The king behind the empress

Chapter 469 Grain Crisis
There is also a garrison at Jingpingguan, but the number is a little small, only 3000 people. The guard stationed here is called Han Zhongping, who can barely be regarded as a member of the leftist line.

At this time, Weiguo summoned an army of [-] nearby. Han Ping originally planned to recruit troops to join the crusade, but was stopped by the generals sent by the Weiguo court.

In the court of Weiguo before, the royal party and the prime minister were in dispute, and the left prime minister took a step back, but the price paid by the imperial party was to hand over the command of the army to the left prime minister.

"Zhongping, your people from Jingpingguan should not go on this expedition."

The commander elected by the leftist party this time is Tong Wenshan, the old commander who fought against Dazhou in the Eastern Territory for many years. When he was in the Eastern Territory, he fought against Mo Congyi. He is considered a very strong veteran. It's just that he is a little older and his hair is a little gray.

But at this time, when he came out of the mountain again, his face was not good-looking. He looked at Han Zhongping solemnly, and said: "The situation is unclear now, in case something goes wrong, you still need Jingping Pass to guard the last line of defense, so you Jingping Pass must not be moved rashly."

To be honest, Tong Wenshan didn't want to go out this time, because it was impossible to fight this battle. So far, the barbarians have blocked the information tightly. Now he doesn't even know how many barbarians there are, and who is the leader.

In this case, one bad thing is to lead the army to die.

As for what the royal party said, the barbarians may only have a small group of people. Tong Wenshan just took him as a fart. If a small group of people can block the information to such a death, is it true that everyone in Longbei County is dead?

And the most important thing is that Xiangdang's efforts are completely unfavorable this time. He is a member of Xiangdang. If he loses, then the left minister will have to take the blame this time. This time, the Qing Dynasty was proposed by the Royal Party, so although he won the battle, most of the credit has to fall into the hands of the Royal Party. It can be said that the Royal Party is sure to win.

Han Zhongping was naturally aware of the game in the court, so he couldn't help being silent for a moment when he heard Tong Wenshan's pessimistic words, and then asked, "Tong Shuai, if this is the case, why are you going?"

"Since that little... Your Majesty is willing to make trouble, why did Prime Minister Zuo go through this muddy water? Can't you just let him find someone to go? Why bother to take on this drudgery?"

In Han Zhongping's words, he didn't have the slightest respect for the new emperor of Weiguo. If Tong Wenshan hadn't glared at him, he would have blurted out the words "little emperor" just now.

And his resentment is not without reason. These years, the little emperor has acted recklessly, promoted those opportunistic officials, and allowed them to send out dissidents. Han Zhongping was squeezed out under such circumstances. If the leftist looked at him If he is capable, he secretly helped him. I am afraid that he is not serving as a guard at Jingping Pass now, but waiting to be beheaded in a prison.

"Let Your Majesty choose people, who do you want His Majesty to choose? How many capable people are there in the so-called royal party? If they are allowed to lead the army, wouldn't these soldiers be sent to die?"

Tong Wenshan was also very helpless in his heart. He had a close relationship with Prime Minister Zuo, so he naturally knew that Prime Minister Zuo controlled the court all these years, not because he was reluctant to bear the power, but because the little emperor was really worthless.

Not to mention anything else, let’s just say that in order to fight against the leftist minister, those people who are called the royal party, what kind of things are they? When it's time to get down to business, each of these people is more trash than the other.

Moreover, if the little emperor uses these people only to compete with the left minister and seize power from the left minister, then the left minister is a bit too much, and he can barely accept it. After all, the little emperor knows how to use the power in his hand. It is also a good thing.

But the fact is that the little emperor really favors these people, but what they say is what they say. If the left side delegates power, the little emperor dares to hand over the country to those speculators.

Therefore, even though they knew it would cause the little emperor's dissatisfaction, the left prime minister and the other ministers, but still held onto the government and dared not let it go easily, but when it came to the little emperor's move to seize power, because of their vassal status, they could only Try to be as modest as possible, all kinds of detours.

But this kind of forbearance, in exchange for the little emperor's intensification.

Take this time as an example, the crisis has already occurred at home, but the little emperor still thinks about how to attack the power of the leftist party, regardless of the overall situation.

Under such circumstances, Zuo Xiang and the others wanted to abolish the little emperor countless times, or they simply quit, but considering the kindness of the late emperor, they had already entrusted him with a heavy responsibility before his death, but Zuo Xiang and the others could only hold back I recognized it with my nose.

