The massacre in Pingyao County was calm and orderly, and if it was a little farther away from the city, it even felt that it was a normal night, and there was nothing wrong with it.

The chief soldier Chen Yongfu is very indifferent to this killing, after all, as a martial artist for so many years, he has seen everything in the sword and blood, but what he has seen is the kind of slaughter that stimulates morale and indulges the soldiers.

But this massacre at night was to capture groups of people, and then the soldiers calmly waved their swords, and the killing continued again and again, except for the cries of those who were to be slaughtered, the murderers were calmly silent, and no one made a sound.

After Chen Yongfu watched it for a while, he left the place where he was killed, firstly, this kind of killing made people feel very boring, and secondly, he was a little creepy by those soldiers who were sensitive.

In the massacre he had seen, the soldiers did not regard themselves as human beings, and took pleasure in killing people, but in this scene today, the Shandong soldiers who did it were extremely calm, they did not feel that they were doing anything happy or hurtful, and the reason why they did it calmly was just because it was their task.

Chen Yongfu had a very inexplicable idea, maybe what these people did was really a hellish scene, such soldiers must be accustomed to killing, and used to bloody soldiers, these people are the most terrifying.

The killing ended in the early hours of the morning, and there was no living person in Pingyao County, and Goldman Sachs was known as the first in the world, so he naturally accumulated a large amount of gold and silver, but the amount of gold and silver and treasures that could be quickly realized was too large, and there was no way to take it away in the current situation.

In Auman. Under Garris's order, the soldiers loaded all the gold into the cart, originally according to the idea of the chief soldier Chen Yongfu, since so much silver could not be taken away, it was better to use the method of ants to move, and let the soldiers each take a certain amount, it was better than staying here.

However, this suggestion was rejected by Auman. Garris denied. The reason given by this foreign officer is very simple, Yu Bing is originally poor. Suddenly got so much land and silver, the mind of fighting with his life must have been much weaker, and he even mutinied and returned to his hometown. Let the morale of the entire army completely collapse.

Chen Yongfu, the chief soldier, knew very well who the people who really spoke in this army were the landowners, and what this foreign officer said was very reasonable. Originally, so many soldiers were brought from Henan to Shanxi, and this kind of uprooting has already greatly affected morale. If there are any more twists and turns, I am really afraid that I will not be able to control the troops.

The Gao family and the Sheng family built the place where the gold and silver were stored very strong and secret. But at most, it's just to guard against thieves, since you can't take it away. The horses filled all the silver cellars with earth and tore down the houses on the ground. Mark and mark well, and there is no living person left in the city. It is estimated that no one will be present in this hidden location except the person in charge of the landfill.

This night, the beacon tower used to warn in Pingyao City has not been lit, and the soldiers who defended the city were coerced by the Yu soldiers to go to Datong with their families and horses, and even the city gate of Pingyao County was intact, and it was impossible for people outside to see what was going on in the city.

At noon the next day, the merchants who had been waiting anxiously outside the city for a long time went to the nearby government office to report the case, and when the Fenzhou Yamen and Fenzhou's troops arrived, it was only a dead city.

Everyone knew that Chen Yongfu, the new commander-in-chief of Datong, had already left Pingyao County on the first day, and when the soldiers and horses of Fenzhou caught up and informed them, the 9,000 Yu soldiers had already started in the morning and walked out for more than ten miles.

The officials and officers and soldiers of Fenzhou are even more anxious than the real bandits, everyone knows that Goldman Sachs and the rich are rivals the country, although the city seems to be in ruins, there must be a lot of valuable things.

Searched all over the city, although those shops were destroyed, but many things inside, as well as some of the expensive things in the private houses of the Gao family and the Sheng family, are still there, the officers and soldiers of Fenzhou are not bandits, they are better than bandits, and they have almost swept the city like sweeping the floor.

The gold and silver and even more precious ornaments on the corpses of some relatives of the Gao family and the Sheng family are still there, these signs are enough to show that the killing in Pingyao City is not a simple intention to make money, but the officers and soldiers of Fenzhou are very careful, these ornaments have not been spared, and all of them have been collected in their hands.

In Pingyao City now, all the valuable things that can be found have been swept away, even some of the clumsy goods in the city, and even the doors, windows and beams of those collapsed houses, these are all taken clean by the surrounding villagers, such a scene, even if it is not a robbery, I am afraid no one believes it.

Shanxi is not very peaceful, there are a lot of green forest bandits and Mongolian horse thieves, but there are conditions to commit crimes, and can carry out such a scale of burning and destruction, in Pingyao County around the army is only the chief soldier Chen Yongfu this army of soldiers and horses, but conjecture is conjecture, people are all dead. The witnesses who could be found outside the city all saw that the soldiers and horses led by Chen Yongfu, the general soldier of Datong, had already set off at noon on the first day.

