Lihua, who was far away in Hanhai City, naturally didn't know this, he just keenly thought that after this great victory, he was afraid that Yuanzhou would be taken care of by the Rong people.

Lu Lihua thought of his mother again, and he didn't know how his mother and the people in his family would live after the Rong people attacked.

For the first time, she had the urge to leave everything behind and return to Wonju.

"Captain Lili, Gao Yunce and Liang Qingshu have sent a general report, please take a look at it."

Niu Yong's inquiry made Lu Lihua's thoughts return to Hanhai City from the distant Yuanzhou.

Zhu Lihua took the military report from Niu Yong's hand and read it carefully.

At the beginning, Gao Yunce was in charge of the military and political affairs of Pucheng, and Liang Qingshu was in charge of the military and political affairs of Xiantong, and the talents of the two of them have been fully displayed in the past six months, especially in the affairs of civil affairs.

He originally wanted to investigate the situation in Longmen and Liangyuan, but after passing through the two counties, he was taken aback by the prosperity of these two counties.

If it weren't for the occasional traces of burning in the county seat and the empty county government, Wei, and Chengfu, Lihua would have thought that the two counties had not been damaged by the war at all.

Not only have the shops in the two counties resumed their operations, but the land leased to the people outside the city was also neatly organized as if it had been combed by grates.

Even in some lands, green winter wheat has broken through the soil.

It is conceivable that after the winter wheat harvest in the three counties in May next year, the problem of grain shortage, which has always plagued them, will be completely solved.

And this credit is brought about by the efforts of Gao Yunce and Liang Qingyun.

There are 7,000 soldiers under each of the two counties, led by Tang Yuan and Li Ji respectively, and with the efforts of the two, these 14,000 soldiers and horses have become quite combative, and they are no longer the rabble that shouted and shouted with weapons at the beginning, rushed up when they were victorious, and fell thousands of miles when they were defeated.

Although the newly recruited soldiers have not experienced the test of the great war in the past six months, at least in the eyes of Zhu Lihua.

"Gao Qianren and Liang Qianren said that the rebels of Longmen and Liangyuan have gone south to support Quwo and Baishui, and this is indeed a good time."

After reading the military report of the two, Zhu Lihua said to Wei Mu, Wei Yuanqi, An Moran, Liu Jaw and others.

"Captain, what are you waiting for, this is a godsend."

Wei Yuanqi said excitedly.

Zhu Lihua looked at Wei Yuanqi's appearance and shook his head with a smile.

I had never noticed it before when I was in the General Command, this hot-tempered Wei Yuanqi, who was several months older than himself, brought up troops, quite a general, and he was also extremely warlike.

There has been no war in the past half a year, which has made Wei Yuanqi a little suffocated.

Everyone looked at Wei Yuanqi's appearance and laughed one after another.

"Although it is not difficult to capture two counties, what I want is no longer just two county seats."

Lu Lihua said amid the laughter of everyone.

When everyone heard this, they all suddenly stopped laughing and looked at Lihua with some surprise.

"Brother Wei, is there any movement in the direction of Ji Lin?"

"Back to the captain, I have scattered the newly recruited brothers these days to monitor the movements of Ji Lin's enemy, but as before, Ji Lin's more than 10,000 soldiers are only training soldiers and horses every day, and there is no sign of sending troops to the east."

After listening to Wei Mu's speech, Zhu Lihua nodded approvingly to Wei Mu. “

Now the main forces of the Rong people are all in the two states of Yuanling, and they have no intention of going east.

In that case, let me go and destroy the rebels. ”

After saying this, everyone in the room looked at Zhu Lihua in amazement.

"Aren't you going to take the two counties of Longmen, how can you destroy the rebels again, those people have 30,000 or 40,000 horses."

Liu Jaw couldn't believe it, but Zhu Lihua didn't have any shelf, so he said what was in his heart.

"A few days ago, I received a letter from Jie Zi, saying that the number of rebels in Xuchang had reached 30,000 and was ready to attack the Qin army in the south, and the Qin army, which had less than 10,000 people in a hundred miles, would be defeated by the rebels, and Gyeonggi would no longer have any troops to defend against the enemy."

After saying that, everyone was also surprised.

"Even Gyeonggi doesn't have any soldiers and horses?"

"Aren't there still tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Shangdang, Yuanyou, and Binshui?"

"Those tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are to guard against the soldiers and the people of Qi, how can they act rashly."

"There are only 23,000 soldiers in our army, and 20,000 of them are new recruits in the past six months.

"In my opinion, let's occupy Longmen and Liangyuan counties first."

"Occupying two counties is to disperse the troops, and when the time comes, you can't attack but you can't hold the two counties, what's the use of occupying them?"

Seeing the discussion of the people, Zhu Lihua raised his hand, and when everyone was quiet, he said to everyone:

"If the number of rebels in Xuchang is more than 30,000, it means that the rebels have poured out.

Although the rebels in the four counties are powerful, our army is not easy to deal with, and the new army will always be a new army if it does not grow up in the war.

