Most of the Yuwen cavalry who attacked Wang Yong were killed and wounded by the ironclad battalion, and the rest fled to Gwangju.

Within ten days, Wang Yong successively destroyed fifteen powerful families in Changguang County, and released tens of thousands of slaves and servants from these powerful manors. And several powerful families that have always been notorious were also wiped out by Wang Yong's clan, winning the support of the people of Changguang County.

Since ancient times, the people of Qidi have had the 'spirit' of resisting power, and when they saw Wang Yong upholding justice for the people like this, they came to defect one after another, and even people from the adjacent Donglai County came.

At this time, Li Yuanzhong, the Gwangju assassin of Dongnae County, already knew the news of the fall of Changguang County, and while organizing the people of various counties to defend themselves, he urged the governor of Gwangju to organize soldiers, horses, and weapons to defend the city.

Last month, Li Yuanzhong also had a banquet with Duan Yining, the general who passed by, and it was only a month, and Changguang County was suddenly attacked by anti-thieves.

Different from the panic of Li Yuanzhong, the assassin of Gwangju, the people in Donglai were not so panicked, and Wang Yong had helped many people in Donglai back then. Even if a group of people in the cottage now have relatives living in Donglai County and Qingzhou next door, a lot of letters have been sent to these two places during this time.

"Big brother, I have sent Sun Xing to transport all the horses on the island, plus the remaining horses and more than 10,000 horses captured from these powerful families!" Cheng Chong said to Wang Yong as usual.

Wang Yong instructed: "Second brother, before your injuries are healed, you will first organize the people of Changguang County with Mr. Lu to move eastward to Muping, Weihai, Chengshan and other large camps. There are still hundreds of thousands of acres of our 'spring' wheat and corn that are about to be harvested. Although it was ruined a lot by the officers and soldiers, it was still able to receive more than half of the food. ”

Cheng Chong also agreed with Wang Yong's words: "That is, if it weren't for these dog officers and soldiers, we would probably be able to collect hundreds of thousands of stone grain this year!" It's a pity! ”

"Hey, big brother, Mr. Lu and I are going to preside over this, what are you going to do?" Cheng Chong asked with a puzzled expression.

Wang Yong said with a smile: "Yesterday, Ze'er sent a message that he had captured Qizhou Prefecture, and now he has tens of thousands of troops, and he has sent Xun Yun to lead the cavalry to the east first. He was followed by Zhang Hang leading more than 15,000 people. I must hurry up and lead my troops west to meet them. ”

Cheng Chong said regretfully: "It turned out that Xun Yun was the kid leading the troops, but unfortunately I can't ride a horse now, otherwise I will go with you, big brother!" ”

"Second brother, you have a great responsibility here, you can't ignore it, this is the place where we started, and there are many villagers like us around, but you must be sure to see that nothing goes wrong!" Wang Yong was a little worried about his careless second brother.

Cheng Chong said loudly: "Big brother, you don't worry about me, don't worry about Mr. Lu!" With me here, you can rest assured! ”

Wang Yong finally led nearly 20,000 men to the west, leaving only Cheng Chong and Lu Wen with 2,000 men and horses to garrison the city of Changguang County.

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"Report ~~~~~~" a sentry rode out of breath to the Assassin's Mansion.

"Report to Xiaolangjun, the cavalry of the Qi army brigade crossed the Yellow River from Puyang County a few days ago, along the south bank of the Yellow River all the way to Jeju, and then crossed Jishui from Jibei County. Tanma was panting and tired.

Pu Yangxun was taken aback: "I'm afraid that we miscalculated, I thought that the Xianbei cavalry came with the infantry army of the foreign military province, but I forgot the huge contradiction between the Xianbei people and the Han people." ”

Yang Ku also answered: "In this way, the Xianbei cavalry will not be dragged down by the infantry army, and I am afraid that they will arrive at the city of Jinan early in the morning at the latest!" ”

Wang Ze asked the Tanma: "Do you know how many men and horses there are in the Xianbei cavalry?" ”

Tan Ma said: "Because the Xianbei cavalry is so powerful, we didn't dare to approach, according to experience, at least the Xianbei cavalry is more than 5,000 people, and the horses are nearly 10,000!" ”

Hearing Tanma's reply, Wang Ze nodded and said to Puyang Xun and Yang Ku: "Although the Xianbei cavalry set off first, it is not a good thing for us, although the cavalry marched quickly, but in this way, the Northern Qi army was divided into two groups. ”

Yang Ku nodded: "What Lang Jun said is extremely true, but in this way, the speed advantage of the Xianbei cavalry will be brought into play, and what should I do when the time comes, like the wind hitting us?" ”

Wang Ze waved his hand and said with a smile: "Sir, don't worry, now the only land route to the east is this Jinan City, as long as we hold the city and the nearby mountain roads and let him come and go like the wind, I can't help it." ”

Pu Yangxun listened for a while before he spoke: "In this way, there will be a small number of naval ships under the command of Qu, and they need to be strengthened as soon as possible!" ”

Qu Liulang's navy currently has only the first and second fleets, and Du Sheng has long been sent by Wang Ze to transport the people to Jeju Island. Immediately afterwards, He Liang led merchant ships that had no combat capability to carry goods and goods and people back to Long Island, and now the water war force on Jishui is indeed too weak.

Wang Ze comforted: "He Liang has been gone for a few days, I'm afraid that in a few days, there will be a navy to meet me and wait!" Or order the commanders of all departments to come here to obey the orders and arrange the combat mission as soon as possible! ”

"Smack!" A giant palm slapped on the desk, and a middle-aged general dressed as a Xianbei general shouted angrily: "The dog man bullied my people like this, I will repay it!" ”

It turned out that this person was Lou Errong, the pro-Lou clan of Jinan City, and also the nephew of the Empress Dowager Zhaoming, who led the army to cross the Jishui River to Jibei County and happened to meet two men of the Lou clan who fled here, and was furious after knowing the news that the Lou clan was destroyed in Jinan City.

