Outside Longmen Pass, tens of thousands of rebel troops were fighting fiercely with five thousand Red Preparations.

Under the banner of the Breaking Army, Tian Jianxiu stood on a horse and used a telescope to observe the battlefield from time to time.

The Chi Bei Army was very elite, but the number was too small, and it would not take long before he could recapture Longmen Pass.

Gao Huan was so cunning that he actually came from Ruzhou. Fortunately, the main force had not arrived, otherwise he would have easily scored into Heluo.

At this time, the army was fighting fiercely, and the shouts of killing soared into the sky. A team of rebels was about to rush to the foot of the city and attacked upwards along the foot.

"Okay!" Tian Jianxiu couldn't help but squeal, and then ordered loudly, "Go up another thousand archers and cover the soldiers to rush forward."

As he was talking, the south side of Longmen Pass suddenly clashed with horns, and the sound of clamor came over.

The morale of the Chi Bei army, who was fighting fiercely, was greatly boosted, but the Chuang army looked at each other.

"Report! General, Gao Huan led a large army from Yichuan!" A general invaded hurriedly reported.

Tian Jianxiu's face darkened when he heard the words. After a while, he couldn't help but pull out the reins of the horse. He was upset and ordered, "Retreat to Luoyang!"

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On May 20th, the southern suburbs of Luoyang.

The King of Chuang is the King of Chuang, and the King of Chuang is not responsible for food when he comes.

After the rebel army occupied Luoyang, except for the first time, they did not collect large-scale food from the people.

At present, the money and food of the Chuangjun are mainly robbing the income of large households. Because the local government has not yet established a complete administrative system, taxes are naturally not levied.

When levying taxes on a village, you must first know how many households there are in this village, how many populations each household has, how much land it is, how thin the land is, and where it is.

If the trespasser army does not know this information, the villager will definitely conceal the population and the fields. The county can even say that the villagers run away and the fields are abandoned.

This is also the reason why Gao Huan must re-create yellow books and fish scale pictures after occupying prefectures and counties.

Because the trespassing army had no ability to control the place, they realized their promise of not collecting taxes in disguise.

Of course, the reason is that there is no administrative ability to collect taxes is that if you are hit by a treasury army and there happens to be food in the village, you will naturally have to pay it.

Taxes are drawn from the harvest, maintaining the operation of the government, and the remaining people use them themselves, but this kind of remittance is basically all snatched away.

However, the rebels mainly gathered in Luoyang and generally did not go to the countryside, so some people still would not be robbed or even lived a life without management or tax disputes.

After the scrupulous army in the countryside, the vassal kings and landlords were executed, and some people who survived the war and famine began to cultivate the vassal land privately.

As the population decreases and land resources increase, and with no government intervention, local governments are slowly recovering.

At this time, in the southern suburbs of Luoyang, a group of ragged people, some old and young, climbed up the trees and picked mulberries in a mulberry forest.

Now at the end of May and the beginning of June, it is the time when the green and yellow are not gathering. Before the wheat in the fields has matured, the people can only pick wild fruits and eat wild vegetables.

At this time, in the forest, children climbed up trees to pick them, and the elderly used dustpans to hold them carefully.

These mulberry fruits are very sweet and sour, and are simply delicious. The children pick and eat them. At this moment, the children on the tree suddenly shouted: "Grandma! There are soldiers!"

The people under the tree heard this and said in a daze: "What soldier?"

The children who were picking mulberries were already scared. On the road not far away, there were dense soldiers walking from south to north like a long dragon.

A team of scouts seemed to find an abnormality in the forest and had already entered the forest.

At this time, the people in the forest also discovered abnormalities and saw soldiers and horses passing by.

"I'm over the army! Hurry up!" The people were so scared that their teeth trembled.

The adults hurriedly shouted that the children would come down from the trees, and then ran away, trying to find a place to hide.

Nowadays, in the reflection of the people, whether it is the rebel army or the official army, it is a disaster for them. They fight back and forth, and the sufferings are all the people.

At this time, a group of people, afraid of being plundered, pulled the strong men and ran in the woods, and the army behind them had already caught up.

"Stop, don't run!" A scout shot an arrow and landed in front of the people, "Run and shoot people!"

A few young men fled into the depths of the woods, and the remaining young and old were so scared that they remained still.

The scouts of the autonomous army caught up with him, with a bad face, and looked around the people.

A scout picked up the mulberries from the dustpan and presented them to the officer in charge. The officer glanced at him and breathed out. He thought he was a scout in the rebel army, but he didn't expect that it was a group of people picking wild fruits.

"What are you doing, what are you running?" the officer said angrily.

The old man in the lead whispered: "When I see the soldiers, there is no one who won't run away!"

When the officer heard this, he waved his hand and asked his subordinates to put them away. However, after looking at the mulberries in the dustpan, he asked again: "Is this what you picked?"

The old man plucked up his courage and said, "Mr. Jun wants to eat, just take it away, and just beg for mercy to us."

The chief officer took out a bag of dry food and threw it to the old man, and said in a deep voice: "We are the Central Plains Autonomous Army, not bandits, I won't want you for nothing!"

After saying that, the officer left some dry food and led his subordinates away.

The old man picked up the dry food, the rural civilians, but they didn't know what the Central Plains Autonomous Army was. Seeing the soldiers walking away, they couldn't help but look confused.

At this time, on the official road, the autonomous army advanced towards Luoyang. Xu Heihu rushed over and handed Gao Huan a handful of mulberries, "Supervisor, taste it!"

Gao Huan was indeed thirsty and took it with a smile, "Where did it come from?"

Xu Heihu said: "Just just now, my brothers discovered a group of people. They originally thought they were scouts of the rebel army, but they were hungry people who were talented and so they asked them to get it!"

Gao Huan ate one and made saliva from his mouth, "Did you pay?"

"Don't worry, the governor, the brothers all know discipline and do not take the masses one needle and one thread. They are exchanged for rations!" After Xu Heihu said that, he stuffed it into his mouth.

Gao Huan nodded and said seriously: "Any military and law are all done by soldiers that harm the people!"

At this time, the autonomous army marched towards Luoyang, while the rebel army was quickly shrinking towards Luoyang as the autonomous army approached.

Gao Huan rushed into Heluo, and Tian Jianxiu could only defend Luoyang and wait for reinforcements from the rebel army.

Since the rebel army occupied Luoyang, Tian Jianxiu has been quite kind to the people around Luoyang and is trying to transform the rebel army from mobile combat to local governance.

Tian Jianxiu changed the Luoyang area, and the rebel army plundered the people instead, and encouraged the people to farm and no longer robbed the people.

However, Gao Huan led a large army to kill, which forced Tian Jianxiu to change his strategy and ordered the rebel army to go to nearby villages and towns, and force the people to help with their wages.

There is no way, the key to defending Luoyang is food.

At this time, in a town, a team of trespassers rushed into the town and forced the people to hand over the food, causing chaos in the area. I don’t know how many people secretly cursed the trespassers and would not die well!

"Emperor, what should I do? That's all!" A rebel army came over to report with a big cart.

The captain looked at the truck of grain not yet full, "Continue to search, no grain is left behind!"

The soldiers of the rebel army were in a little embarrassed. The people were too poor. One person said, "Prince, forget it! The people's rations have been searched."

"I can't collect it all, how can I get the job done when I go back?" The commander shouted in a deep voice and waved his hand: "Search!"

As soon as he finished speaking, an abnormal noise came from outside the village.

"What's the sound?" the soldiers looked at each other.

But the commander suddenly exclaimed, "No, it's the sound of hooves, there are horse soldiers!"

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