On March 14, 2018, the second year of Chengwu, Taiyuan City finally calmed down completely. The Qin soldiers, who were almost unable to stop, finally returned to their camps under the strict orders of the general.

After all, the battle in Taiyuan City has delayed for a while. Even if Mu Huali, Wang Shengbao and others have led their cavalry to break Yangqu and occupy this Taiyuan gate, it is useless. The Qin army's plan to conquer the northern part is no longer a secret.

After Taiyuan calmed down, Zhao Shi did not rush to rise up and head north. He ordered the troops to rest in Taiyuan for several days and finally made a list of people to rest.

Some local officials of the Jin people were invited into Taiyuan City with fear under the sword and gun. In fact, this was the beginning of a purge.

Under the prefectures and counties, in addition to calming the hearts of the people, they forced local gentry to open their own granaries, collect the stored grains and scatter them among the people to ensure that the people's spring farming can proceed normally.

General Zhao Shi's military orders were extremely harsh. Anyone who hoarded food and had more than 5,000 stones was confiscated on the spot to destroy the clan. Before the court officials arrived, Zhao Shi's butcher knife was raised again without hesitation. How many families were destroyed because of this was not under his consideration.

Since the blood in the north has flowed so much, I don’t mind more. Under the rule of the Jin people, corruption was rampant and profiteers were everywhere. In the villages, many local tyrants and bullies were born, hoarding grain and other things, and rampantly spreading in the villages, making trouble.

This is a chronic disease of the Jin people. If they were allowed to continue like this, they might be able to pass these bad habits to the Qin Dynasty. Therefore, a purge is inevitable, just like he did in Shu. It is completely eliminated and uprooted them. No matter how much blood and life is worth it.

This is equivalent to the acts of the rebels opening warehouses and releasing grain. Although the gentry and clans hated them to the core, they were also widely welcomed by ordinary people near Taiyuan Prefecture.

Is it true that Taiyuan Prefecture lacks food? It is indeed a shortage of food. In the battle more than a year ago, two big fires burned the Jin people into the bone marrow.

But with the Jin people, the defenders of Yangqu and Shouyang were severely injured, and the consumption of food and grass was not so scary, and they were not as short of food and so they were so scarce.

In fact, it was actually the Taiyuan defenders' generals. After a fire, Monk Wanyan was seriously ill and Jisizhong went south to discuss peace. The food and grass in Taiyuan City did not have time to register and record them carefully.

In this way, a large amount of grain was secretly sold by Taiyuan defenders and flowed into the hands of grain merchants in various places in Taiyuan Prefecture. When the grain was shortage, it began to hoard goods again, which caused the current situation.

This is actually not a new thing in the Jin Dynasty. It is doing this everywhere, and the smell of rot has already penetrated into the roots. The weather of the end of the world does not require much explanation...

In another time and space, the reason why the Mongols went south swept everything. It was not that the Mongols' riding and shooting skills were really invincible in the world, but that the Central Plains countries, whether the Jin, Song, or Xixia, were all terminally ill and could not stand firmly. How could they say that they were in opposition to the Mongols' military weapons?

Otherwise, when countries are at their peak, how could the Mongols easily rush their troops south and fight the countries without any strength to fight back? So they also created the reputation of the Mongols. Thinking about it, the timing of the Mongols' rise was actually very good. Eurasia, at the weakest time, this way, a Mongolian Empire spanned the Eurasian continent was created.

Less nonsense, Zhao Shi used a arrogant and unreasonable means to sort out the Taiyuan Prefecture in a few days, and added the last bit of blood to Taiyuan Prefecture.

When the Qin officials came here one after another, they received the general's military order and made some trouble. This time it was the turn of the Jin officials who were full of hearts and secretly thanked for their lives after the disaster.

The amount of food and grass found in Taiyuan Prefecture is really delightful. Not only is it enough for the people of Taiyuan Prefecture to survive the autumn harvest, but it can also make up for some large army consumption. The real gold and silver retrieved from the homes of Jurchen nobles, local tyrants, and corrupt officials who confiscated their families and destroyed their families was even more shocking. It was as many as millions of taels, which made the Qin people secretly amazed. However, the most surprising thing is that the gold and silver in the Taiyuan Prefecture treasury was pitifully small, and the total amount was less than 100,000 taels. The difference was so huge that the Qin people were really dumbfounded.

In such a big city, a place of the palace, there was not much oil and water in the granary of the treasury. Instead, everyone had a clear understanding of the situation under the rule of the Jin people.

What surprised the Qin officials who came to Taiyuan Prefecture was a little surprised that the Taiyuan Prefecture was killed by General Zhao Shi, with blood rolling down, and even more blood was shed after the war than in the battle of seizing the city.

