Zhang Yi felt very lucky, Li Yan said this tonight, if he didn't say it, he would see Sun Chuanting tomorrow, as long as he said that he won, Sun Chuanting would definitely report to Ming Court and mobilize heavy troops to Huayin, when the time comes, not only will the Qin army not be able to gain a foothold here, but his own life will probably have to be explained.

What a little Li Yan, this place is extraordinary.

Zhang Yi immediately got up and was going to report to King Qin. Li Yan stopped in front of him: "Sir, let's go to the leader to discuss." Zhang Yi nodded, and Li Yan said: "If you see the leader, it's better for Mr. not to say that I reminded him, just say that Mr. himself thought of it, is it okay?" Zhang Yi narrowed her eyes: "Why is this?" ”

Li Yan replied truthfully: "If I join you, everything can be true, if I am not willing to join you, the leader is afraid that he will regard me as an enemy, and my life will not be saved." Sir saved my life, and he won't kill me again. ”

Zhang Yi smiled slightly: "Sure enough, I have insight, don't worry, I won't harm you." ”

He went out to see the King of Qin. When King Qin heard what he said, he was also taken aback, and hurriedly summoned Fan Ju, Bai Qi, and Wang Jian to the three of them. After a few people discussed, Bai Qi said: "It is not difficult to turn a big victory into a fiasco, but it is difficult to say it on the enemy side." ”

Fan Ju thought for a while: "You might as well say this, King Qi fought with us, although the enemy army won a big victory, but there were also a lot of casualties, and I don't know how many more people we have, so we retreated." ”

Zhang Yi shook his head: "Just saying that, I'm afraid it won't work." King Qin waved his hand: "General Wang Qian, you can lead thousands of people, pretend to be the king's men and horses, and harass people in distant villages and towns, remember not to kill people." Just grab a little bit of possessions. In this way, the government will be convinced that the men and horses of the King of Neatness have not suffered much loss, and that we have suffered heavy casualties. ”

The four of them stood up together: "The king is wise." ”

Wang Jian came out, picked up the people overnight, and sneaked away. Zhang Yi returned to her residence and talked to Li Yan, and Li Yan was relieved when she heard Zhang Yi say that she didn't talk about herself.

Before dawn, Wang Jian came back with people, robbed some money and clothes, and reported to the king of Qin: "King, I took the soldiers to harass three villages and towns, and I didn't kill anyone, but only slightly injured some. ”

King Qin smiled at Zhang Yi: "Sir, you can go." ”

Zhang Yi told Bai Qi: "The general must be prepared, once Sun Chuanting comes to check, don't show his feet." ”

Bai nodded: "Sir, just rest assured, everything has been arranged." ”

As soon as the sky dawned, Zhang Yi took Li Yan out of the village, and the two of them rode two inferior horses and walked side by side towards Huayin City.

Talking about it along the way, Zhang Yi found that Li Yan was indeed a well-known scholar and liked it. In the past few days, Zhang Yi has been reading hard day and night, and has read through all the historical books he bought, from the Qin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, most of the changes in the human world over the past 1,800 years are known. Therefore, the two of them also talked lively.

After entering Huayin City not long after, Zhang Yi instructed Li Yan: "If someone asks about you, they will only say that they are my nephew, and I will explain the rest." Don't say more. Li Yan nodded, the two came to the county office, Zhang Yi said his name, sent someone in to report, and after a while, he invited the two to go in.

When he came to the back hall, Sun Chuanting was still dressed in civilian clothes, sitting there with a calm face. Zhang Yi hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and then lowered his head with a sad face.

Sun Chuanting asked, "What is Mr. Zhang doing here?" ”

Zhang Yi hurriedly replied: "The villain came here to bid farewell to the adult. Sun Chuanting said: "Resign? Why resigned? Zhang Yi sighed: "The day before yesterday, the lord asked me to wait to meet the king of neatness, the villain didn't dare to slack off, went back to confess, the strong man in the village poured out of the nest and fought a battle with the thieves, but suffered heavy casualties and returned to the village. My lord explained that day, Huayin County does not allow people without blood, and we defeated it, so everyone discussed that it was better to leave Huayin. ”

Sun Chuanting said: "Where are you going when you leave Huayin?" Zhang Yi shook his head: "I don't know yet." Wherever you go, it's where you go. ”

Sun Chuanting sighed: "I have received news that King Qi led the thieves to ransack several villages last night, but it seems that there are not too many people, presumably you have also hit this gang of thieves hard." ”

Zhang Yi said: "I almost killed and injured one or two thousand of them." ”

Sun Chuanting nodded: "It's not bad, you dare to face the battle, you can be regarded as bloody, and you are a man." Are everyone still in the village right now? ”

Zhang Yi said: "I haven't left yet, because there are a lot of injured people who need to be treated." ”

Sun Chuanting stood up: "This county wants to go and have a look, and comfort everyone." Zhang Yi waved his hand again and again: "How can this be done?" Adults are expensive and lowly ground, and villains dare not bother. Sun Chuanting smiled: "This battle is forced by this county to fight, whether you win or lose, you always have to go and see, you don't have to shirk anymore, let's go." ”

After saying this, he ordered his men to send a large cart, and bring ten pigs and a few jars of good wine, and live with them.

