Chapter 160: One Night in Texas
Li Ze now has only hundreds of cavalrymen.
The five hundred personal guards led by Tu Lichun and the original caravan guards, such as Shi Zhuang, Chen Changping and Li Hao, were specially drawn out by Li Ze as vanguards to increase combat capabilities. In addition, there were some people who were ambushed in Yixingtang in Dezhou City in the early stage.
Although they unexpectedly attacked Texas City and defeated and killed most of the Texas defenders, compared with the huge Texas City, their talent was like a thunderbolt in the ocean. Tens of thousands of people lived in Texas City.
With this little manpower, it was a dream to control the entire city of Dezhou. Li Ze could control it, namely the governor's mansion, the treasury and the East City Gate.
Even after Chen Changping entered the city, he relied on his previous reputation of rebelling in Henghai, opened the prison in Dezhou City and released the prisoners locked up by Zhu Bin to arm them, but there were only less than 300 people. Although there were more than 300 people in the prison, most of them were tortured to death, skinny and bone-thin, and difficult to walk. Even if he hated the Dezhou government to the core, he could not even take up swords and guns, how could he let them do their best?
This is the reason why Li Ze was desperate to kill Zhu Bin halfway and could not let him escape alive. Now Zhu Bin's head was hanging high on the flagpole in front of the governor's mansion, which was a silent shock to the people of Dezhou.
The governor took tens of thousands of people to beat them, but his head was now hanging in the city. For those who don’t know the truth, how could they know that the enemy coming was only a few hundred riders?
After the only organized army was entered into the city by Shi Zhuang, he immediately drove the cavalry to disperse them and then killed them. Some of the remaining people in the city of Texas were not without strength, but the leader of the dragons could not make any effective reaction for a while.
Li Ze needs time to wait for his reinforcements to arrive. That is the two thousand main troops led by Shen Congxing.
Those were more than two thousand soldiers.
Originally, Li Ze had only more than 1,000 people including the 400 Niuwei who came with him. Thanks to Zhu Bin for sending him hundreds of sets of good armor from all the way. Even those that were damaged could be picked up and repaired.
Li Ze believed that when his two thousand soldiers appeared in Texas City, it would be enough to defeat everyone's ideas.
He asked Shi Zhuang to knock on the door door to door, of course it was not the intention of attacking. Dezhou City was not a small household like him in Wuyi, and there were quite a lot of high-gate households living in this city. These people all had their own servants, in other words, their own private armed forces. The homes of these high-gate households might be more solid than the city wall. If you really want to fight, Li Ze has no one to do now.
Shi Zhuang went to knock on the door, which was a warning.
Your governor is over. Are you surrendering or are you going to stand stubbornly? Let's give you a day to consider. After a day, don't blame us for being polite.
Of course, even if they surrendered a day later, Li Ze would not be polite.
If you don’t surrender, you will kill your whole family and snatch things and leave.
Surrender, okay, then I won’t steal your things. Take your own things and follow me.
If you have too many things, you can't take it with you? It doesn't matter, my army will help you transport it. Of course, the shipping fee must be collected appropriately.
The Dezhou Governor's Mansion was brightly lit, and the outermost circle of defense was the prisoner organized by Chen Changping and released from the prison. The inner part was the cavalry of the personal guards led by Tu Lichun.
Zhu Bin's head looked a little ferocious under the lights. Li Ze, who was standing in front of the lobby gate, could see that head as soon as he raised his eyes. A faint crying sound came from the wind. It was Zhu Bin's family who were imprisoned in the governor's mansion crying. This made Li Ze feel a little depressed.
This is not pity, but a pure feeling of compassion. If Zhu Bin defeats himself this time, his head will probably be hung high above the city of Wuyi City like Zhu Bin now.
Standing on this stage, enjoying glory that others cannot reach, but at the same time, taking risks that others do not need to take. Others can surrender, but people like themselves cannot surrender.
Victory means life, defeat means death. There is no middle ground.
The hideous head hanging high also made Li Ze secretly alert at this moment. He took the wrong step and then the fate was placed in front of him.
The guy who lost his head in front of me is over fifty years old. He enjoys everything he deserves. It’s not unfair to die now. He is less than sixteen years old and his youth has really begun. He doesn’t want to die.
The sound of footsteps came, and Li Ze lowered his head and saw the stone stalkers strode.
"Not going well?" Li Ze looked at Shi Zhuang with a smile.
