Chapter 1212: Where do the soldiers come from?

"Linzi is ahead, everyone quicken your pace." And twenty miles west of Linzi, a mighty army is slowly approaching Linzi. They are all rioting people.

The high taxes made it difficult for them to bear such a heavy burden, so after riots occurred in some places. More and more people are participating in it. Quite a few of them are unable to bear the overweight taxation and have to participate.

However, this riot is after all a disorder of social order. The destructive effect caused by this chaos is very serious, and more and more people participate in it. They destroyed everything, noble residences, and government houses, and robbed all the materials that could be robbed. As long as they could use, eat, and wear, they would be wiped out like locusts crossing the border. Then, the people in this area could not survive and had to participate in the riots. As a result, this army is getting bigger and bigger. Their livelihood is to destroy everything they can destroy, and then grab all the resources for their survival. This is a bad phenomenon of social regression.

However, the reason why these riots have become more and more fierce, and the scale has expanded to such an uncontrollable state, is closely related to the attitude of the upper class in Qi.

The upper class, especially the upper-class aristocrats of the Qi state represented by the future victory, what they thought was that these riots were just local insecurity and did not attract enough attention. They just ordered the local officials to immediately use their power to calm down. It is an error, a serious subjective error.

They mistakenly regarded this riot as a security incident one after another, rather than a whole continuous incident. Since what they saw was wrong, what they did was wrong.

They only ordered the local officials to use their limited power to counter the rebellion. This is simply wrong and wrong. The strength of the local government can barely maintain their order, and it has the power to deal with such a popular riot. They had fewer than a hundred people, and the rioters of the other side ranged from as few as a thousand to as many as 10,000. It would be no problem to trample them down. Moreover, these people ransacked quite a lot of Qi State Army workshops. There are many finished weapons, and the weapons in the hands of the government are not as advanced as the weapons provided by these handcrafted workshops. The weapons provided in the handcrafted workshops are all provided for front-line combat use, and there are quite a few imitations that are fine products. These weapons fell into the hands of the rioting people and undoubtedly became the biggest weapons of destruction.

The government is simply unable to suppress these riots. They can only respond passively, or they will respond passively later. As long as there are rioters arriving, they will actively avoid them instead of actively responding.

The government requested several times to send reinforcements, but the upper level of Qi State had no intention of answering at all. It's not that the upper echelons don't care, but they simply can't manage this matter.

In the war against Yan, Qi's standing army suffered heavy casualties, and the national standing army suffered extremely heavy losses. What the Qi army can attack is the Tian Jiajun composed of private soldiers of Tian Hengtian's family and the skirmishers of the standing army of some countries. Although they are Qi Jun in name. But in fact it is no longer the real standing army of the Qi army.

Then came the Qi army's long drive straight ahead, resulting in a troop shift. The guerrilla cavalry of the Qin State that kept going south caused great logistical pressure on the Qi army. This left the Qi army with no time and energy to accumulate their standing army.

The standing army that has just been formed was transferred to the front without any training and became the local garrison. These garrisons with little training are equivalent to militias. It can be said that they are of a lower grade than the militias. They went into battle without any training at all.

However, the flexible tactics of Qin's guerrilla cavalry made the casualties of these garrisons without any quality cost very high. In this way, the larger the staff is consumed. In order to supplement, the Qi army must not continue to mobilize civilians from various places to form a new standing army to invest in it. The quality of the standing army is getting worse and worse, and the battle losses are getting bigger and bigger. This forms a vicious circle.

The evil result of this cycle is that more and more civilian husbands have entered the battlefield, causing more and more casualties. The consumption is getting bigger and bigger. Qi Guo gradually exhausted his national power.

The evil result of this consumption is. In Qi State, there are only a very small number of standing army garrisons, and these garrisons simply don't have much combat power to use. The country is very empty at this time. Without the presence of a standing army, it will cause damage to national violent organizations.

This injury becomes fatal. The reason is when the domestic riots intensified. There is no army in Qi State to maintain their domestic security, because all Qi troops are transferred abroad. At this time, Zhao Jun and Qi Jun were in a stalemate in the battle, and neither of them could leave, and Qi Jun had something on his back at this time. Obviously, Qi Jun was even worse.

