Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 883 Battle Plan

  Nowadays, Li Xin's position in the court is actually very embarrassing. He is not an assistant minister, and he has let go of the Ministry of War. Apart from a golden title of Taifu, he actually only has the right battalion of the forbidden army that cannot be used.

Moreover, after the last transfer order of the forbidden army, he and several auxiliary ministers have officially turned against him. Gongyang Shu in the auxiliary ministers is old, and the right servant of Shangshu shoots Zhao Mingzhou. The civil service group seems to have suffered heavy losses, but the trustworthy In fact, Shang Shu You Pu She is also a civil official. The position of Zhong Shu Ling, which Gongyang Shu has vacated, will also be replaced by a civil official. Zuo Pu She, who is the core of Shang Shu Tai, is Shen Kuan, and his position remains unchanged. The position of a vassal.

Originally, two of the four auxiliary ministers were from Shangshutai, and now there are three auxiliary ministers left, one each from Shangshutai’s Yushitai, and one from the Grand Governor’s Mansion. Although Shangshutai was indeed affected a lot, they were still civil servants in essence. occupy an absolute advantage.

   That is to say, their losses are not very large.

On the other hand, on Li Xin's side, although he had great glory in the last incident, he had offended the Grand Governor's Mansion and the Shang Shutai, and he had not yet gained the trust of Emperor Yuan Zhao. Even if he continued to stay in the capital, his life would probably be very difficult. .

   Therefore, he simply left the capital and avoided the center of the whirlpool.

And this time, he wants to organize a tax strike in the southwest, on the one hand, to make the southwest completely independent from the imperial court, and on the other hand, he wants to touch the imperial court gently and see the imperial court under the leadership of several auxiliary ministers. , What is the attitude towards Southwest China, and at the same time take a look at the disparity between the strengths of the two sides.

After    and Li Shuo had a meal, Li Xin invited Li Shuo to the study of the King of Shu. In the study, Mu Ying and Zhao Jia were both there, and Li Shuo came in and saluted the two of them.

   "I have seen General Mu and Mr. You An."

   Zhao Jia and Mu Ying looked at each other, stood up, and returned the courtesy to Li Shuo.

   "General Lee is polite."

   Li Shuo's current official position is the general of Ningzhou, the military attache of the fifth grade.

Li Xin was not polite, he sat on the main seat carelessly, and said, "I have already communicated with you about the tax strike, now it's August, and in a month or two, the imperial court will collect autumn grain. It's time, according to my opinion, now the lord of the thirty-one mansion in the southwest can write a memorial to the court and ask the court to waive the burial."

Li Shuo and Mu Ying are not very good at internal affairs. Zhao Jia, who has been in charge of Southwest China for the past two years, frowned and said solemnly: "If you want me to see, you don't need to force the court so tightly, you can first Half of the officials in the southwest have submitted a letter to see how the court responds."

   Having said this, he sighed slightly.

   "Taxes are the foundation of the country and the face of the imperial court. If there is no money to pay in the southwest, the imperial court may not be able to bear it any longer and will attack the southwest."

   "Do it yourself."

Li Xin sat on the main seat and said indifferently: "Since the beginning of the ninth year of Taikang, the imperial court began to send people from the left camp of the forbidden army to Hanzhong to be stationed in Hanzhong. Now there are 50,000 defenders in Hanzhong, most of them are forbidden troops, and Hanzhong is in the southwest. It is self-evident what these 50,000 people are used for, the gateway for entry and exit.”

Emperor Taikang did compromise with Li Xin, but he didn't do nothing. During the last year of his rule, he began to send people from the left camp of Hou Jingde's forbidden army to be stationed in Hanzhong. Above the prefecture, almost 30,000 forbidden troops entered Hanzhong.

   You must know that the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army is completely different from those of the local army led by Pei Jin the previous year!

