Chapter 208 (1/2)
Princess Shouning was sad to learn that the Kongtong two old men had fought and died alone against the pursuit of the rebels. She found the bodies of the two men who died in the fierce battle and set up a monument for burial. The group of rebel cavalry, deeply afraid of being bitten by Zuo Shence, ran straight north, but they couldn't catch up.
Later, he informed Zhang Zhen and other senior leaders of the divine strategy army of all the Jianghu matters involved in the anti thief of Henan Dao.
It turned out that this refugee rebellion was also fueled by the devil's gate, and several large-scale rebels such as Wang Xianzhi, almost all of the senior generals are from the devil's gate, which is very likely to send assassins to assassinate the commander of the imperial court's imperial palace.
Wei Ran knew that the scholar he killed should and could be from the demon sect. What about these elite cavalry? Is it also trained by the magic door?
Bu Lanshan didn't know about it. Although there were cavalry among the rebels, most of them were formed after the surrender of the captured local forces. The combat effectiveness should not be as strong as Wei Ran described.
Knowing the name of Qixia sword sect, Li Chengye attached great importance to bu Lanshan's words and saw that the other party intended to join the Shence army, so he took the initiative to invite. Bu Lanshan didn't refuse again and again, so he agreed on the spot.
After the whole army returned to Luoyang, Princess Shouning repeatedly asked to join the next battle. Zhang Zhen refused to agree. As a result, an imperial edict from Chang'an cancelled Li Chengye's position as supervisor and was held by Princess Shouning.
Seeing that both Li Chengye and Zhang Zhen were stunned, how did you ever see the emperor's majesty make a woman serve as the supervisor of Zuo Shence? How could you convince the public?
Only when Princess Shouning knew her father's intention, she still wanted to take the opportunity to train her military ability to help her brother ascend the throne in the future. Presumably, this decision was opposed by many ministers. Even so, the father emperor forced the imperial edict down, which gave her great expectations.
After taking the post of supervisor, Princess Shouning selected 500 soldiers from the Imperial Army in Luoyang, the eastern capital, and followed Zuo Shence to fight against the enemy.
Zuo Shence army is a recruitment system, which is different from the government system in the early Tang Dynasty. It has its own special baggage army. It is necessary to recruit civilian men to carry grain with the army.
Zhang Zhen was ready to lead the army to rescue bianzhou City, which had been in emergency for many times. However, there were not many civilian men with the army, so he ordered Dongdu to stay and collect 10000 civilian men within ten days.
As a result, in the past three days, only some old, weak, sick and disabled people were recruited into the camp. Zhang Zhenqi was furious. After sending people to investigate, he found that the people who can be used as civilian husbands are basically in the gentry manor of the Daoists in Gyeonggi.
Fan Heng, who remained in the eastern capital, could not move these gentry. Naturally, he could only recruit some refugees without food and clothing from the local area.
Zhang Zhen has a mixed nature. He is an extension of imperial power and doesn't care about the wind evaluation of folk and township gentlemen. They immediately sent troops to attack the country manor to forcibly recruit husbands. After encountering resistance, they didn't do anything. They simply chose several big landlords as the head, came to copy the family and destroy the family, killed heads and bodies everywhere!
Under the butcher's knife, the literati who started writing dared not face each other. Only then did the recruitment of civilian husbands proceed smoothly. However, it triggered a chaotang earthquake in Chang'an. Most of these gentry families have officials in the court, so it is naturally impossible to swallow this tone.
Therefore, after the news was rushed to Chang'an by interested people, a hundred officials wrote a blood letter asking for an order to punish traitors and evil eunuchs and correct the code of discipline!
The emperor was also stunned by Zhang Zhen's bloody means, but he had been in power for decades and was deeply authoritarian. He didn't pay much attention to the noise of officials, and all the tips of impeachment were left behind.
As a strategist, he naturally knows the priorities of things and destroys several gentry families. It seems that public opinion is fierce, but in fact it has no impact on the general trend of the world. Although Zhang Zhen's actions are reckless, they greatly reduce some unnecessary obstacles to the suppression of anti thieves. Even if there is a small loss, hehe, who can't make mistakes?
Therefore, only a decree reprimanded Zhang Zhenxun and fined him, but it did not relieve him of his military power, just let him restrain and don't leave too much control.