However, this can only be done on the premise that Hanhai City will not suffer from military disasters.

Moreover, this good hope soon faced extreme danger.

On the fifth day after Jieyuan left, a group of scouts hurriedly entered Hanhai City.

They found Lihua, who was inspecting the people in Hanhai City.

One of the scout commanders immediately said to Zhu Lihua:

"Junhou, five thousand rebels have been found thirty miles southeast of the city, and they are killing in the direction of Hanhai."

When he heard the news, he immediately waved his hand, signaling the scout not to report here, for fear that the people around him would listen to it and cause unnecessary panic.

He then led the scout back to the palace, where he asked the scout to tell him more about the rebels outside the city.

According to the scouts, the 5,000 rebels came from the direction of Fentong, as if they did not know that Hanhai City had been captured by the Wooden Snake Army of Lihua, so they swaggered and slowly marched in the direction of Hanhai City.

According to the situation reported by the scout, Zhu Lihua pondered carefully.

He felt that most of the rebels had fled from Hanhai, and they wanted to reoccupy Hanhai Mansion City with the rebels of Fengtong.

Because he knew that this was already an empty city, he would swagger and come to Hanhai without fear.

If that's the case, maybe that's not a bad thing.

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Zhu Lihua's face.

Subsequently, Lihua ordered 3,000 troops, leaving only 400 people in Hanhai City.

These 400 men were just an example for the people of the city, so that they would not think that they were going to abandon the city.

Three thousand men and horses hurried out of the city and marched rapidly to the southeast, and under the scouts' probing, the army stopped at a distance of ten miles from the rebels.

With the order of Zhu Lihua, the soldiers and horses of the whole army entered the woods on both sides of the official road.

This kind of ambush operation, the Mu Hedgehog Army has already been familiar with Qingshui and Qingyang.

And the 5,000 rebels were not well-trained troops like the Rong army in Qingshui and Qingyang. They didn't know that the Qin army was stationed in Hanhai City, and they thought that this time they were just going to occupy an empty city. So they didn't send scouts at all to check on the situation in Hanhai in advance.

In this way, after the army of Lihua waited in the woods for a full hour, this rebel army appeared in the eyes of the Mu Qi army.

"This is the army?"

Looking at the rebels in front of him who were wearing rags and rags and listlessly wielding all kinds of weapons, Wei Yuanqi beside Li Hua couldn't help muttering to himself.

In the eyes of Zhu Lihua, Gao Yunce, Liang Qingshu, and Wei Yuanqi are no longer the three weak officials who were with him when they were in the General Mansion.

Over the past year or so, even Jieyuan has praised the growth of the three of them, and bluntly said that the three of them will be able to take charge of themselves in time.

In terms of personal ability, the three of them would not be much lower than those captains under Zhao Zhihai.

Gao Yun is strategic, thoughtful, and has a wide vision, so he handed over all the logistics of the whole army to him to take care of. And judging from the results, Gao Yunce not only did a good job, but also brought unexpected gains.

The crops that are about to ripen outside Hanhai City were the suggestions made by Gao Yunce at the beginning, and he personally led the people of Hanhai to implement them.

Liang Qingyun was calm and decisive, although he did not often lead troops, he was very proficient in Qin law, and the punishment and killing of the whole army were all in an orderly manner under Liang Qingyun's management.

Therefore, he handed over a team of 100 people to him and ordered him to lead this team of 100 people to supervise military discipline in peace time and supervise the three armies in wartime.

And he lived up to the trust, after killing the deserted soldiers in battle several times and severely punishing the soldiers who violated discipline, the whole army was extremely in awe of this black and thin young man.

Among the three, only Wei Yuanqi is often the leader of the troops, he is the same as An Moran, he is extremely talented in marching and fighting, in addition to often giving advice to the military affairs of Zhu Lihua, the two have also marched alone many times in Hulin and Yuantai in Lingzhou, ambushing and killing the soldiers of the Rong army.

When he heard what Wei Yuanqi said, he asked him with a smile: "Yuanqi thinks that it will take to defeat these rebels." ”

Wei Yuanqi, who looked disdainful, smiled:

"But the marquis thinks highly of them, and only five hundred soldiers under my command can defeat them in an hour.

The marquis sent 3,000 men, which was a bit of a fuss. ”

"Hahaha." Hearing this, Lihua laughed.

"What's so hard it is if you just want to defeat them."

Wei Yuanqi was stunned when he heard this, he looked at Zhu Lihua, who was still smiling, and said, "Does the military marquis want to annihilate them?" ”

Zhu Lihua shook his head slightly, and said to Wei Yuanqi and An Moran, Li Ji and others behind him:

"In today's battle, we should take the capture of the enemy as the priority, and we will not kill them if we can, but as soon as the battle begins, we should let them understand with the momentum of thunder that our wooden deer army is not the local soldiers and horses they have disarmed and defeated.

