The gate of the county seat of Linxian County is closed, there are many lanterns hanging at the head of the city, and there are many young people in the city on the watch. Outside the city, there were sparks everywhere, and tens of thousands of displaced people camped on both sides of the river, boiling water for cooking.

Here is one of the thirty-six battalions of the sweeping king, he and the eight kings are the most likely, so the two often walk together, after breaking the smooth, the two temporarily divided the troops, and the sweeping king came to Lin County first. What he is best at is looting, and he cleans the places he passes, so he has the nickname of the sweeping king. This time he robbed a lot of things in Pingshun, and he didn't have to worry about eating for the time being, but after arriving in Linxian, he still went out to loot, and the elite was stationed outside Linxian County, waiting for the looters to come back, of course, if there was a chance, he would also attack the county.

"Brother Zhang, there is a good thing here, and it took a lot of brothers to snatch it from the dog officers and soldiers." There were many big and small leaders sitting in the big tent of the sweeping king, who were eating and drinking around a pile of roasted beef and mutton on the ground.

The girl grabbed a leg of mutton in her left hand, and handed a short gun to the sweeping king in her right hand, her rough face was full of smiles, "The musket that can kill people without a fire rope is specially given to Brother Zhang." ”

The girl put the musket with both hands, he saw the third child hanging, and guessed in his heart that the musket did not use the arquebus, but the third child died and had to have an explanation, he threw the black pot to the Ming army on his back, and at night he took care of the last remaining concubine of the third child, and fled all the way to Linxian County, the girl only had more than 200 horsemen left, but he got rid of the pursuers halfway, and pulled up a team of thousands of people before arriving at the county seat of Linxian County.

The girl met the sweeping king who came from Pingshun here, and Lin County was swept by the first few streams of rogues here, and there were not many things that could be grabbed, and the sweeping king was thinking about where to go

The sweeper and the girl had no intention of attacking the city. The conditions in Lin County are better than those in Shexian County, and the county seat is surrounded by large plains and mountains. There is also a river that can lead to the Wei River.

"The musket has a ball." After the sweeping king finished scolding, he grabbed the musket and threw it behind his back, "You said that the dog officers and soldiers are from Dengzhou?" ”

The girl slapped her thigh, "No, someone said on the way after the fight that it is said that the Dengzhou soldiers have beaten the Tartars and killed a lot of Tartar heads." Brother Zhang, please avenge your brother. ”

The sweeping king crossed his legs and said casually: "Donkey ball." Why should Lao Tzu avenge you, the Dengzhou soldiers can fight, but our Lao Tzu can't go. Zuo Liangyu chased Lao Tzu for two days in a row, just when you came, the monkey will arrive tomorrow. Let's go and clean up Zuo Liangyu, and Lao Tzu will grab a ticket and come back. ”

"Listen to Brother Zhang." The girl is a little bit of people, of course, she can only listen to the sweeping king, the sweeping king's power is not as good as the largest ones, but it belongs to the middle and upper level among the others, the horsemen are about seven or eight hundred, and the infantry army has thirty or forty teams. There are tens of thousands of displaced people, and the girl can only listen to him.

However, he did not forget to remind: "What if that Dengzhou soldier chases after him?" ”

"Chasing?" The sweeping king frowned, since entering the eastern part of Shanxi, there have been more and more officials and soldiers. That Hong Chengchou in Shaanxi was so fierce that everyone didn't dare to go back, thinking that there were no powerful people in Beizhili, who knew that a Lu Xiangsheng would come out. defeated Liukou again and again in Wu'an, although this person is an official. The martial arts are actually better than the head of the Liukou, and it is not the kind of flower fist embroidered leg that cultivates the body. Zuo Liangyu and the Sichuan army are not easy to get along, and now there is another Dengzhou soldier, and the sweeping king feels that it is more difficult to deal with than before.

Judging from what he had heard about the situation after the battalions entered Henan, the people in Beizhili and the areas near the canal were rich, and the people were very disgusted with the Liukou, because they were relatively wealthy, and their villages were also strong, so as soon as the Liukou approached Zhendingfu, Daimyofu and other places, they encountered much stronger resistance than Shanxi, and not only the officials and troops wanted to attack them, but they would also be attacked in the countryside. Lu Xiangsheng's men and horses were actually composed of local regimental training and armed forces, which were much more powerful than ordinary battalion soldiers.

