All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 216 Hujia Village

Treating the people sincerely and showing a true bond of solidarity with them refers specifically to a certain military unit.

Apart from this, the military is essentially a large violent group.

Zhujiazhuang is a local tyrant and the boss of the underworld in Dulonggang.

But when the Black Society faced an army at the peak of group violence, they were as vulnerable as melting snow in spring.

After the troops entered Zhujiazhuang, various casualties were inevitable.

There were even cases of looting of property and even kidnapping of women.

Of course, most of these were the cannon fodder soldiers who were acting under high emotions after experiencing fierce battles and huge casualties.

However, it also attracted a group of soldiers who followed into the village, and for a while, the Dulonggang boss's hall was plunged into blood, rain, wind and fire.

Chen Ran never expected that he could train a strong army like his own soldiers, because that was simply impossible.

But at least military discipline had to be maintained, as they were competing with Yue's army who would rather starve to death than plunder.

Yue's army had enough food and wages, and he also provided them with enough food and wages.

The Yue Army has strict military discipline, so naturally he has to be strict here as well.

"Master." After entering the manor, Chen Ran looked at the chaotic scene in front of him and immediately called Lu Zhishen, "As the military commander, go and rectify the military discipline immediately!"

Lu Zhishen has a hot temper and hates evil.

Seeing that the soldiers on his side were actually engaging in bandit activities, he immediately rushed forward with his staff in hand.

He first roared and shouted, urging the soldiers to stop immediately.

But the soldiers, who had experienced the fierce fighting and were in a state of near madness, were not willing to listen.

When Lu Zhishen reached out to grab a cannon fodder from the Death Squad who was taking copper coins from the arms of a dead man, the cannon fodder simply turned around and chopped him with a knife.

Looking at the cannon fodder's red eyes, Lu Zhishen finally realized that Buddhism was ineffective at this time.

He gave up Buddhism and returned to being the Lu Tingjie of the past.

He waved his Zen stick and hit the soldiers who broke the rules with it.

Some unwilling cannon fodders resisted, and the regular soldiers under Lu Zhishen's command stepped forward to suppress them, and a war broke out between the two sides.

"Big boss."

Yang Zhi came closer, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

Chen Ran, who was experienced, understood his thoughts. "You mean, after conquering a city or a stronghold, it is common for soldiers to plunder and kill people. There is no need to do this, right?"

Yang Zhi was greatly surprised by this and nodded quickly, "That's right."

The ancient army was a bandit group with a larger scale and more sophisticated organizational structure.

After winning the battle, one needs to vent, so killing, looting, and ravaging women are all considered as natural by the generals, and they usually turn a blind eye.

Not to mention there are brutal armies like the Mongols who regard killing and massacre as rewards.

Chen Ran's strict military discipline made Yang Zhi, who came from a military family, difficult to understand.

"If I say that the army can freeze to death without demolishing houses, and starve to death without looting, would you believe me?"

"Ah?" Yang Zhi's eyes widened, as if he had seen a ghost. "How is it possible?"

"Yeah, you don't believe it."

Chen Ran sighed, "Such an army is indeed possible. If he can do it, then I can do it too. If originality is not possible, then just copy it. If you can't even copy, then what's the point!"

Yang Zhi shook his head repeatedly. "There is absolutely no such army. This is impossible."

Chen Ran shook his head and laughed when he heard this.

I thought to myself, 'I haven't told you yet that there is an army that is truly made up of the people and has a common purpose. If you knew that such an army existed, your worldview would be shattered.'

The army with the best military discipline in ancient times must be Yue Family Army.

The Qi family army seemed to be a little weaker. In fact, if their military discipline was worse, perhaps they would not have been massacred twice by the imperial court in the parade ground.

Since Yue Family Army was able to defeat the Jin Army, Chen Ran used Yue Family Army as a benchmark to build his army.

With sufficient food, wages and adequate training, the military discipline must be comparable to that of Yue's army.

Lu Zhishen was indeed a tough guy. He killed dozens of rebel soldiers with a single blow of his Zen stick and finally intimidated the troops who were ready to move.

Immediately, the soldiers who had entered the village took action and brought all the remaining soldiers to Chen Ran.

Chen Ran didn't even bother to take a second look at those who disregarded military discipline. He simply waved his hand and ordered them to be beheaded.

Disobeying military discipline is like a woman cheating on her husband. Once it happens for the first time, it will happen countless times.

After finishing all these, it was time to deal with the aftermath of Zhujiazhuang.

When fighting outside the village before, Zhujiazhuang had gathered as many as seven or eight thousand troops.

Most of them are farmers from nearby villages and towns controlled by Zhujiazhuang, who are used to make up the numbers.

When Zhujiazhuang escaped, most of the farmers had already taken the opportunity to run back home.

The real core group, consisting of clan members, farmhands, tenants, guest officials, etc., is less than two thousand people.

Hundreds of people were lost when they were guarding the wall of Zhuangzi, and hundreds more were lost in the chaos after the village was captured.

The rest either fled or were brought before Chen Ran. "All those above the leader will be beheaded."

"Interrogate them separately and report on each other. Those who have committed no crime will be released, those who have committed serious crimes will be executed, and those who have committed crimes not worthy of death will be sent to the cannon fodder death camp."

It doesn’t matter if Chen Ran can’t recruit soldiers from good families, farmers with land and houses will do.

He would definitely not want these bandits and gangs. At most, he would arrange them into the cannon fodder camp as disposable consumables.

