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Liu Sheng said seriously: "The Eight Kings must have heard about the discipline of our rebel army in the past few days.

After the capture of Xiangyang City, except for the public trial of several notorious magnates in Xiangyang City, our troops did not harm ordinary people.

In the past few days, our Wei tribe has recruited 4,800 civilian warriors and 10,000 civilian servants in Xiangyang City.

Among these people, the family members of Min Yong will go to Runing with our Kuei tribe, but their relatives, as well as the families of Min Hu, are still in the city.

After the Eight Kings entered the city, if they caused chaos in the city and even caused innocent people to lose their lives, how should our army explain to those brave people and civil servants? How to explain to the people of Xiangyang City? "

Zhang Xianzhong was slightly stunned after hearing this.

Probably Liu Sheng's words exceeded his expectations.

But he quickly came to his senses and sneered: "What do you mean, Marshal Liu? Is it possible that our Lao Zhang's soldiers can't make no mistakes against Minqiu?"

Liu Sheng said: "You should know what the soldiers of the eight kings are like. Besides, if you really have no offense with Minqiu after entering the city, why would the eight kings enter Xiangyang? It is better to leave early before the officers and soldiers arrive."

Zhang Xianzhong still has confidence in controlling the troops.

He said with a cold face: "After our Lao Zhang entered the city, he did nothing to the common people!

But those gentry and landlords, wealthy merchants and street tyrants, and corrupt officials should all be beheaded and their homes confiscated!

On the other hand, you, Marshal Liu, only killed a few big households, maybe you were trying to win over the hearts of those gentry and landlords, right? "

Zhang Xianzhong obviously didn't care about killing more people.

In other words, he wanted to kill everyone he disliked.

However, the attitude of the Kuaibu towards the gentry and landlords was to kill some, punish some, and use some.

However, this policy of the Ministry of Education cannot be explained clearly in a few words, and Liu Sheng did not want to explain it to Zhang Xianzhong.

He then sighed: "It seems that the eight kings did not listen to the advice and had to enter Xiangyang after our Wei tribe left?"

"I can come in whenever I want, no one can control me!"

"In this case, let the Eight Kings enter the city and give it a try based on their abilities."

After speaking, Liu Sheng left with two of his men.

He did not allow Zhang Xianzhong's troops to enter Xiangyang City after the Wei tribe left. This was not entirely for the sake of the people of Xiangyang - it was mainly because he was worried that the Wei tribe would lose its reputation in Xiangyang.

Because during their stay in Xiangyang, Zhang Xianzhong's tribe and his tribe were barely temporary allies.

After Weibu left, Zhang Xianzhong's troops entered the city. In the eyes of the people, it was as if Weibu had handed over Xiangyang to Zhang Xianzhong.

If Zhang Xianzhong causes anger and resentment in Xiangyang, the people will certainly hate Zhang Xianzhong first, but there will definitely be many people who hate Weibu.

Therefore, Liu Sheng did not want Zhang Xianzhong's troops to enter Xiangyang City, at least not right after Wei's troops left.

After returning to Xiangyang City, Liu Sheng immediately made a series of arrangements for this matter...

He originally planned to recruit three thousand civilian warriors.

Unexpectedly, after the people of Xiangyang saw the strict discipline of the Yibu rebel army, many young men were willing to recruit.

The Guards responsible for recruiting selected and selected again, but still recruited 4,800 people and organized and trained eight civilian warrior battalions.

These civilian warriors can stay in the camp for up to eight days and the shortest is only three days. Their training level is extremely low. They will definitely not be able to be sent out to fight, but they will have no problem defending the city.

Liu Sheng planned to let these eight civilians bravely camp the rear and help defend Xiangyang City.

Why is it called co-shou?

Because the main force behind the palace and guarding Xiangyang will be the Shengjie Battalion of the Guards and half of the Huben Battalion including the army artillery posts, plus more than a thousand original Xiangyang rural soldiers!

These Xiangyang soldiers were all locals. Seeing that the rebels did not burn, kill or loot after entering the city, they did not resist excessively and surrendered one after another.

