Chapter 149: Factional Conflicts, the Art of Controlling People

A few days later.

Jin King Chen Huaian personally led the 350,000 Longcheng army to march south, and the troops were directed towards the gates of Mozhou City.

Wu Sanjia, the chief military officer of the Daxin imperial court and the mighty general who was stationed in Mozhou City, led the 250,000 Daxin tiger and Ben troops to prepare for the attack.

Both sides assembled more than 600,000 troops inside and outside Mozhou City.

The war is about to break out.

This day.

The Dragon City army is camped in the Chinese army's tent.

A group of generals had different opinions on whether to attack Mozhou City by force.

Some people propose to attack by force, while others propose to encircle the enemy without attacking, and to subjugate the enemy without fighting.

The main attacking faction was mostly generals from the Longcheng Polu Army.

The main siege faction consisted mostly of generals who "changed their tactics" from the imperial army to join the Jin Dynasty king Chen Huai'an.

The brave general Pang Xianchu was the first to say: "Chief, I believe that the morale of the Longcheng army is now available, so we should attack Mozhou City in one go, instead of encircling and not attacking to boost the enemy's morale!"

Seeing this, Liu Ziyu, who was the former general of the Huben Army of the Daxin imperial court and guarded Wuzhou; and is now the deputy general of the Longcheng Southern Expedition Army, also stood up;

Liu Ziyu said: "General Pang, I thought that the walls of Mozhou City were tall and easy to defend but difficult to attack;"

"If the army storms Mozhou City, it will definitely pay a heavy price in casualties;"

"Furthermore, according to the information detected by the scouts, in order to defend Mozhou City, the enemy general Wu Sanjia has transferred 100,000 troops from the 150,000 Huben troops originally stationed in Yingzhou to Mozhou."

After a pause, Liu Ziyu continued: "In other words, there are a total of 250,000 tiger soldiers in Mozhou City right now!"

"Judging from the strength and geographical advantages of both the offensive and defensive sides, our army does not have the upper hand. It would be a bad idea to attack Mozhou City by force!"

"This general suggests that we should ask His Highness the King of Jin to suspend the attack on the city and surround it for a year and a half to consume the enemy's food, grass and morale in Mozhou City!"

snort!

The words of deputy general Liu Ziyu immediately aroused the disdain of the main fighting generals of the Longcheng Polu Army.

Among them, Fan Wuji, the leader of Dragon City Iron Buddha Tu, behaved the most excessively.

Fan Wuji sarcastically said: "General Liu, we have been besieging the city for half a year, why didn't you say we were besieging the city for three years?"

"His Royal Highness the King of Jin came from Longcheng to bring troops to Jingnan. He first defeated the Yunhui army of the imperial court and made a northern expedition to destroy the Turks; then he conquered the Western Regions, first defeating the Tubo barbarians and then pacifying the rebellion of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions;"

"All in all, in less than a year, we have conquered half of the Great New Dynasty."

"It's just Wu Sanjia, it's just Mozhou City, but you actually proposed to lay siege to the city for half a year!"

snort!

Fan Wuji sneered and continued, "Could it be that you, General Liu, and the soldiers under your command are greedy for life and afraid of death?"

"That doesn't matter. The attack on Mozhou City is left to us, the veterans of the Longcheng Polu Army. General Liu and the soldiers from the Fourteenth Prefecture of Youyun can just wave flags and beat drums for us on the side. !”

"Fan Wuji!"

"What do you mean?"

Fan Wuji's words immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of a group of former Hu Ben Army generals who had surrendered, led by Liu Ziyu.

Immediately, a general responded with a needle-pointed reply: "General Fan, you can slander me, but you cannot slander the soldiers under my command;"

"We cannot doubt our determination to be loyal to His Highness Prince Jin!"

"You, the Dragon City Polu Army, are attacking the city, and we, the veterans who have been stationed in Youyun Prefecture for many years, are waving flags and beating drums in support. Who are you looking down on?"

