Chapter 415 Songlin Town (II)

There are no pine forests in Songlin Town. Although not far from the south of Songlin Town is a large forest that cannot be seen at first sight, there is not even a pine tree. There are no pine trees by the Pinelin Lake. There are many crooked willows standing around the lake in strange shapes, like a circle of old and weak soldiers guarding Songlin Lake.

There are no pine forests in Songlin Town, and there are no pine forests by Songlin Lake. Where does the word pine forest come from? It makes people feel a little curious, but since the world began to be in chaos in the eighth year of Daye, the great figures of the court did not think about how to dispatch troops and generals to destroy the rebels. Instead, they came up with an idiotic way to clear the world. There was no one in Songlin Town again, so even if they wanted to ask why the word pine forest came, they could not find anyone to ask.

It has to be said that the court has never lacked smart people who are crazy and wise. Henan and Hebei were the first places in the Sui Dynasty to start riots. Among them, the thieves in Mingzhou, Hebei, Boling, and Dongping County, Dongping County, Henan, were the most powerful. There were constant memorials of bandits everywhere reported to the court like snowflakes. Several major figures in charge of the government did not dare to show these memorials to Yang Guang, so they had to find another way.

Big people like Pei Ju, Yu Shiji, Pei Yun are all smart people, so smart that even the emperor can play with them. What else can they think of and what can they do?

Therefore, the most confused and idiotic strategy in history to deal with traitors was newly released after the discussion of several literati who did not understand military affairs, and then it was planned to use seals and sent to the counties in Henan and Hebei as quickly as possible. This method is extremely simple, and it is extremely idiotic.

The important figures in the court mean that the reason why the thieves are getting stronger and stronger like the fire of prairie fire is because they are cruel and cruel by nature, plundering property everywhere, and forcibly abducting the people to join the thieves' team. They are fire, and the people are firewood. Only with firewood can they burn more and more. If there is no firewood, the fire will sooner or later be extinguished. Since the soldiers cannot be completely suppressed, they will cut off their life and starve them to death. It has to be said that this is a beautiful and good idea that makes people applaud and praise. So the court officials applauded and celebrated themselves, and they all felt that Kong Ming was afraid that it would be like this.

This is the strategy that the court officials came up with. They ordered the villagers to force them to move into cities or forts to live in villages, and no one left in the village or anything. In this way, the rebels would have no one to rob them if they wanted to rob them, and no one could kill them if they wanted to rob them. As for the people who wanted to rob them, the people were forced to enter the city, so where could there be people growing food?

According to the analysis of the court officials, within a year or at most two years, the rebels would disband because they had no supplies, and there was no need for the official army to encircle and suppress them.

But they never thought about where the people who entered the city lived? What to eat? No one planted the fields, how many people would starve to death next year? If the people had no food to eat, would they just wait to starve to death? As more and more rebels, the strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the countryside not only did not eliminate the rebels, but instead forced more and more people to rebel.

The clever plan that court officials came up with wasted large areas of fertile land and created more rebels. It has to be said that they were all heroes of the collapse of the Great Sui Dynasty.

Songlin Town has long been empty, and no one knows where the people are now. Perhaps most of them are farming in Dongping County, perhaps some go far away to the south of the Yangtze River, and perhaps some go to Qilu to beg.

Songlin Town is named after Songlin Lake. The lake is not too big, with a radius of more than twenty miles. It was once built with Juyeze Water Pond. It was originally a trace left by the diversion of the Yellow River. Later, as the water gradually receded, Songlin Lake was disconnected from the Shuipo. I don’t know how many years have passed. The current Songlin Lake is not less than hundreds of miles away from Juyeze Water Pond. This shows how much harm the Yellow River diverted to the people on both sides of the river.

Pei Renji and two thousand men arrived at Songlin Lake, ordered to stop and send someone to walk back to tell Wang Qinian that he would send someone to search the dense forest and let the army wait and pass by.

