Chapter 62 Old pawn
Five hundred prisoners were moved to Zhufeng Villa. Although the Lu Office had not written down yet, Guo Zhongxiong did not intend to make trouble at this critical moment. In addition to sending small teams of soldiers in the wing army to Huanglongpo Post and restoring the opening roads, he also sent people to send 500 sets of shields and military uniforms.
After all, Guo Zhongxiong had the power to raise war and could directly incorporate 500 prisoners into the wing army, but he did not want to take the blame for the future actions of the 500 prisoners, so he insisted that Wang Bing personally requested the Lusi to write a document.
In addition to considering the possibility of losing control of so many prisoners, Guo Zhongxiong's possibility of sending the banished army to suppress it.
Now these factors no longer exist. Zhou Qinguang hid in Kelan City and did not leave. As prisoners, Wang Kong and others could not directly serve as generals without military merit. Five hundred prisoners needed to make new arrangements in order to exert their due combat effectiveness in the upcoming battle against Yan.
As jailers guarding the prison camp, the former generals of the Xiang army were stronger than those of the Xiang army, which acted as hard laborers, and had a certain combat effectiveness in daily training. What was even more rare is that they were much more stable and honest than the prisoners.
Xu Huai and Wang Geng discussed and organized them into a team, with Xu Zhong as the general.
Although Xu Zhong was only at the rank of the Shichang Prison Camp before, he was not only good at skill, but also quite upright and had no connection with the local forces in Lanzhou.
It was just that when Cheng Yanqing and others realized that Xu Huai might make a big fuss in the Grain and Materials Institute, only Xu Zhong did not support him and did not fight with Cheng Yanqing and others, and was unwilling to join them in plagiarizing and bullying prisoners, so he was pushed out to lead a team to accompany Xu Huai and the others to collect grain.
Xu Zhong was forced to become a scapegoat for Yanqing and others at that time, but no one could have thought that things would develop like this.
Because of this reason and Wang Bing's personal reputation, Xu Huai believed that Xu Zhong should be willing to use it for Wang Bing.
In addition, Xu Huai also stuffed Wang Kong, the prestigious prisoner into the army, so that they could follow Wang Bing first, Lu Xiong rushed to the stone yard to ensure that the stone yard could resume operation immediately. Remember in one second
Although Xu Huai transferred more than 40 Zhufeng Hall guards from Zhufeng Hall this time, Xu Huai did not think about completely breaking up and was incorporated into the remaining four capitals.
He has not had more than half a year to train his troops, and he will soon face the complex war directly. Equality is likely to be a big deal.
What we can learn from now is the first team model of Huaiyuan Township Camp rising rapidly in the Tongbai bandits.
Xu Huai, with Yin Peng, Tang Qing, Han Qi and 30 Zhufeng Hall Guards as backbones, organized ninety powerful prisoners including Yan Xiaoyi and Shen Zhene into the first team.
In addition to the strengthening of the number of soldiers and the considerable personal force of the soldiers, the soldiers are also equipped with armor and the most exquisite swords and guns; half of them are equipped with high-quality war horses, used as cavalry or cavalry infantry; half of them are equipped with insurgent bows, used as elite sword archers.
The remaining prisoners were divided into three capitals, with Xu Xin'an, Tang Pan and Yuan Huidao as the capitals. Only two Zhufeng Hall guards were assigned to assist in training and supervise military discipline. There was no extra armor. They were mainly equipped with long spears and shields that could form formations to resist cavalry charges and storms.
In addition, Xu Huai also picked out Zhu Chengjun and twenty relatively honest prisoners who were mainly assassinated by the killing case and were kept by Xu Wukun and Su Laochang to make up for the deficit of the villa's garrison.
It is common for generals and officials to send soldiers to use their own personal uses. Xu Huai used the name of Wang Bing to leave twenty or thirty prisoners at Zhufeng Villa to send them, without any hesitation.
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The more than 60 prisoners who are the most troubling and appealing are taken away by Xu Huai from the beginning. Although the Shichang Prison Camp has disturbed people's hearts these days, under the strict supervision of Cheng Yanqing and others, no trouble has occurred.
Wang Bing, Lu Xiong, Xu Zhong and Tang Qing led a team back to the stone yard, and this place resumed normal operation that day.
After nightfall, Wang Bing was worried about going to the prison camp to see it. He returned to the official residence after seeing everything was normal. He was exhausted, but he was wearing clothes in front of the window, but he was sleepy.
Lu Xiong pushed the door and walked in, watching the moonlight shine through the open window, and asked Wang Bingjun to clearly see the wrinkles on his face, and his eyebrows were covered with worries.
"What are you worried about in the King?" Lu Xiong asked.
"After this incident, others will determine that Zhufengtang is the minion of my Wang Bing. It was my Wang Bing who tried to make a comeback, so he tried to connect the Xu family in Tongbai Mountain for his own use," Wang Bing said. "For the sake of the country, I don't care about fame, but you and I know that Xu Wukun, Su Laochang, Xu Xin'an and others, as well as Xu Wujiang, Xu Wuliang and others who stayed in Tongbai Mountain... Do you know what I want to say?"
