Liu Yan smiled bitterly, his original plan was to inflict a heavy blow on the Song family's people in Xitunzhuang, and then let the Song family, especially the inspector Song Gongming, sit down and talk to him.

As the saying goes: only by subduing the bastard can the bastard sit down honestly and listen to your reasoning.

But now that he is using too much force, Liu Yan led his troops to directly beat Song Long to death, although this Song Long is a bastard, but he is the nephew of Song Gongming, and the hope of peace talks is very slim.

However, Liu Yan didn't care too much, anyway, he had strength in his hands, Song Gongming wanted to fight or want to make peace, and he could accompany him to the end.

Later, Liu Yan sent Xu Ming, a small flag officer, to lead the night without collecting the flag, and set off to inspect the vicinity of Xitunzhuang to collect the scattered Song family horses.

Then the rest of the banners drove into Xitunzhuang, and the first thing they did was to find Song Long's body.

Soon a few captured wanderers came carrying a bloody corpse, and Liu Yan immediately stepped forward to take a look, it was indeed Song Long himself.

"Find a coffin and put it on, select a few reliable captives, and send Song Long's body back to the Guzhen Inspection Division."

Liu Yan said to Wang Bo, the little flag officer beside him, Wang Bo clenched his fists and took the order, and then took a few dun soldiers to find someone. The rest of the small flag officers also began to command their respective dun troops to search everywhere, leaving only Miao Shao and his people to follow behind Liu Yan to protect.

"I don't know if Zhao Maqun's gangster is here?"

When Liu Yan returned to Dapanbao, he told everyone what happened in the Guzhen Inspection Division, and several small flag officials naturally knew about the discount of Zhao Maqun's legs.

Not far away, although Wang Yue, the small flag officer, commanded his subordinates to search a few rooms next to him, he always kept an eye on Liu Yan's side, and when he heard Liu Yan's question, he hurriedly came over and said: "Captain A, my subordinates just found a few prisoners to ask, and Zhao Maqun also followed Song Long, but the scene was chaotic during the fierce battle just now, and Zhao Maqun didn't know when he fled, and he took a lot of wanderers. ”

Liu Yan couldn't help but exclaim, this Zhao Maqun is now lame, and it is estimated that he can't walk normally, and he can still successfully escape with some people and horses in the chaos, which is really a good skill!

However, if the monk can't run the temple, Liu Yan understands that his grievances with the inspector Song Gongming are not over, and he will definitely have a chance to fight again in the future.

An hour later, the Qidun army almost turned over all parts of Xitunzhuang, and captured more than 60 wanderers, as well as more than 30 military households.

There is also some storage in the treasury in Xitunzhuang, about 30 stone of grain, 380 catties of iron, as well as some coal, wolf dung and other sundries.

After Liu Yan saw it, he said to Zhang Yi, the little flag official: "The more than 60 wanderers have been handed over to you, and you will lead your troops to take them directly back to the salt drying field and work as coolies there." As long as you perform well, you can regain your freedom after three years, and if something happens within three years, you will be beheaded and buried! ”

Zhang Yi clenched his fists and took his life.

Then Liu Yan instructed: "Remember to chop off their thumbs on both hands." ”

Zhang Yi grinned and said, "Don't worry, Captain A, I remember." ”

Liu Yan nodded, although there are Chu Yunfei's men and horses stationed on the side of the salt field now, but this Chu Yunfei is a new refuge after all, and he is not close to himself, and his men and horses have not been reorganized, so they can't be fully believed for the time being, so Zhang Yi's banner people still have to be temporarily stationed in the salt field.

Then, Liu Yan asked Zhang Yi to lead his troops to take the first step, and then he took the rest of the men and horses to stay in Xitunzhuang for more than an hour, mainly to count the seized materials, and then loaded them all on several large carts captured in the fort.

In addition, Liu Yan also commanded his subordinates to simply clean up the battlefield and bury all the killed wanderers, military households, and dun troops on the spot.

"Bring back all these captures, as well as all the military households in the fort."

Soon the entire Xitunzhuang was emptied by Liu Yan's department, at this time several small flag officers led the Qidun army to retreat, the original Xitunzhuang military households in the team were still a little frightened, some of their brothers and fathers were killed in the battle, Liu Yan was originally worried that these military households would hate him.

But at this time, Liu Yan looked at the appearance of those military households and understood that he was thinking too much.

These military households were all in rags, even in the cold winter and wax moon season, most of them were wearing single clothes, and even some children stood barefoot on the cold frozen soil, Liu Yan couldn't help but be moved when he saw it.

This kind of life has completely numbed these military households, although their family members have just died in battle, but after a little tears, these military households have become numb again, as if life is a more painful thing than death, and the death of their family members may be a beautiful thing!

So Liu Yan rode on a war horse and asked some Dunjun to pick up the thinly clothed children in the crowd to prevent these children from being frozen, and then said loudly to those military households: "I don't care what your life was in Xitunzhuang before, now you have been incorporated by my Liu Yan, and from now on you will be my Liu Yan's military households!" From now on, as long as you follow me with peace of mind, live in Dapanbao with peace of mind, and obey my orders, I can make a promise: At the beginning of spring next year, I will distribute cultivated land, farm tools, and seeds to your households, so that you can live a hopeful and dignified life, and your children and families can be fed and clothed! ”

Those more than 30 households and nearly 200 military households walked in the cold wind, Liu Yan's words came from their ears, their originally cloudy eyes also became flashing, and something seemed to have melted in their hearts.

When Liu Yan led his troops back to Dapan Fort, it was already nightfall, but the lights inside and outside the entire Dapan Fort were brightly lit.

