The army was united and the gold was cut off. After Pei Xiaoer's "true love" was revealed, the Pei family army gradually became less worried about leaving their hometown and leaving their hometown, and began to be full of hope for the future.

But don’t underestimate people’s homesickness at this time. As the saying goes, it is difficult to leave their hometown. I would rather be in love with a piece of land than to seek a thousand taels of gold in a foreign land. Thinking back to the beginning, after Liu Bang, the Emperor of Han, was named King of Han by Xiang Yu, most of his subordinates were from Xuzhou on the way to Hanzhong.

These people felt that the more they followed Liu Bang, the further they were from their hometown, and finally could not bear the homesickness, so they fled one after another. Even Han Xin, one of the three masters of the Han Dynasty, could not escape the customs and escaped at that time. But later Xiao He chased Han Xin overnight, and that was the allusion of Xiao He chasing Han Xin under the moon and chasing a great Han Dynasty.

The army marched very quickly. In just one day, it arrived from Linfen to Wenxi.

After listening to a spy's report, Wenxi County was already deserted at this time. There were only a few old people left. These people escaped the massacres again and again, their hearts were tired, their bodies were almost gone, and they couldn't walk even if they wanted to leave. They just wanted to return to their roots. Even if they died, they would die in the place where they grew up.

Pei Xiaoer did not force this. Everyone has their own ambitions, and the forced melon is not sweet.

Pei Xiaoer stood quietly on the side of the official road, looking at Wenxi County in the distance. Behind him, teams of soldiers of the Pei family quickly passed by him and advanced towards the unknown distance. Looking at Wenxi County vaguely visible in front of him, Pei Xiaoer's heart seemed to have been knocked over, and the ups and downs surged and bitterness surged into his heart, mixing them together, and in the end, he couldn't tell what it felt like.

He was a miserable low-level civil servant who wrote materials in the office in his previous life. When he came to this life, he was born in Wenxi County, grew up in Wenxi County, and became famous in Wenxi County. But now he is leaving Wenxi County, and only he can understand the sweetness and sourness of it himself.

"Send someone to inform the Yi family of Liu Zhizu and tell them that the Wuding army can retreat. Move quickly and don't be dragged by Hong Chengchou, otherwise you will not be able to leave even if you want to," Pei Xiaoer stared at Wenxi County and ordered lightly.

"Yes, my subordinates will send someone to pass on the order." The personal soldiers around him immediately took the order and left.

After doing all this, Pei Xiaoer took a last look at Wenxi County and sweared in his heart, "One day, I will lead the army back here, there will be one day." He sighed, stopped nostalgic, turned around and followed the army's pace, and hurriedly left south.

The situation in Xia County is different from that in Wenxi County. Wenxi County was originally captured by the Earth Tiger. The Earth Tiger is a cruel and cunning person. After taking down Wenxi, he massacred Wenxi on a large scale, and no one in ten people survived.

Later, after Wenxi County returned to Pei Xiaoer, Pei Xiaoer sent Liu Xianchun to restore the livelihood of Wenxi County and recruited refugees to enrich the population. Therefore, everything that the people in Wenxi County in Wenxi County was given by Pei Xiaoer, and they had almost nothing left without Pei Xiaoer and others. Therefore, their loyalty to Pei Xiaoer is incomparable to other places.

Xia County is different. Although Xia County is the first county town taken by Pei Xiaoer, Pei Xiaoer is different from the Tiger. Pei Xiaoer is not as bloodthirsty as the Tiger. Therefore, after taking Xia County, except for a few extremely evil gangsters and local tyrants and evil gentry, the other gentry and merchants were in peace after Pei Xiaoer fined a heavy atonement silver, and everything went as usual.

Therefore, the gentry and merchants in Xia County were both happy and hated Pei Xiaoer. What was happy was that Pei Xiaoer could restrain the soldiers and officials of the army and not let them harm the other side.

In the past, some soldiers and scoundrels forced themselves to rely on their military status. Although they did not dare to do this to the big gentry and merchants, they extorted and forced to buy and sell, and seized some small merchants, farmers ignored them, and even used the excuse to fight the autumn wind, and the people suffered so much. Later, when Pei Xiaoer was in power, these situations almost disappeared without a trace.

