Chapter 11: Conquering Xianyou

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Lu Guangfu, who reacted, hurriedly ordered, and the cavalry force of 500 \ people rushed forward like a fly, and the morale of the cavalry was unprecedentedly high...... Nonsense, it's no wonder if you see such a "miracle" like a different phase.

In fact, the cavalry that charged behind General Lu couldn't see the condition of the city wall at all, and the dust and smoke in the sky covered the radius of more than ten meters of the explosion. But they still chose to believe in General Lu.

As they got closer to the walls and looked more closely, they became more and more shocked. Everywhere there were bombed bricks, earth and stones, and occasionally a human corpse or two. And when they came to the city wall, they were even more stunned, the original tall city wall has long ceased to exist, and it can be clearly seen that a large pit with a diameter of more than 10 meters has been blown out of the ground, and then this big pit has been filled by the masonry stirred up by the explosion. By now, the county town in front of us can be declared lost—when the number of defenders is far less than the number of people besieging it, the day of destruction is when the city is broken.

When Lü Guangfu led his subordinates to open the city gate and run towards the city, he found that the surrounding Yuan troops did not seem to notice them, and even shouted for them to hold their heads and squat down without any response, and occasionally some people who resisted were also unorganized. In fact, it was because they were so close to the city wall that their eardrums were shattered by the sound waves of the explosion and they lost their hearing. But Lu Guangfu didn't know, he thought that it was all because the military advisor had the "divine power" of Buddhism and Taoism, so he admired the military advisor even more.

As Li Da's infantry phalanx entered the city, everything became unsuspenseful. With their previous experience, Li Da and Lu Guangfu's guards immediately put on red armbands and turned into "community aunts" in a second to investigate and deal with military violations. When he was resting in Anxi County, Zhang Guanghua issued a simple military rule, the first point was not to disturb the people, the second was not to rape and plunder, and the third point was not to kill prisoners indiscriminately. And this simple military regulation became the blueprint for the military court charter of the later imperial team.

With his previous experience in Anxi County, Zhang Guanghua did not personally participate in the separation of administration and justice and the fight against local tyrants in the form of public trials, and handed them over to the staff team he recruited in Anxi to complete, and he only put forward one suggestion: in the future, the taxes of the people in the county should be halved.

When the matter was settled, Zhang Guanghua, Li Da, Lu Guangfu, and the soldiers' representatives counted the gains of this battle. All the rewards and punishments were completed, and the remaining property was counted and stored by Zhang Guanghua and handed over to the two groups of people to be supervised separately and independently, and when these materials needed to be transferred, the army leader and the two responsible persons who stayed were required to keep separate accounts, and all the bookkeeping was done in his new bookkeeping method.

Originally, everything went quite smoothly, but what made Zhang Guanghua helpless was that General Li still withheld hundreds of taels of gold before the property was put into the treasury and distributed it to himself and other senior generals. Zhang Guanghua also got 50 taels (several catties of gold, the author is excited when I think about it). There are some things that he really can't change now, so he can only accept them helplessly. It seems that it is time to elevate the status of public opinion.

"Do you want to get the newspaper out?" Zhang Guanghua thought to himself.

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After all this, it was evening.

Early the next morning, Li Da dragged Lu Guangfu to abandon Zhang Guanghua and put up notices everywhere to carry out his recruitment plan. The wages they offered were completely zero, but there was a condition that people couldn't refuse, they had enough food and meat, and there was a lot of silver after the siege.

Zhang Guanghua did not mix these with them, but went to recruit talents for his chamber of commerce.

"Modernization is really a long way to go!" After only recruiting a few Taoist priests, alchemists, potters and warlocks, Zhang Guanghua was embarrassed again, and he didn't know what the role of these people was, so he would take it first.

By the time the recruitment was completed, it was already three or four o'clock in the afternoon. Zhang Guanghua finally had time to sit in the main hall and drink tea. Li Da and Lu Guangfu both lived in the barracks according to their previous habits, and Zhang Guanghua specially bought the courtyard of an official whose house was raided because of the need to open a chamber of commerce.

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In the evening, the moon was dark and the wind was high, the crescent moon was surrounded by clouds, the earth was sleeping in the dark, and a gust of wind passed, and the whispering of sparse branches and leaves was heard. A ray of candlelight came out from the depths of Li Jun's camp, in a tent that had been lifted by the wind.

"Brother Lu, this county is fought hard by our soldiers, but it is not us who enjoys the blessings! There are so many riches in the county government and so many big families in the county, what does it have to do with us? All of them were occupied by the monk surnamed Zhang! Qin Zhongyi took the wine glass and drank it fiercely.

"What Brother Qin said is exact! He lived in the Yin Guan's mansion that was raided, but we soldiers still had to live in tents. How can there be such a reason! Jiang Youbing was also indignant.

