Dang County, Daliang.

Hu Jue, the chief of Dang County, was wearing all his clothes and inspecting the city defenses surrounded by his personal soldiers.

Daliang was once the capital of the Great Wei Kingdom, with a high city and deep ditch and a large population. However, since Peng Yue became the prime minister of Wei Kingdom, he moved the capital to his old nest Dingtao. So now, Daliang's status in the Liang Kingdom has declined, but even so, Daliang is definitely the leading capital in the Central Plains.

As for the governor of Dang County, Hu Jue, one of the trusted old generals who followed Peng Yue to rise from Juyeze. Although his abilities were mediocre, he was deeply trusted by Peng Yue. King Liu Bang of Han issued an edict to the world and invited all the princes to attack Xiang Yu together. Peng Yue could not resist his face and had to leave, but left Hu Jue to station in Daliang, which shows how much trust Peng Yue has in his trust.

"Everyone cheer me up and open my eyes wider!" Hu Jue shouted while pressing his sword to patrol, "Once you find the traces of the bandits, come and report it immediately!"

"No!" The defenders on the city wall agreed.

Hu Jue inspected the dungeon twice before he felt relieved to go back to the yamen office.

In recent days, Dang County has really had a strong and violent smell. Chenliu County has an unknown team leader, as if it was called Pang Yu, who pretended to be a descendant of Pang Juan, a famous general of the former Wei Dynasty. However, some people believe that this brave thief actually killed Chenliu Ling, and in just a few days, he successively captured Chenliu and Yongqiu counties. It is said that tens of thousands of people have gathered together!

There is also Quyuyi in the west, where there were originally remnants of the Chu army. Now, the activities of these remnants of the Chu army are even more rampant. However, no matter how dissatisfied Hu Zi, he would never dare to lead his troops to attack. If he really led the army away from Daliang, maybe the boy named Pang Yu in the south should take advantage of the opportunity to attack Daliang!

What made Hu Ju even more worried was that there seemed to be signs of instability in Daliang City.

It is absolutely impossible to block the news if Ao Cang lost its five cities, including Xingyang, Guangwu, Chenggao, Jingyi and Suoyi, and it is absolutely impossible to block the news. Most of the powerful aristocratic clans in Daliang City already know the truth. Among them, many powerful aristocratic clans were excluded by the King of Liang, and this group of people could jump out to make trouble at any time!

Although Hu Jue had mediocre ability, he had fought with Peng Yue for so many years and knew that it was terrible to cooperate inside and outside, so he planned to eliminate this unstable factor as soon as possible. He had even formulated a plan to start to eliminate these powerful aristocratic tribes that might be unfavorable to him tonight!

However, as soon as Hu Ze came down the city tower, a junior official from the disciple came to report in a hurry: "Sir, it's not good. Gongshu, Nangong and other clans have rebelled. Gongshu, Nangong Lei has already brought hundreds of disciples into the yamen office and is killing people and setting fires everywhere. You should hurry up and go to the military camp to avoid it for a while!"

"What did you say?" Hu Ju was shocked when he heard this.

Hu Zhi had to be surprised. He had just planned it, but he didn't want to start the first place? These powerful aristocratic clans cannot be underestimated!

Just as I was surprised, there were suddenly shouts of tsunami-like crying outside the city.

Immediately, the Daliang defenders on the top of the city also became turbulent. A small school poked his head out of the female wall and shouted at Hu Zhu with horror, "Sir, it's not good, the bandits are coming!"

"You, you, what did you say?" Hu Jue said in greater surprise, "Bandits?!"

Before he finished speaking, a school rushed over on a fast horse. Before the people arrived, a shrill howling sound had already been heard: "Sir, it's a disaster. Gongshupan took his disciples to open the west gate. Thousands of bandits have entered the city. Sir, Daliang is lost, Daliang City is lost..."

"Ah?!" Hu Zhi's shock was really extraordinary, and he was stunned at the moment.

"Sir, you can't stay here for a long time. Let's go away quickly!" The personal soldiers behind Hu Ju led their cleverness and immediately came with more than a dozen personal soldiers, protecting Hu Jue and attacking the east gate and surrendering to Dingtao.

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Sanchuan County, Hulao Pass.

Lv Ze has moved his yamen from Luoyang to Hulao Pass!

Hulao Pass is the barrier to the eastern part of Luoyang and the gateway to Sanchuan County. Its geographical location is extremely important. Although Hulao Pass originally had two thousand elite soldiers stationed, Lu Ze still felt worried and brought five thousand elite soldiers from Luoyang to enrich the defense of Hulao Pass. At this point, Lu Ze no longer wants to quell the rebellion in Wei on his own.

Although Liu Bang left more than 10,000 elite soldiers to Sanchuan County, this amount of troops was still too small compared to the bandits.

