Chapter 53 Consequences
The next day, a group of soldiers patrolled in front of the money treasury, and immediately a sharp-eyed soldier discovered something was wrong.
Xu Xian didn't dare to walk through the gate. When he pried the lock open, the patrol soldiers had already discovered it. He climbed onto the roof, uncovered the tiles, and then carefully covered the tiles. No one noticed it, but before leaving, he did not cover the tiles again, but the night was pitch black and no one noticed it.
It was different after dawn. A large ray of light shot out from the big hole, which was definitely wrong. He poked the window paper and looked in, and was shocked. Others also lie over to look at it, and then quickly reported to the Song Dynasty.
Something big happened, and almost most of the leaders such as Song Jiang and Wu Yong came.
Song Qing opened the lock and the group went in.
Looking at the empty warehouse, they were all in a daze.
This is not gold. More than 100,000 copper coins are turned into gold, only a few thousand taels. If you have the ability, a few masters will come over and take away thousands of taels of gold without realizing it.
Not to mention volume, only weight, the price of a permanent 60,000 jin is 60,000 jin, and weighs 1 million jin. If you use the best big car to pull it, you need a thousand big cars. If you use a strong man to pick it up, you need five thousand strong men to pick it away.
How did this steal?
In fact, the money was not too much. The Song Dynasty was in peace for a long time, and there were many rich people. I often heard that some rich families were so rich that they could not even have enough houses. One hundred thousand chunks of property was only considered second-class rich people, and many rich people had millions of property.
At the peak of Liangshan’s money warehouse, there were as many as 800,000 stag of copper coins.
One is money and the other is food, which is necessary.
Especially some officers and soldiers in the capital.
Most of their families are in the capital and are safe and sound. The Song Dynasty's laws were not implicated. For example, Zhang Yuan surrendered to Xixia and asked Yuan Hao to attack the Song Dynasty. In order to win over Zhang Yuan's return, the Song Dynasty also granted officials and titles to his family. As a result, Yuan Hao took the opportunity to pick up Zhang Yuan's family, and severely insulted the prime ministers Lu Yijian and Yan Shu who came up with ideas at the time. Besides, these officers and soldiers could not blame the public. So many officers and soldiers surrendered, how to punish their family?
But after being surrendered to Liangshan, the court cut off their salary. Their family could not starve to death in the capital, so Liangshan had to pay the salary. The officers and soldiers in the capital had to pay, and the families of other soldiers also had to pay.
Once you lose money, you will get a lot of trouble.
Li Kui asked Lu Zhishen: "What words are written on it?"
Lu Zhishen chanted it.
"I'll settle the score with them!" Li Kui was furious and wanted to take his troops to Jiangnan for a while.
Wu Yong grabbed it and said, "Who are you fighting for?"
The Demon Sect is different from Liangshan. Liangshan is organized and disciplined, and the Demon Sect is also organized, but now it is just a religious form, with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of believers scattered in dozens of prefectures in Jiangnan. It is difficult for anyone to distinguish. Could it be that they would take their troops to kill all the people in dozens of prefectures in Jiangnan?
Even if you have this cruel heart, you dare not do it. There is a reason why Liangshan survives. He has been making small fuss. After successfully attacking one place, he will immediately return to the village. If it is far away, it will spread out, and then gather to attack and then scatter back. That is, he will take a hand and leave, which will not really stop the operation of the various prefectures of the Song Dynasty. In other words, although everything they did makes the court uncomfortable, it is not fatal. If the army really spreads to Jiangnan, the court will be unable to bear it, and it will really not be able to wipe out Liangshan?
Until now, has the strongest Western Army ever appeared in Liangshanpo?
Wu Yong said again: "Send someone to investigate."
"The military advisor is right. If there are so many copper coins, they will not be lucky for a while. People should be sent to investigate all surrounding areas." Guan Shengdao.
Wu Yong shook his head: "It is necessary to check it, but if these people can steal it, they should think of this problem. I guess the ones that can be found are not very sure."
This is mainly beyond his understanding. How did he move away so much money? Besides, from the money treasury to outside the village, there are several places in each level alone, and the patrol soldiers are one after another. Are they all blind?
Teams of soldiers went down to find suspicious clues.
Wu Yong was resourceful, but he was still in a daze.
More than a month has passed, but there are still no clues. Even in the past month, there was a serious fight with Yuanbing Village. Many times, people from the Demon Sect who went north fought and fought each other, and they were beaten to the Demon Sect so hard that they did not dare to come out in the capital.
However, big trouble came out.
The reason why Song Jiang wanted to surrender was finally approved by Liangshan was precisely because the old military officers, such as Qin Ming, Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo, Dong Ping, Zhang Qing, Han Tao, Xu Ning, Shan Tinggui, Wei Dingguo, Suo Chao, and Lin Chong were an exception.
