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Yun County, Pipa Beach east of Yunyang Prefecture.

The Han River, which runs through the east and west of Yunyang Prefecture, has another 90-degree turn here, so Yunyang has an extra Pipa Beach.

The Han River section here is bordered by Shibapan Mountain in the north and Houzi Cliff in the south. Pipa Beach is in the middle, and is one of the famous ghost gates in the Yunyang section of the Han River. And now, this place has become a gathering place for the Chen family army to gather refugees in shanty towns.

A group of refugees with sad faces and fear of the unknown gathered here. The Chen family army formed a group of ten households into a group and a hundred households into a group, and established a group leader and a group leader, and organized young and strong people into volunteers. The "group" is the most basic organizational unit of the Chen family army. The "township" and "district" above are thousands of households and tens of thousands of households. The Chen family army is not a nomadic people, let alone Zhu Ming. The township head and district head are just a temporary organization. After the troops arrived in Nanyang and Runan, they were still settled separately in groups of bao.

This "system" was to ensure the order of the refugee team and to protect the safety of the refugees as much as possible.

One of Chen Ming's measures that reassured the refugees was that he did not break up the refugees' own "system", but gathered small groups of refugees in groups of three or two together to form a full-staffed "bao"; formed a "xiang" with "bao" that knew each other as well as possible, promoted the prestigious leaders among the refugee shantytowns, and not only appointed them as baozhang, but also made them township heads. In Chen Ming's view, these prestigious leaders could be absorbed into the government official system by his own general's mansion.

Even if many of them could not read a few words, it didn't matter.

In the future Chen family's world, the government and the court would definitely not be the imperial power that would not go to the countryside. It might be difficult to directly set up village heads who were fed by the emperor as in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, but officials at the township level must be set up. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, local clan power flourished in China, which directly affected the government's control over national power.

If these leaders who have become the head of the village or the head of a township perform well, or even outstandingly, they will be given official positions in the future, and it is not impossible for them to be in charge of a township, a town, or even a county.

Almost every one of Chen Baoguang and his secret agents is a district chief or deputy district chief, or they are responsible for supervising food supplies. When Chen Ming led a part of the team back to Yunxian along the steep river, more than 100,000 people had gathered at Pipa Beach, and there were nearly 20,000 volunteers.

The very rough organization, the very simple organization, but with the most direct facts, it countered the rumors in Yunyang Prefecture in recent days-the Chen family army is not a "bandit", not Huang Chao in the late Tang Dynasty, not Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the late Ming Dynasty. Although tens of thousands of volunteers almost cut wood as soldiers, they are very similar to the bandits in history. However, Chen's army used food, which was distributed in sufficient quantity every three days, and the crude and simple organization to establish a very simple order for hundreds of thousands of people.

With order, even if it was a very elementary order, it was many times stronger than chaos.

Chen Ming selected a total of 10,000 new soldiers from the volunteers in five days, expanding the number of troops he could directly command to 20,000. The families of these 10,000 new soldiers could have an extra pound of food rations every day. These "soldier households" and the families of the previous 6,000 to 7,000 new soldiers formed the only two "military districts" in this refugee army.

"Take away all the food that can be taken away." Chen Ming ordered resolutely. Since those people still have hope for the Qing Dynasty, let them starve to death in hope. They chose the opposite side of Chen's army, so don't blame Chen Ming for being cruel if they starve to death.

There is indeed a shortage of food in Yunyang Prefecture, and after being plundered by Chen's army, there will be even less food. But the local "good people of the Qing Dynasty" and those shanty dwellers who still choose to stay in the mountains and forests, since they have made a choice, they must take responsibility for their choice.

Perhaps it will take less than a month or half a month, maybe only ten days or even more time, after the Chen family army leaves Yunyang Prefecture, the entire Yunyang Prefecture will be in a situation of no food to eat, and there should be tens of thousands of people who will leave because of this, but who made them choose the Qing Dynasty? They chose to continue to endure and continue not to resist. Chen Ming will not care about such people, although he can choose to distribute some of the food to alleviate the food shortage in Yunyang. Instead of letting ships loaded with food pass through dangerous shoals that make people's foreheads cold.

Chen Ming's choice undoubtedly made Yunyang Prefecture worse. He transported a large amount of food with the army, even if he would rather let a shipload of food sink in the turbulent and dangerous shoals.

Of course, the people of Yunyang have not realized all this. The wealthy gentry in Yunyang, who were frightened by the Chen family army, are now like frightened turtles that have retracted everything they have into their "maximum safety" shells. Especially in the north and south of Yunyang, Yunxi and Yunxian are right under the eyes of the Chen family army. The other part of Chen Ming's team heading south and the refugees and shanty towns in the entire southern part of Yunyang Prefecture who are willing to follow the Chen family are now all gathered in Baokang. Chen Ming did not take them back to Yunbei. Otherwise, tens of thousands of ordinary people who have not received military training and countless women and children can turn the hundreds of miles from Yunnan to Yunbei into a long march of thousands of miles.

They can directly reach Gucheng from Baokang along the Nanbancang River. Although the road in between is difficult to walk, it is better than tens of thousands of people following Chen Ming back to the north of Yunyang, and then hundreds of thousands of people reorganizing and heading east. It is estimated that before Chen Ming reaches Junxian, the new governor of Huguang has already brought the Green Camp of Hunan to fight over.

Chen Ming doesn't have much time, only half a month. Otherwise, the area in the south of Yunyang is obviously larger than that in the north, but the number of homeless people willing to follow Chen Jiajun is much smaller than that in the north of Yunyang, where there are nearly hundreds of thousands of people. It's because there's not enough time.

The refugee shanties in Yunbei can still hesitate for a day or two, but in the refugee shanties in Yunnan, even if they make the decision to follow them immediately, many people fall behind halfway or fail to meet Chen Jiajun. team, but could only arduously rush to Baokang on their own.

"The common people are common people, and our team is a team. We want to move together with these two hundred thousand people. How long will it take to reach Xiangyang? Go first, open all the roads along the way, and join the team going south."

Chen Ming's purpose of sending troops to Yunyang Prefecture was to recruit people, but he never thought of acting together with hundreds of thousands of homeless people living in shanty towns. Chen Ming's plan has always been very clear, to break through Xiangyang before the Hunan Green Camp arrives in northern Hubei, whether it is to break through, or to go around the city without breaking.

Chen Ming's troops are heading south, and the Green Camp coming from Hunan will definitely not go to Xiangyang again, or even to northern Hubei. As the Chen family's army descended along the Han River, until Chen Ming's troops were defeated, the entire army south of the Yangtze River was afraid that they would not care about heading north...