The next day, after breakfast, Li Zhiyun was preparing to go to the town when he suddenly heard a loud noise in the distance. He walked out of the tent and was about to ask the soldiers outside what happened? I saw Zhang Zheng running over in a hurry. Zhang Zheng ran up to him and gasped: "Your Majesty, there is a group of robbers, about a hundred people in number, who are robbing the town."
"Robber?" Li Zhiyun heard this and said quickly, "Okay, hurry up and gather the team!"
Zhang Zheng guessed that he was going to fight the bandits, and said hesitantly: "But, there are more than a hundred of them, and we only have forty or fifty." After hearing this, Li Zhiyun glared and said, "Then we can't just watch the people suffer. Ah! Go quickly!"
"Yes!" Zhang Zheng turned around to gather the team.
Li Zhiyun returned to the tent to get his pistol. This flintlock pistol was very bulky, more than a foot long, and was inconvenient to carry around, so it was kept in a saddle bag. After he came out with the pistol, Zhang Zheng had already assembled the team.
Li Zhiyun and the others rushed to the town at a trot, only to see the bandits robbing and killing people. Throughout the town, chickens were flying and dogs were barking, and every household was crying for father and mother. When the robbers saw the officers and soldiers coming, they were frightened at first. Later, they found out that there were not many of them, and they became bolder. The bandits gathered together and charged towards them with swords and spears in hand.
Half of the forty or fifty people brought by Li Zhiyun were equipped with blunderbuss. Fifty steps away, the soldiers opened fire. Those who did not have muskets also used strong bows and crossbows. The robber who rushed in front was knocked down in a large area in an instant. The robbers were shocked: What is this? Why is it so powerful? They were all so frightened that they no longer dared to rush forward, so they had to turn around and run away. Others may not have expected this result, but Li Zhiyun had expected it. Although it was his first time to participate in actual combat, he was still very confident in the power of the gun.
Li Zhiyun walked into a yard where two robbers were dragging a girl. As soon as the robber saw him coming in, he let go of the girl, drew his sword and rushed towards him. Li Zhiyun hurriedly raised his gun to shoot, knocked it down, and the other man rushed forward, so he pulled the trigger again. This runner is like a flintlock gun and can fire five rounds each time it is loaded. After the two robbers were shot, they fell to the ground and twitched for a while, then kicked their legs and died. Li Zhiyun did not expect that he would kill two people with his own hands. Although they were just two robbers, he was so frightened that his hands and feet became weak. He dropped his flintlock gun to the ground and stood there in a daze until Zhang Zheng left. He came to his senses only after calling him into the yard. He felt his heart beating like a drum and his face must have been extremely pale.
All the robbers who were not killed ran away, and calm returned to the town. At this time, the people came out of their houses tremblingly and gathered on the street to express their gratitude to the officers and soldiers who drove away the robbers. An old man with gray beard and hair walked up to Li Zhiyun and asked with trembling lips: "Are you the army of the Tang Dynasty?" Before Li Zhiyun could answer, Cai Hu on the side said first: "We are the army of the Tang Dynasty. This is our Tang Dynasty." King of Chu."
"King Chu?" The old man looked at Li Zhiyun and asked, "Didn't King Qin come?"
"Come here, come here," Li Zhiyun said quickly, "We are here with King Qin."
"So, you are King Qin's army?"
"Yes, we are King Qin's army."
The old man turned around and said loudly to the people surrounding him: "Folks, they are King Qin's army. They are here to collect food. Let's donate food to them!" Among the crowd, a young man He shouted worriedly: "Are you really King Qin's army?" Li Zhiyun said quickly: "Really, we will not lie to you!"
"Well, I will donate the food to King Qin!"
The people around him agreed, and many people expressed their intention to donate food to King Qin on the spot. After the people dispersed, Li Zhiyun ordered food donation points to be set up on the street. The people of the whole town took action. They carried bags of grain on their carts and on their shoulders. In less than an hour, Li Zhiyun collected a sufficient amount of food.
Seeing the scene of people enthusiastically donating food, Li Zhiyun couldn't help but be filled with emotion. He did not expect that the second brother's status in the hearts of the people was so high. If you think about it carefully, the reason why the people love the second brother is not only because the army of the second brother is strictly disciplined and does no harm to the people. The most important point is that the people probably believe that only the second brother can unify the world and end this war. , and give the people a peaceful world. The wishes of the people are actually very simple. They just want to live peacefully.
This is where the second brother is better than him. The second brother has the world in mind and is dedicated to saving all the people. He is born to be a sage monarch. Although he is a time traveler and knows more things than the second brother, in the end, he is just a human being. Ordinary people do not have such a broad mind and cannot do anything without thinking about the world. What he values more is the family and friends around him. At most, when he sees the suffering of the people, he will feel some sympathy.
