(Dedicated to book friend Wei Xiaolou and his girlfriend.)

There were many more prisoners than Li Ze's men.

After a visual inspection, I am afraid that there are 5,000 people. These people were now divided into several areas and confined together, squatting on the ground with their heads held like groundhogs, looking in fear at the Wuyi soldiers around them with their knives unsheathed and arrows wound.

Some specially selected and honest-looking prisoners of the Henghai are holding ropes to tie up these former comrades like sugar gourds.

It can be seen that their techniques are still very skilled, and such things must have not been done less before.

"What should I do?" Li Ze looked at Shi Zhuang, Shen Congxing and the others, spread his hands, and asked.

He didn't have so many people to manage these captives, because next, he had to lead a part of them, closely following Tu Lichun's cavalry troops to hunt down Zhu Bin.

Where will the losses be compensated from? From Texas, of course.

Seeing the captives who were strung together, Shi Zhuang, Shen Congxing and the others were also obviously relieved. Don't look at these guys now that they're honest, but if they were given a chance, maybe these people would have a violent outburst.

"Eleven system." Shi Zhuang said calmly.

Li Ze was shocked.

Shi Zhuang's eleven system means that out of every ten people, one person must be selected to kill them, so as to deter these captives.

"Do you have to do that?" For the enemy with a weapon in hand, there is no psychological pressure to kill the opponent Li Ze, but now that the opponent is unarmed and has already raised his hand to surrender, and then slaughter, it is a little difficult for him to accept.

"Childe, you have to take away 2,000 armor soldiers next, and there are only less than 1,000 people left, and it is not an easy job to take care of these 5,000 captives." Shi Zhuang said, "If you don't deter them and make them feel afraid in their hearts, it is very likely that there will be chaos, and more people will die."

Li Ze nodded silently.

"Childe doesn't have to be unbearable." Tu Hu continued: "The Henghai has always been brutal, and they will slaughter their own people like dogs, not to mention that this time we will become virtuous. You only have to look at what happened to those Sindu people to understand that they were all slaughtered, and they deserved it, and one out of ten is already a great kindness."

Li Ze remembered the fact that the cavalry led by Zhu Jun had seen earlier taking pleasure in shooting the people, and then looked at the battlefield where more and more fleeing Xindu people gathered at this moment, and his heart finally hardened.

"One out of ten, kill!" He waved his hand.

Originally, I thought that after this decision was announced, there would definitely be some riots in those Henghai Navy, but to Li Ze's surprise, those Henghai prisoners were silent, and many people even showed a look of joy on their faces, probably thinking that the tenth would not appear on them.

It was only at this time that Li Ze discovered that when those Henghai captives tied up their own people, they were ten people strung together, as if they had known that the final result would be like this.

Pull out a bunch, ten grass stems, draw to the shortest one, it is a dead end.

Draw lots, decide life and death, Wuyi soldiers stabbed down, clean and neat, just like killing chickens and slaughtering dogs.

The survivors rejoiced, and the bearers closed their eyes and waited for death. Li Ze didn't even hear any wails and begs for mercy.

Shi Zhuang, Shen Congxing, and even Tu Hu and the others all had normal faces, Li Ze looked at it for a while, and finally couldn't stand it anymore, turned around and walked to Wang Mingyi's side on the other side, and said to Wang Mingyi, who was full of red light before, and his face was also like dirt at this time: "Next, I want to go deep into Texas, you have to do two things next, the first thing is to bring these captives back to Wuyi for me to be locked up, and wait for me to come back to dispose of them, and second, you and Yang Kai work together to prepare a large number of houses, food and other things, and wait for my return."

"Houses, what do you want all this for?" Wang Mingyi asked puzzled.

"I'm going to turn Texas into a no-man's land." Li Ze said coldly: "This time I'm going to sweep Texas, but everything that is valuable, I have to move it back, even people, and I have to take all of them back."

"What do you want to do?" Wang Mingyi looked confused: "What do you want so many people to do?" Don't you want money to raise it? Besides, since Zhu Bin doesn't have much power to resist, why don't we take the opportunity to occupy Texas? He wants us Yizhou, let's return a tooth for a tooth, blood for blood."

"I want to, but do you think that with my idea, even if I take possession, can I keep it?" Li Ze glanced at Wang Mingyi with disdain, and said, "If Yizhou still has the strength it used to be, I really want to do this, but what else is there in Yizhou now?" Your uncle has drained the strength of Yizhou, and now the entire Yizhou is really occupied by Texas with my idea, and Zhu Shou's whole division will come to retaliate, and he will crush me to powder in an instant."

Wang Mingyi said unconvinced: "You killed Zhu Bin, doesn't Zhu Shou want to take revenge?" Isn't he going to call him yet?"