Besides, in this battle, who said that we are going to fight the rebels city by city? ”

Lu Lihua obviously had a strategy in his heart, but when he said this, he looked at everyone with a smile on his face, and then he suddenly said with a straight face:

"An Qianren, order you and Liu Jaw to lead 8,000 brothers to guard Hanhai, and at the same time strengthen the surveillance of Ji Lin, if Ji Lin soldiers come to fight, they will defend the city, and wait for the main force to return to help and then fight a decisive battle, before that, do not go out of the city to fight."

"Brother Wei, order 1,000 of your cavalry to go with me, and the rest of the cavalry will be handed over to An Qianren to help defend Hanhai City."

"Wei Qianren, Brother Wei, come with me to Fengtong and Pucheng."

With that, she got up and smiled at everyone again.

"Whoa!"

……

As the saying goes: "Ruixue is a good year." ”

If this is true, then next year will certainly not be a good year, because the long-awaited snow of the beginning of winter will not fall until the winter months.

Although it was only a little bit, it also caused the temperature to plummet a lot.

In front of a dilapidated courtyard next to the official road outside Longmen County, a group of people in tattered clothes were basking in the sun in some haystacks, snuggling up to each other to keep warm.

The dilapidated house behind them has long since lost its roof, and only four earthen walls stand there alone to tell others that this is a family.

It can be seen that these people basking in the sun are a family of five.

An old woman seemed to have fainted from hunger, lying motionless on the ground.

A strong man and a woman were holding a son and a daughter in their arms, looking into the distance with dull eyes.

No one had walked on the official road in the distance for a long time, because they were facing the road leading to Pucheng, which was rarely walked after the counties were hit by the war disaster more than half a year ago.

"Daddy, what's that?"

In the woman's gaze, some black shadows appeared in the sky, and those black shadows seemed to be moving, getting bigger and bigger.

She asked casually to the man next to her.

"Whatever he is, it's better to have some wolves and eat us all."

As soon as the man finished speaking, the woman beside him burst into tears.

The man looked at the woman in disgust and shouted, "Cry your mother, cry and slap you a few times." ”

As soon as the man had finished scolding, the two children in his arms and the woman began to cry in fright.

The man made a gesture to hit the two children, but the outstretched hand slowly fell.

"You help my mother in a while, and I'll go to the city to ask for some more food."

After a long time, the man began to speak.

At this time, he really wanted to come with some wolves and bite his family to death. It's been a sad day.

Originally, his family, like most of the people in the pavilion, was attached to the noble royal family of the pavilion, ploughing the land for them every day, and could exchange some food, although the days were hard, but everyone was like this, and they couldn't starve themselves to death.

But since the rebels were in trouble, they didn't think that those rebels were even more ruthless than the nobles in the pavilion, they not only killed everyone in the royal family, but also looted the people in the pavilion, leaving them no food at all.

In desperation, he and all the villagers followed the rebels into the county seat, thinking that there would be food in the county.

When the rebels had followed into the city, they joined them in raiding the homes of the people of the city.

Gradually, he discovers that all the people inside and outside the city have become rebels.

Therefore, the grain plundered by the rebels naturally became everyone's food.

Everyone was extremely excited, and the leaders of Longmen County who led them in rebellion also ignored them, and only let them eat and drink well.

In the whole of Longmen County, no one cultivates the land, and no one does what they used to do.

Everyone just wanders the streets every day, and someone cooks their own food and waits for them to eat it while eating.

These fairy-like days did not last long, and after four or five months, everyone found that they were running out of food, because the places where they cooked every day were empty.

At this time, everyone began to panic, only to understand that everyone was eating and drinking for nothing, naturally no one went to farm, and if no one cultivated, where would there be food for eating.

Those leaders also thought of this, but they were the ones who could lead the big guys after all, so naturally their minds had to be more active, so they came up with an idea to live, that is, to go to the rebels in Quwo and Baishui in the south.

Just as everyone was about to follow the leaders south, someone suddenly said that their relatives had just come from Quwo, saying that they were fighting with the officials and soldiers in the south, and that they would definitely die if they went.

So most people are hesitant again.

The bold people followed the leaders, and those who remained were still without food.

The family of five starved in the city for three days, and only came out of the city on the day of the snow and returned to their original home, because they knew that they could still find food outside the city to satisfy their hunger, and if they stayed in the city, they could only wait for death.

In the past few days, they did find something to satisfy their hunger, such as tree bark, but they could not eat enough, even if their stomachs were bulging like mountain bags.

So the family sat in the sun.

"Daddy, wolf, wolf."

The woman beside her made another sound, but the voice was weak and could not be heard clearly.

The man frowned and said, "I'll go to the county in a while, don't make any noise, where do you still have so much energy to speak." ”

As he spoke, the man looked up at his woman, only to see that his woman's eyes were full of fear.

The man also felt that something was wrong, so he turned his head to look at the woman's gaze.

Less than ten paces away in front of him, two white wolves were staring at his family drooling.

"Hehe, the wolf is really coming, it's okay, it's okay, it's all in vain to bite us to death.

It's just that this wolf is really big. ”