There were more than a dozen young men in the town. They packed their bags and asked to join the army of King Qin with the grain collection team. Li Zhiyun happily agreed.
The soldiers loaded the grain into carts. Li Zhiyun said goodbye to the people in the town, then mounted his horse and led the team back home with a full load.
They transported the collected grain to Baibi City. There is a granary in the city, where food collected from various places and food transported from the Guanzhong area are stored here, and then distributed to various military camps as needed. Therefore, this place became a distribution center for food and fodder for the army.
When a group of people drove the carriage into the city, they were blocked at the city gate for a while. In front of them were carts of mules and horses transporting grain. After entering the city, Li Zhiyun saw many young men carrying burdens and walking past them talking and laughing. He estimated that these should be young people who came from far and near to join the army.
When Li Zhiyun and the others drove the carriage to the granary, they found many vehicles filled with grain parked in the open space in front of the granary. A quartermaster who received them said with a smile on his face: "Your Highness King Chu, this method of yours really works. You see, in just a few days, we have collected so much food from various places." Li Zhiyun nodded and said, "It works. That’s good.”
The second brother and Song Jingang confronted each other in the Baibi area. The second brother ordered that the wall should not be breached, and they would fight the enemy for attrition, and only send non-main force troops to disrupt the enemy's rear.
On this day, Li Zhiyun took Zhang Zheng and Cai Hu to Liyang Town on horseback. This is a large market town with more than a thousand households. The streets of the town are very lively with people coming and going. There are many stalls on both sides of the street, including those selling vegetables, cooked food, cloth and silk ribbons, as well as daily groceries and various knick-knacks. Although there is a war now, people still have to live, so business is still booming.
The three of them were walking down the street with their horses, and five or six soldiers came towards them. They carried swords and wore scarlet leather armor. They should be soldiers of Song Jingang's army, because the leather armor worn by the Tang army was black. Liyang Town is located in the middle of the two armies, and it is not uncommon to encounter soldiers from Song Jingang's army here. This is not a battlefield, everyone is here to have fun, so the officers and soldiers of the two armies basically reached a tacit understanding and did not disturb each other. When the soldiers passed by the three of them, they just glanced at them and walked over.
The three of them walked around the street for half an hour. When Li Zhiyun saw that the sun had climbed above his head, he said to his two followers: "Let's go find a restaurant and fill our stomachs." There was a restaurant in front of them that was selling wine. They walked over to the restaurant and took a look. The plaque on the door read: Ruyi Restaurant. They tied the reins to the hitching posts and went inside.
The lobby of this restaurant is quite spacious, with five or six tables set up. There are already three or four tables of guests. One of the tables of guests is the soldiers wearing red leather armor they met on the street half an hour ago. . The soldiers were drinking and talking noisily. Li Zhiyun and the others found an empty table and sat down. The waiter came over and wiped the table while asking them what they wanted to eat. Li Zhiyun ordered several plates of stir-fried vegetables and hot steamed buns. After a while, the waiter brought the food and the three of them started eating.
At this time, several more soldiers walked in from outside the door, all wearing black leather armor. There was only one empty table in the lobby, next to the table of soldiers in red leather armor. The few people walked over and sat down, ordered food and drinks and started eating and drinking.
Li Zhiyun and the others finished their meal, paid the bill, and were about to leave when a soldier in red leather armor said loudly: "Hey, have you seen a few bastards?" The soldier sitting next to him asked deliberately: "What are you doing?" Where are they?" The soldier murmured to the table next to him: "Isn't that right? There are four or five of them." A soldier on the table next to him couldn't help it, stood up and glared: "Who are you calling a bastard? What?" The soldier said without any sign of weakness: "I'll just scold you! If you don't want to come out to fight, aren't you just cowering?"
"You are the ones who are cowering!"
Seeing that they were about to quarrel, Li Zhiyun quickly stepped forward to persuade him: "Forget it, forget it, everyone is here to eat, why not be calm? Don't affect the store's business." The soldier in red leather armor glanced at him He glanced at him and said with disdain: "What do you know, you little kid? Is there any place for you to talk here?" Zhang Zheng, who was following Li Zhiyun, stared at him and said, "How can you talk?" The soldier saw that Zhang Zheng was tall and tall. Zhuang, holding the hilt of the sword in his hand, with a sinister expression on his face, his mouth opened, but in the end he did not dare to say any more. A soldier sitting opposite him took a drink and persuaded him: "Forget it, stop talking, let's have a drink."
Li Zhiyun and the others walked out of the restaurant, mounted their horses and left the town, preparing to return to the camp. After they had traveled more than a mile, they saw seven or eight horses galloping in front of them. They didn't know who they were...
