Turbulent Times Chapter 1457: The Northwest Old Department of Poison King

Except for the two counties of Donglai and Gaoxuan controlled by Wang Junlin, the people of Shandong bordering Hebei are still resisting the tyranny of the Sui Dynasty in the most violent way.

On the border of Shandong, two military generals have gradually become famous in the past two years, because they are very good at fighting rebels, bandits and rebels.

These two generals are Zhang Xutuo and his general Qin Qiong.

Even so far, the thieves in Shandong have never surpassed Zhang Xutuo even once, but no matter how they fight, there are still more and more thieves in Shandong, so Zhang Xutuo and Qin Qiong became the best in the Sui Dynasty Firefighters.

Compared to Shandong, which seems to be still under the control of the Sui court, Henan, which has completely lost control of the court, is now gradually gaining its own order. Performance.

In fact, since the past year, the Wagang Army has won successive victories, plundering food, grass and all kinds of treasures.

To the south of Henan, Lianghuai, a land of fish and rice that is only worse than Jiangnan, has also begun to be affected by the war between Shandong and Henan, and it has also become a mess. After many Shandong bandits were defeated by Zhang Xutuo, they did not dare to go north to face them The Far Eastern Army of King Junlin of the Poison King had no choice but to go south to join the Wagang Village or directly find a mountain in Lianghuai to continue to be the king.

In the northwest of the Great Sui Dynasty, there were also blazing fires everywhere, but it was completely different from the original historical development. Ying Yanglang of Wuwei County led Wu Si, and Ying Yanglang of Tianshui County led Shangguan Hu to quickly wipe out them, so the northwest became the only place in the world where there were no big thieves.

People in the world think that the soldiers of Northwest County are powerful because they have faced the Turkic, Tuyuhun, Tubo and other foreign troops for many years, so that Northwest Yongzhou has only small thieves and no big thieves, but few people still remember , Niu Jinda, Wu Si, Shangguan Hu, and some captains under the command of the three, Captain Guoyi, and the chief general of the border city were all military officers and personal soldiers under Wang Junlin's command.

There are only a few people who can clearly see the general trend of the world, and know that the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty have entered a new stage.

Because, in the ensuing war, some peasant uprisings led by reckless heroes who rose earlier

Completely reduced to supporting roles, those who join in, or the rest are the heroes who really want to compete for the throne.

Except for Wang Junlin, each of these people has more or less shadows of aristocratic families behind them, even directly like Li Yuan, who is himself a powerful family. These people don't want to eat and wear, but only seek wealth.

As the saying goes, Qin lost its deer, and the whole world pursued it.

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As the troubled times of the world entered a new stage, Jiangnan, which was relatively peaceful before, also burned fiercely, and there was no restraint in the slightest because Sui Emperor Yang Guang led 100,000 forbidden troops to Yangzhou.

But although Wang Junlin was paying attention to the situation in the south of the Yangtze River, his eyes were on the neighboring counties in Shandong in Hebei.

However, Wang Junlin does not plan to send troops in the short term. On the one hand, he needs to digest the newly acquired three counties in Hebei and Gaoxuan County. feel.

Scrupulous about the feelings of these two people does not mean that Wang Junlin must give these two face, but that he does not want these two people to die or go to Wagang Village.

These two people are naturally Zhang Xutuo and the general Qin Qiong who joined him three years ago.

In the past three years, Zhang Xutuo led Qin Qiong to run back and forth in the wild mountains of Shandong, defeating waves of rebels one after another, killing even more thieves than Wang Junlin. His head was piled up to be higher than Mount Tai in Shandong.

But in fact, Zhang Xutuo and Qin Qiong have never had more than 30,000 soldiers under their command. They made countless military exploits, and only received verbal rewards from the emperor and the court. Both of them had a bunch of titles on their heads, including titles, honors, and loose officials, but they didn't receive any rewards or supplements of money or food.

No way, although Yang Guang heard that the two were loyal to the emperor and patriotic, and killed countless thieves, but the court has no money!

"It's alright if Zhang Xutuo and Qin Qiong didn't receive supplements of money and food, but why haven't they even been promoted to real positions in the past three years except for a so-called recruiter from Shandong?" Fanyang County Far East Army Conference Hall Among them, Wang Junlin and Du Ruhui, Liu Ziming, and just promoted

Wei Zheng, the prefect of Xindu County, discussed the matter, and it was Liu Ziming who raised the question at this time.

Du Ruhui sneered and sneered, and said: "It's so strange, there are too few people like Zhang Xutuo and Qin Qiong, and they are not from aristocratic families, and they have no backers in the court. The matter is so dazzling that it immediately compares other county officials and county soldiers. There are too many people who don’t want to see them being promoted. In addition, the rich and common people in Shandong don’t want them to leave, so they are squeezed out and suppressed There is nothing to be surprised about."

Wei Zheng also said with a sneer: "There are too many people in this world who want the world to be more chaotic. These people dislike Zhang Xutuo and Qin Qiong. Anyway, loyal ministers and good generals are at the end of a dynasty. Most tragedies In the end, my lord, the officials guessed that this Zhang Xutuo might not live long."

Wang Junlin was startled, he naturally knew that Zhang Xutuo would soon die under Li Mi's tricks in Wagang Village, but Wei Zheng didn't know!

Sure enough, Wei Zheng's ability to leave his name through the ages is definitely not just an eternal mirror, his vision and insight are not bad, and it is definitely rare in the world when it comes to mind.

"Recently, the Military Intelligence Office has collected a lot of information about the counties in Shandong. Although Zhang Xutuo and Qin Qiong are killing thieves everywhere, Shandong has already gone far and wide, and the thieves always reunite after defeat, never ending, and Like a hydra. Once one head is cut off, another one will pop up." Wang Junlin said with emotion.

"What's the use of Zhang Xutuo and Qin Qiong being good at fighting? The thieves are not all people who are forced to have no way out. If you only suppress the thieves, you will naturally suppress more and more. In the end, even some Shandong clans have already died. There were riots one after another, and some Shandong surnames began to appear frequently in the rebellious army." When Du Ruhui said the last sentence, his eyes were icy cold.

"Zhang Xutuo and Qin Qiong are not ignorant of this truth, but the problem is that they are only military generals, and they are the kind of military generals who are loyal to the court, so even though they have military power in their hands, they have never intervened in local political affairs, even Food and grass are still under the control of local civil servants and aristocratic families." Wang Junlin remembered that he had a good relationship with Qin Qiong back then, but the latter seemed to have seen that he was rebellious, and never came to serve him from the beginning to the end, but followed Zhang Xutuo Kill thieves and serve the country.

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