Li Yu's departure was settled, but the burden of the Baode homeless camp could not be shaken off, Baode Prefecture and Hequ County resolutely refused to take over, Baode Zhizhou also told Li Yu about the truth that life must have a beginning and an end, and persuaded him to be a good person to the end, and Zhao Sheng, Gu Keli and other leaders of the displaced people made it clear that the people were willing to stay here, and it was better to kill them than to drive them away, the hot potato could not be handed over, Li Yu had to bring everyone to discuss, Li Huai and Du Hongtai were also helpless, and the solution they could come up with was to take the displaced people in the wasteland. There are more yam eggs and maize on the hills, and some people are withdrawn from the customs to reduce consumption, and the future can only be taken one step at a time, but Zhao Ji doesn't care at all, but advocates staying here.

"What do we have to be afraid of, people are people from the Ming Kingdom, the land is the land of the Ming Kingdom, and in the end, it must be the Ming Imperial Court, and when you want to tell us to leave, you have to pay for it, and even settle the accounts with interest, and we won't leave if we don't give money." Zhao Ji waved his hand and said.

Zhao Sheng immediately echoed: "My lord, we can trust you, but we will never believe in the imperial court, we occupy this territory for you, they are all people who farm the land, the weather is already warm, you can always find a way to live, don't throw us away!" ”

Li Yu thought for a while, and said with a horizontal heart: "Just do it, let the people spring plough on the spot, there are barren mountains, wasteland, and rivers to irrigate, I don't believe that I can't feed these tens of thousands of people, and I will also issue weapons to the people, whoever dares to bully you will be beaten hard, and I will support you if something happens." ”

"That's right, it's useless for you to discuss with those officials, we have to save ourselves." Zhang Ding immediately agreed, Ma Jinzhong and Zhao Sheng also smiled, what they were most afraid of was to hand them over to the government.

Li Yu made up his mind and said to Li Huai: "I will take the Flying Tiger Battalion to Zezhou, and Brother Zhao will return to Fengzhou with the three battalions of Kubai, Haishan and Terig, Second Brother, I will hand it over to you and Brother Meng Qing here, let Zhao Sheng and Gu Keli assist in the camp affairs, and Qiu Xian and Brother Zhang Ding's people will also stay in the camp, and if there is anything, let the Urden of the West Post support you." ”

Li Huai and Du Hongtai glanced at each other, and nodded at the same time - only the two of them can handle government affairs here.

After arranging the affairs of the Baode camp, Li Yu led the Flying Tiger Battalion to set off, the cavalry of the Flying Tiger Battalion rode one person and two horses, and the marching speed was extremely fast, and it took more than three days to rush from Baode to Zezhou, but Li Yu was very frustrated to find that only his Fengzhou army seemed to arrive under the city of Zezhou, and the other Ming troops could not even see the shadow, and the Fengzhou army also arrived four days ago, and the morale of the whole army was very low.

Zhang Chuanjie was also full of sadness, and complained when he saw Li Yu, they set off from the seventeenth day of the first month to now for almost three months, the imperial court only paid a month's military salary, and the usual grain, grass, and ordnance were also intermittent, and the soldiers could not get money to eat, and the battle did not go well, and the hearts of the people were floating up and down, Bai An's "Shanxi Thief Army" was a Shanxi soldier recruited in the Guannei, and more than 300 people became deserters, although the Fengzhou soldiers and Yansui soldiers had not yet deserted, but they were also demoralized.

"We brought the troops to Zezhou, and other Shanxi officials and soldiers are still making military salaries, and the officials don't dare to move the camp at all, and now they are still lying in Lu'an Mansion!" Zhang Chuanjie shook his head and said.

"How's the thief?" Li Yu always had a gloomy face.

"Zezhou is located at the southern foot of Taihang Mountain, with jurisdiction over Gaoping, Lingchuan, Yangcheng and Qinshui four counties, and Qinshui is Henan across the Qinshui, known as 'Pinghan in the Central Plains, Xiongzhen in southern Hebei', here is the same as Lu'an Mansion with high mountains and dangerous roads, which is not conducive to the action of our army, but it is convenient for thieves to hide. The thieves first arrived in Yangcheng and Qinshui, attacked Yangcheng and did not resist, so they plundered and burned everywhere, and the great yang of Yangcheng was looted by thieves, and its tragic situation was unbearable. After we arrived, the thieves were broken into pieces and hid in the mountains, and we had no choice but to hold Zezhou first, and the other counties couldn't take care of it," Zhang Chuanjie rubbed his hands and sighed, and said to Li Yu in frustration, "There are almost no official troops stationed in Zezhou, and the state and county defense of the city basically rely on the people's strength, and the only ones who can take out their hands to suppress the thieves in southern Hebei are the people's strong township soldiers. People here are famous for smelting iron, rich people abound, you can get a lot of money and grain by robbing a few big households in a few villages, the big sun that thieves rob is a gathering of rich businessmen, the thieves have money in their hands, and they wantonly recruit local homeless people to join the gang, and their strength has swelled sharply, and their arrogance is more arrogant than before. ”

