The north wind is howling, and the cold air in the city is pressing. After the surrender of Su Wei, the defender of the city, the defenders of the city also began to lay down their arms and surrender one by one. In an instant, hundreds of troops marched in, and the sound of footsteps and horses' hooves resounded through the streets of Rencheng, and all the streets were blocked, and all places were inventoried.

Of the 7,000 defenders, more than 3,000 were killed, and the rest surrendered, while the Shanyang army also paid the price of more than 1,500 men. Although if it was only for the purpose of besieging the city, it might not have killed so many people. But Zhao Xun did not regret it, what he hoped to see was the elite who could fight together. After this time, the soldiers who were divided into three major areas in the army also began to merge.

For the Shanyang army to enter the city, the people in the city were not afraid. It's just that the Shanyang Army told the people to stay at home for the time being, waiting for the entire city to be cleared, and then they will contact the ban.

"Orders are sent down, bans are put up, notices are posted, and civil officials are allowed to take over government affairs and be responsible for pacifying the people of the city."

"Someone, herald! Send someone to contact the merchants in the city and ask them to sell their goods, which must be done at the market price. Those who dare to hoard goods, disrupt the market, and make money indiscriminately will raid their homes and exterminate their families! ”

"Someone, herald! Immediately send someone to contact the gentry of the big clans in the city, and ask them to hand over their private affairs immediately, and those who do not hand it over will be killed. We are going to sell a batch of grain and our army in the amount we have set for them, and let them come to the government to report the amount of the fields, and those who do not come will have all the land confiscated. Anything that is illegally obtained shall be owned by the government. At the same time, the government was willing to pay for the land it was selling. In addition, from now on, we will not recognize any land transactions made by individuals or families other than the government. ”

Returning to the county office with Su Wei, Zhao Xun hurriedly ordered. And the civilian officials began to count the account books and treasury of the county government long before Zhao Xun issued the military order.

After a detailed discussion, Zhao Xun learned that this Su Wei power is not small, but it is not only the general of the 10,000 government army stationed in the back road of the Shanyang army in the past, and now it is the general of the 10,000 government army stationed in Rencheng and Guide City, but also the head of the Shunzhou government army, commanding all the troops in Songzhou Mansion. Although there are only less than a thousand defenders in many places, with Su Wei, Zhao Xun can take these places without blood. Of course, the premise is that Solvay is willing to cooperate.

"General Su, I want to quickly take the land of Guiyang, Shangqiu, and Kangfu in the north, and let the people here avoid the suffering of war as soon as possible. However, I am afraid that if the defenders resist too much, it will cause bad spearheads for our army and the local people. Besides, I don't want to be everywhere I go. Now that General Su is here, he can be relieved of this worry, and General Su needs to contribute. Zhao Xun smiled and said his plan directly.

Su Wei hurriedly said: "The general of the defeated army does not dare to be called a general." The general is kind-hearted and admires him. I also understand the general's worries. In the next Zeng Zeng as the town guard of Songzhou Mansion, he must still be able to contribute. In these places, the face can still play a role. Of course, wherever the general's army went, all places dared to disagree. The message was only to reassure the officers of the defending army. ”

Su Wei knew his position very well, and it seemed that the other party was kind to talk, but he would not forget his identity. He was still a captive, and he was not a prisoner of low rank. If you can't have a good watch, you may be able to use it to sacrifice the flag at that time. Therefore, in front of Zhao Xun, he could only put on a lower posture and play his role.

Zhao Xun stroked his palms and smiled: "General Su is really a benevolent and righteous person, I think that the people from all over the Songzhou Mansion will eventually be grateful to General Su for saving them from a single killing." ”

"Our army now has to carry out conquests in various places, and it is difficult to count and deal with the prisoners who surrendered in various places in a timely manner, and now I have set up an envoy to watch the army, which is responsible for the handling of the surrendered soldiers, as well as the statistics of the surrendered soldiers who are willing to join our army, and the inspection of the defeated troops in various places and the tables of the released surrendered soldiers on the locality. But I still lack a person in charge, is General Su willing to assist? With General Su here, these soldiers will definitely not make any trouble, and at the same time, it will also facilitate better communication between my subordinates and these soldiers. Zhao Xun said slowly.

