In the face of Qi Hong's remarks that this place would become a battlefield, these local people would not have believed it if they were not really attacked by the rout.

But if they really evacuate to the south with these officials who suddenly appeared, then the local people have no bottom in their hearts.

They were willing to believe in Zhao An's troops, but Zhao An's troops persuaded them to go south, and it was really difficult for the local people to be persuaded.

In fact, not only the people of this village, but even the local wealthy and noble clans were also caught in a choice after hearing the words of Qi Hong's men.

However, compared with the hesitation of the people, the local wealthy families and scholars were much more decisive.

They immediately guided some of the children of the Shu tribe and asked them to take advantage of this opportunity to split up their families, so that they chose to go south to Qingzhou.

Compared with the lack of information among ordinary people, these landlords and wealthy families or the children of the scholar clan have more information channels than the common people, so they know that Qi Hong was beaten north by Liu Tai when he went south, so the balance between him and Wang Jun was broken.

Jizhou is the center of the Central Plains, extending in all directions, but it is also only a place of four wars.

This time, Liu Tai sent this army to persuade himself and others to move south, which was quite benevolent to some extent.

At least Liu Tai clearly told you that this area will be a battlefield, and if you are not afraid of death, stay here.

Liu Tai said that he respects your choice, and of course if you want to avoid war, then go south with Liu Tai, and then it will naturally be safe.

For the family, their main foundation is in the local county, and unless they have to, they will definitely not choose to go south.

But the children of the Shu clan in the family can be thrown out at this time and let them follow Liu Tai's army south.

To be honest, if it weren't for Liu Tai not knowing why it didn't seem very cool to look at the wealthy family, and there was no preferential treatment for the wealthy family in various policies, on the contrary, there were many restrictions, in fact, these wealthy families were also happy to follow Liu Tai.

But the problem is that whether Liu Tai implements the Juntian system or the government military system, it is to benefit the military households, not to the family.

At the same time, if the family went to the boundary of Qingzhou and got some acres or slaves, after more than 1,000 acres, the acres of land would actually have to be taxed, and they did not enter Liu Tai's bureaucratic system, so the number of slaves would also be limited.

These bits and pieces made the wealthy family a little hesitant to join Liu Tai.

If it weren't for Liu Tai being too capable of fighting, at least he hadn't lost the battle until now, and the wealthy families would be afraid to dislike Liu Tai.

But in any case, with the fall of Luoyang and the fall of the Jin Dynasty, all the families successively understood that this era had entered the troubled era of the late Han Dynasty.

In the current situation, the family doesn't know who has more potential, but after Wang Jun defeated Liu Kun, he began to gradually become brutal and indiscriminate, and even Wang Yi was imprisoned after just a few words of persuasion, this guy doesn't look like a Ming lord no matter how he looks at it.

As for Liu Tai's words, he can beat the young, but he doesn't benefit the family at all, and he doesn't look like a master.

After all, Zhuge Liang's implementation of the "Shu Branch" to suppress the Shu Shi clan was not defeated, and the Jin court's promotion of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system to rely on the Shi clan did not create today's foundation.

So Liu Tai doesn't rely on the family, but on the untouchables, what kind of master is this!

But who makes these people pitiful, the land is in the Youzhou area, there is no choice at all, otherwise he would have fled to Jiangnan a long time ago, I heard that Sima Rui seems to have developed quite well in Jiangnan.

In such a situation, the only way to do this is to let the children of the Shu clan in the family go to Liu Tai's territory to take advantage.

Doesn't it mean that as long as a man can join the army and has a family, he can have a field.

Therefore, these wealthy families directly arranged marriages for the Shu disciples who were excellent in martial arts, and went to set their own Shu children one by one according to Liu Tai's conditions for obtaining land.

Those who have conditions should be selected, and those who do not have conditions to create conditions should also be selected.

For these wealthy families, it is natural for the children of their own Shu clan to have studied and practiced martial arts, and it is natural to compete with the descendants who have taken the main resources of the family, but it is natural to compete with those untouchables, it would be too insulting to the lintel.

So at this moment, the wealthy families in the north of Jizhou decisively let a bunch of Shu children go to Qingzhou.

Not to mention taking refuge, at least eat Liu Tai's standard quota for joining the army, whether you want to be a soldier, or a military history, in short, to occupy more land and accumulate foundations, everything is fake for the family, but the land you get is real.

I have to say that as long as it is a family, it is almost instinctively proficient in exploiting loopholes.

