Zhang Zhongwu sat on a rock on the river beach on the north bank of the Juma River, with tears streaming down his face, as he sat on a rock on the river beach on the north bank of the Juma River.

For more than ten years in the north, how could there have been such humiliation?

From time to time, men and horses got up from the river with difficulty, and as soon as they came ashore, they lay motionless on the river beach, and only after a long time did they get up with difficulty and move slowly to the embankment, because there were so many people in the river, and they still needed to make room for the people in front of me.

Even though it was the dry season, even if the Juma River was gentle enough, it was still a moat for the exhausted and armored soldiers, and many of them lost their strength in the middle of the river, and could no longer hold the horsetails, and as soon as their hands were loosened, the heavy armor immediately took their masters and sank to the bottom of the river, and there were large groups of empty horses coming ashore, and their masters were generally in this situation.

Losing soldiers, losing armor, and failing to form an army, this is the situation of the current Lu Long Army, even if many cavalry who escaped the river, now they are bare-handed, and when they are in the river, the heavy weapons are also an obstacle to their escape, and many people have abandoned their weapons and banners.

There was a sound of earth-shattering cheers on the opposite bank, countless Wuwei military flags appeared on the river embankment, fluttering in the wind, and a team of knights rode on the river embankment, waving the weapons and flags in their hands, and cheered.

Min Ziqi, Tuzi Qi, and Li Ziqi appeared one by one.

And their appearance actually scared the Lu Long soldiers who were lying on the mud on the other side of the river and didn't even want to move a finger to get up, and those with horses turned over and hit their horses and left, and those without horses ran away, and the river beach was suddenly in chaos again, until some officers shouted hard and scolded, and the fists, feet, and horses were whipped together, which calmed the situation a little.

And Zhang Zhongwu, who saw this scene, was even more ashamed and inexplicable. Hide your face and turn around, turn over your horse, and gallop away.

Compared with Zhang Zhongwu's bleakness, Yi County fell into a carnival entirely. During the day, the city was still dead silent, and it was uneasy to panic.

Li Ze took away all the elite soldiers and horses, and in the city, only some auxiliary soldiers and temporarily recruited Xiangyong were left, in this case, if Li Ze is defeated, Yi County will inevitably not be protected.

Where the Lu Long people go, where they grab, where they kill, the Yi County people are very clear, once the Lu Long soldiers enter the city, Yi County will inevitably be ruined.

In a panic, he waited until nightfall, and galloped back, bringing the good news that the Wuwei army had defeated Lu Longbing, and in an instant, Yi County fell into a sea of carnival. By the time Li Ze led the crowd back to Yi County, the lights inside and outside the city were bright, and hundreds of people had walked out of their homes, filling the already small streets to the brim, and welcoming the return of the victorious army.

Li Zegao sat on the war horse, guarding left and right, except for a few flag bearers, all of them were scarred and bloodstained, but at this moment, these scars were tantamount to glorious medals.

"Wan Sheng!" From nowhere, a call rang out. Immediately after, Wansheng's shouts resounded throughout the county.

Li Ze smiled and groaned, riding on his horse and waving to the people, ordinary people only knew that this victory had saved their lives and the assets they had accumulated through their hard work, but they could not understand the great political significance brought by this victory.

From today onwards, Lu Long and Zhang Zhongwu will inevitably be no longer vigorous, and next, Wu Wei will have to defend and attack. The change of offensive and defensive forces not only represents the change of confrontation between the two sides on the strategic level, but also has great significance on the political level. When they arrive at this place, all the forces in the Northland will understand that Zhang Zhongwu is gone.

Those forces that originally waited and watched and even supported Zhang Zhongwu must now reconsider their positions, and Zhang Zhongwu will only get weaker and weaker.

Just like those wealthy families in the Northland, except for those families that have long been inseparable from Zhang Zhongwu, the others are now only a little half-hearted.

It is true that the policy implemented by Li Ze in the area under his jurisdiction is indeed a great danger to them, and if it is possible, they are of course willing to confront Li Ze to the end, but the premise is that they can see the hope of victory. But now, that hope is getting slimmer.

If you defect to Li Ze, your family will be dismembered and your strength will be weakened, but fortunately, as long as you listen to Li Ze, he doesn't want your life.

Anyway, Li Ze also left a maximum of 5,000 acres of land for each family, although he can no longer live as chic and comfortable as in the past, but he is still alive, isn't it?

If you really want to resist to the end, if you can't get it, it will be a chicken and an egg, not to mention 5,000 acres, I'm afraid that you won't even have five acres, and you will have to take your life with you.

Wings attached to the strong are originally the way for these people to survive.

It is not nice to say that the grass on the wall, and the wind blows on both sides, but it can also be interpreted as enduring humiliation and burden, stinging and waiting for a good opportunity.

I don't know when the sound of Wansheng's slogan turned out to be the voice of Banzai's shout, at first there were only sporadic shouts mixed in, but gradually, it became a prairie fire.