"Don't be angry, I'll find out the situation of the thieves in Qizhou first, and then attack them after the infantry army arrives, and we will definitely wipe them out!" A man who looked like a scribe said, This is Shi Yanyou, the commander of the army.

Lou Errong pushed the swallow away and said, "Wait for them to come and attack again, do you want them to see my Lou family's jokes?" Thou hast not said much, I have made up my mind! ”

Saying that Lou Errong was about to lead the army to set off, at this time, a sergeant outside the tent announced: "Tell the Governor that the grain ship transporting military rations in Jibei County was attacked by the thieves' sailors on Jishui, and the whole army was wiped out!" ”

Yan Ziyou said anxiously when he heard this: "Governor, the army has not moved the grain and grass first, I think it is better to wait for Jibei County to prepare the grain ship again before setting off, right?" ”

Lou Errong said disdainfully: "That is, you wait for the Han to talk about these things all day long!" As long as I have a horse, I can't find food there? ”

Yanziyou really wants to say that it is because of this that I am afraid that the good people along the way will be brutalized by you, it was okay to loot everywhere before, but now I want to put down the rebellion.

If Lou Errong is allowed to 'mess up' like this, the anti-thieves over there have not been leveled, and there will be another anti-thief swarm here.

To be honest, although Gao Yang became mediocre and brutal during this period, he used a large number of capable Han ministers in Qingming, and it was precisely because of their efforts that the Northern Qi was strong.

Yan Ziyou begged bitterly, but Lou Errong couldn't help but give him a whip, and 'whipped' Yan Ziyou to the ground, and scolded: "Isn't your old dog looking for the thief in Qizhou?" ”

Lou Errong simply didn't wait for the follow-up grain ships, and ordered Jibei County to prepare five days' dry food for the Xianbei cavalry under his command, and then hurried to Jinan.

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"Hiss~~~~~~~~~" Wang Ze couldn't help but take a breath as he looked at the soldiers and horses who were called back in the city.

These dogs were too ruthless, originally there were 60,000 people under their command at the time, and after being sent out of 16,700 to the East, the pressure on weapons was much less.

As a result, the group of troops that had been sent out to sweep the counties had doubled in size by the time they returned, and their total strength now had more than 80,000.

Fortunately, the cavalry battalion, infantry battalion and blue wolf battalion sent out have also expanded a lot, adding up to nearly 20,000 people.

If he hadn't seen this, Wang Ze would have pulled out his 'legs' and ran away, otherwise he wouldn't be able to hold back his bullets if someone seized power.

"Lang Jun and I only need to send the blue wolf battalion to garrison in the Nanshan area, and we can guard against a small group of cavalry sneak attacks, and in the north of the Jishui area, we need to arrange thousands of soldiers and horses and naval troops to assist in the defense." Pu Yangxun suggested.

Now the blue wolf battalion has expanded from less than 1,000 people to 5,000 people, and after receiving the order, Cao An and Meng Xian led more than 2,000 people from the blue wolf battalion under their command to the mountains south of the city to block the Qi army.

Zhang Hang had already led his 1,000 men to the east, while Chu Honghang led the remaining 1,000 people in the Blue Wolf Battalion and the infantry battalion of more than 7,000 people to defend the city.

Ge Wei, Hu Bingchang, and Ji Xiang were ordered to lead 5,000 cavalry to cruise outside the city to find fighters; The White Wolf Battalion, which had recovered to more than 1,500 people, followed the cavalry battalion under the leadership of Yan Xiaowu, Zhu Bofu and Xu Zheng.

In just over ten days, Wang Ze has expanded from more than 3,000 people when he rescued Zhu Rui to 80,000 soldiers now, and all of them are young and strong, and he can become an 'elite' soldier after only a few major battles.

Standing on the high head of the city, Wang Ze looked at the thousands of cavalry that were gradually moving away, and he was very satisfied, I don't believe that with so many troops, I can't beat thousands of Xianbei cavalry.

On the second day, there was a Xianbei cavalry forward arrived near Jinan City, but it was only to explore the horses, after a day of galloping hundreds of miles, the Xianbei cavalry brigade has been outside the city for dozens of miles to rest, only to tomorrow to raise the 'fine' to accumulate the strength will arrive in Jinan City.

Lou Errong looked at the manors outside Jinan City, and saw a ruin, and there was no place to prepare military rations, horses, and grass.

"Are these thieves ruthless enough? He actually brutalized my people like this, and went with me to take the city and destroy this dynasty! Lou Errong said indignantly.

The subordinate next to him slandered in his heart, I'm afraid that you think there is no place to loot!

The people within dozens of miles west of Jinan City had already fled in the past ten days, and most of the powerful people of the family died at the hands of Wang Ze's troops.

When the people saw this, they knew that there would be a war and chaos, so most of them scattered and fled, and a small number simply took refuge under Wang Ze's command, and a large number of people were gradually transported to Changdao and other places.

Lou Errong's subordinate general advised: "The majority of the governors and thieves are powerful, it is better to be careful, it is better to chase the thieves into the city, and wait for the Han army to come here to exterminate them together!" ”

"Does the shaft despise me?" Lou Errong said angrily, "We are all Xianbei hundred battles 'fine' horsemen, and His Majesty's personal guard "Baibao Xianbei" is here, although there are 100,000 thieves, there is no need to be afraid! ”

Thousands of troops raised smoke and dust in the sky and headed towards the city of Jinan.