Chapter 374

Huang Chao once again raised the flag, with the name of Junping General of the imperial Taibao. In the name of inheriting Wang Xianzhi's legacy and taking equalizing the rich and the poor as the political ambition and slogan, Huang Chao attracted a large number of poor people to join, so he entered Guangzhou.

At that time, most of the people living in Guangzhou were big food merchants. After Huang Chao conquered Guangzhou, he massacred so much that all the local food merchants in Guangzhou were almost extinct.

This incident was not recorded in the history of the Tang Dynasty. Instead, it was spread by word of mouth by businessmen who fled back to Dashi by boat, which was clearly recorded by scholars in Dashi area.

After the occupation of Guangzhou, Huang Chao saw that Guangzhou was prosperous in commerce and trade and could be the foundation. Therefore, the above table shows the imperial court, hoping to show Annan Duhu and Guangzhou Jiedu envoy.

Li Chengye was on the front line and immediately opposed the news. He knew that the sea trade in Guangzhou was prosperous. If Huang Chao was taken as a base, he was afraid that it would become a big trend in a few years.

Huang Chao's killing was very serious. Since he started the army, all the state and county assassins and county magistrates on the road were copied by him, which was deeply hated by the bureaucrats in the court. Therefore, together with Li Chengye, he expressed his opposition to recruiting Huang Chao as a festival envoy in Guangzhou.

After Huang Chao knew it, he was so angry that he led the army to continue to advance to the northwest and conquer Guizhou (Guilin). Therefore, the whole territory of Lingnan was controlled by Huang Chao.

As a result, Huang Chao was still dissatisfied. He led his army north into the land of Jingchu. It was just at the time when the water of Xiangjiang River soared. He led his army by boat, easily avoided the encirclement and interception of local armies, crossed Yongzhou and Hengzhou, conquered Tanzhou and marched into Jiangling.

Seeing the great potential of Huangchao, the garrison general of Jiangling did not arrive in time. Knowing that Jiangling was difficult to defend, he withdrew and entered Xiangyang with the intention of defending the Huangchao army in Xiangyang, a dangerous place between the north and the south.

However, when the officers and soldiers retreated, the military discipline was corrupted and looted the place, so that the local people hated the officers and soldiers deeply. Seeing that Huangchao conquered Jiangling, a large number of people persecuted by the officers and local giants asked to join the rebels.

Huang Chao's power increased again, and his self-confidence was extremely inflated. He wiped out the Wubao manor of local giants all the way and obtained a large amount of food and grass materials. Then he took the opportunity to surround Xiangyang and Jingzhou was in an emergency!

On the one hand, Chang'an ordered the local government to organize group exercises and build villages for self-protection. At the same time, he asked Li Chengye to quickly overcome Qidan and go south to rescue Xiangyang. However, Khitan's recent rise has replaced the Turkic Huihe as the overlord on the grassland and occupied the resource rich land in Eastern Liaoning. How can it be so easy to repel.

The above is all that Wei Ran learned. All the contents are described in a letter from Er Niang Wang. The worry between the lines is very obvious, suggesting that Wei Ran can send troops to help Li Chengye defeat Qidan to relieve the pressure of his adoptive father.

Wei was walking alone in the house. In fact, he wanted to go north along the Yellow River to Yinshan Mountain to help his father attack the rear of Qidan and reduce the pressure on the front battlefield.

But this battle, first, without the permission of the imperial court; 2、 Little benefit can be obtained;

The territory operated by Wei Ran is already quite powerful. Although his troops are controlled by him through a series of military management methods, unlike other frugal armies, they often don't respect orders or disobey orders or even overhead generals.

But it has also become a community of interests. Because Wei Ran's decision can bring benefits to all people in the territory and make their lives better and better, these people support Wei Ran and their Li family in Weizhou very much.

If Wei Ran makes a move against the interests of the people, no one will dare to oppose it under the mandatory requirements of personal prestige, but it is not conducive to the popular support of the people in the territory.

