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The number of county soldiers in Huyang City was much more than Liu Xiu and Li Yi expected, above 4,000 people.

There are as many as 3,000 county soldiers stationed in Nancheng alone, and there are more than 1,000 people on the Dongcheng side.

Lian Feng and Guo Deng were able to recruit so many troops in such a short period of time, which shows that the ability of the two of them is not weak.

However, it is also quite interesting that the soldiers of Huyang County, who have more than 4,000 troops and are fully equipped, have been blocked in the city by the Chungling army, which is more than 2,000 people and is pretending to be homeless, and has been closed.

The reason why this is so is because Lian Feng is just a literati, he can't fight, and he won't take the initiative to ask to go out of the city to fight, and Guo Deng, who can fight, cares too much about his official position, and he doesn't dare or want to take the risk of going out of the city to fight.

In the battle of Huyang, the attacking party's Chungling army suffered a lot of losses, with more than 1,000 casualties, while the Huyang County soldiers defending the city did not suffer large casualties, with less than 1,000 dead and wounded, and more than 3,000 people surrendered.

Since the incident, the Chung Ling army has never captured so many prisoners. In the Yanai of Huyang County, Li Yi looked at the list of prisoners, including six soldiers, more than 30 commanders, nearly 100 troops, and more than 3,300 soldiers.

After reading this statistics, Li Yi walked up to Liu Xiu, frowned and said, "General Liu, now that our army has more than 3,000 prisoners, how to deal with them?" ”

At this time, Liu Xiu was looking through Huyang's account books, which included treasury account books, granary account books, and material account books. Liu Xiu raised his head, glanced at Li Yi, and asked casually, "Ji Wen, what do you mean?" ”

Li Yizheng said: "We can't afford to raise so many prisoners now, in my opinion, these surrendered troops, staying is also a trouble and hidden danger, it is better to ...... them all" As he spoke, he made a killing gesture.

Seeing this, Deng Yu frowned, and was about to step forward to speak, Liu Xiu waved his hand and said: "Most of the soldiers of Huyang County are recruited from the people in Huyang City, if they are all executed, how much the people of Huyang hate us!" ”

Li Yi asked, "What does the general mean?" Liu Xiu thought for a while and said, "First detain for two days, and when the situation in the city is stable, you will be dismissed!" Of course, if there are those who are willing to stay in our army, we welcome them, and those who do not want to stay in our army and want to go home, send them some money and food, and let them go

Let's do it! ”

In Li Yi's view, executing all the county soldiers is the most trouble-free way, and it is okay to dismiss the county soldiers, but when they are dismissed, they will be given money and food, and Li Yi can't accept it.

He said: "The county soldiers did evil, so that our army suffered more than 1,000 casualties, we don't repay this revenge, even if we don't pay for it, we still have to give them money and food?" ”

Liu Xiu smiled and said, "Ji Wen, we have to take a long-term view. ”

If your eyes see the whole world, you will not care about the gains and losses of one city and one pool, and if your eyes see the people of the world, you will not care about the casualties of one soldier and one soldier.

Now these captured county soldiers may not be willing to submit to their side, but dismissing them and distributing money and food will make them grateful to their side, and in the future, these dismissed county soldiers may become a potential source of soldiers for their side.

In addition, such a practice will also greatly eliminate the hostility and wariness of the people of Huyang towards their own side, and is a good means to win over the people's hearts.

Li Yi scratched his head and reminded: "General, we don't have much money and food now, and it's not enough to reward meritorious soldiers, and we still take it out and distribute it to the soldiers?" Anyway, Li Yi couldn't understand Liu Xiu's approach.

Liu Xiu said with a smile: "Huyang's treasury and granary account books are all here, although the hoarded money and grain are not much, but they are also a lot, rewarding our soldiers and dismissing the captured county soldiers, which is enough." ”

"But in this way, we won't have any extra money and grain to transport back to Caiyang." This is the point of Li Yi's words. It was not easy to capture Huyang, and if the loot could not be transported back to the rear, the victory would be greatly reduced.

Liu Xiu said: "The situation in Caiyang is stable, and there is no need to transport money and grain from us. ”

Seeing that Li Yi was still arguing, Liu Xiu waved his hand at him, turned his head to Deng Yu and said, "Zhonghua, you can deal with the matter of the captured county soldiers." By the way, Anmin's notice is also drafted by you, and it will be posted as soon as possible! ”

"Yes! Lord! Deng Yu was 100% in favor of Liu Xiu's decision, and when he heard Liu Xiu's order, he didn't say a word and bowed down to receive the order. Li Yi glanced at Deng Yu who was leaving, he changed his words and asked: "General, there are many big families in the city, it is said that they donated money and food to Lian Feng and Guo Deng, and also donated a lot of families and nursing homes, what should they do to these people."

Dispose? ”

Liu Xiu rubbed his forehead. Li Yi continued: "I think they should all be raided! ”

"Some people may not have donated money and food voluntarily, and this matter needs to be investigated." As he spoke, Liu Xiu said to Feng Yi and Jiu'er: "Gongsun, Jiu'er, you two will cooperate with Ji Wen to investigate this matter together." ”

"Yes! Lord! Feng Yi and Jiu'er bowed their hands. Li Yi frowned secretly, just such a trivial matter, Liu Xiu still can't believe himself, and he wants Feng Yi and Jiu'er to cooperate with him, saying that he is cooperating, but in fact he is supervising! Liu Xiu couldn't trust Li Yi, mainly because he felt that he was too eager for quick success, and he was worried that if Li Yi was allowed to do this alone, he would come to a quick knife to cut through the mess, raid all the big households in the city, and take the large amount of money seized to the eldest brother

Go and ask for credit.

