On February 26, a large number of soldiers crossed the river through Yucheng, headed eastward and arrived in Qizhou.

Shao Shude inspected the sergeants outside the city, and the momentum was noisy.

The expeditions of the counties in Qizhou are coming to an end.

Needless to say, Yucheng County was the first to surrender. Linyi and Linji counties later surrendered after sending Tielin Army, each of which was able to save 5,000 hu of millet and wheat to Licheng.

Zhangqiu County is more troublesome because Qingzhou cavalry appeared in the east of the county, and the county was swaying. Wang Jiao, the new commander of the Qizhou Prefecture Army, took a single horse, and used a bow and arrow at the foot of Changbai Mountain to kill more than ten bandits. Zhang

Qiu Ling was shocked and surrendered to the county.

Changbai Mountain, also known as Changbai Mountain, has been a famous mountain since ancient times and is known as the "Person of Mount Tai". During the Spring and Autumn Period, Chen Zhongzi hid here, and there was an ancient spring post on the southern foot of the street, located next to the post road leading to Zibo.

The six counties in Qizhou, except for Changqing, have all been pacified. However, except for Licheng County, there are no troops stationed, and the original team of troops stayed in office, which is a matter of thought.

After reviewing the troops, Shao Shude ordered the Qizhou Prefecture Army and Tianxing Army to defend Licheng Qizhou Prefecture Army, currently 1,500 people, of which 200 were newly arrived personal soldiers, and 300 were Tielin Army.

The soldiers, the rest were surrendered soldiers in Qizhou.

The Yanei Army envoy Li Yanwei led his troops to the Xiazhai of Lishan.

Lishan is five miles south of the city of prefecture. The city of Qizhou was called Lixia in ancient times, and the name comes from this.

There are 6,500 soldiers in the city and 4,800 troops in Lishan Village. With these 10,000 people, it is enough to defend.

Shao Shude led the general 12,000 to the Tu, the capital was 800, the silver saddle was 700, the Tielin Army was 4,000, and the total was nearly 18,000 troops to travel westward to Changqing County.

The primary goal is to eliminate the enemy troops that collapsed in the east.

On February 29th, the army arrived at Dongxiazhai, Changqing County.

At this time, Shao Shude received several messages.

The Qi general Liu Xiu sent people to attack Licheng. Li Yanwei, the Yanei army, was defeated and lost 2,000 troops. However, the city and village were still complete and did not fall into the enemy. After a closer look, it turned out that Liu Xiu had provoked with his weak soldiers.

Yan Wei was lighter and led his army to pursue him, ambushed the thieves, and returned with great defeat.

Fuck you uncle! Shao Shude was furious and decided to fight Zhu Qiong and reorganize the Yanei army on the spot.

The second news is pretty good.

Ye Liyu led the Tielin Army to advance to Yanzhou. Ge Congzhou and others besieged the city for a long time, but they could not defeat it. The soldiers clamored and then escaped. Yan Bao, the defender of Rencheng, led 5,000 soldiers to pursue him.

After Kangfu was besieged by nearly 30,000 troops of Longxiang, Guangsheng, Shenjie, and Longhu. Yan Bao rode alone and ran back to Rencheng.

Kangfu was in danger, the car could not be squared, and the horses could not be parallel, and it was in the southwest of Rencheng County.

After defeating the Yan army, the four Longxiang army killed them again. The Yan people abandoned Yangmenqiao camp and retracted the turtle back into the city. There were only more than 3,000 soldiers from the yamen and 3,000 Tutuan village men, and they did not dare to fight again.

In the Heyang direction, Jin soldiers took advantage of the terrain and continued to go down the mountain, which was difficult to defend. But overall, although the Jin people took the initiative, they fought against the Wuwei Army and Tianxiong Army and fought against each other, and the scale of the battle was very small, which made people feel that they were not allowed to do so.

Very strange.

Shao Shude had previously received news that the Jin army began to mobilize after the Lantern Festival to transport supplies. By early February, the preparations for the decisive battle should have been completed, but where is their main force? Didn't attack Jin Jiang or Heyang, Li Keyong

Where are you going to call?

The last news is about Wei Bo.

After the Wei army gathered in Bozhou, they found that General Tu was "very afraid" and "retreat to Qizhou". The whole Weizhou thought he was victorious and his attitude became tough. Shao Shude was amused and laughed and felt that he should teach them a lesson.

At the same time, he also doubted the route of the Jin army. Could it be that his righteous brother came straight to me? He hated me so much?

"King!" Dingnan Army envoy Wei Boqiu brought his men to the camp to pay homage.

Another person came with him, namely the general Xiahou Sheng of Dizhou.

"See Your Highness." Xiahou Sheng bowed and bowed.

"Your surname is Xiahou, is it the descendant of Xiahou Cheng?" Shao Shude asked his personal soldiers to serve tea.

Xiahou Cheng was originally a general of Li Shidao. The imperial court issued an edict to attack Ziqing. Xiahou Cheng was captured by Wei Bo's army during the battle. Later, Li Shidao was awarded the title of head. Tian Hongzheng, the governor of Wei Bo, suspected that the head was not true, so he asked Xiahou Cheng to come and identify it.

"Cheng looked at his face carefully. After a long time, he hugged his head, licked the dust in his eyes, and cried again."

Tian Hongzheng was moved by it, but he was righteous but not blamed.

Shao Shude was familiar with history books, and when he heard this surname, he remembered it.

"That's right." Xiahou Sheng replied.

"Qi many righteous men." Shao Shude sighed.

