Chapter) 3 Trouble with soldiers and bandits

"Your Highness, you are saying that the secret room we are in right now has a cave passage that leads directly to the outside of Liyang City." The Zhu Guowei who spoke began to stand up and looked around, hoping to find it.

The entrance and exit of the cave.

"You don't need to look at the generals. There is a stone chessboard here. The cleverness of the mechanism is so ingenious that you can't expect it. If Hong'er hadn't accidentally discovered the secret of the remaining chess pieces on the chessboard, we would have never known it.

I can't find the entrance to this cave. Now, I have tried to seal it, just to prevent the traitors from breaking into Liyang City through the secret room of my mansion. Then I, Li Yu, am not the only one who is unlucky.

, or the nearly 700,000 innocent people in Liyang." Li Yu looked at Zhu Guowei and said with a solemn face.

"Your Highness, apart from you and the people in your mansion, does anyone else know about this? By the way, you went to report to His Majesty that the three guards of the Great Shen Dynasty should be reorganized and reorganized. Could it be that you are also following this?

The matter is closely related, does your Majesty know about this?" Thinking of this, the guards of the country took a breath of cold air and couldn't help but feel scared for a while.

"Currently, apart from you and Hong'er, only dozens of living and dead brothers in my family know about this matter, but I think this matter will definitely be revealed to the world in the future. Not only will my father know about it, but maybe

By then, everyone will know it, and it will no longer be a secret. As for my father, when I arrived at his imperial study today, before I could say anything, he took the initiative to tell me that the leader of the rebels was also

Prince Zhong, who was exiled to the bitter cold land of the Western Regions, had previously mastered the Dragon Vein of the Great Shen Dynasty. This may be what he was talking about. Because of the secrets of this secret room, even the royal family members rarely knew about it. I think the father was also because of Li.

Zhong has made some moves recently, which was discovered through some insider information."

Hearing what Li Yu said, the national guards were even more worried. "So, Your Majesty has already known about this, but he doesn't know much about the secret passage above your mansion, but this is not right.

If His Majesty knew about this, he should immediately send a large number of personal guards to thoroughly inspect your residence. How could there be any change of defense? I seem to have heard that the emperor's personal guard commander, He Dahai, led a large number of armed cavalry officers.

Waiter, carrying iron tools seems to be digging some kind of underground passage, could it have anything to do with your matter?"

"That's exactly what I advised my father. Just before I came from his imperial study, I made it clear that instead of struggling to find the exit, it would be better to have both false and real strategies. The false strategy is what the generals call He Dahai.

The excavation of the tunnel was actually a bluff, and its purpose was to 'confuse' the hostile forces. The key was the actual strategy. The actual strategy was for Qin Zhongge to send people to strictly guard the palace, not to mention achieving the target.

It's so secret that it can't be inserted or splashed with water. It's at least as secretive as that iron bucket, which is difficult for birds to get in." Li Yu said about the current layout to deal with the tension caused by the secret passage.

"Your Highness, in my opinion, as long as we find the exit of the cave, we can catch turtles in an urn and kill as many people as we can. Wouldn't that be better?"

"Commanders, you don't know something. You must know that the secret passage of the cave that Li Zhong has mastered is not a result of a few years, but has been passed since the founding of the Great Shen Dynasty, maybe even earlier.

Generations of secret excavation efforts have now opened up all four directions. No matter how many people you search for, you cannot find all the exits of the tunnel. If you focus all your energy on this, you will not be able to find all the tunnel exits.

I lost the watermelon and picked up the sesame seeds, delaying the important matter of deploying the defense. The key is that I also have selfish motives. First, I don’t want my father to know that my mansion has the entrance to this cave, although my father may also be able to think of it.

There must be an entrance and exit to the mansion. Secondly, my purpose is not to resist the thieves, but to contain the enemy and prevent the two sides from starting a war. You must know that whether it is coming from the passage or attacking from the ground, there will always be battles that affect the working people.

, if I do this, the Li Zhong forces who plan to use the cave may hesitate, because He Dahai's large-scale digging of tunnels is good publicity. In this way, when the other party is slightly aware of it,

, we must use the passage to capture Liyang, which will delay the battle in time. If we can delay it for a while, the people will suffer less from the war and chaos."

"What His Highness said is that I am still the commander-in-chief who leads the soldiers. He only thinks about the benefits of the battle and does not consider the poor people of the Great Shen Dynasty. This is what I want to learn from His Highness. Since this matter has been

Delay, but why is Your Highness still bothering to change defenses? Isn’t this asking for trouble? I have already made it very clear about the stakes just now. This is a thankless task, why is Your Highness still going?

Where are you going to hit this nail?" After things were smoothed out, the Zhuguowei had new questions.

"The above actions can only delay things for a while, but changing defenses can bring long-term peace and stability." Li Yu said with a smile.

"How can you see that after changing the defense, it will cause instability in the morale of the army, and won't it give the barbarian countries and Li Zhong of the third party an opportunity to take advantage of it?" Zhu Guowei felt that something was still wrong.

