After Zhou Cang's defeat came back, Chen Lin ordered the other three gates to leave only 300 camps to defend, and the remaining 1,000 were in Xicheng to defend and beware of anti-thieves attacking the city, and the stability of the city was handed over to the Yang brothers to be responsible, and Yang Ren was appointed as the Sima of Hanzhong County, and Chen Ze and Cai Yang were side by side, Yang Ang was the military candidate, and Changqi, who had great merit, was also Yang Ren's department. Yang Ren was ordered to build a thousand sergeants as a division, recruit them by themselves, and choose from among the prisoners.

With the support of Yang Ren and Changqi, Xixian County did not cause much chaos, and even some of the scholars who took refuge in the rice thieves were pardoned by Chen Lin, who once again issued a Taishou order, stating that only the head of the thief would be tracked down, and the rest would be lenient. Chen Lin was also helpless to do this, wanting to be recognized by the local scholars, Chen Lin did not dare to kill for the time being, at least let him calm Zhang Xiu before speaking. This is also what Jia Xu said out of the time, if the scholars of Hanzhong County are afraid, confront Chen Lin wholeheartedly, and support Zhang Xiu, then I don't know when the battle to pacify Hanzhong County will end, even if it is won, there are three or four hundred thousand people in Hanzhong County, and I don't know how many can be left. In this way, if you want a tattered Hanzhong County, it is better to be comfortable to be a county order in the Central Plains.

Chen Lin's leniency order was not only issued in Xicheng, but also secretly spread to the other five counties, and for a while, the hearts of the people in Hanzhong County fluctuated, and many people who took refuge in the rice thieves had a lot of thoughts. The scholars in various counties also secretly contacted Chen Lin, and Yang Ren and Yang's family were in the middle, giving Chen Lin a lot of convenience.

Speaking of today's Xixian City, the generals of Zhang Xiu's faction defending in Xixian County have been cut by Gao Shun, killing thousands of enemy soldiers, capturing more than 1,000 people, and the rest have fled. There are also many people in Xixian County, who shed their military armor in the chaos, went home to change their clothes, and listened to the news outside behind closed doors in anxiety. Chen Lin ordered the sergeants to go out of the countryside, and beat gongs, drums and shouts in the city, and read out the leniency order, and the people's hearts were determined.

On this day, Chen Lin ignored the 3,000 troops outside the city, and Gao Shun was defending the city, so Chen Lin held a banquet in the county government and invited several scholars from Xixian County to the banquet. These warriors are fighting and fighting, and they are deeply afraid that Chen Lin will be investigated, although there is a leniency order, but I am afraid that it is also aimed at the people. Chen Lin looked at everyone from the right position with an uneasy look, and he hated in his heart, hating these people for defecting to the enemy and betraying the country, but at this time, Chen Lin could only not blame the past for the sake of stability, and also appeased these scholars, and the scholars of the other five counties were only afraid that they were all watching the fate of the scholars in Xixian County. If the Xixian county scholars are spared, then the five county scholars may turn against Zhang Xiumi, and if Chen Lin kills, the five county scholars will not see a way out, so they can only fight against Chen Lin.

Chen Lin raised his glass with a smile and said, "Everyone, please, drink this cup to the full." Rice thieves are rampant, oppressing the county, you are frightened, now a certain Tian is the guard of this Hanzhong county, and you will have to rely on your reputation in the future, now the son of the Yang family in Hanzhong, Yang Ren Yang Jiwei is the new Sima of Hanzhong, and he is patrolling the city to pacify the people, and stabilize Hanzhong County for us. ”

As soon as everyone heard it, Yang Ren became Sima? Wu Yang, one of the two Yangs in Hanzhong, has waited for Taishou to be reused? Chen Lin's words are also a signal to these scholars that as long as they sincerely do things for Chen Lin, not only will they not blame the past, but they may also be able to reuse it. For a while, everyone raised their glasses to Chen Lin, and they all wanted to come out to show Chen Lin how last resort and how loyal they were to the Han Dynasty. In the end, Chen Lin smiled: "You are frightened, but now that this Xixian County has returned to the Han Dynasty, you want a respected parent official, I don't know if you have a candidate?" ”

