Chapter 1651: Raising troops to rebel
Young people like Li Wanshan accounted for the vast majority of the thousands of people who rose up this time, which made Li Qingshu a little worried.
How can one achieve anything if he has no perseverance?
Compared with the unswerving ambition to regain the Wanchun Kingdom, how can the pursuit of promotion and wealth be regarded as ambition? Such people seem to be full of enthusiasm and high morale, but once they suffer a setback, they can easily fall into despair or even change their ways...
Li Qingshu is a descendant of the Han people, so he knows how powerful the Han people are.
At that time, the Wanchun Kingdom had gathered the power of most of Annan's powerful indigenous peoples, but they were vulnerable to the Sui army. When Li Qingshu was young, he witnessed the army led by his grandfather Li Daquan collapsed under the charge of the Sui army, with corpses littering the fields. , that kind of shock is still fresh to this day.
Once the Han people never kill each other, they will be invincible in the world...
Li Wanshan on the side was a little too excited. He kept pacing back and forth at the edge of the forest, looking at the tower in the distance and checking the equipment of the soldiers in the forest.
After a while, the night became darker and darker, and a faint sound of drumming came from the city in the distance. Li Wanshan couldn't bear it anymore, came to Li Qingshu, and asked: "Uncle Yao, why is there no movement in the city? Could something be wrong? Has it changed?”
Li Qingshu glanced at him and said in a deep voice: "In the face of important events, you should be calm and steady. How can you be so impetuous?"
He naturally knew that Li Wanshan was reckless and narrow-minded, and even his senior would not take him seriously. He would feel resentful because of his rebuke, and would even retaliate on the spot. But he had to suppress Li Wanshan's frivolous mentality. Like him, many young people did not have the corresponding stability. If they were impetuous before such a big event, wouldn't everyone end up dead together?
But who would have expected that Li Wanshan's face just darkened, and he stared at Li Qingshu with gloomy eyes for a long time, but finally turned his head and said nothing.
Li Qingshu frowned, quite surprised, and felt something was wrong in his heart.
This Li Wanshan's reaction is really strange... Could it be that he has finally matured and realized that he has taken into account the overall situation?
"Look, look, there's a fire on the tower!"
Li Qingshu calmed down and looked up, and sure enough he saw a torch lighting up in the direction of the dark city tower, which was particularly eye-catching in the dark night.
The torch circled three times to the left and three times to the right, which was the signal agreed upon in advance...
"Everyone, the city gate has been opened. Come with me and rush into the city..." Li Qingshu was mid-sentence. Li Wanshan beside him had already rushed out like a tiger out of a fire. He shouted: "Charge!" He opened his legs and ran straight towards the city. He rushed out towards the door, followed closely by more than a thousand people behind him, and ran out of the woods with a "whoop".
"..." Li Qingshu had no choice but to swallow back half of his words, waved, and then rushed towards the city gate tower with his trusted clan members.
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The Jiaozhou General Manager's Office is located in the middle of the county seat, adjacent to the county government office. It is just an ordinary building with five doors facing the street, and there is nothing unique about it.
In the fourth year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court moved the Jiaozhou administrative office here and opened the Yamen of the General Administration Office, but there were not many troops stationed there. Jiaozhou has four counties: Jiaozhi, Huaide, Nanding, and Songping, which are under the jurisdiction of Lingnan Road. Since Qiu He, the last general manager, the general manager of Jiaozhou has been concurrently held by the governor of Jiaozhou. Since the jurisdiction of Lingnan Road is in Panyu, the governor of Jiaozhou often He was stationed in Panyu, not in Songping County, where Jiaozhou was governed.
Qiu He, the previous governor of Jiaozhou, believed that Songping County is located in the hinterland of Annan. Although it is rich and prosperous, it is not a stable place. Once the Central Plains Dynasty is in turmoil, this place will be controlled by foreigners because it is too far from the hinterland of Jiaozhou. , it is too difficult to mobilize troops and transport all the food and crops, and the cost of quelling the rebellion is too high, and the gains outweigh the losses. Therefore, I don’t attach much importance to this place. If I can occupy the best, if it is captured by foreigners, then simply give up.
Therefore, there are only a few hundred troops stationed in the city, and their equipment is outdated and their training is poor. It is better than nothing...
Wei Shu, the general of the Governor's Mansion, had just rested when he was awakened by the sound of noisy footsteps in the courtyard.
Today I had a dinner with Magistrate Song Ping, accompanied by a famous local prostitute. When the wine was flowing, and the fragrance of the beauty's eyes was like orchid, it was natural that my heart would be filled with excitement and desire. After the banquet, I would stay with the beauty for the night. The spring breeze was so joyful that Wei Shu, who almost broke his waist, got off his horse, exhausted and sleepy.
How could I be in a good mood when I was woken up just after I fell asleep?
He suddenly removed the thin quilt from his body, not caring that the beautiful body next to him was as white as jade and was exposed to the moonlight projected from the window, and cursed at the top of his lungs: "Who is outside? It's a sin to disturb people's dreams in the middle of the night. Unforgivable! Come here, I will capture you and you will be punished!”
After a while, someone at the door said urgently: "Report to General, there are people in the city raising troops to cause chaos!"
