"If you join the begging army, you will wait for the mansion, eat and drink spicy food, and your children and grandchildren will be full, but if you don't join the beggar army, you will have nothing, and you will be poor. The road is in front of you, so you can choose it. ”

The murderous knife was still dripping blood, so Li Zicheng drew a line and let the people in front of the county government make their own choices.

Of course, the people will choose to join the beggar army.

In fact, the people may not have the heart of rebellion, but no one takes the lead, and there are people in Shaanxi who took the lead in rebellion, but they have never come to Lushi County, Henan.

At that time, even if the thieves came to Lushi County, Henan, the people would not respond, because the thieves at that time were too unsuccessful, and everywhere they went, they were all poor and rich together, and under the burning of jade, although the people did not like the government, they also hated the thieves.

Now this gang of thieves, no, it should be a righteous army, and their style is very different from the rumored thieves who burn and kill and plunder, they do not disturb the common people, they kill corrupt officials and inferior gentry, distribute grain and land, and make decisions for the people.

Under such circumstances, there is no reason for the poor people to join the begging army!

In this way, the people all supported Li Zicheng, and the county seat of Lushi County was pocketed by him.

In the next few days, according to the usual practice, the Einsatzgruppen Army wiped out all the wealthy classes, distributed land, houses, and food to the people, and put gold and silver treasures into the beggar army's treasury for daily expenses.

Li Zicheng occupies such a large county seat, he needs people to govern it, and if he is a person who is selected by the imperial examination, he will not help Li Zicheng do things, only by recruiting the first talent and the children who can't even get the show talent, he can hold the land of Lushi County in his hands.

Lushi County was immediately down, and Liu Renyufu sent another letter to Megatron and Shocking Heaven, urging them to make persistent efforts, not to rest on their laurels, and to take advantage of the lack of food and the threat of death in winter and spring to grow rapidly and create momentum in order to attract the attention of the imperial court.

Li Zicheng paused in Lushi County for half a month, and after properly handling the affairs here, he took his 3,000 men and horses out of Lushi County and marched towards Yongning County, which is close to Lushi County.

Li Zicheng can clearly feel that the temperament of his team has changed, in the past, the team he led, most of the soldiers under him, were forced to join, and most of the people who maintained his personal authority were fear, such a team can only be suppressed by iron and high pressure, and once it encounters a tough opponent, it will collapse.

Now, his subordinates have more feelings for him personally, and they are willing to die, and this kind of emotion, as an old man who has fought for several years, how can he not feel it.

"If it was back then, the righteous army would use Liu Renyu's method, why not be afraid of the official army to kill them!?"

Li Zicheng often thinks about this question in his heart when he dreams back at midnight.

Thanks to Liu Renyu's policy, Li Zicheng's progress in Yongning County was extremely smooth, and in only half a month, all the villages and towns near the county seat of Yongning County fell into Li Zicheng's hands.

The Yongning County Order was like sitting on pins and needles, and the urgent documents were sent to Luoyang one by one, and then sent by the Henan Governor to the desk of Fan Shangxian, the governor of Henan.

In the document, Yongning County ordered that the thieves were powerful, and the villages, towns and fortresses outside Yongning City were all in the hands of the thieves.

Fan Shangxiao received the document from Yongning County, and he didn't pay attention to it at all, he insisted that it was just a starving people who spontaneously gathered to loot large households in order to find a way to live, and it was no big deal, as long as spring would disperse.

If the Shanxi thieves had just been destroyed and Chongzhen was still happy that the civil strife had subsided, he would send the news of the need for troops to the Beijing Division, one can imagine how angry Chongzhen would be.

Let the emperor have a good year, and when the New Year is over, maybe the thieves will disperse, so why bother to make the emperor unhappy.

The Yongning County Order issued countless urgent documents, but the reply received was always like this: "This hungry people's ears and plundered the grain, they will disperse, and you will stick to the city, and there must be no mistake!" ”

Seeing such a reply, Yongning County Ling jumped to his feet in a hurry, holding on, how to hold on, just rely on the already sparse guards in the city, and the equally sparse recruits? Pulling it out is not even a knife and a gun, how can you resist the army of thieves.

