Morale, such an invisible and intangible thing, is so strange. When morale is low, the guard archer at Shangchun Gate can do the most basic arch pulling action, and can lose balance due to force on the waist and fall to the ground, feeling embarrassed.

It's ridiculous.

But after fighting a battle to defend the city, although it was still a small victory with less than 500 enemies, the mysterious morale of the East Capital suddenly returned to the defenders and saw the rebels attacking.

The city team retreated like a tide. Since the construction of Dongdu New City, thunderous cheers broke out on the wall of Shangchun Gate. It was not necessary to order the senior generals such as Pei Hongce and Xie Zichong, nor did they need to command the middle and grassroots generals. They were already exhausted.

The defenders suddenly recovered as before, pulling their bows and shooting arrows with all their might, throwing stone javelins, and expanding the results of the war at all costs. The rebels had already escaped from the range, and the city walls were still

The arrows are still shooting continuously, and the strength is as if they have not just experienced a battle to defend the city.

All the defenders in the Dongdu City were affected. After learning that the Shangchun Gate defenders had repelled the rebels' siege, there were also sounds of different sizes on the other eleven gates in the Dongdu City.

Cheers, the defending reserves gathered in Taipei City, from the commander of the Hu Ben Lang General Liu Changgong to the ordinary soldiers, all breathed a sigh of relief, glad that they won the victory and were glad that they did not have to fight on the city wall.

The news then spread to the imperial city. Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi, who were accompanying Yang Tong, were also smiling happily and immediately asked for a reward for Shangchun.

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The gate guard, Huangfu Wuyi, who was ill for a long time, also came to Shangchun Gate in person and announced in public that he would reward each soldier of Shangchun Gate guards with his regular money. The team leader and the team leader and the brigade coach would double, and so on.

At the same time, they were rewarded with good wine, meat and vegetables. Pei Hongce and Xie Zichong also received verbal rewards from Huangfu Wuyi.

As Pei Hongce's staff account room, Chen Yingliang, who was not a member of the Right Wu Guard, did not receive the reward from Huangfu Wuyi. However, Chen Yingliang did not mind, but focused his attention on the issuance of the bounty. The result was the same as Chen Yingliang was worried.

As an army that only dares to hide on the city wall and shoot arrows and stones, the internal corruption of the Right Wu Guard is indeed very serious. The Dongdu court gave every soldier a reward of money, and after layers of deductions by generals at all levels, it is truly

Only half of the five hundred coins were sent to the soldiers!

What made Chen Yingliang even more incredible was that after receiving half of the reward, the defenders not only did not make a big fuss, but also smiled and thanked their superiors very much. Chen Yingliang found out after careful investigation.

The situation is already the best. The rewards given to soldiers by the Right Martial Guard can be distributed to soldiers at most, and half of them can be distributed this time, which is already overjoyed for the Right Martial Guard soldiers.

After carefully investigating this situation, Chen Yingliang found Pei Hongce with a try-through attitude and suggested that Pei Hongce interfere in the matter and try to distribute all the rewards in place to boost the morale of the army and to perform better in the next battle to defend the city. However,

The result was still the same as Chen Yingliang was worried. Pei Hongce said with a wry smile: "Nephew, although you are talented, you still lack some experience and experience. My uncle is a civil servant, not a general of the Right Martial Guard. He has no right to interfere in such matters.

It's not convenient to intervene."

Chen Yingliang lowered his head and said, "Uncle, my nephew also knows that this matter is very embarrassing for you, but if you ignore such a thing, the morale of our army will still be sluggish, and the combat effectiveness cannot be improved. We will always be passive.

Where the beating is, how can an army that has to be deducted half of its rewards?

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"My nephew, of course my uncle understands what you said, but my uncle really has no choice." Pei Hongce smiled even more bitterly and said, "Do you think my uncle didn't know these situations before? My uncle also served as the chief supervisor and often commanded tens of thousands of people.

Even hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians have already known this kind of thing. But what's the use of knowing it? I impeached the generals who embezzled military pay and deducted rewards? I offended them to death. My uncle thought about it again in the future.

What should we do if we command the army to create civil engineering? What should we do if these generals deliberately make the army neglect the construction period? Isn’t it that my uncle can’t afford to take care of it?"

"And." Pei Hongce pointed to the direction of the Dongdu Imperial City again, lowered his voice and said: "Nephew, do you think that sick general Huangfu Wuyi, the right Wugu Guard, doesn't know these things? Do you think Fan Liushou doesn't know these things?

?They knew it! But why did they, the famous honest officials in the world, dare not take care of them, and why didn't they? It was because they had to count on these generals and soldiers to defend the city, and they also wanted to count on these generals to go into battle to kill the enemy, which made them anxious

What to do? What other options can they have besides turning a blind eye?”

