Regardless of whether the Five Poison Rebellion was happy or not, Lu Yuan was certain of one thing.
That is to say, this demonic sect must not be allowed to succeed.
Otherwise, if he and the Five Poison Sect were to celebrate the grievances between him and the other party, they would never let him go.
That's the case.
Naturally, you have to take advantage of the other person's first signs to push him down hard.
Rebellion, right?
Innate, right?
'I want to see what kind of trouble your Five Poison Sect can cause in Shaoyang Mansion with me here! '
After recovering from the initial shock, at this moment, Lu Yuan also instantly realized that the opportunity he had been waiting for finally came.
The rebellion started by the Five Poison Sect is bound to sweep through the entire Dongting County.
And in this great chaos, with tens of thousands of soldiers in his hands, a first-rate leader, and the support of the entire imperial court, he finally had a chance to show off his skills.
The advanced skills and divine blood mutants that I have been looking forward to may now have a chance.
As for confronting the Five Poison Sect directly like this, will there be any danger?
Lu Yuan felt that at the first-class level and below, with his current strength of mastering the three magical scriptures and being protected by a large army, he was safe enough.
"As for what to do when encountering Xiantian? Let's not talk about whether the master of the Five Poisons Sect still has the strength to take action after assassinating Wu Yanghou.
Even if such a change occurred in Dongting County, the imperial court would never sit idly by and watch.
Maybe Bai Mengyang, the Marquis of Wu'an, will come to Dongting County urgently and take charge of the overall situation soon.
I heard that this Marquis was a master of the second realm of Xiantian. His strength was not comparable to that of Wu Yanghou, a master of the first realm.
With Marquis Wu'an here, the Five Poison Sect will not be able to cause trouble. "
Lu Yuan speculated in his mind, and he felt a lot more at ease.
The Five Poison Sect has never heard of any innate master before, and the one that suddenly appears now is most likely a recent breakthrough.
And Li Xiong, the emperor of Shu, was a genius who just made a breakthrough last year.
Even if two freshmen innates assassinate an established innate, even if they succeed by luck, they don't have to pay any price, even if they beat Lu Yuan to death, they won't believe it.
The facts also confirm this.
According to the news from the county government, on that night of the assassination, in addition to the death of Marquis Wuyang, a large number of innocent people were affected.
The assassins also left four corpses behind, including two from the Shu Kingdom and two from the Five Poison Sect, all of whom were first-rate masters.
Top-notch experts are not cabbages.
There used to be only four members of the Five Poison Sect, but now there may be only one left, because the other one has become an innate.
Losing two first-class members at this time would be a heavy blow to the Five Poison Sect.
"So before Wu Yanghou died, the assassins felt uncomfortable when he fought back desperately.
In addition to the corpses of the four first-class masters left behind, it is estimated that those who survived, including the two innates who were assassinated, were probably injured.
Otherwise, if the two innate masters were intact, there would be no need to escape immediately after the assassination that night. Together with the help of others, the two masters could intimidate no less than tens of thousands of heroes.
They could take the opportunity to continue assassinating the county governor and other officials in the county, completely paralyzing the imperial center in Dongting County.
But these people didn't do that.
This is definitely not a case of kindness and softness, so there is only one conclusion left.
They were in a bad state and were afraid that if they stayed and were counterattacked by the imperial power, they would continue to die, so they had to retreat. "
Using oneself to save others, as a stable immortal, Lu Yuan applied his own ideas to those assassins, and could naturally guess some of the other party's thoughts.
After the speculation, I was naturally overjoyed.
The high-level combat power of the Five Poison Sect has been severely damaged and needs to recuperate in the short term, so it cannot take action.
Marquis Wuyang of the county also died, as well as a top official from the city.
The two most powerful Xiantian Grandmasters in Dongting County left the stage one after another. Some other first-class masters were also seriously damaged.
Except for Wuyang Marquis and the Five Poison Sect, some of the other first-rate forces in Dongting County have mediocre inheritances, and their supreme spiritual skills can only be practiced to the level of one or two strange scriptures.
