Chapter 65 Father King (1)
On the day when Geng Bingwen came to Jingzhou City with only a few important generals to "conflict" with me, I transported the food and grass organized by Zhu Zhu out of the city to solve the urgent needs of the more than 70,000 troops. At the same time, I told Geng Bingwen that I distributed the military pay for about half a year, so that most of the more than 70,000 people would be discharged and returned to the land.
Although Geng Bingwen is a rude person, when he heard what I said, he naturally knew that I was worried about him and wanted to resolve the military power in his hands, so he immediately showed a bad look on his face. However, at this time he was on the chopping board, so what else could he do? He pondered for a while, and finally nodded and agreed.
So, I left Geng Bingwen in Jingzhou City and began to implement my disarmament plan with his military orders. This was really thanks to the plan of "hiring generals and commanding soldiers" offered to me by Zhu Zhu.
Speaking of which, although Geng Bingwen claimed to be more than 100,000, there were 30,000 soldiers who were transporting supplies all the way... Rather than soldiers, it was better to be civil servants. When I made a notice of giving away the salary and returning to the fields, most of the 30,000 people were willing to take the money away. The more than 40,000 soldiers who actually went to the battlefield, including the family and the elderly, all of them happily took the salary and left. For a moment, the 100,000 people left, leaving less than 20,000.
The remaining 20,000 people were either without relatives at home or ate food in the military camp all year round. Even if they received the salary, they didn't know what kind of livelihood they should do. Therefore, I was happy to accept them, because only when such unworry soldiers fought a war can they move forward bravely without any scruples.
After several days of renovation, I divided my soldiers into five armies, namely the front, back, left, right, and central army. The leader of the front army was Hantu, the rear army was Li Haibing, the left army was Dali, and the right army was eighteenth brother. The central army was led by me personally.
The five armies under my command were 10,000 people per army. The victory of this battle made me a vassal king with 50,000 armor, and my strength had become the third in the world. Of course, during the whole army, I did not forget to give Geng Bingwen a deputy commander. After all, his surrender was really an example for other generals of the royal army.
The news that Geng Bingwen and I joined forces came out, and the government and the country were shocked. This battle result finally made Zhu Changwen and even the ministers in the court who advocated the withdrawal of the vassal states realize that I, Zhu Changluo, were their biggest concern at this time. I remember a report from the capital.
Many vassal kings who were swaying about whether to withdraw the vassal states were finally unwilling to be lonely. King Gu, King Min of Qin, King Jin of Qin and other princes wrote a letter to ask that they be "suppressing the traitors and purifying the monarchs," and declared a war one day later. At the same time, the four trumpets who were huddled in silver finally dared to raise the banner again and prepare to advance towards the capital.
Under such circumstances, I led 50,000 people slowly towards Wuhan and Ezhou, creating a momentum of moving towards the capital. During the march, I did not forget to write a big article, and issued a notice a day, denying the court's treason for cheating on the young emperor and correcting the order to withdraw the vassals. In fact, I should be punished to relieve the anger of all the people in the world, and also called on all the vassal kings to raise troops to Beijing to serve the king. When writing the notice every day, I actually felt funny in my heart, because I remember that I was younger than Zhu Changwen. And it was a bit too shameless to call my rebellious army like a army to serve the king.
The only thing that makes people feel that the beauty is that many of the purgatory scholars began to yell and scold, as if a few words of curse in this critical time can show their loyalty and righteousness to the king and father.
Because of the successive battles, my reputation was in the limelight. My father sent me a secret letter and praised me, saying that my victory caused the morale of the imperial army that besieged Yanjing. "I have been unable to attack the city for several days, and the siege of Yanjing will be lifted soon." Therefore, I was happy to stop the army in Ezhou area and fight a fierce battle, waiting for the vassal kings to approach Yingtian and then surround the capital together.
At this moment, there was no movement, Uncle Ning was shocked and made a sound. He also issued a notice of "clearing the king's side" and sent troops to Yanjing to remove his father's siege. He also stated that he would regard my father as the head of the "King Responsible" army.
