Beginning in March, the public middle school of Mingyuezhuang began to move the families on the north bank of the small river to the mountains on both sides.

It's nothing to live in the mountains, anyway, Gongzhong promised to build aqueducts and gutters, and also to concentrate on digging up the earth fire dragon that the lord of the village spent two years to improve.

The old Zhuang people are about friendship.

They knew that the valley would not be inhabitable in the future because the owner of the village wanted to use the precious flat land and water to build more workshops that were kept secret from the outside world, so they willingly gave up the small brick and stone buildings or small courtyards that had just been built, and started construction on the mountains on both sides.

The sound of thousands of people carrying timber and masonry, along with dust, was heard from the hillside to the village.

A fierce old man with a missing left leg on crutches swayed towards the tea shop where the disabled old men gathered.

The one-legged old man is a close relative of Li Mengkong, but he never makes a noise. He didn't let anyone help him, his face was always fierce, and he only smiled when the children who ran to school saluted him.

"Oh, isn't this Lao Li? Finally willing to go back to the mountain? A few of us thought that you would stay in Mingyueji and not leave! ”

Under the tea shed, Zhu Laoer, who was blind in one eye, wore a horseskin blindfold, revealing a mouthful of big yellow teeth, and said viciously to the one-legged old man.

The one-legged old man looked furious. He pulled out the sharp axe with his right hand, knocked it with the sharp knife in Zhu Lao's second-hand hand, and then laughed and said:

"If you don't come back, you can't do it."

"The three sons and daughters always urged, saying that the village was going to build a lot of construction and expand the workshop, so let Lao Tzu come back and stare at it, saying that he was afraid that his family would suffer."

"Look at these few things that are not angry, how can the public middle school still let us old qualifications suffer? For the sake of some Laoshizi, delay Lao Tzu's ...... to watch the play"

A few old men walked out of the tea shop, and they also joked about the one-legged old man Li. In their hands were large wooden plates with plums and other fruits, as well as a few dried fruits such as almonds and walnuts, as well as six kinds of stir-fried.

There are more than 20 old men, most of whom are incomplete. They gathered around two large tables to drink tea and drink, talk and brag, and were so unhappy.

"Hiss~~~"

The one-legged Li Laohan suddenly threw away his chopsticks and hugged the broken leg to gasp. The main reason why he stayed in Mingyueji was that there were more doctors there than in Zhuangnai, and he could treat them at any time.

Zhu Lao Er and the others also stopped their chopsticks.

I only heard Zhu Lao Er frown and asked, "It's another seizure?" ”

The one-legged old man Li eased up for a while, wiped his sweat, and drank a big sip of cold wine:

"Old man Zhang, who is a dog, said it well when he sawed Lao Tzu's legs, but it hurt every few days."

A man with hanging eyebrows, who had lost his forearm, waved his empty sleeves a few times and comforted:

"You can't blame Old Man Zhang for it, he had a rough hand at that time."

"After a vicious battle with Pan Ze and Zhao Scar, there are really a lot of missing arms and legs. There must be a small half of them who didn't survive, hey......"

"Those who survived also had all kinds of problems. My arm is the same, it hurts when it touches the wind and snow. It's better than you, at least in the fall, and you can live in peace for two months. ”

"The medical and health department's methods are much better now, and many people have gone under the knife again. I heard that it was very good, and I plan to go in two months. As for you, do you want to let the young man from the medical and health department take a look at it, or find an old man to show you? ”

The one-legged old man Li hurriedly shook his head, looking frightened, "I'd better go to Mingyueji and find those boys to have a look." ”

"Old man Zhang, the doctor of Hades, is not what it used to be, and it is not easy to invite him. Have you heard of it, but the enemy prisoners, tuberculosis poles, and corpses were sent to the back mountains......"

"Ahem......"

"Shut up!"

"You're crazy!"

Zhu Lao Er and the others hurriedly stopped Li Laohan, who was speechless.

