"Don't, Chief!" Liu Ge hurriedly stopped.

"Mizhou does not use swords, blood does not flow, the people are safe and sound, and your lordships have made great contributions. It is a good thing that Mizhou is attached to the Shandong Righteous Army, but Yao is a rough man and does not know how to govern the state capital, this official seal Liu Daren will receive it first, your official position will remain unchanged, Mizhou is still governed by you, I believe that soon, the festival will make the yamen have a formal appointment. ”

After Yao Chang finished speaking, he returned the official seal to Liu Ge, and then said to all the officials: "Here, I have another good news to tell you, the prefectures and counties that belong to the Shandong Righteous Army can be tax-exempt for three years, I hope everyone will spread this news throughout the state as soon as possible, so as to stabilize the people's hearts and resume agriculture and trade as soon as possible!" ”

"Thank you, Chief! If the people of Michigan learn this news, they will be able to stabilize immediately! When Liu Ge and the others heard this, they were all surprised, is this still a rebel? Do they want to do big things?

"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you. If you have any other requirements, please put it forward, and if you can do it, I can make the decision right away. Yao Chang glanced at the head of the city that was still on guard.

"Chief, in fact, we only have two requests, the first is that the righteous army should not kill innocents indiscriminately and rob the people's property when they enter the city, and the second Mi State can keep the army." Liu Ge looked at Yao Chang and said cautiously.

Yao Chang thought for a moment, and then replied: "Naturally, the rebels will not kill innocents indiscriminately, nor will they rob property, so you don't need to worry about this matter." But the retention of the army is debatable, since Mizhou is attached to the Shandong Righteous Army, the city defense of Mizhou should be managed by the Righteous Army, and the army in the city must join the Shandong Righteous Army, or disbanded on the spot, I will send an army to stay here to maintain the security of Mizhou. ”

"It's okay, it's good to have troops left behind to protect the safety of Michigan." Liu Ge saw that there was no room for negotiation, so he simply gave up.

"Let the defenders out of the city first, change the guard immediately, if there is anything else, let's go into the city, how about it?" Yao Chang said with a smile.

"Okay, okay, everything is up to the leader." Liu Ge responded, and then turned around and gave an order: "Tell General He and let him lead the army out of the city immediately!" ”

A quarter of an hour later, the defenders of Mizhou left the city empty-handed and lined up in the open space outside the city, waiting for the rebels to reorganize and receive them.

Then a rebel army entered the city and took over the defense of Mizhou City.

At this point, Mizhou was officially attached to the Shandong Righteous Army and was peacefully received.

In order not to affect the normal order of life in the city, after taking over Mizhou, only 3,000 rebels remained in the city, and the rest of the army were all camped outside the city.

But the delicate person still feels some subtle changes, although they can't be said for a while, the changes can be perceived.

Yao Chang and Liu Ge and other officials discussed in the city for more than an hour, and reached a consensus on the governance of Mizhou, the restoration of people's livelihood, and the supply of food and grass and equipment for the rebel army.

Half of the grain in the official warehouse in the city and the money and silver in the treasury were taken away by the rebels, and the rest was used as the daily expenses of the Mizhou government and the army, as for the nearly 30,000 sets of armor and countless weapons and ordnance piled up in the treasury for the waterway army to go south to Lin'an last year, all of them were transported outside the city to equip the Shandong rebels, and the rest were sent back to Yidu Mansion.

The original Mizhou garrison accepted the reorganization, and all of them joined the Shandong Righteous Army and were stationed in the camp of the Righteous Army.

After resting for two days, the 40,000-strong army set out from Mizhou and headed north to Anqiu.

After passing through Anqiu, it arrived in Weizhou.

As soon as the army arrived in Weizhou, before it arrived at the city of Weizhou, the governor of Weizhou took a group of officials out of the city for five miles to welcome the Shandong righteous army into the city.

After careful questioning, they learned that they had already learned everything that happened in Linyi and Mizhou in advance, so they followed Mizhou and took the initiative to join it.

Yao Chang, the official seal of Weizhou, did not receive it, but was still in charge of it themselves, and the official positions of the officials did not move, only the army defending the city was replaced by the righteous army, and then returned to Yidu west with the grain, grass, gold, silver and money dedicated to the Shandong righteous army.

On the way back to Yidu, many more rebels came to take refuge.

Although Yao Chang deliberately controlled the recruitment of the rebels, by the time they returned to Yidu on November 29, the size of the Shandong rebels had reached more than 50,000 men.

It is impossible for all 50,000 people to enter the city, and it is impossible to settle in the city.

After discussion, Shen Jin, Yao Chang, and Luo Cong decided to immediately take Zizhou, which is more than 100 miles away, as the garrison of the Zuofu of the Righteous Army, and garrison it with 30,000 troops, and the rest will be temporarily placed in Yidu, under the command of the Right Mansion.

Jiedu gave the military order, and the 50,000 troops immediately headed west, to Zizhou, a hundred miles away.

Zizhou is located between Yidu Mansion and Jinan Mansion, but it is slightly closer to Yidu Mansion, belongs to Shandong East Road, and is governed by Yidu Mansion.

On the morning of the third day, the vanguard of 50,000 rebels led by Yao Chang arrived outside the city of Zizhou.

Zizhou learned the news in advance, and the only east and west gates were closed at the same time, and the city was like a great enemy.