"Commanders, let me ask you, as far as your Blue Flag Army is concerned, how many people do you think you can control and how many die-hard loyalists do you think you can use?"

"Your Highness, what do you mean by this? Do we, the national guards, still have any disobedience? Your Majesty is most afraid of doing this in the army. If the army officers and soldiers under your command do something die-hard, then

A set of rules will lead to the expansion of personal desires. Not only is it easy to commit the crime, but the key is that there will be many unstable factors. Over time, if the spirit of military banditry is full, it will be even more difficult to manage. If there is a march and a war,

If the orders and prohibitions cannot be followed, the combat effectiveness will be reduced. In the worst case, a large number of people will defect collectively, or even turn against the enemy, and the consequences will be disastrous."

"The commanders are worthy of being commanders-in-chief. It seems that they are not only reasonable in what they say, but also good at what they say. Now the three armies have many of the situations you mentioned, including your Blue Flag Army. Although you didn't say it,

I must be slightly aware of it. Many times there is no outbreak because there is no trigger for the outbreak. If there is such an outbreak point, then you will be able to see how many people in your army are also engaged in this gangsterism.

This is not the most worrying thing..." After speaking, Li Yu showed a meditative look on his face.

"Does your Highness have any more worrying issues?" Zhu Guowei also pondered for a moment, and seemed to agree with Li Yu's statement. He thought that the situation in his Blue Flag Army was no longer what it used to be, especially with the deputy commander.

After the handsome Pan Guotao came over, he went on an even more rampage, as if he could no longer stand him. He had some diehard loyalists who stayed close to each other all day long, and often persecuted other soldiers because of trivial matters, which also caused many soldiers to complain.

However, I was also worried about the fact that the guy was the deputy commander, so I didn't reprimand him too much. But think about it, if this continues for a long time, it will really be a cancer in the current army.

"What's even more worrying is that there seem to be die-hard loyalists left by Li Zhong in the three armies of the Royal Guard. They are also constantly corrupting other soldiers, and they have also won over many people, just to get

At the critical moment when Li Zhong leads a large-scale attack, let's play our role. With such people in the army, shouldn't we worry? I, Li Yu, have nothing to do. Anyway, I want to find a quiet place in the future.

Those who avoid disputes will suffer from the raging wars, which will bring suffering to the people of the Great Shen Dynasty and also to you, the commanders."

"So, Your Highness, you have arranged a defensive strategy?"

"The defense change is a long-term solution. It is a system that allows the army to maintain a high degree of loyalty in the future. If it is allowed to blindly win over die-hard loyalists and stand on its own, this is not what the father wants to see. Therefore, this defense change

, I actually suddenly became the sword in my father’s hand, and he was about to slaughter the three armies. But I am willing to be this sword, because I also have my own selfish desires."

"Private desires?"

"Well, just for selfish reasons, I want to send you commanders to the camp of the Red Flag Army, Niutou Mountain in Bei'a, to lead them. What do you think?"

"This..." When Li Yu asked this, the Zhu Guowei suddenly showed a look of embarrassment on his face, but for a moment, he didn't know how to answer.

Seeing the appearance of the national guards, Li Yu also said solemnly: "It is indeed aggrieved to let the commanders go over and take charge of the Red Flag Army, but do you know that the Niutoushan where the Red Flag Army is stationed leads to the Liyang City Cave?

The main entrance and exit of the secret passage of the "hole", that is to say, although the exits to the "hole" in Liyang City Cave may be well-connected and everywhere, there is only one entrance, and that is a trough in Bei'ao Niutou Mountain.

Zone, I will send someone to inform you in detail when the time comes.”

"Your Highness, you want me to guard the entrance of the cave to prevent third-party thieves from taking advantage of the situation?" At this time, the national guards began to have an idea.

"Not only that. You must know that the first time we entered the secret room of the cave, when we almost reached the low valley of Niutou Mountain in Bei'ao, you were surprised by the width of the cave. What's even more surprising is that,

On the rock wall inside the cave, there are also lamp bowls that only come from the Royal Military Treasurer. It is obvious that the lamp bowls are soldiers of one of the three armies of the Guards. They were placed and kept for the convenience of entering and exiting the cave in the future.

It is used for lighting, and the lamp oil in the lamp bowl has not dried up and can be lit at any time. From this, it can be inferred that the entrance should always be taken care of, so once the war breaks out, the thief will enter through the entrance, not to mention me.

His mansion will be affected. What’s even more frightening is that this gang of thieves, who are full of gangsterism, will burn, kill, loot and commit all kinds of evil before they enter Liyang. The people of Liyang will be plunged into dire straits all of a sudden. When the time comes, they will still be in dire straits.

It will trigger street fights of all sizes. The thieves who came from the caves will soon be broken into pieces and dispersed into the streets and alleys of Liyang. The disaster is not ordinary, plus there are no traces of them.
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