Now, Lu Ze no longer wants to recover Liangdi. As long as he can guard Hulao Pass and Sanchuan Portal!

Sanchuan County is the eastern barrier of the Guanzhong Plain, because behind Luoyang is Hangu Pass. Once the rebels capture Luoyang and then conquer Hangu Pass westward, the foundation of Guanzhong will not be preserved! Even if Liu Bang returns to the army quickly, Guanzhong will inevitably be greatly damaged. In that case, the Guanzhong Plain will not be able to recover its vitality in a short period of time.

What worries Lu Ze in particular is that the garrison in Guanzhong is now extremely empty, with only 20,000 old and weak!

Therefore, whether you can defend Hulao Pass becomes a prerequisite for whether you can defend Sanchuan County and Guanzhong!

Therefore, Lu Ze moved his yamen to Hulao Pass without hesitation. In order to inspire morale, he even acted as if he was living and dying with Hulao Pass.

I have to say that Lu Ze is still very eye-catching and capable.

However, the county magistrates of the other Dang County, Chen County, Dong County and Yingchuan County did not have the eyesight and ability of Lv Ze. In less than five days, various bad news continued to spread to Hulao Pass!

Lü Ze was set up in the hall hall of Hulao Pass. A map of Wei land had been hung on the screen to the north. Lü Ze and his dozen staff and generals were whispering around the map. Nearly half of the entire Wei land on the map were painted black. These cities were sure to have been captured by the rebels.

There were smoke everywhere. Looking around, the entire Wei land was really smoke everywhere!

"Report..." Another junior official from the disciple entered in a hurry and knelt down and reported, "Sir, Daliang is lost!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the hall suddenly felt an uproar.

"Ah?! Daliang is also lost?"

"Oh my God, what should I do?"

"I can't believe that the bandits are so powerful!"

"I don't know when King Han and King Liang will return to the army?"

"Yes, if the Han King's army does not come back, the entire Wei land will be lost. At that time, the bandits will definitely take advantage of the situation to attack Hulao Pass. Although Hulao Pass is a powerful pass in the world, we only have 7,000 elite soldiers after all, and we may not be able to defend it. Once Hulao Pass is lost, the consequences will be unimaginable!"

However, Lu Ze did not say a word, but walked to the map with black charcoal and painted Daliang City black with force. Daliang was the first county to be lost in the four counties around Aocang, and it was also the most powerful city in Wei. The loss of Daliang is enough to show that the bandits' arrogance is already quite arrogant!

The subordinates and their generals whispered, but Lu Ze never said much.

After a while, Lu Ze said in a deep voice: "Send an order, send additional scouts to do it carefully, and then explore again!"

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Ao Cang and Xiang Zhuang slowly climbed to the top of the city accompanied by Wei Liao and Wu She.

Standing on the top of the city, looking down, I saw dense wooden houses and thatched cottages had been set up at the foot of Ao Mountain, and there were even more difficult-to-calculate tents in the middle. On the eastern edge of these wooden houses and thatched tents, there were a row of neat porridge sheds, with four or five hundred large iron cauldrons already being built, and they were cooking porridge day and night, and they were thick porridge that was inserted without falling.

In just less than five days, under the attraction of Ao Cang's millet, not only did the 50,000 hungry people who had dispersed a few days ago go back, but hundreds of thousands of hungry people flocked to them. Although no one has counted it, in fact, it is impossible to count it. However, according to Xiangzhuang's vision, the hungry people gathered outside Ao Cang now have more than 500,000!

These 500,000 hungry people are naturally mostly young, young, women and children, but there are also strong men!

This strong man is like bamboo shoots in a bamboo forest. The people in front have already dug it once. If the people behind dig it, they can still find some. Maybe the portion is smaller and the quality is worse, but at least there are still some! However, in Xiangzhuang's eyes, these strong men are also burdens, at least before the Chu army has no foundation, it is definitely a burden!

After looking silently for a while, Xiang Zhuang suddenly asked Wu She: "Sir, how much food is left in Ao Cang?"

Wu She sighed and said worriedly: "Report to General, there is not much grain from Ao Cang. If it were just the hundreds of thousands of hungry people, it would be almost half a year to eat. But the problem is that more hungry people will definitely come in the future, so I am worried that Ao Cang's grain may not last for two months!"

"Are you two months?" Wei Liao nodded, looking thoughtful.

Xiang Zhuang said again: "Sir, our army's dry food should be fried, right?"

"Our army's rations have been fried!" Wu She said hurriedly, "There are more than 500 mules and horses in total!"

Xiang Zhuang nodded, suddenly turned around and looked at Wei Liao, and said, "Military advisor, should we leave?"
Chapter completed!