Mystery Makes Me Strong

A wild place.

The tents were simply set up.

The horse neighed and occasionally lowered its head to nibble on the sparse grass sprouts on the ground.

The cavalryman took a handful of beans from his cloth bag and fed them to the horse bit by bit.

After the horse finished eating, it blinked its big eyes at its companions and stretched its head into the cloth bag.

"Not much, not much." The cavalryman covered the cloth bag and couldn't help sighing.

The food was concentrated again and again, and the infantrymen who were left behind had no food for a day.

Coupled with the emperor's escape, collapse was inevitable.

In the big tent in the middle.

The middle-aged emperor did not collapse.

He has been through many battles, and lost many of them.

But this time, the loss was a bit inexplicable.

They lost before they even had a head-on battle with the opponent.

This would have been impossible before.

He had encountered many difficulties in the past, and all his failures were because he could not defeat the opponent head-on.

They had no choice but to retreat, endure, train, and finally defeat their opponents in a head-on battle, and only then did they gain control of the world.

And the other party?

Stay in the city and harass his logistical supplies.

There has never been a head-on fight.

Cao Cao was able to cut off Yuan Shao's food supply because he first resisted Yuan Shao head-on, and the two sides reached a stalemate, which gave him the opportunity to burn the food.

The other party just let him into the dry area.

He conquered all the cities except one.

In the end, their food supply was cut off by the enemy and they were forced to retreat.

He flipped through the warning documents and saw that they came from various provinces and regions.

The time when the grain and fodder are shipped is kept secret.

This caused his army to quickly lose its food supply.

Even if there is chaos everywhere, the looting of food and supplies should be in a certain order, more chaotic, rather than uniform.

Unless someone can use 800 miles of express to quickly deliver the message.

There must be someone acting as the middleman.

He suddenly thought of the key point.

He was busy with the military campaign before and was distracted by too much information, so he didn't think of the key point for a while.

He originally thought that his opponents were disaster victims and bandits.

Now it seems that there is an opponent hiding in the dark, just like the D formed by the civil officials and military generals.

Contact secretly and launch attack in secret.

Just like the several major cases he was involved in, the connections between those civil servants were truly shocking.

Just like the imperial examinations, all the candidates were from those provinces.

There is not a single student from the north, and there are no vacancies for students from the south in many provinces.

They said that they changed the meaning of the scriptures according to their own ideas, so the northern candidates did not learn it.

I have already told them how many people to hire, so the matter is over.

However, those civil officials refused to admit it and insisted that they should not be employed.

Finally, I got scared after he killed a lot of people.

Now it seems that those rebels also have such a group of people acting as collusion.

This group of people can definitely make use of the court's 800-li express delivery system, which is called post station!

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain how they could mobilize rebels from all directions so quickly!

The emperor knew what was going on.

He made a decision to lay off the original staff of the station!

Let his personal troops and the Embroidered Uniform Guards station there, and take charge of the post station personally!

He was very angry at this time.

The middle-aged emperor never imagined that after all his hard work, he would end up like this.

“Damn it!”

He immediately called the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

"He Hui, let me ask you, how long has this been happening?"

The commander knelt on the ground with a look of horror:

"Your Majesty, we don't know how long it has been going on."

"Asshole, do you want to die?" the middle-aged emperor said angrily.

The commander was so determined that he stood on the body and said:

"Your Majesty, since you ascended the throne, you have beaten and killed your brothers whenever you want."

"Now that you are the emperor, even if you want to kill us, we can't do anything about it."

"It's no big deal if we die anyway, so just speak frankly, brothers."

"You are so kind to your family, but they kill people, take bribes, rob wealth, and seize land, but nothing happens to them."

"We only earn two shi of salary a month, but we have to work hard!"

"Brothers, I don't want to do this anymore!"

"Okay, okay! I'm going to kill all your nine clans!" The middle-aged emperor was very angry.

He never imagined that the Jinyiwei around him would dare to speak to him like this?

"Our nine clans have already fled!" The Jinyiwei commander said fiercely, "Since I became your supervisor, every family has prepared coffins before going to court."

The middle-aged emperor was extremely furious.

He immediately shouted to his attendants, "Beat him to death, that's all!"

"Drag him out and feed him to the dogs!"

"You will die too, you dog emperor! You will die soon!"

"You claim to love the people, but in fact you only love your family!"

