"That was in the past, and when Lin Yi returns to Sui, the situation will change." Chen Ping said, "I will stay in the village if I am captive, and you need to help guard it." ”

Fan Zhi was startled, and the beef on the chopsticks fell on the table: "I'm only alone, how can I guard so many prisoners?" If they are allowed to escape, my family will probably suffer. ”

What Fan Zhi did, those captives saw it, and even acted as Chen Ping's interpreter and had contact with the second prince. really let the captives escape, and before those captives leave, they will definitely retaliate against Fan Zhi.

Not only Fan Zhi, but everyone in this village is afraid that they will all suffer. However, it was precisely because of this that Chen Ping planned to let Fan Zhi guard the prisoners.

"Don't worry, I won't leave you alone to watch the captives. You can choose some Ding Zhuang from the village, take turns to guard the prisoners, do not work in vain, pay the wages, and these people are under your leadership. Plus, I'll leave a group of guards to assist you. "The guards must stay, and the seriously injured people need to be placed and taken care of, Chen Ping said, "You don't need to have other thoughts, you are originally a citizen of Sui, and now you are helping the court to do things, you should be, wait for Lin Yi to return to Sui, free your wealth, and this kind of food can be available every day." But if you dare to be half-hearted, you should know the consequences. ”

With radish in one hand and a stick in the other, Fan Zhi cried and laughed, and accompanied Chen Ping out of the door: "I am already your person, how dare I have other ideas?" ”

Your people? Listening to this, I can't help but feel a little chilly. However, Chen Ping was very satisfied with Fan Zhi's statement.

"General Chen, you are different from others, there were also Sui troops passing through the village before, but all of them asked for money, rice and grain, and even many Ding Zhuang in the village were forcibly pulled in and transported baggage with the army. Even when we were fighting against the army of Linyi Guozhong, Liu Fang also let us go first, and several people died in the village. Fan Zhidao, "And General Chen, you are willing to pay money, you are your subordinate guards, and you are kind to others." Why is it different for a house guard? ”

Fan Zhi's last sentence was a guard other than Chen Ping in Liuhe Mansion, just last night, several guards broke into the homes of the people in the village, and the female family of one of them was almost ravaged.

In the final disposition, the guards were only reprimanded, and there was no punishment on the side.

Why is it different? Because Chen Ping regards Lin Yi as his own, he wants to develop in this place, and he thinks that he must not take a stitch from the people. There is such a consciousness, before and after Chen Ping entered the village, he has been giving military orders to his subordinate guards not to harass the people.

An hour later, after the disposal, the prisoners were captured, leaving behind a group of guards, Hu Juntong was left to take care of the seriously injured personnel, and together, there was also Chen Yuanliang.

The servant led the oxen and donkeys, and then pulled the baggage, Chen Ping led the escort of more than 70 people, escorted aside, and followed the previous route of Zhou Faxian and others, going south.

The servants did not have any wages for transporting rice and grain, just as repairing the official palace for the imperial court, repairing bridges in the county, or digging fields and canals, all of which were free labor.

Chen Ping's grandfather, Chen Xiaoyi, had to be taken care of by Chen Shitong, who served in the county, and was conscripted, mostly in the county, and did not travel far. Moreover, Yangzhou was originally rich, and the people of the state were not as miserable as the border states.

But the servant who transported the heavy rice grain in this forest was not so lucky, and he had to risk his life to carry the rice and grain to the guards. When encountering combat, you also need to follow the guards to charge.

On the same day, he crossed the Yanli River, crossed the Ousu River a day later, and then crossed the Dayuan River, and there was no trace of the enemy along the way. The information obtained from the captives was true, and it seemed that the enemy was really cowering in the capital.

The people in Linyi had no resistance to the Sui army, and the Sui army should burn incense and worship the Buddha and pray if they did not enter the village, let alone let the people carry shovels or wooden sticks to resist the Sui army guards.

The road was not wide, and although the baggage of a thousand people was not much, there were still twenty or thirty ox carts of rice, weapons, cooking utensils, camping tents, and so on.

Wooden wheels, potholes, and wheels that have fallen into them all require a lot of force to get out.

But fortunately, there was no enemy attack, and it was safe all the way. On this day, Chen Ping and his troops marched to the aid of horses, and a horse rushed to the south of the road, bringing two pieces of news.

Liu Fang of the Chinese army died of illness, and his subordinate officers and men stopped moving forward, and many of them suffered from swollen feet and did not return home for a long time, and many officers and men in the army complained, and more than a dozen people were beheaded for making trouble.

But the situation has not improved, Liu Fang has always had prestige in the army, and he was deeply respected by the sergeants, but he suddenly died of illness, which made it rumored among the sergeants that it was precisely because he had been in Linyi for a long time that he would be seriously ill and die if he contracted miasma.

Although the mood in the army was suppressed and more than a dozen people were beheaded, the army's mind changed, and the absence of a mutiny was to the extreme. At this time, no one dares to let the sergeant go south, otherwise it will lead to a mutiny, and he will not be able to bear the responsibility.

"I'm afraid things are not so simple, General Liu's guard, who has not returned to his hometown for a long time, is homesick, and went out at the end of last year, and he is already one year old. There are rumors in the army that the guards of the Yifu will be stationed in Linyi, and the return date is far away. In the past, with General Liu here, it was possible to suppress the homesickness in the army, so that no major incidents would occur, and there would be mutinies. After the herald left, Zhang Shanan said to Chen Ping, "But now General Liu suddenly died of illness, and it is rumored that because of entering Linyi, he contracted miasma. ”

Chen Ping nodded, this happened too unexpectedly, but if you think about it carefully, Liu Fang is old, and Lin Yi is far away from the Central Plains, so it is not necessary to be infected with miasma, but during the long-distance travel, he was infected with typhoid fever or something, and he died because of his age, there is a certain possibility.

"The number of sergeants of the Third Route Army, especially the guards led by General Liu, is the largest, with six or seven thousand, and now its guards are stagnant, and the battle must not be counted on. There are only 2,000 people left under the leadership of Yu Juluo, and then there are the guards of Liuhe Mansion led by General Zhou. If the enemy had known of General Liu's death, the situation might have been even worse. Chen Ping said.

Zhang Shan'an sighed and looked at Chen Ping with admiration: "Fortunately, the king of Linyi is really as you said, he really abandoned the city and fled." Although General Zhou was defeated and retreated, he failed to take the capital of Linyi in one go, but there was no owner in the city, and when Yujuluo led the army to come, the two armies would definitely be able to break the city. ”

Zhou Faxian's army was defeated, this is another piece of news.

Fan Zhi, the king of Linyi, also chose to flee this time, but left some of the soldiers in the capital. Zhou Faxian hurried all the way to the city, and was defeated by the defending enemy army with war elephants during the siege, killing and wounding nearly 100 people, and stationed five miles away from the city. (To be continued.) )