The next day, Liu Xia captured the Zhuangzi of a large family surnamed Zhuo who was rich and unkind in Taihe County, and after killing the people in the Zhuangzi, he opened a warehouse outside the Zhuangzi to put grain, as for the county seat of Taihe County, although he got the news, he thought it was a bunch of horse thieves and robbers, and he did not report it, nor did he go to exterminate it.

In fact, it is not the county order of Taihe County, mainly because they can't organize many soldiers to participate in the war, it is said that Liu Xia's army has two or three thousand people, and they have a total of less than five hundred people, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, this is simply impossible to win the battle.

Anyway, if you don't attack the county seat, the local county order will turn a blind eye, whatever you want, as long as you don't come to harass me.

After Liu Xia attacked Zhuojiazhuang, he instructed Wang En, the commander of the logistics battalion, to replenish the share of the grain they ate along the way, and pull all the rest to the outside of Zhuojiazhuang, open a warehouse to release grain, Zhuojiazhuang is close to the official road, and there are naturally a lot of displaced people everywhere, so Liu Xia opened a warehouse to release grain this time, attracting a lot of Liu Xia.

The eight people brought back by Yu Mingjun last time had almost recovered their physical strength at this time, and now although they can't be said to be very strong, the yellow and thin appearance has long disappeared.

Now there are eight people, four of them are in the reserve infantry corps, two are in the reserve scout corps, and two are in the reserve archery corps.

As the battalion commander of the recruit battalion, Zhang Liang does not directly select soldiers, his task is to manage the recruits, as for the task of recruiting soldiers, it is to be handed over to Yu Mingjun and Wang Shishi, Liu Xia did this mainly because of Zhang Liang's personality problems.

As the saying goes, mercy is not in charge of the army, righteousness is not in charge of wealth, Zhang Liang is a general with some mercy in his heart, but Liu Xia can't remove his position, after all, Zhang Liang has a lot of credit these days, but in the face of brutal battles, Liu Xia's heart has always been as cold as an ice stone, and there is no mercy to the enemy.

Zhang Liang's personality is obviously not the same as Liu Xia's, and even Liu Xia's opinions are often opposite, in this case, Liu Xia naturally can't let Zhang Liang stay in the main army, and now he can only fall to the new barracks, as for how merciful Zhang Liang is in the new barracks, it doesn't matter, what Liu Xia wants is to make his own decisions, don't always appear one, shouting benevolent guys.

It has been said that to be merciful to one's enemies is to be cruel to oneself. Some people may think that it is necessary to repay grievances with virtue, Liu Xia does not agree with this at all, and repaying grievances with virtue also depends on who the object is, even the thousand-year-old sage, Confucius did not dare to say such a "great love" words, and Confucius just said that he would repay his grievances directly.

Just like that Zhuge Liang captured Meng Shu seven times, yes, he made Meng Shu return to his heart, but Zhuge Liang let many soldiers die in these seven battles, each soldier has his own family, has his own children, parents, wife, Zhuge Liang has thought about these soldiers?

Liu Xia's policy has always been to reduce the casualties of the soldiers to the greatest extent possible, as long as it is the enemy, or the kind of diehard, to eliminate, Liu Xia will not let his brothers die on the battlefield again and again for these stubbornness.

Outside Zhuojiabao, the fragrant rice porridge boiled in the cauldron spread in the air, and the thousands of displaced people gathered in front of the gate of Zhuojiabao stared at it with wide eyes, and there were more than 50 cauldrons lined up.

Some of the homeless people even have drooling from their mouths. Also, these homeless people may not have eaten a hot meal for dozens of days, or even two or three months, or even longer, and Liu Xia's gift this time will definitely make them grateful to Dade.

The homeless people did not fight, because in front of them stood hundreds of meters of strong soldiers, each with a sharp weapon in his hand, which made these homeless people line up very honestly, and no one dared to make trouble.

"General, how many people are we recruiting in this group of homeless people this time? How many people should be assigned to each reserve corps? Zhang Liang, as the battalion commander of the recruit battalion, stood behind Liu Xia and asked Liu Xia, while Niu Chao, who was also the deputy commander of the recruit battalion, looked like he had nothing to do with himself.

Next to Liu Xia, Wang Shishi and Yu Mingjun were also looking forward to looking at Liu Xia, because the two of them were going to recruit new soldiers, so they naturally had to know what Liu Xia wanted!

Liu Xia said: "How much to recruit depends on how many qualifications these homeless people have to enter the new barracks, if none of them are qualified, then none of them are wanted, if they are all qualified, then they will be all of them."

As for how many people can be assigned to each reserve corps, it depends on what these recruits are suitable for, if they are clever and skilled, then they will enter the scout corps, if they can only adapt to ordinary battles, then they will be assigned to the infantry corps, if they have a high degree of aim, and have learned archery before, then they will enter the bow and arrow corps. But there is also a bottom line, infantry accounts for 50%, archers account for 30%, and scouts account for 20%."

