Betraying a country that he has served for decades and worked hard for it, for Zhou Yuan, is a painful decision-making process, although he promised Cao Tianci before, but deep down, it is not without struggle, on the one hand, he has been loyal to the court, on the other hand, the survival of his children and grandchildren, Zhou Yuan did not have this mood in the past, he himself also felt that he was a dignified person who could give up his small family for everyone, but when he resigned all his official positions and returned to his hometown in Fenzhou, he got along for a period of time, and the weakest depths in his heart, was finally infinitely amplified, especially the call of those little grandchildren's milky grandfathers, which simply made his heart melt.

Looking at the little faces with pink makeup, Zhou Yuan could not bear them struggling to survive at the bottom with muddy faces in the future, especially at the end, when the lofty iron cavalry brazenly stepped into Tianhe County and the soldiers approached Jicheng, he finally made the final decision, left Fenzhou, and went to Hetao to fight for his children and grandchildren for the last credit in his life.

He has now completely given up his illusions about Jicheng, no matter how Zhou Yutan Feng struggles, he will not be able to support Da Yan, who is already about to fall.

In addition to his children and grandchildren who went to Liaoxi with him this time, and then the old shipwrights and their families of the entire shipyard, the four big ships built in the past two years were full, far away from the coast of Fenzhou, the four big ships converged at the predetermined place, all the way to Liaoxi, Kou Shuguang had already gone back to deal with the corresponding affairs in advance, as soon as the ship arrived at the destination, these shipwrights could devote themselves to the new work, and Zhou Yuan, naturally someone would welcome him to Jishi City.

This matter has been operated by the Supervision Yuan for more than two years, and today it has finally borne fruitful fruits, which makes everyone in the Supervision Yuan beaming.

Yuyang, Kong De is occupying Anlu. After marching into Xinhui and driving the Eastern Army all the way into Luliang Mountain, troubles also followed, first of all, in the rear, the Anlu mining area, those miners made trouble for three days and two ends, and the operation of the entire mining area almost came to a standstill.

In Comte's mind, these miners were restless people organized by slaves, criminals, and vagrants. As long as they are given a bite to eat, they can squeeze their labor to their heart's content, dig more ore for themselves, and train more steel, but it is clear that things are not as simple as he thinks, and after he became the owner of Anlu, the riots of the miners here have not stopped.

After some investigation, Comte realized that it turned out that Zhengdong Mansion was ruling this area. The miners were paid handsomely, paid according to their work, and the more they worked, the more they received. This greatly stimulated these miners, and also made it the miners here the most responsible when the Eastern Army controlled Anlu, as long as you are willing to exert your strength. You can make more money, and with money, who will worry about making a living? People. In the final analysis, as long as there is a mouthful of food to eat, it is very satisfied, not to mention, the remuneration given by the Eastern Army is extremely rich, and some of the miners have saved a lot of money in the past two years, and are preparing to work for another year or two, so they leave this place and go to Hetao, where they buy 180 acres of land, and live and work in peace and contentment! I heard those soldiers of the Eastern Army who used to be on duty here often talk about the place in Hetao, where the land is simply ridiculously cheap, as long as you are willing to go, you will be given a piece of land for free, but now although it is not good, you have to collect money, but the money to buy a hundred acres of land there, in the mainland, you can buy up to four or five acres, what is the difference between this and giving it away for nothing?

However, the good dream has not yet woken up, Sun De came, the Eastern Army retreated, after Kong De came, a qiē returned to the old way before, the pay according to work was gone, and the little belongings that had been saved before were also snatched away by those Yan soldiers, a qiē returned to the original point, two years of hard work was in vain, and all the miners' hearts were full of anger, resentment, and anger.

First passive sabotage, destruction of tools, and then the defenders guarding here unceremoniously raised the butcher's knife, blood stimulated all the miners, under the prodding of the well-intentioned, in the huge mining area, began an armed resistance, the miners have hammers in their hands, iron drills, caught off guard here Yan Army, suffered a heavy blow, thousands of guards scattered in the huge mining area, simply like a wave in the sea, before the splash, it was ruthlessly swallowed.

Kong De, who was fighting fiercely with Ye Zhen, the main force of the Eastern Army, was shocked when he heard the news, and had to stop the offensive and mobilize the army to come back to suppress the rebellion, but when he returned, the rebellious miners had disappeared without a trace, and Kong De helplessly found that he had no other way than to appease the remaining miners, because the mining area still needs to be mined, and he also needs more iron ore and copper ore to build weapons, and he can't kill all these miners. After symbolically killing several relatives of the alleged rebels, Comte had to process money for the miners, focusing on pacification, and stationed thousands of troops here in case of a recurrence of the rebellion.

But in this way, he was no longer able to organize a large-scale attack on Ye Zhen, and the offensive and defensive momentum was easy to turn, and Ye Zhen, who had crossed Luliang Mountain, launched a large-scale counterattack towards Xinhui after converging with the armies of Naha and Zeng Xianyi.