Pei Hongce actually doesn't have to say so carefully to Chen Yingliang. Chen Yingliang, who is not a good person, knows these tricks better than Pei Hongce. The corruption methods that are ahead of more than a thousand years are also far more sophisticated than Pei Hongce, but as an ambitious time travel

In order to make a name for himself, Chen Yingliang is willing to correct his shortcomings - at least temporarily. So after a little calculation, Chen Yingliang suddenly knelt down to Pei Hongce, clasped his fists and said, "Uncle, my nephew, dare, I want to

Please help my uncle to lead an army, charge for my uncle, and suppress the rebellion and kill the enemy!"

"Why did the nephew have the idea of ​​commanding the army?" Pei Hongce asked.

"Uncle, I want to create an invincible invincible army for you to reverse the current passive beating situation for you." Chen Yingliang replied in a deep voice: "I carefully observed the battlefield situation today and found that the Eastern Capital defenders were in danger.

In terms of equipment and training, they are actually far better than Yang Ni's team, but they only lack high morale and fighting spirit, and the courage to fight to the end! My nephew feels that he has a way to change these, so he begs his uncle.

Give me a chance to lead an army alone, and build an invincible invincible army for you, and for the Sui court!”

"I am very proud!" Pei Hongce praised, then shook his head and said, "But it's unrealistic! Don't forget, you are only seventeen years old and don't even have the qualifications to join the government army. Although my uncle is Duke Li, he is an important official in the Eastern Capital.

There is no way to get you to command an army.”

"Uncle, my nephew finds that there are many servants in your mansion. Can you lend them to me for two hundred servants?" Chen Yingliang refused to give up and said, "I don't need to command a regular army, just a volunteer soldier, a little bit

Give me some time, and I can build my uncle's servants into an elite army."

"You kid is very smart, but sometimes you can only talk stupidly?" Pei Hongce said with a wry smile: "When is it now? When the rebel army besieged the city, my uncle organized the servants into an army in Dongdu City at this time, and then gave him the

They distributed weapons and armor. His Highness King Yue and Fan Liushou knew about it, so they would not have to peel off their uncle's skin?"

Chen Yingliang thought about it carefully, and he could only sue the crime helplessly and take back the request. Pei Hongce helped Chen Yingliang up, patted Chen Yingliang on the shoulder and said, "Nephew, you are eager to serve the country, my uncle understands, so my uncle

You won’t blame you for saying these children. Listen to your uncle, be calm and restless. When Yang Ni’s rebellion is quelled, my uncle promises to get you a formal official position and a civil and military position will be your choice.”

"Uncle Xie." Chen Yingliang agreed to thank him, thinking in his heart: "Do you have to give up and follow Pei Hongce to make some small contributions in the Yang Xuangan rebellion? No, I can't miss this opportunity. I don't have much time left. I

We must do something in this anti-rebellion war and earn the capital for future development! How to do it, is there any way to let me lead the troops to fight? Show my strength!"

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Chen Yingliang hadn't thought that the situation on the battlefield in Luoyang had changed. At noon the next day, a Jin Yongcheng City

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4fe1 made a round-roar and crawl into the Dongdu City, bringing a second letter of help from Liu Ziyi, the defender of Jinyong City, to Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi. It said that the main force of the rebels had gathered at the Jinyong City.

, launched a fierce attack on this acropolis in Luoyang! What made Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi furious was that no one of the scouts sent by the Right Wu Guard to find out about this situation, and even the main force of the rebels drove to Jinyong City so much

No big news has been reported!

A few scouts who were afraid of death and reported the military situation were killed, and then they dealt with their superiors seriously. Fan Zigai sent a messenger to contact Liu Ziyi and asked Liu Ziyi to guard the Jinyong Cang City to death. The city was there, and the city was dead, and the city was dead. At the same time, it was clear in the letter.

He told Liu Ziyi that the rebels attacked Jinyong City with the purpose of surrounding the points and attacking reinforcements. In order not to give the rebels a chance to ambush, he would never send reinforcements with one army and one soldier to Liu Ziyi, and everything could only depend on Liu Ziyi himself.

Luck is on the side of the rebels. Fan Zigai never dreamed that the messenger he sent out of the city was intercepted and attacked by the rebel scouts on the road. The messenger was afraid of death and chose to surrender to the rebels. Fan Zigai gave the

Liu Ziyi's handwritten letter naturally fell into the hands of Yang Xuangan and others.

As the future outstanding leader of the rebel army, Li Mi, the military advisor of the rebel army, would naturally not waste this lucky letter in vain. He immediately asked the rebels to take the messenger to the city of Jinyong City, read Fan Zigai's letter in public, and told Jinyong City.

The defenders would not have reinforcements from one army or another, and they would have to die in vain to continue defending the city.

It is conceivable that the Jinyong City defenders reacted after learning the news. The Jinyong City defenders, whose morale was already extremely depressed, were immediately uproared when they heard Fan Zigai's decision, and their morale was blew up. If it weren't for Liu Ziyi, it would have been considered.

Some military talents and wisdom announced in time that the letter was forged by the enemy, and claimed that reinforcements would arrive before sunset on the third day of Luoyang, and the desperate defenders of Jinyong City might open the city gate on the spot to surrender to the rebels.

