Xuande

Chapter 805 Hot Military Merits

In fact, Xu Huang has never said anything to the outside world, but he has always been under great pressure.

The pressure of responsibility and the pressure of interpersonal communication often make him feel a little difficult to deal with.

Moreover, he is not very good at communication, and he doesn't have many friends in the army. Guan Yu is one of them, but Guan Yuyuan is in charge of the Jiangnan Military Region, so he is not with him.

Xun You admires Xu Huang very much and has many contacts with him, but Xun You is in Luoyang, so he doesn't often see Xu Huang.

So Xu Huang is actually in a relatively isolated state in the army, and his relationship with his colleagues is mostly colleagues, and he has a good relationship with the soldiers under him, and they are very loving, but the soldiers under him are hardly friends with him. The relationship between.

He is also not a person who likes to drink to escape reality. For this reason, he often uses the method of doing math problems to relax his mind, and wants to escape for a while from the heavy military affairs and the pressure of interpersonal communication.

But after escaping, the pressure is still pressure, and the problem is still a problem. He still has to work hard to coordinate, solve, supervise, and rectify.

If there are conflicts and disputes among his subordinates, he needs to deal with and coordinate them.

If the court has any request, he will give a response and solution as soon as possible.

The Privy Council needs him to provide some information about the army and the topographic and hydrological information of the guarded place, and he will also arrange it.

He also had to bear the envious mentality of the military chiefs of the various troops towards the frequent wars in the area he guarded.

Being an official under Liu Bei is not easy at all.

This time, no accident, the pressure in the Central Plains was the greatest. Xu Huang even felt that Liu Bei was testing whether he could support that trust, so he didn't dare to slack off at all.

After learning that the incident in Jizhou was getting worse, Xu Huang directly led his troops to the north to crusade, and curbed the trend of expansion before the situation further expanded.

Even so, Liu She and Liu Zhong's successive reversals were beyond his expectations, not to mention that what Liu Zhong is doing now is almost a political storm, and it all involves the throne.

If this was placed in the previous Luoyang City, one faction would have to be sacrificed as a sacrifice before it could be resolved.

If this can't be settled by him personally, I don't know what kind of sarcastic remarks those people who are jealous of his power will say against him, and they may even involve him in it, and hold him accountable for his inability to maintain stability. little trouble.

The Han army is indeed quite united, and the internal struggle is relatively benign. There is no vicious factional struggle that must put the other party to death.

But no matter how benign internal conflicts are, the contradictions are also a bit confrontational. As a young and middle-aged general who is not so senior, Xu Huang walked in front of many old seniors. This has always been held up by many people. Hold on.

He has to behave more capable, more effective, and better than other Yuan Cong and relatives and generals, so that he can stop some people's mouths and get a good night's sleep.

Of course, it is not that he has no means of releasing stress. For example, pouring all the stress and negative emotions on the enemy is a good way to balance the mind.

As far as he knows, many generals and soldiers who feel a lot of pressure even use the excitement of going to the battlefield to kill people to relieve stress, so for them, war is not only a means to pursue fame, but also a way to relieve daily pressure .

For Xu Huang, Liu Zhong brought him so much pressure, he felt that he had to use Liu Zhong himself to relieve this pressure.

Then the opportunity presented itself to him.

After Liu Zhong's army was shattered, Liu Zhong himself was "unfortunately" captured.

It is said that he wanted to escape, but because the armor he was wearing was too conspicuous and he had enough guards to protect him, he was spotted by the soldiers of the Han army as soon as he said a word, so they surrounded him tightly, and refused to let him escape. This kind of siege killed all the guards around him.

So the guy got caught.

The guy who was brazen enough to question the legitimacy of Liu Bei's throne was caught just like that, so that Xu Huang tripped while walking happily, and accidentally fell a dog eating shit, but he didn't care at all, and rushed over to meet Liu Zhong with a smile on his face. .

Contrary to Xu Huang's expectations, Xu Huang thought that Liu Zhong, such an arrogant guy, should be a relatively tough opponent, the kind who would never admit defeat even in the face of his army, and might clamor to fight with Xu Huang. The kind that Akira fights again.

But after Liu Zhong was caught, he cried and even urinated.

When Xu Huang came to interrogate him, Liu Zhong was crying with snot and tears about how he was persecuted, deceived, and deceived. He didn't know what happened, and he joined the rebel army for no reason, and was pushed into the leader's office by them. Position, all of this was not his intention, he didn't want to do such a thing at all.

