After sending Luo Rucai away, Dingguo walked quickly to Zhang Xianzhong and admonished him: "Father, the child has just returned from patrolling the city, seeing that the military discipline in the city is sloppy, the people are panicking, and many people have taken refuge in the city. ”

How do you know that Zhang Xianzhong listened to it, but he looked disapproving: "Stinky boy, scared Lao Tzu into a cold sweat, and thought it was Yang Sichang's soldiers coming to the city!" What are you afraid of about this bird? Those who want to get out of the city, just let them go, don't have to stop them! ”

"Father! This is no small feat! If we can't restrain military discipline, our Xiying will definitely lose the hearts of the people in Sichuan! How will you gain a foothold here in the future? Seeing that Zhang Xianzhong didn't care, Dingguo was in a hurry instantly.

Zhang Xianzhong was already seven or eight minutes drunk at this time, opened his hazy drunken eyes, and said casually: "Ning Yu, this army is in chaos, and the looting has long been strange, how can it be stopped?" It's rare that everyone is happy today, so it's better to turn a blind eye! ”

Seeing that Zhang Xianzhong could not be convinced, Dingguo persuaded him to go out on the street to inspect together, Zhang Xianzhong thought that he could blow a cold wind to sober up after drinking, so he nodded without hesitation and agreed.

When Dingguo walked out of the office with Zhang Xianzhong, it was already past the time of his son, but there were still many righteous soldiers on the street who had just finished drinking and wandered around.

The two walked along a remote street, and suddenly heard a commotion in a nearby room, Zhang Xianzhong was curious, so he beckoned Dingguo and walked in together.

As soon as I entered the house, I saw a hanged girl hanging on the beam of the house, who seemed to be only fifteen or sixteen years old, and seven or eight volunteer soldiers were surrounding and talking.

Seeing Zhang Xianzhong and Dingguo coming in, everyone hurriedly stopped talking and shouted in unison: "Respectful!" ”

"What's going on? Isn't it a good thing for you to do? Zhang Xianzhong's eyes widened, staring at the people in front of him.

The crowd shouted one after another: "We are wronged! ”

One of the small leaders hurriedly explained: "Jing Shuai, our brothers passed by here, and when they saw the gate open, they walked in curiously, and saw that this girl had already hung on the beam and died, and the brothers saw that she was pitiful, and they were trying to get her down and find a place to bury her." ”

Another person echoed: "Yes, I just heard an old woman in the neighborhood say that this is the daughter of Zhou Gongsheng's family, and when her family fled the city tonight, she was afraid that it would be difficult to escape, so she committed suicide by hanging herself from a beam at home." ”

"What a chaste martyr! Why bother? Why bother? Zhang Xianzhong shook his head regretfully, and then ordered everyone, "This is the home of martyrs, all the soldiers of the Xiying are not allowed to intrude, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!" ”

After that, Zhang Xianzhong walked out of the house, took out an arrow from his sleeve and stuck it at the door, and then continued to walk forward with Dingguo.

After walking a short distance, he passed by the door of a house, and vaguely heard that someone inside seemed to be crying, and Zhang Xianzhong immediately pushed the door in.

I saw that three soldiers of the Western Camp were threatening a bedridden old woman to tell the whereabouts of the hidden silver, and her son of Xiucai was kneeling on the ground and begging bitterly, and one of them immediately rushed to Xiucai and punched and kicked him.

"Stop!" Dingguo couldn't see it, and scolded loudly.

"Who are you? Dare to change Lao Tzu's idle business? Look for death! The soldiers of the Xiying who were beating Xiucai, relying on the strength of the wine, pulled out their sabers and slashed them in the direction of Zhang Xianzhong and Dingguo.

Dingguo was furious, reached out and grabbed the soldier's wrist, only to hear "Oops! With a scream, the saber fell to the ground with a "clang".

"The Eight Kings of Xiying are here! If you dare to make another time, there will be no forgiveness for killing! Dingguo suddenly let go of his hand, and the soldier suddenly unloaded his strength, and under the action of inertia, he retreated several steps, fell to the ground, and most of the wine was awake.

Seeing that Zhang Xianzhong was coming, the three of them were all as pale as earth, and they kowtowed again and again and begged for mercy.