  The current Great Jin is the early years of the imperial dynasty, and the imperial court has not yet rotted to a certain extent. Back then, during the period of Emperor Wu, Ye Sheng took the forbidden army all the way north, and gnawed down the Northern Zhou Dynasty abruptly.

Afterwards, Ye Sheng left the forbidden army, and the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army dropped slightly, but after Pei Jin entered the forbidden army, it took about ten years to re-train the forbidden army. They are the top elites of Dajin.

  Li Xin served in the Forbidden Army in the first year of Taikang. Although he was off for a few years, he was considered a veteran of the Forbidden Army. He knew the elite level of the Forbidden Army better than anyone else.

Back then, when he led the imperial army on the westward expedition, as long as he gave an order, the imperial army could go to the battlefield without hesitation to die. , and hardly any of the forbidden troops retreated.

   shows that his military discipline is strict.

If in the eighth year of Taikang, Pei Jin brought the forbidden army to attack the Hanzhou Prefecture, even if there was gunpowder, at most, he would barely hold the Hanzhou City, and it would be impossible to chase him out like that and kill Pei like a chicken. Into the command of tens of thousands of people!

   Having said this, Li Xin slowly exhaled.

   "If the court does not respond to the tax strike this time, then the southwest will become a self-contained body. Although it is not a Chenghan in name, it is actually no different from a Chenghan. In the future, we will all have a way out."

   Lord Jingan looked at the three people in the study and continued.

   "But it is unlikely that the court will not respond."

"The court is now in charge of a few auxiliary ministers. Not long ago in the capital, I offended them all. They are probably trying to find an excuse to attack the southwest. This time the tax strike is delivered to them, and most of them won't let it go. Taking this opportunity, I want to destroy my foundation."

"The people from the right battalion of the forbidden army, they will not move, they will only use the people from Hou Jingde's left battalion. In the past two years, the left battalion has been transferred two Zhechong to Hanzhong. Although new recruits have been filled in, their combat effectiveness has not kept up. This time, they will at most draw one or two Zhechong residences from Hou Jingde."

   Having said this, Li Xin laughed at himself: "After all, the general of the right battalion of the forbidden army is still me. They are afraid that I will rebel, so they want to leave the left camp to contain the right camp of the forbidden army."

   "There are 50,000 people in Hanzhong, no more than 30,000 people in the two Zhechong houses, plus the scattered local troops, which together are estimated to be about 100,000 people. This is the force that the imperial court can now attack the southwest."

   Li Xin got up and looked at Mu Ying.

   "Brother Mu, are you sure you can keep it?"

   Muying grinned and said, "Most of them can't be beaten from the front, but there is definitely no problem in defending the city. Besides, we still have the sword gate in our hands."

  Li Xin's face was calm.

"Brother Mu, Jianmenguan can be guarded for a while, but it is not necessary to guard Jianmenguan. I mean that if Jianmenguan is guarded for a period of time, you can let the army of the court enter the southwest hinterland, and then touch them. ."

   Zhao Jiada frowned, but did not speak.

  Li Shuo shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Master Hou, the Imperial Imperial Army is strictly disciplined and well-trained. It is too risky to let them in.

   "If you can't beat them, the southwest will be messed up by them."

   He is very sensible, and he did not call Li Xin "elder brother" in front of others.

  Jing'an Houye's face was calm.

   "First consume some of their troops at Jianmen Pass, and then put them in. From today, Jincheng will make every effort to produce Tianlei. At that time, you can use the city to defend and let them enter Jianmen Pass, it doesn't matter."

   "Brother Mu and Li Shuo, now you can send troops to guard Jianmen Pass. It's a good thing that people from the court don't come, and it's a good thing to come."

   "If this battle is won, it will be of great benefit to me and the Southwest."

   Zhao Jia finally couldn't bear it anymore and frowned: "Master Hou, are you not hosting in the southwest?"

  Li Xin shook his head and smiled.

   "I want to go back to Yongzhou to pay my mother's grave, and my wife and children are still waiting for me there."

   (end of this chapter)