Compared with Li Zicheng's Shun army, Zhang Xianzhong's western army is undoubtedly much more brutal, and looting and massacres abound, which is also an important reason why Zhang Xianzhong has always been unpopular with the people.

The robbery of the Shun army was limited to the officials and gentry, and they were very kind to the common people, so it is not an exaggeration that the people joined one after another wherever the Shun army went. The robbery of the soldiers of the Western Army was not only aimed at the gentry and officials, but also often against the ordinary people, and wherever the Western Army passed, the wealth of the people was empty, and a large number of people lost their food wealth and had to choose to join the Western Army in order to survive.

Zhang Xianzhong led the main force of the Western Army into Jiangxi, almost the entire territory of Jiangxi in just one month, the wealth of the various cities was looted by the Western Army, and most of these wealth were carried with the army, Chen Yue commanded the army to defeat the Western Army and occupy the Western Army camp, this huge wealth fell into the hands of the Ming Army.

He Lu took hundreds of civilian soldiers assigned to him to count the time of the day, and only counted a rough idea, and it was this approximation that shocked everyone.

"According to the preliminary inventory of the subordinates, the seized gold is about 500,000 taels, about 15 million taels of silver, and other pearls, agate and jade treasures are full of five carts, and the specific value needs to be slowly estimated, and the seized silk and satin cloth of various colors are more than 10,000 horses, and there are countless other substances, and the subordinates have no time to count. In the Western Army, more than 100 barracks were specially built as warehouses, which were filled with various materials. ”

"More than 500,000 taels of gold, 15,000,000 taels of silver! The thieves have swept away such a huge fortune, which is worth ten years of income from the national treasury! Lu Zhenfei was shocked and muttered.

"What's this? The Western army occupied most of the cities in Jiangxi, the government treasury was plundered by them, and countless gentry were raided. He Lu shook his head, "The Western Army is rampant, raiding homes and destroying ordinary things, most of the captured wealth will be handed over, and a lot of it will be privately swallowed by ordinary soldiers, and this batch of gold and silver is only a count of the seizures of the Western Army's warehouse, and we don't know how much wealth our army has seized from the Western thieves!" ”

In a great victory, the Ming army defeated the Western army and captured hundreds of thousands of prisoners, and the Ming soldiers who went to war also made a lot of money one by one, and seized a lot of wealth from the prisoners from the camp tents. Many officers and soldiers stuffed their waists bulging after the war can be seen to have made a fortune. Because the war has not yet subsided, the government has not yet come up with a view on how to deal with these wealths.

"Some of the 100,000 troops fought to the death and had no time to care about it, while others followed behind to recruit prisoners and make a fortune. And the soldiers have too much property, and it is easy to satisfy their comfort, which is not conducive to the later battle. The subordinates thought that they should order all the soldiers to hand over their personal captures, and seventy percent of the seizures would go to the Jinglu Prefecture, and the remaining thirty percent could be distributed as rewards according to the size of the merit. ”

Shan Minglei, as the person in charge of military discipline in the Zhenfu Division, naturally knows the seriousness of the matter, and the original Pingnan Army handled the battlefield seizures in accordance with this method, but now not all the people participating in the battle are the Pingnan Army, and there are also many Ming troops who come to help from all over the country, and the problem of seizure is not handled well and can easily lead to serious consequences.

"The soldiers have captured a lot on the battlefield, even if they are all handed in, there may be millions of taels of silver, even thirty percent as a reward, and each soldier can at least share tens or hundreds of taels, which is already a lot." He Lu nodded, as the person in charge of counting the seizures, he knew best how huge these silver taels were.

"This silver was originally looted by the western thieves from the people of Jiangxi, and it is natural that it was used by the Jingluo Mansion for post-disaster reconstruction." Lu Zhenfei also agreed.

Once the seizure was disposed of, the next step was to discuss other matters.

Jinglufu has sent tens of thousands of troops to pursue and suppress the remnants of the Western Thieves, although there are many remnants of the Western Army, but the lack of food and salary can not form much combat effectiveness, and it will not take much time to completely exterminate them, and in the south of Nanchang, there are still Yan Yingyuan's 30,000 or 40,000 troops to intercept, and the thief army cannot run too far.

At the same time, the Jingluo Mansion ordered that anyone who could kill Zhang Xianzhong and sacrifice his head would be rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver! Although hundreds of thousands of Western troops were defeated, the bandit leader Zhang Xianzhong was not caught for a day, and Chen Yue and the people of Jinglue Mansion could not be at ease for a day.

