Chapter 82 Harvest Dividend

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Gao Yingxiang did not rush outside Longzhou City as He Renlong expected. After returning to Longzhou City, He Yingxiang immediately sent him to the direction of He Fang's headquarters to investigate the whereabouts of He Fang and his officers and soldiers.

However, two days later, He Fang and his team of officers and soldiers still failed to return to Longzhou City. Instead, they sent the night to find their whereabouts and brought back the news back, saying that they had found some of He Fang's scattered soldiers and brought the news that He Fang was defeated by Xing Tianjun back to Longzhou City.

But it is not clear about He Fang's whereabouts at night. After all, the defeated soldiers they found were all in a melee. The officers and soldiers who were scattered did not survive until He Fang was captured at all, so they fled into the mountains and forests, so no one could tell the whereabouts of He Fang.

And the night did not accept it and also explored the place where He Fang led the department and Xing Tianjun fought fiercely that day, but except for some completely abandoned heavy vehicles and a small number of bodies that had not been buried, He Fang did not see a single shadow.

It's no wonder that they couldn't find He Fang's whereabouts without checking these nights. Originally, they had a chance to get information about He Fang. After all, there were dozens of officers and soldiers who were captured with He Fang at that time, but among these officers and soldiers, Liu Wanqing always escorted them on the way back to Longzhou by the Xing Tianjun. The soldiers of Xing Tianjun were unprepared and actually incited some prisoners of war to take the opportunity to make trouble. They wanted to take the opportunity to seize He Fang's team to escape from Xing Tianjun. As a result, he was unlucky with the dozens of prisoners of war. Xiao Tianjian, who was furious, who was furious, immediately ordered to slaughter them clean and throw them in the ravine. As a result, they might have spread out. The news was also buried in the ground in Xiao Tianjian's anger.

So far, He Renlong also thought about it. He knew that his nephew He Fang was likely to be more and less lucky, but he had not heard the news that the thieves outside the city had released the news that they had captured He Fang, so he began to think that his nephew was probably killed in the chaotic army.

So he set up a card for He Fang in the city and sent someone back to his hometown to send the news of He Fang's death back to the clan. He Fang was dead.

However, he also hated the Xingtian army outside the city to the extreme. After returning to Longzhou City, he completely figured out the composition of the thief army outside the city. It turned out that the Xingtian army was actually a guest army to assist Li Zicheng in attacking Longzhou City.

And he had already heard about the reputation of Xing Tianjun when he was in Longzhou. It was the Xing Tianjun who was in Yanyang some time ago. Duan Youzhi, the governor of Fengxiang, sent a letter asking him to send troops to Yanyang to destroy this Xing Tianjun, but at the beginning, he was dismissed in the name of shortage of food and salaries.

At present, it can be said that it is not unfair that he fell into the hands of this Xing Tianjun. If he had known this, he should have cooperated with Fengxiang Zhifu to send troops to suppress this Xing Tianjun, and there would be no defeat today.

He Renlong can be said to have knocked out his teeth and swallowed blood into his stomach. He even has no place to find someone to complain. If Duan Youzhi knows about this, then it is estimated that Duan Youzhi will also gloat and scold him for deserve it.

But no matter how much he hates, there is nothing he can do about the Xingtian army outside the city. Li Zicheng is stationed outside Longzhou City. He is eager for He Renlong to be furious and go out of the city to fight! Therefore, although He Renlong was angry, he did not lose his mind. After entering the city, he immediately closed the gate again. While strengthening the defense of the city wall, he strengthened the training of the young people in the city, and forced some big households in the city to take out some money and food to pay, so that the defense ability of Longzhou City could be further strengthened.

At the same time, He Renlong sent a night to investigate the situation of the thief army. After hearing the news that Gao Yingxiangguo was really leading a large number of chaotic troops to Longzhou City, he also began to be nervous and immediately sent his subordinates to report the situation of Longzhou to Hong Chengchou. At that time, he also sent a letter to Xi'an Mansion and asked Chen Qiyu, who was still the governor of the five provinces, to report that at this time, he asked them to discuss and send troops to solve the siege of Longzhou as soon as possible.

In a word, what he can be sure of is that he and Longzhou City have become a target of the civilian army, and they must take him and Longzhou City! Then I'm afraid his life will not be better in the future.

After Xiao Tianjian led Xing Tianjun to return to the outside of Longzhou City, Li Zicheng invited him and his subordinate generals to the banquet. At the banquet, Li Zicheng's generals were very kind to the generals of Xing Tianjun and repeatedly persuaded them to drink, and those soldiers under Li Zicheng's command, when they looked at the people of Xing Tianjun, their eyes were also revealed. With a look of awe, he was no longer as arrogant in front of the Xingtian soldiers as before.

Because of He Renlong's return to defense, the strength of the defenders of Longzhou City has greatly increased. Li Zicheng also knew that with the strength of his army alone, coupled with Xiao Tianjian's Xing Tianjun, it was absolutely difficult to capture Longzhou City in a short time. Therefore, the fierce Longzhou war, after He Renlong returned to Longzhou City, it began to calm down. .

