Horse on the World

Chapter 709 Civil War
Quanzhou is the state where Li Qing encountered the most fierce resistance during his conquests. First, there were several bloody battles at the Nine Blades. Although the Hailing Camp finally won this dangerous pass, it suffered heavy losses. Seeing that he was defeated, Shuai Liao Bin came up with a vicious plan to rob all the property and food of all the people in the area under his jurisdiction, and even burn down the houses into ruins, leaving the ruins of a place and dozens of hundreds of people to the occupying army. Tens of thousands of victims were waiting to be fed, so as to delay the attack of the Dingzhou army.In the end, Liao Bin's troops set Chen Chong on fire in Quanzhou City, and there were not even one living thing in the whole city.

This was the most tragic scene where Li Qing's troops went, so that after occupying Quanzhou, Li Qing erected a monument at the place where Chen Chong's bones were buried. As many people died in the fire in Quanzhou City, as many knives as Liao Bin had to be cut.But Liao Bin led the remnants of his army to join Luoyang Tianqi under the cover of his death. For a while, Li Qing had nothing to do with him.

Quanzhou suffered such a catastrophe, some hated Liao Bin, and some hated Li Qing. In short, when Long Xiaotian took over the Quanzhou Zhizhou, the entire Quanzhou was silent for a hundred miles, and there were few people. Everywhere, there are ruins and weeds grow.

Beside the ruins of Quanzhou City, Long Xiaotian built a row of huts to house his prefect officials, and the core of Quanzhou was set up here.

The whole prefecture was seriously affected by disasters, and Dingzhou has been constantly using troops for these years, and the funding for the prefecture is also extremely limited. It can only keep the prefecture from starving to the greatest extent, eat gruel twice a day, suffer time, chat Just to save one's life.

Long Xiaotian's family is rich and wealthy. In order to help his son make political achievements, Long Sihai mobilized the business community in Dingzhou and raised a large amount of money with the whole state's finances as collateral. The food is enough to make the whole state last until today.

Hurry up, and finally did not miss the spring sowing. With hope for the future, Long Xiaotian led the people in the whole prefecture to sow the seeds, watched the spring seedlings break out of the ground, watched the seedlings grow day by day, all the people in the whole state People in the state are eagerly looking forward to the arrival of the autumn harvest.

When receiving the urgent report from Qingyang Guard General Xu Kexing, Long Xiaotian was tying the hem of his robe around his waist, stepping barefoot on the farmland, chatting with an old farmer, their joy was beyond words, The autumn harvest is coming soon, and judging by the growth of the crops in the field, this year is a rare and bumper year.

Long Xiaotian even began to think about various administrative measures after the autumn harvest. The water conservancy construction that has been planned can finally be started during the autumn harvest, and the houses of the common people have to be rebuilt. In winter, a large number of thatched houses collapsed, killing many people. The state can subsidize part of the cash for ordinary people to build houses.

As for the payment from Dad, you can delay it and only pay a part of the interest, so that you can do more things with the extra money.

With such a joyful mood, Long Xiaotian traveled non-stop across the whole prefecture, inspecting the growth of the crops throughout the prefecture. This is the hope that the prefecture will take off again.

But Xu Kexing's secret report made Long Xiaotian feel as if his heart had fallen into an ice cellar.The whole person was poured from head to top like a basin of cold water.

As a senior official of Dingzhou, he is very clear about the general strategy of Dingzhou.Right now, the Guoshanfeng Group is aggressively attacking the Qinling defense line, and Wang Qinian's troops who were originally stationed in Quanzhou have also been transferred to Qinzhou. Right now, there is not a single soldier in Quanzhou, except for some poor local garrison troops.

As for Qinzhou, the fight was fierce right now, and the battle had entered the most critical moment. It was impossible to draw troops back from there.And relying on Xu Kexing's three thousand troops, trying to defend Qingyang and resist the fierce attack from Minzhou is simply a dream.Even Xu Kexing himself did not have confidence, and the letter was full of the tragic atmosphere of dying with the city.If Qingyang is broken, the whole state will no longer be fortified.The minzhou soldiers can drive straight in, not only the recovering minzhou will be robbed again, the minzhou soldiers can even attack the rear of the Wang group from minzhou, posing a great threat to the Dingzhou army fighting in the Qinling Mountains.

"What should I do?" Long Xiaotian leaned tiredly on the chair, and after receiving the secret report, he rushed all the way back to Quanzhou without stopping.

All the officials in the prefectural government of the whole prefecture are staring at each other. It is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. If you have a good plan, but you have no soldiers at hand, there is nothing you can do in the face of such a predicament.

"General Xu Kexing's second report has also been sent over. The Minzhou Army led more than [-] cavalrymen from Zhang Liang as the vanguard, and the main force of the infantry was led by Liao Bin. They arrived in Qingyang three days ago, and recently launched a strong attack. Qingyang The defenders fought hard to keep the city intact, but everything outside Qingyang County fell into the enemy's hands."

Liao Bin?There was an uproar in the government office. Among the officials in the whole prefecture, many of them were selected from the local area after the Dingzhou army stabilized the situation in the prefecture. For the serious damage Liao Bin caused to the prefecture, these people are It's painful.

"How could it be this bastard?" Everyone became angry.

Long Xiaotian let out a long breath, "We always thought that after Minzhou was hit hard, it would be difficult for Zhang Aimin to recover in a short period of time, but Tianqi directly incorporated Liao Bin's [-] troops from the whole state into the Minzhou Army, and activated They are the vanguard of attacking us, this time we made a miscalculation, it can be said to be extremely passive."