"Whoever is greedy for life and afraid of death will be looked down upon by Fan Wuji!"

"Fan Wuji, you——"

"Who's surnamed Fan is greedy for life and afraid of death? Please explain clearly?"

"I'm talking about you, why don't you accept practicing alone!"

Fan Wuji also has a tinderbox personality, and he explodes at the slightest moment.

Fighting with the heroes with words, not falling behind in the slightest.

"Fan Wuji, if I don't give you some blood today, my name, Wang Yucheng, will be written upside down!"

"Come on, who is afraid of whom!"

While talking, Fan Wuji rolled up his sleeves and was about to fight with Wang Yucheng, the former Yingzhou garrison and the third-rank commander of the Huben Army.

"His Royal Highness King Jin is here!"

At this moment, a messenger's announcement suddenly sounded outside the Chinese army's tent.

brush!

The next moment, Fan Wuji and Wang Yucheng, who were quarreling red-faced and at war with each other, suddenly stopped.

The rest of the aggrieved generals also looked outside the curtain of the Chinese army's tent.

Soon, King Chen Huaian of the Jin Dynasty, wearing a golden battle armor and a seven-star Longyuan sword tied around his waist, came walking like a dragon and a tiger.

After entering the Chinese army's tent, Chen Huaian sat down on the main seat in the center of the tent without hesitation.

Seeing the awkward and weird atmosphere in the tent, Chen Huaian smiled and said, "Fan Wuji, Wang Yucheng, I heard the quarrel between you two from a long distance away;"

"Look at you two, your sleeves are rolled up. Are you planning to have a fight?"

"Your Highness, the general will not dare!"

"Mo, even the generals don't dare!"

Fan Wuji and Wang Yucheng said, holding their necks one after another.

Ha ha!

Chen Huaian laughed and saw through the poor acting skills of the two at a glance.

He smiled and said, "Tell me, what's the matter?"

Wang Yucheng said: "Your Highness, Fan Wu, General Fan looks down on people and says that the former Hu Ben Army officers who surrendered to His Highness the King of Jin are greedy for life and afraid of death;"

"He also said that when they attack Mozhou City, we should have the soldiers of our former Tiger Army on the side, cheering for them with flags and drums to cheer them up;"

"Your Highness, isn't this General Fan a shabby man?"

Wang Yucheng said with a look of grievance: "Your Highness, since the day when our soldiers from the Fourteen States of Youyun decided to surrender to His Highness Prince Jin and the Longcheng Jingnan Army;"

"We have already regarded ourselves as part of the Longcheng Jingnan Army and vowed to pursue His Highness Prince Jin to the death!"

"The heart of loyalty to His Highness Prince Jin is witnessed by the heaven and earth, and I hope Your Highness will understand!"

"I hope Your Highness will understand!"

As soon as these words came out, a group of former generals of the Tiger Guard Army of the imperial court knelt on one knee and clasped their fists, expressing their loyalty to Chen Huaian, the King of Jin, who was sitting in the center of the big tent.

Chen Huaian looked at the former generals of the Tiger Guard Army who were kneeling down, and then looked at Fan Wuji, whose face was full of dissatisfaction and resentment, and the generals of the Po Lu Army such as the brave general Pang Xianchu with complicated expressions, and suddenly understood in his heart.

On the surface, this incident was caused by a disagreement between Fan Wuji and Wang Yucheng over whether to forcefully attack Mozhou City;

In fact, it was an increasingly sharp factional conflict between the Po Lu Army and the former imperial court's Hu Ben Army among the Longcheng generals who marched south.

Chen Huaian knew very well that as more and more imperial court troops joined the Longcheng Jingnan Army, conflicts like today would definitely not be rare in the future and would be inevitable.

How to balance the conflicts between the Longcheng Po Lu Army that followed him and the various imperial court troops that continued to join him in the later period would test Chen Huaian's ability to control people.

The conflict between Fan Wuji and Wang Yucheng today was just the beginning.