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Li Changwen smiled bitterly, "Chief, I didn't like to make friends when I was studying abroad. I didn't know many people, and most of them were mediocre people. Even if I don't recommend them, the leader can still recruit them if he issues a recruitment order.

Among the people I know, the only one who can truly be called a talent is Yan Ermei.

Although this person was born into a big landowner, he had a desire to save the world and help the people, and he was stripped of his honor by the court, so he was very likely to join the rebel army. "

"Okay, I get it."

Liu Sheng had little interest.

This Yan Ermei was born a landlord, not to mention a member of Fu She, and was not a famous person in the late Ming Dynasty that he was familiar with - as famous as Chen Zilong, if Chen Zilong himself was almost the same.

However, Chen Zilong seems to have been selected as a Jinshi. He is also a gentry and a big landowner, and it is even less likely to defect to him.

At least not until the Huabu rebels have the tendency to change dynasties.

After talking about this matter, Liu Sheng asked Li Changwen and others to retreat and rest, while he took his personal guards to inspect the military camps and refugee camps outside the city.

Now that the rebel army has a firm control over Ruyang City, Liu Sheng took advantage of the opportunity to train the army again before returning to Tianmu Mountain.

Because the previous training in Suiping was not completed.

A regiment of the standing army is said to have five battalions, but in fact, when attacking Ruyang, there were only three combat battalions and a civilian brave battalion serving as a supply camp.

In the past few days, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments have been allocating manpower to form regiment direct operations, which is also the regiment headquarters.

The Guards were not idle either.

Huben Camp, Shengjie Camp, and Xiaoqi Camp will all absorb soldiers from the standing army and expand to full battalions (600 people).

Even Ma Jinshui is recruiting spies for Xunfeng Camp and conducting various trainings.

As for the refugees, things are a bit unexpected.

After the rebels occupied Ruyang, the number of refugees outside the city not only did not decrease, but actually increased.

They all came to help the rebels.

This year's drought and locust plague have been severe. Without government relief, it will be difficult for the poor people who remain in the area to survive.

Even if they don't starve to death until now, a lot of them will freeze to death when it snows heavily.

Therefore, even if they just heard that Ruyang was captured by the rebels, many refugees came.

When the news spread that the rebels were rescuing refugees, more people came.

In just a few days, the number of refugees increased from 10,000 to 20,000 to more than 30,000.

The rebels still dealt with them in the original way, first providing relief to those who had families and were willing to join the rebels and accept migration, and then to provide relief to single young adults.

Organize and organize the refugees into several large camps for easier management...

"finally reached."

Seeing Ruyang City in front of him, Zhang Jian breathed a sigh of relief.

His image was quite bad at this time.

Although he was riding a horse, his robe was extremely dirty, his bun was messy, and most importantly, his baggage was missing.

Originally, there was a large plain between Kaifeng City and Ruyang. The straight-line distance was only four hundred miles. Normally, it would take two days on horseback to get there, but he walked for three days.

Because there are too many bandits on the road.

Even though he and his two servants were riding horses, they were still stopped by a small group of horse bandits.

Thanks to two loyal servants who risked their lives to fight and hold off the horse bandits, he managed to escape with his life.

However, one loyal servant died because of this, and another loyal servant was also injured by an arrow, so they took a long detour.

He glanced at the man behind him who was barely riding on the horse and said, "Brother Liang, please hold on a little longer. I will take you to the medical center for treatment when we get into the city."

The fourth brother Liang's name was Liang Xin. Because his face was covered with dust, his face could not be seen, but his lips were chapped. He nodded and said in a hoarse voice: "Don't worry, young master, I can still hold on."

Zhang Jian said no more and immediately rode towards the north gate.

There are many refugees camped on both sides of the official road.

This is not surprising. In today's world, there are many refugees even outside Kaifeng.

It's just that for the safety of the city, local officials will drive the refugees to farther places to avoid threatening the safety of the city.

Now these refugees are outside Guo, giving Zhang Jian a sense of order.

'Could it be that Thief Liu sent someone to manage these refugees? In this case, why not let the refugees enter the city and recruit their young men into the army? '

Coming from a merchant family, Zhang Jian had been searching for information for Li Xianfeng for two years, so Zhang Jian had a lot of knowledge.

As far as he knew, if there were refugees outside the city, the rebels would usually attack the city and reduce the consumption of the old camp's soldiers.

Even if the city is captured, most of them will use food to recruit a large number of refugees to join the army and quickly expand the team.

Therefore, he was surprised to see that there were so many refugees outside Ruyang City and they were still being managed.

'It's unlikely that these refugees are all new arrivals, so Liu Thief won't be willing to take them in, right? '

Continuing to move forward, Zhang Jian saw a large group of thieves approaching. He quickly dismounted and pulled his and Liang Xin's horses away from the official road, but he was still nervous.

These days, officers and soldiers have extremely poor discipline. They frequently rob people's property and even massacre villages, not to mention the bandits.

He was worried that the thieves would take a fancy to the horses and snatch them away.

When he was nearly a hundred steps away from the official road, he felt a little relieved.

Looking back, I saw that other people on the official road just moved to the side of the road and didn't look afraid.

The bandit soldiers, about a hundred people, walked by in a long line, but they did not provoke the people and vendors on the roadside in the slightest.

'Do these thieves have military affairs? But they don’t walk very fast, do they? '

'It can't be that the thieves are strictly disciplined and don't disturb the people, right? '

Thinking of this, Zhang Jian looked incredulous.

Then he paid attention to something else.

I saw that the worst of these bandit soldiers were wearing cloth armor, a few were wearing cloth face armor or cotton armor, and they all wore felt hats, iron hats and other helmets. Judging from the style, most of them were captured from the army.

As for the cotton-padded jackets, although they were not equipped with many, the thieves were all quite thickly dressed, so they were obviously not short of clothes.

Thinking about it, the Liu thieves captured Ruyang City. Even if the government treasury lacked money and food, the Chongwang Palace would always have no shortage of money and food. It was normal for the soldiers to wear thick clothes to protect themselves from the cold.

However, looking at the orderly manner in which these hundred thieves marched, they must be the elite of the thieves, right?

When he walked not far from the moat, Zhang Jian saw several military camps.

Just listen to the shouts inside, neat and powerful, obviously they are training.

This made Zhang Jian feel even heavier.

When he was in Kaifeng Mansion, he occasionally went to watch outside the official camp, but even the Fubiao camp soldiers didn't seem to shout as loudly as these thieves during training.

A glimpse of one spot reveals the whole leopard.

From the performance of these thieves outside the city, we know that Liu's soldiers are not weak in combat power, and it is no luck to capture Ruyang.

When they arrived in front of the city wall, they saw a bandit sentry checking the merchant carriages and horses entering the city and collecting the gate tax.

This is not surprising - banditry is serious nowadays, and this is true in every city.

But Zhang Jian watched behind for a while and found that these thieves were really doing an interrogation. More than a dozen people and three groups of merchants passed by in a row. None of them were extorted, and no goods were even taken away. They only needed to pay a certain amount of tax money. That’s it.

When it was almost Zhang Jian's turn, something happened that shocked him even more.

When a caravan with two carriages was being interrogated, the head steward smiled and secretly handed the silver coins to the bandit captain as a token of filial piety.