Hengdao Sixteen Kingdoms

Chapter 183
"How many refugees were recruited yesterday?" Right now, Li Yue is most concerned about the refugees, and he will ask about the counted population every day.

Everything is based on the population base.

The 15 people in Heiyun Mountain are really weak among the surrounding forces.

And the Heiyun Army can maintain today's situation, relying on the war dividends of the two wars.

But the dividends will eventually pass, and everything depends on strength.

"More than five thousand and seven hundred." Zhou Qian looked at the bamboo slips, "The refugees know that I am intercepting them in Heiyun Mountain, so they deliberately don't go south from Yanzhou, and turn to Qingzhou to Lu County."

The day before yesterday there were more than [-] people, but yesterday there were only [-], which can be called a cut in half.

In the past 20 days, Chen Liu has gathered more than [-] refugees.

However, Li Yue has been hungry for a long time, and this is still not enough.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Xingyang alone had a population of 30, the surrounding Yingchuan and Liang countries each had a population of more than 200, and Runan had a population as high as [-] million.

Li Yue has three counties in his hands, which is less than one county in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

On the opposite side of Hebei, in any county, the combined population of Hu and Jin is 60 to [-].

In the past 20 years, Shi Hu has tirelessly migrated the Hu people from the Western Regions, filled Hebei, uprooted Yao Yizhong, Puhong and other tribes, and flooded Hebei to suppress the Jin people.

It's like a thief who accidentally stole the master's house, but after all, he was alone and weak, so he brought all the local ruffians around into the master's house to give himself courage.

The Huaxia ethnic group that has lived on this land for thousands of years, after so many years of persecution and massacres, has weakened to a very dangerous level.

The city of Ye, where the emperor lived, became the capital of the barbarians...

"The number of refugees in Yanzhou will only decrease, unless..." Zhou Qian hesitated to speak.

"Unless we can send troops to Lu County?" Li Yue helped him finish the sentence.

"The general is Yanzhou shepherd of Yecheng. Lu County is naturally under the general's rule. The Zhao army has no military discipline and harms the people. How can the refugees be lucky when they send troops to Lu County?"

When sending troops to Lu County, Li Yue had to consider the reactions of Li Nong and Chu Po.

Chu Po's [-] elite troops stationed in Pengcheng, fighting steadily. On the surface, the Jin army has a great advantage.

But Li Nong has been defeated repeatedly, and he is full of bad spirits.

"General, there is an urgent report from Lu County. Jin generals Wang Kan and Li Mai privately sent troops to Daipi. Li Nong took advantage of the situation and went south, doubled the road, defeated [-] elite Jin troops in one fell swoop, and captured Wang Kan and Li Mai alive!"

As soon as Lu County was mentioned, the news of the scouts came.

Li Yue hurriedly sent people to find a map. The battle of Daipi could only be regarded as an outpost. The entire [-] Jin army was wiped out, which had little impact on the overall situation.

Victory or defeat is standard issue.

What's more, the defeat in this battle was because Wang Kan and Li Mai violated Chu Po's military order and did not go to Lu County to join the rebels.

Except for the loss of [-] soldiers and horses, and two rebellious generals, Chu Po lost not much.

But the impact on morale is definitely not small.

Li Nong fought very beautifully in this battle. He concentrated his superior forces to attack decisively and wiped out the Jin army, which made Li Yue look at him with admiration.

After thinking for a long time, he said with a smile: "Sikong is my benefactor of Heiyun Mountain. He sent troops to Yanzhou. How could he not go to worship him!"

Li Nong won a game, and Li Yue had to get some credit.

This battle cut off Chu Po's hand extending to the south of the Yellow River, and the rebellion in Lu County would be difficult to gain momentum.

Zhou Qian smiled, "When Sikong sees the general, his head will be as big as a bucket."

He who has always been cautious in his words and deeds actually made a joke.

Li Yue also laughed and said: "Aren't you trying to provoke the relationship between me and Sikong? The begging army is united with each other. If Sikong comes to our territory, if he doesn't go, he will be very rude and make outsiders laugh."

Zhou Qian laughed out loud.

Yue Ji, who was copying the records, also covered her mouth and smiled.

There are two major benefits to going to Lu County. First, it is justified to expand the power of the Black Cloud Army to the east. Second, it takes in refugees. Third, it eases the relationship with Li Nong.

