Wei and Jin Cooks

Chapter 1207 Encounter

The villagers in each village were grieving, and fear was constantly growing in their hearts. Military rations were forcibly collected twice in less than three days, and no one knew when the next collection would be.

However, after the autumn tax, there were two military rations. Not many people had food at home. They didn’t even know how to survive the lean months of February and March, let alone being taxed again.

 Moreover, every household has lost a strong labor force.

Just when they were feeling extremely sad, there was the sound of wheels rolling by the village entrance again. The villagers could not help but have angry expressions on their faces. When they were about to go back to the kitchen to pick up knives, they heard the cheers of children outside the door.

A seven or eight-year-old child broke in and shouted happily: "Grandpa, my father is back, my father is back -"

The old man who was about to pick up the knife was startled and hurriedly ran out the door. He saw the children who had been forcibly taken away came back with an oxcart filled with food and were greeting the people in the village with smiles on their faces.

 The old man's first reaction was that the children finally couldn't help but rebel and killed the food collection team.

There were many people who had the same reaction as the old man. They quickly stopped people to ask about the situation. If they killed someone, their whole village would have to hide in the mountains now, right?

The strong men were not afraid at all, and told everyone: "We did not run away by ourselves, we were rescued by the Zhao Jiajun, and all the grain collection teams were captured by the Zhao Jiajun."

 The villagers were amazed and felt relieved.

Although Wang Dun forcibly requisitioned military grain, he was still reasonable. The grain requisition team was robbed by the Zhao army on the way and let the strong men go. He would not blame the strong men, and naturally he would not implicate the villagers.

Everyone took their food home with confidence and planned to find another place to hide it, and to divide it into several portions and hide them separately. If a food requisition team came again, maybe there would be some left to hide.

The villagers also discussed letting the young people at home hide in the forest.

“I don’t believe that only the old and the weak are left in the family. They even detained an old man like me, who is forty or fifty years old.”

“Well, it’s very cold in the forest now and the water vapor is strong. I don’t know when the Zhao army will be able to capture Jiangnan soon.”

“I also want General Zhao to take charge of Jiangnan. I heard that General Zhao is very generous. He not only likes to reduce taxes for people, but also sends cattle and farm tools to the village every year.”

 “Envy.” Another day of envy for the people in Jiangbei.

 Watching the strong men pull the ox cart away, Zhao Shi's eyes fell on the prisoners.

 The grain collection team immediately begged for mercy. They would be sent out to collect grain and recruit troops. This shows that their combat power is not very good. The elite soldiers have long been transferred or are fighting in the front.

So give in when it’s time to give in. Even elite soldiers can’t defeat Zhao’s army, let alone them?

Zhao Shi did not make things difficult for them. He asked them about the movements of Wang Dun's army and released them.

The soldiers in the food collection team were a little disappointed. A young soldier with a tender face couldn't help but ask, "General, won't you recruit us?"

Zhao Shi glanced at them and said, "Our team is all cavalry. Do you have any horses?"

 The food collection team was discouraged: No.

If they had horses, would they still be sent to collect grain?

Have already followed the elite soldiers to the south.

Zhao Shi said to them: "Wang Dun is going against the grain and it won't last long. Why do you bother the people? They have all come out anyway. Why not go all the way to Danyang County, which is now under the jurisdiction of Zhao Jiajun. If you go and surrender directly, Zhao Jiajun will make arrangements for you properly." .”

 Everyone was moved when they heard this, but quickly shook their heads. The army dared to let them out to collect grain and recruit troops without fearing that they would run away with people and food and become bandits because they had rear recruits. Many of them had their families behind the army.

 They can die in battle, or they can be captured, and they can passively surrender, but they must not take the initiative to escape and surrender, otherwise, their family members and even their close comrades will be implicated.

 Forget it, let's go back. The general seems to be going south, and they are left behind. They may be captured by the Zhao army in a few days.

The morale of the soldiers who stayed behind was not high, but the vanguards sent to Yuzhang were full of fighting spirit. When they arrived in Yuzhang, they captured a city with lightning speed and rushed straight to the checkpoint. As long as they win one more checkpoint, the army can march straight from Yuzhang to Guangzhou.

 This level is in Dai Yuan’s hands.

Dai Yuan was not in Yuzhang. He had received a secret letter from King Langya and arranged for someone to pretend to be him and stay in Yuzhang to confront Wang Xuan on the opposite side.

 And he quietly led 50,000 soldiers and horses around the city and headed straight to Jiankang.

No one knows his route, not even King Langya who secretly recruited him to join Jiankang.

Therefore, King Langya thought that he was still in Yuzhang and had not left. In addition, there were too many things going on during this period. First, Wang Dun openly conspired to rebel, and then he chose to join Zhao Hanzhang. He had not yet done a good job in psychological construction. Zu Ti led the Jiangbei army After crossing the river, the two parties finally met to discuss various matters such as returning to Luoyang and handing over local power. King Langya completely forgot about the secret letter he had written not long ago.

 Until Dai Yuan encountered Chen Fan who was hiding in the wild.

 Chen Fan ambushed outside Jiankang City, originally intending to kill King Langya by surprise. As a result, King Langya suddenly sent his army from Jiangbei across the river. Wang Dun temporarily decided to capture Guangzhou, and he was embarrassed here.

Chen Huan had quietly retreated with his army, but Zhao Jiajun's movements were fast and fierce, and he had a keen sense of smell. He only took a section of the official road and attracted many scouts. After that, he no longer dared to take the official road and always took the wild road.

And changed direction, gave up returning to Lujiang, and headed east to Wu County, passing through Kuaiji, Linhai, and Jian'an before entering Guangzhou.

This area is basically controlled by the local Jiangdong families. The influence of Zu Ti who wants to take over King Langya cannot reach here. Jiangdong families are very xenophobic, especially the Zhou family who is in charge of the army. As long as they avoid the main cities, they can avoid Zhou. The main force of the family.

 Coincidentally, Dai Yuan thought so too.

He went north from Yuzhang to King Jiankang Qin, because he knew that west and south of Danyang were Wang Dun's sphere of influence, so he went east, from Xin'an County to Xuancheng County. In order not to be discovered by Wang Dun, he also went around to the east of Taihu Lake. After passing Wujun, we headed west to Jiankang.

He deliberately took the wild road, and then he and Chen Fan met head-on.

Dai Yuan was shocked. Chen Yan was Wang Dun's favorite general. With him here, could it be that Jiankang had been lost?

In order to keep the marching route secret, Dai Yuan not only did not deliver the message to others, nor did he receive it, but he also avoided the crowd. Therefore, he did not know about King Langya's surrender to Zhao Hanzhang.

 Fortunately, the two armies once belonged to the same side, so although he was surprised, Dai Yuan did not take action immediately. Instead, he sent someone over first to ask, "Why is General Chen here?"

 Chen Fan thought for a while and decided to fool him, "I will join the Zhao family army. In today's world, the only one who can determine the outcome is Zhao Hanzhang."

 He felt that his reason could convince Dai Yuan.

But the news was lagging behind at this time and Dai Yuan didn't know anything yet. He just thought that Chen Yan was crazy. He told him at the border of Jiangnan that he wanted to join Jiangbei?

Then why are you hesitating? Let’s fight!

This is not far from Jiankang City, so we are not afraid of a fight. This is a military achievement!

  Chen Yan, who was attacked, didn't know where he was exposed, but the opponent actually attacked directly.

 (End of this chapter)