"These people are all traitors. When they see our sport, they know that we are short of troops, so how can we let go?" Shi Zhuang laughed and spread his hands. "After I came to the door, they all respectfully and agreed to pay the money and grain to reward the army without any trouble, but I won't say that amount, so as not to get angry."
"It's good, it's good." Li Ze smiled, "If you do this, then there will be no psychological pressure when I get them. If you come to the door, they will come to the door with fear and fear and crawl at my feet. Then how can I have the nerve to make them have nothing next? You don't hit the smiley person, right? Now, they are very rude to me. Knowing that I'm in the governor's mansion, they don't come to pay my respects. This is a naked insult to me. I'm very unhappy and angry. When I get angry, the consequences will be very serious."
The two looked at each other and laughed.
"Shi Zhuang, then what do you think these guys are capable of? Is it possible to join forces to launch a counterattack on us?" Li Ze asked.
"According to the information collected by the people of Yixingtang in the city, the influence and strength of Dezhou City is nothing more than the eight masters. Each family is about 100 to 200 servants. If the eight families are combined, there will be only a thousand people. If these people rely on the deep and deep gates of the high and deep gates, we will certainly not be able to fight from house to house, but if they really want to gather together to attack us, it will be a waste of time." Shi Zhuang smiled and said, "I discussed with Tu Lichun, deliberately shrinking the troops in the area of the governor's mansion, giving them space to connect with each other and connect with each other. Is it a matter of whether they are fooled?"
"Will you be fooled?" Li Ze asked with interest.
Shi Zhuang shook his head: "These people are all slippery like loaches. The more we look like, the less they dare to come out."
"Just hide like this, you can finish it?" Li Ze sneered.
"They don't know what you are going to do for young master, but they also know that young master cannot stay in Texas for too long, and must have left. So they want to endure it."
"Then let it go. Tomorrow, Chen Congxing is here. You come to the door again. I will treat them to the governor's mansion." Li Ze smiled and said, "If they are willing to cooperate, we will save a lot of effort when we go back, right? These aristocratic families are quite organized and we can use their staff. If they don't cooperate, then kill a few people, and the others will probably be honest."
"Young Master said that." Shi Zhuang smiled. "It's late at night, go and rest. I'll go outside and stare. These days, the young master is exhausted."
"Everyone is the same!" Li Ze said.
"We are used to suffering, and the young master is different." Shi Zhuang said: "The young master does not need to suffer."
"Don't worry, I won't do anything that can share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers." Li Ze said: "Whether the soldiers support you or not is not that you eat, sleep and suffer with them, but that you can give them what you can. As long as I can always win the soldiers, bring them a steady stream of wealth, and make their families richer day by day, who do they support me if they don't support me? Could it be that a guy who eats chubby food with them is in danger?"
Li Ze's brain circuit is obviously very different from the people of this era, and is also very different from the famous generals and generals that Shi Zhuang had met before. Even if those people are extravagant in private, they always have to pretend in front of soldiers, such as doing something like helping soldiers suck pus in wounds, or cutting a bunch of hair to replace their heads?
Li Ze disdains these activities that win people's hearts. He believes that the best way to buy is to make the people under his command live a better day and let them see a bright future. Always let their income exceed their expectations, then they will always look forward to what surprises they will bring to them next time.
There may be those loyal people in this world who want nothing, but such people are always a very small number. It is precisely because of the few that they are famous in history and are remembered by people. But such people are often just a tragedy, and can only leave a lament that makes people sigh. Of course, Li Ze also hopes that the more people he has such people, the better, but this is just a luxury. More people who follow Li Ze have something to ask for.
Therefore, Li Ze always advocates uniting more people, that is, those who have something to ask for. Give them what they want in exchange for these people to serve themselves.
Yang Kai, Chen Changping brothers, Chen Congxing, Chu Sheng, Chen Bing, Hu Shier, and even Li Hao and Li Han were all like this, but Li Ze knew clearly what they wanted. Only Shi Zhuang in front of him. Until now, Li Ze still couldn't figure out what he wanted? The origin of this person has always been a mystery.
Shi Zhuang looked open and honest in front of Li Ze, and he seemed to have always been open and hiding without any concealment. He even entrusted his son to Li Ze, and now he was taken by Li Ze's mother, Mrs. Wang. But he never mentioned the past and Li Ze never asked about it.
Or this is one of the reasons why the two people meet each other.
Chapter completed!