On the ninth day of the second month, in Dingling County, Wei Chi hurriedly climbed the Dongcheng Gate Tower and found Wang Yan who was standing on the observation deck.

"General Wang." Wei Chi greeted from afar.

Wang Yan looked back and when Wei Chi approached, he pointed to the white snow field outside the city and said, "Did you see those people? They are all the rebels' eyewitnesses... The rebels' surveillance of Dingling is getting tighter and tighter, I'm afraid they are not going to take action..."

Wei Chi looked in the direction Wang Yan pointed, and indeed saw two teams of people wandering on the white snow field outside the city.

He whispered: "The soldiers who transported the grain are back. They were intercepted by the rebels on the way. In order to prevent the rebels from robbing the grain and grass, the soldiers who transported the grain could only set fire to ignite the grain truck, but it was still difficult to avoid a part of the grain and grass falling into the hands of the rebels..."

“…”

Wang Yan frowned deeply.

Dingling County cannot be defended, Wang Yan and Wei Chi know this very well.

After all, Dingling County is close to Zhaoling County and far away from Ye County, and there are only Wang Yan in the city. More than 2,000 soldiers led by Wei Chi are unrealistic to defend the city.

It is no exaggeration to say that when Dingling County will fall again and be taken away by the rebels, it depends entirely on when the rebels garrisoned in Zhaoling will take action.

This was realized by the Changsha rebels who had not completely defeated Guan Shuo during the pursuit war last year.

The reason why he called Wang Yan and Wei Chi led the remnants of troops back to Dingling after that was to put it bluntly, he still couldn't let go of the food and grass stockpiled in Zhaoling County.

This batch of food and grass belonged to the rebels. After Guan Shuo conquered Dingling County last year, he used this city as a storage area for food and grass so that he could guide Zhaoling and the subsequent cities.

Even Yang Ding was a little moved by such a large batch of food and grass, so he discussed with Wang Yan and Wei Chi to see if he could transport some of them to Ye County.

After all, the war is about food. Yang Ding is still very clear about the principle of "before the three armies move, food and grass will go first".

Therefore, since returning to Dingling County last year, Wang Yan and Wei Chi organized several teams to transport grain to Ye County, hoping to transport the grain and grass stockpiled by the rebels in Dingling to Ye County. However, due to weather conditions, they only transported it twice in the winter for more than three months.

Even dozens of soldiers were paid for the price of being frost-breaked.

A day ago, Wang Yan and Wei Chi organized the third grain transport team, but Wei Chi only received news today that this grain transport was unfortunately intercepted by the rebels.

To be honest, there is nothing we can do about this. After all, the city is covered with thick snow, and the grain transport team cannot move fast at all. Even if Zhaoling's rebels only received the news later, they had time to catch up with the slow grain transport team.

"We have to withdraw."

Walking into the city gate tower with Wei Chi, Wang Yan said worriedly: "It is said that there are still 30,000 to 40,000 rebels in Zhaoling. Even if they are unable to attack Ye County for a long distance in a short period of time, I think the rebels will still seize Zhaoling County as soon as possible..."

"Um."

Wei Chi nodded slightly, agreeing with Wang Yan's point of view.

He also felt that the rebels would inevitably seize Zhaoling, not only to regain the food and grass, but in fact Dingling County also had strategic significance to the rebels. Only when Zhaoling County was occupied again would the rebels dare to continue to advance north.

"What should I do if the food and grass stored in the city?" he asked in a low voice.

Wang Yan clenched his fists: "It's burned!"

Wei Chi did not agree this time. He frowned and thought for a while, then put forward his suggestion: "How about distributing the gifted Lingren?"

Wang Yan looked at Wei Chi in surprise: "Do you expect the people in Dingling City to fight against the rebels alone?"

"That's not." Wei Chi shook his head.

How could he expect the Dingling people to fight against the rebels?

You should know that before and after the invasion of Dingling County, the rebels killed almost all those who wanted to resist in this city. Those who are still alive now at least are those who dare not resist the rebels on the surface, hoping that these people will muster up the courage to fight against the rebels again? It would be better to pray that tens of thousands of rebels will die suddenly for no reason.

While shaking his head, Wei Chi expressed his thoughts: "The food truck was attacked yesterday, which shows that the rebels are already on guard against us to transport the food to Ye County. Since the other party is prepared, it is unlikely that we want to transport the food in the city. Instead of burning it, it is better to distribute it to the Dingling people in the city. When the Japanese rebels conquered Dingling again in the future, if they lack food, they may attack these Dingling people..."

Hearing this, Wang Yan's eyes lit up and he slicked his hands and said, "It's amazing."

Without further ado, Wang Yan and Wei Chi started to act immediately.

The next day, they ordered their soldiers to carry as much food as possible from the food stored in the city, and immediately informed the people in the city to distribute the food and grass free of charge.

Most of the people were ignorant and short-sighted, but they didn't know that Wang Yan and Wei Chi had bad intentions. When they heard that there was free food distribution, they immediately went to snatch them.

Just when the people in the city were robbing food, Wang Yan and Wei Chi decisively led their soldiers to retreat and retreat to the south bank of Shahe River.

As soon as they left, the rebel spies in the city, or those who had been bribed by the rebels, sent the news to Zhaoling County.

Guan Shuo and Chen Xu led their troops to Dingling without saying a word. Two days later, on February 13, they re-occupied Dingling.

