When night fell, Wang Dexuan rode his horse to the government office where Xia Hua temporarily stayed.
He reported, "Your Majesty, the entire city has been searched.
A total of 5,342 thieves have been captured.
Please tell me how we should deal with these more than 5,000 prisoners."
Xia Hua, who had been thinking about this for a long time, said without hesitation: "Execute them all."
Wang Dexuan was stunned for a moment, but he immediately returned to normal and bowed: "I obey my command."
He was about to withdraw, but was stopped by Xia Hua: "They just need to survive for a few more days."
Xia Hua actually thought twice about how to deal with these prisoners.
Although Xia Hua sneered at the idea that "killing prisoners is unlucky," he would never kill prisoners unless absolutely necessary.
Now there are about 200,000 shun troops in the entire North Zhili, and the captured shun troops of Li Laiheng's tribe are all old thieves who have followed Li Zicheng for many years.
And they were all captured, rather than voluntarily surrendering.
Therefore, if you want to reorganize them into soldiers who can be used by yourself, the risks far outweigh the benefits.
Rogue bandits have surrendered and rebelled many times in history, and there is no credibility at all.
Even if they are temporarily used as laborers, it will not work.
If they were simply imprisoned, it would be a trivial matter to spend more on food and grass.
The key was to dedicate a considerable amount of troops to guard them.
That night, Xia Hua ordered 300 Imperial Guards to lead the 5,000-city guard camp overnight to recapture the three 1,000-household camp strongholds surrounding Tianjin Guard, where more than 2,000 bandit troops were scattered.
Because Xia Hua blocked the gate of Abacus City immediately, these bandits did not know for a while that what happened in Tianjin Wei's Abacus City happened that day.
Like most of the Ming Dynasty guard posts, these Qianhu posts were laxly armed, and the fortifications and strongholds were also in disrepair.
Working together inside and outside, the Ming army quickly blocked and conquered these fortifications.
At sunrise the next day, various notices were posted in every crowded place in Tianjin Abacus City.
After hearing the shouts of killing in the city and the absence of gunshots, the common people dared to cautiously come out to explore the news.
Everyone gathered around the notices to check them out.
When it was learned that all the military households in Tianjin's Sanwei had their household registration revoked and were converted into civilian households, the city suddenly became lively, with many people beating gongs and drums and setting off firecrackers.
Just like celebrating the New Year.
Converting a military household to a civilian household is something every military household dreams of.
In previous years, only someone in the family had achieved extraordinary feats or became a high-ranking official in the DPRK could they get rid of the shackles of military household registration.
Now that they were liberated by an edict, no matter how unhappy they were, every household celebrated.
Of course, it is also a celebration of the recovery of the Tianjin Guard by the "Master of the Ming Dynasty".
Three days later, when Xia Yue returned to Star City with five thousand soldiers from the right battalion of the city guard, the main street of Abacus City was lined with civilians paying tribute.
When Xia Yue passed by on horseback, they all knelt on the ground to thank Uncle Yi.
Xia Yue could only return the favor repeatedly while sitting on the saddle.
During these three days, more than ten thousand strong men came to join the army.
The total number of people in the Tianjin city garrison reached more than 18,000, and the city garrison was divided into three battalions on the left, middle and right, plus a naval battalion composed of former maritime and canal garrison soldiers.
Except for Wang Dexuan, who led one battalion himself, the other three battalions were led by system soldiers selected by Xia Yue from the Star City Guards.
Xia Hua has not been idle these three days.
He reorganized the governor's office and served as governor of Tianjin.
There are only a dozen officials in the entire yamen, and even the servants are less than 300.
The officials were all recruited from low-level officials who handled specific affairs in the original government offices.
The first thing the governor's Yamen did after the reorganization was to send a letter to the Nanjing cabinet in the south of the Yangtze River, telling them three things: First, Emperor Chongzhen was still well.
The second is to announce Zhu Youjian's appointment to take charge of northern military affairs and civil affairs.
The third is to inform Nanzhili to prepare for defense and troops, and to lift the embargo on the sale of grain, salt and other merchants in Tianjin.
Xia Hua had a lot of thoughts on his way back to his teacher's Star City.
There was one thing that he couldn't figure out why Li Zicheng's Shun Army had no response to the Tianjin Incident.
Logically speaking, the day after he captured Tianjin, the Shun Army of Hejian Prefecture and Baoding Prefecture should have known about this matter, even if they gathered their troops to do it.
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It takes a certain amount of time to make the corresponding preparations.
After all, it should be three days later, which is now when the army arrives at the abacus city.
However, the intelligence brought back by the peripheral reconnaissance scouts showed no sign of the movement of the large army.
However, Xia Hua was not worried about Tianjin Guard's defense.
He left Xia Yue to guard Abacus City personally.
He also left the five hundred Imperial Guards in Abacus City.
In addition, there were two city garrison camps to assist them.
What's more important is that Abacus City is only three hours away from Star City.
If anything changes, rescue can come at any time.
Two days ago, Li Yan of Baoding Prefecture did receive news of the Tianjin Incident.
When he first heard the news, he didn't believe it at first.
However, seeing the sworn promises of several defeated soldiers who came to report the news, he sent someone to verify their doubts.
When he was sure it was true, he was shocked and immediately thought of the unstoppable and strange military force he encountered on the day Li Zicheng first entered Beijing, with no origin or destination.
He thought for a long time in front of the hanging map.
Finally, it was concluded that this powerful Ming army appeared out of thin air and landed in Tianjin by sea.
If this was the case, it would be a big deal.
If a large number of Ming troops with such strength landed in the Bohai Bay, it would be a disaster for all the loyal troops in Beizhili, including King Chuang.
Li Yan immediately ordered to gather soldiers and prepare to go to Tianjin to investigate in person.
Then, he sat down in front of the writing desk, preparing to write a letter to Li Zicheng himself to explain the matter.
He raised his pen and ink, and as soon as he wrote two lines, a soldier came in and reported: "General, Long live the Lord's messenger has an edict for you."
Li Yan said: "I'm here just in time.
I just have a memorial for him to deliver to His Majesty.
Please welcome the messenger in quickly."
The three messengers who came were not eunuchs, but all burly men.
Li Yan was not surprised by this.
Li Zicheng only ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor in Xi'an in the first month of the year, and he only entered the Forbidden City now.
The messengers and messengers around him were still served by soldiers from his old camp.
There was not much pomp and ceremony in the edict-passing ceremony.
"May I ask what edict the Holy Messenger came to promulgate?"
Li Yan asked, cupping his hands.
The leader of the other party returned the greeting and said, "There is a secret edict from the Holy One to you, saying that you want to borrow something from the general."
After saying that, he handed over a letter.
Li Yan took out a page of blue paper from the notepad, unfolded it and saw that it was a white paper without any words.
He knew it was not good.
A dagger came with a rush of wind and pierced his chest.
Even though Li Yan reacted quickly, the dagger still pierced his shoulder in a flash.
"Catch the assassin!"
He just opened his mouth to shout, but the daggers in the hands of the other two big men had already been stabbed.
Li Yan was stabbed several times in an instant.
"Why?"
Li Yan asked, spitting out blood.
"Let me make it clear to you that Long Live the Lord is going to march eastward immediately and personally go to suppress Wu Sangui.
He is worried about the rear, so he borrows my head to use."
The leading man said with a ferocious smile.
More than a dozen of Li Yan's soldiers had noticed the movement and rushed in.
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Seeing this scene, he raised his knife and chopped the three people into pieces in an instant.
At this time, shouts of killing came from outside the camp: