On this day, eighty miles south of Lingzhou, outside the South Gate of Fenggu County, three middle-aged men came to the recruiting office.

The three big men looked burly, but they walked outside the camp with some caution, and one of them asked respectfully to the sergeant guarding the camp:

"Dare to ask this military master, this is a place for recruitment?"

The sergeant retracted his flat head and said, "Exactly, who are you?" ”

After the three of them looked at each other, they said as if they had made up their minds: "The three of us are here to join the army." ”

The sergeant was stunned, his face was instantly full of smiles, and he hurriedly said, "Three brothers, come with me." After saying that, he led the three of them into the journey.

These three people, surnamed Lu, are ordinary people in Baimating outside Fenggu County, and have four brothers and an eighty-year-old mother at home.

Before the Rong people came, they worked as workers and farmers for the hereditary nobles of Fenggu County to make a living.

After the Rong people arrived, they beheaded the head of the Hu family, who had been rampant in the countryside on weekdays, and distributed his property and land to the surrounding people, and the four of them lost their livelihood.

However, the four brothers were also given 100 acres of land.

The sudden joy made the four brothers really happy for several days, and every day the four of them would go to the edge of the field they had been assigned to look at the yellow, orange and orange land and smile from ear to ear.

One day, the younger brother of the four brothers looked at the land in front of him and said to the three elder brothers drooling: "Brothers, do you say that when the Qin army comes back, will these lands still be ours?" ”

After the three of them were stunned for a moment, they were silent, and after one night, the four brothers got together again and summed up, leaving the eldest to cultivate the land and support their old mother, and the other three left the property that the Rong people shared with them, and planned to join the army.

According to the list sent by the Rong people, not only can they get money to join the army, but they can also be exempted from the forced service of the eldest brother who stayed behind, and more importantly, they think that as long as the Qin army can't come back, then these lands will always be their own land, so they want to help the Rong people stop the Qin army.

As for life and death, it is not a big deal for the three of them.

Lin Xu is a son of the Shangjia family, although he was born in a cloth family, his family background is quite solid. It is precisely because of this that he was sent by his father to a private school to read and write since he was a child.

Originally, his father just wanted him to be literate so that he could inherit the family business.

But when he was eighteen years old, a noble friend of his father, the slightly chubby county doctor Wei, saw that he was quite good at reading and writing, so he took him to the county government of Luoshui County and asked him to help sort out the civil case and other things.

This time the Rong people attacked Luoshui County, Lin Xu was as nervous as Dr. Wei, and heard that the soldiers of Jinggang, Zichuan, and Ningdao counties who fled from the north said that those Rong people were all cavalry, coming and going like the wind.

Lin Xu knew that Zhao Zhihai had brought 100,000 Qin Lan soldiers to Yuanzhou a few months ago, and there were no more soldiers to fight in the counties, so where could he resist the tens of thousands of cavalry.

He persuaded Dr. Wei to flee to Xiazhong County and let him take over the duties of the county magistrate.

After hesitating for a moment, Dr. Wei finally led his family to follow Lin Xu's father and fled to Xiazhong County.

Lin Xu had already held the will to die, and he and the county commander, who was limited by his duties and could not escape, gathered all the people of the county in the county seat, gathered the people everywhere every day, distributed weapons, and intended to lead the people to resist the Rong army with the help of the city.

When the Rong army stood outside Luoshui County, the people in the city knew what it meant to be terrifying.

So in less than an hour, the county seat was breached.

Surprisingly, the Rong soldiers who attacked the county did not kill the people in the city after killing the few Qin troops and arresting the county order.

Just a few Qin people in the Rong army came forward and called on the people to hand over their weapons, and they could be spared death.

Seeing that although the soldiers in the city were fierce and vicious, they did not seem to have the intention of killing, these people surrendered their weapons one after another.

The soldiers did not embarrass these people, but let them all return to their homes.

On the third day after the city was breached, a strange Qin man came to Lin Xu's house, and he was followed by several officials who were familiar with Lin Xu in the county order and the county governor's mansion.

As soon as they entered the door, they said to themselves that in order to restore Zhengshuo, Great Xia was going to regain the world, and they urgently needed the help of people like themselves.

Lin Xu understood that this was to make him an official of these Rong people to manage Luoshui County, and he refused.

He has studied Zhou Li and Qin Law since he was a child, how could he defect to the enemy?

Now that his father has fled to the south, he no longer has any worries, and it is a good time to die to make his will clear, so Lin Xu scolded the leading Qin people in public for betraying their ancestors for glory, and cut off their robes with these fellow officials who followed him.

But what surprised him was that the Qin people were not angry, and when they saw what he said, they only left a word to bother him in the future, and left with the others.

In the next few days, he did not see the tragic situation caused by the foreign invasion, and the people on the streets walked as usual, the teahouses and restaurants on the street were open as usual, the markets in the southern city were open as usual, and the city gates in all directions were open as usual.

Except that he can no longer see those noble children who look down on him on weekdays, it seems to be the same as before.

On this day, Lin Xu was walking on the street when he suddenly heard the people talking about it, saying that the bullies who had bullied the market in the past and the minions who were attached to the local nobles had been executed one after another.

