After visiting Baishui City, Xue Hongqi's thoughts were greatly impacted, and she couldn't understand or agree with some of Zhu Yuanzhang's practices, but most of the methods opened her eyes and gained a lot. Especially the bustling streets, the radiant pedestrians, is a grand scene she has not seen for a long time.

Because the drought has lasted for many years, although last year and this year are still good years, but the drought in the previous years has exhausted the people's savings, coupled with the government's urging and exploitation, many people can't pay taxes, so where she has been before, almost everyone she sees is sad and helpless.

But here it is different, there is no expression of bitterness and hatred on people's faces, everyone is full of hope for life, and it is clear that they all feel that tomorrow will be better.

In fact, the people really don't ask for much, they just want to live, in the year of the great drought, Zhu Yuanzhang's sentence "tax exemption this year" can give them great courage, so that their bodies are full of yearning for a happy life in the future.

Of course, this tax exemption also caused the economy of Zhu Yuanzhang's army to be very poor, so it was necessary to send Xu Renjie and Leng Feng to Luochuan and Pucheng, the two suburbs of the county that had not yet been conquered, to collect "protection money" from the squires, and to feed the poor in Baishui and Chengcheng with the taxes of the rich in all the surrounding counties, as well as Zhu Yuanzhang's army. This is not a long-term solution, it can only be regarded as a measure of rights and interests, to ensure that the poor can survive the disaster year, and when the disaster year passes, Zhu Yuanzhang must collect taxes.

In short, Xue Hongqi didn't understand these details, she only understood that the people of this place lived happily! This is enough, so that she admires Zhu Yuanzhang so much.

"It really deserves to be the eighth brother of Baishui Zhu, and it is indeed an example of our Shaanxi * Western Righteous Army!" Xue Hongqi was not saying kind words: "When I take Dali, I will come to Brother Zhu Ba to learn from the scriptures and learn more." ”

"You're always welcome!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled, he put Xue Hongqi in Dali, not only to let her guard the south gate, but also to strengthen contact and prepare for the annexation of her in the future. In short, this trip to welcome her into Whitewater City for a visit, there is also a deliberate taste of showing her strength in it, to absorb a horse thief team that advocates freedom and does not want to be restrained, it is necessary to slowly soak through one nail and one eye.

After sending Xue Hongqi out of Baishui, he went east and arrived in Chengcheng, although it is not as prosperous as Baishui, but it also has a new atmosphere, and Xue Hongqi was amazed.

traveled all the way south, until Xue Hongqi and his men were sent to the border line between Dali and Chengcheng, Zhu Yuanzhang and the others stopped.

"Sister Xue Hongqi, there is Da Li's territory ahead, you just need to keep going straight to the south, and you can go to Da Li City." Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately asked: "If you need me to send troops to help you, you just need to say it, and my brother here will help you attack the city." ”

He obviously stopped, and told Xue Hongqi how to go, and then asked if people wanted to help, the meaning in this language was clearly that he didn't want to help, although Xue Hongqi was not smart, but he still understood this kind of human accident. Zhu Yuanzhang asked her to join forces, but she refused, people did not directly annex her, but introduced the place to her as a neighbor, which is already regarded as a first-class righteousness in the rivers and lakes, if she still dares to expect Huanglong Cottage to send troops to help her build a territory in this case, it is too unavoidable to be a person.

Xue Hongqi hugged his fists and said: "The territory that the little sister wants to fight by herself, so I don't have to worry about Brother Zhu." ”

"Hmm!" Zhu Yuanzhang immediately nodded in agreement, and didn't say anything like "be sure to let me help you", he just hugged his fists and said: "If you encounter difficulties in attacking Dali, you must come back to me for help, I don't want you to leave recklessly after the failure of the siege, that will not be good for us and each other." ”

"Little sister saves!" Xue Hongqi reined in the horse, raised a whip, and the war horse rushed out at once, two hundred horse thieves followed, the red clothes were blown by the wind, and immediately hunted and floated, and her crisp voice came from the wind: "The green mountains do not change, the green water flows forever, we will have a period in the future!" ”

"Big sister, don't go so fast, wait for us!" A city and a cloud hurriedly followed with an infantry team, and a large group of rabble spread all over the mountains and went towards Dali City in the south.

