Zhucheng and Wuwu Fort suffered heavy losses last year, and now these people on Wulian Mountain are probably all the mobile forces they can come up with, right?

If the coalition forces suddenly outflank their large camp and cut off the rear route of the Zhucheng army, it is a question of whether they can still go down the mountain.

This is indeed a rather tempting opportunity, only need to take two steps forward, the Zhucheng army will definitely collapse, and when the time comes, take Zhucheng by the way, and a county will be in hand.

But.......

Xu Shiyang shook his head, and he said to the Rizhao Dock Fort Lords who were full of expectations:

"You can't see small profits and forget the great righteousness."

"I don't agree to occupy Zhucheng now, and no one is allowed to take the initiative to attack Zhucheng this time."

Although there was no formal alliance, the Zhucheng army always came to pacify Wulian Mountain, and if the exile group did not go down the mountain, they would be a de facto alliance with the Xu family.

Moreover, they are now attacking those displaced people who have not yet descended the mountain, and in a few days, if these displaced people do not descend the mountain, the coalition forces will also go up the mountain to attack.

If you see an opportunity now, you will take advantage of the danger of people to annex the Wucheng forts, and when you need to jointly send troops in the future, will the Rizhao families deliberately preserve their strength to avoid war in order to avoid being annexed by the stronger Xu family?

Besides, if the annexation of Linxian Wubao for no reason, will those powerful families around Juzhou start to be enemies of the Xu family because of this? Even Rizhao, the dock lord in the alliance is really so relieved of the expansion of the Xu family?

"Let them fight on their own."

Xu Shiyang made up his mind to give up this piece of fat that seemed to be sandwiched in the bowl.

"Our task now is to settle the displaced people who have taken the initiative to take refuge, and nothing else is in our goal for the time being."

As soon as these words came out, the dock owners of the Ding family and the Bao family sighed in disappointment.

The two members of the Wang family looked at each other, and they seemed to hear a hint of difference from Xu Shiyang's tone.

Don't agree to occupy the cities now? So can you occupy it later?

Only the Zhang family, whose territory is not very connected with Zhucheng, looks like they have nothing to do with themselves. They were only doing their duty this time, so they could look at it from the perspective of a bystander.

For the Zhang family, Xu Shiyang's disagreement with taking the opportunity to annex other dock forts is actually a good thing, which means that if his family does not make the big mistake of betraying the alliance, the Xu family will not forcibly annex itself no matter how strong it is.

This is the bearing that an alliance leader should have.

……

The battle on Wulian Mountain lasted for most of the night, and in the early morning, the Zhucheng army descended the mountain in disarray.

In the name of the commander-in-chief of the Rizhao coalition forces in Juzhou, Xu Shiyang sent an envoy to send them some herbs, and when the envoy returned, he informed the main commander of the coalition army of the information he had observed.

The results of this operation of the Zhucheng Army were very scarce, even to the point of pathetic.

The messenger saw hundreds of wounded, and that yesterday there was an army of almost 3,000 men, now it was probably only two thousand, seven or eight hundred.

If this news is not wrong, the Zhucheng army has lost as many as 2 or 300 troops on the mountain, and there are probably the same number of wounded.

And the homeless people they actually captured were only worth 300.

That is, it was an absolutely loss-making operation.

"Hmph, the terrain is unknown, the enemy situation is unknown, even the target is not accurate, and it is good to attack complex mountain and forest areas at night without the whole army being destroyed!"

Xu Shiyang gave Zhucheng Jun a very low evaluation, and then continued to arrange the work of collecting the displaced people.

Perhaps stimulated by last night's fighting, the speed of the displaced people's descent from the mountain has increased significantly. In the evening of this day, Lu Zhishen returned to the coalition camp with the largest group of displaced people, more than 3,000 people.

"This is the last batch." Lu Zhishen said: "The rest of the ......, no matter how the Sprinkle family persuades them, they are unwilling to go down the mountain." ”

"How many people are there on the mountain?" Xu Shiyang asked.