Zhang Xianzhong touched his nose, his face was gloomy, and there was a murderous aura in his eyes, but in the end, Zhang Xianzhong still suppressed his killing intent, put his hand down from his nose, and said coldly: "This show is a filial son, don't disturb his family!" Do you hear that? If you dare to commit it again, don't blame me for being ruthless! ! ”

The three of them luckily picked up a life, and hurriedly ran out of the house.

Facing the thousand thanks of Xiucai and his old mother, Zhang Xianzhong waved his hand awkwardly and hurriedly walked out.

"It seems that it is indeed time to clean up military discipline! If we continue to let it go like this, what is the difference between us and the official army? Zhang Xianzhong said to himself as he walked forward.

After walking around for more than half an hour, the two of them were already dry-mouthed, and they happened to see a wine shop on the side of the road still in business, Zhang Xianzhong hurriedly pulled Dingguo and walked to the wine shop.

Who knew that as soon as he walked to the door, he heard a few businessmen with Shaanxi accents talking about something, Zhang Xianzhong was a little curious, and immediately made a silent gesture with Dingguo, and then put his ear on the door and listened.

It turned out that these people said that Zhizhou Luerdun was greedy for money and bribery on weekdays, wronged many good people, put them in prison, and then asked their families for money, and yesterday there was a Shaanxi businessman who spent more than 100 taels of silver before being released from prison for the New Year.

Hearing this, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help but whisper to Dingguo: "Hey, my old Zhang doesn't feel like a good person when he sees that dog official!" I don't want to leave him a whole corpse, but it's cheaper for him! ”

At this time, another businessman also said that a rich man in Dongxiang was imprisoned for a trivial matter, and he spent six hundred taels of silver and failed to release it.

Zhang Xianzhong was furious when he heard this, and immediately asked Dingguo to rush back to the office to transfer troops, and then broke into the wine shop alone and grabbed the businessman who was talking.

Not long after, Dingguo rushed over with thirty personal soldiers. Zhang Xianzhong then asked his soldiers to escort the merchant and he led the way to Xu's house. With Zhang Xianzhong's order, all the relatives and soldiers immediately broke into the door, killed every person, cut down when they met someone, and slaughtered a family of more than a dozen people in an instant.

After doing this, Zhang Xianzhong was still unsatisfied, and ordered Dingguo to go to the prison, release all the prisoners in the prison, bring the Xu family, and rob the property, and at the same time open all the official warehouses and official treasury, and let the soldiers and civilians in the city move them.

Since then, there has been a nursery rhyme in Bazhou City: "Hugh must have a bad conscience, beware of thirty nights." ”

Since Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan, he has fought for thousands of miles, flickering east and west, morning and south and twilight north, the official army has followed behind, tired of chasing and suppressing and not being able to find a trace, Yang Sichang wants to annihilate the righteous army in one fell swoop, and the combat strategy in Shu finally went bankrupt.

In order to divide and disintegrate the righteous army, at the suggestion of Wan Yuanji, he had to move out of the banner of appeasement again, except for Zhang Xianzhong, the rest of the people were exempted.

At the same time, the state capitals of Feiqi engraved a reward for Zhang Xianzhong's wanted, and Zhang Xianzhong's head was painted on the list, and the book had a poem "Xijiang Yue": "This is a traitor in Gucheng, and now the dog is dying." Xing'an and Pingli went in all directions, and the heavenly soldiers caught up. Ran away and changed his name and surname, and fled in black clothes alone. The soldiers and civilians were tied up to surrender, and the jade belt brocade clothes were rewarded. ”

And at the end of the list, the big book rewarded: "Those who can capture Zhang Xian are rewarded with ten thousand gold, and the marquis of Juetong." ”

This reward announcement was quickly torn off by the scout and brought back to Zhang Xianzhong, who laughed instead of being angry after seeing it: "Bird! And pass on my Lao Zhang's order, if anyone in the camp captures Yang Sichang, he will be rewarded with three silver coins! Cash out now! ”

When the generals in the tent heard this, they all burst into laughter.

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, the rebel army set up camp from Bazhou and conquered Tongjiang County.

Wan Yuanji, who joined the army, was worried that Zhang Xianzhong's move was to leave Sichuan, so he hurriedly suggested to Yang Sichang that he divide his troops to go out of Zitong to choke the return of the righteous army and wait for work. However, Yang Sichang didn't care, thinking that with Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't go out of Sichuan at all, and ordered Wan Yuan Ji not to divide his troops, and he must send troops to suppress it within three days.

