After handing over the new arrivals from Dayuan Island, He Sanjiang and the others went back and began to act.

Previously, although He Sanjiang and Bai Yushan were also committed to expanding their troops, they were influenced by Hongmen's military philosophy, and most of the soldiers recruited by He Sanjiang and them were young and middle-aged people, and few of them were like other peasant army leaders.

The advantages of this are naturally the strength of He Sanjiang's team, which is naturally stronger under the same number, but correspondingly, this also makes the overall number of soldiers in their hands inferior to other peasant army leaders.

For example, Liu Zongmin, who had been hit hard before, originally had a strength of 20,000 or 30,000 troops, but in the battle with Hongtang's army, he was defeated by one sentence, but in the end it was not an army, and when he returned to Li Zicheng's command, his strength was already less than 5,000.

At that time, He Sanjiang had more than 15,000 troops in the hands of Bai Yushan, of which 5,000 soldiers were the most elite cavalry; However, more than a year has passed, and the remaining 5,000 soldiers under Liu Zongmin's department are now not only fully recovered, but also strengthened, and now the number of soldiers under Liu Zongmin's command has exceeded 35,000, almost doubling the expansion.

On the other hand, He Sanjiang's troops, more than 15,000 people more than a year ago, lost nearly half of them after a battle with Hongtang's army, and now although the overall number has recovered, the expansion speed is completely incomparable with Liu Zongmin's troops, and now it is only just entering the threshold of 20,000 troops.

Therefore, after receiving new instructions from his hometown, He Sanjiang and the others suddenly relaxed the requirements for recruiting soldiers, and they originally needed strong men, but now as long as they were between fifteen and forty-five years old, a man with a whole body could join their ranks.

For a while, He Sanjiang's troops in their hands suddenly increased dramatically, and at most, they could increase by more than 500 soldiers a day.

Of course, He Sanjiang's actions naturally attracted the attention of the other leaders, but in the case that everyone was expanding their team, He Sanjiang's actions were just a little abnormal.

However, in this way, He Sanjiang and they also have some advantages, that is, they can quietly place this group of soldiers sent from their hometown in their own team without knowing it, and with a little trickery, it is also an unexpected joy to let this group of newcomers become the leaders of the grassroots in the newly expanded team.

The new liaison surnamed Xiao Minghaiqiang also joined He Sanjiang and them, disguised as a distant relative of Bai Yushan, and it was logical to be taken care of by Bai Yushan and others.

There is why Sanjiang and they are secretly in contact with the new members, He Sanjiang and they are not in much trouble except that the troops in their hands are growing day by day.

However, on this day, He Sanjiang received an invitation from Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, and asked him to go to the county government residence.

The peasant army did not stay in Longxian for too long, and for the peasant army, they were like a group of ravaging locusts, basically not producing, and the peasant army would not make much action until the grain and grass materials were scavenged in one place.

Now that the resources of Longxian County have not been consumed, Li Zicheng and the others are busy searching for materials and accumulating soldiers, how could they suddenly find themselves today, but this is what He Sanjiang is puzzled by.

Even if he has doubts in his heart, but he is still a henchman of King Li Zicheng, he is not easy to disobey, and after receiving the invitation, he took two henchmen to the county government residence.

"King, do you have anything to do with me?"

As Li Zicheng's confidant, He Sanjiang will not be respectful to him like ordinary generals, but seems very intimate and close, and when he approached the door, he saw Li Zicheng, who was full of gray temples, sitting on top of the elegant hall and drinking tea, and immediately opened his mouth to ask with a big grin.

"Why, I can't find you at other times except for something to look for you?"

After experiencing life and death several times over the years, Li Zicheng now seems to have a more calm attitude, and the whole person looks like a bottomless abyss.

"Then how can it, as long as you say hello to the king, the brothers don't put down the things in their hands to accompany you!"

He Sanjiang grinned, picked up the tea cup in front of the table as if joking, poured a cup of tea and drank it casually: "Good tea, good tea!" ”

"I heard that you've been recruiting a lot of troops lately! Why, did you pick up a windfall and hide it quietly? ”

Li Zicheng asked as if he was joking, and as if he was pointed.

He Sanjiang was stunned for a moment, and when he turned his head, he understood that Li Zicheng was afraid that he had noticed something, and he didn't see any change in his face, so he still replied with a grin: "I can't hide anything from your old eyes, indeed, when a team under my command searched the township some time ago, I got a sum of materials, so I had the latest recruitment, I thought I was doing it unknowingly, but I was still discovered by your old man!" ”

"Hmph, you guy, have you forgotten the rules set by Lao Tzu? Why don't you hurry up and follow the old rules, turn in what should be handed in, and you have to find you to understand? ”

Li Zicheng scolded with a smile, and then made a scolding expression.

"Yes, yes, after the last general returns, he will give the grain that should be handed over to the king!"

He Sanjiang smiled bitterly and responded without daring to shirk.

The peasant army was like a locust, and their military rations were generally obtained by raiding the rich gentry and landlords in the townships and counties, confiscating the fields of these rich households, and then distributing the land to the poor people.

However, as the leader of the army, Li Zicheng has the privilege that all the materials, grain and grass captured by the generals under his command must be handed over to Li Zicheng, and the remaining materials, grain and grass can be owned by their respective leaders and generals for their recruitment purposes.

Before He Sanjiang was ready to expand the team, although his food supply was not simple, it was also a balanced supply, which was also the reason why he was able to pour in countless soldiers under his command after he first released the recruitment, and their team was one of the few teams in the peasant army that could eat their stomachs.

And with the expansion of their recruitment, although He Sanjiang, Bai Yushan and others also began to increase their efforts to loot grain, but the surrounding area of Longxian County is so big, He Sanjiang and they didn't work hard to loot before, and now they want to loot, how easy it is to say.

In the end, there was no way, He Sanjiang and the others still found Xiao Haiqiang, and used a hidden granary prepared for them in Xiao Haiqiang's hand, and transported more than 10,000 stone of grain out of it.

(End of chapter)