The soldiers recaptured Dingling without bloodshed, which finally made Guan Shuo's mood slightly better for the whole winter. However, when he learned that Wang Yan and Wei Chi had distributed the food and grass of his Changsha Yishi to the Dingling people in the city before withdrawing the troops, Guan Shuo's mood suddenly sank to the bottom of the valley again.

Huang Kang, the general under Guan Shuo, said angrily: "How dare they take the food and grass of my charity army?... Coach Qu issued an order immediately to order the people of Dingling to hand over the food!"

Guan Shuo did not agree. As the coach of Qu, he certainly understood why Wang Yan and Wei Chi distributed grain to Dingling people.

He discussed with him privately: "Wang Yan and Wei Chi are also cunning. Seeing that they could not transport the food in the city, they simply distributed the food and grass to the people of Dingling. If we snatch the food back, we would definitely lose the people's hearts."

Chen Xu smiled and said, "I really underestimated those two people... I thought that only Zhou Hu and his group were more difficult to deal with. Now it seems that the people around Yang Ding should not be underestimated... I thought they burned these foods? If they did this, we could also inspire public opinion and try to get the people of Ye County to be injustice..."

Guan Shuo nodded thoughtfully, then frowned and said, "What should I do with this batch of food and grass? Is it just for free to give it to the people in the city?"

Chen Xu pondered for a while and said, "Wang Yan, Wei Chi tried to use these grains to buy public opinion. If you and I send someone to take it back from the people in the city, it would be a damaging to the name of "benevolence and righteousness" of the Yishi... It is over, so it is better to inform the whole city and announce the "trick" of the Yexian people to the public, take the opportunity to invite people to buy their hearts and recruit soldiers."

"Um."

Guan Shuoshen nodded with consent.

On the same day, Guan Shuo sent someone to inform the whole city that he would announce the "trick" of Wang Yan and Wei Chi's release of food for no reason.

Under the guidance of the rebels, the people of Dingling realized that Wang Yan and Wei Chi distributed the grain and grass that originally belonged to the Changsha charity army, in order to instigate the Changsha charity army to regain the grain and grass.

For a time, the people of Dingling in the city cursed the people of Ye County for their despicableness, and at the same time they were deeply worried whether the Changsha Yishi would once again cause a bloody storm in the city in order to regain the food.

And just when everyone was panicked, Guan Shuo pacified the Dingling people with righteousness: "... Guan distinguished right from wrong, so he naturally would not be sought by the Ye County people. Although the food and grass belong to my Changsha charity master, since it has been distributed and cannot be recovered, I, the Changsha charity master, suffered this loss..."

Guan Shuo's statement surprised the people of Dingling.

Just as Wang Yan and Wei Chi believed that those who were truly determined to resist the rebels were almost wiped out before and after Guan Shuo captured Dingling. The rest were people who dared not resist, or who did not care who would rule the city.

Now that Guan Shuo vigorously shows goodwill to the people of Dingling, the people in Dingling City naturally have a good impression of Changsha Yishi. After all, Guan Shuo made it very clear that if it were other troops, they would definitely have the bloody storm in the city and must have recovered the lost food and grass.

His righteous teacher didn't do much, which was enough to prove his benevolence and righteousness!

In this way, Wang Yan and Wei Chi's plan to make the rebels lose the people's hearts failed. On the contrary, Guan Shuo also took the opportunity to gather a group of people's hearts, which made the people of Dingling gradually accept the rule of the Changsha Yishi.

Since the people had already achieved their wishes, Guan Shuo took the opportunity to recruit troops again in Dingling County to make up for his loss of troops in Kunyang last year.

Afterwards, this incident reached Wang Yan and Wei Chi. They were helpless except for feeling regret and secretly scolding Guan Shuo for being cunning.

Around February 15, Wang Yan and Wei Chi led more than 2,000 soldiers to retreat to the military camp on the south bank of Shahe River.

This military camp was built by Guanshuo's rebels last year. Later, in order to prevent Ye County from learning that they were evacuated immediately, they did not dare to set fire to the camp, so they fell into Ye County's hands.

After last year's pursuit, Yang Ding returned to Ye County, leaving the county magistrate Gao Chun to lead 2,000 soldiers to guard the camp as the outpost of his Ye County.

After withdrawing from the military camp on the south bank of Shahe River, Wang Yan and Wei Chi met the county magistrate Gao Chun and told the latter about the story.

Gao Chun also understood that with Wang Yan and Wei Chi's troops could not defend Dingling, so he was not surprised by the decision of the two. He asked the two: "In terms of the two, when will the rebels march northward?"

"I can't say it." Wang Yan shook his head and said, "Last year, the rebels had only more than 30,000 troops left. It was enough to capture Dingling with these troops, but it was a bit reluctant to attack my Ye County for a long distance. I guess he will step up the recruitment. In short, there should be some time... In short, I will send someone to notify Yang County Magistrate first. By the way, will Kunyang notify me?"

"Let me notify me." Wei Chi thought for a while and said.

On that day, several Nanyang cavalry left the military camp on the south bank of the Sha River, followed the bridge on the river to Kunyang, and ran towards Kunyang City.

At the same time, two surrendered generals of Jia Shu and Qin Shi were leading thousands of soldiers to reclaim wasteland in the "Nantun". When they saw the Nanyang cavalry, Qin Shi raised his head.

“…”

He was thinking as he watched the Nanyang cavalry run away in a hurry.
Chapter completed!