About 2,000 Qin troops walked on the road in full gear, and the first person was Zhou Liang, the top military general of the Qin army stationed in Shu County, responsible for Ziyang, Ningqiang, and Nanzheng counties. For him, this was an easy task, not so much a repression as an armed demonstration, and as soon as the army came out, the peasants quietly dispersed, and he had to wait to receive the large gifts from the local officials.

Zhou Liang is not from Qin, he used to be the general of Yan, after the great changes of Yan, Gao Yuan replaced King Yan and established himself as the king of Han, he went to Qin with Zhou Yu, at first, he was the same as Zhou Yu, and he still had the hope of being able to return to Yan one day, but with the development of the situation, this fragile hope has also become a bubble under the sun. For them, it is not just that there is no hope of recovering the country. When this hope was dashed, they set a new goal for themselves, that is, to overthrow the lofty Han Kingdom, which can be regarded as another meaning of revenge. However, the hope is very full, but the reality is very skinny, the strong rise of the Han Kingdom in the seemingly impossible situation, with one enemy and two, actually hit the Qin State and the Chu State Alliance, this battle, completely knocked the Qin State into the abyss.

The Qin State, which was once so powerful that all countries in the world trembled, walked towards the abyss step by step in front of the emerging Han State. The stronger the stronger, the weaker the weaker, whether it is Zhou Yu or Zhou Liang, they have already seen very clearly that the strength of the Han State is not only strong in the military, but also in the economy. If it is said that above the military, the Qin State still has the strength to fight. At the economic level, the completion of the Han Kingdom showed a crushing state.

Zhou Liang's initial Chu thoughts were shattered, and with the idea of living one day at a time, he mixed his days in the Qin army and came to Shu County, which made him see the corruption of the most grassroots officials in the Qin State, which shocked him who had been living in the army, and after the shock, he was injustice and indignation. Immediately afterwards, under the pull of these people, they did not hesitate to go to the ground.

In Zhou Liang's view, the Qin State may not be able to last long, the current Qin State, the military and political leaders seem to be a harmonious group, but in fact, they have been divided into two families, the general Lu Chao holds the most elite army of the Qin State, but he is separated from the court, and the court is trying to encircle him. But he had to swallow his anger, this situation, in Zhou Liang's view, was a sign of the country's demise. In that case, why don't you plan for your future?

Accumulating wealth and creating a happy old age for himself has become Zhou Liang's dream now.

The current Shu County is very chaotic. But Zhou Liang didn't care, if it wasn't chaotic, but if the government was clear. Where do you get your own money? Over the past year or so, the money he got from stationing in Shu County was something he couldn't have imagined in the first half of his life, and sometimes he was a little afraid when he thought about it. However, every time I was a little frightened, I thought of the local officials who made more money than myself and the gentry who colluded with the officials, and I felt at ease again.

In this world, who knows what will happen tomorrow, or it is more practical to hold the money in his arms first, as a former Yan person, Zhou Yu has a greater sense of insecurity than others.

Of course, he got a lot of money, and he couldn't lose the army he carried, if he wanted these people to follow him with all his heart, he needed to feed them, at this point, Zhou Liang was still very angry, and the result was that this army that was once disciplined under Meng Tian has now fallen into a force that lives for money.

In fact, it is also natural to say that the soldiers of the Qin army are basically from the lowest level of the people, and their main goal in entering the army is to change the fate of themselves and their families through military exploits, make a fortune, and seal their wives and children is the only goal. And to achieve this goal, there may only be a few lucky people in a hundred people, but now it is different, following Zhou Liang to Shu County, there will be a reward of silver every three or five months, a reward of silver, often can withstand their salary for a year, to Shu County for more than a year, the soldier did not carry a hundred and eighty taels of silver in his arms. This also made them desperate for Zhou Liang. Promotions are exchanged for their lives, but now, without any risk, you can make a fortune with the general, who doesn't want to do it?

The long queue marched on the avenue, everyone's mood was very relaxed, very happy, looking at the dozens of carriages, each soldier was excitedly discussing how much reward would be issued this time, although due to the inertia of the previous years of strict training, their ranks still walked neatly, but the kind of murderous atmosphere that an army should have, is gone.

On the avenue ahead, several horses galloped wildly, and the crisp sound of horses' hooves made more than a dozen Qin army rangers walking at the forefront of the army suddenly nervous, raised the spears in their hands, and lined up in a triangular formation to meet them, while the other horse met them alone, shouting loudly: "Who is ahead, dismount and be checked." ”

In the neighing sound of several horses in front of them, people stood up, and several knights actually showed extremely strong riding skills, and as soon as the front hooves of the war horses landed, several people had already turned over and dismounted.

