In the past three months, Zhu Lihua in Qingyang City has not been idle, he has traveled back and forth between Hulin and Yuantai every day to spy on the two long-fallen county seats.

However, the Rong army in Lingzhou had obviously focused on Qin Lan County, while these Rong troops in Yuanzhou were only cowering in various counties, and they never went out of the city to seek battle against the Qin army for three months.

So whether it is Wu Meng or Zhu Lihua, there is no way to deal with them.

However, through his own investigation, he found something that was enough to worry him, that is, the people in the fallen counties not only seemed to be quite obedient to the Rong people, but also the number of people who joined the Rong army gradually increased.

When Lu Lihua went north for the first time to investigate and discover this problem, he immediately wrote a letter to Zhao Zhihai and reported what he saw to Zhao Zhihai, and Zhao Zhihai also realized something wrong after getting the letter, so he personally came to Qingshui and Qingyang to investigate the enemy's situation.

Confirmed by a large number of scouts and mixed with the people, Zhao Zhihai was surprised to find that the situation was far more serious than he expected.

Almost every household of the cloth-clothed people who were allocated land in the counties of Lingzhou had people join the Rong army, and a large number of people in Qingshui and Qingyang counties secretly went north to join the Rong army.

In just three or four months, the number of newly recruited Rong troops reached 30,000 or 40,000, and the good situation that had reduced the number of Rong troops a lot because of Wu Meng's great victory once again fell into a predicament.

Counting Zhezhe's army, the number of enemies in Lingzhou has reached 70,000, while the Qin army in Qingyang and Qingshui is only about 20,000.

Although Zhao Zhihai didn't know the number of Rong troops in the entire territory of Lingzhou, he knew that there were always around 50,000.

Therefore, he also understands that if this continues, when the training of those people who surrender to the army is completed, how terrible it will be for the 50,000 people of Narong to fall into the nest.

But he didn't know that Zhezhe north of Lingzhou had already brought more than 20,000 people to Qinlan County, which was the fundamental reason why the Rong army did not plan to clash with Zhao Zhihai in Lingzhou during these three months.

After returning to Yuanzhou to discuss with Jieyuan, Wang Min, Zhao Zhiliang and others, Zhao Zhihai issued an order to strictly prevent the people of the two counties from going north.

At the same time, he also ignored the efforts of the only remaining nobles in the two counties to stop him, and distributed the ownerless land of Qingyang and Qingshui to the meritorious soldiers in the battle to recover the two counties.

In order to win the hearts of the people, Zhao Zhihai asked the soldiers who obtained the land to rent the land to the people to cultivate, so as to ensure that the people would not starve to death, and also to tie the people firmly to the land.

In fact, everyone is like a mirror in their hearts, they all know why the Rong people can gain the approval of the people in just a few months.

Moreover, they also knew the purpose of killing the nobles at the beginning of the Rong people's fight and distributing the land to the poor people.

But none of them dared to say it from their mouths, because they themselves were born into the nobility, because they did not want to be the enemy of the nobles of the world.

After all, this world has existed for more than 500 years under the management of the patriarchal system, and the difference between the noble and the noble is the basis for their existence.

Therefore, although Zhao Zhihai and others understood the reason why the people surrendered, he had no way to prevent the occurrence of these things.

But Zhao Zhihai also dislikes these nobles in his heart, it is precisely because of their usual domineering and greed that they have caused such evil consequences now.

Originally, the people of Great Qin did not say that people could cultivate their fields, and no one would starve to death, but these nobles bullied the weak on weekdays and constantly annexed and forcibly occupied the land of the people, which caused a large number of people to become tenant farmers and slaves attached to the nobility after losing their land.

And these tenant slaves are precisely the main group of people who surrender.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhao Zhihai was extremely angry, thinking about the usual behavior of these Yuanzhou nobles and the way they were hypocritical and wronged to themselves, Zhao Zhihai felt disgusted, and he still remembered the hatred in their eyes when Zhu Lihua proposed to set up a shrine for the rebels who were burned to death.

He also already knew that after that incident, the restaurant in Lihua would no longer be able to open.

Every day, there are always people there who make trouble for no reason, smash and steal.

When Lihua's mother, Fan, couldn't bear it anymore, she discussed with Jieyuan to move back to her hometown.

Zhao Zhihai clearly knew these things, but as the controller of the highest power in Great Qin, he was a little powerless.

Just when Zhao Zhihai was extremely depressed, a news that shocked him reached his ears again, and he rebelled against the people of that county.

After the rebellious people killed the county commander, the county magistrate, and the three elders in the county, and disarmed the two thousand defenders in the city, they immediately surrendered the city to the Rong people of Lingzhou, and the Rong people reacted quickly and occupied Chaona as if they had already known what was going to happen.

At this moment, the city that was originally firmly planted with the Xuanwu Banner had been planted with the Burning Red Yang Flag.

Hearing that the people who had rebelled against him had been sacrificed to the Rong people, Zhao Zhihai's first reaction was that this was a rebellion that had been planned for a long time.

Obviously, these rebels did not rebel because of some unexpected incident.

Because Qingyang had been captured by Wu Meng's army, as early as the beginning of the capture of Qingyang, Zhao Zhihai sent 3,000 of the 5,000 troops originally stationed in Chaona to the Qingyang front line to help defend the city.

It was just when the garrison was empty that a rebellion occurred in the court, and after the rebel people occupied the county seat, they quickly sacrificed the city to the Rong people. So it is certain that this must be a long-planned plan by the Rong people.