Many torches were lit around the fort walls, and there were dozens of bonfires outside the fort, illuminating a hundred paces around the castle.

At this time, Chen Xun and a group of dun soldiers and young soldiers saw Liu Yan and others who had returned victoriously, and immediately stood on the fortress wall and cheered, and then put down the drawbridge and opened the gate.

When the military households in Xitunzhuang saw this situation, they were deeply attracted by the warm cotton clothes, ruddy faces, and hopeful joy in their eyes.

"Maybe it's not a bad thing to get caught in this big plate fort!"

At this time, almost every military household in Xitunzhuang was thinking so, and was immediately brought into the fort by Wang Bo, a small flag officer, and all of them were temporarily settled in various places, and after the houses were built one after another on the vacant land in the fort, they were reassigned to live in the houses.

Liu Yan rode into the fort amid the cheers of everyone, and saw Wang Yunhe in the crowd head-on, so he laughed and turned over and dismounted, and Wang Yunhe had already run over, crying and laughing, and threw himself directly into Liu Yan's arms.

The surrounding military households and the people of Dunjun clapped their hands and cheered when they saw it, and the little flag officer Chen Xun said loudly: "Captain A hurry up and prepare the bride price, set the matchmaker, and go to the king's shopkeeper's house as soon as possible to propose marriage!" ”

There was another round of cheers all around.

Liu Yan laughed and said: "Haha, it's a little late today, tomorrow at noon: the whole fort will kill chickens and sheep to reward the soldiers of all flags, the soldiers who go out to fight and the soldiers of the dun army who stay behind will be rewarded with five silver coins each, and the salt Ding stationed in the salt field will also be rewarded with five silver coins each!" ”

The crowd cheered.

Liu Yan hugged Wang Yunhe onto the war horse amid the cheers of everyone, and then turned over on the horse himself, and then ignored Wang Yunhe's shyly reprimand, and rode away directly, leaving only the envious eyes of everyone.

That night, Liu Yan originally wanted to take Wang Yunhe back to the General Flag Hall to talk about his heart, but he was really just talking, but under Wang Yunhe's repeated insistence, he still sent him back to the residence of the winery.

The next day, a banquet was held inside and outside Dapan Fort to celebrate, and more than 30 military families also ate and drank together, and many people ate such good wine and meat, and they lay on the table and wept bitterly, and even some women fainted directly from crying.

Two days later, Liu Yan sent someone to report the situation of the battle of Xitunzhuang to Wang Weizhen, the officer of the management team, and then found the chief Zhao Min and asked about the current family background of Dapanbao.

"Qiqi Chief, although the Guzhen Inspection Department doesn't buy our things for the time being, but with the line of the management team, our income is also good."

Zhao Min held the account book and said: "Now we have 37,196 taels of silver in the treasury of the fort, and 2,760 stones of grain in storage, which can be described as fruitful!" ”

Liu Yan was very down-to-earth when he heard this, and immediately asked Zhao Min to prepare two sums of money and food:

A sum of money was invested in the salt drying field, and now there are three salt drying ponds in the salt drying field, and Liu Yan wants to excavate and rest the three salt drying ponds to double the output of sea salt.

The other is to be invested in the soap workshop. Now the soap workshop is already a separate courtyard, under the head of Chen Jiang's family, there are already more than 110 women and military households, and the monthly output is also more than 7,000 yuan.

But Liu Yan is still not satisfied, after all, soap is a consumable, and now the demand is so big, this output still can't satisfy Liu Yan, at least double the production!

Zhao Min frowned slightly, feeling that Liu Yan's hand was too big, so he said: "Chief A's plan is good, but how much labor and how much food does it need?" ”

Liu Yan didn't feel distressed at all, and said: "The specific amount of money and food, Director Zhao will discuss with Chen Jiang's and Chu Yunfei, and the three of you can just draw up a list and report it to me." ”

"Oh, by the way, Chu Yunfei will be responsible for the production of the salt drying plant in the future, and I will officially appoint him when I have time."

Seeing this, Zhao Min agreed.

Back in the General Flag Office, Liu Yan called Miao Shao, the little flag officer, and said about the appointment of Chu Yunfei, and wrote an appointment by himself, asking Miao Shao to send someone to the salt drying field, and then find an opportunity to banquet a few directors and small flag officials in a few days, and officially congratulate Chu Yunfei.

Miao Shao had just gone out with the appointment, but Wang Yue, the little flag officer, walked in quickly and said, "Captain A, Jia Hongyu, the chief flag officer of Wangjiazhuang, is here, and he is waiting outside." ”

Liu Yan frowned slightly and said, "Please!" ”

Soon, Jia Hongyu walked in with a smile and said, "Mr. Liu's victory is gratifying!" ”

Liu Yan brought hot tea to warm up Jia Hongyu's body, and then said: "It's just a small battle, there's nothing to celebrate." Brother Jia, is there something wrong? ”

Jia Hongyu's face changed, then he sighed and said, "It's Song Gongming, the inspector of the 100 households of the Guzhen Inspection Division, who is here, and now he has arrived at the 100 households official hall in Wangjiazhuang. ”

Liu Yan sneered and said, "Then Song Gongming came to Xingshi to ask about the crime?" ”

Jia Hongyu hesitated for a moment and said: "The master of the management team asked Liu Zongqi to go, and I want to persuade you: after all, the Song inspector is a Shangguan, and when he arrives at the Hundred Household Official Hall, if he has anything to say, it will cost some silver." Anyway, you killed Song Long in the first battle of Xitunzhuang, and you also stood in Lizi, how about sparing him for this face-saving matter? ”