Chapter 2219 The fangs of Gui Zijuan are revealed, and the classical Chinese is intimate

Feng Ziying has continued to preach and instill in her colleagues and subordinates in this way throughout the year, in order to pass on her new ideas to the groups that are most receptive to these views as much as possible.

 Whether they are active or passive, whether they can understand and accept it now or cannot understand it and accept it, letting them have an impression and concept in their minds first can serve as a warm-up for promoting the implementation of these concepts one day in the future.

Of course, when Feng Ziying carries out propaganda and indoctrination, she also chooses people, places and times, and is more particular about her methods. When communicating with people like Zhao Nanxing and Li Tengfang, she mostly takes advantage of the situation to bring out these topics and viewpoints for discussion. , and by the way, some of his practices in Yongping Mansion and Shuntian Mansion were used as evidence in order to persuade them to the maximum extent.

As for his subordinates, it is more of a popular propaganda. After all, such a group is much larger, and he does not have so much energy and time to talk about it one by one.

However, there is another big weapon that will play a greater role, and that is the Northwest Times.

As the "Northwest Times" begins to be printed and sent to the desks of various stores, it can be said that the first people in the entire Shaanxi Province to be affected by the public opinion of the "Northwest Times" will be the "high-end group" with no more than a thousand people, or the elites of Shaanxi Province The crowd, including officials, gentry and some big businessmen, were all included by the Northwest Times.

In the early days, Feng Ziying would not mix too many of her own views and ideas, but would instead use news information and various newspaper-style content to strengthen her authority. After two or three months, everyone subconsciously accepted " After the content published in the Northwest Times is reliable and trustworthy, he will gradually combine some of his views with his actual work and publish them to influence everyone's thinking.

This will definitely be a long process, but as long as there is a good start, Feng Ziying believes that Shaanxi, a remote inland province, may be able to get out of poverty and backwardness faster.

Just when the situation in Shaanxi is improving, the situation in neighboring Shanxi is experiencing twists and turns, and there are many storms.

From the beginning of March, the rebel army formed two major groups. One was the rebel army led by Zijin Liang Wang Taipu who entered the Jin Dynasty early. After accepting the troops of Mang Zhangfei and Xing Honglang who fled into the Jin Dynasty in the later period, they became more powerful. Zhang successively launched efforts in the counties in the central part of Pingyang Prefecture, captured many prefectures and counties, and began to assume a northward posture in April, forcing the southward part of Shanxi Town to retreat.

On April 29, Zijin Liang used its main force to attract Shanxi Town's frontier troops, and then used a large force to bypass Sandeng Mountain with Zhang Cunhou and Xing Honglang's troops, cutting off the Shanxi Town frontier troops' retreat from the rear. The frontier troops were disheartened and abandoned Xiangling to flee. Go to Linfen.

Prince Taipu of Zijin Liang led the main force of this rebel army, and under the guidance of the frontier troops who had surrendered earlier, they took advantage of the situation to attack Linfen. Some officers in the border army were persuaded by the frontier troops who had surrendered earlier, and they cooperated internally and externally. Linfen fell on the third day of May, and all the remaining frontier troops surrendered. Zijin beam.

On the tenth day of the fifth lunar month, Xu Cong'er's tribe of eight-clawed dragons captured Hongdong. On the fifteenth day of the fifth month, they went to Zhaocheng and on the twenty-second day they went to Huozhou.

On the other hand, Mang Zhangfei's troops captured Yueyang on the Jianshui River and approached Qinyuan County in Qinzhou, causing shock in central Shanxi.

At the same time, Qiu Zixiong's movements were much slower and they stayed on the bank of the Yellow River for training.

It was not until the Zijin Liang tribe captured Xiangling that Qiu Zixiong felt that prolonging the situation would be even more detrimental to him, so he led his army north to occupy Xiangning, and on May 17th, he occupied Jizhou.

“Now the rebellion in southern Shanxi has put the court in a dilemma.” Feng Ziying also felt embarrassed when she received Qiu Zixiong’s letter.

Sun Chengzong's army had already marched north to Shanhaiguan. The army that went south from Shanxi Town was originally a counter-rebellion army, but instead it was surrounded and defeated. It even surrendered to the rebel army and became the backbone of the rebel army. This is the most unacceptable thing. of.

 Can't blame Chai Guozhu for this.

Su Shengdu's defeat in the Shandong War directly ruined more than 50,000 Shanxi Town elites. When Chai Guozhu first left, Su Shengdu, as the senior deputy commander, was bent on gaining success for himself through the Shandong War. In order to facilitate his promotion to the General Soldier in the next step, he brought almost all the elites of Shanxi Town out. However, Niu Jizong and Sun Shaozu seized the opportunity to annihilate them in one fell swoop, which directly damaged the vitality of Shanxi Town.

In order to quickly restore the vitality of Shanxi Town, Chai Guozhu had to deploy troops from various garrison posts in Shanxi to supplement.

However, Shanxi Dusi's garrison is either in northern Shanxi, under the control of Datong Town and Shanxi Town, and is in name only; To make up for the army of more than 50,000, so in the end Chai Guozhu could only draw part from the guards, and partly from the people.

 This directly leads to the uneven combat effectiveness of Shanxi Town.

It turns out that the remaining Shanxi Town old troops are basically still stationed at Piantou Pass, Laoyingbao, Baodezhou, Zhenxiwei and Ningwuguan. They have to deal with the Tumuts, so those who were sent south to quell the rebels were all last year. The new frontier army, which was just recruited from the guards and minzhuang, was far from comparable to the original old frontier army in terms of combat effectiveness.

