Wei Baoluan, the prefect of Jiyin County, retreated to Jiyang City, and tried his best to guard the Ancient Jue and Jiyin line. At the same time, 100,000 people rushed to the eastern capital and asked for help from the surrounding Xingyang, Dongjun and Liangjun.

Both the Yin Ju and Jiyang are on the north bank of the Jishui River, and are both important western towns in Jiyin County. Among them, Yin Ju is only a few dozen miles away from Jiyin City, which cannot withstand the attack of the Rebel Alliance. Jiyang is more than 100 miles away from Jiyin City. Such a long distance can effectively buffer. However, Jiyin County currently has only one regiment of Yingyangwei, and dozens of village clan groups withdrawn from the large and small towns of Ji and He. There are only more than 1,000 people in total. Even if they are all in Jiyang, they cannot withstand the attack of the Rebel Alliance.

However, once Jiyang falls, the situation in Gyeonggi will become serious, and the safety of the Dahe and Tongji Canal will be seriously threatened.

From Jiyang to the west, you will enter the territory of Dongjun and Liangjun. The boundary line between these two counties is the Jishui River. Then, you will enter the territory of Xingyang for more than a hundred miles west. Once you enter the territory of Xingyang, the first thing you encounter is the natural barrier defense line surrounding the Great Jingji Capital. Around this defense line less than a hundred miles north is the river, and the Tongji Canal is the Tongji Canal after dozens of miles south.

Wei Baoluan retreated directly to Jiyang, which was to threaten Xingyang, Dongjun and Liangjun, forcing them to send troops to seek help if the rebel army had always burned, killed and looted in Jiyin County, of course, these three counties could stand by and watch, and they were not at work, and they would stand high. However, once the rebel army captured Jiyang and killed the defense line along the Jishui River, they would inevitably burn the war into the three counties at the same time. At that time, the three counties were passive. In the end, even if they defeated the rebel army without any danger, how could the emperor and the center be willing to let them go easily? "The culprit" Wei Baoluan could not escape the blame, and the chiefs of the three counties could not survive.

Wei Baoluan had a good plan, but the development of the situation was much beyond his expectations. He had just taken a breath in Jiyang when he received the latest news that after the white-haired thief captured Jiyin City, he immediately opened the warehouse and released grain to provide relief to the victims.

Wei Baoluan knew very well how much food was in the warehouse in Jiyin. Last year, due to the flood, the grain was seriously underpaid, and it could not meet the needs of the Eastern Expedition at all. He had no choice but to call in stocks. However, this was at the cost of giving up disaster relief. The abandonment of disaster relief directly led to a large number of deaths of the victims, the fields were deserted, the conflicts between officials and the people intensified, and the rise of traitors. This led to a serious underpaid summer grain this year again. However, the needs of the Eastern Expedition still need to be guaranteed, and for this reason, all the warehouses had to be consumed. Therefore, as for the current storage of grain in the warehouse, if it is only for tens of thousands of thieves to eat, it can last for a period of time. However, if it is used to provide relief to the victims, it will be a drop in the bucket and will be gone in an instant.

The victims are now like hungry wolves, irrational. You close the city gates and refuse to provide relief, cut off their hopes and put them to death, but instead you can save yourself. On the contrary, you open the city gates and take relief, giving them hope, but then because the food is gone and there is no relief, and putting them in a desperate place will inevitably arouse their anger, and the result is disastrous.

The white-haired thief was crazy, and the thief was crazy. He was too stupid. He tied himself up and destroyed himself. After hearing this news, Wei Baoluan's first reaction was to gloat. No matter what the purpose of opening a warehouse and releasing grain was, whether it was pity and sympathy, gaining the name of benevolence and righteousness, or winning the hearts of the people, they were extremely unwise measures, and they were simply overestimating their abilities.

Why did the white-haired thief take this worst strategy in a good situation? Is sympathy flooded? Or did he lose his mind and forget it? Or did he have other plans? After gloating, Wei Baoluan couldn't help but think deeply. After this deep thought, he suddenly realized that the problem was serious. He had to jump over the wall if he was anxious, let alone those vicious thieves. Once the food was gone and he fell into a desperate situation, they of course had to continue attacking and burning, killing and looting. Those victims who had completely lost their minds and were aroused by the treacherous thieves would follow him. In this way, hundreds of thousands or even millions of crazy people would emerge overnight on both sides of the Jishui River. They were like a flood that broke the dike, causing shocking waves, drowning everything, devouring everything, and destroying everything.

The devil, the white-haired thief, is a devil who rushed out of hell. Under his control, the Central Plains will usher in a terrible bloody storm, and countless creatures will be wiped out in this storm.

Jiyang could not defend it anymore. Wei Baoluan fell into despair and terror, and once again went to the eastern capital and asked for help from the three surrounding counties. The white-haired thief opened his warehouse and released grain. He stood at the peak of morality and won the trust and expectations of all the victims. He exchanged limited food for an infinite army, and the situation in the Central Plains was taking a sharp turn.

Wei Baoluan's estimate of the situation was already very pessimistic, but the deterioration rate of the situation far exceeded his expectations. Only one night, evil news came and the wrongful words fell. The rebels rushed towards Jiyang with countless victims like roaring floods.

Also receiving this news were Zhai Rang and Wagang Zhuxiong.

