August 20, Xichuan Province.

After a two-month break, Guo Yu, who was the political affairs of Pingzhang in Xichuan Province, couldn't help but lead the 20,000 elites under his command and the more than 20,000 new subordinate soldiers who surrendered and reorganized, a total of 40,000 troops, and killed Tongchuan Mansion in a mighty way.

And in the face of this terrible offensive of the Chu army in Xichuan Province with almost all its might, Yuanmeng Xichuan Pingzhang Langge had the heart to resist.

But without the barrier of An Yue, morale is extremely low. As Yuanmeng Xichuan Pingzhang, Lang Ge can really be described as "having the intention to kill the thief, but he has no power to return to the sky".

As the army of Chu pressed the border and reached the city of Suining, in just three days, Suining Prefecture could not help but be conquered by Guo Yu in one fell swoop.

And Lang Ge, who guarded Suining, ended up with a pitiful end that was only spared, and fled west from Suining into Jianzhou in embarrassment.

However, this time, Guo Yu, who was full of armor and abundant food and grass, did not give Lang Ge any respite to them.

On the second day of the first month of September, after conquering Suining Prefecture in one fell swoop. This army with high morale couldn't help but be under the leadership of Guo Yu, so it couldn't help but go directly to the west in the direction of Jianzhou and slaughtered the past.

"This time, I should conquer the capital in one fell swoop, and with all the kings, I will repay the victory and praise the king!"

With such thoughts, the next war is self-evident.

Therefore, at this time, let's not talk about the war on the Xichuan side, and let us turn our attention to Shaanxi Province in the north.

After leaving Xiangyang on August 18 and heading north, after a long journey of half a month, Wei Tao and others finally rushed to Shangzhou City, Shaanxi Province, with the 50,000 stone grain and grass needed for the transaction.

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"Generals, generals have come from afar, and it is really hard. I am already in the city, and I have people prepare the best food and drinks for the generals. If the generals don't dislike it, you can allow someone to do the friendship of the landlord. ”

Ten miles outside Shangzhou City, Ao Ji, who greeted Wei Tao and others, introduced each other to Wei Tao and others and exchanged greetings, he looked at Wei Tao and others with a smile on his face, and couldn't help but invite like this.

And hearing Ao Ji's words, Wei Tao and the others, who were guests from afar, couldn't help but nod their heads and agreed.

After all, because the number of people and grain and grass is too large, it will take at least two or three days to complete the liquidation. So taking the time to have a meal will not delay this matter.

However, although Wei Tao agreed to Ao Ji's invitation, he did not let 3,000 soldiers and horses and tens of thousands of people enter Shangzhou City.

As he Wei Tao had explained to his subordinates before, in addition to completing the task and bringing back the 10,000 Dingkou people smoothly, Wei Tao didn't want to make any extraneous branches.

Therefore, this large army of more than 13,000 people could not help but be stationed ten miles away from Shangzhou City.

And Wei Tao, Yi Shan, Yu Wenge and other generals also drove into the city of Shangzhou with dozens of knights and followers Ao Ji.

"Hehe, it's not as good as Gangneung in the south. Because it is located in the northern country, it also has frequent wars. Compared with the state capital under Dachu, Shangzhou is poorer. ”

When Ao Ji took Wei Tao and others into Shangzhou City, and saw Wei Tao and others entering the city, they looked around from time to time, curiously looking at this Shaanxi Province city they had first come into contact with. Ao Ji's face couldn't help but squeeze out a smile, and said it like this.

And hearing Ao Ji's words, and then looking at this cold and dilapidated, it is not like a state government but like some kind of poor and remote Shangzhou City. Wei Tao and the others looked at each other, and silently slandered Ao Ji's sophistry in their hearts, and they couldn't help but withdraw their gaze.

As for Ao Ji, perhaps because of this, he felt a little embarrassed, so he couldn't help but be silent along the way.

It wasn't until everyone rode the war horses under their crotches that they came all the way to a mansion in the city that occupied a large area and was quite exquisitely built. A smile couldn't help but appear on Ao Ji's face again, "Generals, we're here." Come, everybody, please! ”

"Hey, don't dare, don't dare. General Ao, as a landlord, entertain us and others, please be the first. "There is a way to reach out and not hit people with smiling faces, no matter whether you can afford to look at Ao Ji who is a bit of a thief from the inside out. But on the surface, Wei Tao is not lacking in the number of courtesies that should be there.

