Just after midnight, Ren Xiaonian's 10,000-strong army divided into several roads and entered Jiujiang.

As Liu Yuan's 3,000 people, who were stationed closest to Jiujiang, the first group crossed the boundary monument and advanced all the way towards Jiujiang City.

In the past few days when he was stationed at the border, Liu Yuan sent a lot of scouts to basically explore the opposite road, and 3,000 people marched along the main road, with torches, at full speed.

By the time it was light, they had traveled about thirty miles, and began to stop for a little rest, and at the same time began to eat breakfast.

Each soldier carried a flat iron kettle with cold boiled water in his waist, and in the compartment around his waist was dried cakes and dried meat.

"There's a farmstead there!" Leng Feng pointed to the distance and said to Liu Yuan.

Liu Yuan nodded, turned around and shouted: "Yu Yao, take your people, take a look, if there are still Liu Xinda's soldiers who have not left, they will be eliminated on the spot." If only the common people remain, settle them first, and then come to catch up with the large army. ”

A lieutenant jumped to his feet, munching on a cake and shouting orders.

A moment later, a group of a hundred Don troops broke away from the main force and ran along the path towards the farmstead in the distance.

Although according to the agreement between the two sides, Liu Xinda's army should have left their defensive position at this moment, began to concentrate in the direction of Jiujiang City, and then left the territory of Jiujiang before the arrival of the Tang army. But as an experienced army, at any time, it will not let its guard down.

By the time they approached the farm, the Tang army of a hundred men had already spread out in formation, slowed down, and cautiously approached the gate.

The door was open, and from the open door it looked like it was empty.

Several Tang soldiers quickly took in, two of them guarded the door, and the remaining few with shields and knives rushed into the gate.

"No opposing army was found!"

With their shouts, Yu Yao rushed into the farm with the rest of the people.

The farm was extremely quiet, only rows of thatched bungalows, Yu Yao glanced left and right a few times, took a big stride, walked to the bungalows with iron locks on the doors, waved his knife and cut down, when a bang, the iron lock was cut off, pushed open the wooden door, Yu Yao's eyes suddenly froze.

In the small bungalow, at least thirty people were densely packed.

At this moment, the sky was completely bright, and Yu Yao could clearly see the scene in the house. The room was too small for thirty people to even lie down. They were leaning on people, and they were sitting on the ground with people crowded, and what shocked Yu Yao even more was that this person was tied with his hands behind his back.

At this moment, these people, some of them had woken up, staring at them with a pair of terrified eyes, and some seemed to be still asleep.

After the two sides looked at each other for a moment, one of the people who was locked up struggled to stand up and shouted, "Get up, get up, it's dawn, you have to work!" ”

With the sound of the man's shouting, the people in the room, leaning against each other and borrowing each other's strength, stood up from the ground.

Yu Yao's gaze fell on a man who was still sitting on the ground, and as the person next to him stood up, the man tilted his body and fell sideways

With a wave of his hand, the two soldiers ran over, squatted down to look at the man who had fallen to the ground, one reached out and touched the man's neck, and when he looked back at Yu Yao, he shook his head.

"Captain, he's dead!" The soldier said.

"Dead?"

"Dead!"

The people in the room didn't seem to be too surprised, they just tilted their heads to look at the man who would never be able to stand up again, and then turned their heads again.

They have seen too many such scenes, and they have become numb.

"Take them out and untie them!" Yu Yao only felt a twitch in his heart, turned around and walked out.

In the bungalow, people were coming out one after another, all of them with their hands tied behind their backs. All of them are skinny and bone-like.

Even if the Tang soldiers loosened the ropes for them, these people still stood there with dull eyes, looking at the Tang troops around them, confused, numb, helpless, and resigned to fate, which is a true portrayal of these people at this moment.

"Is there anyone in charge?" Yu Yao asked loudly.

There was no one in the crowd who answered.

"Folks, we are the Tang Army, under the command of General Li Mi, do you know General Li Mi?" Yu Yao asked again.

There was still silence in the crowd.

Yu Yao was silent for a moment, and then spoke again: "Folks, Liu Xinda has been beaten away by us, and those who have locked you up here have also been beaten away by us, you, free, you can go home." ”

There was still silence in the crowd, but Yu Yao noticed that some people inside raised their heads, and their eyes showed shock, disbelief or surprise.

He repeated it again.

