Qinghe County was one of the counties most affected by the rebellion, and the famous Gaojibo was located in Qinghe County, and at the most serious moment of the banditry, even the wealthy families were not spared, and the Qinghe Cui clan was forced to temporarily move to Bohai County.

In particular, Zhang Jin said that the ravages in Qinghe County have dealt the most severe blow to Qinghe County, and that the people of Qinghe County have either died or fled, and in the past few years, Qinghe County has basically become a dead county except for two or three counties in the south with a small population, and there is not a single family within a radius of hundreds of miles, and even the county government that was originally in Gaotang County was forced to dissolve last year, and the officials are nowhere to be found.

Hundreds of thousands of people fled from Qinghe County, of which Qi County on the other side of the Yellow River became a large household to accommodate the people of Qinghe County, nearly 200,000 people of Qinghe County fled to Qi County, which is also because Zhang Xutuo suppressed bandits powerfully, and the Flying Eagle Army was brave and good at fighting, ensuring the safety of Qi County, in addition to Beihai County, there were also 70,000 or 80,000 Qinghe County population inflow, in addition to fleeing to Hedong, fleeing to Zhuo County, fleeing to Jiangnan, fleeing to the capital and so on.

Among the several counties of Qi County, Licheng County has the largest number of Qinghe County people, with 100,000 people, followed by Zhu'a County and Linyi County, each with about 50,000 people, many Qinghe County people have been in Qi County for two or three years, building houses and farming here, and have gradually settled down, although Zhang Jin said that it had been exterminated last year, and Qinghe County restored order, but most of the people in Qinghe County were unwilling to go back.

It is one thing to live and work in peace and contentment in Qi County, on the other hand, Gao Shida and Dou Jiande have not been extinguished, and the shadow of bandits is still shrouded in the land of Hebei, and no one in Qinghe County who was frightened by the bandits is unwilling to return to Qinghe County.

On this morning, nearly 100 large ships sailed across the Yellow River and slowly leaned in front of the Yellow River wharf in Zhu'a County, which is the only wharf in the whole of Qingzhou on the Yellow River.

The hundreds of large ships were grain ships of about 2,000 stones. Sending grain from Liyang Cang to Qinghe County, it was temporarily requisitioned by Wang Shichong, and when the big ship docked, groups of Sui soldiers rushed onto the riverbank, and the first general was Wang Shichong's nephew Wang Renze. He shouted, "Drive everyone back to the city!" ”

The drums of war rumbled, the shouts of killing shook the sky, and the people who watched the excitement on the shore were so frightened that they fled to Zhu'a City.

As the big ships docked one after another, more and more soldiers rushed to the south bank, and finally Wang Shichong also walked down from a big ship, Wang Shichong's face was very gloomy, he looked coldly at Zhu'a County in the distance, and turned back to his nephew Wang Ren Ze and said: "Start with Zhu'a County." I'm not allowed to be from Qinghe County, I'll be driven to the boat! ”

Wang Shichong asked Pei Renji and Zhang Xuan several times to return the population of Qinghe County, but Pei Renji and Zhang Xuan ignored it, which angered Wang Shichong.

Wang Shichong seized the opportunity of the Flying Eagle Army to conquer Langya County in the south. Began to cross the river to drive away the people, because there was no dock for large ships in Beihai County for the time being. And the distance is a little far, which is very inconvenient, so this time Wang Shichong temporarily let go of Beihai County and put all his troops into Qi County.

An army of 5,000 men, led by Wang Renze, rushed to Zhu'a County, two miles away, while another army rushed to Linyi County, about fifty miles away from Zhu'a County, and Wang Shichong's goal was very clear. The population of Zhu'a County and Linyi will be emptied, at least more than 100,000 people can be grabbed, and they will be used to fill Qinghe County, and then the population will be snatched from Hebei counties one after another. Qinghe County will be slowly fleshed out.

Wang Shichong is a person who dares to think and do, he never cares about the feelings of civilians, in his opinion, these civilians are no different from pigs and sheep, and they need to squeeze their blood and sweat to feed their army, not only food, including labor, including military uniforms, military shoes and various services needed by the army.

Wang Shichong's army was brought by him from Huainan, nominally called the Sui Army, but in fact he single-handedly built an army of about 20,000 people, with extremely strong combat effectiveness, crisscrossing the Jianghuai area, and continuously exterminating Liu Yuanjin and Zhu Xie, two powerful bandits.

This time Wang Shichong took his Huainan army north to Qinghe County, although Fan Zigai, Xiao Yu and other ministers suggested depriving Wang Shichong of his private army, but Yang Guang thought that Wang Shichong's loyalty was available, and opened an excuse for the Huainan army to go north, which undoubtedly encouraged Wang Shichong's ambition, and also made him more unscrupulous.

Wang Ren led 5,000 soldiers to rush into Zhu'a County, and began to drive civilians from house to house, Zhu'a City suddenly chickens and dogs jumped, scolding, crying and shouting resounded throughout the city, the soldiers only gave each family a very short time to pack up their belongings, they could only take soft clothes and food and were driven out, large families were no exception, soldiers were even more openly looting, the whole Zhu'a County fell into extreme panic.

