The official letter said what Han Gang said, that is, the matter of coming to Zhe Kexing. Moreover, from the format to the words, Han Gang was respected enough.

After reading the official letter, Huang Shang looked at Han Gang for a few more times, then smiled bitterly. He handed the official letter to Zhang Shi and sighed again. It seemed that Han Gang was not very happy to be humble in his manner.

Zhe Kexing was too cautious. In order not to make Han Gang feel chaotic, he would rather risk the overall situation to leave where he should be.

As a subordinate of Han Gang, Zhe Kexing came to see his superiors, which was a good reason. However, the main force of the Linfu Army was stationed in Shenwu County according to Han Gang's instructions to threaten the Liao people. His main general was to advance and retreat with the army, and the reasons were more sufficient.

Huang Shang couldn't help but want to say something.

Zhe Kexing has not been dealing with him before, and he should be very clear about his kindness. Even his brothers and brothers are highly valued, so why should he go this trip in person? If the major events in Shenwu are ruined, who should bear the responsibility?

Huang Shang has been following Han Gang for a long time, and he knows that although his benefactor is very cunning, his vision and insight are needless to say. Few people in the world can compare with each other and are very generous to their subordinates. Regardless of whether they are disguised or not, they will never have less talent to measure their importance. The overall situation is definitely in the form of humility and obedience. If he was in Han Qi's position in the old year, he would never have found an excuse to kill a military general who had made great achievements just to strengthen his authority.

Zhe Keda was a little uneasy. He was not a fool either. Han Gang was obviously dissatisfied with Zhe Kexing's behavior and rushed to Xinkou Village. He was even more dissatisfied with his son's behavior. This made him, the son, not do anything.

But Han Gang didn't say anything more about this. Before Zhe Kexing came out, he should have been prepared and the possibility of becoming the worst result was slim.

After inspecting the reserves of Xinkouzhai Grain Depot and the preparations for fire prevention, he encouraged the grain officials and the grain depot guards, and Han Gang and his party left the warehouse area located in the center of the military camp.

When he left the warehouse area, his purpose was to enter a large tent, which was the residence of the army. Only Han Gang and his commander's yamen used the reserved bricks and stones to repair the remaining ruins on the former site of the city yamen, and then moved in. It was not because the tent was bad, but because as the core of the city yamen with a crucial status, Zhizhaiyamen was a small fortress. Like the grain warehouse, they could be used as a stronghold for continued defense when the city was broken.

Hangang and his shogunate have similar treatments, and some shacks have borrowed some ruins that were not damaged in the fire, and then used bricks, stones or wet mud to fill the walls. However, those were not houses for people to live in, but stables. In the army at this time, war horses were always more expensive than people, and they ate more, and they received better treatment.

As for the people, most of them were arranged in villages near Xinkouzhai, and they also repaired the houses destroyed by the Liao people and moved in. Anyway, there were not many residents left, and no one came out to object.

Of course, it is also necessary to strengthen the arrangements for health and epidemic prevention, and the command department also organized a large number of manpower to re-drill wells to replace the water sources that were destroyed by the Liao people and local people themselves. Otherwise, with the current seasonal climate, large-scale epidemics will inevitably be triggered.

On the way back to the headquarters, Han Gang ordered Zhang Feng, who was in charge of common affairs, "Fuhou, according to the previous plan, speed up the delivery of the people near Xinkou Village to Xiurong and Dingxiang counties. The fields originally belonging to official property in the state and the fields that were determined to be closed will be allocated to these people. The time is not long left for replanting, and I will not wait any longer. If I am a little late, I will lose all my harvest this year."

"The official understands." Zhang Feng bowed and agreed solemnly.

It was already three months, and although I don’t know how much I can harvest after just rushing to replant it, I will definitely not get it if I don’t do it.

Some things are in Hangang's current position and have no power to intervene, such as replanting fields in various places in Hedong. After the war, this year and next two years will be a wasteland, but from the perspective of power, he can only transfer the local governments to supervise it. However, the scope of power is one thing, and the right to speak is another thing, otherwise the influence of those veterans who went out on the government will not be so great. Some words, as long as Hangang writes them in a private message or asks his staff to pass on a sentence, they will soon be followed by the local authorities.

