After dawn, finally a bold guy came out, looked left and right and didn't find a strong man, couldn't help but run up to the city tower to watch, this look, only to find that the strong man was gone, immediately cheered. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

As more and more people popped up, Jincheng was once again lively.

However, Jincheng soon fell into chaos again, because the wealthy families found that the military and political personnel of Jincheng were all fleeing to death, which means that Jincheng lost its master. The wealthy family who was in a big mood immediately called on friends to form a family team and began to carve up the territory of Jincheng.

And this battle also spread with the resumption of foreign exchanges in Jincheng, and after the confirmation of time, this battle is called the first battle in the history of the empire in which warlords fought each other.

"My lord, this time I finished moving things in half a day and one night, is there too little thing in Jincheng? How does it not look like it? Zhou Wen looked at the doubled number of carriages and asked Zhao Hu curiously.

Zhao Hu said lightly: "Where is it missing?" Compared with the supplies given by the commander of the division, it was not much less, and the gold coins alone loaded two carriages, not to mention silver and copper coins. ”

"How can that be so fast?" Zhou Wen was still puzzled.

Zhao Hu said lightly: "Can you not be happy?" This time, we only grabbed the treasury, and we didn't need to count the quantity, just empty it all. As for those craftsmen, the division commander did not provide a list last time, and asked us to inquire one by one, but this time we have a list, and we can just move according to the name and household. ”

"Oh, I know not to offend the Hao clan by the way, so I didn't touch them, but why don't you catch some strong men? The 50,000 defeated soldiers are all young and strong, and if they surrender, they will definitely get 20,000 or 30,000 people. Zhou Wen asked suspiciously.

"We have too few soldiers, so it's very troublesome to monitor those 6,000 young people, and if there are 20,000 or 30,000 more prisoners of war, there will definitely be a big mess." Zhao Hu said lightly.

The news was faster than the speed of people, and the news of Zhao Hu's plundering of Jincheng was countless times faster than his marching speed, and it spread throughout most of the coastal areas in an instant.

Along the way of Zhao Hu and his party, all the county towns were in full array, and they all cowered in the city, watching Zhao Hu's team pass by the city in fear.

Soon after, Zhao Hu and his entourage returned to Zhao Huling and began to carry out the enclosure movement, enclosing a large area of land into Zhao Huling.

A brigade of cavalry escorted a wagon on a road where weeds bound to the wheels. The person in the car is the governor of Haiquan Province - Peter.

At this moment, Peter's face was full of sorrow, and his originally fat body had lost a lot of weight, in fact, everyone who understood knew that in these years, it was strange that Peter was not worried or thin.

Because when troubled times appeared, the first thing the warlords who held military power had to deal with were the civilian officials who held power at the same level as themselves.

Peter, who was thinking wildly, suddenly noticed that the carriage had stopped, and immediately asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"My lord, I found a level ahead!" A cavalry report was made.

"Levels?! Did you enter Zhao Hu's territory? I remember not passing through the ruins of Hamagishi County. ”

Peter, who was puzzled, looked around and found that this was indeed not Zhao Hu's realm, so he couldn't help but immediately order: "You go and find out what's going on, remember to be cautious." ”

"Yes!"

The cavalryman waved his hand, and a squadron of cavalry followed him to the front.

Approaching, the cavalry saw a wide fence connecting the hills on both sides, blocking the passage, and a passage was left at the fence facing the road, but this passage was blocked by a barrage behind which stood a small group of infantry with spears.

On the left side of the road behind the infantry, a simple wooden building was built, but it already served as a barracks.

At this moment, due to the appearance of his own cavalry, the barracks is swarming with hundreds of spear infantry, and the number of people is obviously just a brigade.

Although I saw that the other party was wearing the Imperial uniform, except for my own people, all the people wearing the Imperial uniforms were enemies. Therefore, the spear captain on Zhao Hu's side gave the order to prepare for battle, and at the same time sent someone to ride a specially prepared fast horse back to report the news.

Seeing that the other party was well-trained and had made preparations for attack, the cavalry commander shouted loudly after issuing a guard order: "We are the troops directly under the governor of Haiquan Province!" What are you from? ”

"We are the direct troops of Colonel Zhao Hu, the lord of this place! Where is the governor? How about a show? ”

The captain of the spearman brigade on Zhao Hu's side was born in Zhao Hu's personal guard, and he had met the provincial governor a few times, and he was afraid that the other party would fake his identity.

Although the cavalry commander wondered how Zhao Hu became a colonel, he also found out the identity of the other party, and shouted after breathing a sigh of relief: "My lord is behind, we are now a hundred steps back, please don't misunderstand." ”

With a wave of his hand, the cavalry immediately turned around and ran for a hundred paces before stopping and turning around. At the same time, a cavalry that reported the news also immediately rushed out.

