As the Jinyang army headed south, the good reputation of this army among the people had spread. Walking south along the canal, the people not only did not flee with their families, but instead welcomed them. Along the way, the soldiers were strict in military discipline and gave them silver and copper coins to buy goods. Not only did there not a single incident of harming the people, but many good people and good things emerged in Jinyang soldiers who helped the people build houses, fetch water, and chop wood.

In Duanjia Village, a villager hurriedly broke into the village and shouted, "Friends, run away! The officers and soldiers are here!"

The shouting villager was Duan Da. In the small village, the elderly Duan Laoliu heard the shouting and sighed: "The bandits have just left, and the officers and soldiers are here again. This world will not make people live!"

"Old man, run away quickly, the officers and soldiers are here!" Duan Laoliu's son Duan Runshui shouted anxiously.

"I just don't leave! I don't believe it anymore. I am an old man, what can the officers and soldiers make things difficult for me? But you, girls and young men, run away quickly! Take the children with you, don't let the officers and soldiers arrest you!" Duan Laoliu sat stubbornly on the chair and refused to get up.

"Dad, the official dog is worse than a thief! Children, please, leave quickly!" The three sons and two daughters-in-law knelt on the ground and begged hard.

"I am old and can't walk anymore. You can go! Don't let the officers and soldiers take it away!" Duan Laoliu was worried about his three sons, two daughters-in-law, two grandsons and two granddaughters. If his son was captured, it would be an excellent cannon fodder; if his wife was captured, wouldn't it be a disaster for the officers and soldiers? Even if his young grandson and granddaughter were captured, it would be a disaster for the officers and soldiers!

The soldiers of the thief general Zuo Liangyu were the soldiers of the thief general. Not to mention that the young man was captured as cannon fodder, the big girl and his wife were caught and harmed. Even the children would not let them go. Whether it was a little boy or a little girl, they would not end up in the hands of those soldiers with red eyes like wolves, and they would not end up being cooked by the soldiers! And Liu Zeqing's officers and soldiers were not much better. Huang Degong and Gao Jie's officers and soldiers were slightly better, but it was inevitable that they would rob some things of the people, bully a few big girls and a few more wives, and arrest a few young men.

The bandits are like combing the soldiers and washing them. If the soldiers of the thief general Zuo Liangyu come, it would be terrible. They are like a group of locusts, and no grass grows wherever they pass! Although the thieves and thieves also loot all the places where they pass, they are still better than the Zuo Army.

At this moment, someone ran in outside: "Old Master Duan, we didn't have time to run away! The official dogs are all cavalrymen! They have arrived at the entrance of the village!"

"Then hide quickly!" Duan Laoliu shouted, "Let the big girls and wives quickly apply the ashes on their faces! They should hide at home and don't come out, and don't let the officers and soldiers see it!"

"Wow!" The young granddaughter burst into tears.

"Don't cry!" the eldest son Duan Da yelled, "If you cry again, the thief general will take you away and cook it!"

The officers, soldiers and cavalry had already arrived at the entrance of the village. The people were so scared that they all hid at home. The doors were closed and no one in the village could see them.

The arrival of cavalry was Li Guodong's night stop. After the Jinyang cavalry followed the fleet to fall into Huai'an, the cavalry did not walk along the river, but walked closer to the road, wandered upstream along the Huai River, passed Fengyang, and then to Shouzhou, preparing to cross the river in Shouzhou, pass by Luzhou, and head to Anqing.

"Why are there no one in the village?" Ye Bushu asked.

"Maybe it was caused by the thief in the thief in the future? It could be caused by the left thief or Liu Zeqing's officers and soldiers." Another Ye Busus said.

Tie Hammer said: "There must be people in the village. You don't know how to observe it? There are boats on the river and fishing nets on the trees! This means there are still people there!"

"Brother, this village is so broken, it must have been harmed by the thieves." Ye Bushu, the first to speak, pointed to the broken and lifeless village.

"It must have been harmed by the thief, but there are still people living here. It's just that I may have heard that the officers and soldiers have come and the people have been hiding." Tie Hammer said.

Ye Busuo said, "Don't he hides or not? Isn't there a boat by the river? If we want to cross the river, then we will requisition their ships."

Tiemao said angrily: "How can we requisition without the consent of the people? Then what is the difference between us and those bandits and bandits?"

"What should we do?"

"I'll ask first when I go to the village first." Tie Hammer said.

Then the hammer entered the village, walked to the door of the family, and knocked on the door: "Is there anyone inside? Don't be afraid of it. We are the Jinyang army at night and are preparing to go to Anqing to suppress the thieves. I hope the fellow villagers can help and borrow our boats to cross the river."

After knocking on the door for a long time, no one responded. Tiehai walked to the door of another family, knocked on the door and asked, repeating what he had just said, but no one came out. He knocked on the doors of several families in a row. At this time, he heard someone in the room talking softly. Although the voice was very light, he was very sensitive to hearing what the people inside were saying clearly.

I only heard someone say, "Jinyang Army? I haven't heard of it."

Another man said: "This officer and soldier seems to be different from other officers and soldiers. They knocked on the door. If it were other officers and soldiers, they would have bumped into the door long ago. They spoke very politely. If it were the thief general or Liu Zeqing's people, they would just rob the ship directly. Why ask us?"

Then Tiehammer heard an old voice: "I'd better go out and have a look. I'm so old, I guess the officers and soldiers won't make things difficult for me."

After a while, I heard footsteps coming from inside, and then the door opened and an old man with white hair appeared at the door. The old man was Duan Laoliu.

Tieqiao quickly bowed and said, "Old man, we are the Jinyang army. I want to borrow your boat to cross the river. I wonder if the old man can give us some convenience?" Seeing the old man's suspicious look, Tieqiao hurriedly said, "Our Jinyang army is the army of Wuweibo. Boye is strict in military discipline. Don't worry, we will never harm the people. If you cross the river, we can borrow the silver from the ship for you."

"This military man is very kind to speak. I believe you. It's a pity that the young men in the village heard that the officers and soldiers had come and ran away. Alas, we were harmed by the thieves once. The thieves came and we hid in the mountains, but the thieves snatched away all the things we did not take away. Later, Zuo Liangyu came again, and the remaining things were snatched by the thieves again."

"Old man, can you let the people come back? We won't hurt you."

"I'll try it." Duan Lao Liudao.

"Okay, thank you for your senior. Then I will go back and report to Master. Master’s army is behind and will arrive soon." Tie Hammer bowed and thanked.

After receiving the report that we are not taken away at night, Li Guodong said: "It seems that the reputation of our Jinyang Army has not reached here yet. Okay, let's go and camp by the river. You are not allowed to enter the village at will to disturb the people!"

Seeing this army camping by the river and not being ruthless to their small village, the common people gradually became bolder. First, some old men and women walked out of the house and went to the entrance of the village to observe this army that was different from other Ming troops. Then the young men walked out of the house one after another.

A bold young man approached the military camp and looked at the two sentries standing at the door. He saw a murderous aura on his faces that had been through the battlefield. He was so scared that he dared not get closer, but just observed from a distance. The bold young man was Duan Laoliu's son Duan Da.

At this moment, an official wearing a python robe and a black hat walked out of the camp. Duan Da was so scared that his legs became weak and he hurriedly knelt on the ground. A commoner like him could not tell whether he was a military general or a civil servant. He only knew that the clothes that the official must be someone with a prominent identity, so he was naturally scared to kneel down.

The official wearing a python robe was Li Guodong. He walked to Duan Da and gently helped him up: "Young man, get up quickly, my uncle is Li Guodong, the leader of the Jinyang Army."
Chapter completed!