"You call yourself a beloved son, but you are actually using the people of the world to support yourself!"

"You will not have a good end!" the Jinyiwei commander yelled and was dragged out by the guards on his left and right.

The middle-aged emperor had a gloomy expression on his face, but he did not continue to get angry.

Because he is scared now!

He didn't know who else he could trust!

Because the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard can only be a trusted confidant!

How could he know that with such a big incident happening, the commander already knew that he was going to be beheaded, so he arranged for his family to go to the rebel area early on.

And he was ready to be killed.

The middle-aged emperor leaned back on the tiger-skin seat and waved to the left and right.

The others immediately withdrew quietly.

He let out a long sigh.

How did things turn out like this?

Everything was fine before?

He worked hard to establish the Daqing Dynasty.

We have just recovered and we have encountered such bandits!

Aren’t we just taking some rice and grain to support our future generations?

We just appointed a few more kings for the purpose of guarding the country!

Don’t we need food to defend the country?

Haven't we divided the households into military households, letting them both farm and serve in the army? From now on, we can support a million soldiers without consuming a single grain of food from the imperial court!

What a great ancestral motto this is!

Why is it that some people just don't understand and insist on going against us and rebelling?

"These people must be caught for me!"

"Cut into pieces, and be executed by slow slicing!"

He immediately called another Jinyiwei associate.

"Cao Kun, from today on, you will take over as the commander of the Imperial Guard."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The Jinyiwei associate was also trembling.

His boss had just been dragged out and beaten to a pulp!

It was placed outside the big tent and was full of flies!

This scene made his legs go weak.

"Send someone immediately to find out the lair of those bandits!"

"They must have a base and are currently contacting various places to rebel together!"

After hearing the emperor's order, the Jinyiwei Tongzhi knelt on one knee and said, "Yes, Your Majesty."

"Well, when you come back, I'll give you a promotion!"

Just don't have a brain.

The Tongzhi thought about it and quickly retreated.

The next morning.

The emperor immediately led his cavalry south.

When the large group of people arrived at a river bank, they were seen by a group of untouchables living on river boats.

They were real untouchables. Because they supported another force in the fight for the world, they were forced to become boatmen and could never go ashore in their entire lives - they certainly did go ashore secretly.

Can't do any other job.

"Quick, go and inform Immortal Qingyun!"

"Just say the dog emperor is coming!"

Soon the boat owners set sail.

A group of cavalrymen had just come running up to requisition the boats, but saw them fleeing.

They hurried back to report to the middle-aged emperor.

"Oh no, this is another group of bandits!"

"If they were our people, they would only welcome us with a boat, how could they turn around and run away?"

"Choose a shallow spot and cross the river quickly!"

At this time, the middle-aged emperor felt like he was trapped in a vast ocean.

It seems like there are enemies everywhere and no one around can be trusted.

In the countryside, in the county town, among the civil officials, military officers, and soldiers, everyone is suspicious.

He suppressed his emotions and dared not lose his temper again.

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He is a man of great adaptability.

Back then, he was able to kowtow to the previous dynasty, letting others fight to the death in front while he could develop peacefully in the back.

Now he can endure it just as well.

Just as the middle-aged emperor had expected, the Qingyun Society branch that had been set up nearby began to contact the headquarters by radio.

"Headquarters, our troops have discovered where the emperor is."

"It's near the X River."

"The force is about several thousand cavalry, about 5,000 to 10,000."

"Morale is low, and there is a lack of food and horse fodder."

"Branch altar, very good, I will pass the message to the leader immediately."

Today, the Qingyun Society is divided into 108 branches and one main temple, and implements flat management with the help of radio.

Each branch altar monitors and controls the five surrounding branch altars, and can submit secret reports and spread rumors.

If any branch rebels or plots treason, it is difficult to conceal it from other branches.

Because of the radio, if there was a rebellion in the morning, someone would report it secretly in the evening.

The secret memorial system is a very powerful means that can make it difficult for people below to trust each other.

After all, it was a feudal era, and many people had no beliefs and only aimed at getting promoted and making money.

So some insidious means must be used.

These branches, scattered across the country, are able to maintain a certain degree of loyalty through real-time communication via radio.

After receiving the news, Wensheng and his three companions did not rush to attack the emperor.

They simply sent out 500 cavalrymen and galloped towards the designated location.

They didn't need to catch the emperor, they just had to follow him.