These people support the surrender of the imperial court, and they are the main force of the Liangshan battle. Even Wu Song cannot do it. If he fights alone on the horse, these generals rarely have his opponents. However, when the two armies fight and command the charge, Wu Song falls far behind the generals.
Not only these generals, but also their soldiers, were also more powerful than the original peasant army on Liangshan. After all, they had been formally trained for many years, but they were defeated because the commander did not perform well.
These generals and soldiers all agreed to surrender to the court. No matter how generous Liangshan treats them, they dare not return to the capital to visit their families openly.
In addition to the old military officers, there are Li Kui, Dai Zong, Zhang Shunjiangzhou faction, Hua Rong, Wang Aihu Qingfeng Mountain Village faction, San Ruan, Wu Yong, Gongsun Sheng Qixing Yi Sect, Dengzhou Sun Li, Zou Yuan faction, Li Ying, Du Xing Dulonggang faction, Lu Junyi, Yanqing Damingfu faction faction, Fan Rui, Xiang Chong Mangdang Mountain faction, Pei Xuan, Deng Feiyin Machuan faction, Lin Chong and other independent factions. In addition, the Sanshan faction led by Lu Zhishen, this faction is very powerful, with Erlongshan.
Lu Zhishen, Yang Zhi, Wu Song, Shi En, Cao Zheng, Zhang Qing, Sun Erniang; Zhou Tong and Li Zhong from Taohua Mountain; Shi Jin, Zhu Wu, Chen Da, and Yang Chun from Shaohua Mountain. The last three mountain factions are not only powerful, but also Lu Zhishen is not so close to Song Jiang. He once said in front of everyone: "I saw that some people say that Song Sanlang is good today, and some people say that Song Sanlang is good tomorrow, but unfortunately the restaurant has never met. Everyone said that his name makes the restaurant deaf even if they say it."
Why did Fu Jian fail in the battle of Feishui? It is because the teams are mixed and people are uneven.
Cao Cao also suffered from this disease in the battle of Chibi.
But it depends on how to integrate. Wanyan Aguda is very powerful in integration.
There is no problem with the heroes of Liangshan, but they brought their subordinates here. For such a long time, the army that is more chaotic than Fu is probably even more chaotic. There is no problem. It is precisely because of Wu Yong's contribution.
It is also because of Wu Yong that Xu Xian has always been afraid of Liangshan.
But there is another factor: staying in the mountains, having no worries about food and clothing, and even having no worries about life for the family. In addition, Wu Yong's ability to integrate, he hugged the soldiers from all leaders to the soldiers below and formed a regiment together.
However, now the money is lost, people's hearts are shaken, and the various disadvantages of the team's extremely mixed problems are revealed.
Some soldiers actually fled Liangshan privately.
Once this storm starts, it will be fatal.
Wu Yong summoned the leaders, but he did not speak, so he asked Song Jiang to speak. Song Jiang said: "The situation is critical, we must go out and 'go'."
Guan Sheng immediately said dissatisfied: "Third brother, the Lantern Festival has already made the emperor dissatisfied with the emperor. If he walked another way, the court would never invite us again."
When discussing surrendering to the court last year, Liangshan took the initiative to stop and attack everywhere. Otherwise, Xu Xian would have gained more benefits this time. Guan Sheng could not understand why he changed his mind.
Wu Yong then spoke, "Brother Guan, even if you don't go out for a walk, the court will not want to invite us for the time being. Walking around appropriately will put some pressure on the court, and maybe it will force the court to take the initiative to send envoys to come for the invitation."
As he said that, he took out a piece of information and handed it to Guan Sheng and other generals to circulate.
This is a piece of information that I just obtained, which came from the northwest. The protagonist of the intelligence was Liu Fa, a brave general of the Song Dynasty. This person was so famous that even the leaders of Liangshan had to admit it. Thirty years ago, Liu Fa was still a young general. At that time, Saimen Village was surrounded and the commander Mi Yun was killed. When the Song army was depressed and the city was raging, Liu Fa stepped forward, killed more than 500 people, and burned the clan's tent to turn the situation around in one fell swoop.
Twenty years ago, several great victoryes were fought and thousands of enemy troops were killed.
More than ten years ago, more than 10,000 Xia soldiers were captured in the Huizhou Battle.
Four years ago, the Battle of the Gubone Dragon beheaded another 3,000 Xia soldiers. Three years ago, facing the coalition forces between Tubo and Xixia, Liu Zhongwu forced the Xia army to dare not fight, and Tubo had to surrender in Renduoquan City. Last year, when Xixia took the Xihe River to the Qing earthquake, people were surrounded and Zhenwu army, Liu Fa reinforced, and Xixia was forced to rescue the siege.
The Song army repeatedly vied in the northwest, and Tong Guan underestimated the enemy. It is also possible that he wanted to solve the problem of Western Xia as soon as possible, so as to concentrate on joining forces with the Jin Kingdom to deal with the Khitan, and ordered Liu Fa to capture Xingqing Prefecture and Lingzhou in the core areas of Western Xia.
