In this way, the thieves of the Star Department were dragged by the soldiers of Wang Zuo's hanging department with ropes, and ran all the way towards Anding County.

When the soldiers of Wang's left hanging department were running with the thieves, regardless of whether the thieves were human beings, the basic fact that they would get tired if they ran too much, they hurried all the way and let the thieves run all the way.

After running for a while, the thieves couldn't run anymore, so they had to slow down, and the soldiers of the Wang Zuo Hanging Division, who were escorted, saw that the thieves dared not run, so they dismounted and beat the thieves, and the soldiers finished fighting, and then dragged the thieves behind the horse's buttocks.

In this way, the soldiers of Wang Zuo's hanging army ran out of the road with the thieves for 5 miles, and the 230 thieves who surrendered died on the road, and the corpses were hung on the rope and dragged on the ground.

When Liu Wuguo's subordinates, as well as Yang Desheng and other generals arrived in Anding County with the captured rogue thieves, they found that Liu Renyu had already arrived.

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While sending his own men and horses to chase and kill the thieves, Liu Renyu arrived at the foot of Anding City with Wang Xuewu's firearms and accompanying baggage carriages.

When he arrived at the city of Anding, the first thing Liu Renyu did was to send soldiers with loud voices to shout in unison with iron loudspeakers: "All the people who have been coerced by thieves and entered the enemy camp come and surrender quickly, and we will not kill you." ”

If you want to say that the voices of these soldiers are really good, if they are placed in later generations, they are all the kind of high-pitched Maiba who sing 'Qinghai-Tibet Plateau' without changing their faces and hearts, and their voices are not broken.

When the people who were still running around without a life price heard these words, they all stopped for a moment and looked at Liu Renyu in disbelief.

After a long while, the coerced people sent a few representatives, trembling and walking to a place 100 steps away from Liu Renyu, making a posture of running away at any time, and then asked loudly: "Master Jun, what you said is true, really don't kill us?" We were stabbed in the face by thieves with the word rebellion. ”

"If I really want to kill you, I just need to give an order, and you can still outrun. Besides, even if you run out, and now that there is famine everywhere in Yansui, won't you starve to death? So, you have no choice, come and surrender. ”

The representatives who were sent to interrogate thought about it and thought that it was the same, if they wanted to kill us, we would definitely not be able to run away if we only had to give an order, and even if we could, if we could run away, we would not be able to find anything to eat except for gnawing on the bark of trees, and sooner or later we would starve to death.

As a result, the coerced people accepted the reality, and they all came to Anding County one after another, one by one, and then they gathered into several large groups according to the laws of the same village, the same town, the same fort, and the same village.

It is said that these people were still a little afraid that Liu Renyu would suddenly turn his face and slaughter them at this time, but after thinking about it, they felt that it was better to be killed directly than to run into the mountains and starve to death.

And they have just experienced a big war, life and death hang by a thread, and after experiencing life and death, they are a little downplayed about life and death.

After the people waited for a while under the county seat, they found that they were obviously too worried, Liu Renyu not only did not kill them, but ordered his soldiers to turn on the coal stove, set up a pot to boil gruel, and planned to send them a meal to eat first.

When the firefighters were boiling gruel, Liu Renyu said to the people: "You are all coerced by thieves, and you are not at fault, so I will send you a meal, and after eating, I will send you some travel expenses, and you will take the coils and return to your hometown." ”

The people who were coerced were extremely surprised when they heard Liu Renyu's words.

Generally speaking, officers and soldiers who only plunder, do not kill, and do not raise fire are considered good officers and soldiers, but now this group of officers and soldiers not only cares about their meals, but then actually sends them home coils, they can't believe their ears, and wonder if this group of soldiers standing in front of them is an officer or an army.

The people were dizzy for a while when they heard Liu Renyu's words, and then there was a villager with white hair and fairy wind and bones, and he came out of the crowd and made a gesture to kneel on the ground.

Seeing this, Liu Renyu hurriedly turned over and dismounted, supported the villager with both hands, and said warmly: "The old man doesn't need to be polite, if you have anything to say, please say it directly." ”

"Master Xie." Seeing that Liu Renyu didn't let him kneel, the old man no longer insisted, he first thanked him, and then said slowly: "Little old man has lived to this age, the main soldiers and guest soldiers have seen countless times, and there is no one who does not harm our people, so your soldiers are good to our people." ”

"We are officers and soldiers, and it is appropriate to protect the family and the country, and to protect the people." Liu Renyu is the last person who can't hear others praise him, because as soon as he hears such words, he happily replies.

"Master Jun, if you want to let us go back, of course we are willing to go back, but those thieves have scooped us, robbed us of money and food, and burned down the house, we just went back, there is no place to stay, there is nothing to eat, I am afraid that we will not survive."

