The scene is almost like zombie cannibalism, and Chen Kai, who entered the city with Li Dingguo only after the Ming army fully controlled all the points and main roads in the city, had no chance to see it.

However, in the process of the Ming army's search and arrest in the streets and alleys, none of them were caught by the local people. was beaten to the point that his bones and tendons were broken, and it is estimated that he will not be able to get out of bed for the rest of his life, which is considered light. More of them were handed in with only a pile of broken bones and rotten flesh, and if it weren't for the fact that some things such as official boots, belts, sabers, military uniforms, and armor on their bodies could be used as proof, God knows what was sent. As for whether there is a shortage of catties or two, it doesn't matter anymore, anyway, the Ming army doesn't plan to make them into bacon.

"Whether ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, the common people are the same, nothing more than to be able to eat enough, they can be obedient to the people with peace of mind, even if they are wronged, the most they can do is to retaliate against the relevant people. But if you are hungry, or even face the fate of starvation, as long as someone takes the lead, or even as long as someone instigates it, or just a hint, it will immediately turn into a torrent of riots. ”

Looking at those disgusting things, Chen Kai said faintly, which even attracted the sideways glances of Li Dingguo and Lian Chengbi. As for the difference between the two, it is nothing more than that Li Dingguo seems to recall the struggle to survive back then, while Lian Chengbi opened his mouth to say something, but in the end, he didn't say a word, some just sighed.

All cause and effect are related to the word profit. Chen Kai has always been very aware of this truth. Xinhui County has been captured, outside the city wall is surrounded by an impermeable wind, the Qing army is absolutely unable to escape, the rest is nothing more than screening, clearing, and completely digging out those Qing troops, that is, it will take some time.

The great work has been decided, and the various ministries that have entered the city have naturally contributed a lot. As for Chen Kai himself, a monstrous achievement of destroying the city wall is enough, and there is no need to fight for anything. If it weren't for the fact that he planned to let Fubiao see more blood, Chen Kai didn't even plan to bring Fubiao to the battlefield.

The work of purging and suppressing continues, and news continues to come one after another. There are many, it is nothing more than which officer was captured in a certain square in the east of the city, a few soldiers were captured in a certain lane in the west of the city, and a group of stubborn Qing troops were killed in a certain street in the south of the city.

"Tell Your Highness that Huang Zhizheng, the county magistrate of the new Hui, is cutting himself in the county office, and he has already lost his breath when he arrives."

“…… Our department beheaded Li Xinglong, the commander of the Huzhou camp in Xinhui County, and his subordinates ......"

"Report, our department defeated Wu Jingong, the general soldier of the right wing of the Pingnan Domain, at Beiyu Street, captured 637 people alive, beheaded the traitor Wu Jingong below 211 levels, and captured nothing."

"Our department captured the generals of the Southern Domain, Yunlong and his own soldiers and officers, and 12 officers......"

“……”

The news came the next time, the overall situation here has been decided, looking at the feudal soldiers and green battalions who were constantly escorted back, Chen Kai was thoughtful, and asked Li Dingguo: "Dare to ask Your Highness, how do you plan to deal with these traitors?" ”

Li Dingguo was still thinking about the deployment of defense, and when he heard Chen Kai ask, he turned around and asked Chen Kai, and what he got was just an idiom of "eliminating evil". So, he turned to Lian Chengbi, who gave a similar answer.

The rebel resisted the king, and the lower officials also felt that they should teach the other Tartars a lesson. However, when the attack on Guangzhou made those feudal soldiers desperate, the lower officials thought that it was better to postpone the execution. ”

Lian Chengbi is talking about the right way of soldiers, and the feudal army pays attention to besieging the city and returning to the division without strangulation, that is, it is afraid that the opponent will fight hard. There is also a saying in later generations, there is a way that is horizontal and afraid of being stunned, stunned is afraid of not wanting to die, not wanting to die is afraid of being shameless, and not being ashamed of being afraid of not wanting money. Chen Kai thought about it, let's not talk about any money or not, he can not have a face, so he is not too afraid of what will not die. The problem is that Li Dingguo is a person, the contact time is too short, Chen Kai doesn't know much about it, if he is a face-saving person, there is a difference in the realm, and it is not so easy to convince him.

