If a place is deserted, it will be extremely fast. It is like a house. If no one lives in it for a long time, it will be decayed in a short time. In the final analysis, it will lose popularity.

This is true in Texas now. Although it has only been three months since Li Ze burned Texas with fire, this land is almost completely turned into a wasteland.

A fire produced countless wood ash. After the rainy season, the weeds grew up like crazy. The villages and towns of the past were almost completely occupied by these weeds.

Pingkou Town used to be a large market town, with about 200 or 300 families living in it. Now, of course, these families have long been moved to Wuyi Xindu and other places. This town has also been burned down by a fire. However, there are more than a dozen blue brick and tiled houses in this town. Although the houses and lingers have been burned down, the walls on all sides are still there.

Now the town is not much different from the wasteland outside. The weeds grow taller than people among many broken walls. Even the grass grows tenaciously from the cracks on the original bluestone road in the town.

A large flock of birds fell from these weeds, looking for something, as if the grass had the food they needed.

A big yellow dog ran out of a blue brick house and barked a few times. A large group of birds were rushing to the ground, and flew up from the grass and flew into the distance.

"Wangcai, come back!" A man in leather armor came out from the broken wall and roared at the big yellow dog a few times.

The big yellow dog shook his tail at him, but turned around and ran outside the town.

He rushed to the front of the town and stood under a tree trunk that was thick with only half of the burnt left, looking into the distance. After a moment, a cavalry appeared at the end of his vision.

The big yellow dog Wangcai barked at the cavalry a few more times, and circled around the scorched tree like a joy. After a while, he simply ran towards the cavalry.

The cavalry quickly approached the town. A knight at the forefront looked at the big yellow dog running parallel to the war horses, laughed and bent down, then picked up the big yellow dog Wangcai and put it on the saddle.

"It's the lieutenant who is back!" A dozen men suddenly stood up in the broken walls, each of whom was carrying swords, guns, bows and crossbows.

A hundred cavalrymen did not stop and ran straight into the town along the weed-covered bluestone road.

Li De turned over and dismounted the horse, threw the big yellow dog Wangcai to the ground, and then pulled a dead rabbit from behind the saddle and threw it to him. "I'm rewarding you for your sake."

Wangcai barked twice, held the rabbit, shook his head and tail, rushed into the house, and found a corner to have a feast.

"This dog is really conscientious. You are so far away from the lieutenant. He can smell your smell and run to meet you in a hurry." A man put the horizontal knife in his hand aside and led Li De's war horse to a side and tied it to a stone mill.

Li De laughed. This dog was the first time he arrived in Pingkou Town with his cavalry. At that time, the town was already half-desolate. The whole town was just like this, lying weakly at the gate, and it seemed that he was starved.

At that time, this place had just been burned by a fire and wanted to find something to eat, but it was not that simple.

Li De's heart softened, gave the dog some food and rescued it. From that time on, the dog became the common pet of the cavalry team.

Pingkou Town is a secret garrison for Li De's cavalry.

In order to conceal my own hiding, there was basically no sorting here, and the weeds were allowed to grow wildly. In other words, several blue brick and tiled houses in the town were slightly cleaned up, and the shelves were rebuilt and some thatch was covered as a place for everyone to rest.

Li De operates a dozen places of secret camps like this in Dezhou. Some do not keep people, but some people are left behind for key nodes like Pingkou Town.

In the past few months, Wuyi, Xindu and other places have been busy resettling the migrant people, and then fighting the flood disaster, and they are very busy. Li De, who is outside with 300 cavalrymen, is naturally not idle either.

He only had one mission, harassing, attacking Cangzhou, Dizhou and other Henghai ruled.

He went to Cangzhou for a few days, and it was Zhu Shou's base camp. The defense was relatively strict. Moreover, Cangzhou had a strong martial style and the people were very strong. After going there once, he didn't get anything good, Li De turned his target to Dizhou. Taking advantage of the fact that Dizhou was not a leader Ai Song and was slaughtered in Dezhou City by Shi Zhuang, Shi Zhuang, and others destroyed 1,000 soldiers and 3,000 soldiers in the battle, and his strength was greatly damaged. At the same time, the entire Dizhou was in panic, he attacked repeatedly.