For them, the most annoying thing is that there are no rules, although Liu Tai's rules are more harsh for the family.

But the family used its rich experience, soft figure, and just the right technology to tell Liu Tai what a family is!

You think that the family fights for power and profit, encroaches on the land, and raises slaves, but in fact, the family never takes the initiative to conflict with the authorities, they will only choose to be familiar with the rules, integrate into the rules, absorb the nutrients of the rules, and then find a way to modify the rules.

Unless they are physically destroyed, they will eventually grow in the ruins and grow into a new family.

At most, the name will be changed, because the family eats regular meals, while the commoners eat laborers' meals.

And Zhao An soon discovered that compared to persuading the people at the bottom to move, as long as the vast majority of the people have food in the local area, they have not reached the point of ruining their families, and it is really more difficult to persuade them to leave than to ascend to the sky.

After all, following Zhao An's move to the south, what he has to pay is to break off all his relationships in the local area, if he has a thatched house in his hand, and he is even more reluctant to leave with a few acres of thin fields, who knows whether these vernacular words spoken by Zhao An are true or false.

On the contrary, it is the children of the Shu clan who are from the local wealthy families, and they are active one by one.

Especially some guys actually wore leather armor directly to say that they wanted to join the army, even Zhao An felt that he would accept it first.

These characters are considered talents no matter how they are said, and if they are still literate, they can become military historians as soon as they come in.

And in this part of the Shu people, as well as some landless and houseless people with dreams of getting rich overnight, they became the first batch of people willing to go south.

Under the leadership of this part of the people, some people who felt that the local area was no longer safe after experiencing the rout attack also began to choose to follow one after another.

When these guys began to leave for the south, Liu Tai couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Liu Tai didn't do much, these days Yue just kept attacking the city with the siege weapons he had built, but he was not active.

At this time, Liu Tai's long-term stationing in Rongcheng gave Wang Jun enough time.

Again, Wang Jun's foundation is actually not bad, Qi Hong's loss is strictly speaking only the loss of 30,000 soldiers, Wang Jun can still afford the loss, at most the old-style warlord's organizational strength is a little worse, and the reaction is a little slower.

Now Wang Jun is decisive and violent, with Wang Yi as the mastermind and himself as the commander, he led an army of 100,000 and decisively pressed over.

However, time was enough for Liu Tai, and he had no intention of fighting Wang Jun, but began to retreat.

Xi Jian conveyed this order to Liu Tai, but even so, Xi Jian looked at Liu Tai and asked:

"I see that this Rongcheng is crumbling, and I think it is about to be broken, we rely on Rongcheng, and we may not be able to fight with Wang Jun, so that a battle will be able to determine the place of seclusion!"

"It's too risky, and now that our strategy has been reached, there's no need to be too risky.

The people of Zhao An's migration have passed through Nanpi City, and if the war continues, the pressure on our army's food and grass is also very great.

At that time, if the food is cut off, we can't say that we haven't defeated Wang Jun, and even if we defeat Wang Jun, I'm afraid we will have to retreat from Youzhou.

And in March spring ploughing, if we continue to compete with Youzhou here in Rongcheng.

Whether it is Youzhou or Jizhou, I am afraid that spring plowing will not be carried out this year! Liu Tai said to Xi Jian.

Xi Jian couldn't help but be in awe of Liu Tai when he heard Liu Tai's words, but Xi Jian said:

"If we don't retreat, we have Qingzhou in the end, but Youzhou has a poor grain harvest this year, so it will be more convenient for us to attack Youzhou!"

When Liu Tai heard Xi Jian's words, he glanced at Xi Jian unexpectedly, and said helplessly, "The people of Youzhou are also the people of the Han Dynasty, so why should they be so harsh on the people!" ”

Hearing Liu Tai's words, Xi Jian felt extremely ashamed of what he said and did at this moment.

But if you think about it carefully, Liu Tai's idea is not wrong, after all, the risk of betting on this wave of battles is still too great.

In the end, Liu Tai chose to retreat, and did not choose to fight the upcoming Wang Jun.

In fact, for Liu Tai, it was not wise to fight Wang Jun at this time, because Wang Jun had a cavalry advantage, and he didn't have it.

In addition, the real problem is that Jizhou has not yet used winter wheat for cultivation, and now it is still mainly cultivated with corn.

It is impossible for him to send soldiers in a short period of time to change the farming methods of the local people, so he must retreat when it comes to spring ploughing.

