Receiving Qin Jie's approval made the players present extremely excited.
After all, the power of the middle and high-level people is now firmly controlled by these aristocratic families.
Even if you want to be an official in the imperial court, you must have a background from a noble family.
Although Shichangshi sold a number of official positions, there are some shortcomings.
One is that the number of official positions is too small. Not only the player community needs them, but also other powerful families are rushing to grab them. The competition is very fierce.
Second, the price of official positions is too expensive, and ordinary people really cannot afford it.
Third, most official positions are just in name only and do not have much real effect. They are simply useless.
As for the promise given by Qin Jie, it is much better to buy an official position.
Because as long as you occupy the territory, you can legitimately become a local official. These are official positions with real power.
Once you win a city, you can become the city lord.
If you win a county, you can become the county magistrate, and other officials in the county can make their own decisions.
This temptation is really too great and no one can refuse it.
Especially for players, there are only a handful of people who can become local officials.
In the late Han Dynasty, when troubled times were approaching, it was much better to be a local official than to be an official in the imperial court.
Even as a player group, it is extremely necessary to occupy a territory as a base for development.
Although players have the authority to build villages.
However, if you want to develop a village into a town and then reach the size of a city, a lot of time and materials need to be invested.
Building a city requires the strength of the entire guild.
Even so, these built villages and large cities are still under the jurisdiction of local governments, and are often exploited and collected various taxes at every turn.
Even one's own territory is within the jurisdiction of the government, and some matters must be obeyed by the government's arrangements.
Otherwise, I will give you some small shoes to wear and cause all kinds of trouble.
If things get serious, I'll arrange a name for you as a rebel.
Therefore, it would be best if you could become an official yourself.
Nowadays, the imperial court has less and less control over local areas. As long as you become a county magistrate, you are the real emperor.
How could players not understand this?
Moreover, only by becoming an official and occupying a territory can you have the opportunity to compete with the aristocratic families and have the qualifications to survive in troubled times.
As Qin Jie's various preferential policies were released, they immediately aroused the support of countless player forces and aristocratic families, who mobilized troops and prepared to attack more than 20 counties controlled by Zhang Mancheng.
You know, these more than twenty counties are equivalent to twenty county magistrates and hundreds of city lords.
During the rebellion in Pingyun County, fighting for the ownership of a city can cause countless players to compete.
What's more, it is now such a large piece of land, equivalent to the area of dozens of Pingyun counties.
Also, for players who join the imperial camp, even if they defeat the Yellow Turban Army, they can only obtain some merit resources and so on.
Unlike the players in the Yellow Turban camp, who are qualified to burn, kill and plunder. After occupying the city, they can become their own king.
Even if the players from the imperial camp captured the city from the Yellow Turban Army, they usually had to hand it over to the local government or the imperial court.
As soon as the news spread, it immediately attracted the enthusiasm of countless players to join.
"This is the government's counterattack!"
Qin Yuan also received the news overnight, and was a little surprised.
Although Qin Jie's move, like the imperial court, gave up many rights.
Even after Nanyang County is recaptured, many local tyrants will be born, and they will be divided into separate areas, making it difficult to control.
But I have to admit that this is currently the most effective way to defeat the Nanyang Yellow Turban Army.
After all, the strength of the government alone is extremely limited, and it is difficult to destroy the Nanyang Yellow Turban Army.
However, if the powerful families and player forces are integrated, the scale will be extremely terrifying.
You know, these two groups are the largest and most terrifying.
Don't look at the current fierce fighting between the Yellow Turban camp and the imperial camp, with hundreds of millions of troops invested.
However, the power that players all over the world, as well as the deep-rooted noble class, can exert is enough to overthrow the entire Han Dynasty.
Like the player group, not to mention the territory they occupy and the aboriginal soldiers under their command.
They alone have a number of more than one billion.
The combined strength of the two opposing camps of Julu Guangzong is only 400 million.
Not to mention the power of the noble class. They control most of the world's resources. Even the combined power of all players is no match for them.
Of course, the only good thing is that these two groups exist scattered and are not a unified group.
Most players exist independently as individuals.
And even guild players are divided into various guilds, and there is competition between them.
The same goes for the gentry class.
