Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 24 Guo Rong's Difficulty
Time unknowingly arrived in May, and more than two months have passed since I left home in February.

For more than two months, Shi Congyun led his troops to various places in Shanxi.

By May, the weather gradually became hot, and there were occasional torrential rains, the roads became muddy, it was difficult to transport food, and it was difficult to preserve food, and the war became more and more difficult.

And Shi Congyun began to worry about the plague.

With so many people crowded together, the sanitation conditions are poor. As long as the city is attacked every day, there are still many dead corpses. It is fine in spring. The dead corpses are extremely perishable in this season. Stinks.

The weather is getting hotter and the battlefield is getting hotter, and the fighting between the two sides is getting more and more hysterical.

Every day, there are corpses piled up into hills, and the shouts of killing outside the city are particularly enthusiastic.

From time to time, soldiers would come up to replenish them, and then they would be transported down at the same speed, while some could not come down. They would have to wait for the two sides to strike in the evening before they could be dragged back, and that was the corpse.

Shi Congyun's first battalion was arranged in the west of the city, on the west bank of the Fen River.

Taiyuan has been surrounded on all sides, but the main battlefield is at the South Gate and East Gate, in the area east of the Fen River.

This arrangement of Shi Yanchao was obviously intended to keep him outside the main battlefield.

Shi Congyun led the crowd to station on the west bank of Fen Shui, and it was really leisurely. This side was only surrounded, and he did not attack the city as violently as the east and south of the city.

Apart from the mutual shooting of various long-range crossbows, bed crossbows, and catapults, it was more of a scolding battle.

But when it comes to swearing, the Northern Han soldiers are naturally at a disadvantage, because the ruler of the Northern Han Dynasty is the emperor's nephew, and they have a Khitan father. This alone can make the Northern Han soldiers speechless.

Judging from Shi Congyun's experience along the way, as well as various news from his father, Xiang Xun, and Li Gu, it is inferred that the official family Guo Rong did not plan to fight in Taiyuan this time.

He didn't even think about the weight of the army's rations. He asked Li Gu to find a way to raise it temporarily. If there was no chancellor Li Gu, the army would not be able to maintain it.

The official family went north to Taiyuan, firstly to take advantage of the victory, and secondly because of the invitation of the surrounding people.

Based on what Shi Congyun has seen and heard along the way, he understands that this is not the kind of "people kneeling and begging" for a political show, but true.

The Northern Han Dynasty can survive in the east of the river, relying on the city of Taiyuan, but this is not the main thing, the most important survival skill is to kneel and lick the Liao Kingdom!

The Emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty was the nephew of the emperor, and he had to serve the Liao Kingdom every year.

The people of Shanxi were very dissatisfied, and subjectively recognized the Liao people as their fathers in order to survive the regime, which made the people of Shanxi lose face.

Objectively, the people of Shanxi had to support the royal family of the Northern Han Dynasty and the Liao State.

So when Gaoping went north, many people petitioned Guo Rong, the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty, hoping that he would send troops to destroy the Northern Han Dynasty and rescue the people of Shanxi from the fire. Send troops north.

Guo Rong, the official family, is probably holding the attitude of giving it a try. He also knows that Taiyuan is not easy to fight.

Unexpectedly, after the Northern Han elites were almost completely lost, Taiyuan still could not be defeated.

And the people were quickly disappointed, because Guo Rong was not the savior they imagined, a living Bodhisattva.

After the Zhou army went north, plundering the people everywhere, and Shi Congyun even witnessed the slaughter of more than [-] people in a village.

Many local people began to organize township groups to defend themselves, and some people began to regret why they invited Zhou Jun to go north in the first place.

Shi Congyun is a person who is good at observation. He understands that Guo Rong cannot be completely blamed for this matter. He has issued orders several times to strictly prohibit harassing the people, but when it comes to soldiers, the implementation is not thorough.

Especially the army of the various quarters.

He also thought about the reason for this. To put it bluntly, the military commander has great power, and the central government is difficult to control.

Taking the Battle of Gaoping as an example, before the war, Guo Rong had given orders to many Jiedu envoys to lead their troops to attack from all over the place. It sounds like the Zhou Dynasty had more than a dozen troops and had already surrounded the Beihan regiment.

But when the fight really broke out, the army in the decisive battle was still the imperial imperial army, and the number of people there was innumerable. Shao Ji told him that even if Liu Ci's army was added, there were only about [-].

When the imperial army won and surrounded Taiyuan, the army suddenly increased to 10,000+!
Where did the extras come from?

Where were the armies of Jiedushi from all walks of life?One by one, they said where to besiege the city and where to fight the enemy, making it seem that the Northern Han Dynasty also had an army of [-].

Shi Congyun is not stupid, he heard a word from the rumors of Jiedushi: "wait and see"!
That's right, they're all watching!Let's see if the forbidden army of the Zhou Dynasty can beat the Northern Han and Liao allied forces.

The more time passed, the more he saw various phenomena in the surrounding battlefields of Taiyuan, the more he felt that Guo Rong was difficult.

If Gao Ping loses, the Zhou Dynasty will either become an affiliate or fall apart. As for those Jiedu envoys, Shi Yanchao feels that few people are willing to fight for the Zhou Dynasty to the end.

Therefore, the first battle of Gaoping was mainly fought by the forbidden army of the Zhou Dynasty.

Afterwards, because of the victory, the Jiedu envoys quickly brought troops over, but the official Guo Rong still had difficulty restraining him.

This is the world dominated by warlords from the end of the Tang Dynasty to the present. Even if you surrender on the surface, you may suddenly be backstabbed. There have been too many examples of this in the past few decades.

The most miserable ten years before and after the late Emperor Jin had defeated the Khitan army several times, just as he was making deployments to recover the sixteen states of Youyun.

The front-line general wanted to learn from Shi Jingtang and be able to become the emperor of the Central Plains by being a licking dog for the Khitan lord, so he directly rebelled.

Bringing the 10,000+ army of the later Jin Dynasty to surrender to the Khitan king on the front line, the last emperor of the Jin Dynasty became a captive of the Khitan people without any power to fight back, and was then taken to the north.

In fact, having experienced the late Tang, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the distrust of generals is almost inscribed in the bones.

In this chaotic era of moral collapse of the five generations, it is wishful thinking to maintain the relationship with the warlords through various human feelings, family affection, friendship, love, kindness, relationship between superiors and subordinates, loyalty and filial piety, etc. Most of the time, it is useless and unbearable in the face of interests. one strike.

Therefore, Guo Rong's ascension to the throne was a time of crisis at home and abroad, but fortunately, he was very courageous, and he fought a great victory in the battle of Gaoping, and broke the alliance of the Northern Han and Liao Kingdoms.

Internally, the Jiedushi, who was watching and swaying, was intimidated, and externally, the Northern Han and Liao Kingdoms, who were coveting the Central Plains, did not dare to act.

Shi Congyun felt both admiration and fear for such a character.

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They were stationed in the west of Fen Shui almost every day to raise their fat, especially when they came over the past few days, they only had to patrol the periphery of the camp every day.

If there are dead people one day, it means that the fighting was more "intense" that day, which is incomparable to the tragic situation of thousands of people killed in one day's siege in the south of the city, separated by a water, two worlds.

On the sixth day of the fifth lunar month, the sky was dry and there were no clouds in the sky. On this day, in the west of the city in the distance, there was an unexpected scream of killing, and there was smoke and dust in the sky!

Shi Congyun, who was escaping the summer heat under the tree, got up and covered the sun with his hands to take a closer look, "Is Ximen fighting too?"

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