Summoning the world to be one

Chapter 226 Miserable Jiangdong

Chapter 225: Miserable Jiangdong

"Mountains and rains are about to come and winds fill the building!" Wancheng, in front of Qianyang Palace, Deng Sheng stood here alone, looked up at the sky, and murmured.

Zhao Guo is about to go south in a big way, and Qi Wei is also preparing troops. Although the battlefield is far away from Deng Guo, it still has some influence on Deng Guo. Among other things, during this period of time, Qi Wei and Wei have many All the aristocratic families sent people to Deng State, the purpose is to leave a way out in Deng State.

These are aristocratic families that have been passed down for hundreds of years between Qi and Wei. They are good at seeking good luck and avoiding evil. They each send a group of children south to take root in Deng Guo. If Qi Wei is defeated and Zhao Guo refuses to accept them, They will move south with their families.

Zhao Guo's southward impact on Deng Guo is still relatively large. This time Qi and Wei joined forces to fight against Zhao Guo, Deng Sheng hoped that Qi and Wei could survive it from the bottom of his heart. It is easy to deal with. At the same time, the battle to destroy Wu has to be accelerated. Deng Sheng secretly ordered Yue Fei to launch an attack after the beginning of spring. He must solve Wu before the 18th year of Qianyuan, so that Deng can attack as quickly as possible. Recover vitality at a fast speed, and participate in this feast in the Central Plains.

The cold winter came as scheduled, and this cold winter also eased the tense atmosphere in the whole world. After all, in this snowy season, no one, no matter how hard-headed, would choose to go to war at this time.

"Your Majesty, Zhao, Qi, and Wei have deployed heavy troops on both sides of the Yellow River, and all the generals of the Three Kingdoms have been in place. I believe that after the spring of next year, this great war that will last forever will begin." Qianyang Palace , Su Hong, who is in charge of Deng Guo’s intelligence organization Ding Jing, reported the situation in the Central Plains to Deng Sheng. Ding Jing is Deng’s military intelligence organization.

Deng Sheng nodded, and said: "After this battle, the world does not know what will become. Su Qing, what do you think the outcome of this war will be?"

Su Hongdao: "According to the apparent strength, Zhao State has a slight upper hand. After all, Zhao Xin, the No. Famous generals, in terms of the lineup of generals, they are not weaker than Zhao Guo, and the outcome of this battle is still unclear."

Although Zhao is strong, Qi and Wei are not defenseless. They are both centuries-old traditional powers with profound foundations. In addition, this time the three countries are all doing their best. It can be expected that this battle will not last for a few years. It cannot be ended.

Deng Sheng said: "The situation in the Central Plains is changing a lot. It is not the time to intervene. Now our most important thing is to win the entire Wu Kingdom."

Now that the Central Plains has not started a war, rashly intervening may make people on both sides. The best time to intervene is to wait until the end of the war and when the outcome has been determined. However, as for how to do it, we still need to see the development of the situation at that time .

This winter, the people of Wu State in Danyang and Wujun are desperate, because in order to support the frontline war, the king of Wu not only sent the elites of the two counties to the frontline, but also searched for the grain of the people in the two places. It was empty, and this winter, tens of thousands of Wu people starved to death. In order to find a way out, many people began to flee Wu and fled to Yuzhang, Kuaiji and other places.

In the Wu army, due to the shortage of food, there have also been a lot of deserters. In the past few months, there have been 3 or [-] Wu soldiers who have fled one after another. This makes Zhou Kai very distressed. These people are all Wu. Hope, killing is neither, nor is not killing, even sometimes, Zhou Kai turns a blind eye to deserters.

"Governor, nearly a thousand people fled today. We have captured more than 200 people. I don't know what to do with these people?" In Yi County, Wu Jun general Ma Li told Zhou Kai about today's deserters, and asked at the same time What to do with those caught back.

