The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 217 Buddhist Soldiers
Not long after Liu Tai returned to Guanggu City, Chu Hui quickly came to see Liu Tai with a letter and newspaper.

"Ming Gong, Zu Ti retreated, Shi Le led the main force to attack Bingzhou!" Chu Hui simply told what was in the intelligence.

Liu Tai took the information and began to look at it seriously.

This war started by Liu Kun started during the autumn harvest and ended completely in late winter. To a certain extent, it even did not violate the farming season.

Liu Kun took the lead. Although he attacked Shangdang County, and the Red Blood Cavalry led by Qi Hong reached Yong'an. As long as they crossed Yong'an, they could attack Pingyang, the capital of the Xiongnu Han Kingdom, but in the end they were short of food and grass and chose to retreat.

After all, Qi Hong was leading the elite Red Blood Cavalry, and Qi Hong was always very decisive when he needed to make a decision.

This allows Qi Hong to achieve good results every time whether he is attacking or retreating.

But Qi Hong's soldiers also knew the character of their general. This made the Red Blood Riders fear that they would become abandoned when they were caught in a stalemate, so they did not dare to fight to the death. They were only willing to contribute seven points of their strength each time, and three more. Save some for escaping.

Because of this, whether Qi Hong attacks or retreats, it is very exciting, but when stuck in a stalemate, his performance is often poor.

Like this time Liu Can defended Qi Hong. Although Qi Hong surrounded the point and called for reinforcements once, after Liu Can and Yong'an's troops merged, there was basically only a rubbish stalemate. Qi Hong felt that there was nothing he could do and retreated. .

However, Qi Hong's retreat was quite good. In comparison, Liu Kun's retreat was much more respectable.

Although compared to Liu Tai and Shi Le, Liu Yao was somewhat of a parallel import, but in the end he was relying on experience, and along the way he became one of the three generals of the Huns and Han Dynasty who were commanded by a large army.

Even though he was beaten badly by Liu Kun at first, when Shi Le took the main force to attack Jinyang directly, causing Liu Kun to send Tuoba Yilu's Xianbei cavalry to rescue, Liu Yao seized the opportunity to counterattack.

As for Liu Yao, he is not afraid of you Liu Kun. He is only afraid of Tuoba Yilu's Xianbei cavalry. Now that Tuoba Yilu is not here, Liu Yao said that today I will lead the army to kill indiscriminately.

In fact, the situation at that time was not only used by Liu Yao for fighting, Shi Le actually only tempted Liu Kun to divide his troops. After confirming that Liu Kun really divided his troops, he directly led the main force to attack Liu Kun.

Under attack from two sides, Liu Kun was not a famous general who could change his destiny against the will of heaven, so he could only be defeated, and his soldiers were wiped out.

However, Liu Kun's escape ability is absolutely top-notch, but I don't know if there are genetic factors in it.

At least Liu Kun was allowed to escape back to Jinyang with his remaining defeated generals and join Tuoba Yilu. At the same time, Qi Hong also returned with his cavalry, which made Shi Le and Liu Yao quite fearful even though they had won the battle.

Regardless of whether Shi Le or Liu Yao found Liu Kun troublesome, it was Tuoba Yilu who really gave them a headache.

If he is not dealt with, even if Liu Kun is defeated, it is not easy to completely kill Liu Kun.

Of the Xianbei cavalry roaming the grasslands, only Liu Tai has truly defeated them so far.

As for Liu Yao and Shi Le, if they could defeat the Xianbei cavalry, they wouldn't be able to keep Liu Kun alive.

Facing the Xianbei cavalry, Shi Le and Liu Yao looked at each other tacitly, and decided to retreat under the heavy winter snow.

This time, the third Changping War against the Xiongnu and Han Kingdom initiated by Liu Kun finally came to an end.

Liu Kun tried his best to contain the main force of the Xiongnu and Han Dynasty, as well as the main force of Shi Le, and created a feat for Southern Zu Ti to conquer Luoyang. However, with the return of the power of the Xiongnu and Han Dynasty, Liu Yao quickly captured Luoyang. go back.

However, Zu Ti was not too disadvantaged. He met the Wubao forces on the edge of the Yellow River and became a familiar face. After returning to Yuzhou, he suppressed the rebellion and reorganized the army, and began to reintegrate the Jin army forces south of the Yellow River. .

However, perhaps because Zu Ti's vision, strategy, and ability to seize opportunities were too terrifying, Sima Rui arranged for Dai Yuan to be the governor of Sizhou, mainly to use Zu Ti's troops to capture Jin Ting's troops. land, and the right to supervise Zuti.

