Chapter 166: News of Victory

Just when Cao Xin, Gongsun Changming and others were worried about the battle situation in Yizhou, thousands of people in Dezhou were marching miserably in the direction of Yizhou under the drive and escort of the black-clothed army. The migratory army can travel up to thirty miles a day, but this speed has already made Li Ze very satisfied, and in ten days at most, he will be able to return to Yizhou Xindu.

The key is whether Shi Zhuang Tu Lichun's battle can be won, if he loses, it doesn't make much difference if he wins a day earlier or a day later, if he wins, even if it's a few days later, it doesn't matter.

After Hou Zhen threw out an olive branch from Li Ze and clearly expressed his intention to solicit, he also posted it immediately with knowledge and interest. In any case, the person in front of him is the son of the Chengde Festival Envoy, which is a step higher than Zhu Bin, who he originally relied on, and Li Ze consciously or unintentionally expressed his intention to win the position of the future Chengde Festival Envoy, which made Hou Zhen's heart tremble.

Anyway, it's like this now, and if it angers the person in front of him, there will be a killing disaster immediately, so it's better to stick it all over the body, once this person really gains power, the Hou family may be able to go to a new level.

These powerful families still have quite a lot of background. There are strict rules and regulations for doing things, Hou Zhen sent more than 100 family members to help the black-clothed army manage this migratory army, and along the way, he even took out his own food to cook porridge to help the victims. With Hou's example, several other families followed suit, sending their own servants and children to join in, which also made this migratory army more orderly.

After all, these must be all famous and prestigious families in Texas, and with their joining, Li Ze has saved a lot of effort.

A felt carpet was spread on the ground, Li Ze and Hou Zhen and several other people sat on the ground, since people were so positive, Li Ze naturally had to show enthusiasm and kindness. After a day's trek, I invited the seven masters to sit down and have a drink.

Ordinary people naturally suffer greatly in such migrations, but for people like them, no matter how hard they suffer, they can't suffer enough. On the felt carpet, it is still full of chickens, ducks and fish.

To Li Ze's surprise, Hou Zhen actually took out a jar of wine that was as red as blood, knocked on the seal, and the mellow aroma immediately lingered in his nose.

Looking at Li Ze's surprised appearance, Hou Zhen said proudly: "Li Gongzi, this wine has been around for many years, and it was purchased from the merchants of the Western Regions when my father was alive, and after many years, only this altar remains."

Attentively poured a bowl for Li Ze, and Hou Zhen said, "Can the son taste it and still eat it?"

Li Ze picked up the wine bowl, shook it gently, and only then did he take a sip lightly, rolling it back and forth in his mouth several times, and then swallowed it, closed his eyes and tasted it carefully.

The taste is certainly excellent. Poor Li Ze in his previous life, what '82 Lafite was just a daily wine for him, but in this world, he never drank good red wine again. The red wine in front of me that has been treasured for decades tastes the same as those famous wines in the previous life.

With a long exhale, Li Ze opened his eyes: "Good wine!"

Seeing that Li Ze liked it, Hou Zhen narrowed his eyes with a smile.

Li Ze naturally couldn't come up with such a good thing. However, he did bring some high-grade liquor distilled by himself from Zhuangzi, which was originally brought for medical disinfection. But this wine, that is, the high degree, take a spirit. There is no comparison with the red wine of this vintage that Hou Zhen took out. It was the preserved fruit he took out that made Hou Zhen very surprised.

"Is this frost?" Picking up a piece of white preserved fruit sticking to white sugar, Hou Zhen asked.

"Exactly." Li Ze smiled. Wuyi is backed by Daqing Mountain, and there are many wild fruits on the mountain, but most of them are sour and astringent and cannot be swallowed, but after being concocted in this way, it is a good accompaniment to wine."

Hou Zhen swallowed a mouthful of saliva, this can be regarded as a real purchase of pearls, it is really a waste to use precious frosting sugar to concoct these wild fruits.

"It's not difficult to make frosting, as long as there are enough raw materials, we can make a lot of frosting, but in our place, there are no raw materials, so we have to give up." Li Ze said regretfully: "Now the various sections are dominating one side, and the trade routes are not open, otherwise a large amount of sand sugar will be transported from the south and then processed into frosted sugar, and the profit from this will be a big Luo."

Speaking of this, Li Ze was a little annoyed, each festival envoy has his own territory, his own business, other people's business wants to enter, there are thousands of difficulties, the business route is not passable, resulting in circulation difficulties, prices soaring. Just like Li Ze's development in Henghai at the beginning, it took a lot of effort to get to today's scale, and a large part of the annual profits are used to feed those corrupt officials.

Now doing business, as long as the trade routes are smooth, transporting things from one place to another place is basically a huge profit, but it is precisely because the trade routes are controlled that Li Ze cannot use all kinds of ideas.

Because the current business is all about using knives as a guarantee. As long as you see a large caravan on the road, you don't have to ask, behind them are all backed by a strong armed force.

