Thinking of this, Huang Yunhe arched his hand to Niu Yong and said: "Brother Niu, I was unhappy with Brother Niu in Hanhai City in the past, blame me for just wanting the villagers to take refuge in Jilin, not to seize Brother Niu's territory, and ask Brother Niu for forgiveness." ”

After listening to Huang Yunhe's words, Niu Yong was stunned, obviously he didn't expect Huang Yunhe to mention this.

But he understood what Huang Yunhe meant when he thought about it, it turned out that Huang Yunhe attacked him because he wanted to take the people to Jilin for refuge, and he was afraid that he would hinder him, so he came to attack.

This made Niu Yong a little crying and laughing, he had never thought of hindering Huang Yunhe or the villagers from escaping to Ji Lin in Hanhai at all.

However, Niu Yong didn't explain, he just smiled and shook his head and said:

"Brother Huang, if you hadn't brought someone to save me, I'm afraid that on the day of Hanhai's incident, I would have been a ghost under the sword of the official army.

Now I am the 500 lord of the Qin army, and I am the commander of the guards under the command of Lord Lihua.

Today, Captain Yuli asked me to come and persuade the eldest brother to know that he was lost, and that the Qin army would ensure that the lives of the eldest brother Huang and the villagers were safe. ”

"What? Are you already five hundred lords? ”

Huang Yunhe looked at Niu Yong in surprise and said, seeing him nodding, he knew that he would not die today, so he quickly knelt on one knee and said:

"The criminal Huang Yunhe and the 4,000 men and horses have demoted the captain of the village today, and I also ask Brother Niu, oh no, Lord Niu can say a few kind words in front of the captain of the village for the sake of his fellow villagers, and save us from the capital crime of treason."

After saying that, the rebels behind him lowered their weapons one after another and fell to the ground.

What Fang Cai Huang and Niu said, everyone listened to it clearly, knowing that they would not die, and they would be stupid to fight with the officials and soldiers.

Niu Yong saw that Huang Yunhe had descended, so he hurriedly stepped forward, helped Huang Yunhe up, and at the same time said loudly to the rebels who were still crawling on the ground:

"Fellow villagers, Captain Yuli has a saying, you and others are also forced to be oppressed and have to be thieves, from now on, Lord Yuli will not be blamed in the past.

Now that Hanhai has cultivated tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, if you are willing to return to Hanhai to farm, the officials and soldiers will lease you land and will not pay grain for five years.

Or if you are willing to raise horses for the official army, the horses will live for one out of ten, and you can also exchange the horses for cattle and sheep, which will always be private property.

or join the official army, the adults are all welcome. ”

After that, Niu Yong looked at Huang Yunhe, who was excited, and nodded slightly, but saw Huang Yunhe suddenly hug himself and cried.

Huang Yunhe's hug and crying really scared Niu Yong who was talking, he looked at Huang Yunhe's side who was also wiping tears from a leader he once knew, and saw him say to Niu Yong:

"Leader Niu, oh, Lord Niu, don't you know Brother Huang's bitterness, he came to Ji Lin City, just to ask for food from the Rong army, Brother Huang suffered a lot of grievances.

The Rong people have a life to distribute the land around Ji Lin to the people, but they don't give us outsiders an inch at all.

Since the official army came to Jilin, the Rong army has let us go out of the city to fight these days, and after being rejected by Brother Huang, he didn't give us a grain of food, and the villagers have been hungry for several days. ”

Speaking of this, this person couldn't bear the grievances and cried.

Niu Yong patted Huang Yunhe's shoulder vigorously, pulled him to turn around and walk in the direction of the county office.

"Brother Huang, I'll take you to see Lord Li. Your Excellency will make decisions for you.

I don't have anything else here, but I can still do it with a full meal. ”

In the Yanei of Jilin County, not long after Lihua sent Niu Yong to recruit the rebels in Nancheng, a letter from Xijing also arrived in front of Lihua's case.