The sweeper has a headache, which is where to go, and if it is a rogue, he must also have a short-term goal, and he can't go anywhere.

"How many Dengzhou soldiers are there? Is there a lot of cavalry? ”

"I'm afraid, I'm afraid that there are three or four thousand, and the cavalry must have a few hundred." The girl didn't know it, anyway, he only saw less than a thousand, and later some of the escaped rogues said that they had seen thousands of officers and soldiers, so he estimated that there were about three or four thousand.

The sweeping king laughed, "Hundreds of cavalry, you are afraid of your mother's hair, girl, the people with you are in the northeast, block their sentry horses, and wait for our Lao Tzu to clean up this Da." ”……

Cixian Chenjiapu, Chen Xin's army also arrived, Zhong Laosi handed over the prisoners to the guard battalion, and this battle captured more than 20,000 taels of silver, more than 1,000 taels of gold, some jewels and more than 100 mules and horses. The only grain of more than 100 stones that Liukou carried became the trophy of the Dengzhou army.

There are more than 2,000 displaced people in front of him, all of whom were captured by the forward, and some of them have fled into the mountains, Zhao Xuan has experience in dealing with coated captives in Jinzhou, and it is a screening to screen out the most vicious of the captives, and then there is another round of exposure and reporting, and all the backbone elements are singled out.

This part of the backbone of the rogue was guarded by the suppression soldiers until Chen Xin's main force arrived.

Nearly 2,000 old and weak women and children were divided into a group of 100 people, Chen Xin rode slowly on horseback, scanning those people expressionlessly, and the homeless people peeked at this official general, their eyes were either panicked or numb.

Zhu Daichun whispered to Chen Xin: "This Zhong Laosi, what are you doing with so many prisoners." ”

Chen Xin smiled slightly: "It's up to him to fight the war, but it's really not appropriate to have too many prisoners, and he can't afford to keep them, and if he releases them, he will become a rogue." ”

"My lord, how do you handle this group of captives now?"

"Let those missionaries and instructors go to the side of the homeless people, and tell them that they can escape on their own, and if they go to join the homeless in the future, they will be killed if they are caught. In addition, he sent someone to inform the magistrate of Cixian County, saying that we would continue to pursue Kou, and asked him to send Minyong to watch over the prisoners, and send someone to Chenjiapu to take over before noon tomorrow. ”

Zhu Daichun hesitated: "Nazhi County will not even open the door, and will never take over the captives." ”

Chen Xin shrugged his shoulders and said lightly: "Anyway, the official notified him to take over, and the official will leave when the time comes." If these people join the rogue again, then they will be resentful. The backbone of the screening was killed in front of those homeless people, and they were all cut down by new soldiers. ”

"Understood." Zhu Daichun agreed.

When he walked to the end of the captive, Zhao Xuan greeted him. Zhong Laosi has already led the troops to pursue, and he is left in charge here, Zhu Daichun issued an order to the soldiers and the chief officers of the various departments, Zhao Xuan heard that he was going to kill again, and he had a cowardly attack, so he asked Chen Xin for instructions, hoping to rush to the front.

Chen Xin also ignored his Xiao Jiujiu, nodded and advised: "Let Zhong Laosi not chase too fast, it must not exceed fifty miles a day." Beware of ambushes. The flow of the rogues is uncertain, and there may be new people coming at any time, and there is a flat river near the county administration of Linxian County, and if you encounter an enemy army, you will set up camp on the spot to defend. Wait for the officer's support. In addition, don't catch the captives, and after they are scattered, the backbone will be screened and killed on the spot, and the rest will be ordered to flee on their own. ”

Zhao Xuan was a little stunned, but seeing that Chen Xin didn't mean to explain, he quickly saluted and left with his own soldiers......

In the afternoon, when the sun was hot, the town of Dengzhou began to kill the backbone of the Liukou. Nearly 200 people were screened this time, and they were all vicious elements among them, who often plagued the homeless people who accompanied the team. These outcasts have a dual role, they are oppressed by the backbone of the outcasts. It also oppressed the new homeless people and the common people who passed through the localities.

