drove away the more than 30 soldiers who made trouble, and then Han Qian and Zhang Ping took Zhao Ting'er, Yao Xishui and others into the county mansion.

The scale of Wuling County is three or four times larger than that of Yuanling City, and the county government is also the front and back house, next to the post house, ordinary prisoners are imprisoned in the prisoner of war camp, but the more important prisoners are imprisoned in the back house and the post house.

The defenders of Wuling City are mostly the elite of the Tanzhou lineage, not only the main generals and military attachés, but even ordinary generals, whose families are located near Tanzhou City, which is also an important reason why it is difficult to attack the two cities of Yuanling and Wuling.

The officials of Wuling County, except for a few officials with rank such as the county order and the county cheng, whose dependents were all detained by Ma Yin and his son as hostages in Tanzhou, the officials of the six rooms were mainly filled by local scholars or children of the township tyrants.

There are three or four hundred people in the families of these officials and their dependents, who almost constitute the upper class society of Wuling County, and at this time, they are like pigs and dogs, and they are all imprisoned in the back house of the county government.

Han Qian walked over and saw that these people were pale, and they must have known very well what was going on outside just now.

In the thirteenth year of Tianyou, Han Qian accompanied his father to Xuzhou, and in order to fight the grass and scare the snake, he set up a sacrificial shed for Wang Yu in Wuling City, and met with the main officials of Wuling County at that time.

Like Wang Dazhi, the commander of Wuling County, Chen Lu of the county, Zhou Chu, the county lieutenant, Zhao Jicheng, the chief bookkeeper and others, Han Qian also drank with them twice, and this time it can be regarded as an old meeting.

In addition to the military attache who was imprisoned in the post house, Wang Dazhi, Chen Lu, Zhou Chu, Zhao Jicheng and other four people also enjoyed the treatment of the main criminals.

Although it was only a few hours, the shackles and shackles added up to fifty or sixty catties, and they also tortured people enough, they sat in the corner of the courtyard wall, and when they saw Han Qian walking in, they struggled to stand up.

"They're loosened for Lord Wang,"

Han Qian didn't look at these subordinates triumphantly, and ordered the shackles and shackles on Wang Dazhi, Chen Lu, Zhou Chu, Zhao Jicheng and others to be untied, and said in a deep voice,

"I know that all of you have been coerced into betraying the imperial court because your family is in Tanzhou, and you have no choice but to help the rebels defend the city before. However, for the time being, I can only imprison you first, and everything will wait for the disposal of the Third Highness, and I ask for your understanding. ”

"How dare you?" was not humiliated or tortured, and could get Han Qian's preferential treatment, Wang Dazhi and others, as the main culprits, dared to ask too much, and they all came forward to thank Han Qian.

"Wuling City's secretary Xu Xu, I have no authority to release, so I can only ask you to take your dependents to the medical camp to temporarily serve as hard labor and take care of the wounded. Of course, if some of you dare to have different intentions, cover each other, and finally cause any trouble, Han Qian's ability is limited, and I am afraid that he will not be able to continue to treat you favorably at that time, so please keep an eye on each other and don't breed right and wrong. As long as everyone is safe, after Tanzhou is pacified, Han Qian will also try his best to intercede with the Third Highness for you. "Although how to deal with these officials in the end, in the end, it is still necessary to listen to Jinling's orders, Han Qian is only trying to ensure that they are not harassed as much as possible, but first of all, he also wants them to ensure that they will not cause any trouble for themselves, and after a warning, let Zhao Ting'er take these people away.

At present, with the addition of the wounded of the prisoners and the civilians who were accidentally injured in the battle, the medical battalion in Wuling City has to treat a total of three or four thousand wounded and sick.

More than 100 medical staff transferred from Yuanling, Qianyang, and Linjiang can no longer meet the demand, and Han Qian arranged more than 200 officials and their dependents to go over to fight, which can be regarded as the best of both worlds.

For these subordinates and their dependents, it is undoubtedly the best treatment to go to the medical camp to take care of the wounded at this time, compared to being sent to a hard labor camp to repair the city in the dark, or being thrown into a prostitute camp to be vented by hundreds or thousands of generals.

At that moment, a large group of people knelt down to thank them, and then went with Zhao Ting'er and Yao Xishui.

After sending the vast majority of people away, leaving only Wang Dazhi, Chen Lu, Zhou Chu, and Zhao Jicheng, the four first offenders, Han Qian asked about Wen Ruilin's whereabouts.

