On March 22, a group of Runan refugees came from Ancheng, Shenyang and other places to slowly arrive outside Xiacai County and shouted loudly outside the city.

"Open the city gate!"

"Open the city gate!"

The soldiers guarding the city were unclear and hurriedly reported to the county magistrate Yin Shi, who hurried to the city wall.

Because the county magistrate Liu Ying took the lead to the city wall, the magistrate of Yin asked Liu Ying: "Liu County magistrate, who are these people outside the city?"

Liu Ying clasped his fists and replied: "It seems that the people in Ancheng and Shenyang have fled here with their families."

"What?"

As a county magistrate of Runan County, Yin County naturally knew where Ancheng and Shenyang were, and also knew that these two cities had been captured by Xiang Xuan's Changsha rebels.

Even if the Left General Zhou Hu had not led the Yingchuan army in time to block the Changsha rebels' way forward, he would have been unable to survive the few county towns such as Cai, Guanyang, Wufang, etc.

The question is, why did these people flee from Ancheng and Shenyang to this point?

County Magistrate Yin poked his body out of the wall and observed the refugees outside the city from a high place.

According to what he saw, these refugees were both men, women, young and old, and it was not like Changsha rebels pretending to be refugees to come to deceive the city. Considering that the Yingchuan army led by General Zhou Hu was stationed not far from Caicheng, the group of rebels on the opposite side might not have the courage.

But what should I do with these people?

Put it in? If there are fine works of rebels mixed in it, that would be bad.

As for the current situation, County Magistrate Yin certainly hopes that more things are worse than less, such as persuading these refugees outside the city to go back...

Seeing the refugees outside the city shouting loudly to open the city gate, county magistrate Liu Ying said with a wry smile: "These people came to join me, Xia Cai, I am afraid it will be difficult to convince them to go back... Sir, do you want to open the city gate and put them in the city?"

County Magistrate Yin frowned and thought for a moment, then shook his head slightly.

The Zuo General ordered them to guard the city and uphold their duties, but they did not let them do anything else.

After thinking about it, he ordered: "Let me send someone to report to General Zuo first."

That's right, if you don't decide when you ask General Zuo Zhou Hu, you can't deny that this general has now become the backbone of several counties in the western part of Runan County.

"I'll go in person."

Of course, the county magistrate Liu Ying had no objection and immediately went to the Yingchuan military camp outside the city.

At this time, in the camp, Zhao Yu had learned from the mouth of the Wolf that a group of refugees had entered Xia Cai and came outside Xia Cai City.

Of course he knew what was going on.

About half an hour later, Liu Ying, the commander of Xiacai County, came to the camp.

While enviing the Yingchuan Army's complete clothing and majesty, Liu Ying brought the ranksmen general and met Zhao Yu, who was the commander-in-chief.

He immediately clasped his fists and said respectfully: "Liu Ying greets General Zuo."

"Mr. Liu is exempted from gifts." Zhao Yu smiled and waved his hand, and said in a kind tone: "Is there anything important to the County Lieutenant Liu here?"

Hearing this, Liu Ying told the refugees truthfully: "Today, a group of people hiked outside my Xiacai City to seek asylum. After inquiry, they were migrating from Ancheng and Shenyang. These refugees hoped that I Xiacai would open the city gate and let them enter. County Magistrate Yin did not dare to make decisions without authorization, so he sent a low-level position to ask General Zuo."

"refugee?"

Zhao Yu's tone gradually became serious, and he asked Liu Ying: "How many people are there?"

"It looks like more than two thousand people." Liu Ying replied truthfully.

Hearing this, Zhao Yu touched the short beard on his chin and said as if he was talking to himself: "Half an hour ago, Zhou had heard about these refugees from the Wolf of the Travelers, but he didn't expect them to go to Guicheng..."

As he said that, he pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Let them go into the city."

"Let them go into the city?" Liu Ying asked again with his eyes wide open.

As if he noticed the strange tone of his tone, Zhao Yu said for granted: "Of course! Although these people are refugees from Ancheng and Shenyang, they are also people of my Great Jin Dynasty. How can we stand by and watch?"

Liu Ying suddenly felt awe-inspiring and looked at the young General Zuo in front of him with respect.

At this time, Zhao Yu reminded him again: "Of course, you must carefully review them when you put them into the city. If there are spies mixed with rebels, you must not miss them."

"Don't worry, General Zuo." Liu Ying said confidently: "I will definitely screen carefully!"

"That's good."

Zhao Yu smiled and nodded and said, "Then I'll trouble you to take care of these refugees in Guizhou. If you encounter any problems, such as food, you might as well inform me as soon as possible. I can send someone to transfer grain from Yingchuan."

After receiving Zhao Yu's guarantee, Liu Ying naturally had no worries at all. He immediately vowed to promise that he would take good care of the refugees and carefully screen out the rebels' work.

In fact, Zhao Yu was not worried at all that the spies who were mixed with Changsha rebels among the refugees had never done extra things with Xiang Xuan's character. Even if there were indeed a few spies in it, there would be no threat.

In a nutshell, Xiang Xuan did not dare to disobey his instructions at the moment. Except for getting angry in front of He Yu, he had to obey orders at other times.

After Liu Ying said goodbye and left, the escort chief He Shun asked Zhao Yu, "Do you want to inform Wei Si?"

"No need for the time being." Zhao Yu said with a faint smile: "It's only more than two thousand people, and I'll talk about it when it's a big deal..."

According to his instructions to Xiang Xuan, Xiang Xuan would not only drive away more than 2,000 refugees. There is no doubt that a large number of refugees will flock to Xiacai, Guanyang, and Dingying. When the number of these refugees reaches tens of thousands, or even more than 100,000, there is no need for him to deliberately notify Wei Si, and Wei Si will also hear about it.

