The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 70 Different People
Gou Xi's anger can be felt most clearly by Gou Chun, his younger brother. In other words, this can be regarded as Gou Xi's hidden worry all along.

Gou Xi was born in a poor family, but was inspired by Huo Qubing's words such as "How can we make a home before the Xiongnu are destroyed?" She naturally had a lofty ideal. She felt that although she was a poor boy, she would eventually become a prosperous person if she kept working hard. , don’t bully the middle-aged and poor...

But the reality is that Young Master Huo was the most handsome man in the Han Dynasty, with the support of No. 1 in the world. It was up to Young Master Huo to nod whether he wanted to marry a wife, and the daughters of the aristocratic family would give Young Master Huo a choice one by one, but you Gou Xi is Who would still want a daughter from an aristocratic family?

When you get older, you still look poor. Not to mention girls from aristocratic families, even girls from poor families may not like you.

And Gou Xi himself was such a proud person. He couldn't match the daughter of a noble family, couldn't marry a girl from a poor family, and ordinary people looked down on him, so his marriage was naturally delayed.Originally, as time passed, history would not care about such a small official without a wife.

But history is so unreasonable, and it happened to encounter the "Eight Kings Rebellion" which was considered a disaster for most people.

And it happened that Sima Yue made him his confidant at that time, and even made him a sworn sworn brother, giving him a stage where he could perform.

But he did have quite good general talent to help Sima Yue win the Eight Kings Rebellion, allowing him to successfully complete the chicken game in the Sima family's battle royale.

Normally, at this time, Sima Yue's family would protect Gou Xi's family and let Gou Xi marry the daughter of the family, which would basically win over Gou Xi.

After all, Gou Xi changed jobs in various ways during the Eight Kings Rebellion, but it was Sima Yue who really gave Gou Xi the stage.

In this era, the kindness of knowing others is really very heavy. Coupled with the maintenance of personal emotions, Gou Xi will have no room for betrayal at all.

But Sima Yue didn't know what he was thinking. He failed to maintain his most important support and listened to Pan Tao. Because Gou Xi was ambitious, he decisively threw Gou Xi to Qingzhou and exiled him politically.

It is true that the governor of Qingzhou is a very important official to some people, but to Gou Xi, who became famous in the Eight Kings Rebellion, this is a sign that Sima Yue has given up on himself.

Even if Sima Yue kept Gou Xi by his side, it was not Liu Cong who besieged Luoyang, but Gou Xi who killed Liu Cong.

And Sima Yue's behavior gave the hint to those aristocratic families who were following him, that even if Gou Xi had a quarrel with Sima Yue, Sima Yue would definitely give up on Gou Xi.

As for those upright and upright families, they would definitely find an equal family, let alone for the sake of their own reputation. Gou Xi, a guy who came from a poor family and relied on meritorious service, was never their choice.

Are you kidding me? Who am I and who are you? Even a butcher is qualified to marry the daughter of a noble family!
It can be said that Sima Yue must have considered Sima Yue's decision about Gou Xi, but in Gou Xi's view, it was that his career and life had suffered a major blow, and it was all done by Sima Yue, whom he trusted most. How sad.

At the same time, Gou Xi himself stayed in the military all year round, and he was very strict in managing the army. He said that he was indispensable to lead by example, which naturally delayed important events in his life.

Of course, after all these reasons, Gou Xi's biggest problem is that he does not have a son. If he had one, then naturally he would not be in such a passive situation.

Gou Chun thought about his angry brother and knew that it was impossible to suppress Gou Xi's anger at this time.

Only he took the initiative to take the lead as a vanguard, letting his brother lead the main force to follow, and allowed his brother to calm down through time.

After all, the Lord should not be angry and start an army, and the general should not be angry and fight. Gou Chun believed that his brother was invincible, but if his invincible brother became angry, he might not reveal some weaknesses!

Regardless of whether Liu Tai's battlefield command ability is strong or not, at least he has the ability to arouse Gou Xi's anger. From this point of view, Liu Tai is quite threatening to Gou Xi.

So Gou Chun took the initiative to ask for help, and ordered five thousand soldiers to attack Taishan County as a vanguard.

The news of Gou Chun's arrival was soon sent to Liu Tai, who decisively asked Zhao An to lead the cavalry one step ahead to disrupt Gou Chun.

Although I have prepared for the war as much as possible, when the war actually comes, I need to mobilize the troops, complete the food reserves, and most importantly, complete the evacuation of the local people before facing Gou Xi's army. All of this will take time. deal with.

