"Please don't kill Liu Xiucai, spare his life. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info "A hundred centurions and hundreds of civilians also pleaded in unison, kneeling and kowtowing.

Seeing this, Zhao Guohua was stunned, Niu Huan was stunned, and Liu Xiucai was also stunned.

Seeing his wife crying and kowtowing on the ground, Liu Xiucai asked puzzledly, "What's wrong with you?" What are you doing here with your children? ”

Hearing this, Jiang stopped crying, raised his head, glanced at his husband, and said with teary eyes: "I heard that you are going to be beheaded by the official, so I hurried over to intercede for you." ”

"Nonsense, who said I was going to be beheaded." Liu Xiucai angrily reprimanded his wife.

Jiang asked puzzledly, "Why are you kneeling here...... What does it mean to say that you can't kill what you can't kill? ”

Liu Xiucai understood the meaning of his wife and everyone coming here, stood up with emotion, and said: "I, Liu Guangzu, thank you for your love, but today's incident is a misunderstanding by everyone. ”

Speaking of this, he paused, looked at everyone, and then said: "Just now my wife said that there was no food to eat, so I came to General Zhao, and after General Zhao heard this, he ordered the officers and soldiers to distribute half of the dry food to everyone, and also ordered to kill fifty war horses every day to satisfy everyone's hunger until the food arrived, and I knelt down for this reason and begged the general not to kill the horses." Everyone said, can this war horse be killed? ”

After hearing these words, the people finally understood what was going on, and they were quiet for a while, "You can't kill!" Can't be killed! The words shouted together.

These shouts attracted more people, who also shouted after asking about the situation.

Everyone shouted for a while before slowly stopping. Seeing that everyone stopped shouting, Zhao Guohua said: "Folks, we are soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, it is our duty to protect you, since we rescued you from the hands of the Tartars, we can no longer let you starve to death, in my eyes although the war horse is important, but not as important as your life, the people are water, the army is fish, without water, the fish can't live, so please don't persuade you anymore." Come and kill the horses to satisfy the hunger. ”

"Thank you, General! Thank you, General! Everyone burst into tears, thanked them loudly, and knelt on the ground.

To the nearby village burned by the Tartars, found a few iron pots hidden by the people, that night, the people ate a rare delicacy, drinking the horse meat soup mixed with the crushed flatbread, everyone's gratitude to Zhao Guohua is like a rolling spring thunder. The people's camp was full of voices praising Zhao Guohua

"This general is really a good person, the general of the Ming Dynasty can't find such a person at all." A man said.

Another man said: "Yes, if there are more generals in the Ming Dynasty, can the Tartars still be so rampant?" ”

A black man said: "When I return to Zhuozhou, I will go to them." ”

Liu Guangzu drank the horse broth, looked at the camp of the Volunteer Brigade, and made up his mind to participate in this officer army.

He said in his heart: "Cherish the people, can say that the people are water, the army is fish, such an officer, the army he leads must be an iron-blooded division and a victorious division, the pearl can not be secretly cast, his own belly of talent, only by participating in such an army can he realize his life ambitions." ”

Liu Youtian led a thousand team members and Tang Zhenbei and others after two hours of riding horses, walked a hundred miles, arrived in Zhuozhou and entered the city, Tang Zhenbei and Liu Youtian said about the battle, the happy Fan Jin turned straight in the yamen, Li Xian was excited and rubbed his hands again and again.

"Captain Zhao is really amazing!" Fan Jin said admiringly.

Listening to Zhao Guohua's request, the two did not hesitate at all, and immediately summoned the chiefs and chiefs of each workshop and asked them to mobilize the people under their jurisdiction to steam steamed buns and make noodles. And let them tell the people that as long as they are made according to the specifications, they will pay according to the number, and each steamed bun and pancake is three yuan, and the flatbread has more oil for five yuan.

After receiving the order, the chief of the first mile bowed down and bowed and went. Seeing that the two of them had been arranged, Liu Youtian said: "Two adults, these dry foods must be prepared at dawn tomorrow, and some water must be prepared, and I will send food as soon as it dawns tomorrow." ”

"No problem, you must do it according to Captain Zhao's requirements, you and your brothers will go to the barracks to rest first. Tomorrow dawn calls you. Fan Jin said to Liu Youtian enthusiastically, and Li Xian also patted him on the shoulder affectionately and asked him to go back to sleep.

Both of them know that as long as they make dry food according to Zhao Guohua's requirements, according to Zhao Guohua's character, they will definitely have their own credit for rescuing the plundered people.

Seeing this, Liu Youtian smiled and said to the two: "In this way, then there will be two adults." After speaking, he politely arched his hand to the two, and under the leadership of Li Xian's entourage, he led a thousand team members to the barracks to sleep.

That night, every household in the whole city of Zhuozhou was buying flour and flatbread, and the shopkeeper Tang who sold flour was so happy that he went crazy, such a business could not be encountered once in more than ten years, and the shopkeeper Yang who sold tea next door looked at the people who bought flour endlessly, and he was so angry that he paused again and again, and was annoyed.

At night, oil lamps are lit in the "You Ji Cookcake" shop at the mouth of Dogtail Alley in the east of the city, a middle-aged couple is busy working, and an eleven or twelve-year-old boy is helping to light the fire under the stove.