"Ugh……"

Thinking of this, Tong Wenshan couldn't help but sighed deeply. He heard that Da Zhou's heir was also so incompetent, but Mo Congyi directly threw the throne to his daughter-in-law. Let that useless prodigal son grow up.

On my side, if I had known that the emperor was so incompetent, even if they died in the Shangjing Palace, they would still have to ask the old emperor to find a wife for the little emperor.

"Forget it, don't mention these things."

Tong Wenshan shook his head to dispel the illusion in his heart, and then said: "Although the situation is unknown, I may not be defeated. You don't have to worry about it. I just said the worst."

"You are stationed here. In addition to serving as the last line of defense, you also need to help the old man supervise the food and grass."

"forage?"

Han Zhongping was stunned for a moment, and then he flew into a rage, "Now that the barbarians have appeared in our country of Wei, they still dare to tamper with Tong Shuai's food and grass, don't they want to live?"

"Probably not."

Tong Wenshan didn't have much confidence in his heart. Even if he went out this time, most of the credit for winning was due to the imperial party. Logically speaking, they should not make any trouble behind, but the little emperor and his group of emperors Tong Wenshan is really not sure what the party members are thinking, so he can only pray in his heart, hoping that the little emperor can take care of the overall situation this time.

After all, the land and mountains of Weiguo belonged to his Wei family after all.

It's fine for him to mess around on weekdays, but now it's a major issue related to the country and the country, so he can't mess around anymore.

……

It only took Tong Wenshan five days to assemble these large armies gathered from all over the world. In fact, according to what he meant, he planned to take a longer time to rectify. After all, the army is too complex, and it is difficult to display much combat effectiveness without training. In the imperial court, dozens of memorials were sent every day. He stood still, and even the left minister couldn't hold back, so he had no choice but to set off hastily, but before leaving, he asked the army to bring a few more from Jingping Pass. day's food.

But during the five days when he was integrating the army, Wu Lianghe did not sit idle, directly occupying most of Longbei County, and even the city of Longbei County had already fallen into his hands.

When he learned that the court of the Wei State had mobilized a large army to encircle and suppress them, Wuliang Merger did not care as much as other barbarians, because he, who had long planned to defend the country, knew the situation of the Wei country well, so he was When he knew that this army was led by Tong Wenshan, he felt a little dignified in his heart.

A famous general like Tong Wenshan should not be underestimated even if he only leads an army of 10,000 miscellaneous troops. Of course, this does not mean that Wu Lianghe is afraid of Tong Wenshan. He has [-]+ barbarian troops in his hands, and there are hundreds of thousands who can serve as soldiers at any time. The barbarians, not to mention that Tong Wenshan only brought [-] miscellaneous troops, even if he brought [-] elite troops, he didn't have the slightest fear.

It's just that he is not afraid of returning. His barbarian tribe is not stable in Weiguo now, and all losses cannot be regenerated. Therefore, he must try to avoid excessive loss of the barbarian tribe's strength.

"Tong Wenshan..."

Wu Lianghe pondered for a long time, and finally decided to take back the manpower, use the county town as a line of defense, temporarily avoid Tong Wenshan's edge, and then buy time for the craftsmen under his rule to make equipment for the wolf guard.

It's just that this time can't be too long, otherwise it will be delayed for a long time, and it will be difficult for them to fight when the court of Weiguo reacts and continues to send additional personnel.

Therefore, Wu Lianghe's final decision time is two months. During these two months, he intends to use the defense line of the county city to only defend but not attack, and hide his main wolf guards. After building a lot of armor, he will lead the wolf guards to attack and destroy Tong Wenshan's [-] troops.

After using Mo Zizai's batch of armors, he was deeply impressed. The combat effectiveness of wolf guards with armor and wolf guards without armor is completely two levels, so for this batch of armaments, he I think the two month wait is totally worth it.

It's just that Tong Wenshan suffered a lot from his shrinking of the defense line. Even if there were no wolf guards, the strength of the barbarian soldiers far surpassed that of the soldiers of the defending country. If Tong Wenshan fights casually, he won't be able to stick to it.

And the most exaggerated thing is that Wu Lianghe doesn't care about gaining power in one place at all, because there is no city in Longbei County that is too suitable to hold on to, so he ordered the barbarian generals under his command to burn the city and leave if they couldn't hold it. Give Tong Wenshan an empty city.

As a result, Tong Wenshan's subordinates suffered huge losses, but the results they gained were insignificant.

It’s just that Tong Wenshan is a famous general who has broken arms with Mo Congyi after all. Faced with this unfavorable situation, he was not at all discouraged, but fought steadily, pulling out all the cities guarded by barbarians like a nail, and then maximizing Compress the barbarian's activity space.

