In just half a month, there was a bloody storm in Yuzhou, which made everyone in Yuzhou tremble. Especially those big family gentry who were not approached by the Yanzhou army, at this time, they realized that compared with the government, their own strength was simply a mantis arm as a car, and they were vulnerable.

It was precisely the sharp actions and ruthless methods of the Yanzhou Army in the past ten days that made everyone in Yuzhou cautious at once, and no one dared to oppose the local government. No matter what the government's policies are, no one dares to stop them. That is, to pay taxes, build cities, and gallop roads, and cooperate a lot. What's more, many big clans and merchants who have hoarded a large amount of grain have also contributed their grain to the Yanzhou army.

For this situation, Zhao Xun naturally will not accept it directly, otherwise, it will affect the senses of these businessmen towards the government. Besides, Zhao Xun now has a lot of money in his hands, so naturally he doesn't need them to give it away for free. In the end, Zhao Xun used the confiscated real estate in his hands to exchange with these big clans. First, there is access to food, which is the root of war. Second, it is better to be able to use those real estate properties than to put them in your own hands.

Because of this action of the Yanzhou army, no one in Yuzhou dared to act arbitrarily, and no one dared to raise prices and disrupt the market. Of course, no one dared to fight against the Yanzhou army and the local government.

For most of the month, the Yanzhou army seized more than 30 million silver coins, many of which were silver ingots and gold ingots, all of which were the assets of these big clans. It can be seen from this how rich the hands of these great family gentry in various places are.

Looking at the property in his hand, Zhao Xun was speechless, and even had the idea of confiscating family property in various places to expand his property. And Ke Yan, who is in charge of finance, is even more happy, with a smile on his face. More than 30 million cash is enough for Yuzhou to recover quickly. Let his work also go smoothly.

"Ke Yan, all this money is from Yuzhou, although I dare not say that all of it is used in Yuzhou, but I also want to let some of it be used here. The loss of the army, the weight of grain and grass, the construction of cities, the purchase of livestock and farm tools for the people, and the construction of water conservancy projects must be arranged as much as possible. The Governor of Pontus doesn't want this money to be used where it shouldn't be, and it should not be there, so I'll send the Shadow Division to supervise it, and Master Ke will explain to your subordinates, don't make a mistake when the time comes. When that time comes, Hugh blames Pontus for being ruthless. Zhao Xun explained coldly.

Ke Yan's face turned straight, and he said in a loud voice: "The subordinates understand, and the subordinates will definitely make proper arrangements." ”

Zhao Xun immediately smiled and said, "Very good, I believe in you, and you don't want to disappoint me." Among these money, many of them are silver ingots and gold ingots, and these are exchanged for huàn to Huitong Qianzhuang, and in the land of Yuzhou, there are also deposits of Huitong Qianzhuang. ”

Zhao Xun naturally understood that these silver and gold ingots should play the greatest role, or to make coins. And the process of casting is also profitable. At the same time, the emergence of these gold and silver ingots also facilitated the expansion of Huitong Money in Yuzhou.

"Lord, in this operation, we have gathered more than 100,000 private soldiers of the Great Clan in the entire Yuzhou, in addition to the Great Clan, how should we deal with these?"

"Completely disperse and split, and then move them to Yanzhou, as local county soldiers and government soldiers, together with the local Yanzhou local army, to maintain local law and order. As for the great families whose homes we have raided, they will all be sent to the land where they are built by galloping to do their labor. They always enjoy happiness on weekdays, but they don't know the suffering of the people, but now, let them feel it. These cold voices said.

"My lord! There's news from the south! Feng Ziming hurriedly came in and said with a smile on his face, "According to the report of the spies, Situ Lei, the king of Yong, personally sat in Chengdu Mansion in Yizhou, commanded an army of more than 300,000 troops, and divided the troops into three routes, starting from the lands of Ningzhou, Yizhou, and Hanzhong, and attacking the lands of Jiaozhou, Jiangzhou, and Jingzhou. ”

"Oh?" Hearing this, Zhao Xun was overjoyed, "In this way, the pressure on our team Yongzhou can be put down." However, we should not be careless, although Situ Lei waved his army south and acted from the south. However, we must also be careful of the enemy forces on the Yongzhou side. Don't be careless, fall for the trick. Let's talk about it, what is the situation of the Yongjun army in the south now? ”

It turned out that Situ Lei's actions were much more crisp and swift than Zhao Xun expected. As early as after the Qi army entered Huaiyang Mansion in Yuzhou and stayed for a while, Situ Lei found a problem from it. The 200,000 troops were dispatched, and instead of directly entering Yongzhou in the west, they were stationed in the easterly position in the central part of Yuzhou, how could there be no problem? Coupled with the situation that Li Chi of the Xuzhou Army talked about, Situ Lei immediately saw the real situation.

