Chapter Three Hundred and Twenty: Chu Yuan
In Changyang County City, outside the East City Gate, Moro stood with his hands on his back, like a javelin. Behind him, the senior officials of the Shuntian Army were lined up in a row. Today, he went out of the East Gate to welcome the Chu people who are now crucial to the Shuntian Army, led by Ma Xiangnan.
After retreating from Shayang County, the Shuntian Army was almost in desperate situation. If it weren't for the end of Wu Xin's move and taking advantage of Zhang Jian's eagerness to make contributions, he defeated Zhang Jian in Qingtongxia and wiped out 5,000 Tiger Ben Army. Now the Shuntian Army would have disappeared. Then, Wu Xin led his troops to quickly move south, garrisoning Yinshan before the Taiping Army, defeating the Taiping Army's attempt to seize Yinshan, thus forming a joint with Mengshan and forming a top-press attack on Changyang County.
After two moves, Wu Xin made the Shuntian Army temporarily turn danger into safety. This is naturally a blessing in disgrace for the Shuntian Army, but it is not a good thing for Wu Xin. Because of these two actions, Wu Xin's prestige in the Shuntian Army has greatly increased, and many middle and lower-level officers have even reached the point where they only know Wu Xin but not Moro.
This rapid increase in reputation brought Wu Xin a crisis. With Bao Bufan and Zhang Han falling in front of the Taiping Army, the only generals under Mo Luo's command were left, while Wu Xin's subordinates were full of talents.
Molo ordered Wu Xin to be stationed in Yinshan on the spot and no longer allowed him to step into Changyang County City.
In Molo's view, the crisis brought by Wu Xin is still controllable at least so far, because he has decided to agree to Ma Xiangnan's proposal to send a Chu officer regiment to Changyang County to help him train his army.
The biggest feeling in the battle of Shayang County was that many people might not win, which was completely different from his previous experience. In Shayang County, his army of tens of thousands or even more than 100,000 people was vulnerable in front of thousands of Taiping Army and was beaten to the point of falling into the water. This made him realize the strength of the combat capabilities of the army that had received strict formal military training.
Not only in terms of military skills, but also in terms of willpower.
This strong contrast made him finally make up his mind to accept the military aid of the Chu people. The Chu people sent Jiang Tao, the general under Cheng Wuben, which made him very satisfied. Cheng Wuben was called the Iron Wall of Chu State. He had fought against the powerful Qi people in the eastern part of Chu for more than 20 years, making the Qi people unable to move south. Even Moro admired this skill. Jiang Tao was Cheng Wuben's direct general. As long as he had the ability of Cheng Wuben to two or three, it would be enough to defeat the so-called Taiping Army on the other side.
Of course, in addition to military reasons, and the current dilemma of Changyang County also made Molo not very qualified to refuse Ma Xiangnan's request.
Changyang County was originally extremely poor. Moluo uprising and swept Changyang County. Hundreds of thousands of Changyang County people followed Moluo and rushed towards Shayang County. In their opinion, as long as the wealthy Shayang County was captured, everything would be possible. But what was unexpected was that in Shayang County, the Changyang County people who thought they were brave and good at fighting first encountered the strong walls of Shayang County people and fought to the death. Then an army called Taiping Army broke out and killed them to the point of defeat.
In just one year, when he went out, he was full of passion and was quite enthusiastic about encountering gods and killing gods. Shuntian Army encountered a catastrophe and fled back to Changyang County. More importantly, because a large number of people left Moro, the local people's livelihood economy in Changyang County also suffered a devastating blow.
All industries are withering, and poverty is no longer enough to describe their misery. It is now the golden autumn of October, and the mountains can still provide them with things that are barely wrapped around their belly, such as leaves, bark, wild animals, rhizomes, and even Guanyin soil. However, as winter approaches day by day, a major famine that has never been seen in history is silently approaching Changyang County.
Although the Yue State court recruited Moluo, both sides understood that it was just nominal. Yue State court was shameless, and Moluo needed to breathe, that's all. In this case, if Changyang County was hit by a disaster, the Yue State court would only smile, and Changyang County in the famine would only accelerate the collapse of Moluo's Shuntian Army. This was a great joy for the Yue State court. As for how many people in Changyang County would die, it was not considered by the powerful people in Yuejing.
Shayang County is already in clear formation and is ready to invade Changyang County at any time. The disaster of Changyang County is naturally their joy.
It can be said that the Shuntian Army has reached the end of life and death, and their only life-saving straw is the aid of the Chu army from Baoqing Port.
In order to firmly grasp this life-saving straw, Molo could not refuse Ma Xiangnan's request.
"Wu Xin sent someone to find you yesterday?" Mo Luo didn't look back, but his voice was very cold.