Su Wei breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, knowing that the other party would not do anything to him again. You must know that he is the chief general in charge of the 10,000 government troops and more than 6,000 county soldiers in Shunzhou Prefecture, and he has a great influence on the surrender of soldiers in various places. He is not afraid that the other party will deal with his hidden danger first. Now that the other party has asked him to deal with some things that have no real power, he can relax his mind.

"The general has an order, how can his subordinates not obey." said and respectfully saluted Zhao Xun.

Zhao Xun saw it, smiled slightly, and nodded secretly in his heart. As for Su Wei's cousin, he was still quite satisfied. If the other party doesn't know each other, or makes a gesture, he will not give the other party an official position, but a butcher's knife.

Jiyin Mansion, after taking the Jiyin Mansion Governance Office, the base camp of the Yanzhou Mansion Army, and Xu Jie's lair, several counties in the west quickly got the news. Before they could figure out how to deal with it, the Shanyang Army's big move had already been killed.

The western counties of Jiyin Mansion are connected to Songzhou Mansion in the south, Chengyang and other places in the north, and then to the west is the jurisdiction of the Xiaoguo Army, Jizhou. Because of the new policy in Jizhou, many people in the western part of Jiyin Mansion have moved to Jizhou in order to settle down in Jizhou. In order to prevent all the people under his rule from entering the territory of others, Xu Jie also issued a blockade order, and anyone who entered and exited the border without permission would be severely punished. Therefore, the people of the western counties do not have a high degree of recognition of Xu Jie. Of course, the most important thing is naturally because of the battle between Xu Jie and the Wu Wei Army, which makes him unstoppable. Soldiers and horses money and food, this is not just a matter of talking, in the final analysis, all the money and food of soldiers and horses come from the people.

In the past year, in order to achieve the desire to defeat the Wuwei army and become the lord of Yanzhou, Xu Jie still increased taxes three times in his jurisdiction, causing many people to be displaced. Therefore, bandits, bandits, and bandits also rose up one after another, and most of them were poor people who had no way to live. This time the Shanyang Army entered the country, and these rogues were also the targets of the Shanyang Army's cleanup, and they were all exterminated except for surrender. As for those who have committed the most heinous crimes, they are only the first sins to be pursued. In just four or five days, more than a dozen bandits surrendered, and more than 30 people who were wanted by the government and committed heinous crimes were handed over, and all of them were beheaded by the people under their command to avoid crimes. In addition, it was also forcibly destroyed by the Sanyang Army more than ten occupied cottages.

Especially since Xu Jie's war with the Wuwei army in Luzhou Mansion, there were heavy losses at the beginning, which made Xu Jie's looting of places more strict. Another reason is also related to the Shanyang Army, the loss of Yanzhou Mansion, a wealthy mansion, has made the burden borne by other prefectures much heavier. Therefore, in addition to the main city, the towns and villages in various places hated the Yanzhou government army very much. Especially some of the soldiers of the Yanzhou Mansion Army, those who were stationed in other places by Xu Jie, were almost like bandits. The generals who led the troops clearly asked for food, and the soldiers below ate and looted along the way, which was not much better than bandits and bandits. Not only ordinary people, but also the gentry and wealthy families of the big clans everywhere were also extremely dissatisfied with these soldiers.

In addition, in the townships and towns in various places, young people were either forcibly conscripted into soldiers by various forces, or they were captured as civilian husbands. The strong men were all taken to serve as soldiers, and the remaining old and weak women and children needed to support their families. If the leaders of the local bandit rebels are not good, they become the targets of the bandit rebels who come and go from all sides. When the last bit of food in the house was looted, even the young women were taken away. Therefore, when the western counties were conquered in Jiyin Mansion this time, Feng Ziming's military order to Tang Bin was to advance slowly, thoroughly clean up the disobedient people in various places, clean up the bandits and rebels in various places, and those who go along with it will prosper, and those who go against it will die.

