"You are..." Hu Cai frowned when he saw the general climbing up from the hanging basket. He had some impression that this man was the general next to Li Le and had a family background in Pingyang.

"General Guo Yang, General Hu, we have met before." The general took a breath and said hoarsely.

"Why are you here?" Hu Cai frowned.

"General, half a month ago, a group of troops suddenly came. They said that Xiangling City was broken, and they came to defect. The other party also displayed the banner of general." Guo Yang bowed.

"So you opened the door?" Hu Cai frowned.

"The general suspected that there was a fraud, so he just told them to wait outside the city and sent people to come here to investigate. However, for several days, there was no news from the sent scouts. During this period, the Hanoi army came once and killed the enemy.

They had to disperse. When my general saw that the army from Hedong had arrived, he believed those people. After those people gathered under the city gate again, he opened the city gate. Who would have thought that those people were actually Chen Mo's generals? As soon as the city gate opened

, they rushed in, and Hedong County outside the city also took advantage of the situation and rushed in, setting fire everywhere. The general was unable to defeat him, so he had to lead his troops to break out. The Hedong Army did not pursue it, but just began to take over the city and drive away the people in the city."

Guo Yang finished speaking in one breath, looked at Hu Cai with a gloomy expression, and said carefully: "General, can you send some food to the soldiers below the city first?"

Hu Cai glanced at him, and it was obvious that the other party had no intention of letting his men enter the city. He snorted with disdain in his heart, but he also felt relieved.

"No wonder Chen Mo is not in a hurry to attack the city these days. The refugees came here just to deceive others. They seemed to be coming to attack Xiangling, but in fact they were attacking Pingyang. What a cunning little thief!" Hu Cai called the generals and said

: "Now that spring plowing is approaching, the people in the city are already dissatisfied. Now that Chen Mo is not here, we should immediately send people to disperse the refugees and allow the people to resume farming!"

Chen Mo didn't have many soldiers and horses, but now he has captured Pingyang. If he wants to defend Pingyang, he needs to divide his troops and garrison them. The remaining troops and horses can't make any waves, so just don't come. If the other side dares to come, Hu Cai will definitely do it.

Take the opportunity to teach this ignorant boy a lesson.

"Here!" a general agreed and turned around to deliver the order.

"Go and bring your people in, stay under my command first, and wait until you get news about Li Le before you surrender to him." Hu Cai kicked Guo Yang and said.

Although the opponent's men and horses are not many, no matter how small the mosquitoes are, they are still meat. Although the four commanders Bai Bo are allies, it is not strange for them to annex each other. Besides, this man and horse came here by himself, and he did not steal them.

"General, the Hedong Army is here and there. General, please be careful." Guo Yang quickly advised.

"I am not your general. Tens of thousands of people were defeated by five thousand of the other side. I am ashamed to be associated with him!" Hu Cai glanced at Guo Yang with disdain and said.

Guo Yang was speechless and could only run dejectedly to summon his troops to the city.

Xiangling City is built on the mountain. It is not a simple task to redistribute the recovered population. Hu Cai sent five thousand-man teams to patrol the surrounding areas, using the signal of beacon fire and smoke to each other. Once traces of Chen Mo were found

, immediately set off beacon smoke or beacon fire, and let the clansmen grab the land occupied by the refugees themselves.

Two days passed, and there was no sign of Chen Mo. Instead, a lot of Li Le's original troops came from all directions. In total, there were two to three thousand people. Hu Cai took them all in, and felt a little more relieved. That day and night, it was...

Drinking with other generals, the sound of fighting suddenly sounded outside the house.

"Where are the men and horses coming from? How brave are you!?" Hu Cai heard the sound and stood up quickly, wanting to summon his personal guards, but saw Guo Yang leading his troops to rush in, killing everyone on sight. In an instant, the originally harmonious atmosphere was turned bloody.

replaced.

"Guo Yang, you are crazy!" Hu Cai beheaded two soldiers who rushed towards him, looked at Guo Yang from a distance and roared: "Could it be that you betrayed Li Le?"

"General, forgive me!" Guo Yang gritted his teeth and said, "My family members are all in Pingyang. General Li Le has been defeated. We can only help General You to capture the city!"

It is true that Chen Mo only had 5,000 troops, and after barely capturing Pingyang, it was indeed difficult to send troops to conquer the other three counties. However, Chen Mo had no troops, but Pingyang County had troops.

After conquering Pingyang County, Chen Mo couldn't kill Li Le's tens of thousands of troops, no matter how capable he was. Moreover, unlike the bandits that he had dealt with in the past, most of these bandits were locals. And because Li Le was like Hu Cai, Chen Mo occupied the area.

If they capture the city, everyone's family members will fall into Chen Mo's hands.

Chen Mo could not send troops to attack Xiangling, but generals like Guo Yang, whose families were in Pingyang, could. Chen Mo sent several capable generals to Guo Yang and controlled his family. The soldiers who came with him and those who came one after another,

They were all selected by Chen Mo to be concerned about, and they were all Pingyang troops, so Hu Cai would not be alert.

In this way, Chen Mo just sent Cui Geng and Zhong Yun to help secretly, and successfully penetrated into Hu Cai's interior without spending a single soldier. When most of Hu Cai's troops were sent to drive away the refugees, these people suddenly

If you launch an attack, it will be easy to capture and kill Hu Cai.

