In this way, the officials and soldiers of Huayin were immediately frightened, and Ziyi shot the threatening letter into the city with arrows, saying that he had brought 100,000 horses to recover Huayin, and if the city surrendered within two days, the whole city would save his life, and if he was one day late, he would kill half of the people after breaking the city, and he would kill two-thirds of the people two days later, and three days later, and the whole city would be slaughtered. 【Latest chapter reading. 】

Huayin's guards were so frightened that they hurriedly sent people out of the city to ask for help from Tongguan. Ziyi knew that Huayin's official army would definitely ask for help from Tongguan, so he deliberately left Dongcheng unsurrounded, so that the messengers of the official army could reach Tongguan.

As a result, less than a day after the messenger left the city, he ran back, and reported to the defenders breathlessly, saying that Tongguan had been occupied by the Qin army, and the banner of the Qin army was flying on the city.

At this time, the officers and soldiers of Huayin were immediately devastated, they were still counting on someone to help, even if no one came to save them, they could abandon the city and flee to Tongguan, at least they could save their lives, but at this time, they heard that Tongguan had already been lost, and Huayin had become a turtle in the urn, how could they not be surprised.

Where did the soldiers in the city dare to go to the city to resist the enemy, they ignored the general's orders, opened the east gate and fled, and scattered into the mountains. The guards and the county commander had no choice, so they had to take their own guards and escape from the east gate, not daring to run to Tongguan, and fleeing to the south by detour.

The people in the city were led by a few large households, and the city gates were opened to welcome the Qin army into the city.

Ziyi was almost bloodless, so he occupied Huayin.

When the two copies of the winning stamps were sent to Xi'an from Tongguan and Huayin, the king of Qin was a little excited, and he summoned Wang Jian and Zhang Yi to show them the two watches.

After reading it, the two were also very happy. Zhang Yi said: "The peasant army entered the Central Plains, and really took away the main force of the official army, it is not difficult to get these two places, speaking of which, Gao Yingxiang and others can be regarded as helping us." ”

Wang Jian said: "Right now, my Qin army occupies a large area of land in Shaanxi, with a radius of hundreds of miles, and finally has a place where we can display our skills, king, where are we going to fight next?" ”

King Qin looked at Zhang Yi and said, "The next plan needs to be discussed by everyone. And I think that now is not the time to expand our territory, we should first consolidate these places, blindly greedy, even if we take the city, we will not be able to defend it, and in the end it will be nothing. ”

Zhang Yi nodded: "The king is extremely worried. At present, the people of Shaanxi are scarce and the grain is insufficient, so we need to wait for this season's grain harvest before we can take a little breather. And I heard that Bai Qi implemented the new policy in the three counties, and the effect was good, in this case, we can also gradually implement the new policy in Xi'an Huayin and other places. As long as you can win the hearts of the people, you will not be afraid of the officials and soldiers coming again. ”

King Qin said: "It's just that right now, my Qin army has strong martial arts and insufficient cultural governance. The prime minister chose the virtuous among the people, how is this going on? ”

Zhang Yi said: "Back to the king, I have listened to the public opinion widely among the people, and many people have been elected, most of these people are officials of the Ming Dynasty, many of them have returned to their hometowns, and some have resigned because they are dissatisfied with the harsh government of the dynasty. I'm going to select them one by one and get hired for them. ”

King Qin said: "Are these people willing to come?" ”

Zhang Yi frowned: "No one wants to come." I guess that some of them are loyal to the Ming Dynasty and refuse to rebel, even if there are those who are not loyal to the Ming Dynasty, they have no confidence in the Qin army, and they are afraid that if the official army recovers Shaanxi in the future, they will be thieves, so some do not want to come, and some dare not come. ”

King Qin said: "Since this is the case, let's let it go first, my territory is still unstable, and it may be taken away by the official army at any time, so people naturally dare not come." I think this is done, you first record these people in the book, wait for the future selection, for now, first select some capable people in the Qin army, serve as civil officials and county commanders, and implement the new policy. ”

Wang Jian said: "King, Huayin and Tongguan have been captured, should you transfer some people and horses there back to enrich Xi'an?" ”

King Qin glanced at him: "Are you afraid of Ziyi......"

Wang Jian nodded lightly: "When the general left, he talked to me about it. He didn't want to tell the king directly, but he just asked me to tell the king to be more vigilant. ”

King Qin thought for a while: "Huayin small county, naturally there is no need for so many people and horses, you pass on the order to go, transfer back 8,000 people, leave 2,000 people for him, and guard Huayin." As for Tongguan, three thousand cavalry should be enough. ”

Wang Jian arched his hand and said: "The king is decided." ”

This order was sent to Huayin the next day, and after Ziyi received the order, he did not hesitate to immediately send 8,000 of the 10,000 horses back to Xi'an, including all the Qin troops, and Ziyi only left 2,000 recruited men and horses.

When the messenger returned to Xi'an with 8,000 Qin troops, Ziyi found his two henchmen that night. These two people were personally recruited by him, and Ziyi was very good to them and was very important, so these two people didn't recognize any King Qin at all, and only Ziyi had Ziyi in their eyes.

