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On the second day after he had just won the great victory in Beiliu, news also came from Taipingzhuang in the southeast of Yangcheng, Li Xuanzhu led his subordinate generals, plus several local township soldiers, in Taipingzhuang in one fell swoop defeated more than 700 Yangcheng County garrisons and local township Yong organized in Yangcheng County, killed dozens of people on the spot, and captured more than 300 people, the patrol surnamed Zhang who led the team was also beheaded on the spot, and the remaining township Yong and Yangcheng County garrison immediately dispersed and escaped cleanly. The batch of grain and straw that Yangcheng Zhixian had finally organized also fell into the hands of Li Xuanzhu.

After Li Xuanzhu won, he organized manpower to transport this batch of grain back to Lianhua Village, and led the headquarters soldiers and more than 1,000 township soldiers to the Beiliu camp to meet Xiao Tianjian.

So far, the two forces that intended to be unfavorable to the Xingtian Army were defeated by the Xingtian Army, so that Wang Jinsong, the magistrate of Yangcheng County, was so frightened that he directly closed the city gate and did not allow anyone to enter or leave, for fear that the Xingtian Army would be provoked and send troops to attack Yangcheng County and take him out of Yangcheng County and slaughter him.

And Xiao Tianjian's interest is not in attacking Yangcheng County, because Yangcheng County is a symbol, and it is not of much benefit to the Xingtian Army to fight it, after all, the county seat represents that it is a symbol of the imperial court, and it is there, which means that the imperial court has not lost this place, even if in essence, the outside of the city is controlled by the Xingtian Army, as long as Yangcheng County is still within the control of the imperial court, then it will not attract too much attention from the imperial court.

The other rebels did not understand this, they always thought that attacking the state capital or the county seat would make them gain great fame, and they could obtain a lot of wealth and food, but in fact, once they attacked the next state capital and county, then they would become a thorn in the side of the official, and they would inevitably invite the official mad retaliation, which was not only reflected in this era, but also taught a profound lesson in later generations.

At this point, Xiao Tianjian probably understands better than anyone in this world that a city and a pond are not important to him, and the basis for his survival with his Xingtian army is in the countryside, although the handicraft industry in the Ming Dynasty has been very developed in this era, but the peasants still occupy the absolute majority among all kinds of businesses, not to mention, in this era, the rich people like to buy land, and a large number of peasants' land has been annexed, so that the vast majority of peasants have become their tenants and have to be exploited by them. The peasants' desire for land is probably unimaginable to ordinary people, and only by winning the hearts of these peasants can the Xingtian Army have the possibility of survival.

So from here on, he didn't think about going to Yangcheng County, his fundamental goal was to be in the countryside, since he wanted to expand his power, then his biggest enemies were the landlords who were currently controlling a large amount of land.

Therefore, after he led his troops to defeat the official army, he immediately began to sweep on both sides of the Qin River non-stop, the first target was to directly point to the major villages and forts established on both sides of the Qin River, the reason why they were chosen as the target is because the Xingtian Army currently occupies a territory, and there is a Huze River in the north as a boundary, and the area south of the Huze River is basically the jurisdiction controlled by the Xingtian Army, and only the east of Dongye Town is an area where various forces are intertwined, and the land owned by the major Zhuangzi is directly bordered by the area controlled by the Xingtian Army. Although the Xingtian Army took over the area under his control from Zhao Datong, it was unable to control the area along the Qin River.

These big families of Zhuangzi also took advantage of this opportunity to encroach on some of the land that belonged to the control area of the Xingtian Army, and also fought with the people under the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army many times, killing and injuring many people, just because the Xingtian Army did not put much energy in this area some time ago, so they did not invest too much energy in these places, but the big families in this area have long regarded the Xingtian Army as their biggest enemy, this time the government wants to exterminate the Xingtian Army As soon as the news came out, the big families in this area showed quite positively, The money is contributed, the efforts are contributed, and the grain is delivered, just to use the power of the government to strangle the Xingtian Army in Yangcheng, and the provincial Xingtian Army will threaten their interests in the future.

Since it is now in the farming season, and the official army has just been defeated by the Xingtian Army, Xiao Tianjian has just freed up his hands to clean up the hostile forces in this area.

So at the beginning, Xiao Tianjian didn't plan to show mercy, and divided his subordinates into three groups, two sentinels and one group, responsible for an area, and he himself personally led a team of soldiers and horses to attack Zhuangzi in this area.

Because the Zhuangzi on both sides of the Qin River had been plundered by the rebels in the early years, the local families learned the lesson, built a tall village wall for their Zhuangzi, and made the young and strong among their tenants their Zhuangzi, and hired some skilled people as their family members to protect their Zhuangzi.

But all the rich big households, more or less organized such armed forces, dozens of people, hundreds of people, to deal with an ordinary robbery pole, with their strength can basically deal with, and even can resist the invasion of a larger group of thieves, in addition to defending against thieves, they sometimes even go against the government, after all, as the saying goes, bandits are like combs, soldiers are like grates, officials are shaved, sometimes soldiers are worse than bandits, In this regard, the interests of the common people and the rich are the same to a certain extent, so it is very effective.

