Chapter 2: Investment in troubled times)
"Langjun."
"I'm fine, my mind is a little confused, just take a break. What time is it now, the time."
"It's already time for the time being, and the athletes have already used late food. Do you want to eat?"
"Come on the bowl of m... let's get the soup cake, I don't want to eat. My head hurts a little. But did I ask someone to find out the news?"
"The Holy Lord left Fengtian yesterday and was heading towards Liangzhou. Li Huaiguang killed Yang Huiyuan and rebelled. His three generals Meng Hui and Sun were chasing him with their troops, probably because they wanted to be unfavorable to the Holy Lord. According to the guerrilla investigation, I am afraid that the two Japanese invaders will meet our camp in the next morning."
"Where did you come from?" Zhang Jun turned his head and searched, and walked out of the inner tent.
Outside was his office area, with a table of Hu beds, and some books piled up on it. Sure enough, there was a map. Although it looked quite simple.
Damn it, I can't understand it at all. Zhu, what's the pronunciation of this word? Where is this?
Zhang Jun actually knew some history, which was one of his few hobbies. In fact, most boys were more or less interested in the history of the Han, Tang and Ming dynasties, and knew a little.
He could probably guess who he is now, what his identity is, and what stage of history he was in. But he was not sure. He needed evidence, so he couldn't just ask directly anyway.
His words were different from those at this moment. This general had noticed it, but this could be explained by slept in his head and fell asleep, and the rest would not work. People in this era believed quite a lot of ghosts and gods.
And he didn't confirm that his subordinates were illiterate. In this era, literacy rate was a big pit.
Especially now that the world is in chaos, and the wars are everywhere, the system of government troops has long collapsed, and he knows who the recruits are.
The Tang Dynasty's military soldiers were composed of good families and descendants of meritorious deeds. Most of them had a certain cultural foundation. Patriotism education was relatively comprehensive and had a very powerful combat power. In battles, they were basically worth tens of thousands to 10,000, and they could still win.
The recruitment of troops was a solution that was impossible after the collapse of the military system. It was to promise to pay great profit and the future to gather strong men from all over the world to join the army. These people were of varying quality and had all kinds of foundations.
The saying that a good man is not a soldier was passed down from this era.
The Tang army is very chaotic now, with government soldiers, border troops still there, recruiting soldiers everywhere. Although the combat effectiveness is OK, the quality of the soldiers has indeed declined too much. This is also a headache.
The only ones that remain pure are the imperial guards and Yulin, but they are the emperor's family soldiers. Moreover, the imperial guards' combat effectiveness is worrying at this moment.
Zhang Jun had some conflicts in his heart. He hoped that his team was an imperial guard system and nothing else. All the staff had high quality, but there was no hope at all. He really had no confidence in their combat effectiveness.
The only thing you can rely on in troubled times is the sword in your hand, the combat power of the group, and everything else is useless.
"Please look at me, please." The deputy general came over and pointed to the map. In fact, in Zhang Jun's opinion, he drew some curved lines on the paper with brushes, with some circles on it, and wrote some words on the edge.
"The general of the rebellion built a new city in Jingzhao, and the people of our headquarters are here." The deputy general pointed to the map to explain the military situation to Zhang Jun. This is a person who recognizes words and is worthy of flowers.
"Although the rebel general was named Prince, appointed as Deputy Commander, and picked up the Grand Marshal and the Secretariat to summon troops from all over the world, except for the troops of Bining, the four-way commander, the envoys of the four sides would not obey the order of rebellion, and he only had the troops of the headquarters.
The guerrillas met the counter-army here, and our camp was here.
The general who wants to stop the emperor from Liangzhou from Xingpingxi, he will inevitably pass by our army's camp and go south along the Mangshui to pursue. Based on the horse's journey, tomorrow will arrive at the latest at the next day."
Liangzhou is Hanzhong. It is a small plain sandwiched in the mountains, and the terrain is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
At this moment, Jingzhao Chang'an was occupied by Jingyuan's rebels. His Majesty the Emperor ran to Fengtian (Ganxian) to station him. He was attacked by the rebels for several months. Fortunately, he was defended and nothing happened.
It was also unlucky to say that this matter was because Li Xilie rebelled and the soldiers of Jingyuan came to rescue him. Who knew that no one would take care of him when he arrived in Chang'an, so he didn't give any supplies to him. Jing Zhaoyin, who was in charge of the business, gave him some food.
