On the morning of the first day of the third month of the fourth year of Chongzhen, in Ruijin County, more than 700 mobs tied up by ropes waited tremblingly for the group of Hongmen soldiers with resolute and indifferent faces in front of them.

The once bloodthirsty and crazy mob no longer saw the madness and cruelty they had before, and many of them had even collapsed to the ground in fright, and a hot current rushed to their inner thighs involuntarily.

They couldn't help but be distracted, in just seven or eight days, the originally prosperous Ruijin County was already a desolation, and the people in the county who were finally saved by the Hongmen soldiers were less than a thousand, and most of the rest had been killed by this group of mobs!

Everywhere were the naked and cold corpses of women, or the corpses that had been beaten to the point of being inhuman, and were chopped into several pieces and scattered in the streets and alleys, and the whole scene was more shocking than the rotting corpses that were strewn all over the field due to famine during the natural disaster.

The most shocking thing is that in a hidden corner of the county seat, there is a mountain of corpses piled up to more than a foot high, and those are the villagers of Ruijin County who have been mutilated by the mob these days.

The black bloodstains, the rancid smell, and the gradual breeding of mosquitoes and flies made the Hongmen soldiers reluctant to approach that human purgatory, whether it was due to psychological or physical environmental factors.

The Hongmen soldiers had experienced too many life and death events outside, but after seeing the tragedy that was originally just a group of poor people, they looked at the group of mobs on the ground who now looked no different from a group of displaced people and refugees, and their eyes exuded a cold murderous intent.

If it weren't for the strict rules in the Hongmen team, which attaches great importance to the group spirit of ordering and prohibiting, Niu Qiangwei had already issued an order that no one except the first evil should be slaughtered indiscriminately, and the number of the mob tied to the ground should be at least half or less.

"Report to the battalion commander, the team has finished searching, and there are now 1,134 local villagers who can be found in Ruijin County, and the rest have been ......," a soldier in charge of searching and rescuing local villagers in the first battalion reported to Niu Qiangwei very angrily after a night and a morning of searching.

"Well, I know, let the people of the third company collect the capture, and then take the path back to our ship." Niu Qiangwei didn't care about everything that happened in Ruijin County like the group of soldiers under his command, he was more concerned about whether the operation of leading the team to encircle and suppress the mob could be successfully completed.

"The rest of the mob, let the people of the second company select five hundred strong people with no scars on their bodies to come out, and rush back to our fleet with the third company."

"And what about the rest of the people?"

"That's not something you should be thinking about!" Niu Qiangwei glanced at the team members gloomily, and then continued to give an order: "Your next task is to gather the surviving people in this county, use the looted food in a centralized manner, and wait for the arrival of the colleagues in the surrounding guards. ”

"Yes!"

Niu Qiangwei was very dissatisfied with Li Tianyang's letting him wait for the arrival of the other waste armies of the Ming Dynasty, and then report the results of this war to the above, which should have belonged to him Niu Qiangwei alone, but in Li Tianyang's order, he had to give half of the credit to the group of guys who were still grinding on the road at this time.

However, he was holding Hongmen's rice bowl at this time, and his promotion or not was in Li Tianyang's thoughts, and before he found a good home, he didn't dare to disobey Li Tianyang's orders!

Not to mention, looking at the surroundings of the Ming Dynasty, who will have more potential than Hongmen, and be able to make themselves soar!

The army of the Ming Dynasty was always late, and the first team to reach Ruijin County only emerged from the southern horizon the day after Hongmen had already cleared the entire battlefield.

Looking at the county town that had been cleaned up by the Hongmen soldiers at this time, the lucky Ming Dynasty Qianzong who was worried about the impermanence of the war at the beginning, at this time he secretly hated himself in his heart, he knew that the Hongmen army was so strong, and when they passed by their own army, they said that they should also let their more than 1,000 soldiers keep up quickly, and they can also get a little sweetness and military merits!

It was not until the eighth day of the third month that the army summoned by the Fujian governor Yamen rushed to Ruijin City, and at this time, it was already half a month since this group of mobs took action, which shows the laxity of the local army and how weak the armed forces of the Ming Dynasty were.

The expected war has already ended, and the army commanders who are grinding on the road are not worried about the tragedy of the slaughter of Ruijin County at this time, and are glad that they and others have escaped a war, but they are chasing after Niu Qiangwei from time to time, with various relationships, in a vain attempt to share a little military merit from Niu Qiangwei.

There is even the shameless person, relying on his position two levels higher than Niu Qiangwei, and he opened his mouth without any face, and bit Niu Qiangwei to hand over all the gold, silver, materials, and prisoners he had captured.

Niu Qiangwei's whole heart is full of anger, even if he doesn't have any concerns about so-called courtesy, righteousness and shame, but he still has a minimum bottom line, even if he is unscrupulous in order to climb, but he is not shameless Until now, this group of people does not look like they are eating.

And these people want to snatch it, which originally belonged to him Niu Qiangwei's military exploits, which makes Niu Qiangwei, who wants to climb up, how can he hold back the anger and resentment in his heart.

In the end, he still held back, and in a tone that was neither humble nor arrogant, he took out a military merit plan that had been prepared long ago, as well as a military report that had been written, and looked indifferently at the greedy and shameless faces of this group of incompetent military masters.

It can be said that the wounds are all happy, except for him Niu Qiangwei, the other leading generals who came late looked at the distribution of military merits in Hongmen Yulu, and they were all somewhat relieved, at least this riot, after this military merit was sent, they didn't have to worry about being incompetent in defending the territory.

The generals who were strong before, who thought they had a bit of a background, were still a little dissatisfied, but after Niu Qiangwei finally broke out, with a few brave whale soldiers, and the generals put the long knives in their hands against the necks of these officials, they all came to their senses.

Hongmen is not an ordinary military general in the Ming Dynasty who can be slaughtered by others, they are all a group of bandits who have broken through on the battlefield of life and death, although their backers are strong, they may not be able to compare with this commander of a division who lives on an isolated island overseas!

As for the rest of the war profits that everyone was itching for, after Hongmen took the initiative to give up half of his military exploits, and also took out a lot of low-value cotton and linen and other materials that were not conducive to transportation and distributed them to everyone, these military masters also stopped mentioning it knowingly under the cold gaze of Hongmen soldiers.

(End of chapter)