Su Chengyu rode a majestic Persian horse and led his own soldiers to Yang Tinglin's camp.

Because Wan Yuan Ji was worried that the brigade would be vulnerable to a sneak attack by the Qing army, he insisted on setting up the camp a little far away from Nanchang City.

In order to prevent Jin Shenghuan from going out of the city to grab food, and to facilitate the interception of the enemy troops who might reinforce Nanchang, Su Chengyu's camp has been camped in the north of the city, only slightly farther than the maximum range of the Qing army's artillery.

The rice planting season is approaching, and people along the way have already begun to busy weeding and leveling the land in the fields.

Even though the war destroyed their lives last year, with the thieves in Jiangxi completely wiped out, they should soon recover. The people of the Ming Dynasty have always been the most resilient group of people, as long as the living conditions improve slightly, they can live as prosperous as weeds.

When he walked to a place more than ten miles away from Yang Tinglin's station, Su Chengyu suddenly heard a noise in the distance, mixed with one or two calls for help from time to time.

"Did the Qing army sneak out of the city and plunder the people?" Su Chengyu frowned, and immediately ordered Shi Lin to prepare to meet the enemy, and sent someone back to the Dragon Guard camp to transfer troops.

Although Shi Lin felt that there would be danger, he knew that if he encountered the raids of the Qing army, it would be impossible to persuade His Highness to leave it alone. He only strictly ordered all the soldiers to be careful to protect His Highness, and then ordered the whole company to line up.

The Dragon Guard Army Personal Soldier Company is standard dragoon equipment, and a group of more than 70 people immediately lined up in three neat rows, protected Su Chengyu in the middle, and raised the cavalry sword and ran towards the place where the sound was made.

The cavalry trooped through the barren grass, and a small village hidden by withered trees appeared in front of them.

There are nearly 100 houses in the village, but more than half of them are in ruins, dilapidated, and I don't know how many wars have been experienced, and it seems that there are still dozens of families left.

Dozens of soldiers armed with knives and guns choked the exit of the village, and the screams of the village mixed with wild laughter, and it was clear that some of the villains were committing the murder.

When he got closer, Su Chengyu was about to order the whole army to assault, but suddenly found that the soldiers at the entrance of the village were wearing the clothes of the Ming army and had not shaved their hair.

He urged his horse to rush to these people, and said loudly and angrily: "The thieves in the village are plundering the people, what are you still doing here?!" ”

The group of Ming soldiers was startled by the sudden rush of men and horses, and only then did they breathe a sigh of relief when they saw the iconic dark green dragon guard uniform.

A man who looked like an officer put away his single knife, trotted over and saluted Su Chengyu, and said with a smile: "This lord, there are no thieves and soldiers looting here, but our people and horses have surrounded a group of Qing troops here, and they are clearing it." ”

"Bastard!" Su Chengyu frowned, there were clearly many women and children in the village's cries for help, he had vaguely guessed what was going on, and immediately shouted angrily, "Get out!" ”

The little officer was still there with a hob like a pestle, "What, my lord, do you want to come and steal the military merits?" ”

With a bang, Su Chengyu didn't talk nonsense to him, raised his horsewhip and knocked him to the ground, turned his head and ordered Shi Lin: "Enter the village, those who block will be killed!" ”

"Yes!"

Shi Lin raised his shining cavalry sword and said in a loud voice: "Pro-soldier company, move forward quickly!" ”

More than seventy people behind him immediately shouted at the same time: "Forward! ”

The soldiers who were blocking the entrance of the village had never seen such a momentum, and one by one their ears were buzzing, and their feet involuntarily retreated to the sides.

Su Chengyu rode into the village surrounded by his own soldiers, and it was a scene of purgatory in front of him. A large number of murderers broke into people's houses and looted all their belongings, food, salt, etc., even pots, bowls, clothes, and other things of little value.

Whenever a villager stopped him, he was immediately slashed to the ground.

There are also many villages where there are even women's wails, and it is obvious that there are still people who commit adultery.

Another group of soldiers armed with sharp axes chopped off the heads of the corpses on the ground one by one and stuffed them into sacks, and the sacks behind them were all bulging. Looking at that skillful movement, it is obviously used to this.

And these perpetrators are clearly dressed as Ming soldiers, and there is no Qing soldier!

Su Chengyu pulled out the reed wheel short gun, fired a gun into the sky, and roared angrily: "Stop it!" ”

The roar of the fire bolt temporarily interrupted the slaughter in the village, and the soldiers who were busy committing the murder were stunned and looked at Su Chengyu, and the fleeing people hurriedly took advantage of this gap to scatter and hide, and the miserable screams in the village were suddenly paused.

"Cui Datou, why did you let outsiders in? He's the damn bad old man Yaxing! "A disheveled, trouser officer came out of a house, and the cries of a woman could still be heard from the room.

The officer summoned more than a dozen people to come up to Su Chengyu, glanced at him, but shouted at the entrance of the village without paying attention.

"Bold! Dare to shout in front of His Royal Highness the King of Chenzhou! Shi Lin pointed his cavalry sword at the man, "Why don't you get off your horse and bow down?!" ”

When the man heard the words "King of Chenzhou", his expression suddenly froze-Su Chengyu was wearing the cavalry uniform of the Dragon Guard Army on weekdays, and people who hadn't seen him really couldn't recognize him-his hands trembled, the pants he was carrying almost fell off, and he hurriedly turned over and fell to the ground.

Seeing this, the soldiers behind him also knelt down.

"Meet His Royal Highness the King of Chenzhou."

Su Chengyu's face was cold, and his voice was even colder, "These people who robbed the people are all your people?" ”

"Raiding the people?" The officer looked up and pretended to be surprised, "The subordinate officer is leading people to clear the thieves." There is not a single citizen here. ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the head of the corpse of the villager on the side, "Your Highness is aware of these are the thieves with rat tails, can you wronged me!" ”

Because Nanchang Mansion was ruled by Jianfu for more than half a year, almost all the people had shaved their hair under coercion, which became the "evidence" of his seizure of the thieves.

Su Chengyu forcibly suppressed his anger and said coldly: "Since you are a thief, show me the captured weapons." ”

"This ......"

He was clearly looting the village, where did he get the captured blades?

Su Chengyu said sharply, "There is an edict in the saint: whoever has a hair is a submissive person, and no person is a refugee." They are clearly Ming refugees, you led your troops to loot the people, and military law is intolerable......"

"This is actually Xia Guan led his troops to pursue a team of thieves to this point, and these people were all killed by the thieves." The arsonist still wanted to quibble.

"Shi Lin," Su Chengyu saw with his own eyes just now, how could he be allowed to mess around? He turned his head and ordered, "Tie up all the blood on your hands, on your knife, and your rags, and fix the Fa on the spot!" Fifty lashes for the others! ”

"Yes!"

"You, how dare you ......" The officer still wanted to make his subordinates resist, but when he saw the row of black holes in front of him, he immediately lost his courage. He suddenly shouted at the top of his voice, "I am under the command of General Zhang, and you have no right to kill me!" ”