The sky was already bright, but the cottage was full of flames and thick smoke, and the officers and soldiers who had just been dispersed once again surrounded them from all directions, shouting that they wanted to capture Zhang Xianzhong alive.

Suddenly, I saw a commotion in the rear of the official army, but it was the military advisor Xu Yixian, under the escort of five or six personal soldiers, who fought his way out of the encirclement.

Xu Yixian was injured, Pegasus came to Zhang Xianzhong, panting and shouting: "Jing Shuai, the official army of Xizhai is weak, follow me!" No matter how late it is, it won't be able to go! ”

Seeing that Zhang Xianzhong had no horse, the two personal soldiers behind Xu Yixian immediately gave up their mounts to Zhang Xianzhong and Xianglian's mother and son.

Xianglian held Xiao Puxing with one hand and Da Chun's shoulder with the other, and climbed onto the horse's back with difficulty. The sword has no eyes, in order to protect Xiao Puxing from harm, Xianglian put on a red fat jacket that Da Chun took off from the corpses of the officers and soldiers on the outside of her clothes, loosened the armor on both sides, and hugged Xiao Puxing in her arms.

Everything was ready to stop, and then Dingguo opened the way in front, Zhang Xianzhong, Xu Yixian and Xianglian walked in the middle, and Zhang Nengqi took all the personal soldiers to be responsible for the break, and the group fought with the officials and soldiers while retreating westward.

The wall of Xizhai has been occupied by the official army, although the number is not large, but it is the elite of Zuo Liangyu, but fortunately, there are no Liu Guoneng subordinates among these people, so no one knows Zhang Xianzhong, only what appears here is just a small remnant of the Xiying Righteous Army that has been scattered, and they are not taken to heart at all.

The officer at the head of the group came down from the wall with dozens of officers and soldiers, and raised his knife to threaten everyone: "Listen to the rogue, those who surrender will not die!" If not, Hugh blames Ben for being ruthless under the sword! ”

Ding Guo sneered when he heard this, grabbed the horse's belly, and shouted with a gun: "The eight kings of Xiying are here, and they will die quickly!" ”

The officer suddenly heard Zhang Xianzhong's name, was shocked, turned around and just wanted to escape, was stabbed to death by Dingguo, and the dozens of officers and soldiers who followed behind him saw Dingguo's bravery, you look at me, I look at you, all of them were stunned on the spot.

Dingguo raised his spear, pointed forward, and shouted again: "If you don't dodge yet, do you want to be the ghost of the little master?" ”

These dozens of officers and soldiers were horrified and immediately fled in panic.

The chasing soldiers behind him would arrive at any time, and Dingguo did not dare to fight, so he immediately ordered everyone to work together to push open the gate of the wall, and rushed out to protect Zhang Xianzhong, Xu Yixian, and Xianglian's mother and son.

Seeing Zhang Xianzhong fleeing, the officers and soldiers standing on the wall of the wall, although they were still chanting the slogan of capturing Zhang Xianzhong alive, but thinking of the terrible scene that had just happened under the village, no one dared to go down the village, let alone chase after the village.

Zhang Xianzhong and his entourage got out of the cottage in embarrassment, and just retreated to the halfway point of the mountain, when they suddenly heard a horn sounding suddenly, but saw that a large number of officers and troops were killed from the woods, and there were about 1,000 people in the posture.

Zhang Xianzhong looked at the word "He" embroidered on the banner of the official army, and couldn't help but be shocked, and sighed to Xu Yixian: "It's over, old Xu, it's He Madman who is here!" My life is at rest! ”

Xu Yixian hurriedly whispered to Zhang Xianzhong: "Jing Shuai, for today's plan, only the golden cicada has come out of its shell!" There is a pro-soldier next to you who looks like you, and is willing to serve the dead! ”

Zhang Xianzhong looked back in the direction of Xu Yixian's finger, and saw that in addition to the fact that the pro-soldier did not have a signature long hair, the eyebrows were indeed seven or eight points similar to himself.

"Respectfully, please quickly change your armor with the villain!" The pro-soldier hugged his fist at Zhang Xianzhong and said resolutely.

"The officers and soldiers are here in a flash, don't hesitate!" Xu Yixian saw that Zhang Xianzhong was still hesitating, so he was so anxious that he urged repeatedly.

Zhang Xianzhong came back to his senses, hurriedly jumped off the horse, nodded gratefully at the pro-soldier, and the two quickly changed their clothes. In order to be sure, Zhang Xianzhong swung his knife and cut off most of his proud long hair, handed it to the personal soldier, stuck it on his chin, and took the opportunity to blend in with the team.

