Chapter 74 Bottom Line Thinking
After the exercise, the whole army returned to the city.
Thirty cavalry from the teaching team escorted Shao Xun, Mi Huang, He Lun, Wang Bing and Yu Liang, and fell behind the large army.
When passing by Daxia Gate in the north of the city, Shao Xun looked up unconsciously.
Not far to the west is Jinyong City.
This city is located in the northwest corner of Luoyang and is not embedded in Luoyang City as a whole.
To be precise, among the three cities of Jinyong, only the south city is located inside Luoyang City, while the middle city and the north city protrude outside.
This is beneficial, because in fact it makes the northern section of the city wall of Luoyang become irregular. Once the enemy attacks the Daxia Gate, it is easy to be attacked from the side by the defenders of Jinyong City, causing casualties. will get bigger.
Several camps were set up outside Daxia Gate, and three to four thousand Hebei sergeants were stationed.
These soldiers cannot go home to tend the farmland or reunite with their families, and they have long been filled with anger. Therefore, when faced with the people coming in and out of Luoyang, they often try their best to extort money to compensate for the losses - the losses they perceive.
However, when they saw the heavily armed Chen Yougen and others, these people were cowed again. He waved them to hurry into the city and not block the door. When the people saw it, they cursed one after another, and the Hebei sergeant scolded him back. It was a chaotic scene for a while, which made people laugh and cry.
"Garrisoned in Luoyang for five months, these people have been exhausted." Shao Xun thought secretly.
He went in and out of Daxia Gate many times, almost watching these Ye soldiers "rot" little by little.
They are not elite soldiers at all, just farmers pulled from the fields. After some rough training and fighting for half a year, I gained some military experience. However, after five months of being in and out of the city gate, the discipline in the camp was loose and it was no longer as tight as it was at the beginning of the year.
Just like just now, my colleagues were quarreling with the people and businessmen, while others were doing nothing but laughing and laughing. This is very problematic.
It is normal to hear that Sima Ying is trying to rebuild the New Army. The fewer things like recruiting young men from the fields to fight, the better. Maybe we can still mess around for now, but it will only become more and more out of line with the requirements of the times.
After entering the city, he went straight back to his mansion, and Mi Huang and Yu Liang also followed.
After a while, Xu Lang, who received the news, made an excuse and came to visit.
There are many people in the Sima Yue shogunate. As the saying goes, there are no factions in the government and there are all kinds of strange things. The four of them, Shao, Mi, Yu and Xu, are a small group that is taking shape.
"Just now He Lun showed his favor to me and asked for advice..." After a few people sat down, Mi Huang spoke.
Teach the soldiers how to boil water for tea and make fire for cooking.
There are no servants in the house, and the big soldiers are responsible for all the trivial matters in life.
"Let him get rid of all those bad soldiers." Shao Xun said unceremoniously: "It's still too late to recruit new people. There are many soldiers defeated outside Luoyang City, which can save a lot of training time. There are still many soldiers in the mountains and forests. There are a lot of thieves, and if you are confident of suppressing them, the thieves are more suitable to be soldiers than the city people."
Yu Liang listened silently with his eyes wide open.
Xu Lang's expression was very serious, and he was even more excited to participate in something big.
"I will go find him tomorrow, but this person may not be willing to give up. Is it true that a city citizen who has been training for five months is not useful?" Mi Huang asked.
“Didn’t you see them all today?” Shao Xun asked: “Slaves in brothels, servants in restaurants, shop assistants and even monks can fight a fart battle, but they will collapse in one rush. . Even defending the city is not qualified."
A few people were silent, and the atmosphere was a little tense.
After a while, Mi Huang suddenly said: "Today, Sikong promised me the position of 'supervising Luoyang's guard'. Young Master, it is as you wished."
"Oh? Yes? How many soldiers are left behind?" Shao Xun asked with interest.
"The three thousand soldiers of the Royal Army must stay." Mi Huang said: "There may be a few thousand soldiers, but don't think too much. They may be new soldiers or they may not follow my orders. How can Luoyang abide by the law? Do you have any? Strategy? "
After thinking about it, Shao Xun said: "The matter has come to an end. Let's be honest. According to my wishes, Luoyang can defend it. If it cannot, it will retreat to Jinyong City. It is extremely strong. It is fully equipped with large warehouses, granaries, and many wells. As long as the granaries and warehouses are filled, we can hold on for a long time."
