Qingzhou, the city lord's mansion.

In the city lord's mansion, a group of Qingzhou officials and generals all gathered in Lu Yaoliang's mansion at this time.

In addition, there are some Confucian scholars who are not wearing official uniforms and also stand sideways, but all of them have cold faces, which seems a little out of place with these generals in Qingzhou.

"Master Lu, I can't wait any longer. Now Yangjun Wenjie has begun to build a wall, if he doesn't strike first, I'm afraid that he will miss the opportunity. ”

A middle-aged Confucian priest bowed his hand to Lu Yaoliang, who was sitting in the main seat of the house, and as soon as these words came out, all the eyes of everyone in the room focused on Lu Yaoliang, waiting for his response.

I saw that Lu Yaoliang was still sitting upright in his seat, his face was expressionless, and he only frowned slightly to indicate that he was thinking.

The atmosphere fell into a deathly silence, and it was a long time before Lu Yaoliang's hoarse voice came.

"Yangjun rebelled, and the various departments went back to rectify the sergeants, and the troops were selected to quell the rebellion."

The short sentence seemed to consume a lot of Lu Yaoliang's strength, and after finishing speaking, he collapsed in the chair and stopped talking.

Lu Yaoliang knew that he raised troops to attack Wen Jie, who had been crowned the governor of Yuzhou in Kyoto, even if he completely broke with his old friend and his own court.

But his previous actions had already determined that there was no chance to retreat on the path he took.

Although he now has 100,000 soldiers in his hands and the support of these wealthy families in Qingzhou, he has always felt a little uneasy in his heart.

Since the beginning of this year, although Lu Yaoliang can be said to be on the rise in Qingzhou, there are many things to lose.

The estrangement of the teacher, the betrayal of the friend, including the incomplete experience of being bombarded by artillery in Lingshui County not long ago.

"Cannon!"

Lu Yaoliang muttered to himself in a low voice.

Now Wen Jie is openly rebellious, and according to the informant, Lu Yaoliang already knows that the other party has purchased a large number of weapons from Xiao Jiu in Lingshui County, and this cannon is one of them.

Lu Yaoliang can be regarded as having personally experienced the power of this new type of firearm, and if he encounters this weapon again when attacking Yangjun, it will inevitably become very tricky.

How to deal with it? Lu Yaoliang had no clue for the time being.

But now that the order has been conveyed, it is urgent to raise troops, which has created a dilemma.

Just when Lu Yaoliang was sitting alone in the back hall and frowning, the people in the mansion came to report to Mr. Fang, who was here before, and asked to see him.

Lu Yaoliang turned his head to look at the next person, and his eyes showed a little puzzlement.

"What is he doing again?"

Lu Yao's conscience was doubtful, but he still waved his hand to signal to bring the other party in.

Not long after, the middle-aged Confucian who had spoken in the house before came in and saluted Lu Yaoliang from afar.

"Mr. Fang, is there anything else?"

For the middle-aged Confucian student in front of him, Lu Yao's conscience didn't like it.

But the other party represents the attitude of some families in Qingzhou, even if he is dissatisfied with him, he has to think twice about what he says and acts.

Lu Yaoliang's voice fell, and the middle-aged Confucian student on the other side, known as Mr. Fang, did not answer directly, but smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth and asked rhetorically.

"Your Excellency, are you worried about the cannon of Yangjun?"

Lu Yaoliang was poked in the sore spot, his pupils were slightly pursed, and he said coldly: "What do you want to say?" ”

Feeling the impatience in Lu Yaoliang's words, it was not easy for the middle-aged Confucian to continue to play dumb.

"I have a plan to help the adults take Yang County, but before that, please move with me to see someone."

……

Yuzhou, Yangcheng County.

At this time, the county town of Yangcheng County was covered with red and hung colors, and it was preparing for the upcoming Spring Festival.

The villages and counties under the jurisdiction of Yangcheng County have basically completed the land reform, and the people have been allocated their own land, and the atmosphere is not as lifeless as in the past.

In addition, there was another unexpected news that caught Xiao Jiu off guard, that is, Li Luoyao was pregnant.

Xiao Jiu was a little caught off guard when he knew the news, since he crossed over to this strange world, Xiao Jiu was alone, and now he had his own blood and bones, how could he not be excited.

Not only Xiao Jiu, but Xiao Jiu's subordinates were also relieved in their hearts after learning that Xiao Jiu had it.

The current Daxia still belongs to a feudal society, and the concept of inheritance is particularly valued by people, especially a reckless figure like Xiao Jiu, who will not let the regime fall apart only if he has descendants.

To put it mildly, in case Xiao Jiu suddenly died that day, no one had the strength to integrate Yangcheng County and Lingshui County.

And after Xiao Jiu has descendants, these people will also have the backbone, at least on the bright side, they will not collapse too quickly.

In addition to the city lord's mansion in Yangcheng County, Li Luoyao's brother in Kyoto also arrived in Yangcheng County and sent condolences on behalf of the emperor in Kyoto.

"Brother Xian, everyone didn't expect you to turn into a dragon and have today's chance."

At the banquet, Li Yi held Xiao Jiu's hands, and there was emotion in his drunken eyes, Xiao Jiu didn't speak at this time, just listened to him quietly.

In fact, not only him, many people didn't expect that a county order in Xiao Jiu District could rise up in such a short period of time and become a party with heavy troops, and even the imperial court would do everything possible to win him over.