After all, this county belongs to the pioneering county of Dai Viet. It has been cultivating this land for hundreds of years and has never been very prosperous.
The sects here were all established not long ago, and their inheritance only lasted a few hundred years. It is not comparable to other sects that have been passed down for thousands of years in the Yue people's homeland.
Considering that Lu Yuan has now cultivated the fourth miraculous scripture, and his inner strength has been purified and tempered by mysterious jade pieces, even if he does not have corresponding first-class moves, he is still enough to overwhelm the ordinary first-class people in the county.
"If you calculate it like this and divide it by two, doesn't it mean that I have become the most powerful master in Dongting County?" Lu Yuan couldn't believe it.
He never expected that he would become the number one in Dongting County in such a way.
"Steady, you still have to be steady. My number one position is illusory. There are no tigers in the mountain, and monkeys dominate. But you can't really think that you are number one. Those who should be low-key should keep a low profile." Lu Yuan secretly warned in his heart, but The joy couldn't be concealed.
That's what he says, but no matter how you say it, this is number one.
He doesn't really value the name thing very much. But now, the benefits that this temporary first place can bring are worthy of attention.
The simplest point.
With Lu Yuan's current strength, plus the thousand elite soldiers he holds in his hands, including the Wan Xiang Yong.
With such strength, as long as he thought about it, no Jianghu sect in Dongting except the Five Poison Sect could resist.
"What I had thought about before, to follow Li Xiong's example and come directly to conquer the county, now I have the conditions to implement it.
However, besieging Jianghu sects for no reason still has no reputation, and it is easy to attract hostility from others and leave hidden dangers.
Maybe we have to wait a little longer to see which Jianghu sect will be unable to sit still and stand up to rebel with the Five Poison Sect.
At that time, you can rely on the imperial court and directly carry out counterinsurgency work in the name of justice. At that time, he will not only gain credit, but also take advantage of the opportunity to conquer those rebels.
Wouldn't it be nice to kill two birds with one stone? "
Lu Yuan didn't think that those Jianghu sects were all honest people.
In these troubled times, there is no shortage of ambitious people.
Even a steady person like him almost had the idea of imitating Li Xiong after seeing his success.
Not to mention other short-lived species with a lifespan of only a hundred years, when their life span is limited.
It is estimated that before long, as soon as the imperial court shows signs of decline, the local prefectures and counties will break into war and rebel.
By then, these rebels will be the nourishment and stepping stones that Lu Yuan draws on on his way to innate advancement.
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Having already roughly inferred the situation, Lu Yuan naturally carried out his plan.
If you want to suppress the upcoming rebels, you must have enough power.
And there are two kinds of power.
One is the power of oneself, and the other is the power of the collective.
Lu Yuan's own strength has almost reached its limit. He can't make much progress without taking the next step.
But with collective power, there is so much that can be manipulated.
Although according to the system, one government can only support a thousand soldiers. The local government cannot go beyond this, otherwise it will be self-respecting and rebellious.
Lu Yuan now plans to use the tiger flag of Dai Viet, and the imperial court is actually quite strong now. Naturally, he does not want to make a mistake on such a principled matter and attract the imperial court's attention.
So naturally he would not dare to ask him to expand his army.
However, the limit of one thousand soldiers and horses is only the establishment of the government soldiers and does not include the county soldiers at the lower level.
Shaoyang Prefecture has ten counties, each of which has a county soldier establishment of 100 people.
Whether they are county soldiers or government soldiers, they are essentially regular troops and are paid by the court. They are completely different from those temporarily recruited local warriors.
So after consulting Cui Changqing and getting the consent of the prefect, Lu Yuan ordered all local counties and all county soldiers to gather in the capital immediately to prepare to participate in the battle to rescue Xinhua County.
As long as these local county soldiers arrive, then counting the thousand soldiers in his hands, he can gather an elite division of 1,900.
When the time comes, we can pick some with better martial arts skills from the countryside and form an army of five thousand. It will be no problem at all.
With such a large army and a first-rate master like Lu Yuan sitting in charge, even if a congenital master comes, he may not be unable to compete with the opponent.