"Don't be in a hurry in advance, control the city first, they won't be able to run anyway."

Chen Kai's understatement directly postponed the matter, and then, Li Dingguo organized the defense, and Lian Chengbi went straight to the county government to seal the file. As for him, he didn't go to compete with Lianchengbi for the control of the Xinhui County Ya, so he suddenly became idle, and simply set up a rattan rocking chair at the city gate building at the north gate, and lay down there, just to make up for the deficit that was arranged until the middle of the night yesterday, and he got up early this morning to toss the debt of the morning.

"Look, this is the style of Kong Ming, who is thousands of miles away, in the world, just a feather fan."

"It's November, and you're still shaking a fan?"

"You know a fart, this is called no fan in your hand, but a fan in your heart. Wu Dudu and Wang Shuai tossed for more than two months, and even His Royal Highness failed to attack for a month, as soon as Chen Fujun came, the kung fu city was broken in just a few days, this is called ability! ”

“……”

Li Dingguo transferred some troops from outside the city to control the whole city, and the transferred departments entered from the north gate, and Chen Kai's governor's banner could be seen erected on the north gate of the city.

The whispers below were inaudible to Chen Kai. He stayed here, firstly, because he was unwilling to continue to mix in the military affairs of Xinhui, and secondly, he did not plan to compete with Lianchengbi for administrative power, plus this Xinhui siege has been under siege for nearly half a year, and the smell in the city is really not very good, so he simply does not move his nest, and it is also a pleasant thing to blow the wind directly on the head of the North Gate City.

"Fu Jun, let's have lunch first."

At this moment, it is past the time of lunch, but the city that has been fighting for half a year has finally fallen, and the army is still excited. At this time, Chen Kai was idle, and Cao Hongxi hurriedly stepped forward to speak.

"Well, eat first, and then bask in the sun after eating."

Chen Kai nodded, then got up and walked into the city gate building. The guy has already delivered the prepared meal, including the whole Fubiao, of course. The meals were very simple, and Chen Kai ate them very casually. After eating, Chen Kai wiped his mouth, and then instructed Cao Hongxi: "I have a few things to do for you." ”

"Please give the order."

Cao Hongxi replied crisply, and Chen Kai said directly to him: "Send someone to inform the governor of Jiangdu, tell him the news that the county seat of Xinhui has been released, and tell him to prepare early." Then let Jiang Du Governor send people back to Hong Kong and wait for Zhou Hou Ye and Admiral Ke on the island, and this officer needs to know the itinerary of the follow-up troops as soon as possible. ”

These are all military affairs, and as for the towns that have already set up camp, they have long known the news that the city has been laid down, and they have already begun to make preparations.

"One more thing, I need you to take someone to find something in the city......"

After giving orders, Cao Hongxi took the order and left. Chen Kai finished eating, walked around the city for a while, and then returned to the rattan rocking chair to close his eyes and recuperate.

The work of purging was going smoothly, and the city wall collapsed, which caused too much psychological pressure on the Qing army. Immediately afterwards, with Yunlong missing, Wu Jingong organized a counterattack, but was easily defeated by the Ming army, and the remaining Qing army collapsed. Some hope to find a place to hide, so as to avoid the search at the beginning of the breach; some entangled a group of people and wanted to fight the trapped beasts; Others simply opened other gates or hung themselves from the walls in a vain attempt to escape. However, the numerical gap between the two sides is too huge, and in the face of absolute power, luck is often nothing more than wishful thinking.

In the afternoon, when the purging work was almost over, even the city organized manpower to begin to make a list of the people, and sent people to invite the gentry, wealthy merchants, and clans of the city to a banquet at night.