Li Zicheng doesn't care about the distress in the heart of Yongning County, before the Chinese New Year, he has already digested all the villages and towns outside Yongning County, and his next target is Yongning County.

How did Lu's county fall down, the Yongning County order was clear, he issued a strict order, anyone who recently entered Yongning County, was allowed to enter but not leave, came to arrest one by one, tortured and interrogated, and all of a sudden, Yongning County Prison was crowded with people.

The people of Yongning County are panicked, like facing a great enemy!

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"How, have the thieves in the city been tried?" Yongning County ordered Han Fu to ask the master.

"County Zun, there are a lot of arrests in the prison, and the cell boss has also asked, and they have become spies when they ask, but if you want to say where the thieves are, whether they want to beat us or not, what these people say is not right." The master replied with a wry smile.

"Hmph, how can there be so many spies, it's not that Qiu Ba takes chicken feathers as arrows, collects money with his heart, and has no intention of doing errands, just like that Lu County, at night, the soldiers guarding the city actually went home to sleep, so that the thief could easily open the city gate. You go, tell those Qiu Ba, defend the city solidly, and don't slack off, otherwise the county's military law will be engaged. ”

"Yes, Xianzun."

"By the way, tell the big families in the city that if the thieves capture the county seat of Yongning, according to the thieves' style, they will only have a dead end, let them pay to reward the officers and soldiers who defend the city, and no matter what, they must defend the county seat as solid as gold."

"Yes, Xianzun."

"Hey, Fan Junmen is far away in Kaifeng, just starving people to survive, but I don't know that this gang of thieves is very different from Shaanxi and Shanxi, the thieves over there are all poor and vicious people, the gentry and the common people are one scourge, and it is difficult to escape the fate of being exterminated after all, and now this gang of thieves actually knows how to fight corrupt officials and inferior gentry and divide the land.

I think these thieves have the ambition to fight for the world, and it seems that these thieves should be quickly exterminated, but Fan Junmen didn't care about the documents he received from me, he didn't care, he was responsible for defending the land, and if he lost the city, I wasn't a dead end.

For today's plan, the only way to do this is to ask the big families in the city to pay more money, and plan to defend the city officers and soldiers, so as to survive these few days. ”

Recently, Yongning City has secretly spread that the beggar army is the master of the poor people, kills corrupt officials and inferior gentry, and divides the land, and Li Zicheng, the leader of the beggar army, is the great savior of the poor people.

In the past, when the people heard that the thieves were coming, they were all terrified, but the government had sent them, so they responded positively and did their work solidly, even if the government was not good, at least they did not commit large-scale sexual immorality. Wife and daughter, indiscriminately kill innocents, so helping the government is helping yourself.

Now the beggar army speaks for the poor people, and the people privately hope that the beggar army will enter Yongning County as soon as possible, so that they can live a good life as soon as possible.

What's more, some ordinary people even began to spontaneously count the land inside and outside the city, and how to distribute the property of large households, and they had their own "gentlemen's agreement" on how to distribute the land inside and outside the city.

Under such an atmosphere, the big families in the city were so frightened that they took the initiative to find Han Fuji, and bluntly said that they were willing to spend more money, recruit strong men, and keep Yongning solid no matter what.

Some of the staff felt that they were just thieves, so why be so worried, just send a large army to take the initiative to eliminate the thieves first.

Han Fujian scoffed at this and didn't want to pay attention to it at all. The officers and soldiers in Yongning City, there are 800 on the register, but in fact, there are only more than 50 who can fight, and this ability to fight only refers to bullying and oppressing the people, taking the initiative to attack, daydreaming!

For Yongning, relying on the city, defense with peace of mind is the right way.

Han Fu stopped thinking about the battle defense in his mind, so he called someone to call the general manager of the city guard to arrange the city defense.

Although the Ming Dynasty is noble and cheap, it is the time to use soldiers, and it is still necessary to be a little polite to the generals.

Waiting for Han Changchun to come to the county yahoutang and meet with Han Fuji, Han Fugui will have a pleasant face, so that Han Changchun will recruit the people to be strong, do things solidly, and be sure to guard the city.