When he arrived at the third city, Pingyou City, Tang Bin's army was already more than 30,000. When he left Qi County, he only led 10,000 soldiers, because the defenders in the western cities were basically one or two thousand, two or three thousand, and there were not too many people. However, with the addition of the rebel army of soldiers and bandits, the scale began to expand. Of course, Tang Bin had no intention of including all of them in the system under his command. What he needed was to select the right men from among them, and to choose them by war. For these bandits, rebels and soldiers, after Tang Bin learned more about what they were doing in these remote places, there was nothing to pity. If they can survive the battlefield, the Shanyang Army will naturally teach them basic military rules and discipline, and join the Shanyang Army for training, and finally they can join the regular soldiers of the Shanyang Army or the local county soldiers.

The march of 30,000 soldiers may not sound like much. But walking on the road, it is vast and dusty. If Tang Bin hadn't used 3,000 soldiers as military judges, he would have taught the soldiers and bandits who joined the army at the beginning to use knives, I was afraid that as soon as he started the march, he would be able to make chickens fly and dogs jump, and people would neigh on their backs. In order to tame these people, in order not to disturb the people, along the way, more than 2,000 people were killed by military judges. This is also the reason why Tang Bin did not dare to let them stay in various places to standby. Even the county soldiers and inspection departments in various places are selected from the Shanyang Army to serve as officers, and they are selected from the local young and strong to protect their hometowns.

However, even when these 30,000 troops marched and walked on the road, they could not be concealed, and the momentum was huge. Before the army arrived, the people from all over the country, the soldiers and soldiers of Yanzhou Prefecture and the local officials had already received the news.

At the beginning, the local people were also afraid of the Shanyang army, but in the places where the Shanyang army went, in addition to collecting local soldiers and clearing out bandits, they also began to guide the disaster victims to relieve the snow, and never harassed the people, so that the people in the western counties began to accept the Shanyang army. Later, after the promulgation of a new policy similar to that of the Xiaoguo Army, the local people rejoiced and supported the rule of the Shanyang Army.

"Where was the past?" Tang Bin pointed to the shadowy city in the distance and asked in a deep voice. Because the fields were all snow-white, sometimes falling and sometimes stopping, it also made it impossible for the army to check the map well and discern the direction. However, this is not difficult for the local residents.

"Lord Huiyu, there is a blind forest, and fifty miles southwest from the blind forest is Dingtao."

"Blind forest, Dingtao! With these two lands, the western counties are half complete. Tang Bin said lightly.

"My lord, if it weren't for the fact that I wanted to wipe out the bandit rebels in the towns and villages in various places, I am afraid that I would have completed the capture of half of the land long ago." Xu Qing said with a smile.

Tang Bin said in a deep voice: "You can't say that, if it weren't for the bandit rebels, we would have so many alternative soldiers?" If it weren't for the bandits, we would have gained so much. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of deniers of grain, even the gold and silver worth of these two or three million silver coins are also a big harvest. Of course, we also saw it, and let the people see what kind of character this bandit rebel army is. Saying that, Tang Bin's tone became a lot heavier.

Xu Qing knew what Shangguan was angry about, because after the bandit rebels who plagued the people in various towns and villages along the way were wiped out, a large part of them were big gentry and wealthy families from all over the country. What's more, there are even local garrisons. The troops stationed in these places, that is, the county soldiers took advantage of the snow and it was not convenient to inspect, pretending to be bandits and bandits, and plundering everywhere. Ordinary people, big families and wealthy families, are the objects of their plunder.

"Report!"

A horse galloped to the horse, immediately the knight turned over and dismounted and reported loudly, "The subordinate is the former army Captain Xu Le Xu, ordered to report the victory, Captain Xu rushed to the blind forest city ten miles away in front half an hour ago, Zhang Wei, the captain of the Yanzhou Mansion Army in the city, surrendered the city, our army has taken the blind forest city without blood, and the defenders of 1,300 men and horses all surrendered. At present, Captain Xu has left 500 soldiers in the city to wait for Lord Duwei, and Captain Xu has led the rest of the soldiers and horses to Dingtao in the southwest.

"Congratulations, sir, another city has been broken! This Xu Le, it's really good luck, I hear it and my hands itch. Xu Qing turned to Tang Bin and smiled and congratulated.

Hearing this news, Tang Bin was also very happy. As soon as the blind forest is broken, the Dingtao in the south will be deprived of the protection of the flanks. In addition, although the Blind Forest City is not large, a thousand defenders really want to defend the city, and if they take him, they will also have to pay casualties. In addition, valuable time is lost. Now the defenders have surrendered the city, but it has saved a lot of trouble.

