"Let you read the letter of Captain Qibi first!"

Zhao Shiyi held the letterhead with both hands, Qin Jin read it hastily, the smile on his face disappeared completely, and his brows were tightly twisted into a pimple.

"The thief rebels have already reached Tongguan, what long-term plan does Ge Shuhan have?"

In the letter, Che Bihe gave a detailed account of the situation after the rebel soldiers arrived at Tongguan, and Ge Shuhan ordered to hold on to it in most cases, and only fought a few sneak attacks when it was unexpected, and still lost more and won less.

Qin Jin understood that on the surface, the ** led by Ge Shuhan was really unbearable, and the sneak attack battles were fought with more losses and fewer wins, which was really embarrassing. But this is already a rare good result for the ** that was formed in a hurry and the overall combat effectiveness was low.

In the hope of making this kind of tough opponent in the field, it is better to expect the sow to go up the tree.

"Ge Shuhan is not bad to our Xin'an Army, he didn't wait for him or take care of it. Captain Qibi said that the old man was in the face of the envoy, so he didn't let the Xin'an army fill in his life!"

"Fill in your life?"

Hearing these two words, Qin Jin immediately had a bad premonition.

Sure enough, I just heard Zhao Shiyi say as usual:

"Tongguanli ** is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, Ge Shuhan's descendants and people from Longyou are the first class. The more than 100,000 new troops recruited from the Liangjia in Guanzhong were second-class people. The rest, the prisoners and the miscellaneous servants are all third-class people. When necessary, drive the front of the formation, consume the morale of the dogs, and disrupt their formation. Then the second class and the first class will attack in turn......"

When he talked about these fate-filling stories, it seemed that he was just telling a story, but from Zhao Shiyi's calm narration, Qin Jin could feel that Ge Shuhan had won more and more than he had won by relying on this almost life-filling method. Could it be that the fighting strength of the rebels is so terrifying? Even Ge Shuhan, who has been in battle for a long time and has terrified the Tibetan people, has to use this way of filling in his life?

Qin Jin did not deal with the rebels, he took thousands of people from the Xin'an Military Region to withdraw all the way from Xin'an to Tongguan, during which he experienced hardships and dangers, but also made the fire of Kunshan Mountain, the chief general of the rebel army, Cui Qianyou, was captured in embarrassment after the fire burned down the army.

At that time, the feeling of An Lushan's rebel army in Qin Jin was that it was better to be famous than to meet, and the Youyan Iron Cavalry was not invincible. He originally thought that Ge Shuhan would go to Tongguan, even if he couldn't win a few battles happily, but after all, with last winter's victory, the morale of the rebels was far inferior to that of the rebels in the original history, and it was much easier to fight at least.

But the result greatly exceeded Qin Jin's estimate, and the only thing he was puzzled about now was whether he overestimated Ge Shuhan or underestimated An Lushan's rebels.

"There is another thing, I don't know if the envoy has ever heard of it? Captain Qibi said that this is a matter of chasing after the wind and shadows, and he will not let me make random assertions before it is confirmed, just inform the envoy!"

"What's the matter?"

"I heard that the old minister Geshu was going to transfer the hundreds of thousands of Shandong fugitives gathered between Weinan and Liyang for the purpose of filling in his life, and Yang Guozhong in the political hall also agreed, but somehow he repented overnight, not only did he not allow it, but he also sent troops to Tongguan to observe and study. Captain Qibi privately told us that this is not to watch the battle, but to supervise the battle!"

Zhao Shiyi said it one by one, as if he was telling a joke, but in Qin Jin's ears, it was like a drum and thunder. How could Ge Shuhan dare to use hundreds of thousands of innocent people for the purpose of filling his life? Qin Jin asked himself that those who had already cultivated could be indifferent to anything, but he still had to be shocked by such methods.

This kind of rumor also corroborates Wei Ji's explanation in the letter, inducing Yang Guozhong to agree to the means used to dredge the Zhengbai Canal, but there is one case, I don't know whether Wei Ji intentionally or unintentionally, but he is silent about Ge Shuhan's intention to use the Shandong fugitives as a filler. Of course, maybe Wei Ji didn't know about this, maybe he knew that it was normal to just do rumors and ignore them.

When Qin Jin lowered his head and pondered, Zhao Shiyi grabbed a few more melons and fruits in the lacquered plate and chewed them violently. He didn't think it was funny, so he said:

"If you like to eat, eat more, and when you leave, bring a few baskets and go back to share them with your brothers!"

Unexpectedly, Zhao Shiyi's mouth was stuffed with melons and fruits, and he couldn't speak clearly, but he replied seriously: "The melons and fruits are delicious, but you can't bring them." Our Xin'an army is all good horses in Hexi, carrying these belly-filling things to satisfy hunger, wasting horsepower in vain!"

Zhao Shiyi's words made Qin Jin sigh for a while, saying that what kind of general can bring out what kind of soldiers, and it is not strange that Qi Bihe can bring out this kind of soldiers who know how to cherish horsepower.

"Okay, don't bring it! Wait until you calm down and eat it when you come back!"

Zhao Shiyi bared his teeth and smiled, "I can write down the words of the envoy, and I will calm down the rebellion in the future, but I must not rely on the debt." ”

Qin Jin smiled dumbly:

"Once the word is spoken, the horse is hard to chase!"