Zhao Jicheng, the chief secretary of Wuling County, had some impressions of Wen Ruilin's whereabouts, and said: "After the Wuling army entered the city, Mr. Wen changed into a blood-stained military uniform, I don't know if he mixed in with the wounded soldiers or pretended to be a dead corpse to escape the search of the Wuling army......"

Hearing Zhao Jicheng say this, Tian Cheng immediately asked people to go to the medical camp, focusing on searching for the wounded prisoners.

Wang Dazhi, Chen Lu, Zhou Chu, and Zhao Jicheng were the main culprits, and it was impossible for Han Qian to advocate for their release without authorization, and set up a separate courtyard in the county government mansion to put them under house arrest, and treat them as preferentially as possible in food and clothing, so as not to let them suffer a little grievance, and even asked them for advice on how to restore the order of people's livelihood inside and outside Wuling City as soon as possible.

Han Qian's top priority was to minimize the impact of the war on farming and other matters, and ordered the confiscated treasury to be taken out to open a porridge field to help the refugees whose homes were destroyed in the war.

Han Qian temporarily took over the command of the Wuling Army in the Wuling Army at this time, and then he also took this rare opportunity to rectify the military discipline, first of all, in addition to the necessary garrison, the generals and prisoners of the Wuling Army were all withdrawn from the camp outside the city, and it was strictly forbidden to enter the city at will, and it was strictly forbidden to harass the nearby villages at will.

The generals of the Wuling Army are mainly obtained through recruitment, and the sources are mixed, and they are even more difficult to govern than the simple township soldiers, especially in the past six months, the recruits have been fighting continuously and bloodily, and too many negative emotions and desires have accumulated in their hearts to vent.

After such a difficult siege, according to tradition, it is even necessary to let the generals come in and plunder the city for three days, and then clean up the military discipline.

Han Qian didn't want to run any prostitute camps according to the tradition, and demoted all the female relatives of the subordinates to the generals for the generals to vent, let alone indulge the chaos of law and order in the city, as a compromise, he still found the operators of the three brothels in the city and asked them to resume business as soon as possible, so as to avoid harassment of the civilians.

In the afternoon, the generals and prisoners of the Wuling army withdrew into the camp outside the city, several fires in the city were extinguished before dark, hundreds of civilians whose houses were burned down, after passing the examination, were allowed to go out of the city to join relatives and friends, everyone else returned to their homes, several main streets and alleys were also cleared out, and the ruined Wuling City was restored to a rare tranquility after nightfall.

It was almost late at night that Tian Cheng pulled Wen Ruilin, who was pretending to be a wounded soldier, out of the medical camp and escorted him.

Han Qian, Zhang Ping and Li Chong, before the full-scale outbreak of the Jingxiang War, met Wen Ruilin several times in the Deng Xiang Defense Embassy in Xiangzhou City.

At that time, Wen Ruilin, as the strategist of Ma Xun, the envoy of Tanzhou Jiedu, had a bit of the bearing of a lupine scarf, but at this time he was much more embarrassed, and he didn't know if he was injured in the chaos, or in order to pretend to be a wounded soldier, his face was cut several times, and he was beaten with a blue nose and swollen eyes, wearing a blood-stained uniform, his hair was messy, and the whole person was thin and haggard, just like two people.

"It's really not easy for Tian Cheng to personally lead someone to pull him out of the medical camp," Han Qian put down the official letter in his hand and looked at Wen Ruilin several times before he said with a smile to Zhang Ping and Li Chong.

Zhang Ping smiled slightly.

Li Chong was quite puzzled, not knowing why Han Qian wanted to find out Wen Ruilin before he was relieved.

He and Zhang Ping were subject to too many restrictions here, and a lot of information was arranged by Han Qian to find out, and he had only seen Wen Ruilin when he was in Xiangzhou City, and knew that he was a strategist by Ma Xun's side.

Li Chong thought that Ma Xun was like that, and the strategists around him couldn't be very powerful, but he could still feel Han Qian's attention to this Wen Ruilin at this time.

Just now, he and Zhang Ping came to look for Han Qian, and Han Qian would ask the people around him after a while if they had traced Wen Ruilin's whereabouts.

