Chapter 253 Surrounding the point to help
During this period when Nanjun was in chaos, Mo Zizai seemed quite leisurely.
All officials in the capital took his power, and basically he said whatever he said, and no one dared to sing the opposite tune.
Of course, this is what Mo Zizai thinks, and those officials secretly think that Mo Zizai is a lunatic. It is obviously unreasonable to be concerned about a lunatic, so they think they are just surrendering to Mo Zizai for the time being.
Mo Zizai also heard about this, but he ignored those people.
During this period, he actually had no big things, but a lot of small things. He had to go to the Military Weapons Bureau several times a day, just waiting for the finished product to be released there. There were also recruitment orders issued before to find seed talents. The seeds would not be good or bad for the time being, but many talents sometimes needed him to personally keep an eye on the review.
It’s not that he can’t trust the selected officials, but that his standards for talents are sometimes different from the current officials’ standards. Therefore, in order to prevent missing talents, he often goes there for a walk.
Although he did not select any special talents, he barely became familiar with them. He thought about the abilities of the people he recruited. When he turned around, he would probably be able to directly overtake people when he needed to hire people.
And today, just when he wanted to go to the Military Weapon Bureau to see it like he would, Zhou Qi stopped him.
"Prince, there has been a change in Nanjun."
Zhou Qi held a piece of information in his hand. This was the emergency military information sent by Mei Wei from Nanjun to the palace with a letter eagle. After Tang Weiyi saw it, she directly sent it to someone.
"It seems that Qi Xiu and the others can't solve it."
Mo Zizai was not too surprised. After the chaos in Nanjun began, Qi Xiu and the others immediately led their troops to suppress it. In just three battles, the seven leaders of the White Lotus Sect, that is, the seven heavenly kings, were directly killed by Qi Xiu. After the 50,000 rebels they gathered together, were killed by 5,000, the rest either surrendered or fled.
If Qi Xiunian hadn't killed too much because they were originally all the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty, I'm afraid that these 50,000 people would have been killed at least half by Qi Xiu.
According to common sense, it is no problem for Qi Xiu and his friends to solve the rebels of the White Lotus Sect, whose morale has been lost, but Mo Zizai knew that this matter was not that simple. Qi Xiu and his friends fought smoothly, and the aristocratic families that supported the White Lotus Sect would definitely not be able to help but take action.
So the only thing Mo Zizai is curious about now is what method did those aristocratic families choose to take action.
"Hmm? This information is wrong."
After reading the letter in his hand, Mo Zizai couldn't help but frown tightly.
According to the information, Qi Xiu used a trick to trick the gate of a city occupied by the remnants of the White Lotus Sect, but after entering, he found that he had fallen into the trap. The final result was that Master Yuanzhi was seriously injured, and more than 1,500 people rushed into the city were killed in battle.
After Qi Xiu's defeat, the White Lotus Sect swept over the refugees outside the county town. Now there are almost more than 100,000 people, surrounding the Nanzhou county town.
"Information is wrong?"
Zhou Qi was stunned for a moment, "Prince, these information are all secret words made in the palace. Unless all the Meiwei there rebelled, there would be no problem with the information."
"I don't mean that, I mean, this is a little wrong."
Mo Zizai looked at the information, pondered for a while, and then said, "Zhou Qi, go and invite Mr. Yang, Yang Yanzhang and Wei Huang, I need to confirm this with them."
After Yang Weishang and the others arrived, Mo Zizai handed them the information in his hand. After they finished reading it, Mo Zizai said: "I always think there is something wrong with this information, but I can't tell what's wrong. Do you have any ideas?"
“There is indeed a problem.”
Wei Huang put down the information in his hand and nodded, "Although the incident of opening the city gate has happened many times in history, this incident is extremely dangerous. Once the other party notices something and sets up an ambush in advance, the people who are taking the city will often end up being wiped out by the entire army."
"And Qi Xiu is not a man of war on paper. Since he chose to open the city gate, it means that he is absolutely sure that there is no ambush in the city, otherwise he would never have done such a risk."
"Also, if there is really an ambush in the city, then Qi Xiu and others would not have suffered only more than 200 casualties, and the remaining two hundred people are almost the same."
"It's not that Qi Xiu and the others are too strong." Yang Weishang didn't know much about war. After hearing Wei Huang say this, he interrupted and said, "After all, they are all warriors, much stronger than ordinary soldiers, and it should be normal that there are fewer casualties, right?"
"Father, this is abnormal."
After hearing what my father said, Yang Yanzhang said: "There are more than 200 people left after Commander Wei, because they are warriors, otherwise they would not survive alone."
"And I have seen all the soldiers of Qi Xiu. Most of them are just Body Tempering Realm, and they can't exert much strength when they encounter ambush."
"In my opinion, their casualties don't seem to be in an ambush at all, but more like fighting an encounter with other warriors."
"Especially, in the intelligence, Master Yuanzhi was seriously injured. He is a martial artist in the Marrow Cleansing Realm. He has the least chance of being injured on the battlefield, but he was seriously injured. This is obviously something is wrong."
After hearing what Yang Yanzhang said, Mo Zizai nodded and said, "If this is the case, then the matter will be very clear."
"Qi Xiu and the others did not encounter an ambush, but a family came to an end. Unfortunately, the county town is now surrounded and the news cannot be spread. Otherwise, with the information from Qi Xiu and the others, the matter will be clearer."
"Your Highness, have you noticed that these White Lotus Sects that besieged the city are a little strange."
Wei Huang picked up the information on the table and handed it to Mo Zizai, and said, "The county magistrate has been surrounded for three days, but they really only surrounded him but not attacked him, as if they wanted to trap the people in the county town to death."
“Isn’t this normal?”
Yang Yanzhang looked at Wei Huang with some surprise and said, "The city wall of the county city is so high, their troops are not enough to capture the city wall, so it is definitely the best choice to encircle and not attack."
"This is not normal at all!"
Yang Yanzhang is Mo Congyi's disciple's affairs, and Wei Huang also knew it, so he was particularly strict with Yang Yanzhang. If it weren't for Yang Weishang's still here, he would have scolded him in a slight manner. "Waring a war depends not only on the current situation, but also on the matter behind it!"
"Siege without attacking is indeed the best way to deal with the city wall, but that is about the situation when the two armies are fighting."
"And now it's not a war between the two countries. They are thieves. The longer they drag it down, the more unfavorable they are. Unless the thief leader is a fool, he would either attack the county magistrate or rob other places, and it would be impossible for him to surround the county town to die."
"I understand,"
Chapter completed!