When Tian Qing heard Wang Tiezhu calling him by his nickname, he was not angry but felt friendly instead.
Happy days like this, where people joked and mocked each other, seemed to only appear during the devilish training period at the Yanqingdun Beacon Tower.
Afterwards, as Zhao Muyun's official position rose steadily, this group of old brothers were also promoted and took up important positions in different positions, and they were less and less together.
Like today, Zhao Muyun, Wang Tiezhu, Tang Yanhai, Wu Shangzhi and Tian Qing gathered here, which already accounts for more than half of the old people in Yanqingdun!
The remaining Han Zhong, Shi Yong, Ma Bao, Lao Li and Lao Zhang are all in Yinzhou.
"Brother Tiezhu, don't worry. Just like how Zhao Tou trained us, I'll use more power and more tactics to deal with these ignorant new recruits. Haha!"
Tian Qing said with a grin.
"Really? Those new recruits are not just us. Can they withstand such high intensity? Be careful not to get hurt." Tang Yanhai said with a smile.
"Don't worry, Brother Tang. The thousand new soldiers recruited by Shuozhou this time are mostly homeless people from the Guannei Road."
Tian Qing said, "Master Huang and Master Zhao have divided the land among them."
"From the Guannei Road? Are they refugees taken in by Yanzhou?"
Zhao Muyun listened to them talking with a smile, but when Tian Qing mentioned the source of the new recruits, he frowned and asked.
"Boss Zhao, most of them were not transferred from Yanzhou, but came here from other prefectures in Guannei Road!"
"When I registered my place of origin, I took a look and found Yuzhou, Danzhou, Linzhou, Ningzhou, and even some near Xijing."
When Tian Qing talked about this situation, he was also surprised.
He was originally from the vicinity of Xijing City, which was thousands of miles away from Xiazhou where Li Jingang rebelled.
The fact that refugees from Xijing appeared in Shuozhou shows that the situation in Guannei Road is not optimistic.
Some time ago, Tang Yanhai's scouts also obtained intelligence from Xiazhou.
Since Zhao Muyun concentrated his efforts on relieving Weizhou, he ordered the two scout camps of Tang Yanhai and Wang Tiezhu to focus their intelligence on the direction of the Tatars.
The information about Guannei Road was still stuck at the Hengshan battle between Li Jingang and Tian Zun a month ago.
However, the situation of the rebels in Guannei Road was like a spark that had already spread like wildfire at an extremely rapid speed.
Except for Yanzhou, the northern part of Guannei Road has become Li Jingang's territory.
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A month ago, Li Jingang divided his troops into three groups and captured Hengshan City, an important town on the way from Xiazhou to Yuzhou, in one fell swoop.
Tian Zun, who had assembled 30,000 troops from Guannei Road, was defeated and fled to Yuzhou in a hurry, asking for help from the court and Hedong Road.
Pei Lun was worried about the Tartars in Weizhou, so he took advantage of Tian Zun's request for help and Zhao Muyun's great victory in Yinzhou to report to the court, promoting Zhao Muyun to the position of Pinglu Captain, the commander-in-chief of the troops of seven prefectures, to lift the siege of Weizhou.
Pei Lun himself raised troops in Jinyang, crossed the Yellow River to the west, entered Hedong Road, and put down the rebellion with Tian Zun.
Emperor Yongchang and the cabinet both agreed with Pei Lun's report and promoted him to the position of Vice Minister of War.
Pei Lun, Tian Zun, Emperor Yongchang, and all the cabinet members felt that the rebellion in Guannei Dao and the border threat in Weizhou could be resolved this time.
Just when Zhao Muyun took office as the Captain of Pinglu, reorganized the troops of the seven prefectures, and set fire to the 5,000 Tatars who were about to besiege the Feihu Ridge and attack the reinforcements, the armies of Pei Lun and Tian Zun fought a fierce battle with Li Jingang's army at Baijichuan, ten miles outside Yulin City.
Pei Lun and Tian Zun had an army of 10,000, while Li Jingang's army reached an astonishing 100,000.
The two sides took up their positions and fought fiercely.
Li Jingang's refugee army was naturally not as well-equipped as the armies of the two Jiedushis. They were quickly defeated by Tian Zun and Pei Lun and were forced to retreat repeatedly, on the verge of collapse.
Just when Li Jingang was about to despair and was about to abandon his master and flee, Yang Yan, one of the four heavenly kings under Li Jingang, arrived with three thousand black flag troops.
With Yang Yan leading the charge, the 3,000 Black Flag Army actually broke through the central army of Pei Lun and Tian Zun, and the two military governors were in imminent danger.
At this time, in order to save their lives, the two chose to retreat, causing the other captains to think that the army was going to retreat.
As a result, the imperial army, which had been suppressing the peasant army, gave up the attack and retreated.
As a result, Pei Lun and Tian Zun were defeated, and the remaining 3,000 soldiers abandoned Yuzhou City and fled to Ningzhou, north of Xijing.
Li Jingang's troops swept through like a whirlwind, taking Danzhou and Linzhou into their possession in one fell swoop. The number of refugees under his command reached 300,000!
Now Pei Lun and Tian Zun could no longer hold on, and emergency documents flew to the court like snowflakes.
The government and the public were shocked!
When Emperor Yongchang heard that the rebel army had 300,000 people, he was extremely angry and immediately convened a cabinet meeting.
After a debate, it was decided to let General Li Chenghua of the Left lead 30,000 elite troops from three of the eight camps in the capital to quell the rebellion.
Li Chenghua was a descendant of meritorious service and came from a military family.
My ancestor was a general who followed the founding emperor of Dayin and was granted the title of marquis.
After receiving the imperial edict, Li Chenghua rushed to the military camp in the capital to mobilize troops and prepare to set out on the expedition.
However, the 30,000 troops in the capital had long been resentful because the Ministry of War had owed them military pay for several months.
Li Chenghua went to the capital camp and issued an order, but these officers in command deliberately allowed their soldiers to riot for pay.
The emperor asked Li Chenghua to quell the rebellion, but apart from issuing an imperial edict and issuing iron certificates for pacifying the rebels, he did not mention the military pay.
Li Chenghua went to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue to ask for it, but the two departments passed the buck to each other and delayed.
In desperation, Li Chenghua found the emperor and obtained 50,000 taels of silver from the Ministry of Revenue to pay part of the military pay.
The three battalions of troops from the capital finally set out to fight.
When Li Chenghua arrived in Ningzhou, Li Jingang had already captured two prefectures in Guannei Road, making a huge move.
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