"Thank you for the reward, young master. I will never talk too much."
After receiving the reward, Ye Kui vowed to Ye Mingsheng, then took the money and left happily.
With Ye Kui leaving, Ye Mingsheng was the only one left in the study again. He quietly looked at the map of the palace in front of him.
Although at this moment, he still felt that Wang Kangxin's plan was very crazy, but Ye Mingsheng also had to admit that if considered carefully, the possibility of Wang Kangxin's plan to succeed was not small.
In September of the seventh year of Emperor Hui of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Pu Chengtai, the Prime Minister of the palace capital, colluded with the Luobi people in the grassland to launch a rebellion. The monarch of the palace capital, Li Zaiyuan, was defeated. While leading troops loyal to him to defend the capital Liujing, he contacted the suzerain state of the Great Zhou Dynasty to request reinforcements.
After the Great Zhou Dynasty received the news, the chief auxiliary Shangguan Hongyuan immediately dispatched Zhenyuan Hou Xu Zhaojie to lead the imperial army Xuanwu. The cavalry and iron armies totaled 70,000 people to rush to the palace capital. After the Great Zhou reinforcements arrived in the palace capital, they solved the siege of Liujing by the rebels. Later, he formed a coalition with the Gongdu army and fought two battles with the rebels in Wanfeng Mansion and Shangyuanli. He successfully wiped out all the rebels and expelled the Luobei people from the hinterland of Gongdu to Gongdu. of the north.
Because the northern part of the palace is basically all plains, which is suitable for the Luobi people who mainly rely on cavalry to fight, but not conducive to the fighting of the coalition forces, which is mainly infantry. Therefore, as the commander of the coalition forces, Xu Zhaojie chose the policy of solidifying the walls and clearing the fields, and stuck to the front line of Wanfeng Mansion. He built a fortified city and tried to force the Luobi people to retreat without a fight.
The Luobei people were unwilling to give in and left in despair. After being unable to lure the main force of the coalition forces to fight, if they wanted to make a fuss about the logistics supplies of the coalition forces, they sent out several small groups of elite cavalry, relying on their good Mobility, bypassing the fortified city controlled by the coalition forces, attacking the food roads behind the coalition forces, forcing the coalition forces to fight out of the city.
In order to thwart the Luobei people's conspiracy, Xu Zhaojie also sent several troops of more than a thousand people to guard the important nodes on the grain road from the Luochuan Road granary to Wanfeng Mansion and resist the attacks of the Luobei people's cavalry. This is why , the reason why the three commanders of the Imperial Zhou Imperial Army, Ye Mingsheng, Wang Kangxin, and Li Wanshun, appeared in the hinterland of the palace capital.
The two sides were in a stalemate for more than two months. In the end, the Luobi people couldn't hold on anymore. After looting and looting, they withdrew from the grassland north of Gongdu. It stands to reason that the Luobi people withdrew and the crisis in Gongdu was resolved. It’s time for the imperial army of the Great Zhou Dynasty to return to the dynasty.
However, due to the ambition of the Luobi people, they are likely to make a comeback after the spring. After the great chaos in Gongdu, the national power declined. Seventy-eight out of ten of the country's original elite soldiers died in the civil strife, and they were unable to resist the Luobi people. They invaded again, so the Zhou Forbidden Army stayed temporarily to help the Gongdu army reorganize their armaments, and they have stayed until now.
When the enemy is at hand, the Zhou army and the Gongdu army can naturally unite and fight against the outside world. However, when the Luobei people retreated and the external troubles were basically eliminated, the Zhou imperial army had other thoughts. There are many ambitious military attachés within the Forbidden Army who want to make achievements, so they set their sights on Gongdu Kingdom, which was an ally not long ago!
Although Gongdu State was nominally a vassal state of the Great Zhou Dynasty, its king Li Zaiyuan was also a minister of Emperor Hui of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Every year, he sent a mission to meet the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty and presented him with court gifts.
But in fact, before the rebellion of Park Sung-tae, the great aristocrat of Gongdu, the Gongdu Kingdom had always belonged to the fence-sitting faction. It had a good relationship between Luobei and the Great Zhou court. If you have milk, you will be a mother, and even ignored the several rebuke orders of the Great Zhou court. , and also secretly sell iron tools and food to the Luobi people.
The imperial court of the Zhou Dynasty had long been very dissatisfied with Li Zaiyuan's actions. If it had not been worried about sending troops to attack the Gongdu Kingdom, Li Zaiyuan, an old fox who had both sides, would have been completely pushed to the side of the Luobi people, causing excessive pressure on the northeastern border. Big, he has already taken action against Gongdu Kingdom...
So now, when tens of thousands of the Great Zhou Forbidden Army have entered the Gongdu Kingdom, and control several important passes in the Gongdu Kingdom, and have an overwhelming advantage over the Gongdu Army, not one of the two forbidden armies of Xuanwu and Iron Cavalry The young military attache's thoughts were aroused. He wanted to make contributions to the imperial court, expand his territory, and at the same time gain glory, wealth, and a bright future for himself!
As the army commander, Zhenyuan Hou, Xu Zhaojie naturally understood what his subordinates wanted to do, but unfortunately, due to some reasons, he did not follow everyone's wishes.
Instead, he always ordered his subordinates not to move without authorization on the grounds that there was no order from the court, and strictly prohibited conflicts between the imperial army of the Zhou Dynasty and the army of the palace. Those who violated the order, regardless of their official position, would be executed directly!
Wang Kangxin was the representative figure among the imperial military attachés who held the palace capital. He and Li Wanshun, the equally ambitious imperial military attache, hit it off and conspired to disobey Xu Zhaojie's orders, deliberately create conflicts with the palace capital's troops, and then quickly attack the Luochuan Road granary. , occupying this main source of logistics supplies for the coalition forces, forcing Xu Zhaojie to occupy the palace capital!
As for Wang Kangxin's plan, the reason why Ye Mingsheng was involved is also very simple. The Gongdu army has a total of 30,000 troops in the rear, while Wang Kangxin and Li Wanshun have only 2,000 troops in total. Once they move to capture the Luochuan Road granary, , the Gongdu army who got the news will inevitably gather to counterattack, so in order to hold on at the Luochuan Road Granary until Xu Zhaojie's army arrives, they need helpers to block them and block the Gongdu army rushing to the Luochuan Road Granary!
As for this helper, there is no doubt that the best choice is Ye Mingsheng, who currently occupies Ruishan County!
First of all, the geographical advantage. Although the Ruishan County where Ye Mingsheng is located is not big, it is a transportation hub for the north and south of the palace. Once Wang Kangxin and Li Wanshun take action at the Luochuan Road granary, reinforcements from the palace from Liujing will inevitably To pass through Ruishan County, if Ye Mingsheng assisted their plan and blocked them in Ruishan, it would at least alleviate one-third of the pressure on Wang Kangxin and Li Wanshun in the Luochuan Road granary.
Secondly, Ye Mingsheng, Wang Kangxin, and Li Wanshun all came from the Zhaowu Camp of the Chief Assistant Shangguan Hongyuan. They were both direct descendants of Shangguan Hongyuan. They were considered to belong to the same faction in the Forbidden Army. Therefore, when Wang Kangxin and Li Wanshun were planning, it was natural He just came to the door and wanted to drag Ye Mingsheng to do it together.
According to Wang Kangxin's idea, the three of them together had a total of 3,000 troops, fighting against the 30,000 Gongdu army who stayed behind. From a simple comparison of forces, his idea was indeed very absurd, giving people a sense of necessity. To feel like dying.
But if you analyze it carefully, you will find that the truth is far from being as difficult as imagined!
