eurekapd Chapter 357 The Empress is Sick Again
Chapter 357 The Empress is Sick Again
It is possible that these 100,000 people were all ordinary people holding hoes and manure forks. Moreover, among them were their families, the elderly, the weak, women, and children, so there might be 100,000 people.
How many people are there in Wang Yuanya's army?
Twenty thousand people can be protected!
As for those who can really fight and use muskets, there are probably only about 8,000 of them.
That's right! Of the army of 100,000, perhaps only these 8,000 are capable of fighting. As for the others...
Ha ha!
How did the various forces react to the fact that Wang Yuanya had raised the banner of rebellion and had caused a great stir in the Jingchu area from a county town like Ji'an?
The Southern Qi court doesn't care at all. You can do whatever you want in the north.
Laozi's policies and strategic guidelines remain unchanged. He still wants to unify the entire South and then have enough troops to counterattack the North.
Zuo Santong didn't care at all, he was busy dealing with the Qi army.
These bastards, I don’t know where they got such powerful weapons, and then they defeated him in one battle.
Zuo Santong finally turned the tide. After killing a group of fleeing generals, he stabilized the troops and did not allow them to retreat even a single step!
At first it had some effect, and he thought his rectification was effective, but he found out that the Qi army had run out of ammunition.
But after taking over the coal mines and killing a large number of people due to exhaustion and starvation, Gao Pan's army regained its strength and once again pursued them.
Zuo Santong and his staff felt that the future was bleak. This was not going to be fun. What should they do?
The staff thought that since the Qi army had muskets, we should have some too!
But our weapons cannot keep up with those of the other side. Why don’t we find buyers for the weapons and buy a batch as well?
Who is this buyer?
Of course it’s Li Jize!
When his staff suggested that they ask Li Jize to buy arms to fight against the Qi army, Zuo Santong was quite excited. But then he thought something was wrong. Li Jize was the empress's childhood sweetheart, and now he was her brother-in-law!
He was the one who provided the Qi army with firearms. Would he be willing to sell them weapons?
The staff's answer was simple: Li Jize was a businessman! Damn the King of Qin, why wouldn't he make money if there was money to be made?
Secondly, Li Jize and the empress were not in harmony with each other. Didn’t he know the truth that “when the cunning rabbit dies, the running dogs are cooked; when the birds are all gone, the good bows are put away”?
Once they can't hold on any longer, the empress will deal with them, and the next moment it will be Lin Jiaxuan's turn.
What will happen after the south is unified? Of course, they will take the north. By then, will the empress be able to tolerate Li Jize and his Qin army?
Zuo Santong thought this made sense. Li Jize had been exposed to the sun by the empress for three days and three nights, and he almost died. In the end, he escaped by pretending to be crazy. I am a warlord, and he is also a warlord!
Then we should stick together, right?
That's it...
Zuo Santong sent people with gold, silver and jewelry to find Li Jize, hoping to buy firearms from Qingzhou. On the other hand, he used delaying tactics, hoping to negotiate peace with the Qi army.
He expressed his desire to surrender to the court. As long as the emperor agreed, he could depose the emperor he supported and serve as a general of the Great Qi with peace of mind.
With such a lame excuse, even a fool would know what he wanted to do, but the empress was really a little bit arrogant.
She felt that she had the King of Zhengbei to support her in her wars and the King of Qin to provide her with arms. With the support of these two princes, what could she not conquer?
Look! As soon as the battle started, Zuo Santong was beaten to a pulp and fell to his knees, begging for mercy. He was even willing to depose the previous "false emperor" and submit to me.
In this way, if she could accept Zuo Santong's surrender, not only would she gain another army, but she could also use this as an example for the warlords of the world to see! Let them all follow Zuo Santong's example and surrender to her.
Ruan Daying almost died of anger!
Although his own military ability is not very good, he also knows that now is a rare good time when weapons are strong and the barbarians in the north are busy dealing with internal uprisings.
She is still here nagging and complaining, trying to force Zuo Santong to surrender or something. If she really keeps wasting time, by then it might be too late.
result……
Nguyen Daying directly refused, saying that they should make a concerted effort to completely defeat Za Sam Tong.
Then a group of people started to quarrel again, and the fighting and quarreling in the court began again. This is a feature of the court of Da Qi.
What are the characteristics?
Party strife!
If there were conflicts in the past, it was only because everyone had different ideas about governance and they argued to get the best solution.
As it developed, the nature of this party struggle completely changed, and it was completely due to opposition for the sake of opposition.
As long as you are not on our side, we must oppose whatever you support. If Nguyen Dai Anh thinks that we should take down Zao Sam Tong in one fell swoop, then we must oppose it! We must try to persuade Zao Sam Tong to surrender.
"Your Excellency is mistaken! Great Qi is currently short on troops, and the barbarians in the north are eyeing us covetously. If Zuo Santong surrenders, we will then possess both the Gaopan tribe and Zuo Santong. Wouldn't that be beneficial to Great Qi?"
"Yes! The highest art of war is to conquer the enemy without fighting! Your Majesty is showing mercy to the world. Once you've taken down Zuo Santong's forces, are you still worried that Lin Jiaxuan won't surrender?"
These people all sang a different tune and disagreed with Nguyen Dai Anh's policies, which made the old man very angry.
But the empress also agreed with this idea. If they insisted on fighting, it would not only waste money and food.
If a soldier is killed, there will be a lot of money for compensation and so on. The most important thing is that if one is killed, there will be one less soldier! Killing one means less combat effectiveness, which is so painful.
"Lord, I think the surrender of Zuo Santong's troops is a good thing! Even if I don't think highly of his soldiers, at least they can return to the countryside, which is helpful for local production!"
The empress showed her kindness at this time, showing that she was an emperor with a "benevolent heart", but it left Nguyen Daying's people dumbfounded and stunned.
What the hell!
It is a good thing for you to show your kindness in a prosperous era, so that the people can be kind and think that you are a good emperor.
But Your Majesty...
These are chaotic times! The country is falling apart, and you still want to show mercy?
People will just think that "women are women, they are easy to bully"!
Just when Ruan Daying was thinking about how to persuade the empress...
Suddenly someone came hurriedly to report that they had captured a boatman who was heading to Qingzhou from the upper reaches of Tianjiang River.
To be precise, the boatman was not captured. He came to report the news after abandoning the ship and escaping.
What news?
Zuo Santong sent an envoy with shiploads of gold, silver, and jewelry to Qingzhou to find Li Jize.
In a word...
A thousand times better than Ruan Daying!