"Okay, give Xu Le a note. The order went down, and it was said that the blind forest city in front had been taken, and the soldiers were asked to speed up the march again. When they arrived in Blind Forest City, the army could take a break. ”

"Xu Qing, you send a thousand people to take over those surrendered troops, and in addition, assist the officials behind to take over the whole city. After inquiring clearly, all those who did evil among these soldiers were taken away with the army. You led five thousand things to Dingtao, converged with Xu Le, and captured the land of Dingtao. ”

"Yes!" When Xu Qing heard this, his face suddenly became happy, and he could finally do it, instead of waiting in the rear for the good news to come. He is not too small in terms of military exploits. You must know that according to the classification method of the Xiaoguo Army, the same is a captain, and there are four levels.

"Lord Duwei, since taking Qi County and destroying the bandit rebels of the defenders in the land of the Cheng clan, the guards in various places have become much weaker, and the bandits in more places have become good citizens."

Tang Bin said coldly: "Take off the bandit coat on your body and want to become a good citizen?" They are simply dreaming. The local county soldiers are not for decoration. These guys, if they are not punished harshly, how can they appease the hearts of the local people? If they are not put to rest completely, they will surely lead to other calamities in the future. ”

"By the way, Lord Lieutenant, it is said that this time we will expand our right guard into the right guard, which is 25,000 people. At that time, Lord Commander will be the same general as the general of the Xiaoguo Army. Captain Liu Zhi said with a smile.

Tang Bin nodded and said: "This is true, we are all people from the personal guard battalion under the command of the lord, and I won't hide it from you, the reason why the 30,000 people are softened together now is to be able to choose 20,000 people among the 30,000 people, half as regular soldiers, and half as county soldiers from all over the country." These surrendered soldiers and surrendered bandit rebels are not good things. ”

Liu Zhi said in a deep voice: "We have only taken half of the land now, and we have gathered 20,000 miscellaneous soldiers, and if we take the whole territory, forty or fifty thousand is naturally not a problem." Aside from the first 10,000 people, plus the county soldiers, it is not difficult to select 25,000 people from them. After all, after Qi County was broken, the five counties in the west and southwest were all strong from the outside and strong from the middle. No, it should be said that outside of Luzhou Mansion, Jiyin Mansion and Songzhou Mansion, the Yanzhou Mansion Army is finished. Conquering this place is not a problem, the only thing is that it will take more time to conquer the local bandit rebels. ”

For Liu Zhi's words, Tang Bin thought deeply, and now Xu Jie's belly and his elite soldiers are all in the land of Luzhou Mansion, especially in the southern part of Luzhou Mansion, and they want to sweep the Wuwei Army away from the entire territory of Luzhou Mansion. But all of them add up, and there are only more than 30,000 people. In the east of Luzhou Mansion, except for the more defenders in Qi County, where the soldiers are elite, the rest are all local county soldiers. Although Rencheng has a lot of soldiers and horses, it seems that they are all rabble and vulnerable. This is also the reason why the army here is now coming, and all places will be looking at the wind.

At the time of the Jiyin Mansion's operation, the Songzhou Mansion in the south also began to act. Unlike Jiyin Mansion in the north, Songzhou Mansion's actions were simpler, that is, the army pressed the border, persuaded and forced to surrender. Of course, there are two things that play a role, the military Wei Hehe of the Shanyang Army and the persuasion letter of Su Wei, the former military guard of the Shunzhou Prefecture.

I have to say that the defeat and fall of Rencheng and the surrender of Su Wei were still very severe blows to the counties of Songzhou Prefecture. In particular, Su Wei took the initiative to persuade him to surrender. This Songzhou Mansion is different from the Jiyin Mansion in the north. Jiyin Mansion is the second seat of the Yanzhou Mansion Army, and it is also Xu Jie's old nest, so Xu Jie's business is more attentive. But this Songzhou Mansion is different. In addition to its location in the south, it is also related to the invasion of the armed guards. Although it only occupies the land of the three counties, it also makes Xu Jie regard this place as the front line of the war between the two sides, mainly military. But with the dispatch of the Shanyang Army, some of the defenses here have been taken over by the Sanyang Army in the south.