Old man Zhang recently returned to the village, and everyone looked like they were going to peel off their skins and bones. The upper-class people basically know how the medical skills of the medical and health department have improved, but it is one thing to know, how can the things in the back mountains be nonsense?!

It happened that Lei Cheng came over, and he thought that a few men or old men who ran out of the pergola and looked around were the ones who came to greet him.

Everyone had arrived, and Zheng Tian, who opened this tea shop, greeted his son and his buddies, served seven kinds of hard dishes, and changed the topic by the way. It is said that it is seven kinds of hard vegetables, but in fact, it is seven plates of meat.

Lei Cheng sat on the main seat with a hammer that never left his body. He rubbed his face, a little listless.

Zheng Tian's shoulders are big and his waist is round. Holding a large basket in her left hand and a rolling pin in her right hand, she "confiscated" the weapons of the middle-aged and elderly men one by one, and complained:

"You men don't look for a serious place. Traveling around all day with killer pieces, we are a place for the villagers to eat and the guest officials to be comfortable, but I don't dare to let you hold it. ”

"The dolls in the village were frightened. A few days ago, two groups of caravans had just returned, and after getting drunk, they grabbed their weapons and started fighting, killing three and wounding four! Two days ago, the court posted a notice that more than a dozen people were all driven into the black mine to eat ashes, and those who injured their lives would have to stay for at least three years! ”

Daggers, scimitars, forks, bones, axes, hammers, crutches...... Baskets of different styles of sidearms fill the basket.

Zheng Tian really has the strength to do it. She held a 100-pound basket in both hands and put it on the abandoned stove with a "bang".

Then Zheng Tian walked up to Zhu Lao Er, showed a mocking smile, and in Zhu Lao Er's embarrassed face, he took away the pig killing knife hidden on his back.

Zhu Lao Er moved the skin eye patch, and said with a smile:

"My sister-in-law is really energetic. I'm used to it, and I don't know that I have a knife on my back. I'm really not used to this one. ”

Tian's shameless Zhu Lao Er ushered in a wave of ridicule.

There was a man with a flat head and a protruding nose and asked the proprietress:

"Sister-in-law has strength! I don't know how the female soldiers in our mountains, that is, the Mingyue Battalion, are fighting power? ”

Zheng Tian is cleaning up pots and pans. She is now the head of the brand in the Mingyue Camp, and she has come back to move after a few days.

Straightening the hair on his forehead with a handkerchief, Zheng Tian smiled:

"After the owner of the village gets married, he will go to the Qinling Mountains to have a look at the Mingyue Camp. If there is no accident, the Mingyue Battalion will go to the Qinling Mountains in the west before the end of the year, what do you say about the combat effectiveness? ”

Lei Cheng took a bite of Zheng Tian's best pig's head meat, and after a moment of aftertaste, he said:

"Don't stay there. Soon our women in the mountains will be able to fight, that's what it means! ”

Zheng Tian knew very well that Lei Cheng knew some inside stories. She nodded at Lei Cheng, and then took her son and men to salute the men, "There are only a few days left before the day of demolition, and the slave family will also move out." Today, the slave family has a treat, and the pig's head meat is enough, so you can eat it as you like. ”

"The slave family will move to Zuoshan, and in the future, the foot shop in Zuoshan will be handed over to his son to take care of."

"The lord of the village took care of it, and the slave family and a dozen other women who had no men gathered thousands of dollars to make some new food in a small store under the Mingyue market."

"If anyone is passing by, please take care of it."

The most convincing thing for the men in the mountains is that the owner of the village takes care of the families of the dead in the war.

Lei Cheng was the first to stand up, and the one-legged Li Laohan and Zhu Laoer and others immediately got up.

