The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 24 Recruitment
All the way south to Binzhou, on the way, Chen Wang saw soldiers and horses passing by one after another, heading north.

It didn't take long before the document of victory came, and Zhenning was liberated. The rogues never thought that the Ming army would dare to march, and at such a fast speed, after successive setbacks.

Before Zhang Waijia came to Zhenning, Zhenning's thieves scattered and fled. Zhang Waijia then led the elite cavalry to chase after him. He won several rounds in a row, captured thousands of heads, and marched towards Ningzhou and Xiangle.

When the bandits heard that the Ming army was attacking again, they directly abandoned Ningzhou and fled north to Anhua and Heshui in the central area of ​​Qingyang Prefecture.

But Zhang Waijia led Jingqi, one man and two horses, and soon twenty miles north of Ningzhou City, they caught up with the hungry people and troops left behind by the rogues.

The rogues turned back to fight again, but their cavalry was overwhelmed by the elite cavalry led by Zhang Waijia, so they had to leave the brigade and flee.

Zhang Waijia ordered the massacre of the remnants, and the official road in the north of Ningzhou City was almost stained with blood. The blood gathered into a stream and flowed into the river.

If Zhang Quanchang, the chief soldier, hadn't arrived in time to stop them, Zhang Waijia would have slaughtered those who had no time to escape.

You must know that there are many Ningzhou residents and villagers around Ningzhou among them. They were all coerced and fled north together. Zhang Waijia didn't distinguish them, and treated them as rogues.

In the end, only [-] people were rescued by Zhang Quanchang. Zhang Waijia's army slaughtered more than [-] people, and many more fled into the mountains and wasteland.

Zhang Waijia advocated doing everything possible to suppress the bandits, and he saw a lot of surrenders and rebellions after he came in from outside the pass, and no one could punish Zhang Waijia, after all, when he raised the butcher knife, those people were classified as thieves.

To the south of Binzhou City, above the wilderness.

Chen Wang rode a war horse, holding a whip, and stood not far from the city wall of Binzhou City.

Behind him were seven or eight fully armed cavalry, and more than thirty infantrymen, all wearing armor, holding spears, and hanging knives around their waists.

Chen Wang lowered his head, and the helmet on top of his head blocked the direct sunlight.

The wilderness not far in front of him was full of dilapidated shacks, dirty and dilapidated.

The whole world was dark.

Chen Wang looked back at Binzhou City behind him, the gate of Binzhou City was still closed.

The soldiers on the city were densely packed, and people were still walking around from time to time, and banners were flying above the city wall.

The thieves crossed the border, and the city of Binzhou was not destroyed, but the villages and towns around Binzhou suffered disaster.

A part of the people were carried by the thieves and continued to go northwest, and the people who escaped to the mountains and forests returned home, and they found that everything in the house was gone.

The houses were burned, the food that was hidden and not taken away was also taken away, and even the immature crops in the fields were destroyed...

The thieves cut off their way of life, and they lost everything they needed to survive, so they could only walk all the way to Binzhou City, hoping to get a bite of food.

But the city gate of Binzhou was always closed to them.

The tall city wall divides the inside and outside of the city into two worlds.

It was naturally impossible for Kaesong to let them enter the city. The Zhizhou of Binzhou dispatched government servants in the city to gather these hungry people in the south of the city.

Every day in the morning and afternoon, a small amount of food will be shipped out of the city, cooked into porridge, and distributed in limited quantities.

Porridge and rice are scarce, but they can barely satisfy their hunger, and they will not starve to death if they hang on.

The reason why Chen Wang led the soldiers here was to recruit soldiers.

The number of troops is 270, to fill the lack of troops for that round.

More than [-] soldiers surrounded a cauldron and formed a circular formation.

The cauldron in the circle was gurgling and spitting out white mist, and two young men in green clothes were burning the firewood under the pot with all their strength.

In the cauldron, the white rice porridge was constantly churning with the bubbles that came out.

The position Chen Wang chose was the upwind position.

The aroma of rice porridge floated into the camp of the hungry people not far away with the breeze.

Soon, it was as if a frying pan had exploded in the refugee camp, and the hungry people rushed out one after another when they smelled the aroma of rice porridge.

In fact, as early as when Chen Wang arrived with his troops, the hungry people in the shack had already discovered them.

But seeing the shining swords in their hands and riding tall horses, they didn't know what they were doing, so they didn't go forward, just watched from a distance.

Seeing them setting up the earthen stove, and watching them pour the big bags of white rice into the cauldron, add clear water and start cooking the porridge, everyone still dare not go forward.

After all, those people are wearing armor, they look like soldiers...

But after the rice porridge was cooked and the aroma wafted over, the hunger in their stomachs made them completely forget about it.

After one person came first, more people surrounded the cauldron. Immediately, the cauldron was filled with water. Groups of adults and children in ragged clothes stared at the cauldron where rice porridge was being cooked.

In just a quarter of an hour, Chen Wang and the others were already surrounded by hungry people pouring out, almost impenetrable.

Around the cauldron, all the soldiers put down their spears and aimed at the hungry people on the periphery as if they were facing an enemy.

Behind Chen Wang, several cavalrymen also pulled out the Yanling swords around their waists one after another.

However, the three cavalrymen wearing arrow sleeves who followed Chen Wang didn't draw their knives.

The three people following him were originally servants under Cao Wenzhao's command.

Three people, one surnamed Chen and two surnamed Hu.

Speaking of which, they are all related to Chen Wang.

A man surnamed Chen, named Chen Gong, was his younger brother.

The two surnamed Hu, one named Hu Zhiyi and the other named Hu Zhili, were his cousins.

They all followed Cao Wenzhao after Guangning and acted as servants.

Cao Wenzhao gave three places, Chen Wang didn't think too much, and directly asked for two cousins ​​and one brother.

In this era, fellow villagers from the same province will hold together to keep warm, not to mention the bond between blood ties.

Seeing more and more people around him, Chen Wang turned his head and nodded to Chen Gong beside him.

Chen Gong understood, rode his horse and took a few steps forward, and when he reached the front of the cauldron, he immediately attracted the attention of everyone around outside.

Chen Gongsheng's handsome appearance and clear eyebrows make people feel good at first sight.

"I am a battalion soldier from Datong and temporarily settled in Binzhou. There is a temporary shortage of 370 soldiers in the battalion, so I came here to recruit soldiers."

Chen Gong got straight to the point and didn't hide it. When his voice fell, the buzzing whispers around him suddenly fell silent.

Being a soldier or serving in the army is looked down upon by others. Now that the world is in such a mess, you just have your head tied to your belt.

Moreover, it is not a joke to say that you are a Datong soldier and you have to leave your hometown...

But soon, Chen Gong's next sentence caused the crowd to commotion again.

"Settlement expenses, seven buckets of white rice..."

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Ming Dynasty: A bucket of rice is about [-] catties.

　Regarding the epidemic situation here, I have to go out to do nucleic acid, and there are still some troublesome things, so there are some problems with the update these days, I am really sorry, I will definitely resume normal updates as soon as possible.

　　
　
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