So just like this, after the two pushed each other, Ao Ji entered the courtyard first, and Wei Tao and the others followed.

And when Wei Tao and his entourage walked into this mansion, they couldn't help but see that the courtyard was full of more than a dozen tables of wine and food.

The dishes are all large meats, and there are few light dishes.

However, these are obviously only prepared for the soldiers who came with them, and as for Ao Ji and Wei Tao and others, it is obviously impossible to dine here in the open air.

So after smiling and letting the entourage soldiers who came with Wei Tao and others sit down one after another, Ao Ji couldn't help but take Wei Tao and others and went straight to the main hall of the main house.

And wait for the group to come to the lobby. Sure enough, when you look at it, you can't help but find that there is also a table of wine and food in the lobby, and compared with the banquets outside, this table in the room is undoubtedly more exquisite.

But to be honest, although it is more delicate than the monotonous meat outside, the exquisite ones are also limited.

Except for some local characteristics of Shaanxi Province, there is nothing outstanding about it.

Even in the opinion of Wei Tao and others, if you talk about the chef's craftsmanship alone, this table of wine and food is not as good as the slightly better restaurant in Jiangling.

The only thing that is a little eye-catching is the ladies of Shaanxi Province who are timidly standing next to the table.

Obviously, for this reception, Ao Ji also did his best.

As for whether Wei Tao and others will refuse, heh, there is a way that "the nature of people who eat color".

As the high-level generals of the Chu army, although Wei Tao and others, who are already considered to know righteousness and etiquette, are much higher in quality than their counterparts in the other righteous army, they are not ascetics after all, and they will naturally not refuse what they should enjoy.

So this time, it can be regarded as a joy for the guests and hosts.

But Wei Tao and others obviously will not forget the business because of this, and the next day, outside Shangzhou City, the inventory and trading of people and grain and grass will begin.

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"General Ao, you see, this is the first batch of 50,000 stone grain, a lot of stone, all here." Ten miles southeast of Shangzhou City, among the three thousand Chu soldiers and tens of thousands of Chu soldiers and tens of thousands of Chu people's husbands were stationed, Wei Tao couldn't help but take Ao Ji and let him see this batch of grain piled up like a small hill first.

"Yes, yes!" Seeing the entire 50,000 stone of grain in front of his eyes like this, the powerful impact brought by this intuitive feeling couldn't help but make Ao Ji feel a sense of excitement and indescribable.

After swallowing a mouthful of spit, and after saying hello twice, he couldn't help but look at Wei Tao beside him and said, "General Wei, General Wei has worked hard." General Wei, let my subordinates count the grain and grass first, and I will take you, General Wei, to the west of the city to see those individual people. ”

"Haha, good, good." In this regard, Wei Tao naturally has no opinion.

Hurriedly smiled and said hello, and couldn't help but bring three hundred soldiers and horses for counting the people, and followed Ao Ji to the west of the city.

The west of the city is the temporary resettlement place of Ao Ji after gathering a whole 10,000 families and people.

A total of 10,000 households, nearly 40,000 unorganized and undisciplined people who had lost their homes, and even did not know where they were going, were hastily driven to the west of the city by Ao Ji with soldiers and horses.

Therefore, it is self-evident what kind of situation the west of the city is now.

The negative effects of a series of bad human clusters, such as chaos, disorder, and violence, can be said to be full of this dirty and messy shack settlement.

Sewage flows, flies flying, and feces everywhere are not an exaggeration for this shack site.

So much so that when Wei Tao looked at this resettlement site from a distance, he thought that this was a good garbage dump.

"These foolish women don't understand anything, they don't know anything, so it's really hard to manage. This, I hope General Wei, you don't be surprised. Seeing Wei Tao's undisguised disgust on his face. Over there, Ao Ji laughed, and couldn't help but excuse himself like this.

However, hearing Ao Ji's words, Yu Wenge, a young and vigorous brigade general who came with Wei Tao, couldn't help but be a little angry at this time, because after Ao Ji's words fell, he couldn't help but sneer: "Foolish people and foolish women are not easy to manage, is the management that General Ao said just to let his soldiers drive this group of people together."