These things made Liu Tai immediately send Zhao An's cavalry to support him, in order to stabilize the morale of the soldiers on the front line!
Zhao An led the cavalry under Liu Tai's command to take the lead and soon arrived at Laiwu. However, the terrain of Laiwu District, where Laiwu is located, is a semicircular basin that is gentle in the south and steep in the north, and protrudes to the north.It is surrounded by mountains to the north, east and south, with an open west and gentle rolling hills in the middle.

Therefore, it is quite easy for Zhao An to lead the cavalry to get here, but it is not convenient to use the cavalry to attack in this area.

In other words, the biggest role of horses in this area is to move around. If you want to use cavalry charges, forget about it.

However, Zhao An didn't worry too much, because Zhao An understood the quality of his army and the time it would take for Liu Tai to complete the army and rush over. He only had to stay here for two days, and he believed that Liu Tai would come over.

"Tell me, tell me, how should this battle be fought?!" Zhao An cursed and looked at the commander and military history under his command, and said,

"Fenggao is not far from here. It will take at most two days for the general to gather his army and come to conquer.

If we defend the city, it won't be difficult to wait until the army arrives, but I don't want to be a coward! "

A commander said: "Zhao Tou, General Liu asked us to come here, isn't it because our cavalry belongs to the mobile standing army? Even if it is a holiday, we must report our whereabouts. If anything happens, we need to be the first to do so." Rush to the front line to stabilize the morale of the troops!"

A commander said: "We are cavalry after all. If we continue to go north, the terrain is not suitable for our horses to move across."

When Zhao An heard this, he nodded in approval, "Tell me, is there any good way to disturb Gou Xi's army?"

"Zhao Tou, if you are causing trouble, I have an idea." Chief Quyou said.

"Huh?" Zhao An was more or less curious when he heard the village chief's words.

A commander said: "Let our hundred-man team use their familiarity with the terrain to harass them.

It's either an ambush or a battle of annihilation. It's just relying on the small number of people to occupy the advantageous terrain. It's just a wave of attacks and retreat, or even just a wave of arrows and retreat. It just disgusts them. "

Another commander said, "We are familiar with the terrain and have horses. If we go not for the sake of harvest, but purely for the disgusting reasons, I don't know whether the vanguard sent by Gou Xi will suffer a loss, but we should not suffer a loss!"

Zhao An was thoughtful as he listened to what everyone said. Zhao An was not a genius general, so he was good at archery.

Following Liu Tai all the way, Zhao An felt that he had no ability to lead troops compared to Liu Tai.

Therefore, compared to other generals, he is more likely to listen to the summarized thoughts of his soldiers.

For Zhao An, he just felt that he had come all the way, and ended up trapping all the cavalry in the city. This was an operation with cerebral palsy.

But if he wanted to use cavalry in this hilly area, Zhao An didn't know how to use it.Now when he heard the words of these village chiefs, "You are the same as me," Zhao An said:

"Only five hundred-man teams will be sent to harass the opponent at most. Among the hundred-man teams, those who are locals from Taishan County will be given priority.

Remember, your mission is just to disgust and harass these Gou Xi's vanguard troops, but don't rush forward without hesitation! "

"Zhao Tou, since we followed you on horseback, have we ever fought a direct war? Who would be so desperate? They just take advantage when there is an advantage and run away when there is no advantage!" A group of village chiefs listened. When it came to Zhao An, he revealed it without hesitation.

"Gungungun, what are you talking about? This is a reasonable use of your own advantages!" Zhao An said impatiently, and then said,

"I will select five centurions. Each centurion will bring three days of food. No matter what your results are in these three days, bring them all back to me. You need to report on the situation of Gou Xi's army!"

"Obey the order!" After hearing Zhao An's words, these village commanders and military historians responded affirmatively to Zhao An.

Soon, Zhao An himself stationed himself in Laiwu City and began to mobilize local county soldiers to build defenses, but sent five hundred-man troops to delay Gouchun's troops.

At this moment, Zhao An did not have many direct soldiers, only 500 men left. However, after Zhao An showed his attitude that he needed manpower to build local city defenses, the local people still enthusiastically came to help Zhao An.

To be honest, this scene made Zhao An a little shocked. From his past experience, the people in the city were basically in a state of being slaughtered.

No matter who comes to attack the city, most of them will sit back and cower, not caring about the changing king's flag at the top of the city.