"Dog baby and his father, I've been cooking cakes for ten years, it's the first time that such a good thing is today, you see those rich people, tonight is really generous, shouting a big cake of Bawen, the price is not returned, buy a hundred in a fit of anger, you see, my hands are almost clawed when I have been busy with noodles." The woman spoke, with a smile on her face.

The man You Laosan was also happy, and he said peacefully while baking a flatbread: "Yes, there is indeed too little business like tonight, and it won't be able to meet for two or three years." ”

"I calculated that if we were busy until dawn, we would be able to earn five taels of silver, so that we could make a new set of clothes for each member of the family." The woman said with a happy face.

Turning her head to look at the woman, the woman reprimanded; "What new clothes to make, save up the money, and marry a daughter-in-law for the dog baby in the future, don't you see that the dog baby is so old? Hmph, losers. ”

"Okay, good, listen to you, listen to you." The woman said unhappily.

After a night of busy work by the people, a total of 100,000 steamed buns and 50,000 flatbreads were made, and it was already hours after the officials registered the numbers of each family. Fan Jin and Li Xian sent someone to wake up Liu Youtian and the 1,000 team members.

After getting up, after eating flatbread and soy milk, he put these flatbreads and steamed buns into a cloth bag, put them on horseback, and each person took a skin bag full of water, and then set off.

At noon that day, the sky was clear and the sun was like a fireball, and the clouds seemed to have been burned by the sun, and they disappeared without a trace. Such a good weather, the view is excellent. Li Xian was inspecting the city tower, and saw a team of people coming from a distance, seeing that there were only more than 100 people, so he did not order the city gate to be closed, but just asked everyone to pay attention to vigilance.

After a while, the group of men and horses stopped a mile away from the city, and more than a dozen officers and soldiers wearing brocade clothes and guards came to the city and said loudly: "Who is on duty in the city, Lord Qincha has arrived, come out to greet him." ”

Li Xian had been a commander in the capital camp, and looking at their gorgeous costumes, arrogant words and deeds, he knew that it was really Jinyiwei who came, so he said: "Everyone, please return to Lord Qincha, just say that Lord Fan of Zhuozhou Zhizhou and Li Xian, the garrison of Zhuozhou, will go out to meet him immediately." ”

"Good. Hurry up, don't delay. After speaking, more than a dozen brocade guards under the city tower returned.

Quickly descended the city tower, because the war horse was in the barracks, Li Xian had to trot all the way to the state office.

Fan Jin was supervising the officials to pay the people's steamed bun money and flatbread money, because Zhao Guohua repeatedly explained to him in the letter that he must be careful not to let the officials deduct the people's dry food money.

"General Li, looking at the way you are running panting and sweating profusely, is there another Tartar?" Fan Jin said jokingly.

He will be promoted soon, and he is in a good mood during this time.

Li Xian gasped and said, "Lord Qincha has arrived outside the city, please hurry up and greet you." ”

"Huh? …… Hurry up, wait for the official to go and change clothes. Fan Jin said, and quickly stepped into the back hall.

After a while, he walked out neatly dressed, and then took a group of subordinate officials and officials to arrest quickly, and after walking out of the yamen, he walked towards the city gate in a sedan chair, and Li Xian led a few officers to follow behind.

Out of the city, in front of the Qincha guards, Fan Jin got off the sedan chair, walked in front of Wu Fu, glanced at him, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "Fan Jin, the governor of Zhuozhou, is late, and I ask Lord Qincha to forgive me." ”

"Li Xian, the lowly guard of Zhuozhou, has seen Lord Qincha." Li Xian kowtowed.

After looking at the two of them, Wu Fu was puzzled: "Seeing that these two people are not people with outstanding wisdom, how can they thwart the Tartars' attacks on Zhuozhou many times?" It seems that there is another reason for the matter. ”

Thinking of this, he showed a smile on his face, stretched out his hand and said: "Two adults, please get up, this official Dongge University Scholar Wu Fu, you have thwarted the attack of the Tartars many times in Zhuozhou, Your Majesty is very happy to hear the news, and this official came to Zhuozhou to comfort the meritorious soldiers, and also asked the two adults to lead the way." ”

"Okay, please." Fan Jin said, stood up, stood on the side of the road, bowed down and stretched out his hand, Wu Fu walked first, and the rest of the people followed on foot, with fifty brocade guards and one hundred forbidden soldiers on horseback on both sides.

When he walked not far from the city wall, Wu Fu stopped and took a closer look at the city wall.

I saw that many of the battlements had obviously just been repaired, and there were still some pits smashed by cannonballs on the front of the city wall, and some of the pits had been repaired.

After seeing this, Wu Fu knew that the battle in Zhuozhou was indeed fierce, and he turned his head to Fan Jin and said, "Lord Fan, it seems that this city wall has been subjected to heavy artillery bombardment by the Tartars." ”

"Yes, there was a section of the city wall that was even collapsed by the Tartar artillery, and a gap of more than ten feet, and thousands of Tartar cavalry rushed in through that gap, but fortunately we beat it out." Fan Jin said with palpitations.

"And that kind of thing?" Wu Fu asked in surprise.