After thinking for a while, Liu Guangzu said: "Xiaosheng's method is, first, to organize all the people according to a certain number and appoint the responsible person, and the person in charge of each team is responsible for and supervise the itinerary of his team, the second is to send people to borrow food from the nearby prefecture and county towns that have not been attacked by the Tartars, and the third is to send people to listen to the movements of the Tartars and prepare for defense." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

After listening to Liu Guangzu's three opinions, Zhao Guohua smiled and nodded: "Yes, what you said is very good, according to your opinion, I appointed more than 100 people as centurions, each of whom commands three or four hundred people, you are the commander of a thousand people, supervise these 100 centurions, they are responsible for you, you are responsible for me, and these centurions are also responsible for the distribution of grain." Every day, the 50 people who walk in front of each team are given an extra steamed bun. I want to find a way to make steamed buns, and there will be one tomorrow. ”

"Okay, okay, let's go tell everyone." Liu Guangzu said happily, and went to organize the people with the hundred people who were temporarily appointed as centurions by Zhao Guohua.

With the help of Liu Guangzu and the more than 100 people, the more than 40,000 people were quickly divided into 100 small groups, and the fast-moving groups had quickly headed towards Zhuozhou under the leadership of their centurions.

In order to prevent the pursuit of the Qing army, Zhao Guohua led the assault team and the fire gun team to break off in the back, and he sent Niu Huan to lead people to the elm forest less than thirty miles away to find the 2,000 pikemen led by Liu Youtian.

After snatching the war horses from the Tartar barracks, and rushing out, in order to confuse the Tartars, they ran eastward, and galloped southward, and a large group of military horses galloped behind, and some of the military horses also ran away in the night, and the thousand war horses recovered by the Tartars were scattered.

When they arrived at the agreed place, it was already dawn, and Liu Youtian drove the horses into the woods.

Liu Youtian was so happy, this time the results were too great, and he captured five thousand war horses from Tartar, according to one hundred and twenty taels of silver, the value was six hundred thousand taels of silver, and when he thought of this number, he couldn't close his mouth with joy.

"It's better to fight a war and get money quickly." Liu Youtian sighed.

Niu Huan took five commandos to ride a horse for an hour and thirty miles in the elm forest and found Liu Youtian.

Seeing so many war horses, Niu Huan's eyes lit up happily, walked over, touched this horse and looked at that one, and then stopped after touching several horses in a row.

"Old Niu, looking at you like that, I'm happier than touching the big girl's ass." Liu Youtian joked with a smile.

Glancing at him, Niu Huan said: "Of course, with these war horses, our garrison will be all cavalry in the future, do you think I can be unhappy?" ……”

"Hmm. It's like this, I can't imagine that your old cow has become smarter. Liu Youtian said, laughing.

Niu Huan rolled his eyes and said, "Hey, don't laugh, don't laugh, the captain has a task for you." ”

"What is the mission?" Hearing that there was a task, Liu Youtian hurriedly stopped laughing and asked.

Niu Huan took out a letter and said: "You take a thousand cavalry to Zhuozhou to find Fan Zhizhou and Li Shoubei to raise food, the people did not bring food, the captain asked you to bring 100,000 steamed buns to pick us up tomorrow afternoon, you give this letter to Fan Zhizhou and Li Shoubei, I will take the rest of the cavalry and horses to meet with the captain to cover the people's withdrawal to Zhuozhou." ”

"Good. I'm going to Zhuozhou. After speaking, he bowed his hand to Niu Huan, and Liu Youtian led a thousand team members to gallop to Zhuozhou.

Besides, Tang Zhenbei took more than 20 scouts all the way to the north to look for the north sentinel, and finally walked to a place a hundred miles away from Zhuozhou, looking at the north, he hesitated, this way was scared, and finally walked the hundred miles safely, and then went north, it was really a little dangerous, once he encountered the Tartar cavalry, it would be troublesome, but if he went back, he was a little timid, and after thinking about it for a while, he still looked at the direction of the north and couldn't make up his mind.

"Lord Tang, there is a large area of dust in the distance, and a large force of cavalry is rushing here, what should I do?" A scout shouted in alarm.

Holding a pergola in his hand, he looked up, and Tang Zhenbei knew that at least one or two thousand cavalry were coming here. He thought: "I don't know if the two thousand cavalry who came are Ming troops or Tartars. Let's hide and take a look. Thinking of this, he said, "Let's find a place to hide and see who is coming." After saying that, he looked around, and saw a burned village not far away, so he ran to the village with twenty men.

As soon as they had taken cover, the cavalry came to a halt at the edge of the burned village.

"Lord Tang, it's the Ming Army, it's our people." A soldier with good eyes said in surprise.

After a closer look, Tang Zhenbei also saw clearly that these cavalrymen were wearing the armor of the Ming army, so he stood up with confidence. Seeing this, the other scouts also stood up

Seeing some people standing up in the burned village, Liu Youtian was taken aback, thinking that he had been ambushed by the Tartars, but after a closer look, he saw that it was the clothing of the Ming army, so he was relieved.

"Where did you come from?" Liu Youtian asked loudly.

Tang Zhenbei said: "We are scouts in Zhuozhou, where did you come from, brothers?" ”

Liu Youtian asked loudly: "You are a soldier from Zhuozhou, do you recognize me Liu Youtian?" ”

Tang Zhenbei was Li Xian's confidant, and he also knew that there was a man named Liu Youtian in the Volunteer Brigade who served as the captain of the Minzhuang Supplementary Brigade. Hearing that it was Liu Youtian who came, he walked out happily.

After the two sides met, they talked and laughed happily, looking at the tall horses of those cavalry, Tang Zhenbei couldn't help but feel envious, and he said flatteringly: "I didn't expect that your volunteer brigade would have so many good horses." ”

Haha laughed, Liu Youtian said: "Tang Qianhu, you are wrong, these war horses were captured by us yesterday. ”

"Huh? Captured yesterday, so you won the battle again? Tang Zhenbei asked in surprise.

There was a burst of smug laughter, and after laughing, Liu Youtian said happily: "Yes, thousands of Tartars were eliminated and more than 5,000 war horses were captured......"

Hearing these figures, Tang Zhenbei and the twenty Zhuozhou scouts were petrified at once. Don't blame them for behaving like this, it's really a staggering number.

Seeing their stunned appearance, Liu Youtian became even more proud, and admired Zhao Guohua even more in his heart.

After a long while, Tang Zhenbei and the others came back to their senses, and they were respectful and polite to Liu Youtian and the others.

With the military order in his body and the time pressing, Liu Youtian didn't dare to delay more, drank some water, and said: "Tang Qianhu, I went to Zhuozhou to raise food for the people on the order of the captain, I don't know what you should do?" Do you want to go back with us or do you have another business trip? ”

"Raising food for the people? Have you rescued the people? Tang Zhenbei asked in surprise.

Nodding, Liu Youtian said: "The people who were plundered by the other Tartars were not found, but all the people who came to Zhuozhou were rescued, a total of more than 40,000 people, and now they are being covered by the captain and they are rushing to Zhuozhou, because of the shortage of food, the captain asked us to go to Zhuozhou to raise grain to meet the people." ”

With the previous record of seizing horses, this time when they heard about saving the people, Tang Zhenbei and the others were just taken aback and didn't ask much. Tang Zhenbei said: "Captain Liu, Lord Fan and Master Li sent us out to find you, and now that you are back, our task is complete." Let's go back together. ”

"Good. Launched. Liu Youtian said, got on the horse with the others, and everyone galloped towards Zhuozhou together

Niu Huan took a thousand firearms and 4,000 war horses and galloped all the way, and rushed back to Zhao Guohua's side in the evening. Seeing so many war horses, the team members were overjoyed, and the people were very surprised to see so many war horses, and they didn't know where these war horses came from.

Liu Guangzu is very smart, through a day of observation, he found that these officers and soldiers are strict in military discipline, elite soldiers, there is no old and weak in it, and the relationship between officers and soldiers is harmonious, these officers and soldiers are also very kind to the people, and the people who can't walk will not scold and scold but will carry a ride, all of which are very different from other officers and soldiers in the Ming Dynasty.

"When did the Ming official army have such soldiers?" He thought to himself.

At this time, his wife Jiang found him and said in a low voice: "Liu Lang, we have nothing to eat, the two children are hungry, you have helped these officers and soldiers, can you ask their heads for something to eat." ”

After lowering his head and thinking for a while, Liu Guangzu said, "I'll try it." With that, I went to find Zhao Guohua.

Zhao Guohua was arranging camping and guarding, and after listening to Liu Guangzu's words, he asked Niu Huan: "How much dry food do we have?" ”

"It's basically enough for us to eat for four or five days." Niu Huan replied.

Bowing his head and groaning for a while, Zhao Guohua asked again, "How many horses do we have here?" ”

"Including the commandos, there are more than 4,350 horses." Niu Huan said, and then, he asked suspiciously: "Captain, do you want to kill the horse?" ”

Nodding, Zhao Guohua said: "These people are rescued by us, we can't let them starve to death in front of our eyes, pass the order, each member of the team will give half of the dry food and distribute it to the people, in addition, kill fifty horses every day to satisfy the people's hunger." until food comes. ”

As soon as these words came out, Niu Huan was taken aback, Liu Guangzu was moved to tears, he knelt on the ground and said loudly: "General Zhao, you can't kill, you can't kill......"

The people nearby were startled when they saw Liu Xiucai kneeling on the ground and saying something that could not be killed, thinking that Liu Xiucai had angered the officials and was about to be killed by the officials, so they hurriedly ran to the centurion of their respective teams to intercede.

Liu Xiucai is upright and kind, fair, everyone likes him, and they don't want him to be beheaded.

After a while, more than 100 centurions and hundreds of people came, as did Liu Xiucai's wife, Jiang, and two children.

Jiang stumbled in front of Zhao Guohua, knelt down with a "poof", crying and begging: "Please let my husband go, he can't speak and bumped into you, and the little woman is here to make amends." "As he spoke, he kowtowed,