Yang Tao, who was waiting for the opportunity outside Caiyang City, waited for the news of the Han army's retreat early the next morning. Yang Tao did not expect this result.

"Why did the Han army retreat like this? What happened?" Yang Tao and others thought for a long time, but could not think of the reason for the Han army's withdrawal, so they could only give up.

Although the Han army retreated unexpectedly, it was just a loss of a chance to gain, and it was not a big deal for Yang Tao. Now that the Han army withdrew, the road to Wancheng was smooth. Yang Tao stayed in the valley for a day and continued to move towards the west the next day after confirming that the Han army had indeed retreated.

The situation in Jingzhou became a bit strange and difficult to understand with the retreat of the Han army, especially the situation in northern Jingzhou made the world confused. After Zhang Mancheng's army in Jiangxia County captured Xiling City, its main troops did not make much noise. However, the Han army in Nanyang retreated in desolately. Zhao Ci did not take advantage of the victory to pursue it, but instead led his troops back to Wancheng. In the entire northern Jingzhou, only a side division under Zhang Mancheng, who was in Shaxian, fought with the players in full swing. The war was originally full of war, but the northern part of Jingzhou was quiet and weird for a while. Perhaps only a few people in the entire Three Kingdoms region could smell the coming of wind and rain from this calm.

The war in the north of Jingzhou became quiet, but the war in the south was in full swing. Sun Jian, the newly appointed prefect of Changsha, was unable to go to Changsha because Changsha was occupied by the District Star and could not go to Changsha, so he recruited township warriors on the spot. With thousands of township warriors, he captured several small cities west of Changsha County from the hundreds of thousands of troops of District Star, and obtained a temporary place to settle down. Then he joined forces with Wuling County Magistrate Cao Yin and Lingling County Magistrate Yang Xuan and other Han troops in the southern part of Jingzhou to fight against District Star, Zhou Dynasty, and Suma in the Yiyang area. Both sides had their own victory or defeat, and no one could do anything to each other. Several battles broke out every day, and they were temporarily in a stalemate and fell into a war of attrition. Only when one side was tired could he determine the outcome of the battle.

No matter what the situation in Jingzhou is at this time, Yang Tao was extremely comfortable at this time. He had a three-day banquet every time and a five-day banquet every time. In just half a month, Yang Tao found that his body in this game had gained more than ten pounds. If he gained weight like this, Yang Tao would doubt whether he would be so fat that he could not walk. As he had no choice but to thank the guests at all, he was considered to be a little more peaceful.

Since Cai Yang's Han army withdrew from Nanjun, Yang Tao has been walking smoothly with tens of thousands of troops and entered Wancheng.

The situation in Wancheng is a great way out from what Yang Tao thought. Although he had experienced the rebellion of Zhao Ci, Wancheng is still relatively stable today, at least not as depressed as he had when he passed by the war-torn city in the past, and he still had some prosperity.

However, the situation in the city was a bit beyond Yang Tao's expectations.

Yang Tao's purpose in coming to Wancheng was naturally to complete the cooperation reached with the Yin family. When he came to Wancheng, he successfully found the Yin family's location, a huge and prosperous courtyard.

Yang Tao, the head of the Yin family, and his group, welcomed the air and dust, which was quite good. However, an accident happened at this welcoming banquet, which caused Yang Tao to not have a full meal. Instead, he was driven out of the Yin family and found an inn in the city and lived there temporarily.

He drove Yang Tao and others out of the Yin family, but was Zhao Ci's subordinates. Yang Tao didn't know what happened at the beginning. After meeting the head of the Yin family several times, he understood the current situation in Wancheng City and the inside story of Zhao Ci's rebellion.

Zhao Ci was originally just a soldier under Qin Jie, the former governor of Nanyang County. He launched a rebellion with his soldiers and then reached such a scale. It would be impossible without the support of aristocratic families. After all, the most powerful force in the Three Kingdoms era was the powerful family. If it were not for the royal family and not among the powerful family, even if it was very capable, it would be difficult to rebel alone without the support of aristocratic families. Just like Guan Yu, Dian Wei can be regarded as a powerful figure. Although these people also killed officials, one of them eventually changed their name to flee to other places, and the other hid in the mountains and hid in the deep mountains before he dared to show up. It was not because their strength was insufficient, but because they did not have the support of aristocratic families.

Zhao Ci was able to conquer Nanyang as a soldier and openly rebelled in a short period of time. With his own abilities, he naturally had the participation of the powerful families.

In fact, Zhao Ci is a person introduced by the Nanyang family. Originally, such a person must be a chess piece in the hands of the powerful men of the Nanyang family. However, from the fact that Zhao Ci could drive Yang Tao and others out of the Yin family’s mansion, this chess piece was unwilling to be a chess piece with peace of mind.

It can also be said that the Nanyang family did not control Zhao Ci well. Perhaps Zhao Ci did not have much ambition at the beginning, but as more and more cities captured in Nanyang County, the more they got, the ambition continued to expand in this process, and eventually expanded to the point where he was unwilling to be a chess piece and wanted to be the master.

Therefore, two forces formed in Wancheng, and were competing with each other in secret. Although there was no open talk, civil strife would break out sooner or later. Yang Tao didn't care much about this, because in this case, the troops brought by Yang Tao became the target of winning over the two sides. It was precisely because of this reason that he had the scene of three days, one small banquet, five days and one big banquet in the past half month.

Yang Tao had no other intentions to win over the other side, and he had no intention of relying on Zhao Ci's side from beginning to end. Not to mention that he did not have the bad habit of betrayal that people despise, he had this bad habit. As long as Yang Tao was not a fool, he would not help Zhao Ci. The reason was naturally very simple, that was his status.

In essence, Zhao Ci and Nanyang’s aristocratic families and Yang Tao themselves are rebels, but there are also big differences among them. Take Yang Tao for example. He participated in the Yellow Turban Army and is now a member of the rebels from all over the Three Kingdoms, but he did not rebel openly. The same is true for the powerful families in Nanyang. Although these aristocratic families are indeed rebelling, they did not rebel openly, and Zhao Ci did the rebellion. Once Zhao Ci fails, these aristocratic families will be damaged, but will not be uprooted. This is also the reason why the Nanyang aristocratic families introduced Zhao Ci instead of rebelling themselves.

In contrast, Zhao Ci had no way out, so he would compete for aristocratic families because of his ambition, and secondly because he had no way out. If a person had no way out, he would naturally be more direct and rude in doing things.

Yang Tao would not choose Zhao Ci because Zhao Ci had no way out. Yang Tao didn't want to get on his broken ship that failed and even lost water everywhere. He was just a lie to him.

However, this is not a long-term solution. Sooner or later, Zhao Ci will lose patience. Yang Tao has to prepare some tricks just in case. Zhou Tai's naval army, who has not yet arrived in Wancheng, was one of them.
Chapter completed!