At this moment, not only did Li Ze frown, but the hundreds of remnants of the Shence Army who returned in the victorious team all changed color on their faces. Especially Cheng Xu, he was a little panicked.

Li Ze accelerated through the street and returned to the place where the commander was located in the county government of Yi County. Until entering the hall, the cheers of Long Live outside were still coming and going, and there were even hundreds of people, gathered around Xingyuan and refused to leave.

"Wang Li, go and persuade the people to return home. After the battle, there are still countless aftermath matters to be completed, and tomorrow, you will have to organize people to help the army clean up the battlefield, clean up the corpses, repair the roads, and still be busy! Li Ze's face was a little hesitant and he turned away from the county commander of Yi County.

As the backbone of the Yixing Society, Wang Li himself did not have much resistance to this kind of shouting of the people, but the festival commander did not look happy, and seemed to be a little annoyed, and after chuckling in his heart, he hurriedly left.

Looking at his back, Li Ze sighed silently, Wang Li himself has nothing wrong with doing things, he is diligent, hard-working, and hard-working, which is also a relatively ordinary feature of the early backbone of the Yixing Society, most of these people are from the lower classes, but those who can do county orders like Wang Li are probably county officials in the past. There are wrists, and there are ways to do things, but the sensitivity to politics is not high.

The people shouted long live, was Li Ze not happy?

I'm afraid not.

But now is not the right time!

He did just defeat Zhang Zhongwu and won a big victory, but for the entire Northland, there is not only one Zhang Zhongwu, Li Ze, who holds high the banner of justice in the imperial court, doesn't want to be said that he has a rebellious heart and is the same as Zhang Zhongwu!

This will put many obstacles in his future.

Now it is in the territory of Wuwei, but there are Xue Ping, Gao Xiangsheng, Cheng Xu and other generals of the Shence Army, and in Hedong, there are also old Gao Biao troops like Han Qi, Li Cunzhong, Han Rui. When Gao Biao was dying, he had to make some arrangements to restrict, and he elbowed himself, and now he came to this play, wouldn't it confirm Gao Biao's judgment before he died!

Even if Gao Yu is dead, Li Ze does not dare to underestimate his influence in the slightest.

"Mr. Chunyu, the promise I made to the soldiers before the war must be fulfilled as soon as possible." Li Ze looked at the jubilant Chun Yuyue and said, "The silver money of the reward will be registered and put in place immediately, and the 100 acres of land will also be divided according to the register." ”

"Marshal, there are more than 10,000 soldiers participating in the war this time, according to the reward promised by Marshal Jie, the land alone needs millions of acres, dare to ask Marshal Jie, where to distribute these lands?" Chun Yuyue asked.

"Texas, start with Texas first." Li Zedao: "Texas is my next key city, where most of the place is still barren, we want to make it prosperous as soon as possible, and if you want to prosper, you naturally need people." ”

"Understood, I'll go to make the paperwork, the documents on the silver side will be sent to the Duzhi Division, and the land side will be sent directly to Texas, and Guo Fengxiao, the Texan assassin, will be in charge of this matter." Chun Yuyue nodded.

Li Ze turned his head and looked at Cheng Xu, who was scarred in the lower seat, and a gentle smile appeared on his face: "General Cheng, this time your department has restrained five thousand Lu dragoons for my main force, and your merit is great, I can only inform Deputy Xue and report to the court at the same time, but I can't arrogant what you promised." But your soldiers, I still want to reward, reward, the same as Wuwei soldiers, what do you think? Most of the family members of the soldiers of the Shence Army are in Chang'an and Luoyang, and I will let the Qianniu Wei Mansion in Chang'an pay for the reward, and they will send it to the door one by one. But the land, I can only distribute it for them in the jurisdiction of Wuwei, if they are willing to come, their land is naturally theirs, if they are not willing to come, then these lands, they can also buy and sell. Originally, Yongye Tian, which was rewarded for his exploits, could not be bought and sold because he did not pay taxes, but I am willing to make an exception for them. ”

Cheng Xu's face trembled a few times, then he stood up and hugged his fists and said, "Thank you for the reward, I thank you for the sons and daughters who died in battle." They finally have something to gain from their deaths. ”

Li Ze nodded and looked at Chun Yuyue, who nodded again and again.

What can Cheng Xu say? Say no? Of his three thousand sons, only a few hundred people can come back, and those who died are also families and children, and a hundred yuan of reward, even in Chang'an, is not a small amount, enough for those people's families to survive, and if they run well, they can even live a well-off life. As for land, in a place like Chang'an, ordinary people want a hundred acres of land, which is simply a pipe dream.

Knowing that Li Ze's intentions were not pure, Cheng Xu didn't dare to say a word, otherwise the news would spread, and he was afraid that he, the general, would immediately become the target of public criticism, and he would never want to command a person in the future.

And more importantly, such a treatment has reached the ears of other Divine Ce Army, and no one can say whether this Divine Ce Army will completely fall to Li Ze in the future.

After all, high-ranking generals, and even some middle-level generals, still have political demands, but what do ordinary soldiers want? It's just a bowl of rice.