I Xiaoxiong

Chapter 194
The news of the great victory in Shouzhou made the dignitaries of Yangzhou City heave a sigh of relief. The situation has gradually become clear. The battle by the Feishui River almost crippled Wu's rebel army.

As for the next battle and the post-war arrangements, the Marshal's Mansion, the Huainan Economic and Strategic Envoy and the Yangzhou Governor's Mansion will all need to deal with the aftermath.

In the governor's mansion of Yangzhou, Zhao Yuantan personally presided over the discussion.

The participants included Pei Xiuming who was the prime minister and also the head of the Marshal's Mansion, Liu Jingming, the envoy of the Huainan Economic Strategy, Fu Huaichuan, a guest of the prince who attended the Marshal's mansion, Wu Yaoshi and Li Yan, the sons of the prince's left and right bastards, Lin Changyuan, the prince Zhongyun, and Shi Cui Fangyi, the governor of Yangzhou. Xu Yinglong, Cui Fengyi, Cui Shuji, the judges of the Governor's Mansion, Luqiu and Xie Anchi, the military princes of the Governor's Mansion, Lu Xun, the Tongzhi of the Yangzhou Governor's Mansion, Lu Qianxu, the envoy of the Guangrui Army, Guo Chongxun, Feng Guanghui and other generals led by the Donggongwei, and all Among the military generals, the highest status belongs to the prince's uncle, Guo Kan, the former governor of Anzhou.

The governor of Anzhou, the uncle of the country, has been resigned and awarded to Cheng Jintang, Marquis of Wukang.

After all, Cheng Jintang is currently using Anju, Gwangju and other places as the rear in the battle against the bandits.

And Guo Kan was appointed as the marching Sima of the Marshal's Mansion, which is also a symbolic title.After all, the Marshal's Mansion doesn't need to march.

"After the first battle in Shouzhou, the rebel army had [-] troops, and only [-] remained. Then they retreated all the way along the Feishui River, and retreated to Luzhou and Chaohu under the cover of the navy. Fu Hou and Qi Wang were leading the army Following behind, there is no new battle report so far, but the rebel army is completely hopeless to go north. It is expected that within ten days, Luzhou City will be restored. However, both the governor of Luzhou and Sima died in martyrdom, and suffered a military disaster , the people were displaced, and we should choose a capable minister as the governor to comfort the people of Luzhou."

"In addition, Fu Hou also asked on the table how to deal with tens of thousands of soldiers."

After Zhao Yuantan finished speaking, he put down the battle report and looked at everyone.

"It's better to distribute as usual."

"Improper distribution. After the Jianghuai War, there is a lot of waste waiting to be rejuvenated. There is a lack of youth and strength. It is better to keep it."

"But these are rebels, how to keep them?"

Several civil officials argued about this matter. Fu Huaichuan, who seldom spoke, suddenly said: "It's better to choose soldiers, the old and the weak can be used as military settlements. There are no ten households in Luzhou. Seeing the spring plowing, there must be The large tracts of land are uncultivated, and the young and strong can go to the Jingchu army to listen to them, and they are allowed to take their crimes and make meritorious deeds."

After hearing this, Pei Xiuming said, "There is no precedent for this matter."

Zhao Yuantan said: "The matter is urgent to follow the power. Fu's proposal to join the army is very good, so let's do it like this. Give the order to Fu Hou, select the young and strong to form the army, and the old and the weak can be used as army stations."

In fact, what Pei Xiuming wanted to say was that these cultivated lands used to be private land, and they had to pay land taxes.But if these unowned civilian fields are used as military settlements, they will be under the jurisdiction of the Yangzhou Dudufu.

As for the [-] soldiers, it was a trivial matter.

"In addition, Marquis Fu also proposed to recruit two armies in Huainan, and use them to quell the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River in the future, and guard them after the pacification. I don't know what you think?"

"I think so."

"My minister agrees."

No one objected to Fu Jinchuan's proposal.

After all, there should have been five armies in the entire Huainan Road now, the Anzhou Dudufu controlled the two armies, and the Yangzhou Dudufu controlled the three armies.

But at present, the two armies under the command of the Anzhou Governor's Mansion have been beaten and disabled in the south of the Yangtze River, and the remaining number is less than [-]. After quelling the chaos, stay in the south of the town.