But he asked all the soldiers to rest on the spot. He personally brought more than a hundred personal soldiers into the dense forest. After entering the forest, he asked the personal soldiers to stare at the people outside the forest, and then he walked deep into the woods. After walking for about ten minutes, several people slid down from the tree to stop him. The leader was a scar-faced man who obviously recognized Pei Renji. He hugged Pei Renji and said, "I have seen General Pei."

"Who has the Secret Duke sent here to ambush?"

Pei Renji asked with a displeasure.

"It's General Wang Junke and General Li Wenxiang. The two generals are right in front. Do you want the young one to take you there?"

Scarface asked with a flattering smile.

“No need.”

Pei Renji waved his hand and said, "Go and tell Wang Junke and Li Wenxiang to prepare for them. After about half an hour, I will protect the baggage camp. At most, Li Xian's large team of troops will come. After an hour, I will block the way in front and find a way to burn the baggage camp with fire. Wang Junke and Li Wenxiang immediately led their troops to attack. Songlin Lake is to the north. No matter how good the troops under Li Xian's men are, they will be beaten even if they can't move in the queue. Don't care about their strength and attack vigorously. It's best to squeeze all the people from Yanyun Village into Songlin Lake."

"Songlin Lake is a dead lake, don't worry, the navy in Yanyun Village is impossible to come. Li Xian miscalculated this time."

After Pei Renji finished speaking, he reminded him: "My men and horses are not close friends. They can only block the road ahead by burning the carriages of the baggage camp. You must do it as soon as possible!"

"I see!"

Scarface clasped his fists and said, "I'll go to see General Wang and General Li right away, and I promise to bring your words to you."

"Go!"

Bae In-ki waved his hand and said, "I can't delay it for too long, otherwise it will arouse suspicion from others."

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After Pei Renji returned to the army, he ordered to continue his advance. Two thousand troops slowly started. His personal army captain Hu Sanshan came over and whispered: "General, Wang Qienian, the commander of the logistics camp, just now, sent someone to urge him, saying that this place is almost in danger and cannot stay for too long."

Pei Renji nodded and said, "I understand. You can send a few more people to find Pei Shan. He will contact Pei Lin and have not come back yet."

"Subordinate to obey the order!"

Hu Sanshan nodded, then drove his horse back and told his subordinates to do things.

Pei Renji looked back at the vast team and thought of his son Pei Xingyan for no reason. When he thought of his son, he felt deeply guilty. He said sorry to Pei Xingyan in his heart, for his father, he could only do this for our Pei family.

Thinking of his hard work in the officialdom over the years, Pei Renji's heart was filled with desolation and emotion. Although he had some relationship with Pei Ju, the powerful minister of the dynasty, he was not the direct descendant of the Pei family, but just a branch of the Pei family. Although he had given many gifts to Pei Ju in recent years, Pei Ju never helped him.

Fortunately, Emperor Yang Guang of Daye was pretty good to him. He won a complete victory in the suppression of barbarians, and was named Wu Ben Lang, and was appointed as the Yin Qing Guanglu Dafu. The Sui army conquered Tuyuhun, and he had outstanding military achievements and was appointed as the Golden Zi Guanglu Dafu. Later, he led his army to defeat the Marine people who were trying to rebel in Baishan Hei River, and was appointed as the Zuo Guanglu Dafu. Later, he followed Yang Guang to conquer Goguryeo and was appointed as the Guanglu Dafu.

However, since then, the emperor rarely handled government affairs personally. The government affairs were controlled by Pei Juyu Shiji and others. Although he also gave a lot of money, he was not appointed. He was idle as a Guanglu official, but he had nothing to do. Later, he gave Duan Da, Guanglu official, who assisted King Yang Tong of Yue, Yuan Wendu, and Prime Minister of Dongdu, Qu Tutong, a generous gift to everyone, who helped King Yang Tong of Yue stay in the Dongdu, and defended Hulao Pass to resist Wagang Village.