Our own side has just started now, and it is the time to lay the foundation, and when we lay a ground, we must first stabilize the land, and indiscriminately confiscate it, causing a backlash from the local scholars, which is very unfavorable to our side.

These things can be ignored by others, but Liu Xiu cannot afford not to consider them.

Fortunately, after the Chungling army captured Huyang, it was Liu Xiu, not Li Yi, and the Chungling army did not do anything too unusual in Huyang City, and the situation in Huyang was relatively stable.

Under the propaganda of the government, the officers and men of the Chungling army were described as murderous and unblinking, and after the Chungling army captured Huyang, the people did not dare to go out of their homes at all, and they all hid in their homes, as if a catastrophe was coming.

However, the calm outside made the people gradually unwind.

In the afternoon, the streets of Huyang can occasionally see people walking out of their homes and looking around. At first, people saw a patrolling Chung Ling army approaching, like frightened rabbits, and ran back to their homes as soon as possible.

But after repeating it several times, the people saw that the Chungling army was not like the official description, they killed people when they saw it, and the people's courage gradually increased, and they no longer hid when they saw the patrolling Chungling army. By the end of the evening, some of the small stalls and vendors had returned to the streets and began to continue their business, and there were more and more pedestrians on the streets, such as teahouses and restaurants, which were even more full of people and talking to each other in the city after the capture of Huyang

of the situation.

The next morning, the notice of the people of the Lingling Army was posted and hung in several conspicuous places in Huyang City.

This Anmin Notice, drafted by Deng Yu himself, first counted the mediocrity of the Xinmang Imperial Court, and then described in detail the purpose of the Zhutiandu Army's rebellion, which was to recover the Han Dynasty and save the people of the whole country from fire and water.

Deng Yu is a well-known talent, able to speak well, and the notices he writes are also full of literary brilliance, while trying his best to belittle the current imperial court, he also erects the pillar of the heavenly capital on the commanding heights of morality. Wang Mang's throne was not right, it was the usurpation of the rebellious ministers and thieves, and he usurped the Han Dynasty, and now you can't be the emperor, which leads to chaos in the world, and the people are not happy

It's reasonable.

After the notice was posted, the concerns of the people in the city were further dispelled, and the day after the Lingling army captured Huyang City, the people in the city basically returned to normal, and there was no large-scale panic and evacuation. In the afternoon of the same day, the county government posted a notice again, first, announcing the results of Guo Deng's punishment and asking him to be beheaded in public two days later, and second, the results of the handling of the captured county soldiers

all of them will be dismissed, and a sum of money and food will be distributed. This policy of the Chung Ling Army has greatly won the favor of the people of Huyang. The people in Huyang City are only 30,000 or 40,000 people, and more than 3,000 county soldiers, which is almost one-tenth of Huyang's population

Now that they heard that they could go home safe and sound, people were of course happy in their hearts, and they were also grateful to the Lingjun Army.

Under Liu Xiu's leadership, the situation in Huyang stabilized quickly, at least on the surface.

In the afternoon, Liu Xiu was working in the county office, and a soldier ran in from outside, intervened in the salute, and said, "General, Mr. Liao Heng of the Liaofu is asking to see you!" "Less? Liao Heng? Liu Xiu's face was dazed, and he turned his head to look at Jiu'er beside him. Although Liu Xiu assigned Jiu'er a task and asked her to go with Feng Yi and Li Yi to investigate the big households in the city, Jiu'er stayed with Liu Xiu most of the time

。

Jiu'er took two steps forward, came to Liu Xiu's side, and whispered: "The relationship between this Liao Heng and Guo Deng is not ordinary, both of them may be from Baisongmen!" ”

Liu Xiu raised his eyebrows and asked, "Guo Deng is from the rivers and lakes?" ”

Jiu'er nodded and said, "Yes, it is said that after he left Baisong Gate, he went to Huyang and became a military commander, and then he became a county lieutenant little by little!" ”

It is not easy to become a county lieutenant step by step from the lowest soldier, although the county lieutenant is only a small officer with a mung bean.

You must know that at that time, there was no imperial examination system, and most of the officials were recommended by recommendation, and no one recommended them.

Liu Xiu pondered for a moment and asked, "Liao Heng is also from Baisong Gate?" ”

"That's what I've inquired about!"

Liu Xiu sighed and said, "It seems that the purpose of his coming to me today is to intercede for Guo Deng. ”

Jiu'er pursed her lips disapprovingly and said, "The lord doesn't have to see him." ”

Liu Xiu glanced at Jiu'er and didn't speak immediately. Just as he was secretly pondering, another soldier hurriedly ran in and intervened and said, "General, Liu Chengjun is waiting to be attacked in the city, and he is seriously injured!" ”

Liu Cheng is a native of Chungling, one of the relatives of the Liu family, and because he has no outstanding ability, he only serves as a military candidate in the Chungling army. Hearing that Liu Cheng was attacked, Liu Xiu subconsciously stood up and asked, "How is he injured?" Where is it now? ”