They control a lot of power and wealth, but there are competitions and conflicts between them.
After all, the cake in the world is only so big, and it has already been divided.
Especially for some rising stars, it is difficult for them to obtain some big resources.
And if you want to get more benefits, you can only turn over the table, disrupt everything, and redistribute.
"That's good news!"
"Originally, we needed to take the initiative to attack the Nanyang government army!"
"Now, we just need to stick to this and wait for them to come to our door!"
Li Cunxiao said with a smile. "It is estimated that the Nanyang army will attack us in the next two days!"
Although they are not afraid of fighting tough battles, it is still relatively difficult to attack the city, and it is not always possible.
Therefore, even if they do not engage in a defensive battle, if they engage in a battle with the opponent, this is very beneficial to them.
Especially the troops coming for reinforcements this time are all cavalry.
It is very advantageous to fight on plains like the south.
It can be said that as long as the government army sends as many troops as possible, they can destroy as many troops as they can.
Just like on the battlefield in Jizhou area.
Li Cunxiao led a million cavalrymen to wreak havoc on the entire battlefield, killing all 10 million enemy troops scattered on the battlefield in one day.
And if you want to attack a city and kill 10 million defenders, it is not difficult at all.
"It seems that the news of our coming to Nanyang has not been leaked!"
"Otherwise, the strategic strategy of the Nanyang government army should be to switch from offense to defense!"
"But this is good, as we can annihilate the effective forces of the government army faster!"
"Otherwise we have to attack the city every time, which is indeed a problem!"
Qin Yuan nodded slightly.
They have only one way to attack the city now, and that is to use Li Cunxiao's celestial phenomena to break the city's protective formation and wall defenses.
But after all, the combat effectiveness of Li Cunxiao alone is limited.
And this efficiency is really too slow.
Once the government army found out, they could adopt a war of attrition and use cities to consume Li Cunxiao's combat power, thereby achieving the purpose of delaying the tactics.
On the other hand, once the news about Qin Yuan in Nanyang is exposed, it will cause changes in the overall situation.
The imperial camp will definitely counterattack.
The enemies we will face then are not just the Nanyang government’s army.
After discussions with Zhang Mancheng, both of them decided to postpone the battle plan.
In the following days, no fighting broke out in Nanyang.
But the atmosphere of approaching storm is becoming more and more solemn.
After these days of planning, the aristocratic families and player forces have assembled a large number of troops.
Originally Qin Jie only needed three million troops to help him.
But now it seems that the number mentioned at the beginning was still too conservative.
When the number of all reinforcements was reported, once calculated, it actually reached as many as five million.
It can be said that the number of troops in the imperial camp in Nanyang now reaches 10 million.
This is a very scary number.
Such a force is enough to defeat the Yellow Turban Army entrenched in Nanyang.
Of course, gathering so many troops is not without cost.
Naturally, it goes without saying much about military expenses, after all, most of them are dispatched from other counties.
In addition, the Yellow Turban Army outside Nanyang began to revive and took the opportunity to cause trouble.
After all, all the troops from surrounding government officials were transferred to Nanyang, and the pressure on the Yellow Turban Army in other places was much less, and they even sounded the clarion call for counterattack.
Especially in the past few days, Zhang Mancheng has not been idle. Instead, he has used his power to notify the Yellow Turban Army scattered throughout Jingzhou, allowing them to seize this rare opportunity.
And as long as the Yellow Turban Army in Nanyang can withstand this wave of offensive, the imperial court will definitely suffer heavy losses.
By then, not only will Nanyang not be captured, but the Yellow Turban Army in various parts of Jingzhou will grow again.
With the exception of Jingzhou, the Yellow Turban Army began to work intensively to confront the government troops.
In addition to taking the opportunity to expand their territory, they also wanted to consider Zhang Mancheng and reduce the pressure on the other party.
After all, they still fully recognize Zhang Mancheng as a leader.
In addition, it was the Nanyang Yellow Turban Army that attracted most of the firepower, which prevented the local government from taking care of these little minions.
If Zhang Mancheng is destroyed, the next target will definitely be them.
The two sides are in a relationship of mutual dependence for survival.
Boom boom boom!
Rumble!
