After the nine hundred soldiers left, the Longtan Xiaobei Mountain in the night returned to calm again.

Zhu Daolin, under the escort of three senior brothers, and Zhang Shoucheng, the acting captain of the third team of the sixth battalion, carried out inspections and arranged sentry posts.

The 100 soldiers of the third team, under the consultation of Zhang Shoucheng and the five chiefs, quickly worked out a rotation schedule, and the two commanders who took turns to rest led the soldiers to demolish the wooden shed in the backyard and light two blazing bonfires outside the mountain gate.

A few soldiers brought a few handfuls of fragrant weeds from the foot of the mountain and threw them into the bonfire, and when Zhu Daolin returned from his inspection, the brothers in the house were already snoring.

Zhu Daolin looked at the 35 corpses neatly placed outside the houses on both sides of the mountain gate, and then looked at the two groups of sentry posts swimming outside the mountain gate with knives, relieved and quite worried.

It is gratifying that the 3,000 brothers selected from the 17,000 victims have lived up to his good intentions, and the cohesion, combat effectiveness and obedience they have shown have far exceeded his expectations.

The concern is the uninhibited wildness of this one-day-old army.

After Zhu Daolin introspected, he felt that it was related to his own eagerness, and he used his authority and deterrence to establish a strong ruling power from the beginning, using the technique of attacking the heart to provoke the grief, recognition and hope of 3,000 people, inspiring everyone's sense of honor with a series of dazzling solemn ceremonies, and then forcing out the potential of the 3,000 brothers with the immediate combat mission, which initially shaped the tenacious and brave temperament of this army.

However, this army also showed strong destructive power, and even some signs of wild and bloodthirsty.

This sign of danger made Zhu Daolin quite worried, and it was definitely not a good thing to have a wild and bloodthirsty army that killed too much. None of such an army in history has had a good death, so he had to review his own behavior, sum up the gains and losses and lessons of the day, and find the right direction of development for this army on which he had high hopes as soon as possible.

Zhu Daolin returned to the deserted temple on the hill and drank a cup of cold tea. He instructed the three juniors to immediately interrogate a fake monk and an old water bandit in his thirties, and strive to get a confession before dawn, and then walked out of the temple alone and went to the riverside 600 meters away.

The river is breezy and the night is hazy, and the clouds in the sky are slowly surging northward.

Zhu Daolin came to the wooden dock alone, stood silently and looked around, the 800 cargo ships had sailed back, and most of the troops of the fifth and sixth battalions had gone to Longtan Town. The third team, which was short of troops, was transferred to the dock guard under Zhu Daolin's order, so the riverbank with a length of more than 500 meters and a depth of more than 200 meters was silent, and the song of insects and the cry of nightingales on the distant hill could be clearly heard.

Covered with coarse sand and large and small pebbles, the wide river beach is gentle and open, with a solid surface and a gentle slope, and it is difficult to submerge this open land hidden in dense forests and reeds unless the water level of the Yangtze River rises sharply, making it a good place to camp temporarily. It is also the best material transit place in addition to the Longtan Wharf, which is four kilometers downstream.

After Zhu Daolin left, the entire beach was occupied by 139 containers full of rice and salt. 3,800 tonnes of rice and 320 tonnes of snow-white sea salt are enough to feed the 300,000 people who are coming one after another for a month.

There is a month as a buffer, Zhu Daolin does not have to worry about the powerful forces in the southeast choking his neck with food, and maybe he can make the crazy hoarding of food vomit blood.

Zhu Daolin finished a major event silently, and silently returned to the temple illuminated by the blazing bonfire, and the interrogation of the three brothers was over. The two frightened water bandits had already confessed all their crimes and plates, Zhu Daolin couldn't help laughing after reading the six-page confession, and when he couldn't see Zhang Shoucheng's figure left and right, he shouted: "Zhang Shoucheng!" ”

"To—"

Zhang Shoucheng's voice came from the backyard of the temple, and after a while, he ran to Zhu Daolin: "The subordinates and the four brothers just moved things out of the cellar. ”

Zhu Daolin handed him a cup of tea that he hadn't drunk: "Just let your brothers do it." Do you know how to ride a horse? ”

"Yes, most of the men on both sides of the Yellow River can ride horses."

