After the cavalry battalion led by Jin Zi set out from Lingshui County, it went all the way east into the territory of Yangcheng County, Yuzhou.

"What's the name of that village up ahead?"

Riding on his horse, Kaneko asked a soldier who was acting as a guide beside him.

When he learned that there was only a small village with no more than 300 households in front of him, Kaneko directly ordered the whole army to march.

When the mighty cavalry battalion drove into the village, it immediately caused a lot of commotion.

Jin Zi directly led the team to the village, asked his subordinates to shout around, and summoned the village clan elders or security chiefs to come and talk back.

After a short time, an old man with gray temples walked to the cavalry camp on crutches, accompanied by four or five young men.

"This military master, dare to ask what is the matter of this visit, is it not to levy military rations?"

The old man looked at the group of cavalrymen who had already entered the village with some timidity, and asked tentatively with some fear in his heart.

And Jinzi, who was riding on a horse, saw that all the people in front of him were skinny, and he could see at a glance that the village here was probably the kind that lacked food and clothing.

Afterwards, Jin Zi said in a deep voice: "We are not the gang of thieves who captured Yuzhou, but from Qingzhou. ”

"This time I came to suppress the bandits, and there will be more than 100,000 soldiers and horses coming later."

Hearing this, several villagers instantly raised their hearts to their throats.

Is this the imperial court sending troops to suppress the rebels?

Now there is no food in the village, and if these soldiers go out to collect military rations again, they will really not be left with any way to live.

Looking at the cautious appearance of the villagers, Jin Zi knew that he had temporarily deterred them.

As for the tens of thousands of troops mentioned in Jinzi's mouth, it is naturally made up, and this is the first stop of this expedition, and it must be released to recruit men and horses.

If the people of Yuzhou know that they only have a few thousand people, who would dare to follow them to fight the tens of thousands of rebels in Yuzhou.

That night, the cavalry battalion led by Kaneko took up residence in the village, and inadvertently let out the wind, saying that a large amount of military rations would be brought in soon and would not be looted from the village.

When the people in the village heard Jin Ziyan's words, their hanging hearts suddenly let go of a lot, as long as they didn't rob them of their food, everything was easy to say.

When the young people in the village heard that a large amount of military rations would arrive soon, their hearts suddenly became thoughtful.

Their group of poor sticks in the fields survived the peasant uprising and drought, and there was very little grain left in the village.

Rather than living a life of starvation like this, of course, it is better to sell yourself at least to have a full meal.

And the family can also get food to survive because of this, after all, the soldiers who live in the village are conclusively said that they will be paid as soldiers in Qingzhou.

What's more, when the rebel army was in power before, these young villagers basically followed the rebel army to make a revolution together, and after experiencing several major changes in their lives, they were no longer as soft and honest as before.

"Second stunned, did you hear what those soldiers said, give food to Qingzhou as a soldier."

A young man with a scruffy beard was talking to the small man next to him at the head of the village.

The young man, who was called a stunned man, frowned when he heard this, as if he did not agree with his companion's words.

"But if you don't do it well as a soldier, you'll die, and you have to think about it."

Looking at the hesitant expression of the second stunned man, Gou Yu still looked firm.

"In this world, human life is not as good as a dog's life."

"This poor life, Lao Tzu has had enough."

After speaking, he directly shook his arm and turned his head to leave, as if he didn't want to be friends with such a coward.

The second stunned saw that his friend from childhood had made up his mind, and knew that he couldn't persuade the other party, so he simply gritted his teeth and directly pulled the dog who was leaving.

"People are dead and birds are facing the sky, let's two brothers together."

The dog turned around and saw the corner of his companion's mouth smiling.

"I don't believe that we can't live like people."

As the two singles in the village, Gou Yu and Erzizi, who joined the army overnight, immediately got a big bag of grain, Zaozi Village, a small border village, instantly began to boil on the second day.

Many people have changed from initial suspicion to longing, and began to believe that this army from Qingzhou will really pay them.

There are many people in the whole of Yuzhou who can't eat, and the news of distributing food to soldiers in Qingzhou is still very attractive.

Subsequently, many villagers began to join the Qingzhou army one after another, and when Jin Zi saw that the effect was unexpectedly good, he sent two cavalrymen back to Lingshui County to report the news.

And he himself directly took out a volume of the plan for forming a new army from a bag and circulated it to several respected clan elders in Zaozi Village.

According to Xiao Jiu's plan, this border Yangcheng County will become a bridgehead and base for Lingshui County to enter Yuzhou.

For Zaozi Village, the first stop in Yangcheng County, Xiao Jiu still attaches great importance to it, and specially told the gold to be properly arranged.

Since the first batch of people joined the Qingzhou Army, other people have also become hot when they see the bags of grain.

In just three days, Jinzi's cavalry battalion received a request from more than 100 young men to sign up for the army, so that he had to send people to Qingzhou to urge food.

Taking advantage of this gap, Jin Zi also specially asked the villagers of Zaozi Village for some information about Yuzhou, and these people who had just changed their owners naturally knew everything.

