"It's not a big deal, it's just that I lost too much blood, I took medicine, and I just recuperated for a few days."

Before dark, Wang Zezhi came to the inn outside Niangzi Pass with Xiong Jiachang on his back, but fortunately there was not only an inn here, but also a medical hall.

Lang Zhong, who was invited by Wang Zezhi, finished treating Xiong Jiachang, and said to Wang Zezhi while washing his hands.

"I'm sorry sir, this is the doctor's fee." Wang Zezhi handed him the silver, Lang Zhong arched his hand to him, took the money and left.

Wang Zezhi looked at Xiong Jiachang, who was lying on the bed, unconscious, and he cried sadly.

His mind was always thinking about the sergeants who had been killed by arrows to protect him.

Although these people have been brainwashed by Li Hua to become so loyal, his heart is still extremely uncomfortable.

He couldn't help but wonder, why is this happening?

Because, he has no shield soldiers.

Yes, he had to assemble swords, shields, spears, and shields, and buy back a large number of shields for his sergeants.

Wang Zezhi wiped away his tears, his eyes became more and more determined, he must equip the sergeants with shields.

In addition to equipping the shield, he also needs to change his way of thinking.

Who is Huang Taiji?

The eighth son of Qing Taizu Aixin Jueluo Nurhachi, an outstanding military strategist and politician in the early Qing Dynasty, the Great Khan of the Later Jin, the Great Khan of Mongolia, and the founding emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

Such a bullish person, he is not completely sure how he would come to Niangziguan to inquire about information alone.

What's funny is that Wang Zezhi still wanted to arrest him.

If Wang Zezhi hadn't underestimated Huang Taiji, how could he be in danger.

As the saying goes, if you eat a trench and grow wise, he can't be so reckless in the future.

After figuring out the crux of the matter, Wang Zezhi cleared the silver he was carrying, and he planned to collect the bodies of the soldiers who died in battle tomorrow, bury them, and then go to buy cattle.

Wang Zezhi came to Xiong Jiachang's bedside, yawned and climbed to the edge of the bed to fall asleep.

"My lord, ahem... Adults wake up. Xiong Jiachang woke up and shook Wang Zezhi beside the bed.

"You woke up, how are you feeling?" Wang Zezhi looked at the pale Xiong Jiachang and asked with concern.

"I'm rough-skinned, I'm fine, brothers? Are there any alive? Xiong Jiachang asked hopefully.

"I'll look for it, I'll look for it, you rest first." Wang Zezhi's eyes were red, and he hadn't collected the bodies of those soldiers who died in battle.

"My lord, I'll go too." Xiong Jiachang struggled to get up, but he was too seriously injured, and instead of getting up, he fell under the bed.

"What are you doing here, your injuries are not healed, you have a good rest, I'll go." Wang Zezhi helped him up, Xiong Jiachang coughed twice with difficulty, and gasped for a moment, he knew that his body was still too bad, and if he went with Wang Zezhi, it would only become a burden.

"Dangdang~"

As soon as Wang Zezhi walked to the door of the inn, the soldiers of Niangziguan knocked on Tongluo and shouted.

"Recognize the corpse, identify the corpse, look at whose guards there are."

Wang Zezhi walked over quickly, only to see that the 100 soldiers who died in the battle were stacked together by the soldiers and began to identify the corpses.

This is something that the soldiers of Niangzi Guan often encounter, there are often thieves and robbers in this area, and when they go out on patrol, they will carry their corpses back by the way, so that these merchants can collect the corpses, and they will collect some corpse fees

Wang Zezhi staggered over, grabbed the collar of the little soldier, and said with red eyes: "My brothers are all dead in battle, are you blind when you are so close?" ”

"Big... My lord, you can't see the rugged mountain road.

This... This... The little ones don't know if it's your people, but you know it's your people, and you must treat it well. The soldier said as he waved his hand at the soldier next to the corpse.

Since they knew that Wang Zezhi had a holy decree in his hand, these people became respectful, for fear of being blamed by the emperor. Let's do it

Those soldiers understood and put the stacked corpses in place.

Wang Zezhi walked over and saw that all the weapons in their hands were gone, and some of them were missing shoes and clothes.

"What about their clothes and weapons?"

"My lord, my lord, don't you know, bandits are rampant in this area, we all go out with a team of five hundred people, when our people found them early this morning, they already had no weapons in their hands, if you guess correctly, nine times out of ten they were taken away by bandits."

The little soldier cautiously explained.

"Take it and bury my brethren alive." Wang Zezhi handed him two ingots of silver and twenty taels of silver.

"My lord, you are too polite, these brothers of yours were killed in the battle of the bandits, and they don't need to spend money." The little soldier hypocritically refused, and at the same time quickly accepted the money, and by the way, he also bit it twice with his teeth.

"Brothers, work, and have money." The little soldier shook the money, and the soldiers guarding the pass came out and drove dozens of people in carriages and began to bury the soldiers who died in battle.

Wang Zezhi watched them transport the soldiers who died in battle to the mountains not far from Niangzi Pass, dig a pit, and bury them one by one.

"My king is sorry for you." Wang Zezhi bowed to the hundred graves and turned to leave.

"Moo~"

"Let's take a look, take a look."

"Newborn cowboys..."

"Come and take a look, the guest officer will come and take a look..."

In the bull market outside the Niangzi Pass, the cows screamed to the sky, and the cow dung was also stinky.

In addition to the abundance of cattle here, there are also various cattle dealers who travel back and forth between Shanxi and Beizhili.

Wang Zezhi looked around, some of the cattle pens had only a few, some had more than a dozen, and the largest one had more than 70 cowpens.

None of the families could match his requirements, but he had to match the vagrants he recruited with cattle.

Although Xiong Jiachang had bought twenty-three cows before, he had recruited 369 homeless households, and if he wanted every household to have cattle, he still needed 346 cows.

After thinking about it, I can't go home empty-handed, it's a big deal to buy all the cattle in this bull market.

Wang Zezhi came to the house with the most cattle, and the owner of this family set up a shed and sat in it drinking wine.

"If you want to buy it, buy it all, the cow in the belly of the big cow and the calf, don't buy it, I don't have a shortage of people to buy it here." The people in the shed said indifferently while drinking.

Wang Zezhi looked at the merchant in front of him in surprise, this is really strange, others are afraid that their own cattle will not be sold, this one is good, love to buy or not.

However, if you think about it carefully, you can understand that the Central Plains region has been short of large livestock since ancient times.

"It's fine to buy them all, but you don't have too few cattle here."

Wang Zezhi looked at him and teased.

"There is no hair on the mouth, and the work is not firm, young man, don't talk about it."

That man had no Poland, and he didn't look at Wang Zezhi.

Wang Zezhi took out an ingot of twenty taels of gold and threw it in his hand.

"Yo, big customer, please please, slack off." The man put down the bottle in his hand and immediately greeted him with a smile.

"You're more than seventy cows?" The man stretched out his hand to take the gold from his hand, but Wang Zezhi took the gold back into his arms and sat on a chair in the shed.

"Ahem, it depends on how much the guest officer wants." The man did not get the gold, but took up the wine again and drank it.

"Four hundred."

"Poof~" The man directly squirted out the wine in his mouth when he heard this, and it seemed a little incredulous.