Looking at their beaming faces, Lin Xu seemed to feel that this day seemed to be changing.

He walked out of the city to see what the soldiers outside the city were doing, and before he knew it, he saw dozens of people gathered around the edge of the field, holding ropes in their hands and constantly measuring the land.

He went up to observe and saw that one of the people who measured the land happened to be one of his own acquaintances, who was his former colleague who had gone to his house the day before yesterday and was scolded by him.

Lin Xu was a little embarrassed and was about to turn around and leave, but he heard the man calling his name in the distance: "Lin Xu, Lin Xu, this way." ”

Lin Xu had no choice but to turn around and walk up to those people, and smiled awkwardly at the man, but heard the man complain: "Brother Lin, what are you running when you see me, come and help, I'm almost tired to death for the past two days." ”

Lin Xu was a little strange, he didn't know what the man was tired of, and then after listening to the man's explanation, he realized that the land that originally belonged to the county commander's family was to be distributed to those landless people.

After Lin Xu heard this, he was a little stupid, and for the first time in his heart, he re-estimated the right and wrong views that had been known for more than ten years.

In the struggle of constant denial and affirmation in his heart, he helped these landless people measure the land until late at night.

He did not fall asleep that night, and as soon as he closed his eyes, he was full of smiles from the people who had acquired the land, and the little food that the poor had offered him after measuring the land.

He cried all night.

Early the next morning, Lin Xu embarked on the road to Luoshui County.

In the county government hall of Haiwu County, Xiao Jinxing constantly flipped through the military newspapers and concerts from various places, which was also the procedure he had set before entering the customs.

The garrisons in all localities must report to the general every five days to the place where the royal court is located, and the counties must also report the current situation of their counties to themselves every ten days.

Because there are many literate Qin people in the army at present, it is no longer so difficult to write and send military newspapers and chapters.

Xiao Jinxing sat in front of the case and looked at these military reports, the more happy he became, and the direction of Xiao Guan was still to confront Wang Min's army outside Yinyan Ditch. Tens of thousands of Qin soldiers who had been captured in the past six months also surrendered to Great Xia.

Counting the nearly 10,000 husbands who have taken refuge before. There were a staggering 30,000 Qin soldiers outside Xiao Pass.

Among them were Yong Yunqi and Fang Mingxin, who were guarding Xiao Pass, and there were 12,000 people.

There were 3,000 people under Xu Hu's men captured in Yinyan Ditch.

Besieged and annihilated the 2,000 captured by Zhong Xu's troops.

After Zhao Zhihai broke through to the west, he captured 6,000 Qin troops and 8,000 people.

After these 30,000 people were captured, they successively descended to Great Xia, and at this time, under the command of Lu Chang, they jointly garrisoned Xiaoguan City and Yinyangou with 30,000 horses and horses of Monanhu, Qiuzi and Minglu.

The Xiaoguan garrison has increased from 40,000 before the eastward advance to 60,000 at present.

On the Qingshui line in Lingzhou, more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Qin State and 9,000 soldiers and horses of the Qin Lan Sanguan were successively reorganized, led by Han Yun and other Qin generals, and 20,000 people and horses from Zhezhe, Xiyan and Wanhai joined forces to form an army of nearly 40,000.

However, in the past month, the soldiers and horses of the original defenders of the six counties south of Lingzhou and the 20,000 horses recruited by the army in recent days have been successively recruited. The total number of troops on this line is 60,000.

The first line of Yushan in Haiwu County is still 40,000 pure soldiers led by Alu, Ahuanu, Bemur, and Bortu.

Because the counties of Qinlan County were originally empty in garrison, after occupying the whole county some time ago, they did not capture many soldiers, so Xiao Jinxing simply let back all the soldiers who had been captured.

But the only thing he didn't expect was that in the past ten days, Qin Lan County had also recruited nearly 10,000 soldiers.

After reading these military reports, Xiao Jinxing ordered someone to summon Alu, Ahuanu, Bemur, and Bortu to tell them about the current situation.

When the four of them heard that their army had increased to 170,000 in just two or three months, they all opened their mouths in shock.

But Xiao Jinxing lightly told them that this was just the beginning.

For the patriarchs of the Rong tribes such as Alu, Ahuanu, Bemur, and Bortu, they didn't understand much about the military discipline and people's hearts that Xiao Jinxing had often emphasized for a long time.

But when the army was joined together in Dragon City, the supreme high priest of the Rong people said in front of everyone after divination: "The order of Yu alone is the mandate of heaven, and those who do not obey will be killed." This made them willingly carry out Xiao Jinxing's orders.

For them, entering the Qin State is just a word "robbing". It has been the practice for hundreds of years to rob people and enrich them with their possessions and expand their population.

However, this Xiao Jinxing told them not to seize property, not to plunder and kill people, and if they violated this order, they would be killed.

Moreover, just after the army went east, there was a thousand-legged commander who was not long-sighted and led the troops to plunder some property, and did not even kill a single person, but he was made a typical example by Xiao Jinxingshu, who beheaded the public in front of the Eastern Expeditionary Army and passed on the heads of the armies.