Gu Dingtian returned to Hujiazhuang as he wished.

He was hit by a few pieces of lead, and the iron armor on his upper body blocked the vital point, but his left calf was broken, and he crawled in a pile of corpses for a long time, and finally was pulled by the hair by a Guan Emperor soldier and raised a knife at him.

In a hurry, he hurriedly shouted, "I am Gu Dingtian." ”

So, the Guan Emperor put down the knife, then tied him tightly, threw him on horseback, and escorted him back to Hujiazhuang with more than 100 of his surrendered bandits.

The 3,600 army was defeated, completely defeated, when Liu Youzhu came up from behind, more than 3,000 people were huddled together and fled in all directions, the Zhang family, the Ma family, the Chen family, and the guerrilla general, etc., these people ran no slower than Feng Yilong.

When the battlefield was cleaned the next morning, there were more than 700 corpses within a radius of five miles, and more than 500 wounded soldiers who could not run, of which more than 200 were seriously injured and were freed by Emperor Guan's army.

Including those who were slightly wounded, a total of 1,000 people surrendered, and all of them were escorted back to the East Village.

When those routs fled in all directions, Luo Daniu led a hundred Guan imperial troops, mixed with other routs in the black light, followed all the way to Shanghe Village, fifteen miles north of Dongcun, and infiltrated Liujiazhuang when Liu's family opened the door to receive the rout, and suddenly killed people with a knife, taking advantage of the chaos to occupy Liujiazhuang.

Liu Dedao of the Liu family and several brothers and nephews were all hacked to death by him in the chaos.

The 800 Guan Emperor troops brought by Qin Chuan came all the way from Jingle, and they were already sleepy and tired, and after occupying Dongcun and Shanghe Village, they rested on the spot.

Liu Youzhu's 1,000 soldiers and horses had been recuperating in the Wolf's Head Ridge for several days, and the morale was high at the time of the great victory, Qin Chuan asked them to go non-stop, with more than a dozen artillery pieces all the way to the north, and within one day the Tuyu Village and Qianzhuang Village in the north of Lianke.

Qianzhuang Village is the bridgehead of the county seat of Lanxian County, only five miles away from Lancheng, after Liu Youzhu occupied it, he completely blocked the road for the gentry of the Lanhe Plain to go north to Lancheng.

Until now, half of the eight villages in Lan County have fallen into the hands of Qinchuan, leaving only Puming Town, Shangming Village, Huqin Village and Chijianling.

Among them, Puming Town is 20 miles west of Dongcun, just on the edge of the Fen River, located on the west side of the Lanhe Plain, Chijianling is more than 30 miles southwest of Puming Town, is the western gateway of Lanxian County, Shangming Village and Huqinling are at the north end of the plain, one left and one right are next to Luya Mountain.

On the second day of the Lanhe night attack, the big families of these villages dragged their families with their families, drove grain trucks or climbed over Luya Mountain, or went west out of Chijianling in an attempt to leave the hinterland of Luliang Mountain.

Qin Chuan sent Liu Youzhu to lead two hundred Guan imperial troops to chase over, only intercepting 1,600 stone of grain and 5,000 taels of silver, those big households basically ran out, and the grain of the two villages at the north end was not intercepted, and they ran away over Luya Mountain.

Of course, Qin Chuan wanted to take down all the villages in one go, and then aim directly at Lancheng, but he didn't have that many troops.

He only had 3,200 Guan Emperor troops, and it was basically impossible to occupy two counties with this pitiful force.

What's more, there were more than 200 casualties in the battle of Jingle City, and they chased all the way to Dongcun, set up an ambush in Lanhe, and captured several villages such as Shanghe Village and Tuyu Village, all of which were more or less damaged.

Now his total strength is only about two thousand eight, and it has long been demolished, Lou Fu, Jingyou, and Jingle City all need a certain number of troops to guard, and the few villages just occupied need to be guarded by troops.

Especially in Qianzhuang Village, which is only five miles away from Lancheng, Qin Chuan asked Liu Youzhu to lead 500 troops and ten artillery pieces to build fortifications there to prevent the Ming army that fled into Lancheng from counterattacking.

It wasn't until the big households in several villages ran out that Qin Chuan sent Luo Daniu with a small number of troops to take over the four villages.

Except for Chijianling and Lancheng, the rest of the villages in Lanxian County all fell into the hands of Qinchuan.

Then, he took Guan Dijun to cut off his head for three days.