Zhang Shoucheng was flattered and didn't dare to drink the teacup, seeing Zhu Daolin make a gesture before he finished drinking it, carefully put the teacup on the square table, and continued to stand upright and wait for the order.

Zhu Daolin folded the six-page paper and handed it to him: "You go to the horse pen on the east side of the mountain to lead a horse, send the confession to Longtan Town, hand it over to Master Xu, the water master, and then bring back the news of Longtan Town, go!" ”

"Yes!"

Zhang Shoucheng took the confession and left quickly.

The young Taoist priest who interrogated the fake monk came to Zhu Daolin and sat down on his side: "Senior brother, why don't you tell Lord Xu what to do?" ”

Zhu Daolin said with a smile: "Don't look at Xu Wentao's dignified appearance and full of righteousness, in fact, he is a veteran ruffian, he grew up in the Beijing camp where intrigue, and he confronted the Tatar army on the Liaodong front for seven years, and there are more intrigues and intrigues in his stomach than anyone else, he will do well without me teaching him, even better than me, haha!" ”

"Do you need to send these two heinous bandits to the town and confront those two fellow inspectors and lieutenants?" The young Taoist priest continued.

Zhu Daolin thought for a while: "Stay here for the time being, wait for those inspectors and Mr. Ruan to come, and then let those imperial histories be tried again, let Mr. Ruan and a few editors of the newspaper observe, and then we will go to Longtan Town together to gather the people for public interrogation." ”

The young Taoist priest thought for a while: "What if neither the Longtan inspection nor Li Zheng admit it?" The inspection surnamed Wang has a lot of origins. ”

Zhu Daolin didn't care: "It's hard for him to admit it, no matter how hard his mouth is, can it be harder than my knife?" Even if the inspector doesn't admit it, can the soldiers under him lose their heads with him? As long as the trial is completed, Lao Tzu will immediately cut off their heads in front of all the soldiers and civilians, and then confiscate their family property, and then send their family to Yingtianfu, what can they do to Lao Tzu? ”

"It's not in order! The inspector Yushi will definitely not agree to do this, even if the trial is out, he must be sent to Ying Tianfu first, and only after the verdict can he be killed and his family can be killed! The young Taoist priest was frightened by Zhu Daolin's boldness, and hurriedly told Zhu Daolin about the legal procedures so as not to cause him trouble.

"In that case, let's wait until tomorrow, maybe Lord Xu can get more evidence...... That's all for tonight, tie these two grandsons to a big tree in the backyard, and let the brothers on duty take care of them, and we'll rest for a while, and we'll be busy tomorrow. ”

Zhu Daolin had a kind smile on his face, but he had already eliminated this pedantic junior disciple with strong martial arts in his heart, and secretly decided that after going back, he would send all the four senior brothers who were guarding him back to the Ziyang Martial Arts Pavilion, so that they could teach martial arts to the disciples of the martial arts hall and make a living, the army was really not suitable for people like them.

Xu Wentao did not disappoint Zhu Daolin, when he received the confession sent by Zhang Shoucheng sent by Zhu Daolin, he had already led his troops to surround the entire town, and the inspector surnamed Wang came to question it, and was unceremoniously sent away by him, and also asked Tang Shilin's battalion to disarm and detain all the more than 50 soldiers in the inspection station who were constantly obstructing.

After reading the confession, Xu Wentao decisively led people to arrest all the patrol inspectors and Li Zheng, and at the same time ordered Tang Shilin and Li Yao, two acting battalion commanders, to interrogate the soldiers of the inspection station.

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