After some operations to dismantle the east wall and make up the west wall, the army that crossed Jinju was finally sent away. After a few days of hustle and bustle, calm has temporarily returned to the inside and outside of Jinju City.

But this peace is not what Wei Cang wants, this time the sudden war between the two countries also sounded the alarm bell for him, making him realize that the confrontation between the two countries is the norm, and the frequent border market trade in the past year is a relatively special situation.

After having such an awareness, Wei Cangyue had a kind of thinking that time would not wait, fortunately, this time the war between the two countries did not take place on the Fenshui line, but no one could say whether the Western Wei would attack from Fenshui next time.

Therefore, at the moment, when the situation has not become precarious, we must seize the opportunity and seize the time to make money! When the two countries were at war on this side, the border trade would no longer be possible, and he knew that he simply did not have the courage and ability to defend the city, and it was probably impossible for the country to let him sit on this side again.

People have always been frugal to luxury, from luxury to thrift, especially for people like Wei Cang, who are not willing to suffer any grievances, they are used to the days of making money every day, and suddenly losing such an important source of wealth, of course, it is not comfortable. However, he also knew that this level of things was not determined by his intentions, and the only thing he could do at the moment was to catch as much as he could while he could still catch them.

Therefore, soon after the Jinyang army crossed the border, he immediately sent his subordinates south to inquire about the news, hoping to gather those merchants who had been frightened away as soon as possible and deliver the goods from the territory of Western Wei to him.

However, the investigation for several days was not effective, and the merchants in Hedong who used to haunt and operate in groups in the state have now all disappeared, and there is no trace of these people even in a few fixed pick-up locations.

This situation inevitably made Wei Cang a little anxious, he only said that those merchants were as timid as rats, and they were frightened by the division and brigade in transit, and in order to get in touch as soon as possible and restore trade, he planned to arrange personnel to continue to investigate and search in the land of Fenjiang.

However, this matter was immediately opposed by Zhencheng Xian Yu Shirong and others, and now that the army of the country is going to Heluo, they Jinju itself needs stability, if they rashly launch an invasion to the south and cause an overreaction of the enemy army in Hedong and counterattack, then the fun will be great!

At present, this situation can no longer tolerate willfulness, the past is just a normal season, and now it is better to have more than less. Therefore, under the repeated persuasion of everyone, although Wei Cang was anxious in his heart, he did not dare to act rashly for a while.

However, he was at peace here, and it seemed that unusual signs were beginning to appear elsewhere again.

First of all, Xue Wenshu, the assassin of Dongyongzhou, who was sitting in Zhengping in Fenbei, reported to Jinzhou that there were many abnormal signs in the enemy city of Baibi on the other side, and the birds and birds in the city circled and did not dare to perch, and the waterwheels that drew water along Fen also increased, and all kinds of signs showed that there seemed to be many armored soldiers gathering in the city.

However, this situation did not attract the attention of the defenders of Jinzhou, because after the construction of the Western Wei Baibi City, it was one of the important garrison cities between Fenjiang and Fenjiang, and the Western Wei division brigade was often gathered and distributed here. Moreover, what Dongyongzhou reported is not conclusive news, and the judgment drawn from just peeping at the signs is naturally not accurate.

However, soon a new change occurred, and Xiangling City, dozens of miles south of Jinju, was also a garrison built by the Northern Qi Dynasty to monitor the movements of the enemy army in Fenjiang. As usual, the Xiangling guards had to report to Jinju every day, but until the evening of this day, no Xiangling guards came to report.

In the evening, when Mo Duolou Jingxian returned to the inner city state capital from the Luocheng County Mansion to take stock of the state affairs, he discovered this situation, so he reported it to the assassin Shi Wei Cang.

Wei Cang has been trapped in the city for a few days, and he can't be interested in doing anything, and when he learned about it, he was a little unimpressed at first, but he said that the Xiangling guard was negligent in arranging, and ordered him to send people south tomorrow morning to reprimand him.

But Mo Duo Lou Jingxian still frowned and said, "Things are the rule, there has been no mistake in the past, but now it is wrong, after all, there is something wrong. In the current war, it is especially necessary to be cautious, and it is better to arrange for the soldiers to go to investigate!"

"Then you can arrange it, and you don't have to tell you everything."

Hearing Mo Duo Lou Jingxian say this, Wei Cang waved his hand a little impatiently and said, For such a trivial matter

And don't take it to heart.

Seeing this, Mo Duo Lou Jing retired and went out, and then arranged for a team of men and horses to go to Xiangling to investigate. From White Horse City to Xiangling round trip nearly 100 miles, the road in the night is inconvenient, even if the fast horse gallops for a few hours, Mo Duo Lou Jingxian after the return of the guards immediately after the report, then return to the side hall to take a nap.

However, Mo Duolou Jingxian slept until the next morning, and woke up when he heard the sound of the morning drum of the city defense, and after waking up, he hurriedly dealt with the backlog of affairs.

In particular, a number of armor staff weapons that were misappropriated from the city's treasury in order to send the cross-border division brigade were appropriated, and it was necessary to find a way to compensate for it as soon as possible. The emptiness of the arsenal will not only affect the armed rationing of the city's defense personnel, but also the matter has been quite troublesome before, if the Jinyang side sends an envoy to investigate and investigate after the report, they will all be responsible for the Jinzhou generals.