As the saying goes, what you lack is to make up for, and now in this year, what you lack is loyal and righteous people. Xiahou Cheng and Wang Yanzhang, even if they are not in their own camp, it will not affect his appreciation.

"Have you thought about the matter of Dizhou? Have you told me all about it?" Shao Shude turned to Wei Boqiu and asked.

"Return to the king, I have informed the envoy Shao." Wei Boqiu replied.

The governor of the Yichang Army, Lu Yanwei, sent troops south to siege Dizhou. This was what just happened. Shao Shude asked Wei Boqiu to tell Shao Bo, who was trapped in Changqing, to see what he reacted.

"Your Highness believes in people. My envoy believes in the siege of Dizhou." Xiahou Sheng said: "There are not many soldiers left behind, and Dizhou is in danger, so he is anxious."

"How many soldiers are there in Dizhou?" Shao Shude asked.

"Only three thousand." Xiahou Sheng sighed and said, "The soldiers from all counties and towns have been brought here, and most of them have fallen by this time."

"The military discipline of the Yichang Army is not very good." Shao Shude said.

Xiahou Sheng sighed again.

"What's the use of sighing?" Shao Shude picked up the teacup and asked leisurely: "Have you thought about it? Will you surrender? If you surrender to me and defeat Zhu Qiong, I will rush my troops eastward to protect Dizhou

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"I wish to surrender." Xiahou Sheng replied: "Envoy Shao has something to say, now I don't want anything else, I just want to protect my family and the graveyard."

"It's so good." Shao Shude said happily: "Shao Bo is very wise and I will definitely declare him as the governor of Dazhou, and he will be rich and honorable."

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On the banks of the Qinggou, Zhu Qiong and Zhu Xuan were relatively speechless.

Running all the way east, it was still blocked here.

They were very careful and tried to walk along the mountain road so that the Xia army's cavalry could not play their advantages. But everything has advantages and disadvantages. Although it is safe to walk like this, the speed is very slow. I have only walked for more than 40 miles so far, and then I was

Blocked.

Jinggou is 50 miles southwest of Changqing County, about a radius of 100 miles, facing mountains in the south, and has ditches nearby, making it a very good agricultural area.

Nearly 10,000 troops were trapped here, and they were carrying limited food and fodder, which was less than half a month's worth of it, and it was a dead end.

Zhu Xuan regrets it now.

He had wanted to find an opportunity to seize Zhu Qiong's military power, so he followed him all the way. But then he found that he would probably have to lose all his capital and lose all his rice if he had no choice.

"Why would you like to surrender to the Shao Pirates and see if I can still be the governor of Qizhou. With so many soldiers, the Shao Pirates can't kill all of them, right?" Zhu Qiong hesitated for a moment and said.

Changqing County has surrendered, and thousands of Dizhou soldiers have left the city to establish camps and join the ranks of soldiers besieging Qizhou.

There were a large number of Xia soldiers in front, as if there were tens of thousands of people. There were pursuers behind him. Zhu Qiong felt that with the depressed morale of the Qizhou soldiers, this battle would probably be over and there would be no chance.

"I think beautifully!" Zhu Xuan sneered and asked, "Shao Zhe will have the upper hand now. How can you be willing to let you control the country? Don't think about good things, it's better to see how to break through."

Shao Shude conquered the four towns of Dongdu, Xuanwu, Fengguo, and Yunzhou. He did not set up an independent vassal state and held them all firmly in his hands. This is something that everyone can see.

If he was willing to speak out and was willing to compromise, Wei Bo, Ziqing, Taining and other towns might have surrendered. For them, it would be good to be a vassal state when they were forced to do so.

But Shao Zhe had not yet let go, so the towns were desperate and could only resist to the end until they could not defeat the surrender.

"Ziqing is on the side, and Li Keyong will go south at any time. Maybe Shao Zhe will agree?" Zhu Qiong's words were a little deceiving, and after saying that, he smiled bitterly.

"Don't think about it." Zhu Xuan continued to sneer: "Shao Zhe wants to completely pacify the world, not to make a meal. If he is willing to let go, the towns in Hebei don't have to fight, and they will pay the money one by one, and they will give him money.

Providing convenience to beat Li Keyong. But Shao Zhe mostly had no confidence in his son, and felt that he could not subdue these vassal states. After his death, the towns rebelled, the world was overthrown, and the Shao Family Dynasty died in the second generation."

"Can't Shao Zhe give a chance?" Zhu Qiong's voice choked: "I don't have the intention to rebel, I just want to use Qizhou to support my elderly care. This is not OK?"

Zhu Xuan stopped talking.

Zhu Qiong was not determined and was not a good man. He secretly thought about what could he do to seize his military power. In the worst case, he led more people to run away and found an opportunity to make a comeback.

"Dongdongdong..." The sound of war drums sounded, which was east.

"Kill him!"

"The thief will be killed!"

Not far away, there were roars one after another. The Xia army was determined to fight and had high morale. When the Qizhou soldiers in Jinggou Bo heard this, everyone's expression changed.

"Dongdongdong..." The sound of war drums also sounded from the west.

"The National Guardian Army is here, and the thieves will come!"

"I want to support the Japanese army here, and today I want to have a great market."

There were shouts of killing again, and the pursuers who had fought with them for many days arrived. After hearing this, the morale of the Qi Bing became increasingly depressed, and someone was already crying secretly.

Zhu Qiong asked him to put his armor on his stomach and took his personal soldiers to patrol the camp, suppressing the somewhat panicked soldiers.

Zhu Xuan sighed inwardly and found a confidant.

"Where is Zhu Han?" he asked, with an unknown premonition in his heart. Could this guy have run away?
To be continued...