It is precisely because of this strong strength that he dared to make a small exception during this turbulent time.
The order was passed on.
Because when the order was passed, the city also sent officials from the government office as supervision, so the efficiency of the local county governments was extremely high.
Orders for dispatching county soldiers and elite village warriors in the county were carried out very quickly.
Within five days, in addition to Xinhua County, which was under siege, county soldiers and township warriors from the other nine counties had already gathered in Fucheng.
However, after these people arrived, Lu Yuan discovered that there were originally one hundred county soldiers in the nine counties, but few of them were full.
Slightly better counties, like Wugang County where he once served, can have seventy or eighty county soldiers who can fight. As for other counties that are sparsely armed, they can only muster twenty or thirty county soldiers with a little bit of courage.
After such a little inspection, there should have been 900 county soldiers, but in the end there were only 500.
And among these five hundred people, there are even more than two hundred who are unqualified, and their martial arts skills are not even as good as those temporarily recruited rural warriors.
Seeing this situation, Lu Yuan was naturally furious.
He regarded these soldiers and horses as his own shields. It means that when you encounter danger, you can rely on people to block the enemy and kill those enemies.
Now that there is a flaw in the shield, the means of saving lives may be in danger, so naturally he is extremely angry.
The commander was so angry that the entire army was naturally shaken.
Lu Yuan directly ordered that all unqualified county soldiers be abolished and sent away.
These soldiers who usually bully the people and retreat ten miles away after hearing the news are of no use staying here and will only harm the army.
After going to the black sheep.
He also ordered that elite and qualified warriors be selected from the recruited warriors from various places to join the county soldiers.
Not to mention, this work is progressing quite smoothly.
Those rural warriors who can be selected are tough people who have learned martial arts. There were even many mountain hunters inside, all of whom had seen fighting.
Therefore, it is not difficult to select the elite among these people.
After selecting more than 600 people piecemeal, a total of 900 county soldiers were gathered.
Lu Yuan thought about it later and felt that Xinhua County would probably be finished if he couldn't wait for his rescue. So I simply took over the cash-based staff and recruited another hundred people.
So after replenishment, the number of government soldiers and county soldiers totaled two thousand. Later, he selected three thousand strong local warriors, and Lu Yuan had an army of five thousand.
The army was assembled, but he did not immediately order the expedition.
Not to mention the county soldiers, there are a large number of new recruits, of varying quality, and there is an urgent need for training to familiarize these new recruits with battle formations. Just say that the three thousand Xiangyong were all in a mess and couldn't even stand in line.
Among the 5,000 troops, the 1,000 soldiers that Lu Yuan originally led directly could barely stand the test because they had been training for nearly half a year.
If an army like this is drawn out to fight with others, wouldn't that mean they are going to die?
Of course, it is also the Miao people who are rebelling everywhere today.
These Miao people were originally just ordinary civilians. Although they were somewhat brave, in terms of the quality of the soldiers, they were basically equivalent to the three thousand rural warriors selected by Lu Yuan, and they should not be much better.
He took five thousand soldiers and horses to rescue Xinhua County, and the success rate of the rescue was still very high.
"But they are all imperial counties anyway, why should I be so anxious to save them?"
On this day, the new recruit training was over, and Lu Yuan thought like this after once again sending away the messenger from Magistrate Cui urging the dispatch of troops.
Although I have made up my mind to fish in troubled waters and reap huge benefits in this Five Poison Rebellion.
But how stable is Lu Yuan?
The previous speculations were just speculations.
Before seeing the changes in the situation with his own eyes, it is absolutely impossible for him to send troops to quell the rebellion and be the first to take the lead.
Therefore, Xinhua County needs to be rescued, but not now.
At the very least, they had to wait until Bai Mengyang, the Marquis of Wu'an, arrived in Dongting County and took over the overall situation of the county before mobilizing troops.
By that time, it will be clear what the situation in the county is, whether the court is better or worse, and whether the rebellion is big or small.
By then, as the leader of an army with five thousand troops, Lu Yuan could choose his own direction according to changes in the situation.
