The armies that were sent to quell the rebellion, instead of quickly and effectively quelling the civil unrest in various places as expected by the court and the scholarly clans of the counties, they lost every step of the way! What's more, there were even cases where the generals could not restrain their subordinates, causing them to mutiny, joining the mutineers to seize the counties, looting the treasury, raping and burning, and other horrifying things. The generals could not restrain their subordinates, which made them mutiny and join the mutineers to seize the counties, plunder the treasury, rape, burn and kill!

"The world is mostly in the hands of the scholars, the previous Wei Ding, since the following Gaozu, Gaozong, Taizong, Xuanzong three generations of good governance, the opening of the Wei room a hundred years of prosperity. The blessing of the ancestors, stretched to decades ago, only because the first emperor neglected to reveal the obvious decadence." Throwing another urgent document back to the case the content of the document is recently sent to the Thin State to pacify the army is besieged by the mob, even under the defeat has appeared under the shortage of military food, the army shaking the situation, the good thing is that the army's first general to kill and decisive, found that some people in the army spread rumors of the rebellion, even killed dozens of people, the head of a public display, temporary This temporarily calmed down the whole army. However, with the mob outside and the lack of food and grass inside, the general did not know how long he could hold out, so he wrote dozens of bloody letters, tied them to arrows and shot them out of the siege, and a few of them were indeed sent back to the imperial capital by horseback to be presented to the court.

Shen Zangfeng, however, shook his head, ''Over the past hundred years, although the Great Wei's borders have been ablaze with war from time to time, the border troops are no strangers to going into battle. However, within the country's borders, there have been no swordsmen for a long time. The Yanzhou army can still be related to the Pillow and Bird's Nest due to its supply wagons, but as for the Imperial Forest Army and the various Prefectural armies, they've been idle for too long. Soldiers lack of fire training is one, the most important thing is, the army is too serious empty pay ...... nominal full camp of the army, in fact, but ten of the five or six, which is not counting their temporary recruitment over the perfunctory inspection of the idle man, the barracks are empty to this point, and what to talk about drilling ... ... ...In short, the Wei army today, the combat power is actually not much stronger than the common people."

"But the masses of the common people are furious, and it can be said that the heart of the army is available. These soldiers are not, they were initially influenced by the courtiers, thinking that it is just like the usual time to oppress the neighbors in general, gladly out of the capital. However, after the encounter, they knew that they were powerful, but immediately weakened their courage!" Shen Zangfeng face sullen, said, "For example, the first general who wrote this letter to ask for help, he rushed to Bozhou from the siege, and then sent this request for help, in the middle of only a few days of light, how did the army run out of food and grass? It can be seen that they thought that they could win as soon as they arrived in the area, or they thought that this time to pacify the rebellion was just like some of the people they usually bullied when they were roaming around the countryside, in any case, they did not wake up, and I am afraid that they didn't have enough food and grass with them, and therefore suffered from this robbery!"

He sighed, "I'm afraid it's already too late for the letter to reach the Imperial Capital before sending someone to rescue it!"

At this moment, there were no outsiders in the study, in addition to Shen Zangfeng, there were only two brothers, Shen Xuan and Shen Zeu, all of whom looked grave.

Hearing Shen Zangfeng's words, Shen Xuan stroked his beard and nodded his head, saying, "This army is not in the way of the overall situation, it is nothing to save or not to save. Feng'er said the situation in the world, but ......"

"Empty pay is misleading the country ah!" Shen family to martial arts family, and bear the important task of guarding the western Liang, against the invasion of the Di people, as the people of the clan, Shen Zeu for the army to eat empty pay thing is naturally very clear. In fact, due to the Wei Cheng Ping for a long time, in addition to the need to often fight with the Rong Di's border troops, the Wei hinterland of the army is not very good ...... This is still a good argument, the truth is that these armies are not much of a chance to go into battle anyway, on the Division of the empty pay to eat assured that the bottom of the pawns loose discipline has become a habit! ......

In the long run, it is said to be an army, and many battalions are actually similar to scoundrels and ruffians.

How can it be so easy to ask them to quell the chaos?

Just whether it is the saint, or all the officials, including those who have not served but have great prestige in the mulberry outlet, the food must be fine clothes must be fine, the eyes of the view, are a bunch of flowers and flowers. The high and mighty are accustomed to, for the army except the border army rotten, although have heard of, but also did not expect them to be so bad.

It was to give the order lightly this kind of order affected the soldiers again it was only to pacify some mobs who could not get enough to eat and rose up to rebel, and it was not to go to the border to fight with Rong and Di.

As a result, this pacification of the chaos, but let the whole Wei chaos on top of the chaos!