Therefore, Situ Lei, who had made arrangements earlier, immediately personally sat in Chengdu Mansion in Yizhou, mobilized 300,000 troops to attack in line with the southwest.

Because of the rapid and sudden action, coupled with the fact that the Qi army did not have a unified and perfect preparation plan, and the commander Murong Cheng was deeply trapped in Xuzhou, the army could not get out. Therefore, in less than a month, that is, two months after Murong Cheng took the action of sneaking up on the Xuzhou army, the southern part of Jingzhou, the western part of Jiangzhou and half of Jiaozhou had already fallen into the hands of Situ Lei.

Moreover, the Yong army is overwhelming, and the Qi army cannot stop it at all. If it weren't for the complicated terrain in the south and the advantage of the Qi army occupying the water army. I'm afraid that the rest of Jiaozhou, most of Jiangzhou has fallen into the hands of Situ Lei. At the same time, Zhao Xun had just completed the occupation of Yuzhou and won the two important cities of Huaiyin Mansion.

However, Situ Lei's army was not all smooth sailing. In the land of Jiangzhou, Situ Lei suffered a big loss, losing more than 30,000 soldiers, and he could not advance in the land of Jiangzhou. In Linxiang, Jiangzhou, the Dongting Lake water army and the Qi army in Jiangzhou joined forces, lured the enemy to go deep with a trick of defeat, and after the Yong army crossed the Xiangshui, it broke the army that crossed the river, forcing 30,000 and the front army to fall into Linxiang, and finally was completely annihilated by the Qi army.

It is also because of this that the Yongjun army's attack in Jiangzhou has been postponed for the time being. Without him, the Yongjun army has no navy, and they don't understand the naval army at all. Therefore, before defeating the Dongting Lake water army in Jiangzhou, the Yong army could only stop advancing. In this regard, Situ Lei also has no choice.

However, although the Qi army blocked the attack of the Yong army on this road, in the southern region, the actions of the Yong army were invincible and unstoppable. Of course, it is not that the Yongjun army really has no opponents, but that the direction of the Yongjun army does not have the regular army of the Qi army, there is no large-scale army, only the garrison army responsible for public security above the locality. How can they, because of the monstrous offensive against hundreds of thousands of troops?

As a result, the southern part of Jiangzhou and half of Jiaozhou soon fell under the fierce attack of the Yong army. However, the land of Jiaozhou and the southern area of Jiangzhou are high mountains and dangerous obstacles, and it is inconvenient to march. Therefore, it was not quickly and fully occupied by the Yong army.

"Dongting Lake Water Army? I remember that the Shadow Division reported that this Dongting Lake water army is not large, but the establishment of 5,000 people can actually block the attack of more than 100,000 troops? Who will be the leader? Zhao Xunluo asked with interest. Zhao Xun naturally knew about the situation in Qidi, and the secret agents and meticulous work of the Shadow Division and the Eagle Eye Division had already spread all over the world.

Feng Ziming said in a deep voice: "The commander of the Dongting Lake Water Army is called Jiang Yun!" After this battle, the Shadow Division also deliberately inspected this former inconspicuous naval general. This person was originally a general of the Yangzhou Navy, and later had a discord with the commander of the Yangzhou Navy, and was relegated to Dongting Lake. No one expected that this belittled little man would actually kill the most convenient route of Situ Lei's three-way army. ”

Zhao Xun said with a smile: "There are talents in the place of danger!" This person is to be recorded by the Shadow Division, and he should be a careful person. By the way, what is the situation in the land of Jiaozhou? We are in Jiaozhou, and we also have subordinates. ”

Now Feng Ziming has officially entered the Zhao Jun system, and he also knows a lot about some of Zhao Jun's arrangements. Zhao Xun set up a secret hand in the land of Jiaozhou and Qiongzhou Island, and Feng Ziming also knew about it.

