"Qianhu, that kid ran away, killed two of our brothers, and injured three." The grizzled Ding Keze said angrily with the lacquered helmet in his hand, and spat heavily on the ground after speaking.

There was a little white phlegm bubbling in the cold weather, and soon a faint fishy smell was emitted.

Next to him, an abbot wearing an earthy gray and yellow robe and two gray-robed monks hurriedly bowed their heads, folded their hands and recited Amitabha.

Everyone twisted their eyebrows, Ding Keze blushed a little when he saw it, twisted it vigorously with the soles of his boots, and scratched it around a few times, until the dirty hair in that place stopped.

Chu Suifeng, who was dressed in military uniform, hummed expressionlessly and agreed, and the five fingers of his right hand unconsciously shook the dark purple sword hilt hanging from his waist.

They are looking out from the Wild Goose Pagoda at the moment, which is the highest point in the city and the best lookout point, so it has been arranged in the style of a lookout platform by successive generations, and all the items needed in it are readily available.

The original eighteen arhats and unknown bhikshunis on the walls are still painted in color, but they are a little dull and faded over the years, and when they are combined with the new weapons next to them, the bow and arrow, make people feel an indescribable sense of disobedience.

Just now, Chu Suifeng talked to the abbot, and the other party told him that this tower was built in the first year of Zhiping in the Southern Song Dynasty (1064 AD).

The tower is a pavilion-type thirteen-storey planar octagonal brick tower, the bottom floor of the tower is 23 meters long from east to west, 22 meters long from north to south, and more than 40 meters high.

The wild goose pagoda has four gates, you can climb to the top when you enter the north gate, and there is a stone statue of the goddess in the south gate.

The tower contains five Northern Song Dynasty carved copies of the "Lotus Sutra of the Mystic Law", a manuscript of the "Dharani Sutra", a delicate small silver pagoda and a stone letter (coffin).

The small silver pagoda is made of silver flakes smashed together, with a beautiful shape and exquisite clarity. There is water in the stone letter, and there are silver flake boats floating on the water, and there are relics in the water.

Looking down on the whole city of Shen County from here is very clear, the streets in the city are vertical and horizontal, the buildings are staggered, the Confucian Temple, the City God Temple, the Relic Temple, the Zilu Academy, the ruins of the Qinhuang Causeway, the Dianjiangtai, the Iron Bell of the Jin Dynasty, and the County Yatang are piled on the ground like toy building blocks.

The streets are densely packed with small black dots, like ants carrying food in the grass.

There were also people walking back and forth on the city walls in the east, west, north and south, and there were people checking several city gates, and Chu Suifeng knew that it was Wu Shiyi who led people to inspect the city defense.

There was a long queue outside the city, and it was the refugees who were entering the city.

After they entered the city last night, they pulled up the drawbridges around it, for the simple reason that they were afraid that the enemy would take advantage of the opportunity to sneak in.

Today, Chu Suifeng assigned tasks to these people early in the morning, Wu Shiyi was responsible for city defense patrols, Xie Qian was responsible for collecting wounded soldiers and recruiting militiamen, and Qi Guiya Ma San was responsible for collecting logistics equipment such as food, materials, weapons, etc.

Yi Bangcai didn't sleep all night because he took someone to check last night, so he was allowed to rest all morning.

Ding Keze led Liu Shaoyi and other personal soldiers to be responsible for passing his password to Xie Qian and them at any time.

Liu Shaowu left and went back to pull people.

Liu Shaowu has his own abacus, Yuyuan has been in short supply of food and materials recently, and the food and drink of the three or four thousand brothers who came here have been settled.

However, Chu Suifeng asked him to do a favor, a big favor.

At first, he was reluctant, but then somehow let his younger brother Liu Shaoyi know, and the other party directly used a knife to his neck.

Do you want to do it? If you don't do it, you will hack him.

made Liu Shaowu hate in his heart!

How could I have such a stupid pig brother?

After thinking about it, it's better to agree to come down first, and then take a step at a time.