"2, 3,000, the grain and fields on Wulian Mountain should be enough for them to live."

Make no mistake, I don't want to let them go. ’

Xu Shiyang said lightly: "Don't forget what I said, go to the back to lead the army, and then go to Juzhou with the exiles, and I will send someone to watch you." ”

"Don't worry! Sprinkle family does what it says! Lu Zhishen waved his hand haughtily and went to find the soldiers by himself.

After watching the great monk leave, Xu Shiyang turned his head and asked Xu Shiliu: "Has the guide been selected?" ”

"No problem, as long as we send a cake, some homeless people are willing to show us the way, and each squadron with a large number of people can be equipped with a guide."

Xu Shiliu replied:

"The guides of the Rizhao families are also matched."

Xu Shiyang nodded with satisfaction and said coldly: "Starting tomorrow, attack!" ”

Since he said that he would completely pacify Wulian Mountain, he would definitely do it, and it was impossible to leave thousands of displaced people on the mountain.

This time, the threat of Wulian Mountain to sunshine must be completely eradicated.

A loud rallying cry sounded, the soldiers of the Forces nouvelles quickly lined up, and a moment later the first infantry battalion began to ...... up the hill.

……

On February 21 of the twelfth year of Jianxing, Xu Shiyang led the Juzhou Rizhao coalition army to pacify Wulian Mountain and returned.

In the end, at the cost of 11 dead and 19 wounded, the whole army comforted more than 33,000 displaced people and captured more than 2,000.

In order to alleviate the pressure on food, after the mighty army of displaced people was brought back in batches, the head of the family, Xu Muhe, immediately presided over the distribution of the population.

According to Xu Shiyang's request, the displaced people were distributed by households, and the Xu family kept seventy percent of them, and the other three percent were equally distributed to the Union Dock Fort in Rizhao.

Among the population retained by the Xu family, one percent was drawn to replace the original Fan family fort residents in Juzhou City, and the density of the original Fan family's population was diluted again.

Among the remaining population, Xu Shiyang's fifth tun accounts for half, the first tun of the head of the family accounts for 20%, and the rest is equally distributed to other dock forts.

After increasing the population of nearly 25,000, the Xu family, which has actually controlled the entire Juzhou, has a total population of 40,000, of which more than 15,000 are males, and have become the most powerful Han force in the entire Qi Province.

Of course, now we only have a population, and there are still many problems to be solved in the coming year.

The first is that new arrivals must have a place to live, and because of the size, it is no longer feasible for all people to live within the walls.

So Xu Shiyang ordered all the displaced people to take 100 households as a temporary village, build grass huts and fences in the wild, and live like this for the time being.

Anyway, there is no threat of bandits in Juzhou now, and most of the wild things that used to run rampant have become food in the past two years.

If it is safe and secure, there is no big problem in living outside the walls of the dock fort, not to mention that it is impossible for the lord of the dock fort to hand over the cooked land to the homeless people to cultivate, which will cause disputes between the old castle residents and the newcomers.

The displaced people could only borrow tools, seeds, rations and other necessities from the Xu family on credit, and reclaimed the wasteland beyond the cooked land that had been allocated.

For the time being, the family planned land for the displaced people according to the scope of ten mu per household, and said that it would not be counted as the principal, and that it would pay 4 buckets and 5 liters of grain per mu of land, including interest and taxes.

In this era, this number is actually not high, but the land that has just been cleared can have 6 or 7 buckets of harvest per mu in the first few years, and the remaining grain is simply not enough for a family to consume.

Xu Shiyang estimates that the displaced people will have to continue to borrow food rations next year, but there will be seeds left. In this way, it will be repaid year by year, and in about 5 years, the hard-working homeless people will be able to pay off all the loans and support their families on their own.

At that time, the homeless people were completely integrated with the Xu family.

Of course, the first premise of all this is that Xu Shiyang must bring back a large amount of grain from Jiangnan this year.