After the victory, the number of horses in the descending army increased sharply, Tang Weitian liked cavalry, so he only recruited more than 1,500 people from the army, but to nearly 2,000 horses and a number of vehicles, Yang Mengjun and others thought that he was going to escort Xu Ji to Bingzhou, so he was satisfied with all the requests, and there was no second word.

Tang left 500 people to escort grain and grass for the day, and to protect the safety of Xu Ji, he took a thousand men and horses to run in front, and soon after setting off, he changed direction and went straight to Xijing, the road was surprisingly smooth, and none of the large and small towns he passed resisted, and they opened the door and surrendered.

The news of He Rongren's defeat had already spread, and everyone thought that this "descending army" was sent by the victorious army.

Qinzhou has been completely raided by the He Rong people after several wars, the population in the city is sparse, the big city is only a few thousand, some small cities are even empty, the door and wall are destroyed, only wild beasts are seen between the houses, and no human figures are seen.

Tang Weitian had to appease the people everywhere he went, let them straighten out their belongings, and go to Xijing with the subsequent descendant army, but he did not leave anyone to supervise, and he didn't care if someone was hiding or fleeing, he just left a message: "The descendant army rebuilt Xijing, and all the grain will be transported there in the future." ”

Xu Ji led 500 soldiers and the convoy to follow behind, along the road to collect the people, at the beginning there were few people willing to follow, seeing that there was food on the army cart of the descendant, it seemed that they would not rob their own property, more and more people joined the team, and when they were about to rush to Xijing, it had increased to five or six thousand people, most of them were a family, as few as three or four, and as many as dozens.

Xu Ji carefully accepted, selected the leader from the big clan, and then secretly observed, and promoted the person who acted fairly as an official.

Before He Rongren left, he set a fire in Xijing, burned down the city gate and a large number of houses in the city, and also chiseled a few gaps in the city wall, but he acted in a hurry, and the destruction was not complete.

There were no defenders in the city, and some civilians were hiding.

Xu Ji had already arranged, Tang Weitian did not enter the city immediately after arriving, but camped outside a city gate, and sent soldiers to tell the whole city: Tang Weitian, the general of Tiancheng Town and the governor of Qinzhou of the Incarnation Army, took over Xijing from today and ordered everyone to go to worship quickly.

Although the name was loud, the effect was not significant, and it took more than 100 people to come out of hiding and come over to bow to General Tang in fear.

Tang returned the salute for the world, and then let them all go, waiting for Xu Ji to arrive.

Xu Ji led him to elect new leaders along the way, and rushed to Xijing the next morning, these new leaders had a stronger appeal, and called out nearly 1,000 people on the same day, and then people came out every day, and finally reached more than 5,000 people - this is the entire population of Xijing, plus the people who followed all the way, just over 10,000, and most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled, and the victors were only two or three percent.

Even so, Xu Ji did not integrate these people into the army, but divided them into houses and fields, and let them take care of their families first.

Xijing occupies a wide area, the outer Guo and the inner city, which is larger than the eastern capital, Xu Ji chose to keep a better corner, divided the mansion completely, allowed the people to go to other places to demolish the broken walls, picked stones and trees to repair their own homes, and also encouraged everyone to open up land in the city to cultivate.

The deserted Xijing has a new life, but there is only one line, and there is a possibility of interruption at any time.

Only a few days after entering the city, Tang Weitian began to face the dilemma of lack of food, and the people in the city could barely support themselves and had no spare strength to support the soldiers.

Tang Weitian's most concerned thing was food, as soon as he heard that there was not much grain left, he was very anxious, and came to Xu Ji for advice: "I'll take the troops out for a walk, maybe I can find some food from the nearby city." ”

"Xijing is still ruined to this point, nowhere else will be better than here, you take the troops out, you can't find food, but disturb the Quartet. Listen to me, and send the princes of the people out of the city, and proclaim the four directions, and call more people to come. ”

"Still recruiting people? Then the grain is even more insufficient, and you will not allow me to collect food from the people. Tang Weitian was very reluctant.

Xu Ji said with a smile: "The people are the source, without the source, where will the water come from?" If you want to be a general, you can't just fight. ”

"But I really only fight."

"Don't worry, learn slowly."

Tang Weitian shook his head, "I can't learn, anyway, there is a son who is in charge here, and I will concentrate on fighting for you." ”

"I'm leaving soon."

"Huh?" Tang Weitian was taken aback, "Where is Childe going?" ”

"And the state."

"So what do I do? I have to go with you, I can't stay in this hellish place. Alas, one of my biggest dreams when I was a child was to be able to come to Xijing for a day of shopping, not buying anything, just hanging out, and now that I am here, Xijing is like this - alas. ”

"You have to stay." Xu Ji said solemnly.

"Why?" Tang Weitian was not convinced.

"Because you are strong in martial arts, you are unparalleled in the world."

Tang Weitian grinned, "Childe is really good at complimenting people, but I still don't understand why I want to stay in Xijing." ”

"If a person like you stays under someone else's account, at most he is only a fierce general, and if he is strong, you still have a place to play, and if he is weak, you can't do anything, but he will suffer from it."

"Childe is right, when guarding Hanzhong City, He Rong had many soldiers, I didn't have any way, I was suffocated in the city, and General Tie just didn't allow me to go out."

"He's protecting you, but he can't reuse you."

"The Golden Saintess and the Fierce Army General can't either?"

"No, the two of them are already at the end of the crossbow, after pacifying Liangzhou, they must recuperate and rest, and if they have no heart to expand, they won't need your ability."

"Only Childe can use me."

"Neither can I."

"And who can use me?"