Although the war in Jiujiang came to an end, the crisis was not resolved, because Zhang Dingguo was leading more than 100,000 troops down the river from Wuchang and could reach Jiujiang in a few days. I have to deal with Zhang Dingguo's army immediately.

However, Zhang Xianzhong has been defeated, and now Chen Yue can dispatch all the naval ships to meet the battle, although a large number of troops have been sent to pursue the remnants of the Western Army, but with the strong Jiujiang city wall, Chen Yue does not care about Zhang Dingguo's army!

After deliberation among the people in the palace, it was believed that as long as Zhang Dingguo knew the news of the defeat of Zhang Xianzhong's army, he would definitely stop the march immediately. And now it is not how to resist Zhang Dingguo, but how to think about leaving Zhang Dingguo's 100,000 or so people by the Yangtze River.

Zhang Xianzhong's main force was defeated, as long as Zhang Dingguo's army was eliminated, the Great Western Army would no longer have any possibility of rising.

"I'm afraid it's not easy to eliminate Zhang Dingguo, most of our main forces have been sent to chase and suppress the remnants of the enemy, and now there are more than 30,000 troops in the two cities of Jiujiang and Hukou. Although there are still nearly 300,000 captives, these captives have not yet completed the change and cannot be used at all. Lu Zhenfei said.

"Our Jiujiang is short of troops, but we don't need to deal with Zhang Dingguo. Zheng Sen and Hao Shaoqi attacked each other some time ago, probably because they saw that Jiujiang was in danger and had the heart to protect themselves. Now that our army has won a big victory, it's time for the two of them to contribute! Chen Yue sneered.

A few days ago, the two armies of Hao Shaoqi and Zheng Sen had a dirty fight, killing and attacking each other, so that Zhang Dingguo was able to leave Wuchang and Shunjiang to kill Jiujiang, and almost fell into Jiujiang in a catastrophe.

As for the rights and wrongs of Hao Shaoqi and Zheng Sen, Chen Yue has no time to delve into it now, and now it is time for them to prove their innocence.

What Guogong said is that if Hao Shaoqi and Zheng Sen want not to be held accountable afterwards, the only thing they can do now is to fight with Zhang Dingguo's thief army to prove their innocence. Hao Shaoqi can directly attack Wuchang in Hanyang to cut off the back road of the thief army, Zheng Sen is in Huangzhou, and he can launch an attack on the thief army with a water division, plus Huguang's blockage of Yinxi, we don't need to do it, the siege of the three-way army is enough for the thief army to drink a pot. Lu Zhenfei nodded and agreed.

Gu Junen on the side sighed slightly, he always had some incense for Hao Shaoqi, but now Gu Junen knew that Hao Shaoqi's actions a few days ago had made Chen Yue very dissatisfied, if Hao Shaoqi could not make meritorious service this time, I am afraid that Chen Yue would no longer tolerate him.

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A crooked river gushes out of the mountains, and against the bank of the river is a rugged mountain road, on which a group of more than twenty soldiers of the Western Army armed with sharp weapons walk, in the middle of which a war horse carries a corpse, and next to it is a civilian official in a robe.

Wang Zhaoqi walked shallow with one foot deep, his steps faltering, and the countless big blisters on his feet made him feel pain, but he had to grit his teeth to hold on.

He and 100 Zhang Xianzhong's personal guards snatched Zhang Xianzhong's body and fled from the camp, and did not flee to Nanchang along the main road, but turned southwest and fled to the mountains, with the idea of entering Huguang through Mufu Mountain.

According to Wang Zhaolin's idea, Zhang Xianzhong should be buried on the spot, and then everyone went to the western mountains in disguise. But Zhang Ye, the captain of the guard, is Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son, but he has to take Zhang Xianzhong's body out of Jiangxi and then bury it ceremoniously. Although Wang Zhaolin is the prime minister of the Great Western Kingdom, Zhang Xianzhong is dead, and no one listens to his words as the prime minister, so the group fled with a corpse.

Because of the early escape from the camp and the escape to a remote mountainous area, he did not encounter the pursuers of the Ming army behind. However, on the second day after entering the mountainous area, he was suddenly attacked by a group of mountain people, and I don't know which cottage mountain people it was.

Although these mountain people were extremely poorly armed, they all walked like flying on the mountain roads, and brought great casualties to the group by sneak attacks. However, this group of people are the most elite soldiers in the Western Army, all of them are excellent in martial arts and well-equipped, although they do not have the flexible skills of the mountain people, but they rely on bows and arrows to shoot dozens of mountain people, forcing the mountain people to retreat and never dare to show their heads again.

However, he also suffered heavy losses, and more than 20 soldiers died in the sneak attack of the mountain people.