"Yanzhou Lu Haozhi has become the climate, Youzhou Cao Jianlin, Xu Zongwen and others have not been put to death, let alone the rest of the place!" Shen Xuan frowned and said, "Now is a star fire, will soon start a prairie fire situation ...... I am concerned about, but the East Hu!"

Speaking of which, although the Shen family is responsible for guarding the western Liang, they know and are familiar with the eastern Hu. There is a reason for this, because the Shen family and the Liu family have been competing for the court's military pay for years. The two families each had a place to defend, and they had always been very keen on each other when it came to this kind of thing. In order to suppress rivals, on the other side of everything that happens naturally have to be well-informed, so that they can look for opportunities to make a big fuss.

Today is no exception Donghu is in a precarious situation due to the chaos in the two states of Youyan at its rear, and even though the Liu family has been forced to take out their own treasury to stabilize the military, the situation is already precarious, and there have even been cases of towns being lost!

Liu family is not a fool, to feed the entire border army of their own strength, even if the Liu family hundreds of years of savings down the treasury to hold up, so feed on a few years is also non-injurious!

Shen Zangfeng as early as in the Wei is still peaceful when the Wei throne has been declining, Liu family to this point if you do not wake up how to rank the six valves in the sea? Shen Zangfeng in order to retain the strength to cope with the world chaos, the Liu family can not not keep a hand?

Under these circumstances, it was simply impossible for the Liu family to take out their entire treasury to feed the Border Army at this moment the Liu family was starting to lose towns and cities, and they would lose even more in the next few moments!

It is estimated that by that time, except for where the Liu family's ancestral hall is located, and a few retreats to prevent extermination by the Rong people, which will be rigidly guarded by the Liu family, the rest of the places will be abandoned by the Liu family. In order to gather superior forces mainly the Liu family's private soldiers and the most elite part of the border army, to guard their bottom line so that once the road to the rich heart of Wei is opened, the Rong people will stay in East Hu and Liu family fight for their lives or drive straight into the hinterland of Wei to pillage! The great mountains and rivers of the Central Plains, that is not even think about it!

Both the Northern Rong and the Autumn Di were very bitterly cold places that could not be farmed, and the Rong and the Di did not know how to farm.

They have been violating the border year after year, in fact, they don't have a grudge against the Wei people from the very beginning. It's just that they want to play the autumn breeze when they don't have enough grazing to supply their tribes; secondly, they are jealous of Wei's prosperity and affluence.

Rong people and not stupid, Liu family private soldiers and border army in the elite, that are almost every year with them to fight, real blood and fire in the tempered out of the brave soldiers. The army within the Wei, white raised for nearly a hundred years, even if the Rong people do not know that Wei in addition to the border army has been completely unbearable, but an army that has never been on the battlefield and a sand field of a hundred battles of the division, must be engaged in a war, the fools know who to choose as the enemy!

And what did the Rong invade Wei for? It was not to plunder the population!

That place in Donghu, even if it was the Liu family's mulberry outlet, where was it comparable to the prosperity of the imperial capital?

As long as the Liu family as soon as the way out to the Rong people to leave a maximum of people to prevent the Liu family with the Wei court before and after the attack, followed by must pour all efforts to swing south, take the Wei hinterland East Hu let out of the way after the first to bear the brunt of the two states is You, Yan, the two states, now Yanzhou Qin family led out of the people's mutiny has been extinguished! ...... or Qin Gu and others have been in September last year, three years ago to the border to build the sons of the family back, was escorted Liu Jizhao and others are still all the merits of the Liu family private soldiers eliminated.

However, the private army did not catch Royston Lu left Yanzhou because the day of Liu Jizhao's and other people's face to the Holy Spirit was approaching.

So the court ministers have not yet had time to celebrate Yanzhou can be safe, and then received an urgent report that Lu Haozhi in the Qin Gu group ambush actually escaped, and enlisted the old troops, turned Yanzhou army more than 80% of Yanzhou local generals and soldiers, relying on the defense of Yanzhou familiar with the night to kill the Yanzhou assassins of common people, but refused to go along with the revolt, and occupied the state of the city!

Yanzhou Daxingtai Zhang Leyou must have been unable to escape death if he had not been forced by Liu Jing to bring back to the imperial capital for impeachment!

Upon learning the news, the Emperor and the court officials ordered the Liu family's private soldiers to go with the imperial guards to quell the chaos and recapture the city! However, Yanzhou is a city with a very strong and deep wall because of its location, which is far from being compared to ordinary cities. Not to mention the city for many years piled up should be supplied to the surrounding counties of grain and grass, can be said to be covered with provisions like a mountain, Lu Haozhi hand in hand with a heavy army, countless grain and grass, guarding the city can be said to be easy to do.

The high hopes of the Liu family private soldiers are indeed brave, several times leaving behind the imperial guards not useful to kill the head of the city, but because of the small number of people have no return ...... They were only to escort Liu Jizhao and others back to the capital only, to the suspicion of the emperor, Liu family where dare to send more people? However, in order to guard against bandits along the way, full counting only hundreds of people.