The men drank a bowl of wine and said one after another:

"Didn't say that. Brother Zheng walked bravely, if we men don't take care of your mother and son, we don't have to be people! ”

"Yi Ke Ju, Yi Ke Ju. If you have time, you must go! ”

"It doesn't matter if the place is changed, the taste of the pig's head meat can't be changed, hahaha......"

Zheng Tian thanked the rough men, the corners of his eyes were slightly wet, and then he cleaned up the utensils.

Lei Cheng and others finally realized that with all the "demolition" in the valley, the homes of the people who used to smell each other might be far apart, so they desperately persuaded each other to drink.

"Brother Lei Cheng, why didn't Uncle Zhao come back? The owner of the village is about to get married, and there are not many people left who can drink together, what does this mean? It's unreasonable to do a private thing? ”

Xu likes others to call him uncle, and Uncle Zhao directly changed his name to "Uncle Zhao".

"Oops, I almost forgot to clean it, and I killed this bowl as an atonement. Uncle Zhao sent me a message, saying that he and the Shusen boy had poked out the leak, and he was afraid that the owner of the village would come back and blame him for making amends, so I asked him to accuse the old brothers. Don't think about it! ”

The men were mostly sober. They knew that the ministries of Zhao Bo, Na Shusen, and Cheng Jianghai could not be asked more, so they directly turned to the main topic and asked Lei Chenggong what big workshops they wanted to build.

The compensation for the demolition of houses, small buildings and workshops in the public is a part of some small mines and newly built workshops. Knowing the details in advance is undoubtedly a huge advantage.

Lei Cheng sighed helplessly, blushed and whispered:

"The workshops that want to be distributed to everyone are made of clothes, hemp rope, tables, chairs, books and other inconsequential trades, and I don't know how powerful they can be. There is a shortage of hemp rope and cloth in the mountains, and it may become very large. ”

"Eight hundred miles of Qinling, it is still relatively stable in the hands of the owner of the village, and it is almost halfway there. Those small mines that the public school does not look down on are the most insured, whether it is charcoal, gold and silver or jade, they are their own ...... after handing over the commission."

"That's the baby!"

Whether Li Xiang can go back before the big wedding is a question that all the people in Mingyuezhuang, more than 100,000 Qinling mountain people, Mingyueji merchants of all sizes, and the gentry and merchants in Xunyang and Shiyan are all concerned about.

The question was quickly answered.

On 11 June, Liu Chengdong led his army from Xinye County.

The second batch of wounded soldiers from Xiangzhou, totaling more than 2,000 people, just caught up, and Liu Chengdong's strength grew to more than 7,000. Coupled with the 800 men and horses under Li Xiang who still have combat power, Liu Chengdong has 8,000 soldiers in his hands.

On June 12, under the damaged city of Tangzhou.

Liu Chengdong repeated his old tricks, pushing 1,500 carts forward to meet the 100,000 people who were pressed by the black.

The battle had only been for an hour and a half, and the blood of Wang Liuwang and his seven subordinates had already converged into streams.

Wang Liu, Wang Qi, was unwilling to fail, and also followed Liu Chengdong's example, pushing more than 2,000 wooden carts of all kinds that had been looted, and also took out the scarce bow and crossbow armor.

As a result, Dong Shi was tortured by Liu Chengdong's arrows, crossbow arrows, big arrows, and stone bullets.

The two brothers, Wang Liu, Wang and Seven Brothers, were blinded by tears and indignation in their hearts. It's really hard for them to accept that Da Zhou can nullify all their efforts just by transferring back some wounded soldiers from Jiangnan!

On the one hand, Wang Liuwang and Wang Qi did not exercise their battle formation literacy, and on the other hand, Liu Chengdong is really powerful, anyway, Wang Liuwang and Wang Qi's brothers have collapsed twice in succession, and they are no longer able to hold Liu Chengdong head-on.

Liu Chengdong's troops pursued the north, and Li Xiang also sent two hundred spearmen, one hundred sword players and one hundred straight archers to pursue moderately.