"They lied to me, saying that I would be killed, that I would be questioned, and that if I did not join them, I would definitely be beheaded by His Majesty. I have no past friendship with His Majesty. I only know that His Majesty is coercive and thunderous. I Afraid!

I had no choice but to join them, I didn't know anything before, everything was done in my name, it had nothing to do with me!Really irrelevant!

Can the general plead my case?I have a lot of money, a lot of money, as long as the general is willing to defend me, I will give the general what he wants, and I can give the general all the money in the palace!I just ask the general to give me a few good words! "

With tears and snot all over Liu Zhong's face, he looked at Xu Huang with extremely expectant eyes, which made Xu Huang very speechless.

This is completely different from the arrogant behavior style of your guy in the intelligence. Which one is the real one?
Xu Huang was a little helpless.

But he really has no interest in this matter, and he doesn't feel the need to get involved.

"This matter has nothing to do with me. If you want to ask, just ask His Majesty, and His Majesty will answer you."

After finishing speaking, Xu Huang left with a look of contempt, cursing as he walked, thinking that this guy is really a soft guy through and through.

Liu Zhong was left crying bitterly with a broken expression——

He really didn't expect the Han army to be so capable of fighting, and he himself was such a waste. After all, the [-] army collapsed in less than an hour, and he was almost powerless to fight back. The strength of the Han army far exceeded his imagination.

This huge gap completely crushed his confidence and will, especially after being caught, his sense of security was also completely destroyed. He immediately thought of the miserable end he would face, so he instinctively wanted to beg for mercy. want to live.

Everyone loves money, and no one doesn't love money. He thinks that he can spend money to bribe the high-level Han army in exchange for the hope of survival.

But what he doesn't understand is that although everyone loves money, not everyone who loves money has no brains. There are always some people who will use their brains before loving money, asking themselves if they can take the money, and then Judge.

Obviously, Xu Huang made an accurate judgment and knew that the money could not be taken.

After this encounter, Xu Huang did not stay for too long, but immediately ordered an army to attack Ganling City, not to give the rebels time to regroup. At his request, a 3000-strong assault force They quickly got organized and stormed towards Ganling City without taking a break.

Then Ganling City was successfully attacked by this army.

Mainly when this army launched a surprise attack, the old, weak, sick and disabled left behind in Ganling City were transporting grain into the city. After Liu Zhong led the elite to the expedition, he left an order to leave behind and transport more grain to the city. Ganling city is in case of emergency, so many people are transporting food.

The Han army came too fast and attacked too directly. The defenders of Ganling City had no time to react, and the city gate was captured by the Han army. The old, weak, sick and disabled who had no fighting power and fighting will scattered , There was no resistance, so they scattered and fled.

At that time, the rebel army actually had more than 2 troops in name. When the Han army attacked, there were still more than 1 armed troops stationed inside and outside the city.

But after the Han army launched a surprise attack, these people were not organized to counterattack, but fled directly.

In the end, the Han army successfully recaptured Ganling City, which was garrisoned by more than 3000 rebels, with 2 troops. It also captured quite a few family members of the main organizers of the rebel army, especially the family members of Liu Zhong, the king of Ganling. They were all captured by the Han army. Catch them all.

Xu Huang arrived at Ganling City a day later, received the results of the battle, and looked at the arrested culprits, he let out a long sigh of relief.

Finally, the war did not go in a more unpredictable direction, and the political incident triggered by Liu Zhong stopped there. So far, it has not caused more chain reactions.

To be honest, Xu Huang was really worried that those clan kings in Jizhou would rise up against Liu Bei after Liu Zhong urged them to do so. If that were the case, the entire clan system of the Han Empire might really experience a major earthquake in a short period of time. .

At that time, his jurisdiction will also have the most unpredictable rebellion incidents due to the largest number of emperors.

Indeed, they are all military achievements, but when it comes to King Zong's military achievements, Xu Huang really feels hot.

He is a general who pursues military merit, but he is also a calm person. After clearing up the rebellion of two Zong kings, Xu Huang has already started to feel a little bad. He feels that if he continues to gain more military merit, It is still the military exploits brought by Zong Wang, which will add some unnecessary political risks to himself.