In this regard, these leading figures in the city naturally did not dare to say a word, and hurriedly responded. In fact, as far as they are concerned, they have long hated what the feudal soldiers have done in the past six months, and they still hope to be able to fight with the Ming army with world-famous generals like Li Dingguo, as well as Chen Kai and other wise advisers. It is nothing more than that there is a lot of concern about the powerful power of the Qing court and the reality that the two feudal domains of Pingnan and Jingnan are still entrenched in Guangzhou, nothing more.

Inside and outside the city, action has been taken, and there are celebrations of the fall of the city everywhere, but there are also many people who have begun to burn paper and pay tribute to their deceased relatives and friends after they have been rescued from the catastrophe. The exploitation of the Qing army, even Chengbi gradually got some news, knowing the hunger of the people in the city, it was naturally indispensable to open a porridge field.

It's just that the warehouses controlled by the county government are now empty, and it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice. Either it was transferred from outside the city, or it had to go to Li Dingguo to ask for the seizures that had not yet been counted.

Lian Chengbi thought about it, and the matter of allocation was directly put into his mind, because except for Li Dingguo and Chen Kai, the rest of the grain was owned by the Ming army of various departments, and it was not good for him to go to the generals for transfer as a governor. Therefore, he directly sent someone to see Li Dingguo and asked for a batch of seized grain to be used to open a porridge farm. He sent people out on the front foot, and then he felt that he needed to talk to Li Dingguo about other things, so he simply recalled the people sent and rushed to find Li Dingguo on his own.

Li Dingguo was in the camp in the north of the city at this time, and even Chengbi didn't make much effort to determine Li Dingguo's specific location, and went straight there in a carriage.

When he arrived at the camp in the north of the city, Li Dingguo was in the warehouse. Lian Chengbi hurriedly rushed over, saw Li Dingguo, and was about to speak, but he saw that the grain in the warehouse was packed in sacks, and it was so piled up that there was almost no way in or out.

At this moment, even if Lian Chengbidang threw things behind his neck, he turned around on his own, and the entire battalion's treasury was like this, and even some grain and grass had no place to put in the warehouse, so they could only be thrown in the yard. From time to time, you can still see some mice, one by one eat "fat and strong", it is estimated that the cat may not be able to enter the mouth if they catch them.

"Your Highness, this ......"

"Even the army probably thought of it, it was all looted by those feudal soldiers in the city, which is really eye-opening."

Eye-opening, this is an exaggeration. Li Dingguo was born in Liukou, and he followed Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king of Xiying, and was the most trusted son, even if he was not in charge of grain and grass and the old camp like Sun Kewang, but the economic model of Liukou was still very clear.

Wherever the rogues went, as they said in the commentary, they did not commit any offences, opened warehouses to release grain, and returned to the people what the government had exploited the people, which was the imagination of ignorant literati who had never been hungry, or they opened their eyes and said nonsense because of political correctness. Not to mention that the warehouse must be returned to the public, even the private property of the people must be seized, so that the people will be reduced to abject poverty, and they can only follow the rogue and continue to loot the next place as cannon fodder.

Grain, grass and silver money are given priority to the horsemen and infantry of the core army of the Liukou, followed by Ding Zhuang who acts as cannon fodder. Rogue Leaders will be promoted from the survivors of cannon fodder to infantry. One is to expand, and the other is to give hope to others. In this way, the snowball will roll bigger and bigger as it flows. Otherwise, why would they open a warehouse and put grain everywhere, so would the liukou himself still have to eat?

If your hometown is plagued or ransacked by bandits, you can only go on like this to find a way to survive. Everything is nothing more than survival, and it is also a last resort. But this is the city, and the guards looted the food of the people in the city, and then put it here to store, even raising rats, which made Li Dingguo, who had never been hungry when he was young, really didn't know what to say.

"Open a porridge field?"

Lian Chengbi said that Li Dingguo responded without hesitation. However, he still couldn't say anything about returning the grain to the people of Xinhui. In the final analysis, the daily consumption of the army is huge, and the recovered prefectures and counties are trying their best to supply, not to mention, he sent troops this time, but also moved the inventory of last year's summer and autumn taxes in Guangxi.