There is no human and physical evidence to show that more than 9,000 Yu soldiers did this big case, then again, in the entire territory of Shanxi, the strongest force at present is Chen Yongfu's more than 9,000 soldiers, if it is really found out, even if you want to take people, you can't take people, send that soldier and horse, what if it is eaten by this Chen Yongfu, when the time comes, it will really be ruthless, and make a big fuss in Shanxi, wouldn't it be a big disaster.

Whether it is the Yamen of Fenzhou Prefecture or the political envoy of Shanxi, this matter has been ordered to be strictly investigated, but the investigation is full of thunder and rain, and there is no depth at all.

On the third day of Pingyao's life, some big merchants in Taiyuan City were sent a letter, with only a few very simple words on it, "Litong Foreigner Ring", when the letter was sent, Pingyao gave birth to something, the news has not yet reached Taiyuan City, and when the news arrives, all the merchants who have colluded with Mongolia and the Jurchen Tatars are trembling and terrified.

Although there are such and such terrifying rumors about Chen Yongfu, when the 9,000 Yu soldiers entered the territory of Taiyuan Mansion, those merchants who came to give gifts to please them bet heavier, because I don't know where the rumors came from, saying that those merchants who gave gifts in Pingyang Mansion were safe and sound, but Fenzhou made such a big mess, it was because of Goldman Sachs and the gang of uncles who did not serve Henan well.

After this incident, the people in Shanxi suddenly realized that this Mr. Chen did not come to the border. but it is rich, and the land is still this bloody wealth.

For a time, Shanxi was silent. The prestige of the new Datong commander-in-chief was established at once, and Chen Yongfu had the gold and silver he had snatched in Pingyao, and he suddenly had a lot more money on hand. Now his soldiers are no longer in arrears, and after leaving Henan, the Henan township soldiers, who were originally in a state of flux, have finally stabilized.

The merchants of this era had a surprising virtue. That is, they don't need a paper contract as a guarantee, as long as they say it verbally. It's amazing how you can do it in the next business. But there is a downside to this approach, which is that the connection between the general and semicolon is not so close. It all depends on the loyalty and self-discipline of those who are sent out.

Goldman Sachs and some very loyal shopkeepers are out there, backed by Goldman Sachs and the Fortune of Goldman Sachs. For Goldman Sachs and expand the market except Shanxi, but after the owner and senior treasurer were all killed. Even if you want to be loyal, you can't find a place to be loyal to.

The Zhending Liu family, which has always been suppressed, began to fight back in the business field very "coincidentally", and for a while, Goldman Sachs and the branches in eastern Shanxi and Beizhili disappeared under the crackdown of the Liu family, either legal or illegal.

The business scale of the Liu family in Zhending has almost doubled from August to September, and the businesses in the entire Shanxi are now all on guard against the new Datong chief soldier Chen Yongfu, who is very low-key, and has no defense against the Liu family from Beizhili, and there are even people gloating and waiting for the Liu family to be unlucky.

Who would have thought that as soon as the Liu family entered Shanxi, the first big business they undertook was to be responsible for the military supply of more than 9,000 Yu soldiers in Datong.

Everyone in the world is sighing that Liu Qingyang, the head of the Liu family in Jinzhou, Zhending Mansion, is really talented, but he is the heir of a wealthy family, and he can do such a decisive thing. Such talents can't be officials in the court, this is really a buried talent, such a talent has been cultivated for a few years, isn't there someone who restricts Li Meng, the Duke of Qi?

As a result, in September, the imperial court really had the intention of promoting Liu Qingyang, but as soon as he heard that Liu Qingyang was just a lifter, there was no follow-up immediately.

After more than 9,000 Yu soldiers entered Datong Mansion, they knew how difficult the situation here was, and there was a reason why the people in Shanxi were pretending to be confused about what had happened in Pingyao County.

Not to mention that the Jurchen soldiers and horses once entered the Ming Dynasty from Shanxi, when the army of displaced people wandered in Shaanxi and Henan, and when the Tatars entered Beizhili several times, the soldiers and horses of Shanxi and the border soldiers of Datong were all transferred in large quantities.

According to the normal configuration of Datong, at least 70,000 border soldiers must be guarded, and after Chen Yongfu arrived at Datong Mansion, he checked the soldiers and horses, and now the number of soldiers on the roster is only 3,000, which is less than 2,000 soldiers at most.