Li De's goal is not to siege the city and occupy land, nor to kill the opponent's army and people. He is simply destroying.

Wherever he passed, villages, small towns, and crops, he was all a fire. Of course, if possible, he would steal all the people in Dizhou, leaving only these people with nothing left.

These people will eventually become a heavy burden on Dizhou.

When the heavy rain continued, Li De attacked less because Dizhou was in chaos. The people who had burned their crops and had nothing to steal from him had no choice but to concentrate on places similar to county and prefecture cities, wanting to find a bite of food. Then, naturally, the riot began.

Now there are wars everywhere in Dizhou, and Dizhou, which has lost a large number of soldiers, has no strength to suppress these riots, so he can only concentrate his efforts to defend the city and then rescue Cangzhou.

For a moment, the entire sea was filled with chaos.

When Henghai sent reinforcements to Dizhou to suppress the riots, Li De immediately turned and began to attack the Cangzhou territory where the troops were drawn. If he missed a single blow, he would immediately escape from a distance. If he was allowed to hit it with one blow, there would be no doubt that after he left this place, the place would be turned into a white land.

It was not until Zhu Shou finally sent a cavalry to search in Dezhou and intercept them that Li De became more honest.

Texas is so big, and now it is even more deserted. It is really not an easy thing for the other party to block his cavalry. More importantly, Li De has already set up some secret bases and supply points in Texas like Pingkou Town, but the Henghai Cavalry does not have them. And the Henghai Cavalry that they have brought cannot penetrate deep into Texas. What they can do is to defend the border of Cangzhou and not be attacked by these elusive guys.

"Captain, is my parents good?" Li De just sat down, and a young soldier brought a bowl of water with a slight bowl, handed the water to Li De, rubbed his hands and asked.

Li De turned his head to look at him, and the soldier hurriedly said, "Captain, the water is boiling. We dare not be lazy at all. Every night, we boil the water and never drink raw water."

Li De nodded, "This is what the young master stipulates. We are outside, and there is no other way, but we must drink boiled water. Even when we go to war, we must have a skin of water. Otherwise, we will be sick and we will not be able to find the doctor. Oh, what did you ask just now?"

"I'm in good health, are you?" the soldier asked again.

Li De scratched his head: "You are rich, your yard and vegetable fields behind you were bought by a landlord who went to Dezhou, and it was a total of 300 cents!"

The young soldier exclaimed and opened his mouth wide: "Three...Three Hundred Spots?"

Li De nodded: "Yes, it's only 300 guan. Your broken yard is worth at most a few dozen guan. Didn't you bring all the rich people from Dezhou to Wuyi? No matter how broken your yard is, it's also in the city. After the landlord bought it, he shivered the original house and rebuilt a new house. Good guy, when I asked, I lost it, and almost thought you were a little rich man! I only found out that this was the case."

The young soldier paused and asked again, "Where do they live after selling the house?"

"Your mother left Wuyi City and ran to Qingshantun to buy a house and some land, but it only cost 100 guan. Qingshantun is leaning against Daqingshan, with a lot of wasteland. They are also preparing to open up land. The young master issued a law that the newly opened farmland will not be collected within three years, and will be owned by her private property after three years of farming. Little insect, you and my mother are very smart, and they save 200 guan. They say they want to keep it for you to marry a wife!"

The young soldier Xiao Chong blushed: "I didn't ask them to save money for me to get married. This time, didn't I earn seventy or eighty knots? Besides, I'm still young!"

The seventy or eighty-sixteen stakes that Xiao Chong said were naturally snatched from Dizhou and other places.

According to the rules, 70% of the stolen goods were handed over to the public and 30% to the personal property. This time, Li De returned, because his military affairs changed next, and the other was to send these goods back.

Li De laughed: "It's not too little Luo. After the battle is over, we will go back and find a wife. Let me tell you, the locals in Wuyi are very popular now. Most of them are women willing to marry locals. Most of the guys stationed in Wuyi have found their wife."

Not only Li De told Xiao Chong this, the cavalry who had just returned from Wuyi in the entire secret base were vividly describing the new changes in Wuyi to the guys who were staying here. Hearing that those people were full of energy.

Wuyi is almost exactly two places when they left. If it weren't for military affairs, these people would have wanted to fly back with wings and see the current new Wuyi.
Chapter completed!