After being drunk, his head was already groggy, and after all the hard work, his energy was exhausted, and his thinking was inevitably chaotic and sluggish. When Wei Shu heard that someone was starting to cause trouble, he subconsciously replied: "It doesn't matter whether he makes trouble or not, first deal with the trouble." The villain of Renqingmeng was captured by someone, and he was punished with thirty army batons..."
The people outside the door fell into silence, probably because they didn’t know how to answer the question for a while...
There are people revolting here, and you still want to punish those who disturb your sleep?
The beauty next to her sat up suddenly, regardless of the scene being leaked, and exclaimed: "General, someone is rebelling? What should I do..."
"Rebellion?"
Wei Shu said something vaguely, and then his mind was shocked, and he shouted: "Rebellion?!"
This guy just reacted now...
He quickly got up from the bed, reached out and grabbed a robe and put it on. He ran to the door with bare feet and opened the door. When he saw the soldier standing at the door, he grabbed his collar and asked quickly: “What kind of rebellion, please explain clearly quickly!”
"General, Li Zhuangzhi has hooked up with the rebels from several nearby counties, has opened the city gate, and is heading towards the General Manager's Mansion!"
"Li Zhuangzhi?"
Wei Shu widened his eyes and said angrily: "Does this old man think he has a long life? Come here, give me armor and clothes, gather soldiers, who will kill the enemy..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard a dull sound of footsteps on the street outside the house like thunder, followed by a loud shout of death...
"Kill all the Tang troops!"
"Capture Wei Shu alive!"
"Restore the Kingdom of Wanchun!"
……
The entire governor's office was in chaos.
Wei Shuwu stood blankly at the door of the bedroom, wondering: "Wanchun Kingdom? What is that?"
The soldier stamped his feet anxiously: "Who knew that was a rogue thing? But general, please put on your armor quickly. We will protect you and fight out. The thieves are outnumbered and outnumbered!"
Wei Shu was furious and shouted: "You and I are soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. We are ordered to guard one side here. How can we shrink from the enemy and avoid fighting? The thieves are so rampant that they dare to raise troops to cause chaos. This is the moment when we, loyal to the emperor, regard death as home." , fight to the death and show off the power of our country!”
He was majestic and upright. If his empty robe hadn't been floated by the breeze, revealing his bare legs, he would have had the aura of a famous general!
The soldier was so anxious that he almost cried. He stepped forward and grabbed Wei Shu's arm and left. He said with a sad face: "No matter how hard you work, there is no need to fight to the death! That old dog Li Zhuangzhi gathered no less than three thousand rebels, all of whom were armed with swords and guns. You are so young and strong, more than a hundred of us can't defeat you! You'd better put on your armor quickly, the thief is already at the door..."
"What?"
Wei Shu was shocked: "Three thousand people?!"
Swallowing his saliva, his face changed drastically, he threw away the soldier's hand, and cursed: "So many people have come to the door, why are they wearing armor? It's too late! Hurry, hurry, hurry up and protect me." , let’s rush out from the back door, fight our way back to Panyu and move reinforcements..."
After saying that, without waiting for the soldiers to react, he grabbed his shoes, folded his clothes with both hands, opened his legs and went straight to the back door of the General Manager's Mansion...
More than a dozen soldiers quickly followed behind, and the maids and slaves in the courtyard cried and screamed in chaos.
When he arrived at the back door, he heard a "bang". The wooden door in the backyard had been knocked open from the outside. Then someone climbed over the wall and jumped into the yard. He killed everyone he saw and slashed them. He screamed for a while. The sound of shouting filled the entire General Manager's Mansion.
Wei Shu was so frightened that he barely managed to avoid a scimitar coming towards him, and shouted in a trembling voice: "You traitors, this is Wei Shu, the general of the Jiaozhou Governor's Office. You are not afraid of being killed if you raise an army like this to cause chaos." Nine tribes? ”
Even when someone shouted: "Weishu is here!"
Someone outside the door responded: "Don't hurt his life, catch him alive!"
"I know!"
The thieves who rushed into the courtyard gathered towards Wei Shu. Poor Wei Shu had just climbed up on the bed. He had not even put on his shoes, and had no weapons. How could he dare to fight with the thieves? He could only hide behind the soldiers and urge them to retreat.
A group of soldiers held horizontal knives in their hands to protect Wei Shu in the middle. At first, they loyally protected him as he went into the courtyard and fought and retreated. However, when the bandit soldiers surrounded and killed the two of them indiscriminately, the remaining ones let out a cry. , the courage was exhausted and the rat scurried away, leaving Wei Shu to dry in the middle of the yard...
Wei Shu was completely bewildered. His long robe was fluttering, his balls were cold in the wind, and the guard was all alone. How could he fight against these ferocious thieves?
He was about to say a few frank words to scare the thieves. Just as he was about to speak, he was thrown to the ground by the thieves who rushed forward. He could only scream: "I am a general of the Tang Dynasty. You dare to harm my life?" In the future, all nine tribes will be killed and their bodies will be divided into pieces by five horses... Wuwuwu..."
However, Li Wanshan stuffed a piece of rag into his mouth and cursed disdainfully: "What a waste, how can I be worthy of becoming a general of the Tang Army after saving you? Bah! I am much stronger than you..." (End of Chapter)
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