As soon as Chen Lin's words came out, everyone was shocked and overjoyed, Chen Lin really said that if he was not to blame in the past, he would not be to blame in the past. Suddenly, everyone began to be lively, and suddenly Zhou Cang burst into a shout: "This is a county government matter, and the law must be respected. There was a sudden shout, which shocked everyone again. This was done by Chen Lin in advance, although he still needed to rely on the local scholars, but he could not let him be rampant and arrogant, Chen Lin pretended to drink back from Zhou Cang. Then he turned to them and said, "You have laughed. ”

In the end, one person was selected as the Taishou of Xixian County, in fact, as early as when he conquered Xicheng, Chen Lin ordered Shangyong Yanpu to send a lot of Han soldiers who came to take refuge, and they must have been on the way. At the same time, as long as Chen Lin firmly grasps the selection of county lieutenants, he is not afraid that Xixian County will be disobedient. Seeing such a result, the scholars of Xicheng were also overjoyed, and finally did not have to be afraid, and learned that Chen Lin had rebuilt the county government not long ago, and ordered the tax exemption of Hanzhong County for one year, and everyone automatically expressed their willingness to donate money and grain into the county treasury. These scholars also wanted to buy peace of mind, and when they saw Chen Lin accept them one by one, their hearts were even more stable.

After the scholars left, Jia Xu praised: "The lord is well versed in the way of royalty." Chen Lin didn't bother to pay attention to Jia Xu, he only lowered his head and thought about things.

The three thousand anti-thieves outside the city attacked the city for two days, all of which were hasty, and on the third day, the anti-thieves received Zhang Xiu's order to retreat, and the general was reluctant to retreat. Just as the thieves were packing up the camp, there was a rumbling sound behind them, followed by an endless stream of cavalry.

Gao Shun in the city saw the dust flying, shouted constantly, and hurriedly reported back to Chen Lin. When Chen Lin heard this, he shouted: "Zhong Zhi must have arrived, and Zhong Zhi knows my intentions." Gao Duwei quickly led his troops out of the city and attacked the rice thieves with Zhong Zhi. Gao Shunnuo hurriedly retreated, Chen Lin glanced back at Zhou Cang, and said with a smile: "Zhou Cang, there is nothing to do in the city, you can also go out of the city to help in the battle, but there are no soldiers for you." "Zhou Cang was overjoyed when he heard it, he was aggrieved by the fraud a few days ago, hahaha, it's still the eldest young master's reason. No matter what kind of soldiers are not soldiers, they rushed out with a big knife on their shoulders, as if they were afraid that it would be too late, Huang Yan and the others laughed again.

Chen Lin was only studying the war in Hanzhong County with Jia Xu, and he was not worried about the war outside the city at all, Jia Xu smiled and said: "The second master should be a general." Jia Xu actually praised Chen Zelai, Chen Lin was also happy, hehe, his brother has grown, of course Chen Lin is happy. smiled and said: "Wen He, now that the leniency order has come out, what if Wen Yang also turns to attack the rice thief?" ”

Jia Xu: "The two Yangs in Hanzhong have huge power, and it is said that the lord of Hanzhong County should be drawn to contain each other, so as not to make one family dominant." However, it is said that this Wen Yang joined Zhang Xiu after less than a month of rebellion in the rice thief, which shows that he has no loyalty at all and must not stay. The lord is afraid that if Wen Yang makes meritorious service, it will not be easy to deal with, and if he breaks off his retreat, the lord can say that the rebellion in Hanzhong is all about Wen Yang's collusion with rice thieves. I'm afraid of this rumor, even if Wen Yang wants to take refuge in the lord, he won't dare, but Wen Yang is determined to fight, and the lord will have less help in Hanzhong. ”

When Chen Lin heard this, he said: "According to what Wen He said, hmph, our army is united, and Wen He is resourceful, and the rebellion in Hanzhong is not difficult to settle." After saying that, he called the guards and gave them some orders, and the guards went out to run errands. turned back to Jia Xu and said: "Wen He, I want Wen He to establish a group of secret agents, like now these contacts, rumors and other work can be shared by Wen He, but let a certain guard do it, it's too unusual." ”

Jia Xu was shocked, intelligence work is the top priority, Chen Lin actually asked Jia Xu to be responsible, it can be seen how much Chen Lin trusts Jia Xu, Jia Xu is moved, I just hope not to disappoint Chen Lin. Yan Pu will not come to Xixian County for the time being, Yan Pu's work is still mainly in the three counties, and today's Xixian County can be said to be still a battlefield.

