On the same day, some people successively sent the grain to the village square to weigh it, and the food was collected in half a day.

For many people, after handing over the grain, they can only dig wild vegetables to survive, and when the green and yellow crops are not harvested, no one will have too much surplus grain. Here is Yangzhou, the situation is better, and then go north to Huai'an, Huaibei, where it is worse than Yangzhou.

As for the people who have no surplus grain and can't afford to pay, they can only temporarily borrow money from the governor Xu Wanshun, and wait until the wheat is harvested before repaying, although it will cost a few catties of wheat to be repaid, but at this time there is no need to take care of much, it is better than letting the green battalion soldiers enter the house to collect it.

That night, Feng Chengcheng lived in the village with the army, he himself was taken to the house by the lieutenant chief, delicious food and drink, under the request of the lieutenant Xu Wanshun, some of his hundreds of soldiers lived in the ancestral hall, and some of them lived in the village square, and the weather in early May was not cold at night.

For the sake of wine and food, Feng Cheng reluctantly agreed to Xu Wanshun's request, he also knew the temperament of his subordinates, if they were allowed to live in the people's homes, the people of this village would have to suffer.

However, even then, during the night there was the sound of kicking at the door, followed by fights and wails, and low sobs from women. Feng Cheng was dazed and lay on the soft bed, ignoring these.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, Feng Cheng learned that in the evening, more than a dozen soldiers rushed into the people's homes, killed two men, and raped several women, and now two women have hanged.

There was a resentful anger in the village, and all the people stared at the Green Battalion with red eyes. But in the face of hundreds of soldiers armed with sharp blades, no one dared to move.

"Hehe, the discipline is not strict, let the chief see a smile, when I go back, I will severely punish them with military discipline, and those who should be killed will definitely be killed." Feng Cheng smiled awkwardly at Xu Wanshun, and then left the village with the grain and the strong man.

After leaving the village for more than ten miles, when he arrived at a three-way intersection, Feng Cheng ordered his subordinates to return to Yangzhou with two hundred soldiers with grain and strong men, and he wanted to take the remaining five or six hundred people to continue to the next village to collect grain.

At that moment, the ground trembled, and a cloud of smoke appeared on the north side of the avenue, rushing towards it.

Squinting his eyes and looking into the distance, Feng Cheng was secretly surprised, judging from the smoke and dust, it was clearly a cavalry, and there were too few war horses in the green battalion, so it couldn't be formed at all, it was a cavalry of thousands of scales, could it be that the Eight Banners men personally collected grain? As for the Pingnan Army, it was surrounded by Yangzhou City, and it was impossible to come here, Feng Chengdu didn't think about it.

This cavalry was very fast, and soon rushed a hundred steps away, Feng Cheng's eyes widened suddenly, the leather armor painted with red paint, and the round helmet made of iron, it was clearly the dress of the Ming army, which one was not the cavalry of the Pingnan Army?

"Ming Army!" Feng Cheng screamed, hit his horse and turned around and left, thousands of cavalry had already been killed in front of him, how could he, a completely defenseless infantry, resist?

The other Green Battalion soldiers were stunned for a moment, and one by one they threw their weapons and turned around and fled, leaving only two hundred strong men to watch all this blankly, watching a large number of cavalry roll past them and chase after the Green Battalion soldiers.

However, it was a pipe dream for the infantry to outrun the cavalry, and soon a cavalry caught up, and with a slight sweep of the saber, a green battalion soldier lay on the ground with a long wound on his back. With the speed of the war horse, you don't need to slash hard, you can easily kill people.

Soon a clever green battalion soldier escaped from the official road and fled into the wheat field on the side of the road, and some cavalry reined in the war horse, took the hanging crossbow from the horse, and gently aimed it at the hook frame, and then shot the arrow into the fleeing back. You can't run fast in the wheat field at all, and everyone is a live target.

Yu Feng restrained his horse and looked at the grain cart and the two hundred strong men who were lost on the official road by the green battalion soldiers.

"General Xie's life-saving grace!" It was determined that it was the cavalry of the Pingnan Army, and the strong men knelt on the ground excitedly and kowtowed again and again to thank them.

"Folks, we are the Pingnan Army, the army of the imperial court, and it is our duty to protect the people!" Yu Fengli jumped off the war horse and said in a loud voice.

"I'll pull a cart of these grains as military rations, and if anyone asks, you will say that I have pulled them all away!" Yangzhou City is now surrounded by Qing soldiers, although grain can be transported from the canal, but when this kind of war is in chaos, no grain merchants dare to do business. Although there is no shortage of food for the time being, I don't know when the war will last, and it is always good to have more food. Besides, five truckloads of grain are not too much to take away only one cart.

"General, take all the food away, even if it is left for us, it will be snatched by the Tartars sooner or later. Also, I want to join the Pingnan Army and kill the Tartars! ”

A strong man stood up and said loudly with red eyes. His wife was insulted by the Green Battalion soldiers last night, and he watched it with fear of being killed, and the strong insult for half a day made him ignore it anymore.

"I also joined the Pingnan Army!" Another strong man stepped forward.

More and more people came forward, and in the end, almost all the strong men were willing to go with Yu Feng.

They thought very clearly, if they continued to stay in the village, maybe they would be plundered by the Qing soldiers again, so it was better to simply join the Pingnan Army to fight against the Tartars, and drive away the Tartars as soon as possible to save their families.

Seeing that so many people are willing to go with him, Yu Feng can't help but be moved, this is the people's heart! As long as the people's hearts are there, it will not be a problem to keep Yangzhou and defeat the Manchurians.

"Good! Since you are willing to follow me, then follow me. But I have other tasks now, and I will send someone to take you east, across the canal. Yu Feng said.

Although these untrained strong men could not fight and could not help much, it was better to take them with them than to leave them to the Mantars.

Leave it to the Mantars, they will be sent as cannon fodder for the siege, and it is not known how many will die under the city of Yangzhou.

The battle went on very quickly, and the Green Battalion soldiers did not form resistance at all, and the battle was also the process of pursuit. Except for a few Green Battalion soldiers who fled, most of the rest were killed, even those who surrendered. It's not that Yu Feng has to kill the prisoner, it's that he doesn't have time to take the prisoner away at all.

"The guerrilla ran too fast to catch up." The adjutant general of the cavalry battalion, Ma Chuang, came back in a huff.

"Don't worry about him, clean up the battlefield, leave a team of brothers to take these strong men to the canal with the grain cart, let's go to the next village!" Yu Feng commanded.

According to the report of the soldiers of the Enemy Intelligence Division, the Manchurian Tartars sent dozens of green battalion soldiers to the countryside to collect food and soldiers, and there was no room for delay.

With the help of the strong men, they quickly cleaned up the battlefield, retrieved the arrows they fired, and picked up the weapons discarded by the Green Battalion, as for the corpses of the Green Battalion soldiers, no one had time to pay attention.

Soon, the team was divided into two parts, a group of cavalry drove east towards the canal with Zhuang Ding, and Yu Feng led the main force to kill south along the road.