One of these two people is called Li Congzhou, the other is called Su Dan, Li Congzhou is a martial artist, he used to be a bandit in Huashan, and he made a long-handled gourd hammer in his hand, and picked up the wind whirring, which was very powerful. And Su Dan is a down-and-out person, with some brains, and he likes to read military books, so he almost went to the king of Chuang.

After Ziyi recruited them, he immediately discovered the excellence of the two, so he secretly took care of them, and secretly gave them a lot of things obtained from the war, and took good care of their relatives, these two felt that Ziyi valued them very much, so they followed Ziyi with all their hearts.

Tonight, Ziyi sent away the Qin army, so he invited them to discuss, and after the two sat down, Ziyi opened his mouth and asked: "The king of Qin is not at ease with me, do you see it?" ”

Su Dan sneered: "Naturally, I can see it, otherwise as soon as you take Huayin, he will immediately send someone to transfer troops, for fear that the general will support the troops and be self-respecting, and the tail will not be lost, the meaning of which is self-evident." ”

Li Congzhou said: "Yes, look at that Bai Qi again, King Qin handed over the ground of the three counties to him, let him recruit troops, and never transferred a soldier or a pawn, hum, I trust him." ”

Ziyi said: "You two talk about it, what should I do?" ”

Li Congzhou looked at Su Dan: "This has to be said by Lao Su, I only know how to fight, and I will listen to the general for other things." ”

Su Dan rolled his triangular eyes: "General, didn't you often write to Mr. Fan before?" Tell me about the inside story of Qin Jun, why have there been fewer letters during this period of time? ”

Ziyi said: "There are two reasons, one is to come, to believe a lot, it is inevitable not to show my feet, in case I am taken by the Qin army, do I still have my life?" ”

Li Congzhou nodded: "What about the second reason?" ”

Ziyi smiled slightly: "You follow me, do you want to be an ordinary officer, or do you want to be a big official?" ”

Li Congzhou and Su Dan glanced at each other, and said in unison: "Naturally, I want to be a big official!" ”

Ziyi said: "If you want to be a big official, you can't tell the officials and soldiers everything about the Qin army." ”

Su Dan rolled his eyes: "What does the general mean...... The Qin army cannot be wiped out immediately. ”

Ziyi said: "I am a Qin person, if the Qin army is destroyed, what value do I have?" At that time, the officers and soldiers gave me at most one general soldier. That's not what I wanted. ”

Su Dan suddenly realized: "What the general means is to raise his own respect." ”

Li Congzhou had never read a book, and asked, "What is the self-respect of the sheep's mouth?" Su Dan said: "It is to raise the self-respect, which means that only by letting the enemy live can he be valuable." ”

Li Congzhou nodded repeatedly: "I've heard of such a thing, what is called a bird hiding a bow, a rabbit dead and a dog cooking." ”

Ziyi smiled: "You are right. And when the Qin army is strong, my strength will be greater, and when it comes time to fight for the world, I will surprise everyone. ”

Su Dan said: "But if the Qin army develops too strong, won't the general's chances be smaller?" ”

Ziyi said: "I understand, so the best way is to let the Qin army and the official army lose both, and we will benefit from it." Su Dan said: "But now that the Qin army and the official army have no big battle to fight, how can they lose both?" Ziyi said: "There is no need to worry about this, it won't be long before the Qin army will become a big problem for the official army." At that time, the two sides will fight to the death. ”

Li Congzhou said: "What about the gang of thieves? They have so many men and horses that they can't beat the officers and soldiers? ”

Ziyi smiled contemptuously: "Although there are many thieves, they are all rabble, and they will never be able to defeat the official army." At present, a major war in Henan is inevitable, and taking advantage of this opportunity, the Qin army will recruit troops, and so will we. You send your henchmen to recruit troops in various places, and you have to do it secretly and not too publicly. In this era, if you want to do great things, you have to have your own people. ”

Su Dan said: "What about Mr. Fan?" Do you want to continue to send him letters? ”

Ziyi said: "Naturally, we want to send, right now we are in Huayin, it is convenient to move, but I will not tell him the truth, if the official army learns that the Qin army is developing rapidly, maybe they will return to the division in advance and attack Xi'an, at that time, Huayin must be the first to encounter the enemy, and the people we have worked hard to recruit are not for the Qin army as a shield." ”

Su Dan nodded again and again: "The general is smart, this plan is very good." ”

So that night, Ziyi wrote a secret letter and asked people to take it to Lu Xiangsheng's army and hand it over to Fan Ju. The letter was written about the recent actions of the Qin army, and the capture of Huayin and Tongguan was written, and it was also written that the people of Shaanxi had fled a lot, and the Qin army had recruited troops and bought horses, but the results were not great, and the king of Qin was very worried about this.

Ziyi knew that as soon as this letter arrived, Lu Xiangsheng and Fan Ju would be a little relieved about the matter of the Qin army, and then go all out to deal with the peasant army.

This is the effect he wants to achieve, and at the same time, he sent Li Congzhou and Su Dan to recruit homeless people everywhere, and recruit small groups of bandits to strengthen his own power.

They carried out very secretively, and the people they recruited did not train in the city, but were all placed in relatively secluded villages outside the city, and were not known to outsiders.

In order to prevent the enemy from sneaking attack, Li Kang set up a sentry on the mountain outside the pass, you can see the movement within a radius of dozens of miles, if the enemy comes to sneak attack at night, the sentry can give early warning.

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