This Shanxi is connected to the grassland, there are Mongolian tribes in the west, and there are Manchu Jurchens in the east, if you really fight from these mouths in Shanxi, you can't resist these soldiers and horses at all, of course, these soldiers and horses have included more than 9,000 soldiers brought by the general soldier Chen Yongfu.

It turned out that the people in Shanxi were really looking forward to Chen Yongfu's troops and horses going to Datong, otherwise facing a completely empty northern defense line, no matter who they were in Shanxi, they would not be sure.

Regardless of whether this army of soldiers and horses from Henan is barbaric or greedy for money, first block the empty defense line of Datong, then everything is easy to say. Although he was helpless in his heart, since he came, he had to stabilize here, and Li Meng sent Ou Man. Garris followed with half of the infantry regiment with firearms, but not just to kill Goldman Sachs and the gang of traitors. Fortunately, there is really a lot of gold and silver in Chen Yongfu's hands at present.

Through this money and the help of the Liu family of Zhending Mansion, the people were recruited to build forts at several important passes, and then the army was on guard and garrisoned.

However, Western Mongolia is currently mainly active in the Western Regions, while Eastern Mongolia and Nuzhen are recuperating, licking their wounds, and strictly following Huang Taiji's policy of recovering himself first and not attacking rashly. This allowed Chen Yongfu's team of soldiers and horses to build fortifications relatively calmly.

There is an area between Hajian Province and Yeongpyeong Province, which is under the jurisdiction of Suncheon. However, there are no prefectures, counties and towns here, and there is only one thousand-household office - Liangcheng Office.

Shuntianfu is also a bachelor here, knowing that this area of Shuntianfu near the sea will definitely pass through the Shandong soldiers and horses. Simply withdrew the hundreds of military households in Liangcheng to the vicinity of Baodi County, and let your Shandong soldiers and horses enter and exit.

At this time, the north is directly subordinate to the coast. Except for Dagu in Tianjin and Beitang in Shuntianfu, the rest of the places near Haiti are tidal flats that are difficult to move.

As a result, the people from Hejian Province went to Yongping Mansion. The main transport force is the cart, such a way of action. You can't get too many people at one time, and it's very troublesome. And at the end of July. The first Tuntian Grange was built between Tianjin Sanwei and Jinghai County, and this Grange was just a grass creation. A lot of things are not complete.

What made Zhang Jiang, the chief soldier of Hebei, and Wang Tao, the deputy general, a little angry, was that in early July. I don't know where there were many rumors suddenly, saying that because of the lack of troops in Yongping Mansion, as a result, several passes near Harashen were not well defended, and many Tartar horse bandits and robbers were put in.

When the news came back, it scared many people who wanted to go to Yongping Mansion to work as small traders, but Zhang Jiang and Wang Tao felt a little crying and laughing.

The so-called Mongolian horse bandits, murder and goods rumors, who are aimed at, of course, the Jiaozhou battalion can understand that Yongping Mansion has indeed had Mongolian bandits rampant in the past, but even when the officers and soldiers of Jizhen were the weakest, there were no so-called Mongolian soldiers and horses from those passes in the north of Yongping Mansion.

There is a legend that these horse bandits are the generals of Jizhen who covet the wealth of merchants who come and go inside and outside the Guan, and want to loot but are afraid of violating the national law, so they simply let the horse bandits and collude inside and outside to let these horse bandits come to rob.

Since the rise of the Jurchen Tatars, most of the forces in Eastern Mongolia have been integrated into the past, and the young and strong herdsmen are divided according to the establishment of the Eight Banners. The reason why the rumors of horse bandits appeared so coincidentally must be related to the establishment of Tuntian Grange in Shandong, although the Tuntian Grange between Sanwei and Jinghai in Tianjin was initially established, a large number of poor people were integrated into one place, and strictly managed, integrated training, and soon became a force.

There were no officers and soldiers in Hejian Mansion, and this Tuntian Grange was established, but if such a Grange was also established in Yongping Mansion, a force would also be established, and the advantage that it had barely relied on the identity of the head snake would be wiped out immediately.

This Tuntian Grange may be beneficial to the poor people, but for those military generals and landlords, there is no benefit, especially in Hejian Province to establish a Grange and Shandong, many places rely on force to occupy the land, and many landlords' land is encircled and directly bankrupt.

Seeing such a scene, whether it was the generals of Jizhen or the gentry of Yongping Mansion, they were all afraid of the Jiaozhou battalion like tigers and wolves, for fear that after the Shandong soldiers and horses were stationed, they would also end up like those landlords in Hejian Mansion.

Shandong's strength is there, and there are orders from the imperial court, all they can do is to delay as much as possible and wait for the opportunity to change the situation.

