Chapter 666: The Allied Forces Begin to Move

"General Zhong, General Chang. Read М"

When the group arrived at the threshing ground, the young men stopped training immediately.

A man in his thirties ran over and saluted Zhongli and Chang Wei.

Then he glanced at Zhao Xu and showed an inquiring expression to Zhongli.

"This is the Prince of Yan you are talking about." Zhongli smiled.

"Prince of Yan!" The man was surprised and was at a loss. He was about to kneel down and kowtow to Zhao Xu.

Although the royal army rescued them from the bullying of the nobles, they knew that this army belonged to the Prince of Yan.

They naturally felt grateful to the Prince of Yan and regarded him as a wise king of the time.

Zhao Xu immediately stopped him and smiled, "No need to perform such a great ceremony."

Looking at the man, he motioned Zhongli to introduce him.

Zhongli said, "He is Du Jian, the head of Duling Village."

Zhao Xu nodded and asked, "Have you been training bayonet skills?"

Du Jian shook his head, "In addition to bayonet skills, we are also training formations and loading and shooting flintlocks."

Zhongli explained, "I have sent a soldier to each village to train the local soldiers, and required all villagers aged 13 and above and under 50 to participate in the training. Everyone was equipped with a flintlock."

After a pause, he continued, "And the local soldiers were asked to send people to patrol near the village every day. Once they encounter danger, they will gather to fight the enemy."

"If there are few soldiers from the powerful families, let the local soldiers of one village deal with it. If there are many, let the local soldiers lead the people to evacuate from the village, and at the same time contact nearby villages to gather local soldiers from multiple places to fight against the soldiers from the powerful families."

"Yes, that's right." Zhao Xu was satisfied, and then asked Du Jian to gather the local soldiers to demonstrate line shooting to him.

Du Jian responded with a yes, turned around and left, and then gave orders to the 200 local soldiers.

The local soldiers performed three sections of shooting, line formation marching, and simple formations in front of him, such as hollow square formations, horizontal and vertical formations, etc.

Although the local soldiers' movements were much more unfamiliar than those of the royal army, in Zhao Xu's opinion, they were definitely enough to deal with the soldiers of the wealthy families.

Moreover, they had only trained for a few days, and it was good to have such an effect.

Then he and the two went to the farmland outside the village.

It was already March, and the wheat in the field was green and reached people's knees.

Many people were working in the fields. At this time, Du Jian shouted a few times to an old man in the field.

The old man came over immediately, and it was the village head.

Zhao Xu asked about the distribution of land, etc.

According to the head of the village, the land near the village used to belong to the wealthy families. After the establishment of the village government, these fields were distributed to the people.

Zhao Xu was satisfied with this situation.

Next, he inspected several villages, which were basically the same as Duling Village.

Zhongli basically established two systems in the countryside: government affairs and military affairs.

Most importantly, whenever he went to any village, the people were all smiling. They were not afraid of them at all, but were very enthusiastic.

And they supported them to defeat the Han family and occupy the Qi State.

Many people even told him directly that they were willing to have their children join the royal army and support their war.

They were afraid that the powerful families would take back everything they had.

This made Zhao Xu feel relieved.

However, this also reflects a situation from the side.

Although the powerful families were separatist, the people under their command did not necessarily agree with them.

After all, for the people of this era, they had no concept of family and country, and did not care who became the emperor.

Whoever could make them live a good life, they would follow.

The powerful families and powerful families were still in the feudal era, and could only rely on heavy taxes from the land to maintain their luxurious life, and could not collect only 10% of taxes like him.

In addition, they did not have the arrogance of the powerful families and powerful officials, and they did not dominate the people.

In contrast, the poor people at the bottom would naturally choose to support them.

Moreover, he now represented the orthodox Dasong, and he had a legitimate reason to fight, and he had defeated the soldiers of Qi in another battle.

The people saw hope and were more willing to support them.

In the evening, Zhao Xu and others returned to Dongping City.

After watching this day, he had a plan in mind.

As long as this war mode is maintained, the problem of food and grass is solved, and grassroots management is also established.

At that time, officials from Yanzhou will come and easily take over the occupied territory.

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Pengcheng.

When Zhao Xu was inspecting the countryside, an army was setting off from the north gate of Pengcheng and heading towards Lucheng along the official road.

This was the 100,000 troops that the Xie family had stockpiled in Pengcheng.

Three days ago, the envoys of Qi arrived in Jinling.

Xie Duan was panicked when he learned that the army of the King of Yan suddenly went south.

For him, Qi was the northern barrier of the Xie family. Once the King of Yan conquered Qi, his Xie family would suffer next.

Immediately, he ordered the 100,000 troops stationed in the same city to march to Lucheng.

At the same time, he also dispatched troops from Jinling and Bozhou to Lucheng to support Qi.

At the same time.

The second team of Qi envoys had just arrived in Xiangcheng, also bringing the news that the King of Yan was heading south.

"Does the King of Yan really have the confidence to defeat the coalition forces that attacked Yan?" In the Xiangcheng Palace, Dou Mu faced Dou Wei with a frown.

After the meeting, they all breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the King of Yan was just a turtle in a jar and could be taken down sooner or later.

But he didn't expect that the King of Yan would suddenly go south and take the initiative to attack, which made him wonder if the King of Yan had any bargaining chips in his hand.

Dou Wei said: "No matter what, this battle must be fought. If the Yan coalition forces cannot defeat the King of Yan, how can we defeat him by ourselves? We should immediately gather troops and go to Lucheng."

Dou Mu hesitated for a moment and finally nodded.

Just as his father said, there was no better way than to unite the troops and fight a decisive battle with the King of Yan.

Otherwise, they would be defeated one by one.

And now, they have at least 100,000 cavalry from the Northern Di to help.

Thinking of this, he drafted an imperial edict and handed it to his father, ordering Xiao Cheng to lead the Southern Liang army to Lucheng.

At the same time, he sent someone to inform the Northern Di cavalry stationed in Wuguan to go out with them.

This time, he didn't believe that the King of Yan could resist their million-strong army.