At the beginning of April, spring ploughing ended.

Zhang Xianzhong has completed the assembly of troops and the mobilization of grain and grass, and may attack central and northern Anhui at any time.

At this time, Li Zicheng was about to besiege Beijing, and Emperor Chongzhen was planning to hang himself.

Wu'an Town, Huangjia Village, Zhao Han's place of trouble.

A group of peasant soldiers came to Huang Shui's house: "Captain, I heard that other towns are sending troops, why hasn't our village and our town moved?" ”

Huang Shui, a veteran with a mutilated ring and little finger in his left hand, returned to his hometown to serve as a peasant captain and instructor. He held a bowl of gruel and said: "There are too many soldiers in Wuxing Town, and they fought in the early years, and they sent peasant soldiers and people every time. This time, the boss said, if you are not recruited from Wuxing Town, you will go home and farm honestly. ”

"Why don't you let Wuxing Town leave?"

"That is, our Wuxing people fight, and one can top ten. The governor under Mr. Zhao, our Wuxing Town accounts for half! ”

"Don't send troops from Wuxing Town, let's go to the county to petition!"

"What's a petition?"

"You don't even know about the petition? Teacher Zhang said in the school that a bunch of people went to the government and begged the government to agree to the matter. ”

"Okay, let's all go and petition!"

“……”

Huang Shui stood up abruptly and scolded: "Stop for Lao Tzu!" A peasant soldier is also a soldier, and those who are soldiers should obey military orders. What is the military order now? It is Wuxing Town that does not need to send troops, nor does it need to send people. Go home all of them, if you can't find something to do, hold your mother-in-law and toss every day, and give Mr. Zhao a few more babies to farm and pay for food! ”

"Hahahaha!"

This drew a burst of laughter.

Huang Shui said again: "That Zhang Xianzhong doesn't know what to do, he doesn't grow food, so he comes to rob our food." If he knocks down Anhui, he will come to Jiangxi for money and grain, are you willing to let him rob it? ”

"I'm not happy, why should we give him Zhang Xianzhong for the grain we grow ourselves?"

"Captain, that's why we should send troops to help Mr. Zhao kill Zhang Xianzhong's son of a bitch!"

“……”

"Shut up, listen to what Lao Tzu has said," Huang Shui scolded, "The town mayor and village chief have made it very clear that there is a great drought in the provinces this year, and Mr. Zhao is also short of food to fight. Since we don't let Wuxing Town send people, then we should give food. Mr. Zhao also did not let the farmers suffer losses, this grain bond is interest-bearing, and you can get more back after saving it for a few years. All the food in my family will be taken to the government to buy grain bonds, and only enough food rations will be left for this year. ”

Huang Shui held the gruel and said, "Think about it, go back ten years, what kind of life are we living?" Can you afford to eat white rice and drink white rice porridge? I'll take the lead, and from now on I'll only eat two meals a day, and I'll only eat thin food at each meal. Eat more sweet potatoes, buds, and sorghum, save all the good grain, and send it to Mr. Zhao to fight! If Mr. Zhao loses, no matter how much food we have left in our family, won't it be robbed by Zhang Xianzhong? ”

"Well said!"

"Listen to what you say, let's not go to war, and give all the food to Mr. Zhao!"

"What more interest? The land at home was given by Mr. Zhao, and the food was donated to the government, so the family had enough to eat! ”

"Let's go, donate food!"

“……”

Regardless of whether Zhao Han calls himself the chief soldier and the governor, or establishes himself as the king of Wu, Wuxing Town loves to be called "Mr. Zhao".

Since Wuxing Town was the owner of all the battles, not only were there many middle and high-ranking officers, but also peasants and soldiers and civilians were given a lot of land. Taking the field as the calculation standard, the land yield of the people in Wuxing Town has reached an average of six acres per person.

The fields in Wuxing Town have long been insufficient, and new land is often laid, and the people or peasants and soldiers stay there. Then they took their wives and children and redivided the land in the new place, and distributed the original land to other meritorious servicemen.

It can be said that they have a high ideological consciousness, and it can also be said that they are an emerging interest group, anyway, they regard Zhao Han as a bodhisattva god.

This is true not only of Wuxing Town, but also of the entire Luling County.

In the early three counties of Luling, Jishui, and Anfu, Zhao Han had many fanatical supporters, and the per capita land yield of the three counties has exceeded five acres!

In order not to affect the people's livelihood, but also to balance the army. This time in the land of the three counties, the manpower transferred was very small, and Wuxing Town was not even allowed to send out any more people.

But......

In the three counties of Luling, Jishui, and Anfu, the peasants spontaneously set off a vigorous campaign to donate grain.

In front of the bank grain depot in Wuxing Town, a farmer held up grain bonds and shouted to everyone: "See, my family's grain has been donated." Mr. Zhao wants food, just give it, not to mention interest, and the capital doesn't have to be repaid! ”

After speaking, he tore up the bonds in public, and then stuffed them directly into his mouth, one by one, and swallowed them hard.

"Good!"

"I don't want my family's food, so the villagers can be a witness. Long live Mr. Zhao! ”

"Count me in!"

“……”

Historically, Li Wen, who made a script for Dolgon and invented the theory of "Manchu avenging the Ming Dynasty", was serving as the mayor of Wuxing Town at this time.

Last year, his father was ransomed from prison, and the father and son returned to Jiangnan.

Li Wen's father went to business, and Li Wen signed up as a reserve clerk. first served as a small official in Jiangnan, and was promoted to Jiangxi this year.

For the children of the big clans in Jiangnan and Zhejiang, Zhao Han has a special instruction. Those who are willing to be officials should be transferred to Jiangxi as much as possible, so that they can feel the revolutionary enthusiasm, and at the same time let them know the rules of being officials!

