"You are ......" Seeing the general who climbed up from the hanging basket, Hu Cai frowned, he had some impression of this person, he was a general next to Li Le, and he still had a family background in Pingyang.

"The last general Guo Yang, General Hu, we have seen it." Laijiang gasped and said hoarsely.

"Why are you here?" Hu Cai frowned.

"General, half a month ago, a group of people suddenly came, saying that the city of Xiangling was broken, and they came to defect, and the other party also played the banner of the general." That Guo Yang bowed and said.

"So you opened the door?" Hu Cai frowned.

"No, the general suspected fraud, so he only taught them to wait outside the city, and sent people to come here to investigate, but for a few days, the scout sentry sent out was not heard from, during which the Hanoi army also came once, and killed the other party in all directions, my general saw that the Hedong army had arrived, so he believed those people, and after those people regathered under the city gate, they opened the city gate, who thought that those people were Chen Mo's subordinate generals, as soon as the city gate was opened, they were killed, and Hedong County outside the city also took advantage of the situation to pour in, setting fire everywhere, the general was defeated, and had to lead the crowd to break through, The Hedong army did not pursue, but began to take over the city and drive away the people in the city. ”

Guo Yang finished speaking in one breath, looked at Hu Cai, whose face was uncertain, and said carefully: "Can the general send some food to the soldiers in the city first?" ”

Hu Cai glanced at him, obviously the other party had no intention of letting his subordinates enter the city, and snorted coldly with disdain in his heart, but he was also relieved a lot.

"No wonder Chen Mo is not in a hurry to attack the city these days, from afar, those homeless people are just to hide people's eyes and ears, and it seems that they are coming to attack Xiangling, but in fact, they are pointing at Pingyang, what a cunning thief!" Hu Cai summoned the generals and said: "Seeing that spring ploughing is coming, the people in the city are already dissatisfied, and now since Chen Mo is not here, immediately send someone to disperse those displaced people and let the people resume farming!" ”

Chen Mo didn't have many soldiers and horses, and now he has captured Pingyang, if he wants to hold Pingyang, he needs to divide his troops to garrison, and the remaining soldiers and horses can't make any waves, if they don't come, if the other party dares to come, Hu Cai must take the opportunity to teach this boy who doesn't know the height of the sky.

"Whoa!" One of the generals said yes and turned to give orders.

"Go and bring your people in, first under my command, and wait for Li Le's news, and then it's not too late for you to vote for him." Hu Cai kicked Guo Yang and said.

Although there are not many people under the other party, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is still meat, although the four marshals of Bai Bo are allies, it is not a strange thing to swallow each other, and this team of people and horses came by himself, he didn't rob it.

"General, the Hedong Army is haunted, the general must be careful." Guo Yang hurriedly persuaded.

"I'm not your general, tens of thousands of people were killed by 5,000 people on the other side, and I'm ashamed to be with them!" Hu Cai glanced at Guo Yang disdainfully and said.

Guo Yang was speechless, so he could only run to gather his subordinates into the city.

Xiangling City is built on the mountain, and it is not a simple job to redistribute the recovered population, Hu Cai sent five teams of 1,000 people to inspect the surroundings, and use the beacon fire and wolf smoke as the signal between each other, once Chen Mo's traces are found, they will immediately set off wolf smoke or beacon fire, as for the land occupied by the displaced people, let those clans rob it themselves.

Two days have passed, and there is no trace of Chen Mo, but a lot of Li Le's original subordinates came from all directions, counting, there are also two or three thousand people, Hu Cai has all been recruited, and he is also relieved, this day and night, he was drinking with the generals, and the sound of fighting suddenly sounded outside the house.

"Where did the centaurs come from? What a dare!? Hearing this, Hu Cai hurriedly got up and wanted to gather the guards, but saw Guo Yang leading his troops to kill in, and cut people when he saw them, and in an instant, the original harmonious atmosphere was replaced by blood.

"Guo Yang, you're crazy!" Hu Cai slashed two soldiers who pounced on him in a row, looked at Guo Yang from a distance and roared angrily: "Didn't you betray Li Le?" ”

"The general forgives the sin!" Guo Yang gritted his teeth and said: "My family members are all in Pingyang, General Li Le has been defeated, and we can only help General Right to seize the city!" ”

Chen Mo did only have 5,000 soldiers and horses, and it was indeed difficult to send troops to recruit the remaining three counties after he barely captured Pingyang, but Chen Mo had no soldiers, but Pingyang County had soldiers.

After breaking through Pingyang County, Li Le's tens of thousands of troops Chen Mo could not be killed even if he had the ability, and unlike the thieves who were cleaned up in the past, most of these thieves were locals, and because Li Le and Hu Cai were as strong as the walls, Chen Mo occupied the city, which meant that everyone's families fell into the hands of Chen Mo.

Chen Mo can't send troops to attack Xiangling, but a general like Guo Yang, whose family members are in Pingyang, can, Chen Mo sent several capable generals to Guo Yang, and controlled his family, these soldiers who came with him and these soldiers who came over one after another were all selected by Chen Mo to be concerned, and they were all soldiers and horses in Pingyang, and Hu Cai would not be alert.