Liu Yuan, Xiong Dachun, and the three men attacked together, pursued them for more than 50 miles at the farthest, killed a total of 19,000 people, and captured nearly 30,000 prisoners.

Liu Sheng, Yang Yingdong and Da Niu cooperated with each other and chased all the way to the south, and the performance of the third monk of the Ding family in the team was very eye-catching. Due to the preparation of sufficient leather strips, Liu Sheng and the three were able to capture 3,700 prisoners in accordance with the rules set by Li Xiang not to kill indiscriminately.

The next battle in Tangzhou City completely exposed the attributes of the rabble of the rebel army.

The officials of Jingnan Road exhaled, and said in their hearts that fortunately, the officials and gentry of Xinye County swore to resist to the death, so they survived until Liu Chengdong came to the rescue. Now it seems that Wang Liu and Wang Qi are really not in the stream, and Liu Chengdong is just picking up a bargain.

The gentry and businessmen of Jingnan Road celebrated with their crowns. So many small people, rich businessmen and big families have died, we have to go back and annex the land and re-establish the commercial order!

Sincerely happy that the rebel army has been defeated and their homes have been preserved, and they are so happy that they are cheering, dancing, and tearing down tears, perhaps only the displaced ordinary people. At most, a few people such as Li Xiang are added.

On 13 June, the Xiang army, which had retreated to a few important cities west of Nanyang and Xiangyang, including a part of the forbidden army, poked their heads out. After getting the permission and instigation of the civil officials, they jumped out generously and began to grab credit.

Liu Chengdong is so tired, he no longer cares about things like making contributions and leaving a name in history. He just wanted to press down Wang Liu and Wang Qi as soon as possible, so that he could go back to the mountains to participate in his daughter's wedding.

So Liu Chengdong sincerely invited all the officers and soldiers to attack together, and showed the skills of using the vehicle formation to fight.

How to make soldiers rotate on the battlefield to attack, give a large number of rebels continuous damage and finally force them to collapse, Liu Chengdong also has no reservations.

Seeing that it was difficult to return to the sky, Wang Liuwang and Wang Qi immediately gave a death order to let all the rebels retreat to the mountains.

The Seven-Way Great Zhou Army ran out of breath, and finally on the evening of June 15, the rebel army, which had swelled to more than 80,000 again, was driven out of Zaoyang City.

During the two-day pursuit, once the Great Zhou army, which only cared about grabbing merit, lost in Heilong Town, Huyang Town, Taiping Town and other battlefields, Liu Chengdong "helped the battle with friendship". Liu Chengdong did that with deep intentions, mainly to protect Li Xiang and Liu Susu.

On the night of June 15, a total of 25,000 Great Zhou troops captured more than 20,000 prisoners again, and drove the remaining 50,000 rebels back to Tongbai Mountain. Wang Liu, Wang Qi, withdrew to Suizhou City, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack deep in the mountain road the next day.

Liu Chengdong wrote two days in advance, requesting that Wang Liu and Wang Qi be driven back to the mountains for a temporary trip back to Xunyang.

The pacification envoy and the transport envoy of Jingnan Road read Liu Chengdong's letter and understood that what Liu Chengdong said was very reasonable. Not only is the soldier tired, but also the reason for the exhaustion of baggage, in short, in a short period of time, the Great Zhou army is unable to fight again.

After confirming that the battle situation was not dangerous, the civilian and military generals on Jingnan Road wished that Liu Chengdong would leave quickly, and they would share some credit.

So in the early morning of June 16, Liu Chengdong left the army in urgent need of rest in the dirty and dilapidated Zaoyang City, and went straight to Xiangyang with Li Xiang.

After staying in Xiangyang City for half a day, and drinking with a group of pretending officials and gentry, Weng and his son-in-law changed to a fast boat and hurried forward.

On the afternoon of June 18, Li Xiang returned to Mingyuezhuang with several hundred people.