Long Taoding even got up from the table, pulled out his sword, slammed it on the table, gritted his teeth and said, "It's not these that are terrible!" Whose team is our Li Lu army? It's General Lee's! But what is the situation now, the army is under the command of Monk Zhang, and the county seat is also decided by Monk Zhang. What else do we call Li Lu Dajun, just call it Zhang Jiajun! ”

Qin Zhongyi also echoed: "If we defeat the Yuan army and break through the capital, then this world is not the world of his Zhang family, then how can we, outsiders, still have a way to live!" He is now so eager to cultivate his own power, his ambition is definitely not small! ”

Although Long Taoding deliberately lowered his voice, everyone still felt the strong hatred in his heart.

"It's not going to work like this, it's time for us to figure out a way." At this time, Lu Renjia touched his beard, and finally spoke: "We might as well ...... like this"

"That's wonderful!" Everyone was overjoyed and gathered together to discuss the details.

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Early the next morning, when Zhang Guanghua yawned and tied his belt to the living room, he found that hot porridge and a few plates of pickles were already on the table.

"Hey, who is so kind that he actually made me breakfast himself. But I can't eat such a big pot of porridge alone. "In the past, Zhang Guanghua used to eat in the barracks, but today he couldn't help but feel curious when he saw that there was suddenly an extra table of food on the table.

"Who told you to eat now!" Just as he picked up his chopsticks and was about to eat, a crisp voice interrupted him. He looked up and saw Lu Zhen coming over with two plates of side dishes.

"You know what you eat." Lu Zhen knocked off his hands holding chopsticks and continued: "This is for everyone, and we will eat together when I call them over." After saying that, she went out to call Zhang Guanghua's subordinates.

"Tsk, tsk, I didn't expect that although Lu Zhen is petite, she is very well developed." Looking at Lu Zhen's back as he turned away, Zhang Guanghua couldn't help but reveal his perverted nature again.

"It's a pity that it's still a child. But it's easy to push down with a small body.,Lori isn't bad.。 Wasn't a sixteen-year-old girl in ancient times the age to start a family, should I do it? Thinking about it, Zhang Guanghua didn't even notice the drooling from the corner of his mouth.

Within a few minutes, Zhang Guanghua's subordinates had all arrived, but after taking a closer look, he found that there seemed to be a few people missing, so he asked Lu Zhen: "Yishan, have they not arrived yet?" ”

"My brother, leave them alone, let's eat first. When I went, they were standing there with a torch in their hands, and he said that when they arrived, they would go directly to the camp to eat. ”

Hearing Lu Zhen say this, Zhang Guanghua remembered that he had formulated a daily military training plan for them, and training arm strength with a gun was also part of the plan, and it seemed that Lu Yishan, the captain, was still quite responsible.

"What about Li Xinlan?"

"Her grandfather came over today, and she went to accompany his grandfather." Lu Zhen was very clear about everyone's movements, and immediately replied.

Zhang Guanghua didn't care so much about Li Xinlan's temporary departure, he thought about his more and more subordinates, whether he wanted to have some humanized management.

"It's been hard for everyone to train with themselves during this time, should I give them a vacation?" Zhang Guanghua said secretly in his heart.

Thinking of this, he said to Lu Zhen: "You go and tell them, I will give them a holiday today, by the way, just say that it is my order." After speaking, he looked at the newly recruited people at the table and continued: "Everyone too, I will give you a day off and continue to work tomorrow." ”

"Long live the military advisor!" The crowd was immediately overjoyed.

After breakfast, everyone scattered and moved freely. Zhang Guanghua also decided to go to the county seat.

Hearing that Zhang Guanghua was going shopping, Lu Zhen also became interested and pulled her brother to go with her. So the three of them took the silver two and came to Gongqiaotou Street, a snack street in Xianyou.

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The sun is rising, the arch bridgehead, a famous commercial alley in Xianyou County, Zhang Guanghua and his party are wandering aimlessly on the road.

The whole alley is two or three hundred meters long, and the bluestone paved road is about two carriages wide, but it still seems very crowded. Most of the shops on both sides are two-storey buildings with one or two facades, the walls on the left and right sides of the small building are made of red bricks or blue bricks, but the front and rear walls and the floor on the second floor are wooden structures, and the roofs are all uniform blue-gray tiles. Under the eaves in front of the shop, a banner with the name of the store on it hangs.

At the end of the alley, there are mostly shops selling firewood, rice, oil, salt and cotton cloth, while at the end of the alley are all butcher shops, vegetable shops, blacksmith shops, and in the middle of the alley are restaurants, jewelry shops, pawn shops, garment shops, coffin shops and other shops. In front of the shop are all kinds of vendors selling melon seeds, peanuts, rock sugar gourds, Tang Ren'er, dog skin plasters, and fortune tellers, all of whom run their own stalls. The whole alley exudes an antique charm from the inside out.

Zhang Guanghua, like everyone else, was dressed in a slanted shirt, cotton pants and long cotton boots, and was now browsing the shops with great interest. And the two brothers and sisters of the Lu family also had a rock sugar gourd in their hands, and they followed excitedly behind.

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1. If you want to understand the structure of the ancient county city wall, you can refer to the "Shexian Ancient City", the city wall is about two or three stories high, the masonry structure, and the blasting force required to blow up the city wall and blow up the steel-concrete structure of the building should be about the same.