They still hate Pei Xiaoer, and they hated him that the tax burden under Pei Xiaoer was comparable to that of the Song Dynasty and the tyrannical Qin Dynasty. Even the Mongolian Yuan could not compare with it in this regard. Even in previous dynasties, it was a common practice that the privilege of those who had fame and fortune did not pay taxes was deprived of Pei Xiaoer.

This made those scholars and officials who claimed to be well-read books of sages feel that they had lost all their faces and wanted to pay taxes with those common people. How could they reflect their superiority? What's the difference between them and those common people?

Now, Pei Xiaoer has finally left, and the Ming Dynasty will re-notify Xia County that everything will finally return to normal. How can the gentry and powerful people be willing to wander with Pei Xiaoer? So they stayed in Xia County, closed their homes, and waited until the government troops recovered Xia County and let everything return to normal.

Pei Xiaoer sneered at this. These fence-bearing plants would run to the side wherever they were. Unfortunately, their wishful thinking was too smart, and they didn't even have to take action themselves. Soon, they would pay the price for their choice.

On the third day after Pei Xiaoer left, Lu Xiangsheng led his Tianxiong army to Xia County.

Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army had good military discipline. After stationing in Xia County for a day, it was considered to be completely unfair to the people. However, the day after Lu Xiangsheng's stationed, Zhang Zongheng's Xuan army conquered Jiexiu's Gao Yingxiang, and went south and chased Jiexiu all the way. When he passed by Wenxi County, Wenxi County had already become empty. Zhang Zongheng had no supply at all in Wenxi, so he went south and went to Xia County.

When they arrived at the gate of Xia County, the local gentry in Xia County heard that the official army was coming, and they all came to the city gate to welcome the official army, and the city also returned to its former posture.

Come to the city from the tall city gate of Xia County, a noisy atmosphere came to the face, making it seem like there were many inexplicable desires. There were restaurants and restaurants on the roadside, and various banners were flying. The shouts of selling came one after another, one after another. There were traffic on the street, and people shopping were flocking to each other. There were rings on the South Street platform, and there were juggling in the corner of the North Street.

The Xuan soldiers, who had not received military pay for half a year, could no longer hide the greed in their eyes when they saw everything in front of them. They did not care that the rich and powerful people were still in front of them, and came directly to Zhang Zongheng and said, "Sir, the war in Xia County is still so prosperous. They must be some remnants of rebels. Otherwise, it could be explained that the bandits did not surrender to Xia County and looted them all? It must be because these people were all Pei Ni people. Seeing that Pei Ni fled and could not take them, they pretended to surrender, but in fact they were just saving their strength. Please order our army to attack Xia County immediately and suppress the rebellious bandits."

This sentence defeated the gentry of Xia County who welcomed the officers and soldiers into rebels. But think about it, how long has Xia County been in the hands of the bandit Pei Xiaoer? What else can these people be like if they are not bandits? They rushed into the city, killed them all, and robbed their money to serve their own military pay.

Just now the generals gathered over and before they could speak, Zhang Zongheng felt something was wrong. Sure enough, after the general finished speaking, Zhang Zongheng felt even more shocked. Zhang Zongheng was such a smart person. As soon as the generals in front of him raised their butts, he knew what they were going to pull Xiang. They were just the wealth in the city, and they also found such a bad reason.

However, Zhang Zongheng could not refuse, and he dared not refuse. The soldiers under his command had not paid any wages for six months. The wife and children at home were hungry at home. In addition, the soldiers' spirits have been tense for nearly half a year. The string in their hearts has collapsed to the limit. If they don't vent, it will probably lead to a disaster.

Zhang Zongheng didn't say anything, said he would allow, nor said he would not allow him. He just looked at the generals deeply, then turned around and left.

After Zhang Zongheng left, the other generals surrounded Zhang Ji and asked, "General Zhang, you are the confidant of the Lord. What does this mean when you talk about him?"

"What does it mean?" Zhang Ji's originally gentle face showed a cruel smile. "Mr. Zhang's meaning is naturally that everyone in the city is full of Pei Niyu's evil deeds, and no one is left."
Chapter completed!