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Chapter 251 8.27 Information Analysis of Yangzhou Changes
Chapter 8

8.27 Changes in Yangzhou, intelligence analysis

"Among the three guards near Yangzhou, one of them is the dark son of the White Lotus Sect. They have already controlled them inside and out. When the civil unrest started, they almost used this group of elite personnel to take down Yangzhou. .

Fortunately, Mr. Lin was very skilled, he used the elite Yan Ding who patrolled the censor's yamen, together with Xu Fei's total of thousands of people, to kill the rebels with sharp armor.

Yangzhou was already affluent, and the major families, seeing the crisis, began to have money and others to give people. After the other two thousand households were finished, they gathered a city defense army of more than 6000 people.

However, these people's equipment is not very good, so we have delivered weapons twice, otherwise Mr. Lin will not be able to hold on." Saeko Busujima began to introduce the situation.

"Wait a minute, the leader of Yangzhou City should be the magistrate, right? How could it be led by Mr. Lin?" Wei Xu didn't sound right.

"The original prefect of Yangzhou was also arranged by the salt merchants, and he has always been difficult to deal with Mr. Lin. Xu Fei took advantage of the chaos to solve the civil disturbance from the very beginning, and he has not come to the new prefect so far.

In fact, those Yangzhou aristocratic families guessed that it was Xu Fei's hand, and because they were worried that they would be in danger if they went up, they unanimously elected Mr. Lin as the person in charge. " Saeko Busujima couldn't help laughing.

"This kid is very good at seizing the opportunity." Wei Xu chuckled, not taking the death of a fifth-rank Yangzhou prefect seriously, "Isn't the above normal? What's wrong?"

"It's normal during times of war. Anyway, a bunch of people outside want them to die. Naturally, no one dares to make trouble, but the current war is not what it used to be." Saeko Busujima said lightly.

This civil unrest in the south of the Yangtze River was full of conspiracy from the very beginning.

On the one hand, there is too much movement but the secrecy is too good. Even Wei Xu's own intelligence network can only judge the problem according to the general direction, and the details have not been controlled. This is not what the strength of the White Lotus Sect can do.

On the other hand, there is a complete disparity between the substantive war and the movement at the time of the outbreak, that is, as the saying goes, "There is a lot of thunder and little rain." The most prominent point is that so far, there has been no sign of integration of civil unrest in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River.

The leader of the White Lotus Sect is Xu Haichuan, Marquis of Chengen, in name. Although in fact, the empress Xu Qingyan has been controlling it, but since the civil unrest broke out in the south of the Yangtze River, Xu Haichuan is naturally "the first to get the moon when he is close to the water", and it is reasonable to take the opportunity to control it.

However, not long after he started sorting out and integrating, he was completely discouraged by Wei Xu's ambush. He shrank in Jinling City and dared not go out. All orders and commands were passed on by his subordinates.

The problem is that a cult organization like the White Lotus Sect has no loyalty or centripetal force in essence, and some of them are careerists. Since the core control is not strong, don't blame their respective idiots.

For details, you can refer to the "White Lotus Rebellion" in the past dynasties in real history. Although they all bear the same name, the actual situation is another matter. Not only are the personnel different, but there is no substantive connection between them.

Among other things, there are at least several sects such as Bagua Sect, Wenxiang Sect, and Tianli Sect in name alone. Although these people all bear the name of "White Lotus Sect", internal conflicts are even greater than external ones.

For more than half a year, although the imperial court has not been able to quell the civil unrest in the south of the Yangtze River, it has not done nothing. Although the surrounding provinces are unable to send troops to help, it is still no problem to clean up their own homes and block all exits.

The result is that the so-called "rebel army" has been compressed into a province in the south of the Yangtze River, and only the larger ones have been divided into more than a dozen branches. Not to mention that Xu Haichuan can't control it by "remote control", he just has the guts There is no play in going out of the mountain.

This is also the objective background for Wei Xu to be able to hide so easily and make a fortune in silence. If the millions of rioters are really united, Wei Xu only has more than 3 troops in his hands, and they are old people who can escape in embarrassment. Open your eyes.

Especially in the recent period, when Wei Xu has basically completed the integration of the garrisons in various places, although he did not do his best to quell the chaos out of the consideration of delaying time, he also divided and surrounded the "rebels" in various counties and towns below.

In this way, although there is a common problem of being surrounded in major prefectures and cities, on the whole, as the rebels outside the cities lack stable supplies and even eat hungry and full meals, there is no way to talk about combat effectiveness, which naturally puts pressure on the city increasingly limited.

What's interesting is that under such a large "civil chaos", the people who suffer the most are the lower classes and small landlords. They killed a river of blood.

