The next day, Li Yan went to the barracks. Although there were more than 1,000 of these defenders, they all stayed in the barracks honestly and did not dare to make any changes.

Li Yan has experience in Suizhou, and he still plans to retrain these people and let them be responsible for the security of the city and the task of the reserve army. Of course, there are a lot of these people, and among them, those who are not cunning and willing to make meritorious contributions can still be received from the army. However, it is necessary to be strictly selected, and those soldiers and ruffians must not be allowed to come in, which will bring bad atmosphere in the army.

But now the first task is to get these soldiers to go to their battlefield and dispose of the corpses. Seeing that the temperature is about to rise, if it is not dealt with in time, it may cause epidemics.

Li Yan instructed the five generals and the hundred generals: "You take the troops, bring the lime and tools, go to the south of Xie Zhai seven miles, and bury all the corpses there." Bury it deeper and cover it with lime. ”

Two of them, the boss and the hundred, had been executed yesterday, and they were all Mao's henchmen, trying to incite the soldiers to rise up and resist. However, Li Yan's subordinates were very decisive, and as soon as they showed some signs, they were shot by random arrows. Let these officers have palpitations and dare not make any moves that will be suspected.

One of the generals hesitated and asked, "Shall we all go?" And what about the city defense? ”

Li Yan said: "Not only you are going, but the more than 300 rogues I have captured are also going!" This is a test for you, and if you can't do even that, I'm not going to pay you. You don't have to worry about the city defense, my troops will take over. ”

The officers looked at each other, all a little surprised. Still going to be tested? Isn't it just to bury the body, and it's not a difficult thing.

Li Yan asked, "Do you have any questions?" ”

Everyone clasped their fists and said, "No problem." ”

Li Yan pointed to a general manager and said, "This time, the general military officer will be in charge." You all have to listen to the general commands, if you don't listen to the orders, my military law will not be merciful! ”

Although two of them were not convinced, they could only agree first. They all know that if they show dissatisfaction here, they may be killed directly, so they should agree to come down first.

Everyone hugged their fists and agreed, and the general commander agreed the loudest.

Li Yan nodded with satisfaction, and then said, "Of course, you can also have other thoughts, but don't move on my territory, otherwise you will regret it." Okay, let's all go and get ready, and I'll leave in the afternoon, and I'll bring you three days' worth of food." Remember, don't make trouble on my territory, looting, adultery, and burning houses are not allowed. If you do, I will kill you as thieves!" How to choose, you decide! ”

All the officers looked at Li Yan in surprise, they didn't expect Li Yan to say so bluntly. However, this also made them even more frightened, indicating that Li Yan didn't take more than 1,000 of them in his eyes at all.

"Obedience!" All the officers clenched their fists and agreed.

Li Yan waved his hand and let them go down.

Li Zhong asked, "Aren't you afraid that they will really become thieves?" With their joining, the Rogue will be more familiar with the terrain and will become stronger. ”

"Just destroy them." Li Yan said lightly: "Yuan Laoshan, they shouldn't dare to come again in the short term, and they always have to find something to do for those big families." Otherwise, it will be a trouble to collect taxes from them. These people will not all go to the grass, even if they are thieves, they should know the rules better, and there will not be much damage. ”

Li Mu nodded and said: "What the fourth brother said is right, there is no threat of thieves, and those big families are not willing to pay a penny." ”

"Second brother," Li Yan instructed: "You go back and prepare, go back with the wounded and Zhao Datong's wing, and send Qian Er's team over." There are also recruits who are sent here first after they are trained, and the gap in the number of troops here is too large, so priority should be given to expanding the number. ”

Li Zhong reminded: "Is it necessary to set the rotation, don't let others chill." ”

Li Yan nodded and agreed: "Well, what the second brother reminds me is that you will set a rotation order after you go back." However, on the premise of ensuring the safety of Qi County, it is necessary to be foolproof there. ”

"Okay, I'll arrange it." Li Zhong agreed.

Li Mu suddenly asked, "Who to send with those defenders?" ”

"No, you don't." Li Yan immediately said: "Just send someone to follow from afar." There are so many of them, how many should we send? More is not there, less is also dangerous. ”

After lunch, the defenders of Guide City went out of the city to the south. Li Zhong's troops left Guide City from the west half an hour later, and he only rested briefly in Ningling and Suizhou, and rushed back to Qixian overnight. Now that Qixian is temporarily in charge of Qian Er, he has been out for three days, and he is a little uneasy.

When it was almost evening, the generals finally arrived at the battlefield that Li Yan said. They also saw the people sent by Li Yan to monitor from afar, so they still came here obediently all the way and did not let their men harass the village.

After seeing the entire battlefield, they were shocked. They can be regarded as having fought, even in siege warfare, they have never seen so many corpses. Some were killed by bows, some were stabbed to death with spears, some were burned to black coal, and some were pierced by lead bullets. All kinds of corpses were scattered around the battlefield, and the closer you got to a square earthen fence, the more corpses there were.

But when they arrived at the square-shaped earthen enclosure, they were surprised to find that it was not an earthen enclosure at all, but a enclosure made of corpses, just covered with a layer of soil.

"Could it be that Li Yan is true?" One of them covered his nose and frowned, "Are they really protruding from the siege of tens of thousands of thieves?" And kill thousands of thieves? But there are only a thousand of them! ”

The general nodded and said, "It seems to be true, otherwise there would not be such a corpse." ”

"There must be more than a thousand of them!" Another general said unconvinced: "A thousand people, he thinks his soldiers are all heavenly soldiers!" ”

A soldier ran to report and said, "General, there are still corpses in the south." ”

Unconvinced, Tian Jiang always yelled impatiently: "Bird! This is really for us to be miserable! ”

The general said: "General Li is still thinking about us, didn't he let the more than 300 thieves and captives come with us?" Let's watch and let them do their work. It can be regarded as letting them collect the bodies of their companions and bury them. ”

"Cut!" Tian Jiang said angrily: "He raised the level for you and asked you to command a few of us, of course you are facing him." Lao Tzu doesn't want to see his bird, is there anyone who walks with my brother? ”

Everyone else looked at each other and didn't respond. Being a thief is just a last resort, and they don't think it's time yet.

Tian arched his hand and said: "Then take care, I will leave with the brothers who are willing to go with me, I hope you will not be embarrassed for the sake of your colleagues." ”

The crowd remained silent as they spoke.

Tian clenched his fists and said, "Thank you." Then he went to contact the soldiers, and at last he left the group with a hundred or so men, and went east.

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