Seeing that all the officers and soldiers were chasing after him, Zhang Xianzhong made a quick decision and suddenly waved his army to Dazhou, intending to go east out of Huguang along the old road that had entered Sichuan.

At this time, the Qin army of He Renlong's department had already returned to Shaanxi, and Yang Sichang flew to Zuo Liangyu's troops stationed in Yunyang nine times in a row to enter Yiling and Kuizhou to intercept them, but he did not get the slightest response.

Yang Sichang regretted not using the plan of 10,000 yuan, but it was too late, and in desperation, he had to personally lead the naval division into Yunyang, and at the same time ordered the officers and troops of other departments to continue to pursue Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai by land.

On the way back to Huguang, there were not many officers and troops stationed, and the only remaining mobile force was only 5,000 men and horses who were as fierce as a tiger, and among these 5,000 people, only more than 600 cavalry Guyuan soldiers were fierce as tiger's own subordinates, and the remaining 4,000 people were all Zuo Liangyu's soldiers, all of whom were arrogant and fierce, and they did not obey control at all.

These days, the soldiers of the left battalion have been marching all the way in the bleak wind and cold rain with the fierce tiger, and they have long been full of complaints, and there is a sentence in the army that slips away: "Zuo Zhen wants to kill me, and the fierce town runs to kill me." ”

On the thirteenth day of the first month, fierce as a tiger finally caught up with the righteous army in Huangling City, Kaixian County.

At this time, it was already dark and it was raining heavily, and the officers and men were already exhausted, and they all asked to rest for the night, and it would not be too late to fight until dawn tomorrow.

However, Liu Shijie, the general of the left battalion, was in high spirits and said: "Bird! Lao Tzu has been chasing them for more than 40 days, and today he finally caught up! If you don't fight, you won't do it! If you wait until tomorrow when the thieves run again, you don't know if you should chase it until the Year of the Monkey! ”

Anyway, no matter what the others planned, they immediately put on heavy armor, took their headquarters and horses, and took the lead in the direction of the rebel camp.

Fierce as a tiger was worried that Liu Shijie would make a mistake and it would be difficult to explain to Zuo Liangyu, so he had to urge the army to follow, and the two sides immediately started a fierce battle in the valley.

Liu Shijie led his troops to charge forward, invincible, seeing the anxiety of the war, Zhang Xianzhong immediately took 3,000 elite horsemen, and climbed a nearby hill with the military division Xu Yixian and Dingguo.

"Respectfully and look at it, there is no Qin Army banner behind this official army, they are alone in the depths!" Xu Yixian said it.

"Birds! Is this fierce tiger really thinking of himself as a tiger? Dingguo, Lao Tzu handed over all these 3,000 elite horsemen to you, can you have the confidence to defeat this official army in one fell swoop? Zhang Xianzhong looked at Dingguo with deep eyes.

Dingguo replied aloud without hesitation: "Why don't you dare? The child only needs a thousand fine horses, and he will be as fierce as a tiger and the whole army will be annihilated! ”

Zhang Xianzhong was overjoyed: "Good! I'll give you a thousand fine rides! Lao Tzu is watching from this mountain, waiting for your good news! ”

Dingguo hugged his fist at Zhang Xianzhong, then turned his horse's head, took a thousand elite horses, roared and shouted, and rushed down from this wooded hill.

Under the action of inertia, a thousand war horses rushed faster and faster, unstoppable like thunder.

Dingguo rushed to the front, a plum blossom gun stirred the officers and soldiers to turn over on their backs, and the guerrilla Guo Kaili saw that Dingguo was menacing, turned around and wanted to escape, but was poked by Dingguo's shot and rolled off the horse.

Liu Shijie was furious, slapped the horse to meet him, Dingguo took advantage of Liu Shijie to raise a knife to cut, and suddenly shouted at it, Liu Shijie was caught off guard, stunned in mid-air, and was stabbed off the horse by Dingguo with a shot. Dingguo immediately dismounted, took out his saber and cut off Liu Shijie's head, tied it to the "Erdoujin" horse, and then remounted the horse and continued to fight.

The two sons of the fierce tiger, Meng Xianjie and Meng Zhongjie, saw that Dingguo only killed two generals in a short time, and they couldn't help but be shocked and angry, the two looked at each other, and then killed Dingguo from the left and right directions at the same time.