After August, the climate change in the Yellow River basin is already very obvious, although it is still hot during the day, but at night, the temperature is much lower.

The temperature difference between day and night is very large, and it also makes people feel the impact on the climate of this Xiaoice period now, which is more serious in the north than in the south. And as the temperature dropped, Hebei finally ushered in a few rains after a long drought.

This round of rain is naturally a good thing for ordinary people, just in time to rush to sow a round of crops and harvest a crop before the cold winter arrives. But this vitality only exists in theory, because the current situation in Hebei really makes people not see a glimmer of hope to live and work in peace and contentment.

The noisy and long-standing civil strife finally came to an end, and Cheng Yao and others, who were trapped in Xiangguo, were finally defeated by Shi Hu. As for Shi Daya, the young monarch who was supported by Cheng Yao, he was also directly deposed by Shi Hu's circle.

In the end, Shi Hu still did not choose to directly encroach on the system, but formally supported Nanyang Wang Shi Hui to inherit the unification before the tomb of the ancestor Shi Le, and Shi Hu took the prime minister and Da Shan Yu as the name, and the governor's internal and external military and political affairs, but the king title has not been changed.

This is really embarrassing, Shi Zhao was originally Zhuxia Zhao and Wei Jiuguo, Zhao has become the country name, and the name of Wei King has long been taken by Shi Kan. Although Shi Kan has been completely defeated at the moment, and most of the land of the old Wei is obtained by the Huainan army, this king name is a bit ominous at the moment, and Shi Hu's temperament is not willing to pick up people's teeth and wisdom, so he simply does not change.

After all, the young master Shi Hui is just a pure puppet, and the people of the time also knew that Shi Hu would definitely replace him in the future, but now because of the strong enemy of Huainan on his side, he had to temporarily press it.

After taking charge of Xiangguo, the first thing Shi Hu did was to issue an edict to summon the Liuyi armor soldiers, to gather the people to attack the Huainan army in the south, recapture Yecheng, and recover the land of Hebei.

For a time, not only the vicinity of Xiangguo was surging, but even further north there were frequent voices, in addition to the miscellaneous Hu Yizi who were originally in the Shihu army, there were also many Hu tribes in the land of the Yan Dynasty. The acting lord Tuoba Huai personally led 3,000 iron cavalry to the south to help the war, and Murong Jun of Liaodong also sent 2,000 cavalry to the south with his brother Murong Ke as the general.

These two Hu tribes are already considered to be the top forces in the north, and when they clearly expressed their support for Shihu, few of the other tribes, large and small, dared to disrespect orders, or help the armor soldiers, or help the cattle and horses.

Soon, Xiangguo gathered a huge army of 300,000, and for a time Shi Hu's momentum in Hebei also reached the extreme, becoming recognized as the only choice that could rejuvenate the Xiangguo.

Comparatively speaking, the Huainan Army in the south was weaker, and there were almost no major movements and declarations. Of course, they don't need to say anything at all, just entering Hebei strongly, annihilating all the stones, and capturing Yecheng at the same time are enough to show the strength and unstoppability of the Huainan army.

Speaking of which, a considerable part of the reason why Shi Hu created such a huge momentum in such a short period of time was also due to the oppression of the Huainan Army, which made those miscellaneous beards have a sense of crisis, so they gathered around Shi Hu.

After the end of the First World War in Liyang, Shen Zhezi naturally no longer stayed in Henan sour jujubes, but traveled north into Liyang. Liyang has also become the base camp of the Huainan Army in Hebei, gathering nearly 50,000 officers and soldiers of the Huainan Army, and several divisions in Yecheng and other places.

March, the northward march, August Liyang victory, half a year of hard fighting, Huainan Army can be described as fruitful. First of all, the entire territory of Yuzhou was recovered, and the Chen Guang rebellion army, which was originally entrenched in Chenliu County, also disappeared. The second is to enter Hebei, recover large areas of Hebei lost land such as Ji County and Wei County, and directly refer to Xiangguo, the capital of the Qiang Kingdom!

Especially the latter, it is the only great initiative of the Wang Shi after Yongjia, and the battle flag of the Wang Shi is flying in Hebei again after more than ten years, and it is still in an unprecedented strong posture!

After Shen Zhezi arrived in Liyang, he did not rush to announce the next combat goal, and the only military action was to continue to reinforce Yecheng with cavalry, and ordered to use Yecheng as the center to pacify as many people as possible to recruit the Jin people of Hebei and the center of the Hu to the king.

After more than half a month of combing and summarizing, the results of the first battle of Liyang were finally sorted out. Not counting material use, the number of soldiers and civilians captured in Liyang alone amounted to more than 30,000! The vast majority of them are Hebei Ding Zhuang, Jin and Hu Shen.

Taking advantage of the strong power of Liyang's great victory, Shen Zhezi directly ordered the more than 30,000 captives to be transported back to Henan in batches, and at the same time ordered the rear to quickly send civil affairs officials to the north to cultivate the newly restored land between Henan and Yan.

Such a tough move by the Huainan Army also aroused strong resistance among the prisoners. It is one thing for them not to dare to fight when the army is assembled, but it is another thing to force them to leave their homes.

