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Chapter 560
On the night when Chen Yongfu attacked Chuangjun's camp at night, Chen De beheaded the bandit Yidougu, and even took his body away. Youwei was furious.

But he was powerless, not only failed to take back Yidougu's body, but half of his cavalry that had just assembled was thrown into chaos by the night raiding army. He also knew at this moment that the hastily assembled cavalry was no match for the official army, so he hurried Greeting the hundreds of horse thieves around him, they are doomed to escape.

On the second day, there were some horse thieves and foot thieves who could not escape, and they were all gathered together by him. In the afternoon, there were more than 150 horse thieves and more than 200 foot thieves. He had long wanted to leave Li Zicheng, so he took the Follow the 300-odd people all the way through the new town and head south.

They fled south in a hurry, with no food, horses and grass, and lost much energy after stumbling through the new city, but the army besieged Kaifeng for many days, and the people in the surrounding small villages had already fled, or rushed into counties, prefectural cities, or threw themselves into the village. In the surrounding fortified villages.

Du Youwei was also very hungry, so he had no choice but to attack a large village at noon on the second day. However, these large villages not only have strong walls, but also densely covered canals and ditches around the village, and there are many small villages around them. young and strong.

After attacking for half a day, not only failed to break through the stronghold, but also injured more than [-] people in his own family. He originally wanted to rest for the night and wait until dawn the next day before attacking hard.

But how could he have imagined that at dusk, more than a thousand cavalry officers and soldiers came out from nowhere, and immediately killed and defeated their less than three hundred bandits, even if the hundreds of horse bandits under his command could not escape, they joined him He was surrounded and captured by the officers and soldiers.

Later, I found out that it was a surprise soldier sent by the Xuanzhen government army who defeated the crockpot in the first battle in the north of Kaifeng City. They originally wanted to set up an ambush here to fight the king Li Zicheng, but they didn't expect to be beaten by them like a rabbit. .

Chen Zhong defeated hundreds of thieves in the first battle, and even captured the leader of the thieves, Du Youwei. , without panic, and more than 2000 cavalry patrolling around, so they did not attack rashly.

Afterwards, he met Zhang Guangda who followed the intruders southward, and he reported in detail about the capture of Du Youwei and his failure to attack the intruders rashly.

Zhang Guangda heard that Du Youwei was so brave, that he was able to severely injure several rangers under Chen Zhong's command with the power of one man and one rider, so he wanted to kill them at that time to relieve the atmosphere in his heart.

It was Chen Zhong's persuasion from the sidelines that saved the life of "Jumping Tiger" Du Youwei, and came to the camp of the North Route Army in Zhang Chengxuan Town, west of Kaifeng City.

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In the big tent of the Chinese army, Du Youwei's eyes were full of longing. He looked at Zhang Cheng who was sitting firmly after the first major case, his lips trembled, and he was speechless for a while.

"Pfft!"

He suddenly knelt down on his knees, kowtowed and shouted loudly: "Du Youwei is willing to follow the commander-in-chief's army to die!"

Looking at Du Youwei kneeling on the ground, Zhang Cheng had mixed feelings in his heart. Now, in order to quickly improve his strength, he has begun to selectively recruit bandits from all over the world.

This is somewhat inconsistent with his thoughts when he first came to Daming, but it is also impossible. Daming has indeed reached the end of the storm, and even a dose of strong medicine may not be able to bring the dead back to life.

What's more, he, Zhang Cheng, has not yet qualified to give Daming a dose of strong medicine. At this moment, there are trespassers, surrogates, Cao thieves, and the fifth battalion of Ge Zuo.

On the outside, there are Tartars, the number one enemy who has been honored by the founding of the country. It is not only the founding of the country and the emperor, but the most important thing is that it also has a large and stable fundamental land, and there is a whole-hearted robbery army.

Zhang Cheng knew very well that these thieves and bandits who caused chaos in Da Ming's heart were all veterans who had experienced battles, and he had to either kill them all, or transform them into soldiers for him to command.

He is from the new era. Even if he didn't personally participate in the battle to transform more than 100 million enemy troops decades ago, even though he has never eaten pork, he has always seen pigs run.

What's more, people in this era are far from being as active in their thinking and understanding as later generations. They can use words such as loyalty, righteousness and shame, honoring their ancestors, sealing their wives and sons, and leaving their names for a hundred generations to strike their hearts, and then make them full and don't have to go hungry. After that, there will be strict military regulations and military discipline, and clear rewards and punishments.

Zhang Cheng believes that through some tricks, he can still take these thieves for his own use, just like it can be seen everywhere in history. He was a thief at first and then became an official army, but he is more accustomed to fighting than the original official army.

Now, he has two purposes for regaining Du Youwei. One is to imitate Shang Yang's meaning of "moving wood and establishing faith", so as to show his love and cherish talent to the gangsters. This means that Liu Tichun was let go before to win this reputation.

The second is to continue to use the recruited bandits to command the reformed bandits. In fact, many bandits do not want to surrender to the court. Can be slaughtered.

Zhang Cheng did this to reassure these bandits. Once he accepts his consolation, he can still lead the original bandits. It's just that this new team must strictly observe military discipline and not violate orders to disturb or hurt the people.

In fact, whether it is recruiting soldiers, training soldiers, or controlling the army, it is all about money and food.

As the saying goes, the emperor does not send hungry soldiers, no pay and no food, even if the king of heaven comes, there is nothing he can do, but if enough food and money are paid, which army is born to love to mutilate the people and slaughter the living?
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The smile on Zhang Cheng's face was even wider. He looked at Du Youwei and said in a deep voice, "Your name was given by your parents. The ancients said, 'If you don't do something, you can do something'. Now that you have devoted yourself to For me, if I know what is wrong, I will make a difference in the future, even if I can't honor my ancestors, at least future generations can enjoy wealth and honor, and I don't have to be a bandit anymore!"

He stared at Du Youwei deeply, and said: "You must remember, once you are determined to follow me, you must never use yourself as a thief again, and you must not half-heartedly do unfaithful and unrighteous things."

Although Zhang Cheng's voice was not loud, but every word hit Du Youwei's heart, he prostrated himself on the ground and said, "Please rest assured, Commander, our Du Youwei's rotten life will be the Commander's from now on." Yes, if the commander wants us to live, he will live, if he wants us to die, he will die, he will go through fire and water, and he has no two intentions!"

Zhang Cheng nodded in satisfaction, turned his gaze to Zhang Chengfang who was standing on his left side and said, "Chengfang, take Du Youwei down to bandage the wound, change your clothes and gown, and rest for now!"

According to the order, Zhang Chengfang summoned his own soldiers to help Du Youwei, and walked out of the military tent with him.

(End of this chapter)