As he spoke, He Renlong had already rushed to the front with his troops, only to see him pull the reins of his horse, raise his knife and point at everyone, and shout: "Where is the thief?" Come out and die! ”

The pro-soldier nodded at Zhang Xianzhong, then turned over and got on his horse, shouting at He Renlong: "He is crazy! Your grandfather's eight kings are here! If you have the ability, just come and get Lao Tzu! ”

He Renlong saw that this person had a yellow face and long hair, who was it not Zhang Xianzhong, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly encouraged loudly: "Brothers, rush me!" Capture Zhang Xianzhong alive and reward a thousand taels of silver! ”

The so-called heavy reward must have a brave man, I heard that there is a reward of a thousand taels of silver, all the officers and soldiers suddenly turned red-eyed, and the mountains roared like a tsunami towards the fake "Zhang Xianzhong" to kill over, the fake "Zhang Xianzhong" saw that the officers and soldiers were deceived, and hurriedly took a few dead soldiers, without saying a word, and quickly fled westward.

The officers and soldiers were worried about the reward, and where they could take care of other people, they all chased after the fake "Zhang Xianzhong".

Seeing that the dragon soldiers and horses of He Renlong were gradually moving away, Zhang Xianzhong shouted a fluke, and then got on another horse, under the protection of Dingguo and others, sneaked all the way east in the dense forest of the cliff valley, and finally escaped from Agate Mountain after a lot of hardships.

After this battle, Wang Bingzhen and Zhang Dajing were killed by the official army when they broke through, Pan Duche's whereabouts are unknown, and 16 generals such as Cao Wei and Baima Deng Tianwang were killed, and more than 300 people including Zhang Yichuan, the sweeping king, surrendered to the official army.

Zhang Xianzhong's nine wives and concubines, except for the two who broke through and fled, the rest, Zhang died in the chaos, Ding committed suicide by throwing himself into a cliff with a baby less than two years old, and five other people, including Gao and Ao, were captured by the official army together with Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son Zhang Huier.

However, although the old camp of Onyx Mountain gave people a pot this time, the main force of the Xiying was all in Jiuluanping and was led by Zhang Kewang and Zhang Wenxiu, so they did not receive any losses. Across the mountain, Zhang Kewang and the others did not know that the old camp had been attacked, and it was not until the evening of the same day that they got accurate news, and it was too late to send troops to rescue.

Three days later, Zhang Xianzhong and his entourage fled to Shuiyouba, at this time, the 500 men and horses sent by Zhang Kewang to rescue also arrived, plus the soldiers who broke out from Agate Mountain one after another, a total of only 1,600 people remained.

Regardless of respite, Zhang Xianzhong immediately convened the generals to hold a military meeting in Shuiyouba Town, and Zhang Kewang, Zhang Wenxiu, Bai Wenxuan, Feng Shuangli, Ma Yuanli, Dou Mingwang and other important generals in Xiying all rushed from the Jiuluanping station.

Zhang Xianzhong escaped, but the others were not so lucky, Zuo Liangyu failed to catch Zhang Xianzhong, angry with the people in the village, and killed after entering the cottage. In addition to beheading the captured soldiers of the West Battalion, Zuo Liangyu also ordered that the young and strong men in the village should also be slaughtered, and as for the women, regardless of the old and young, they were first taken to the camp and humiliated, and then the young and beautiful ones were selected to stay in the army, and the rest of the older ones were killed as rogues.

Not long after, Supervisor Yang Sichang received a report from Zuo Liangyu Feiyu, saying that a total of 3,300 thieves were beheaded in this battle.

Yang Sichang had doubts, and immediately sent the prison army to Agate Mountain to inspect it. Who knew that the prison Jundao accepted Zuo Liangyu's bribe, although he found that the chin of the existing head was slippery, and some of the head earlobes had small holes, which were clearly the head of women, but he did not say it, and when he got up and returned to Xiangyang, he went back to Yang Sichang to return to his life.

Who knew that just after sending away the prison army road, the soldiers of the Liu and Zuo battalions fought again in order to grab the property in Zhang Xianzhong's old camp, and the left army suffered a big loss, killing and wounding more than 20 people.

Zuo Liangyu was furious, and immediately rushed to Liu Guoneng's army to ask for the guilt.

Liu Guoneng was born in the righteous army, and he has always been a man with his tail between his legs, where did he dare to make a mistake with Zuo Liangyu, and hurriedly pushed out more than a dozen soldiers who caused trouble to behead the public, and grabbed the tiger talisman with the words "Xiying Eight Great Kings Chengtian Clarifies Chuanyue", a gold seal, eight order flags, eight order arrows, two divination money, a gold-engraved dragon stick, and Zhang Xianzhong's "heaven-sent flying knife" were all dedicated to Zuo Liangyu, which can be regarded as calming Zuo Liangyu's anger.

