Standing at the city gate of Longmen County, Lu Lihua frowned as he looked at the dead corpses outside the city gate.

In front of him, his soldiers were still carrying the dead bodies out of the city.

Hundreds of people dug a very large pit outside the city gates.

"Lord Captain, I'm afraid there are only 20,000 people in the city."

Niu Yong, who hurriedly walked out of the city, lowered his head and said to Lu Lihua, and after finishing speaking, this bearded man was a little choked.

patting Niu Yong's shoulder, Zhu Lihua asked softly:

"Is the porridge ready?"

Niu Yong wiped his eyes and said, "If you go back to your lordship, it will be cooked immediately." ”

"Pass the order, the army will stay in Longmen tonight, leave a thousand people to guard the city tomorrow, and the rest will follow me to Liangyuan."

After that, Zhu Lihua entered Longmen County.

Four days ago, Lu Lihua led an army of 11,000 from Pucheng, and did not encounter a single rebel along the way, so he successfully entered Longmen County today.

It's just that the tragic situation of Longmen surprised Yu Lihua, and he was very heavy, and he even blamed himself for why he didn't recover the city a few days earlier.

The starvation in the streets made the survivors very strange, for the living people were out of danger of starvation, and they only looked a little weak.

The Qin army who entered the city understood but didn't say anything, but the bones next to a pot on the side of the street made their spleen and stomach react involuntarily.

In the day from entering the Dragon Gate to leaving the Dragon Gate, no one in the Qin army had eaten food, because they really couldn't eat.

……

Three days later, Liang Yuan was under the city.

Afraid of seeing the tragic situation of Longmen again, he strictly ordered the whole army to march quickly to Liangyuan, and was surprised to find that there were people guarding the city at the head of this county seat.

However, under the order of Lihua, in less than half an hour, the gate of Liangyuan was breached.

In fact, half an hour was spent climbing the city walls.

In fact, when the archers of the Qin army fired a volley under the city, there was no one left at the head of the city.

After the army marched into Liangyuan City, Yu Lihua found that although this county town was much better than Longmen, it was also on the verge of running out of food.

It is conceivable that if he comes to Liangyuan half a month late, the Longmen scene will be repeated.

It's just that the people of Liangyuan, who have not starved to death or have not been threatened with no food to eat, are not as deferential as the people of Longmen to the officials and soldiers, and they still look at the Qin army who entered the city with hatred.

He rejected the suggestion to behead the hundreds of rebels he caught, and instead sent someone to escort them to Longmen County to help clean up the corpses of the people in the city.

There are more than 20,000 corpses in that county, and it will not be possible to clean them up in a week or two, and this kind of thing also makes these rebels have a good experience.

Subsequently, after careful consideration, Zhu Lihua also became a villain, and he sent people to loot all the surplus grain and weapons in the hands of every household in a few days in succession.

But unlike what the rebels did, he had to concentrate the food and use it.

In the following week, the people in the city had to go out of the city to reclaim the land that had been abandoned for more than half a year, and only those who participated in the reclamation could get the food they needed for a day.

Under such cruel oppression, some of the people, who had become accustomed to eating and drinking for nothing, wanted to repeat their old tricks and called on the people to rise up and fight again.

But they didn't know that on the night of the occupation of Liangyuan, Zhu Lihua, who had been prepared, sent hundreds of people to make up as ordinary people and scattered all over Liangyuan County.

Within two days, all those who had incited the people to rebel were captured.

Interestingly, most of these rebels were from the Shu clan in the county, but there were not many responders from the ordinary poor people.

After taking these people outside the city and beheading them in front of the people of the city, no one in Liangyuan County dared to encourage the people to try to rebel.

Although the people of Liang Yuan still showed hatred when they watched the Qin army who watched them work every day, although the people cursed those Qin soldiers thousands of times behind their backs, although every time the people went out of the city and passed the Xuanwu banner at the city gate, many people would secretly spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm, but no matter what they did, they still couldn't change the fate of their daily hard work.

One day, when the people noticed that the number of Qin soldiers who were guarding them had been greatly reduced, no one thought of rebelling again, because they had returned to the normal life of alternating cultivation and rest.

"After the more than 900 rebels cleaned up the bodies at Longmen, they were released back to the Liangyuan farmland.

Originally, I only prepared 1,000 defenders, but I didn't expect these two counties to contain my 2,000 men, and what I didn't expect was that Longmen and Liang Yuan divided seventy percent of the three months' military rations brought by my army.

It seems that time is running out for me. ”

Lu Lihua, who left Liang Yuan with eight thousand soldiers, said to Niu Yong beside him mockingly.

But Niu Yong showed respect and replied in a low voice: "Lord Captain, the people of Liang Yuan will finally understand the painstaking efforts of the adults, and you are the reborn parents of the 50,000 people." ”

Zhu Lihua laughed, patted Niu Yong's shoulder casually, and said to Niu Yong: "Send someone to Gao and Liang to tell the two of them that the matter of distributing land to the people in Longmen County can be implemented after the land reclamation around the city is completed."