Zhao Shiyi smiled: "Make Jun Mo pull the bow too full, the Xin'an army now has 10,000 people, I don't know how big it will be when the time comes, don't take the food and even the clothes of the envoy as ......"

Qin Jin grabbed a fruit from the lacquer plate in front of him and threw it over, "I can't stop your mouth if I eat it!"

Zhao Shiyi's reaction was also fast, and he turned his head and dodged it, but then he stopped talking, and only ate melons and fruits with his head bored.

In just a few words, Qin Jin can feel that the Xin'an Army has become a great success today, from the original unity army, to the elite division of the Tang Dynasty. And this took less than a year. He even subconsciously compared the Xin'an Army and the Shenwu Army, if the two armies clashed, who would lose and who would win?

However, Qin Jin knew that although the Xin'an Army had a deep relationship with him, it was absolutely impossible for him to be transferred to his command under the existing system. What's more, it can be judged from Zhao Shiyi's statement that Ge Shuhan regarded the Xin'an Army as an elite cultivator of the lineage, how could he give it to others?

Thinking about it again, this is not a good thing, Ge Shuhan has the elite of the Xin'an Army by his side, and it is always better than those Longyou who are full of Hu people and surrender at a critical moment, right?

To tell the truth, Qin Jin did not have a good impression of Longyou, but Shuo Fangjun, although there was a rebel general like Huangfu Ke, who pulled the flag and rebelled, he still had a great good impression.

In Qin Jin's subconscious, the last person to pick peaches in the Chang'an Mutiny was the Longyou Army, and now the Longyou Army has become the second Longwu Army in the hands of the Son of Heaven. He always had a hunch that this elite soldier of Longyou, known as the Shence Army, would transform from a tiger down the mountain into a big cat with a flower face in the hands of Li Longji.

Zhao Shiyi stayed in Tongzhou for a day and set off to return to Tongguan. Qin Jin also immediately devoted himself to preparing for the dredging of the Zhengbai Canal. At Wei Ji's suggestion, the dredging project started from Fengyi County, so after a large number of fugitives got the notice from Jingzhao Mansion, some of them had already entered the boundary of Feng Yi.

Qin Jin has his own arrangements, and since these people have entered the territory of Feng Yi County, they must completely obey his arrangements.

First of all, we must no longer gather in a loose and disorderly manner, and when you go out, you will be in groups, and when you go, you will be in pieces.

To this end, Qin Jin specially transferred thousands of people from the Shenwu Army and stationed them in various places on the border of Feng Yi to contain and reorganize the fugitives who entered the county. All fugitives were immediately placed in "concentration camps" as soon as they entered Fengyi County. Then, someone went to the camp to register the names and places of origin of all the people. Immediately after that, in accordance with the methods of the army, a brigade led team was established...... In short, everything is managed in accordance with the methods of the military, and these fugitives must also obey the military law of the Shenwu Army, otherwise they will be severely punished by the military law.

In the military law of dealing with fugitives, Qin Jin did not follow the principle of cherishing manpower, and achieved the purpose of punishment on the premise of not hurting the muscles and bones. Because these fugitives only have food in their eyes to survive, they are afraid of dignity and face, and they are afraid that they will die on the road if they can't even escape Tongguan.

To put it mildly, the people who can escape to the west of Tongguan are no longer good families, they can pay any price for their lives, and the reason why they did not vote for An Lushan is that they still have a little thought about the Tang Dynasty in their hearts.

Therefore, although Qin Jin also sympathized with their plight, he must not be soft-hearted, only by using heavy codes to maintain order can everything be done.

Just as the so-called Ci Bu is in charge of the army, these people, who have been trained by military law, have been restrained with absolute violence, and in just seven or eight days, there have been 50,000 people. And that's just the number of people who have been registered, organized, and organized. There is also a large number of fugitives in the "concentration camps" who are waiting to be registered and reorganized.

At the beginning, many of the fugitives were very dissatisfied with Qin Jin's strong restraint, and even incited a large group of people to make trouble, trying to coerce Qin Jin into submission by means of not holding the public accountable. But it's a pity that these people chose the wrong object of struggle, how could Qin Jin let them succeed?

Only 500 soldiers of the Shenwu Army rushed into the crowd of thousands of people, and everywhere they went, they were like sharp swords cutting off water. Dealing with the refugees who make trouble, for the Shenwu Army, is indeed a knife to kill chickens. But half an hour's effort, the first evil of the trouble, and a hundred and ten followers were captured in one piece.

When most of these people were in Shandong, they were from the families of the powerful and the extremely rich, but when they arrived in Tongguan, they had already suffered a lot of torture and humiliation, and now they have to be subject to many restrictions in order to eat, so how can they be willing to be at the mercy of others? As soon as they raised their arms, it was inevitable that they would take the lead in making trouble.

After arresting these people, no matter whether the other party wept bitterly and repented, or the elders of the fugitives came forward to intercede, they were all beheaded on the spot in accordance with the military law promulgated before entering the camp.

Not only that, but after the execution, the heads of the troublemakers were hung high on high poles outside the camp, constantly warning those who were disgruntled not to do anything wrong.

Du Fu persuaded Qin Jin that doing so would make the people in the camp resentful and not good for morale.

Qin Jin said:

"It's all people who dredge the river, is it possible to count on them to fight?"