It can only be said that Zu Ti gained a lot of reputation this time because he conquered the old capital. Because of this, Director Wang and Sima Rui knew that Zu Ti was really the number one person. Since he was a person, they naturally had to find ways to monitor him. Or checks and balances.

In addition, in this report, it was also mentioned that there was a group of special troops in Shile's army who chanted Buddhist scriptures and worked tirelessly.

Liu Tai looked at the piece of information, couldn't help but ponder for a moment, and said, "Immediately notify the main military officers and civil servants to hold a meeting."

"Follow the order!" Chu Hui heard Liu Tai's words and immediately responded.

In fact, not long after, the main officials in Qingzhou such as Liu Ming, Zhou Ping, Ge Xinyu Yao, or important civil servants Chu Hui, Yang Man, Xi Canjun and others also came to the conference hall.

As for Cao Yi and Zhang Song, one of them is dealing with the Grand Canal and the other is developing Jizhou, but they are not in Qingzhou at the moment.

Liu Taize showed this information to everyone else and said:

"The reason I have called everyone here today is to tell you what you think about this war. Let's speak freely."

"I'm just curious. The strength and morale of Liu Yao and Shi Le's armies should have been at their peak at that time, right? Why didn't Liu Kun be destroyed directly under Jinyang." Zhou Ping said with some confusion, "The ratio of soldiers on both sides, as long as Just put it flat and win!”

"Liu Yao thought so at first, but in the end, Xianbei's Tuoba Yilu was rejected, leaving a shadow!"

Liu Tai looked at the battle report and laughed, then continued: "Shi Le is a man who knows the importance and advance and retreat. If you can do your duty during the war, Shi Le will not let go. But Liu Yao definitely wants Shi Le to take the lead. Then Shi Le He only knows how to be cunning!"

"Is Tuoba Yilu that strong?" Zhou Ping said a little excitedly at this moment.

"Anyone who faces a general who has never been defeated will feel a little uneasy!" Liu Tai shook his head and said,

"It's the same with Tuoba Yilu, and I think it's the same with everyone else."

After hearing Liu Tai's words, everyone nodded. If Liu Tai hadn't been undefeated all the way, how could he have shouted that he was going to rebel? But Liu Cong just chose to turn a blind eye, holding his nose and continuing to maintain the unity of the Huns and Han.

"Please ask the general to point you in a direction, otherwise if we discuss like this, there will be no results!" Chu Hui said.

"Shi Le!" Liu Tai pointed to Yecheng on the map and said seriously, "In any case, this is Shi Le's sending troops to reveal his family background. We need to analyze it in detail before we can take targeted action! "

"Do you have more detailed information?" Yu Yao couldn't help but frowned when he saw the news, "Especially about this Buddhist soldier?"

"Wait a minute!" Liu Tai said to Yu Yao and then to the chamberlain beside him.

Soon the chamberlain came over with a large amount of intelligence information, and Liu Taize said, "This is the information you want."

Everyone present saw the information sent by Liu Tai, and everyone was more or less surprised.

For Liu Tai, this was no surprise at all, because his financial penetration into Shi Le had reached a certain level. Zhang Bin was quite afraid of his control of Shi Le's basic materials such as salt and cloth, but he did not know his true purpose. .

Now Shi Le only occupies half of Jizhou. Although he occupied the land north of the Yellow River in the south, he can still count as a state. Especially the salt-producing land fell into Shile's hands, allowing him to have his own salt. controlled by oneself.The problem is that our own salt production uses tidal energy and sun salt methods. The output is high and the cost is low, relying on absolute geographical advantages.

Even if Shi Le could learn the salt-drying technique, in the end he would be able to cover such a wide tidal flat, and would he have the manpower to compete with tidal energy?If you can't do it, the cost of producing salt will be higher than yourself.

With the opening of the Salt Hall, all kinds of basic materials in Liu Tai's territory will naturally flow to the Shile territory. Especially if a daily department store is built next to the Salt Hall, as long as the salt stamps from the Salt Hall are used, the store will be recognized. of.

In this way, his salt stamps have gained preliminary recognition in Shile.

At this time, for Liu Tai's spies, if they want to find out the news, they can just stuff salt tickets.

Compared with things like gold and silver, salt tickets are more concealed and easier to hide. When you need to exchange them, go directly to the salt hall to exchange them.

Even if you take a step back, if you are really targeted by Shi Le, you will be a rich man by taking the salt stamps and escaping to Liu Tai's territory.

So when faced with Liu Tai's salt ticket strategy, many of Shi Le's men chose to accept it.

Not only Shi Le, but also Gou Xi also accepted that he would open a salt hall in Xuzhou.

But these are not important. The most important thing is that for the scouts under Liu Tai, there is no need to use their lives to find out any information. Yantiao clears the way and goes directly to Shi Le to buy information and start the intelligence business openly.

