Chapter Eleven Buying People's Hearts

  "Brothers, everyone calm down first, we still have a lot of serious things to do. Ye Xuan said seriously and then waved his hand, starting to assign tasks to the people under him. "Sun Yu! Take a few people into the mountain stronghold to search again, see if there are any fish that slipped through the net. Oh, don't forget to lock up the prisoners first, if anyone is not honest, chop them off, no need to be polite! Zhao Jie, what are you standing around for? Hurry up and carry our injured brothers into the stronghold for treatment! As for the rest, quickly clean up the battlefield!"

  After hearing Ye Xuan's order, everyone didn't dare to be slow, and soon everyone completed their tasks and gathered here.

  For this battle, everyone was overjoyed and excited. After all, it was the first time Ye's army had gone to war, and they were able to achieve such a smooth victory. Although in the past, Ye's army had been confident that they could take down this small stronghold, they would have still suffered significant casualties. However, this time, apart from three brothers who were shot by arrows and were seriously injured, the rest of the troops only suffered minor injuries at most. It can be said that Ye's army's losses this time were almost negligible. This was something they had never dared to imagine before.

  Everyone's gaze at Ye Xuan couldn't help but become reverent, it seemed that this descendant of the Ye family was indeed just like their predecessors, overflowing with talent, and must be a heavenly god descended to earth. The original disdainful, scornful, disobedient, and resentful gazes and emotions had long since flown away...

  Ye Xuan looked at his excited and agitated subordinates, Ye Xuan's face was very happy, but in his heart he was worried and thought to himself: "Is my own ability completely useless? This Di Yu is a nine-headed dragon, I think he's more like a nine-headed worm. With this level of ability, even if it were my grandmother, she could win the battle!"

  Later, Ye Xuan also shook his head helplessly, thinking to himself that he was being paranoid, wasn't winning enough? Why bother with whether the fight looked good or not, or whether it was exciting or not. He thought to himself that he had nothing better to do and was just making a fuss out of boredom. With this thought, Ye Xuan's mood also turned from gloomy to sunny.

  Ye Xuan arrived at the wounded camp, comforted the injured subordinates. For these people, Ye Xuan still attaches great importance to them, after all, veterans who have seen blood are extremely precious and their future use is immeasurable.

  Because he had been led by Old A, Ye Xuan still understood some basic medical knowledge. He personally bandaged the three seriously injured people and sighed while doing so: "All members of the Ye family army are my brothers, just like a family... Alas, it's all because of my incompetence that you brothers were injured."

  Everyone saw this scene and couldn't help but feel a warm current flowing through them. If it were someone else who had won the battle, they would first think of dividing up the wealth and treasures, and wouldn't care about the lives or deaths of their subordinates. But our general is different - the first thing he thinks of is to come and comfort us, treating us like his own family members, personally bandaging the wounded. Where can you find such a good leader?

  And the three seriously injured men were crying and swearing that as soon as they recovered, they would immediately return to the team and be willing to do their best for the general, in order to repay the general's kindness!

  Ye Xuan carefully bandaged the wounds of these few people, thinking to himself that he should also find a specialized military doctor.

  Ye Xuan didn't think that Zi's actions were beneath him, after all in such a chaotic world, the only ones he could rely on were his loyal subordinates, so even if it was just to win over their hearts, he had to do this.

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  And at this time, the spoils of war had almost been divided up. Ye Xuan took a look and was overjoyed, his mouth stretched wide in a smile that wouldn't close.

  Just taking stock of the silver in Di Yu's warehouse, there were over 900 taels, it can be seen that this scoundrel Di Yu has accumulated a lot of money through robbery and selling meat tickets in the past two years, and also had a lot of cloth, grain and other goods, once again enriching his supplies.

  The rest is that Zhao Jie found a dozen or so hostages in the village, including both men and women. Some of these people had been recently captured and were waiting for their families to pay ransom, while others had been held captive for a long time but their families did not have the financial means to pay the ransom, so they could only be locked up first. However, most of them were young and beautiful women whose families had no intention of paying the ransom, and in desperation, they could only serve as tools for Di Yu and these bandits to vent their lust...

  For these people, Ye Xuan asked about their identities and pondered for a while. Those poor women, Ye Xuan sighed, also knew the difficulties they faced, no need to make things difficult for them, so he ordered that each person be given some grain and money, then let them go home...

  These women, who had been robbed by Di Yu, were already desperate. They knew that outside the village, Di Yu and others were fighting with others, but this was not important to them, because in their view, whoever controlled this place would harm them. Looking at these new arrivals rushing into the house like wolves, they cried together, thinking that they would be harmed again soon.

  When they were brought out, one by one, they were all desperately crying. But the things in front of them made them suddenly turn around, and the people in front of them not only did not humiliate them, but just asked a few questions, and then no one divided some food and silver coins to let them go home...

  Looking at the women in front of him, they couldn't believe it and were stunned on the spot. Ye Xuan could only slowly comfort them, saying: "I am Ye Long, the grandson of Xi Ning's war god Ye Dragon, and the son of Ye Wu, the iron-blooded general Ye Wu. Don't be afraid, everyone. The brothers behind me are all part of my third-generation Ye family army. Our Ye family army is the guardian deity of Xi Ning, how could we bully the common people and do such beastly things like bullying men and oppressing women?

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  However, as for the remaining few meat tickets, they were not so lucky. Ye Xuan did not let them go directly, but Ye Xuan also halved their ticket prices and had his men spread the news, so that their families could ransom them back, just like the Ye family army's expedition this time was a reward for saving these people.

  After hearing Ye Xuan's words, these women immediately knelt down on the ground and kowtowed to the Ye family army with gratitude. They said that after returning home, they would set up a longevity tablet for Jian, pray for him every day, and bless him.

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  After dealing with the meat ticket, Ye Xuan coldly laughed and said: "Hehe, brothers, let's go. Now it's time for us to take good care of those captives on the slope of Tuo Mountain!"

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