The management of the Jinju arsenal was originally a mess, and although this realm was an important border town, there were no major wars in the arsenal for many years, so many weapons in the arsenal were lost.

Not only Wei Cang, the shopkeeper, but even Mo Duolou Jingxian himself, in fact, also took advantage of his position to dump a batch of high-quality weapons from the arsenal outside the city to arm his own troops. Therefore, if this matter is to be traced, it is impossible to find out at all, it can only be said that who is in power is unlucky, and it is covered day by day.

At present, Mo Duolou Jingxian is planning to temporarily transfer the treasury of the surrounding city guards back to Jinzhou City first, so as to deal with the investigation of people from Jinyang. If Ha Luo can win a complete victory in this battle, the many armor weapons captured at the front line will be more than enough to fill the gap in Jinju.

If the battle does not go well, then presumably the country will not be in the mood to pursue the deficit of Jinju's arsenal again. Of course, Modolo still hopes that the former situation will come true. Although he did not go to Heluo to participate in the war in person, he had a deep friendship with the current general Hu Luguang, and it was only a matter of one sentence to borrow a batch of loot to settle the account at that time.

By the time these things were done, it was already morning. Mo Duolou Jingxian always felt that there seemed to be something overlooked, but he couldn't think of it when he thought about it, and when the governor Shi entered the court, he got up to say goodbye and then returned to the county government to deal with affairs. He has two positions in the state and county, and because Wei Cang, a thorn in history, is unhappy to handle official business, he can only be busy in two places, which is also quite hard.

Riding his horse in the city, Mo Duolou Jingxian heard soldiers on the street nagging about the rising water level of the wells in their homes, and the water from the wells in the low-lying areas of some homes overflowing into the courtyards. The White Horse City is located near Fen, and the well water in the city is also connected with the river outside the city, and the well water rises, that is, the river water is also ......

His thoughts turned to this point, Mo Duo Lou Jing's eyes suddenly froze, and he finally remembered that he had ignored something, and hurriedly turned his horse's head and galloped straight towards the state capital, and when he came to the mansion, he turned over and dismounted, and even asked, "Are the soldiers sent to Xiangling last night to investigate?"

After receiving a negative answer from the government officials, Mo Duolou Jingxian's heart sank sharply, and when he strode out of the state capital, he said loudly: "Tell the king quickly, tell the king quickly, the big thing is not good, there are thieves in the south, and Xiangling may have fallen into the thieves!" If the thieves come, there will be many of them, because they have the power to barrage the river......

"A thief is coming? Says who? Where is the thief?"

Wei Cang heard the announcement of the government officials in the back hall of the inner mansion, and he was also a little panicked for a while, and hurriedly came to the front of the hall, and asked loudly.

Mo Duo Lou Jingxian naturally couldn't come up with a conclusive evidence, but there has been no report from Xiangling so far, and the soldiers sent to investigate have not returned, obviously there have been amazing changes in the south!

But after hearing Mo Duolou Jingxian's inference, Wei Cang immediately frowned, whether intellectually or emotionally, he couldn't accept such a situation, so he frowned and reprimanded: "Hugh is alarmist, how can the army of Qiang thieves ......?"

Before he had finished speaking, a series of noisy drums and horns and other warnings were suddenly heard outside the city, and soon these warnings were drowned out by the sound of majestic horses' hooves.

"The Qiang thief is a real woman who is deceitful and cunning, and unexpectedly, he actually came to attack Jinju...... What to do, what now?"

After hearing these movements, Wei Cang's face suddenly turned ashen, his voice became trembling, and he stepped forward and grabbed Mo Duolou Jingxian's arm and said loudly, "The thief is here, what should I do?"

"The king, please don't be impatient, the thief's situation is unknown now, quickly recruit garrisons from all over the city to defend it, and see how the thief is going, and then make a plan!"

Mo Duo Lou Jing saw that Wei Cang was already panicked, so he comforted him again and again.

At this time, Yu Shirong, the town of Xian, also rushed in from outside, and said with a serious expression: "Thousands of thieves are sweeping from the south, and they are ten miles away from the city, so we should arrange the city defense as soon as possible!"

Although Wei Cang was a little unbearable, the other state officials and generals still had a little calm, and they were not frightened by the sudden appearance of the enemy, and began to gather the city soldiers and people in an orderly manner to arrange defense.

Everyone else was busy in their own way, but Wei Cang was still panicked, and still muttered to himself, "How can the thief army appear here? It must have been a deception before, and now when they come to attack me, there are definitely more than thousands, they are going to attack Jinyang! You can't fall in love here, no, I want to get out of the city as soon as possible and go north to tell the Supreme, otherwise Jinyang will be in danger! Hurry, prepare the horses, hurry!"

As he spoke, he waved his hand and shouted to his cronies to prepare mounts and prepare to flee north of the city. Mo Duolou Jingxian was already quite dissatisfied with it in his heart, and when he saw his person so unbearable at this time, he frowned and said: "The thief has quietly bullied the state city, and the rest of the territory has not yet penetrated a little, the king hurriedly left the city, is he not afraid of being ambushed by the thieves?"

"This, this ......"

Wei Cang was originally running towards the inner mansion, but when he heard this, his feet suddenly froze in place as if they were welded.

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