Under such circumstances, basically anyone with a little discernment can see that it is only a matter of time before the civil unrest in the south of the Yangtze River is settled. Considering the distribution of benefits after the war, various ideas have followed suit.

"What's the specific situation?" Wei Xu smiled and shook his head, then asked. "The current situation in Yangzhou has changed. The Yangzhou salt merchant who has been in charge of logistics has been dissatisfied with being a marginal spectator. Among other things, the Yangzhou City Defense Army is funded by them. Why should Master Lin have the final say?

Once these things are up, it can only end when one side is completely defeated. The 'honeymoon period' between Master Lin, Xu Fei and the other seven salt merchants will soon end, and the two sides have been fighting for some days.

Even the Jiang family and the Huang family, which had originally formed an alliance, "returned" to the right path, and led the Yangzhou salt merchants to various challenges. The simplest thing is the supply of money and food for the city defense army. happy.

Furthermore, inside Yangzhou City, the salt merchants have already restricted the supply of supplies from major shops in order to force Mr. Lin to make concessions. Now people in Yangzhou City are in a state of panic. Saeko Busujima continued to introduce.

"Don't tell me that when Xu Fei helped Mr. Lin rebuild the city defense army, he really didn't leave anything behind? Then I will really catch that kid back to beat him." Wei Xu said disdainfully.

"He sent the letter back to ask for help, but it's not that he couldn't bear it, but he was not sure to clean it up at once." Saeko Busujima couldn't help laughing, "After all, he has limited manpower, and it is impossible to really control the entire Yangzhou city defense. military.

Now the four directions of the Yangzhou city wall, the city defense army is naturally divided into four parts, the two directions facing us to the west and south are controlled by Xu Fei, and the other two parts belong to the salt merchants.

If we do it, our side must have the superior combat power in the city defense army. After all, the grassroots officers are all trained by Xu Fei according to the master's standards. Even if they only reach [-] to [-]%, they are not comparable to the group of laymen. "

"My lord, if you make a move, the rioters outside the city will definitely not sit idly by. No matter how stupid they are, they still know how to take advantage of the chaos to attack." Qin Keqing said worriedly.

"This is the root cause of Xu Fei's request for help. He is sure to solve the salt merchants, but the city defense army is currently on par with the outside of the city. This requires us to take action and drag these rioters back. He can solve the problems in the city by himself." Poison Saeko Shima explained the problem.

"It seems that we can only 'recover' Yangzhou in advance." Wei Xu said lightly, "The rioters outside the city are not a big problem. If we integrate from the vicinity of Yangzhou now, it will be no problem to gather more than 1 people. .

Coupled with Dongfang's two basically undamaged cavalry Qianhu, it is definitely useless to wipe out the more than [-] rioters. It is not difficult to defeat them. Do we have other problems? "

"Among the civil unrest near Yangzhou, the one with the strongest combat effectiveness is definitely not the rioters who surrounded Yangzhou City, but the thousand households originally controlled by the White Lotus Sect, which have now expanded to nearly [-].

These people are the old foundation of the White Lotus Sect who has worked hard for many years. All of them use military standard weapons, but the number of armors is not much, and the armor rate is less than [-]%, which is not comparable to us.

If we want to solve the civil unrest in Yangzhou, we must first eliminate this rebellious army. If we are taken by them when we are fighting with the rebellious people, even if we are undefeated, we will suffer heavy losses. "Saeko Busujima's intelligence never disappoints.

"Husband, are you leaving again?" Qin Keqing said sadly. Pregnant women tend to worry too much, and some even suffer from "syndrome". color.

"Ke'er, Shizuka, I'm sorry!" No matter how reluctant he was, Wei Xu didn't dare to let Lin Ruhai ignore him, "Yangzhou is also our foundation, and Master Lin is Yu'er's father, I can't just sit back and watch them suffer. "

"Brother Xu, you can go directly by water for logistics supplies. You need to win the Yangzhou Wharf in advance, otherwise the delivery of materials will be impossible. It will not be easy for Sister Bai to complete this task. It will take a lot of time." Xue Baochai said softly.

"Yangzhou's internal conflicts are just beginning to intensify, and it is still far away from an outbreak. The two sides are still fighting for dominance, and it has not reached the point of death. The only one who really wants to do it is Xu Fei.

Even Mr. Lin, in fact, has been communicating and negotiating with the salt merchants, and both sides have made concessions. If they are allowed to keep talking, it is not impossible to negotiate. " Saeko Busushima said softly.

"Xu Fei is right. If the salt merchants are not eliminated, we will leave a cancerous tumor in the future when we control Jiangnan. At least the salt reform I plan is out of the question, but since we have time, let's delay it.

Ke'er, Shizuka, I will accompany you well these days, how about half a month?At that time, it must be time for the East to solve the problem. "Wei Xu said softly.

"Huh!" *2.

(End of this chapter)