Han Qian was about to return to Canglang City to send someone to contact the cottage, and saw from a distance that more than a dozen horsemen suddenly came out from among the mountains in the north, and very suddenly plunged into the wilderness between the bay mouth and Neixiang City.

Whether it is from the direction from which these dozen horsemen protruded, or looking at the armor they are wearing, they all know that these people are the messengers sent by Xia Zhen and Zheng Hui from Xichuan City to contact this side.

Seeing that hundreds of cavalry of the Liang Army galloped out from Wankou and Neixiang City, intending to intercept more than a dozen cavalry galloping out from the north, Li Zhihe then sent more than 100 cavalry out of the remnant village to respond.

Xichuan sent messengers to make contact, and in the end only three people were taken to the Iron Crocodile Ridge, four were wounded and fled, and six were shot and intercepted by the strong bows of the Liang army.

These three people are all cronies of Xia Zhen, who joined the army in Yingzhou, Han Qian and Li Zhihe had seen them in Fancheng before, and seeing that they were covered in blood, they directly asked them to come forward and speak.

"What's the matter, if you have to break into the blockade of the Liang army during the day, is it possible that the lives of Yingzhou and Huangzhou are so worthless?" Han Qian looked at the scout sent by Xichuan City, and said first with a displeased face.

The people who can be intercepted and killed by the Liang army are all elites with superb riding skills and extraordinary skills, and they also grieve for their colleagues who died in battle, and when they heard Han Qian say this, they just took out a blood-soaked letter from his arms with a gloomy face and handed it over:

"This is a letter from my family Xia to join the army, and I also ask Li Dutou to open it.

Li Zhihe opened the lacquer seal, took a cursory look at it first, and then handed it to Han Qian and Guo Liang to circulate it.

The letter jointly signed by Zheng Hui and Xia Zhen was asking Li Zhihe and Han Qian to send a ship to receive them from Xichuan City.

Zheng Hui and Xia Zhen led the reinforcements of Yingzhou and Huangzhou at this time have increased to 1,500 people, and they were previously divided into two cities of Xichuan and Neixiang, but the Liang army went north and west, Xia Zhen gave up the Neixiang city that took more than two months to repair for the first time, and led the reinforcements from Yingzhou to retreat to Xichuan to meet Zheng Hui.

In the past two days, the Liang army stormed the Iron Crocodile Ridge, Zheng Hui and Xia Zhen did not expect to send troops to respond from the side, but at this time they actually sent people over and asked this side to send a boat to meet them and withdraw them.

Han Qian snorted, smiled and said to Li Zhihe: "Zheng Xia and the others, I really think how big my face is!" ”

Although the Liang army had cut off the land passage for Zheng Hui and Xia Zhen to withdraw from Xichuan City, the Xichuan River originated in the Funiu Mountains in the north, bypassed outside Xichuan City, and flowed into the Danjiang River more than ten miles west of the mouth of the bay, and was the largest tributary of the lower reaches of the Danjiang River.

At this time, Xichuan City and the Iron Crocodile Ridge are connected by water.

Zheng Hui and Xia Zhen could even abandon Xichuan City and lead their troops north from the west bank of the Xichuan River to the mouth of the river, as long as they sent a boat to pick them up.

It's just that Han Qian and Li Zhihe can't hold Xia Zhen accountable for abandoning the inner countryside city without authorization, but there will never be a good thing to send a boat to pick them up and take them down comfortably.

"It is the duty of all generals to fulfill their duties, and when it gets dark, you sneak back to Xichuan, and tell Zheng Hui and Xia Zhen that without my military order, if you abandon the city and flee without permission, don't blame me for being ruthless." Li Zhihe, a tight and thin man, reprimanded the four generals sent by Xichuan City.

When Li Zhihe waved his hand to let the four generals sent by Xichuan retreat to bandage the wound, Han Qian gave Tian Cheng a look and made a seizure move.

Tian Cheng understood and led people to follow, and when the four generals were defenseless, he rushed up and detained them, took out ropes and tied them up.

