The Yecheng of this world has been rebuilt and is located at the junction of Jizhou and Youzhou, which is not too far from Yanzhou, less than 500 miles.

Due to Liang Xiao and Zhuge Hui's advance drawing, the recruitment of the Northern Hebei Army was unusually smooth.

Long Wushuang was apprehensive and arranged for the soldiers to disarm their troops.

The officers and men of the whole army are also worried, but they are also aware of their situation.

In the face of Yanyun Iron Cavalry, they didn't have any chance of winning!

Even if the cavalry could escape, the cavalryman's family would have no way to escape.

What's more, the cavalry also came on a hurried march, and the men were sleepy and the horses were lacking.

The 5,000 soldiers, including 3,000 who also served as the logistics of the cavalry, all surrendered at this moment and were taken back to Yecheng by Liang Xiao.

Yecheng Taishou was overjoyed to greet him.

According to Liang Xiao's meaning, the families of these surrendered soldiers will be sent to Yecheng.

As for the surrender of troops, wait for the empress's instructions, whether to act as soldiers or send them home to farm.

Because the Northern Hebei Army was guilty of invading the prefectures and counties, and knew that it was wrong, out of trust in the character of Liang Xiao and Zhuge Hui, they finally accepted the supervision.

After all, the imperial court has to consider the possibility of surrendering and rebelling, and it would be good not to kill and surrender.

Long Wushuang took twelve generals including the Ten Directions Dao Commander and joined Liang Xiao's Yanyun Iron Cavalry, directly under Liang Xiao.

These people are all horse wars, and the ten directions road leaders who are more than half a hundred years old are all old and strong.

Long Wushuang had already stated to Liang Xiao that after the threat of Beihu was lifted, he would return to the countryside, live in the capital, and accept the guardianship of Xuanwei, only hoping that Liang Xiao would try his best to fight for a better way out for these soldiers of the Northern Hebei Army and their families.

Liang Xiao solemnly agreed.

Long Wushuang is self-aware, knowing that he was once a careerist, and he should take the initiative to avoid suspicion.

This person could have fled to the south in order to make a comeback, but he groveled for the soldiers of the Northern Hebei Army, which made him admire.

But trust is one thing, and now is an extraordinary time for a decisive battle with Beihu, and it must be done officially.

Lin Xiu was still on the way here, Liang Xiao left Zhuge Ding, who was the most steady, and two thousand iron cavalry to temporarily control the situation, deal with all the surrender matters of the Northern Hebei Army, calm the army's heart, and prevent the people of the Great Family from making trouble.

After the arrangement was completed, Liang Xiao sent Duan Yunyi an urgent official document and Yan Zhao Yuxi, and then led the troops back to Yanzhou.

Long Wushuang and the others went to Yanzhou with the army, and only then did they understand the general situation on the way, and they had palpitations.

Zhuge Hui hid 5,000 defenders in Yecheng......

Halfway through Liang Xiao's troops, Duan Yunyi received an urgent official document and Yan Zhao Yuxi sent by Liang Xiao to Xuanwei, and was surprised and delighted, and immediately sent someone to inform Zhuge Hui and other old ministers.

The crowd was full of praise for this.

"If the soldiers are not bloody, they can be collected for their own use, this is another great achievement!"

Duan Yunyi raised his eyebrows and said, "Liang Aiqing has full authority to arrange the recruitment of the Northern Hebei Army and distribute the confiscated property, how about it?" ”

"My Emperor Shengming!" Zhuge Hui and others praised one after another.

Duan Yunyi immediately asked Xuanwei to go to the West Palace Pavilion to inform everyone of the good news.

"It has to be my brother Xiao~" Duan Yun, who was raising a baby, smiled.

Liang Xiao has not hyped up the surrender of the Northern Hebei Army, but Yecheng has not moved a lot, and it has attracted the attention of the local family members.

"The Northern Hebei Army has surrendered?!"

"Fuck! How can it be? Isn't that the thief who attacked and killed Liang Xiao? ”

Everyone in the Great Family was anxious and angry, but they could only accept the reality.

On the march, Liang Xiao took advantage of the rest time to listen to Long Wushuang explain the situation of the Northern Hebei Army, which he had already experienced in the past.

Long Wushuang revealed the family's purchase and cooperation, but could not give any ironclad evidence.

"Those families also know that the last general cannot be completely trusted, and they never leave a handle when cooperating with the last general, and the last general is also worried that the other party will betray him, so the representatives of both sides have always been Duanmu Hongping and the second brother of the last general, Ying."

