Li Xiaofei and the others walked for three days before they walked a hundred miles and encountered a river blocking the way, Zhu Yaoshi stepped forward and pointed to the opposite bank: "The opposite side is Fuyang City, but the river is frozen, if the ice is thick enough, we can rush directly over."

As soon as the words fell, many large stones were thrown from the opposite side and smashed on the ice, and many holes were smashed out of the ice, and the soldiers quickly cracked and fell into the water. There was a group of cavalry on the opposite side who came over on horseback: "Barbarians, you fly over or swim over, haha, let's go back to drink", this group of cavalry laughed at Liang Jun and quickly returned to the city.

Pharmacist Zhu looked at the river and shook his head: "There are no boats, we have to make a detour to the west."

Xiang Xiaoyu looked at the river and smiled: "Let's build a boat here, and we can cross the river early tomorrow morning."

Li Xiaofei and Murong Ling looked at Xiang Xiaoyu with strange eyes: "There are not even trees around here, all the firewood on our chariot is used, and we can't build a few ships overnight, besides, it's freezing this day, you can't use firewood."

Xiang Xiaoyu pointed to the ice on the shore: "What I want is that it is freezing on this day, I don't need wood to build a ship, just dig mud!" ”

As he spoke, Xiang Xiaoyu led people to dig up the soil on the shore and knead it into a boat shape to water it. Pharmacist Zhu reacted quickly: "I understand, tonight this mud boat is frozen, it will not leak if it is placed in the water, and we can pass."

Li Xiaofei and Murong Ling immediately ordered everyone to dig and build a ship, and by midnight, more than 100 large and small boats had been pinched and placed on the shore.

Li Xiaofei looked at the ice marks on the shore during the day, and knew that the enemy troops on the opposite side would throw stones every day to smash through the ice to prevent the Liang army from crossing the river. Sure enough, at the fourth watch, stones were thrown into the river from the opposite side, and every quarter of an hour stones came.

The next morning, Li Xiaofei ordered the march with drums and made a posture to cross the river from the ice, and threw a few stones directly into the river from the opposite side, and no more stones fell after that. Seeing that the time had come, Li Xiaofei and Murong Ling took the lead in pushing the mud boats into the water, and more than 3,000 Liang soldiers followed closely behind to push more than 100 mud boats into the river. Xiang Xiaoyu was the first to jump on the boat, and everyone saw that although the mud boat had a deep draft, it was floating on the river, so they got on the boat one after another, made oars with knives and shields, and after a while, they reached the opposite bank.

When the Liang army rushed to the city of Fuyang, the city gate was not closed, and the Liang army rushed in, and the Qin army defending the city was still drinking and having fun, and they were stunned when they saw the Liang army killed. One side was holding back a force to attack the city, and the other side thought that there was a river to block the other party and was defenseless, this battle was no suspense, and soon all the Qin troops were taken prisoner, and Li Xiaofei and his people sat in the city government.

The city was replaced with the banner of Liang Jun, and the big merchants in the city used a car to drag wine, meat, cattle and sheep to reward Liang Jun. Xiang Xiaoyu went to the treasury to collect grain and grass according to the old practice. Murong Ling walked around the city and found that many people were in tattered clothes and trembling together, so he took a few people back to the mansion to see Li Xiaofei.

As soon as Li Xiaofei saw these poor people, he asked, "Did you escape into Fuyang from outside?" If you are willing to follow me, I can keep you, if you don't, I will pay you the passage fee, and you can go home."

Pharmacist Zhu was coming in with a roster from outside, and as soon as he entered the door, the roster fell to the ground, and he ran over and grabbed a person's hand: "Vice General Zhao, is it you?" How did you get to this? ”

These people immediately hugged Pharmacist Zhu again: "Pharmacist, why did you vote for Liang Jun?" ”

It turned out that these people were Hu Jian's subordinates, and after being defeated by the army of the Black Flag Khanate that day, they fled back to their hometown Fuyang together. Who knew that the big merchants in Fuyang City had already occupied the houses and fields of these people, and also removed them from the household list, making several of them untouchables, so they lived on the streets.

