If there is no party outside the party, there will be imperial thinking; if there is no faction within the party, there will be all kinds of strange things. Wherever there are people, there is politics. Of course, Xu Thief's internal affairs are not monolithic.
Pang Xun claimed to have 200,000 troops and horses. Of course, there was a lot of water in this, but there were still tens of thousands. After all, Wang Hongli alone had 30,000 troops and horses in his headquarters.
Among them, it can be roughly divided into two parts: Xuzhou's direct line, that is, the tribe before Pang Xun's open rebellion, about a thousand people; in addition, those recruited after Pang Xun's rebellion are generally regarded as another faction .
Among them, among the more than a thousand direct descendants of Xuzhou, they can be further subdivided into the "Guilin Conglong Sect", the "Yindao Old Branch Sect" and the "Qunxiong Sect". The Guilin Conglong faction, the five hundred soldiers who initially launched the mutiny, are Pang Xun's staunchest supporters, the core of the core, the direct lineage of the direct lineage, the biological son of the biological son... The representative of this group of grandsons is "Four Dogs of Shouyi" and "Five Tigers of Xu Thieves".
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The political struggle within the Xu bandits should have been relatively intense, but there are very few historical records, and there are almost no positive direct records. We can only make logical inferences through other details, in other words, just guess.
As the power of the Pang Xun Group expanded, the problem of uneven distribution of spoils arose internally. The "Four Dogs of Shouyi" relied on Shouyi's popularity and received policy preferences in the distribution of resources and profits. For example, Liang Pi was assigned to Suzhou.
Suzhou is the place where Pang Xun Group's Longxing and the most virtuous area is. It is also the place where the first shot of the rebellion was fired. It was also from here that he went straight to Xuzhou and established a revolutionary base.
In Xuzhou, Pang Xun dispatched generals to expand territory, and the "Four Dogs of Shouyi" basically picked up ready-made ones, such as Liang Pi's Suzhou. The "Five Tigers of Xu Thieves" more or less have to fight for it with their own hands, such as Li Yuan and Wu Jiong of Sizhou.
Because of this, new talents outside the core of power will gradually accumulate military merits and their status in the group will gradually rise, such as Wang Hongli.
The dynamic changes in prestige broke the original political balance and even shook the psychological balance of the generals. Conflicts among the generals began to arise.
Of course, Suzhou City was more prosperous than Liuzizhai, so Yao Zhou, who was stationed in Liuzizhai, had strong opinions on Liang Pi, who was stationed in Suzhou. Especially last year, after Yao Zhou took the initiative and drove Kang Chengxun back to Songzhou who had not yet completed his assembly, Yao Zhou became famous among the Xu thieves.
Although Li Yuan and Wu Jiong have been unable to conquer Sizhou, they are still bleeding and sweating on the front line. Only Liang Pi was hiding safely in the rear, enjoying the comfort that his brothers had bought with their blood. Yao Zhou's hostility towards Liang Pi became increasingly serious.
Their personal relationship was tense. Yao Zhou even compared Liang Pi to Pang Xun's "watchdog" because Suzhou was the southern gate of Xuzhou.
The contradiction between these strategic gatekeepers, who are at odds with each other, is getting deeper and deeper.
So when Yao Zhou was defeated by Kang Chengxun and fled into Suzhou, Liang Pi decisively avenged his private revenge and killed him.
At present, the enemy is approaching, and the executives of Pang Xun Group are inspired not to share the same hatred with the enemy, but to fight against each other. Self-disruption.
Pang Xun replaced Liang Pi and appointed Zhang Xuannen as the new Suzhou garrison.
Amid internal and external troubles, the dog-headed military advisor Zhou Zhong pointed out a clear path to Pang Xun in time, which could kill two birds with one stone: founding a country and proclaiming himself emperor. In this way, he can not only improve his reputation in the base area, but also command the world legitimately.
In addition, he also calculated with his fingers the reason why he has been memorizing words recently: the mountains and rivers of Xuzhou cannot tolerate two tigers on one mountain, and Xuzhou cannot tolerate two commanders coexisting, so commander-in-chief, you have to kill the hostage Cui Yanzeng. Cui Yanzeng, the former military envoy of the Wuning Army, was stationed in Xuzhou. He lost Xuzhou when he was serving as the observation envoy of Xu Si, and has been held hostage by the rebels ever since.