Five days later, the grain sent from Lingshui County was transported to Zaozi Village, and the villagers watched as bags of millet were stacked in piles on pallet trucks, and the eagerness in their eyes was palpable.

After the grain arrived, Jin Zi released his cavalry battalion and began to go to various towns and villages in Yangcheng County in groups of ten.

The soldiers of the cavalry battalion kept moving all the way, which unsurprisingly aroused a warm response from the people of Yuzhou, and the rebel army in Yangcheng County naturally heard the news.

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Yangcheng County, the county seat.

In the city lord's mansion, a burly man listened to the report of his subordinates with a sad face, this man was Hu Biao, the leader of the rebel army in Yangcheng County at this time.

"Qingzhou soldiers?"

When he learned that a group of Qingzhou cavalry had come into Yangcheng County to hype up and threaten to attack the county seat, Hu Biao's first reaction was fear.

After all, in this era of cold weapons, in addition to the amazingly powerful cannons encountered in Jizhou, only extremely mobile cavalry can make people smell and change.

But when Hu Biao heard that the number of cavalry on the other side was only more than 100, he suddenly lost the fear just now, but was a little confused.

Didn't Qingzhou know that there were tens of thousands of rebels in Yangcheng County?

In the face of more than 100 Qingzhou cavalry, Hu Biao didn't take the other party to heart at all, and only regarded him as a spy who came to Yuzhou to inquire about information.

But what can this poor and white Yangcheng County have to explore, if the Qingzhou Army really comes out, they just pat their butts and leave.

After thinking for a while, Hu Biao stopped paying attention to the news reported by his subordinates and asked about other things.

"How's the rations going?"

As soon as these words came out, the soldiers who came to report instantly became a little distracted, and when Hu Biao saw this, he sighed helplessly and stopped asking.

He knew in his heart that there was a great drought in Yuzhou before, and the attack on Jizhou ended in failure, and the entire rebel army did not have much food.

As for the collection of grain from the towns and villages under the jurisdiction of Yuzhou, the rebel army did not dare to force it too much.

After all, the rebel army can rise all because of these people behind it, and these people can support the rebel army just to get a mouthful of life-saving food.

Judging from the current situation, if you want to feed the rebel army in Yangcheng County, you must have enough food.

But the grain is folded so much, the people eat more, and the soldiers have to eat less.

Therefore, Hu Biao directly ordered to hoard all the military rations of the rebel army in Yangcheng County into the county seat, and it was not the most important thing for the people in the township to live or die.

Now that he heard that the Qingzhou Army came to quell the rebellion, Hu Biao even had a trace of the idea of borrowing a knife to kill people in his heart.

"If the Qingzhou soldiers rob your food, then your starvation to death has nothing to do with me."

In this way, an evil idea gradually brewed in Hu Biao's heart, which could be regarded as directly erasing the justice of the rebel army.

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Qingzhou, Lingshui County.

At this time, Xiao Jiu was sitting in the county office and listening to the information from the front line reported by his subordinates, and there were a group of Xiao Zi battalion generals sitting beside him.

When they heard that the team sent to Yuzhou had gradually taken root and began to recruit soldiers locally, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, it sounds a bit unbelievable to leverage a state with the power of a county seat.

Now Xiao Jiu sent Jin Zi to lead the cavalry battalion to form a new army in Yuzhou, which was undoubtedly a spike in the flesh of the enemy.

Just waiting for this sprout to gradually develop and grow, helping the weak Lingshui County to gradually swallow the entire Yuzhou.

Therefore, when Xiao Jiu heard that the soldiers from the front line had brought a message of gold, asking him to raise grain to transport to Yuzhou, Xiao Jiu almost did not hesitate and immediately mobilized his subordinates to start transporting grain and grass to Yuzhou.

When the grain and grass from Lingshui County were transported to Yuzhou, the people who had been co-opted by gold before suddenly swallowed their hanging hearts.

These destitute people have had enough of listening to other people's empty words, and at this time, truckloads of grain are being transported under their noses, which can be regarded as completely dispelling the worries in their hearts.

After the grain was shipped to Yuzhou, the process of forming a new army in the local area went unexpectedly.

Although these people of Yuzhou rebelled with the local rebel army before, they still had a sense of dependence on this Great Xia Dynasty after all.

Now it was possible to live in fear without wearing the hat of a rebel, and an army of peasants was formed almost instantly.

The ten miles and eight townships of the entire Yangcheng County began to form armies one after another, and the young villagers in the villages and towns also responded to the call to enlist in the army.

By the time the defenders in Yangcheng County reacted, a large new army had been formed in the entire Yangcheng County.

This group of new troops directly flaunted the banner of "eliminating rebellion" and gathered into tens of thousands of people.

Lingshui County also began to receive money and food from Qingzhou and Jizhou, and suddenly accumulated a huge amount of wealth for military use.

In addition, Xiao Jiu also specially dragged four cannons from Lingshui County to Yangcheng County to help the new army attack the county seat.

The situation in Yuzhou began to ignite the flames of war again, but this time the identities of the two sides were reversed.