Chu Suifeng looked at Liu Shaowu's group of people who were getting farther and farther away, and the corners of his mouth moved slightly, he needed the other party's help, although the conditions proposed by the other party were harsh.

100,000 taels of silver, 2,000 stone of polished rice, and the imperial court must order a pardon for all their crimes, and appoint the other party to the position of five thousand households.

can only agree, now he has no strength to bargain.

1,000 horse thieves, 3,000 mountain bandits.

These are all bandits with rich combat experience, stronger than the people they are recruiting, and even the original soldiers of the Qianhu Institute in Shen County.

A cold wind struck, and Chu subconsciously tightened his helmet collar with the wind, and there was a slight sound of chain mail on his body.

At this time, a soldier came up from downstairs, holding Liu Shaoyi's ear and saying a few words, and the latter hurriedly went to Ding Keze's side and muttered for a while.

Ding Keze straightened the copper nail cotton armor on his body and came to Chu Suifeng's side, bowed down and said.

"Thousands of households, there are a lot of strong people who are soldiers, and now there are more than a thousand people, Xie Qian sent someone to ask if he could recruit them?"

Chu Suifeng's body trembled slightly after hearing this, and he gritted his fine white teeth and squeezed out a sentence heavily.

"Move! How many moves can be made. ”

Ding Keze paused for a moment, wanted to speak, looked at the expression on Chu Suifeng's face, and gave up again, turned around and beckoned Liu Shaoyi to instruct.

"Thousands of households say how many tricks there are! Don't, don't let him go. Shaoyi, you go in person. ”

Chu Suifeng heard the conversation between Ding Keze and the others, his body still didn't move, but the expression on his face kept changing.

No, he lacks everything now.

If there are more soldiers, there will be not enough food, weapons and equipment, and the above will be blamed if they know it, but he must grit his teeth and recruit this soldier.

He was determined to participate in the battle of Licheng, regardless of whether Liu Zeqing gave an order or not, leaving hundreds of old and weak to defend the city, and the rest were all with him.

Chu Suifeng's eyes flashed again when he thought of this, after Licheng was besieged, Liu Zeqing would definitely send him to death.

The other party arranges in this way, not only to get rid of the crime of not saving death, but also to take the opportunity to get rid of himself.

Yes, the other party will definitely arrange it so.

As for Shen County, it depends on whether the history books are lying, according to history, the Qing soldiers beat Shen County when they returned to the army.

Will the conscription recruit some historical celebrities? Chu Suifeng suddenly had a thought.

In 1639, there was a three-year drought in Shandong and famine, after which Liang Min, a native of Fanxian County, and Ren Qi and Zhang Qi, a native of Puzhou, organized a massive Yuyuan Army uprising.

Will they be recruited?

So Chu turned around with the wind and bowed to the abbot.

"Old abbot, I'm bothered. I took my leave under official duties. ”

After saying that, he turned around and left, Ding Keze saw a wave and several guards hurriedly followed.

The abbot put his hands together in his mouth, and the two monks behind him hurriedly sent Chu Suifeng and the others away.

Chu Suifeng stopped when he went down the stairs, and looked back at the other party.

The other party is not tall, bloated, about sixty or seventy years old, born with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and a rich face, which is amiable.

Coupled with the high evaluation and prophecy given to Chu Suifeng by the other party before, Chu Suifeng was full of respect and favor for this person.

According to the abbot himself, his name was Master Gu Si, who entered the temple at the age of fifteen and studied under the Zen master Hongren of Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou, and co-wrote the "Five Religions".

After the death of Zen Master Hongren, at the age of 25, he and his younger brother Gude monk went to various places to place orders, and opened altars in Wuxi, Suzhou and other places.

At the age of thirty-eight, he returned to Shen County to become an abbot, and has presided over the temple for nearly 30 years.

After nodding at the other party, Chu no longer hesitated, and led a group of people to stride downstairs.

The abbot waited for Chu to go with the wind, and then raised his head and slowly opened his mouth.

"This person is gifted, not a person in the world, and now he is in the world, which is the blessing of my great wisdom!"