But that's all there is to it, when they are faced with the well-trained and well-equipped Xingtian Army, these civilian local forces are no match for the Xingtian Army.

After this small half a year of local operation, the good reputation of the Xingtian Army has already spread all over the local area, the vast majority of the common people know that the Xingtian Army and the general robbery of the pole style of action is very different, when the ordinary pole raids the village, it is not only to the rich people, they only need to lay down the fort, but whether you have money or not, burn and loot everywhere you pass, no matter how poor the common people are, they also have to loot it, as for the official army, not to mention, the soldiers are like a grate, and they are more powerful than the bandits who are soldiers. Therefore, even for the sake of their own lives, ordinary people are willing to help the rich keep the village, and at the same time protect their own safety.

However, in the past few months, what the Xingtian Army has done is very different from those local poles in the past, the Xingtian Army has never harmed the ordinary poor people, but has treated the people well everywhere, there is no food to eat, no clothes to wear, and what makes the people even more grateful to them is that they also divide the fields and land for the common people, and do not squeeze their blood and sweat like knocking on the bones and sucking the marrow, this practice has long been recognized by the common people in the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army, and the people around the area under their control have already heard such news.

Therefore, since the Xingtian Army will not harm them poor people, these tenants of the rich people will have no interest in giving their lives to their lords anymore.

From the beginning of the Xingtian Army, they called out their slogan "rob the rich and help the poor, divide the land equally", although this slogan is only eight words, but the effect is extremely effective, in the early stage have understood the style of the Xingtian Army, these Zhuangzi tenants, after hearing the roar of the Zhuangwai Xingtian Army, where will they sell their lives to help the rich resist the Xingtian Army!

It is often the Xingtian Army that surrounds the Zhuangzi, just to open the cannon, the Zhuangzi Zhuangzi will immediately scatter as birds and beasts, run a seven, seven, eighty, eight, eight, attack, rarely subject to fierce resistance, as long as the limited resistance on the Zhuang wall is suppressed with the bird, and then you can rest assured that the bold push of the crash car to hit the Zhuang Gate, even if the Zhuangzi is built, no matter how to explain, it can not withstand the impact of the heavy crash, and will soon be hit by the Xingtian Army from the outside and rush into the village, as for after entering the village, The Zhuang Ding in the Zhuangzi are not the opponents of the Xingtian Army, and they will soon be cleaned up and the entire Zhuangzi will be taken.

There was even such a situation, after the Xingtian army surrounded a Zhuangzi, just at the beginning of the shouting, let the people inside abandon their weapons and surrender, and some of the bold tenants inside took it upon themselves to tie up the big households in the village, opened the door of the village to welcome out, handed over the big households to the Xingtian Army to deal with, and then happily waited for them to divide the fields and land and grain, after all, the big families have been riding on their heads for a long time, once these tenants who have been oppressed for a long time have a way to vent, they will not miss the old, Sometimes some ruthless tenants simply don't wait to tie up the landlord and send them out of Zhuangzi, so they kill them directly in Zhuangzi, and once these tenants go crazy, they even spoil the women of rich families, and do such a thing, the people who are out of control are even more crazy, so that sometimes after capturing a Zhuangzi, the Xingtian army has to enter the village to suppress it, so as not to harm innocent people.

In this way, the overall progress of the Xingtian Army was very fast, and sometimes in one day, it could even capture two Zhuangzi in a row, and in just ten days, it basically defeated more than a dozen Zhuangzi within a radius of more than 20 miles on both sides of the Qin River.

The Xingtian army often captured a Zhuangzi, and the grain money of the large households in the village was distributed to the poor in the village, and the rest were transferred from their jurisdictions to transfer a group of village soldiers and a group of township soldiers, which were loaded and transported back to the Lotus Village for storage.

But things are not as good as expected, ten days later, when Zhao Erdonkey led his troops to attack a Doujiabao, he encountered unusually fierce resistance, regardless of how Zhao Erdonkey's soldiers shouted at the village to promote their policy, but the people in this Doujiabao were unmoved, so Zhao Erdonkey had to lead his troops to take a strong attack.

But I didn't think that the people in Doujiabao resisted very fiercely, and Doujiabao Zhuangding's equipment was also quite good, there were no less than seventy or eighty pairs of hard bows alone, twenty or thirty hard crossbows, not to mention all kinds of knives, guns, swords, halberds, not to mention, there were a lot of flying knives and arrows (several varieties of cluster rockets in the Ming Dynasty), and also prepared quite enough gray stone rolling wood, boiling water and boiling oil, etc., as soon as the Xingtian army attacked, they used these things to split their heads and cover their faces. As a result, Zhao Erdonkey and Li Xuanzhu, who fought with him, were frustrated several times in attack, but they lost a lot of generals.