That night, Liu Ziyi sent his personal captain to sneak out of Jinyong City, came to Dongdu overnight, reported to Fan Zigai about the incident, and clearly told Fan Zigai that if he was in

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What else can Fan Zigai say? In addition to beating his chest and stamping his feet, cursing his bad luck, the messenger was incompetent, Fan Zigai could only ask Huangfu Wuyi to discuss it overnight, and decided to bite the bullet and send a reinforcement to Liu Ziyi.

Help Liu Ziyi to make up his lies and stabilize the morale of the defenders in Jinyong City.

Considering that Pei Hongce fought well at Shangchun Gate the first day, Fan Zigai finally did not force Pei Hongce to lead the troops to rescue Liu Ziyi this time, and chose to let the Huya Lang general Yuan Chaoqun lead three thousand troops to execute this order. At the same time, Fan Zi

Gai only gave Yuan Chaoqun a task that could not be simpler, which was to let Jinyong City see the reinforcements in Luoyang! Then could Yuan Chaoqun enter Jinyong City to rescue, and could he help Jinyong City defend and repel the rebels siege team

It doesn’t matter, as long as Jinyong City can see Luoyang reinforcements!

Assigning such an easy task, of course, it was because Fan Zigai was completely disappointed with the field capabilities of the Right Martial Guard Army and dared not give them hope. However, the cruel reality made Fan Zigai completely desperate.

The three thousand troops led by Chao Qun were just ten miles away from the city and were immediately hit by the rebels led by Yang Xuangan himself. Then the brave and invincible Yang Xuangan led the lead, wielding his spear to lead the Sui army to vent his anger, and the rebels were subjected to

The commander encouraged him and the offensive was tide. The Sui army collapsed instantly. As the main general, Yuan Chaoqun took the lead in escaping. Three thousand Sui soldiers disarmed their armor together, threw down their armor and weapons and rushed to escape from the battlefield. Most of them were scattered.

When they fled, only a few troops followed Yuan Chaoqun back to the Eastern Capital. Yang Xuangan chased and killed all the way to the Eastern Capital City, showing off his might under the city wall. The defenders on the city wall were trembling and did not dare to leave the city to fight.

Although Fan Zigai cut off Yuan Chaoqun's head without hesitation and told the sects to use the military law to correct the military, it could not curb the chain reaction caused. First of all, nearly half of the three thousand Sui troops brought out of the city by Yuan Chaoqun were nearly half of the three thousand Sui troops.

After surrendering to the rebels, the reinforcements arrived, and the morale collapsed completely. On the fourth day, Yang Xuangan rebelled and attacked the city defense fortifications far inferior to the Eastern Capital. Some of the defenders in the acropolis were extremely cowardly.

After opening the city gate, surrendering to the rebels. Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Liu Ziyi could only lead some of the defenders who could still control to break through the siege and flee back to the Eastern Capital. The rebels easily took down Jinyong City and obtained a large amount of military supplies hoarded in the city. Yang Xuangan once again led the person himself.

The army chased and rushed to the east capital.

Liu Ziyi only fled back to Anxi Gate adjacent to Shangchun Gate. Although there were more than 100 Sui soldiers outside the city before they entered the city, because Yang Xuangan had already chased the city, Anxi

The gate guards still closed the city gate. The Sui soldiers who could not enter the city cried under the city wall and begged hard, but said they had no courage to pick up their weapons, and killed the rebel soldiers not far behind them, using their own

He either knelt on the ground and cried and asked for surrender, or cried with his head in his arms, allowing the rebel soldiers to cut them into pieces.

Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi, two important officials in the Eastern Capital, happened to pass by nearby cities. When they arrived at Anxi Gate to check the situation, they also saw this tragic scene with their own eyes. They saw the poorly equipped rebel soldiers like tigers going down the mountain, freely

The Sui soldiers who had not yet entered the city also saw the well-equipped Sui soldiers kneeling on the ground and crying and begging, allowing the rebels to carry their swords and guns, and dared not resist at all.

Fan Zigai's heart was as if he was stolen, and the sick Huangfu Wuyi's face was as if he was dead, but he was helpless.

Liu Ziyi, covered in sweat and cement, was helped to Anxi Gate and came to Fan Zigai to cry about the fall of Jinyong City. Fan Zigai was not furious this time. After listening to Liu Ziyi's report carefully, he waved his hand weakly.

: "You have no responsibility for the fall of Jinyong City. Go down and rest. I will report to His Highness King Yue truthfully and ask him to deal with you with lenient treatment."

Liu Ziyi thanked him with tears, and then with the help of the soldiers, Fan Zigai turned his gaze to the rebels in the distance, many soldiers holding willow shields and sails as armor, and then

He looked back at the guards wearing iron helmets, and suddenly became angry and roared at the generals around him, "You still have the face to eat the rice of the court and the salary of the court,"

What kind of soldiers are they bringing out? With such excellent equipment, such sufficient military rations, and so long training, why can't even defeat the Yang rebels who hold a single sword? Are you shy?!"
To be continued...