Liu Fa believed that the time had not yet come for the army to penetrate into the core area of Xixia, and he was unwilling to risk his troops. Tong Guan repeatedly forced him, so Liu Fahao only led 20,000 Song troops to attack Tongwancheng.
The Song army and the Xia army met under Tong'an City.
In the past, the Song army won many battles. Liu Fa was more or less underestimated the enemy in this battle. From the commander to the soldiers, they were all arrogant soldiers. They crossed mountains and rivers, were trapped and were short of people. They unexpectedly encountered a mountain torrent and lost a large amount of supplies. The commander of the Western Xia Dynasty, Cha Ge, was waiting for work. In terms of command skills, Cha Ge was not inferior to Liu Fa, and Xixia was defeated repeatedly. If this family background was completely destroyed, Xixia might really face the danger of destroying the country, and the three armies became mourning soldiers.
At the beginning of the tragic battle, Cha Ge personally fought against Liu Fa's brave and good-forward Yang Weizhong, who was brave and good at fighting. He sent 10,000 troops into the rear and was condescending to attack the Song army's rear army. Yang Weizhong was defeated by Cha Ge, and the front army collapsed into the central army, and the rear army collapsed into the left army. Liu Fa was unwilling to fail, so Ce pioneered the right army, the left army behind the hall and the central army forced a counterattack. The people of Xixia were scared when they saw Liu Fa fighting in person. At this time, a Khitan brave general who surrendered to Xixia came out of the battle and fought with Liu Fa, without a distinction between the winner and the defeat. Liu Fa asked Xiao Heda to hold him back, and the other few were defeated.
But that's it, this battle lasted for seven hours.
Such a long stalemate battle is usually rare in the history of war. Pre-war planning, preparation, arraying, post-war pursuit, cleaning the battlefield, and arresting are all waste time, but when the real battle is really battled, the winner will often be decided in three or two hours.
This is determined by human physical strength.
As a soldier, it is impossible to hold a weapon and wield it for so long.
The Song army came all the way, with people and horses exhausted, and insufficient food and rest, so that the soldiers would die of thirst if they didn't eat horses. The Song army finally collapsed. Liu Fa had to flee to Gai Zhucheng with the remaining soldiers, but he was not careful in the chaos, and fell off the mountain and broke his leg. A small pawn of Xixia happened to pass by. If Liu Fa was good, a hundred pawns would kill him, but even his legs were broken. If the injuries were all over his body, a famous general would actually kill this ordinary pawn.
Even more tragic things came. Liu Faruo was better off alive. Once he died, the Song army lost its commander. Not only was his army, but the Song army who caught up behind him, as well as the civilians who escorted food and supplies. Chage won a great victory and pursued him one after another, resulting in the loss of nearly 100,000 soldiers and civilians.
When Cha Ge saw the Fashou, he said to his subordinates with compassion: "General Liu defeated me in ancient bone dragon and Renduoquan. I have also avoided his edge, saying that he was born with a god general, but he did not expect that he would be a small soldier now. If he loses his mistake, he must be warned."
Heroes cherish heroes.
Liu Fa died, and Brother Cha still respected him very much.
Cha Ge surrounded Zhenwu. He was about to break through Zhenwu City, Cha Ge said again: "Don't destroy this city, leave it as if it was a ill in the Southern Dynasty."
Lead the troops back.
In fact, when Song and Xia were fighting, the Song Dynasty still took the initiative to attack and defend, and had the advantage. Cha Ge was worried that Tong Guan would not be able to get along with him, but instead forced the Song Dynasty army to expose the country, and Xixia would definitely not be able to bear it at that time.
The offensive order was given by Tong Guan. Since Zhao Ji ascended the throne, the Song army has not been defeated so badly. Tong Guan dared not report the report. What should I do? I concealed Wancheng in a battle without reporting it, and reported the achievements of the siege of Wucheng. However, this time the Song army was defeated too miserably and could not hide it even if I wanted to hide it. The capital was discussed.
This is what Wu Yong saw for Guan Sheng and other generals.
Guan Sheng read the information and understood Wu Yong's intention. No matter how Tong Guan concealed it, this great defeat would shock the court. The court had to focus on the northwest and had no time to take care of Liangshan. Maybe Liangshan "was one or two times", and the court did not want to catch fire in front and rear, but would send envoys to seek peace in the rear. He raised his head and asked, "Military advisor, where are we attacking?"
Wu Yong said: "Since the opportunity is rare, let's just play bigger."
After saying that, he pointed to Qingzhou and Qizhou on the map.
Qingqi Prefectures are the two most important prefectures on Jingdong Road. If they are captured, it will be a big deal.
Guan Sheng felt a little uneasy in his heart...
ps; Someone talked about the heroine, but the heroine Xu didn’t know yet? It’s not yet here. Could it be that the short content of the previous article buried all the pits together and shook them together, so that they could be stuffed?
Chapter completed!