As soon as they saw that the leader was killed, those pro-soldiers scattered and fled, Zuo Liangyu chased and killed for a while, and collected his troops and returned.

Killed a chaotic dragon, Zuo Liangyu naturally would not stop, he continued to pursue, won consecutive battles, annihilated several peasant armies, several leaders such as the mountain tiger, the skyrocketing harrier, Xiao Rengui, Liu Bei, etc., were all killed by him.

However, Zuo Liangyu was not happy, because these peasant armies were not his key targets, what he hoped most was to defeat Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, in his eyes, only these people could fight.

But he couldn't find these people, and sometimes he found out the location, and when he arrived, the other party had already left, so he could only take some unknown people out of anger.

At this time, several leaders of the peasant army had already divided their troops, and this was the old way to deal with the officers and troops, and more than 100,000 men and horses were divided into several large units, attacking from all sides, lighting fires everywhere, and the officers and troops could only pounce all the way, so that you could not gather and annihilate them.

Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang were all the way to Hubei, and Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were preparing to enter Sichuan.

However, when Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai walked to Nanyang, a seemingly small thing happened, and it was this incident that completely changed the history after that.

Those who are familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty know that Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai failed to attack Sichuan, and were defeated by the local Tusi Qin Liangyu, and later joined Gao Yingxiang and other people's troops, but unexpectedly strayed into the carriage gorge, were surrounded by regiments, and almost starved to death. After that, Chen Qiyu was deceived again, and then at the Xingyang Conference, the peasant army ran to dig the ancestral grave of the Zhu family in Fengyang......

Everything will slowly unfold in the following time.

However, the emergence of this incident completely disrupted history. And it is here, in fact, that our story begins.

Outside Nanyang City, there is a river called the White River. The river flows through Xiangyang and flows into the Han River. Zhang Xianzhong has heard the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he thinks that this White River is the river that Guan Yu blocked when Zhuge Liang burned Xinye, and the romance said that Guan Yu intercepted the river, the water was several feet high, and when the Cao army was defeated and retreated to the lower reaches of the White River at night, the river was opened, so the Cao army drowned countless people.

Because of the knowledge of romance, every time Zhang Xianzhong crossed the river, he had to send people to investigate to see if there were officials and troops upstream who intercepted the river and prepared to drown him.

This time was no exception, after probing, the scout reported that there was no shadow of the official army upstream, so Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were relieved and prepared to cross the river.

The nearest largest ferry port is called Fengling Ferry.

Tens of thousands of horses and horses were loud, looking for boats in all directions, and in less than half a day, they found hundreds of boats, so they gave an order and began to cross the river.

The White River was not wide, so the men and horses crossed quickly, and in just one day, tens of thousands of peasant troops crossed the White River and continued westward into Funiu Mountain.

Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai had never been to Funiu Mountain, and even only inquired with the locals to know about this mountain, and when they entered the mountain, they found that it was a treacherous mountain.

But see the layers of mountains and mountains, the strange peaks protrude, the cliffs are like cutting, and the cliffs are dangerous and the ditches are deep. They just marched along the side of the mountain, and they already felt the steepness of the mountain, and if they entered the mountain, tens of thousands of horses would have to walk for many days before they could get out.

Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong walked side by side, while looking at the mountain, they couldn't stop admiring, they all felt that this was a good mountain, once they lost the battle in the future, they could go into Funiu Mountain, recuperate, in order to make a comeback, even if the officials and soldiers wanted to chase, it was in vain.

The men and horses were moving forward, passing through a large valley, Luo Rucai was very careful about the treacherous terrain, and the scouts had already been sent out, and they knew that there were no ambushes in this valley, so they dared to drive in.

The brigade walked, the forward had passed, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai led the Chinese army, into the valley, just when they walked to the middle of the valley, suddenly from both sides of the valley wall from the sound of horns, whining......

With the horn, ambush soldiers suddenly appeared on the mountainside on both sides, and I don't know how many hundreds of people there were, these people did not wear official and military uniforms, they were all ordinary people's clothes, some had weapons in their hands, and some did not.

