Under the scorching sun, four carriages and a team of less than 100 people quietly left Haozhou, without the encouragement of the people, no soldiers to see them off, this is the most low-key expedition in the history of Zhu Yuanzhang's army, the loss in his heart can be imagined, even if Ma Xiuying intends to make a gag or still can not drive his melancholy. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info he was in a bad mood, and others naturally couldn't be happy, even Zhu Wenzheng rode on the horse honestly, and didn't dare to babble in front of people.

The whole team was lifeless, Zhu Yuanzhang thought that the speed was slow, and he and Zhu Wenzheng were crowded together and hot, so he let Zhu Wenzheng ride a horse alone and walk by himself.

On the way, Wang opened the curtain and saw that Zhu Yuanzhang was not riding a horse, so he said to Ma Xiuying: "Tell Uncle to come to the car and sit, he gave the horse to Wenzheng, is it possible to walk by himself?"

Ma Xiuying looked around, the soldiers opened the road in front, in the middle was their carriage, and behind were the servants of the Zhu Mansion who escorted the grain and grass, this team really did not look like an army, but like a family fleeing, no wonder Zhu Yuanzhang was depressed. She retracted her gaze and said calmly: "The husband will not agree, as a general, he will inevitably share weal and woe with his subordinates." ”

Wang was stunned, sighed, and said no more.

Ma Xiuying took out the account book to review and calculate, few of these people can write and calculate, and she is naturally responsible for the daily loss of grain and grass and the livelihood of diet.

After walking for more than ten miles in such a dull way, Zhu Wenzheng couldn't help but shout: "Uncle, I want to pee." ”

Tang He also persuaded: "Big brother, let's take a break, the brothers are tired enough without horses to ride." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that everyone was listless, so he agreed to rest on the spot. These sluggish soldiers immediately came to life, and they all hid under the slope to avoid the sun and brag and fart.

Zhu Yuanzhang said hatefully: "Let them go another thirty miles!"

Tang He smiled wryly, and quickly slipped to a no-man's land to release water.

Zhu Wenzheng slipped into the car and said coquettishly to Ma Xiuying: "Auntie, I don't want to ride a horse anymore." ”

Ma Xiuying raised her head and said strangely: "It's not that you want to ride a horse, how will you change your mind?"

Zhu Wenzheng has words of suffering. When he went out of the city, Wang asked him to take a carriage, but he said that he was a man, not in the same car with women, but to ride Zhu Yuanzhang's horse. The crowd had followed him, and he rode happily, but the atmosphere in the ranks made him afraid to speak out of joy. This horseback ride looks beautiful, but in fact, it can't stand it after riding for a long time. Especially Zhu Wenzheng is not a professional knight, he has been riding on it and has been upside down, at that time he felt that his lower body was very uncomfortable, there was a vague feeling of falling, and even the peeing place was upturned a few times, but it was soon better, and he didn't care. When he got off the horse to relieve himself, he suddenly felt a sharp pain, and his urine almost spilled on the upper of his shoes, and he didn't want to ride again. It's just that he is the one who wants to ride a horse, and he is the one who doesn't ride a horse, he didn't dare to tell Zhu Yuanzhang, so he came to ask Ma Xiuying.

Ma Xiuying saw that his face was red and his ears were red, as if he had something unspeakable, and asked softly, "But it's not comfortable to ride a horse?"

Zhu Wenzheng nodded again and again.

Wang reproached: "You kid always doesn't listen to the advice of adults, if you feel uncomfortable, show your mother." ”

Zhu Wenzheng was embarrassed to say that he had pain between his legs, and he was about to become an ostrich with his head bowed.

Seeing this, Ma Xiuying got up, "I'll go and take the carriage in front, and my sister-in-law will take a good look at Wen." ”

Before the trip, Zhu Yuanzhang arranged four carriages, one each for Ma Xiuying and Li Qi'er, one for Wang and Zhu Wenzheng, and one for Tian and the two cousin ladies.

Wang thought that his son was not in the car, so he called Ma Xiuying to talk when he was lonely. In fact, Ma Xiuying didn't want to be with the Wang family at all, so she would leave under the pretext of excuse.

After resting for a quarter of an hour, Zhu Yuanzhang urged everyone to set off, and suddenly heard shouts from behind, only to see a group of people running sweating profusely, and the steps of Qi Zheng Zheng were like thunder, raising the sky full of dust.

When the group of people ran closer, Zhu Yuanzhang fixed his eyes and saw that these people were actually the soldiers under his command in the military camp. When they saw Zhu Yuanzhang, they couldn't take any breath, and shouted loudly: "Zhu Zhenfu, take us away." ”

These 100 or so people have always supported Zhu Yuanzhang, so they suffered a lot of anger in the army, and they insisted on it because of Zhu Yuanzhang's existence, but they hated Zhu Yuanzhang for not being able to take everyone away from the expedition. Everyone felt that Zhu Yuanzhang left, and they would definitely not have a good life in the future, so it was better to follow Zhu Yuanzhang than to stay in the army and suffer. So they ignored the military order and fled privately to chase Zhu Yuanzhang's team.

Zhu Yuanzhang burst into tears in his eyes, these people entrusted their lives to him. If he does not take in these deserters, what awaits them is military justice. Leaving them will have a group of soldiers who are born and died, and if they refuse, they will let them bury their lives in vain, and fools know how to make decisions. At that moment, Zhu Yuanzhang said without hesitation: "Brothers, let's go on the road together, and live and die together in the future!