About dozens of miles north of Jiyang City is the old path of the Yellow River. There is a manor here, and the owner of the manor is Jiyang Haowang Wang Yaohan and Wang Bo became his brothers.

Since Li Fengyun commanded the Southwest Rebel Alliance to enter the Central Plains west, Zhai Rang and Wagang Zhuxiong realized that the situation in Henan would deteriorate sharply, and the Dongdu army was very likely to leave Beijing to suppress the rebellion. The official army would also be very strict with the garrison of Tongji Canal and Dahe River. The living environment of the Wagang Army would become worse and worse. So he decisively evacuated the front line of Tongji Canal and secretly gathered in the old Yellow River path between Dongjun and Jiyin County, and was active in Wagang, Kuangcheng and Jiyang areas to deal with sudden changes in the situation at any time.

The Wagang people were very angry about the act of the rebel army in southwestern Shandong to attack the Central Plains. It was not only because the Qi people had too long hands and had crossed the boundary, which had seriously threatened their survival, but also burned the war to Henan, bringing a terrible disaster to the Henan people, especially those innocent victims struggling on the line of life and death.

The Eastern Expedition will inevitably win. This is the consensus of the Wagang people. From this consensus to deduce the future situation, it is not difficult to see that once the expeditionary army returns to suppress the rebellion and suppress the thieves, the Wagang people, as Henan thieves who directly affect the safety of the capital, will definitely be the key target of the official army's suppression. Therefore, Zhai Rang never dared to raise the flag to rebel publicly. Even if the disaster spreads and the starvation is everywhere, he gritted his teeth and insisted on plundering the Tongji Canal to save the victims. Although this does not help alleviate the disaster and cannot save hundreds of thousands or even millions of victims, it can win the "good feelings" of the government and local forces and establish a certain degree of "tacity". This "tacity" is the most basic condition for Zhai Rang and the Wagang people to struggle to survive when the expeditionary army returns to carry out large-scale rebellion.

However, Zhai Rang and Wagang Zhuxiong's vision for the future were smashed by Li Fengyun and the Southwest Shandong Rebel Alliance, which made them furious, especially when they received the news that Li Fengyun opened a warehouse and released grain in Jiyin, they were even more angry and wanted to remove Li Fengyun from the bottom of the box.

From the government's standpoint, Li Fengyun is a thief. Everything Li Fengyun snatched away is a stolen goods, and any person who shares the stolen goods is also a thief. The disaster victims are good people, but as long as they accept Li Fengyun's relief, it is equivalent to sharing the stolen goods. Their identity will quickly turn from a good citizen into a thief, and they are also an unforgivable traitor. Hundreds of thousands of disaster victims have turned into hundreds of thousands of traitors. Then the east will never provide relief, and the local government will no longer give any sympathy. The official army will raise the weapons in its hands and kill unscrupulously, and kill with peace of mind and righteousness, because they are all thieves that everyone can kill.

Li Fengyun's opening of warehouses and grains morally, from the perspective of the disaster victims, he was doing good deeds and reliance on disaster relief. However, from the perspective of the government, he was a crime from the law. He not only killed people and robbed people, destroyed social stability, but also dragged countless kind and ignorant disaster victims down, putting countless innocent people to death, and his crime was extremely evil and unforgivable.

The people of Wagang have reason to believe that Li Fengyun's move was intentional. He was too cruel and intended to use innocent victims to charge for him and make meaningless sacrifices.

The food in the Jiyin warehouse was very limited, and it was even difficult to maintain the combat needs of the rebel army. In other words, Li Fengyun actually did not have the conditions to open a warehouse and release grain at all. However, in order to continue to attack the Central Plains and expand his army without restrictions, he used the warehouse to release grain to win the hearts of the people of Henan disaster victims, and then deceived hundreds of thousands of disaster victims to rebel with him, burn, kill and loot together. The final result must be that Li Fengyun exchanged the bones of Henan people for his survival.

Zhai Rang was angry, but the facts already existed. Anger had no meaning and could not solve any problem. The most urgent thing at the moment was to find countermeasures, do your best to reverse the situation, and do your best to save more innocent creatures.

"Ming Gong, now there is no other way to raise the flag." Bing Yuanzhen's expression was serious, and his tone was unquestionable. "For the reputation of Ming Gong in Henan, as long as he raises the flag and climbs the high place, he will respond. Only in this way can Ming Gong gather the most Henan people under Wagang in the shortest time and protect the Henan people to the greatest extent. Otherwise, let alone those victims, even we Wagang people will be swallowed up by the storm caused by Li Fengyun."

"What problem can raise the flag solve?" Wang Ruxin shook his head and sighed, "What should we do after the Eastern Expedition of the Guards returned to the Central Plains? Take a step back and say that even if we formed an alliance with Li Fengyun, fought side by side with the Qi people, and persevered, but because the war swept across Henan and the natural disasters, the population dropped sharply and the fields were barren. By then, we had strong enemies outside and no food and grass inside. How can we survive the winter? Next year, where will we look for food?"

Wang Ruxin's view is very realistic. As for the current situation in Henan, if you want to save the people, you can only rely on the support of Dongdu. Although Dongdu has the intention to use natural disasters to attack local forces in Henan, it will never allow the disaster to worsen, resulting in the devastation of life and morally falling into a dilemma of being surrounded by enemies. Therefore, Henan people always place their last hope in Dongdu and the government.
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