Chen Lin and Jia Xu were discussing matters in the mansion, but they were fighting happily outside the city, and the three thousand meter thieves were unsuspecting and were killed by Chen Ze, and they were cavalry, and they were halfway to the kill, and the terrible Gao Shun led 800 camps out of the city to attack, and surrendered countless times at one time. Zhou Cang ran around, looking for the general, and saw that the man was commanding on the horse, Zhou Cang attacked angrily, only lightly stabbed, and even the man and the horse were cut into two pieces, which was very terrifying. More than half of the 3,000 people surrendered, and Zhou Cang's blow was indispensable.

The battle was over in just a moment, and the ground was full of kneeling captives begging for mercy, and they were trapped in their own camps. When Chen Ze saw Gao Shun, he shouted loudly: "Captain Gao, what about a certain eldest brother, is it safe?" Gao Shun replied: "Second general, the lord is fine, please be relieved, now you are in the county government in the city." Chen Ze hugged his fists and thanked him, then went into the city and ran to see Chen Lin.

Zhou Cang also came back satisfied, and when he saw Chen Lin laughing stupidly, Chen Lin couldn't cry or laugh. "Big brother, so-and-so is here." But it was Chen Ze's voice, and it was a subtle one, and Chen Ze went to arrange the cavalry.

Chen Lin echoed and said to Jia Xu: "Wenhe, after this battle, what will you expect Zhang Xiu to do?" Jia Xu looked at the rudimentary map, looked up and said, "Lord, Zhang Xiu knows that our army will attack Xicheng secretly, and he will raise troops to strictly defend Chenggu County." After Chenggu is Nanzheng, I am afraid that Zhang Xiu will gather most of the troops and horses in Chenggu to resist our army, as long as Chenggu is broken, the matter in Hanzhong will be completed. After Jia Xu finished speaking, he looked at Chen Lin, and then continued: "The lord is now famous, and the enemy is outnumbered, so it is only advisable to hold on and not easy to attack. As soon as the lord's leniency order came out, many people in Hanzhong would rebel against Zhang Xiu, and that was when the lord broke the enemy. ”

When Chen Lin heard this, Jia Xu suggested that he wait patiently for the incident, it seems that he should not underestimate this way of rebellion. So Chen Lin reiterated that Jia Xu should not only build it, but also start immediately, and the personnel should be selected at will, and no general should stop it. It's just that no one knows what Jia Xu did when he selected sergeants, and of course the less people knew about Jia Xu's formation of secret agents, the better, and now only Chen Lin, Jia Xu, Huang and Zhou knew about it.

Sure enough, the scout came to report that Zhang Xiu, under the persuasion of Yang Kai, left Nanzheng, personally sat in Chenggu County, commanded 20,000 troops to defend, and vowed not to let Chen Lin take a step forward. Chen Lin was not in a hurry to attack, and in the past few days, he has only overhauled civil affairs and reorganized the army for war. Now the 1,000th army of Caiyang under Chen Lin is transporting grain in Anyang, and he can't get out in a short time. Yang Ren's 1,000th army just has an establishment and is recruiting, and it has not even begun to be formed. In other words, all that can be used now is Gao Shun's 2,000 trapped camps, and Chen Ze's 1,000 cavalry. When Yang Ren finishes recruiting 1,000 troops, he will also recruit 1,000 Xicheng County soldiers, which shows that Chen Lin has a lot to do. Fortunately, he got Sasuke from the city's scholars, of course, the local scholars had to install their children, and Chen Lin also turned a blind eye, this kind of thing was always inevitable. Chen Lin decided to govern Hanzhong County in the future, and if necessary, kill a hundred people, otherwise how to govern Hanzhong County, and not overly force the local scholars, and not indulge, you really have to be careful.