The deserters shouted wildly, Tang He and Xu Da were also very happy, and congratulated Zhu Yuanzhang on his aspirations. The whole team swept away the previous lifelessness, talking and laughing, and was in full swing.

Ma Xiuying smiled at everything in front of her, this team is finally like an army, and it will be more prosperous in the future. She instructed her servants to bring food and water to the soldiers who came after her, and gave them a little rest before the procession went on.

The team of 200 people is enough to deter the average Xiaoxiao, ensure the safety of the family members, and better realize the recruitment plan of Ma Xiuying and Zhu Yuanzhang. They stopped and went, hyped up the slogan of recruiting soldiers everywhere they went, and talked about the treatment of being a soldier and the development prospects of only following Zhu Yuanzhang.

On the way, there were many people who were trapped and fleeing the famine, and many young and strong men heard that Zhu Yuanzhang's team was recruiting soldiers and came to enlist. Even sixty or seventy-year-old men asked to enlist in the army in order to eat military rations. When Zhu Yuanzhang saw the old man's trembling and breathless appearance, he refused without thinking about it, but still gave him some stomach-wrapped food.

The reputation of the benevolent and righteous division spread, and naturally some people came to join the army, and in this way, along the way, the team of two hundred people slowly expanded to four or five hundred.

But this is far from the scale of recruitment expected by Zhu Yuanzhang, and it is undoubtedly impossible for hundreds of people to capture Dingyuan, so he had to slow down his schedule and continue to recruit troops. However, the effect was minimal, and when I sent someone to inquire, it turned out that there were many mountains in the vicinity, and many homeless people had fallen into the grass and gathered to become bandits.

Zhu Yuanzhang discussed with all the soldiers that if he wanted to form a large army, he must first break the bandit village, recruit these people for his own use, and ensure the stability of the rear, so that he could attack Dingyuan without distraction.

Ma Xiuying very much agreed with Zhu Yuanzhang's decision to let people buy a large amount of grain in the township, which can be used as bait to catch "fish". When the time comes, it will be his business for Zhu Yuanzhang to deter him by force or to lure him with profit.

In early autumn, the summer heat has not yet faded, the sun is still blazing on people, and only the yellow and green overlapping leaves are quietly signaling the change of seasons. Everyone was sweating profusely and carried grain and grass to a deserted suburb, when they suddenly heard a woman's exclamation in front of them, and rushed to hear the sound, and two idlers were teasing a girl on the side of the road.

The girl was about fifteen or sixteen years old, her hair was disheveled, her face was frightened, her dress was torn in pieces, her arms were half bare, and her weak body was trembling.

That's right, Zhu Yuanzhang and the others also came to the vicinity of Donkey Pai Village, and encountered the scene when Dao Yan first encountered the mountain bandits.

At this time, Yang Yunhua and her subordinates were fishing for "fat sheep" again, she heard that someone was passing by with a large amount of grain, so she heard the wind and moved, but she didn't expect this "fat sheep" to be so huge, there were hundreds of people, and it was not an ordinary businessman, but an army.

Yang Yunhua secretly scolded the spies for their inaccurate information, so she only brought a small number of people out to rob. However, she was unwilling to give up the carload of coveted grain, so she decided to enter the enemy's ranks first, find out the situation, and then bring the whole village to rob the grain at night.

With Yang Yunhua's order, Wang Dagou and Wang Ergou pretended to be afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang would have a large number of people, and left her to flee on their own.

If Ma Xiuying and other female dependents hadn't followed the team, maybe Zhu Yuanzhang, Xu Da and others would have rushed over like wolves to save the United States, but with Ma Xiuying here, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't dare to make a mistake, so he had to cough his throat and said: "Lady, it's a girl who has an accident, you go and see." ”

"Girl?" Ma Xiuying became suspicious, and a girl ran to the wilderness to do something. In this world, the world is chaotic, most of the people who flee the famine drag their families with their families, and ordinary women will not easily go out alone. In order to lure the bandits to appear, they specially chose a secluded road, and they didn't see a few people along the way, and it was really suspicious that a girl appeared for no reason at this time.

"Maybe she was separated from her family. Zhu Yuanzhang didn't doubt Yang Yunhua, men will pity weak women, and Zhu Yuanzhang is full of confidence, his confidence comes from the army behind him, with these hundreds of people, can a woman still climb to the sky?

Whether it was a donkey or a horse that had to be pulled out to slip away, Ma Xiuying asked Xunying and Fan Lotus to bring Yang Yunhua over. When she saw that the girl had big eyes and a sweet appearance, she couldn't help but be overjoyed, took a piece of clothing and put it on the girl, took the girl's hand, and asked softly, "Don't be afraid, girl, what's your name and why are you here?"

I don't know why, Yang Yunhua saw Ma Xiuying and actually had a feeling of seeing her aunts, she was both close and scared, and couldn't help but half-truthfully replied: "Thank you Madame and your eldest brother for saving your life, my name is Yang Yunhua, my aunt forced me to get married, I slipped out if I didn't agree, and I met bad people on the road, fortunately you appeared in time...... I'm not very familiar with this area, and I'm afraid that if I encounter what happened just now, can I go with you?"

"Okay, but your family must be very worried, you have to inform them, I'll send someone to contact your family, right?" Ma Xiuying chuckled, this Yang Yunhua is also interesting, and she is still a new human who dares to escape marriage, but unfortunately this is not a peaceful era, the little girl picked the wrong time, and the beauty who walked alone in the troubled times did not end well, so she wanted to send Yang Yunhua home safely.

Yang Yunhuahua's face was pale, and she hurriedly refused, "You can't tell my aunt, my aunt will arrest me back." ”