To be honest, Shi Le, Zhang Bin and others knew that Liu Tai was behind this intelligence business.

But because it wasn't time to fight Liu Tai yet, I only arranged for my own people to go in, and let him step up to the top first to find out who was involved in this intelligence transaction.

You can also arrange some false news along the way, maybe it will make Liu Tai make a wrong judgment!

Wait until the day when you are ready to fall out with Liu Tai, and then directly remove this stronghold of intelligence trading.

But for Liu Tai, he really didn't care. If this stronghold of intelligence trading was removed, it would be removed.

His real purpose is to ensure that salt stamps can circulate smoothly within Shile. In order to disguise this, he woven salt dumping, cloth monopoly, and intelligence organizations, one after another that was real but covered up his true purpose.

Liu Tai would not specifically emphasize the need to use salt stamps to remind Zhang Bin.

He also collects gold and silver, silk and cloth, and even grain, so it is not surprising that he also collects salt stamps.

And precisely because of this money-opening method, although he did not have top espionage talents under his command, Shi Le was able to collect a lot of intelligence by relying on a large amount of information collection.

However, these intelligence collections are collections. To confirm whether they are correct or not, Shi Le often needs to come up with real things, so that his own intelligence personnel can piece together the real information in the intelligence. It can be regarded as an afterthought!
"Fotucheng is a master of Buddhism who came from the body poisoning and was introduced to Shi Le by Diao Ying. The Buddhist soldiers are an attempt by Shi Le!" Liu Tai said after looking at the information.

"This kind of Buddhist soldiers feels more terrifying than the elites we trained through Han Shu!" Yu Yao couldn't help but frowned,

"According to intelligence, these Buddhist soldiers are completely capable of treating death as if they were on the battlefield, and have no regard for their own lives.

Even if the soldiers under our command are unable to do this, we must be careful of them spreading this method to the entire army! "

When Liu Tai heard what Yu Yao said, he smiled and said, "When I came here today, my left eye kept twitching!"

Everyone couldn't help but be stunned when they heard Liu Tai's words, but Yang Yu said:
"The left eye of Zhouyi is a green dragon, which means full of vitality. I believe that good things will happen to the general in the near future."

"Then my right eye has been twitching these past few days. Is there a disaster going to happen?" Liu Tai couldn't help but laugh.

"The general is where the luck of the Han family lies. He should ward off all evils. How can there be disasters?" Yang Yu said quickly.

At this time, everyone was somewhat stunned.

When Liu Tai heard Yang Yu's words, he smiled at everyone and said:

“Although the common people don’t read much, we mostly seek self-interest in dealing with gods.

If you want the Han people to convert to Buddhism, I don't think there is a problem. But if you want the Han people to believe in it and even spread Buddhist soldiers to the entire army, I don't believe it.

Belief is something like this. As long as the loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely disloyal! "

"What my lord said makes sense!" Zhou Ping nodded in agreement.

"The people of the Han family should not be deceived by this, but what about the foreigners? The foreigners will be deceived to some extent!" Yu Yaodao said.

After hearing Yu Yao's words, everyone present could not help but frown.

To be honest, Shi Le's base is a foreign race. If such a group of Buddhist soldiers appeared among the foreign races, everyone would feel that they would have a headache if they wanted to defeat Shi Le.

Liu Tai shook his head calmly and said: "You think of them as Taiping Dao, and those who can become Buddhist soldiers are probably the Yellow Turban warriors.

Even if there were 36 squares of Taiping Road, there were only a few Yellow Turban warriors, let alone the miscellaneous men under Shi Le's command.

And it must be said that the Buddhism explained by Fotucheng is completely different from the position of authority held by Shi Le.

If it is just a small-scale cooperation, nothing will be seen, but if it is really promoted to the entire army, they may start fighting for power within them.

On the contrary, our nationalism is compatible with what we all dream of.

I want to restore China, revive the Han Dynasty, and put the Han people back on top of the world. Don’t we all work together? "

"We will work together with your lord to revive the Han Dynasty and restore China until death!" Chu Hui was the first to react!
"Me too!" Several generals couldn't say what Chu Hui said and saluted Liu Tai one after another, and the others followed suit.

"No need, no need." Liu Tai stopped everyone from continuing to salute and said,
“So there may be Buddhist soldiers, but they will definitely not be large in number.

Even though this war department has a will as strong as iron and a belief as strong as steel, then we can just use real steel to deal with it when the time comes. Isn’t the steel filling method that Ge Hong created waiting for them here? "

Everyone showed malicious smiles at this moment, and the solemn atmosphere was completely gone.

(End of this chapter)