"..." Lu Xiong smiled bitterly and nodded to indicate what he wanted to say.
Whether for fame or profit, or for the morality, conscience, or inherent evil, acting only to vent the hatred in your heart, you can find traces when you act.
Xu Huai, Xu Wujiang and others formed Zhufengtang and gathered so many people to go north. This time they will be incorporated into the wing army to participate in the Northern Expedition. In the eyes of outsiders, they are so successful because they follow Wang Bing.
However, he and Wang Bing knew in their hearts that this was not the case.
Then the question arises, why did they gather so many people to go north and participate in this Northern Expedition?
Worry about the disaster of the Red Gu people?
Xu Huai has indeed been worried about this, but the problem is that Xu Wujiang, Xu Wukun, Xu Xin'an, Su Laochang and others, at least in Tongbai Mountain, are more or less concerned, and even think that Xu Huai's worries are a bit too much.
The bandits in Tongbai Mountain were in chaos, and Xu Huai, with his demonic performance, undoubtedly established his position as a more central to Xu Wujiang in the Xu family - outsiders don't know this, they are clear about it, but this does not mean that Xu Wujiang, Xu Wukun, Xu Xin'an, and Su Laochang will blindly follow Xu Huai.
Xu Wujiang and the others were eager for fame and fortune. Do they really think that Wang Bing's comeback would make everyone successful, and they were persuaded to participate in the matter by Xu Huai?
Lu Xiong didn't think it was the reason either.
During the Tongbai bandits' rebellion, the performance of Xu Wujiang and others showed that they did not have high hopes for Wang Bing's comeback.
The dynasty was extremely strict with the restrictions on powerful ministers, and there were strict regulations on the origins of civil and military generals and officials. Even if Xu Wujiang, Xu Huai and others could really help Wang Bing make a comeback, even if Wang Bing could go further after he was restored and officially became prime minister, it would be difficult to promote Xu Wujiang, Xu Huai and others who were from the imperial examination to the highest position.
If you want to talk about personal friendship, to be honest, they can be said to be very attentive to escort Wang Bingan to Ren Lanzhou. There is no need to do so many things in the future.
Exhausted all the possibilities, no matter how incredible it is, there is only one of the most incredible possibilities left.
"..." Wang Bing sat in front of the window and said leisurely, "I had never doubted this before. The file also clearly stated that after Wang Xiaocheng was killed by Cai Ying forcibly, more than a dozen generals escorted his wife and son back home and harmed him halfway. Although there was no trace of more than a dozen generals, the remains of his wife and young son were left on the side. At that time, Cai Ying pretended to be thinking about the old relationship and sent someone to collect the corpses and buried them in Guancen Mountain. There should be no problem here, at least Cai Ying did not suspect that the corpse was fake, right? By the way, how old was Wang Xiaocheng's youngest son at that time?"
"Wang Xiaocheng had two sons in his early years, but they were not fortunately died. Jingsheng's army came from Jingzhou to help Lanzhou. Wang Fan was just born. We drank and caught Zhou wine to fight. We were over two years old when the accident happened." Lu Xiong said.
"A young child over two years old was replaced by someone before he was killed? Even if the person who was killed by Cai's orders and rushed to take the poison himself was once a trusted person named Wang Xiaocheng, it should be impossible to tell, right?" Wang Bing asked with a sigh.
Lu Xiong looked at the moonlight outside the window intently. Although Wang Bing's words sounded very incredible, for them who know more about the inside story of the Tongbai bandits, this may be the only reasonable explanation for many doubts.
"Xu Wuli renamed Chen Ji and surrendered to Dong Cheng, which should be their secret son. You have always said that Xu Wuli and Xu Wuxuan value friendship the most, so we speculated at this time that it is reasonable. After Xu Wuxuan's death, Xu Wuli seemed to be silent about his old love, but secretly protected Wang Xiaocheng's youngest son, and even Xu Huai's previous 'ignorance' should be to avoid attracting the attention of Cai Ying and his minions-"
Wang Bing frowned slightly and said,
"If Xu Wuli had not cooperated with Xu Wufu in every way, they would not have been able to seize the Xu clan soldiers so easily. The Xu clan soldiers were much stronger than ordinary rural soldiers. Xu Wufu was also smart for a lifetime, but he suffered a loss because he had never seen through Xu Wuli, Zheng Hui and Dong Qifeng had not seen through this, so he was hit by a bitter plan?"
"..." Lu Xiong nodded. He had actually had some doubts for a long time, but he had never thought of pointing out all this.
Wang Bing continued: "...Su Laochang is an extraordinary person and has extraordinary skills in his life. It is impossible for him to be an old farmer who fled to Tongbai Mountain to settle down. He should also be the one who secretly protects Wang Xiaocheng's youngest son; he is Xu Wujiang's father-in-law. Only with these two people and Xu Wujiang spared no effort to support Xu Huai easily concentrated all the main forces of the Xu family after the bandits and chaos in Zhuchaotang for his control..."
"What are you worried about in the King?" Lu Xiong asked.
"Wang Xiaocheng was indeed defeated by that time. If they thought about revenge, it would be natural. I was worried that they would go too far!" Wang Bing said.
Chapter completed!