Song Bin's two elder brothers had accidents one after another.

Song Bin, as the only son of the head of the family, although he was only a concubine, his status in the family rose significantly.

The stewards who had begged his eldest brother and second brother before began to surround Song Bin one by one.

And Song Bin intends to win the support of these people, although the two sides had contradictions before, but now they get along well.

Song Bin is among the younger generation of the Song family, and no one can shake him.

The ...... of the Zhang family and the Li family in Shanggu County are almost all similar to the Song family.

And these people have not stopped, and are gradually elevating the rights of their own heads of households.

Although Zhao Huiren was not in Shanggu, Shanggu County was slowly controlled by him so quietly.

And most of the families are still happy that they have more talents in their clan.

But whether it is Song Bin or others secretly supported by Zhao Hui, after they succeed, it is impossible to fall out of Zhao Hui's control.

Song Shan of the Song family has entered the army of Shanggu County, and people from the Li family and the Zhang family have also entered the army system.

With Zhao Hui's covert support, although they started from the lowest level of the army, they were able to exterminate the bandits every time they went out of the city, and they easily obtained countless military exploits, and their promotion was not too fast.

Captain, chief, centurion, thousand, captain, military commander......

Among the defenders of Shanggu County, among the generals at all levels, there were more and more people from Zhao Hui.

Song Shan became a school captain, and although the centurion and thousand-captain he promoted were not from the Song family, they all looked forward to Song Shan.

And in the Black Wind Village, there are also many people who have joined the army system of Shanggu County.

They have the experience of being in the Black Wind Village, and when they enter the defenders of Shanggu County, everyone is a well-deserved soldier king level.

Even if he is in a low position, but with his strong strength, he has attracted many ordinary soldiers.

And they will also apply the set that Zhao Hui trained them to the defenders of Shanggu County.

Trained with soldiers who were willing to obey them, they soon became a powerful squad, and their status among the 10,000 defenders rose dramatically.

The army worships the strong the most, and they are not only strong in their own strength, but also able to become stronger with the people around them.

Among the 10,000 defenders, there are Zhao Hui's people among the generals at all levels, and among the soldiers at the bottom, there are also Zhao Hui's people, and their influence among ordinary soldiers is huge.

As long as Zhao Hui gave an order, half of the 10,000 defenders would fall to Zhao Hui.

And over time, their influence in the military will grow.

Not only the 10,000 defenders, but soon after Zhao Hui began to meddle in the defenders of Shanggu County, these people began to recruit new soldiers.

The military power of Shanggu County is constantly being strengthened, and these will become Zhao Hui's forces in the future.

Although Zhao Hui has been in the shadows, he controls the military and economy of Shanggu County, and his power once again ushers in rapid development.

According to the current development trend, Zhao Hui is confident that in the next six months to a year, he will be able to take over Shanggu County bloodlessly.

After Zhao Hui secretly controlled the army of Shanggu County, the training volume of these troops was immediately raised, and it was no longer the original group of troops who ate and waited for death.

And this army will also enter the steppe and fight against the Xianbei Karasuma people.

Although the Xianbei and Karasuma people were invaded by Zhao Hui and Gongsun Zhan successively, many tribes fled to the depths of the grassland.

However, because of the lack of supplies, these steppe tribes will still come to the Han border to plunder.

The Black Mountain Thieves in the southern part of the Taihang Mountains had a completely different strategy from Zhao Hui.

They gathered in the mountains and forests, and often led a large number of men and horses down the mountains to attack the surrounding cities and loot their property.

They have no cities, no people, no output of their own, and if they want to live, they can only rob them.

And thinking that there are many people, the amount they need to grab is also huge.

Although because they are hiding in the Taihang Mountains, it is difficult for the government to exterminate them.

But as they continue to loot the surrounding cities, the government has regarded them as a thorn in their side, and is always thinking about how to exterminate the Black Mountain thieves.

In the cities around the Taihang Mountains, more and more troops were mobilized from all over the country.

It's an ordinary county town with thousands of defenders at all times.

And in those large county towns, the defenders are more than 10,000 people.

And when the Black Mountain thieves attacked the city, they could let tens of thousands of people put on armor, take weapons, climb the city wall, and defend together at any time.

Because after the Montenegrin thieves broke the city, whether it was the property of the government or the food of ordinary people, they would be looted by the Montenegrin thieves.

Therefore, it is not difficult for the government to mobilize these people to defend the city together.

Every time the siege became more and more difficult, and even many times, the Black Mountain thieves could only leave a corpse in one place and retreat to the Taihang Mountains.

As the commander of the Black Mountain thieves, Zhang Yan saw these changes.

But 300,000 people wanted to eat, and he had no choice but to continue to let people attack the city and rob the needed grain and grass.

With 300,000 bandits, the food consumption in one day is extremely staggering.

At the beginning, Zhang Jiao occupied many cities, and the Yellow Turban Army under his command was also difficult to eat.

Zhang Yan's Black Mountain thief, at the beginning, because the Taishou everywhere did not have much preparation. At that time, Zhang Yan casually sent tens of thousands of people to break through a small city and loot the grain in the city.

At that time, every black mountain thief could not only eat enough, but also have surplus food left in the cottage.

But now, every time they take someone down the mountain, eight times out of ten, they return empty-handed.

The food in the cottage was getting smaller and smaller, and the food was much worse than before, and some people were already dissatisfied.

But siege is not what the Yellow Turban Army is good at, and Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Thieves have not improved compared to the previous Yellow Turban Army in terms of siege.

It is difficult for 100,000 people to attack a county town with only 10,000 defenders.

And 100,000 people were dispatched, the scale was too large, they only set off on their side, and they would soon be discovered by the Han army, and then the Han army could prepare in advance.

Zhang Yan had no choice but to let people attack those distant cities.

This is only a temporary solution, or it won't be long before those cities will react, and it will still be difficult for them to attack at that time.

If it was just a group of a few thousand people, or tens of thousands of bandits, Zhang Yan wouldn't have to think about attacking the city, and he could feed them by robbing caravans or something.

A few months later, Zhang Yan ordered Yu to lead 100,000 men to attack Hanoi County.

Hanoi is a large county with a population of hundreds of thousands, and if it can be defeated, the looted grain, grass and other materials will be enough for the Montenegrin thieves to consume for a period of time.

But Yu Poison took 100,000 people out of Taihang Mountain, and was discovered by the spies who had been staring at him, so that the Taishou of Hanoi County was prepared.

Yu Poison not only failed to defeat Hanoi, but when he retreated, he was flanked by the Han army and died on the spot.