Under Zhou Chong's persuasion, Pang Xun killed Cui Yanzeng, then frantically killed Wen Tinghao, and beheaded all the captured military generals and eunuchs. The limbs of Huainan Li Xiang and the supervisor Guo Houben were cut off and given to Kang Chengxun.
Pang Xun then summoned his followers, gave a speech, and announced that from now on, we will no longer do justice for heaven, but we will really rebel!
All the generals cheered in unison.
Next, Pang Xun ordered that all the men in Xuzhou City should come to the stadium to gather. At the same time, the city gates were closed and search teams were sent to search door to door. If anyone dared to hide a man, his whole family would be killed! Using this bloody and terrifying method, Pang Xun actually obtained 30,000 men.
Then make flags and distribute weapons.
Under the leadership of Zhou Chong, the trusted generals jointly elected Pang Xun as General Tiance and King Ming of the Great Assembly.
Pang Xun only accepted the title of General Tiance.
【The End of Xu Thief】
Objectively speaking, Pang Xun and his 500 direct line garrison soldiers have a certain degree of combat effectiveness, which we have analyzed and emphasized before. In terms of military quality alone, Pang Xun can be called an excellent reinforced regiment leader, capable of commanding two to three thousand people with ease. Several of his important subordinates, such as most of the "Four Dogs of Shouyi" and the "Five Tigers of Xu Thieves", are also fully qualified to serve as regimental leaders, and fighting with a thousand men is not a problem.
However, Pang Xun was obviously unable to command an army of hundreds of thousands. He and his team have great limitations, whether it is their structure, realm, or vision. They are good at tactics but poor at strategy.
Senior leaders are greedy for pleasure and not enterprising; middle-level leaders are busy fighting for power and venting their personal anger.
Pang Xun's strategy is to hit a right hook from near to far, from weak to strong. Start the Northern Expedition, go to Feng County to fight the due north front, then circle southward in a clockwise direction to attack Kang Chengxun in the west.
Therefore, Pang Xun "camped personally" and rushed to Feng County overnight. The North Route Army is mainly composed of towns in Shandong and Hebei. It is disorganized and has a low willingness to fight. It has always adopted a defensive posture to prevent Pang Xun's forces from expanding northward. It is not very enthusiastic about going south to counter the rebellion, and its combat effectiveness is very low. Low. He is the soft persimmon in the imperial army's counterinsurgency campaign.
Pang Xun gave full play to his superb professional skills as a regiment leader. He carried out night attacks and ambushes, and won victory in Feng County. The North Route Army retreated backwards.
Pang Xun was so proud that he sent a message to Xuzhou. In the letter, he actually called the officers and soldiers "national traitors", and his arrogance and rebelliousness were vivid on the page.
Xuzhou was even more happy to celebrate, and Pang Xun's father even wrote a letter to encourage his son to move forward bravely and create greater glory.
So Pang Xun took advantage of the victory and went south, using his right hook tactics to compete with Kang Chengxun's main force.
Pang Xun led his troops to Xiao County and issued a general offensive order to all battalions: Six days later, at dawn, attack Liuzi Village together!
As a result, everyone knew Pang Xun's battle plan a week in advance, including Kang Chengxun.
What does Kang Chengxun think? There must be something fishy about this matter. How can such high-level military secrets be handed down to the lowest level? Pang Xun is either crazy or stupid.
The Huainan soldiers in the bandit army (formerly under Li Xiang and Guo Houben) were captured before and were forced to lose their virginity and become bandits. Nowadays, they continue to defect from the thief army camp and tell them all the truth and falsehoods within the thief army.
Only then did Kang Chengxun realize that Pang Xun was not crazy, but simply mentally retarded. So a personal ambush plan was customized for him.
The results can be imagined. Pang Xun was defeated miserably. In order to escape for his life, Pang Xun had to put on a costume show, put on farmers' rags, and fled in embarrassment among the rebels.
