The cavalry of Liu Yunshui's department crossed the Han River at the fastest speed, and immediately launched a pursuit of the Ming army after going ashore, and at the same time, the infantry of the seventh battalion of the Song Wenbu began to cross the river with various boats and planks.

The Ming army only resisted slightly, then abandoned all the fortifications, and the army went straight down to Chengtianfu along the official road, while Zuo Liangyu took his son Zuo Menggeng, the main generals, and a large number of supplies, and took a big boat to the south along the Han River.

Zuo Liangyu didn't have time to return to the city, so he looted the outside of Xiangyang City, and even the chickens and ducks raised by the people were not left.

After a short journey, I encountered a group of merchant ships traveling against the current, including two large merchant ships, and the draft # was very deep.

Zuo Liangyu's eyes suddenly shone with a snatching light, although they plundered the people in Fancheng and Xiangyang, but the food allocated by the imperial court was too small, and the money and grain had been in short supply, how could they let go of these merchant ships? His hatred for the Mandate of Heaven was completely vented on the caravan.

He stood on the bow of the ship, waved his hand, Zuo Mengeng had a heart, and was busy directing the warship to lean over.

There was a cry on the merchant ship, as well as the screams of women, and Zuo Liangyu's face showed a happy smile.

After a while, Zuo Mengeng took advantage of the boat to come over, "Lord Bing, the men on the merchant ship have all been settled, and the corpses are thrown into the river to feed the fish...... and bowed, and said: "So that my father can know that half of the ships are loaded with grain!" ”

Zuo Liangyu nodded and said, "Meng Geng, you take these merchant ships and go first!" ”

"Father...... Zuo Mengeng still wanted to say a few words, but when he met Zuo Liangyu's cold gaze, he hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, child, let the merchant ship turn around......" Zuo Liangyu arched his hand, ran back to the boat, and then turned around, happily climbed onto the merchant ship, and there was a woman's cry in the cabin......

Zuo Liangyu hurried all the way to Chengtianfu and landed.

It happened that Song Yihe, the governor of Huguang, went out of the city and went to the Xianling Tomb in the Chunde Mountain in the northeast, Zuo Liangyu took his personal guards and rode to the Xianling Tomb to find Song Yihe to ask for food.

Song Yihe didn't have much food in his hands, Chengtianfu was an inferior small house, in addition to normal taxes, it would be good to be able to get together the "training salary", so he said: "General Zuo, all over Huguang, the food and salary are not abundant, and then raise food and salary from all over the palace." ”

"Lord Song is saying that let my soldiers drink the northwest wind?" Zuo Liangyu had military power in his hands, and he didn't put Song Yihe in his eyes at all, "When Lord Song Bingming comes and goes, I'm afraid half of my 200,000 troops will starve to death!" ”

"General Zuo......"

"Forget it," Zuo Liangyu whipped to vent the dissatisfaction in his heart, "Since Lord Song has no food, then I have to get it myself." ”

"Where is General Zuo going?" Song Yihe understood that Zuo Liangyu was repeating his old tricks, and he was going to rob the people again, he couldn't take care of the military discipline of Zuo Liangyu's department at this time, and Xianling was the heaviest, so he hurriedly said: "General Zuo, Liukou has captured Xiangyang, and he can go south along the Han River in the near future, Xianling is the important weapon of the country, General Zuo must stay to protect Xianling!" ”

"Lord Song is saying that let my soldiers go hungry to protect Xianling?" Zuo Liangyu remembered Song Yihe's last time he impeached himself for plundering the people in Fancheng and Xiangyang, and his heart was even more resentful, "Lord Song, my subordinates are going to find food for the brothers," paused, and said: "The brothers must survive!" ”

"General Song......"

Zuo Liangyu snorted coldly, didn't look at Song Yihe, turned around and got on the war horse, and went in the direction of Fucheng.

After plundering in Chengtianfu and raising some food, Zuo Liangyu got on the warship, followed the Han River, and went down the river, and his infantry also left the official road, crossed the Han River, and marched to Wuchang in the southeast.