"But except for Xiurong, Xinzhou, all the towns and villages were defeated by the thieves for many days. Thieves rose up and headed towards Dingxiang. There were many bandits hidden deep in Mount Wutai." Huang Shang reminded, "They were afraid of the power of the official army and the Sumihu Hu. However, once the people of Daizhou were arranged to settle the settlement, they would definitely be robbed by these thieves."

"He Zifang lets do things in Xinzhou. As for Taiyuan, if there is a king and a minister, he will work hard. I have issued an order in Taiyuan before, and now I will repeat it in Xinzhou. I will tell Xin that the two states of the country will only punish the thieves who plundered the local areas, and never ask about them."

The role of the official army is to protect the territory and safeguard the people, but the Liao army is the most important, so Hangang still handed over the bandit suppression matters to local prefectures and counties. Although the Liao army's invasion was very destructive, it was not long after all. For example, although Taiyuan and Xinzhou were looted by the Liao people, they had not had time to cause a large-scale civil unrest, Hangang led the official army to arrive.

The short time when the order was destroyed, there was no time for more good people to be transferred to thieves. That amount was indeed enough to be handed over to the local area, and it was better than Han Gang's own choice of people to deal with. Before, Han Gang sent people to deal with bandits near Xinkou Village, and the means used by sending a few people was very questionable.

Previously, Han Gang's subordinates dealt with captured bandits was very rough and violent. In Xinzhou and the controlled Daizhou territory, whenever the thieves were caught, they would be killed directly, and they were hung on the side of the road for people to visit. This made Han Gang very dislike. For nothing else, his subordinates didn't even think about preventing the epidemic, which was too unreasonable.

Zhe Keshi was riding on a horse at this time, looking around. He followed Zhe Kexing and headed south, and was soon attracted by the scenery on both sides of the road.

Just around the official road, two rows of tall poles were erected, and corpses were hung at the top of the poles. There were signs next to the corpses, with names, charges and execution time written on them. Although the characters were not very large, they could be easily matched and had a simple date of strokes on the road. They were all executed in the past few days.

‘It should be all thieves.’ Zhe Keshi thought. What kind of situation will the prefectures and counties become after the war can be predicted without thinking too much.

However, Zhe Keshi once served as a staff member of Han Gang, and always felt that doing so did not look like Han Gang's style.

These corpses should have been hanging on the roadside for a few days, and they have completely deformed and cannot see their original appearance. At this time, Jingzhe had passed, and balls of flies flew around in the air around the corpse. In a few days, you can see maggots crawling up and down on the rotten corpse.

But when I walked forward, I found a team of people cleaning up the bodies.

"How did you clean up?" Zhe Keshi was curious and sent his personal soldiers to ask. Generally speaking, these corpses specially displayed in public places in order to shock the little girl must be left for at least a few months and then cleaned up.

"I saw it for my husband." The team who knew that this team was of extraordinary origin and was sent out to do hard work told the truth, "The Lord of Privy Councilor said that he thought he was sick less in spring. He also said that the powerful thief who was executed should be dealt with and put the head on and his body burned directly!"

‘I have nothing to do, why hang the street lights!’

This is what Han Gang said. Of course, there is no street light at this time, but it is also appropriate to use the lanterns on the side of the road to understand it. After Han Gang's training, the matter that was committed must be corrected as soon as possible, but it happened to be seen by Zhe Kexing and Zhe Keishi.

After hearing the reward, Zhe Keshi immediately went up to report Zhe Ke's journey.

This meaningless cruelty is indeed something Hangang would not do. Before, whether in Jiaozhi or Shengzhou, Hangang acted more cruelly, but it was definitely not the kind of mediocre person who thought that as long as he showed his cruelty, he could deter the enemy.

Zhe Kexing also breathed a little relieved. The displays on both sides of the road were not because Han Gang was impatient, and he spread the anger that could not attack Daizhou quickly on the thieves who bumped into the sword and axe, but because of his subordinates' own actions.

Being able to remain calm shows that Hangang will not make any arrangements for the Zhe family.

"At the end of the day, I will go to the throne, and I will pay homage to the Privy Council!"

As soon as he entered Xinkou Village, Zhe Kexing got off his horse and followed the sent slaves to the headquarters of Hangang. After seeing Hangang, he immediately took the lead in the ceremony.