Liang Xiao listened to Long Wushuang's explanation and was not surprised.

The family has straw bales, such as Duanmu Yuncheng and the like, but there is no shortage of capable people, otherwise it is impossible to prosper for more than a hundred years.

Ministers like Duanmujie, even if they have a clear position, know when to keep their heads open and protect themselves, and seek to be as high-sounding as possible in everything.

Trying to bring down such an enemy is more time-consuming and laborious.

There are 1,200 rangers in northern Hebei, each of whom is equipped with two good horses from the Western Regions and chain mail, which can be called elite by virtue of these advantages.

But the ability of the soldiers themselves is still almost meaningless, after all, Long Wushuang has no way to select elites like Liang Xiao.

Liang Xiao brought all the horses of the northern Hebei rangers to Yanzhou, and the cavalry was temporarily left in Yecheng.

It's not that he doesn't want to use these pawns.

Long Wushuang hoped that they would have a good home, not die on the battlefield.

Moreover, these 5,000 people are equivalent to civilians who have received a little militarized training, and are not carefully selected soldiers, so the good and the bad are mixed, and the actual combat effectiveness may not be as good as that of the regular army with the same equipment.

If there are no accidents, less than one-fifth of the people will meet the conditions for joining the army.

Of course, those members of the Northern Hebei Rangers will still have a chance to go to the battlefield in the future.

The silver deposit of the Northern Hebei Army was close to 1.2 million taels, of which most of them were silver tickets, which were easy to carry, and there were countless grains and grasses, which was an amazing harvest.

Long Wushuang's identity as a rice merchant in Youzhou also told the truth and surrendered together.

"Your Majesty, and with the assistance of the prime minister, General Long doesn't have to worry, so obedient is enough to be a marquis." Liang Xiao comforted.

Long Wushuang just smiled and nodded, sighing in his heart.

If it weren't for Liang Xiao's birth, he and the Ten Directions Dao Leader would definitely want to fight again.

The final outcome should be that the Northern Hebei Army defeated Yecheng and fled south in a hurry, or the whole army was wiped out and the clan was wiped out.

After all, Zhuge Hui has been calculating for a long time, and Yecheng is just a bait, and it is impossible to fall.

Chang Polang saw Long Wushuang surrendering, and his admiration for Lin Shi in his heart was incomprehensible.

Without Lin's foresight, Guan Long might still be waiting, and the future is unpredictable.

If Liang Xiao calms down the internal and external troubles, Guan Long still thinks about neutrality or secession, and the result is nothing more than a divine soldier descending from heaven.

Earlier statement, yes!

Even the ambitious Gongsun family knew to let Gongsun Wuji fight Yanzhou.

Lin Xiu rushed from Yanzhou to Yecheng and met Liang Xiao's troops halfway.

Upon learning that the Northern Hebei Army had surrendered, Lin Xiu was pleasantly surprised: "How fast??" ”

Liang Xiao immediately arranged for Lin Xiu to go to Yecheng to replace Zhuge Ding and appease the soldiers.

Yanzhou, the mansion of the Higashino family.

Dongye Xuanji, who was accompanying her pregnant concubine at home, was also taken aback when she received the news that Liang Xiao had recruited the Northern Hebei Army.

The messenger specially explained that Long Wushuang confessed that he had indeed thought about assassinating Dongye Luoyue, but he was unsuccessful, and he was blamed for the follow-up.

Higashino couldn't laugh or cry.

But for the sake of the overall situation, I still accepted this statement, after all, the statement that the Northern Hebei Army left a token at the assassination site is even more suspicious.

In order to protect Huang Chaoxue, Qin Xun did not admit the matter to Liang Xiao, but decided to go to meet Huang Chaoxue first to understand the situation.

However, the separation between the Northern Hebei Army and the Tianri Sect, because of the death of Dongye Luoyue, also pushed the Northern Hebei Army to the forefront, making them the key targets of encirclement and suppression by the Great Zhou Dynasty, bringing unprecedented pressure to Long Wushuang and invisibly accelerating Liang Xiao's recruitment of the Northern Hebei Army.

The existence of An Ling, a member of the Mo family, was originally one of Qin Xun's hole cards, and with Qin Xun's fall to Liang Xiao, it also contributed to Long Wushuang and Shifang's decision to take revenge on Beihu.

A few days later, Liang Xiao's troops finally returned to Yanzhou and sealed the city as soon as they entered it.