Sure enough, as Zhu Youzhen expected, as soon as He Jinhu escorted Zhu Youzhen out of the city with his front foot, Sun Chuanting immediately supported himself to find Zuo Guangxian. Zuo Guangxian heard that Zhu Youzhen was captured by the rebels, and he was immediately shocked, and he couldn't care about Wei Zhongxian anymore, so he immediately led the army to attack the He Renlong Department in the city.

Originally, Zuo Guangxian's men and horses were not as many as He Renlong, but the cavalry of the He Department were basically deceived by Zhu Youzhen, and there were only a few infantry troops left in the city. However, Zuoguang's first department was full of cavalry, plus the reinforcements of a hundred Qin soldiers, and the combat effectiveness suddenly overwhelmed He Renlong.

At this time, He Renlong didn't dare to pretend to be stupid behind the scenes, this more than 1,000 people were his hometown, if he was eaten by Zuo Guang first, he would become the commander of the light pole.

In these years, there is a shortage of soldiers, and having soldiers in hand is the biggest capital. Take He Renlong as an example, he has done a lot of work such as greedy for military salaries, killing good people and risking merit, and the reason why the court turned a blind eye to him was that Wei Zhongxian wanted to entrap him and make it available to the eunuchs; On the other hand, there is really nothing to be done about such a general who holds military power and only obeys the orders of one soldier under his account. When it was pressed, these people dared to pull the flag and rebel. Therefore, the court still has to coax them, even if they can't allocate food and grass, at least they will let it go.

It is precisely because of this that He Renlong dared to plunder in Jingyang City. Now seeing that he was outnumbered, and He Jinhu's cavalry did not know where to go, he did not dare to fight, and immediately led the remnants of the army out of the city.

At this time, the remnants of the defeated soldiers by Hao Yongzhong also retreated. He Renlong didn't know that He Jinhu was going to Qinwangzhuang to grab silver, let alone that he had arrested Zhu Youzhen. At this time, after listening to the report of the little school, Fang knew that he had fallen into a big disaster, and he couldn't help but scold hatefully: "This damn He Jinhu, tell him not to be too greedy, he just won't listen!" It's good now, not only did he die, but he also caused so much trouble for Lao Tzu! ”

Finally, He Renlong's brain turned quickly, and he knew that there was absolutely no good fruit to eat during his stay here, so he immediately led the remnants of the army back to Tongguan. As for whether Sun Chuanting will participate in his plundering of the people, whether Yang He will blame him for disobeying orders, and even whether Zhu Youzhen will blame him for disturbing Qin Wangzhuang, he can't care so much, anyway, he has to pay more tribute to Wei Zhongxian to settle everything. Thinking about it carefully, this trip to Jingyang not only did not get half of the benefits, but it lost his wife and soldiers.

By the time Zhu Youzhen led the crowd back, the soldiers in Jingyang County had completely subsided. He Renlong is gone, and the group of men and horses that broke into the camp has also galloped westward. Li Zicheng suffered a big defeat and was reluctant to leave, but Li Dingguo took the initiative to attack with a shield array, and beat the thieves to pieces.

After suffering hundreds of casualties, Li Zicheng no longer dared to fight. In the past half a month, Li Zicheng suddenly felt that his strength was insufficient, not only did he not dare to confront the official army head-on, but he even had to guard against Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong and others, who were also thieves. After thinking about it, he had to go west to find Gao Yingxiang, the "King of Chuang", to meet.

At this point, the vigorous defense of Jingyang finally ended with a complete victory for the Qin soldiers and a complete defeat for the thieves!

But Zhu Youzhen didn't have time to celebrate this victory, because Jingyang County, after the thieves crossed the border, was full of holes, and there were messes everywhere that were difficult to clean up.