Zhang Yi couldn't shirk anymore, so she had to thank her.

After a while, everyone rode out of the county office, and when they passed by the old store of the Wu family, Zhang Yi looked at the side of the road, and happened to see the girl with a blue heart, and at this time the girl with a blue heart also saw him, and was about to say hello, and then looked at the poor person next to him, and closed his mouth.

Zhang Yi nodded and smiled at her, and then rode out of the city.

There was nothing to say on the way, and it didn't take long to come to Yuehuazhuang. As soon as he entered the village, he heard the sound of **wailing, Zhang Yi smiled secretly in his heart, it seems that Bai Qi already knew that they were coming, and the arrangement was quite like that.

When I entered the village, I saw that there were people squatting on both sides of the road, and they were naturally all Daqin soldiers. These people are all gray and dejected, and many of them still have blood on their faces, plus their clothes are ragged and their hair is unkempt.

There were wounded people lying in all the makeshift houses, and there were light wounded people in the houses nearby, so no one shouted, Sun Chuanting went in to look, and saw that those people had cloths wrapped around their hands or legs, and the cloth was still oozing blood.

Walking further in, there is the house of the seriously injured, and the sound of screams comes out from time to time, which makes people worry about it. Sun Chuanting stopped from time to time and walked into several houses to visit, only to see that the people inside were either missing hands and feet, or had been hit by knives and guns in the abdomen, and at this time they were so painful that they didn't even have the strength to roll, just lying there and screaming.

Sun Chuanting approached a wounded man and saw that the man had a strip of cloth wrapped around his stomach, which had been soaked in blood, and the people on the side were helpless and just stared blankly. Sun Chuanting asked, "Is there still salvation?" The person on the side shook his head and sighed: "The intestines are rotten, and I can't live...... Sun Chuanting walked over, looked at the injured person, and suddenly stretched out his hand and pressed it on the man's stomach.

The man snorted, his whole body arched all of a sudden, like a boiled shrimp, he stared at Sun Chuanting with round eyes, his lips trembled, and the cold sweat on his forehead immediately rolled down.

It really hurts. Sun Chuanting shook his head, sighed, and turned out of the house.

After walking through the entire village, Sun Chuanting roughly estimated that about six or seven hundred people were injured, and he and Zhang Yi came to three other villages, and saw that the situation was about the same as that of Yuehuazhuang, and more than 2,000 people were injured after a rough calculation. According to Zhang Yi, more than 1,000 people were still killed in battle, and all of them were buried in dozens of large pits outside the village.

In this way, in this battle, the displaced people in the four villages suffered nearly 4,000 casualties, Sun Chuanting was a little relieved, and he said to Zhang Yi: "You have suffered a lot of losses in this battle, so don't go anywhere else, rest here first." ”

Zhang Yi was overjoyed: "So, the lord allowed us to settle down?" ”

Sun Chuanting was noncommittal: "I didn't say that, I mean you settle down first, and then see what happens in the future, maybe it won't be long before you have to return to your hometown, and I can't keep it." Zhang Yi hurriedly said: "Of course we want to go back to our hometown, but now in the middle of winter, before the time of spring ploughing, there is no place to go back, so it is better to spend the winter here." ”

Sun Chuanting glanced at him: "Huayin County has experienced a lot of thieves, the population has decreased a lot, and many villages have become empty cities, and there are no people, no labor, no taxes, and no foundation, so I still hope you stay." ”

He was telling the truth. Since the great drought in Shaanxi this year, thieves have swarmed everywhere, and many places have either rebelled in villages or have been looted by thieves, and the taxes cannot be collected at all, and if this continues, it will be a vicious circle, and the more taxes cannot be collected, the more taxes must be raised, and the more taxes are raised, the more people rebel, and the more people who rebel, the more taxes will not be collected......

What is most needed at the moment is stability, the recruitment of displaced people, and the stabilization of them. Sun Chuanting understands this truth very well, these people are not strong in combat, he is very relieved, staying to resume production is the best result.