On this day, millions of troops poured out of Xinye City and began to advance towards Chaoyang County.
This was the first time since the struggle against the Nanyang Yellow Turban Army that the imperial camp sent out such a large-scale army for attack.
Qin Jie made such a sacrifice and summoned a large number of reinforcements, which was naturally not in vain.
He is bound to defeat the Yellow Turban Army led by Zhang Mancheng and retake Nanyang County.
In this way, he can be regarded as the legitimate governor of Nanyang.
Instead of occupying only one-third of Nanyang County as before.
Moreover, they were constantly threatened by the Yellow Turban Army.
As the Nanyang government troops were dispatched, the troops from the Jingzhou aristocratic families and the player forces were also unwilling to lag behind.
After all, in addition to helping the government army, they also had to rely on their own strength to capture the territory of the Nanyang Yellow Turban Army.
Only the territory that they took back with their own hands is considered within the scope of the agreement.
If the city was captured by Qin Jie, it would have nothing to do with them.
Qin Jie also knows this truth.
Therefore, even with the help of other forces, he still regards his own side as the main attack.
His previous promise was only to attract a certain amount of reinforcements.
It’s not that I want to give away the territory of more than 20 counties.
After all, according to his promise, the territory they had basically taken back had only a nominal relationship at most, and it would be difficult for Qin Jie to control him down to the bottom.
Even if he wanted to intervene later, the aristocratic family and the player community would never allow it.
Therefore, he naturally does not want too much territory to fall into the control of others.
Otherwise, he, the governor of Nanyang, would be nothing more than a puppet.
You must know that in order to be able to secure the position of Nanyang Governor and control an army of five million, Qin Jie had already compromised with the wealthy families and sacrificed a lot of interests in exchange for it, and now, he was about to let out blood again.
"Commander Qin, the government troops in Xinye have begun to take action!"
"According to the spies' report, there are as many as three million troops sent out this time!"
"And their primary target of attack is the neighboring Chaoyang County!"
"We have only deployed 500,000 troops in Chaoyang County!"
"Of course, we can dispatch troops from Nanyang County to support at any time!"
"In addition, a large number of troops appeared on our northern defense line, mainly from the Jingzhou family and the alien group!"
"The overall scale has reached as many as five million!"
"However, these forces are scattered. Unlike Qin Jie's army, which fights in a unified manner, it is roughly divided into dozens of groups, but the threat is also not small!"
"Based on the inference, they should start invading our territory after the Chaoyang War breaks out."
In Nanyang County, Zhang Mancheng reported to Qin Yuan the movements of the imperial camp.
There are two types of threats.
One force came from the east, mainly led by Qin Jie.
One force comes from the north, and the main body is the army of aristocratic families and players.
The two armies formed a pincer attack and began to attack the territory of the Nanyang Yellow Turban Army.
Especially in the north, although the current size is similar to that of Qin Jie's army, it is only the number that has been gathered these days.
In fact, this number has been growing rapidly.
It may exceed six million or seven million by then.
Even once it was discovered that the Nanyang Yellow Turban Army was attacked by both sides and had no power to fight back, more and more forces would become involved.
After all, as the news of Qin Jie's promise spread everywhere, many forces were eyeing Nanyang's piece of cake.
In particular, anyone with a discerning eye can see how Zhang Mancheng's army alone could withstand the attacks of two giant forces.
Defeat is only a matter of time.
How could they not be tempted at this time?
"Deploy half of the army to the northern battlefield, focusing on defense. Don't let the enemy break through the defense line!"
"I personally led the army to Chaoyang County to fight Qin Jie's army!"
"As long as this army is eliminated, the rest will not be a concern!"
Qin Yuan pondered for a while and said.
"Okay, everything will be arranged by Marshal Qin!"
Seeing how confident Qin Yuan was, Zhang Mancheng naturally had no doubts.
Anyway, Qin Yuan is in charge now. No matter whether he wins or loses this battle, it will be beneficial to him.
If we win the war directly, that would naturally be the best.
If Qin Yuan failed in the first battle, Qin Yuan would definitely mobilize more troops from other places to support Nanyang County.
Zhang Mancheng knows this very well, so he might as well just be a hands-off shopkeeper.