At this moment, Yang Guang also remembered him and appointed him as the ambassador of Henan Road to arrest him. He asked him to lead his troops to wipe out the rebels in Dongjun. Pei Renji felt that his life had ushered in another peak period.

He originally wanted to lead his army to suppress Wagang and make great contributions so that he could stabilize his position. As long as he defeated Wagang Village, whether it was the King of Yue Yang Tong, who was in the Eastern Capital or the Emperor of Jiangdu, he would look at him with admiration.

But unexpectedly, because of underestimating the enemy, he was ambushed by the military advisor Xu Shiji of Wagang Village. His dream of making achievements was shattered, and more than 20,000 soldiers under his command were destroyed. After that, Li Mi mobilized the Green Forest troops to defeat the Sui general Liu Changgong at Baihua Valley, which had already posed a huge threat to the eastern capital Luoyang. Pei Renji could not return to the eastern capital, so he had to surrender to the Wagang Village. At this time, after Li Mi mobilized the troops to defeat Liu Changgong, he began to run around to win over the green forest heroes on both sides of the Yellow River, trying to conquer the eastern capital in one fell swoop.

He was appreciated by Zhai Rang in Wagang Village and attached great importance to him. Most of the people in Wagang Village came from poor families. Pei Renji was an official, a famous general of the Sui Dynasty, and a Guanglu official of the Sui Dynasty. He was of a very high rank. If someone like this was willing to assist him, Zhai Rang also felt that he had face.

Pei Renji stayed in Wagang Village, and really gave up many good ideas for Zhai. Li Mi arrived at Wagang Village. Pei Renji had some contact with Li Mi at this time. Pei Renji believed in Li Mi's true identity as the emperor, so he only met him secretly twice and became Li Mi's person. After Li Mi left Wagang Village, he left a close confidant in public, but in fact there was another Pei Renji in secret.

Li Mi did not tell the truth to his subordinates a few days ago. He said that Pei Renji was from Wagang Village, and it was only after Zhai Rang told him that Li Mi knew about it. This makes sense. Pei Renji was Zhai Rang's person on the surface, but in fact he was his person. He also thought that after defeating Li Xian, if there was a conflict with Zhai Rang in the future, Pei Renji might become an important key.

But he didn't expect it, and Pei In-ki didn't expect it either.

Pei Xingyan actually surrendered to Yanyun Village, and Li Xian, the leader of Yanyun Village, actually wanted to rescue Pei Renji.

It was at this time that Wang Qinian, who had sneaked into Wagang Village, found a way to get in touch with Pei Renji. At first, Pei Renji did not immediately agree to Wang Qinian under the pretext of seeking peace, but immediately sent someone to report the matter to Li Mi. Li Mi was busy besieging Dongdu at the time. After thinking about it for a while, he felt that it was not a good thing for Pei Renji to enter Yanyun Village, so he simply asked Pei Renji to agree to Wang Qinian.

So, Wang Qinian successfully rescued Pei Renji into Leize County.

However, later Li Mi besieged Dongdu, and Pei Renji was taken to the north by Li Xian. He had no chance to do anything. After returning from the north, Li Mi was defeated, so Pei Renji took the initiative to cut off Li Mi's contact, because at this time, he was already afraid of the strength of Li Xian's hands.

But not long after, Li Mi actually rose again.

Pei Renji has to firmly believe that Li Mi is the true emperor.

He urged the horse to go, remembering the ups and downs of his life, and thinking of his son Pei Xingyan, he sighed a long time, and then murmured in a voice that only he could hear: "It's all for the Pei family, it's all for you. Yuan Qing, forgive me for being a father."

"Li Xianruo has the ambition to become emperor..."

Bae In-ki smiled bitterly and said to himself: "Maybe I won't betray him."

Does Li Xian have the ambition to be emperor?

Pei In-ki couldn't see clearly, but he could see Li Mi's ambitions clearly.
Chapter completed!