As for Liang Yuan, they will slow down for a while, and then wait until they have leveled the land, they all want to be rebels, and it is okay not to pay a price, this rebel army is not what they want to be, and if they don't want to be it, they shouldn't get it.

By the way, after the rebels who were escorted to Longmen to move the dead bodies were sent back to Liangyuan after a while, let them tell the people of Liangyuan about the consequences of being rebels. ”

With that, he jumped on his horse and headed for the white water.

When Lihua led the army to march to Baishui, the scouts had already clearly understood the rebels in Baishui and Quwo.

In fact, this is also due to Wei Mu's strict training of these new cavalry for more than half a year, as the assessment content of the training, that is, these cavalrymen are asked to rent three or five percent or go to the west of Jilin or go to Quwo and Baishui to explore the enemy.

Since more than a month ago, after the rebels recaptured the city of Xuchang, most of the soldiers and horses of Baishui and Quwo went to Xuchang with the rebels to fight with Deng Ziwen and Yongyunqi, so each of the two counties had five or six thousand men and horses to garrison the city.

Despite this, these rebels in the two counties in front of them did not look like a rabble in Liang Yuan, they were soldiers who had fought against the Qin army for almost a year.

Therefore, whether it is defending the city or fighting in the field, it is very different from the rebels that Lihua encountered before.

After discussing with the generals, they all felt that the attack on Baishui would inevitably cause heavy casualties among the soldiers, and once the army fell into a stalemate in the land of Baishui, Quwo and Xu Chang would make the siege of the city fall short no matter which side sent reinforcements.

As a last resort, Lihua placed his army forty miles north of Baishui and did not advance.

……

Early this morning, Chen Yan once again mentioned that Changge, who he couldn't leave, walked out of the back hall of Baishui Mansion.

He tightened his belt, looked back at the closed door, and smiled as he cracked his mouth full of yellow teeth.

Last night, Xian'er, the concubine of the former Baishui County Commander, finally got rid of him, which made him feel happier than the happiness of killing the county commander at the beginning.

"Little Lang Hoof, Lao Tzu is so good to you and doesn't agree to Lao Tzu. When you are hungry, you will promise Lao Tzu, cheap. ”

Chen Yan said as he spat thick phlegm on the ground.

He limped towards the outside of the yamen, and there were more than a dozen followers in the yamen following him.

When he first attacked the county government, he risked his life to be the first to rush in, and after killing several officials one after another, he stabbed the entire county order family in the county government.

Although he also paid the price of a leg, he was supported by the rebels.

After all, the original county order was still a son who loved the people, and no one dared to come forward to kill him except Chen Yan.

Chen Yan vaguely remembered that after the rebels rushed into the county office, a person stood in front of the door with his head held high, shouting to his rebellious crowd:

"What are you doing? Get back. I have already sent someone to bring back Baishui in the spring planting, and the ploughing cattle have also been sent to the pavilions, go back quickly, don't miss the farming time. ”

Chen Yan still remembered that when the county magistrate said this, some of the people who rebelled with him turned around and wanted to go out of the government.

Still picked up Changge taken from the city gate, and a spike pierced the chest of the county commander.

When you die, you have to play prestige, phew.

Since the rebels completely occupied Whitewater City, Chen Yan has been embraced by the rebels as the leader.

He also lived in the Baishui Mansion, and lived alone in the back hall of the mansion every day with the county concubine Xian'er who he had left behind and did not kill, even when he rescued Xu Chang and fled in defeat, he never abandoned Xian'er.

Originally, he had a little inferiority complex in front of the beautiful woman who suffocated him, so the fairy never obeyed him for several months, and he didn't use force on her.

However, in the past half a month, there is not much food left in the city, especially after the two kings of Quwo took away the 15,000 rebels in Baishui City along with the food and grass of the accompanying army, and the food in Baishui City is even less.

However, the two kings also promised that once the Baili Qin army was defeated, eighty percent of the captured grain would be distributed to themselves.

For the two kings who guarded Xu Chang with him for several months, and lived together with the two horses and the two kings, he still can trust.

At the same time, he also had an idea and came up with the idea of this hungry fairy for a few days, and she never obeyed.

Judging from the results, it made him get his wish.

Chen Yan took to the streets, and the people on the streets had already come out of their homes to sit on the streets and bask in the sun.

When those people saw that it was Chen Yan, they got up and greeted him one after another.

Chen Yan especially liked this feeling, when he entered the city, he saw the battle of the county order, so he learned the style of the county order, and walked through the street with his head up.

However, he turned a blind eye to the people who greeted him.

"Look at other people's style, he is really a capable person."

"Chen Laosi has been idle all his life, but he gave birth to such a good son."

"This posture is much more majestic than that of the county order, and the descendants of the Chen family are born to be the material of the county order."

As Chen Yan walked down the street, the people behind him also lowered their heads and discussed.