The attack on the southern Hebei township tyrants began with the destruction of the Jiang clan of the plain tycoon, and soon spread to the entire southern Hebei occupied by Wang Shimu.

In this process, Wang Shi can be said to have no reservations, and donating money and food is only a basis for the preservation of the doors of the villagers.

Since Shen Mu did not stipulate how much each family should pay to avoid disaster, but because he had the book in his hand as a means of threat, basically the villagers also knew in their hearts that how much they had donated to the army of the country was a standard, and if it was too far away, it would be impossible to say anyway.

But in fact, the distress of these villagers in southern Hebei is also real.

Regardless of the requisition for the purpose of preparing the army to go south, the rejuvenating canal that took several years to build alone can be said to be a waterway that condenses the blood and tears of the villagers in southern Hebei.

These local tycoons, whether before or now, are just able to sustain themselves. Except for the Jiang clan in the plains because they were able to gain a little momentum and their families had some savings, most of the other township tycoons had squeezed out their family's savings with soldiers just before, and they had to wait until the autumn grain was put into storage to make a living.

Therefore, if they want to supply the army like this before, there are very few people who can do it. It's not about being poor or procrastinating, it's true.

But after Wang Shi was recruited, he didn't tell them these truths. Except for the Jiang clan in the plains, which was full of wiped out, although Wang Shi did not make more killings, many families were knocked on the dock wall because of poor donations, and the whole family was imprisoned.

Even if many families weep blood and beg for a few days, they just want to postpone for a few days and wait until the autumn grain is in the warehouse, and they must make up for the shortfall, it is still inevitable that they will break their families. Because it is in the entire southern Hebei territory, it can be said that there is a wailing all over the wilderness, and the people are struggling to make a living. And Wang Shi also had a lot of tyrannical reputations in southern Hebei for a while, and his reputation was almost the same as that of the army.

Shen Mu was indifferent to this, just arranged various military affairs step by step, and turned a deaf ear to the so-called boiling of public grievances. He didn't bother to make excuses for his accusations of tyranny, but what he was doing right now was indeed the best choice for the situation.

On the one hand, the Jin army in Hebei was not as good as fighting in Henan, with a deep foundation for rural construction and the home advantage of local military governments and township warriors cooperating in combat. In a guest battle, it is natural to minimize all potential threats and unfavorable factors in order to ensure the chance of victory.

As for these heroes and powerhouses in the southern Hebei countryside, they are uncontrollable hidden dangers, and it is a dream to expect them to follow the king with one heart, fight together, and fight against the army of the country. They will only wait and see, looking for opportunities to bet in order to survive no matter what the outcome is.

Even putting aside the military needs of Wang Shi, just for the sake of the local people in southern Hebei, Wang Shi's current behavior is actually mixed. For those superficial country tycoons, Wang Shi is indeed aggressive, and his arrogant posture is abhorrent. However, in addition to these rural tyrants, there are also many people in the suburbs who are unable to protect themselves.

The country of Qian was already of little use, and Tu Nan's incident had to end in an untimely death because Shi Xuan sent troops without authorization and lacked cooperation, and it is conceivable that the situation will be even more difficult in the future. At present, the autumn harvest is imminent, even if it is not judged by victory or defeat, just in order to compete for the autumn grain that is about to be stored in southern Hebei, Shi Hu will inevitably lead the army to the south, meet the king or second, and take the plunder of the place first.

At that time, the entire southern Hebei will be a chaotic war. The royal division can ensure that his own battle line is solid, and those local village tyrants may also be able to negotiate with the army in this turbulent season, but those wandering people scattered in the suburbs will not be spared in this chaotic battle!

Although Wang Shi is currently conscripting and expropriating, the main target is still those local powerful gateways, and for those wandering people who are scattered in the suburbs and have no fixed residence, they are mainly appeased.

And the strength of the appeasement is not small, because the next winter in southern Hebei can be imagined, if they are still allowed to escape in the suburbs, they will also starve to death and freeze to death, and there are very few who can survive the winter.

As for the local tyrants who suffered because of this, this is the price they must pay. And they are not desperate, in fact, while Wang Shi continues to increase the intensity of coercion, there are already villagers who have seen the opportunity early and chose a way of life left to them by Shen Mu, that is, they no longer live in the countryside to protect themselves, but take the initiative to open the door, scatter the tribes, and rely on their own hometown influence to help Wang Shi recruit and settle all sides of the country.

For this kind of knowledgeable people, Shen Mu not only will not continue to be embarrassed and suppressed, but also give them their own not low treatment, awarding them temporary titles such as Tuntian Captain and Displaced People's Protector, and repeatedly said that as long as they are conscientious and perform their merits later, they will never hide their merits.

As for those who are still burning with self-defense and resistance, Shen Mu will naturally not be polite, and the basic operation is to knock on the dock wall, and all the clans will be taken into prisoners and forced labor, so that they will pay the due price for their choice. At present, there is no need for these dock walls that are born in the chaos, and they will not need it in the future.

After Wang Shi crossed the river and entered the country, he has been vigorously clearing the place, and there have been few really large-scale battles. Even Liu Gao, the general of the Qianguo Kingdom who originally returned to Leling, had to withdraw from Leling and move to the Bohai Sea further back because of the fruitless results of the long-term attack and the reinforcements from the Wang Division.

