The northern Henan soldiers stationed in Phoenix City were withdrawn and replaced by three thousand thieves led by Bai Yuzhu! The atmosphere in the city suddenly changed a little. Half of the people in the city hid back in their homes, not daring to walk around the streets, and they looked through the cracks in the windows and door panels, and looked at the thieves patrolling the city, their eyes full of vigilance.

The reason is very simple, although Bai Yuzhu has become a thousand households in the imperial court, but after all, he used to be a big bandit leader, and the soldiers under his command were also rogues, even if everyone didn't say it, they felt unreliable in their hearts after all!

Bai Yuzhu was also quite distressed about this matter, but he couldn't help it! He couldn't care what others thought in their hearts, so he had to desperately restrain his subordinates, let them be low-key people, do things in a low-key manner, never bully the good people, don't walk around, and pass the conversation with their tails between their legs, so that the court would believe that they really repented.

It's easy to ruin the image, but it's very difficult to build an image, and Baizhu desperately wants to whitewash himself, but with little effect.

On this day, Baizhu Zhu patrolled the city again, accompanied by the Phoenix County Order!

This patrol of the city is not actually to check whether the enemy has come in to make trouble, but to check whether the soldiers under his command are making trouble! The three thousand Liukou are all his old brothers who came from Shaanxi, and he can't say how many of them have not changed their anger. After entering the city and stationing, these bandits caused trouble for him in three days, either this one smashed people's vegetable stalls, or the one who drank alcohol and didn't give money, and there was an old brother here who was jealous and injured a certain rich son, and there was another old brother who was slashing people on the street with a knife......

The county magistrate is also bitter in his heart, let this gang of thieves and ruffians continue to make trouble like this in the place under his jurisdiction, and he doesn't know what the county will become, but if this gang of thieves and ruffians leaves, in case Zhu Ba's thieves come again, who will he cry to? So he now gets up in the morning and runs to Bai Yuzhu's side to watch, and does not leave Bai Yuzhu's side until he sleeps at night...... It was clear that he wanted to stare at Bai Yuzhu and let him restrain his subordinates.

Today, the two of them are customary to patrol the city, staring wide-eyed to find out if there are any thieves on the street to destroy criminals, and after a while, they will arrest two people who eat overlord meals.

Just as he was scolding at the foam, suddenly a squire ran over, hugged the county order, and cried: "The county lord, you want to be the master for me...... Last night, Bai Yuzhu ...... No...... Dozens of soldiers under Bai Qianhu ran into my house, smashed many utensils, and injured my only son......"

The county magistrate stared: "Oh? You are...... Living two miles south of the city, Li Yuanwai in Lijia Village? ”

"The county lord is easy to remember the surname, it is the villain......" Li Yuanwai hurriedly said.

The county order was immediately on fire, he turned his head and said to Bai Yuzhu: "General Bai, it's just that your people are making trouble in the city, but now your hands are stretching out longer and longer, and they are all two miles outside the city!" Are you trying to turn my county upside down? ”

"This ...... How is this possible? Bai Yuzhu was slightly taken aback: "I have strictly ordered all the soldiers under my command not to leave the city, how can any soldiers run two miles south of the city?" ”

"Strict orders? Hum! The county magistrate was upset: "You have been strictly ordering soldiers not to make trouble in the city every day, why do I still see people messing around every day?" We just caught two people eating overlord meals. ”

Bai Yuzhu turned his head and asked Li Yuanwai, "What kind of person is the person who came to your house to make trouble?" Do you know who is the surname? ”

Li Yuanwai shook his head: "All of them are extremely rough and arrogant, full of gangsterism, they don't have common names, I don't know what their names are, I only heard from their conversation that there is a big guy called Wang Zongqi......"

"The general banner surnamed Wang?" Bai Yuzhu hurriedly turned his brain, recalling whether there was a general flag surnamed Wang in his army, here it needs to be briefly explained, the general flag is a small position among the soldiers, the imperial court set fifty soldiers as one flag, the head of these fifty soldiers, is called the general flag, which can be simply understood as: "the small leader who leads fifty soldiers".

In general, there are 20 general flags for 1,000 soldiers. But Bai Yuzhu's army is more special, although he is a thousand households, there are 3,000 soldiers under his command, which means that there are a total of sixty general banners. As the leader of a large army, it is impossible to know all sixty flags and remember their names clearly. Bai Yuzhu thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't figure out which birdman Wang Zongqi was!

"Give the order to go down and tell all the general flags in the army to roll over to me!" Bai Yuzhu roared angrily.

After a while, sixty general flags came, well, there were more than sixty, in fact, there were sixty-three in total, although it was claimed to be an army of three thousand, the actual number was more than three thousand one hundred and sixty, so the number of general flags was also three more.