"Is it General Zhou Liang in front?" is the first person, and he is not an ordinary person at first glance, but he is sweating at the moment, his face is black and white, and his clothes are wet with sweat and clinging to his body.

"Who are you?" The soldier did not let his guard down and asked.

The person who came took out a sign from his arms and said loudly: "I am Huang Bo, the person in charge of the Black Ice Observatory in Ziyang, and I have urgent business to see General Zhou Liang." ”

The cavalry was taken aback, turned over and dismounted, checked the opponent's waist card, did not dare to slack off, and rushed to the rear to report to Zhou Liang.

"What's going on?" After a while, Zhou Liang looked at Huang Bo standing in front of him, and saw the embarrassment of the other party, and felt a faint feeling of uneasiness in his heart.

"General Zhou, He Yong, the leader of the bandits in Cang'er Mountain, broke through the blockade, conquered the Lengshuigou military village, and then disguised himself as a soldier of our army, and drove straight into Ziyang County, and now the county seat has been lost. After I found out that something was wrong, I escaped immediately, but I am afraid that now Ziyang County has fallen into the hands of bandits. Huang Bo said eagerly.

There was a buzzing sound, like a stick directly hitting his braincase, Zhou Liang only felt that his head was buzzing, the bandits of Cang'er Mountain, who had been besieged for more than a year, were not only not trapped to death, but returned to their souls, and this time it was not like the previous year's simple killing and robbing, but directly conquering the county seat with a goal.

If they lose the county seat, if they still kill the court officials, then it will be a big problem. Thinking of this, Zhou Liang couldn't help but feel a cold swishing on his back, if he was strictly investigated, this would be his dereliction of duty, according to the military discipline of the Qin army, he was going to lose his head, although now the Qin army is not as meticulous in implementing military discipline as before, but Zhou Liang believes that he is sitting in this position I don't know how many people are staring at it, not to mention that he is not from Qin, but also a thorn in the eye of some people, a thorn in the flesh, with this excuse, if you want to take yourself, even if you have the old boss Zhou Yu as a guarantor, I am afraid that I will not be able to keep myself. What's more, because of Lu Chao's matter, the court now doesn't trust Zhou Yu as much as before, and in his correspondence with his old boss, the old boss implicitly mentioned this problem, telling himself to be good and not to leave others behind.

Even if he doesn't kill himself, but depriving himself of his current position, it is also a fatal blow to his plan, without power, how can he keep the wealth he has accumulated over the past year, and he himself has seen the ruthlessness of those magistrates and local gentry for more than a year.

"Leave five hundred people to guard the logistics materials, and the rest of the people, forcibly march, immediately rushed to Ziyang County." Zhou Liang did not hesitate to give an order, no matter what, he had to take back Ziyang County first, as long as he recaptured the county seat, this responsibility would immediately go down to more than half.

The Qin army was divided into two parts, one was left to guard the supplies, which was actually the harvest they had from going out this time, and the other 1,500 people spread their legs and ran all the way to Ziyang County.

When it was dark, the Qin army appeared out of breath outside Ziyang County, such a forced march was not a light burden for any army, if it was facing a regular army, Zhou Liang would definitely not do so, but when it was just a county of bandits in front of him, Zhou Liang was not worried about anything. Le Ma was outside Lixu, looking at Ziyang County in the distance, which was lying in the field of vision, quietly without a trace of movement.

A few scouts went as fast as they came, and so did they return.

"General, the city gate is open, and no trace of bandits has been found."

Listening to the scout's words, Zhou Liang's frowning brows finally relaxed, after all, it was a bandit, or the one who robbed and left, if they were a little bigger, guarding Ziyang County here, they were afraid that they would be in big trouble, because they went out this time, but they didn't bring any siege weapons.

"Come on, bring a sentry and enter the city." Although he had already put his mind at ease, Zhou Liang still cautiously sent out the outpost troops.

There were indeed no bandits in the city, and the outpost troops entered the city without the slightest resistance, and arrested a few people in the city to inquire, and they all confirmed that the bandit team had left Ziyang County in the afternoon.

Zhou Liang stepped on the city wall of Ziyang County, looking at the heads of Guo Qing and a group of county government officials hanging above the city gate building, his brows furrowed, this scene made him extremely uncomfortable, speaking of which Guo Qing is also his old acquaintance, and he gave himself the most silver, but now he is separated, and his huge family wealth has become the spoils of bandits in a blink of an eye. (To be continued......)