The same is true in Linyi County, where tens of thousands of people were driven out of the city, helping the old and the young, and being escorted to the Yellow River in the vast wilderness, where they were pushed and scolded by the soldiers, crying all the way to the sky.

The changes in Zhu'a County and Linyi County soon spread to Licheng County, and Licheng County was currently guarded by 4,000 people led by the general Jia Wuben, and the sudden news surprised Jia Wuben, but he did not dare to go north to Zhu'a County, but immediately dispatched troops to inform the people living around Licheng County to quickly enter the city for refuge.

Jia Wuben sent several messengers to Beihai County and Langya County at the same time, to report to Beihai County and to Pei Renji, who was fighting in Langya County, urgently.

Licheng County has become a mess, the streets and alleys are closed, the streets are full of people who have fled from outside the city, all kinds of carriages and ox carts are stuffed at the city gates, children are crying desperately, and the elderly are looking for their relatives loudly, which is extremely chaotic.

Groups of soldiers rushed to the city with helmets and armor, and the atmosphere of war that had not been seen for a long time enveloped Licheng County.

Although Jia Wuben first wanted to protect Licheng County, but the other party was not a bandit after all, it was also the same Sui army as them, and after arranging the defense of Licheng County, Jia Wuben immediately led hundreds of soldiers to Zhu'a County.

On the way, Jia Wuben began to meet the people who fled from Zhu'a County one after another, these are farmers living outside Zhu'a County, Wang Shichong is difficult to divide troops to arrest them, they were able to escape from Zhu'a County, everyone panicked, dozens of elders surrounded Jia Wuben, crying to him about Wang Shichong's evil.

"General, where are they still the Sui army, they are clearly bandits, they break in from house to door, drive people out and start looting people's property, and some young girls are also "

"General Jia, the Flying Eagle Army must call the shots for us!"

"Let Pei Shuai come back quickly!"

Faced with the crying of a group of old men, Jia Wuben had no choice but to comfort them with kind words, "I have already sent someone to deliver a letter to Pei Shuai, please rest assured!" Pei Shuai will definitely complain to the court and the saint about this matter, and he will definitely give everyone an explanation! ”

"General Jia, Wang Shichong's army is fierce and vicious, be careful!"

"Thank you for your concern, I must go north to negotiate with Wang Shichong, and I must not let them act recklessly!"

In the afternoon, Jia Wuben arrived in Zhu'a County, when they just approached the north gate, they saw a large group of soldiers pouring out from the north gate, there were more than 1,000 people, driving ox carts, mule carts, the carts were full of all kinds of property, everyone was carrying large bags and small bags, all of them were elated, and dozens of young women were crying and crying on the ox carts.

Jia Wuben's lungs exploded, he rushed up to block the soldiers' way, and shouted: "You bastards, the bandits are more merciful than you!" ”

More than a thousand soldiers stopped one after another, looking at the hundreds of Sui soldiers who were blocking their way with disdain, only two or three hundred, did they want to fight with them?

"Get out of the way, make Lao Tzu angry, cut off your head as a urinal!"

All the soldiers laughed together, at this time, a group of people and horses rushed from the city, and the leader was Wang Renze, Wang Renze looked at Jia Wuben, knowing that he was a Sui general from Licheng County, and a subordinate of Pei Renji, he smiled gloomily: "Is there anything wrong with this old general?" ”

Jia Wuben held back his anger and said: "You are the Sui army, but you rob the people, how can you explain to the imperial court?" ”

"The old general has misunderstood! We took the people of Qinghe County back, how could it be looting? It is you Qi County who are holding the people of Qinghe County, it should be difficult for you to explain to the imperial court! ”

"Aren't you robbing yet?" Jia Wuben roared angrily.

"We are moving for the people, and these belongings are to be returned to them, how can the general say that we are looting?"

"What about them?" Jia Wuben has been crying dozens of women.

Wang Renze's face changed, he secretly scolded the soldiers for not being smart, these women should be sent away as soon as possible! Know that things are dead, but people are alive.

Wang Ren was ordered by his uncle not to turn against the Sui army of Qi County for the time being, he laughed dryly and said: "These women can't walk, let's give them a ride-"

Without waiting for him to finish, Jia Wuben pulled out his knife, "Put them down!" ”

The soldiers behind him also drew their swords one after another, and Wang Shichong's soldiers were also furious, pulling out their swords together, and the two sides confronted each other viciously.

Wang Ren snorted, "Let the people go!" ”

The soldiers were extremely unwilling to push the women off the ox carts, and dozens of women ran towards the city crying. ”

The soldiers had to get out of the way, and Wang Ren waved his hand, "Let's go!" ”

More than 1,000 soldiers left the city gate with their belongings and drove the cart to the Yellow River.

Jia Wuben watched them go away, but he had no choice but to turn around and order: "Let's go into the city!" ”

The soldiers followed Jia Wuben into the city, and the city was already an extremely dilapidated scene, as if a thief had entered the room, and the originally peaceful and prosperous Zhu'a City was ruined beyond recognition.

After a while, Jia Wuben sighed, "The imperial court sent a thief to Qinghe County. (To be continued......)