Fang Yue stood up with the help of Liu Xin. Liu Xin shouted to the soldiers outside the tent to get wine and meat, and pulled Fang Yue out of the small tent and walked to his main tent.

Zhou Tai saw Liu Xin dragging Fang Yue over outside Liu Xin's main tent. Knowing that Fang Yue had surrendered to Liu Xin, he came to Liu Xin and congratulated him: "General Fang has abandoned the dark side and turned to the bright side. My lord has gained another strong general. It's really gratifying."

Congratulations!"

Liu Xin was also happy in his heart. With Fang Yue today, he would have three first-rate generals, and Fang Yue might still become a super first-rate general.

"Go and invite Xianhe and Guan Hai to come over. General Fang has surrendered today. This is a great event. We have to celebrate it." Liu Xin said loudly.

He gave Fang Yue face and summoned all his generals, retainers, and counselors. Fang Yue saw that Liu Xin was so strong and his bond value increased quickly. When the generals had a drinking game with him in the evening, Liu Xin looked at his bond value.

The value has become a loyalty value and reached 42 points.

In the early morning of the next day, Fang Yue took the initiative to persuade the prisoners, and he sent them food. The prisoners had succumbed to hunger for two days. This kind of rebels who followed the aristocratic family and rebelled were much more difficult to subdue than the Yellow Turbans.

Liu Xin once again took out the [Thousand Generals Talisman] from the prisoner of war camp. This time, 168 people met the requirements and were selected by Liu Xin. Liu Xin organized them into the servant guard team, and when they cooperated, they were divided into the family soldier sequence.

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Yixian's 2,000-strong army was ready. Liu Xin sent his 500 soldiers as the front army, 700 Ding Huyuan and 500 Yixian soldiers as the middle army, and 2,500 strong rear troops as the rear army. He began to advance toward Moxian County in a mighty manner.

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Moxian County is only 80 miles away from Yi County. It used to be a small county with less than 10,000 people. Now it has about 3,000 troops after being defeated by the rebel county magistrate. When Liu Xin came outside Moxian County in the afternoon, he saw a Moxian Tanma

Wander around them.

Setting up camp outside Moxian County, Liu Xin continued to ask Jian Yong to send a letter of war, but the other party did not respond at all. In the afternoon, they also saw soldiers coming from Gaoyang County in the southwest to support them. Liu Xin personally led two hundred cavalry to pursue them.

The rebels who entered the city killed more than 300 enemies and captured more than 600 prisoners. The Moxian defenders remained unmoved and looked like they could not hold on.

In the evening, Liu Xin called all the generals and counselors to the main tent to discuss how to capture Moxian County tomorrow.

Cheng Yuanzhi, Guan Hai and others all called for a strong attack tomorrow. Zhou Tai and Fang Yue advocated negotiations with the Moxian rebels. The rebels were also under great pressure, and some people were even tied to tanks.

Early the next morning, Liu Xin had someone shoot the letter into Moxian City, but there was still no response from the other party. Looking at the nearly 30-foot-high Moxian City Wall, there must have been at least 2,000 defenders on it. Even if Liu Xin captured it, he would probably lose money.

It is not small, and there is a steady stream of troops coming from Gaoyang County to support Moxian County. The opponent seems to be trying to block Liu Xin's troops in Moxian County.

The discussion at noon was fruitless, mainly because Liu Xin did not want to suffer too much loss. He saw Jian Yong seemed to be deep in thought, so he asked.

"Is there any way to Xianhe?" Liu Xin asked, looking at Jian Yong, who was his only adviser.

"Lord, everyone! Mo County is now the northernmost county of the rebels. It seems that the opponent is planning to defend based on the city wall. Thousands of rebels have entered the city in the past few days.

According to information from Yi County and General Fang, the main force of the rebels is only about 6,000, and they lost about 2,000 in Yi County. At least half of the remaining 4,000 should still be in Leping County, Pingcheng County, Zhongshui County, and Wuyuan County.

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If we don't want to suffer too much loss, we only need to block the road from Gaoyang to Moxian and attack their reinforcements and food supplies on the way. Moxian will definitely think that the rear has been lost, and only then will we have a chance." Jian Yong said.

The generals couldn't help but nod after hearing this. This is the safest way. Now that they have enough food and grass, they are not afraid of wasting it with the rebels. If they consume it in September, the rebels will definitely have to fight with them.

But Liu Xin didn't want to waste all his time here. The entire southern part of Hejian County was still in the hands of the rebels. If it took too long for the rebels to gain a firm foothold, it would be even more difficult for him to conquer the entire Hejian County. According to Jian Yong

The plan to capture Hejian County this year will not work.

"Although we have sufficient food and grass, time waits for no one. If we cannot capture Hejian County before September, we will not be able to achieve complete victory!"

Liu Xin said this, and everyone understood that it would be a great achievement to stabilize Liu Xin in Hanoi before September. After September, it would be difficult to eradicate the rebels in the eight counties in Hejian.

"In this case, raiding Gaoyang County now should be the best way. Gaoyang County's regular soldiers can only have two thousand at most. When the time comes, we will leave one thousand auxiliary soldiers, and Mo County will become a lonely army. When the time comes, General Fang will go to persuade him to surrender.

Subjugate the enemy's army without fighting!" Jian Yong said again.

"This is the best! Tomorrow I will lead the cavalry to Gaoyang County to clear out spies on the road. Zhou Tai, you will lead all the elite soldiers on a rapid march to capture Gaoyang County before tomorrow evening!" Liu Xin stood up and gave the order, and all the generals took the order.

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Early the next morning, Liu Xin personally led 200 cavalrymen to set out towards Gaoyang County. Everyone they met along the way was captured and all those who resisted were killed. Zhou Tai led the elite troops on a hasty march with only one day of dry food. In the afternoon, they arrived at Shenshi.

Ten miles away to the north of Gaoyang County, the enemy could not detect them.

Without siege equipment, it was not easy to capture this county with 20,000 people. Liu Xin took off his [Black Iron Fine Armor] and put on rebel clothes. He, Zhou Tai, Fang Yue, Guan Hai and more than a dozen generals,

They walked toward Gaoyang County with dozens of rebels captured on the road. At this time, Gaoyang County had not yet closed its city gates.

Liu Xin felt that the whole body of the rebels in front were trembling. They followed the rebels and slowly approached Gaoyang City. The enemy did not notice anything unusual.

When they arrived 100 meters north of Gaoyang County, a group of soldiers came towards them.

"What are you doing? You are wandering around outside the city at this time. Where is your home? Do you have any proof?" The captain of the group of soldiers came over and seemed to want to ask for a bribe.

Liu Xin ignored them and drove the rebels to move forward. The other party seemed to find that Liu Xin and others were a little too tall and was about to draw weapons. Liu Xin could only shout "do it" when he saw this.

More than ten people ignored this group of soldiers. They quickly took out weapons from under the hay on the broken cart behind them and charged towards the city gate. Before the soldiers on the city wall could react, several soldiers rushed to close the city gate, but how could they make it in time at this time?

Zhou Tai came to the city gate immediately and shot three soldiers who were trying to close the city gate to death. By this time, hundreds of soldiers had already come from inside the city.

"Li Cong, Xin Bi, you two, guard the gate, Zhou Tai, Fang Yue, you two, go out and destroy the other side's archers." Liu Xin commanded loudly.

The 50 soldiers outside the city did not stop Liu Xin's dozen or so people. When they saw Liu Xin and others quickly seizing the city gate, they knew something was wrong and began to fight against Liu Xin and others.
Chapter completed!