Yuzhou, Yangcheng County.

At this time, Yangcheng County was said to be a county-level unit, but it included part of the land of Yangcheng County, Yujun County and Lingshui County in Qingzhou, and already occupied one-third of the size of Yuzhou.

With the blessing of commerce, the domestic productivity has been unprecedentedly developed, and more and more people have been attracted to settle here.

In addition, there was also the Lingshui caravan that continued to buy a large number of slaves from abroad, and when they arrived on the land of Yangcheng County, they all became free people.

Now the news of the breach of Kyoto has spread everywhere, and Xiao Jiu, Yuzhou, Jizhou and other local forces are also not idle.

First of all, the Shenhuo Sect in Yuzhou took advantage of the rise of the situation, and the high priest Gu Chong controlled the military and political power in the territory, and produced a comprehensive liquidation of the local gentry inside.

It's just that in this feudal era, if you want to replace the landlord-dominated small peasant economy, a rough one-size-fits-all will not work.

After confiscating the wealth of a large number of landlords in the territory, this group of peasant-born civil and military generals in the Shenhuo Sect was unable to effectively control local tax revenues.

Especially in terms of local finances, most of the local military generals with mixed good and bad are filling their pockets at this time and taking advantage of the opportunity to reap the benefits.

Compared with the previous landlord riding on his head to squeeze, the local people hated this group of ruffian-like rebels even more.

At least when these peasants give the landlords their old wealth to farm the land, these landlords will at least give them a way to live, instead of directly robbing them as they do now.

Without effective power to restrain these soldiers in the ranks, it is undoubtedly a disaster for the people of Yuzhou.

A strange phenomenon has now arisen that the land confiscated from the landlords does not have enough labor to cultivate it.

Most of the high taxes were embezzled by the executives, and the people's lives were getting worse day by day.

However, such a policy also had advantages, that is, the Yuzhou army received sufficient food and salary in a short period of time.

Under the current wartime economic system, all production was for military concessions, which also allowed the Yuzhou army to gain unprecedented expansion.

Perhaps some people still firmly believe that the Divine Fire Cult is a righteous army that fights for the people, but the consequence of reckless military force can only be self-destruction.

Just when the Yuzhou army expanded and the number of people skyrocketed to 200,000, Xiao Jiu and Jizhou of Yangcheng County also made moves at the same time.

Xiao Jiu, who had already foreseen this situation, sent letters to the armed warlords in various parts of Jizhou at the beginning, and reached a simple alliance with them.

And the covenant is also very simple, that is, Xiao Jiu will give these local warlords a certain amount of money and food free of charge, which will be used for the expansion of the other party's army, and the other party will also fulfill the duty of jointly targeting the Yuzhou army.

Most of these local warlords supported Xiao Jiu and signed an alliance with him without hesitation, and only a few neutrals who had no intention of getting involved in this war chose to wait and see.

The reason why they basically did not defect to the Yuzhou Army was also because all the policies and guidelines of the Yuzhou Army were very aggressive.

In particular, the rebel army in Yuzhou had also sent troops to attack Jizhou before, which made it difficult for these local warlords in Jizhou to cooperate with each other.

After all, a person who can become a local warlord will not be able to go to this point without ambition in his heart.

And if you want to hide in your own territory and become a soil emperor with peace of mind, you can only choose to behave relatively moderately, at least the two sides are still in a cooperative relationship, rather than being annexed.

Therefore, after Xiao Jiu's several letters reached Jizhou, there was an instant wave of anti-Yuzhou Army Alliance, which was also what Xiao Jiu wanted to see.

Compared with the money and food that was thrown out, Xiao Jiu was more concerned about the safety of his own territory.

If the war starts, all kinds of business activities that have just picked up will inevitably be affected, and then it will only end in annexation, and everything you do will become someone else's wedding dress.

Moreover, in addition to Xiao Jiu's enemy of Yuzhou, there is also a Qingzhou governor Lu Yaoliang in the east.

The contradiction between Xiao Jiu's Yangcheng County Group and the Qingzhou Group led by Lu Yaoliang has become irreconcilable.

It's not that Xiao Jiu and Lu Yaoliang have any grievances and entanglements, but the various policies carried out under Xiao Jiu's rule undoubtedly cost the lives of local landlords and old money.

Qingzhou's Shijia Group wants to have greater development, and it can't get around Yangcheng County, which is blocking the road to the west, which is why the Qingzhou Army has to take Lingshui County at a huge cost.

And the new economic system developed under Xiao Jiu's rule could not allow a group of tigers with the squire and landlords as the main body to watch from the sidelines.

Fortunately, Xiao Jiu's navy had frequently attacked and harassed the hinterland of Qingzhou before, so that Lu Yaoliang in Qingzhou did not dare to act rashly.

But after all, Qingzhou has a vast geography, and when it takes a breath, its inherent potential is undoubtedly very terrifying.

Although Lu Yaoliang, the governor of Qingzhou, had suffered several military defeats and collected heavy taxes at the local level, there was pressure from Yangcheng County, and these local wealthy families had to support the state capital for the time being.

If you think about this, you can know why Xiao Jiu used troops against Yuzhou.

There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests, and this saying is common in any era.

