"Nope! I can't join your copycat! Miao Mei shouted loudly: "You are a villain who even beats your own people!" ”

"Do you really think I'm going to hit my own people?" Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head: "If your brain is not completely broken, why don't you think about it carefully, are Wang Zuojiao and us all the way?" ”

This question, in fact, was thought about not long ago, when Miao Mei shook her head and left Wang Zuohang's army! So when Zhu Yuanzhang said this, Miao Mei froze.

"If we expose the uprising, in order to just burn, kill and loot, rob houses and houses, and be a rogue in the eyes of the court and the people, then Wang Zuohang has indeed done it." Zhu Yuanzhang sneered: "But if you want to do not be a rogue, but a righteous army for the heavens, so that the poor have clothes to wear, food to eat, and a house to live in, then Wang Zuohang and what you think are not the same thing at all!" ”

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished saying this paragraph, he lowered his face and said: "I did beat Wang Zuohang, but I didn't beat my own people!" But I treat you as my own, so if you are in trouble, I will save you, and I will save my brother who is in trouble with you. As for Wang Zuohang, he can do whatever he likes. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's words were so loud that Miao Mei couldn't refute half a sentence, and the more than 200 scarred rogues around him also shouted together at this time: "That's right...... We're not going to be robbers who kill people and set fires...... We just want to live, to live ourselves, and to live the folks around us...... We want to have food, clothing, and a place to live...... Let's not kill people and set fires...... Don't wander around either...... Brother Miao Mei, please nod, let's go to Zhu Baba Brother's cottage together! ”

Miao Mei sighed deeply and lowered her stubborn head: "Zhu Ba...... Eldest brother! ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone around laughed, Zhu Yuanzhang showed a gentle smile, and the more than 200 rogues were a relaxed smile when they finally found a way out.

"Generalissimo, you go and arrange it, treat Miao Mei and her brothers, take some food out, and cook a full meal for everyone to eat, so that they can eat enough and have the strength to go back to the mountain, isn't there a stream at the bottom of this riverbed?" Just get water to cook! Zhu Yuanzhang commanded casually.

"Yes!"

Zhu Yuanzhang sent half of the people to sentry, and the other half to take care of Miao Mei and the others. The soldiers took out the wound medicine from the medicine bag they carried with them and treated Miao Mei and the others.

When Zhu Yuanzhang's cottage was just built, there was a shortage of medical treatment, Zhang Yingxian's stomach was wounded, but there was no medicine to treat it, but now it is not what it used to be, through a good relationship with Baishui City, Zhu Yuanzhang can buy many necessary things, such as medicine, which is necessary for marching and fighting, of course, is prepared a lot. In particular, there are all kinds of drugs for internal and external injuries, but the military doctors still do not have them, and in the same sentence, the doctors have no reason to join the Liukou Army.

Fortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang himself knows a lot of emergency treatment methods for external and internal injuries, and he teaches the soldiers what he understands, and the soldiers teach each other a little bit of ordinary injuries.

Everyone took Miao Mei and his injured brothers aside and helped them apply medicine to their wounds and treat them briefly. Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang's army was not only neat and tidy, but also that each soldier also carried wound medicine with him, Miao Mei's brothers couldn't help but show envy.

The Flying Mountain Tiger came to the middle of the soldiers of the old team and asked with a smile: "You have a lot of things on you, including food, medicine, and weapons...... Our rebels are no match for you. ”

The big red wolf also nodded next to him and said, "You still have a mandarin duck battle jacket to wear, it's really an exaggeration." ”

The soldiers of the old team suddenly laughed: "Actually, we didn't have anything at first!" We are the first team to follow Zhu Buggy's rebellion, and we have followed Zhu Bugling since he was still in charge of the Ma family, and no one knows better than us how difficult it was at the beginning...... At that time, our weapons were sharpened sticks...... He was also wearing tattered linen clothes...... There is no medicine to heal the wounded! But after our hard work in the past few years, we now have caves to live in, our families have our own fields, and we have wives and children...... Haha, what do you want! I tell you, in a few years, I will be able to save a lot of possessions, and maybe I will be able to raise a maid to serve me. ”

"What?" The Flying Mountain Tiger and the Big Red Wolf were shocked: "You...... Just a small soldier, can you still afford a maid? ”

"Cut! You don't understand this, do you? The first group of brothers who went up the mountain with Zhu Bugs, which one of them didn't have a good time? Zhu Baba said, in the future, our family business will be bigger, and we will capture the city of the imperial court, and he will make it an official for us. ”

The Flying Mountain Tiger and the Big Red Wolf were speechless for a while!

At this time, there were still many soldiers burying pots to make rice, taking water from the low stream on the riverbed, setting up the big iron pot brought by the army, next to the dry forest, firewood is not a problem, the soldiers poured millet into the pot, added water, the big iron pot cooked porridge, the aroma of rice soon wafted, tempting Miao Mei's subordinates to drool for a long time.