But General Zhao Shi has a good reputation in the prefectures and counties around Taiyuan Prefecture. Some families have built sacred temples for General Zhao Shi to worship every day. However, if you enter Taiyuan City and mention the name of General Zhao Shi, everyone is like seeing a demon, turning around and leaving, and avoiding it. There are more people fighting in the two groups. Obviously, for the people in Taiyuan City, General Zhao Shi's name has a different understanding in their hearts.

The local area was sorted out once to ensure that the army had no worries. The army had also been rested and left the injured soldiers in Taiyuan, leaving behind the Xiongwu Army and the imperial guards in front of the palace. Liu Zhongguo, commander of the Xiongwu Army, led the guard of Taiyuan, and the army led the camp to the north.

In late March of the second year of Chengwu in the Great Qin Dynasty, the Qin army drove from Taiyuan to the camp and continued to head north. The troops headed directly to Datong, the western capital of the Jin Dynasty, and the north was shaken.

Zhao Shi took Wei Huaide as his flank and ordered him to lead his troops to attack Shouyang, go north with the momentum, attack Yunxian, and seal off the Jin reinforcements to the west.

He also used Wang Sheng to protect Lang Meng.

He personally led the army, gathered Zhang Feng as the vanguard, and led his troops north.

On March 23, when passing Yangqu, Yangqu is the gateway to Taiyuan, which was originally the key to connecting Datong and Taiyuan. In the past, a large number of food and grass would also be transferred here, and there were even heavy troops to guard it. However, Mu Huali used a fire in Yangqu, almost burning Yangqu to white ground, ruins and tiles, and he can still see the remaining power of the day.

Both the Taiyuan defenders and the Yangqu Jin soldiers were destroyed by Zhao Shi during the First Taiyuan Prefecture War. There was still a shortage of defending Taiyuan, let alone guarding Yangqu. Therefore, Yangqu has been abandoned for more than a year, the people are scattered, and the city is deserted like a ghost.

Mu Huali did not spend a single soldier. When the Qin army arrived, the Yangqu defenders immediately opened the city to surrender, and even tied up a thousand Jurchen households and sent them to Mu Huali's horses to beg for mercy to survive.

The army did not stop in Yangqu. After passing Yangqu, they took Xinzhou directly. Mu Huali arrived first. As the vanguard, Zhang Fengju was already hating this boy and gritting his teeth. Along the way, he, as a vanguard, did not encounter many battles. Taiyuan City was captured by Zhang Sizhong, and no one soldier was used in the vanguard's troops.

With Mu Huali traveling around in front, the Pioneer's troops were even more idle. The troops were full of complaints about the guys walking with four legs in front, but there was no way, who made you only grow two legs?

Xinzhou is ahead, and Zhang Fengju is already ruthless. If Mu Huali is the leader, he will tell the general to go and take the cavalry himself, so he will not follow others. He will chew the leftovers and have to eat dirt. He will do it.

It has to be said that after the battle in Taiyuan City, the army was full of arrogance and desire to fight, but the desire to fight was even more serious. Especially when Zhang Sizhong died in battle at the head of Taiyuan City, General Zhao Shi said a few serious words, which made the generals ashamed, and each wanted to fight with all their hearts and hoped to make great contributions in the future and not allow Zhang Sizhong to be more beautiful than before.

When the news of Xinzhou garrison surrendering the city came, many people were very disappointed. Xinzhou is also a major Jin people's town, how could it go down without a fight?

Of course, those who have been in the river for a long time will never have this idea. In the Jin Dynasty, any incredible thing may happen. When the great general led his troops to capture the river, many prefectures and counties surrendered. No matter how many Xinzhou is, there is nothing strange. Once again, the Jin Han army guarding Xinzhou is even less important...

If the Jurchens were guarding, they might have to struggle to death, but the Han army did not need to expect them to work hard to defend the city, because the Qin army still treated Han generals more favorably, but if you defended and refused to surrender, you would be the lackey of the Jin people, who would not be ruthless when they were killed.

This is no longer a secret in the north. Just like the Mongolians who fought a war, they would persuade them to surrender without a stand. If they could not leave, most of them would have to massacre the city. Many people just surrendered like this. The reason is average, no different.

However, this time Zhao Shi's methods were different. All the generals of the surrendered Han army were dismissed on the spot and allowed him to gather his clans in the city with his family. Next, the Qin people sent officers to lead the Han army soldiers and scattered in the village, and would do another round of what they did in Taiyuan Prefecture.

The army had not delayed this little thing and continued to go north. The prefectures they passed by surrendered after hearing the news. Needless to say, 200,000 troops came overwhelmingly. General Zhao Shi's reputation was also well-known in the north. If he did not surrender, he would immediately become a powder. Most people did not have the courage.

By the beginning of April of the second year of Chengwu in the Great Qin Dynasty, Daizhou was already at the foot of the Qin army, and Yanmen Pass was faintly in sight. In just one month, half of the Jin people had left............
Chapter completed!