Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 31 Unexpected Changes
On the nineteenth day of the [-]th month of the fifth year of Qianfu, outside the Zhelu army city, the stockade stood up again.

This time, it was the foreign troops who were guarding the stockade.That's right, the Xicheng soldiers and Fengzhou soldiers, and the Beicheng soldiers remained in the Zhelu army city.The main general of the stockade was Sun Ba, and his deputy was a ten general from Fengzhou surnamed Niu. Shao Shude was not impressed, and he didn't seem to be very talkative, so he gave up the idea of ​​making friends.

"Captain, Li Keyong has opened up the road from Shuozhou to Jingle, and most likely won't come here again. Zhaizi, I think it is very stable." Stepping on the thick snow, Shao Shude looked around. Yamagata terrain, while saying.

"I still use you to comfort me?" Sun Ba Ni glanced at his former personal soldiers and laughed angrily: "Zuo is just fighting with the rebels, and you are afraid of them?"

"The commander is arrogant, and the staff is ashamed."

"I like to hear this. But—" Sun Ba sighed and said, "If the Li family is pacified in this battle, Qiu Weidao will most likely be transferred to Dazhen as the supervisor, and it will be difficult to see you at that time. Stop, don't talk too much, I know. When I sent you over, I didn't expect you to be so capable. The old man Yuan Cong, who settled the prison army, still showed his face in front of Hao Zhenwei. Now he is serious. The lieutenant is now, and there is no future in returning to the West City."

"From Fengzhou to Zhenwu Army, and then to Shuozhou, I want to understand on the way. The sky is high and the land is wide, and it is not a good thing for you to be buried in the dry grass of Fengzhou. There are many wars, and you may give up on the edge of the blade one day, you should know it." Sun Ba patted Shao Shude on the shoulder and said earnestly: "My family business is in Fengzhou, it is better than you being alone, this battle is the biggest. The expectation is to get some money and go home and enjoy it.”

Shao Shude understood that Sun Ba was telling the truth.He really can't go back to Xicheng now. He has [-] brothers who believe in him. Qiu Jianjun is also good to him. Where will he be when he returns?Where is the supervisor of the prison army?Unable to say, he still followed Qiu.

If Qiu Weidao is fortunate enough to be transferred to Dazhen as a military supervisor, then he will serve this master well, and maybe he will be able to make a career as an outsider and serve as a military envoy in one place.In front of such a golden road, it is meaningless to be hypocritical. Shao Shude asked himself, and he was unwilling to give up this great future.

"Okay, I've been here for a long time. If I go back later, Qiu Weidao may have an idea. This stockade cannot be broken. I will accept the dozens of spears you sent today, and I will use them. Yes. I won't say much more, just don't forget old brother in the future." Sun Ba is still very free and easy. He gave Shao Shude the armor at the beginning, but today he doesn't mind his departure, and he said it. This look is truly admirable.

It was lonely and silent on the way back.Except for the footsteps of the sergeants stepping on the snow, there was only the whistling north wind.Shao Shude felt that there were only a few people in this world who could help and care about him.

His own destiny, as well as the ideal to change the world, may only be fought for with a knife and a shot.Now he is like a lone wolf starving for food on a snowy field, or a boat struggling to survive on a furious sea.

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The atmosphere in the Zhelu army city for the past two days was a little looser, not so tense anymore.

The sergeants are actually very realistic. Since the chief officer has taken care of their emotions and did not force them out of the city to fight, then there will be no trouble, and things will soon subside.

Of course, this is also fortunate that the guy didn't move. Once the knife and the gun are killed and injured, things can't be good, and someone must pay the price in blood.To put it bluntly, the turmoil of the Tiande army was just a sign of mutiny. After all, it didn't come true. Everyone can open their eyes and close their eyes and pretend that this has never happened.

After returning to the Military Academy, Shao Shude inspected the various posts as usual. Seeing that Qiu Weidao had gone to the General's Mansion and had not returned, he jumped to the left wing and chatted with Song Le.

"Judge Song, we are so poor, why do you have so much money to deal with?" Seeing Song Le constantly writing and drawing, Shao Shude was a little puzzled.The boss is not here, who are you pretending to work hard for?
"If it's just money and food, then it's really a dream to laugh." Song Le raised his head and glanced at it. Seeing that Shao Shude was still wearing iron armor, he asked, "Just came back from outside?"

"The city gate was opened today, and I took the opportunity to take people out for the woodcutter, and I stopped by the way to meet the ten generals of the next Sun, and reminisce about the old days."

"Sun Shi will go out to guard, but it's actually not too dangerous." Song Le put down the brush in his hand, washed his hands in the sink, and said, "Li Ke has newly acquired Furong City, and now he is trying to get through Jingle, Loufan and other places, peeping at Jinyang, he will go back to Caocheng River when he is crazy."

"What's the current situation of the southern army?"

"No news has come back yet."

"Where's the observer in Lanzhou? Didn't speak?"

"No." Song Le sat down and looked at Shao Shude with great interest.These questions are not something that a pure warrior would ask. To be able to ask them like this shows that they have a little understanding of the political ecology of Hedong and Daibei Xingying.He has such insight at the level of a lieutenant. He is not a descendant of an aristocratic family, is it a gift from heaven?
"It's not what I expected." Shao Shude shook his head and said, "I don't know what to think about Xingying. It's been so long, and the Kuilan army has not yet selected a competent general. Jia Jingsi is a scholar, how can he kill people? Unblinking warriors are ridiculous."