After a small victory in the early stage, this unit underestimated the enemy and felt that the rebel army was no match for them. Then they were caught off guard by the main force of the rebel army in Zijin Liang and were routed thousands of miles away.

The retreat of this frontier army even directly brought down the Pingyang Guards, which still had a certain fighting capacity. In the Battle of Linfen, the frontier troops collapsed first. On the contrary, the Pingyang Guards persisted for a day, but in the face of the arrogant rebel army , the Pingyang Guards' will was taken away, so they did not survive in the end.

Once Linfen was lost, the entire Pingyang Prefecture was basically hopeless. Hongdong, Zhaocheng, and Huozhou were all destroyed in one fell swoop. Only Yindiguan, which was at the chokepoint to the north, was still stationed by the original Pingyang Guards, so it was chaotic. The army has not yet taken advantage of the situation to move north, but the number of that army is too small, with only more than 600 people. Facing tens of thousands of rebel troops, it is only a drop in the bucket and it is difficult to hold on.

"Qiu Zixiong is indeed in a bit of a dilemma. Now all the ministries below hope to go north, capture Daning, Puxian, and Xizhou, control the line along the Yellow River, and keep pace with the Zijin Liang tribe." Wang Wenyan also smiled bitterly, "Now Qiu Zixiong and the others It is also impossible to attack eastward. The rebels below will definitely refuse to agree, which will cause chaos, because that is too unreasonable."

Indeed, King Taipu of Zijin Liang specially sent people to Qiu Zixiong, asking for coordination and attacking the official army together. Now you are going to sneak attack the allied forces, and they are hundreds of miles away.

It is unreasonable to ignore the prefectures and counties in front of you and go to fight the Allies instead. This is why Qiu Zixiong was in a dilemma. He didn't know what to do, so he wrote to ask for advice.

“Well, I also know that this is unreasonable. Doing this will plunge the entire Baitang Village into chaos.” Feng Ziying also found it difficult. "Bai Jiuer's unit was basically well preserved and joined Baitang Village. He also helped Qiu Zixiong absorb many other rebel troops along the way to join Baitang Village. Its strength is quite good."

Qiu Zixiong's men and horses now seem to be strong, but the internal structural system is not tight.

"According to Qiu Zixiong, his entire army now has more than 20,000 troops. Among them, his most elite old Baitangzhai tribe actually only had about 3,000 people at the beginning. Later, they continued to absorb them, and they probably expanded to more than 5,000 and close to 6,000. people, and then through two rounds of mergers, it reached 12,000 people. These 12,000 people could barely be regarded as his old troops, which were relatively stable. But later, Bai Jiuer and some other small groups of rebels had about 10,000 people. The left and right were merged in, and after reorganization, we now have a strength of over 20,000. In this way, Bai Jiuer and the rebels who joined later still account for more than 30%, which should not be underestimated. "

Wang Wenyan nodded in agreement, "Qiu Zixiong made the decision to keep a distance from Zijin Liang and not merge. There should be no problem. The issue of dominance is not easy to solve, but we are all rebels. Even if we don't merge, it can at least be considered an alliance." Even if the armies do not cooperate and support each other, at least they will not be at war with each other. If Qiu Zixiong makes the decision to attack the Zijin Liang tribe, it will definitely trigger opposition from the Bai Jiuer tribe and some other rebel armies. Even if he originally Some of the rebel armies that were annexed may also become disloyal,..."

“What do you think Qiu Zixiong should do, Wen Yan?” Feng Ziying rubbed her chin thoughtfully.

“You can let them go north to capture Daning, Pu County, and Xizhou, and then attack Fenzhou and Yongning Prefecture!”

Wang Wenyan's words surprised Feng Ziying. He looked at Wang Wenyan and asked suspiciously: "Wenyan, why did you become so radical all of a sudden? We captured Fenzhou and also attacked Yongning Prefecture. We have already entered Taiyuan." Come on, if you really are Chai Guozhu in Shanxi Town, the clay sculptures and wood carvings will be indifferent to this?"

"Then what do you think Qiu Zixiong should do? No matter what he does, it can't be justified, so he simply needs to be bolder and seek opportunities." Wang Wenyan didn't care, "Of course, before that, Qiu Zixiong must make an agreement with Zijin Liang, and let Zijin The Liang tribe attacks eastward and hits Qinzhou and Lu'an. In this way, the two armies advance against each other and develop separately, which can be regarded as a competition."

Feng Ziying laughed and said, "Wen Yan, your suggestion sounds too outrageous, but I think you will definitely give me a reasonable reason. Letting Qiu Zixiong do this is definitely not in line with our original assumptions."

“Sir, do you think Zijin Liang will be successful if it continues to develop like this?” Wang Wenyan asked.

Feng Ziying thought for a moment and shook her head: "It's impossible. As long as the elite Datong army goes south, Wang Taipu has no chance. He is just taking advantage of the emptiness in southern Shanxi to gain power."

"What about the current situation in Shanxi Town?" Wang Wenyan asked again: "As far as I know, the governor served as the general soldier in Yulin and the governor in the three sides. The Feng family has deep roots in Datong Town and served as the general soldier in Liaodong. He also serves as the governor of Jiliao, but his influence is weak in Shanxi Town. What if he is allowed to return to Shanxi Town at the right time? Can Qiu Zixiong win the position of deputy commander-in-chief of Shanxi Town? "

 (End of this chapter)