Then the other party stopped doing it and directly launched the attack, tied up the Jiedushi Zhang Lingyan, gathered people to steal the treasury, and turned against him.
This is the disadvantage of recruiting soldiers. Everyone is working for money to fight, without the loyalty and righteous thoughts of the government and border troops.
This involves another historical celebrity, Zhu Li.
This guy didn't want to fight or get involved in anything, so he wanted to be an official and live comfortably. For this purpose, he didn't even accept his father's class to his younger brother. He went to Chang'an to be an official and was given the position of Fengxiang Jiedushi.
But if you don’t look for him, he will come to you, just to prevent you from calming down.
The more Zhu Li wanted to be stable, the more he could not be stable. His younger brother Zhu Tao and Li Xilie rebelled together. Fortunately, he was far away from Fengxiang, so he was not involved. He was summoned to Chang'an to explain his brother's rebellion. Who knew that the troops in Jingyuan rebelled in Chang'an.
I don’t know how these soldiers discussed it, so they went to Zhu Li’s house to greet him and regarded him as the Lord.
It’s a bit like who has the yellow robe in his body, and he has become the leader of the anti-military army for no reason or occupied the national capital.
Then Li Huaiguang, the governor of Bining, came over to serve the king.
This guy is Guo Ziyi's younger brother. He has been promoted to military merits and has taken the initiative to help the emperor fight. He has a strong sense of initiative and loyalty to the emperor.
Unfortunately, in the current words, Dezong was just a stupid and cute monarch who was a little confused and had a soft ear. When Lu Qi encouraged him, he neglected Li Huaiguang.
Lu Qi is a man with a very ugly appearance and I don’t know how he got to the top. Anyway, he basically didn’t do anything serious, so he would be jealous of the wise and capable, and the party and the other party attacked each other and caused disasters everywhere. Yang Yan, Yan Zhenqing, Yan Ying, and Zhang Yi were all destroyed by him.
The people he recommended to promote went back on the scene later. They were also a strange talent.
Now that the troops are at the city, he is still fighting, thinking about harming people all day long.
He didn't know where to inquire about the news, saying that Li Huaiguang had the intention of clearing the emperor, so he didn't want Dezong to see Li Huaiguang, so he asked Dezong to order Li Huaiguang to attack Chang'an.
Dezong was a pure stick. He liked Lu Qi to speak nicely and flatter him. He listened to whatever he said, without knowing the situation at all.
He forced Li Huaiguang to attack Chang'an and gave him an iron coupon, which forced Li Huaiguang to rebel directly. Only then did Emperor Dezong become afraid and demoted Lu Qi, but it was too late.
When I opened the bow, I didn’t turn around, and I turned against it. I couldn’t get trust when I came back, so I could only go all the way to the black.
This is why Dezong ran to Liangzhou and Li Huaiguang sent his army to pursue him.
By the way, it was really a chaos in the world at this time. From the Northeast, North China and the Central Plains to the northwest and southwest, most of the countries along the southern coast, which had inconvenient transportation and poor information, started to make trouble.
This is the situation Zhang Jun faced when he first arrived.
It’s so chaotic in China, so it’s not much better to go abroad.
The Uighurs occupied the entire north, and the northeast was divided by Shi Weishi and Silla, the Bohai Kingdom. Tubo occupied many places in the southwest and northwest, and even captured Chang'an and bordered the Uighurs. Anxi Beiting became an enclave.
The Tang Dynasty's territory in Central Asia was shrinking, and it could no longer cross the Pami Plateau, and its influence was getting worse day by day. All vassal states betrayed one after another. The Arabs were strong and powerful, and they were becoming the new kings of Central Asia and even West Asia.
This is the Abbasid Dynasty, a Green Cult Empire spanning Europe, Asia and Africa. If the Battle of Talas had not scared the Arab Empire, his pace would have continued to go east.
Although the Tang army led by Gao Xianzhi in the Battle of Talas was defeated, it was still prosperous. With more than 20,000 troops from the Anxi Protectorate and 10,000 Gloru, they fought with nearly 200,000 troops of the Abbasid Dynasty.
Thirty thousand Tang troops crossed the desert and crossed the Pamir Mountains, and then launched an attack. Facing the increasing Arabs, they did not take a step back, and although they were finally defeated, they did indeed show the power of the Tang Dynasty.
Chapter completed!