From Jingle along the foot of the Golden Mountain through a long mountain valley, and then along the foot of the Guandi Ridge to the west to Lan County, a total of sixty miles of road, and Jingle to Jingyou distance is almost the same.

Now there are corpses everywhere along the road, and there are also Ming soldiers fleeing like headless flies.

Running at the forefront were Wang Dehua, Wang Kun, Zeng Caofei and He Sheng, as well as more than 300 of their own soldiers.

Hundreds of horsemen were scattered along the road, and they did not know where they had gone, while the infantry ran all over the mountains, and these soldiers fled in a hurry, without even taking their weapons.

Because Qin Chuan and Emperor Guan's army shouted all the way, "Kill the rebels, kill those with weapons, and kill those in armor ......"

"Those who are willing to surrender can go to Jingle City or Jingyou Town to accept the surrender, the enlisted person will be paid one or two silver per month, and the food and shelter will be managed, and the salary will never be in arrears, and those who do not want to enlist will give the land to plant, and the tenant rent will be forty percent, and they can borrow grain without interest......"

Some of the Ming troops who refused to put down their weapons were soon chased up by the Guan Emperor army and slashed and killed, only a few rounds of killing, all the Ming troops threw down their weapons, some knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and some still fled in all directions.

Qin Chuan neither pursued and killed those who were running around, nor did he collect the surrendered troops, but only let those surrendered soldiers go to Jingyou Town on their own.

Then, he chased after Wang Dehua and the others.

Wang Dehua and Wang Kun were so frightened that their courage was about to break, and they only cared about riding their horses and galloping, and they didn't stop for a moment.

Zeng Caofei, He Sheng, and the three guerrilla generals beside them also kept going, desperately fleeing to Lanxian.

Fortunately, they escaped early and ran fast, and there were many soldiers behind them who slowed down the pace of the Qin thief, and the Qin thief pulled more than a dozen cannons, and the speed was slowed down a lot, so they didn't catch up.

At noon, they finally arrived at Xiaoliang River, which was only a dozen miles away from Lan County, and the Qin thieves were still pulled by them for about two miles behind, so they were barely relieved.

When he crossed the Xiaoliang River and climbed a mountain beam, He Sheng took the time to look back, and then was stunned.

The Qin thieves stopped chasing them, but suddenly turned around and headed south along the Xiaoliang River.

"It's not good, the Qin thief copied Xue Dongting's back road." He Sheng reacted quickly, and his face suddenly changed.

Zeng Caofei and several guerrilla generals also changed their faces greatly, and they grabbed the reins of their horses one after another, so that the sweaty horses stopped.

Thirty miles along the south of Xiaoliang River is Lanxian East Village, and then from East Village to the southeast direction of thirty-five miles, is Longquan River.

Xue Dongting was confronting the thief army on the other side of the Longquan River, and if he was copied by the Qin thieves from behind, the result could be imagined.

"Oh, we can't stop him, let's go."

Wang Dehua also stopped, looked at the back of the Qin thief's group, and said helplessly.

Wang Kun also said with a sharp voice, "What the prince said is that we are a little bit of people, and we can't help the Qin thief, as for Xue Dongting...... Alas, he could only ask for more blessings for himself. ”

"But we have to report to Xue Dongting anyway."

"Yes, yes, General He is right, I have to report to him."

Wang Dehua wiped a handful of sweat, and then called a few soldiers over and gave instructions.

The soldiers soon descended into the mountains to the south.

They didn't dare to take the avenue, they could only go over the mountains and mountains to bypass, whether they could notify Xue Dongting in time could only depend on their luck.

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East Village, Lan County, Hu family.

The Hu family can be said to be the most powerful family in the entire Lan County except for the Chijianling Feng family.

Because after the Hu Jiayin clan reached the hands of Gu Dingtian, it became stronger and stronger, and the number of people increased from 300 to more than 600 in just a few years, which fully doubled.

When Hu Youjin was in charge, he didn't dare to be too unscrupulous, and there were still a few middle families and dozens of villagers with fields in Dongcun, and the whole village was quite peaceful.

On the eve of the fourth year of Chongzhen's Chinese New Year's Eve, a gang of thieves came to the East Village and killed all the middle households and dozens of villagers with fields except for the Hu family.

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bsp; A total of more than 300 lives were completely killed overnight.

