"Thank you, General." Li Jian's eyes were slightly moist. "My subordinates will definitely remember this lesson in the future."

"Well. Knowing shame and then being brave, this is how the Pei family's army is a good son!" Liu Zhizu patted Li Jian's arm with his hand and said with a smile.

Turning around, he saw Song Meng on the side again. Liu Zhizu smiled and said: "General Song, Zhang Xianzhong has been defeated by our army. The next step is to pursue Zhang Xianzhong in the north, and it depends on the general's cavalry. But there is no need to pursue Tai.

Far away, Zhang Xianzhong is a thief who is always on the move, so beware of him setting up ambushes."

Song Meng twisted his lips and showed a smile. "Okay. General, don't worry, we can't run very far even if we run away. When the general comes, he wants us to end the things here and go back as soon as possible. Prince Zijin Liang has personally given the general

Send an invitation, inviting the general to go north and gather with the rebels to discuss the plan to resist the Ming Dynasty."

After hearing this, Liu Zhizu was thoughtful and continued: "So the general has decided to attend this conference?"

"That's natural. The general has said that he is going to see how much these "heroes" weigh. Then he can evaluate the relationship between our Pei family army and these people."

"That's fine. General Song, go ahead and catch as many as you can. Come back as soon as possible."

"Yes." Turning around and getting on his horse, Song Meng said to the cavalry behind him: "Brothers, it's time for us to perform. Are you all ready?"

"Okay!" The cavalrymen laughed, mounted their horses with high spirits, followed the footsteps left by Zhang Xianzhong, and chased him all the way.

Not to mention the cavalry chasing Zhang Xianzhong all the way, let's just say that Liu Zhizu attacked and looted territory all the way in the city. He quickly occupied the treasury, weapons depot and other dangerous places including the county government office, and rescued those who were killed by Zhang Xianzhong.

Nearly 100,000 men and hundreds of thousands of women were captured.

Finally, under the guidance of his own soldiers, Liu Zhizu came to the yard where Zhang Xianzhong stacked gold and silver. Looking at the mountains of gold, silver and jewelry, even Liu Zhizu felt short of breath for a while, and it took a long time to calm down.

Unintentionally catching a glimpse of several corpses nearby, Liu Zhizu asked: "What's going on with these people?"

"General, these people are the guards sent by Zhang Xianzhong to guard the gold and silver. As a result, when Zhang Xianzhong was defeated and fled, they all wanted to escape with a little gold and silver, but they were too greedy and took more and more. By the time we kill them, they

When we were here, they were still stuffing their bodies with gold and silver, so we caught them all in one fell swoop."

The money and silk moved people's hearts. Liu Zhizu sighed and ordered that all these people be carried out and dug a hole to bury them.

Looking at this mountain of gold and silver, Liu Zhizu pondered for a moment and then ordered: "Find a team of people and surround this place. No one is allowed to enter or leave without my order. Anyone who violates the rules will be shot."

"yes"

As soon as Liu Zhizu walked outside the door, he saw the burning fire and asked Chen Yongkun, who had been following him, what was going on?

Of course, Chen Yongkun couldn't say that he ordered someone to do it. Anyway, Zhang Xianzhong had already escaped, so all the shit can be dumped on his head.

"Back to the general. This fire was set by Zhang Xianzhong. In order to coerce Qingzhuang, he prepared a fire to burn the entire Anyi to the ground, displacing the people, thus forcing the people of Anyi to follow him."

Liu Zhizu frowned, but said nothing. The most important thing now was to put out the fire, otherwise the out-of-control fire would burn the entire Anyi to ashes.

So Liu Zhizu ordered that, except for some necessary defensive areas, other officers and soldiers of the Pei family army, including the nearly 100,000 civilians who had just been rescued, were mobilized. All manpower and material resources were rushed forward to make sure that those fires that were still burning were destroyed.

Put it out.

It is not easy to coordinate when hundreds of thousands of people move together. Liu Zhizu personally went to the scene to take command, with the Pei family army as the backbone. He spent countless efforts, and with the cooperation of the people, it took a full half hour to work together.

The monstrous fire that spread across half of Anyi was extinguished. This may be the most unified time in the entire Anyi.

Through this disaster relief activity, the image of the entire Pei Jiajun's heroic service to the people has been deeply imprinted in the hearts of Anyi people. In the simple understanding of the people, there is actually no essential difference between soldiers and bandits. They kill people the same way.

In robberies, sometimes soldiers may be more terrifying than bandits, because bandits can still report to the officials if they kill someone, but there is no place for soldiers to report if they kill someone.

The common people may not have much culture and cannot say many famous sayings, but they have also summarized many useful slangs, such as bandits are like combing, soldiers are like washing, and officials are like shaving. It is like this, which can be said to vividly explain this era.

relations between soldiers and civilians.

In fact, the root cause of all this comes from the system of this era. The military system of this era was a system of guards and soldiers, which was essentially a kind of secular military system. It emphasized that the soldiers and civilians were almost two groups separated from each other for generations.

People. As soldiers in the garrison, they have to perform military service from generation to generation.

As for civilians, they rarely serve as soldiers. Unless they can no longer survive, they will become camp soldiers, and they will not be hereditary, such as Qi Jiguang's Qi Family Army.

But no army has ever been willing to dedicate itself to the people. Faced with such an incompatible relationship between the army and the people, the people suddenly felt uncomfortable and felt as if they were living in a dream.

Maybe with such a group of people as my protectors, I might feel more at ease when I sleep.

While Pei Jiajun gained a good reputation among the people of Anyi, he also completely established a foothold in Anyi.

When the last ray of flame went out, Liu Zhizu breathed a sigh of relief and sat on a stone to rest for a while. "Go, send someone to Wenxi County to inform the general that our army has completely occupied Anyi and ask him to dispatch

The army came to garrison."

"Yes." The soldiers saluted Liu Zhizu with admiration and then turned and left.

"General, I bet the general will come to Anyi personally after receiving the news." Qin Yuming, covered in sweat, came to Liu Zhizu's side with a grin.

"Oh? What if you lose the bet?" Liu Zhizu was in a happy mood and joked with Qin Yuming.

"Hehe, if I lose the bet, I will personally fill the general's toilet for a month. But if I win the bet by luck, General, you need to promise me something."

"What's up?"

"Let me play with the blunderbuss that the general gave you last time for a few days."

"I didn't expect you to still care about this thing," Liu Zhizu smiled and shook his head, "Okay, if you win the bet, I will give it to you directly."

"Haha, General, you will definitely lose."

"Oh? How can you see it?"

"When I came here, I met Qiao Chun, the magistrate of Anyi, in the county government office. This guy had been tortured by Zhang Xianzhong to a state of disgrace. When he saw me come in, he felt like he was seeing a savior. He said he could recruit him, but he only wanted me.

Spare his life, I asked him out of curiosity.

According to his account, the imperial court was very angry about Shanxi's repeated loss of territory. During this period, someone had already proposed to mobilize Shaanxi's Hong Chengchou, Cao Wenzhao, Lu Xiangsheng from Beizhili, and Zu Dashou's Guan Ning cavalry to encircle Shanxi in three ways. I want to come here.

The matter is not that secret, and the general must have known about it. In such a critical situation, the general will definitely go to Anyi, a place that is rich in money and food, to recruit troops and horses to expand his strength, so he said that the general will definitely come in person. "
Chapter completed!