As soon as these people appeared, they immediately startled Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai.

The valley they are in, the valley bottom is narrow, showing a funnel shape, once the enemy troops above throw down the stones and rolling wood, there is nowhere to hide, so Zhang Xianzhong hurriedly shouted: "Rush out, rush out......

But the bottom of the valley is too narrow, and there are many people and horses, like crowded in a small alley, how can you go smoothly, after listening to Zhang Xianzhong's order, the people and horses are surging, and they are in a mess for a while.

Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai glanced at each other, and they both thought: It's over, as long as the enemy attacks, he and the people around him will definitely die.

But after waiting for a while, they did not see any movement from the people above, and those people looked at them as if they were watching the commotion, neither firing arrows nor throwing stones, and some of them looked at the mess of people and horses below, and could not stop laughing.

Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai couldn't figure it out.

At this time, I heard someone on the mountain shouting: "Is Zhang Xianzhong and Brother Zhang below?" ”

Zhang Xianzhong was stunned for a moment, thinking that I have no acquaintances in Henan, could it be the people's army on another road? So he replied in a loud voice, "Which one are you?" The person above replied: "The little brother is Li Kang, do you remember?" ...... in Huayin City"

Hearing this, Zhang Xianzhong was overjoyed: "Brother Li Kang?" Dude is here! After finishing speaking, he said to the people around him: "Don't panic, it's your own people." ”

Then he raised his head again and shouted: "This place is not easy to talk to, when I get out of the valley and set up camp, our brothers will meet again......

Li Dang responded, and walked out of the valley with people.

When both sides came out of the valley and came to a flat place, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai completely relieved their hearts and ordered to set up a large camp to rest, and after a while, Li Dang came with his own men and horses, about five or six hundred people, led by four horses, Li Yan and the Red Lady were in Zhongzheng, Li Dang and Xiaoqing were on both sides, and walked to the camp of the peasant army.

Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai had already greeted him in front of the camp, Zhang Xianzhong had a good relationship with Luo Rucai, he told Luo Rucai that he had a brother in the Huayin City Prison, who was skilled in martial arts, and was also a member of the rebel team, and the rebel team called itself the Qin army.

The two sides met and made an introduction, Zhang Xianzhong had already seen Li Yan, needless to say, the six of them entered the big tent together, and then sat down to talk in detail.

Zhang Xianzhong asked Li Kang how he got to Henan, Li Kang sighed, and did not hide it, and finished telling his own affairs.

Since he came to Henan with Li Yan and others, he knew that the peasant army had also entered Henan, and it was likely that Zhang Xianzhong was among them, so several people rushed to Luoyang, Li Yan's home, according to Li Yan's plan.

When he came to the door to take a look, Li Yan was surprised, he had not returned for several months, his home had changed people, he hurriedly asked the neighbors left and right, those neighbors looked at Li Yan, they were all shocked, thinking that they had seen a ghost, fortunately it was daytime, and Li Yan was followed by many people, so he knew that he was a human and not a ghost.

The neighbors told Li Yan about the tragedy of his family, it turned out that after Li Yan's accident, Li's father searched in many ways, but never saw any trace of his son, and later through the relationship of officialdom, he finally found the black shop, under torture, the thief said that there was indeed such a teenager, who was chased by them and jumped off the cliff, and it is estimated that he has been crushed.

In this way, the Li family is like five thunderbolts, Li Yan is the only son, and the hope of one door is on him alone, and now it has ended up with this result, Li's mother fell first, and within a few days, she thought about her heart and died in Huangquan, and Li's father was also ill, and he suffered for two months, and he couldn't survive.

As soon as the master of the Li family died, the remaining servants divided the family's belongings and scattered. A distant relative of the Li family came to inherit the property, but there was only one empty house left, and this relative did not want to live in Luoyang, so he sold the house and returned to his hometown with silver.

As for the Li couple, they were buried outside Luoyang City by their former friends.