Hu Cai saw that the scene was becoming more and more chaotic, and he led his guards to fight all the way. When he went out from the back door, the whole Xiangling was in complete chaos. There were sounds of fighting everywhere, and it was difficult to distinguish whether it was an enemy or a friend.

Hu Cai could only ignore it and led his men and horses all the way out of the city, heading straight for Yang County.

The fighting in Xiangling lasted for two days. After dawn the next day, after discovering that Hu Cai had run away, many tribesmen also ran to Yang County. In addition, many clan traitors also ran away, and Guo

Yang has a list in his hand, which Chen Mo secretly handed over to him. Most of the people on the list are famous gentry in the Xiangling area, and they have a close relationship with Hu Cai. As long as these people are still around, they will be the targets of death. This is why

The fighting lasted for two days, and Guo Yang was already red-blooded by the end. If Chen Mo hadn't led his army to stop Guo Yang, the people of Xiangling would have suffered.

"Lord, a lot of soldiers and horses have gone out from the two counties. More of the Xiangling clan were killed and escaped later. The population is less than half of what it was before." In the Xiangling Yamen Office, several accompanying officials sorted out what could be found in Xiangling.

Household registration, account books, and at the same time began to sort out the current Xiangling property, which ones are no longer owned, and which ones are still owned by the owners.

There are also some wealthy gentry who stayed, some died, some left, but there are not many left. They are very respectful to Chen Mo, not only because they used to secretly support the Bai Bo bandits, and even directly participated in them, but also because they were very respectful to Chen Mo.

The important thing is that this man was obviously a powerful master. In one month, he drove away Hu Cai and Li Le quietly. Although he did not directly kill the gentry, after this battle between the two counties, the remaining gentry

Only twenty-three out of ten.

It was impossible to imagine that it was impossible to take advantage of the opportunity to annex land before. These lands were used by Chen Mo to resettle the refugees and robbed them from Chen Mo. They had the courage before, but now, Hu Cai and Li Le have been defeated one after another. They are following the two

The wealthy gentry behind him don't have the guts to continue playing this trick with Chen Mo. What they want now is to protect themselves.

Chen Mo appointed Zhong Yun and Cui Geng as magistrates of Pingyang and Xiangling counties respectively to settle the refugees, while he himself went to appease these nobles and hosted banquets in their honor.

"Now the Baibo bandits have been driven to Yang County. Those of you who are still here probably have nothing to do with the Baibo bandits. Young Master Mo is inexperienced and doesn't know much about the customs of the two counties. Now that we have conquered the two counties for the first time, these

In the future, your efforts will be needed to manage the place. I don't want the Baibo bandits to reappear, and I don't want you to be the enemy who leads the army to attack one day. If you are willing, you can write off the past things today, but if there are any bad debts in the future, you can't

I hope you can forgive me for erasing it so easily!" In the Xiangling Yamen office, Chen Mo held a wine glass, looked at the clan leaders of the two counties and said with a smile: "Mo doesn't want any clan traitors under his rule, I hope you don't let Mo

Difficult."

Now Chen Mo captured two cities without a single blow, forced them to leave, and killed most of the clan gentry. The remaining people were frightened by Chen Mo. Now that Chen Mo said these words, how dare he not respond? They all nodded their heads, wishing they could

Direct allegiance to the general.

Chen Mo just smiled at this. It was a night banquet, at least on the surface, where the guests and hosts were enjoying themselves. As for whether there were people who were resentful in private, Chen Mo didn't care. With himself here, he believed that these people couldn't make any trouble.

"Lord, when will we send out troops next?" Three days later, Cui Geng found Chen Mo who was reading official documents and bowed.

"We won't send troops for the time being." Chen Mo shook his head and said, "Currently we are focusing on stabilizing the two counties."

"This..." Cui Geng was a little confused.

"If troops are sent out at this moment, Li Le, Hu Cai, Yang Feng and others will definitely share the same hatred. The two counties are not yet stable, and we can't send out many troops and horses to fight them decisively. We need to wait a little to stabilize the people of the two counties.

Without me here, Yang County cannot support three Baibo handsome men."

Cui Geng nodded when he heard this. If this happens, Yang Feng and others may have civil strife.

"Spring plowing has arrived, and it is the busy time for farming. Send more scouts to monitor the activities in Yang County. Don't miss the farming due to the war. I don't want the people to go hungry this year." Chen Mo stood up and said with a smile.

"But my lord's marriage..." Cui Geng hesitated and persuaded.

"Business matters are important. I have written to my mentor. The date of the wedding will be decided after I return. For now, I will focus on conquering the four counties. All other matters can be postponed!" Chen Mo waved his hand.

"Here!" Cui Geng nodded, bowed to Chen Mo, and turned to leave.

Chen Mo walked to the map, visually looked at the location and terrain of Yang County on the map, stretched out his hands to compare, and ordered the clerk to mark the marks, and set up checkpoints in several places to give the enemy the impression that he was not prepared to attack again, but was preparing to switch to attack.

The feeling of keeping.

As for whether Yang Feng and others would fall into the trap... Chen Mo didn't consider that when the Kwantung princes attacked Dong Zhuo with great momentum, they still plotted against each other. Sometimes, when there were too many people in charge, nothing could be done. Each of the four people before had their own problems.
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