Han Gang immediately returned the greeting, "I'm so kind to observe."

Civil officials always have a condescending attitude when looking at military generals. But Hangang is crucial to the future of the Zhe family, so Zhe Kexing is unwilling to cause any unnecessary disagreement, but Hangang's attitude is indeed the same as the rumors.

The key to war is military, food, and salary, but the most important thing is the soldiers' trust in the commander. When these are abundant, morale will naturally arise.

There is no shortage of Hangang on this side—there are still some problems after the food and grass, but it is still abundant now. With him here, Xinkou Village is as stable as Mount Tai.

That's why Zhe Kexing took this point as his opening remark: "I wonder how the Privy Council is doing here?"

"The situation is not very good." Han Gang shook his head, "The Liao thief's far-drawn traps the horses are getting closer and closer. There have been many scouts sent out in the past two days, but less than 70% of them have returned."

"According to the horse detective, the situation of the Liao army fighting with them has also improved a lot." Huang Shang interrupted, "I don't know if it's better to raise it or if reinforcements came from Xijing Road."

"It may also be from Hebei." Han Gang added with a smile.

"How could it be Hebei?! Isn't Yelu Yixin stalemate with Guo Shumi?" Zhe Kexing was exhausted, and at this moment, his mind was just a mess. Without thinking too much, he blurted out his words.

Huang Shang shook his head: "It's time to fight this, and there will be no breakthrough on the front line. As long as the Daizhou is stabilized by heavy troops, at least we can still maintain the current gains."

If he could not break through the Hebei defense line, the Liao army's focus would probably be on firmly defending the current results. Yelu Yixin defeated Li Xin under Yizhou City, which allowed him to regain the initiative in Hebei, and he could also free up his hands and send some elite troops to Hedong. This is the common understanding between Han Gang and his aides.

From Xinkouzhai to Daizhou, it is a basin with a relatively small area. For the Khitan cavalry, this basin is still a little narrow, but it has more room for maneuver than being in the valley.

"Although I tried my best along the way, as long as I don't win Daizhou for a day, the result will be just unqualified."

"But since Privy Council has obtained a man, Daizhou City will probably be able to be recaptured soon."

If people have lost their land, they will gain them. If people have lost their land, they will lose them. If people have lost their land, they will lose them. This is indeed what Hangang sent people to Zhe Kexing.

"It's still far from it. Since the beginning of the war, Hedong has never fought a decent battle. Even Taigu County has only taken advantage of the Liao army from afar. I think no one will really think that the Beilu retreated to Daizhou because they lost confidence after a crushing defeat."

Although the Liao army invaded Hedong was exhausted for a long battle and the number of horses died, their troops did not lose too much. In the previous battle of Taigu, the number of beheadings was really insignificant for this comprehensive war between the two world-class top powers that connect thousands of miles and connect.

In addition to the reinforcements transferred from Xijing Road and reinforcements rushed from Hebei, the enemies Hangang will face are likely to be more than twice as high as before.

Moreover, the result of Daizhou was the last trump card of negotiations with the Song Dynasty. Without Daizhou, Yelu Yixin had no basic exchange conditions. Under the strict order of His Highness Shangfu, Xiao Shisan tried his best to protect Daizhou.

"It is very likely that the Liao army did not want to fight to the death with the official army, but to save the current gains."

The mountain pass where Xinkou Village is located is both mountains from east to west, Daizhou to the north, and Xinzhou to the south. The mountain pass is 17 miles wide.

However, in order to ensure the stability of Xinkou Village and the lack of interruption of traffic with Shenwu County, Hangang had sent a vanguard to station in Dong County [now Yuanping City North]. From Dong County and then to Daizhou, the number of Liao people blocked their horses was increasing.

Hangang and Zhekexing were completely convinced that once they began to march towards Daizhou City, they would immediately bring crazy attacks from the Liao army. In that case, if there were not enough troops, it would be impossible to even maintain the supply line.

But if you don't attack, Yelu Yixin will get what you want in the end.

"But the court..."

"Don't worry."

Han Gang took a sip of tea and didn't care. In the capital, some people were talking to him.

"What we need to do is just how to fight the battle to recover Daizhou!"
Chapter completed!