Li Yu listened while flipped out the map of Zezhou to check, Zhang Chuanjie glanced at the map and continued: "These maps are useless, the actual terrain and roads are much more complicated than those drawn on the map, Wang Jiayin These thieves are more familiar with the terrain and roads than we are - they are introduced by the nine dragons of the local giant in Zezhou, this nine dragons are a return, entrenched in the area of Shuiyu Village in Lingchuan County for many years, extremely familiar with Zezhou, there are hundreds of bandits under his command, after being suppressed by the southern Hebei military preparation road at the beginning of the year, he fled to Qinshui to join Wang Jiayin and other thieves, In addition, a large number of Zezhou refugees and miners also took refuge in them, and the thieves and local snakes got mixed together, Hermes-Epitek, this battle is not easy to fight, I can't do it, how do you think about it? ”

"If it's not good to fight, you won't fight, and Lao Tzu is not a family member who cares for the Ming Emperor." Li Yu replied coldly, said hello and said that he wanted to go to the camps to have a look, patted his ass and left.

Zhang Chuanjie grabbed Chen Erzhu and quietly asked the Grand Commander what was going on, Chen Erzhu replied in a low voice, all the Great Commander saw on the way were fleeing homeless people, as well as corpses that fell on the side of the road and no one gathered them, and he felt uncomfortable, and he hadn't shown a smiling face for several days.

According to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, military attachés at all levels led troops to the locality, all of which were supervised and dispatched by the local civil servants and also managed the food and salary, and the Zelu area belonged to the jurisdiction of the southern Hebei military preparation road, Li Yu should listen to him here, but Li Yu didn't even see his face, let alone listen to him give orders, Wang Zhao was angry, as soon as Zhang Daojun arrived in Zezhou, he was dragged by him to find Li Yu - Zhang Daojun also jumped up and down during this time, and he didn't go back after he came out of Baode, Instead, he was ordered by Song Tongyin to go to Lu'an Mansion to assist the Ming army to suppress the thieves' military affairs, but did not kill the thieves, but let the thieves enter Zezhou, which frightened him, the Zhang family is a Zezhou family, and his hometown is in Douzhuang, Qinshui County, Zezhou, he can't take care of anything else, and ran home in one breath, urging the family and tenants to strengthen the wall of Douzhuang, and add guns and crossbows, until he thought that the defense of Douzhuang was like an iron bucket, so he returned to Zezhou to handle official business under the urging of his mother Huo.

Li Yu was blocked in the big tent early in the morning, Wang Zhaosheng and Zhang Daojun came in and reprimanded him, Wang Zhaosheng was the most arrogant, scolding Li Yu for being lawless and fearful of the enemy like a tiger, and not taking him as a soldier in his eyes, warning Li Yu that if he dared to passively avoid the war again, he would definitely ask the court to punish the crime, although Zhang Daojun still had a little affection, but he also accused Li Yu of being ungrateful, unreasonable, and allowing the thieves to harm his hometown, Li Yu endured it for a while, and was finally enraged, slapping the table and scolding.

"The soldiers of southern Hebei are ready to go, let me ask you, where is my military salary? Where is the food, grass and ordnance? If you can take it out, I will go to suppress the thief immediately, and if you can't take it out, shut up immediately, do you think you can understand military affairs after reading a few military books, can a soldier fight without food and no pay? Fuck me off yet! Li Yu shouted in his mouth, and picked Wang Zhaosheng up from the chair - as soon as this guy entered the door, he sat on the handsome chair, and Li Yu was already dissatisfied. After sitting down in a big way, Li Yu pointed at Zhang Daojun and shouted, "Zhang Zixuan, you are in Lu'an Mansion, not me, and you are not effective in managing military affairs and food and salary, so that thieves can take advantage of the opportunity to sneak into your hometown, and Hugh blames me!" ”

Zhang Daojun's face turned purple, Li Yu really wronged him, pointed at Li Yu and shouted: "Can you blame me, the court doesn't give money, and it's not your family who can't get military salaries, you can have something to eat, it's all up to me to search for money and food, do you still have a conscience?" ”

