There were only more than 100 officers and men in this group, and the leader was a general officer, although the number was small, but it was extremely strong, and in particular, the general gaze of the leader flashed with a fierce color, which made people shudder.

The officers and soldiers came over, and they couldn't help but divide the servants and the gentry and their servants aside, blocking the homeless people behind them.

"This general lord, these are the people of this county, they did not obey the orders of the government and fled without permission, they have violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty, this official is ordered by the county lord, and he will escort them back, I don't know why you stopped it?"

The leader of the team was a nine-rank inspector in a green robe, and said to the chief officer.

"Escort back to their hometown, do you want these villagers to go back and wait to starve to death?" The general disdainful scolded.

"What starvation? This year's harvest in this county is not bad, and not a single citizen will starve to death! The inspector said categorically, "On the contrary, although you are the general, the military and the people are not a system, the people are naturally managed by the local government, and the army has no right to intervene, not to mention that you are the army of Jiangxi, how can you cross the border to my Nanzhichi Prefecture to make trouble?" ”

"Who is the trouble?" The general manager suddenly turned his face and said, "I am ordered by General Jin Xin, the chief soldier of Jiangxi, to patrol the riverbank to strictly guard against thieves. I suspect that their identities are not ordinary, and they may have something to do with the thieves. Now I'm going to take them back to Jiujiang to strictly investigate, Inspector General, are you going to stop me from carrying out military orders? ”

With the general words, the officers and soldiers behind him all raised their swords and guns, and even more officers and soldiers picked up the best crossbows and bows, and also held the fire guns with good ammunition in their hands.

Looking at the Jiangxi officers and soldiers who were tense, the inspector's face changed greatly, and the officers behind him retreated again and again, and no one dared to continue to step forward.

"My lord was born in Jinshi and has been the prefect of Yongzhou, these untouchables are all tenants of my family, I will take him away now, I see who dares to stop him!" The inspectors and the officials of the government retreated, but there was still Ren who didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and Ren, who looked like a housekeeper in a robe, shouted and spat at the boss.

"Those who dare to stop military affairs will be killed!" The harsh words came out of the general manager's mouth, and as soon as the words fell, a sharp arrow shot into the butler's chest.

The butler, who had just been shouting, fell to the ground on his back, and a feathered arrow trembled into his chest, and when he saw this lucidity, the servants he brought with him howled, and turned around and fled, while the officials of the government trembled one by one.

"Go back!" Inspector Tie turned his head and walked away with a blushing face, his shaking legs showing his nervous heart. The officers had long been eager for his words, and hulala hugged him and walked back.

Zhang Huangyan was dumbfounded, killing people without mercy, it was the first time he had seen such a situation.

"Who are you?" After calming the people a few words, he walked in front of Zhang Huangyan and asked in a cold voice, he had long noticed that Zhang Huangyan was dressed differently.

"Zhang Huangyan, a son in Xiayin County, wants to go to Jiangxi." Zhang Huangyan arched his hand and said without being arrogant or humble.

"It turned out to be a lifting master, but I don't know what you are doing in Jiangxi?" The general manager was slightly surprised, but he didn't show much respect, but continued to interrogate.

"The so-called reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles, I want to go to Jiangxi to see what Jiangxi is like after the Western thieves are rampant, and it can be regarded as observing the people's feelings." Zhang Huang said.

"You are a man, you are destined to be an official in the future, you can personally understand the people's feelings and know the suffering of the people, and you are much stronger than most officials." The general face eased, "But Jiangxi is not very safe, you should follow me back to Hukou, and wait for me to report to the above." ”

Zhang Huangyan nodded and agreed to his arrangement, but he sighed in his heart for the high vigilance of Jiangxi's officers and soldiers.

This place is not too far from Hukou County, Jiangxi, about forty or fifty miles, and after walking for another hour, the sky gradually darkened, and a group of officers and soldiers led the homeless people to camp in the field.

Zhang Huangyan noticed that although there were only 100 officers and soldiers in this group, the marching camp was very orderly, and the 100 people were divided into several teams during the march, with outposts and guards, and two wings. Several sentinels were sent further away from the camp before setting up camp. Although there are 100 people, the camp is well built, the camp is located in the only high post nearby, there are soldiers with knives and axes to cut down trees to make the wall of the horse wall, set into a small camp, the camp is a dozen tents made of thick cloth, once plum blossom-like distribution.

It took an hour to set up the camp, although it was rudimentary, it had a certain defensive ability, at least it had no problem defending against ordinary homeless people.

According to this is the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, the thieves in Jiangxi have been exterminated, and now it is September and the weather is not too cold, even if there is no problem with camping in the open air, there is no need to camp so troublesomely. But Zhang Huangyan saw from this team of Jiangxi officers and soldiers that there were rules and regulations and orders and prohibitions for a strong army! From these soldiers, it can be seen that it is not a fluke that Chen Yue, the king of Qi, was able to exterminate the Western Thieves and defeat the Manchu Tartars!

However, the accompanying people did not have the ability to camp, and could only camp in the open air in a random place where they relied on the official and military camps, but with such a strong army by their side, every citizen was very at ease.

After a night of silence, the group continued to move forward early the next morning. Zhang Huangyan walked beside the general manager, and gradually became familiar with it after talking.

After defeating the Western Thieves this time, Chen Yue, the king of Qi, ordered the expansion of the army, and a large number of Western Thief captives and Jiangxi people were recruited into the army. There was a shortage of officers, and after receiving a month of emergency training, General Zhou was promoted from general banner to general general, responsible for leading more than 100 officers and men. Except for a small number of the original veterans, most of the soldiers under him were a mixture of Jiangxi young and strong and Western thief captives, and after three months of training, they were sent out to carry out the mission.

It has only been a strong army for three months, and it has the appearance of a strong army, the king of Qi is not in Jiangxi, but he can still train such a strong army, it seems that the king of Qi has a lot of capable people! Zhang Huangyan said secretly.

At noon the next day, the group finally arrived at Hukou County, and the officials who had been waiting for them came out of the city to take the displaced people away and resettle them.

Zhang Huangyan stood outside Hukou City, looking at the hideous city wall, and felt a great shock. The county seat is not big, but there are protruding horse faces on the city wall every dozen, like a spike stretching out from the city wall, revealing a hideous face to the outside, the city wall is made of rammed earth, covered with bricks and stones, and the wall bricks are full of dark red spots, and the traces of swords and arrows abound, just from this city wall, you can see what a tragic battle has occurred!

"See, with the city wall ordered by the King of Qi to be built, we blocked the crazy attack of the western thief Zhang Nengqi, more than 100,000 troops, day and night attack, the ground full of corpses, and the blood into a river into Poyang Lake. The western thieves attacked for more than a month, but Hukou County was unharmed until the king of Qi defeated Zhang Xianzhong's main force. ”

Seeing that Zhang Huangyan was shocked by the city wall, Zhou Jiang said triumphantly.