Chapter 37: Comfort

After being reprimanded by Xiao Tianjian, Luo Li immediately blushed and shouted: "What the general is training is, it is his subordinates who are lax!" I'll go down and make arrangements! ”

Xiao Tianjian stopped him, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Don't be angry, what I said is the truth, now we are gradually growing, if we are not careful, we will fall into a situation of no return, we can't afford to be the main generals have the slightest slackness, military discipline is the soul of the Xingtian Army, if the military discipline is loose, then we will become a group of soulless people, then all our previous efforts will be in vain, if this is the case, are we worthy of those brothers who have died or are disabled?" It's not that I'm mean to the brethren! But we have just begun this road, and there is still a long way to go, and I will not slacken, and I hope that you, brothers, will not slack off, and if anyone is satisfied, I will not stop them, and I will reward them with land and enough money to support him for the rest of his life, so that they can take off the uniform of this torture army and go home to be honored.

Who doesn't love coziness? I also want to be comfortable, I don't have to live such a ghost life every day, but I can't, because it is far from the time when we can be comfortable, the imperial court still has enough strength to destroy us, and there are Jiannu in the north who are eyeing us Han people and want to enslave us, our Han people in the Ming Dynasty, the reason why they have been defeated repeatedly is that they have been comfortable for too long, so they have forgotten the kind of blood flowing in our blood! Hope you understand why I'm doing this! ”

Luo Li's heart was moved after hearing this, since he followed Xiao Tianjian, he felt that the days after this have been rushing, and now that they have just laid down a Yongning county, he wants to relax a little, but after listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, he only now understands that in fact, they are far from being able to relax, so he nodded and said to Xiao Tianjian: "General don't worry!" My subordinates figured it out, we forgot what to do! Don't worry about me, general, I'll go down and arrange it! ”

"In addition, the guards sent news just now, they just caught some soldiers who violated military discipline in the city, there are people from your second battalion and people from the third battalion, these people I won't deal with it personally this time, you look for Li Xuanzhu, each go to the guards to get people, what to do, you look at it yourself, we came to Henan this time to go deep alone, we can't help us be sloppy! There you go! When Xiao Tianjian sent Luo Li to the door, he said to Luo Li.

After Luo Li heard this, he suddenly became furious, and immediately slammed his heels his chest, and said to Xiao Tianjian: "Is there such a thing? Don't worry, general, I'll go and lead people, and my subordinates will never tolerate and accommodate these bastards, how to deal with them, how to deal with them! Subordinates will never be merciful! ”

The situation in Yongning County was quickly settled after the palace was captured, and what the people in the city did not expect was that after the thief army in their eyes entered the city, there was no such wanton looting and slaughter, but there were people in the thief army who took the initiative to maintain law and order on the streets of the city, and successively arrested dozens of green-skinned scoundrels in the city who wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob and make a profit, and also arrested some of their own people who took advantage of the chaos to rob and humiliate women.

This is not counting, after this thief army entered the city, not only did not ask for the people in the city, but also took the initiative to take out some food and distributed it to the poor people in the city, only the homes of some officials in the city and some of the famous big families in the local area, basically there was no disturbance to the people, even those young people in the city who were coerced by the government to go to the city to guard the city, after being captured, they were soon put back into their own homes, and did not harm them, so that the people in the city also quickly changed their impression of this "thief army".

After the city stabilized, this "thief army" even took the initiative to withdraw most of the soldiers and horses from the county seat, which made the people in the city feel much more at ease.

Although the officers and men in the army complained a little about this decision, they felt that they had finally invaded Yongning County, and they had to let them rest in the city for two days, but they let them go out of the city for training so quickly, and some people were more or less dissatisfied, but then they learned that even Xiao Tianjian himself did not stay in the luxurious palace or the county government, and like most of the soldiers of the two battalions, he went out of the city and returned to the camp outside the city that night, so this dissatisfaction immediately disappeared, as Xiao Tianjian said, The people do not suffer from poverty, and the suffering is unfair, Xiao Tianjian leads by example and does not covet enjoyment, so the soldiers and generals below naturally have nothing to be dissatisfied with.

