The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 59

Liu Tai said goodbye to Shi Le and divided into two armies. Shi Le went to invade the southern part of Sizhou and joined Liu Cong, Wang Mi and others along the way to complete the encirclement of Luoyang.

Liu Tai led his army through Jibei Kingdom and arrived at Taishan County.

In fact, it is not difficult to reach Taishan County or occupy Taishan County.

The government of the Jin Dynasty was corrupt. Unless there were warlords who wanted to separatist rule, the corruption of the Jin Dynasty's army from top to bottom was almost inevitable.

To a certain extent, it's really ironic.

Therefore, even if they defended the city, in fact, after Liu Tai's soldiers stormed the city, they didn't even have time to draw their swords and kill people. These local county soldiers collapsed directly, but it allowed the troops who climbed first to have It's like drawing a sword and looking around, feeling confused.

Occupying Taishan County basically meant that I came and I conquered. It was pure hard power without much skill.

Liu Tai looked at the captured Taishan County and couldn't help but frown slightly.

It is easy to capture Taishan County, but Taishan County will become the base for attacking Qingzhou for a long time in the future.

He is entrenched in Gou Xi, Qingzhou, and his famous tree is shadowed. Although I don't think he will be undefeated, at least his undefeated golden body will be quite difficult to deal with before he is defeated.

Rather than rushing in with his troops, Liu Tai prefers to operate in Taishan County to a certain extent and find the right opportunity before taking action.

Moreover, the task given to the Xiongnu and Han Dynasty was only to stop Gou Xi, not to defeat him.

Therefore, occupying Taishan County for operations may be more important than directly sending troops to Qingzhou.

Liu Tai thought of this and said to Chu Hui, "Mr. Chu, do you know how to read astronomy?"

"This and this... have not been involved!" Chu Hui couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard Liu Tai's words, but still said to Liu Tai, "General, what do you want to do?"

"It's nothing, I just want to see if it will rain today." Liu Tai replied to Chu Hui.

Chu Hui raised his head and looked at the clear sky above his head, and said, "It doesn't look like it's going to rain!"

"I understand, let the army enter Fenggao City!" Liu Tai continued,

"Tell the soldiers under your command that we are not here to destroy this city, we are here to liberate this city.

After entering the city and occupying the arsenal and granaries, you are not allowed to rob the people, rape women, kill or set fire to people.

Tonight, the entire army is sleeping on the street with me. They are laying bunks on the ground when they need to, and setting up tents when they need to.

If I find anyone persecuting the people in the city, they will be dealt with according to military law. "

"This... this is not good!" Chu Hui heard Liu Tai's words and said, "I'm afraid it will trigger a mutiny!"

Liu Tai said to Chu Hui without hesitation:
"I have emphasized the discipline of the army for so long, but if they still enter Fenggao, they will only know how to plunder.

Then why am I studying military history, emphasizing military discipline, and what is the purpose of training the new recruits in the past few months! "

Following Liu Tai's order, after the army entered the city and occupied the arsenal and granary, they did not break into and loot the people in Fenggao City.

Although Liu Tai's order was unruly, after all, Feng Gao did not surrender without a fight and should be plundered by the soldiers.

But even so, the soldiers still carried out the order, but everyone was talking about it, and some of the military morale was unstable.

Liu Tai entered Fenggao City and did not allow the soldiers to loot at all. This still had a great impact on the morale of the army.

If Liu Tai had not been engaged in a rectification movement in the previous winter, correcting many of the bad habits of the old military law and establishing a little trust with the soldiers, such a move would probably have triggered a riot.

Even so, Liu Ming, Zhao An, Ge Xin, Zhou Ping and Tian Tian also took the initiative to come over, but they all hesitated to speak.

Obviously, as the five commanders under Liu Tai, they naturally knew the complaints of the soldiers below.

Although, Liu Tai's mental mysophobia cannot be wrongly said.

But even if Liu Tai was a commander who convinced all the soldiers, he really couldn't let the soldiers take nothing after attacking the city.

The soldiers are fighting with you, at least now they are not fighting with you for three meals a day!

Although everyone thinks that you are like Huo Qubing, a natural-born general, behind Huo Qubing there is Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who spent the entire country, and not all of the main money was spent on the soldiers.