No matter what the seven families were thinking in their hearts, but now, they could only flatter Li Ze, and after a meal, they were also the guests and hosts, and they were happy. The other six heads of the family were also stained with Li Ze's light, and they were able to taste Hou Zhen's treasured wine, a jar of wine, which was drunk by everyone.

Towards the end of the feast, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the darkness in the distance, and everyone's eyes turned to the direction from which the horses' hooves came.

A horse and a knight, leaping out of the darkness. After the vigilant Li Mi saw the knight on the horse clearly, he whistled, and the guards who had gathered here in the darkness quietly dispersed in all directions.

Someone came, and it turned out to be the fox of the heart moon fox.

Turned over and dismounted, trotted to Li Ze, knelt down on one knee, and Hu Yi's face was full of joy: "Son, Dezhou City is a great victory, we annihilated the 1,000 Cangzhou cavalry led by Zhu Yannian from Cangzhou in one fell swoop, and the 1,000 armor soldiers and 3,000 soldiers led by Ai Song, the Dizhou don't drive Ai Song."

As soon as the fox said one by one, Li Ze was really overjoyed, and now, this war can be regarded as the real end, and he and his migratory army can finally return to Yizhou safely.

Although he wanted to jump up and sing in his heart, in front of Hou Zhen and the others, he still tried to maintain a calm appearance, took a piece of preserved fruit with two fingers and chewed it slowly, and asked while chewing: "Captured geometry?"

Hu Yi glanced at Li Ze with some embarrassment and said, "Childe, there are no prisoners, they are all dead!"

Well?

Li Ze's body sat up straight all of a sudden, five thousand people, and there were no prisoners?

Not only was Li Ze surprised, but Hou Zhen and the others, who were still sitting at the moment, couldn't sit still one by one, and stood up one after another.

The news of the victory brought by Hu Yi has already shocked them, Li Ze's department, first defeated Zhu Bin's 1,000 armor soldiers and tens of thousands of soldiers, and then smashed Dezhou City, cut off Zhu Bin's head, and robbed Dezhou City, and now he has defeated the Heng Navy, 1,000 cavalry, 1,000 armor soldiers, 3,000 soldiers, and there is no living person.

What does this mean?

Kill the prisoners!

Only this explanation can make sense why there was not even a single prisoner after a big war.

Li Ze also quickly figured out Shi Zhuang, why Tu Lichun would kill the prisoners so desperately, they didn't have much troops to manage and escort these prisoners. Moreover, these people are from Dizhou and Cangzhou, and it is not ordinarily difficult to naturalize them. This is not like the Texas soldiers who were captured by him, now that he has brought back the whole body of Texas, with the bonds of a small family, it will be much easier to collect these people.

"Hungry, come, eat a chicken leg to cushion the bottom, and then tell me in detail about this battle!" Li Ze glanced at the seven masters beside him and said with a smile.

"Xie Gongzi reward!" After taking the chicken legs, the fox finished gnawing the chicken legs one by three and five by two, not even letting go of the bones, chewing and chewing, wiping his mouth, and taking a book of spirits from Li Ze's hand, and drank it all, and a blush appeared on his face.

"Childe, this battle is like this." Fox Yi, who drank wine, had a particularly loud voice.

Luring the enemy into the city and then burning down the city of Texas was originally a ploy set by Childe, but now Childe wants to tell it again himself, of course, to tell these people.

Sure enough, hearing that Dezhou City had been burned clean in the fire, Hou Zhen and the others all showed heartache on their faces, but they immediately endured it again. The city of Texas is gone, and their way home is cut off, and it seems that they will only settle down in Wuyi in the future.

"Hu Yi, you did a good job this time, you should be credited!" Li Ze said to the fox with satisfaction: "What reward do you want, just say it, today the son is happy."

The fox was overjoyed, knelt on his knees, and kowtowed his head heavily: "The fox is begging the son to give him the surname Li."

The people who came out of the secret camp were all honored to be given the surname Li by Gongzi, but until now, only Li Hao, Li Han, and Li Mi have won this honor, and even Yan Jiu, who is deeply liked by Li Ze, has not received this honor until now.

"Before the war, you tried your best to search for the enemy's situation, so that our side knows the enemy's situation well, during the war, you can not be afraid of danger, lead the team to hide in the enemy's belly to launch a fatal blow, and after the war, you ran around overnight to send the news to me as soon as possible, and deserve a heavy reward, from today onwards, your surname is Li, and your surname is Li Mingde,"

"Li Dexie's son gave him the surname." Fox one, Li De once again kowtowed heavily to his head. Li Ze's name is not just to let his subordinates have the surname Li, but to allow them to establish a branch after their own name, in other words, if Li Ze establishes a sect on his own in the future, they will be regarded as a side branch of the Li family. If Li Ze returns to the Chengde Li clan, these people are also eligible to enter the Li ancestral hall to worship. It is precisely because of this that the people in the secret camp value it so much. This is a step to the sky for them.