Zhu Nao

In the evening, Liang Guo soldiers who escaped in the chaos returned to the messy barracks one after another.

Xie Wuji's surprise attack this time did not kill many Liang soldiers, he only brought more than 1000 people, quickly stirred up a scene, and left quickly.Compared with the casualties of soldiers, the greater loss suffered by Liang Guojun was that part of the grain, warehouses, and barracks were set on fire by the Shu army, and some of the soldiers also fled in confusion.More importantly, the panic caused by this surprise attack by the Shu army may be difficult to dispel for a long time to come.

And the soldiers should have started to clean up the mess and count the losses, but now there is no one to lead them to do so.People wandered and chatted in disorder, seeing the sky getting darker and darker, but the officers didn't know where they were...

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Right now, all the officers of Liang Guojun are gathered outside Tian Chou's camp, asking Tian Chou for an explanation.

According to Tian Chou's original statement, the emperor of Shu was critically ill, the soldiers of Shu were panicked, and their morale was greatly damaged. This is a great time for them to march!They all believed it, and they all wanted to fight this battle with great anticipation, preparing to make meritorious deeds quickly so that they could clear their backgrounds and be formally appointed by the imperial court.But today, Xie Wuji's magical soldiers descended from the sky and slapped them hard on the face!

Is the Shu army panicking?Where is the morale lost?It knocked their morale down in one breath!

In fact, from before the expedition to the present, Tian Chou has been coaxing them with words. It is not that there are no omissions in these words, but they are all blinded by interests, and they are not too suspicious.But now all kinds of doubts come to my mind, the more I think about it, the more wrong I am!

So they all brought a team of horses and surrounded Tian Chou's barracks tightly, and Tian Chou must give them a satisfactory explanation.

For Tian Chou, the most difficult thing is not to continue to coax those officers, but that he can't let those officers get together to talk!After all, what he says is different to everyone.It would be even more difficult for him to end up with a string of messages if everyone was asked to string together.And he couldn't separate himself to deal with a group of people at the same time, so he could only quickly dispatch his confidants to find a way to stabilize those officers.

Ordinarily, Tian Chou should be devastated at this time, but he locked himself in a small room, sitting in a daze as if he had nothing to do - he assigned the final tasks to his subordinates, and he felt relieved.

Several of his personal soldiers and staff stood by his side, looking at each other with worries written all over their faces.

You must know that Tian Chou has always been a person with a strong sense of responsibility. It is too abnormal for him to be able to sit still under the current situation!This anomaly is extremely worrying.It can be seen that Xie Wuji's surprise attack this time has dealt too much blow to Tian Chou...

During this period of time, Tian Chou has been trying his best to manage a huge mess, and this matter itself is extremely labor-intensive.It has only been a month since the war started, and Tian Chou looks several years older than when he was in Xuzhou.As a result, his efforts were fruitless, and he was always easily cracked by the enemy.It is difficult for anyone to accept it.

Everyone was afraid that Tian Chou would not show up, and it would be difficult to settle the chaos outside by relying on his subordinates alone.But seeing Tian Chou like this, they really couldn't bear to let Tian Chou continue to work hard.Finally, a soldier hesitated and said, "Is Mr. Tian unwell? If you feel unwell, please call the doctor to come and see..."

Tian Chou still sat blankly, without any reaction, as if he didn't hear the soldiers at all.

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, and they didn't know what to do, so they could only smile wryly.

After an unknown period of time, Tian Chou's subordinates came to report: "Mr. Tian, ​​the commanders of the Pinglu Army and the Tuocheng Army have already returned."

After they separated the officers, they appeased them separately. Some of them who were soft-hearted were persuaded to leave first, and went back to clean up the mess.But a little does not mean that the matter is over like this, but at least get over tonight's difficulties first.

The news made everyone who was with Tian Chou heave a sigh of relief.

However, there are also some diehards who are still outside and refuse to leave.

