My life skills in Daming Liver - Chapter 650

c640 Imitation of the story of Emperor Xiaowen

At this time, one letter after another asking for help from the first town on the front line was sent to Xi’an, asking Guo Pu to send troops for rescue.

However, Guo Pu was preparing to withdraw to Lanzhou and tried to withdraw to Longyou to continue separatist rule.

The various forces around Guo Pu were all singing and I came on stage. Guo Pu was so noisy that he felt dizzy.

Ningyuan, who is on the front line on this side, has sent for help and needs logistics and personnel supplies. If they don’t replenish Tongguan, Tongguan will be lost.

Over there, Qiu Yuanshan sent another letter asking for help in Dashan Pass, insisting that the southeast bandit army was using the strategy of attacking from the east and attacking in the west. Those attacking Tongguan were not the main force at all. The main attack direction in the southeast was the Dashanguan area. If they did not support the southeast bandit army in the pass, We are about to enter Guanzhong.

Guo Pu was preparing to evacuate to Lanzhou, but he kept encountering various problems.

For example, there is a sudden shortage of military horses, a fire breaks out in the granary, and the prepared supplies are lost.

Guo Pu was naturally very angry about this and sent his confidant Guo Ding to investigate, but no results could be obtained in the short term.

By the end of November, the outer wall of Tongguan was finally demolished by the Southeast New Army, and the most brutal battle of the Shaanxi Campaign began.

In the end, although the Ming army struggled to defend Tongguan, it suffered huge losses in personnel, and all the gunpowder and shells were used up.

After this battle, Guo Pu also made up his mind that Shaanxi could never be defended, so he should lead his army to Lanzhou.

But how to lead the army to Lanzhou? Guo Ding proposed a method.

He first exaggerated the cruelty of the front line in Shaanxi newspapers and explained the huge casualties on the Tongguan front line, and then led all the elites out of Xi’an to replace his son-in-law Ning Yuan, who had suffered heavy losses.

This military order naturally caused huge dissatisfaction within the Ming army in Shaanxi. Everyone knew that the southeastern thieves were powerful. Wouldn’t it be a life-threatening thing to defend Tongguan now?

Guo Ding’s plan was to follow the example of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty after leading the army to leave Xi’an City.

When Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty wanted to move the capital to Luoyang, the nobles within Xianbei were also very opposed. Emperor Xiaowen used the same slogan of the southern expedition as Fu Jian of the former Qin Dynasty, and led hundreds of officials, ministers and generals to “explore the south”.

Because of Fu Jian’s lesson, there was also a strong voice within the Northern Wei Dynasty against the Southern Expedition. When they arrived in Luoyang, Emperor Xiaowen proposed not to continue the Southern Expedition, but to move the capital to Luoyang.

At this time all officials and ministers could only agree.

In Guo Ding’s words, “Soldiers always like to compromise. For example, if you say that this room is too dark and open a skylight here, no one will allow it. But if you advocate removing the roof, , they will come to reconcile and be willing to open the skylight.”

Guo Pu thought this plan was very good, but he had forgotten what was the situation of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and what was his situation?

When Guo Pu began to exaggerate the tragedy on the Tongguan front line, some tabloids exposing Guo Pu’s extravagant life were distributed in the army. It was widely spread in the army that the reason why Guo Pu refused to surrender was because he was reluctant to part with his own glory and wealth, and needed to use the blood and flesh of the soldiers to surrender. Negotiate terms with Southeast.

Even among these military leaflets, there is the military proposal given to Guo Pu by the “slow-down faction”, which can be said to be conclusive.

These leaflets naturally greatly shaken the morale of the military.

Originally, Qiu Yuanshan’s theory of surrender had been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The soldiers in Shaanxi knew very well that Shaanxi could not be defended by itself.

Now, who is willing to sacrifice his life to fight for his boss’ future?

Moreover, Southeast has a completely different attitude towards soldiers and officers.

Most of the new armies of the Ming army who had participated in the new education could continue to serve in the army after being disbanded, or they could be sent home.

Unless they are well-known military gangsters or military bullies, they are likely to be arrested by the gendarmerie. Other soldiers will not be abused at all.

These have been verified many times and are also listed in the surrender manual issued by Southeast China.

But for those who hold positions, the Southeast Army will treat them as ordinary soldiers.

If you want to continue to be an ordinary soldier, you can do it as long as you have no bad deeds. But if you want to be promoted to an officer, you have to start from scratch.

Therefore, within the army, the majority of ordinary soldiers wanted to surrender quickly. The battlefield was blind, and no one could guarantee that they would be able to return safely.

However, the military supplies were insufficient. Even though it was winter, the soldiers were issued low-quality winter clothes when they went out of the city. They were just two pieces of cloth mixed with straw. At the supply stations along the way, there were fewer rice grains in the rice porridge than sand.

Guo Pu obviously didn’t know about these changes in the army.

The Qin Palace is responsible for military logistics and external business. For example, winter clothes are provided by them.

Guo Ding planned everything like army supplies, but Guo Pu’s commander still had big fish and meat every day.

Guo Ding paid a tribute of a whole sheep to Guo Pu every day, and also gave a large amount of cumin and other spices. He also let the soldiers roast it in the open air, and the whole military camp could smell the aroma of meat.

Less than three days after leaving the city, the morale of the entire army had collapsed.

Guo Pu thought the time had come, so he immediately beat the drum to summon all the soldiers to gather and tell him his plan to go to Lanzhou.

The soldiers were tortured for several days, cold and hungry, and lined up in the military camp. Looking at Guo Pu on the high platform wearing gorgeous armor, he was filled with anger.

Today, God cooperated again, and it actually started to rain.

The cold icy rain patted the soldiers’ faces silently.

Guo Pu on the high platform talked nonsense about mobilization under the big umbrella, and finally gave the order to withdraw from Lanzhou.

Guo Pu was so proud that he looked around, but where was the imaginary cheers?

Why are the soldiers staring at me coldly?

Guo Pu already felt something was wrong.

“Why does he have an umbrella?”

What aroused the soldiers’ anger was not that Guo Pu said he was going to Lanzhou, but that Guo Pu gave a lecture under an umbrella while the soldiers listened to the training in the freezing rain.

“It’s the opposite!”

“Capture the dog officer and throw him to the southeast!”

The soldiers drew their weapons and quickly rushed towards Guo Pu’s high platform.

Although Guo Pu had some loyal guards, these were the soldiers of the entire town, and they were unable to resist. Guo Pu’s high platform was immediately captured.

Guo Pu was dragged to the open space by the angry soldiers. He was beaten to death without even understanding why the soldiers were angry. The cause of death was exactly the same as that of Chen Hong, the eunuch who was the ceremonial eunuch.

Guo Pu was dead, and the soldiers’ anger was transferred to officers at all levels.

The Shanxi New Army is still a feudal army with a very strict hierarchical system. Ordinary soldiers are bullied and exploited by officers.

Now that Guo Pu is dead, the soldiers also beat to death the officers who they usually looked down upon, then rushed towards Xi’an City and quickly seized the city defense of Xi’an.

Peng An and Guo Ding stood outside the city. Peng An looked at Guo Ding and said, “In this battle of Shaanxi, you are the first to win!”