After all, bandits will plunder them when they come, and officers and soldiers will plunder them when they come. They are even willing to hide in the mountains rather than participate in such a war.

But this time, when he organized the county soldiers to defend, not to mention the strong men who came to carry supplies, there were even old men who came to deliver meals and women who came to deliver water. Duanduan looked at Zhao An in disbelief.

Zhao An pulled an old man with a somewhat incomprehensible mood and said,

"Old man, I have been in the army for several years, but this is the first time I see civilians taking the initiative to bring water and food to the soldiers defending the city?"

The old man looked at Zhao An tremblingly, and then said in fear, "I dare not hide the general, he is Lao Chen's son, and the others are also villagers from Lao Chen's same village. I was afraid that they would not have food to eat in the war, so I had the courage to eat this meal." Send it."

"..." Zhao An suddenly felt like a clown after listening to the old man's words, but he calmed down and continued:

"Even though you are here to deliver food to your son, the people in the small city of Laiwu seem to be particularly friendly to the soldiers stationed in the county. Do you know the reason?"

"Oh...these county soldiers are all our locals. Thanks to the gift of General Liu, they were also given farmland and became good families. This is the opportunity for me to establish a foothold in the local area.

Now, how dare we not try our best to resist Gou Xi’s villain who is coming to seize my land! "

The old man said hoarsely, then he knelt down and said,
"I just went to the battlefield, and I asked the general to give my child a heads up, but here I am, kowtowing to you!"

"Get up, get up!" Zhao An replied to the old man, "I will do my best!"

"Thank you, general, thank you general!" The old man thanked Zhao An repeatedly, which was indescribably humble.

At this time, Zhao An discovered that the county soldiers in the city of Laiwu were basically Taishan soldiers who had obtained land locally. In theory, they were the group of people who should be the most resistant to Liu Tai.

But the problem is that Liu Tai drove away the local wealthy nobles, and then took out the land of the wealthy nobles and distributed them to them, allowing them to complete the class leap from the original gangster class to become good family members with land.

At this moment, Gou Xi led the army to attack. In fact, the person who was really worried the most was not Liu Tai.

Because Liu Tai has nothing to worry about. His mission is only to stop Gou Xi. If he really fails, Liu Tai can still be his Huben general as long as he can escape back to the Huns and Han Kingdom.

What it means to have someone in the court, what it means to have a background, and what it means to have the cost of trial and error, these are people like Liu Tai.

But what about the ordinary people who finally got their hands on the land?
If Liu Tai fails, and those aristocratic families and wealthy families who were driven out of Mount Tai by Liu Tai come back, without the guarantee of Liu Tai's force, can they still keep the land they got? ?
I can be blind all my life, but I will never allow myself to have only three days of sight.

But the local people really got the land, and it was land that they could inherit as long as they served Liu Tai as a soldier.

This made each of them willing to go through fire and water for Liu Tai, and to fight against any enemy for the land in their hands.

As long as Liu Tai is willing to lead them, they can transform from silent lambs into vicious dogs guarding their territory.

In particular, Liu Tai publicly promoted in the army that the sons and daughters of soldiers could enter the elementary school specially established by Liu Tai.

In addition to establishing a channel for them to communicate upward through their superiors, they also established a channel through which they could communicate directly with Liu Tai through their children. This made the sergeants believe that Liu Tai valued them.

At this moment, both publicly and privately, they all want to hold on to Mount Tai and the fields in their hands.

This is also Liu Tai's construction and attempt at the local military system.

The government military system is the most suitable system for this era. This has been proven by history, and Liu Tai does not want to violate the laws of history.

However, it is actually very difficult for soldiers under the Fu army system to cultivate military discipline among their soldiers.

Even if he wanted to curb their greed with Li Shimin's prestige, he would have to spend his own personal wealth.

This is again difficult for Liu Tai to accept.

Therefore, Liu Tai wanted to form the soldiers of the Fu army system into county soldiers to maintain the local area, and even further subdivide them in the future.

In this way, they are at least willing to do their part to protect the land. Especially in wartime, when their hometown is threatened and their land will be taken away, then under the military system, they are absolutely willing to protect their hometown and fields. Fight any enemy.

It's just that this system is naturally a good system in troubled times, but as long as there is no war to fight, it may become a factor of local instability.

But at least looking at their enthusiasm in fighting Gou Xi now, it still shows that Liu Tai's efforts in Taishan County in the past few months have not been in vain. The local people and Liu Tai's rule itself have become stronger under the tempering of Gou Xi!
(End of this chapter)