On February 13, 140,000 Rong soldiers crossed Qingshui and headed south in three ways, and on February 18, Rong Ren Shan Yu Xiao Jinxing personally led an army of 80,000 to besiege Yuanzhou City.

The remaining two groups of men and horses each divided 30,000 troops, all the way from the east to capture Chaona on February 20, all the way to Wushi, and were engaged in a fierce battle with the Wushi Qin army.

......”

Lihua looked at the letter in his hand in disbelief.

He couldn't be more familiar with the handwriting on the letter, and in the past ten years, he has watched this handwriting gradually grow.

Although there was no signature on the letter, Zhu Lihua naturally understood that this was a helpless move by Jieyuan's central minister.

In order to protect himself and protect Lihua, the letter sent by Jieyuan to Lihua will never be signed and printed.

But for Zhu Lihua, it makes no difference whether it is signed or not.

He looked at the letter and wrote the date of March 18, that is, it was a full month after hundreds of thousands of Rong troops went south to Yuanzhou before Xijing got the news.

It seems that the Rong army has made sufficient preparations for going south this time, and even the Iron Eagle swordsman, who has always been mysterious, did not have time to report to Xijing as soon as possible, and the information that Xijing could be reached in more than ten days was delayed for a month.

Zhu Lihua frowned tightly, he knew in his heart that it seemed that there was no hope for Yuanzhou.

He didn't understand that when everyone knew that the Rong people were going to concentrate their forces from Wonju to the south more than half a year ago, why did the center still divide troops to defend Wonju City, which could not be defended at all.

In this way, the army of 50,000 or 60,000 under Wang Min may be more than lucky.

After the destruction of Yuanzhou City, judging from the strategies used by the Rong people in the past, his family was even more unlucky.

But at this time, he was thousands of miles away from Yuanzhou, and he could only pray that Wang Min could hold Yuanzhou, although he didn't even believe it.

In a state of confusion, even the story in this letter that Xuchang City was broken, and Yongluan and Yongyun prayed that 30,000 troops entered Xuchang and slaughtered the city again.

It wasn't until Niu Yong led Huang Yunhe into the county government that Lihua recovered a little from his irritability.

Hearing that Huang Yunhe was willing to lead his subordinates to join the Qin army, Yu Lihua pretended to be happy and encouraged Huang Yunhe, and ordered Wei Yuanqi to lead the army to garrison Jilin.

And he took Wei Mu and his party back to Hanhai City.

In addition to the purpose of eliminating the Rong people who were lying on the bed and training new soldiers, there was also an extremely important reason for the reason why Lihua wanted to capture Ji Lin, which was to prepare for the eastward advance of the Rong army in the future.

The five counties of Shuofang, except for Hanhai and Jilin, which are located on the east side of Shuofang, are separated by more than 200 miles, and the remaining three counties are all on the west side of Shuofang, and the distance between Jilin and Yancheng alone is more than 400 miles, not to mention Yongning and Acropolis in the distance.

Except for some oases on both sides of the Yellow Water Crossing, the rest of the place is a vast sea of sand, so once the Rong people advance eastward, there is only one way to go.

If you capture Ji Lin, you will be able to gain a strategic depth of 400 miles, whether it is to detect the movements of the Rong people, to deploy troops in advance to prepare for defense, or to set up an ambush on the way of 400 miles.

Therefore, Lihua did not hesitate to transfer Hanhai, Pucheng, and Fengtong soldiers and horses, and also wanted to ensure that Ji Lin's troops were sufficient.

In addition to placing 10,000 soldiers and horses in Jilin, he also made a bold decision to let the newly surrendered 4,000 rebels and 3,000 Rong troops also stay in Jilin, and at the same time, he explicitly ordered that the land obtained by the people of Jilin would not be recovered, and also maintained the method of 30 taxes and one day that the Rong people promised them, so as to stabilize the morale of the army and the people.