In just one month, Tong Wenshan pulled down all the other cities except the county city.

However, when he reached the county town, Tong Wenshan stopped, because in this month's fight, he found that the number of barbarians exceeded his imagination. Although he had achieved his strategic goal, the loss of the barbarians But it wasn't too big. If he started a decisive battle rashly, with the few people left in his hands, there would be no hope of winning at all.

Therefore, after reaching this point, Tong Wenshan no longer attacked the county city, but spent half a month to forcefully build a camp that was comparable to a city outside the county city. At that time, he planned to guard it. He wanted to use this fortified city to firmly nail the barbarians behind the county town.

In this way, when the army arrives, the barbarians whose activity space is compressed to the extreme by themselves will only have a dead end.

It's just that he planned well, but the accident happened even faster. The thing he was most worried about before going out for the expedition still happened.

That is, the royal party, working up and down, cut off his food and grass, and his request for help and memorials for food and grass were basically intercepted. As for the guard of Jingping Pass, Han Wenzhong, he had also been seized by this time.

As for the reason why he cut off his food and grass, it is also very simple, that is, during this period of time, even if he kept reporting his worries but not his good news, the spies of the royal party who were in his army only saw that he was constantly attacking the city, An invincible look.

As soon as the news came to Chuanhui District, the royal party could not see clearly the situation of the war, let alone that the city that Tong Wenshan built was deliberately abandoned by Wu Lianghe. All they could see was that the barbarians were weak, and Tong Wenshan was almost invincible. , Therefore, they were afraid that Tong Wenshan would make too much credit in his return and let the left party rise again, so they cut off Tong Wenshan's food and grass without hesitation, and withheld his letter of request for help.

As for the content of Tong Wenshan's request for help, they thought that Tong Wenshan's matter was alarmist, or that he deliberately wanted to raise the bandits' self-respect, and they didn't take it to heart at all.

"How much food and grass are there in the army?"

Tong Wenshan, who hadn't slept well for several days, his eyes were bloodshot, obviously exhausted to the extreme.

The quartermaster lowered his head and said in a very low voice: "Return to Commander Tong, the army has only enough food and grass for half a month."

When they set off for the expedition, because the court urged them urgently, they only brought more than half a month's supply of food and grass. Although they replenished the food and grass once when they were fighting, it was only half a month's supply of food and grass. Now the court The food and grass were not replenished on time, and now they only have the food and grass for these seven days.

And if Tong Wenshan hadn't asked the army to bring a few more days of food and grass when he left the customs, I'm afraid they would have run out of food by now.

"Seven days..."

Tong Wenshan was a little distracted when he heard the words. If the imperial court wanted to mobilize the army, it would take at least three months. His original plan was to ask the imperial court to replenish the manpower here on a small scale, and then stick to the three month time.

But now, without reinforcements, their army has become a lone army, and their food and grass have been cut off. In this case, let alone defend for three months, they can't even defend for half a month.

"It's okay, seven days is enough."

Tong Wenshan forcibly cheered himself up, and then spoke to persuade the quartermaster: "There is still Prime Minister Zuo in the imperial court, and they will definitely not let them mess around. The food and grass will be delivered in a short time, so you don't have to worry about it at this time."

Hearing what Tong Wenshan said, the quartermaster felt that it made sense, but he relaxed a lot, nodded and agreed, "What Tong Shuai said is that Prime Minister Zuo will definitely intervene at this time."

"However, the fact that the army has been cut off from food and grass should not be leaked, so as not to cause any trouble."

Tong Wenshan looked at the quartermaster and said with a serious expression: "If you dare to talk nonsense in the middle of the wheel and disturb the morale of the army, I will definitely kill you!"

"Tong Shuai don't worry, humble job knows the seriousness."

The quartermaster directly issued a military order, "If there is even half of the news, Commander Tong, please behead me."

"Ah That's good."

Looking at the quartermaster's assurance, Tong Wenshan nodded slightly, and then said: "You go down first, and save some food and grass in the army, and change the soldiers' three meals to two meals for the time being. "

"After all, we don't know when the supplies will arrive."

"Here."

The quartermaster responded without saying anything, and turned around to get rid of the camp.

After he left, Tong Wenshan's confident face suddenly turned a little gray. The royal party suddenly launched an attack. No matter how quick the left minister's reaction was, it was impossible to defeat them within seven days and then bring the food and grass over.

Therefore, it is inevitable that the army will run out of food at this time.

(End of this chapter)