The Flying Mountain Tiger and the Big Red Wolf couldn't help but ask again: "Where did you get so much food from in this great drought year?" ”

"We didn't rob it, we collected taxes!" The soldiers replied with a smile: "Zhu Bugle told us that if we kill people, set fire to and rob, we can rob the white water to the ground once we rob it, and we will never get anything there in the future." So let's not rob, kill, and set fires, we go door-to-door, looking for local rich families to collect taxes, and they don't have to pay taxes to the court anyway, so why don't they pay us anyway...... They have a solid family business, and as long as they take out a dime of money to pay taxes, it will not be a problem to feed the thousands of us. ”

Miao Mei, who was wrapped up in his wounds, happened to hear this, and he couldn't help but sigh: "No wonder when we came to Baishui, Zhu Bugling jumped out and repelled us, it turned out to be to keep the territory of tax collection...... No wonder...... Alas...... I finally know now that it's not Brother Zhu who is wrong, it's Brother Wang Zuohang! ”

When the rice was cooked, the soldiers took out earthen bowls and spooned rice for Miao Mei's brothers to eat, and this group of outlaws took the meal, and for a while they couldn't believe that they could eat with a bowl of rice...... They wandered for a long time, robbing village after village, and township after township, but what they robbed was always not enough to support their growing team. Because their troops did not have a fundamental solution to the supply problem, they always lived in the middle of hunger and cold.

"There's something to eat!" One soldier couldn't help but cry: "I haven't eaten with a bowl in a fucking year?" ”

"Two years, one month, seven days!" There was a soldier next to him who seemed to be his countryman, who had joined Wang Zuo's army, so he could tell exactly how long his companion hadn't touched the bowl: "Don't fucking cry, isn't it just a bowl of rice...... Hey? I'm in tears......"

"I ...... Can I eat another bowl? A man finished the rice in the bowl in two bites, looked at the cauldron with teary eyes, and was a little embarrassed to speak.

"Let's eat!" Zhu Yuanzhang walked up to him and patted him on the shoulder: "Today is very kind, the amount is large, there is no limit to how much you eat, and when you get to the cottage, you won't be able to do it...... At that time, there will be a certain amount of food for each person, and only those who have made meritorious contributions can eat more. ”

"I see?" The man said loudly: "Then I will definitely show you countless military exploits!" ”

"Well, I'm looking forward to your performance!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and nodded, and walked past him.

He took the opportunity to put the meal around, and took two turns in the middle of Miao Mei and the more than two hundred men, and inadvertently did a lot of things, the first thing was to count the heads, the total number of these men was two hundred and forty-two, plus Miao Mei, Flying Mountain Tiger, and Big Red Wolf, the three leader-level figures, that is, two hundred and forty-five people.

All young adults, all outlaws! It can be seen from their eyes that they are all unruly and unruly men. It's right to think about it, Wang Zuojiao originally had an army of 8,000, and with such a large personnel base, even if it was uneven, it could screen out hundreds of real men!

These men are people who would rather go to a dead end than wag their tails to the court and beg for mercy, they are absolutely trustworthy, as long as Zhu Yuanzhang is given some time, they will definitely be able to train them into a real elite soldier, and they will not be worse than their old first and second teams.

The second thing to do is to talk to them, comfort them, give them some encouragement, let them see their faces and see who their new leader is.

This is actually a very important thing, in ancient times, there were many bad armies, and the generals did not know the soldiers, and the soldiers did not know the generals. The low-ranking soldiers don't even know the appearance of the general, and only listen to the words of their direct heads, which is a very dangerous thing for an army, because in this case, the general has no influence on the low-level soldiers. If a general defects, he will bring up an army to follow him.

But if the lowest-ranking soldier knows exactly who he is fighting for, and who his commander-in-chief is, and knows this matter clearly, it will make the whole army like an arm, and there will be no phenomenon of mountains and mountains.

Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately showed his face in front of more than 200 people, chatted with a considerable number of them for a few days, and said a few words of encouragement to them, so that they could figure out that Zhu Ba is the eldest brother in the future, and in doing so, he was invisibly taking away the loyalty of Miao Mei's subordinates, but a rough man like Miao Mei didn't notice this kind of thing at all.

After exposing his face, the men had finished eating, and wrapped the Han, Zhu Yuanzhang found a stone and stood up, and commanded loudly: "More than two hundred new brothers, from today onwards, you will be divided into two teams, called the new seventeenth team, the new eighteenth team, with the Feishan Tiger as the captain of the seventeenth team, and the big red wolf as the captain of the eighteenth team, as for Miao Mei, she will follow me to deal with the major affairs of the cottage, and will not directly command you...... This is a military order, and there is no room for dissent! ”

"Good!" The newcomers responded in unison, they didn't understand how subtle Zhu Yuanzhang's arrangement was, he took away Miao Mei's command, but left the Flying Mountain Tiger and the Big Red Wolf as captains, so that Miao Mei and they didn't feel his purpose at all.

In short, for them, a new chapter in their lives will be opened!