Although it is not very safe to do this, it seems that as long as there is enough time, some details can be slowly improved.

At the very least, 17,800 people guarding Jilin City is the best thing to do at the moment.

As for the land matter, as long as he doesn't say it, Xijing is unlikely to interfere in the details of the side branches of these border places, after all, the people don't tell and the officials don't correct, and the nobles of Ji Lin have already died and fled, and no one dares to come back to find death.

Moreover, even if they returned, most of the property of these Shuofang nobles was some woolen cattle, sheep and horses, which had already been eaten and used by the rebels and the Rong people, and had not been distributed to the people, so Zhu Lihua would not have a headache about this matter.

Moreover, Lu Lihua also has great trust in Wei Yuanqi's ability.

After making all the arrangements, Zhu Lihua wrote a letter to Jieyuan, asking Jieyuan to send himself to lead the soldiers and horses of his headquarters back to Yuanzhou.

Watching the soldier who delivered the letter ride away, Zhu Lihua felt sad for a while, he knew that this matter would not be allowed, but if he didn't fight for it, it would be extremely uneasy.

After Ji Lin's incident, Zhu Lihua returned to Hanhai, because after he had great psychological fluctuations about the siege of Yuanzhou, he suddenly realized an extremely important matter.

That is Yongluan and Yongyunqi occupied Xuchang, and Xuchang was connected to his sphere of influence, Quwo and Baishui, so in order to ensure that the two places were safe, he had to go to Xuchang and meet the bigger people.

This is also Jie Yuan's suggestion to Zhu Lihua.

When Lihua led Wei Mu and other 100 men and horses to the city of Xuchang, it was already April 10, and it had been about a month since Xuchang was captured.

Because he was fighting in Jilin City, although he knew about the capture of Xuchang by the Yongjia army earlier than Jieyuan, he didn't pay too much attention to it.

And out of instinctive rejection of Yongyunqi and Wen Zhaoyuan, he also tried his best to avoid intersecting with the Yong family's army.

But under Jieyuan's analysis, Zhu Lihua immediately understood that the impact of Yongluan's occupation of Xuchang on himself would be very huge.

The place he occupied was originally Fang Yuanheng's territory, and Quwo was still the Fang family's mansion, and now Yuan Heng was dead, and the place he occupied was the power vacuum of Great Qin.

Then, his attitude will be directly related to the strength of Zhao, Fang, and Yong, so it seems that it is very necessary to go to Xuchang.

On the way to Xuchang, Zhu Lihua planned all the possible outcomes in detail, and constantly deduced the various possible endings, but no matter what he did, he would become very passive.

Out of instinct, Lu Lihua naturally hopes to be able to serve under Zhao Zhihai, not to mention that the general has the grace of knowing him, and he has indeed sworn allegiance to Zhao Zhihai, just by virtue of the relationship between Zhao Zhihai and Jieyuan, Lu Lihua will naturally not go to please the two families again.

If Fang Yuanheng was still alive, then it was very likely that Lihua would return these places to Fang Yuanheng, in addition to the fact that these places were the foundation of the Fang family, and that Fang Yuanheng had made countless military exploits against Great Qin, which would make Lihua willingly give the land with both hands.

As for Yongluan, except for the surname Yong, Zhu Lihua didn't know much about this person, and what Yongyunqi did in Xiao Guan made him even hostile to Yongluan in his heart.

I don't know why, when I heard that Lihua was going to Xuchang to see Yongluan, Wei Mu rarely took leave from Lihua, saying that he had a sudden dysentery and did not want to walk with Lihua, but fell behind the hundred-man cavalry.

Although Zhu Lihua also saw the difference, he understood that there must be some disagreement between Wei Mu and the Yong family, so he simply did not demolish him, but just let him and the cavalry be stationed outside the city, and he led Gao Yunce and Liang Qingyun into Xuchang City under the leadership of the Yongjia soldiers.