Moreover, the military master will not kill us, but I am afraid that other officers and soldiers are not as sensible as you, if they see us with words tattooed on our faces, they must kill us, and we will only be stabbed. The old man saw that Liu Renyu was easy to speak, so he talked about the difficulties he might encounter when he went home.

"The old man has a point, and what you said is indeed possible. I have a way to keep you alive. According to this, 300 miles away, is the Jingbian Fort that I guarded, and that place is quite peaceful, so you will go to Jingbian Fort to settle down first, how about it? ”

"Master Xie gives us a way to live." The old man of the township would have just complained about it, but he didn't think that Liu Renyu was really a good person and was willing to take them in, so he hurriedly knelt down to thank them.

Seeing this, Liu Renyu hurriedly supported him first, and then said: "Wait a while, I will send someone to be a guide and provide food, and you will take these suffering people to Jingbian Fort together." ”

"Hey, little old man knows."

When this villager heard that the common people, including himself, were urged to live, he naturally happily went to contact other villages, towns, and forts, and people who could talk to them to discuss the matter of moving to Jingbian Fort and settle down.

The ancient Chinese had a very strong local complex, and under normal circumstances, of course, they did not want to leave their hometown and live in an unfamiliar place.

But now the situation is stronger than people, the home is gone, and the little life may not be saved at any time, so of course it can only be a change of place to settle first, at least live first.

After the people discussed and stopped, the villager who was elected as the representative said that everyone was willing to settle down in Jingbian Fort, so Liu Renyu pointed out a cronie, allocated a carriage loaded with grain and grass, and asked this cronie to take the people to Jingbian Fort and hand them over to Ma Tianjun.

When the cronies received the order, they led the happy people to march towards Jingbian Fort.

As soon as the people left, Liu Wuguo and Yang Desheng and other military attaches from Jingbian Fort returned.

Liu Wuguo saw Liu Renyu from a distance, so he shouted at the latter with a smile: "Brother Xian, thanks to your proper arrangement, all the thieves have been arrested, you see, this person is the head of the thief." ”

After Liu Wuguo finished speaking, he pointed to the starry sky that was riding on a horse and was tied like a zongzi.

"Congratulations to my brother for winning the first credit." Liu Renyu first congratulated Liu Wuguo a few words, and then looked at the starry sky.

Previously, Liu Renyu heard Sun Wuxian say that the stars were very brutal, and it was enough to kill people without blinking, and sometimes he had to abuse others to entertain himself.

So he thought that Mantianxing must be burly, fierce, and must be very ugly, but when he saw Mantianxing, he found that Mantianxing was relatively thin, very white, and a few mustaches.

"It's really strange, this person is so kind-faced, but his heart is so dark, strange." Liu Renyu looked at Mantianxing for a while, then shook his head, obviously unable to understand why Mantianxing, who seemed to be a good person, was so cruel, but he didn't want to figure out this problem, he was more concerned about other issues.

"Brother, can you give this person to the virtuous brother for interrogation before you hand it over to Hong Junmen to receive merit, so that I can inquire about Wang Jiayin's truth." Liu Renyu said to Liu Wuguo.

"What's the problem with this, just ask, brother Xian, as long as you don't kill this guy." Liu Wuguo replied with a grin.

"Thank you, brother." After Liu Renyu finished talking to Liu Wuguo, he turned his head and asked Yang Desheng: "Desheng, how many were killed and captured in this battle, and did our soldiers have casualties?" ”

"If you go back to your lordship, in this battle, we killed 70 people and captured 230 people, and we didn't have any casualties." Yang Desheng replied loudly.

"Is that the captive over there? Why do some people look badly injured? And some are dead? Liu Renyu saw many thieves who were dead or wounded and lying on the ground, so he asked Yang Desheng.

"Back to my lord, the thieves who were injured earlier, according to your orders, have been killed on the spot, these people were still not injured, but when they were escorted to them, they may have walked a little fast, because some thieves died, and some people were injured." Yang Desheng explained.

"Yes! Left hanging, you come here. I have something to ask you. After Liu Renyu finished talking to Yang Desheng, he called Wang Zuohang.

When Wang Zuohang saw Liu Renyu summoning him, he thought that Liu Renyu was blaming him for abusing the prisoners, so he walked to Liu Renyu tremblingly, knelt on the ground without saying a word, and waited to be criticized.

Then he waited for a while, and indeed waited for a reproach, but the content of this reproach was different from what he Wang Zuo thought.