On the one hand, Zhao Zhihai ordered Zhu Lihua and Ma Yuan, who were in the Qingyang garrison closest to Chaona, to lead 6,000 soldiers and horses from their headquarters to the south to quell the rebellion, and at the same time issued martial law orders to Dayuan, Jingyang and other places.

Because he guessed that the rebellion in the Asana was only a small part of the Rong people's plan. There is a good chance that the same thing will happen in the rest of the counties.

After receiving the general's military order, Zhu Lihua and Ma Yuan quickly ordered their troops, and after some preparations, the whole army set off early in the morning of the third day after receiving the order, and killed the county town of Chaona.

On the way to Chaona, Zhu Lihua and Ma Yuan, as well as Wei Yuanqi, Liang Qingshu, Liu He, Li Ji, Tang Yuan, An Moran and others, who had all been promoted to the five hundred lords for merit at this time, discussed the strategy of sending troops to Chaona this time.

And Gao Yunce, the only one missing, was arranged by Lihua to go to Chaona County in advance two days ago.

Unlike Ma Yuan and the others, who are quite confident in the recovery of the dynasty this time, Zhu Lihua believes that although most of the defenders of the dynasty are ordinary people with no combat experience, it is not difficult to deal with these people, but what will really pose a threat to the Mu Qi and Yuxiao troops is the Rong army hidden behind these people and their commanders.

It is not easy for the Rong people to send out the people alone to command the overall situation, so Lu Lihua also warned everyone that they must not underestimate the enemy, and everything should be done safely, and after finding out the truth of the court, they will overcome it in one fell swoop.

Two days later, the 6,000 troops of Lihua arrived outside the city, and when the army hurriedly set up camp, the scouts who had been sent by Lihua to inquire about the deployment of troops and the movement outside the city also came back to report to Lihua, saying that no enemy ambush had been found outside the city.

The scouts' reports made Ma Yuan a little unimpressed by the caution of Zhu Lihua, he felt that according to the previous reports, although the number of troops in the court was about 10,000, most of them were ordinary people who had never fought before, and now only the soldiers needed to attack the city, and he could not be so cautious.

After saying his thoughts to Lihua, Lihua was also a little hesitant, waiting for the people in the city to go out of the city to fight is obviously impossible, and the food and grass are abundant, and the siege will not be effective in a short period of time, but climbing the wall to attack the city is obviously not a good way, after thinking twice, Lihua asked Ma Yuan to take the people of the headquarters to try to attack the city and test the defense of the city.

But he also instructed Ma Yuan that if he encountered fierce resistance from the rebels in the city, he must not rush and waste the lives of the soldiers.

After a day of cutting timber and preparing for the construction of a ladder, early in the morning of the second day, Ma Yuan led 3,000 soldiers and horses of his headquarters to kill at the north gate of Chaona County under the gaze of Lihua.

In the sound of the war drums of the Qin army, three thousand soldiers and horses poured towards the city gate like a tide.

In the process of rushing to the city gate, the Qin army found that although the rebels at the head of the city were quite numerous, there were very few people with bows and arrows, and they could not suppress the offensive of the Qin army who were preparing to climb the wall to attack the city.

When the soldiers saw this scene, their morale could not help but be boosted.

Under the command of Ma Yuan, the whole army went to the north gate of Chaona in one go, dozens of cloud ladders were set up on the wall, and under the suppression of the archers who kept shooting arrows at the city, the Qin army under the wall climbed the cloud ladders to the city head.

Seeing this, Ma Yuan couldn't help but rejoice in his heart, he turned his head to look at the formation not far behind, and personally picked up the drumstick and beat the drum.

But at this time, Lu Lihua and Ma Yuan suddenly found that the killing sound at the head of the city suddenly became louder. However, the offensive of the Qin army, which was originally quite smooth in attacking the city, slowed down significantly, and everyone looked at it, and it turned out that the rebels at the head of the city were rolling wood and stones, smashing and smashing the soldiers on several cloud ladders and the cloud ladders under their feet.

Because there were very few rebels who could shoot with arrows, they could only wait until the Qin army climbed the city to kill the Qin army, so Lu Lihua understood that this siege battle could not be considered to have officially begun until this time.

Ma Yuan, who was beating the drums, saw that his soldiers began to have casualties, so he was a little anxious, and he hurriedly ordered the archers to concentrate under each ladder, ignoring the rebels elsewhere, and just suppressing the rebels above the ladder.

I have to say that after three months of fighting with Zhu Lihua, Ma Yuan, who was originally timid but quite smart, also had a trace of the bearing of a general who led the troops, at least in Zhu Lihua's opinion, Ma Yuan's instructions were still very timely and correct.

After Ma Yuan gave the order, the rebels on the ladders everywhere were immediately overwhelmed by bows and arrows, and often the rebels were killed by the arrows sent by several archers under the city as soon as they lifted the stones.

Under these circumstances, he saw that there were already soldiers on the top of the city and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the rebels at the head of the city.

Lu Lihua was overjoyed for a while, and did not expect that in less than an hour, the soldiers of the city would be able to climb to the top of the city, and he immediately ordered to send An Moran, Li Ji, Tang Yuan, and Liu Jaw to lead the soldiers of their headquarters to join the siege team. At the same time, it was ordered that the ascension must be taken today.

After receiving the order, the four people responded in unison and turned to leave.

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