Han Qian didn't care what Li Chong thought, stared at Wen Ruilin and continued: "Mr. Wen didn't come to Wuling City alone if he didn't come to Ma Xun to give advice?" ”

"If the prince and Ma Yuanheng had listened to my strategy and intercepted you when you went to Xuzhou to seek business, there would never have been today's disaster, and even before the fall of Eagle Fish Village, Tanzhou would have the opportunity to destroy your father and son and control Chenxu Erzhou, but the prince refused to listen to my advice,"

Even if Wen Ruilin fell into the hands of Han Qian, he didn't want to wag his tail and beg for mercy, so he straightened his clothes and stood tall, and said with regret,

"And the Dragon Bird Army divided its troops into the Yuanjiang River this time, the lord of the country and the prince of the world still have illusions, I can only ask the prince to let me come over to help Ma Rong defend the city, and strive for the last chance to win, but the general trend has gone."

Xi Ying stood behind Han Qian, and couldn't help but look at Wen Ruilin.

In the first battle of Yuanling, the Wuling army captured several middle-level generals under Ma Rong, and at that time, Xi Ying knew that Wen Ruilin had frequently advised the Ma family father and son to make a decision on Xuzhou very early.

It is hard to imagine what the Ma family father and son would be like if they paid attention to Wen Ruilin's suggestion, maybe Emperor Tianyou would not dare to withdraw the domain from Tanzhou easily, then the situation of the Han family father and son in Xuzhou would definitely be a hundred times bleaker than now, right?

Li Chong was secretly frightened, he entered the Yuanjiang River with Li Zhihe and others, he really didn't know these details, he didn't expect that there was such a powerful character around the Ma family's father and son, and he had already seen through Emperor Tianyou's plan to cut the domain.

He looked at Wen Ruilin's expression at this time and became solemn.

"Ma Yin, Ma Xun's father and son are too indecisive, and they have no male mastery, but they have bent your big material," Han Qian smiled and asked, "According to what you see, when will the three princes lead tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to completely quell the rebellion in Tanzhou?" ”

Wen Ruilin wanted to behave with dignity and kept silent.

"When will Tanzhou be pacified, the three princes have already foreseen, is it possible that the Shu army will dare to send troops to attack Jingzhou at this time, and it will be difficult for the Liang army to continue to assemble in Caizhou, I ask you now, but I just want to see if you really have some true knowledge." Han Qian said indifferently.

Wen Ruilin sighed: "Hanshou only has two thousand guards, even if he doesn't abandon the city and go, he can't keep the ten-day, and Ma Yuanheng is much worse than Ma Rong, he abandoned his family and fled alone in Xuzhou, and at this time, it is impossible to expect to fight Jiang'an City to the death when the retreat is cut off, and the surrender of the city may be just around the corner." In that case, the Shu army did not withdraw its troops from Yiling, more to prevent the Chu army from taking advantage of the situation to seize Yiling, and it was absolutely impossible to send troops to invade Jingzhou, even if the Liang army gathered in Caizhou again, there would be no opportunity to attack Nanyang again. In this way, Yueyang will not be able to be defended, and the lord and the prince will abandon Yueyang and retreat to Tanzhou, maybe they can breathe for a while! ”

"Yes, the Hanshou defenders have abandoned the city and fled eastward, so I don't know when Ma Yuanheng will leave the city and surrender in Jiang'an Lonely City." Han Qian flipped out an official letter, which was a letter sent back by Zheng Hui from Hanshou Kuaima before nightfall.

Before Zheng Hui led nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses by land and water, the two thousand defenders of Hanshou abandoned the city and fled eastward.

"It stands to reason that Ma Yin's father and son should immediately abandon Yueyang at this time, withdraw their troops and retreat to Dongting Hunan, and then his father and son are indecisive, maybe they will not make a decision until Ma Yuanheng dedicates Jiang Ancheng, right?" Wen Ruilin let out a long sigh and said, "If Han Sima uses my strategy, he may be able to end the war as soon as possible, so that the people of Tanzhou will suffer less from the chaos of war!" ”

"How do you hit Tanzhou, there is a place for you to put your beak?" Han Qian smiled disdainfully, motioned to the left and right to detain Wen Ruilin, and couldn't help but laugh with Zhang Ping and Li Chong, "Wen Ruilin is such a defeated general, but he is pointing fingers at us, it's really ridiculous!" ”

Zhang Ping was a little puzzled, but Li Chong's expression became solemn......