I saw Liu Renyu frowning and said, "Why haven't these injured thieves been killed, why don't we still raise them!" ”

When Wang Zuohang heard Liu Renyu's words, he first sent a message for a while, and then when he came back to his senses, he immediately said with a smile on his face: "My lord, the little ones are not doing well, please atone for your sins, and the little ones will send them on the road." ”

After Wang Zuohang finished speaking, he stood up, took the knife himself, came to the ranks of the thieves, and when he saw the wounded, he slashed them down, and in the blink of an eye, he slashed 26 wounded thieves.

Liu Renyu looked at the thieves with an indifferent expression, shouting for mercy, but they were still killed on the spot.

After Wang Zuohang finished killing the injured thief, Liu Renyu ordered Wang Zuohang to throw the dead thief aside, and then planned to follow Liu Wuguo to lead the troops to the east and meet Hong Chengchou as soon as possible.

At this time, Liu Renyu did not plan to buy grain from the rice merchants in Anding County, because the grain he brought was still enough to eat and he did not need to buy it.

Just when he was about to go with Liu Wuguo and lead his men and horses to open the way towards Qingjian, he didn't beware of the opening of the gate of Anding County, Zeng County Cheng, Yang Inspector and the gentry in Anding County, together with chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep, rice and flour steamed buns, lined up in a long line, and walked straight to Liu Renyu and Liu Wuguo.

"Yo, brother, I don't think that the officials in this Anding County are still very sensible, and they know that they are here to treat us, but they are better than Yan Zibin of Mizhi." Liu Renyu saw that someone in Anding County came out to reward, so he said to Liu Wuguo with a smile.

"Who's to say it isn't! I said Brother Xian, you will come to meet the guests later, and we won't mix. Liu Wuguo meant to give Liu Renyu the opportunity to show his face.

But he said that Zeng Xiancheng had long wanted to go out of the city to reward, but he didn't know if the situation had stabilized, and whether the thieves would kill the horse pistol, so he waited for a while, and when he saw that the leader of the thieves who was showing off his might outside the city had been arrested by the officials and soldiers, Shi Shiran brought the county gentry to the labor army.

Zeng Xiancheng walked to the front of the army, stepped forward, arched his hand slightly, and asked: "Dare to ask which adult is in command of the official army here?" ”

Liu Renyu heard Zeng County's question, and saw that the other party was only wearing the official uniform of the county Cheng, so he replied a little unhappily: "Under Liu Renyu, he was guarded by Jingbian Fort, and he went to suppress the thieves on the orders of the Hongjun Gate. I am very grateful that your county can come to the labor army, but I don't know what your county is busy with? Why don't you come and see each other? ”

Zeng Xiancheng is a smart man who has been a petty official for many years, and he immediately tasted dissatisfaction from Liu Renyu's tone, so he hurriedly replied with a smile: "Lord Liu doesn't know, our stable predecessor county was transferred away as early as September of the first year of Chongzhen, and we have no county order until now, and they are all under this county and other officials in the yamen who are taking care of stability." ”

"And that kind of thing!" When Liu Renyu heard the news, he was surprised at first, and then the unhappiness he had brought about when he thought that the Anding County Order had not come immediately disappeared.

"Lord Liu doesn't know, we have always been poor and poor, the county lords came here, and they couldn't make money and food, so they couldn't do it for long, so they thought about transferring away, and those who couldn't be transferred away directly abandoned the official and didn't do it, we gave a lot of documents to the court and asked them to send the county order, but the court didn't send it for more than a year." Zeng Xiancheng smiled bitterly and replied.

"There is no county lord! It's not easy for you to still be able to defend the county, it seems that your stable garrison must be good, why don't you see your stable guard chief to see you? ”

"Lord Liu, we originally had 300 officers and soldiers guarding the station, but when we went out to suppress the thieves, we were killed by the thieves, so we have no use for the officers and soldiers in the stability. If you hadn't arrived in time, the thieves would have broken the city! ”

"Really!? You're really not easy. I said, now that we are not at peace in Yansui, the Jingbian Fort I am guarding is close to you, and if you encounter thieves again, just look for us. Liu Renyu thought that Anding was relatively close to Jingbian Fort, so he casually said a kind word.

That Zeng County Cheng got this sentence, it was like a treasure, and he hurriedly said happily: "The safety of Anding County will be entrusted to Lord Liu in the future, come, come, this is a reward for you meritorious soldiers, please accept it quickly." ”

Liu Renyu glanced at the reward materials given by Anding County, purely in terms of quantity, it can only be regarded as better than nothing, but he still said with a smile on his face: "In the next generation of soldiers, thank you for the kindness of Lord Cheng of the county." We still have military affairs on our side, so let's go. ”

After Liu Renyu finished speaking, he ordered the heavy soldiers to carry the reward materials onto the carriage, and then he bid farewell to the officials and gentry who went out of the city to settle down, and together with Liu Wuguo, they marched towards Qingjian County.