Chapter 445: Mutiny

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"Dad! Dad!" Xiaobao ran towards his father's tent excitedly.

The two guards at the door winked at him frequently.

Xiaobao had just heard that he was about to break camp and go home. He was excited, but without seeing it, he rushed past the two guards, lifted the curtain, and got in.

"Dad..." It was miserable.

All the generals and military advisors in the camp turned to look at him.

"Mao Mao, how can you become a Tong? You won't report it when you come in?" Lu Bocheng frowned and scolded.

"Dad, I was wrong."

Dabao followed, understood the guard's eyes, and stopped outside the camp. But when he heard his father scolding Xiaobao inside, he thought about it and opened the curtain and went in.

"Wei Zhao has met all the generals and military advisors."

"Wei Yang has met all the generals and military advisors." The two brothers came back to their senses and hurriedly greeted the elders in the tent.

"Hahaha, it's okay. Your dad still thinks you're rude, isn't he young?" Qian Kuan laughed and tried to smooth things over, fearing that Master Jiedushi would deal with Xiaobao's military law.

These two children won his heart. Especially Xiaobao, who is better than his master. In the past three years, he had secretly followed them out to fight many battles. How could anyone present dare to underestimate him.

Sir, there is someone following you. congratulations.

The generals looked at the two sons of the Lord, and they all said that the tiger father had no dog sons, and he was really a formidable young man. At the age of twelve or thirteen, he was already a well-established little tiger general. As time went by, his achievements far surpassed their father's.

Everyone looked happy.

Xiaobao secretly looked up at his father and saw that his father was glaring at him, but there was no anger in his eyes, so he let out a sigh of relief.

"Stand back!"

Lu Bocheng was discussing matters with the generals when he was interrupted by his younger son. Seeing that the generals were helping to smooth things over, he raised his hands and let it go.

"Yes." Dabao and Xiaobao hurriedly stood behind the generals, pricking up their ears and listening carefully.

"This time, there is civil strife in Wei Bojun. Should we do something?"

"What can we do? There are still several states away from us north of the Yellow River. We can't attack it, right?"

"It's not a few states away. It would be great if Caozhou and Weizhou are still in our hands. We can just go there and take advantage. I'm afraid that the advantage will be taken by Jin this time."

"If Jin swallows up Wei Bo's 100,000-strong army, it will be very detrimental to us."

"In the battle between Jin and Liang, we can just sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight. It won't offend us, right?"

"Why can't we commit the same crime? If Jin becomes bigger and swallows Wei Bo whole, the road to the south will be opened. Xuzhou is so close to him, aren't we afraid that Jin will bite us?"

After Wu Youzhen, the third emperor of the Liang Dynasty, came to power, the treasury was empty and corrupt officials were appointed to amass money. Not only did external social conflicts intensify, but conflicts continued within the royal family.

Wu Quanzhong's disciples were suspicious of each other and dissatisfied with their brothers on the throne. Today you will mess with me, and tomorrow I will fight with you. They always want to launch a coup to seize the throne.

Wu Youzhen's head is as big as a bucket.

The flawless care of others caused the last three states of Jiangsu to fail. Jiangning, Runzhou, and Changzhou were captured by Zhenjun during the struggle between Wu and Zhenjun.

The main thing that made Wu Youzhen feel like a stick in his throat was Yang Shihou, the military governor of Wei Bo.

Yang Shihou relied on his support and support. He was arrogant and lawless, and had no monarch in his eyes. Wu Youzhen was afraid of his great power, so he consulted Yang Shihou before implementing any affairs in the court, no matter how big or small.

Yang Shihou seemed to have become the overlord of the Liang Dynasty.

Fortunately, it was only two years ago. Yang Shihou died of illness soon because of his old age. After Wu Youzhen heard the news, she was relieved and held a banquet in the palace to celebrate. After congratulating him, he felt that Wei Bo Town was still a big threat.

Wei Bo has many soldiers and generals, and Wei Bo's soldiers are brave and good at fighting, and its geographical location is close to the imperial capital. If this threat is not removed, Wu Youzhen will not be able to live in peace.

Therefore, his close confidant Zhao Yan came up with a plan. It was better to take advantage of the fact that his army had no master and split Wei Bo into two to achieve the purpose of weakening its strong position.