Wei Ran thought for a moment and decided to lead the army north to help his father fight. It's better to convince the key figures first, which is better than forcing them to go out, and it can also keep the morale of the troops fighting thousands of miles away.

On the same day, he held a meeting. The participants included Princess Li Yunzhao, bu Lanshan and Li Guangsi, as well as the young and strong generals promoted in the army and civil servants dealing with government affairs in the territory.

These generals and civil servants are very loyal to Wei Yanzi. At the same time, they are in a relatively high position in the group and are also the spokesmen of various local interest groups. If they convince them, they will convince all interest groups in the territory.

Wei Ran briefly introduced the facts, frankly expressed his wishes, and finally asked everyone in a consultative tone.

He thought that people would oppose it, and even some people thought that interests were irrelevant and would express it fiercely.

But except for the princess's great emotional change, everyone else just looked at each other until a general promoted by Wei Ran himself opened his mouth with a smile.

"General, what should we do? We're going to fight the Khitan barbarians. If you want to send troops, do you want to discuss with us? As usual, where the general halberd points is when the iron cavalry of our Fenglin army becomes powerful.

In the past two years, our Fenglin army has traveled thousands of miles on the Silk Road and the plateau. What Tubo, Dangxiang, Tu Qishi and Huihe have been beaten so that they run away when they see us.

The brothers have already come back to life and become ill at leisure. Just go north to Yinshan and learn from Huo Qubing to seal wolf juxu. Won't the world admire him! "

After one person spoke, all the generals recognized it and were in a high mood, "although it is impossible to be a Hou and worship general even if you win the general, it is enough to let the waste people in Guanzhong who have eyes on their heads know the prestige of our Fenglin army! General, if you want to send troops, the general will go down to rectify the army and horses and listen to instructions at any time! "

Wei was moved. He was direct, so he stopped talking nonsense.

"Good! Since all the officers and men support the general so much, we will immediately rectify our troops and horses. This battle will only send cavalry, and all infantry will stay here. We will strive to end the battle within four months! So as to show the world the military power of our Fenglin army! "

After two years of operation, the standing force in Wei Ran's territory is 14000, while the self-employed farmers in other places cultivate during farming, train troops in their spare time, and guard the local areas to fight against bandits and bandits.

If the government soldier system is restored, this kind of government soldier has average combat effectiveness and is not elite, but it is enough to guard the city. If he were mobilized urgently, Wei Ran could have put out 40000 troops and horses to fight.

In this battle, he only enlisted 8000 standing troops. His standing troops can be elite infantry when dismounted and elite cavalry when mounted. Therefore, 8000 troops and horses are all cavalry, and one person and two horses have excellent mobility.

Li Guangsi had also asked to go with the army, but kuozhou and Hezhou, including Taozhou, which has been regarded as Wei Ran's territory, need key figures to sit down, so as not to take the opportunity for the suppressed Haozu forces to fight back.

So Li Guangsi was left to watch the house. Instead, Li Jianxing, who jumped off, went out with Wei Ran. Of course, bu Lanshan and Princess Shouning, who strongly demanded to follow the army, were also in the ranks.

Wu Xinfei was not interested in joining the campaign because her interests were not outside the great wall and Kanto.

Before the expedition, Wei Ran naturally informed Zhao Xuanqing and Zhao Hui, who was carrying out reform in Liangzhou, in advance, and needed to enter the pass through Lanzhou, as well as through Lingwu, that is, the headquarters of Shuofang Jiedu envoy.

Fortunately, this alien invasion and the peasant uprising. These two aspects are both enemies with the New Zealand Jiedu envoy. Whoever gains benefits will not benefit the New Zealand Jiedu envoy.

Although the Shuofeng Festival envoy continued to postpone the imperial court's military orders and refused to send troops to help the war, it would not prevent others from running to attack the back of the Khitan barbarians.

In addition, Wei burned out a large amount of money to buy roads, and exchanged 3000 green horses for the concession of the New Zealand Festival envoy. Therefore, when eight thousand soldiers and horses came out of the Great Wall from Lingwu and entered the Helan Mountains, there was no unhappiness between the Fenglin army and the Shuofang army.