After the Mandate of Heaven army crossed the Han River, it chased the pace of the Ming army and slashed the broken Ming army for a while.

When Li Zicheng came to Xiangyang, it was already December 4, the war had long ended, and the Mandate of Heaven army was everywhere inside and outside the city, and many soldiers were still helping the people repair the houses destroyed by the Ming army.

When I walked to the west gate of Xiangyang City, I found that there were many people kneeling in front of the city gate, and I was shocked: Could it be that which army entered the city has plundered the people in the city again?

Li Zicheng was furious, and was about to ask Song Wen who greeted him, but he glanced at the corner of his eye, but he felt that it was wrong, in front of the kneeling people, there was a small wooden table, and there was a big bowl of braised beef on the wooden table, as well as a bowl of clear wine, and scrambled eggs, green vegetables, etc., which filled the small wooden table.

Above the small wooden table, near the side of the people, there was a small incense burner the size of a fist, and incense was burning in the incense burner, and the smoke was filling, and the incense was faintly fragrant.

Li Zicheng pointed to the small wooden table and said, "Is this so?" ”

"This is the will of the people!" Song Wen said with a smile: "Burn incense and toast, kneel to welcome the metropolitan governor into the city!" ”

"Incense toast?" Li Zicheng seemed to understand, but pointed to a big bowl of beef and said: "Welcome to the city governor of Pontus, you can't kill the ploughing cattle, without the ploughing cattle, how can the people farm the land?" ”

Song Wen smiled silently, but the wrinkled man kneeling at the front raised his head and said, "Governor, we didn't kill this cow ourselves...... It was the officers and soldiers, the officers and soldiers killed all the cattle in the village, and the beef was taken away, leaving only the beef bones, and we gathered the beef bones of the whole village to cut out this bowl of beef, and the governor of the capital must not dislike it......"

The old man's front teeth had fallen out, and he could barely understand what he was saying.

Li Zicheng stepped forward quickly, helped the old man up, and said with some emotion: "Thank you, thank you for your kindness!" When he looked up, there were many women among the kneeling people, and some of them had half a basket of eggs at hand, and they were busy waving at them, "Get up, get up!" ”

After the people got up, they all presented the eggs and fruits in their hands, "Governor, this is the intention of the grass people!" ”

"It's the grass man's egg!"

"These fruits of the grass people are hidden in the ground, so that they can escape the search of the officers and soldiers!"

……

He Xiaoxiao saw the people coming around, and hurriedly made a look, and more than a dozen personal soldiers stepped forward to stop him.

Li Zicheng has mixed feelings, such a scene should only appear hundreds of years later, but today's Xiangyang ...... Zuo Liangyu, have you seen it? Zhu Youzhen in the capital, have you thought of it?

He pushed away his own soldiers and walked to the people, "Uncle and aunt, what you mean, I understand it in my heart, but the Mandate of Heaven Army has its own military law: don't take a stitch from the people, you still keep these foods, Zuo Liangyu is in Xiangyang, but it hurts you, the Mandate of Heaven Army has come to Xiangyang, from now on, you will live a good life, and no one will rob your property again!" ”

"Zuo family boy, you should go down to the region and cut it with a knife!"

"I've heard a long time ago that the Mandate of Heaven Army will not harm our people, and when I saw it today, it was indeed the case!"

"It would be nice if the Metropolitan Governor came to Xiangyang earlier!"

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Li Zicheng's heart was surging, and he kept arching his hand to the people, and suddenly thought of the text that had been prepared a long time ago, so he waved his hand and said loudly: "The Ming Dynasty is unkind, favors eunuchs, heavy subjects, embezzles taxes, and punishes heavily...... The day is inclined to the brigade, plundering the people's property, adulterous wives and daughters, sucking the marrow and peeling off the skin, I am good at farming in the tenth century, eager to prosper the teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and save the people from misery......" and felt that this kind of crepe crepe words, the people must not understand, and hurriedly changed their words: "The Mandate of Heaven Army is the people's team, it will only help the people, and will not infringe on the people, if there is a soldier who harms your interests in the future, as long as you go to the yamen to report, I will kill him immediately!" ”

The people were laughing, there were too many words, it was difficult to understand for a while, they just remembered one thing: the Mandate of Heaven Army is the army of the people!