First of all, the most damaged was Jingyang County, which was not touched by thieves. The county government's treasury was looted, and many of the homes of ordinary people in the city were looted by rebels, and there were even many vicious cases of humiliating women and killing civilians. Now that He Renlong is gone, Zhu Youzhen has to wipe his ass for him, and he is paying money and comforting the people, and he has been busy for a full day.

Second, because Li Zicheng set fire to Mt. Saga, it has not rained a drop these days, and the fire has become bigger and bigger, and it has spread from the mountains to the plains, swallowing up a lot of farmland and villages, and there is a tendency to spread from Sanyuan County to the surrounding areas.

And the county magistrate of Sanyuan County had already been frightened by the army of thieves and closed his doors, ignoring the lives of the people outside the city, anyway, he didn't put the fire, so he was even more lazy to care. Zhu Youzhen had to send 300 cavalry and 2,000 workers to Sanyuan County to extinguish the fire.

In this regard, both Qin soldiers and workers were a little resistant. They thought to themselves that the work of their county was too busy, so how could the prince still have the heart to take care of the affairs of the neighboring county.

Zhu Youzhen had to tell them a big truth. There is a saying that fire and water are ruthless, and the fire can burn wherever it can no matter which county you are from. Once the wall of fire burns from Sanyuan to Jingyang, the loss will be great, and it is better to extinguish the fire as soon as possible. Therefore, this is not an idle matter, but a major event closely related to the vital interests of the people of this county.

Let Zhu Youzhen say this, and everyone turned this corner. They had just struggled to hold the city, and with exhaustion and pain all over their bodies, they threw themselves into a new battle to extinguish the fire without hesitation.

In this time and space, there are no modern fire extinguishing tools such as dry powder fire extinguishing agents and high-pressure water guns, and if you want to extinguish mountain fires, you can only rely on manpower to extinguish them, which is extremely inefficient. Fortunately, Zhu Youzhen had also seen some reports of extinguishing mountain fires in his previous life, and commanded everyone to urgently dig many fire ditches in the direction of the spread of the fire. The fire reached the edge of the ditch, and since there was no combustible, the fire was slightly contained.

For places where it was too late to dig fire ditches, Zhu Youzhen also adopted the method of "extinguishing fires with fire." The specific method is to ignite the fire first where the fire is about to pass, so that the two flames collide head-on. Since the combustibles have been burned out, the fire cannot spread. This method was learned by him from the cartoon "Haier Brothers", and it really worked after trying it.

After the fire was brought under control, Zhu Youzhen personally led the workers to chase the fire and fight it little by little until it penetrated deep into Mount Saga, completely separating the fire from the outside world. In order to prevent a resurgence, he urgently mobilized another 1,000 women to sprinkle water in areas that had already been extinguished. All the water used was taken from the Jing River, and then transported to the fire site by mules, horses and manpower, and the hardships can be imagined.

After several days of hard fighting, this man-made disaster gradually subsided. Despite the best efforts of the workers, half of the farmland in Mihara Prefecture was burned, not to mention the Sagayama Prefecture, which was completely turned into a bare barren mountain.

But the efforts paid off, that is, Jingyang County was completely unaffected by the fire. You must know that the fields in Jingyang are full of cotton, which is the hope of Zhu Youzhen's agricultural reform! If you can't keep these crops, millions of taels of silver will be in vain!

When Zhu Youzhen extinguished the fire and returned to Qinwangzhuang from the mountains, the people of the whole city came out to greet him. But as soon as they saw Zhu Youzhen, everyone was dumbfounded: where is this the original personable prince, who is clearly a monkey with black paint!

Everyone wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, but the children didn't care what Zhu Youzhen's identity was, just like looking at a chimpanzee, they looked left and right around Zhu Youzhen, giggling and laughing. Zhu Youzhen also laughed when he saw this, and everyone couldn't help it anymore, and they all laughed!

In the laughter, Zhu Youzhen said jokingly: "This time Li Zicheng smoked this king into a chimpanzee, and the next time this king catches him, he has to dye him a giant panda!" ”