Seeing Xie Qiong's bloody methods, as well as Jia Cong's merciless punishment.

The generals in the lobby couldn't help but sit upright, and their attitudes were a little more serious, afraid that Jia Cong would catch the mistake and take the opportunity to punish them.

They all knew that their commander had just experienced the assassination of the assassin, and although he was not harmed, no matter who encountered this kind of thing, he would not be in a good mood.

Jia Cong originally wanted to kill a group of people to deter everyone.

Seeing that Xie Qiong directly killed all 200 people, it could be regarded as a deterrent, so he could only give up.

said to Xie Qiong, who was still kneeling on the ground, "General Xie, get up, I hope you can remember this lesson and be severely punished next time."

"Yes, thank you for your kindness."

Xie Qiong stood up and returned to his position.

Jia Cong said: "Generals, this incident, this commander hopes that everyone will take warning, strictly restrain his subordinates, and strictly enforce the generals of this commander, hoping that the same thing will not happen again."

"We will obey the orders of the commander, and we will live up to the high expectations of the commander."

The generals stood up together and answered in unison.

At this time, a personal soldier led a family member of Ning Guofu walked in.

This person Jia Cong naturally recognized that it was a group of family members who were trained later, and when he saw him rushing over from afar, there must have been something going on at home, and he had some guesses in his heart.

So he asked, "Why are you here, but something is going on at home?"

The family said: "The little one has seen the big handsome, the wife asked the little one to come to deliver the letter, Miss Ping gave birth to a little master, the mother and son are safe, and the little one congratulates the big handsome."

With that, he took out a letter from his arms and sent it to Jia Cong.

Jia Cong was overjoyed when he heard this, took the letter and read it quickly, and said with a smile: "Okay, good, Ben Shuai is also a person with a son now, hahahaha······

Qingwen said happily, "Dashuai, Sister Ping'er really gave birth to a son?"

Jia Cong smiled and said, "Then it's still fake, the letter is here, you can read it for yourself."

Li Biao smiled and said, "Congratulations to your subordinates."

Tie Zhu also said, "Congratulations to the subordinates, Ning Guofu has a queen."

When the other generals heard this, they also stepped forward to congratulate them.

"I'm waiting to congratulate the handsome man, and I'm happy to have a noble son."

Jia Cong laughed and said, "Okay, thank you, this handsome man is invited at noon today, and everyone is welcome to participate."

Everyone hurriedly agreed, this is a good opportunity to get closer, and naturally it should not be missed.

Recently, everyone has gained a lot, and it is still very easy to follow a generous gift.

Qingwen said, "Dashuai, Mrs. asked you to name the child, have you thought about it?"

Jia Cong thought for a while and said, "The child was born, but I, the father, am fighting for the country, this child is called "Po Lu", I hope we defeat the rebels and return to the dynasty victoriously."

"Broken, good name."

Qingwen said with a happy face.

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The days flew by, and in the blink of an eye, another four or five months passed.

The imperial army led by Jia Cong, with the help of the special combat personnel lurking in the rebels, swept through most of Shaanxi like a bamboo, destroying the ancient and decaying, plowing the court and sweeping the holes.

Fought fiercely with the rebels more than a dozen times, using all kinds of tricks and tricks, beating them crying for their fathers and mothers, and fled in embarrassment.

It was the main army of Gao Yingxiang and fought fiercely north of Tongchuan for three days and three nights.

In that battle, the sky was dark, the sun and the moon were dark, the corpses were all over the field, and the blood flowed like a river. Both sides were angry, and Gao Yingxiang gathered 200,000 troops, wanting to defeat the imperial army in one fell swoop and completely redeem the defeat.

On a frontal battlefield, all conspiracies and calculations are difficult to achieve.

With a disadvantage of double the number of people, Jia Cong's army, although its morale was high and it was brave enough to kill the enemy, still felt very difficult.

In the end, Jia Cong took advantage of the cover of the night and secretly used a grenadier to sneak attack the rebels

Camp.

Under the cover of artillery and explosives packs, nearly 2,000 shells were fired in one go, and the main force of Gao Yingxiang's main force was blown up on their backs and turned into a pot of porridge.

Jia Cong personally rushed to the camp with his own soldiers, led the cavalry under his command into the rebel camp, and went on a rampage all the way, killing in the direction of Gao Yingxiang, thinking of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, and directly killing Gao Yingxiang.

Along the way, the momentum was like a bamboo, and there was no enemy under him, and the enemy was terrified and fled.

Even if the rebels came to intercept it, they couldn't stop Jia Cong and others from charging at all.