Jiangnan has not yet been fully recovered, and even after recovery, heavy troops will need to be garrisoned to prevent further chaos.

Allowing Huainan soldiers to station in Jiangnan can cut off the influence of the Jiangnan clan on the army to the greatest extent, and there is no need for these Huainan soldiers to be coerced into chaos, because their families are all in Jiangbei.

At the same time, there will be no disturbances due to homesickness, because it is just across the river.

In fact, Liu Jingming, the envoy of the Huainan Economic Strategy, was a little worried that too many soldiers would be recruited, which would lead to a lack of young men in the Huainan states, which would lead to a decrease in talent.

After all, there is no need to pay taxes for food as a soldier.

But right now is wartime after all, and everything has to make way for counterinsurgency.

Only by calming down the chaos and restoring order as soon as possible can the people everywhere live and work in peace and contentment, and the imperial court can also reduce taxes.

Then there is the list of meritorious servicemen and soldiers in the Shouzhou Battle. This is nothing to discuss, and no one dares to talk about it.

After all, after some frontier soldiers made meritorious service before, a prime minister from the imperial court questioned the exaggerated number of beheadings and advocated sending people to check. As a result, there was almost a mutiny.

In the end, the prime minister resigned, and the frontier army calmed down the situation with generous gifts.

However, Emperor Xuanzong at that time also beat some nobles who led the army severely afterwards. Afterwards, the generals who led the army reported their military merits, and tried their best to report their military merits as much as possible, or to make less false reports.

For example, if the enemy army is [-], you report to wipe out the enemy army and behead [-]. This is a bit too much, isn't it?

And like Fu Jinchuan, who basically report according to real numbers, just for the convenience of calculation, are considered to be reasonable categories.

The battle of Wu Ni in Shouzhou was almost handled, and then came the battle of Jingchu under the supervision of Cheng Jintang.

All in all, this battle is hard to describe.

There were no major losses in the war, at most, some counties were lost, and they could be regained as soon as the officers and troops passed by.

But the rebels fled around, always avoiding and not fighting.

Since the confluence of the Red Lotus Army, they first besieged Jiangling, Jingzhou, but failed. After looting the surrounding counties and towns, they withdrew before the reinforcements from the government army arrived, and then went north to Xiangzhou.

The siege failed, and when Cheng Jintang led his army to arrive, he ran away again.

Although Cheng Jintang supervised the army, he was not the governor of Jingzhou, nor the governor of Xiangzhou. If he wanted to unify the command, he had to go through the two governors' offices to communicate and cooperate with the defenders in each state.

The military prefectures of Jingzhou Dudufu and Xiangzhou Dudufu also have their own ghosts, and they all have some intentions to preserve their strength and sweep the snow before their doors.This caused Cheng Jintang to be a little bit overwhelmed by the Red Lotus Army fleeing around, unable to parry.

Li Zhaode, Duke of the State of Wei, and Zhao Fubai, King of Xianyang County, commanded a hundred thousand forbidden troops and stationed in Tangzhou and Dengzhou.

Although he also returned to Cheng Jintang's restraint, it was obvious that he didn't dare to move lightly with the 10 people. After all, Tangzhou and Dengzhou were behind Gyeonggi.

If you let Liu flee into Gyeonggi-do, this chaos will become a joke.

The Marshal's Mansion was also aware of Cheng Jintang's difficulties, so he deliberately asked Beijing for orders to grant Cheng Jintang the right to supervise and lead the army of Shannan Road, and specialize in conscripting and killing.

But even so, the Red Lotus Army will continue to roam between Bashan, Chushui, and other places. If they want to destroy it, they must ask the commander to mobilize all the soldiers, horses, money and food in Chu, Bashu, Jianghuai, Guanzhong and other places.

Without Cheng Jintang, it would be impossible to be granted such power.

Even if the emperor had the heart, the civil and military officials in the court would oppose it with all their strength.

After all, even if it is the Marshal of the March, or the Marshal of the next level, they are all deployed, at most one is the governor, and at most or two is the limit.

So now we can only hope that the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River will be settled as soon as possible, and then the prince will go to Guanzhong or Jingchu with the honor of the prince and the general of the world's soldiers and horses, and uniformly dispatch all armies and routes.

After all, it is too powerful to supervise the four ways.

That's a small half of the world, and it's no longer the power that a minister should have.

(End of this chapter)