"The terrain of Jiaozhou is steep and the roads are difficult to travel, so although there is no strong army to stop it, the Yong army is still marching slowly. In the land of Jiaozhou, there are many mountain people and Yi people, and they are always hostile to Han people. Therefore, the Yongjun army occupied the western half of Jiaozhou, and it also paid a lot of price. Most of our men and horses were arranged in the eastern region of Jiaozhou, so there was no formal meeting with the Yongjun. ”

After thinking about it, Zhao asked: "In this way, immediately let the people of Jiaozhou pull up the Jiaozhou Yi tribe and let them fight back against the Yongjun." In addition, let them secretly attack the Yongjun, and at the same time, they can also provide the Qi army with information about the Yongjun. We need the Yong army and the Qi army to fight in the land of Jiaozhou, but we can't let the Yong army occupy Jiaozhou. ”

Feng Ziming suddenly said: "Lord, why don't we report the situation of Qi to Murong Cheng." Let him know that now under his rule, not only the Xuzhou Army and the Tang Army are planning to fight, but also his sworn enemy Situ Lei is also attacking. ”

Zhao Xun is not stupid, after being stunned for a while, he even understood what Feng Ziming meant. At this moment, Murong Cheng was storming Huaiyin City, and the counties around Huaiyin City had been looted by the Qi army. However, Murong Cheng did not exert much effort to storm Huaiyin City, but continued to consume the soldiers and materials defending the city.

However, if Murong Cheng knew that his territory was full of gunsmoke and wolves were taking food, he was afraid that he would no longer be able to settle down. Murong Cheng was deeply trapped in Xuzhou, so he naturally didn't know much about the situation in Qidi. The enemies he has seen now are the Tang Army, the Yanzhou Army, and the Xuzhou Army. Among them, the Yanzhou army has stopped its operations and negotiated peace with him. The rest of the Tang army is not afraid, and as long as he returns to the south, with the strength of the Qi army, he will naturally not be afraid of the Tang army.

This qiē and qiē must have the premise that there is no interference between Zhao Jun and Yongjun. Among them, Zhao Jun and Qi Jun are not connected, so they naturally cannot intervene. As for Situ Lei, in Murong Cheng's expectation, Situ Lei should fight with Zhao Jun. But if Murong Cheng knew the actual situation, he would definitely attack desperately and go south. Otherwise, if he delays any longer, he won't even have a home. Regarding Situ Lei's strength, Murong Cheng is the clearest. Compared with the Yongjun, the Xuzhou Army is not worth mentioning at all.

"Okay, go ahead and arrange it now. Now this Xuzhou army Li Chi is also trying to trouble us because we occupy the counties of Huaiyin Prefecture. Now, let's put some pressure on him and make them not take care of us. Zhao Xun said with a smile.

Feng Ziming couldn't help but say: "We have seized the defensive key land in the southwest of Xuzhou, how can Li Chi be willing?" His original plan was for us to fight to the death with the Qi army, preferably losing both. As a result, the Qi army abandoned Yuzhou, and we occupied the entire territory of Yuzhou without too many casualties. Instead, the Qi army entered the territory of Xuzhou and wanted to live and die with him. What's more, his territory has been taken away from us, and it would be strange if he wasn't angry. ”

"Report ...... Enlighten the lord, Huaiyin City is urgent! At this moment, a guard hurriedly came in and handed Zhao a piece of information.

"Huaiyin City Urgent Report?" Zhao Xun couldn't help but be stunned, and looked at Feng Ziming, who was also surprised. I immediately took it and opened it to see.

"Huaiyin City has been conquered by Murong Cheng! Murong Cheng's loss is not big, but ......" Zhao Xun handed the information to Feng Ziming with an ugly face. Seeing that Zhao Xun's face was not good-looking, Feng Ziming hurriedly took it and looked at it.

After a while, Feng Ziming sighed with a gloomy face: "This Murong Cheng is ruthless enough!" The conquest of Huaiyin City means that the road to the southern provinces of Xuzhou and back to Yangzhou has been completely opened. However, he made Huaiyin City and its surrounding six counties white, which is really ...... That's really ...... It's so cruel, it's so cruel. ”

Zhao Xun said coldly: "We miscalculated, we gave too much food. It has been more than ten days since Murong Cheng gave up Quyang City, and I was still wondering why he hadn't stormed Huaiyin City for so long. It turned out that he wanted to completely loot the six counties around Huaiyin City, gather enough food and grass for his army to fight south, and also let his soldiers kill the people of Xuzhou, so as to fight to the death with the Xuzhou army. At the same time, it also gave us a handful. ”

There is no other content above the intelligence, mainly writing about the current situation in Huaiyin City. Huaiyin City was conquered by the Qi army, which was not an accident, after all, the defenders of Huaiyin City were far inferior to the Qi army. Even if Li Chi later sent a lot of reinforcements, how could Li Chi, whose heart was in Yangzhou, transfer too many elite soldiers to this.