Therefore, except for the area around Rencheng as an important city to resist the retreat of the Shanyang army, there were not many defenders in the rest of the cities, especially after the Yanzhou Mansion army suffered a defeat in Luzhou Mansion and lost its territory, it was even more exhaustive of the soldiers of Songzhou Mansion.

Guiyang County has fallen, Chengqiu County has fallen, and Shangqiu County has also fallen, except for Kangfu County, which is close to the northeast in Shunzhou Prefecture. After receiving the good news from the various units that divided the troops to attack, Zhao Xun couldn't help but feel happy. After all, if you take these places by force, you will at least lose a lot of manpower and waste a lot of time.

You know, it's winter, and the longer it drags on, the greater the consumption of the army. Even the wounded soldiers, because of the weather, caused many people to have problems. Don't talk about wounded soldiers, even ordinary and intact soldiers, and many soldiers suffer from frostbite because of this. Now that he can take the land of the three counties without blood, Zhao Xun is still overjoyed.

Zhao Xun was not ambiguous, and immediately reorganized the prisoners and incorporated them into the corporal under his command, and at the same time took a part of the veterans and wounded soldiers who could be discharged from the army as the mainstay, supplemented by the local Qingzhou, and formed county soldiers in each county, ranging from 500 to 1,000, and set up public security inspection departments in each township to inspect local public security. Subsequently, he sent civilian officials to take over local government affairs, and sent his own old guards and soldiers to serve as local county soldiers and county lieutenants, commanding local county soldiers, and at the same time training local county soldiers as a supplement to the regular soldiers.

"By the way, who is the county magistrate of Kangfu County? How did you respond to our offer? "After arranging all the miscellaneous affairs of the local government, the time is already three days after taking Rencheng. At this moment, Zhao Xun was also concerned about the submission of Kangfu County in the northeast corner of his Songzhou Prefecture.

"Back to the lord, this Kangfu county magistrate is Liang Jun, Xu Jie's fellow countryman. Sitting in the position of the county magistrate of Kangfu County, it is not all dependent on Xu Jie's help. Speaking of this person, he was more like a military attaché, he was originally a military captain of Kangfu County, but later when Xu Jie's reorganization of the entire government army, after making the government army soft and strong, he let him go to the battlefield without training and greatly reduced his combat power. Liang Jun had a lot of opinions about this, and was later reappointed to the post of county magistrate by Xu Jie. Su Wei introduced in a deep voice.

Zhao Xun nodded slightly, what Liang Jun was worried about was precisely Xu Jie's weakness. It was not wrong to reorganize the government army, but the time was too short, and it was in a hurry to start a war with the Wuwei army, so that the combat strength of the Yanzhou government soldiers did not increase but decreased. Of course, the number of troops has increased, and power has been concentrated. If you give him more time, or go step by step, maybe the Yanzhou government army can also confront the Wuwei army head-on, and maybe the Yanzhou government army with its geographical advantage will really dominate the land of Yanzhou.

"There are only more than 2,000 defenders, and there are only 5,000 young and strong, how dare he fight us?" Lu Yu was a little puzzled by Liang Jun's courage.

Su Wei said in a deep voice: "To the east of Kangfu County is the land of Luzhou Mansion, presumably, he wants to rely on the support of Luzhou Mansion." This Kangfu County, but the gateway to the northeast corner of Songzhou Mansion, guards here, and the rear of Songzhou Mansion is much safer. ”

Zhao Xun said in a deep voice: "It must be so, order the Chinese army to immediately march to Kangfu County, and first take the gateway to the northeast corner of Songzhou Mansion." "Just won the counties in Songzhou Prefecture, but it doesn't mean that he has controlled the whole territory. So far, he has only taken the county seats, and the townships and towns need to be taken over further. Zhao Xun didn't want to be calming the rear, Xu Jie, from Luzhou Mansion, was angry and killed him, keeping himself busy. Moreover, this time he has already opposed Xu Jie, and if the Wuwei Army makes waves in the south again in the future, Zhao Xun also needs Kangfu County to resist the sweep of Luzhou Mansion to cut off the connection between the front army and the rear.