If you continue to stay here with your own army, you need to transport food, which is in itself a considerable drain.

And if the local people in Jizhou don't go back to cultivate the fields, these are now their own taxes!

Although in Liu Tai's opinion, the counties of Jizhou south of Nanpicheng will become a battlefield in the future, but no one dares to guarantee how much future there will be in the future.

Don't say it, your own big construction has not been shipped yet, Shile's grain has not been solved, Youzhou has suffered such a big loss, and you will not find trouble for yourself in a short time.

In this case, many parties will enter a relatively peaceful environment in Jizhou in a short period of time, and they may be able to collect a wave of taxes.

After all, in the future, Zhao An will need to carry out work behind enemy lines in these counties and counties in the north of Jizhou, so it is no problem to fatten them up first.

To be honest, if Liu Tai had a cavalry in his hand that could be comparable to Qi Hong's red-blooded cavalry, Liu Tai would not choose to give up these counties, but Liu Tai did not have a horse farm in his hands, so Liu Tai could not hold these counties in the north of Jizhou.

As long as Jizhou takes the initiative, these counties will have no danger to defend at all, so they can only be abandoned.

This is also the reason why Liu Tai chose to concentrate his troops in Nanpi City.

Even if these counties are under his own management, in terms of Liu Tai's positioning, they are still similar to buffer zones, rather than the territory that he fully controls.

And the news of Liu Tai's evacuation was naturally detected by Qi Hong, who was in charge of garrisoning.

To be honest, Qi Hong wanted to lead his red-blooded horse to chase him out, but he gritted his teeth and gave up in the end.

Because he also found that although the siege ability of Liu Tai's army was not strong, the overall quality of Liu Tai's army was very terrible.

The quality of any army is best seen when it retreats.

Generally speaking, the defense of his Rongcheng has been shattered by Liu Tai, and the opponent's army only needs to attack the city a few times, maybe his Rongcheng will be captured.

But Liu Tai didn't, as if Liu Tai had already achieved some goal, and retreated when he said to retreat.

This military order was actually carried out so smoothly, and the soldiers did not compete to slaughter the city or plunder.

It is precisely because of this that compared to Liu Tai who ambushed him at the beginning, Liu Tai's army at this moment is even more surprising to Qi Hong.

After all, Qi Hong could see that it was a complete coincidence that he was ambushed by Liu Tai, and Qi Hong was a little unconvinced.

However, Liu Tai was able to make the army withdraw like a finger, which made Qi Hong feel amazed.

However, Qi Hong soon knew the reason, it was Wang Jun who came to support him personally, and his son-in-law Zao Song was also sent over.

"General Qi Hong, now that the thief has retreated, please go to Jizhou to report to the lord, how did this battle come to this!"

At this time, Zao Song came to Qi Hong's face, and his face was slightly gloating.

Qi Hong looked at Zao Song's face and couldn't help but be a little ugly, but he didn't hesitate to take the initiative to report to Wang Jun.

Qi Hong is not afraid that Wang Jun will punish himself excessively, even if he is afraid that he will not have the opportunity to lead the army again in the future, but the basic plate of his red-blooded cavalry should be able to stay in the end.

After all, when the army fights a war, who can guarantee that they will never be defeated, and now in troubled times, at most they will only snub and snub themselves, and they should still be used.

Especially Wang Jun is now old, his subordinates are second to none, if he really wins, maybe he will have a little merit, but now that he has lost, it will reassure Wang Jun.

So at this moment, when Qi Hong went to see Wang Jun, he saw it quite calmly and without any fear.

And at this moment, the news of Liu Tai's withdrawal was not only received by Youzhou for the first time, but Shi Le, who was also paying attention to the situation, also handed the battle report in his hand to Zhang Bin, but said, "Right Hou, what do you think?" ”

After Zhang Bin read the battle report, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and said, "Liu Qingzhou's tiger name is more prosperous than the red-blooded general, which is naturally the best thing for us, and now in March spring ploughing, we still take advantage of the time when these two tigers are competing and cultivate the grain first, and if we can, in addition to exchanging markets with Liu Tai this year, we may also be able to borrow a little grain and grass from Youzhou!" ”

"Youzhou? Will Wang Jun borrow? Schler was a little incredulous.

"After suffering such a big loss on Liu Huben, I believe he will value the lord more!" Zhang Bin said confidently.

Today, you don't have to wait.

(End of chapter)