Bai Yuzhu asked these general flags to stand in two rows, and then asked Li Yuanwai to recognize people: "You find out Wang Zongqi for me, and see that I don't break his dog's legs." ”

Li Yuanwai looked at Bai Yuzhu, and then at the county magistrate, with the support of these two people, he had a little confidence, so he looked at the faces of the sixty-three people one by one, and looked around: "Huh? There is no Wang Zongqi in this. ”

"None? Ha, that proves it wasn't my people who did it! "Bai Yuzhu is overjoyed.

"But...... Those people clearly have a Shaanxi * Western accent, whether they dress or behave, they are all ...... with thieves Cough...... All are the same as the officers and soldiers under your command. Li Yuanwai said: "Is there still a general flag that has not come?" ”

"It's all here!" Bai Yuzhu said.

"Then ......" Li Yuanwai was speechless.

"Look, I said it wasn't my people who did it." Bai Yuzhu's face was full of color.

The county magistrate next to him rolled his eyes, and said in a weird manner: "The mouth grows on others, you can say whatever you love as you like, if I go out to rob and beat soldiers, I will not report my real name, maybe it's just a small flag, maybe it's a hundred households, he casually said that he is Wang Zongqi, you just believe it?" ”

"This ......" Bai Yuzhu hesitated again, this may not be a surname, but a big one.

"Do you want to gather all three thousand of our army for you to recognize?" Bai Yuzhu turned his head and stared at Li Yuanwai.

"How is it possible to recognize that? Three thousand people, he looked at them face by face, and it took a day or two to see them all, and the bandits in Shaanxi * West all looked like each other, who could tell the difference? The county order stabbed in a strange way.

Bai Yuzhu was speechless for a while, and he said angrily: "Come on, pass on my order again, it is forbidden to go out of the city without permission, and the violator will ......" I wanted to say "The violator will be killed", but the old brother for many years did not say that he could be killed, so he had to change it to: "The violator of the order will be beaten with a hundred military sticks." ”

The order was passed down, and the soldiers also said that they would abide by it, but early the next morning, Bai Yuzhu was woken up by a rapid knock on the door, and the county commander stood at the door with an angry face: "Bai Yuzhu, the good soldiers under your command robbed two squires last night, and now everyone is looking for them." ”

"What? Two more families were robbed? Bai Yuzhu's surprise was really not light, the sleepy insects flew so much that they couldn't find it, he jumped up in anger, dressed neatly, ran to the city with the county order, gathered the soldiers, and scolded his head and face. After scolding, he also found two soldiers who were usually not very pleasing to the eye and came out and beat them randomly: "Say, who went out of the city last night?" ”

"We don't know!"

"Fuck it!" Bai Yuzhu was really angry: "Listen to Lao Tzu, who the fuck dares to go out of the city to rob, Lao Tzu grabbed him and cut his eggs." ”

Day 3 Morning......

"Damn, I robbed two more squires last night...... You sons of bitches, are you going to kill Lao Tzu? Bai Yuzhu was so angry that he jumped up and down, and after a while, he had no choice but to end the scene.

The county magistrate next to him couldn't stand it anymore: "General Bai, if you just lie angry at these thieves, no matter how much you do, it won't work, I have a plan to help you catch your subordinates who don't obey orders!" ”

"Oh?" Bai Yuzhu hurriedly asked for advice.

"The squires who have been robbed in the past few days are all in the south of the city, that is to say, this is called Wang Zongqi who opened the south gate, or went out over the south wall, tonight the two of us led the troops out of the city, ambushed a mile south of the city, and whoever led the troops out of the city was arrested! That must be Wang Zongqi, can't be wrong! "The prefectural commander has an idea.

"Lord County is really a clever plan, just do it!" Bai Yuzhu hurriedly responded.

That night, Bai Yuzhu ordered 300 of his henchmen and soldiers, took the county commander and dozens of his henchmen, opened the south gate of the city, and touched the grove outside the south of the city.

"Brother Zhu!" A scout dressed in black rushed to a deserted village two miles south of the city, and reported to Zhu Yuanzhang, who was waiting in the deserted village: "Bai Yuzhu is out of the city...... Brought five hundred people. ”

"This guy is finally out of town!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled faintly: "I thought he would go out of the city last night, but I didn't expect him to think of going out of the city to fight an ambush until today, and the reaction was really slow." ”

Anyway, didn't Zhu Yuanzhang attack Jiyuan? Why is it all of a sudden? In fact, needless to say, readers should be able to guess that the so-called attack on Jiyuan was just a false shot, allowing Xu Renjie to take 2,000 people over for a spin, but Zhu Yuanzhang himself stayed in the south of Phoenix City, letting Wang Er play the role of Wang Zongqi, and find one or two hometown gentry to attack every night.

After tossing for several days, Bai Yuzhu finally fell for it and went out of the city, and the next work was very easy to do!

Zhu Yuanzhang shouted in the deserted village, and after a while, Wang Er, Miao Mei, Xue Hongqi and others quietly walked to the north with an army dressed in black.

(To be continued)