At this moment, Li Wen looked at the farmers who were competing to tear up the bonds, and finally completely understood why Zhao Han could grow.

This is what makes the people's hearts available.

This is what makes all the people admire.

I am afraid that if Zhao Han gives an order, hundreds of thousands of peasants in Jiangxi will be able to bring their own dry food to join the army and fight.

After dealing with her daily work, Li Wen returned to the house to write a letter to her friend, lamenting Zhao Han's personal prestige in Jiangxi. At the same time, he complained that the people of Wuxing Town did not obey the discipline, and they all admitted that the work of the town mayor was not good, and he was more tired than the magistrate of Daming.

Li Wen didn't dare to be corrupt at all, or even dare to neglect the government, the people here were too terrifying.

The literacy rate of children in Wuxing Town is even more terrifying, with nearly half a hundred percent of children over the age of seven and under the age of 18. Even if it is placed in Zhao Han's territory, it is the only one, and there is no semicolon!

If the mayor dares to fool the people, a bunch of literate teenagers will immediately come to reason.

If the mayor dares to be unreasonable, hehe, maybe a young man is the son and nephew of a certain general.

Li Wen felt that he was not here to be an official, he was here to be a grandson for the people of Wuxing Town.

Boatloads of grain were transported to Hukou County for stacking.

Countless peasant soldiers and people were selected and sent out by the villages and towns, and they went to the county seat to assemble, and were sent to Hukou by boat by the magistrate.

There were too many people who signed up, and the original plan was to recruit 20,000 peasants and soldiers in Jiangxi and Hunan, and then 20,000 people each. After layers of reports and instructions, Zhao Han agreed to levy 30,000 yuan each, and ...... Many of those people are farmers and soldiers.

It can be said that in Jiangxi and Hunan provinces alone, Zhao Han exploded 100,000 troops in a month!

Many people don't look like people, they are peasant soldiers when they take up arms, and they really bring their own weapons.

High ideological consciousness is one aspect, and in order to make meritorious contributions to the field, Wuxing Town's per capita yield of six acres of land is placed there, and it has become a living example for the entire Jiangxi.

Jiang Dashan and Jiang Liang have been squatting in Guangdong for the past two years, and they have already wiped out the bandits in Fujian and Guangdong provinces.

By the way, he picked up the grass and beat the rabbits, and in the process of chasing the bandits, he knocked down all the Wuzhou Mansions in Guangxi, and reported to the superiors to send officials to complete the division of fields.

At present, a division stationed in Guangdong has nothing to do except to guard against Guangxi.

It is too troublesome to transfer troops from Guangdong to the north, but it is possible to mobilize officers.

Jiang Dashan was appointed as the commander of the Hunan peasant army, and Jiang Liang was appointed as the commander of the Jiangxi peasant army, and each went north with dozens of officers to take over the troops.

They arrived at their destination before the peasant soldiers, one training in Baling and the other at Hukou.

When it is said to be military training, it is actually the reorganization of the troops, and by the way, the practice of cooperation among large corps.

When these two were still training peasant soldiers, Anhui had already started fighting!

Zhang Xianzhong and Sun Kewang attacked the Guangji and Huangmei areas.

Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi sent troops from Miyang, first occupied Zhenyang County, which belonged to Luo Rucai, and then went south to attack Luoshan County of Zhao Han.

Bai Wenxuan and Liu Wenxiu directly attacked Xinyang Prefecture, but they were blocked at Pingjing Pass and Jiuli Pass and could not advance an inch.

Pingjing Pass, one of the nine stops in the world during the Qin and Han dynasties.

Sun Wu once led the Wu soldiers, captured the pass, and almost wiped out the Chu State.

This pass was originally occupied by Luo Rucai, and after Luo Rucai fled, he was received by the Datong army.

Bai Wenxuan led more than 10,000 people to attack, and the Datong soldiers stationed at the pass only had 500 regular soldiers, 500 peasant soldiers, and 500 people.

Wufeng Ridge and Phoenix Mountain stand against each other, and the location of Pingjing Pass is between the two peaks, which completely stuck, and Bai Wenxuan's entry channel is completely stuck.

"Boom, boom!"

Porcelain 10,000 enemies, just like not asking for money, as long as the enemy army gathers a little more, they will be thrown down one after another.

Bai Wenxuan had already been blown up, but he could divide two or three thousand troops and go over the mountains and mountains to bypass on both sides. But there is a possibility of dying on the way, and even if you can succeed in crossing it, it will take a month or two. In the past, there was no military rations, and if you wanted not to starve to death, you had to loot the village first.

After attacking for half a month, Bai Wenxuan sent someone to ask Liu Wenxiu, but Liu Wenxiu sent someone first.

"General, Jiuli Pass can't move, can you move here?"

"Hit a fart!"

In addition to these two checkpoints, the further south can also go east out of Dabie Mountain. However, there are a series of checkpoints such as Dacheng Pass, Baisha Pass, Muling Pass, Loess Pass, and Hutou Pass.

There are two passes on average, one is occupied by Zhang Xianzhong, and the other is occupied by the Datong army. The passage in the Dabie Mountains is not suitable for the march of the army, and it is best to send a few thousand partial divisions, but if a few thousand partial divisions attack, Zhao Han can send a few hundred peasant soldiers to defend it.

Zhang Xianzhong's mid-lane military fart was useless, and it was blocked by Dabie Mountain and checkpoints.

The two sides fought and had to look at the South Route and North Route Army.

In mid-April, Chongzhen was dead.

Zhao Han took his personal soldiers and personally went to support Guangji, where Zhang Xianzhong and Sun Kewang were located.

The cavalry of Jeju Island also pulled a vote.