There is a saying that if you feed food for thousands of miles, you can't eat it again for a day. The consumption on the road is too great, and now that Chen Kai is here, he doesn't need to provide food and grass, and it also solves the gap of some auxiliary soldiers. However, when the army regains Xinhui, it is bound to go north to Guangzhou, think about the results of the grain and grass capture chain in the battle of Zhaoqing last year, and then think about how long the next battle will be fought.

It is impossible to open a warehouse to release grain, but the porridge field still has to be opened. Li Dingguo distributed a batch of grain and handed it to Lian Chengbi, and Lian Chengbi promised to keep an eye on it, and whoever dared to be greedy for a grain of rice would chop off the claws of that guy's hands.

Soon, the government's porridge field was opened in the county government, county school and other places, and the Ming army in the city also held all the main roads and made every effort to guard against anyone fishing in troubled waters and causing chaos. In the evening, a celebration banquet was held in the military camps and county offices outside the city and inside the city as scheduled.

"You know, that cannon, I've heard, that cannon is called a spirit gun, and as long as you pray sincerely, you can hit every shot. It is said that the baby belonged to Dingguo Gong of Fujian, and later Dingguo Gong's beloved daughter married Chen Fujun, and the cannon was a rare thing in the dowry. ”

"The cannon is powerful, but I've heard that the key to the collapse of the city wall is not the cannon."

"Tell me about it."

"I heard that Chen Fujun looked through the ancient books and learned that there was a divine dragon that had violated the rules of heaven under the city of Xinhui. His Royal Highness has been delayed in taking Xinhui County because of the powerful seal on the city wall. ”

"In other words, the night before yesterday, Chen Fujun was in his sleep, his soul wandered to heaven, and he was instructed by Taishang Laojun to intercede for Shenlong. The Jade Emperor felt that Chen Fujun was a famous minister of Zhongxing given to His Majesty by Emperor Gao, so he exempted Shenlong from the responsibility of Shenlong in the face of Chen Fujun, and asked him to follow Chen Fujun to help protect the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, Gao Dudu couldn't fire so many cannons, Chen Fujun only let go of one shot and collapsed the entire city wall, is it not because the cannonball was blessed by divine power and smashed the seal, and the divine dragon had to break the city wall? ”

“……”

The city wall has collapsed, this is a thing for all to see, the army inside and outside the city has spread all over the city, saying everything, it is spread with noses and eyes. In contrast, at the banquet of the county government, the gentry and wealthy families in the county naturally want to tout the Ming army, but it is much more subtle, at least it sounds reasonable, and it seems that even the pirated version of Wei Zhengmeng's beheading of the Dragon King of the Jinghe River can come out.

The gentry and wealthy families pursued the martial arts of the Ming army, Li Dingguo's use of soldiers like gods, Lian Chengbi's talent in the world, Chen Kai's ability to strategize, and the martial courage of the generals.

It's a pity that as the most important figure in this battle, Chen Kai is not here. It wasn't until he had been invited many times that the banquet had already begun, and Chen Kai was late, but the reason he used was to find something new in the city.

"Oh? Chen Fujun is well-informed in Fujian, and there is something fresh here? ”

"How could it not?"

As he spoke, Chen Kai waved his hand, and a guard walked up with a tray in his hand. Immediately afterwards, Chen Kai uncovered the silk on the tray, revealing a piece of bacon that had not yet been cured, and immediately saw that everyone present did not know why.

After a blink of an eye, before Chen Kai could speak, Jin Weixin frowned and asked Chen Kai to test, "This is not ordinary pork, right?" When even Chen Kai affirmed. It's just that when the mystery was revealed, everyone present was stunned on the spot, and there was silence at the end.

"This piece of bacon was found in the camp in the north of the city, and it was indeed not pork, but the human flesh of Lu Ao, a member of the county. This, of course, is a local specialty, and of course the official will feel fresh! ”8)