This kind of management is really eye-opening! ”

"......" Suddenly hearing the words of the brigade general Yu Wenge, Ao Ji smiled on his face, and his face couldn't help but be a little hot.

Yu Wenge's words can be said to be nakedly mocking him, but he can't help it.

After a trip to Jiangling as an envoy, he had an incomparably deep understanding of the strength of Great Chu. Knowing that if he annoyed Da Chu, in order to calm the anger of Da Chu, Cui De and Li Wu definitely didn't mind that their heads would apologize to Da Chu.

But after all, it's on someone else's turf. So although Ao Ji looked embarrassed and didn't have a seizure, over there, Wei Tao still took care of his face.

"Presumptuous! The one who gave you the audacity to dare you to talk like this to General Ao is really against you! Wei Tao couldn't help but smile at Ao Ji, who looked embarrassed: "This kid is young and rude, when I go back, I will definitely teach him a good lesson, and please don't be surprised by General Ao." ”

"Hehe, nothing, nothing." gave Wei Tao to him a step down, and Ao Ji also chose to get off the donkey down the slope.

But even so, Ao Ji lost his enthusiasm for the next moment, and just took Wei Tao and them to the shack resettlement site, and handed over a book of people who had just been compiled to Wei Tao, and then found an excuse to stop caring about anything else.

And in this regard, Wei Tao and others didn't care much about it.

Anyway, Wei Tao also brought enough people this time, even without Ao Ji's assistance, relying on Wei Tao alone to count and organize these tens of thousands of people, it was only a matter of three or five days.

No, after taking over the population from Ao Ji's hands, Wei Tao waved his hand, and he couldn't help but divide two hundred capable knights under his account.

Immediately after that, the two hundred capable knights rode into this shack gathering place. After entering this gathering place, they divided into twenty teams and rode horses and marched through the gathering place.

And whenever you see those who fight, steal and even rape ** women in the parade, without saying a word, splitting your head and covering your face is a whip.

Especially the evil people who rape ** women and bully the old and the young, they are beaten by these capable knights one by one and are not human.

It only took more than half an hour, and the tens of thousands of people in this shack couldn't help but become in awe when they looked at this group of black-armored knights.

Then, the tens of thousands of people in this shack couldn't help but hear these black-armored knights they had never seen before, shouting at them in a very authentic Shaanxi provincial dialect: "Don't be afraid, folks, we are all pawns of Dachu, and we have come to show you a way out for the villagers on the order of the king."

At present, Shaanxi Province is in constant turmoil, and life is difficult to continue. And the king of my family has always had a benevolent heart, so he ordered General Ao Ji to gather the villagers here, so that the villagers can move to Dachu in the near future and live a stable and prosperous life! ”

"What!"

Hearing the words of the knights, these tens of thousands of people who lived in the shacks like headless flies finally understood what Ao Ji had driven them here for.

In the future, the chaos that had just been suppressed by these Chu army knights couldn't help but spread out in a stronger attitude.

"We are all Shaanxi people, and we will die in Shaanxi Province, how can we run to the land of Laoshi Zichu and be a lonely ghost!" Under the influence of the relocation of the land and the departure of people from their hometowns, some people shout like this from time to time.

Therefore, under the influence of this emotion, many of the people in this gathering place began to flee in a swarm, and some of them were so bold that they even launched an attack on the black-armored knights in the shack, trying in vain to grab a war horse and escape.

But, this is obviously sad futile work.

Because outside the shack, in order to guard this group of people to reach a perfect deal with Da Chu, Ao Ji laid down 3,000 heavily armed soldiers and horses around him.

Therefore, when these people wanted to escape, the 3,000 soldiers and horses scattered around could not help but attack them immediately.

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! The ruthless arrows shot at the unarmed people of Shaanxi Province who were wearing only a single coat and were unarmed. Then, the sound of blood splattering and heart-rending screams resounded inside and outside the shack.

Seeing this, it was like the people of Shaanxi Province who had been poured a basin of ice water, and under such a massacre, a blood and courage could not help but dissipate without a trace.