With this level of military merit, he should definitely not be the only one who focuses on the front. At least the five tiger generals should come together, sit in a row, and share the fruits. Everyone will share the benefits and bear the political risks together.

Moreover, he had better not get involved in royal matters.

So Xu Huang didn't touch anything about Liu Zhong, learned to be good, and was not as arrogant as he was when he dealt with Liu She. He directly packed him and his family and took them to Luoyang, and then took him to the Ganling Palace. Closed, no one is allowed to enter, waiting for the imperial court to send someone to seal it up.

He himself did not even take a single step into Ganling Prince's Mansion.

In the next few days, Xu Huang liquidated those powerful landlord forces who joined the rebel army in Ganling Kingdom, annihilated many families, confiscated a large amount of real estate, gold, silver and jewelry, and a large number of slave groups.

Later, at the end of July in the first year of Zhenguan, Xu Huang learned of the battle report sent by Cao Ren—the rebellion in Bohai County was successfully put down, the main officials and the main economic fundamentals of Bohai County were still intact, and the damage caused by the rebels was limited.

The performance of the collective farm guards in Bohai County was very good. Quite a few rebels were dealt with by the collective farm self-defense forces during the autumn wind. Akira honored the Self-Defense Forces of these collective farms.

Cao Ren's suggestion reminded Xu Huang that he went all the way north and conquered all the way, and he did find that although the scale of the Jizhou rebellion was large and there were many people, the damage to the local area was quite limited.

In the past, the damage done by the rebels to the city was limited, and the damage to the peasant village was great. Often after a rebellion, the city may not be breached, but the agricultural villages around the county seat are absolutely in a mess, with dead people and refugees who lost their homes everywhere. Local agricultural production will be greatly damaged and cannot be restored for a long time.

Such secondary disasters of war are often a huge burden on the imperial court and local governments after the war. If one operation is not done well, it can easily lead to a second round of civil uprisings.

But this time, Xu Huang noticed that the damage in the city was limited, and the damage in other places was also very limited. The number of refugees he saw was quite limited along the way. Some of them are individual farmers who have not joined the collective farms.

Asking again, he learned that the collective farm was able to organize a farm self-defense force of more than a hundred people when the rebels launched a rebellion because of their excellent organization. Relying on the weapons and defense facilities in the farm, they were able to deal with those rebels very well. A small group of rebel troops who went out to fight the autumn wind outside the army could even cause huge damage to them.

When he was in Wei Jun and Zhao Guo, people from the Collective Farm Self-Defense Forces in Wei Jun and Zhao Guo came to him with the heads and captives of the rebels to ask him for credit. After he arrived in many places, he found similar situations .

In the past, the situation where refugees were scattered everywhere after a war has been contained to a considerable extent in this rebellion. In comparison, some of the captured cities have been destroyed on a larger scale.

Xu Huang was very happy that this happened. He immediately began to write a war memorial, writing down the results of the war and some things on the battlefield, especially the outstanding performance of the collective farm self-defense force, and sent them to Luoyang Jiaotong University. To Liu Bei, waiting for Liu Bei's further rewards and instructions.

At this point in the war, the rebellion caused by the Dutian Order in the Jizhou area has basically come to an end.

This rebellion involving the end of the two kings has almost exhausted the strength of the reactionary forces here, and the reactionary forces in Jizhou have no more strength and courage to launch a new round of action.

In this battle, when the large-scale rebel army faced the elite Han army, the appearance of being vulnerable and vulnerable once again refreshed people's concepts and made them realize that the martial arts of the Han army is indeed not ordinary.

In addition to the rebellion in the Jizhou area, the largest rebellion occurred in Yuzhou, which is directly under the Central Military Region.

But unfortunately, Yuzhou is also the radiating range of the strongest military power of the Central Military Region. Once the rebellion broke out, the troops of the Central Military Region began to quell the rebellion spontaneously, killing it so quickly——

It seems that the local garrison is afraid that they will be a little slower and will be robbed of their hard-won military achievements by other troops.

Coupled with the relatively high level of agricultural collectivization organizations within the control area of ​​the Central Military Region, although the nobles in the Yuzhou area have organized more manpower, these rebel teams are a little smaller than the turmoil caused by the Jizhou side——

It is not even comparable to the rebellion of bandits in Nanjun and Jiangxia counties in the north of Jingzhou, which had fewer numbers but had a greater impact.

(End of this chapter)