This spear came quickly, and they were all caught off guard, and they were pierced through the chest by the spear, and suddenly screamed, and immediately died of anger, Lu Fei pulled out the spear and shouted: "Do it!" ”

Soldiers disguised as mule drivers took out their hidden weapons from their carts and slaughtered the surrounding enemy troops, and one of the soldiers outside the city drew his bow and arrows, and a thundering arrow shot from the sky, and the sound of arrows whistled for miles.

Li Yanqing saw the signal and hurriedly shouted: "Attack!" ”

A thousand cavalry rushed out of the woods, like a long black dragon, and killed the north gate of Licheng County.

At this time, the alarm bell sounded loudly at the head of the city, and a soldier desperately rang the alarm bell at the head of the city, but only rang three times before being stabbed to death by the soldiers of the Xuanwu Battalion who killed the head of the city, and three hundred soldiers of the Xuanwu Battalion quickly took control of the north city gate.

The city gate opened, the mule cart gave way to a passage, and a thousand cavalry rushed into Licheng County at a gallop and slaughtered the military camp at the east city gate.

At this time, the soldiers in the barracks were having breakfast, and the alarm bells from the city did not attract everyone's attention, and many soldiers only asked a few words, and then continued to bow their heads to eat.

More than a dozen generals also gathered in the big tent for breakfast, their breakfast was much more sumptuous than that of the soldiers, there were buns, meat patties, meat porridge, and even a large piece of roast mutton, sitting in the middle was Wang Zhu, the commander of Qizhou, and everyone was chatting and chewing heartily.

At this time, the king wished 'shhh Wang Zhu was surprised in his heart, and shouted to several soldiers: "Let the soldiers guarding the door go and see what's going on?" ”

Several soldiers rushed away, and a general next to him said with a smile: "It should have been accidentally bumped, otherwise why didn't there move after only two sounds, the general is too sensitive." ”

"You're so careless that you don't even know if you lose your head!"

Wang Zhu scolded the general, and then said to everyone: "The lord of Song Zhai asked us to pay attention to the battle situation in Hebei, but there are no boats crossing the river, how can we pay attention?" ”

"The war in Hebei should be on the side of the Daimyo's Mansion! If you want to pay attention, it is also Yunzhou's concern, it's about our! ”

"You can't say that, the other party burned all the boats on the Yellow River, which means that there is also a war situation in Gaotang County, but we don't know, once the Song Zhai Lord is held responsible, I'm afraid we can't say it clearly, I think we still have to find a way to inquire about the situation on the other side."

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion outside, and some soldiers shouted and shouted, and the generals looked at each other, not knowing what was happening?

At this moment, the curtain was lifted, and a soldier shouted: "General, the enemy has entered the camp!" ”

Everyone stood up, Wang Zhu kicked over the table, drew his knife and shouted, "What are you doing in a daze? Get your weapons! ”

Before the generals could make a move, suddenly there were a hundred and ten spears. Sou! Shot into the big tent, the generals couldn't dodge, they were pierced through the body by spears, and most of them were immediately assassinated, and Wang Zhu escaped by hiding behind the table.

At this time, Wang Zhu didn't care about the other surviving generals, he picked up a shield and rushed out of the tent, but as soon as he rushed out of the big tent, an arrow shot head-on, this arrow was incomparably fast, the power was strong, an arrow pierced Wang Zhu's forehead, Wang Zhu screamed, and died on the spot.

Dozens of steps away, Li Yanqing drew another arrow, pulled his bow sharply, and aimed at the big tent gate, waiting for the next enemy general to rush out.......

The battle ended in less than half an hour, most of the soldiers of the Liangshan Army surrendered on their knees, Li Yanqing ordered that no prisoners should be killed, so that people could take care of them, Niu Gao asked Wang Gui in a puzzled whisper: "Even if the enemy army in Hebei surrenders, we will not accept it, and we will all be killed, why do we treat prisoners of war well after crossing the Yellow River?" ”

Wang Gui scratched his head, "I guess Lao Li wants to convert these prisoners of war into a garrison army, if we reorganize two thousand people, we will have six thousand people, even if the Liangshan army counterattacks, we can hold Qizhou, otherwise it will take a month or two to recruit young and strong, and it will take a month or two to train, and it will be too late." ”

"What are you two muttering?" Li Yanqing walked over and asked.

"Ah Gui and I are discussing why we don't kill prisoners of war?"