You can attack when you advance, and you can defend when you retreat. This is the way to use troops.
What?
What if Xinhua County cannot hold out until then and is captured by the rebels?
If it's captured, it's captured!
Anyway, the territory doesn't belong to Lu Yuan, it belongs to the imperial court. If it's gone, it's gone, and it doesn't matter to him at all.
Maybe if Xinhua County is conquered, it can further stimulate the county government and let them relax their restrictions and allow them to expand their troops?
Now that he has come to this world and has become a general, Lu Yuan always feels that he cannot live up to the position he has worked so hard to climb to.
Moreover, Lu Yuan's reason for not sending troops was also very reasonable.
The local military equipment was depleted, the government troops were newly built, and the county troops were even more unbearable, so most of them were abolished. The rest are all rural militiamen.
It's such a mess. Whoever you ask to come over must prepare armaments before taking them to the battlefield.
Otherwise, if we fail to counter the rebellion, we will lose these five thousand troops.
The people who were besieged then would not be the small county town of Xinhua, but Shaoyang Mansion directly besieged by the rebels.
You know, the Miao rebels currently surrounding Xinhua County are said to number in the tens of thousands.
Five thousand versus ten thousand, twice the difference. We are facing barbarians like the Miao people, who are famous for their bravery. Who dares to gamble with the survival of his own army?
As long as you dare to say that you have taken on this responsibility, Lu Yuan will immediately dare to send troops without saying a word.
In reality, of course, there is no such thing.
Even Cui Changqing, the prefect, did not dare to take this responsibility at the moment. It's not that he is afraid of guilt, but he is mainly worried that if he loses this battle, he will really implicate Fucheng.
But if he died, it was a small crime, and if he caused the city to be lost, that would be a big crime.
Therefore, Lu Yuan would give this reason to anyone who came and silence them.
In fact, the effect is very good.
At the very least, although Magistrate Cui was urging him urgently, he knew the importance and did not dare to directly force him to send troops.
Obviously, it is also clear that the counter-insurgency army that has just been formed is indeed not very capable of fighting.
Taking this opportunity, Lu Yuan was also practicing his troops while watching the wind direction outside.
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Originally, for the princes of the Dai Viet court, the fourth year of Hong Dao should be a good year.
Because just at the end of last year, Jinghai Kingdom was conquered and pacified.
The three bottomless pits that originally swallowed up the court's money and food were suddenly filled with one. This year, the financial situation of the imperial court has greatly improved.
However, this good mood did not last long.
Because immediately after the fourth year of Hongdao, on February 23, news came from Dongting County that Wuyang Marquis Li Gui, who had been suppressing the county, was actually assassinated by the thief and puppet Emperor Li Xiong of Shu who conspired with the Five Poison Sect.
This rebellious member of the Five Poison Sect unexpectedly gave birth to an innate at some point.
Then, before the court could digest it, the news that Marquis Wuyang was assassinated came out of nowhere. On February 25, another news came from Dongting County.
In the ten prefectures in the county, within two days after Wu Yanghou was assassinated, there were places of prayer, and a massive Miao rebellion broke out.
According to the news from local prefectures and counties, the number of rebel Miao people in their territory ranges from 30 to 50,000 to as many as 100,000. The total number of rebel Miao people in the entire territory is as many as 500,000 to 600,000.
Naturally, the princes in the court did not believe this number.
There are only a million Miao people in the entire Dongting County, including men, women, old and children. How could there be five or six hundred thousand rebels?
Is it possible that they even dragged women to the battlefield?
This is too exaggerated.
No matter how brave the Miao people are, they are not so brave that even women would go into battle to fight.
It has always been an official custom for local officials to exaggerate the number of thieves in order to cover up their own faults. All the princes in the court were promoted from below, so naturally they were deeply aware of this fact.
But even if there are not five or six million, if you fold it in half and then half again, there are still one or two hundred thousand Miao rebels.
And this is enough to frighten everyone.
Even though these are all rebels and not a well-trained army, given the bravery and bravery of the Miao people, one or two hundred thousand rebels is still an extremely terrifying number.
