Liyang City, the city guard.

As the city guard of Liyang City, Mi Leopard felt that he was simply unlucky to go home.

After the last Guanzhong War, Mi Bao was strongly recommended by Yangquan Jun Mi Chen to serve as the defender of Liyang City.

From the name alone, it is easy to see the intimate relationship between Mi Chen and Mi Leopard.

The two of them, Mi Bao and Mi Chen, are both descendants of the Duke of Chu and the current King of Qin, and they were both born to the same father.

Due to the Empress Dowager Xuan's eight sons, the current Mi clan is also a big family in the Qin State, especially after Mi Chen became a Xiangbang, it was even more in the limelight for a while.

But Mi Bao thinks that even if he doesn't look at his life experience, he is worthy of his brother Mi Chen's recommendation.

After taking office, Mibao first took the residents of Liyang City to get through the difficulties of reducing production in the first year, and then took the residents of Liyang City to resume production in the second year.

Seeing that this is the third year, and patches of millet have been planted, according to the reports of subordinate officials, the growth of millet is quite gratifying, and there is a good hope for a bumper harvest, even surpassing the best years of the past few years.

This is a real political achievement!

The leopard is very confident, as long as it is time to plan in the autumn, his own contribution will definitely be indispensable.

At that time, as long as you go to the old brother Mi Chen's activities, then the promotion will be a matter of minutes.

Therefore, the leopard is looking forward to the stars and the moon, and hopes to arrive in autumn as soon as possible.

As a result, I didn't look forward to the autumn, but I looked forward to the people of Zhao Guo.

When the leopard saw the big banner with the word "Li" outside the city, the whole person's heart was cool and cool.

Needless to say, the leopard knows that Li Mu, the Zhao State Evil Star who poisoned the land of Guanzhong once two years ago, is back!

Mi Leopard almost wanted to scold her mother.

There are so many troops in Beidi County and Shangjun County, have all the troops stationed in Xianyang evaporated from the world, why did no one stop this evil star who killed a thousand knives?

Also, why has it been so many days, and there is still no shadow of the reinforcements from Liyang City?

Even if it was from Xianyang, it should have arrived a long time ago!!

No one could answer this question, because Liyang City had been completely blocked, and the channel for delivering news had been completely gone. Not to mention people, not even a bird can fly into the encirclement of the Zhao people.

This kind of helpless experience is actually very bad, it will slowly wear down people's will, so that everyone gradually becomes depressed and becomes more and more grumpy.

The leopard's temper is very irritable now.

Especially after hearing that picking quarrels and provoking troubles began to appear in the city, and some people even took the opportunity to kill and rob, the leopard's patience was completely exhausted, and he began to call the defending general Xiang Cheng.

"Thou shalt send men into the streets, catch all these damned thugs, and kill them all!"

As a county guard, the leopard actually has no right to dictate to the guards.

But if this guard Xiang Cheng himself belonged to the retainer of the Mi clan, and was specially sent by Xiangbang Mi Chen to assist Mi Leopard, things would naturally be completely different.

In just a few days, a large number of "thugs" were arrested, the prisons in the entire city of Liyang were filled with people, and hundreds of human heads hung high in front of the vegetable market, which was spectacular.

Looking at these heads, the whole person felt a lot more comfortable, and felt that the depression in his heart was swept away.

But soon, new problems arose.

In this large-scale raid, some soldiers seized the opportunity to falsely accuse and arrest people who had grudges in the past, and at the same time, extortion and even robbery of large families also happened from time to time, which made the residents of the entire Liyang City complain.

But in the face of the bitter masters who came to complain, Mi Bao was also very troubled, so he had to use haha to say a few words of prevarication, such as what official is a civilian official can not interfere in military affairs, but he must convey the words of the second and third sons to the general, so that the general can severely punish the lawbreakers, and give everyone a fair and just cloud.

The leopard's heart is actually very clear why this happens.

Qin's army is insufficient.

You must know that for a long time, the main source of soldiers of the Qin State was Guanzhong.

The people of Guanzhong are brave, and they are all natives of the old Qin, both in terms of combat power and loyalty are far better than other places, such as the Bashu soldiers or the Hedong soldiers, so the Qin army has always been composed of Guanzhong soldiers as the main backbone.

But the problem is that when the Qin State suffered several consecutive defeats under the Zhao State and lost a large number of troops as a result, the source of Guanzhong soldiers began to be somewhat scarce.

The Qin State had to relax the requirements for recruitment, not only recruiting many people from Bashu and Beidi County, but also recruiting a large number of criminal prisoners into the army to form a prisoner army.

Stationed in Liyang City was such a force composed of half county soldiers and half prisoner army, with a total of six thousand.

It is not surprising that such a scumbag army can do such a thing of extortion and favoritism.

Sometimes the leopard even wondered if the same people who were picking quarrels and provoking trouble in the city at the beginning were also among them...... No evidence was found, however.

If it weren't for the obvious lack of siege weapons in the cavalry of the Zhao army who came from afar, with such a team with bad military discipline to defend the city, Liyang City would have been breached long ago.

But Qi Bao felt that after all, it was a great enemy now, and it would not be good if he dealt with those guys and caused a mutiny in the prisoner army.

So Mi Bao temporarily suppressed these things, preparing to wait for Zhao Guoren to withdraw before making plans.

Speaking of which, this time Wu Anjun Bai Qi took most of the Qin soldiers who were still quite effective to Hedong, and in addition to the tens of thousands of elites left in Guanzhong, the defenders in other cities were probably not much different from those in Liyang City, and their quality was uneven.

On this morning, someone suddenly reported to Mi Bao, who was handling official business, that it was Xu Yang, the captain of the criminal academy, who had a secret military situation and asked to see him.

"What is he doing here?" Qi Bao frowned, Xu Yang himself is a gangster second ancestor, and it all depends on someone in the family who has become a small official in Xianyang, so that he can get a captain of the prisoner army.

And this person is also inappropriate in the prisoner army, according to the testimony of many big families in the city, Xu Yang is likely to secretly connive at the soldiers of the prisoner army to loot in the city, and also has a share of the spoils.

When this war is over, the first thing that Mi Bao has to clean up is this Xu Yang.

But anyway, now Xu Yang can be regarded as the more important number one person in the city after all, so after a moment of hesitation, Mi Bao still met Xu Yang in the study.

Xu Yang is a man about forty years old, a big Guanzhong man, with small pointed eyes, which is the so-called roe deer mouse eyes, which looks like a cunning meaning, which is annoying.

As soon as Xu Yang opened his mouth, he said: "City guard, it's not good!" ”

Mi Bao looked at Xu Yang, who looked anxious, and couldn't help but snort coldly, and said, "What is the panic, if you have something, say it!" ”

Xu Yang rubbed his hands, looked left and right, and suddenly whispered: "City guard, there should be no one eavesdropping here?" ”

Mi Leopard originally looked down on Xu Yang, but when he saw Xu Yang's behavior at this moment, the anger in his heart rose even more, and he said coldly: "What the hell, you just come!" ”

Xu Yang looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "City guard, I just heard from my subordinates that the city is ready to surrender to the Zhao army!" ”