"I don't care what you do, if you want to make the soldiers bleed, you have to pay for it, the Ming Emperor doesn't want to pay, that is, he doesn't want the Ming Kingdom, what about the gentry and rich merchants, they don't want family property anymore? I've heard that Pingyang and Zelu are rich and rich in the world, and they are not rich if they are not hundreds of thousands, so you go and tell the wealthy gentry in Zezhou that if you want to protect your family, you have to be willing to pay for it. ”

"On the contrary, you, Hanyi, dare to speak disrespectfully, this official wants to impeach you to the imperial court, and you acting chief soldier can be regarded as the end!" Wang Zhaosheng roared like thunder.

"Lao Tzu is not uncommon, this acting chief soldier, it is best for you to let the court remove me, I just want to go home." Li Yu replied with a sneer.

Zhang Daojun was startled, and pulled Wang Zhaosheng out of the big tent, Wang Zhaosheng kept shouting and scolding: "Hanyi, Beiyu, wild nature is difficult to change, this official must join him." ”

"Lord Wang, don't make any more trouble, he doesn't care what you do, there are many people who sue him, the acting chief soldier himself is the court to coax him to do things, how can the officials and soldiers of Shanxi Town really listen to him, you ask the court to remove him, maybe he is still secretly happy!"

"Then let this Beiyu do whatever he wants? No, I can't swallow this breath, and he dares to do it to me even if he is a martial artist! Wang Zhaosheng felt uncomfortable when he thought of being pulled out of the chair by Li Yu.

"Will Beiyu still be reasonable? Let's wait until the thieves are driven out of Shanxi, now only his people in Shanxi can fight, let's find a way to raise money and food, the soldiers are really making trouble, and we are the ones who suffer in the end. Zhang Daojun pulled Wang Zhaosheng to persuade while walking, but he felt strange in his heart, Li Hanmin is not usually like this, where did this guy come from with such a big fire.

Li Yu has been sullen since he arrived in Zezhou, and he seems very irritable, Zhang Chuanjie understands what is going on - the little brother has something that he can't think about in his heart, he discussed with Bai An and Sun Shoufa, everyone thinks that they have to help Li Yu cheer up no matter what, and now this situation does not allow him to continue to be depressed, and the three of them pulled Zhou Yuji to find Li Yu together, but before they could say a few words, Li Yu's eyes turned red.

"You know what I saw, I saw cannibalism! The pot is boiling meat, the freshly cut corpses on the ground are bleeding, many people are eating meat in equal portions, mutilated corpses and human bones are thrown in the ravines on the side of the road, I have seen several such scenes along the way, I close my eyes now, it seems to see the fleeing people, the living continue to walk, the dead and the dying are lying on the side of the road, no one cares whether they live or die, the local government drives them out of the country, passing officers and soldiers snatch their heads, they have no way to live, should they die if they are poor? Li Yu's eyes were moist, tears kept rolling down, and he raised his hands high and shouted loudly, "I was wrong, I originally thought that killing the thieves who made a rebellion would calm down the people, and the court would have its hands free to appease the people when it was better, at least give the people a hope of survival, but the court didn't care about the people at all, this was forcing the people to a dead end!" I escaped from the Jin country, because I hated Zhu Shen's wanton killing of the Han people and the Mongols, I didn't expect the killing of the Ming country to be more than the Jin country, and it was cannibalism, Sakhalian brother said, the Ming court is more brutal than the Jin country, and the people of the Ming country who died in their hands are far more than ten times more than the Jin army, I believe it, the evil of **** is especially worse than the foreign Kou, go to ****** the Ming Emperor and the court, the sky will definitely punish this tyrant, Lao Tzu will not give him a murderous knife, I want to go back to Fengzhou, never enter the customs again! ”

Li Yu's rebellious words frightened Zhang Chuanjie, Bai An, Sun Shoufa and others to turn pale, Zhou Yuji hurriedly ran outside the tent to take a look, and after making sure that Li Yu's personal guards were all around, he came back tremblingly and found a stool to sit at the door of the big tent.