Within a few days, the Hu family paid for the burial of those dozens of families, and the fields of those families naturally fell into the hands of the Hu family.

Since then, the more than 14,000 acres of land in the East Village area have all belonged to the Hu family.

Some people say that the tragedy of exterminating people was done by Gu Dingtian, for all the fields in this area.

After Hu Youjin was arrested, Gu Dingtian took over the Hu family, but he didn't change his surname back, and his surname was still Gu.

Even if he deliberately put Hu Youjin to death, no one in the Hu family would dare to disobey him, because his seven or eight hundred bandits had already controlled the Hu family.

But he later died, three or four times to provoke the surname Qin, in the Longquan River folded nearly 100 people, in the Black Dragon Valley, in the black dragon valley in the horse ditch, 200 people were broken, and later took advantage of the surname Qin out of the pass to kill Jiannu, and sent troops to attack the surname Qin, the result was more than 100 people.

Now, his bandits and the Hu family's nursing home together are less than five hundred.

This time, Gu Dingtian brought another 300 people to travel quietly with Xue Dongting's southern expedition, and Hujiazhuang only left less than 200 people to guard the village.

At noon, a group of men and horses suddenly appeared at the mouth of the Xiaoliang River in the north, all cavalry, and more than a dozen artillery pieces.

A steward of the Hu family, surnamed Hu, was taking more than 20 doglegs to monitor the long-term workers in the nearby farmland, and thought that the group was the Ming army that was going south to support, so he stood on the side of the road with a nod and a bow to greet him.

The group of officers and soldiers approached with their heads held high, and before the Hu steward could speak, dozens of horsemen suddenly rushed out and slashed at them.

In the nearby farmland, hundreds of Hu family workers were terrified and fled in all directions.

But where could they run on two legs and four legs, they were soon surrounded by the group of "officers and soldiers".

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, fellow countrymen, we are the Emperor of Lou Annoy, this is our big ...... Lord Qin, we never kill innocents indiscriminately. ”

A little old man with big yellow teeth came out of the crowd and said with a smile at the hundreds of shivering workers who were kneeling on the ground.

Some of the bold long-term workers raised their heads, boldly glanced at the majestic general in armor at the head, and then quickly buried their heads and lay on the ground not daring to move.

That general was naturally Qin Chuan, who was wiping the blood from the long knife in his hand on the corpse of Steward Hu, and after putting the knife into the sheath, he cleared his throat and said, "Fellow countrymen, I am Qin Chuan, the big guy should have heard of my name." ”

"From now on, the East Village is my territory, don't be afraid, don't run around, just wait obediently in the East Village, wait for me to clean up the Hu family, and then kill pigs and sheep to give the big guys meat for two days."

"The Hu family's more than 10,000 acres of land will also be distributed to the big guys for farming, I only receive forty percent of the rent, and in another year or two, after the situation is stable, I will sell the land directly to you, the price is not expensive, just two or three stone of grain."

"I don't have much to say, as long as the big guy doesn't run around, now my people are fighting with officers and soldiers around the East Village, running out will only lead to a dead end, and staying will not only have food and meat, but also fields."

After that, Qin Chuan ignored them anymore, and led his eight hundred Guan Emperor troops to pull more than a dozen artillery pieces towards Hujiazhuang not far away.

In Hujiazhuang, chickens and dogs are already jumping and jumping, women and children are crying and screaming, and Zhuangding Guardians are copying all kinds of weapons and climbing up the city tower or arrow tower in a panic.

When Qin Chuan's dozen cannons lined up outside Hujiazhuang, Luo Da Niu, who had the loudest voice, rode his horse closer to fifty paces and shouted inside, "Listen inside, from today onwards, Dongcun will be the territory of the Qin people of the Thousand Households of Ninghua Institute." ”

"Lord Qin never kills innocents indiscriminately, only kills the Yin bandits of the Hu family, kills the dogs who help the Hu family to cause trouble in the township, and the rest of the villagers are brave and strong, long-term tenants, etc., and they will not be killed."

"Lord Qin will not only kill you, but will also give you food and give you the land to plant, Lou Fu Town is a living example."

After shouting, Luo Da Niu retreated, and immediately after, the dozen or so artillery pieces roared in unison.

More than a dozen shells roared and smashed on the gates and gatehouses of Hujiazhuang.

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