Soon another subordinate came to report with a bitter face: "Li Bu, the commander of the Yunzhou Army, must see Tian Gong, and he will never leave unless he sees Tian Gong. He also brought more than 200 people Come and shout outside, we dare not force him, and we don’t know what to do.”

Li Bu, the commander of the Yunzhou Army, has always been a difficult guy, with little ability but a big appetite, he has pestered Tian Chou more than once for practical benefits.

But Tian Chou was really not in the mood to see Li Bu's disgusting face tonight, so he said calmly, "You can figure it out."

"Ah?" The subordinate didn't expect Tian Chou to say that.The stakes are so high that they dare not call the shots.But after Tian Chou said that, they had no choice but to bite the bullet and say: "This... yes, Mr. Tian."

The people below came and went, constantly reporting new developments to Tian Chou.Fortunately, Tian Chou came out this time and brought thousands of capable people of his own, some of them were smart, clever, and reliable in their work. After a long time, they finally stabilized the chaotic situation temporarily.

Most of the officers who came to make trouble were persuaded to go back, only Li Bu, the commander of the Yunzhou Army, and the commander of the Tuocheng Army whom he had wooed were still in a stalemate outside.

The officer in charge of persuading Li Bu was helpless, so he had to ask Tian Chou again for instructions.After resting for such a long time, Tian Chou finally regained some energy after seeing his subordinates do everything they could do, knowing that he would not sit still anymore.

He asked someone to bring a basin of cold water, washed his face with cold water, shook his head vigorously, and said, "Let's go, I'll go see them!"

Everyone was overjoyed when they saw this, surrounded Tian Chou and was about to go out when suddenly, a soldier rushed over anxiously.

"General Tian, ​​it's not good, something serious happened!" The soldier ran to Tian Chou, out of breath, and said, "Taining Army, Taining Army has mutinied! They, they made Taining Army Commander Qu I killed it!!"

Everyone was stunned.When they first heard the word mutiny, they thought it was the commander of the Taining Army who led his subordinates to make trouble. After all, those miscellaneous troops only listened to their own officers, but did not obey Tian Chou's control.But how could it be Qu Sie who was killed?

——What they didn't know was that the officers under Qu Sie's subordinates had already turned away from him after they learned that Qu Sie had been bought by Tian Chou.When Xie Wuji launched a surprise attack recently, the Taining army suffered the heaviest losses because it was the first barracks Xie Wuji encountered on his way into the army. Many officers were captured by the Shu army.But Qu Sie, the commander, was the first to leave the army and run away when he heard that the enemy was attacking!

All kinds of reasons combined, just now when Qu Sie returned to the barracks and wanted to clean up his troops, his unbearable subordinates mutinied on the spot and cut off his head!

Tian Chou and others were not very concerned about Qu Sie's life and death, it was just an internal strife in the miscellaneous army, they still did not stop and were going to go out to meet Li Bu.

The soldier hadn't finished speaking yet.He took a deep breath, and continued: "The mutinous Taining army killed our supervisor and is heading towards Mingxi! They want to snatch the army rations!"

"What?!" Everyone stopped in unison and glared at the soldier.Why didn't you say something so important earlier! !

The Taining army was formed by a group of bandits, they were very murderous in the first place, they were suppressed by Qu Sie, so they didn't dare to act rashly.Now that Qu Sie is dead, the rest of the people don't want to fight for Liang Guo's court anymore, they just want to grab some food and grass and go back to be bandits.

Mingxi is the place where Tianchou stores a large amount of military rations, and military rations are extremely important to the war, and there is no room for any mistakes!

"Quick!" Tian Chou ordered hastily, "Immediately dispatch troops, dispatch all soldiers and horses, we must suppress the riot immediately!"

All the soldiers and horses in his mouth naturally refer to his direct line soldiers and horses.After this kind of thing happened, Li Bu and his ilk could no longer take care of it, and protecting the military rations was the top priority!

