Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 463 Please move the town
On the eighth day of June in the third year of Dashun, Li Yanling arrived at Shangluo County in Lisuo, Shangzhou, with five hundred soldiers from the Binning Army.

According to the route, he can actually travel eastward through Yangzhou in Fengxiang Town, and go to Jinzhou first.But Lao Li is a steady person, and he thinks it is better to act with Dingyuan Army.

The imperial court has not officially issued an order to move the town, but it should only be a few days, and it won't be long.

The eunuchs could handle the little emotions of the saint to death, and if they were frightened again, most of them would succumb.

But then again, the attitude of the eunuchs is also very suspicious, and they also have emotions.

If Jinshang Town is taken down again, where will the saint go?

At this critical moment, even the eunuchs wanted to side with the saint.After all, the imperial court is here, so they have a platform to do their best. If the imperial court is in name only, then what's the point?
Ximen Zhongsui was so anxious that he repeatedly sent people to Lingzhou to report his interests, saying that if Shao Shude would not spare even the gold merchants, he was afraid that all the towns in the world would stop making offerings, and people of insight would scold him. Unprecedented deterioration, becoming the public enemy of the town, dead without a place to bury.

Shao Shude was unmoved, and only stated clearly that the imperial court should manage Jingzhao Mansion well, and Weibei, Huazhou, Jinshang and other towns would not block the goods and personnel coming to and from Chang'an.

The situation is like this, the court is still delaying, but time waits for no one, Li Yanling took people south after receiving the order, and arrived in Shangzhou with Wang Yu.

How many months to wait for the court?Then this year is over.Zhe Zongben was still anxiously waiting for food and reinforcements to attack the Shannan East Road.

"Wang Junshi."

"Doctor Li."

After seeing the ceremony, the two sat down in the state office.

Li Yanling is the Jiedu Envoy of Zhangyi Army and Doctor Yinqing Guanglu, sitting at the head.

Wang Yu is the envoy of Dingyuan Army and General Xuanwei, and he sits at the head.

Li Tong is the governor of Shangzhou and the defense envoy of Wuguan, and he is on the sidelines.

"What is Dr. Li's plan for the Jinzhou matter?" Wang Yu was a little anxious.

Since the conquest of Helong ended, the Dingyuan Army has not fought the enemy with real swords and guns for some days, and its combat effectiveness has inevitably declined.

If an army is in a peaceful and comfortable environment for a long time, even if the food is sufficient and the training is normal, the combat effectiveness will decline.

In a peaceful environment, but you have to be mobilized from time to time, or deploy defenses abroad, and accept the baptism of a little war atmosphere, the combat effectiveness will decline slowly, but it will still decline.

Only when the food and salaries are sufficient, the training is normal, and you go to the battlefield regularly to see bloody battles, can your combat effectiveness be guaranteed-of course, if there are continuous bloody battles and too many veterans are killed or injured, that is another matter.

The Dingyuan Army, like the Tielin Army and Wuwei Army, has not fought a serious battle for several years.

The Tianzhu Army was established later than them, and their qualifications are less senior than them, but these years have been fighting continuously. The Tielin Army, Wuwei Army, and Dingyuan Army are qualified to pretend to be big brothers. Do you look down on them?
So Wang Yu was in a hurry, and hurried to lead the sons and daughters out to the east, first to test the Zhao family's knives, and then to fight with Zhu Quanzhong.

The soldiers of Dongdao in Shannan were originally Cai thieves, but after so many years of peace, how much skill do they have left?
These nests of gold merchants—er, nest thieves are the best example, have not been trained so much, and have fallen.

It's better to recruit new people!
According to the commander-in-chief, if an army has a full score of [-], it can easily reach [-] points if it pulls honest farmers from the fields, has enough food and wages, trains regularly, has strict orders, and issues qualified equipment. Out to fight.

From [-] points to [-] points, the speed of improvement will be very slow, and the cost will also increase sharply, which is much more difficult than going from zero points to [-] points.

Everyone has enough food and wages, they train constantly, their equipment is qualified, and their military discipline is strict. After a few years of rough training, of course there will be a difference.

Personal martial arts are not so useful in battle, but they are useful after all. Otherwise, what is the purpose of evaluating archery in the army?

Of course, the actual situation is more complicated.The outcome of the war is subject to the situation, morale, terrain, weather, command, and even various accidental factors on both sides at the time. The strong may not necessarily win, and the weak may not necessarily lose. It needs to be analyzed in detail.

In Wang Yu's opinion, it would be better to disband the gold merchants and recruit newcomers.

Their current level and morale may not be as good as the [-] points that the commander-in-chief said.

"Wang Junshi, the matter of gold merchants still has to fall on you." Li Yanling looked at Li Tong, and said with a smile: "Li Shijun, you ordered your brother to stay in Jinzhou without saying a word. Could it be that he was coerced by the sergeant?" ?”

Li Tong was a little embarrassed.

He and his elder brother changed places, and they were unwilling to move town rashly.

The king of Lingwu County sent someone to persuade him that the town of Binning could be moved, which sounds better than gold merchants, but who knows what's going on there?
Can the governor of Binzhou be concurrently held by the Jiedu envoy in accordance with the usual practice?Can the local officials of Ningzhou and Qingzhou be appointed by themselves?

If the goods in the town need to be donated, how much should be donated?

If you need to send troops to fight with other towns, how many troops will you send?What will happen if you don't send troops?

There are a lot of old brothers in gold merchants. They used to be alone, but now most of them have land and family members. Some people don’t want to move at all. Some people have doubts and are afraid of being cheated. His ambition is fanning the flames everywhere.