At the same time, those who defected to the enemy in the battle did not receive commensurate treatment after a little contact with the Huainan army, and there was inevitably a gap in their hearts, and there was no shortage of people who wanted to incite the prisoners to rebel.

Therefore, in this short period of ten days, riots of all sizes in the Liyang camp occurred frequently. However, Shen Zhezi is not Shi Kan's kind temperament, no matter who is involved in these riots, there is only one attitude, that is, iron-blooded suppression!

Originally, the casualties of both sides in the first battle of Liyang were not much, but in this short period of ten days, more than 30,000 prisoners were killed because they were involved in the riots, as many as nearly 10,000!

Such a ferocious repression finally made these captives frightened, and they no longer dared to have the heart of rebellion. So the rest of the people could only be obediently sent to Henan.

At the same time, Shen Zhezi added nearly 10,000 troops to Guo Yu's side to suppress these captives and the subsequent steady stream of surrenderers. If there are no major changes in the future, Guo Yu will be responsible for guarding Xingyang, Chenliu and other places, so for now, he is also practicing in advance.

The more than 30,000 captives were not all gained, because Xie Ai occupied Yecheng first, and almost all the people and materials in the original place under the command of Shi Kan were obtained by the Huainan army.

The so-called rotten ship also has three catties of nails, although Hebei has been in turmoil for many years, Shi Kan is also one of the original three giants of Hebei after all, and the occupation is the essence of the country.

In the follow-up Huainan Army, there were more than 200,000 households in the follow-up Huainan Army, and this was only around several large cities such as Yecheng and Liyang, and many powerful dock walls in the countryside had not yet been counted.

This alone made Shen Zhezi feel that even if Hebei has collapsed now, the vitality precipitated by the people still exceeds that of Jiangdong. At present, due to frequent wars, the people's power has been seriously wasted, but as long as the situation calms down slightly, Hebei's blood recovery speed is still extremely fast.

Shen Zhezi still had some dissatisfaction here, but he didn't know that Shi Kan, who had been imprisoned in the army by the Huainan Army, was already full of shock after learning about it. He has ruled Yedi for so many years, and he didn't even know that there was such a large population under his rule, and 100,000 households was originally the top of the sky in his concept. And in the past, there were not even 100,000 households that could really be covered by the rule.

Originally, he thought that those powerful township sects were at most just making some small moves to hinder them, but in fact, the pattern was limited. But he didn't expect that the courage of these people was far beyond his imagination. The strength they had hidden was far greater than that of him, the titular lord of the land!

For being able to capture Shi Kan alive, Shen Zhezi is also full of surprises. To be honest, in such a large-scale battle, even if one side is completely defeated, it is extremely difficult to capture the enemy's main general alive. Especially the Huainan army fought in Hebei, and was not familiar with the terrain of Hebei's mountains and rivers, even if Shikan couldn't win, it was very simple to escape.

Especially this time, it was Xiao Yuandong again! This Zaozhuang fellow has so much luck that it is so strong that even Shen Zhezi is secretly jealous, and he almost wonders if this person is the son of the plane blessed by luck.

However, this son of the plane was only keen on bragging at the moment, and his actions aroused so much resentment in the army that Shen Zhezi had to send him out so as not to annoy people by swaggering around in the camp.

Shi Kan can be regarded as the highest-ranking important minister in the Qianguo since Shen Zhezi's Northern Expedition, so naturally he can't be simply killed. Therefore, no matter whether people are good or evil, as long as they can achieve a height that is difficult for most people to reach, there will always be differences, and people will inevitably be rare and expensive.

In terms of crime alone, those leaders of the Hebei Haowu army are definitely not comparable to Shi Kan, and Shen Zhezi alone knows that the generals in the Xuzhou army who died in Shi Kan's hands with names and surnames can't be counted on one hand. As a result, Shi Kan is still alive and well in the Huainan military camp, eating and drinking, but those military leaders were thrown into the river and fed fish and shrimp for inciting the prisoners to make a rebellion.

For this point of differential treatment, Shen Zhezi does not have much psychological burden, and he can't do evil until he is in the stream, if you don't die first, who dies first!

After Shi Kan joined the army, he behaved very calmly and willingly accepted his fate. Although Shen Zhezi scolded him fiercely before, he didn't deliberately treat him harshly, although this guy was old and evil, he was still righteous enough for the Huainan Army. If the ability grows a little further, the Huainan army's victory this time will be more difficult, and the gains may not be so rich.

However, what is a little strange is that Shi Kan expressed his desire to see Shen Zhezi several times during his imprisonment, but he didn't know what his idea was. But Shen Zhezi didn't bother to pay attention, for him, the only meaning left for this guy at the moment was to save a life and send him back to Jiangdong to be killed in public, so that the people of Jiangdong would also be happy.

He also doesn't believe that anyone is dying and his words are good, Shi Kan will give him any good strategy to fix the chaos in Hebei, one does not have that heart, and the other does not have that mind.

When the Huainan Army was still striving to expand the results of the battle with Liyang and Yecheng as the center, the Xuzhou Army finally belatedly arrived and joined forces in Liyang.