As soon as the school affairs were dispatched, the whole city was shocked.

They questioned and searched all suspicious people and things in the city. The craftsmen and civilian servants involved were temporarily detained one after another without knowing the truth, and the prison that had just been expanded in Luoyang City was overcrowded; Some of the courtiers and celebrities who were listed as key targets were secretly watching them day and night outside the mansions; Hearing the news, the school affairs began to lurk in the streets and alleys, scattering around to arrest those who spread rumors······

Even the original Henan Yin Mansion where the Son of Heaven is located has installed a lot of school affairs dressed in black armor, responsible for monitoring the daily life and diet of the young Son of Heaven, it is said that even when the Son of Heaven and the queen are sleeping, there is a pair of hidden eyes secretly staring outside.

Zhou Liang's tough methods of school affairs not only required high human and material costs, but also aroused a lot of opposition from the government and the opposition, and even Pei Qian, Wei Kai and others under Yan Xing's command tactfully pointed out to Yan Xing that what Zhou Liang did was too much.

It's just that these objections were all suppressed by Yan Xing.

The court sent to Tongguan to confer the title of Duan Xuan Tianzi Jieyue has arrived, and the baggage and grain in the rear have been ready, and the army of the Western Expedition has been pulled out as scheduled.

Yan Xing, who is sitting in Luoyang City, must ensure the stability of the rear, and everything is running in an orderly manner.

However, Yan Xing, who had an unfavorable year in the second half of the year, soon encountered new challenges.

Hongnong County sent Yu Yu Fei to report that there was a big chaos in Hongnong County.

Zhang Sheng, the powerful man of Hongnong County, because he disobeyed many government decrees such as Hedong Suppression and Annexation, Official Salt and Iron, openly pulled the flag and rebelled, taking advantage of Duan Xuan's departure from the county, and the Hedong officials were just preparing to take over Hongnong's gap, gathering family soldiers, coercing the women and children of the soldiers, killing the officials, and causing chaos in the county, which caused an uproar.

Zhang Sheng is not a wise man who judges the situation, and most of his subordinates are rabble, but this small-scale rebellion, which was originally triggered by the transfer of power in Hedong Hongnong, still caused a lot of waves at this important juncture.

After Yan Xing got the report, the original intention was to immediately send Yan Xing, Cao Yuan and other generals to lead the soldiers and horses from Hedong to cross the river into Hongnong to quell the rebellion, but Xi Zhicai and other advisers suggested that Yan Xing should go into battle in person and command the soldiers and horses to extinguish the thieves.

First, it was Yan Xing who was close to him, which could stabilize the rear of the Western Expedition army, and also better stabilize the heart of Duan Xuan, the commander of the army. Second, although Zhou Liang's methods are effective, they are seriously criticized, and it is best for Yan Xing to leave Luoyang before the school affairs investigate these big cases, so that those gossips will lose their target, and it can also reduce the negative impact of school affairs on him, a hussar general.

After fully considering the opinions of Xi Zhicai and other advisers, Yan Xing finally decided to personally lead the army to Hongnong, so after handing over the affairs of Luoyang to Pei Qian, Wei Qi, Jia Kui, Zhou Liang and others, he led 3,000 soldiers and horses and rushed to Hongnong to quell the rebellion with Xi Zhicai, Xun You, Du Ji, Zheng Hun, Pei Juan and other Peng Shi.

It's just that he didn't know that when the soldiers and horses of Luoyang were dispatched to quell the chaos, east of Chenggao, Yecheng in Hebei Province and Changyi in Yanzhou, a large number of soldiers and horses were also drawn and drove to their respective destinations one after another.

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Xia June, Zuo Fengyi, Huang Baicheng.

Drunk lying in the lobby, Li Dao, who was not wearing a robe and belt, and had an open chest and belly, woke up slowly, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he touched the cold wine jar beside him, and the smell of cold wine mixed with a little female rouge stimulated him to wrinkle his nose, open his still blurred eyes, and turn his head to look around.

He didn't remember how many nights it had been in the lobby.

As long as he thought about it for a while, Li Wei, who was drunk all night, felt a splitting headache, and his body was weak and unable to lift his strength, so he could only lie down in the hall for a while and gasp.

"Wang Chang, Wang Chang!!"

Li Wei roared impatiently the names of the tiger guards beside him, and after a while, Wang Chang, the tiger guard outside the hall in armor and holding soldiers, trotted in as before.

"Help me up first!"

Li Wei, who had a haggard face, had a trace of sobriety in his mind, and first asked Wang Chang to help him up, and then slowly spoke:

"What day is it?"

"General, today is June Gengzi."

"June Gengzi?"

Li Wei frowned and muttered, he calculated for a while, only to know that it was already the sixth day of the sixth month of June, which means that he had been drunk and crazy in the lobby for more than half a month, and it had been a month since Ma Teng's army besieged the city.

"Is this Ma Teng determined to take Naigong's life, it's already June, and he won't withdraw from the army?"

Li Wei thought that Ma Teng's army had been besieged under Huangbai City for a month, and he didn't have any intention of withdrawing the army at all, and it was clear that he was going to fight himself to the end, so he couldn't help cursing in his heart.

