The sun hung high in the sky, and the fiery light shone on the earth, shining on the endless undulating wheat fields, reflecting ten thousand golden rays.

Xu Laoliu happily sat in the field, looking at the wheat in his own field, and the wheat would be ripe in more than ten days. This year is quite good, the rain has been good for several days in the past few days, so that the wheat has received enough moisture, and these days it has been sunny again, and the wheat is changing day by day.

Looking at this year's harvest is much better than last year's, cutting off sixty percent of the rent to the master's family, how can he get more than ten loads of wheat left in his own 20 acres of land, and another season of waterways will be harvested in the autumn, and there is no problem for a family of six to eat enough.

However, the wheat must be buried immediately, and I heard the villagers say that the Mantars have arrived in Yangzhou City, and the Marquis of Pingnan is leading a large army to fight with the Mantars.

I heard that the Manchurian Tartars are extremely vicious, killing people and setting fires is a common thing, and they have invaded the Ming Dynasty several times, and plundered countless northern people to go to the border as slaves, hoping that the old man of Pingnan Hou can withstand the Manchurian Tartars and protect the safety of the people of Yangzhou.

Unlike the squires who scolded many people when they mentioned Chen Yue, Chen Yue's reputation among the people was very good, at least after Chen Yue came to Yangzhou, the people ate salt a lot cheaper. Tens of thousands of people in the Pingnan army gathered in Yangzhou, and the daily consumption was an astronomical amount, and all kinds of materials needed to be purchased, which also made many people have more inputs. The vegetables that can't be eaten at home, the fish and shrimp caught in the river, and some other things that are sandwiched are transported to Yangzhou by boat, and they can be exchanged for some copper coins. Unlike other murderous officers and soldiers, the military discipline of the Pingnan Army is very good, and there is no need to be afraid of being harmed when you go to trade with the Pingnan Army.

In fact, earlier, the official officials had already been notified from village to village, telling everyone that the Mantars were coming soon, so that the people could avoid it, and it was best to hide on the east bank of the canal.

But seeing that the crops are about to ripen, if you leave at this time, the wheat will definitely rot in the ground, and without this season's harvest, what will everyone eat this year? Can't you starve to death?

Compared with the vicious Mantar, the whole family is even more terrible when hungry. So, knowing that the Mantars were coming, no people were willing to flee their homeland.

Alas, I hope that the old man Pingnanhou can defeat the Tartars! Xu Lao Liu sighed secretly.

Just when he saw the crops and was about to go home, an army suddenly drove over from the north, Xu Laoliu was stunned for a moment and looked carefully. I saw that this army was walking crookedly, one by one the helmets were crooked, and although the clothes were the dress of the Ming army, they were not the Pingnan Army of Yangzhou at all. Xu Laoliu, who had sent vegetables to Yangzhou City several times, naturally recognized the appearance of the Pingnan Army, and the military appearance was at least a hundred times neater than this army!

Since it is not the Pingnan Army, and it is coming from the north at this time, most of them are not a good road, either the Ming army that surrendered or the rout army that fled!

Thinking of this, Xu Lao Liu ran to the village, he wanted to inform the villagers and his family.

"Catch him!" The guerrilla general Feng Cheng pointed to the fleeing peasants and ordered his soldiers.

"Yes, General!" Hearing Feng Cheng's order, a family member laughed and rode his horse forward to chase after him. After a moment's effort, he chased behind Xu Laoliu, who had escaped.

Xu Lao Liu glanced behind him and saw that the cavalry had chased behind his buttocks, only to be so frightened that he continued to run wildly.

A wind sounded, and with a "snap", Xu Lao Liu felt a sharp pain in his back, and his body was whipped to the ground.

"Master Jun, spare your life, Master Jun!" Xu Lao begged for six consecutive victories.

"Hurry up and lead the way, Lao Tzu will spare your dog's life!" The Ding laughed and made Xu Lao Liu stand up.

The knife was in the hands of others, Xu Lao Liu didn't dare to disobey, so he could only hang his head and lead the way in front, only hoping that this guy would not know whether it was the official army or the surrendered Tartar army to let him go.

Soon arrived in the village, the guerrilla Feng Cheng ordered someone to call the chief first, and then gather the whole village in the central square of the village.

Under the threat of the vicious Green Battalion, the people of the village reluctantly came to the village.

"You're the lieutenant?" Feng Cheng pointed at the lieutenant commander Xu Wanshun with a horsewhip and asked.

"The grass people are, I don't know who the general is?" Xu Wanshun asked cautiously.

"This general is the guerrilla general of the Qing Dynasty, Master Feng, and now the Qing Dynasty has sent Prince Yu to lead a million troops to attack Ming, and he has already arrived under the city of Yangzhou, and it only takes a few days to break through Yangzhou. Now you are no longer Ming people, but the people of the Qing Dynasty. ”

Feng Cheng drew a circle with a horsewhip at the people who were being forced over, and said arrogantly.

"Yes, General Feng." Xu Wanshun promised again and again, but secretly scolded the traitor in his heart, "I don't know why General Feng came to the village?" ”

"According to the military order of the prince, I have come to your village to collect grain and levy Ding, your village has 200 household registrations, and each household will give 50 catties of grain, and you will get outside the city of Dayang tomorrow."

"Ahh Don't, General, now is the time when the green and yellow are not harvested, and every family in the village is broken, where can I find so much food? Besides, the wheat will be cut soon, Zhuang Ding went to Yangzhou, what should I do with the wheat in the field? ”

Xu Wanshun pleaded bitterly in a row.

"What to do? You ask me! What do you love, what to do! Anyway, at this time tomorrow, I want to see 10,000 catties of grain and 200 strong men, if you can't do it, do you see it? I'll let my brothers do it themselves! Feng Cheng pointed at his fierce subordinates and threatened.

"This, this, this, the villain does his best, try his best to convince the villagers." Xu Wanshun was about to cry, but he was helpless.

He knew that if he couldn't meet the traitor's demands, the village would be a sack, not to mention the food, and how many people might die.

"General, why don't we rush in and search for ourselves?" Seeing that the chief reluctantly went to shout to the people, a family member looked at the young village woman in the crowd obscenely, and asked Feng Cheng in confusion.

"You know what a fart, Prince Yu asked us to come out to get food and pull strong ding, not for us to rob. Prince Yu said that in the future, this will be the world of the Qing Dynasty, and these people will also be the people of the Qing Dynasty, as long as these people are obedient, they are not allowed to kill at will.

Besides, as long as they are willing to donate food themselves, wouldn't it save us trouble, and we can go to a few more villages and raise more food people. ”

Feng Cheng knocked on the door of the family's head with a horsewhip and reprimanded.

"It's still the general who thinks thoughtfully!" Jia Ding gave a thumbs up.

Listening to the words of the lieutenant chief Xu Wanshun, the villagers were in an uproar, and when the green and yellow were not available, most of the people couldn't get food, but looking at the hundreds of green battalion soldiers who were eyeing each other, the people knew that there was nothing they could do if they didn't take it.

In the end, Xu Wanshun promised that if there was really no food at home, he could borrow grain from him, and then pay it back when the wheat was harvested, of course, with an interest rate of 20%.