"The current plan is to report to Dingzhou urgently, and ask Dingzhou to call the Central Group Army to rescue." An official said loudly.

Long Xiaotian said: "I did this a long time ago on the way back, but the Central Group Army is stationed in Dingzhou, which is far away from Quanzhou. Even with the strength of Changsheng Battalion and Huanfeng Battalion, it would take less than a month to reach them, let alone What's more, it's not easy to mobilize a large army, how can we move without a certain amount of time to mobilize, and it's hard to put out fires near water?"

"Then, then we can only ask General Wang Qinian for help?"

"The Battle of Qinling Mountains has reached a critical moment. This is related to our entire strategic layout. How can it be easily shaken? Moreover, the Battle of Qinling Mountains is also related to the safety of the general. How can General Wang withdraw at this time?" Long Xiaotian shook his head. veto.

"The commander-in-chief is really in Yaqueling?" All the officials were shocked.

"At this point, there is no need to hide it from everyone!" Long Xiaotian stood up, "The commander-in-chief is indeed at Yaqueling."

Everyone fell silent, the commander-in-chief was at Yaqueling, Wang Qinian would never give up Anfu Temple and return with his army for the sake of Li Qing's safety.

"In this case, we can only rely on ourselves!" A young official stood up and looked at Long Xiaotian.

"What good strategy does Jia Rui have?" Long Xiaotian looked at the young official in front of him. This is the official in charge of criminal names in the Quanzhou government office. His surname is Qiao and his name is Jia Rui.

"Longzhizhou, the people of Quanzhou hate Liao Bin to the bone. As a native of Quanzhou, the lower officials feel the same way. When Liao Bin fled in a hurry, he robbed and burned all of Quanzhou. Millions of people in the whole prefecture were put to death, and it was almost to the point where they had to change their sons to eat. If Marshal Li didn't care about the common people, the whole prefecture would surely be devastated. Now that the autumn harvest is just around the corner, and the common people have just seen hope, this bastard is about to come back again. Entering Quanzhou again, there is still a way for the people to survive, so we might as well tell the people the news that Liao Bin is coming back, and recruit troops on the spot from among the people, rush to Zunhua and other places to defend, and block the enemy Outside of Quanzhou." Qiao Jiarui gritted his teeth and said.

"Using ordinary people to resist the enemy army like a wolf like a tiger, wouldn't it be like hitting a stone with an egg, which will only increase casualties and will not help the matter at all?" Long Xiaotian shook his head, seeing the mighty military power of the Dingzhou Army. However, Long Xiaotian didn't have any confidence at all. "Also, once this news is announced, whether it will cause panic in the whole state is also worthy of our consideration!"

Qiao Jiarui said loudly: "Lord Long, this is only a plan of last resort. If we don't break the boat, how can we solve the current crisis? Qingyang's [-] defenders are absolutely difficult to defend Qingyang. General Xu resists desperately, and at most he can buy us some more time." .If you don't make a decisive decision, once Qingyang is broken, there will be no room for recovery. When the enemy army invades the whole prefecture, there will be no eggs left under the nest."

Long Xiaotian's expression changed, he weighed repeatedly in his heart, and finally made a decision.

He slapped the table, the man stood up, and said loudly: "It's just a death, Mr. Qiao, just as you said, announce to Quanzhou that Liao Bin's traitor wants to offend me in Quanzhou again. , rushed to Zunhua to defend against the enemy, and from tomorrow onwards, Benzhizhou will set up a flag to recruit soldiers, and anyone who is willing to follow me to Zunhua to defend against the enemy, bring their own weapons and food, and gather under my banner within three days."

"The lower officials are willing to go!" In the room, many officials stood up together and shouted in unison.

Laughing loudly, Long Xiaotian threw off his sleeves and walked out the door, "Come on, raise the banner, after three days, no matter how many people gather, let's go!"

As Long Xiaotian signed the announcements one by one, the fast horses drove out of the thatched huts, which can be said to be the simplest state office in the world, and rushed to all parts of the state.

The sun was scorching hot, and under the banner, Long Xiaotian was wearing a brand-new official uniform, with a spear sticking out by the side of the chair he was sitting on, and Long Xiaotian was sitting under the banner.Today is the first day of recruitment.

I don't know when, in front of Long Xiaotian, groups of people have begun to gather. These people are dressed in various clothes, some are even bare-armed, without armor, and without uniform weapons. Most of these people are carrying hoes, sheep Forks and poles, silently, gathered in front of the thatched hut in the government office.

The sun was in the west, Qiao Jiarui walked up to Long Xiaotian, "Master Long, you should go to the government office to rest for a night, the first batch of more than [-] people have already set off for Zunhua, you have been sitting under the scorching sun for a whole day , if this continues, the body will collapse!"

Long Xiaotian shook his head, his eyes lit up, and said: "No, Ben Zhizhou will be here until three days later." Qiao Jiarui shook his head, and waved his hand to order the servants behind him to bring food.

Under the twilight, Yingying Tongtong and an endless stream of people rushed here. Just like before, these people sat on the ground without saying a word when they got under the banner.

At this time, the whole prefecture was boiling with fathers giving off their sons and wives giving off their husbands. Countless people were carrying hoes, brazing loads, nailing targets, hatchets, kitchen knives, and even grabbed a wooden stick, day and night. He rushed to the city government office in Quanzhou.

Liao Bin's policy in order to delay Li Qing's advance has finally yielded bad results today. The people of Quanzhou who hate him deeply are united and want to keep him out of Quanzhou.

(End of this chapter)