"Yes, General, subordinates understand"

"En" Liu Xia nodded and said, "Let the soldiers below arrange those homeless people, and we will go over in a while."

"Yes, General"

The rice porridge in the fifty cauldrons at the entrance of Zhuojiabao had already been cooked at this time, and the aroma wafted on the tips of the noses of those homeless people.

"All lined up, lined up, no random queues, one by one, there are all, don't worry!"

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"Don't cut in line, or I won't give it to you!"

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"These are all gifts from our general, you must remember the great kindness of our general!"

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"It's yours, serve it, don't spill it!"

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"Thank you, thank you, Master Jun, it's so fragrant!"

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"Master Jun, I'll finish drinking in two sips, can you give me another bowl, I haven't eaten yet......"

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"No, no, one bowl per person, one bowl per person, there aren't many here, you have to let everyone eat something, you can just take it first!"

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"Master Jun, we still have two children over there, can you give me more?"

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"General, when are we going down?"

As Liu Xia's personal guard, Wang Shishi is mainly responsible for Liu Xia's safety and the arrangement of where Liu Xia will go next. Just now, Wang Shishi had already sent his personal guards to go down to guard first, just waiting for Liu Xia and the others to go down.

Liu Xia looked at the thousands of homeless people below, divided into fifty parts, lined up in front of fifty cauldrons, the homeless people who got the rice porridge showed a happy smile on their faces, and those who didn't get the rice porridge were still anxiously lining up, I am afraid that there will be no more of them.

Liu Xia couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "The people of ancient China were the simplest and the best to manage, and they really couldn't survive until the end, so they wouldn't rebel." But those rulers still continue to exploit the people, so as to make the heavens angry and resentful, and the people can't live anymore, so that they become officials. Force. People. On the contrary, in the end, the country is lost, and the people cannot survive. On the contrary, they cheapened those Tartars outside the gate, and finally let them get the world, alas......"

"General, what are you talking about?"

Wang Shishi on the side was closest to Liu Xia, but he didn't hear too clearly, so he asked.

Liu Xia sighed and shook his head.

"Nothing, let's wait first, wait for the people below to distribute those rice porridge to those homeless people, and after they have eaten, let's go down."

"Yes, General, I'll send someone to ask them to hurry up and distribute it"

Wang Shishi said.

Liu Xia hurriedly shook his head and said to Wang Shishi, who was about to get up and go: "No, we don't need to be in such a hurry."

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At that time, the sun did not shine in the sunny sky, and dark gray clouds flew in the sky from time to time. Obviously, this is a precursor to rain, the cool breeze is blowing, and the fifty cauldrons outside Zhaojiabao have been put away at this time, and those displaced people have already finished eating, and they are staring at the fifty cauldrons, which are carried away one after another.

The cauldron was meant to cook for them, and now it has been carried away, which means that the general will not help them in the future.

What the! No relief for us! So how are we going to live in the future! No, let's go and ask the general, let him keep us, yes, go and ask the general!

The homeless people began to talk about it constantly, and now the more they talked, the more excited they became, and some people even thought that Liu Xia owed them in general, so they should provide them with big fish and meat every day, and raise them well, but this kind of psychology is a very small part, and those who have this kind of thinking are those rich and noble families in the past, or hooligans and ruffians who have nothing to do all day long, and most of the homeless people still want to beg Liu Xia and let Liu Xia give them a bite to eat.

At the same time, some soldiers set up a high platform at the gate outside Zhaojiabao, and the homeless people did not know what to do, and now they thought of going to see the general, so that Liu Xiafa would have mercy on them and not cut off their rations.

However, it is unrealistic to keep their rations, although there is a lot of food in Zhuojiabao, but Liu Xia took some of it, and then boiled a large vat of ordinary rice for them, which is only half, and wants to provide them all the time, unless Liu Xia takes out his own reserves, but this is impossible.

Even if Liu Xia took it out, he wouldn't be able to eat it for a few days.

At this time, Liu Xia saw that most of the homeless people had finished eating, and the high platform had also been set up, so he said to Wang Shishi: "Shishi, this general wants to go down, you go and arrange it first." ”

"Yes, General"

Wang Shishi said.

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"Get out of the way, get out of the way, get out of the way"

The soldiers of the pro-guard team all started to act, Liu Xia's safety is the highest, and there are not too many members of the pro-guard team, except for arranging some personal guards for each squadron leader level and above, Wang Shishi really does not manage too much.

Therefore, as another very important unit, the special brigade has the task of assisting the pro-guard team to control the scene, and not allowing those displaced people to get close to Liu Xia and other generals.