In the middle of the day, Kong De had to give up Xinhui and retreat to Anlu, but this was already Kong De's bottom line, he had to defend Anlu and this mining area.

At this time, it was already mid-July, that is, at this time, the order from Jicheng arrived, gave up Anlu, and the whole army returned to Tianhe County, returned to Jicheng, and beat Gao Yuan back to Hejian.

Holding this order, Kong De wanted to cry without tears, he started to attack from Yuyang, and paid the price of thousands of people to achieve the current results, but now, with a paper order, the price he paid before will be gone.

Is it so easy to retreat, and before the two armies face each other? Ye Zhen on the other side will let himself retreat easily?

And when Kong De received Jicheng's order, Niu Ben also stood in front of Ye Zhen, and at the same time, there was a person who was unexpected by Ye Zhen also arrived in his camp, and the person who came was actually the envoy of Zhou Changshou, the general of the Zhao army, and Zhao Guang, the former lord of the city.

"I understand what the governor means." Ye Zhen laughed and said to Niu Ben: "When you want to doze off, someone sent a pillow, General Niu, Zhou Changshou also sent someone to me, hahaha!" You go and rest first, I'll talk to this General Zhao Guangzhao first, but let's see what Zhou Changshou means. ”

Niu Ben smiled and walked away.

Yan and Zhao have always been opposed, Zhao has a strong national strength, and has always played the role of bullying Yan before, over the years, the two countries have never broken the big and small battles, until now, the friction between the two sides still occurs from time to time, not to mention, in Daijun, there are 6,000 cavalry of infantry are assisting Zhao Yong and Zhao Qi in a vicious battle, the two sides are fighting like a tug of war in Daijun, half of Daijun has been beaten into ruins.

When Zhao Guang walked into Ye Zhen's big tent, his mood was quite complicated, a few years ago, when he was the chief general of the whole city, Gao Yuan was just a small county lieutenant, time has passed, and the status of the two sides is now very different. Even in front of one of the other party's subordinates, he has to bow to his subordinates.

And he also served as a prisoner of the Fufeng Army, that is, the predecessor of the Eastern Army.

Zhao Guang knew that he had opposed Zhao Qi back then, and was regarded as a thorn in the side by Zhao Qi, and now that Zhao Qi is in power, how can he have his own future, the only chance to emerge is to let Zhou Changshou rise and fight against Zhao Qi, which is also the reason why Zhou Changshou proposed to take advantage of this opportunity to seize Yuyang.

"General Zhao, please take a seat, I don't know what is the important matter for General Zhao to come to my military camp this time?" Ye Zhen politely invited Zhao Guang to sit down and served tea, but he also got off the tiger case and sat in front of Zhao Guang, indicating that the two sides are now just an equal relationship, and if you come, you are a guest. I'm hospitable.

Ye Zhen was born in Ye Mansion, he has followed Ye Tiannan to the north and south since he was a child, and in terms of etiquette, he will always be such a nobleman, even if he will divide you into pieces the next moment, he can still talk and laugh with you with a smile at the last moment, and the etiquette is not bad at all.

After his cover song, Zhao Guang was like a spring breeze, and the tension in his heart was relieved by half.

"Zhao came here this time because of the order of General Zhou Changshou Zhou, and he wanted to discuss a major matter with General Ye." Zhao Guang pondered for a moment, "General Ye, you and I are both martial artists, I will not beat around the bush but get straight to the point, the meaning of the Gaodu Governor sweeping the Yan Kingdom is already known to passers-by, now the Yan Kingdom can be fought, there are not many soldiers who dare to fight, Langya Hu Yanchao, now the first part of your army is attacking Kunshan Pass, so far more than a month, still not taken, it can be seen that the combat effectiveness of Hu Yanchao's department is indeed extraordinary, and then there is the Kong De part of Yuyang, General Ye and he have been fighting for more than a month, there are victories and defeats, naturally Zhao is not allowed to say more, Then there is the new army of Jicheng Zhou Yu left, and the rest are not worth mentioning. ”

"Could it be that General Zhao is here to clean up Kong De's part with me?"

"General Ye is powerful, and in a word, I explained the purpose of my coming here, Kong De's department, a total of more than 50,000 people, and General Ye fought for more than a month, with thousands of losses, and now there are more than 30,000 soldiers who can fight, General Zhou intends to help your department, and wipe out Kong De's last army in Yuyang County, so that it is impossible for them to return to Jicheng. I think this will be of great help to the great cause of the Governor, right? Zhao Guang said with a smile.

Ye Zhen nodded slightly, "What General Zhao said is indeed good, but I also know that there is naturally no reason to drop pies in this sky, and I don't hide it from General Zhao, with my strength, it is indeed not enough to swallow Kongbu, General Zhou Changshou is willing to help us, what does he want?" ”

"General Zhou doesn't want much, he just wants Yuyang. Moreover, we can still assign Anlu to you. General Zhou also knew that the Anlu iron ore mine was very important to the governor of Gaodu. Zhao Guang stared at Ye Zhen and said. (To be continued......)