The crowd immediately dispersed and rushed to each battalion to deliver orders.

Tian Chou also ran to the stables quickly and stepped on the stirrups.He was about to get on the horse when suddenly his heart ached, his eyes blurred, and he fell backwards uncontrollably.

"Tian Gong!" Several soldiers rushed up to support him with quick eyes and hands.

Tian Chou stabilized his figure, turned over and jumped on the horse.He has been on the battlefield for more than ten years, and has never been so tired.I was so tired that I didn't even have time to shout tired.

"I'm fine." Tian Chou gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go, go and order soldiers!"

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half a month later.

Tao Bei sat on the main seat with a gloomy face, surrounded by his staff, including Henry Zhang.The atmosphere in the house was extremely depressing, and people didn't even dare to breathe.

The battle reports from the front line are sent to Yedu by special envoys on horseback every day, and the battle reports sent every time in the past few days are frightening.

Not long ago, Tian Chou sent news that he had persuaded people from all walks of life to prepare for a full-scale attack on the Shu army.Tao Bei has been waiting for the battle report of his dispatch of troops, but the news of his dispatch did not arrive, but he heard that Xie Wuji led people to sneak attack them.There was an army mutiny that night, and almost robbed the grain and grass. Fortunately, Tian Chou led people to suppress it in time and kept the grain and grass.

However, as the saying goes, one hair can affect the whole body. Although the Taining army's riot was suppressed by Tian Chou, the hearts of the people have already dispersed.I heard that there are a large number of soldiers fleeing from the front lines every day, and thousands of people have escaped in a few days.There are also miscellaneous troops who are ready to move and want to rebel, but the lessons learned by the Taining Army make them dare not act rashly.Tian Chou even discovered some forces who took the initiative to contact the Shu people.It can be said that the situation on the front line is already in dire straits.

According to Tao Bei's original plan, no matter whether these miscellaneous troops confront the Shu army for a long time and consume each other, or engage in a full-scale fight with the Shu army, he is happy to see the result.He originally thought that with Tian Chou's ability, he could handle this matter well.But now it has only been more than a month, and Tian Chou has neither caused much consumption to the Shu army, nor caused a loss of troops to the Shu army. His goal has not been achieved at all!

Tao Bei was really disappointed.

A staff member suggested: "General, it seems that the only way to give General Tian more power at the moment is to enable him to win people's hearts with substantial benefits. Only in this way can the situation be stabilized."

The so-called substantive benefits are the rewards and rewards for those miscellaneous soldiers who should be appointed officials.Tian Chou used to rely on fooling around, but now he is afraid that he can't be coaxed anymore. The court must show a real posture to buy people's hearts.

It's not that Tao Bei is reluctant to give up several official positions, but doing so is very troublesome in itself, and there will be endless troubles in the future.But the two evils are the lesser of two evils, and the key point is to stabilize the battle situation right now, and other troubles can be solved in the future.

Tao Bei could only say: "That's the only way. I will let Tian Chou do it freely."

The staff came up with some ideas, and after some discussions, few of them were feasible in the end.In desperation, Tao Bei could only let everyone go back to rest first.

All the staff resigned one after another, leaving only Zhang Ling still sitting on the chair.

Tao Bei rubbed his forehead and asked, "Is the Grand Master still busy?"

Zhang Ling stood up and said slowly: "General, it is the autumn of peril, and the Holy One is also very anxious about state affairs. He has mentioned it time and time again, hoping to contribute to state affairs."

Tao Bei's eyelids twitched immediately.The little emperor wants to contribute to state affairs? !What do you mean, is the little monk going out to take advantage of the fire and fight for power? !

A flash of killing intent flashed in his eyes, but Zhang Ling continued: "The Holy Majesty wants to worship Buddha in famous temples and ancient temples in various places, and pray for the country. I don't know what the general thinks?"

Tao Bei was stunned.Worship Buddha?Pray?The little emperor wants to leave Beijing?