Therefore, for the loss of Huaiyin City, Zhao Xun only thought that it was too slow, and he would not be surprised. After all, the longer the time is delayed, the more prepared Li Chi will be. Sure enough, more than ten days later, the defending army of almost less than 10,000 people in the past was finally replenished to more than 50,000. Although half of them are new pawns, they have the advantage of geography and have the equipment to defend the city, so it is naturally more difficult to attack. Therefore, Zhao Xun had just said that it was an excellent idea to hand over the news of Situ Lei's forcible attack on Qi to Murong Cheng.

However, Zhao Xun's heart was cold, this Huaiyin City was conquered, but it was not attacked by the Qi army. Instead, the Qi army spent three days and three nights, using the flesh and bones of more than 100,000 people to open it. Three days ago, Murong Cheng drove more than 200,000 people from the surrounding six counties and counties to storm Huaiyin City. Rao is the defenders of Huaiyin City are very aggressive to shoot and kill the besieging people. However, in three days and three nights, more than 200,000 people died, and in the end, the corpses almost filled in the outside of Huaiyin City. The Xuzhou soldiers who defended the city were almost crazy, but in the end they were lost, and the whole army died under the Qi army.

In addition, the news of the peace between the Yanzhou army and the Qi army was also spread by Murong Cheng.

Zhao Xun felt the anger surging in his heart, and it was difficult to suppress. He did not resent Murong Cheng for spreading the news that he had negotiated peace with the Qi army and traded grain. After all, the two sides are hostile forces, and there is nothing wrong with this. However, Zhao Xun was resentful that Murong Cheng had killed more than 2560,000 unarmed people. Especially after conquering Huaiyin City, set fire to Huaiyin City. Huaiyin City was completely reduced to ruins, and the fifty or sixty thousand people in the city were trapped in the fire domain.

"Brute! Murong Cheng is a vain master! Zhao Xun said in a cold voice, "Order Wei Dong to march to Huaiyin City immediately." Although Huaiyin City was burned, at most it could burn some of the people's residences, and it was impossible for Huaiyin City to be reduced to ashes. After taking over Huaiyin City, he immediately gathered the remaining people in the six counties around Huaiyin City and let them wait for resettlement. As for the people in the towns and villages, they should also be appeased. ”

"Feng Ziming, let people prepare a batch of food and materials, and immediately transport them to Huaiyin City to relieve these innocent people."

Feng Ziming hurriedly said: "Subordinates understand! ”

"We shouldn't have given half of the grain to Murong Cheng for Huaiyin City, and we blamed us for being too careless, knowing that Murong Cheng was stranded under Huaiyin City and had not attacked the city for a long time, but we didn't check it carefully. These people could have been immortal. Zhao Xun said with a little regret.

Feng Ziming said in a deep voice: "Lord, this matter has nothing to do with you. Even if we don't give food, they will plunder the people. Qi Jun behaved like this, presumably because Li Chi's army was only afraid of entering Yangzhou, which had already made Murong Cheng extremely resentful. ”

Feng Ziming has a certain reason for this, and from the news sent back by the flying pigeon from Yangzhou, it is known that Li Chi's army has captured half of Yangzhou's territory. And the Yangzhou army is difficult to resist.

Zhao Xun said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, I won't say that it is not my guilt that is added to myself." I'm just sorry for these nearly 300,000 people, who ...... How innocent they were. ”

Feng Ziming said: "Murong Cheng is holding this path, which can be described as hated by the world. Why don't you make what you did in Huaiyin City public. Didn't he Murong Cheng want the name of righteousness and the position of the Ninth Five-Year Honor. Let's see if his behavior can be approved by the people of the world. ”

Zhao Xun nodded and said, "It's feasible!" However, I guess that after this operation, Murong Cheng has abandoned the so-called justice, and now, he no longer cares about the reputation of the so-called benevolence and righteousness. In any case, it is still in our interest to spread his deeds. In addition, Li Chi would also make Murong Cheng's actions public, and he had to announce and reprimand him. ”

Sure enough, Murong Cheng's behavior angered all the soldiers of the Xuzhou army. The Xuzhou army all asked Li Chi to fight, and wanted to live and die with Murong Cheng. But at this moment, Li Chi was more concerned about Yangzhou in his heart, and he had no intention of gathering the army in Murong Cheng. Therefore, on the one hand, the people of Gaoyou Mansion who Murong Cheng went south moved into the city, fortified the wall, and held the city.