The villagers in each village were grieving themselves, and fear was constantly growing in their hearts, and in less than three days, they forcibly requisitioned military rations twice, and no one knew when the next one would be collected.

But after the autumn tax, there were two more military rations, and there were not many people at home who had food in stock, and they didn't even know how to spend February and March, let alone be levied again.

Moreover, every family has lost a strong laborer.

Just as they were so sad that the sound of wheels rolling at the entrance of the village sounded again, the villagers couldn't help but have anger on their faces, and when they were about to go back to the kitchen to carry knives, they heard the cheers of the children outside the door.

A seven or eight-year-old kid barged in and said happily, "Grandpa, my father is back, my father is back—"

The old man who was about to carry the knife was stunned, and hurriedly ran out of the door, and saw the forcibly requisitioned children returning with ox carts full of grain, greeting the people in the village with a smile on their faces.

The old man's first reaction was that the children finally couldn't resist rebelling and killed the grain conscription team.

There were many people who reacted like the old man, and they hurriedly grabbed people and asked about the situation, if they killed someone, they would have to hide in the mountains now, right?

The strong men were not afraid at all, and said to everyone: "We didn't run by ourselves, we were rescued by the Zhao family, and those grain collection teams were all taken down by the Zhao family." ”

The villagers were amazed and relieved.

Although Wang Dun forcibly requisitioned military rations, he was quite reasonable, the grain collection team was looted by the Zhao family army halfway and let go of the strong men, he would not plant the charges on the strong men, and naturally he would not involve the villagers.

Everyone took their own grain home with confidence, and planned to find another place to hide it, and they had to divide a few more parts to hide it separately, in case there was another grain collection team coming to the door, maybe there would be some to hide.

The villagers also discussed that the young people in the family should hide in the forest.

"I don't believe that only the old and weak are left in the family, and they even detain me, an old man in his forties and fifties."

"Alas, now the forest is very cold, and the water vapor is big, and I don't know when Zhao Jiajun will be able to defeat Jiangnan for a short time."

"I also want General Zhao to take charge of Jiangnan, I heard that General Zhao is very generous, not only likes to reduce taxes for people, but also sends farming cattle and farm tools to the village every year."

"Envy." It's another day of jealousy of the people of Jiangbei.

Seeing the strong men pulling the ox cart away, Zhao Shi's eyes fell on the captive.

The conscription team immediately begged for mercy, and they would be sent out to collect food and conscription, so that it could be seen that their combat strength was not very good, and the elite soldiers had already been transferred, or they were fighting in the front.

So admit it when it's time to admit it, even the elite soldiers can't beat the Zhao family's army, let alone them?

Zhao Shi didn't embarrass them, and after asking them about the movements of Wang Dun's army, he let them go.

The soldiers of the grain conscription team were a little disappointed, and one of the young soldiers with a tender face couldn't help but ask, "General, won't you take us in?" ”

Zhao Shi glanced at them and said, "Our team is all cavalry, do you have horses?" ”

The requisition team was discouraged: No.

If they had horses, would they have been sent to collect food?

I had already followed the elite soldiers south.

Zhao Shi said to them: "Wang Dun is perverse, and it won't last long, why do you bother the people?" Anyway, it's all out, it's better to go all the way to Danyang County, now it is under the jurisdiction of the Zhao family, you go and surrender directly, and the Zhao family army will definitely arrange you properly. ”

The crowd listened with emotion, but quickly shook their heads.

The army dared to let them out to collect grain and recruit soldiers, but they were not afraid that they would run away with people and food, and the grass would be ruined, because of the back-up moves, and many of them had their families in the rear of the army.

They can die in battle, they can be prisoners, they can passively surrender, but they must not take the initiative to run away and surrender, otherwise, their families and even their close colleagues will be implicated.

Forget it, let's go back, the general looks like he is going south, and they are left behind, maybe they will be captured by the Zhao family army in a few days.

The morale of these soldiers who stayed in the rear was not high, and the vanguard who was sent to Yuzhang was full of fighting spirit, and when they arrived in Yuzhang, they took a city with lightning speed, and went straight to the checkpoint, as long as they won another checkpoint, the army could go straight down to Guangzhou from Yuzhang.

This level is in Dai Yuan's hands.

Dai Yuan was not in Yuzhang, he had received a secret letter from King Langya before, and arranged for someone to pretend to be him to stay in Yuzhang and confront Wang Xuan opposite.

And he quietly took 50,000 soldiers and horses around the city and went straight to Jiankang.

No one knew his route, not even King Langya, who secretly recruited him into Jiankang.

So King Langya thought that he was still in Yuzhang and did not move, plus there were too many things during this time, first Wang Dun openly plotted rebellion, and then he chose to belong to Zhao Hanzhang, he has not done a good job of psychological construction, Zu Ti crossed the river with the Jiangbei army, and finally the two sides met, discussing various things such as returning to Luoyang and handing over local forces, King Langya completely forgot the secret letter he wrote by himself not long ago.

Until Dai Yuan encountered Chen Xuan who was hiding everywhere in the wild.

Chen Xuan ambushed outside Jiankang City, originally wanted to kill King Langya by surprise, but King Langya suddenly let the northern army cross the river, Wang Dun temporarily decided to seize Guangzhou, and he was embarrassed here.

Chen Xuan had quietly retreated with the army, but Zhao Jiajun moved quickly and had a keen sense of smell, he just walked an official road to attract many scouts, and then he didn't dare to take the official road, all of them took the wild road.

And changed direction, gave up and returned to Lujiang, but went east to Wu County, and entered Guangzhou after passing through Huiji, Linhai, and Jian'an.

This piece is basically controlled by the local gate valve family in Jiangdong, and the power of Zu Ti to take over the king of Langya will not be affected here, and the Jiangdong gate valve is very xenophobic, especially the Zhou clan who is in charge of the army, as long as you avoid the main city, you can avoid the main force of the Zhou clan.

Coincidentally, Dai Yuan thought so too.

He went north from Yuzhang to Jiankang Qinwang, because he knew that the west of Danyang and the south were Wang Dun's sphere of influence, so he went east, from Xin'an County to Xuancheng County, in order not to let Wang Dun find out, he also went around to the east of Taihu Lake, and then went west to Jiankang after Wu County.

deliberately walked on the wild road, and then, he and Chen Xuan met head-on.

Dai Yuan was shocked, Chen Xuan is Wang Dun's confidant, he is here, could it be that Jiankang has been lost?

In order to keep the marching route secret, Dai Yuan not only did not transmit information to the outside world, but also did not receive it, but also avoided the crowd, so he did not know about King Langya's attachment to Zhao Hanzhang.

Fortunately, the two armies were once on the same side, so although he was surprised, Dai Yuan did not do it immediately, but first sent someone over to ask, "Why is General Chen here?" ”

Chen Xuan thought about it and decided to fool him, "I will serve Zhao Jiajun, today, the only one who can determine the situation is Zhao Hanzhang." ”

He felt that he could convince Dai Yuan with this reason.

But Dai Yuan's news lagged behind at this time, and he didn't know anything, he only felt that Chen Yuan was crazy, and he told him in the territory of Jiangnan that he was going to take refuge in Jiangbei?

Then what are you hesitating about, fight!

It's not far from Jiankang City, and I'm not afraid to fight, this is a war feat!

Chen Xuan, who was attacked, didn't know where he was exposed, and the other party attacked directly.

(End of chapter)