On the other hand, Royce Lu's Yanzhou army under his command used to be called 200,000, after deducting the empty pay, the actual number is always 100,000 or so. Deducting those who are unwilling to follow him and were purged by him, the actual number of subordinates should be a few tens of thousands, right? When it comes to the best of them, there are always 3,000 capable warriors to choose from! Royston Lu didn't rely on his family to get to the top, he relied on his talent to climb up the ranks!

Hundreds against tens of thousands, Yanzhou army is not as elite as the border army, even if the Liu family private soldiers can be ten at most can only take care of a few thousand just ......

Several times down, the Liu family private army losses are heavy, its direct superior Wei Yuan Marquis Liu Si Jing heartbroken to death, while passing orders to let them slow down the attack on the city, while the eight hundred miles of urgent sobbing sire, and even said that their own private army is only good at fighting with the Rong people in the steppe, not good at the attack on the city, but also said that they are tired of the battle in a violent battle ...... in short, is to want to increase the number of troops.

Before the reinforcements as well as the siege equipment arrived, he didn't want to let the soldiers raised by his own family go to die in vain again!

Originally this should be, tens of thousands of Yanzhou army familiar with the terrain of Yanzhou, under the command of a general who has been defending Yanzhou for decades, but also sitting on a mountain of grain and grass, relying on a few hundred elite private soldiers and a few tens of thousands of people who look at the mighty and majestic but actually on the battlefield is useless imperial forest army on the delusion of attacking ...... this is also too ridiculous.

The problem is that His Holiness doesn't approve of the Liu family coming to take Yanzhou.

The reason was simple, Yanzhou was rich in grain and grass, this was known to everyone. This batch of grain and grass was especially important to the Liu family.

For His Majesty, if the Yanzhou army can rebel, can't the Liu family rebel?

However, this time the saint does not allow can not be blamed on the saint, at the moment in the study of Shen's three know, if not the imperial army in the attack on Yanzhou performance is too bad, tens of thousands of people are not as conspicuous as the Liu family a few hundred private soldiers, so the imperial army of the top and bottom of the self-conscious face of the occasion, but the Liu family private soldiers deep cynicism.

So after they returned without success, up and down the same in front of the Holy Driver will be the Liu family private soldiers praised to the sky, as if a few hundred people as long as they did their best will certainly be able to Yanzhou to take down ......

His Holiness listened with unease.

In fact, the truth is known to all the dukes in the court, however, these imperial guards, even the unusual soldiers are the sons and daughters of the distant branches of the scholarly families. Their attitude, and not just the young man's jealousy?

Shen Xuan sighed, "Yanzhou's grain and provisions were intended to be used by Donghu, Youzhou, and Yanzhou themselves for ten years of storage, and with such a large number of provisions in such a heavy town, how can we let it fall into the hands of the rebels because of a momentary doubt? Your Majesty is so old that you have listened to the words of a child and made such a mistake! The throne of Wei is already in decline! Even though the Liu family has an insubordinate heart, their intention to take back Yanzhou is not false. If the Emperor is not worried, can he not find a person who can restrain the Liu family from the six valves in the sea? If we don't let the Marquis of Wei Yuan increase his troops to break the city, looking at the north, who else can break the Yanzhou city which is strong and well-fed, and is also guarded by Royston Lu himself? In time, I'm afraid that the left side of Yanzhou is going to start thinking that it shouldn't!"

But this Shen Xuan also said in the study, the saint is older, because the world in chaos in the past few months, the more bad temper. Even always favored Miao Jieyu, Zhong Xiaoyi and other young and beautiful concubines are at every turn, eunuchs and palaces have been killed alive out of anger ...... across the Shen family has long been prepared for after the death of Wei's intentions, and now the saint himself does not contend with, the other clans did not come out to block, the Shen family is also too lazy to touch this bad luck.

"Feng child in the Western Liang these three years to compete tight, even the autumn Di big monarch are chopped, more so that the autumn Di split, Ugu Meng and Ai Tahu said each big monarch, fighting each other ......" Shen Xuan squinted his eyes, looked at the vigorous, more and more calm son, under the mind secretly thought, "just my Shen family in this dynasty has been the prestige, if Wei is still in full bloom, I'm afraid it is difficult to escape the suspicion of a high and mighty master. Now the world is in chaos just right! My son has made a name for himself, so I don't have to be afraid of the Wei family hiding their bow and cooking their dogs!"

...... Just the Shen family does not intend to trip this muddy water, gladly chose to stand by and watch. But it does not mean that the scholars are all this kind of mind, the next morning, the palace will spread the news, the master of the Imperial Court and the Secretary with the hundred officials kneeling in the palace!