Jia Wuben did not go to the Yellow River Ferry in the end. He did not have the courage to turn against Wang Shichong. In the end, he only brought more than a thousand elderly, weak and weak women and children from Zhua County back to Licheng.￥f,

Wang Shichong spent three days to force the civilians from Zhua County and Linyi County back to Qinghe County and placed them in and around Qinghe County. At the same time, Wang Shichong wrote a detailed memorial to the court to defend himself, why he had to transport them back to the people of Qinghe.

'The fox died and the fallen leaves returned to its roots. Now Qinghe is stable and the people are homesick. However, the officials of the Beihai County, Qi County, are their own selfish and obstruct the Qinghe people's desire to return home. My ministers are ordered to face the bandits in Hebei, with a heart of serving the country, and have the heart to serve the king. They want to share their worries with the king. However, the people's strength is difficult to use, and the military power is not strong. The ministers have to use this inferior strategy to bring back the people of Qinghe. I hope the king will be merciful to the ministers and serve the country with a heart of forgiveness. I forgive my recklessness. My ministers bow to my head!'

After Wang Shichong finished writing this memorial, he wrote a letter to Yu Shiji, and handed it to his eldest son Wang Xuan and said, "Go back to Luoyang quickly and hand it over to Yu Xiangguo. Tell him that Pei Renji and Zhang Xuan were secretly instructed by Pei Ju to put on small shoes. They will definitely accuse me of Pei Ju and beg him to withstand the pressure for me."

"Boy obeys the order!"

Wang Xuan agreed and took the letter. Wang Shichong told him a few more words, and then he asked his son to come to Beijing.

Wang Xuanying hurriedly left, with only Wang Shichong left in the room. Wang Shichong came to the window with his hands behind his back, looking at a big tree covered with apricots outside the window with complicated eyes. Pei Ju once won him over last year, and Yu Shiji and Yu Wen Shu were also secretly wooing him over.

Wang Shichong knew that Yuwen Shu was at the end of his strength. Once Yuwen Shu passed away, the Yuwen family would disappear due to the mediocrity and incompetence of his three sons. It would be absolutely wise to surrender to Yuwen Shu now.

Pei Ju wins him over and makes him moved. If Yu Shiji hadn't won him over and wins over and maybe he would have really defected to Pei Ju.

He finally chose Yu Shiji because his army came from Huainan. The Pei family was a Hedong family and had too little influence on the south, while Yu Shiji was from Kuaiji. The Yu family had a great influence in the south. Wang Shichong believed that the Yu family was more useful to him. On the other hand, the Pei family already had Pei Shiji and would not pay much attention to him, so Wang Shichong finally chose Yu Shiji as his backstage. But in this way, he offended Pei Ju.

In fact, Wang Shichong didn't want to come to Qinghe County at all. Hebei's bandits were too serious and the population and wealth losses were too great, so it was difficult to develop in Hebei. The reason why he came to Qinghe County was actually Pei Ju's revenge on him, which allowed the bandits in Hebei to consume his strength.

Most of Wang Shichong's soldiers were children of Huainan. He hoped that he could go to the southern part of the Central Plains. In Liang County, Qiao County and Jianghuai Areas, rather than Qinghe County, which is thousands of miles apart. In fact, it was not very meaningful to him to capture more than 100,000 people from Qi County. The reason why he did this was more to vent his anger towards Pei Ju.

At this time, footsteps came from outside the door, and a soldier reported: "Master General, Mr. Cui is asking for a meeting!"

Wang Shichong nodded, "Let him in!"

Soon, a middle-aged man walked into the room. The man was named Cui Hongdan. He was from the Cui clan of Qinghe. Zhang Jin said that he was raging Qinghe County. Several of the main houses of the Cui clan of Qinghe were moved to Bohai County, but the two houses living in Qingquan County did not move. Cui Hongdan came from the Cui clan branch of Qingquan County. However, he did not surrender after Wang Shichong came to Qinghe County. He was Wang Shichong's confidant military advisor as early as when Wang Shichong pacified the rebellion in Jiangnan. However, Wang Shichong relied more on him after coming to Qinghe County.

"See the Grand Marshal!"

Wang Shichong sighed. "Sir, do you have something to ask me for?"

Cui Hongdan smiled slightly, "I just heard a news that it seems that Pei Renji's southern expedition to Langya County is not good, and he is going to be forced to withdraw his troops."

Wang Shichong was excited and asked quickly: "But there is a problem with the logistics of food and grass!"