"What do you mean, and what are we guilty of?" The four generals struggled unwillingly and shouted angrily.

Faced with the sudden situation, Li Zhihe, Guo Liang, Li Chong and others were all shocked, and they didn't know what Han Qian was going to do.

When Tian Cheng escorted these four people over, Han Qian stared at them mercilessly, and shouted loudly, "What is the crime? Let me ask you, Xia Zhen abandoned the inner countryside without authorization, and as Xia Zhen's subordinate guards, can you be dissuaded? You didn't stop Xia Zhen from abandoning the city, fighting and abandoning the city with him, and blaming the same crime, you have the face to question what is the crime? Li will be kind-hearted, but you haven't had such a good time with me—"

"We are the generals of Yingzhou, and we are not under the control of you." The leader of the strong man struggled and roared.

Han Qian motioned for Tian Cheng to take a wooden bead and stuff the mouths of these four people, don't tell them to shout again, and then said to Li Zhihe: "These four people can't be put back, first hand them over to me and escort them back to Canglang City to be punished together in the future." ”

Li Zhihe also hated Xia Zhen for abandoning the city without a fight, let alone caring about these details, and signaled Han Qian to escort people back to Canglang City.

Li Chong thought in his heart, even if he wanted to punish the crimes of these four people, there was no defense at this time, and he should have joined the army as a record to be responsible for asking about this matter, but thinking about Han Qian, this person was really arrogant, and he didn't want to have any conflict with the local forces in Yingzhou, so he endured it and didn't say anything.

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Han Qian rushed back to Canglang City from Iron Crocodile Ridge non-stop, and Li Chong and Yao Xishui also followed.

It didn't make sense for them to stay in Iron Crocodile Ridge, after all, a large number of supplies were mainly distributed and transferred from Canglang City, and if there was any fraud, it was most likely to happen to Han Qian.

Li Chong, as a recorder, joined the army to investigate lawlessness in the army, so he naturally had to follow him to Canglang City.

After returning to Canghai City, Han Qian designated two burrows in the corners of the city to Li Chong and Yao Xishui as residences, and ignored them.

In fact, in the form of square enclosed houses, four circles of terraced houses inside and outside were built in the city, with a total of 182 bays, which were used as barracks and storage of goods.

Only a two-story square building like an official seal was built in the center, which was also convenient for directing and overlooking the movements outside the city.

Next, Han Qian arranged for Guo Nuer and others to cross the Hanshui and Danjiang rivers to various cottages to talk about recruiting soldiers, and no one meant that this day was the beginning of the Year of Heavenly Blessing.

The salary code given by Han Qian is a brave man who helps defend Canglang City and Iron Crocodile Ridge, and gives a stone of salt every month as a military salary, but the soldier needs to be recruited and brave.

A stone of salt is also sold for 3,000 yuan in Xiangzhou City, and it is as high as 6,000 or 7,000 yuan in the Hanshui Cottage, where the trade route is forbidden, and Han Qian can be said to have set a sky-high price for recruiting troops.

In addition, the sturdy people who accepted the employment at this time also directly increased from four liters of salt per month to two buckets of salt per month.

There is no way, the situation in Iron Crocodile Ridge and Canglang City is dangerous, and there is no heavy reward, how can there be a brave man?

If you don't keep your word, you don't stand.

Zuo Si has been based in Canglang City for two months, and in the name of the Dragon Bird Army, he has been able to trade goods and hire people to work fairly with the surrounding cottages, which seems to be a short time, but in the past few decades, all the forces that have tried to rule the Dengxiang region have failed to do so.

At the same time, it is also due to the fact that these cottages are too isolated and the supply of materials is too unbalanced.

These many factors made the prestige of the Dragon Bird Army quickly rise within a radius of a hundred miles.

Even the cottage that was most wary of Han Qian at the beginning, tempted by the scarce materials, sent a small number of people to work before the outbreak of the war in Canglang City, in exchange for the most scarce salt medicine and other materials, and also observed the situation here.