On this day, Zhang Xianzhong was discussing the military situation with the generals at Shuiyouba, and suddenly a scout hurried back to the camp to report: the two divisions of the official army Zhang Yingyuan and Wang Zhifeng were approaching Shuiyouba, and another veteran general Zhang Ling led 6,000 Sichuan troops to occupy the pass at the junction of Sichuan and Chu.

Zhang Xianzhong thought about it again and again, thinking that if he fought with Zhang Yingyuan and Wang Zhifeng, Zuo Liangyu and Liu Guoneng, who had just occupied Agate Mountain, were very likely to come to reinforcements, and instead of suffering from the enemy, it was better to attack Zhang Ling's Sichuan army with all their might, and take this opportunity to completely open the passage into Sichuan.

After making up his mind, Zhang Xianzhong immediately ordered Zhang Kewang and Zhang Wenxiu to lead 5,000 troops as the vanguard, looking for Zhang Ling's main force of the Sichuan army for a decisive battle, Bai Wenxuan and Ma Yuanli led 5,000 troops to block the pursuing Zhang Yingyuan and Wang Zhifeng's two official troops, and Xu Yixian, Zhang Nengqi and Zhang Dingguo and others, because they were wounded in the battle of Onyx Mountain, were not healed, and they all followed the old camp to receive medical treatment.

Besides, Zhang Xianzhong's military advisor Pan Duche, when the cottage fell, he saw that there was no way to escape, so he had to hide in a forest in the village, but he was finally captured by the official army.

Zuo Liangyu saw that this person was a scholar, completely different from other captured elders, and did not dare to be executed easily, so he escorted him to Xiangyang along with Zhang Xianzhong's dependents and handed them over to Yang Sichang.

When Yang Sichang heard that there were scholars among the captives, he immediately became interested, and immediately ordered Pan Duao to be escorted to the backyard and planned to interrogate him privately.

Soon, Pan Duao was brought to Yang Sichang, Yang Sichang ordered someone to loosen his bindings, and then asked everyone to retreat outside the hall to wait, and closed the door. With a slight sound of the door closing, the light in the entire festival hall dimmed instantly.

"I heard that you are a scholar? What is the last name? Why thieves? One by one, they are recruited from the truth. Yang Sichang sat on the Taishi chair and said leisurely with a teacup.

Pan Duao knew that if he reported his real name, let alone the thief, just for the murder at the beginning, he would definitely die, thinking of this, Pan Duao immediately lied to Yang Sichang and said: "The student is Liu Ruoyu, a student of Huanggang County, on the way back to his hometown to visit relatives a few months ago, he was taken captive by the thief and plundered to the Liukou camp. Great kindness and great virtue will be unforgettable! ”

After hearing this, Yang Sichang was suspicious, and asked Pan Duao a few questions one after another, but saw that he was striding forward, his expression was calm and calm in his words and demeanor, and he seemed to have a strategy for governing the world peacefully.

Yang Sichang was even more convinced of his suspicions, and felt that Pan Duao must not be an idle person, so he immediately clapped his hands outside the hall, and immediately an officer pushed the door in and stood in front of Yang Sichang.

"Go, search Liu Ruoyu's bags for this superintendent!" As Yang Sichang spoke, his eyes stared at the change in the expression on Pan Duao's face, and sure enough, Pan Duao's face instantly turned pale, and his hands trembled a little uncontrollably.

Yang Sichang already understood eight or nine points in his heart, but he didn't break it immediately, just picked up the teacup from the table again and smacked it gently.

Soon, the officer returned to the festival hall with two pages full of words in his hand, and bowed to Yang Sichang and reported: "Master Inspector, I have been ordered to search his bag, and two pages of poems and texts have been searched from it, please take a look at it!" ”

Yang Sichang took the manuscript casually and read it in a low voice word by word.

Among them, "Baituguan Blocking the Rain" is the same, saying: "The sound of the autumn wind and white rain, the soldiers are shocked when they hear it, the desert mountains and clouds are together, and the long stream is horizontal." The front plan is frequently planned, and the special competition is borrowed, in order to ask the other side, the Ming Dynasty is sunny? ”

There is also a unique "Qing Zen Temple", cloud: "Three times over the Zen forest has not opened Zen, have feathers to promote the whip, Laochen years are all king roads, after wind and frost and change the year." ”

Yang Sichang read the poem carefully a few times, and said angrily: "Okay, you Liu Ruoyu!" As a scholar, not only did he not want to be loyal to the monarch and serve the country, but he drafted a flying book for the liukou, which shows that you must be the right-hand man of the rebellion! Ru Bai reads the book of sages, does not distinguish between right and wrong, scolds the country against the sky, and dies with more than a sin! ”

After scolding, Yang Sichang ordered Pan Duao and Zhang Xianzhong's dependents Gao, Ao and his son Zhang Huier to be imprisoned in Xiangyang Prison.