If a place is deserted without people, it will become barren very quickly. It's like a room, if no one lives in it for a long time, it will fall into decay in a short time. In the final analysis, there is no popularity.

That's the case in Texas right now. Although it has only been three months since Li Ze burned down Texas, this land is about to become a wasteland.

A fire produced countless ashes, and after the rainy season, the weeds grew like crazy, and the villages and towns of the past were about to be completely occupied by these wild grasses.

Pingkou Town, which used to be a large market town, lived in about two or three hundred households. Now, of course, these people have long been moved to Wuyi Xindu and other places, and this town has also been burned down by fire, but in this town, there are more than a dozen blue brick houses, although the beams and beams of the house have been burned, but the walls on all sides are still there.

Now there is not much difference between the town and the wasteland outside, between many broken walls, the grass grows taller than people, and even the original bluestone road in the town, the grass has stubbornly grown out of the cracks.

A large flock of birds landed among the weeds, looking down for something, as if the grass had what they needed to eat.

A big yellow dog ran out of a blue brick house, barked a few times, and a large flock of birds was lifted to the ground, and flew up from the grass and flew into the distance.

"Wangcai, come back!" A man in leather armor came out from behind the broken wall and yelled at the big yellow dog.

The big yellow dog wagged his tail at him, but turned and ran out of town.

Running all the way to the head of the town, he stood under a thick tree trunk that had been burned to the point of most of it, and looked into the distance. A moment later, at the end of the field of vision, a cavalry figure appeared.

The big yellow dog Wangcai barked at the cavalry a few more times, circled around the scorched trees with joy, and after a while, simply ran towards the cavalry.

The cavalry approached the town quickly, and one of the knights at the head looked at the big yellow dog running side by side with the war horse like a happy man, laughed and bent down, and then picked up the big yellow dog Wangcai and rested it on the saddle.

"It's the captain back!" In the midst of the ruins, suddenly more than a dozen men stood up, each with swords, guns, bows and crossbows in their hands.

The hundred or so cavalry did not stop, and rushed straight into the town along the bluestone road overgrown with weeds.

Li De turned over and dismounted, threw the big yellow dog Wangcai on the ground, and pulled a dead rabbit from behind the saddle and threw it to him." For your sake, I'm rewarding you for welcoming me."

Wangcai barked twice, took the rabbit, shook his head and scurried into the house, and found a corner to eat.

"This dog really has a conscience, Captain, you are still so far away, he can smell you, and he will run to meet him." A man put aside the horizontal knife in his hand and led Li De's war horse to the side and tied it to a stone mill.

Li De laughed, this dog was a dog he found when he first arrived at Pingkou Town with the cavalry, at that time, the town was already in a semi-barren state, and the whole town, just such a dog, lying weak at the gate, seemed to be starving.

At that time, the place had just been burned by fire, and it was not so easy to find something to eat.

Li De's heart softened, gave the dog some food, and rescued him. From that time on, the dog became the common pet of the cavalry.

Pingkou Town is a secret garrison of Li De's cavalry.

In order to cover up his own collection, there was basically no tidying up here, and the weeds were allowed to grow wildly, that is, a few blue brick houses in the town were cleaned up slightly, and the shelves were re-erected and covered with some thatch, as a resting place for everyone.

In the places where secret camps like this are stationed, in Texas, Li De has operated a total of more than a dozen. Some usually don't keep people, but at more critical nodes like Pingkou Town, some people will be left to guard them.

In the past few months, Wuyi, Xindu and other places have been busy relocating the migratory people, and then fighting the flood, they are very busy, and Li De, who is outside with 300 cavalry, is naturally not idle.

He had a mission to harass and attack Cangzhou, Dizhou and other Henghai under his rule.

Cangzhou he went less, there must be Zhu Shou's base camp, the precautions are relatively strict, and Cangzhou martial arts are extremely strong, the people are also very strong, after going to a time and not asking for anything good, Li De turned his target to Dizhou. Taking advantage of the fact that Dizhou was slaughtered by Ai Song in Dezhou City, Changchun Shizhuang and they destroyed 1,000 armor soldiers and 3,000 soldiers in a battle, and their strength was greatly damaged, and at the same time, the entire Dizhou was panicked, he attacked again and again.

Li De's goal is not to siege the city, nor to kill or injure the opponent's army and civilians, he is simply sabotage.