After all, he is also the leader of the begging army, and he has a huge influence in Hebei, and they will be useful to each other in the future.

Li Yue then summoned the Heiyun Army from all battalions, and together with Cui Jin and Wei Shan led [-] troops to the east.

Before reaching Jiyin, news from the east came one after another.

"General, the Zhao army is massacring the refugees in Lu County. The corpses are piling up. All the counties and counties have also sent troops to intercept and kill those who cross the border. The refugees have no food, starve to death, and are preyed by wild animals. Six out of ten!"

Several young scouts looked angry.

They are also from the North, and many of them were inspired by Li Yue's family and country consciousness in Shangwutang. Zhao Jun slaughtered the refugees, which made them grieve.

What Li Yue was most worried about happened.

Shi Hu tried every means to harm the people of Jin. Li Nong, as an important minister of Jie Zhao, received Shi Hu's great kindness, so he naturally connected with him.

Shi Hu is dead, but Jie Zhao is still the same Jie Zhao as before, without much essential change.

Li Yue was angry and helpless. He had said before that he was not allowed to touch the refugees under the Heiyunchi banner, but these refugees were not under the Heiyunchi banner. With Li Nong taking the lead, the Zhao Jun in the county would naturally not polite.

This is also one of the rules of the times, regardless of north and south.

Even if these refugees go south smoothly, they will face a more cruel fate when they arrive in Jiangdong. The gentry in the Eastern Jin Dynasty are flooded with tyrants, and it is not uncommon to plunder the population. A few years ago, the Jin army even massacred the refugees and plundered their wealth and women. .

"Pass down to my Yanzhou pastoral decree, all counties and counties are not allowed to plunder or harm refugees, otherwise the military law will serve! Cavalry first, infantry behind, quickly enter Lu County!" Li Yue showed the spirit of Yanzhou pastoral.

I forbearance before, because there is no need to develop too much eastward.

But now I have to move.

"What if Li Nong blocks it?" Cui Jin looked at Li Yue and said.

Li Nong was the instigator, and Zhao Jun in these counties also followed him.

Li Yue thought for a while, "Then put Sikong in Daibei and let Chu Po deal with him!"

Killing Shi Bin is at odds with Jie Zhao.

What is the difference between Li Nong's actions and those of Shi Hu, Shi Sui, Shi Xuan, and Shi Bao?
In the past, Li Yue just thought that Li Nong was forced by the situation and passively stood on Jie Zhao's side, but now it seems that this is not the case, and he is protecting Jie Zhao's interests everywhere.

"What a boldness!" There were only soldiers around, not so restrained, Cui Jin smiled at the blue sky, "Jie Zhao chaos is imminent, Shi Chong's [-] troops are in the north, and Shi Bao's chaos is in the west. I really turned my face. Why am I in Heiyunshan?" Is there any fear?"

A man's aura is born of power.

Cui Jin leads an army alone, guarding Xuanyuan Mountain, and has a brotherhood with Li Yue, and the person is slowly changing.

"Qinghe Cui family sent someone to contact me yesterday." Cui Jin said in a low voice.

"Huh?" Li Yue was taken aback.

The Qinghe Cui family is one of the best noble families in Hebei. They sent people to contact Cui Jin, and the amount of information in it was huge.

"Back then I fled privately and was expelled by the elders of the family. Now that Heiyun Mountain is famous all over the country, the Cui family wrote my name back into the genealogy..." Cui Jin smiled wryly.

"It's a good thing."

"What good thing? It's just mutual use. Now that the Shi family is in chaos, the Cui family just wants to find another backer. I haven't replied yet."

The Cui family of Qinghe also spared no effort to curry favor with Shihu, offering her ancestral daughter to Shihu as his wife, but was framed by Shi Zun's mother Zheng Cherry and committed suicide.

The Cui family of Qinghe suffered from bad luck for several years.

Now that Shi Zun is in power, the Qinghe Cui family will naturally find another way.

"What's your plan, brother?" Li Yue asked.

There must be a lot of tricks in Qinghe Cui's looking for Cui Jin but not for himself.

Cui Jin cupped his hands and said: "The general and I are brothers and sisters. If the Cui family of Qinghe can help the general, the subordinates can win over him. If the general does not want to use the power of the Cui family of Qinghe, the subordinates will refuse!"

(End of this chapter)