Otherwise, with Young Master Huo's way of leading troops, and without a sufficiently guaranteed military merit system to back him up, how could he take the lives of the officers and soldiers?
But you don't. If you plan to follow Master Huo's method and ignore the needs of the soldiers, you will really rebel!
Even if you want to revive the Han Dynasty, so you don't need money and silk, but the soldiers below can't do it. You can't use the requirements of a saint to ask the soldiers!

So Liu Tai's order was carried out, but the soldiers below also immediately reported the problem to their commanders, and then to the captains. They came to Liu Tai immediately, but they all looked forward to Liu Tai. Tai's reply.

"Sit, sit, sit, I know what everyone means!" Liu Tai said calmly as he looked at everyone.

Obviously, although they were extremely confused, they still carried out the order, which was very important.

But with the reactions of the soldiers below, they finally couldn't give it up and came to Liu Tai to clarify his doubts.

After all, no matter what, you need to give the following a justifiable reason, and even protect the interests of the soldiers. This is the foundation of yourself and others.

It’s true that there are weird people who cut off their own foundations, but if everyone could do this, the world would have become a unified society.

Everyone looked at Liu Tai and knew clearly that Liu Tai was not crazy, so they sat down one by one according to Liu Tai's order.

It was not just them, but also several military historians such as Xi Zhubo. After all, they were still needed to think about the whole army.

Liu Taidao: "First of all, Taishan County is somewhat different from the cities we have conquered before.

Because this place will become the foundation for us to deal with Qingzhou Gou Xi, so don't rob the people of Taishan County at every turn.

We need to establish contact with the local people, let the local people trust us, and become the common people of our Han Dynasty! "

When everyone heard Liu Tai's words, they also understood what Liu Tai meant.

After all, it is Gou Xi who needs to face him in the future. No matter how you put it, if you lay the foundation here, even if you really can't defeat him in the future, you will at least have a way out.

To be honest, this reason is enough to appease all the soldiers.But Liu Tai also understands that the army is his foundation and the people are his support, and he must handle the relationship between the two well.

If he doesn't handle it well, Liu Tai believes that if Gou Xi comes to fight, he can't guarantee that he will be able to defeat the opponent.

So Liu Tai continued, "Tell me, if Gou Xi calls next, who will he contact?"

Hearing this, everyone looked at each other, and finally their eyes fell on Chu Hui. The others didn't know!
The corners of Chu Hui's mouth couldn't help but twitch. He felt that he had not completely surrendered to Liu Tai, but he still said to Liu Tai:
"With Gou Xi's character, he may not be able to contact anyone, but relying on the entire Western Jin Dynasty, at least the wealthy families in Taishan County believe that they are willing to cooperate with Gou Xi to drive us out.

After all, these guys can't fight head-on, but they are definitely willing to do things like secretly opening a door or burning down our granary to create chaos. "

No way, the Jin court seems to be in decline now, and although Liu Tai has not really become a prince, he seems to have a lot to do, and Chu Hui is more or less willing to help Liu Tai.

Because with Chu Hui's eyes, it can be seen that unless there is a major change in the Xiongnu Han Kingdom, the Xiongnu Han Kingdom now occupies the strategic initiative.

The Jin court seems to be powerful, but in fact the entire operation is quite rigid. It is afraid that when Luoyang is captured, the governors in various places will rebel, and then they will fall into the situation of the heroes at the end of the Han Dynasty.

As for Liu Tai jumping out of the Pingyang fence, at least compared to Wang Mi, Chu Hui felt that Liu Tai was more likely to become a prince, because if Liu Yuan died, it would also be a heavy blow to the Huns and Han.

But thinking that his position was gradually tilting towards Liu Tai, Chu Hui couldn't help but feel a little melancholy in his heart.

I don’t want to betray myself, Jin Ting, please be more diligent and don’t give me away anymore!
"So we must clearly distinguish who is our friend and who is our enemy in Taishan County!"

Liu Tai said solemnly, "There is something on the common people, but there is nothing on the common people!

Why are we robbing them because we want them to have no money and no land? !

Is the purpose of our rebellion against the Jin Dynasty and restoration of the Han Dynasty just to bully these weak people? Then why don't we become bandits! "

"Actually, aren't we just bandits!" Liu Ming and others couldn't help but mutter in their hearts, but they didn't dare to say it out loud.

"So, just sleep on the streets of Taishan County for me.