Seeing these cavalry getting closer and closer to him, one by one as if killing gods, Gao Yingxiang was so frightened that he didn't dare to hesitate for a moment, and fled with the rebels.

Jia Cong led the imperial army all the way to cover and kill, and chased for thirty miles before stopping.

Gao Yingxiang's rebels suffered heavy casualties, directly collected the garrison in Tongchuan, withdrew to Chang'an City, and defended the city.

Let Jia Cong occupy Tongchuan effortlessly, and after a short rest, he swept all the surrounding counties and towns, and Bingfeng pointed directly at Chang'an.

In this battle, Gao Yingxiang's rebels lost 60,000 or 70,000 people, and did not dare to fight Jia Cong again, so they mobilized all the troops from other places to Chang'an City, and defended the city, wanting to rely on Chang'an City, which was high and thick, to confront Jia Cong.

After Jia Cong understood the situation, he sent all battalion generals to completely sweep the towns around Chang'an City, and all of them were recovered, leaving only Chang'an City, a lonely city.

After seven or eight months of fighting, there were only more than 70,000 people left under Jia Cong's command.

More than 30,000 people were lost and more than 200,000 enemies were killed, and the results were still very remarkable.

Jia Cong stood on a small hillside, looking at Chang'an City in the distance, and behind him stood a group of generals under his command, as well as Li Biao, Tie Zhu, Qingwen and other guards.

Chang'an City has thick walls, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there are countless materials for defending the city in the city.

Gao Yingxiang even recruited 150,000 troops to protect Chang'an City, which is not an exaggeration to describe it as impregnable.

If you want to break through Chang'an City, with your own more than 70,000 people, it is a bit unrealistic.

The art of war: ten are to surround it, five to attack it, and the multiple is to divide it, the enemy can fight, if there is less, you can escape, and if not, you can avoid it. Therefore, the small enemy is strong, and the big enemy is also captured.

In the current situation, they tend to be inferior in terms of troops.

The reason why the rebels were blocked in Chang'an City was that they were scared by their combat power, and they did not dare to go out of the city.

If you really want to force the siege, the rebels will defend the city desperately.

"Generals, do you have a good plan to break the city, if you have one, you might as well put it forward, everyone will study it, so that you can break through Chang'an City as soon as possible, and the class will return to the court."

Zhong Anyi, the commander of the Zhenwu battalion, said: "Marshal, with the defense of Chang'an City and the existing forces, it will be difficult for us to break through Chang'an City, so we can only think of other ways."

Li Chengzu, the commander of the Shenji Battalion, said: "Marshal, can we use explosives to blow up the city wall, and then directly kill it and capture Chang'an City, when the rebels in the city will either fight to the death or escape from Chang'an City, without the cover of the city wall, they will no longer be our opponents, and it is only a matter of time before they are eliminated."

Guo Dazhi said: "Blowing up the city wall is a solution, but have you ever thought that even if you blow up a gap, the effect is not very great, there are 150,000 rebels in the city, and we only have about 70,000 people, and it is too difficult to attack it."

Jia Cong nodded and said, "What everyone said makes sense, in the face of the defense of Chang'an City, with our existing manpower, it is really difficult to capture it. But no matter how difficult it is, we can't give up, at present, there is only one way to blow up the city wall, and now our gunpowder is insufficient, and we need to let the imperial court transport another batch over.

At present, we mainly focus on rest and patrol, and take turns to go to the city every day to call for battle. In addition, actively prepare all kinds of siege equipment, ladders, siege vehicles, trebuchets, artillery, explosives, etc., and prepare as much as possible."

"Yes, we will obey."

The generals replied in unison.

In the following days, the generals took turns

Go to the city and call for war.

However, the rebels in the city turned a blind eye and did not go out of the city at all, even if they found a group of people to scold and fight below, the other party only scolded each other on the city wall, and did not go out of the city to fight at all.

So there was a ridiculous scene, the two armies, separated by the city wall, fought a war of words every day.

Jia Cong was not idle, actively preparing all kinds of materials and all kinds of siege equipment, waiting for an opportunity to launch a general attack.

At the same time, the current situation was reported to the imperial court in the form of a war report, hoping to get the assistance of the imperial court.

After more than half a year of repeated battles, the troops also need to take a good rest, and they just take advantage of this free time to repair well.

A sudden heavy snowfall brought the two sides into a complete truce.

Large snowflakes, mixed with the cold wind, have been raining for three days and three nights, and a thick layer of white snow has piled up on the ground, more than a foot thick.

With this heavy snowfall, the drought in Shaanxi should be alleviated, which is a good thing for the people of Shaanxi.

