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Chapter 1085: Aggressive

After Qi Haoran took down Zhengzhou, the Emperor’s carriage also arrived at the front line. Qi Xiuyuan personally deployed the troops to speed up the process.

Before Wulie could discuss the terms with Ogedei, Great Qi’s army launched a large-scale attack. Great Jin immediately fell into a predicament of being attacked from the front and back.

He could only squeeze out reinforcements from all over the place while forcibly taking rations from the commoners. This method of drinking poison to quench one’s thirst quickly forced more commoners to join the ranks of the rebellion. As the Han people south of Datong Prefecture knew that Great Qi was about to attack, they raised their banners in response to the Great Qi army.

The Han people had a hard time under the rule of Great Jin, paying nearly double the amount of taxes as before; having to pay all kinds of harsh taxes gave them almost no chance to catch their breath.

Moreover, in Great Jin, the Jin people could humiliate and kill Han people at will. After that, the culprit would only have to pay some money or get flogged a few times. It could be said that in Great Jin, a Han person wasn’t even as valuable as a horse.

Great Jin was in a terrible fix, and Ogedei’s days were gradually becoming difficult. First, it was exposed that his subordinates intercepted assets for their own use and withheld the soldiers’ military salary. Then, a few of his brothers came to fight with him for power. Although he and Emperor Wulie of Great Jin had privately agreed to temporarily stop fighting and instead deal with the Han people first, the two sides had fought for several years after all. Both sides had lost relatives and brothers to each other, so conflicts between the two sides continued. In addition, someone had spread rumors that he wanted to accept Great Jin’s offer of amnesty and surrender his three armies in exchange for glory and wealth.