Gu Dingtian and all the powerful bandits under him, without exception, cut off their heads in front of everyone in the East Village, and many strong men of the Hu family were also dragged out and cut together.

There were also several other large families, and the entire Lan County lost thousands of heads in three days.

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For those women and children from large households, Qin Chuan knew that there would be troubles, but he was still reluctant to kill them, and for those children, he couldn't do it.

Many women had already hanged themselves before breaking the village, and those who survived, Qin Chuan planned to raise them for a short period of time, and then bring them back to Emperor Guan to be his wife, as a reward for his brothers.

As for those children, they naturally followed their mothers who were forced to remarry, and recognized Guan Dijun as their father, which can be regarded as a thief as their father.

Those whose parents died were sent back to Lou Fu to be raised in a unified manner, and taught them to farm, read, weave, etc., and then secretly killed them to see who was wrong in the future.

Wang Jizong and Song Zhiting rushed to Lan County with a group of literate people, and were arranged by Qin Chuan to enter several villages in batches, count the money, grain, fields and other spoils, and register the villagers of each village and the long-term workers and tenants of large households.

Many villagers and long-term tenants did not run, if they ran, they would starve to death, I heard that Lou Fu's surname Qin did not kill innocents indiscriminately, and there may be a way to live if he stays.

Sure enough, instead of killing them, the surnamed Qin also set up porridge sheds for them to eat, and I heard that the fields of those big families would be rented to them to plant, and only 40% of the tenant rent would be collected in the first year or two, and they would be sold to them at a low price in the future.

The long-term tenants who remained were full of joy, and the hard days were coming to an end.

The grain seized from a few large households was not very large, because many people sold the surplus grain to Fan Yongdou a few years ago, and a few families escaped with the grain, and the final seizure was only 12,000 stones.

There are a lot of gold and silver treasures, more than 40,000 taels of silver, 3,000 taels of gold, and a large pile of gold, silver, jewelry, jade beads, and so on.

Coupled with the seizure of Jingle City, a total of 25,000 stones of grain, 120,000 taels of silver, more than 5,000 taels of gold, and countless other treasures were seized in this wave of Qinchuan.

The most important thing is that the vast majority of the cultivated land in the Lanhe Plain is already under his control.

There are about 70,000 acres of arable land, mostly fertile fields adjacent to water sources, and tens of thousands of acres of uncultivated fields that have been abandoned for several years.

In fact, the desertion situation of Lanxian and Jingle counties is good, because it is located in the hinterland of Luliang Mountain, surrounded by mountains, and there are dozens of rivers of all sizes formed by the melting of snow, and the land is not serious, and the degree of desertion is about fifty percent.

The most serious waste is in the northern part of Shaanxi, under the drought for many years, the cultivated land in that area is wasted, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a thousand miles of red land.

In contrast, the hinterland of Luliang Mountain can be regarded as having sufficient water sources and fertile land.

Qin Chuan estimated that if the entire Lanhe Plain was reclaimed, there should be 200,000 or 300,000 mu of cultivated land, provided that those cultivated lands had water sources.

That's a matter of the future, and it won't be able to be reclaimed in a few years.

Now, Qin Chuan is busy managing several villages, arranging garrisons, appointing head A, lieutenant chief, etc., and he is very busy.

He also had to readjust the Guan Emperor's army, garrison Jingle City and Qianzhuang Village with heavy troops, and then recruit troops and horses to expand the size of the army.

If another Ming army comes in now, it is estimated that it will not be able to hold it, because his forces are too scattered and there are too many places to defend.

It's time to negotiate peace with Zhu Youzhen, and if he continues to fight, his strength will definitely be exhausted.

He needed time to recuperate, to consolidate his territory, and to develop agriculture and the military industry.

On the third day of the occupation of Lanxian, Qin Chuan discussed with Wang Jizong, Song Zhiting, Luo Daniu, Liu Youzhu and others all night, and finally Wang Jizong wrote a sprinkling note.

The next day, Qin Chuan sent Luo Wentian to take Lao Huang and Lynx and others, dressed up in disguise, and took the Zhang Song Shu and three thousand taels of silver to copy the path out of Taiyuan and go straight to Shouyang.

Cao Wenzhao's Guanning Iron Cavalry was stationed in Shouyang, and Liu Yunzhong, the Shanxi supervising army, was in his army.

Qin Chuan's recital had to be handed over to the Jingshi before it could be handed to Zhu Youzhen's desk.

Otherwise, it will be intercepted by the military department and the cabinet.

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