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Nine hundred and fiftieth IX The trend of starting a prairie fire

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    "Empire Hegemony" Chapter 959

    Frozen three feet is not a day's cold. In order to maintain a large number of mighty troops, King Ning had to increase the taxes and corvees of the people in the territory.

    Because King Ning has a huge mighty army under his command, facing heavy taxes and government servants, the people are struggling in dire straits, but dare not speak out when they dare to be angry.

    After all, if anyone dares to resist, then his head must be hard to protect, so most of them are silently enduring.

    Without the intervention of external forces, under the awe of powerful military forces, King Ning could still maintain his rule in Luyang Province.

    However, with the massive attack of the Qinghe army, the balance maintained by King Ning has been broken.

    Especially when King Ning dispatched all the troops from various prefectures and counties to the front line to face the Qinghe army, all the prefectures and counties suddenly became extremely empty.

    When King Ning's compulsory recruitment order was issued to various prefectures, counties, villages and towns, it immediately aroused strong dissatisfaction among the people.

    In the past, dissatisfaction was just complaining, and eventually one had to obey orders, but this time it was different.

    Those secret agents of the Qinghe Army who were active in Luyang Province and the intelligence personnel of the rebel army all fanned the flames one after another, encouraging the people to disobey King Ning's order.

    The common people have long been unbearable, so under the instigation of these people, they immediately took positive and substantive actions.

    In Feixi County in the west of Luyang Province, the county magistrate immediately conveyed the order to the villages and towns after receiving the call-up order from King Ning.

    But the next day, the magistrate of Feixi County found that, except for 500 young men from more than a dozen villages who arrived in the county on time to gather and listen to the order, most of the villages and towns did not respond.

    "Send someone to ask what's going on! Why didn't you assemble on time?!"

    If you can't complete the order given by the admiral in the mansion, it will affect your promotion evaluation, so the magistrate of Feixi County naturally dare not be sloppy, and hastily sent someone to inquire.

    The person he sent to inquire soon returned and truthfully reported what he had found.

    "Master County Magistrate, the bridge in Xiaowangzhuang is broken and it is difficult to pass through. They are repairing the bridge."

    "Min Zhuang from Zhangjia Town heard that they were going to fight, and now they have all fled to the woods. The mayor is taking a group of chiefs to arrest them."

    "Min Zhuang from Wujia Village went hunting in the mountains and hasn't come back yet."

    Although the common people disobeyed King Ning's order, they did not dare to make a big show of confrontation, and most of them adopted delaying tactics.

    After all, they are unarmed common people. If King Ning really sent troops to conquer them, they are not the Qinghe army, and they will definitely suffer heavy casualties.

    The county magistrate of Feixi County also turned pale with anger when faced with the various reasons reported from below.

    "Go and tell those town chiefs, village chiefs, village chiefs and Jia chiefs, if you don't bring people over in the afternoon, they don't have to do it!"

    The county magistrate was very angry, and he also issued death orders to the heads of the villages and towns, asking them to recruit civilians and go to the front line as soon as possible. After all, the front line military situation is urgent.

    The order of the county magistrate was conveyed quickly, but the people wanted to delay the confrontation wholeheartedly, and the town chiefs and village chiefs had no choice.

    After all, King Ning's rule only involved the county level at the lowest level, and almost all the villages and towns were selected to be in charge of those who were highly respected or famous.

    Now most of the common people are not cooperating, and they, the dignified figures in the countryside, naturally cannot speak well.

    Moreover, they are locals, and they pay more attention to their own interests. If all the people are taken away, who will farm for them?

    Therefore, those people in various villages and towns are not willing to let Min Zhuang go to the battlefield. Apart from worrying about being poked in the back, they also have their own little calculations.

    Just when the county magistrate of Feixi County was helpless and was about to personally go to various villages and towns to forcibly arrest the people, someone came to inform him.

    "Master County Magistrate, there are traitors secretly instigating the people to disobey."

    The informer was a squire who supported King Ning, so he naturally knew why Min Zhuang was unwilling to take orders.

    After hearing the news, the county magistrate of Feixi County was also furious. After a long time, it turned out that there was a villain.

    "Summon the three classes of yamen servants, and follow me to catch the traitors!"

    The county magistrate of Feixi County immediately summoned the only armed forces in the county and rushed to the countryside to arrest the mastermind behind the scenes.

    However, the magistrate of Feixi County did not?Thinking of it, the informant itself was just a plan against him.

    When he led the yamen servants out of the city in a mighty way, there was already a rebel army of more than a hundred people waiting in line on their only way.

    When the county magistrate of Feixi County walked into the encirclement, more than a hundred fierce rebels rushed out suddenly. The servants who were caught off guard suffered heavy casualties, and the county magistrate was also beheaded on the spot.

    This group of rebels belonged to the Qinghe Army's independent Third Banner Regiment behind enemy lines, and their banner leader was Du Xiaoniu.

    When the two banner chiefs Zhou Ting and Tang Ping led the troops to Yingzui Peak to assist the main force in fighting, he stayed in the place to restrain them.

    Du Xiaoniu saw that the mighty army garrisons in various prefectures and counties were urgently transferred away, and saw the emptiness of the place, so he also had a bold plan, which was to light a fire and occupy these areas.

    However, Du Xiaoniu only has more than 5,000 people under his command, so it is unrealistic to occupy various prefectures and counties in a short period of time.

    So he scattered all the soldiers under his command, and went to various places in units of centurions, letting them act alone.

    Fortunately, in order to avoid encirclement and suppression in the enemy's rear, these troops sometimes gathered together and sometimes fell into pieces, and they already had the ability to stand alone.

    They also know that this is a good opportunity to make meritorious deeds. If they win the battle and make meritorious deeds, they can also find a good position after the arrival of the large army.

    Therefore, the small units of the rebel army scattered in various places are also actively exerting their subjective initiative in anticipation of achieving greater results.

    The centurion rebel army operating in Feidong County lured the county magistrate out of the city, ambushed and killed him, and immediately rushed to various villages and towns with the head of the county magistrate.

    Seeing that the county magistrate was killed by the rebel army, the common people also saw the strength of the rebel army, so they supported the rebel army one after another.

    In addition, the rebel army also played the banner of the Qinghe Army in time. Before, they had publicized the good policy of the Qinghe Army openly and secretly, so they immediately gathered thousands of people.

    Hundreds of people will assign the veterans under their command to be officers, and immediately pull up a team, marching towards the county seat of Feixi County.

    The county magistrate in the county seat was killed, and those dignitaries and some officials who were stranded also fled after hearing that the rebel army of more than a thousand people had killed them.

    In just two days, this Qinghe army behind the enemy beheaded the county magistrate and occupied Feixi County.

    The surrounding areas also followed suit. Instead of enlisting civilians to support the front line, the local officials fled for their lives one after another. Suddenly, a large area of ??the western part of Luyang Province fell into the hands of the Qinghe Army's Independent Third Banner Regiment.

    Du Xiaoniu and the others occupied five counties and large areas in just a few days, and connected these areas into one.

    Du Xiaoniu was not satisfied with occupying these areas. After tasting the sweetness, groups of soldiers from the Independent Third Banner Regiment infiltrated into other areas overnight and started their plan.

    The house leak coincided with the continuous night rain, and at the critical moment of the Qinghe army's attack, the backyard of Luyang Province caught fire. When King Ning got several counties in the western region and was captured, he was also furious.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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