But what Xiao Tianjian didn't expect was that when he conquered Yongning County, Liu Yaoben sent a message from his side, which made him a little surprised.

Originally, he sent Liu Yaoben to lead his troops to Duyang River, just to prevent Yidougu from leading his troops to Yongning County to make trouble, originally thought that it would deter Yidougu, as long as they didn't dare to cross the river and get close to Yongning County, it would be enough, and he would free up his hands to clean them up in the future, but he didn't think that Liu Yaoben was a guy who was bold enough to cover his body, and only led three sentinels and horses, tearing his face and fighting in Duyang River and Yidougu.

After this battle, Liu Yaoben killed and injured hundreds of Yidougu's subordinates, and even led his troops to directly kill the Yanghe, chased and killed Yidougu for dozens of miles, and drove Yidougu back to Dafang Mountain before he was able to collect the soldiers and horses.

After this battle, Liu Yaoben only relied on 700 subordinates, but he actually killed 7,000 soldiers and horses in Yidougu and fled, and captured more than 2,000 of Yidougu's subordinates along the way, which was greatly unexpected by Xiao Tianjian.

On the one hand, this incident shows that the combat effectiveness of Liu Yaoben's group of young guys is quite good, and on the other hand, it also fully shows the weakness of bandits like Yidougu, who were actually killed and defeated under ten times the strength of the Xingtian Army, so it also temporarily solved a problem for Xiao Tianjian.

For the thieves and dogs like Yidou Gu who are entrenched in the mountains of western Henan, Xiao Tianjian didn't intend to be polite to them, Liu Yaoben was able to defeat him in one battle, and it just happened to save Xiao Tianjian a trouble, but it was a pity that Liu Yaoben couldn't capture Yidou Gu on the spot in this battle, otherwise, this time he would really solve this trouble once and for all.

That night, Xiao Tianjian sent people to Liu Yao's headquarters to reward the soldiers who participated in the training camp this time, and at the same time sent people to escort the two thousand prisoners back to Yongning County, for these thieves, killing can not solve the problem, if they are released, these people will not be able to make a living, and they will still run back to Yidougu to eat there, and these people will basically be strong laborers in the future, so properly resettle them and solve the problem of their survival is the next thing Xiao Tianjian needs to solve.

After Luo Yingjie and other civil affairs officials who came with the army and the second and third battalions counted overnight, before dawn, the results of Yongning County this time were basically summarized.

After the first battle of the county, the Xingtian Army killed more than 400 officers and soldiers including Wu Dalie, the magistrate of Yongning County, and captured more than 700 defenders and palace guards in the city, not including the young and strong people in the city who had been released, and captured more than 20 guns of various types and hundreds of sets of various armors, and what made Xiao Tianjian even happier was that in the arsenal of the Yongning County Ya and the treasury of the palace, there were actually thousands of catties of gunpowder in reserve, although it was only some powdered gunpowder, the quality may not be as good as the granular gunpowder produced by the Xingtian Army, but it can still greatly supplement the consumption of the Xingtian Army, so that for the Xingtian Army after crossing the river to the south, it will undoubtedly ensure their future demand for gunpowder.

As for the money and grain, not to mention, there is basically no inventory in the treasury of the county government, and the money in the treasury of the county government is almost poor to run mice, and there are only hundreds of stones of grain in the grain warehouse, but the money that has not been copied out in the palace of the king of Wan'an is eye-popping.

The little King Wan'an is just a small king in the fiefdom of Yongning County, compared to the Fu King of Luoyang, he can only be regarded as a small inconspicuous royal relative, but even so in his palace treasury, just gold, more than 2,000 taels were copied, and the silver was more than 70,000 taels, not counting the jewels and antiques and other things copied out of the palace, and only the granary of the royal mansion in the county town, which hoarded nearly 10,000 stones of various grains, after some of the granaries were opened, The old grain stored in it was almost moldy and rotten, and this grain alone was enough to support the current soldiers of the Xingtian Army for more than a year.

This is not counting the grain stored by Zhu Cai, the king of Wan'an, in several imperial villages outside the county, with the strength of the Wan'an Wang's family alone, Xiao Tianjian does not have to worry about eating in the next two or three months.