On the same day, most of the 50,000 rebels rushed to Zizhou, camped and rested two miles away from the east and west gates, and besieged Zizhou.

At the same time, the rebels sent spies to the direction of Jinan Mansion to monitor and probe the enemy's situation, and if a large number of reinforcements were dispatched from Jinan, they would have to make strategic adjustments in time.

Luo Cong sent people to explore Zizhou City for a long time, and there were also spies lurking in the city, and it had already been ascertained that there were only 3,000 defenders in the city, but they were more cautious, and the people who entered and left the city would be strictly searched, and once they found that there was a large number of people outside the city, the number of people reached about 100, and the city gate was immediately closed. And the total time to open the city gate in a day will not exceed one hour, the city gate will be opened at the earliest two o'clock every day, and the city gate will be closed at the latest three o'clock at the latest, and the city gate will not be opened outside this time range.

The city of Zizhou is not very tall, and there are not many defenders, if you want to attack it, 50,000 people can still attack it in one day, but the price of the attack will not be small, Yao Changda is unwilling to break the city in his heart, after all, once it is attacked, the losses of both sides will be very large.

At present, these rebels have never fought any other battles except for fighting hard with the defenders of Linyi under the city of Linyi, starting from Yinan and going to the city of Zizhou, there has never been a real battle, if they want to attack the city, the rebels who have no experience will not know what they will do and how many people they will lose.

On the starry night, Yao Chang sat alone in the camp for a long time, he was worried about the future and fate of the rebel army, these tens of thousands of people were personally pulled into the rebel army, including the 8,000 people brought from Liuqiu.

The task of the rebel army in Shandong is very heavy, not only to pacify Shandong, but more importantly, to take Jinan Mansion, but Jinan Mansion is surrounded by mountains and hills in the south, and the Yellow River is in the north and west, the geographical location is very important, the Jin people want to go north to exterminate Wanyan Yong in Liaoyang, and they will not hoard heavy troops to defend, and if they want to take it at that time, they must attack strongly, and 50,000 rebels who have no experience in big wars can storm Jinan Mansion?

Obviously, this is impossible, the price to be paid for storming a high city is very heavy, and the rebel army that has been put together temporarily cannot afford it, and maybe if the battle is lost, the rebel army will be separated.

But Jinan Mansion can't help but take it!

If Jinan Mansion is not taken, Shandong will not be able to smoothly connect with Bozhou, Suzhou, and Xuzhou, and it will not be able to attack Bianjing with the Song army from the east and north to recapture the Central Plains.

Yao Chang looked up at the night sky, full of stars, like eyes.

Famous generals throughout the ages may be in the sky, looking at the people under the city of Zizhou with their bright eyes.

If the Central Plains is not restored, what will they look like after their deaths to meet the countless ancestors who opened up the prosperous era of the Central Plains?

After a long time, Yao Chang finally made a decision.

In the morning, Yao Chang summoned all the generals and announced the order: "At noon today, storm Zizhou City!" ”

None of the generals were lucky, and as soon as they arrived at the city of Zizhou yesterday, they knew that it was difficult to persuade the city to surrender, and in the end there must be only a strong attack.

"Who wants to take the lead?"

"I'll take the lead!"

"I'll take the lead!"

"I'll take the lead!"

..........

Everyone is arguing, and they all want to win the first credit for the siege!

"Good! Since they all want to take the lead, then attack the city in half an hour and take turns! Yao Chang immediately made up his mind and trained his troops in this way.

The generals don't understand, why only attack for half an hour? Can't keep attacking until you take the city?

After someone asked, Yao Chang explained to them: "Zizhou City only has two gates, the east and west gates, the city gate is not more than two zhang wide, we have 50,000 people, Zizhou defenders 3,000 people, although the other side army is not much, but according to the city, it is much easier than raising your head to attack the city, and it is also much more labor-saving, and the siege of the city for half an hour, the physical consumption of the soldiers will be very large, if you do not retreat in time, I am afraid that there will be heavy casualties." Since we have an advantage in strength, if the 20th Army takes turns to attack the city, and each army attacks for half an hour, we can attack all day and night, and the soldiers will have plenty of time to rest and recover their strength. And the other party has few people, so he can only fight with all his might, without sleep, and in less than two days, he will inevitably collapse, and then Zizhou City will be ours! ”

With such an explanation, it will suddenly dawn on the people.

It turned out that the purpose of the siege was not to directly seize the city, but to use the advantage of troops to drag down the defenders in Zizhou City, force them to surrender or sacrifice the city, or wait for the other party to be exhausted, and then take the city in one fell swoop!

After the generals understood the siege intention, they immediately arranged the order of siege, and then quickly prepared siege equipment.

Just when the whole army was preparing to attack the city, the spies sent in the direction of Jinan Mansion sent back the news: the enemy army did not move at all, and everything was as usual.

Hearing this news, Yao Chang was completely relieved, if Jinan Mansion did not send a large army to rescue, he would not have to worry at all.

At that time, the Shandong righteous army used a strong bow to the city ** book, there are only 24 words in the book: before noon, the defenders go out of the city, you can avoid death, attack the city at noon, the people are sleeved, you can avoid death!

After all, the city of Zizhou is full of Han people, although they want to cling to the Jin people, if they don't give them a chance to live, no one in the righteous army will be happy, especially the ordinary people in the city.