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Unexpectedly, the Tiger Ben Army went to Henan to buy grain from the people, but they were actually armed confrontation by Henan villagers.

In fact, the village that Li Laosi found was the only place in the vicinity of Wuli where there were living people -- Henan had been in drought for several years, and had experienced a tug-of-war between the army and the official army, and the population was only 3 or 40 percent of its original size. Many villages were abandoned by the people because of their small population, and the people gathered in large villages with fertile land.

However, although many people died, these people knew better than anyone that the dismal situation of the peasants in Henan was caused by the gentry. The gentry relied on the support of the government to annex the peasants' land, and did not pay taxes, so they pressed all the taxes on the small people. That's why the peasants in Henan are so vulnerable to natural disasters and have died so many people.

Therefore, after Li Zicheng occupied Henan, the policy of exempting land from taxation greatly moved the peasants in Henan. On the one hand, because of the great reduction in the population of Henan, the surviving peasants were given a considerable amount of land. On the other hand, all these fields did not have land rent and land endowment, and the people of Henan suddenly became rich.

In addition, with the abundant rain in Henan last year, this year's winter wheat harvest was bumper, and every household received far more grain than before. Basically, the whole of Henan has achieved food and clothing, and Li Zicheng's prestige is in full swing.

At this time, Li Zicheng sent people to spread rumors throughout the province, saying that Li Zhi was going to confiscate the fields allocated by the people, and that Li Zhi was going to turn these fields into public land for the people to pay rent. The people of Henan completely believed this rumor and regarded Li Zhi's tiger army as an enemy.

Li Laosi led his troops to attack the southernmost part of Henan near Xinyang, and successfully divided Henan into two. However, Li Laosi had almost eaten all the grain and grass, so he asked the grassroots officers to buy grain from the locality, but all of them failed. Li Laosi personally ran away, only to find that the people of Henan hated the Tiger Army more than they imagined.

Li Laosi found a soldier with a loud voice and asked him to go up and shout.

"Henan folks, don't be afraid. We, the Tiger Army, are here to buy food, and we will not rob you of your property. We buy grain from you at a price higher than the market price, and we promise that we will not let the villagers suffer. ”

However, the pro-soldier shouted several times, but the villagers on the wall of the village still frowned coldly, and seemed to have the determination to defend the village.

He Donggui, the head of the Dangkou Division beside Li Laosi, said: "Division Commander, do these villagers really think that they can hold the village? ”

Li Laosi looked at He Donggui and sighed: "I didn't expect Li Zicheng to be so popular in Henan, and the people believed their rumors so much." ”

He Donggui said: "Division Commander, this is not strong because you can't buy food, start here today, and use force to collect food!" ”

Li Laosi nodded.

He Donggui waved his hand and let a soldier carry a bazooka and walked up. The soldier walked fifty meters away from the stockade, aimed the bazooka at the gate of the village, and shot it out with a bang.

The rocket slammed into the heavy village gate, was silent for a few seconds, and then exploded with a thud. The flames soared into the sky, and the huge shock wave suddenly blew the two-meter-wide village gate into pieces, knocking down the earthen wall next to the gate by more than three meters. The road to the interior of the village was opened.

The reason why these peasants dared to resist the Tiger Army was entirely because of the reputation of the Tiger Army for not disturbing the people. They also heard that the Tianjin people left empty-handed after the previous villages resisted the Tiger Ben Army's grain requisition, so they thought that as long as they showed their determination to arm the fight, the Tiger Ben Army would return like in other villages.

They didn't expect the Tiger Army to actually start beating the peasants.

They hoped that the Tiger Army would withdraw from Henan without food, so that they could keep their fields. However, if the tiger is strong, they will not dare to resist.

The huge explosion on the gate of the village made the peasants in the village realize the strength of the tiger army, and they turned pale with fright and panicked. They threw away their weapons and fled into the village, not daring to put their heads out to resist.

The Tiger Army loaded their rifles and rushed into the village with their rifles.

The peasants of Henan were also the sons of the Duke of Jinguo in the future. Seeing that there was no bloodshed, Li Laosi was relieved and rode into the village.

The village is not large, with more than 100 households. At this time, a company of tiger soldiers rushed into every house to inspect the grain, and chickens and dogs jumped everywhere.

Li Laosi rode a horse for a while, and saw several tiger-headed children each grabbing wooden toys in their hands, standing in front of the courtyard of a farmhouse, staring at him with big eyes.

Seeing that these children were innocent and cute, Li Laosi thought of his son and daughter. He jumped off his horse and tried to tease the children.

However, those children were full of hostility towards Li Laosi. Seeing Li Laosi jumping off the horse, the children hula ran into the yard.

Li Laosi was stunned and said to the children: "Do you want to learn a new game?" ”

Those children were not tempted by Li Laosi at all, picked up gravel from the ground and threw it at Li Laosi.

"Fight the bad guys!"

"The bad guys from Tianjin want to rob our fields!"

"We don't play with bad guys!"

Of course, the finger-sized stone couldn't hurt Li Laosi, but seeing the children's actions, Li Laosi's face suddenly darkened.

The guards beside Li Laosi rushed up and drove the children into the house.

Li Laosi took a breath, clapped his hands, and did not speak.

The Tiger Army rushed into every house, and those villagers did not have the courage to fight the Tiger Army. The village women honestly opened their barns for the Tiger Benjun to inspect. The peasants who had just been pretending to be armed against the walled wall did not know where to hide at this time.

Soon, the statistics were reported.

"Division commander, there are about 5,300 stone of grain in this village."

"So many?"

Li Laosi couldn't imagine that there were more than 5,000 stone of grain hidden in such a small village, and secretly said that he still underestimated the level of this year's bumper harvest in Henan. In the first year of Li Zicheng's control of Henan, the common people achieved such a bumper harvest, and it is no wonder that the peasants in Henan obeyed Li Zicheng's words.

Hearing the results of He Donggui's report, Li Laosi nodded.

"Leave 2,500 stone for the people to eat, and requisition the remaining 2,800 stone for military rations. Give the people two taels of silver for each stone. ”

He Donggui looked at Li Laosi and said, "Division commander, the scouts in the east reported that no large number of thieves had been found in the eastern part of Henan, and it seemed that they had fled to Shaanzhou in the west in advance. Only a few tens of thousands of hungry soldiers are still stranded in eastern Henan. Hong Chengchou's plan to intercept the thieves in eastern Henan did not seem to work. ”

Li Laosi nodded and said, "The thieves are cunning, we can't make our wishes come true." However, in this way, we have already occupied central and eastern Henan, and controlled two-thirds of Henan, as long as we concentrate our forces to attack the mountainous areas of western Henan. ”

He Donggui said: "Division commander, the peasants in Henan are so supportive of the thieves, I am afraid that we will not be able to requisition local grain when we enter the mountainous areas." To transport grain to Shaanzhou in the mountains, our grain route has to walk 500 miles in the valley, which is a bit dangerous. ”

Li Laosi looked at the surrounding villages and did not speak.