"So you have to stay in Xijing, gather the people, hold the city, and if you have a good harvest this autumn, then you can send troops to Xunding County next year, and according to my estimate, you can capture at least half of Qinzhou. Then sit and watch the events in the Central Plains, watch the ups and downs of the heroes, choose the person you like to defect, and at least the fate of the marquis in the future. ”

Tang Weitian smirked twice, "Can I still be a marquis?" How astonished my father and mother would have been if they heard it. ”

"But you have to keep two things in mind."

"Well, I must remember what Childe confessed."

"First, do not compete with the people for profit, you must do everything possible to gather the people, and while the day is still there, you will reclaim the famine in the city, but before the harvest, you must not levy or rob grain, nor abuse the people's power, and then repair the walls and gates when the farmers are idle."

"Remembered." Tang Weitian nodded.

"Second, don't raise troops without permission, if someone is willing to join the army, you can accept it, but don't send troops out this year, concentrate on defending the city, there are people who come to fight, just drive them away, don't chase them, everything will have to wait until next year."

"Oh, concentrate on defending the city, I remember it too. But...... I don't have any food, so tighten my belt, and I can last for more than ten days at most. The full-bellied soldiers are easy to manage, and the hungry soldiers can't be suppressed even if they are immortals. ”

"I will find you another batch of grain, you have to think of more ways yourself, if it doesn't work, you would rather kill horses for food than rob the people of surplus food, whether Xijing can be revived depends on this."

"I don't rob, but I don't want to kill horses, it is said that there are a lot of wild beasts outside the city, can I take people to hunt?"

"Yes, in short, I will send you as much food and grass as possible, so that you can last this year, and next year you will have to rely on yourself."

"No problem." Tang Weitian was simple-minded, and it was easy to be boosted by morale, but he didn't expect how difficult it would be to stand on his own.

In the afternoon of the same day, Xu Ji invited more than ten leaders among the people, most of whom were elderly, to formally introduce them to General Tang and serve as officials.

Among the people, there are several former officials, Xu Ji did not use them, and reminded Tang Weitian not to use them: "Xijing is just rising, people's hearts are unstable, everything needs to be simple, and the old officials have many rules, which is easy to cause civil unrest, at least this year, they must not be used." ”

"I won't use it in the future." Tang Weitian has not liked old officials since he was a child.

Xu Ji was about to leave the next day, Tang Weitian couldn't keep it, so he had to set up a banquet to see him off, and invited Princess Fangde to toast: "I changed my previous statement, the Zhang family is not all bad people, and the princess is very good." Childe handed it over to you, but the two of you are just as weak, and you don't know who takes care of whom. In short, Childe is a smart person, and you are not stupid, you will definitely be able to figure out a way, and you don't need me to be verbose......"

Tang Weitian was verbose for a long time, and the more he talked, the more he didn't know what to say, Zhang Shiqing listened with a smile, "Understand, I'll drink this glass of wine and talk about my heart." ”

"That's what I mean!" Tang was overjoyed and drank it all first.

Zhang Shiqing also drank all the wine in the cup, and the two of you pushed the cup to change the lamp, and drank to the fullest, and Xu Ji was a spectator on the side.

Tang Weitian drank more, and finally said with a big tongue: "Don't say anything else, just about drinking, you still need the princess to take care of the princess - hey, one is the princess, the other is the son, you two are very fateful." ”

Zhang Shiqing couldn't stop laughing, but after saying goodbye, he said to Xu Ji: "Do you really want to leave him alone in Xijing?" ”

"Hmm."

"You're so daring."

"See how lucky he is." Xu Ji said with a smile.

The two of them went back to the room to rest, and set off on horseback early the next morning, only Ma Jin and other more than ten people guarded, Tang Weitian was sent thirty miles away before he was willing to turn around, and vowed: "I will keep in mind the instructions of the son, never send troops this year, and the farthest from the city is not more than thirty miles." ”

Xu Ji and his party went north, and a few days later they happened to meet the Jizhou army on the way home.

Yin Fu and Xu Ji had already made an appointment to meet the place, so they waited for a day, and they were very happy to meet, and said with a smile: "Mr. Xu really can't be idle, so he actually took the time to go to Xijing." ”

Yin Fu is quite knowledgeable, he has no idea now, and he has no spare strength to occupy Qinzhou, so he does not make any evaluation of Xu Ji's unexpected move, when Xu Ji proposed to borrow grain, he was also very generous, allocated a team of people, and made a special trip to Tang Weitian to send grain and grass, at least enough for him to support another month or two.

The battle in Liangzhou was very smooth, as Xu Ji expected, the army pressed the border, Liangzhou was immediately in chaos, the king of Qiang led his troops to retreat south, and the soldiers and people of the capital released the old king of Liang, and refused to accept Yang Mengzhi into the city behind closed doors.

When the Jizhou army left, Yang Mengjun had already led his troops into the city, and it was his own business to expel the Qiang soldiers and arrest Yang Mengzhi in the future.

Yin Fu sighed a lot, "I heard that Mr. Xu wrote a letter of resignation to Jin Shengnu, it's really ...... Everyone didn't expect it, it's really irretrievable? ”

In fact, there are two divorce letters, one for the wife and one for the husband.

Xu Ji replied: "The Golden Holy Maiden is unladylike, I shouldn't delay her anymore." ”

"Hehe, the Golden Holy Maiden's statement is similar to this." Yin Fu didn't ask any more questions, set up a banquet to wash the dust for Xu Ji, and saw the generals all over the place, and when he talked alone again, he said: "Yang Tongcai has been getting more and more domineering recently, and he has begun to compete for merit before he has rushed back to Jizhou. ”

"Tomorrow you can do it."

"So fast?" Yin Fu was taken aback.

"If Yang Tongcai enters the state, it will inevitably be bad. Please do what I want. ”