Wu Youzhen followed his plan and issued an edict to divide Weibo into Tianxiong and Zhaode towns, and divide the treasury and soldiers in half. Fearing that Wei Bo's officers and men would not obey, he sent General Liu Jian with an army of 60,000 to cross the Yellow River and approach Weizhou, preparing to suppress it.

Wei Bo's soldiers had been soldiers for generations and were unwilling to be weakened by separation, so they gathered people to mutiny. They set fire and looted, kidnapped the new governor He Delun, and asked him to surrender to the Jin Dynasty.

Mu Youxian was overjoyed and planned to personally lead his army to Weizhou to receive Wei Bo's army.

The news reached Lu Bocheng.

It has been three years, and it has not been easy. Wu State wants to win over Jiangning and Ningxia, and Lu Bocheng wants to do the same.

But the three states of Jiangning and Ning are not for idlers. They were originally a prosperous land in the south of the Yangtze River, with abundant food and money, strong soldiers and horses, and they were taken away by anyone who wanted to.

Three years have passed since this stalemate.

Fortunately, Lu Bocheng's army was backed by the King of Yue, and Yang Bi took advantage of the conflict between Liang and Jin to divide his troops and go north.

Only then did Lu Bocheng work hard to acquire Jiangning, Runzhou and Changzhou.

Just as he was about to break camp and return to Xuzhou, news from Wei Bo came.

Lu Bocheng listened to the discussions of the generals and military advisors below, frowning and tapping his fingers on the table.

Suddenly he said: "You said that Wei Bojun showed his kindness to Jin and asked him to surrender to Jin. Is this news true or false?"

Ah, can this be false?

"Why does the Marshal think this news is false?"

Lu Bocheng thought for a moment and then said: "First of all, Wei Bo's soldiers killed Mu Youxian's brother. This is tantamount to an enemy. Are they not afraid that Mu Youxian will settle the score with them?"

"Secondly, they were originally soldiers of the Liang Dynasty, but now they are being dispersed and divided into two vassal states. They are not happy about it. It's nothing more than that the senior officers don't want their power to be divided and weakened. If they surrender to Jin, can they be guaranteed not to be dispersed? Jin can still let the original senior officers lead the troops without infiltrating some of its own people?"

This...

The generals didn't think of this and looked at each other.

"What does the marshal think?"

"I don't know the details, but I think, could this be a smokescreen they deliberately put to put pressure on the Liang Dynasty? Once the Liang Dynasty gets this news, they are afraid that they will really surrender to Jin. What if they agree to their demands and maintain the status quo?"

The generals frowned and thought.

"It's possible. They didn't want to share power, so they started this mutiny. If they can maintain the status quo, it would be better. If they surrender to Jin, Jin might break them up and let their closest subordinates lead them, which would be a loss."

"Then what should we do?"

"We certainly don't want Jin to swallow Wei Bo so easily. Wei Bo's 100,000 troops are all brave and good at fighting. If Jin gets them, it will be like a tiger with wings. It poses a great threat to our Zhenhai generals."

"Then can we quietly divide them? Weizhou was originally taken by us, but then lost. Since we have to divide the troops, it's better to surrender to us than to Jin. Jin is a foreign race, why surrender to a foreign race?"

"Yes, let's send people to sneak into Wei Bo and see if we can instigate them!"

The generals became more and more excited.

It was as if they saw 100,000 Wei Bo troops coming to surrender to them.

But Lu Bocheng was not very optimistic.

The Wei Bo army has been soldiers for generations, so they are probably not happy to leave their homes. Lü Bocheng does not want to occupy the territory north of the Yellow River at present. Jin and Liang are powerful, and they will not have an advantage if they go there.

Lü Bocheng stopped everyone's discussion.

"Wei Bo is about to become the battlefield between the Jin and Liang armies, and our Xuzhou is not far away. We must prepare for war with all our strength and be ready at any time."

"Yes."

"The Jin cavalry is much stronger than the Liang army. Once Wei Bo is captured and the Jin's road to the south is opened, it will be extremely disadvantageous to our army. Our cavalry is weaker than that of the Jin army. Please do not relax and do not stop daily training. Cavalry training needs to be strengthened!"

"Yes. Understood!"

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