"Yes, but my subordinates have already scolded him and drove him away." Bao Hua shook his body and said quickly.
"What else does he want to say?" Moro snorted.
"He, he still wants me to suggest to the king that the Chu State can be obtained, but they must not intervene in our army. Will the army trained by the Chu people be the Shuntian Army or the Chu Army in the end?" Bao Hua said.
Moluo sneered, "Yes, I don't agree to the request of the Chu people, so I can only give it to him completely. Then, will the army trained in the future be Mo or Wu?"
Bao Hua lowered his head and did not dare to speak. Like Moluo, he was a man in the world. There was no need to say about his personal force. He could move forward bravely and lead the way in combat, but he was not good at how to command and train the army. In the Shuntian Army, Wu Xin was good at training troops. The rest were basically Wu Xin's subordinates. Even the officers of the regular army of Yue who were captured by Moluo in the end, after entering the Shuntian Army, he quickly became a party with Wu Xin.
Molo felt that these people looked down on him.
If this situation continues, wouldn’t the Shuntian Army have a surname of Wu? At that time, all the people are Wu Xin’s best friends. What can he do if his martial arts are so powerful? Could he still resist thousands of troops?
Pushing Wu Xin to Yinshan made him face the deterrence of the powerful Taiping Army, at least he had no intention of thinking about anything else. As for what is there to be afraid of when the officers of Chu State trained the army? He formed a group and drew one of them himself. When tens of thousands of elite soldiers were trained, he would sweep them out.
"You have to learn hard too. Otherwise, a general who is a leader will be stronger than you in commanding battles in the future. How can you convince the public?" Mo Luo said with a look at Bao Hua.
"Yes, yes!" Bao Hua did not expect that he would go around him in the end: "Don't worry, this time the Chu army trains, my subordinates will follow the whole process and study hard."
"You have to learn more! Not only you, I have also specially recruited a group of people who read and read. Not only do I have to follow the training, but I also have to write down these Chu people's methods. Good things must be controlled in my own hands to avoid being controlled by others!" Mo Luo sighed.
"The king is far-sighted, and my subordinates admire him," Bao Hua said flatteredly.
"When the army is trained, I will lead the army to attack Shayang County again." A trace of cruelty flashed in Moluo's eyes.
"King, here we come!" A flag turned out in the distant corner of the mountain. Then, teams of cavalry turned from there. The road was not wide, and they could only allow two war horses to go in parallel. Two in groups. The team was very long, but the sound of hooves was uniform. With Molo's eyes, it was naturally clear that the horse's knights were full of armor, and even their faces were covered with facial armor.
Behind these cavalry were teams of carriages, carrying the carriages that Molo was most worried about now - food. The convoy was boundless. The cavalry in front was almost approaching the city gate, but the carriage behind was still pouring out continuously.
Seeing the number of carriages, a hint of joy flashed across Molo's face. He walked forward a few steps.
Two cavalrymen left and right, and a carriage drove out from the carriage. The door opened, and Ma Xiangnan smiled and crawled out from the inside. He jumped out of the carriage with a light step. Behind him, a middle-aged scholar-like man followed him down from the carriage and stood behind Ma Xiangnan without saying a word.
"King, we're meeting again." Ma Xiangnan smiled and bowed to Moluo to the ground. Ma Xiangnan was so happy that Moluo's great defeat was exactly what he needed most now. After the great defeat, Moluo had no way out. The only possibility was to hold the Chu State's thigh tightly, and this was the basis for the Chu people to control this army. Moluo was either a genius in martial arts or a genius, but when it comes to playing with conspiracies and plotting against people's hearts, he was really not a little short of it.
"Master Ma is anxious and righteous, and he will help me solve my danger. Molo remembers this affection in my heart." Molo said very clearly, because at the foot of the mountain, carriages carrying grain were still pouring out. Even if the amount of grain was calculated from the carriages that had already come out, there were already hundreds of thousands of kilograms.
"The king wants to thank our Emperor of Great Chu. Ma dare not be greedy for the achievements of heaven." Ma Xiangnan waved his hand repeatedly, "King, come on, let me introduce you to you, this is the great general of our Great Chu, General Jiang Tao."
Ma Xiangnan waved his hand, and the middle-aged scholar behind him took a step forward, clasped his fists and bowed to Moro: "Jiang Tao, the Chu man, has seen the king!"
Jiang Tao is famous, but Moro only heard of his name and did not see him. He thought that such a famous general was a powerful warrior, but unexpectedly, the one who stood in front of him was a scribe who looked weak.
"Jiang, General Jiang?" Mo Luo looked at the other party with some suspicion.
Chapter completed!