When Xue Hongqi's department walked away, Zhu Yuanzhang turned around, beckoned, summoned Xu Renjie and Desperate San Lang to the front, and asked in a low voice: "Report to me again, how is the situation of the officers and soldiers in Dali?" ”

Xu Renjie and Desperate Saburo glanced at each other, and after a slight eye contact, Desperate Saburo took the initiative to retreat and let Xu Renjie speak. He said triumphantly to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Brother Zhu, Dali is close to Tongguan, known as the important town of Sanfu, the officers and soldiers attach great importance to this county, since we made trouble in Huanglong Mountain in the past few years, the officers and soldiers have been strengthening the defense of Dali, reorganizing several guards in the county, and filling up the shortage of soldiers...... Xue Hongqi's troops are so spread all over the mountains and fields, and they enter with their teeth and claws, which will definitely immediately arouse the vigilance of the officers and soldiers, and it is impossible for her to touch the city without being discovered. ”

"Hmm...... In other words, when she walked to the foot of Dali City, all the guards had already shrunk into the city, waiting for her to attack! Zhu Yuanzhang chuckled: "How many soldiers?" ”

Xu Renjie said seriously: "Of the five hundred guards, one hundred of them should belong to the level of strong family soldiers, plus the squires will gather about a thousand village warriors!" The total strength of the officers and men may be about fifteen hundred, and it should be easy for such a force to rely on the city walls to defend a rabble of 4,000 men. ”

"Hmm!" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Very good, let Xue Hongqi taste the taste of defeat first." I took Wang Er, Miao Mei and other brothers back to Baishui first. Generalissimo, you stay in Chengcheng, and after Xue Hongqi retreats from defeat, you will come forward to help her,"

Xu Renjie knew that this was the meaning of Zhu Yuanzhang's full authority to appoint him to fight the battle of Dali, and he was immediately overjoyed: "Brother Zhu, how many troops do you give me?" ”

"Don't give any of them!"

"Huh?" Xu Renjie was shocked: "Don't give me any of them, how can I fight Dali?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice: "Why mobilize our soldiers to help others fight for territory?" Wasting military rations, and losing brothers in vain, we don't do such a loss, so ...... You go to help Xue Hongqi alone! ”

"Wow, Brother Zhu, I'm not a monster like Wang Er!" Xu Renjie Khan said: "I can't win a single soldier against the enemy, so you only send me alone to attack the city...... This ......"

"Who said you're alone?" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "Aren't Xue Hongqi's soldiers soldiers?" Why don't you use her soldiers to fight this battle, and give me more brains...... You handled Luochuan's matter very stupidly this time, and it almost turned into a three-way war...... It's because the brain hasn't been used for too long and is not flexible enough. The attack on Dali will be your test, if you don't do it well enough this time, I will let Brother Leng Feng take over all the work in your hands in the future......"

"Ah......" Xu Renjie was stunned for a moment, it turned out that Luo Chuan's thing was not good enough, which made Zhu Bugs angry, no wonder, one hundred and eight thousand taels of such a stupid lie, I should be able to see through it, Zhu Baba was a little disappointed in me, so this time I used Dali to test me, and I must not let Luo Chuan's stupid thing happen again, otherwise my military power will be snatched away by the cold wind guy.

Xu Renjie is a complete military fan, if he is not allowed to fight in the future, it is better to call him to die, he suddenly became nervous, and quickly turned his brain, thinking about how he would use a group of people to attack Dali City after Xue Hongqi was defeated, this thought, he was fascinated...... Until Zhu Yuanzhang, Wang Er and others disappeared on the horizon in the northwest direction, he was still thinking hard.

Desperate Saburo walked over, patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Let's go, you have to nest with me in Chengcheng for a while." ”

Xu Renjie woke up and smiled embarrassedly: "It turned out to be Brother San Lang, oops, every time I let you see my troubled appearance!" ”

Desperately Saburo laughed: "What kind of stupid thing are you talking about, didn't you see it when I was embarrassed?" ”

The two of them were talking about Du Wenhuan's attack on Huanglong Mountain, and the two of them were responsible for defending the No. 3 sub-village, but both of them were bombarded by the Shenji Battalion and fled, but fortunately, the defeat was not criticized by Zhu Bugs, but was entrusted with a heavy task. It is precisely because of this battle that a relatively deep friendship has been formed between the two.

"Let's go, go to my mansion in Chengcheng for two days, and I'll invite you to drink!" Desperately, San Lang pulled Xu Renjie and left.

"I don't have time to drink now, I have to think carefully about how to break the city." Xu Renjie picked his head.

"This kind of thing, when you're drunk, you think of it."

"Don't coax me, when you're drunk, you'll only fall asleep, where can you still think about strategies."

"Oh, haven't you read a lot of military books? Thirty-six strategies, Sun Tzu's Art of War or something, all of them are taken out and used, and it is not a trivial matter to be in Dalicheng? ”

"I said Brother San Lang, those military books are all fools...... It's all ancient examples, and there is no suitable one to use now! Xu Renjie desperately picked his head: "To plan this thing, we must combine our own actual situation and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy and the enemy...... Oops, anyway, the trouble is dead. ”

"Friend or foe? I'll help you analyze this! Saburo Desperately laughed and said, "The enemy is officers and soldiers, there is a city, and there are 1,500 soldiers." Well, four thousand rabble, and a rice merchant master, hahaha......"

"Shh......h I can't say anything about being a rice merchant! Xu Renjie hurriedly covered the mouth of the desperate Saburo.

While the two were fighting, they reined in and returned to the city, and poor Xu Renjie was full of ......

(To be continued)