The next step was to sort out the spoils and transport away the wealth, food, and military supplies from the farm in carts.

As for the important figures, except for Zhu Long and Zhu Hu who were already dead, only Luan Tingyu who was injured but did not escape was captured, while Zhu Chaofeng and Zhu Biao were nowhere to be found.

It doesn't take much thought to know that he must have escaped.

"They can only flee to Hujia Village." Chen Ran instructed Yang Zhi, "Send someone to deliver a letter to Hujia Village, asking them to bring the heads of Zhu Biao and his son to us within three days. After three days, there is no need to send them again."

Three days later I went to pick it up myself.

After saying that, he glanced at Luan Tingyu who remained silent, and after confirming that there were no subtitles, he waved his hand and said, "Behead him."

This person is an outstanding martial artist, but there is no shortage of such people in the army.

More importantly, he is the Double Flower Red Stick of the Zhujiazhuang Gang, so of course he cannot stay.

Zhujiazhuang was very powerful, so powerful that the entire Dulonggang could resist taxation under Zhang Shuye’s nose.

In the original novel, Song Heizi led thousands of his followers and fought three times in a row. In the end, he relied on arranging a traitor to infiltrate the group, and only then was he able to break into Zhujiazhuang with the help of both inside and outside forces.

Although he also led a few thousand people, Chen Ran captured the famous Zhujiazhuang with a single blow.

The essential difference is like the distance between the regular army and the underworld.

Song Heizi brought thousands of his followers to fight for territory, and it was normal for both sides to fight each other.

In essence, it is no different from the fighting for the boss in Causeway Bay.

Chen Ran's side is a regular army. Using the power of the military to fight against the underworld is like a mountain falling down on one's head, destroying everything directly. Of course, it is easy and simple.

The matter of Zhujiazhuang came to an end. Chen Ran took the dazed owner Li Yingli to start the aftermath work.

"Most of the farmland and towns in Dulonggang were controlled by Zhujiazhuang. Now they are all transferred to our army. You must arrange the subsequent adjustments and appease the local people."

"We must strictly control local public security and never allow the looting of merchants and travelers to occur."

"As for the government, you can handle it on your own."

"Big leader." Hearing this, Li Ying finally spoke up, "That Zhang Zhizhou is not easy to deal with. He used Zhujiazhuang to act tough and beat away the tax collectors and the government officials. Zhang Zhizhou didn't have enough soldiers and horses, so he did it."

"Don't worry." Chen Ran smiled easily. "Just deal with it. Zhang Zhizhou won't be here for a few days."

Rubbing his hands, he looked at the carts of grain being transported away from the manor and the numerous granaries nearby, and felt very satisfied. "The Zhu family is really good at collecting. It's too exaggerated that a manor can store hundreds of thousands of dan of grain."

It is indeed a bit exaggerated, but now all of it is Chen Ran's fault.

It wasn't just food that gave him a bargain.

Dozens of miles away is Hujia Village.

"Come, come, come, drink this cup to calm your nerves."

At the wine table, Hu Taigong, with a smile on his face, raised his glass and invited Zhu Biao, Zhu Chaofeng and his group to drink.

After a few drinks, Zhu Biao said bitterly, "It's all because of this damned group of government troops who came too quickly. We didn't get any news in advance. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been attacked in such a hurry and our village wouldn't have been destroyed."

Hu Taigong's eyes flickered. "We still haven't figured out which government troops they are. Could it be that the imperial guards from Tokyo City have come?"

"They are not the imperial guards." Hu Cheng, who was sitting next to him, shook his head immediately. "They are soldiers from Qingzhou next door. The leader is said to be Hua Rong, known as Little Li Guang in Jianghu."

"Why are the Qingzhou soldiers here?" Hu Sanniang asked in confusion, "Doesn't Magistrate Zhang care?"

"I don't know." Zhu Chaofeng put down his wine glass and said confidently, "Don't panic. I have connections in the government. I will contact the censors in Tokyo City to impeach Qingzhou. When the imperial court issues an order, they will leave. It's just a loss of money and food."

"That's right." Hu Taigong laughed and raised his glass. "It doesn't matter if we can't defeat the imperial army. We can use the imperial connections to defeat them. Come on, come on, drink some wine~~~"

Let’s not talk about whether they can get through the court. Even if they can, it will be useless.

Chen Ran's troops are not on the list at all.

Nominally, these militiamen were recruited by the Qingzhou prefect himself, but how could the well-fed prefect Murong stand up for them?

The atmosphere at the table gradually became heated, with smiles everywhere as people toasted each other.

Zhu Chaofeng wanted to remind Zhu Biao several times not to drink so much.

But it was not easy to say it directly in front of the Hu family, so he had to give up in the end.

After the banquet ended and they returned to the guest room, Zhu Chaofeng scolded the drunk Zhu Biao, "How can you get so drunk when you are in an unknown place!"

The drunk Zhu Biao burped and said in confusion, "This is Hujia Village."

"What happened to Hujiazhuang?" Zhu Chaofeng sneered, "That old fox Hu Taigong might be thinking of using our heads to buy peace."

"Impossible, I'm his son-in-law."

"You." Zhu Chaofeng sighed and shook his head, "You are too young and don't know how dangerous the world is. Forget it, go to bed early, and we will leave tomorrow!"

At three o'clock in the night, Hu Sanniang was awakened from her sleep by shouting.

I rubbed my eyes, got dressed, and got up. When I pushed the door open, I saw screams of killing and flames rising into the sky in the guest room!

(End of this chapter)