The riots are also at this time, the riots are getting bigger and bigger. The reason is that without the obstruction of the army, the rioting people suddenly became invincible. They grew to tens of thousands of people almost overnight, and then 100,000, and then hundreds of thousands of people participated in it, increasing in scale.

The larger the scale, the larger and larger the materials consumed, and they will only destroy but not produce. This is a group of locusts. They can only sustain their livelihood by destroying more and more things. Otherwise, they will They destroyed themselves. After sweeping all the surrounding counties, they finally discovered that there was no more valuable things nearby. At this time, they must have the necessary supplies to maintain their survival, so they aimed at the current Qi Linzi, the largest city in China, has what they want.

Food, weapons, ammunition, women, and all kinds of supplies. These are all they must. So they headed towards Linzi.

On this road, the local government can only avoid them far, and along the way, the army that was originally blocking is fighting abroad at this time, and even if there is, they are unable to fight against them. Thus. At this time, a large number of people began to flock to Linzi, this rich city.

"Oh my God. There are so many people." A soldier standing upstairs in Linzi City watched the dense crowd approaching them. This made the soldier suddenly feel unprecedented fear.

"So many mobs attack Linzi, less than 200,000." A slightly experienced veteran said at this time. At this time, he felt that it was a mistake that he did not participate in foreign wars. Originally, he thought that staying in the country could avoid catastrophe. Many such veterans used despicable means to stay. For survival. Humans usually come up with various methods.

The soldiers guarding the city were all nervously looking at the more than 200,000 mobs under the city. Linzicheng was surrounded by these mobs and the water was blocked. And the number of opponents is still increasing. How many people are there? They don't know it themselves, they know that once the opponent attacks, they will be hard to resist.

In the main hall of the Qi Palace, the ministers of the Qi State were discussing the sudden adversity. The reports they received before were public security incidents, which did not attract their attention at all, but now they finally know that the so-called public security is a serious riot in Qi. Now, this riot has come to the ground.

"The top priority is to deal with the mob attacking the city. Linzi City is easy to defend. It shouldn't be a problem." A doctor said more confidently.

"Linzi City is the city high, but don't forget. With today's firearms, no matter how thick the city wall is, there are times when it is blasted down." A minister stood up to accuse him at this time.

"This." The minister's accusation really made it difficult for him to answer. In fact, the power of this firearm far exceeds the imagination of the ministers present.

"I am afraid that apart from these, there is also the fact that the forces in Linzi City cannot afford such a large city defense." At this time, a general took the initiative to stand up and say.

"Oh." The ministers screamed in horror at this time. At this time, the general made such an opinion, and it is usually bad.

"There are less than 30,000 defenders in Linzi City, and most of them are old and weak. It is difficult to resist the mob's blow." At this time, the general said.

Hearing such an answer, ministers, look at me and I will look at you. They don't know what to do at this time.

"Then, our army should inform the main force of the Qi army to return to Linzi." At this time, a minister shouted.

"How is it possible?" a middle doctor said loudly at this time.

"The main force of the army is far away in the country of Yan. Even if it is able to return, Linzi City has already been broken, and the army has worked hard to help, let alone whether it can accept the enemy. Even if it can accept the enemy, it will be defeated by the opponent. Our army is exhausted. At that time, the doctor said.

"But we also want the army to return for help. Our army is firmly guarding Linzi City." At this time, a doctor said.

"En. It can only be so today." A minister said helplessly. And the post-victor who stood on a high place watched without saying a word.

"But where does the force come from?" a minister suggested.

"Rely on the people in the city to protect the city." The general suggested at this time.

"For ministers, nobles, and some private soldiers, it's better to put these private soldiers into it. These private soldiers are well equipped and well-trained to resist for a while." A minister suggested at this time.

And hearing this, some nobles began to frown, obviously they were unwilling to surrender their forces.

"Now the country of Qi is in danger. Shouldn't you serve me?" At this time, a minister scolded.