"Let's let them go, they are all poor people, let them go home." Zhou Kai smiled wryly, logically speaking, deserters should be executed according to military law, but Zhou Kai couldn't bear it, after all, this was the last of the Wu Kingdom. If they are strong, they will lose one if they are killed. As for letting them return to the army, it is even more impossible. After all, they used to be deserters, and if they return to the army, I am afraid they will incite others to follow suit.

"Here!" Marley also knew that this was the best way to deal with it, so he responded.

What Zhou Kai and Ma Li didn't know was that those soldiers who escaped didn't go home as they thought, but ran directly to Yuzhang and joined Deng Jun. There are nearly 10 deserters from the Wu army and nearly [-] people who fled from Danyang and Wu counties, which is a great burden for the Yuzhang area. However, these are the foundations for Deng Guo to subdue Wu people's hearts in the future, and they cannot be ignored, so Yue Fei had to write to Wancheng, It is hoped that a batch of food can be dispatched to help these deserters and the people.

And Deng Sheng was also very happy when he learned about the situation in Jiangdong, because the more miserable Jiangdong is now, the closer it is to the entry of Deng Junbing into Wucheng, so in order to appease the Wu people and deserters who came to defect , Deng Sheng asked Shangshu Province and the Ministry of Households to urgently dispatch a group of grain and winter clothes to Yuzhang. Fortunately, the entire Chencheng was evacuated at the beginning.

Wu Cheng, now there are complaints and sorrows everywhere, Zhang Chao is walking on the street, seeing beggars everywhere, and seeing the closed shops on both sides of the road, he can't help but feel a pang of sadness in his heart. In the past few months, Because a large number of males were sent to the front line, the fields in the country of Wu were abandoned, businesses closed down, and people begging everywhere inside and outside the city.

Zhang Chao was very worried. If things go on like this, Wu Guo will be the first to collapse without waiting for Deng Jun to call, but Zhang Chao has no choice. He was nowhere to be seen, and seeing the refugees all over the city, Zhang Chao couldn't even provide relief, because his family's stocks had already been collected and sent to the front lines, leaving only the daily necessities of food, Even if you have the heart, you have no energy left.

"Gentlemen, please do me a favor. We haven't eaten for several days. Let's give alms!" Such voices were heard all over the city. Walking on the street, Zhang Chao could already be said to have seen a state of Wu that was on the verge of collapse. .

And in Danyang and Wujun, there have been civilians attacking local county government offices and warehouses, and even in the conflicts, there have been a large number of casualties.

In Youquan City, in the courtyard of the Zhang family of Wu County, the patriarchs of the big families in Wu County gathered here to plan a big event.

Since King Wu lost his mind, the great families in Wujun and Danyang have suffered heavy losses, and even many children of the clan were sent to the front line. They felt that they could no longer sit still like this, and had to stand up and resist.

The Youquan Zhang family is the family of Zhang Chao, the Prime Minister of the Wu Kingdom, and the current head of the family is Zhang Chao's elder brother, Zhang Yong. Since Zhang Chao became the Prime Minister of the Wu Kingdom, the Youquan Zhang family has faintly become the leader of the Wu family.

The four major families of Wu State, Zhang, Zhou, Xie, and Lu, are big families that have been passed down for hundreds of years in Wu State. The history of each family is longer than that of Wu State, and its background is also very profound. It was affected by a catastrophe, but because the state of Wu still relied on these great families to stabilize the country, the king of Wu did not exterminate these great families, but left them with a lot of capital, but the great families are the great families, and they They were destined not to be of one mind with the Wu royal family, so when their own interests were harmed, they felt it was unbearable, so they gathered together and planned to conspire for great things.

Today, in the name of the Patriarch of the Zhang family's birthday, more than a dozen aristocratic families, large and small, gathered here in Wujun. I don't know.

After the simple birthday celebration and birthday banquet, Zhang Yong called all the heads of the aristocratic families into the secret room for discussion.

(End of this chapter)