The harassment along the way can also make the emperor exhausted.

The countryside in the surrounding counties had already been filled with members of the Qingyun Society.

Similar to the Yellow Turbans back then, the countryside was full of people burning incense and believing in the Taiping Dao.

It’s just that the Taiping Dao lacked experience in rebellion and didn’t know how to use it effectively.

But these four people are very experienced.

Of course, although the Daqing Dynasty’s ruling power over the countryside was not strong, it was still much stronger than that of the previous Han Dynasty.

However, they relied on radio and secret societies to avoid the officials.

As a result, it was difficult for the emperor to obtain effective supplies directly from the counties.

The middle-aged emperor fled south with his cavalry.

The cavalry of more than 10,000 people were in a mess along the way.

When they were still 400 miles away from the capital, there were only more than 6,000 people left.

As for the other four thousand, he had already dispersed them to various counties and cities to find food.

At the same time, some county towns and provincial capitals tried their best to send some food and fodder.

But more of them seemed to be doing one thing tacitly - they pretended that they had not received the order to replenish military supplies and watched the death of the middle-aged emperor.

Obviously, everyone wanted to change the emperor.

It’s just that they couldn’t do it before, but now they can probably do it just by watching.

When the emperor arrived at another ferry, he saw loud gongs and drums, waving red flags, huge crowds of people, and blasting firecrackers.

The middle-aged emperor finally became happy.

"Look, the imperial court must have sent troops to help us!"

But when the emperor and his cavalry approached the ferry, they were stunned.

Because layers of soldiers suddenly appeared on three sides!

They were finally surrounded by the enemy.

"Impossible, we have deployed scouts!"

"Our Jinyiwei?"

"There are so many important officials of the imperial court and senior officials of the counties and prefectures. Why didn't anyone come to report it?"

The middle-aged emperor was extremely furious.

He never expected that he would be surrounded by the enemy on the last leg of the journey.

Is this still his Daqing world?

He simply couldn't believe it.

Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind:

Everyone, from top to bottom, wants him dead!

The same is true for the vassal kings he relies on!

They want to inherit the throne!

"It's ridiculous. We worked so hard to conquer the world and provide for our descendants, but now even our sons are colluding with bandits!"

He figured it all out.

This situation was deliberately created by the people around him.

Otherwise, how could a group of mere rebels be so secretive?

Just like the empty seal case, how many years did it last?

He never knew about it and no one told him.

It was not until later that an accidental incident occurred and countless heads were lost.

Surrounding the middle-aged emperor were 30,000 elite soldiers.

They closed in on three sides, forcing the cavalry to jump into the river behind them.

Horses can swim.

They had no way to impact.

Because the horses had long since lost their strength.

If a horse without strength rushed in front of the infantry formation, it would be courting death.

Without mobility, the enemy could easily surround the cavalry and kill them with spears.

The strongest point of cavalry is mobility, they can just hit the infantry and then leave.

But the infantry could not escape, and round after round of cavalry crushed one corner of the infantry until it collapsed.

Starting from one point, it will spread to the whole area, leading to a total collapse.

This is the classic cavalry style.

Soon many cavalrymen chose to surrender.

The middle-aged emperor quickly threw away his dragon robe, changed into beggar's clothes, and quietly disappeared from the tent, leaving only a Jinyiwei as his stand-in.

He knew that with 10,000 cavalrymen, they could never surround the enemy.

The reason why we were surrounded by the enemy was that there were too many water systems in the south.

There are many rivers, which is a geographical advantage.

The most important thing is harmony among people.

The officials, landlords, and common people all had no support for him.

Everyone hopes that he will die soon!

He is Qin Shi Huang!

When Qin Shi Huang was still alive, he was assassinated many times.

As the three armies began to attack the royal army.

It seemed that the emperor's troops had no way to escape.

The middle-aged emperor quietly came to the river and wanted to swim across.

He looked back at his collapsing army and couldn't help feeling angry.

Those are the three elite camps, as well as the cavalry from the border troops.

It just collapsed like that.

For a moment, there was a lot of noise and horses neighing.

Surrenders continued in an endless stream.

An idea came into his mind:

"Are we going to die here today?"

"That's ridiculous!"

"I went through thirteen years of hardships and hardships to become an emperor from a beggar!"

"Will our country end in two generations like the Qin and Sui dynasties?"

“What a joke!”

He can't accept this fact!