After Xiao Tianjian came back with the army this time, he also began to be much more high-profile. He began to hang up the recruitment cards and took the initiative to recruit soldiers.

Originally, after Li Zicheng led his troops to Longzhou, the surrounding people who learned the news rushed to Li Zicheng. Few people cared about following Li Zicheng's Xing Tianjun. Even if some people knew that Xing Tianjun was famous in the area of Yanyang, Xiao Tianjian's reputation was still incomparable to Li Zicheng. The exiles who came to join the army basically did not consider the matter of throwing themselves into the Xing Tian Army, but chose to throw themselves into Li Zicheng's army.

After Xing Tianjun's battle with He Renlong and won a complete victory, under Xiao Tianjian's deliberate instructions, the news quickly spread all over Longzhou, making many exiles who came to the army turn to pay attention to this Xing Tianjun, which they were not very optimistic about before.

When they learned that Xing Tianjun also began to recruit soldiers, some people came to the Xingtian barracks in an endless stream and asked to devote themselves to Xiao Tianjian as soldiers.

Coupled with the deliberate rendering of the scouts outside, many people know that the quality of Xing Tianjun's meal is much better than that in Li Zicheng's camp, which can at least make them full, which makes Xing Tianjun more attractive. For a while, the number of people who defected to the Xing Tianjun soon increased.

For these exiles, Xing Tianjun is naturally the old way. It takes a careful selection to include the young, strong and honest people and the craftsmen who know some iron and wood craftsmanship into the army. For those who are ruffians or old and weak, they will not accept them and always adhere to their elite military route.

In such a selection, Xing Tianjun actually caught several spies sent by He Renlong in the city. Even if he showed these spies to the public, he threw the corpses outside the camp gate to feed the wild dogs.

Although Li Zicheng is not happy about the recruitment of Xing Tianjun, he can't do anything about it. After all, he has no reason to only allow him to recruit troops by himself, but he does not let Xiao Tianjian recruit troops. Moreover, the grain reserves in his army is limited, which is not as rich as Xing Tianjun. At the beginning, he can still Let his men eat two meals a day, but once the number of exiles recruited increased, his food began to be overstretched, and he had to send his men to the surrounding area every day to meet the demand for grain in his army. Therefore, even if his appetite is big enough, he can't eat so many exiles, so he has to watch. Xing Tianjun picked up people, and some of the eliminated exiles turned to his army.

However, Li Zicheng also has something he can't understand. Xing Tianjun's selection of soldiers does not seem to be based on physical strength. Many of them obviously look strong. At first glance, they can be soldiers. Wherever he stands, he is tiger-biao. He didn't expect to be directly eliminated by Xing Tianjun and turned to Li. In its own camp.

For this situation, Li Zicheng privately understood that Xiao Tianjian was deliberately lowering his posture, not all the strong men to enter the army, but also left part of it to him.

Xiao Tianjian will not explain the doubts of Li Zicheng and his generals. In fact, there is a common problem with these young people who have been eliminated, that is, these people's eyes flash when they choose soldiers, and each of them has a slippery and tricky temperament. Although it looks very tough, they really use it. In their words, these people are by no means qualified soldiers. They take advantage of them when they are in front of the war. If they don't take advantage, they will run away. There is only harm and no benefit to the construction of the army. These people, Xing Tianjun will not want them, and Li Zicheng is willing to accept them. Naturally, he can't care about it.

On the surface, Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses have grown very fast. From the time he first came, there were thousands of people, and in less than ten days, he quickly increased to more than 15,000 people by sheltering and holding the exiles. However, the really useful soldiers only account for less than 30% of them, and the rest are old, weak, women and children or traitors. The cunning person is not enough to use it at all.

Although the Xingtian Army does not recruit many troops on the surface, but only recruited hundreds of people, there are more than 100 craftsmen. These craftsmen and their families are directly integrated into the barracks, and the rest are bachelors. After a little **, they are usable soldiers.

The new recruits in the original new barracks have also met the requirements of the soldiers after the inspection of the Great Stone Bridge World War. After returning, they were immediately disbanded and added them to the sentry posts, so that the number of sentries reached nearly 200, although it was still far from Xiao Tianjian's initial goal. Some distance, but now the combat effectiveness of each sentry has reached another step.

As for the newly recruited soldiers, it is still the same as the old rule. They are directly integrated into the new barracks for training. After they meet the requirements, they can only be integrated into the combat team. Xing Tianjun has been familiar with this kind of thing so far. The new barracks sentry Liu Bao and more than 30 leaders under him have been completely To undertake such a job.

With the mechanism of the new barracks, the Xing Tianjun will not worry and then have no soldiers. The new barracks can be said to be an assembly line. It can turn a batch of new recruits into usable soldiers and send them to the sent to the sent posts of the soldiers. The combat effectiveness of the barracks will always be guaranteed, and there will be novices. There is a decline in combat effectiveness, which is also an important reason why it is not easy to be defeated by the enemy when they go to battle.