Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 154

After Li Taiping's order, the Fourth Battalion set up camp between the Lengshui River and the Hanshui River.This time, Li Taiping's decision not to continue marching was actually due to military rations. Although he brought more than 1000 wheelbarrows on this journey, most of them were food.However, no amount of food can support the long distance of people, and now the food is less than half.Although the consumption can be reduced by half without long-distance marches, no matter how much you save, it will not be enough for three months.The most important thing right now is to develop base areas, find some traitorous landlords and ruthlessly seize a number of homes, and ease the pressure on food.

The first battalion could unite the landlord class, but the fourth battalion could not.Because the object of the unity of the four battalions is the heroes of the green forest, and the heroes of the green forest all want to rob the rich and help the poor.It is really not easy to cooperate with the object of looting.

Today, although Li Taiping kicked out the green forest heroes and came to Shaanxi with only 3000 troops, his looting style has not changed.

After being resettled, on the second day Li Taiping divided his troops into two groups, one group stayed in the camp and strengthened the camp, while the other group went out to explore the way.

The troops who went out to explore the road were led by Li Taiping himself, and there were three squadrons of troops, all of which were his most elite forces.

When Li Taiping led his troops to the west for twenty miles, he found a village.Although the village is not big, with about dozens of households, Li Taiping is still very happy. Maybe this will be the first base of the Fourth Battalion in Xing'an Prefecture.

So, Li Taiping took people to the village.

The movement of the large group of people and horses was very loud, and soon the people in the village discovered it.These people in the village have already suffered from the war, banditry is like a comb, and soldiers are like a grate. It has been like this for more than 20 years. They are lucky to survive until now.Now that I have seen a lot, I naturally know that it is useless to be afraid. Anyway, the family does not have half a liter of food left, and whoever takes a cheap life can take it.

After entering the village, Li Taiping saw dozens of people standing sparsely, looking at his group with fear.

At this time, a preacher beside Li Taiping stood up and shouted loudly.

"Folks, we are the anti-Tartar team from Henan, and we are the security team!"

It's just that the villagers in the village were timid and still didn't speak. After a long time, until Li Taiping got a little restless, only one person spoke.

"Master, we are out of food, I hope you can do me a favor! Let us go."

Li Taiping frowned upon hearing the Qin local dialect.In this era, the customs are different in ten miles, and the language is so diverse that you can't even understand the language of the next door village.After this trip, Li Taiping traveled thousands of miles from Tongbai to Xing'an Mansion, naturally he couldn't understand the words here.

"Who among you can speak Henan dialect or Hubei dialect?"

The preacher had a headache. He is from Tongbai, but he has never traveled far. When he came to Shaanxi suddenly this time, he was stumped by this dialect.I traveled all the way before because I was at the junction of Henan and Hubei, so I could communicate in Henan and Hubei dialects when asking directions.But this place has already entered Shaanxi for tens of miles, so of course Henan dialect and Hubei dialect are no longer spoken.

After a long time, a one-armed man stood up.

"Master, I can speak Henan dialect."

Although the man has one arm and his back is bent, Li Taiping can clearly feel that this man has the aura of being a soldier.

"Perhaps he is a veteran of the Peasant Army. He once went to Henan." A thought crossed Li Taiping's mind.

Under the translation of this one-armed man, the two sides can finally communicate.

When they learned that the team of thousands of people came from Nanyang Mansion in Henan Province, the villagers were very surprised.Those who have traveled thousands of miles are no longer bandits, they are rogues.

The villagers who have experienced the ravages of rogue bandits are worried. The rogue bandits eat all the way and destroy all the way.They robbed all the grain in the places they passed, pulled all the young men, and destroyed all the farmhouses.When encountering an enemy, the strong will fight, and the weak will disperse. Between gathering and dispersing, countless families suffer miserably.

Seeing the terrified expressions of the villagers, the preacher could only explain patiently.

"Our security regiment is an anti-Tartar team, a team of the people, and an armed force of the nation. It is here to protect the people in southern Shaanxi."

It's just that people here don't understand the meaning of the people or the meaning of the nation, so the preacher can only talk.

"We are here to protect you! To protect you from being bullied by the Tartars!"

Hearing this, the villagers were very suspicious.I've only heard of people who receive protection fees, but I've never seen anyone who can be protected. Even if the court collects protection fees, I haven't seen how to protect myself.

"Master, you said that you are here to protect us, we have nothing to eat now, can you give me some?" the one-armed man asked boldly.

Hearing this, the preacher could only look back at the battalion commander, waiting for the battalion commander's decision.

At this time, Li Taiping was extremely depressed, he came to expand the territory, but in the end he had to be a money-scatterer first, and even had to subsidize food into the rich family's house if he didn't copy it.However, now that the security team has just arrived, there is no mass base here, so we can only invest some capital first, so that we can carry out the work better and faster.

"Order the troops to keep the lunch, well, let's leave the lunch for 500 people first."

The villagers couldn't believe it when they heard that these passing bandits actually gave food.But when they really saw the pancakes and jerky in their hands, the villagers exclaimed.

"Auntie! Come out and get the food!"

"Xiaozi, come out and don't hide, the bandits are giving out food!"

"Small girl, come out. The bandits don't rob food or people, and give food instead!"

"Come out for a toothbrush!"

So, under Li Taiping's speechless gaze, hundreds of people came out again. They looked at the group members with a trace of fear in their eyes, but when they saw the food distributed by the group members, their eyes were all red. stand up.When the [-] rations were distributed, each of the villagers received double rations for lunch.

After the villagers gobbled it up, Li Taiping felt that the relationship with each other should be more harmonious, so he asked about the landlord in the village.It turned out that the landlords in the village were either dead or they were all in the county town, and they only sent people over when it was time to collect grain.Not only here, but also in some surrounding villages.Because southern Shaanxi is too chaotic, I want to stay in the city if I have some money, it will be safer that way.This made Li Taiping feel very melancholy. I am afraid that the great cause of copying the house will be temporarily stranded, because if you want to copy the house, you have to go to the city.

After leaving a small team in this village, Li Taiping left with the big team.On the way, Li Taiping ordered the 500 people who lost their dry food to return to Daying, and sent a thousand catties of grain to that village to help Siying establish a peasant association in that village.

In one day, Li Taiping visited ten villages, left behind ten teams, and distributed a total of 15 catties of grain.Fortunately, at this time Li Taiping still had about [-] catties of grain.

(End of this chapter)