These people Chen Xin didn't intend to want or kill, so as not to bear the reputation of a butcher, and the first batch was shot with a firecracker. The homeless people dug a big pit, and the homeless bandits stood on the edge of the pit. After the muskets roared in rows, the corpses fell into the pit.

The backbone cadres who had not yet made their turn wailed loudly and wept in front of the officers and soldiers, and the pacification officer deliberately set the number of people to be executed in each batch very small, prolonging the process and increasing the psychological pressure of those rogues. The ordinary homeless people who watched were all trembling, and some of the backbone family members were screaming and crying in them, and some even cursed the Ming army with great gods.

No one paid attention to the weeping family members, and those who cursed the Dengzhou soldiers were soon dragged to the edge of the big pit by the suppression soldiers, and were temporarily shot or beheaded in the queue.

After shooting hundreds of people, it was beheaded, and the executioners were all mobilized soldiers selected by various ministries, especially the cowardly. The remaining backbone of the thieves knew that they would not be able to survive, and they no longer begged for mercy. Some put on a heroic posture, claiming that they would be a good man again in 20 years, and some scolded the Dengzhou soldiers loudly, and they would die anyway, begging for some money.

These unprofessional executioners often missed, and the officers next to them forced them to go up and mend their knives until they were sure that the rogues had been killed, and the blood was everywhere in the field, and the wails of the rogues were unbearable.

Chen Xin also felt a little cruel, but this is the case in this era. These rogues are a hundred times more cruel to the people than this, and he is not killing people indiscriminately. Chen Xin estimated that a large part of those homeless people would join other rogues, and let them see a shot and beheading, which could impress them and spread the prestige of Dengzhou Town to all the rogues in the future. This is also part of psychological warfare, in this era of backward communications, once the reputation spreads, the war can be twice the result with half the effort.

In the afternoon, he did not wait for the magistrate of Ci County, but waited for a group of local armed forces from Ci County. Most of the places close to Taihang Mountain in Henan are plain areas, there is no danger to defend, Taihang Mountain has always unearthed bandits, there are many villages in the countryside of various states and counties on the side of the mountain to prevent bandits, similar to the military fort of the nine sides, the shape is various. Since the Liukou entered Shanxi, more and more gentry in the countryside of Henan began to form a village to protect themselves, they often live according to the clan, if the wall is high, the defense is very tenacious, and it is difficult for ordinary Liukou to overcome. This is one of the reasons why the Liukou did not dare to go further north and east.

After Chen Xin passed through Dongchang Mansion, he saw a lot of villages along the way, and these civilian armed forces were often more resolute than the official army to defend their homeland.

This time, Dengzhou Town defeated a group of rogue bandits, and after they repeatedly sent people to verify, they found that Dengzhou Town's military discipline was very good, so they sent some people to contact and provide a small amount of grain and grass.

Chen Xin was not short of food, but it was difficult to bring horse feed, so he spent money to buy a batch of hay and black beans with them, and did not hand over those homeless people to them.

As soon as noon passed noon on the second day, Chen Xin led the team to set out, leaving the remaining 2,000 displaced people in the same place, and after they waited for the Dengzhou soldiers to go away and made sure that they were free, they quickly found some farm tools and sticks to rearm themselves, and then most of them fled north, because they did not dare to follow behind Dengzhou Town.

Chen Xin and Zhu Daichun were advancing to Linxian, and on the way they received a report from Zhong Laosi, saying that there were three or four hundred horsemen intercepting them, and the sentry horses could not investigate the direction of Linxian, and he had already camped on the spot.

After hearing this, Zhu Daichun asked Chen Xin: "My lord, let's follow all the way, and we can't chase closely, I'm afraid it will be difficult to extinguish those rogue horsemen." ”

Chen Xin nodded and smiled: "That's true, we said at the last meeting that if you fight, you will fight the most famous, and these other small shrimp are not worth our effort." Let's just follow them, keep in touch, and hit them from time to time, until Zijin Liang or King Chuang appears, and then we will give him another full blow. ”

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