Then I will send people tomorrow to find the local people. I will find out which aristocratic families bully men and dominate women, which aristocratic families embezzle land, and which aristocratic families are rich and unkind!

Let the people of Taishan County trust us and even rely on us, and then we will raid every wealthy household according to the list given by these people.

Only their families have money and their warehouses have grain. If they get fields and are willing to start a family in Taishan County, I will allocate fields to them immediately.

All in all, don't just keep your eyes on the people, tell the soldiers, if you want to keep your eyes on our enemies.

The people are our support and will become our ears and eyes in Mount Tai in the future! Liu Tai said solemnly.

"The general is going to take action against the local aristocratic families and wealthy families in Mount Tai?!" Chu Hui couldn't help but be surprised when he heard Liu Tai's words.

"Facing Gou Xi, we must be fully prepared, not only to defeat him, but at least to ensure that the opponent cannot find any opening to attack us!
Therefore, I must resolve all unstable factors within my jurisdiction! "

Liu Tai said categorically, "The wealthy and wealthy families in Taishan who commit crimes are our biggest weakness!"

Sometimes, it is necessary to come up with enough threats to give Chu Hui a reasonable explanation.

After all, Liu Tai doesn't want to deal with all the local aristocratic families, but there is a high probability that they will collude with Gou Xi!

At least you know better than yourself how terrifying a tough guy like Gou Xi is.

Under such circumstances, in order to stop him, what's the problem if I first solve the unstable factors such as local wealthy families?

Of course, compared to the need to give Chu Hui a reasonable reason to deal with the local aristocratic family, it is much simpler for Liu Ming, Tian Zhen, Ge Xin and others.

It's not that they are not prepared to plunder Mount Tai, but that they are only prepared to plunder Mount Tai.

So today, the soldiers need to sleep on the mainland of Fenggao, and they need to show their sincerity to the people of Fenggao.

They need to understand that they and others are really the Master Wang who makes the decision for the people of the world to fight against the Jin Dynasty and restore the Han Dynasty!
Following Liu Tai's words, Tian Zhen, Liu Ming and others looked at each other. They always felt that the general was still the same general. Although many of his actions were puzzling, at least he understood what the lower-level soldiers needed and would not act randomly. commanded.

Seeing that Liu Tai had explained the situation to the soldiers, he turned to look at Master Xi and said to them:
"The ideological work of the soldiers needs to be left to you. Let them know that we are not robbers who rob the people, but kings who punish evil and promote good.

If the Taishan family is really a good side and is loved by the local people, then we will naturally do nothing wrong.

But they don’t even spare the people in their own hometown, so don’t blame us for acting on behalf of God! "

When Xi Zhubo and others heard Liu Tai's words, the military commanders looked at each other and nodded.

After completing the ideological unification of the upper class, whether it was the school captain, the camp commander, or even the military historians, they all took the initiative to comfort the soldiers so that they could sleep smoothly on the main road of Fenggao.

In fact, in many cases, the army does not need a reason to execute orders, because all the army needs is execution.

But the army led by Liu Tai was different, because Liu Tai wanted to give the army ideas and let them know why they fought and why they died.

Therefore, if you ask the soldiers to do many things that the old-fashioned army has never done before, you must explain the matter clearly and let every soldier know that what you do is not done just by patting your head!
Thought is a weapon that equips soldiers, but an ideological army sometimes has certain backlash.

Therefore, Liu Tai knew that his personality could not collapse. If his personality collapsed and a thoughtful army came back, Liu Tai would not even dare to think about that scene.

After explaining the matter clearly, the soldiers began to sleep peacefully on the streets, but Liu Tai and his personal guards were personally responsible for the vigilance.

In addition to Liu Tai's personal energy being somewhat strong, even if something happens, Liu Tai can handle it in time.

From the moment we entered Fenggao City to the sun slowly rising on the ground the next day, the night passed so peacefully.

When the people in Fenggao secretly looked through their doors to look at Liu Tai's army on the street, they discovered that

The rising sun hit the faces of these soldiers who slept so peacefully. They slept like this all night in front of their homes.

There is no such thing as plundering the people, and there is no such thing as fighting like a comb!
Liu Tai waited patiently for the sun to rise. When he saw the sun really rising, a smile appeared on his lips.

The most difficult step has been taken. Next, we will start to encourage the local people to "fight the local tyrants and divide their fields"!

(End of this chapter)