Li Ze laughed: "This is different. He attacked me and defended and returned to Yizhou, which is our main battlefield. Even if it's just a few thousand people, I can afford it with him. The question is, can he afford it?"

Wang Mingyi blinked, a little unsure of Li Ze's words.

"That's the number one thing I mean by turning Texas into a no-man's land." Li Zedao: "Texas is hundreds of miles uninhabited, I will kidnap all their people, burn all their houses, destroy all the cities, that is, the water source, I will also try my best to pollute him, throw dead bodies into the well, and put poison, in short, so that they can't find a single grain in Texas, and they can't find a single person. There isn't a house for them to live in."

Li Ze's face showed a fierce look.

"If he Zhu Shou wants to come and beat me, then he has to bring the people and escort a large amount of grain over, tell me, can Zhu Shou afford it?"

Wang Mingyi gasped and looked at Li Ze's appearance as if he had seen a ghost.

"In this deserted place, it is the time when Tu Lichun's cavalry team shows their skills, constantly harassing, attacking, delaying the pace of their march, every day late, for Zhu Shou, it is an unscathed expansion of losses, if he is a smart person, even if he is unwilling, he can only accept this one ending."

"Texas will be barren, but when we have the strength one day, when we want to get it back, we can easily get it back." Li Ze concluded.

Wang Mingyi swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "This is the first weight, but what about the second weight?"

Li Ze smiled and pointed at the captives, at this time, the killing order of one out of ten was still being carried out in an orderly manner.

"The second weight is for these young people. They are all Texans, and this time, I snatched back all the money from their hometown, and when the time came, I resettled them, gave them land and houses, and they will be our people in the future, and they will give us land, food, and soldiers. Well, this is four or five thousand young people, and it is estimated that there will be more of them snatched back by me next."

"This is an enemy!" Wang Mingyidao.

"No more fighting, there is still a fart revenge!" Li Ze said disdainfully: "When the time comes, only those captives whose little relatives are still alive will be truly resettled, and I will not want the rest of those who have nothing to worry about."

"Kill again?"

"Why kill?" Li Ze said lightly: "Now Shenzhou must need a lot of young men to serve as hard labor, as death squads, and as people's husbands. After a while, I don't know how much they will survive? Fortune tellers have survived a lot, what can they do in a place like the Deep State, where there are many armies?"

At this time, Wang Mingyi admired Li Ze's five-body throw.

"It's just that these people are here, and it's a big burden for us!"

"It won't be a burden, and even if it is, it's only temporary." Li Ze glanced at the direction of Shenzhou with some melancholy: "Brother Wang, don't forget, in the first battle of Hejian Mansion, Yizhou alone, thousands of soldiers and hundreds of armor soldiers were folded in, and these are all young and strong!" In the whole of Chengde, tens of thousands of young and strong laborers are gone, do you think this hole can be filled so easily? When the time comes, these people I snatch back will not only not become a burden, but will also prevent the strength of my Chengde region from plummeting."

Wang Mingyi thought for a while and nodded: "That's the truth!"

"The most fundamental thing is that you still need someone and someone to farm for you, to pay you grain and taxes, to give you conscription, and to have an endless supply of soldiers." Li Ze said, "The connection of war and disaster is already the main theme of the next, and now we can still grab people, in the future, maybe you can no longer find anyone in the next place."

Speaking of this, Li Ze couldn't help but feel a little sad. According to the history of a certain time and space that he knew, the most tragic era of the Chinese fighting, the population plummeted by more than eighty percent, and the number of dead people was counted in tens of millions.

The scene described by Li Ze made Wang Mingyi feel terrified, and he suddenly felt that Li Ze's behavior of going to Texas to rob people was really wise." I'll join forces with Yang Kai to do this right away when I go back."

"Wuyi is almost empty, this matter, you have to make more efforts, in Yizhou, there are still many big households, Haoqiang, you go and talk to them with kind words first, there is money to pay, there is food to pay, if anyone fools me with empty words and white teeth, when I come back with the troops, I will talk to them with a knife." Li Ze said coldly.

"I still have a little face." Wang Mingyi patted his chest and took care of the authenticity.

Li Ze smiled: "Or at this time, your face is no longer as valuable as money and food. Those powerful families are thieves and thieves, and their vision of the world is very accurate. But it doesn't matter, you can get as much as you want, get through this for a while, and when I come back from Texas, I'll slowly clean them up."

Looking at Li Ze's bright smile, Wang Mingyi's cold hair stood on end.

After resting for the night, Li Ze left Tu Hu and Shen Congxing to escort these captives back to Wuyi with a thousand soldiers and a hundred Mo sword soldiers, and he took Li Mi and those caravan guards, as well as Shi Zhuang Chen Changping and two thousand armor soldiers, all the way to Texas.

All the mules, horses, donkeys, and even ox carts were used by Li Ze to transport the army.

This time, he just needs a quick word.