In short, don't worry, just wait for a few days.

Not to mention that Zhao Yu is not anxious, but also that Liu Ying returned to Xiacai City and passed the former order to the county magistrate Yin Zhi: "General Zuo has an order, and these refugees are also my great Jin people, so you should not be careless..."

Hearing this, County Magistrate Yin also breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, if the refugees outside the city die too much from hunger and illness, he will bear the corresponding responsibility. No, maybe all the blame will fall on him by then. Will the court still punish General Zhou Zuo? Behind them are two backers, Taishi Chen and Princess Xiangrui.

With the suffocation, County Magistrate Yin naturally also secretly praised: Such character is worthy of being the Five Tigers of Chenmen!

"Open the city gate!"

With the order from County Magistrate Yin, the city gate slowly opened.

At this time, the county magistrate Liu Ying led the county soldiers to guard the city gate, checking each refugee who entered the city one by one to see if there were spies from Changsha rebels.

But as Zhao Yu predicted, Xiang Xuan would not do anything extra. These refugees, both men, women, young and old, were indeed driven from the Ancheng and Shenyang areas.

These refugees are just one part of the "tiger-bound strategy".

In the next two or three days, refugees defected to Xia Cai one after another. In view of the order of General Zhou Hu, Xia Cai Tongtong put him in the city and settled the group of refugees in the city. If there were vacant houses in the city, they would temporarily live there. If not, temporary shacks would be built on the streets and alleys.

What's more, Xiacai County Government also organized doctors in the city to treat refugees who were ill.

It’s not that Cai’s officials are all kind-hearted, they just don’t want to be scolded by General Zuo Zhou Hu because of his death.

In just a few days, Xiacai County hosted more than 10,000 refugees.

What made Yin Zhi and Liu Ying feel that there was still a steady stream of refugees coming to him.

For this reason, the magistrate Yin County cursed angrily: "Would that thief drive the entire people of Runan to my Xiacai?"

Although his words were a bit exaggerated, after all, the entire Runan County has a population of 2 million. How can a small Xiacai County be stuffed?

But at present, Xiacai County can no longer accommodate more refugees, which is an indisputable fact.

County Magistrate Yin privately said to Yin Zhi: "The number of people is probably not because these refugees fled here on their own, but because the thief did it on purpose. You should report to General Zuo immediately." After pausing, he added: "By the way, let me mention the difficulties of my Xia Cai."

Liu Ying knew it and hurriedly left the city again and headed to the Yingchuan Army's camp.

At this time, Zhao Yu had already learned about the general situation of the refugee wave from the report of the Wolf. He was not surprised at all when he learned that Liu Ying, the commander of Xiacai County, came to see him again.

After seeing Liu Ying, Zhao Yu asked solemnly: "Liu County Magistrate came today, probably for those refugees, right?"

"yes."

Liu Ying hugged his fists and said respectfully with a hint of embarrassment: "According to your order by General Zuo, whenever any refugees defect to me in recent days, I will accept them together, take good care of them, and do not dare to neglect them at all. However, the number of refugees is really large, which is far beyond my ability... Please punish General Zuo."

"Hey, Liu County Wei is so serious... Guixian has only worked hard to take care of refugees in the past few days, so how could it be wrong?" Zhao Yu smiled and praised Liu Ying to reassure him, and then pondered: "Let's do this, Liu County Wei first returns to Cai, Rong Zhou discusses with the generals, and then sends military soldiers to move the refugees to Yingchuan in batches. What do you think this is the case?"

"Okay." Liu Ying nodded repeatedly.

While nodding, he secretly praised in his heart: It is said that the five tigers in the Chen family are of high rank and powerful but approachable. They are seen today, and it turns out that way.

To be honest, he never expected that General Zuo was so easy to talk to.

After the man said goodbye and left, Zhao Yu immediately summoned all the generals under his command, including Wei Si, who was the envoy of Wang Shangde.

After a while, he pretended to be deeply and said to everyone: "As I expected, this is a trick to restrain our army... He deliberately drove the people of Runan County to our side, distracting us and delaying our attack on him. It is really cunning!"

"Hey!" Wang Qing suddenly smiled inappropriately, and was glared fiercely by Zhao Yu.

Seeing this, Le Gui quickly made up for it, but he looked helpless and said, "What General Zuo said is very true. Xiang Xuan can ignore the people, but we cannot stand by and watch the refugees. Xiang Xuan is really cunning... quite cunning."

In the tent, the two generals Xu Shen and Xu Ma also nodded repeatedly.

Seeing this, Zhao Yu nodded and affirmed Legui's words, and then said in a deep voice: "Given the current situation, we can only temporarily slow down our offensive against Xiang Xuan..."

He turned to look at Wei Si.

Wei Si sighed deeply.

He didn't know that he would encounter so many troubles when he came to promote the joint offensive this time.

He had previously expected Chen Mo to lead his army back to Wuyang to repel the Nanyang rebels on Woniu Mountain and regain the mine. After regaining the mine, he could immediately lead his army back to Cai to jointly prepare for the sign of attacking the rebels in Changsha. Unexpectedly, after Chengchen County and Wuyang, even they encountered troubles, and it was a trouble that they could not avoid, just as General Zhou Hu of the Left and Zhaoling County Wei Le Gui said, Xiang Xuan could not care about the refugees and drove them to their side, but they could not ignore the refugees.

How dare Wei Si, who ignored those refugees and sat on their own, dared to speak out?

Thinking of this, Wei Si nodded helplessly and expressed his understanding: "General Zuo said very well. I think General Wang will also... make a decision that is exactly the same as the general when he learns the situation here."

『Wang Shangde? He may not necessarily...』
To be continued...