The last time Li Yi came to Lingshui County to see off his relatives, he also threatened Xiao Jiu unashamedly, but now that he has curried favor with the other party on behalf of the imperial court, the change of identity makes him a little uncomfortable.

But Xiao Jiu has never been a person with a small belly, and he also recognizes this eldest brother from the bottom of his heart for Li Yi, so he accompanies the other party to drink with kind words throughout the whole process.

A few days passed, and the second Spring Festival when Xiao Jiu came to this world also quietly came, and the city was immersed in joy.

The people of Yangcheng County received relief food and cotton clothes for the winter sent by Xiao Jiu, and no one starved to death in this cold winter.

Everything is developing in a good place, just waiting for the beginning of the next spring Xiao Jiuli to recover more land in Yuzhou.

The new army formed in Yangcheng County was also completely pulled up during the Spring Festival, and with the soldiers and horses stationed in Lingshui County, Xiao Jiu didn't have to look at other people's faces.

It's just that Wen Jie, who is in Yang County, has sent people to Yangcheng County many times to ask Xiao Jiu to send troops to support, which makes Xiao Jiu a little embarrassed.

Although Xiao Jiu and Wen Jie have reached a consensus on the surface, they still need to run in if they want to trust each other, and now that the army has just completed its expansion and are still some new soldiers, it is too unsafe for them to go to war.

For this reason, Xiao Jiu also went to ask his eldest brother Li Yi alone, but Li Yi strongly agreed with Xiao Jiu sending troops.

As far as he knew, Wen Jie and Lu Yaoliang were the two best students Li taught in Qingzhou, but with Lu Yaoliang's repeated protests, he had basically severed his career relationship with Li Li.

Unlike Lu Yaoliang, although Wen Jie was an official who belonged to the Qingzhou faction before, he did not go along with those gate valve families in Qingzhou, and resolutely chose to break with Lu Yaoliang.

In the end, Xiao Jiu still sent Jin Zi to support with his newly formed cavalry battalion, and carried a large number of standard crossbows to provide to the other party free of charge.

With the gradual expansion of Xiao Jiu's territory, Jin Zi collected war horses after taking Yangcheng County, and the cavalry battalion had expanded to the scale of the first 1,000 people.

Although these cavalry are still some novices who have just started on the horse, they can be equipped with war armor and bows and crossbows, but they are all well-made, and the most important thing is that the hooves of these horses are all nailed to the horseshoe, so that the loss of horses in the cavalry battalion is greatly reduced.

Now this group of cavalry is sent to Yangjun, which happens to be used to train troops, and only by letting this group of recruits see blood can a tiger and wolf army be trained.

Just after the Spring Festival, the cavalry battalion that was still training in the county seat of Yangcheng County began to go out of the city to Yang County under the leadership of Jinzi.

Before leaving, Xiao Jiu looked at the high-spirited gold, took his hand and carefully comforted him, and he must be cautious in his words and deeds during this trip.

He knows Kaneko's character, but sometimes it's not a good thing to be too upright.

The previous process of attacking Yangcheng County was too smooth, and it was inevitable that Jin Zi would have some contempt, and this time Xiao Jiu let Jin Zi lead the troops alone with the intention of tempering the other party.

But Jin Zi seemed to be a little too indifferent to everything, and it was unknown how much Xiao Jiu's words could be heard.

Just as Jin Zi was on his way from Yangcheng County to Yang County, a secret operation was also unfolding in Yang County County.

……

Yang-gun, the county seat.

On the tower of the county seat, several soldiers on duty began to change guards, and as the Qingzhou side raised troops and hoarded in Loulin County next to Yang County, patrols in the city began to become frequent.

In the early hours of the night, a sturdy military general led dozens of his subordinates to replace the military generals on duty.

After the patrol soldiers who were originally on duty left, the strong military general looked at the warehouse on the city tower where the cannonballs were hoarded.

"Do it."

With the order of the strong general, dozens of subordinates moved, and took out bamboo tubes from their arms, and the bamboo tubes were filled with fire oil.

It was late at night, and there was no one else on the castle floor under curfew except for their squad on duty.

As the soldiers spilled the fire oil in the bamboo tube all over the warehouse, the strong military general sent someone to set the warehouse on fire directly.

"Peng~"

"Peng, Peng~"

With a loud bang, the silence of the night was broken in an instant, and countless people in the city were awakened by the loud explosion.

In the city lord's mansion, Wen Jie, who was sleeping, was suddenly awakened, and his upper body ejected directly, and almost without thinking, he knew that something was wrong with the arsenal.

"Someone."

Wen Jie hurriedly shouted loudly, he hadn't forgotten to put on his clothes hastily and went out urgently.

When Wen Jie ascended the city tower, there were already many military soldiers gathered here, but now the underground city tower was already a broken wall, and there was no tile left in the warehouse where the shells were stored.

"What's going on?"

At this time, Wen Jie was shocked and angry, and asked the soldiers on the city tower with a trembling voice.

"My lord, Sun Song blew up the city tower at night, killed the city gate guards, and went out of the city."

A disgraced soldier replied to Wen Jie with a crying voice, and there was a hint of horror in his eyes that he could not recover from the explosion.

When Wen Jieyan heard this, his face suddenly turned dead, and his legs fell straight backwards.