As a result, the number of cottage workers working in Canglang City has increased from 300 to 800 in less than two months.

Of course, in the first battle of Canglang City, Han Qian recruited cottage people to participate in the war, and the casualties of the cottage people were relatively heavy, but in the world, it seemed that they were quite kind to the bereavement and reward, and after some of the people took back the cottage, it naturally aroused the idea of more people competing for rewards.

Another point is that Li Zhihe's side, even when the war was at its most intense, did not force the cottage people who Han Qian transferred to the battlefield to be cannon fodder, but protected them well in the remnants of the village.

Han Qian offered a heavy reward, first of all, only a few cottagers on the side of the Iron Crocodile Ridge were afraid of death and chose to leave, while among the cottagers who stayed, there were almost two hundred people who were willing to accept recruitment to participate in the war.

The cottages on the south bank of the Han River and the west bank of the Danjiang River also responded on the third day, with five groups of people either crossing the mountains or taking simple wooden boats, and the scouts sent by Han Qian to contact the cottage rushed to Canglang.

However, these five people did not directly cross the Han River or the Danjiang River and arrived at Canglang City to meet Han Qian, but stopped on the other side of Canglang City across the Danjiang River, hoping that Han Qian would personally cross the river to negotiate with them about the terms of employment.

"Miyun Village's first Zhou Yi and others hope to lead their troops to participate in the war independently, rather than breaking up their Zhaiding and organizing them into the Dragon Bird Army!" Guo Nuer, who was mainly responsible for contacting the cottage, crossed the river and rushed to the foot of Canglang City to report to Han Qianyu.

Han Qian stood in front of the river beach, and saw that there were not too many people on the other side of the Danjiang River, and there were only twenty or thirty people on each road, but he had heard of Miyun Village.

Zhou Yi is the son of the former leader of the bandit leader Qin Zongquan.

After Qin Zongquan fell into Xiangzhou City, in the previous dynasty and the De period, he was defeated by Zhu Kang, the Liang Emperor who was the king of Liang at that time, and his three or four hundred thousand soldiers and horses were divided, and a considerable number of people fled into the deep mountains and old forests of the Danjiang River in Hanshui.

The father of Zhou Yi was one of them, which flowed into the upper reaches of the Han River to establish Miyun Village.

After the death of Zhou's father, Zhou Yi succeeded to his throne.

Miyun Village is located in the depths of the mountain stream of more than 70 miles in the upper reaches of the Han River, occupies a depression valley to build a village, there are 14500 villagers, it is a big village within a radius of 200 miles around.

Miyun Village said that it could send out two hundred elite warriors, Han Qian looked at the five people on the other side, there were no more than thirty people all the way, it seemed that they came at this time to negotiate with him on the terms, and after the negotiation conditions, more people would be pulled out of the mountain.

"Since we want to negotiate the conditions, then I will cross the river to meet them." Han Qian gave Shi Ran, lifted the placket of his robe, and was able to lift his feet and step towards the awning boat.

"My lord stays in Canglang Town, just go from Tiancheng." Tian Cheng persuaded.

The cottage forces are too complicated, and they live deep in the mountains, and the people's hearts are unpredictable, Tian Cheng is worried that Zhou Yi and others are not completely free of the possibility of being infiltrated by Liang Guo's spies.

"Since they came to Canglang City, they trust me Han Qian, so how can I, Han Qian, disappoint them?" Han Qian said generously.

Of course, Han Qian said this in his mouth, and he couldn't wait to slap himself twice, secretly saying that he really wanted to save face and suffer the crime, but he thought that after negotiating the conditions, he would eventually allow Zhou Yi and others to independently lead troops to participate in the battle along the Danjiang River, and crossing the river to meet Zhou Yi and others at this time was essentially a considerable degree of risk.

No matter what Han Qian thought, his words made Tian Cheng and the others quite emotional; Li Chong and Yao Xishui, who rushed over to see the movement when they heard the news, pouted and were noncommittal when they heard Han Qian's words.