Yang Zhan no longer has time to look at the face of the saint with double eyes. He has turned himself into a wheel, running around all day long to provide food for the people of Shu.

The most annoying thing is that God has no eyesight. More than two million Shu people were waiting for the wheat to mature this season, but it was really "dry in March and dry in April". The land of abundance suffered a spring drought that had not been seen in a century!

In the spring of Bingwu, everyone knew that Zhang Xianzhong was leaving Sichuan. The smiles on people's faces were like peach blossoms blooming, but after two months of exposure to the spring sun, they quickly withered.

In the fields, farmers looked at the sparse wheat fields and were about to cry without tears. Yang Zhan's heart, which had just fallen, became suspended again. He led his troops everywhere to solve the water source problem, traveling around the land of Tianfu day and night.

Fei Xiaojin took some time off from the border to return to Meizhou, just in time to catch up with Yang Zhan who was also coming back from Emei.

"Have the people who came from Daxi settled down? How long can the remaining food last?" Yang Zhan was the first to ask.

"It's really hard to explain! General, this is exactly why I came back. The people who came from there have not been disconnected in the past two months. It stands to reason that those who should come here have come here long time ago. How could there be so many of them?

Common people?”

Yang Zhan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, "Don't worry, those are also common people. They just joined the Daxi Army in order to survive. I heard that the Daxi Army had run out of food, and now they sneak over here just to eat."

Fei Xiaojin said: "I think that's the case. There are just two questions. I came back here to ask for instructions. First, if Zhang Xianzhong doesn't really want to leave Sichuan, he just takes advantage of our desire to save the Shu people and takes this opportunity to send soldiers to infiltrate our Shu country.

, what should I do? Secondly, I heard from people below that in the Daxi Army, there are many Sichuan soldiers who originally took refuge with Zhang Xianzhong and did not want to follow him to Shaanxi. Now they are hungry and want to escape to us. These days

They are all asking people in our team to find out if they will be accepted?"

"The first question is that Zhang Xianzhong is cunning and does not rule out the possibility of sending spies, so I asked you to settle at the border. You just need to pay more attention. The second question is that regardless of their previous crime of surrender, before Zhang Xianzhong left Sichuan,

It would be dangerous to accept any armed force from his side, let them wait."

Fei Xiaojin tentatively said, "Oh, I also heard that Zhang Xianzhong started to attack Sichuan officials and soldiers, and his methods were extremely cruel!"

Hearing this, Yang Zhan's heart trembled. He had long heard about the fate of Yan Ximing, Wu Jishan, and Jiang Dingzhen. They all surrendered together with the eldest son Zhu Pinghua.

Although they had no choice when they surrendered, they acted as an aide after the surrender. These people deserved that fate! However, there were also many generals who were in the Ming army together. Yang Zhan knew what they chose when they were desperate, and he also knew that they had been looking forward to it.

I can come back to him, but I haven't found the opportunity yet.

If they don't save them now, wouldn't it chill their hearts? There are also those Sichuan soldiers, most of whom were forced to join the Daxi army. Do they have to watch them become the demon king's victims?

After thinking over and over again, Yang Zhan decided to take the risk and save just one person.

"In this case, you ask your men to tell them to throw away their weapons, put on common people's clothes, and disperse here."

The kind-hearted Yang Zhan didn’t know how many people had been killed by his words!

Soon, almost all the Sichuan officers and soldiers of the Daxi Army were trying to escape. Since the tragic deaths of the Prime Minister You, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and the Minister of Rites, Zhang Xianzhong found various excuses and executed thousands of Sichuan officers and soldiers by various means. Recently, more and more Sichuan officers and soldiers were killed.

It is easy to get blamed.

Especially after the food shortage, officers and soldiers mysteriously disappeared frequently, and it was said that they might have been used as human food. Human food is not a secret in the military.

If you stay in the Daxi Army, you will either starve to death, be killed, or even be eaten. Why not escape?

If there were deserters, there would be pursuers. Most of the deserters were caught and flayed.

Later, those who did not escape were also suspected of fleeing. Wang Zhaolin took out tens of thousands of empty booklets and distributed them to all the generals and governors in the camp, requesting that all officers and soldiers under his jurisdiction be registered.

Zhang Xianzhong ordered the generals of each battalion to check the roster every three days. If there was even the slightest suspicion, the head would be at risk. In this way, no fewer than hundreds of soldiers died every day.

Many non-Sichuan officers and soldiers, because they killed their comrades every day, could not bear the psychological pressure and wanted to escape.

There was a general under Zhang Wenxiu, King of Funan, named He Dou, who was from Lu'an in the south of the Yangtze River. After bidding farewell to his wife, he pretended to go out to inspect the camp, led a few followers, rode fast horses, and escaped under the cover of night.

Zhang Xianzhong received the report and sent a hundred elite soldiers to pursue him on flying horses, but there was no trace. Zhang Xianzhong was so angry that he beheaded all the soldiers under He Dou.

Zhang Wenxiu also had a commander-in-chief, Wen Ziyi, who could not bear to slaughter his subordinates innocently, abandoned his wife and children, and fled north with his subordinates.

Zhang Xianzhong personally selected elite soldiers to pursue him. Wen Ziyang's horse was so fast that he escaped, but hundreds of his men were desperate and feared being humiliated, so they all drew their swords and killed themselves.

Zhang Xianzhong became so angry that he executed Wen Zirang's wife and children Lingchi, and then ordered Zhang Wenxiu to be captured.

Facing Wenxiu who was kneeling on the ground without saying a word, Zhang Xianzhong was so angry that he roared repeatedly. He raised his hand and wanted to kill his beloved adopted son with one blow.

The three brothers of Hope, Dingguo and Nengqi all knelt down and begged: "Father, please forgive me!"

Zhang Xianzhong was furious, "Tell me, why should I spare his life?"

Ke Wang said: "Although the third brother is guilty of negligence, the crime is not worthy of death! This kind of thing happens in our army. Killings are happening every day. The more people kill, the more people escape. Today is the third brother's camp, and tomorrow

If we are not in our camp, will my father kill us all?"

"If I kill you all, what will happen to you? You just come and go naked without any worries!"

"Father!"

Zhang Xianzhong shuddered and came to his senses. "Okay, you can avoid the death penalty, but you can't escape the living penalty. You can all take this as a warning."

That night, Bai Wenxuan went to Wenxiu's home to visit. Wenxiu lay on the bed without saying a word, and Wenxuan sat by the bed without saying a word. For a long time, the two of them sighed at the same time, "Alas!"

Wen Xiu said: "I am the one who is being punished, why are you sighing?"

"I sigh for you, and I sigh for all of us. Others can take risks, but we have no escape!"

Wenxiu didn't understand it at first, but when he thought about it carefully, he realized, right? Their fate had long been tied to their adoptive father. No matter what he did was right or wrong, no matter what his situation was, they had no choice but to follow him closely.
Chapter completed!