It is a powerful army in the world that has defeated the Rong people. ”

After saying that, he nodded and looked at everyone, and everyone immediately understood what Yu Lihua meant, so they responded in unison and turned around and left, returning to their own army.

In less than a moment, the rebel army was outside the woods where the army of Lihua was ambushing.

……

Niu Yong was originally a butcher in Hanhai City, and he slaughtered dogs and braised meat every day.

Although he was a butcher, he was a simple man, and the price of the meat he sold was very reasonable, so that most of the people who bought meat in the city came only to him.

But Niu Yong also has his own troubles, some of the children and servants of the aristocratic and wealthy families in Hanhai City often come to his shop to eat and drink for nothing, originally Niu Yong did not dare to say much in line with the idea of calming the people, although the practice of these noble children and slaves still caused a lot of burden to him.

When it was rumored in the market that the Rong people had broken through the border and marched eastward, Niu Yong felt that this matter had little to do with him, and he often comforted the neighbors who came to buy meat and were worried.

But in the following days, Niu Yong also found that the soldiers and horses in Hanhai City had left several batches, and then he really believed that the Rong people were probably not far from him.

And according to rumors, those cannibal Rong people have arrived in Shuofang, and the war against the Rong people is also quite unfavorable, and even the nobles in the city are thinking about fleeing south.

Niu Yong's family has only one blind old mother, which is the person Niu Yong cares about the most in his life.

Because he was only a butcher, no family dared to marry his girl to himself who was engaged in menial work.

Therefore, Niu Yong has relied on his mother for his life over the years.

On this day, Niu Yong was about to sell the meat, so he took his mother to the countryside to hide from the war.

Last night, a well-meaning neighbor told him that the Rong people had really entered Shuofang and occupied the nearby county town of Jilin.

But on the second day, Hanhai City no longer allowed the people to flee, because the county lieutenant Li Mi decided to defend against the attack of the Rong army in Hanhai.

In this way, Niu Yong was requisitioned again and became the man who guarded Hanhai City, and in the following three or four months, he fought fiercely with 8,000 defenders and nearly 10,000 people who were requisitioned like him.

Although he didn't understand why there wasn't even a single Rong in the Rong army, he knew that the enemy soldiers with a large banner with a burning plate could really kill.

In more than three months, only 2,000 of the 8,000 defenders remained, and there were only a few of the 10,000 people left.

Originally, this was supposed to be a celebration for the whole city, but because every family died in this siege battle, every household hung up a white banner to summon spirits.

And Niu Yong also went to the neighbor's house every day to help cook and entertain the guests who came to mourn.

One day, just as Niu Yong was about to go to the neighbor's house, several aristocratic servants who often came to their house to eat dog meat for nothing came to their home, and asked Niu Yong to hand over a bucket of grain as soon as they entered the door, saying that in order to resist the eastward invasion of the Rong people, the nobleman opened his granary and distributed it to the soldiers defending the city.

Although Niu Yong was still a little angry when he heard this, he thought that these nobles did not do this kind of oppressive and good thing on weekdays, and then looked at the weapons in the hands of these dogs who begged for food, so he sighed and obediently handed over a bucket of grain to them.

At the neighbor's place, Niu Yong heard that almost every household had handed over food, and those small curses kept echoing in his ears.

On the second day, another noble servant came to his house.

Day 3

Day 4.....

When the grain tank in Niu Yong's house had bottomed out, Niu Yong's mother finally knew that there was not much food left in her family, because Niu Yong's voice that begged those servants to be lowered at all times still reached his mother's ears yesterday.

Last night, Niu Yong's mother sneaked to the jar containing the grain and put her hand into the empty vat.

The door of Feng's house was kicked open again, and another group of people broke into Niu's house with sticks, knives and guns.

Niu Yong naturally had no food to pay, so he begged those who broke in.

There was only one liter of corn left in the house, and that was the last bit of food for the family.

Originally, Niu Yong thought that when he went out to help others cook today, he would always ask for a little food to come back.

But before he could go out, he met a noble servant who had come to beg for food.

But those people did not have the slightest pity for Niu Yong, they entered Niu Yong's house, turned it inside and out, and finally found a liter of corn in the arms of the blind old woman in the arms of Niu Yong's mother.

These people were about to snatch the grain from the old woman's arms, but the old woman was so strong that she clung to the bag containing the grain and did not let go of her hand.

The leader of the gang was so angry that he struck the blind old woman on the head.

Niu Yong, who was still kneeling on the ground outside the house and begging bitterly, heard a muffled sound in the house, and knew that something was wrong, he got up and stumbled into the house, but saw his mother holding a cloth bag in her arms and lying on the ground.

Blood was still gushing from the large hole in my mother's head that had been smashed by a wooden stick, staining the cloth bag red and sprinkling grain from the cloth bag.

Niu Yong was stunned, this liter of grain he originally hid in his own pot, he thought that after he went out, his mother would be able to touch the grain to make a fire.

Who knows, but the mother who killed him died.

He stared blankly at his mother's body on the ground, even forgetting that the killers had left his home.