Everywhere he passed, villages, small market towns, and crops were all on fire, and of course, if he could, he would rob all the people in Dizhou. These people are left with nothing.

These people will eventually become a heavy burden for Dizhou.

When the heavy rain continued, Li De attacked less, because Dizhou was already in chaos. The people who were burned their crops and the people who were robbed by him had nothing but to concentrate on places similar to county towns and state towns, wanting to find a bite to eat. Then, naturally, the riot began.

Now Dizhou is already on fire everywhere, and Dizhou, which has lost a large number of soldiers, now has no strength to suppress these rioting people, so it can only concentrate on defending the city and then rescue Cangzhou.

All of a sudden, the entire Henghai was full of chaos.

When Henghai sent reinforcements to Dizhou to suppress the riot, Li De immediately turned around and began to attack the Cangzhou territories that had been transferred troops and horses.

It wasn't until Zhu Shou finally sent a cavalry to search for them in Texas and intercept them that Li De was a little more honest.

Texas is so big, and now it is even more deserted, and it is really not a simple matter for the other party to block his cavalry. What's more, Li De had already set up some secret bases and supply points like Pingkou Town in Texas, while the Henghai Cavalry did not. And these self-raised transverse sea cavalry will not be able to penetrate deep into the territory of Texas, what they can do is to hold the border of Cangzhou and stop being attacked by these elusive guys.

"Captain, my father's body is okay?" As soon as Li De sat down, a young soldier brought a bowl of water with an open bowl, handed the water to Li De, rubbed his hands and asked.

Li De turned his head to look at him, and the soldier hurriedly said, "Captain, this water is boiling. We dare not be lazy at all, and at night we boil the water to the ground, and we dare not drink raw water."

Li De nodded, "This is stipulated by Childe, we are outside, there is nothing else, but we must definitely drink boiled water. Even when you go to war, you have to bring a bag of water with you. Otherwise, if you get sick, you won't be able to find a doctor. Oh, what did you just ask?"

"My old son is okay?" The soldier asked again.

Li De scratched his head: "Your old son has made a fortune, your yard and the vegetable field behind you in Wuyi City were bought by a landlord in Dezhou, a full three hundred!"

The young soldier sighed and opened his mouth wide: "Three... Three hundred?"

Li De nodded: "Yes, it's three hundred, your broken yard is worth dozens of dollars at most, isn't this son getting all the rich people in Texas to Wuyi?" No matter how broken your yard is, it is also in the city, and the landlord bought it and put the original house on the sliders and built a new house, good fellow, when I went to the empty house, I almost thought you were a little rich! I found out what it was like when I asked."

The young soldier paused, then asked, "Where do they live after the house is sold?"

"Your old son and mother left Wuyi City, ran to Qingshantun to buy a house, and bought some land, but it cost a hundred yuan, Qingshantun relies on Daqingshan, more wasteland, they are also ready to open up the wasteland, Gongzi issued a decree, the newly opened farmland, no tax will be charged within three years, and it will be privately owned after three years of cultivation, little worm, your Lao Tzu and Niang are very shrewd, the two hundred yuan saved, said to keep it for you to marry a daughter-in-law!"

The young soldier Xiao Worm blushed: "Why do I want them to save money for me to marry a daughter-in-law, this time, won't I earn seventy or eighty yuan?" Besides, I'm still young!"

The seventy or eighty guan that the worm said were naturally snatched by them in Dizhou and other places.

Seventy percent of the loot will be handed over to the public according to the rules, and thirty percent will be privately owned by individuals. This time, Li De went back, firstly, because of the next change in his military affairs, and secondly, because he sent these goods back.

Li De laughed: "It's not Xiao Luo, when this battle is over, let's go back, find a daughter-in-law, tell you, now our Wuyi locals are very popular, and many women are willing to marry locals, and most of the guys stationed in Wuyi have found daughters-in-law."

Not only Li De said this to Xiao Worm, but in the entire secret base, the cavalry who had just returned from Wuyi were all describing the new changes in Wuyi to the guys who stayed here. Hearing those people was radiant.

The current Wuyi, and the Wuyi when they left, are almost completely different places. If it weren't for the military affairs, these people would be eager to put on their wings and fly back to see the current Xinwuyi.

Li De stood up, clapped his hands, and said, "Okay, okay, don't talk about it, the brothers stationed here, immediately send a few people out, and inform the brothers from the other garrison points to come to Pingkou to gather, and then, we have work to do."