In the past few months, due to the large amount of grain that has been shipped to Shaanxi, the price of grain has also dropped again and again, and now it has remained at the price of three taels of silver and one stone of grain.

Some black-hearted businessmen who hoarded grain on a large scale also lost all their money and received the punishment they deserved.

And the biggest profit is that these people who transported grain into Shaanxi, under the support of Jia Cong, no one dared to eat and take cards, and they made a lot of money one by one, and they were also grateful to Jia Cong.

With the support of Jia Cong, the four shopkeepers of Li controlled the supply of grain and sold it continuously, which also made a lot of profits and made a lot of money.

And the biggest winner among them is Jia Cong.

Not only did Ning Guofu transport the most grain, but there were also four shopkeepers, Li and Zhang, and sixty percent of the profits from selling grain were also owned by Jia Cong.

So far, in terms of grain alone, Jia Cong has received more than four million taels of silver.

Coupled with the seizures of the war, the division of the booty, and the silver under the raid, these add up to nearly two million taels of silver.

Among them, the seized share is 500,000 taels, and the rest is under the black of the house.

The main reason why there is such a big harvest is that after more than two years of drought in Shaanxi, the silver and property of the entire Shaanxi have gone into the hands of those black-hearted grain merchants.

People have to eat, and they have to buy grain to eat, and the grain is controlled by those black-hearted grain merchants, raising the price of grain to ten or twenty times.

No matter how expensive it is, you have to eat it, if you don't eat, you will starve to death, and if you die, you will have nothing.

Even if you smash pots and sell iron, sell houses and land, or even sell your sons and daughters, you have to buy food to eat.

Therefore, those black-hearted grain merchants have accumulated a lot of wealth in their hands, and they are all very rich.

In addition, those rebels were undisciplined and looted everywhere, not much more than bandits, and they also accumulated a lot of wealth, and after they were exterminated, the money on their bodies was also captured by Jia Cong's army and became trophies.

It is precisely because of these two reasons that Jia Cong has been able to gain so much, and it is all luck.

Back then, Jia Cong stayed in Liaodong for three years, went to the rear of the barbarians to loot twice, and copied the treasure house of the old slave, as well as the share of the Guangning market, which added up to almost a million taels of silver.

This time, the army that followed Jia Cong to suppress the bandits, from generals to non-commissioned officers, all made a lot of money, and everyone smiled.

In normal times, they can't even get the full amount of military salary, and they have achieved six or seven achievements.

This time, they really made a fortune, and the harvest of this war was enough for them to spend a lifetime, which was an unprecedented harvest, and it was impossible to have this harvest by fighting with others.

Because of this, Jia Cong's prestige in the army has also reached its peak.

Let's ask, who doesn't want to follow a handsome man who can take you to meritorious service and make you rich?

On the side of Rongguo Mansion, the Xue family, the Lin family, the Shi family and other families, because they have been following Jia Cong's pace,

Again, earn more than others.

Jia Cong divided Li Rong's 200,000 taels of silver, and completely made Li Rong stand on Jia Cong's side, so many things were more convenient to do.

This is the convenience of being with others and being convenient for yourself.

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Shenjing City, Ningguo Mansion.

Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai, Ping'er, and Mandarin Duck were teasing Jia Poyu.

Lin Daiyu smiled: "This little guy is really getting cuter and cuter as he grows, and his father doesn't know when he will come back, and he doesn't know if he can come back for the New Year."

Xue Baochai raised his head from the ledger and said with a smile: "According to the news brought back by the grain team, I am afraid that the master's army has already arrived at Chang'an City, if he can successfully capture Chang'an, maybe he will be able to come back before the year."

The mandarin duck said, "The last time the master sent a letter, didn't he say that it would take more than a year to come back? It shouldn't be that fast, right? When the master comes back, the captives may run away, and they will call Daddy."

Ping'er smiled: "How can it be so fast, children will not be able to walk until they are more than a year old, and they can talk."

Xue Baochai said with a smile: "How can the plan change a lot, I heard that the master has won another big battle, and he has already taken Tongchuan, and those traitors have all hid in Chang'an City, as long as he wins this battle, grandpa can return to the dynasty."

With the master's ability, there is no problem at all in winning this battle, but I don't know when the master will choose to fight. Compared with the ability to fight, the master's ability to make money makes me even more impressed, you see how much money the master has earned during this time."

As he spoke, he pushed the ledger in front of several people.

The mandarin duck looked at it and said in surprise: "I actually made so much money, it's only been more than half a year, and this money is too easy to make."