"Cough cough..." Song Le couldn't help laughing and crying: "How much do you pay attention to the influence of what you say? Li Shao admires Jia Jingsi very much, always saying that he is familiar with military books and has a good way to come under the emperor. How can you say that? Unbearable?"

Shao Shude also realized that his words were a bit casual, so he quickly thanked Song Le for the reminder.He does have this problem. Maybe it is the influence of the residual memory of modern people. He is somewhat disapproving of the matter of superiority and inferiority, and he doesn't take it seriously. Even after so many years, it is still difficult to completely change it.

"Deputy General Shao, do you know what I was writing just now?"

"I don't know. But it would be nice if the superintendent gave the brothers a reward. I am a warrior, and of course I like money."

"Hehe, even if it doesn't hit, it's not too far." Song Le picked up the two pages of paper on the desk, shook it, and said, "Follow the order of the envoy Qiu to reply to the official letter from Li Shao, the observation envoy to Hedong. Shao is indeed very powerful, and he even persuaded Lan and Shi Erzhou to raise some money, grain, silk and silk to give us Tiande army rewards."

"This—" Shao Shude was a little surprised: "Just want us to go east to fight?"

"I'm afraid it's not going south..." Song Le said meaningfully.

"Li Shao and Jia Jingsi can't control the Lan army? What about the Lan and Shi Erzhou troops? Can't they control it?" Shao Shude suddenly came to his senses.

He was a little surprised, but when he thought about it, it didn't seem strange.Li Shao and Jia Jingsi, who were airborne from Jinyang, how could they overwhelm the local Qiu Ba?
He has also heard about the discipline of the Hedong Army in the past few days.I feel that in recent years, the Jiedu envoys sent by the imperial court to Hedong are all waste. A powerful and prosperous three famous towns in the world have been made into chaos by them. Right now, Li Ni and his son are still in chaos.

"Judge Song, if the battle is good, can Qiu Shijun go further?" Seeing that no one else paid attention, Shao Shude lowered his voice and asked.

Song Le glanced at Shao Shude, and then looked at the colleagues in the room who were still discussing and working in a low voice. Then he turned his head and said in a voice that could not be lower: "It is unlikely that the prison army Hedong, Datong, Zhen Wu and Xia Sui are quite sure, as long as our Tiande army can't make mistakes."

Like Huainan and Jiannan, Hedong is a powerful town in the hands of the imperial court.There are many prefectures and counties, prosperous household registration, and developed economy.In such a place, you either have to speak to a big boss in the court, or the credit is so great that people have nothing to say, otherwise why should it be given to you?In comparison, the second-class military officers such as Datong Army, Zhenwu Army, Xia Sui Town, and Zhaoyi Town are more realistic.

Shao Shude pondered that after the fight against Li's father and son, the court would reward the merits and divide the fruits.The Tiande army has been marching all the way, and the hardest credit is probably the battle of Zhonglingshui, which defeated the more than [-] rebels of Xue Zhiqin's army in this battle.That's not to say, the supervising army reported back immediately, and it was very conspicuous in the pile of defeat reports in Daibei. The names of Hao Zhenwei and Qiu Weidao have also been noticed by the upper management.

In addition, Tiandejun actually has some ambiguous credits.Why is it ambiguous, because these credits are not very solid, someone speaks for you and helps you operate, that is credit, otherwise it is not.

For example, the "recovery of Ningwu County and the Zhelu army city" is indeed a fact, but Ningwu County was soon lost. The Zhailu army was an empty city, and it was already recovered by the defeated soldiers; Wujun Zhongcheng, Dongcheng", the soldiers left behind in the Zhenwu Army did not explicitly say rebellion, this credit is really a bit false, you must find someone to operate and package, otherwise it will be useless.

There are people in the DPRK who are good officials!Although the climate of the Chang'an court today is not as good as it was decades ago, it is still possible to change the military or Jiedushi in the vassal towns that he can directly control or influence.Shao Shude expects Qiu Weidao to supervise the military town, and he will also have a good development. This idea is not wrong.

Song Le has followed Qiu Weidao for many years, and he has also considered the future of his lord many times on weekdays, so when Shao Shude asked, he gave the answer, obviously he was confident.

But just when he was about to say something, he saw a small official from the military academy walking in from the outside, and Shao Shude, who was wearing a helmet and armor, was stunned for a moment, but he was not an outsider, so he He trotted to Song Le and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty will stay in the general's mansion for dinner today, and the villain will be sent back to tell you that Lanzhou has urgently reported that the troops and horses in Hedong and Zhaoyi fought against the rebels and were defeated. The Zhaoyi army was defeated. Jiedu envoy Li Junzhong was killed with arrows, and Commander Cui packed up the defeated soldiers and retreated to Mucheng, the Loufan prison, and the situation was a little critical."

The hall was so silent at this time that you could hear a needle falling.Song Le and Shao Shude looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a while.Just now, the two of them were still full of confidence in the situation, and for a while they considered the matter of rewarding merit after the war. Unexpectedly, reality would give them a resounding slap in the face soon.

This Li Keyong can really be tossed about!
(End of this chapter)