Next, Zhao Hanzhang and Shi Le staged a play, you escape, I chase, you can't escape, she chased people from the suburbs of Puyang Guocheng County all the way to the suburbs of Wu'an County, Guangping County.

In the process, they fought each other many times, and Zhao Hanzhang won each other by a small margin.

Even if Shi Le was confident that he would not be defeated by Zhao Hanzhang, and he was constantly converging with Shi Jun's reinforcements, several successive defeats still made him feel irritable and doubted the Mandate of Heaven.

He was still like that, let alone the soldiers under him.

Zhao Hanzhang was popular in Yuzhou and Yanzhou, but she didn't expect to enter Sizhou, where Liu Yuan and Shi Le had ruled for several years, and the local people also welcomed her.

Often as soon as Shi Le's army left, someone went to Zhao Hanzhang's team and took the initiative to tell her the whereabouts of the army, and there were even people who were particularly good at arithmetic to estimate their number and the grain and grass they were carrying to surrender to Zhao Hanzhang.

This also made Shi Le suspicious several times, but he still couldn't get rid of Zhao Hanzhang.

In this case, there is only one way, and that is to avoid the populated city and go all the way back to Anping Kingdom.

But he is short of food and grass, and he needs to replenish food and grass while running.

How to add it?

Naturally, it is impossible to collect slowly, so looting is the best way.

This is almost a vicious circle, he robbed the local people's property, and the people threw themselves at Zhao Hanzhang, from the gentry of the gentry to the servants and the common people, all of whom became Zhao Hanzhang's eyeliner.

But he must not give up, otherwise his soldiers will immediately abandon him, and in the case of looting food and grass, he also needs to constantly kill prisoners to intimidate his subordinates into leaving the army without permission.

This is a chronic poison.

Shi Le saw that Zhao Hanzhang comprehended faster than him, so even if the battle line was stretched and Zhao Hanzhang's logistics couldn't keep up, and they began to run out of food, she still restrained her subordinates and prevented them from plundering the people.

She gathered the leaders of the teams together and said, "The people are water, and we are the boats. Sizhou is also the land of my Jin Kingdom, after this battle, we will recover, rule again, if we hurt the people at this time, the future will be endless. Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize a boat, and we can see how important the people's will is by looking at Shiler's current predicament."

Naturally, the team leaders also understood, but, "Envoy, there are priorities, and we can't let the soldiers fight with us hungry."

Zhao Hanzhang said solemnly: "I will find a way, your task is to restrain your soldiers and prevent them from offending the people, this is a death order, if it is violated, regardless of dignity, it will be dealt with by military law."

Everyone was stunned and bowed their heads.

Zhao Hanzhang's method was to borrow grain everywhere with his seal.

borrowed from the local county government and the local gentry and wealthy families.

At first, many people were unhappy, although she only brought a girl and a personal guard to the door, but under Zhao Hanzhang's dignified gaze, they still felt threatened.

The first minister of the Jin Kingdom now borrows grain, who dares not to lend her a grain of rice?

Everyone gave food aggrievedly and harvested an IOU stamped with Zhao Hanzhang's private seal.

Although she said that with this IOU, she could go to Zhao Jiajun, or the yamen in Xiping, Chen County and Luoyang to collect debts, but few people really dared to go.

But there are always people who meet more truthful.

A borrowed scholar in Gongxian County took the IOU very seriously and went to the Zhao family's army camp.

Zhao Ming got the IOU, gritted his teeth, and asked people to take out money from the military treasury that was not rich to pay him back.

After the scholar got the money, he took the guards home, which is really known to the world once the money is repaid, and the news is faster than people and logistics.

What's more, Zhao Ming and Ji Yuan also deliberately pushed it.

As a result, the news flew to the north faster than Zhao Hanzhang, who had fought a battle from time to time and rested, and even crossed Shile and arrived at the place he was going to pass through one step in advance.

As a result, the people in the enemy-occupied areas such as Sizhou and Bingzhou were even more homesick, that is, the Huns and the Xiongnu people were full of expectations when they heard that Zhao Hanzhang was going to fight.

Although the emperors who rule them now are the Huns, only the Xiongnu nobles benefit, ordinary

The status of the Xiongnu is higher than that of the Han and the Xiongnu, but the taxes and military service they need to bear are still very heavy, and the life is not better than when the Jin ruled them, but they are affected by the general environment, and their lives are more miserable.

This year, in particular, there has been a drought.

The drought in the northern part of Sizhou and Bingzhou is much more severe than that in Yanzhou and Yuzhou, and it is already August, and the rice in the field, as well as the wheat and beans sown in the spring, can be harvested one after another.

But the soil was so dry that cracks opened, and there were a few crops growing on it, and they all drooped their heads, as if they were going to die in the next moment.

In some places near the water, there is still some harvest, and the fields far from the river are basically not harvested, and even people and animals have to start grabbing water.

In this case, they missed more and more the days in the Jin Kingdom, and heard that Zhao Hanzhang loved the people, and under her rule, regardless of race, only about respect and inferiority, whether it is good is good, if it is a slave, it will be a slave, and a slave can also accumulate military achievements and become good, and will not become a slave because of caste.

Seriously, there are really few people at the bottom who pay attention to who the emperor is, if it is a person of this race, it is naturally good, if not, as long as the life is not particularly sad, they will not be very opposed.

When the Shi army passed by, the people in the town, whether they were Han, Qian, Xiongnu, or other Hu people, all hid in panic, and most of them did not dare to resist when they were broken down and robbed of food.

Those who resisted were all killed by Shi Jun.

As soon as they left, people began to look in the direction from which the stone army had come, and sure enough, it didn't take long to find another large army.

After confirming that the flag raised high was "Zhao", they stepped forward to inform.

As soon as Zhao Hanzhang entered the city, the county order and the local gentry came to see him, and first explained his difficulties, this year's drought and poor harvest were not good, and the Shi army had only plundered it again, so they could not get much grain and grass.

Then the grain and grass were served.

Zhao Hanzhang asked Fu Tinghan to count the grain and grass, and she took out a pen to write an IOU to them.

got the IOU stamped by Zhao Hanzhang, and the county order and the gentry both smiled and squinted.

After knowing that this IOU is not an empty promise, as long as they are not really poor enough to eat, they want to exchange grain and grass for one, even if Zhao Hanzhang can't pay back the money and grain and grass in the future, with this IOU, can they get other promises?

There are even far-sighted and adventurous people, even if they are too poor to eat, they also find a way to scrape together a sum of grain and grass for Zhao Hanzhang in exchange for an IOU.

Zhao Hanzhang scraped together a sum of grain and grass faster than Shile, and then the army was divided into two parts, one was responsible for escorting grain and grass, and the other was each carrying three days of grain and grass and rushed to chase Shile.

The reason why she was in such a hurry was because she had already made arrangements a few days ago, and she had already made a detour back to Guangping County, and they decided to attack Shile in the north and south of Wu'an County.

For this reason, Zhao Hanzhang asked Zhao Ju, Xie Shi, Ji Ping, Wei You and others to divide their troops and approach Shile in a fan shape, forcing him to choose to go to Wu'an County.