However, the calm of the southern Hebei Wang Shi does not mean that the entire Hebei realm is silent, on the contrary, all parties are very lively, especially Shi Xuan's escape to the north, which can be described as wonderful.

Shi Xuan was defeated at Zhuan, and then collected a few thousand remnants near Linqing, and then had to continue to flee north for fear of the king who crossed the river. The result of the first battle of the Qiang Dynasty had not yet completely spread in Hebei, so on the way to escape, Shi Xuan would encounter troops from all sides of Hebei from time to time who continued to draw divisions to the plains, Qinghe and other places.

These armies also vary in size, ranging from hundreds to thousands. For those teams that are not weak and not small in size, Shi Xuan naturally does not dare to offend them at the moment, but those small troops, once encountered, will not let go, and will directly recruit and merge into their remnants.

Therefore, on the way to the north, the size of Shi Xuan's team gradually expanded, and after escaping Tobu City, the size of the army has exceeded 10,000 people. Although the number of troops has been expanded, but the combat effectiveness has not increased much, these troops annexed along the way, the banners are mixed, and they are not the choice of elite soldiers, nothing more than the county and county recruited village bravery, volunteers, mainly responsible for service, miscellaneous labor such as repairing camps, transporting weapons and staffs, cleaning the battlefield, and so on.

If it was in previous years, Shi Xuan, who had mastered the elite soldiers in southern Hebei, would not look down on such miscellaneous pawns at all, but now he is afraid of the new defeat and thirsty for help, plus he also has an idea in his heart that using these miscellaneous pawns to temporarily fill the army can make his losses after the defeat of this battle look smaller, so he does not care about the merits, and they are all requisitioned.

But as the ranks grew, another previously unimportant issue came to the fore: the provision of the army. Originally, when Shi Xuan fled from Linqing, he took away some of the goods stored in Linqing, but there was not much left along the way, and now with so many soldiers, he couldn't get to the letter where Shi Hu was at all afraid that he would collapse due to lack of food.

This time, the state mobilized the county savings and soldiers to plan to plunder the south, and the grain and grass that could still be left in the counties along the way were also scarce, and they could not support the tens of thousands of transit troops. So Shi Xuan had to turn around and turn from Tobu Castle to Guangzong to the west.

Guangzong can be said to be a relatively special existence in the Qianguo, and this realm was opened up in the early years to house the remnants of the Hebei beggar army.

Even Shi Le, the ancestor of the great period of the Qi country, also felt a headache for the remnants of the begging army, such as Shi Kan, Shi Lang and the like were all fierce generals from the begging army, and they were all regarded as false sons by Shi Le to show grace, but Shi Le did not dare to believe in the begging army in his bones, because he set aside a place in Guangzong for the remnants of the beggar to recuperate. And around Guangzong, there are Hu Yi servants such as Lin Hu and Ding Ling, surrounding the remnants of the begging army.

After that, there was an internal strife in the state of Qian, and the state became even weaker, so that Shi Hu gradually had the dilemma of having no soldiers available, so he requisitioned and armed Guangzong's begging army and handed it over to Li Nong and other rising stars of the beggar army, becoming a very powerful military force in the current state of Qian.

Although the beggar army has been transferred out of Guangzong, their families are still here, running the tun cultivated fields that the beggar army has operated in Guangzong in the past few years.

Previously, the state of Qian requisitioned all parties to show preferential treatment to the begging army, and Shi Hu specially ordered to bypass Guangzong and not to requisition. Therefore, if there is any place in the surrounding counties that can collect enough money, it is Guangzong.

Shi Xuan saw that the mad dog was in the poor alley, and he didn't look down on the group of cold murderers of the beggar army in his heart, so he killed Ben Guangzong with great momentum, preparing to fight an autumn wind and leave.

But it also has to be said that the group of soldiers who have been tempered from the most difficult environment of the beggar army is indeed worthy of their reputation, although most of the young and strong have been transferred, but the base camp of Guangzong itself has been run by them like an iron bucket.

Shi Xuan led his troops to come, but he was directly rejected from the outside, and when he revealed his intention to attack, even more women, children, old and young in Guangzong City went to the city to resist, and after attacking and defending, it was Shi Xuan's rabble who fell behind.

Just when Shi Xuan was trapped in Guangzong City and could not enter, more than 2,000 light horsemen of the Jin army pursued from the rear.

And when the Fenwu army and the Qiang army fought fiercely under the city, the beggar army and their families at the head of the city always watched coldly and did not interfere, as if the two sides of the foreign war in the city had nothing to do with them, and they did not have any joy because of the defeat of the Wang Shi.

In a desperate situation, hence the name begging, for these people who are left behind in the catastrophe, what is the righteousness of the family and the country, it is not worth mentioning, whether it is the country of Jin, they do not fight for any side, just to survive!

After Wang Shi killed Shi Xuan's army, Shen Yun listened to Zhang Tan, who accompanied the army, tell about the origin of Guangzong, and he was also quite touched in his heart, and did not try to contact the begging family members in the city, but just asked people to pile up some of the objects and weapons that were collected along the way and in the current battle and were inconvenient to carry to chase the enemy outside the city, which was counted as a gift, and then rested outside the city for a night, and after dawn, he continued to lead the army to pursue the remnants of Shi Xuan's army.