Subsequently, the guards from the five capitals behind the palace gathered from the north gate of Beijing in the Central Plains and suddenly charged in the direction of Zicheng Xinxing. Then at the west gate and south gate, the defeated army and the Chang Cong fan cavalry, who had received the order, also suppressed internal dissidents one after another, and surrounded the newly rebuilt Qidu garrison in the palace at the east gate.
Then the little round face appeared and explained, Xiao Yu, under the power of the many soldiers who only blamed the leader, forced most of them to surrender. Immediately, he was executed on the spot, including the five generals who stayed in the camp, including dozens of generals. Then he took the remaining troops and met with the rear army under the city wall.
At this time, it was discovered that the little round face suddenly disappeared in the palace, causing a lot of uproar and excitement. But they were blocking the news or searching vigorously, arguing over different opinions, and wasting precious time. Only then did he come back to his senses with horror.
However, at this time, some of the ceremonial guards, military officers, and subordinates who were in the Zicheng and were not clear about it could not wait to open the southern gate of the Zicheng after seeing Jianguo Dixia who showed up in person. At this time, several vassal soldiers who had been summoned to the city arrived a step late.
Therefore, they quickly swarmed in from behind and in the palace to overcome difficulties. Each branch scrambled to bring order to the chaos. Under the charge of the troops and horses who thought they had made great achievements, they retreated one after another and even began to fall apart. In the end, driven by the counter-rebellion troops, the remaining defeated soldiers were trapped in the row.
In the process, Jiang Tian finally figured out what happened to Xiao Yuanlian before. Probably after she established a firm foothold in Kitahara Kyo and initially established her personal authority, the industry with Kitahara Kyo as its core also began to enter the fast lane of expansion and development.
Not only the military households and soldiers in the 19th town of Yanbian in Han Dynasty and Yanbian Province swore allegiance and sincerity to her, but they also sent hundreds to thousands of their own disciples, who were equipped with their own guns, sticks, knives, bows and armor, to obey her. Even the remaining vassal families in the North donated money, food, troops and strength, and gathered under her banner.
Not to mention those who spontaneously gathered after hearing the news and wanted to fight for their own future and opportunities, the younger brothers or second sons of ministers, branch families, and vassal families from various places; the mountain tribesmen and local people who worked hard for money and food; There are even many refugees, volunteers, and rangers who defected in admiration...
However, fortunately, the little round face did not get carried away by this, and remembered the truth that more is more valuable than more. Therefore, a competition-style selection and assessment was held in the military camp; strong and brave men were selected from them, and priority was given to replenishing the ranks of the disciples of the rear army, the overcoming army and the ceremonial guards.
Then, the garrison and robber-catching troops in Beiyuanjing were rebuilt. Then, they used the eliminated old and weak people and recruited refugees to distribute livestock, ironware and other items on the confiscated land and part of the public domain near Beiyuanjing and several surrounding counties, and established dozens of large and small camps. .
Therefore, after the summer harvest of the next year, when the troops in Beiyuanjing were sent out again to try to go south to regain the lost territory, they had already reached what was said to be 40,000 people. Therefore, they won the first battle and defeated the rebel armies in Yichuan, Shuiyuan and Tangen counties, and also liberated the city of Hanzhou where the Maitreya sect rebelled.
Here, she obtained the Hanzhou Mu who abandoned the defense and fled, the remaining 4,000 Hanzhou garrison troops and more than 6,000 requisitioned civilians, volunteers, and local reserves of money, food, and equipment. Therefore, she executed and deposed a number of incompetent officials and generals, and appointed other subordinates to accompany the army and promoted new recruits;
Immediately afterwards, the most powerful group of families and noble surnames in the city were purged and confiscated for having liaison with religious thieves. The counties in the southern border of Hanzhou were also shocked and awe-struck. And during this period, I don’t know how many shocking things happened, or how many life-and-death battles and games happened...
After more than 20 major and minor battles, although the victory and defeat varied during the period, they still relied on a steady offensive and a steady stream of logistical support to successfully regain most of the three counties of Baicheng, Heirang and Huailiang. In the end, at the Battle of Jieshan-Hanhe River, they defeated the main force of the Maitreya Sect who took the initiative to attack.
But because of her later dedication to the city, she also had to pardon Zhongyuan Jingnei, who claimed to have had to submit to most of the clans and noble surnames of the Maitreya cult thieves during the fall; however, this also set the stage for what happened later. , hidden troubles and worries.
Next, she ordered that the tens of thousands of Maitreya sect family members captured in the city, except for a few young men who had rehabilitated themselves in order to redeem themselves, were all escorted to the north by Ye Jing, the general in charge of the palace, and transferred to the 19th town of Yanbian. The slaves thought that the roots of Maitreya religion in rural areas would be cut off.
Although such an approach will inevitably provoke a rebound in the short term, it is still quite beneficial in the long run. But at this time, many unfavorable rumors and jokes began to spread among the people, and they were fueled by interested people, causing several troubles.
At this time, her main focus had turned to the Red Pants Party scattered among the Han, Hu, Xiong, and Shan states. Compared with the Maitreya sect, a group of religious fanatics born out of doomsday despair, the Red Pants Party that spread from the southwest coast is undoubtedly much simpler in its demands.
