The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 95

[Chapter 94 Internal Troubles]

Sili Xiaowei, the most northeastern county in Henan County, and Chenggao County, where there are usually only tens of thousands of people, is now gathering more than his army of 200,000 people.

At this time, Han Kai, the general of Zhengdong, was slowly driving his army to the revolving door in Chenggao County.

This pass is the only gateway to the east of Luoyang. The Hulao Pass in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was created based on this pass.

As one of the eight passes around Luoyang City, the Xuanmen Pass assumes the responsibility of defending the east of Luoyang and the attack of the princes in the Central Plains.

Usually, he was stationed as the captain and led a battalion, and two or three thousand people were stationed here.

Today, the big man is everywhere, and the rebel army in the south has attacked the surrounding of Luoyang City.

He even deployed the army he had just returned from the rebellion in Xiliang. It was led by Lu Zhi, the general of the Dongzhong Lang, who had revived after being recommended by the court officials. A total of 40,000 people were stationed here.

Today, the entire Revolving Gate Pass can be said to be heavily guarded, with the intent to kill Xiao Leng everywhere, and the guards inside the pass are even more nervous.

Those outside are not those rebels from the Western Liang Dynasty. They are poorly equipped, and they can’t even eat enough to eat. Although they have a strong will to fight, they are hard to cook without rice. For those well-equipped and well-trained Han regular troops, it is not enough. Not too big of a problem.

And the army of the Great Imperial Kingdom on the opposite side, everyone is wearing leather armor, which is better than the defenders in the pass.

And looking at the number of times they lit the cigarettes every day, it was not the usual two meals of the Han army, but three meals.

And the faint scent blown by the wind from a distance shows that they still have a meat supply every day. How can this not be envied by the defenders in Guanzhong, and at the same time, they should feel a sense of fear.

Well-equipped, it can be said that it was prepared before the army was born.

This can only prove that Yuguo, after the looting of the southern expedition, is relatively rich!

However, three meals a day, continuous meat, this is not the ordinary army can do.

In the army, too, only those generals who manage thousands of his people can enjoy the treatment.

During the expedition, normal troops often can only eat hard and cold dry food, and they are often hungry and often lack food and pay.

With the army on the opposite side, not only did they have a lot of food and grass every day, but they also provided three meals a day, and they also added a meal of meat every day.

It can be said that it is extremely attentive and thoughtful, and it is only those generals who are in a high position that can enjoy it.

This proves that the opponent’s army has enough food and grass, and there will be no shortage of food for a long time, unlike the army in their own customs.

Because the imperial court fought for two years, there was already a shortage of food, so the military rations have been in short supply for a long time.

Except for those on duty above the city wall, who can eat him for two full meals, and the others who fight at the back can only eat him one meal, or is it thin?

Just barely guaranteed their survival.

The guard, Lu Zhi, looked from a distance above the checkpoint, carefully observed it for several days, and found that in the opponent’s camp, every time the army was transporting food and grass.

It was not shipped from the same direction, but from all directions, according to the directions of the surrounding counties. This discovery made him feel a chill in his heart, and he couldn’t help but have a guess.

That is, the surrounding counties and gentry have all taken refuge in the group of rebels in front of them, and they have used all their strength to take out the past savings of their families and officials to supply food and grass for the army in front of them.

That’s why the army in front of them can waste food without any worries, without worrying about logistical pressures, because the local government and clan that control millions of farmers provide them with food and grass.

Feeding on the enemy was originally a very cruel word, which often represented very bloody killing and looting.

Now it is extremely ironic to refute, anyone’s definition of it in the past is the loyal ministers and righteous men of the Han court in front of him.

At this moment, they were crying and shouting, and they wanted to increase the income of the imperial court by a penny.

They all cried for the food and money that the poor refused to give, and desperately sent them to the big camp in front of him.

And on his side, the regular army of the Han court representing the righteousness of the world.

At this moment, he had to come hungry to defend against the attacks of these chaotic ministers and thieves.

This is not the most terrifying, low morale, rudimentary equipment, not the most terrifying for an army, because such an army can still obey orders.

The most terrifying thing is that some people in the army have already become two-minded and want to commit chaos and cause internal strife. At that time, a battalion scream is inevitable.

Most of his army is the private army of those nobles, and the previous masters of those armies are now in front of the checkpoint and are loyal to the group of rebels.

What does this make the group of low-level soldiers under him think?

Most of their parents and relatives are in the hands of those nobles. Do they dare to ignore their own family members, and instead swear to resist their master’s new master?

This thought arose in my heart, I saw the faces of the soldiers on the left and right, and found that some soldiers who were smart and had figured out this problem, the complexion at this moment has undergone a strange change.

With a very strange and malicious look, he looked at the chief officials beside them.

As if watching some lambs to be slaughtered,

I’m figuring out where to cut it better.

I discovered that this kind of threat exists like a powder keg, which can explode with just one inducement, sending all the loyal officials of the Han Dynasty to the sky in the entire level.

The main general of this level, Lu Zhi, did not dare to stay any longer, and hurriedly took his own guards down the city wall.

And sent people to recruit those who I thought were reliable and remained loyal to the Han Dynasty, and came to my mansion to discuss how to eliminate this turmoil.

That night, more than ten carriages stopped in front of the residence of Lu Zhi, the main general in Guanzhong. Within the entire checkpoint, there were probably nearly a hundred of him in the official positions of thousands of generals.

But only a few dozen people could be trusted by him and invited to this place.

It can be seen how bad the situation in the customs is now?

At this moment, the defender Lu Zhi was anxiously discussing the emergency situation with his subordinates, and quarrels sounded from time to time.

Some people think that thunder should be used to gather all the other officers who cannot be trusted, and then kill them in one fell swoop, so that those soldiers will not be able to turn the tide without a leader.

Some people think that this method is too ruthless, and it may arouse the resistance of those soldiers, but it will make the soldiers in the entire level even more chaotic without a leader, so they will not fight.

Others think that…

All in all, it was chaos, and the generals spent most of the night quarreling.

…

However, this quarrel did not last until dawn, at midnight, on the street outside the city lord’s mansion.

A group of soldiers with their heads wrapped in blue cloth and armed with sharp-blade armors slowly moved towards the direction of the lord’s mansion.

People continued to join along the way, so that the original army of several million gradually expanded to tens of thousands of people, surrounding the lord’s mansion.

This group of people, the generals of the gentry, brought their soldiers to rebel anyway.

I plan to take the head of the guard and use it to exchange credit in front of Zhong Yu, maybe I can seal the country!

And the group of loyal guard generals did not find the situation outside, and the danger was beyond his expectations, and it was even more unrecoverable.

On the contrary, in the mansion, they quarreled over the different opinions, and their eyes were red.

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