Pharmacist Zhu looked at Li Xiaofei, and Li Xiaofei slapped the table: "This soldier is desperate in front, but these people are forcibly grabbing, no wonder so many people have risen up!" It's so unbelievable! When I ordered all the big businessmen in Fuyang City to be tied up and taken to the school grounds, I personally came to interrogate them, but some of them forcibly seized other people's fields and houses and usurped other people's wives and daughters, and they were beheaded on the spot! ”

Pharmacist Zhu and Vice General Zhao knelt down together to thank Li Xiaofei, and Vice General Zhao and several others were willing to join Li Xiaofei. Li Xiaofei helped a few people up, and thought that this time there were three or four thousand captured Qin troops, and immediately asked Zhu Yaoshi to lead Deputy General Zhao to collect the old department and arrest the big merchants in the city, firstly, to avoid the Liang army from leaving a bad reputation, and secondly, to let Zhu Yaoshi and others be angry to establish prestige, and the effect of using locals to govern the local area is much better.

In the afternoon, there were hundreds of large businessmen who caught the school, and after some interrogation, most of them seized the fields and houses of the civilians, and some of the untouchables who seized other people's wives and daughters to force them to death. Many people kowtowed and begged for mercy to show their willingness to give up their possessions, but a few held their heads high and sneered: "You are so ignorant of human feelings, you enter the city today, and you will be driven out of the city tomorrow."

"You untouchables, you think that with a group of rotten hills, you can be the king and hegemon, but Lao Tzu has a relationship with the prime minister of the Southern Dynasty."

"I'm the in-laws of the Xie family, you are so nonsense, the Emperor of Liang can't spare you!"

"What you do is not the protection of our family?"

"Your General Chen is still the nephew of my uncle's aunt's grandson, who of you dares to kill me!"

Li Xiaofei and the others didn't expect that there were still some such rampant people, and Xiang Xiaoyu also persuaded Li Xiaofei not to be rash. Li Xiaofei thought for a while and stood up, and the few people with their heads raised thought that they were here to untie them, so they all laughed.

Li Xiaofei walked over and pointed to a group of ragged people on the edge of the school field and said, "You want to live, you have a big official to protect you, what about them?" They just want to have food and a place to live, and if you don't let them live, I won't let you live. I, Li Xiaofei, do things by myself and take on one responsibility, I think that when I raise the army, I am fighting for the untouchables, so that the poor can have food, clothing, and a house, so that they will not be frozen to death and starved to death! I don't want to talk nonsense with you guys anymore, kill! ”

At the sound of an order, the school field was full of people, and the surrendered Qin army and Liang Jun applauded together, and Xiang Xiaoyu saw that it was useless to persuade him again, so he told Li Xiaofei that from now on, Li Xiaofei could only win the battle, otherwise once he was defeated, the family in the court would try their best to kill him. Li Xiaofei nodded solemnly in a dark color, and pointed at Pharmacist Zhu to Xiaoyu: "I think this person has some skills, it is better to let him send people everywhere to recite the matter of Fuyang's killing of the rich family everywhere, so that our army can grow in a short period of time, and even if Fan Yang is really fought in the future, it can be a battle."

After purging Fuyang City, Li Xiaofei selected cavalry from the Qin army and the Liang army, Zhu Yaoshi volunteered to be a cavalry deputy general, Li Xiaofei looked at Murong Ling: "Brother Zhu's riding skills will never be better than General Murong."

Zhu Yaoshi didn't answer, so he jumped on the back of the horse and stood, his left hand whipped the horse, his right hand had already taken out the bow, the horse ran on the school field, Zhu Yaoshi suddenly sat down to the left, and turned over and hid in the horse's belly, the most absolute thing was to turn over and get off the horse and jump forward on the horse's back, Li Xiaofei praised and pestered Zhu Yaoshi to learn. Pharmacist Zhu smiled and agreed: "Actually, I have long wanted to teach more people, but people are soft-spoken, and now that Master Li has given this opportunity, I will definitely do my best to teach everyone well." But I have a habit that if I teach someone something, they have to teach me something."

Li Xiaofei's eyes rolled, and he remembered the scene of Pharmacist Zhu crossing the river lying in a mud boat: "Yes, yes, yes, you can't learn Brother Zhu's equestrian skills in vain, they all say that northerners are good at riding horses, and southerners are good at boating, and I have no other skills, so I taught Brother Zhu to row in the water."

Li Xiaofei originally thought that Pharmacist Zhu would retreat knowing the difficulty, but who knew that Pharmacist Zhu actually agreed. Many years later, Li Xiaofei always blamed himself for teaching things that should not have been taught.