in the government and there were all kinds of strange things. The four of them, Shao, Mi, Yu, and Xu, were a small group that was taking shape.
"Just now He Lun showed me his kindness and asked for advice..." Mi Huang spoke up after a few people sat down.
Teach the soldiers how to boil water for tea and make fire for cooking.
There are no servants in the house, and the daily chores are all taken care of by the soldiers.
"Let him get rid of all those bad soldiers." Shao Xun said unceremoniously: "It's still too late to recruit new people. There are many soldiers defeated outside Luoyang City, which can save a lot of training time. There are still a lot of bandits in the mountains and forests.
If confidence keeps them under control, thieves and bandits will be better suited to serve as soldiers than city folk."
Yu Liang's eyes widened and he listened silently.
Xu Lang's expression was very serious, and he was even more excited to participate in something important.
"I will go find him tomorrow, but he may not be willing to give up. Is it true that a city citizen who has been trained for five months is useless?" Mi Huang asked.
"Didn't you see them all today?" Shao Xun asked back: "Slaves in brothels, servants in restaurants, shop assistants and even monks can fight a fart battle, but they will collapse in one rush. Even the defenders of the city will collapse.
I’m afraid they are not even qualified.”
Several people were silent, and the atmosphere was somewhat tense.
After a while, Mi Huang suddenly said: "Today Sikong promised me the position of 'supervising Luoyang's guard'. Mr. Xiaolang, it's as you wished."
"Oh? How many soldiers are there?" Shao Xun asked with interest.
"The three thousand soldiers of the royal army must stay." Mi Huang said: "There may be a few thousand soldiers, but don't think too much. They may be new soldiers or they may not obey my orders. How can Luoyang abide by the law? Do you have any?
Strategy?"
After thinking for a while, Shao Xun said: "The matter has come to this, and we should be honest. According to my wishes, Luoyang can defend it. If it can't, it will retreat to Jinyong City. This city is extremely strong, with complete defense equipment, large warehouses, and grain.
There are many warehouses and wells. As long as the grain warehouses and warehouses are filled up, we can hold on for a long time."
"So this is your idea." Mi Huang slapped his thigh, thought for a moment, and then said: "Jin Yong City can indeed be defended, but how long will it take? If Sikong is defeated, won't we die without a burial place?"
"What should we do?" Shao Xun asked: "Fleeing without fighting is the greatest sin."
When he said this, he glanced at Yu Liang and Xu Lang.
Both of them were a little unnatural, obviously unwilling to run away like this. In other words, they could run away, but the official would be gone, all the previous accumulation would be wasted, and they would have to start all over again - for aristocratic family members, it was actually not a big deal.
"Fleeing without fighting is definitely not the best strategy." Mi Huang thought hard, and said after a moment: "Sikong Northern Expedition, if we win, of course everything will be fine. If we lose, the whole army will not be wiped out. Tens of thousands of horses will retreat to Luoyang.
, Zhang Fang is also afraid. I guess that Luoyang will still be in the same situation now.
It’s hard to say what the outcome of Sikong will be. It may be good or bad. If he is captured and killed by Sima Ying, Luoyang will probably nominate someone else. At that time, we will have to be like Sima Jiong and Sima Yi’s staff.
, after the master’s destruction, he found his own way out.”
Mi Huang's words were a bit pessimistic.
Shao Xun couldn't help but glance at Yu Liang and Xu Lang, but saw that they had no special reaction, so he felt relieved.
Perhaps, this is how the nobles do things, they just work part-time, they have loyalty, but not much.
"Sikong Ying will not be captured and killed." Shao Xun said: "You can't go wrong by sticking to Luoyang."
"Why are you so sure?" Yu Liang couldn't help but ask.
Shao Xun could not answer.
In fact, his current thinking is also a bit confusing.
He knew that Sima Yue was the winner of the Eight Kings Rebellion. Even if the Northern Expedition failed, he should be able to escape safely back to Luoyang and make a comeback - the historical trajectory of the original time and space should be like this, right?
But he wasn't entirely sure.
What if there is a butterfly effect?
Or maybe Sima Yue just got lucky and won during his Northern Expedition?
The information (history) is too little (good) and difficult to judge.
"Sikong has at least twenty fast horses by his side. If this is not enough to escape, it would be too much." Shao Xun replied vaguely.
If you haven't mastered the trick of "riding alone and walking away", it's best not to mess around...
Yu Liang nodded doubtfully, as if - how reasonable is it?
"Don't talk about it for now. Your family members in the city will all move into Jinyong City if necessary." Shao Xun knew that there were many flaws in his words, so he decided to change the subject. He stared at Yu Liang and said sincerely.
Yu Liang was greatly moved.
Shao Langjun's eyes were very sincere, as if to say, I care about your family very much, and I am determined to make you my friend.
"Do we need to store more military supplies such as food, arrows, medicine, etc. in advance?" Xu Lang was alone in Luoyang with no family to worry about, so he directly asked the core question.
"Of course we have to prepare in advance." Shao Xun looked at everyone and said, "However, it is best for the court to handle this matter."
"Okay." Mi Huang and Yu Liang nodded like subordinates and agreed.
"Have you forgotten Shi Chao? He has tens of thousands of troops." Xu Lang asked weakly.
"I haven't forgotten him." Shao Xun smiled and said: "If you can't even pass Shi Chao's test, there is no need to talk about the Northern Expedition. There are more than 20,000 Luoyang Central Army, with calculated calculations but no intention, the chance of winning is very high."
Xu Lang nodded hesitantly, obviously not very relieved.
Of course Shao Xun knew that in a war like this, there was no 100% certainty of winning.
If Sima Yue can't even overcome the stumbling block of Shi Chao, then I will not play with you anymore, but will take the student soldier Lian Yerun to the East China Sea and become the son-in-law of the Mi family.
Well, if there is time, Concubine Pei and the Crown Prince will be taken away. If he cannot become the Mi family's son-in-law, he can support Concubine Pei and the Crown Prince return to the fiefdom and wait and see the situation.
If this doesn't work - then I will take over the mountain and become the king, and let Concubine Pei, who is probably a widow, be the wife of the village. At least I have a wife, which can be regarded as a souvenir of my two or three years in Luoyang.
Shao has never lacked bottom-line thinking.
He could foresee that the time to take action was getting closer and closer, and everything would be revealed soon.
In fact, it's pretty much the same.
A few days later, Mi Huang summoned Shao Xun, He Lun, and Wang Bing with a serious face and read out Sikong's order in private.
Take action on the sixth day of July to destroy Shi Chao's troops in one fell swoop!
Chapter completed!