Seeing that the other party seemed to have no hostile intentions, the spearman captain on Zhao Hu's side ordered his subordinates to stand with guns, and the two sides waited quietly for the follow-up to happen.

Hearing the words of the cavalry, Peter sighed secretly: "It's still Zhao Hu who is powerful, he has expanded his territory so much not long after he came back, it seems that Zhao Hu has also become a warlord, alas, I really regret that I didn't join the army at the beginning, otherwise I would be able to make a tide in this troubled world now."

"But fortunately, Zhao Hu became a warlord, otherwise he wouldn't have dared to shelter me." Shaking his head, he ordered the team to move quickly.

When Peter arrived at the checkpoint, there was the sound of horses' hooves rumbling from the opposite side, and with the sound, thousands of cavalry suddenly appeared in front of everyone.

The provincial governor's cavalry team, which was still a little proud, immediately lost confidence when they saw that the other party actually had more cavalry than themselves.

"Welcome to the Xiaguan Territory, I don't know what your lordship commands?"

Zhao Hu, who personally led the troops, saluted Peter who had already gotten out of the carriage and said.

"Haha, what is my brother being polite to me, my brother's current prestige has also spread throughout Haiquan Province, it's amazing, just 4,000 soldiers can defeat an army of 50,000, and just rely on such a few people, he has ransacked hundreds of thousands of people in Jincheng, it's really amazing!" Peter praised Zhao Hu very affectionately.

Zhao Hu didn't think it was a big deal for the four thousand veterans to defeat the fifty thousand strong men, so he smiled calmly: "I didn't expect the news to spread so widely, making the adults laugh." yes, I don't know ...... adults are here this time."

Peter shook his head and sighed and said, "It's a long story, this is not a place to talk, let's go to your lord's mansion first and then talk in detail." ”

"Oh, please." Zhao Hu politely waved his hand.

Peter was not polite, returned to the carriage, and followed Zhao Hu.

As for Peter's cavalry, although they were not detained, they could still follow Peter's side, but each cavalryman was closely cared for by two Zhao Hu cavalrymen, so that they did not dare to make any changes.

Although they are resentful of this, they also understand, in other words, if anyone has an unknown friend or foe into the territory, they will definitely monitor the whole process.

Along the way, since the two commanders did not speak, everyone was silent and only hurried quietly. Perhaps because of his cranky thoughts, he couldn't perceive the passage of time, and Zhao Hu found that it didn't take long for him to see the city.

Sensing the slowdown in the procession, Peter looked into a five-kilometer-long wooden wall.

Seeing this, Peter sighed, he didn't expect that Zhao Hu's city had expanded to such an extent after he hadn't come for a while.

But now in these years, no one will pursue any violations, why does Zhao Hu still use wooden city walls? There is no shortage of rocks in this vicinity, could it be that this city was expanded in a very short period of time?

When passing through the city gate, he smelled a fresh smell of wood, Peter affirmed his judgment, and at the same time was secretly surprised by Zhao Hu's large number of men.

You must know that it has only been ten days since Zhao Hu came back, and such a large wooden wall was built in such a short period of time, which is not something that can be done by a large number of people, and it must be the role of the craftsmen who were captured by Zhao Hu.

When he came to the Lord's Mansion, Peter who got out of the carriage was stupid as soon as he raised his eyes, is this still the simple Lord's Mansion made of a few wooden planks before? Except for the lack of carved dragons and phoenixes, this lord's mansion is even more magnificent than his previous official residence.

"Please come in and have tea." Zhao Hu waved his hand.

"Oh, please." When he came to his senses, Peter sighed: "Alas, no wonder you are willing to loot the craftsmen of the whole city without looting the local wealthy clans, it seems that it is convenient to do anything if there are more craftsmen." ”

Entering the Lord's Mansion, after introducing each other and being polite, the two sides finally sat down, Zhao Hu is close to all the people here, and everyone was very curious about Peter's sudden arrival this time.

On Peter's side, there were only two cavalry officers, and seeing that Peter brought them into the lord's mansion, it was obvious that they were the cronies of his cronies.

Of course, Peter knew that everyone was waiting for him to tell his intentions, so he groaned for a moment, and said with a guilty look on his face: "Zhao Hu, I may have caused you trouble." ”

Hearing this, everyone's expressions were different, and Zhao Hu reflexively shouted: "Order, order the cavalry scouts to spread outward to a day's journey, and report back as soon as they find traces of the army!" Ordered patrol boats to expand the search range of the sea! ”

As this order was given, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded outside, from near to far, until it disappeared.

Peter shook the corners of his mouth and smiled: "You are really sensitive enough, and you actually realized what was going to happen all of a sudden." Alas, the old man just can't compare with the young man. Said with a look of emotion.

Zhou Wen, who was not very stupid in his brain and finally understood what was going on, glared at Peter angrily, muttering and cursing this guy who caused trouble to his own adults.