On the night when Zhang Er Mazi fled back to Fugu, on the ancient bridge at the west entrance, nearly 4,000 cavalry walked from the meanders of the river to Fugu. The cavalry did not have any obvious discernible clothing, they were only dressed in light gray homespun clothes. This is exactly Li Guo's team.

Li Guo led a thousand children to defend the hidden place outside Fugu City, and the rest of the men and horses led by Liu Tichun, Gu Ying, Li Qiang, Niu Decao and others, divided into a team of four or five hundred people, according to the predetermined plan, carried out a surprise attack on the large towns of Fugu.

As a result, the whole Fugu began to be in turmoil everywhere.

The people of Fugu were very afraid, but after calming down, the people were very strange. They found that these bandits were a little different. First, these bandits do not disturb the people. Second, these bandits do not **, do not rob women of good families. Third, they quickly inquired about the situation and only robbed and killed large households. Fourth, these bandits are masked.

Of course, robbery is still the same as Hequ, it is all about robbing landlords and rich households, because most of the landlords and rich households at that time were unkind to the rich, so after robbing, most of them will cut the grass and eradicate the roots. Of course, it must not be intruded on ordinary people.

Because the area under the jurisdiction of Fugu was also war-torn for a long time, the population was not large, and the fighting was still not fierce enough.

So, in the villages and towns of Fugu, I saw a team of people wearing blue homespun cloth, killing them like a whirlwind. Everyone was too late to run, and in fear, they found that these people did not kill and plunder, but only arrested a few landlords, and there was a click.

Although these people do not rob the common people, they order the common people to work. What do you do? Harvest the grain! Because the crops are ripe.

Moreover, these people acted quickly, quickly counted the people in the villages and towns, and each household was roughly allocated land according to the population, and ordered the people to hand over the grain according to the regulations, and give them the rest of the grain to live on.

The people in the townships and towns were originally barely able to make ends meet, hungry and full. If you do what these people tell you to do, and if you collect food, then from now on, at least until the end of the year, people will not have to go hungry. However, the people are still satisfied, because in the past these people had no land, no food, and often lived on wild vegetable bran.

Li Guo ordered all the grain collected to be transported away, not because Li Guo was ruthless. Since Li Guo wants to run Fugu in the future, he must not let people eat enough, but let people go hungry. And if Li Guo really governs Fugu in the future, Li Guo will never starve these people, and when he takes out the grain, will the effect be better?

Li Guo was monitoring Fugu County, because after all, there were still hundreds of people in Fugu County.

Li Guo hoped that the soldiers in Fugu County would be able to go out of the city, so that Li Guo would annihilate them all. Although Li Guo's men were all child soldiers, these children were already sixteen or seventeen years old and could already fight.

Li Guo's idea was very simple, that is, to reduce the power of the Ming army as much as possible, so that they would no longer dare to go out of the city. Then, Li Guo sent people to establish his own territory in Fugu, of course, in the name of bandits.

However, there is a certain risk for Li Guo to do this, because once the scale of the war in Fugu is too large, it will arouse the vigilance of the imperial court and the trilateral governor Hong Chengchou, and it may even affect the river meander, so Li Guo wants to control the scale and rhythm of the battle, which is of course difficult to grasp.

Li Guo looked calm on the surface, but he was actually very anxious in his heart.

Because it has been four years since Chongzhen, and in history, in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng will overthrow the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing army will also enter the customs. If before the Qing army entered the customs, it was not possible to establish a large base area and form an invincible elite army, then the king of Wang Tu hegemony and the dream of Qiē would be impossible to talk about, and Li Guo's idea of changing history could only become a storm.

Therefore, Li Guo needs to take risks and occupy as much land as possible. But Li Guo found that this was not really an adventure.

First, because the crops are now almost ripe, the meanders are now ready for the autumn harvest. In the battle in Fugu, in addition to grabbing money, there is also a purpose of collecting grain. With food, even if the Ming army really comes to attack, Li Guo can resist for a while, because Li Guo's current soldiers are very strong in combat, except for Cao Wenzhao's elite soldiers, the rest of the Ming army is not a problem.

Second, the peasant army in the south of Shanxi, since Wang Jiayin's death, Wang Ziyong has been regarded as the leader of the alliance. Under the coordination of Wang Ziyong, the peasant army fought in Shanxi, northern Henan, and southern Jinan, and won many victories, attracting a large number of officers and soldiers. However, the military and military powers of the provinces are different, and coordination and command are unfavorable, and they often neglect one at the expense of the other.

Therefore, Li Guo is making a fuss in Fugu, presumably there will not be much risk. A large number of Ming troops will not come because of the banditry.

The troops lurked outside Fugu County, waiting for the Ming army to leave the city, so that they could let go of the battle. Li Guo's meaning is to kill him first, and then talk about it, and he doesn't want to kill them all, but at least he wants to kill the Ming army in Fugu County, so that they will think twice when they go out of the city in the future.

However, there was no movement at all in Fugu County, and since I heard that the surrounding villages and towns were in turmoil, Fugu City just closed the city gate tightly and made no sound.

Li Guo is very strange, why didn't the Ming army come out? Didn't you hear the trouble in the countryside in the city?

In fact, no, the chaos in the countryside is clearly known to Zhang Qianzhong and Wang Xi, the county magistrate in Fugu City. It's just that the two of them pretended not to know, and they didn't mention it to each other when they met each other. There is no other reason, no one wants to go out of the city to fight, and no one wants to cause more trouble.

So, the two of them just vigilantly arranged to defend the city, and never left the city.

However, the banditry outside the city seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, and the landlords and gentry who had escaped found Zhang Jinzhong one after another and asked the county magistrate to send troops to recruit them.

Zhang Jinzhong himself has that ability, and he can't shirk it. So, I found Mr. Qian's Wang Xi.

As soon as Wang Xi heard that the county order asked him to suppress the bandits, he slapped his chest with the sound of the mountain, "Do your best for the people and be loyal to the country, it is our duty, not to mention that the adults are sending, the lower officials are about to go out of the city to kill the enemy!" ”

Zhang Jinzhong listened, he was very moved, and he was very ashamed, it seems that he thought badly, this Wang Xi is a loyal and brave person, and he is greatly inferior. Zhang Jinzhong was about to speak, but Wang Xi opened his mouth again.

"Although he wanted to kill himself, he didn't dare to fight. The adults also know that the soldiers' salaries have always been deducted, and if they go out of the city to fight at this time, the soldiers will definitely be defeated if they don't need to die. Wang Xi said.

"What then?" Zhang Jinzhong listened confusedly.

Wang Xi smiled, "If the adults can take out some silver taels from the treasury to make up the soldiers' salaries, and then take out the money as a reward, I think the soldiers are brave, and the chaos will be peaceful!" ”

Zhang Jinzhong was stunned for a moment, and scolded in his heart, grandma, you are Wang Xi, you can't fight, but I think about Lao Tzu's money.

"It's just that the treasury doesn't have any extra silver, I think so, you and I will jointly go to the three-sided yamen for help, and I will wait to hold on to Fugu City." Zhang Jinzhong squinted his eyes.

Wang Xi arched his hand and said, "What your lord said is very true, and I admire my humble position very much. ”

So, the county commander Zhang Jinzhong and Qianzong Wang Xi pulled the skin for a long time, and they didn't do anything, but they were waiting for Li Guo outside the city.