"Hermes-Epitek, don't say it, there are a lot of things like this in my hometown of Yansui, I cried a few times when I first heard about it, and then I became numb, we are poor soldiers, and we want to help the villagers but we can't do anything," Bai An's eyes were also red, and he breathed a sigh of relief and said to Li Yu, "Since following you, my heart has become more steady, Hermes-Epitek, we are suppressing thieves, but we are also saving the people, you calculate, how many people we have survived so far, everyone trusts you, and expects you to find a way for the villagers to live, Don't give up at this time! ”

"Lao Bai can't see the best in Liaodong, I can stay in Yansui all the time, our villagers are miserable, the crops in the field are not harvested, the government also comes to the door to force taxes, and if you don't pay the grain, you will raid the house and arrest people, the people can't survive, the people of one village and one village go out to flee the famine, and the people who die all the way, that scene makes people want to cry when they see it, to say a big rebellious word, I sometimes hate the court and the dog officials, but I ponder, those thieves who take the blood of the people to seek glory and wealth for themselves are even worse, the world falls into their hands, and the lives of the people are more miserable, What a good place in Yangcheng, this gang of thieves went to burn, kill, plunder and do all kinds of evil, hundreds of people died under their knives, turning a prosperous village into a piece of rubble, if you want the world to be peaceful, the dog officials of the court should be killed, and these thieves have to be killed first. Sun Shoufa wiped a handful of tears and said.

"Hermes-Epitek, do you want to rebel? We are brothers in Datong, if you want to rebel, I will gamble with you! Zhang Chuanjie stood up and asked Li Yu solemnly.

Li Yu's face changed, and he replied sharply: "I am a poor bastard who farms and hunts, I don't want to be an official, and I don't want the world to do it, I just want my brothers to live well, let the villagers in Fengzhou live well, and let others bleed and claim the king and hegemony, don't want me to do it!" ”

"That's good, Hanmes, think about it, although the Ming court is very dirty and rotten, but it is better than the world without an owner, just to kill fewer people, leave more vitality for the world, and can't let the Ming Dynasty finish, for us, these thieves are ambitious and reckless, staying in Shanxi is a scourge, if they are not suppressed, Fengzhou will also suffer, Hanmin, you have to cheer up, we will do our own things well, and the Ming Dynasty will be left to God to punish." Zhang Chuanjie was a little excited.

Zhou Yuji couldn't help but whisper on the side: "Can you be quieter!" ”

"What is there to be afraid of, this camp is full of our people, who dares to go out and talk more! Lao Zhou, you also tell us what you think. Zhang Chuanjie waved his hand and asked.

"These thieves are not good things, of course they have to be suppressed, if we don't destroy the thieves in Shanxi, the court won't let us out." Zhou Yuji replied without hesitation.

After everyone's persuasion, Li Yu tried to calm himself down, covered his head and thought about the map of Zezhou, the big tent fell into silence, after a long time, Li Yu raised his head, shook his head and said in a low voice: "The troops are insufficient, the food is insufficient, the thieves are hiding in the mountains, and the people are still facing them, we are not familiar with the place, you want me to kill the thief, but why should I suppress it, I will never risk the blood of my brothers." ”

The big tent continued to be silent, everyone understood that with the current situation of the Fengzhou army, the suppression of thieves was not only difficult but also dangerous, Li Yu said after a while: "We will definitely lose when we go into the mountains to suppress the thieves, and we can't do it by dividing the troops to defend the danger, the most troublesome thing is that we don't know anything about the thieves, where are they?" How many troops are there? What about food, grass, and ordnance? We didn't know, I couldn't figure out how to fight this battle. ”

Sun Shoufa hesitated for a moment and said: "I picked up a person in Lu'an Mansion, this person is named Zhang Liwei, he is a native of Fugu, his family in Fugu is also a solid family with land and a house, Wang Jiayin rebelled to their village, burned his house, took away his family's property, and robbed his sister to be his aunt, he himself was forced to follow the thief, when the thief went to Zezhou, he took advantage of the chaos to escape from the thief's den, and met my fellow villagers in Fugu in my camp on the way, and asked to join the army for revenge. If we send him back to the thief's camp, we should be able to gain the trust of the thief, and if he gives us a message, the thief's details and actions will not be able to hide from us, and maybe there will be a chance to kill the thief. ”

Everyone thought this was a way when they heard it, and immediately agreed, Li Yu thought about it and said: "This matter will be handled by Brother Sun, but there is no need for that Zhang Liwei to risk killing people, as long as the situation of the thief is reported, it will be a great achievement, and we will never treat him badly." ”

Li Yu particularly emphasized military discipline, Fengzhou's population is too small, and men are more precious, so the punishment for violating the law is generally not the death penalty, but a large number of whipping, although there is a "Seven Killings Order" in the army, but in fact has not killed a person, there are many people who have been whipped for violating military discipline, Li Yu asked the officers of each battalion to be sure to manage their own people, it is best not to set this precedent.