The news of the Salvation Army's presence in Huanglong Mountain spread out, and for a time there were those who opposed the king and did not know why, those who laughed shamefully, and those who looked coldly.

But no one can stop Huanglongshan and Baishui County from developing in an orderly manner. By January 1628, the people of Baishui County had cultivated 50,000 acres of land, even if it was barren, and they had reclaimed it according to the instructions of the county order. It's just that they don't understand that such barren arable land, which is usually used to grow food, is afraid that it will fail to harvest, and now that it is afraid that it will still be very dry this year, will it become a grain without a harvest?

The only good thing is that Ma Yu, the county commander of Baishui County, requisitioned the 300,000 people who stayed in Baishui County, widened the roads, cleared the silt from the rivers, built a dam, and opened a well. Anyway, even if the weather will still be dry this year, this Baishui County should not be short of water.

Many of the people were given special crops, which were planted on the barren lands. According to the meaning of the county order, it is a trial planting year, and if the harvest is good, then the world with good fertility will also plant these crops that can be vegetables and grains one after another.

The people had never seen these three crops, but out of gratitude for the county order and out of fear of the majesty of the county order, they obediently planted these crops.

At the same time, in the private of the people, rumors began to circulate that Ma Yu had already defected to the Salvation Army, and that Yiqiē in Baishui County was actually in charge of the Salvation Army. As time passed, more and more people believed this rumor, after all, they had never seen a county order before to be able to do such a thing.

In addition, it was rumored that the 200,000 people who had left before had joined Huanglongzhai and lived under the rule of the Salvation Army, and this rumor was recognized by everyone.

The people who spread these rumors are naturally the people of the Salvation Army, and the things they have done themselves naturally cannot be taken away by Ma Yuna, otherwise the gains outweigh the losses? Furthermore, it is also a warning to those thieves that this is covered by the Salvation Army, so don't approach casually if you have nothing to do.

In fact, after this rumor came out, there were many thieves who bypassed Baishui County to loot, no matter what their intentions were, at least they did not attack Baishui County.

Time passed day by day, and in a blink of an eye, it was May of the first year of Chongzhen.

At this time, there was a new change in the imperial court, that is, Li Guozhishi. Under the pressure of the Donglin Party and the rebellion of the thieves in northern Shaanxi, he had to retreat to advance and let Chongzhen keep him. Who knew that Chongzhen didn't understand this, he only knew that Li Guo's previous mention did not make Shaanxi completely pacified, so he agreed to his Zhishi.

The new cabinet chief assistant was taken over by the original second assistant Lai Zongdao, the first assistant from the Donglin Party, who immediately trained the Shaanxi New Army, which had been recruited and trained for more than half a year, to clean up the rogue gangsters in Shaanxi. Chongzhen couldn't wait, so he simply agreed to this construction.

The news reached Xi'an Mansion, and Yang Hong had to say goodbye to his beautiful girl, and began to set out with 5,000 soldiers who had been recruited and trained for more than half a year, with the cooperation of Zhang Fu. Zhang Fu is still very well-behaved at the moment, and he is the main one, so Yang Hong is also a lot more relieved.

Yang Hong began to purge the Liukou in Xi'an, and Chengcheng County, in the west of Baishui County, has now changed its principal.

Zhang Hongbin also has 5,000 soldiers under his command, even if 2,000 are still training.

With soldiers, they naturally need to be brought out to practice, so they decisively took 3,000 men and horses to attack Chengcheng, and opened the city gate with back shelling, and the army suddenly attacked. In just three days, Chengcheng fell into the hands of the Salvation Army. Liu Ping, the magistrate of the county, secretly surrendered, and Zhang Hongbin collected another tax against the gentry of Chengcheng County, which was to make up for last year's tax.

Unlike Baishui County, there are people in Chengcheng who refuse to pay taxes, but they are the largest Ma family in Chengcheng. It has nothing to do with Ma Yu, it's just the same surname.

Like the Zhang family, the Ma family has a person in the ancestors, but the difference is that the current head of the Ma family is a real loser, short-sighted and doesn't know what to say. Seeing that the Salvation Army wanted to take money in his money bag, he refused to live or die.

Well, let's die! The next day, Ma's head of the family, his wife and children were all killed, his family members were dismissed, and all his family property was confiscated.

The Salvation Army has a very tough attitude and tells all those who have underestimated them before that their smiles will only be left for friends, but fierceness will be left for enemies!

Since then, no gentry has dared not pay taxes. The only regret is that no one, especially the children of the gentry, came to take refuge.

On the bright side, after Chengcheng was still breached, it was recaptured under the leadership of Liu Ping, the magistrate. In fact, everyone knows that Liu Ping, like Ma Yu, has taken refuge in the Salvation Army and has become a pawn on the surface.

"Cheers!" In Huanglong Village, a grand celebration banquet is being held at this moment.

This time to break through Chengcheng County, Zhang Hongbin personally led the team, and the tactics were all formulated by him, so he took the first credit; Wang Er was the first to rush into the county seat to occupy the county government and occupy the second gong; Li Dingguo occupied the granary treasury, and Liu Ruoqi occupied four gates and occupied the third-class merit. This celebration banquet is not only to distribute the captured 10%, but also to celebrate the heroes this time.

But the only thing that is not happy is that Zhang Hongbin promulgated a ban on alcohol, mainly to reduce the consumption of food. However, those high-ranking generals, mainly at the level of Wang Er, will get a bottle of liquor sent by Zhang Hongbin every month, which tastes much more fragrant than ordinary liquor. So much so that Ling He, who is used to drinking liquor very much, is also fascinated by this taste.

It is indeed a big pity that you can't drink alcohol at this celebration banquet, but the reward you wait for is real.

Finally, when he was about to disband, the soldiers below came with news that the anti-thief Red Wolf took 30,000 headquarters and came to Chengcheng County from other places. I don't know if he didn't receive the news that Chengcheng was captured by the Salvation Army, if he received it and attacked, this is ignoring the Salvation Army's survival, if he doesn't know, Zhang Hongbin doesn't mind that it seems that everyone is a thief, let him take a detour.

However, this qiē foundation is built on his absolute strength, which allows him to compromise.

It's not nonsense, Zhang Hongbin activated the battle order as soon as possible, and the soldiers urgently gathered and began to drive in the direction of Chengcheng. On the way, the soldiers learned about the killing of the big red wolf, and they were somewhat worried about how the 3,000 people would deal with the 30,000 people.

Before fighting Chengcheng, it mainly relied on the return artillery, as well as the bravery of Wang Er and others, even if the general soldiers practiced for more than half a year, they also sacrificed more than 20 in the siege battle. Now facing 30,000 people, these recruits really don't have much courage.

In the minds of many people, they may be asking: Can the Salvation Army defeat the big red wolf?