"You two..... Does this still need to be discussed? These prisoners of war are all natives of Qizhou, kill them, how can we gain a foothold in Qizhou? ”

Li Yanqing glared at them angrily, "If it's okay, just keep me in order in the county, don't be lazy here!" ”

The two of them were so frightened that they hurriedly led the troops to patrol, and at this time, Lu Fei ran over to report: "Commander Qiqi, the prisoners of war have been assembled, and there are more than 2,700 people in total!" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, and walked quickly to the west of the camp, the training school was full of prisoners of war, most of them were young people around seventeen or eighteen or twenty years old, when Li Yanqing was surrounded by soldiers, all the eyes of the prisoners of war were focused on him.

Li Yanqing walked up to the wooden platform, glanced at the nearly three thousand prisoners of war below, and said slowly: "I am the main general Li Yanqing, I guess some of you have heard of my name, but it doesn't matter, the important thing is that now it will be up to me to decide your fate, I want to know, how many of you are from Qizhou?" It's Qizhou people, please raise your hand! ”

One after another, prisoners of war raised their hands, and at least six of them were soldiers from Qizhou, all of whom were also the characteristics of Song Jiang's use of soldiers, and the township soldiers were relatively stable in guarding their homeland.

Li Yanqing nodded, "It seems that more than half of them are from Qizhou, do you know what the consequences of participating in the rebellion will be?" Once the bandits are exterminated, the court will settle accounts after the autumn, even if you are not arrested, you will bear more important taxes and labor than ordinary people as punishment, there is no good thing to participate in the rebellion without taking responsibility in these years, you will definitely be held accountable by the government, and your family will be affected! ”

Everyone lowered their heads, their faces showed fear, even if they were held accountable, they would admit it, but they were afraid of affecting their parents and brothers, these young people were hot-headed to participate in the bandits, and they did not gain any benefit, and now after being captured, they found that the consequences were very serious.

"We are all forced!" Quite a few people shouted.

"The government doesn't care what the reason is!"

Li Yanqing said loudly: "If you become a prisoner of war, you will be registered, according to the laws of the imperial court, the rebels will be executed or exiled to southern Xinjiang, and the imperial court will not spare you because you are forced!" ”

When many prisoners of war heard that they were going to be exiled, their faces turned pale with fright, and a few timid young soldiers could not help but cover their faces and cry.

Li Yanqing saw that the time was ripe, so he said to everyone: "But there is a way for you to get rid of the status of prisoners of war and be exempt from punishment after the war, that is, to make meritorious atonements and join the army of the imperial court, you will become soldiers who suppress bandits, and you will no longer be prisoners of war. ”

Under Li Yanqing's threats and temptations, the prisoners of war raised their hands one after another, and most of them expressed their willingness to join the imperial army.

Li Yanqing nodded, turned to Lu Fei and said: "Register them, those who are willing to join the army will be assigned to the infantry battalion, if they are not willing to join the army, they will be registered and let them go." ”

"Obey the order!"

Lu Fei hurriedly beckoned a few scholars who had just been invited to set up tables to register prisoners of war, and Li Yanqing turned on his horse and took a few cavalrymen to inspect the county seat.

Although there will also be brutal generals like Wang Ying and Zhang Cen in the Song Jiang army, but generally speaking, the Liangshan army has done a good job in controlling military discipline, although Licheng County was occupied by the Liangshan army, but the order is very orderly, the people live peacefully, basically not harassed, but the officers and soldiers killed into the city, frightened every household to close their doors, not a single pedestrian can be seen on the street, only soldiers standing guard on the street.

At this time, Wang Gui walked briskly with more than a dozen gentry, and Wang Gui pointed to Li Yanqing in front of him, "That's our commander!" ”

The gentry hurriedly ran up, surrounded Li Yanqing and complained nonsense, it was nothing more than Liang Shanjun extorting their money and asking the officials and soldiers to return it after confiscation, Li Yanqing had a big head for a while, he was most afraid of this kind of thing, there was no way to investigate it at all, and besides, the property he seized was generally rewarded to the soldiers, how could it be returned to these gentry?

But this kind of thing can't be spoken, and can only comfort them with kind words, promising that after pacifying the bandits, they will return the money they were extorted in full, at this time, Li Yanqing asked again: "Can the county magistrate and the county be in the county?" ”

"After the bandits came, several county officials fled, and Zhao Zhu, the chief of the bandits, concurrently served as the county magistrate, and there were no other officials."

Li Yanqing frowned, and asked again: "Are there retired officials in the city?" ”

If no official can be found, Li Yanqing usually invites retired old officials to serve as county officials temporarily, and Gaotang County is like this, asking Cao Yu, who has retired from Bozhou, to temporarily serve as the magistrate of the county and preside over the overall situation.

A gentry said: "Li Green, the former general judge of Qizhou, lives in this county. ”

The name Li Green is a little familiar, Li Yanqing pondered for a moment, and suddenly remembered Li Qingzhao's father Li Gefei, and he suddenly woke up, isn't Li Qingzhao's family in Qizhou?

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