However, what is even more tragic is that since then, although the group was cautious, they were attacked by the mountain people from time to time, and soldiers died every day by the sneak attacks of the mountain people, and there were deaths every day.

"These damn mountain people, I knew I should have killed them all in the first place!" Captain Zhang Ye scolded angrily.

Kill them all? Wang Zhaolin smiled bitterly, I am afraid that there are not five or six million people in the whole of Jiangxi, and many people live in cottages deep in the mountains, and it is impossible to kill all the strength of the western army. And it was precisely because of the brutal looting of the Western Army that the people of the entire Jiangxi Province regarded the Western Army as their enemy, and there were successive attacks.

"This officer is a little strange why these mountain people persistently attack us, completely ignoring their own casualties. Do we have what they want? Wang Zhaolin asked.

If we don't understand the reason for the attack of the mountain people, I am afraid that what awaits everyone will be more difficult. The most painful thing is that the food is getting less and less, and now I have to dig up the tubers of plants to collect wild fruits to fill my stomach, if this continues, it will not take a few days, and hunger alone can completely crush this small army!

"It's easy to figure out why they beat us, just catch a job." Zhang Ye said.

So, the group set a trap, and when a group of mountain people attacked again, they fell in, and had to flee after killing and wounding more than ten people, and the group also managed to catch a live mouth.

After questioning, I learned that the Jiujiang government set a reward for killing Zhang Xianzhong and paying the first level of reward of 10,000 taels of silver, and this news quickly spread throughout the nearby provinces through the channels of the government. Soon after entering the mountainous area, the group was discovered by the mountain people, and the sophisticated equipment, a corpse on the horse, and Wang Zhaolin, a person in civilian official clothing, all meant that this small unit of the Western Army was different.

Soon after the team entered the mountainous area, a contact with the mountain people revealed their identities, so some mountain people suspected that Zhang Xianzhong was in the team. The reward given by the government is very high, and the huge reward of 10,000 taels of silver is enough to make a cottage worry about food and clothing for several years. And so the attack came in.

The mountain people in the mountainous areas are very brave and grouped, and there are various connections between the cottages, and there is a relationship between them by marriage. Perhaps the initial attack was only tentative, but with the huge casualties that made this army and the mountain people feud, it is no longer as simple as capturing the rout of the Western Army, but to avenge the blood and the sea!

Thinking about the long road ahead, and the constant fear of an attack from the mountain people, everyone in the team felt a deep sense of despair.

"Bury Your Majesty's body on the spot, you can't take it with you anymore!" Wang Zhaolin proposed again.

"Do you want to throw Your Majesty's body to those damned mountain people?" Zhang Ye glared at Wang Zhaolin with a pair of red eyes, "No matter what, I will take His Majesty's body out of Jiangxi and bury it ceremoniously!" ”

It is unreasonable to be with a stubborn and crazy person, Wang Zhaolin can only sigh and stop talking.

After two more days of travel, and several raids by the mountain people, there were only about 20 people left in the team. Wang Zhaolin instinctively thought that he could not continue to walk. If I continue to walk, I am afraid that my little life will have to be explained.

Although Wang Zhaolin knew that he couldn't convince Zhang Ye, he had also become familiar with every soldier in the team in the past few days and knew what they were thinking.

Not every soldier is Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son, and not everyone is like Zhang Ye to be loyal to Zhang Xianzhong. Everyone is afraid of death, and they all have the desire to live. Wang Zhaolin just used the word "live", and secretly persuaded more than half of the soldiers to listen to his words, and during a break, the soldiers who were persuaded by Wang Zhaolin swarmed up and grabbed Zhang Ye and several of his henchmen.

"Wang Zhaolin, do you want to rebel?" was tightly tied with a rope, Zhang Ye was shocked and angry.

"Zhang Ye, you are just a school captain, but this official is the prime minister of the Great Western Kingdom, and it is not your turn to teach me a lesson. But you're right, I'm going to rebel.

The Great West Kingdom has died, and I originally wanted to be loyal to the Great West Kingdom, but the road to the west has been cut off, and if I go any further, I can only die in the hands of the mountain people. Over the years, I have shared his worries and problems, and I can be regarded as worthy of his appreciation, and now I have to think about myself.

If you go any further, it will be a dead end, and you will only be able to turn back. Fortunately, there is His Majesty's corpse now, as long as the head is cut off and brought back, and brought to the Ming army, this merit is enough to save our lives, and maybe we can even drop some rewards. Isn't it better than losing one's life for nothing? ”

Wang Zhaolin was explaining, and he was also trying to convince himself, but in exchange for Zhang Ye's vicious spitting.