The rumor of this horse bandit rampant must be one of the tricks to delay, but how could the Shandong soldiers and horses be frightened by this matter, Zhang Jiang, the general soldier of Hebei, sent the first team in early August, with an advance team of about 500 people, and the name of the outside world is also high-sounding, these people are to prepare for the army stationed in Yongping Mansion, choose the location of the camp and prepare for the military quarters, and so on.

There were 500 people, more than 40 carts, and the team was led by a regimental deputy garrison, surnamed Zhang Mingkun, who was a distant cousin of Zhang Jiang, the general soldier of Hebei.

At present, the only one in Shandong who can barely be called a general, that is, Zhang Jiang and his group of relatives, the old military household in the Lingshan Guardhouse, and his nephews and relatives, have served in the Jiaozhou battalion a lot, because they have a military foundation and a relatively good family background, and they are particularly suitable for the system of the Jiaozhou battalion.

The most noble of the Hebei commander-in-chief Zhang Jiang's clan, most of the rest were in the position of the deputy garrison of the general and regiment. There are almost a dozen of them, and they also have a small nickname for this in the Jiaozhou camp. It is called "Zhang Jiajiang", but the Zhang family is very taboo about this name. And as far as possible, not in the same army, so as not to suffer suspicion. But this is not intentional.

In this era, they are all big families, and it is common for men to be prosperous, and they are from this generation of military families. It's not uncommon for people to have such a situation. Now the most noble general of Shandong soldiers and horses, Lianghuai General Soldiers and Horses, originally had a similar family background as Zhangjiang. But the number of people is relatively scarce, and so far there is only one distant brother who is the commander in the Dengzhou army. It is not as large as the scale of the Zhang family.

Although Li Meng did not express his position on this phenomenon, he was on Sun Chuanting and Yuan Wenhong's side. It's very strict with this one, if it's in the same regiment. There are two Zhangjiang's clansmen as officers, so they must be transferred. If there is a promotion of military merit under the same subordinate, it is generally necessary to return to the trial and be strictly evaluated.

Mr. Gongsun and Mr. Yuan admonished the marshal several times, saying that it was the army of Shandong, but the army of the marshal, and should not be controlled by people with foreign surnames.

The details of this matter are unknown, and even the truth is unknown, but this rumor in a very small range has reached the ears of Zhang Jiang, the chief soldier of Hebei.

For Zhang Jiang, who is in a high position, this news can reach his ears, which in itself means something, what Zhang Jiang can do is to be more strict, every military general of the same clan who has been raised by his own hands is completely reliable, and they are all excellent people.

Zhang Kun, who led the team this time, is the highest-ranking military general in Zhangjiang's clan except for Zhang Jiang, and naturally he has performed quite well and has the qualifications to be promoted to this status.

Zhang Kun is 28 years old this year, he was originally a general in the Yanzhou Army, he has participated in all the battles of Shandong soldiers and horses in Henan, and he has been promoted all the way.

Officers at all levels in Shandong, even the commander Li Meng, were tanned during training and exercises, but this Zhang Kun was white and pure, and he was nicknamed "Zhang Xiucai".

Although he has a nickname for Xiucai, the ink in Zhang Kun's stomach is really limited, but he knows a few words, but he learned them all after entering the Jiaozhou camp.

The tactical system of the Jiaozhou battalion requires strict battlefield discipline and tactical execution, but Zhang Kun, who is the commander of the battalion, has fought in several battles, and the troops he leads are often out of touch. It is said that such a person should be severely punished, but the battles that Zhang Kun participated in are often victorious, and the reason for this victory has a certain relationship with his fierce charge, according to Ma Gang's words, if this Zhang Kun can abide by the rules, he should also be a general now.

But every time this mistake is offset with military merits, there is always not much reward and promotion, so in the reorganization of the battalion reform regiment, with his merits, he only got the position of deputy garrison of the regiment.

But because of his style, there is also a battalion leader who dares to rush and fight, and the commander chooses to attack and charge the troops, and often chooses "Zhang Xiucai".

Yongping Mansion prepared for the survey in advance, since there were already rumors of horse bandits, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from Jizhen were stationed in it, and there were local heroes full of hostility, it can be said that it was a place full of murder and danger, and the southeast part of Shuntian Mansion was in it, and the reinforcements would not arrive in a short time.

The Hebei army is in the process of being formed, and it is impossible to send too many people to this operation, who to send to carry out this kind of task that may be fatal, and the best candidate in the hands of Zhang Jiang, the chief soldier of Hebei, is his distant cousin Zhang Kun.

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