In this way, Chen Mo just sent Cui Geng and Zhong Yun to help secretly, and without spending a single soldier, he successfully broke into Hu Cai's interior, and when most of Hu Cai's troops were sent to drive away the displaced people, these people suddenly attacked, and Hu Cai was naturally captured.

Hu Cai saw that the scene was becoming more and more chaotic, and took his guards to fight all the way, and when he went out through the back door, the entire Xiangling was completely chaotic, and there were sounds of fighting everywhere, and it was difficult to distinguish whether it was an enemy or a friend.

Hu Cai could only ignore it, and led his men and horses all the way out of the city and went straight to Yang County.

The battle in Xiangling lasted for two days, and after dawn the next day, after finding that Hu Cai had run away, many of the troops also ran to Yang County, and many thieves also ran with him, and Guo Yang had a list in his hand, which was secretly given to him by Chen Mo, most of the people on the list were famous gentry in Xiangling, and Hu Cai had a good relationship, these people, as long as they were still there, were the target of killing, which was also the reason why this fight lasted for two days, Guo Yang had already killed in the end. If Chen Mo hadn't led the army to stop Guo Yang, I'm afraid that the people of Xiangling would have suffered.

"My lord, there are a lot of soldiers and horses in the two counties, and more of the Xiangling clan have been killed and those who have fled later, and the population is less than half of what it was before." In the Xiangling Bureau, several accompanying officials sorted out the household registration and account books that could be found in Xiangling, and at the same time began to sort out the fields and properties in Xiangling today, which ones have no owners and which owners are still there.

There are also the gentry who stayed, a group died, a group left, but there were not many left, and they were respectful to Chen Mo, not only because they secretly funded the white wave thieves in the past, and even directly participated in them, but more importantly, this is obviously a powerful lord, in January, he quietly drove Hu Cai and Li Le away, although he did not directly kill the gentry, but after this battle, the gentry of the two counties were only two or three out of ten.

It is impossible to imagine that it is impossible to take the opportunity to annex land before, these lands have been used by Chen Mo to resettle the displaced people and rob them with Chen Mo, they still have the courage before, but now, Hu Cai and Li Le have been defeated one after another, and the gentry who followed the two of them did not have the courage to continue to play with Chen Mo, and now they want to protect themselves.

Chen Mo used Zhong Yun and Cui Geng to settle the displaced people in Pingyang and Xiangling counties respectively, and he personally went to appease these gentry and set up a banquet to entertain them.

"Now the white wave thieves have been driven to Yang County, and now you are still there, and the white wave thieves should not have much to do with it, silent and careless, and the customs of the two counties are not too understanding, now the first two counties, this future governance of the place, you still need to contribute, I don't want the white wave thieves to come back, and I don't want the enemy to lead the army to crusade one day is you, the past, if you are willing, today will be written off, but in the future there will be bad debts, it will not be so easily erased, I hope you understand!" In the Xiangling Bureau, Chen Mo held the wine, looked at the clan leaders of the two counties and said with a smile: "Mo doesn't want to have any clan thieves under his rule, I hope you don't make it difficult for Mo." ”

Now that Chen Mo's soldiers have won two cities without blood, they have even forced away and killed most of the clan gentry, and the rest of these people have already been frightened by Chen Mo, at this moment, Chen Mo said such words, how dare not, nodded again and again, eager to be directly loyal.

Chen Mo just smiled at this, a night banquet, at least on the surface, it was happy, the guests and hosts were happy, as for whether there was anyone resentful in private, Chen Mo didn't care, there was himself, he believed that these people couldn't make any waves.

"Lord, when will you send troops next?" Three days later, Cui Geng found Chen Mo, who was reading the official documents, and bowed down.

"No troops for the time being." Chen Mo shook his head and said, "At present, the main focus is to stabilize the two counties. ”

"This ......" Cui Geng was a little puzzled.

"If you send troops at this moment, then Li Le, Hu Cai, and Yang Feng will inevitably share the same hatred for the enemy, the two counties have not yet stabilized, and we can't take out too many soldiers and horses to fight with them now, slow down, one to stabilize the hearts of the people in the two counties, and the other is that without me, a Yang County can not support three Bai Boshuai."

Cui Geng nodded when he heard this, in this way, Yang Feng and the others might have civil strife.

"Spring ploughing has arrived, it is the busy time for farming, many scouts are sent to supervise Yang County, don't miss farming because of the war, I don't want to rule the people to be hungry this year." Chen Mo got up and smiled.

"But the lord's marriage ......," Cui Geng hesitated and persuaded.

"The business is important, I have written to my teacher, on the day of the wedding, I will decide after I go back, for now, I will mainly subdue the four counties, and other things can be postponed!" Chen Mo waved his hand.

"Whoa!" Cui Geng nodded, saluted Chen Mo, and turned to leave.

Chen Mo walked to the map, visualized the location and terrain of Yang County on the map, stretched out his hand to compare, ordered the officials to make marks, and set up checkpoints in several places, giving the enemy the feeling that he was not ready to attack again, but was ready to switch from attack to defense.

As for whether Yang Feng and the others will fall for the scheme...... Chen Mo didn't think about it, how powerful the Kwantung princes were in crusading against Dong Zhuo at the beginning, they didn't calculate each other, sometimes, there were too many people in charge, but they couldn't do anything, before the four of them had their own territories, and they could be safe and sound, but now they are crowded together, but it is easier to fight in the nest.

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