Then an old man and an old woman stepped forward and asked if the Mandate of Heaven Army wanted soldiers and let his children and grandchildren join the Mandate of Heaven Army.

Li Zicheng had no plans to expand the army for the time being, so he regretfully told them that he would let his children and grandchildren exercise more on weekdays, and when the soldiers recruited by the Heavenly Mandate Army would choose people with good bones.

Seeing that the people refused to disperse, Li Zicheng said a few words of relief, that is, to tell them that the future will get better and better anyway, and there will be no more officials, soldiers, and thieves to infringe on their kind people.

When the people saw that Li Zicheng refused to accept his gift, they were all embarrassed, and they were about to disperse, but the old man who spoke just now picked up the wine on the small wooden table and gave it to Li Zicheng with both hands, "Metropolitan Governor, this is a little bit of our village's heart, and we took the initiative to give it, not the Metropolitan Governor forcibly taking it, the Metropolitan Governor must accept it!" ”

Li Zicheng knew that at this time, if he wanted to refuse, it would be hypocritical and would hurt the hearts of the people, so he took the wine bowl with both hands and said with a smile: "Uncle, I can drink this bowl of wine, but Uncle has to accept the wine money and food money!" He Xiaomi glanced at him, and He Xiaomi hurriedly took out a silver ingot and two taels from his arms and handed it over, but the old man didn't accept it, so he had to put it on the small square table.

The people who were about to leave just now all turned around at this time and gathered around one after another, as if they were lively.

Li Zicheng smiled at the old man and said: "Uncle, the military law of the Mandate of Heaven Army, 'fair trading, no taking advantage of the people', even the governor of Pontus, must also abide by the military law, otherwise, he will be punished, if the uncle is not subject to wine money and food money, the governor of Pontus will never dare to drink this wine!" ”

The old man picked up the silver ingot stupidly and muttered, "This is too much......

"Affection is priceless!" Li Zicheng dried the wine in one gulp, although it was not a good wine, but his heart was infinitely sweet, he bowed his hand to the people around him, and said: "All the fathers and elders are here to welcome the governor of Bendu, this affection, how much silver is worth it!" ”

"The villain thanked the Metropolitan Governor!" The old man kowtowed to Li Zicheng, and then stuffed the silver ingot into his arms, and the people dispersed.

After Li Zicheng entered the city, he immediately divided his troops to attack Junzhou and the five counties of Nanzhang, Yicheng, Zaoyang, Gucheng and Guanghua, to which Xiangyang belonged.

The rest of the prefectures and counties, inspired by the people, all looked down on the wind and basically did not fight.

Li Zicheng was the former governor of Xiangyang Cai Sisheng as the prefect of Xiangyang, and the former official Luo Ping was the independent judge of Xiangyang Prefecture, liberating Zhang Dingyan and no longer serving as the prefect of Xiangyang.

Nanzhang Zhixian is temporarily absent, and after the recommendation of the local squire, Chen Wance, who lives in seclusion in Longwan, is the Zhixian of Jiangling, and the rest of the Junzhou Zhizhou Hu Chengxi, Yicheng Zhixian Chen Mei, Zaoyang Zhixian Guo Yu, Gucheng Zhixian Zhou Jianzhong, and Guanghua Zhixian Wan Jingzong are all directly retained.

Xiangyang Prefecture and its prefectures and counties are also based on the Henan model, and each city will recruit one to two hundred urban defense troops to be responsible for maintaining local law and order and city defense.

Li Zicheng asked the clerks in the army to gather the chief officials of Fuzhou County to learn the laws of the Heavenly Mandate Army, and he also stayed in the city for a day, and after dawn the next day, he gathered his army and went to Chengtianfu in the south along the official road.

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