Things are not that simple!

Unless, like Zhu Mei back then, she was able to lead the Fengxiang Army to the affluent Dongchuan to make a fortune, and was stimulated by the huge long-term interests of unifying the Eastern and Western Sichuans, then it would be possible to convince the majority and then coerce a few.

The three prefectures of Binning and Ningxia are mountainous like Jinshang, with a registered permanent residence of over [-], but Jinshang also has more than [-], and they are still in a key position. Unlike Binning, surrounded by Shao Shude's forces, they have no future for development.

Even if you can appoint officials on your own, but officials are human and have their own ideas. Under such circumstances, is he loyal to you, or is he secretly loyal to Shao Shude?
After a long time, I am afraid that it has been infiltrated and riddled with holes, and everyone around me cannot be trusted.

"What do you want to do so much?" Wang Yu suddenly said loudly, startling Li Tong, and swallowed back the words just on his lips.

"Tomorrow, I will lead the army to go south to Jinzhou. It's fine if I don't let them go to Hexi with just those crooked melons and dates. Why are there so many things? If you don't accept it, you will fight." Wang Yu got up directly and said: "Doctor Li, you can go with me tomorrow, and keep everything safe. Badger, you also want to go. The commander-in-chief has granted you the post of governor of Xiazhou. It's a good place, so you can make some effort."

Li Tong's face twitched again when he heard the nickname "Badger", can you stop calling it?I'm the fucking governor and defense envoy of Wuguan now!

Wang Yu left the hall directly, and went to "play" surrounded by his own soldiers.As for what to play, Li Tong can think of it with his toes. The gang of unruly warriors in Shangzhou have been very honest since the day before yesterday, and they no longer have the same momentum as before.

Li Tong once heard from his father that if he dies unfortunately, the military commander will recommend Wang Yu as commander.As for the "public recommendation" method, Zhang Goulang scolded Wang Yu the day before yesterday, saying that he would send him a fake to challenge, but he went to visit at night, drank wine in the middle of the night, and almost married his son and daughter.

None of these warriors are normal!

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Jin, Shang, Jun, Fang and other prefectures had a common name in the Guochao, "the prefectures on the Han Dynasty", because most of them were distributed near the Han River, or had tributaries leading to the Han River, so they could be geographically divided into one unit.

During the Jianzhong period, Zhu Xi rebelled, Dezong visited Xingyuan Mansion, and coincided with Li Xilie's rebellion in Huaixi. According to Dengzhou, the road of tribute to the southeast was cut off. It was transported to Xingyuan Mansion via Jinzhou and Yangzhou.

In the early years of Shaoxing in the Song Dynasty, the Jin people invaded the Han and Shangzhou states from the south of Guanzhong and peeped into Sichuan.

In the second year, the Jin soldiers attacked Shangzhou first, and the defender Shao Long ran to Lujin.In three years, he attacked Shangjin in Shangzhou, Xunyang in Jinzhou, and Zhoucheng in Jinzhou, and Wang Yan, the governor of the town, retreated to Xixiang County in Yangzhou.The Jin people pursued again and attacked Raofengguan, which was guarded by Wu Jie. Wang Yan led his troops to reinforce them. As a result, both of them were defeated. One fled to Yangzhou and the other fled to Dazhou.

The Jin people's marching route is the old way of the Tang Dynasty.

Wang Yu, Li Yanling, and Li Tong led their troops to the south, and they also took this route.

The armored cavalry stayed in Shangzhou, along with 500 infantry.Wang Yu took [-] foot soldiers and [-] cavalry soldiers from the Dingyuan Army, plus more than [-] Li Tong soldiers and [-] Li Yanling soldiers, and went south along the mountain road. Five days later, they arrived at Manchuanguan (near Manchuanguan Town, Shanyang County).

Then it took another two days to arrive in Shangjin County.This road is marching along the Jiashui River Valley. There are post roads, but they are all mountain roads.

Li Yanling observed carefully on the road, sighing secretly in his heart, it was really inconvenient to transfer supplies.If goods from the southeast enter Beijing via here, the cost will be much higher than via Henan water transport.

Not far from Shangjin to the west is Fuyang County of Jinzhou, then Xunyang (now the county) is tens of miles to the west, and then more than a hundred miles to Xicheng County (now Ankang) of Lisuo, Jinzhou.

On the night of the [-]th, Yuan Shen, an envoy from Shenkou Town between Fuyang and Xunyang, was sent here.

Li Yanling was overjoyed and held a banquet for him that night.

Shenkou Town has two thousand soldiers, and its location is critical.

During the Baoying period, Daizong played tricks.First, holding his nose, he appointed Laizhen to town Xiangyang, and then issued a secret edict to Laizhen's general Pei Yu, asking him to send troops to crusade.Pei Mao was defeated and fled to Shenkou, trying to defend himself, but he was arrested and sent to the capital, where he was ordered to die by Daizong.

Shenkou Town has a city. To be honest, it is more important than places like Xunyang and Fuyang.Yuan Shensu heard of Wang Yuyong's name, dared not fight, and raised his troops to return.

Of course, this may be only one reason.Isn't Marshal Shao's reputation terrifying?
Under multiple factors, it is not uncommon for someone to surrender.

Now it depends on Li Bai's response, anyway, things are not out of hand yet.

There is no doubt that the gold merchants will be won anyway.Warriors have shallow eyesight and dare to strike when their heads are hot, but Li Bairuo is as impulsive as them and doesn't want to move town, it would be a pity.

(End of this chapter)