As soon as I received the news of Uncle Ning's action, I knew that the situation in the world had finally reached its conclusion. In order to avoid being attacked from both sides, the imperial army, which had been besieging Yanjing for almost two months, was believed to be withdrawn soon. At the same time, I also shook my head at Uncle Ning's late arrival. Perhaps he had thought about reaping the benefits of the fisherman before, but I could not have thought that my father and I were so able to fight, so I added icing on the cake at this time.
What I can understand is that my father and master can understand. I can almost foresee that as Zhu Zhu said before, the first thing that the father did after he ascended the throne was to fight against the powerful vassals with all his might. Among them, Uncle Ning Wang is undoubtedly the first candidate.
"How should I deal with it at that time?" I have thought of this question more than once, according to my father's pragmatic nature, in order to prevent his world from causing trouble in the future, he might one day "treat" me, "Do I really want to be as Zhu Zhu said..." I really don't dare to think about it. In any case, it's really hard to force myself to fight with the people closest to me.
The news of Uncle Ning sending troops was only two days after the news came out, and the imperial army immediately withdrew and retreated to the south of the river. Father, I, Uncle Ning, and Yin. The four Uncle Wang’s army and horses were all north of the river, and the remaining troops of the vassal kings were scattered and not worth mentioning. It seems that Zhu Changwen was intending to confront us across the river.
Soon, the army of all the vassal kings gathered in Chuzhou. Chuzhou was originally the fiefdom of Chuyang King Xu Da, but now it is Xu Zengshou who is the garrison. Speaking of which, he is my father-in-law, because Xu Yuanchun is his daughter.
My grandfather Xu Da has two sons, one named Xu Zuhui and the other named Xu Zengshou. Although both of them are the sons of King Tu Yang, they are completely opposite in character. Xu Zuhui is determined to be the orthodox emperor of the royal army and was previously appointed by Zhu Changwen as a general to conquer the Min and Gui vassals. However, my father-in-law Xu Zengshou is a completely unscheming person. He has had a sense of communication with me from the beginning and has had private contact with my father. This time, as soon as we arrived in Chuzhou, he immediately opened the city gate to welcome him.
In less than two days, about 210,000 people from various vassals gathered in Chuzhou City. Although it was more than half less than the about 400,000 people who were deployed on the south bank of the Yangtze River, because of the great victory, the morale was strong and it was too strong to be compared with the 400,000 defeated troops of the imperial court.
After experiencing many things, I finally met my father and master again, and I was naturally very excited and happy.
"Congratulations to Father, if the general trend is under the control of Father today." In Father's tent, there were no one else except Master, so I said to Father without any scruples.
The father waved his hand and said, "Changluo, you must not be arrogant now. It will not be too late for us to celebrate again when we take Yingtian for the day."
My father's words made me feel trembling. I quickly responded and put away the pride and pride that had a little aroused by the winning streak. However, although my father didn't laugh in his words, I could clearly feel that he was actually very happy.
"Changluo, you fought very well in several consecutive wars! Alas, my father never thought that there would be an outstanding son like you. You really made my father feel so relieved!" My father patted my shoulder and said to me in a harmonious voice, so that I could clearly feel his love for me.
"Don't say this, Father, I just do my duty and share my worries for my father." I paused slightly, and then joked intentionally: "After hearing the praises of Father, I can't even think of not being arrogant."
When my father and master heard me say such mischievous words, they couldn't help but laugh knowingly. After laughing, the father took a little inappropriate collar for me and said kindly: "It's a blessing that you are still the King Rui, who is known as a versatile talent in civil and military affairs, but you are like a child."
This is the first time since the day I was born that I have truly felt the affection and love of my father for me. This is simply something I have always dreamed of. My heart was filled with excitement, and my eyes couldn't help but feel a burst of moisture. I just let my father mercy on my clothes.
My father made my collar and clothes for me. He looked up and saw my appearance. He was slightly stunned and asked, "What's wrong?"
I whispered my nose and tried to pretend to be nothing, "No... nothing, nothing!"
In the blink of an eye, the father probably guessed what I was thinking. After a smile, he said, "I am so childish. How can the godfather, the queen, give the world to you with confidence?"
"Tianxia?" I was shocked suddenly when I heard this, and it seemed that I could not believe my ears. My father actually said that he would hand the world over to my hands. As soon as the huge waves in my heart were rolling up, I took a deep breath again, calmed down and carefully savored my father's words.
Chapter completed!