Soon the rebel generals in Xiangzhou discovered this problem. After many discussions, they made a major decision, which was to withdraw the troops.

Since the people of Wanling County cannot be prohibited from moving in the military camp, what else can they do to hide from these people of Wanling County?

Therefore, the rebels around Xiangzhou no longer besieged Xiangzhou City and directly retreated their troops to the mountains in the south.

Compared with the rebels in Xiangzhou, they can still avoid the people of Wanling County by withdrawing troops, and the situation of the rebels in Shanzhou City seems much more difficult. Although they are said to have a force of 300,000 to 400,000 troops, in fact, the elite troops that can fight are only about 100,000, and the other more than 200,000 people are a large number of civilians and even women brought from all over the country.

In two months, not only were the husbands and women who were brought in, and half of them were mobilized to leave, but even the elite soldiers of the rebel army left more than 30,000.

If the loss rate is at this rate, it is estimated that within two months, the rebel generals stationed in Shanzhou City may face a lonely situation.

Moreover, according to the information inquired by the spies of the rebel army, about 15,000 elite Anxi troops from the Jin Dynasty had set out from Anxi City and rushed directly to Shanzhou City along the Hexi Corridor.

Although the Anxi Army, which had 15,000 men, did not have many troops, the third prince of Yongzhou City and many rebel generals understood that they could not resist the most elite iron-blooded army of the Great Jin Dynasty.

Not to mention confrontation head-on, just hearing the three words Anxi Army made many rebel leaders timid.

The reason why the Anxi Army is called the Iron Blood Legion is because of the deterrent power that this Anxi Army has fought in the Western Regions and the Western Regions countries and the Tubo people, the Turks and the Cannibals for many years.

It is said that a small Western Region country stood in the wrong team without the eyesight and turned to the Turks who had a grudge against the Great Jin Dynasty. In order to punish this small Western Region country that was about to be a fence-bearer, Emperor Taizu of the Great Jin Dynasty ordered General Anxi to go on an expedition, with the purpose of dealing with the small Western Region country that was not visible. When the Iron Cavalry of the Tang Dynasty came to the city of the small Western Region country, the king of the small Western Region country was scared to death that night.

Since it cannot withstand the attack of the Anxi army of the Great Jin Dynasty, then retreat. In addition, the troubles made by the people of Wanling County in Shanzhou City during this period made the rebel generals in Shanzhou City very angry.

They can't tell all the rebels in Shanzhou City that they are afraid of the Anxi Army, but there is a very legitimate reason to retreat. It just so happened that these rebel leaders were always angry about the people of Wanling County who were poaching people in Shanzhou City, so let's burn the fire to the people of Wanling County.

Soon all the rebels in Shanzhou City received the order to reorganize the army and go south to attack Lingnan Prefecture and even capture Wanling County.

Another reason why these rebels were going south was that there was no food or grass in Shanzhou City. Both sides of the northeast were guarded by the elite troops of the Jin Dynasty, and they could not obtain the daily consumption of the rebels.

When retreating westward, these rebel generals still dared not. After all, the west of Shanzhou City is the territory of the Tubo people. If they surrender to the Tubo people, not to mention that most rebel soldiers agree or disagree, all rebel generals know the truth that they just left the tiger's mouth and entered the wolf's den.

Although local officers and soldiers organized to resist in the southern part of Shanzhou City, compared with the rebel army that was like wolves and tigers, these organized officers and soldiers were undoubtedly mantis blocking the chariot, which was really vulnerable.

Since the people of Wanling County who came to Shanzhou City to recruit people said that Wanling County was so rich, then we, the rebels, went to Wanling County to beg for food together.

The rebels in Shanzhou City immediately frightened the people of Wanling County who were lobbying in Shanzhou City. They were so scared.

If these rebels were to attack Wanling County, their families would be killed, and the newly assigned houses and fields would be reduced to a ruin.

So they ran around and told each other, then fled from Shanzhou City one by one, all thinking about going back to report the horrifying news to the Wanling County Government.

"What should I do?"

Li Changxian once again summoned all the officials of Wanling County to discuss the rebels in Shanzhou City's coming to attack Wanling County.

Recruitment! Recruitment! Recruitment!

This is the unanimous idea of ​​all the officials in Wanling County. Even Zhang Kewen, He Yue and others no longer opposed Li Changxian's recruitment of soldiers like before.

"But how many soldiers are recruited? Can the finances of Wanling County bear it?"

He Yue stood up and talked about this matter. He did not object to the recruitment matter, but the finance of Wanling County was in charge of his affairs, and he could not be like others.

If there are too many soldiers recruited, the most stressed one will be the Wanling County Government Office under his charge.

Zhang Kewen signaled He Yue to sit down and said, "Wanling County's sea boats will return this month, and the financial problems of our county government will be greatly alleviated. Yesterday, I discussed with County Magistrate Li. Wanling County will add at least 15,000 more troops. With the original troops of Wanling County, a total of more than 30,000 people can resist the attack of the rebels."

Fortunately, there is only one road leading to Wanling County from Lingnan Prefecture, and the terrain of Wanling County is not suitable for the attack of the large rebel forces. As long as one sends 10,000 or 20,000 troops to guard the hills on both sides of the road, even if there are many rebels, they have to advance to Wanling County one by one along the only mountain road.

He Yue felt a little relieved when he heard Zhang Kewen say this. The increase of 15,000 troops was still within his tolerance. If someone was afraid of the rebel army and randomly suggested an increase of 50,000 or 60,000 troops, he would be anxious.

"Sir, is this recruitment and reward policy going to be stopped?"

He Yue began to suggest to Li Changxian.

Everyone in the county government looked at Li Changxian. The root of this farce was caused by this recruitment and reward policy, and even Li Changxian did not expect the development of the matter.

It turns out that people die for money and birds die for food!

Zhang Kewen also smiled bitterly and said, "If you don't stop, Wanling County's finances will not be able to bear it. Now there is a shortage of food in Wanling County, which will bring chaos to Wanling County."

In fact, the current situation in Wanling County is indeed like this, and the security situation in the county is also very serious. In the past few days, the county yamen runners have dispatched one after another and caught hundreds of people who stole and caused trouble in Wanling County. They were directly escorted by the county yamen runners to Adeba's road repair team for labor reform.

Moreover, on both sides of the Wanling County road, any empty places were built by foreign refugees, and many people were crowded to wait for the assignment of Wanling County Government.

In more than a year, the locals in Wanling County have never seen such a shack again. Now they are built openly next to their shops and residences, which makes them very worried. They have reported to the Wanling County Government again and again.

Wanling County also sent one or two thousand troops and more than a thousand yamen runners from Wanling County took turns patrolling the county town of Wanling County.

Although Wanling County has sent so many yamen runners and soldiers, it is still impossible to prohibit illegal people from committing crimes in Wanling County.

A few days ago, a resident of Wanling County suffered an unintentional disaster. More than a dozen rebels who defected to Wanling County entered the house and robbed them at night. After the robbery, they also killed the left-behind old people and children in the family.

However, these people did not escape too far, and were discovered by the yamen runners patrolling the county town and caught them, and none of them escaped.

"This group of people deserves to die!"

When Li Changxian heard about this massacre, he was furious and immediately signed a notice of execution.
Chapter completed!