Wang Shichong was also a man who was good at leading troops to fight. He knew that the difficulty of the Sui army's southern expedition to Langya County lies in logistics and grain supply. If the Sui army's southern expedition was unfavorable, this would be the reason.

Cui Hongdan shook his head. "I don't know what the specific reason is, but Pei In-ki is frustrated this time and may not go south again for some time."

Wang Shichong did not speak, paced back and forth in the room with his hands on his back. Zhua County and Linyi County were stolen by himself, and Pei Renji would not go south again. So what should he do next? Do you really have to attack Gao Shida and Dou Jiande by himself?

"Mr. Cui thinks what should I do next?"

Cui Hongdan knew Wang Shichong's thoughts very well. Wang Shichong didn't want to fight with bandits such as Gao Shida, Dou Jiande, and just wanted to preserve his strength.

He pondered and smiled, "If the general does not want to fight Gao Shida and Dou Jiande for the time being, then he might as well take action against Xiangguo County, Wu'an County and Wuyang County. There are also many small bandits who occupy the mountains and serve as kings. As long as the heads are handed over to the court, I think the court will not care too much about where they come from?"

Wang Shichong was still not satisfied with this plan. He sighed slightly and said, "But I want to go back to Central Plains!"

"It is not realistic to transfer the Marshal immediately after he arrived in Qinghe County. He still needs to endure it for a year or two, and wait for the opportunity. I believe that the opportunity will definitely appear."

Wang Shichong nodded helplessly for a while, "What sir said makes sense."

Zhang Xuan led his army into Beihai County, and the army was heading towards Yidu County. The loss of Zhang Xuan's army this time was not great. It was mainly a fierce battle with the bandit army when rescued Pei Renji, and a fierce battle between Yuchi Gong and the death of Dong'an County, causing hundreds of casualties in Zhang Xuan's army. However, the heavy losses caused by Pei Renji's ambush in the martial arts competition were really not worth mentioning.

Zhang Xuan was still halfway back to Yidu County, when he met Wei Yunqi and his group who were coming to greet him.

"General, what is the reason for the unfavorable battle in Langya County?" Wei Yunqi asked in confusion.

"Whether going south from Beihai County or from Qi County, they are severely restricted by the terrain, making it difficult for logistics supply to keep up. As a result, the supply line was extended. Of course, Pei Renji was also the plan of Wang Bo to be imprisoned."

Zhang Xuan didn't want to mention the incident of Langya County, so he changed the topic and asked, "I'm not here, there is no accident in Beihai County, right?"

Wei Yunqi smiled bitterly, "There was no incident in Beihai County, but a major incident happened in Qi County!"

"What's the big deal?"

Wei Yunqi told Zhang Xuan in detail the robbery incident that occurred in Qi County, and finally said: "This incident caused great panic in Qi County. Many Qinghe County people living in Qi County fled to Beihai County. Our Beihai County is also in panic and we are looking forward to the return of the general every day."

This news really surprised Zhang Xuan. Wang Shichong dared to take the blame for the world and send troops to Qi County to seize the population. This has already broken the bottom line. Even Gao Shida, Dou Jiande and others dared not do this. Wang Shichong, who was also the Sui army, dared to take action.

“When did this happen?”

"Just two days ago, I only heard this morning that I was about to go to Linzi County, but I heard that the general was back."

The situation was serious, and Zhang Xuan had no time to return to Yidu County, so he asked Yuchi Gong to come and said to him: "You can lead the army to return to Yidu military camp first, and ask Liu Sima to arrange soldiers. Wei Changshi and I rushed to Linzi County and we will be back in two days."

"Please rest assured, General, I will arrange my brothers!"

Zhang Xuan told other generals a few more words, and led 500 cavalry and Wei Yunqi toward Linzi County quickly

Linzi County is the first stop to enter Beihai County from Qi County. Although there are Qiancheng, Bochang and other counties to the north, when bandits are rampant, these counties have become empty cities, with population concentrated in Yidu and Linzi counties.

However, with Zhang Jin's extermination at the end of last year and Zhang Xuan gradually controlled Beihai County, the situation became stable, and the people began to return home one after another, and their vitality gradually recovered.

However, the forest was quiet and the wind continued. The population plundering incident in Qi County caused Beihai County to panic. Tens of thousands of Qi County people fled to Beihai County, most of which gathered in Linzi County. With the assistance of 500 defenders, Linzi County Magistrate Sun Jian made every effort to resettle these refugees who fled from Qi County.
Chapter completed!