A few days after leaving Shannan County, Gao Yuan led his troops to appear in Changshou County, Hejian County. The chapters are updated the fastest

After forcing Tan Feng to retreat, Ye Zhen led the 3,000 tribes guarding Jishi City and Zheng Xiaoyang's troops who returned from the Donghu battlefield, a total of more than 5,000 people, and rushed into Hejian County. At the point of the troops, there was basically no effective resistance, so he included most of the territory of Hejian County within the control of the East Army. Changshou County was less than fifty miles away from Hejian County, which was also the last territory that Yan Shenghao could control.

Hejian County is a place that Gao Yuan must take over. In the past two years, Gao Yuan has been trying to weaken the power of Hejian County. After several battles, the living power of Hejian County has basically been eliminated, and the opponent has not had too much resistance.

Of course, no matter what, Hejian County City is also the capital of a county. The city is tall and strong. Although Yan Shenghao lost most of his elite army, the remaining part, coupled with the temporary young and strong, is still a force that cannot be underestimated. There is insufficient field battle, but there is still no problem in defending the city.

This is also the reason why Ye Zhen divided his troops to cut off all the external channels in Hejian County after arriving in Changshou County, but he did not launch an attack for a long time. A strong attack may be able to be taken down, but it will inevitably cause large casualties, while a large number of casualties are unacceptable to Gao Yuan. The next battle against Donghu is the time when Gao Yuan needs to fight to the death.

Gao Yuan led more than 3,000 cavalry to Changshou, which suddenly increased the military strength of the Eastern Army in Hejian County, and the morale of the Eastern Army immediately jumped to a new level. One day later, Gao Yuan took Ye Zhen and appeared under the city of Hejian County for the first time.

The high-character flag fluttered in the wind, and the fierce cavalry ran along the city wall unscrupulously, making disdainful gestures towards the guards on the city. However, Yan Shenghao, who heard the news, had no desire to fight at all. He looked at the gathering of the East Envoys in the distance, and his body trembled slightly.

This was a force that he could not resist. Several times he competed with the Eastern Army ended with his disastrous defeat. The Eastern Army really scared him.

There were 20,000 troops temporarily recruited in the city. When Zhou Yu passed by Hejian County, he left him a veteran of 500 people. He asked him to use this as a skeleton to build a new army. However, the East Army came too quickly. Although the army skeleton was built, there was no time to train. The combat effectiveness can be imagined.

What's more serious is that most of these temporarily recruited troops came from surrounding counties and townships, and these places have now become the territory of the Eastern Expedition Army. In other words, the families of these soldiers are now under the control of the Eastern Expedition Army. Under such circumstances, morale can be imagined.

The morale of the army is floating and the soldiers have no fighting spirit. During this period, it has become the main topic in the city. Every day, there will always be several desertion incidents in the city. Even if the officers strongly suppress it, it will not suppress this trend.

"Gao Yuan actually came in person. How can I fight this battle?" Yan Shenghao said tremblingly. Looking back at the surroundings, the experienced generals had all lost to their opponents in the previous few battles with their opponents. The only generals who could support the overall situation were left by their son Yan Peng. And a group of civil servants were even more disdainful.

To describe the current Hejian County city in four words, it means that people are in panic. Even Tan Feng and Zhou Yu were defeated and lost under Gao Yuan's men. They had to sign the alliance under the city before they retreated from western Liaoning in a panic. What did Hejian County use to resist the opponent?

After showing off his might, the Eastern Army under the city slowly retreated. However, the city was still frightened. The camp led by the Eastern Army was only a few miles away from the county city, and the camp built along the mountain was not even established. Obviously, they did not take the soldiers of Hejian County at all seriously, and they had no courage to go out of the city to attack the camp.

"Ye Zhen, if I want to attack for a strong force, how much loss will I lose?" Gao Yuan looked at the model of Hejian County in front of him, and turned to ask Ye Zhen beside him.

"Hejian County City is three zhang high and ten zhang wide. It has a Tibetan military building and Weng City every 50 meters. The city defense facilities are extremely complete. This is mainly because we have hit Hejian County very hard in the past two years, which has also prompted Yan Shenghao to strengthen the construction of city defense. Judging from the information sent by the spies in the city, there are now more than 20,000 soldiers in the city, of which about 4,000 elite soldiers. This is also Yan Shenghao's last force. He recruited about 15,000 new soldiers, and the officers who led these new soldiers actually came from the Yan State's standing army. These people were left to Yan Shenghao by Zhou Yu, with about 500 people, and half of the new army. However, now I heard that these new soldiers were extremely unstable, and you also know that only the county town in Hejian County was not taken down."

Gao Yuan couldn't help laughing when he heard Ye Zhen's Zheng Shao, "Zhou Yu knew that he could not stop me from taking Hejian, but he still wanted to disgust me. Could it be that he was counting on the five hundred people to turn decay into magic and block me under the Hejian County City?"