The vast majority of them are farmers, fugitive slaves, landless tribesmen and mountain people who cannot survive. The impoverished people go shirtless all year round and tie a strip of blood-stained red cloth on their crotch as a symbol of each other's status, and the crowds gather everywhere to attack wealthy families, noble manor houses and wealthy groups in small towns.
There is no unified leadership and coordination of actions in various places; instead, local kin are taken as a unit, and they eat wherever they go; they kill officials, rob warehouses, and use whatever they have at hand, and even compete with each other for resources and resources. Fire merged; and several large gangs were formed.
Therefore, at her insistence, she adopted a strategy of using both suppression and recruitment; military strikes as the means and large-scale recruitment and surrender as the goal. They defeated and surrendered more than a dozen troops of the Red Pants Party, large and small, and captured about 40,000 to 50,000 prisoners. They also dispersed and organized them into dozens of camps near the city.
Since then, among the Thirteen Traveling East Road, the three states of Han, Shuo, and Yuan in the north have been under the control of the Supervisory State Office led by her; and around her, through the promotion of brave men and women Talented people in the field were recruited, and a civil and military administrative team of hundreds of people was gathered.
In addition, she also rebuilt one of the five palace guards in Hanzhou, which had been abandoned and collapsed, with the strong and brave men recruited locally. The seven palaces in the palace had a total of 5,600 people. Coupled with the local replenishment and expansion of Hanzhou garrison troops, the number of troops under Xingtai's order was nearly 50,000.
Among them, in addition to the troops who stayed behind and suppressed various places, as well as the various vassal soldiers who were temporarily summoned and then dismissed, the number of combatable troops directly under Xingtai also reached 34,000. As for the three prefectures that have been pacified, the money and food provided and collected are enough to last for more than three or four years.
At this time, the Baekje rebels in Xiongzhou pretended to be a country and occupied Xiyuanjing; they also sent troops from the southwest to cross the border several times to attack. Although they had been moved to Xingtai in Zhongyuanjing and were defeated or repulsed, the Fuso Army was found gathering in Shanzhou to the east and Shangzhou to the south.
Just when Xingtai decided to switch from offense to defense, he carried out large-scale construction projects in the state border area, built forts as a counterattack and delay, and prepared for the war in full swing. But there is another piece of "good news" coming from the north. But it was her third sister with a round face, who was married to Lord Jiashan from Wo Prefecture, who came with troops to help and join forces.
Wozhou is a coastal vassal vassal of the Bohai Governor's Palace, one of the nine Governor's Palaces under the Antong Governor's Palace. Therefore, the Jiashan Lord not only brought across the sea 3,500 vassal soldiers and 100 ships, but also brought Zheng Wushao, the Minister of Xuanyuan appointed by the official office and the early division commander.
But what she didn't expect was. With the addition of these external forces, as well as the sudden parachuting of candidates to assist the Supervisor State, it was easy for the top and bottom of the platform to settle down and form a stable and operating political ecology, but this caused considerable fluctuations and chaos.
Because the very existence of this minister of Xuanyuan is a reminder to everyone on the stage; no matter how hard they work and work hard at the moment, the one who can ultimately determine the future and destiny of the Thirteen Haidong States will always stay away from the country and try to ask for help. The Lord of Middle-earth/Contemporary Crown Prince.
As a result, all the pressure and contradictions suddenly piled up on the little round-faced prince who was the prince of the prison country; and she was so exhausted that she ignored some of the undercurrents and changes around her. As a result, the conspiracy that had been brewing for a long time naturally happened when a certain fuse was triggered.
Therefore, while accompanying her on the way to Xingzai, Jiang Tian also took advantage of the situation and once again comforted and explained to her who was a little depressed:
"Most of the conflicts and problems in the world are caused by interests. But usually the interests are relatively limited. As the leader responsible for distribution, you must choose to weigh the pros and cons, fight for one part, and give up the other part."
"What doesn't kill you will eventually make you stronger. And what your enemies hate is undoubtedly something that is right and beneficial to you, and you can stick to it."
"Human power is both limited and unlimited. What is limited is your vision, structure and knowledge, which also determines your lower limit. What is unlimited is the opportunities you can seize, and the general trend is that Countless possibilities.”
"Sometimes times create heroes, which can give people the illusion that all this comes from themselves, and having these powers is a matter of course; then they will lose themselves, and act arbitrarily or listen to partial beliefs. , farther and farther away.”
“Therefore, those who achieve great things rely on self-awareness, knowing themselves and their enemies; they not only understand the upper limits of their own strength and ability, but also know how to seize opportunities and general trends, and turn them into help, nourishment, and direct or indirect resources that are beneficial to themselves. .”
"Not only did you make the mistake of not knowing the right person this time, you also overestimated your own strength and underestimated the hidden internal contradictions, as well as the threats from external factors and the so-called ambition to win allies."
"Strive for all the power you can. There is nothing wrong with this approach. What is wrong is that you fail to distinguish clearly between the fundamentals that you can really rely on and the external power of others. This gives others opportunities to take advantage of. .”