"So that's what you had in mind." Mi Huangyi. He patted his thigh, thought for a moment, and then said: "Jin Yong City can indeed be defended, but how long will it take? If Sikong is defeated, won't we die without a burial place?"
"What should we do?" Shao Xun asked: "Fleeing without fighting is the greatest sin."
When he said this, he glanced at Yu Liang and Xu Lang.
Both of them were a little unnatural, obviously unwilling to just run away. In other words, they can run away, but the official position will be gone, all the previous accumulation will be lost, and they will have to start all over again - for aristocratic family members, it is actually not a big deal.
"Fleeing without fighting is definitely not the best policy." Mi Huang frowned and thought hard, and said after a moment: "Sikong Northern Expedition, if we win, of course everything will be fine. If we lose, the whole army will not be annihilated. Tens of thousands of people fled back to Luoyang, and Zhang Fang was also afraid. I guess Luoyang will still be in the same situation now. It may be good or bad. If he is captured and killed by Sima Ying, Luoyang will probably re-elect someone. Come out. At that time, we will have to look for a way out after the death of our lord like Sima Ji and Sima Yi's staff." Mi Huang said this a bit pessimistically.
Shao Xun couldn't help but glance at Yu Liang and Xu Lang, but saw that they had no special reaction, so he felt relieved.
Perhaps, this is the way the nobles do things. They just work part-time. There is loyalty, but not much.
"Sikong Ying will not be captured and killed." Shao Xun said: "You can't go wrong by sticking to Luoyang."
"Why are you so sure?" Yu Liang couldn't help but ask.
Shao Xun could not answer.
Actually, his current thinking is also a bit confusing.
He knew that Sima Yue was the winner of the Eight Kings Rebellion. Even if the Northern Expedition failed, he should be able to escape safely back to Luoyang and make a comeback - the historical trajectory of the original time and space should be like this, right?
But he was not entirely sure.
What if there is a butterfly effect?
Or maybe Sima Yue just got lucky and won during his Northern Expedition?
The information (history) is so good that it is difficult to judge.
"Sikong has no less than twenty fast horses by his side. If this is not enough to escape, it would be too much." Shao Xun replied vaguely.
I haven't mastered the trick of "riding alone to get away with it", so it's best not to mess around...
Yu Liang nodded doubtfully, as if - how reasonable is it?
“Let’s not talk about this for now. Your family members in the city will all move into Jinyong City if necessary.” Shao Xun knew that there were many flaws in his words, so he decided to change the topic. He stared at Yu Liang and said sincerely. said.
Yu Liang was greatly moved.
Shao Langjun's eyes were very sincere, as if to say, I care about your family very much, and I am determined to make you my friend.
"Do we have to store more military supplies such as food, arrows, wound medicine, etc. in advance?" Xu Lang was alone in Luoyang without his family to involve him, so he asked the core question directly.
"Of course we have to prepare in advance." Shao Xun looked at everyone and said, "However, it is best for the court to handle this matter."
"Okay." Mi Huang and Yu Liang The man nodded his head like a subordinate and agreed.
"Have you forgotten Shi Chao? He has tens of thousands of troops." Xu Lang asked weakly.
“I haven’t forgotten him.” Shao Xun smiled and said, “If you can’t even pass Shi Chao’s level, how can we talk about the Northern Expedition? The Luoyang Central Army of more than 20,000 people has a very good chance of winning because of their calculations but not their intentions. Big.”
Xu Lang nodded hesitantly, obviously not very relieved.
Of course Shao Xun knows that there is no 100% certainty of winning in a war.
If Sima Yue can't even overcome the stumbling block of Shi Chao, then I will not play with you anymore, and take the student soldier Lian Yerun to the East China Sea to become the Mi family's son-in-law.
Well, if there is time, I will also take Concubine Pei and the Crown Prince away. If you can't be the son-in-law of the Mi family, you can support Concubine Pei and the prince back to the fiefdom and wait and see the situation.
If this doesn't work - then I will take over the mountain and become the king, and let Concubine Pei, who is probably a widow, be the wife of Yazhai. After all, I have a wife, which can be regarded as a souvenir of my two or three years in Luoyang.
Shao has never lacked bottom-line thinking.
He could sense that the time to take action was getting closer and closer, and everything would be revealed soon.
In fact, it’s almost the same.
A few days later, Mi Huang summoned Shao Xun, He Lun, and Wang Bing with a serious face and read out Sikong's order in private.
Start on the sixth day of July and destroy Shi Chao’s troops in one fell swoop!
(End of this chapter)