"General Gao, if we fight hard, even if our combat power is far better than our opponents, we may have to pay more than 3,000 people." Ye Zhen reminded Gao Yuan: "This is not something we can bear. Siege battles have always been made of human lives."

"So I'm not going to fight hard!" Gao Yuan smiled and said, "In the future, we may experience a cruel siege battle, but now, I don't want to have this little force in our Eastern Army, which can't be compromised, let alone for such a city."

"Then how are you going to take down Hejian County?" Ye Zhen asked in confusion.

Gao Yuan did not answer his question, but turned to look at Wu Ci'an on the other side, "Mr. Wu, I have come from Baokang all the way and saw that our army has a good order. Whether it is the government or the people in the newly occupied land, they all accepted this fact calmly. You have made great contributions!"

Wu Ci'an owed, "The general praised it. This is mainly because the strategy of expeditioning the East Prefecture is appropriate. If there is a policy above, I can operate it easily under the lower level."

"Don't be so humble." Gao Yuan shook his head and said, "When you were still in Baokang, your policies were extremely targeted and had a strong effect on appeaseing the people. What do the people need most and what can make them feel most at ease? Of course, it is land. If you have land in your hands, you will feel unhappy. Lord Wu, I'm very curious, how did you allocate those land smoothly without causing the rebound of the local gentry?"

"The news that the East Army is coming has actually been heard. The rich and powerful tyrants basically swept over Xiaoruan and fled. Now I am afraid that it is in the county town in front of us, and the ones who stayed are not big heads." Wu Ci'an paused, "The biggest thorn is gone, so it is much easier to deal with. Those who stayed. We promised them to join Sihai Trading, and we bought the excess land in their hands at an appropriate price. Of course, we don't have this money, but Cao Tiancheng Cao Da

The boss allowed them to use this money as their share capital in Sihai Trading, and the matter was solved. The land annexation of Hejian County was particularly serious. The common people who didn't even have a single piece of land suddenly had their own land. The government issued them with black and white land deeds, how could they not be happy? Naturally, they had the first sense of belonging to the East Mansion. What they feared most now was that we couldn't win, and if we lost, the land deeds in their hands would become a piece of waste paper."

Gao Yuan laughed out loud. The land policy is really unfavorable in China. Wu Ci'an's words reminded him of the once-in-one attacks and dividing land in another world. What he is doing now is similar to what happened in that era. In this agricultural-based world, the lethality of this policy is even more powerful.

"Ye Zhen, send someone down to check it out immediately to see which families in the surrounding areas have recruited soldiers. Please invite them here. Pay attention, please be careful of the meal and not let people freeze. In short, let these people appear under the city with a refreshing spirit and let the soldiers see their families. The second point is to let Mr. Wu be responsible, write some flyers describing the current situation in Hejian County and shoot them into the city, so that the soldiers can understand what changes have happened in their hometown."

"General, these people are afraid of being illiterate!" Wu Ci'an said in embarrassment.

"It doesn't matter. Not everyone can't read. These flyers are shot in every day. As long as you have a few literate people, these news will spread to ten or ten to hundreds. God, don't you have some subordinates in the city? Find ways to contact them and let them promote the progress of this matter." Gao Yuan smiled and said, "Twenty thousand people, right? If 15,000 of them are stirred up, I want to see if Yan Shenghao still has the confidence to defend Hejian County City."

"Are you going to force Yan Shenghao to subvert?" Ye Zhen asked.

"If Yan Shenghao is willing to surrender," Gao Yuan said: "I will give him a good treatment, and even give him a noble position in the Eastern Army. We will take many places in the future. It is impossible for us to lead troops to fight every place, or let people sincerely submit, which is also a good choice."

Ye Zhen and Wu Ci'an are all thinking about it.

"Mr. Wu, after taking over Hejian County, are you interested in becoming the county magistrate of Hejian County?" Gao Yuan suddenly changed the topic and asked a question that made Wu Ci'an dumbfounded. At the first time, Wu Ci'an almost thought he had heard it wrong. Although Gao Yuan and his Eastern Expedition Army were in the limelight, they really had to talk about territory, but only two counties in western Liaoning and Hejian. According to the internal notice of the Eastern Expedition Office he saw, the county magistrate of western Liaoning was led by Gao Yuan himself, Ye Chong was in charge of the armed forces, and Zheng Jun was responsible for the people's livelihood and civil affairs. Now the political center of the Eastern Expedition Office was held by Jiang Jiaquan, and the city guard was held by Wu Kai. These were all Gao Yuan's confidants. He was a guy who surrendered halfway through the journey, and was not willing to cooperate at the time. He never expected that Gao Yuan would intend to take the position of Hejian County magistrate himself, which was directly entered the most core management of the Eastern Expedition Office.

Looking at Wu Ci'an's stunned look, Gao Yuan smiled and said, "You are from Hejian County and have always been prestigious. I think there are many people who know your reputation in Hejian County. If you take this position, you will minimize the opposition. Of course, what I value more is your ability. Yan Shenghao only uses you as a county magistrate, which really makes you wronged."
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