"Second brother!"
After the battle, most of the bandits surrendered. Other than the few thousand people who ran into the mountains, there were also several thousand bandits who surrendered.
Xu Chu ordered the local soldiers in the city to watch over them separately, then he pulled Xu Zhen and Dian Wei into the city.
Seeing his younger brother again, he was extremely happy.
The two of them were not related by blood. Xu Zhen was picked up, but their relationship was very deep. For so many years, he had always treated him as his own younger brother.
Therefore, although they had left on bad terms back then, Xu Chu had mixed feelings about being able to return now.
Not long after, they arrived at a government office in the city. This place was relatively simple and crude. The floor was made of limestone and there was a thick layer of dust.
Many of the door frames, corners, and other places were covered in spider webs. However, Xu Chu did not mind. He called for someone to bring wine and pulled the two of them to their seats.
"Yi Feng, you can now lead over a thousand soldiers, I'm afraid your position in Cao Camp isn't low right?”
"Your lord is actually willing to let you bring troops to help Runan.”Xu Chu was very muscular and looked rather brave and reckless, but in fact, he was quite quick-witted.
Now that the situation of eliminating thieves and bandits in various places was so severe, the officials in various places wished they could hold the soldiers and horses in their hands. How could they cross thousands of miles to Runan to eliminate thieves?
"What? He disobeyed orders!" "Elder brother, right? You don't know, but following the general, we starve twice every three days. We often disobey orders or are on the way to disobey orders.”
"It's too difficult for me."
" General Dian, your words…" Xu Chu immediately leaned back tactically. He looked at the half-smiling Xu Zhen and then at the complaining Dian Wei.
"General Dian, although I'm your elder brother, I've never been able to control Yi Feng."”
Dian Wei's expression froze.
F * ck!
"General!"
Dian Wei turned around mechanically and looked at Xu Zhen awkwardly." I was a little loud just now."”
Xu Zhen maintained his smile and did not say anything. Instead, he turned to Xu Chu and said,""Elder brother, my camp is currently lacking people and I'm here to recruit local soldiers. Runan won't be able to be defended sooner or later.”
When Xu Chu heard this, he fell into deep thought.
There were thousands of brave men under him, all of whom were rangers and able-bodied men from all over the world. To put it bluntly, these people were heroes who had gathered in the village with his many years of reputation.
Now that the world was in chaos, they were willing to gather under their command to resist the remnants of the Yellow Turban and the bandits in the mountains.
However, there had never been any armaments or food.
If he could solve this problem, he could let these people settle down.
They could only follow the An family to the death. They probably couldn't fork out the money.
Xu Chu knew that Xu Zhen had disobeyed orders to come to his aid because he had made a promise when he left home and went to Yanzhou. In order to fulfill this promise, he would definitely do anything.
Even if they had disobeyed orders, it was clear that they were recruiting local soldiers now. They probably wanted to expand the source of soldiers and recruit soldiers for that Cao Gong to raise his status or to offset the crime of disobeying orders.
At the thought of this, Xu Chu could not help but sigh deeply. He said sincerely,"Yi Feng, when you left, I didn't have any objections. Now that you've come to recruit soldiers, I naturally understand.”
"I know that you have made great contributions in Cao Cao's camp and are living well. You have Cao Cao, Xun Yu and the others to help you…You don't need an elder brother like me. But now, you came to me and said that you want to recruit soldiers…"
"But you don't respect me at all. You're not even willing to call me brother.”
When Xu Chu said this, his tone was slow and deep.
It was like a Runan godfather lecturing his good-for-nothing old friend.
Xu Zhen's mouth twitched a few times. He leaned back tactically with an extremely disdainful expression and knocked on the table.
Knock knock.
Two crisp sounds rang out. At this moment, footsteps came from outside the door.
Two cavalrymen in iron armor walked in from outside. They held out their hands on both sides, carrying a large iron box.
He placed it on the ground with a clang.
Then, he opened it.
Suddenly, a golden light flashed.
Xu Chu could not help but open his mouth slightly. His eyes were wide open, and his mind went blank for a moment. He did not know what to say.
What greeted his eyes was a chest full of gold.
However, because most of the gold was irregular, it was in the shape of an ugly stone. Even so, the dazzling light still made Xu Chu unable to take his eyes off it.
Gold, cloth, tea leaves, etc. These hard currencies that could be exchanged for items naturally became extremely important after the collapse of the five baht coin.
Especially gold. If one had a piece at home, they could exchange it for a large amount of food with merchants.
Enough food for a family for decades. If they did not encounter a military disaster, they might be able to survive in the troubled times.
This box.
It was probably worth over 10,000 Gold.
"This, this…Yifeng…"
"Uh, do you lack an assistant? How about I be your deputy general?"
" That's great." Xu Zhen immediately sat down and raised his chin proudly." But I'm afraid you'll say that I don't respect you."”
" That's for sure." Xu Chu's expression did not change."I respect you."
"What right do you have to respect me? Just because I'm a few years older? What a joke. There were only generals and soldiers in the army. There was no such thing as seniority.”
"Oh, then ask General Zhongkang to help recruit troops?”
" No problem." Xu Chu stood up happily and quickly prepared to leave the tent. He stopped in front of the box of gold for a moment, then turned around and asked Xu Zhen,""Can we give them all the gold?”
"Yes, you can divide it."
Xu Zhen nodded." However, we must have many local soldiers and they must be elite. We must bring all the weapons, armor, and farming tools that we can find. I will also take all the surrendered soldiers from Gebei.”
"In addition, give me some of Runan's food…"
Xu Chu was speechless.
As expected, it's still you. You haven't changed at all.
You want everything? What's the difference between you and Ge Bei?!!
……
Chen Liu.
Cao Cao's troops were already prepared to gather. They had found a place outside of Chen Liu and could move out at any time towards Qiao County and Runan.
The scouts from the front had reported that Xu Zhen had indeed led his troops away from Chen Liu.
He quickly passed through Qiao County and robbed a thief's den on the way.
They took away hundreds of gold and dozens of stones of food from the thieves 'lair.
There were also a dozen warhorses.
The leader of the bandits then disbanded the stronghold and prepared to find a place to join the army.
"My lord, Yi Feng should already be fighting with the rebel soldiers. The scouts at the front still need half a day to return.”
Xun Yu shook his head with a bitter smile. He couldn't do anything to Xu Zhen now. At first, he had acted recklessly and thought that Xu Zhen wanted to rebel.
He understood later…
Since Cao Ren and the others didn't give him any soldiers, he went outside to kill the thieves.
Therefore, he directly passed through Qiao County and headed for Runan.
If he remembered correctly, there were tens of thousands of rebel soldiers in Runan.
"He's not just fighting. Now that thirteen days have passed and he's rushing back to camp before the winter solstice, I reckon he's already suffered great losses and is thinking of a way.”
"Humph!"
Cao Cao coldly snorted, his expression was hard to tell whether he was good or bad.
He had just been happy for a few days and thought that he had obtained an extremely talented and fierce general.
In the end, he immediately left his post without permission.
This guy was good at fighting and his ability to stir up trouble was something that others could not compare to…
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