With the establishment of the Anti-Yuzhou Alliance, Gu Chong, who originally wanted to use troops against Kyoto, couldn't help but pause his thoughts, otherwise letting Xiao Jiu stick a knife in the back would really move the foundation.

At the same time, Xiao Jiu, who was far away in Yangcheng County, also got on the line through Jizhou and Yunbi, who occupied Kyoto.

For Xiao Jiu, Yun Bi is more disdainful in his heart, but no matter what he thinks in his heart, Xiao Jiu has now become a character that cannot be ignored.

This communication was not only to guard against the use of troops by the Yuzhou army towards Kyoto, but also to promise to provide a large number of artillery pieces for the Kyoto forbidden army where Yunbi was located.

Since Xiao Jiu's cannon came out in Lingshui County, it has made a name for itself in one war after another.

As Xiao Jiu's plate became bigger and bigger, there was a steady stream of casting cannons and producing shells in the military factories in the territory.

Until today, Xiao Jiu's cannonballs in the warehouse of Yangcheng County Mansion were almost overwhelmed, and it was nothing to take out some for Yun Bi now.

And with the application of thermal weapons, such a thing as gunpowder is no longer top secret.

In addition to the gunpowder formula firmly controlled by Xiao Jiu, the Qingzhou army also developed a gunpowder that could be made into explosives bags.

Although the power is still somewhat unsatisfactory now, and it cannot be used for military purposes in a short period of time.

But Xiao Jiu knew that in three or five years at most, or one or two years at the shortest, Qingzhou would definitely be able to create artillery that could be used on the battlefield.

Xiao Jiu, Jizhou's local forces, and Yunbi formed a line between them, and Gu Chong in Yuzhou also began to attract allies in Xuzhou, Anhuizhou, Yangzhou and other places.

These people all played the role of traitors in the original attack on Kyoto City, and they didn't want the rebel army in Yuzhou to fall like this without such a splash.

For a while, the political situation in the entire north became tense, and they were only waiting for a fuse to lead the war.

The valve that opened the detonation of the hot war was also quietly opened in a small border city in Wanzhou.

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Wanzhou, Songlin County.

Song Lin County is located at the junction with Zhili, and it is not uncommon for such a remote wilderness place in the long history.

However, Song Lin County was still a direct subordinate region last year, and only this year was included in its own territory by the warlords of the Wanzhou system who united with the rebel army to destroy the Great Xia regime, and it was divided into a border county.

And after Yun Bi's forbidden army entered Kyoto City, it naturally would not let go of this Song Lin County.

It's not that this place produces how much military rations are produced, Yun Bi cares more about the oath of sovereignty of the Great Xia he represents.

This also touched the reverse scale of the warlords of the Anhui Zhou system, after all, if you want to spit out what you eat in your mouth, it is even more uncomfortable than not eating.

In addition, Yun Bi was previously appointed by Qin Yu to serve as the governor of Anhui Prefecture, although he purged the remnants of Zhang Wei's rebellion, but the local gate lord family did not buy it.

Just after Yun Bi transferred troops to leave Wanzhou, he quickly established a local military regime to replace the power vacancy after Zhang Weibing's defeat and death.

Therefore, the Great Xia court and Yun Bi did not completely control Wanzhou from beginning to end, and the real emperors in this land were local families.

New hatred and old grudges were superimposed, and when Yun Bi sent troops into Song Lin County, the Wanzhou Prefecture also immediately responded and dispatched a large number of elites to the front.

The mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings, and a hot war is about to break out.

Today's Wanzhou does not have a de facto head of the family, but a military and armed force supported by a family.

Although the situation is very similar to that of Jizhou, they still understand the truth of the death of the enemy.

The general who went out on behalf of Wanzhou this time was named Ling Ping, and he ordered 20,000 soldiers and horses from his headquarters to march towards Songlin County, which had been occupied by the forbidden army.

The army marched from neighboring counties and arrived at the county town of Songlin, which changed hands every three or five days, five days later.

After the army arrived in Song Lincheng, there was no negotiation and communication, and the war was directly started, and after Ling Ping gave an order, he directly attacked the city and fought hand-to-hand.

There were less than 2,000 defenders in Song Lincheng, and in the face of the menacing Wanzhou army, they directly lost the will to fight and surrendered.

In this way, Songlin County once again became a county in Wanzhou.

In fact, it is not surprising that the defenders in Song Lincheng surrendered directly without resistance, but that few of these soldiers were forbidden troops from Huya Pass, and most of them were recruited from the local area.

At the beginning, Yun Bi brought 20,000 forbidden troops out from Huya Pass, and took Kyoto City in a blitzkrieg, without giving other forces time to react.

Similarly, Yunbi, who took Kyoto, did not have the strength to attack the city, so he could only recruit some good and bad personnel in the Zhili area to expand the army.

If the forbidden army in Huya Pass is a group of vicious wolves, then these newly recruited soldiers are not even militiamen, let alone pick up weapons and fight the enemy hand-to-hand.

But Song Lincheng Yunbi was bound to win, so he could only send the elite troops in Kyoto City to Wanzhou to clear the rebellion.

As for why he is in such a hurry, part of the reason is that Yun Bi is still under the banner of Great Xia and still has a lot of influence among the people.

But if it drags on like this without any action, Daxia is really dead in the hearts of the people!