"Liu Xinda ran away, we are the Datang army, you are free, you can go home!"

Either because his voice was loud enough this time, or maybe some of these people finally came to their senses, and some of them were loud and loud.

"Where is there still a home, all the family members are dead, only me, I am left!" Yu Yao looked at that person, he looked about forty or fifty years old, but he couldn't be sure, to be honest, everyone here looked like little old men.

There were about two hundred people here, and there were only four or five women inside, who had been found from the back kitchen, and they were treated slightly better, and their hands were not tied behind their backs.

When a man cried, it was like a river bursting, and in an instant the whole courtyard was filled with the sound of weeping, some of whom stood, some sat down, and some even lay on the ground, and wept aloud.

Although they did not yet know who the people who had released them were, they could hear clearly that the people who had captured them, those who had imprisoned them here, who had forced them to work every day, had been driven away by the army in front of them.

Yu Yao didn't say anything more, or, at this time, these people cried a lot, but it was a good thing.

He stretched out his hand to summon one of his subordinates and asked in a low voice, "Is there any grain in the farm?" ”

"Found it, about dozens of loads. The enemy took some of it, and the rest, probably not with him. ”

"Go make a fire, boil some gruel, remember, don't boil too thick, look at the appearance of these people, I'm afraid that they are hungry all the time, and they can't eat too much at once. In addition, see if there is any meat, if not, chop our dried meat, add it to it and boil it together. ”

"Yes!"

In the midst of the crying, the smell of porridge drifted in the early morning breeze, and the weeping people stopped, and their eyes looked at the soldiers who came with large wooden barrels.

Yu Yao picked up a large porcelain bowl from a bamboo basket, scooped a bowl of gruel, and handed it to a person in front of him.

All the soldiers moved, and each scooped a bowl of porridge, which was delivered to the hands of these people in turn.

After everyone drank a bowl of porridge, the crowd finally got a little angry.

Only then did Yu Yao speak again.

"Are any of you literate? Or did you use it as a village masa or a simasa? ”

A man stepped forward.

"Xiao Lao'er used to be the village leader of Peach Village."

"Very well, that's you!" Yu Yao was overjoyed and walked up to him: "Liu Xinda's army has been beaten away by us, you are free, you can go home, do you understand what I mean?" ”

The little old man said miserably: "Sir, we have no home, our home has been burned by those robbers, everything has been robbed, Xiao Lao'er has a family of five, his wife is dead, his son and daughter-in-law are where they don't know where to go, and only Xiao Lao'er is left alone." The people here are like this, we don't have a home anymore. ”

Yu Yao was silent for a moment: "Since you don't have a home, you should settle down here first, since you have been a village leader before, you should know what to do." We also have to go to Jiujiang to pursue Liu Xinda's troops, so here, only you can take care of it first. There is food here, and you will not go hungry. In a few days, our Emperor will send officials to settle you, and when they come, you will know what to do. But before they come, do not run around, and although there is plenty of food, eat sparingly. The dead man, find a place to bury it properly! ”

Speaking of this, Yu Yao didn't know what to say, and paused for a moment before saying, "You all look weak, so let's take care of your body here." Everything will be fine. ”

"Thank you, sir, thank you! We must not run around, we must stay in this village, waiting for the officials to come. The little old man nodded again and again.

Yu Yao glanced at these people again, shook his head, waved his hand, and quickly left with his subordinates. For many years, he had never seen such a miserable person as in front of him.

When he caught up with Liu Yuan, it was already an hour later, and Yu Yao found that the team was a lot less, so there was no need to ask, they were probably going to do the same thing as themselves.

"General Liu, it's too miserable!" He whispered to Liu Yuanyu what he had seen and heard.

"Liu Xinda on the dog day, he really doesn't treat people as people!" Liu Yuan gritted his teeth. "I really want to kill him alive."

"Good is rewarded with good, evil is rewarded with evil, it's not that you don't report it, the time has not yet come!" Leng Feng on the side said: "Such a person will never end well, let's see!" ”

"I don't believe this, the old saying says that good people don't live long, and disasters will last for thousands of years!" Liu Yuan said hatefully: "Such a wicked person should be cut with a knife to be a hundred." ”

Leng Feng stopped talking, what Liu Xinda did did make them feel stunned, but now, they were driving this demon to continue to move forward and do evil. Speaking of which, it is also to liberate more people faster, but in the process, I don't know how many people will die.