As for the soldiers recruited for the camp, even more surrendered, up to more than 2,000 people!

Surrendered camp soldiers were treated differently from prisoners.

Liu Sheng planned to take them back and make them into civilian warriors first, so that they could gradually adapt to the discipline of the Yibu Rebel Army, and then select the best among them to join the standing army.

Liu Sheng had figured out Zhang Xianzhong's military strength in the past few days.

I know that there are only more than 4,000 people in Zhang Xianzhong's old camp, and the remaining tens of thousands are ordinary people who have been forcibly recruited into the army.

Although Zhang Xianzhong has continued to recruit troops in the past few days, it is estimated that there are only more than 20,000 young and strong recruits.

The training of Zhang Xianzhong's new recruits was worse than that of the civilian warriors recruited by the Kuai army in the city, or there was no training at all.

In addition, most of them don't even have weapons. They can only use iron farm tools as weapons, or simply hold a wooden stick.

Faced with such a real group of peasant troops, Liu Sheng was confident that Zhang Xianzhong would retreat...

February 10th, morning.

Huang Gan, the deputy of the Second Regiment, and Liu Changhe, the deputy of the Seventh Regiment, led four battalions of standing troops and 10,000 civilian men and boatmen, and took more than a thousand large and small boats and returned to the north dock of Xiangyang City.

On the night of the capture of Xiangyang, Liu Sheng sent telegrams to Hong Niangzi and Li Changwen respectively, asking them to send troops to help escort the money and grain.

In the end, Liu Changhe led one battalion of the Seventh Regiment, Huang Gan led two battalions of the Second Regiment, plus one battalion of the Hong Niangzi Fourth Regiment stationed in Queshan, a total of four battalions of standing troops entered Nanyang Mansion.

It took the fourth battalion standing army two days to arrive at Biyang, and then took a boat down the river from Bi River to the south, arriving at Xiangyang City in less than two days.

It was the fifth day of February.

The four battalions of standing troops only rested for one night and began the escort mission the next day.

Liu Sheng used 10,000 civilians recruited in Xiangyang as trackers and boatmen (Xiangyang City is located on the Han River, and the common people can basically swim and punt).

More than a thousand large and small boats collected before and after were used as vehicles.

Nearly 100,000 shi of grain were transported at one time!

In order to rush for time, these grains were first transported to Tang County, two hundred miles away.

Even so, it took Huang Gan, Liu Changhe and others four days to make the round trip.

The main reason was that it took time to go north against the current - even though there were nearly ten thousand people working as trackers to help pull the boats, it still took nearly three days for the fleet to go north from Xiangyang to Tang County.

On the other hand, when we returned to Xiangyang, we had to go down the river again, and the water flow was slow. We traveled day and night, and it only took one day to get there.

Therefore, this is the second time Huang Gan, Liu Changhe and others have escorted.

The military and political officials organized the people of Xiangyang City to do the loading of money and grain.

Huang Gan and Liu Changhe led their troops into the city to rest and reported to Liu Sheng the situation on the road.

After the two of them saluted, Liu Sheng took the initiative to ask: "Is the journey going smoothly?"

Huang Gan said: "It went very smoothly. The Ming army didn't come. The bandits on the road stayed away when they saw that we had many people and boats."

Liu Changhe added: "I think most of the Nanyang Ming army doesn't know about this yet, but they will definitely know it once we transport food there.

This time, even if the Nanyang Ming Army doesn't intercept us halfway, they will definitely take advantage of Tang County. "

Liu Sheng said: "Tang County has half of the Huben Battalion plus one battalion of the Fifth Regiment, as well as a civilian brave battalion to assist in the defense. It should not be a problem in a short time.

Moreover, after Luoyang fell, the Ming army in Nanyang Prefecture was likely to be transferred to Henan Prefecture to encircle and suppress Li Chuang, and they might not have the time to understand the situation in Tang County. "

After Liu Sheng captured Biyang and Tangxian when he came, he tried his best to block news.