May and June are the hottest times of the year, and the garrison of the army is not as comfortable as resting at home, and staying under the fortified city without shade and rivers all day long is boring and arduous, not only will the morale of the soldiers decay, and the horses will lose their fat and lose their strength, but also easily induce all kinds of common diseases in the army, and sometimes a small disease spreads, which will bring ruin to a large army.

Therefore, even in the turbulent times of continuous flames and no wars, it is not always fighting. All sides will concentrate their troops in spring and autumn, and as for summer and winter, the vast majority of time will be spent resting and recuperating and recuperating in the army.

Unless it is a decisive battle to the death, the war between the two sides will be protracted for many years, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the battle will continue until one side is destroyed.

Ma Tengjun's current attempt to besiege Huangbaicheng and not withdraw is obviously determined to annihilate the remnants of Li Dao here at all costs.

Thinking of this, Li Wei's mouth was full of bitterness, once upon a time, he was also a first-class separatist force in the Guanzhong, looking down on the world, and he never imagined that he would fall into such a situation today, not only trapped in a lonely city, but even a defeated general like Ma Teng could be aggressive in front of him.

It's just that in the face of this dilemma, Li Wei, whose children and family members have withered away, and the elite soldiers have lost everything, can't raise any fighting spirit to resist, so he can only lie drunk in this hall day after day, not listening to the sound and horn outside the hall, choosing to use wine women to kill time, making himself numb, and forgetting everything around him that is out of place and painful.

It's just that no matter how much you escape from the illusory bliss of wine, you can't avoid the arrival of reality after all, and after waking up, Li Dao will still vaguely ask about the internal and external military situation, and then curse and complain in the wine until the wine soaks himself again.

At least in Wang Chang's view, Li Dao's inquiry today is no different from the whims of the past.

"How many more days will the military rations in the city last?"

"General...

"Well, can't you support it for a few days?"

"The general probably forgot that as early as last month, the soldiers in the army were already slaughtering war horses to satisfy their hunger."

Wang Chang's voice became deeper and lower, and Li Wei, who was sitting in the hall, looked up at him, and then vaguely remembered that what Wang Chang said seemed to have been asked once last month.

"Oh, so that's the case, then ,,, help me out first."

Li Wei opened his mouth wide, tilted his ears sideways, and it took a long time before he finally admitted the fact that he had to face after waking up, and he unexpectedly ordered that he wanted Wang Chang to support him who was weak and went out of the hall to take a look.

In the past, after learning that the situation in the city was getting worse, Li Dao would only ask Wang Chang to find him wine again, and use the wine to help him forget all this again.

"Let's go, let's see."

Li Dao, who had an inexplicable premonition, waved his hand and struggled to get up, Wang Chang saw this and hurriedly reached out to help, Li Dao said with a smile, then straightened up and walked towards the door, although his armor and weapons were no longer on his body.

It's a pity that Li Dao, who walked to the entrance of the lobby, didn't have time to go outside to take a look this time, and he heard a piercing horn sound, which was denser and closer than before.

"General, this-"

Wang Chang heard the potential danger of this horn sound, his face changed instantly, and he wanted to hold a spear in his hand and rush out to check, but he was tightly grasped by Li Dao, who suddenly showed strength.

"Don't worry, listen to this trumpet, it's only near the city gate."

Li Wei said with a smile, and after a pause, he said lightly.

"You'll have to get me something more this time, I want enough wine, and more dry firewood and grass.

There was already a great chaos in the Yellow and White City, and the hungry defenders had given up resistance, opened the city gates, and put the Ma Teng army into the city.

The horns in the city sounded one after another, some people were scattering and fleeing, some people knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and some people chose to resist stubbornly, but no soldiers ran to the mansion to report to Li Dao, who had not seen his subordinates for many days, and no one would turn around and run to the mansion desperately to protect Li Dao.

Ma Teng's army almost easily killed the city, and Ma Chao even personally led the army to rush outside Li Wei's mansion.

It's just to his surprise that the Li Wei guards, who were expected to retreat to the mansion and resist stubbornly, disappeared without a trace at this time, only in the lobby of the deep house, there were jumping flames and fluttering black smoke.

After Wang Chang brought a lot of dry firewood and hay one after another, Li Dao only said, "It's not early, you should hurry up and run for your life!" He turned around and walked into the lobby without saying a word.

Wang Chang was stunned for a moment, and when he heard the approaching shouting of killing, he choked back tears, and after bowing to the hall, he hurriedly ran in other directions.

Since then, when they came to the mansion, it was no longer the loyal and upright Wang Chang, but Ma Chao and others who were holding swords and killing red-eyed.

It's just that what makes Ma Chao particularly depressed is that the fire in the hall has been ignited, the smoke is full of smoke, and the smoke chokes people, and the soldiers can no longer rush into the hall, he can only see through the jumping flames, and see a figure in the hall that is engulfed in flames, lamenting and howling like a ghost:

"The boy is a poor worm, and he goes out with death worries. The head hair is depraved, and the grass is flying. Today is the public, just help you and other people to make a name for themselves in this troubled world! ”