Some of the people who were caught, all of them were bodyguards hired by the gentry in the city, and these people gave the same confession, saying that they were instigated by the thieves and were obsessed with money, not at the behest of the master.

The government also knew that those gentry had money and could not rob the silver treasury, so they hastily convicted these people, some were confiscated into the army, and some went to do hard labor.

The gentry did this because they were afraid that the bodyguards would not be strict and talk about the red lady, which would be regarded as self-preservation.

The only thing that made the prefect feel uneasy was Li Yan's escape. This Li Gongzi was actually rescued by someone, and after checking it out, it was the jailers who turned against the water and let Li Yan go, and he was angry and stomped his feet.

Not to mention how it was in Luoyang City, and Li Yan, they walked for two days and came to the territory of Shaanzhou. Along the way, they recruited displaced people, and when they came to Shaanzhou, there were already twenty or thirty people around them.

Sure enough, as Li Yan said, Shaanzhou is close to Shaanxi, and it is also a year of severe drought, serious disasters, and hungry people everywhere, at first Li Yan was worried that he would not be able to recruit soldiers, but when they set up a banner of recruitment, saying that King Chuang was coming, for a time the servants gathered, and within two days, they recruited 12300 people.

Li Yan selected six or seven hundred strong men among these people, and the rest of the people could not fight, so they had no choice but to leave, among these six or seven hundred people, there were also the Ming army that fled home, the peasant army that was scattered, and so on, and the composition was complicated. Li Yan knew that such a team could not fight a tough battle, nor could it defeat a battle, and the most important thing was the first battle.

As long as the first battle can be fought well, these people will obey themselves, and they will willingly follow them in the future.

Li Yan pulled the team to the front of Funiu Mountain, first let Li Dare lead people, and used those gold leaves to buy grain, wine and meat, so that everyone could have a full meal first, these people have not eaten a full meal for many days, if Li Yan had arranged in advance and did not let them eat too much, at least half of these six or seven hundred people would have to die.

When they were full, everything was easy to say, Li Yan gave them a brief meeting, explaining that he was not a subordinate of King Gao Chuang, but the Qin army of Shaanxi, and everyone didn't care, as long as they could eat enough, they would follow whoever they wanted.

In order to make this team really like an army, Li Yan promulgated military law, some of these people have worked in the official army and the civilian army, and they are not strangers to military law.

It's too late to train right now, although there are a lot of gold leaves, but the local rice is as expensive as pearls, and if you spend it like this, it won't take three days to spend it. Li Yan decided to attack a county town and get as much money and food as possible.

He sent scouts to investigate everywhere to see where the guards were the weakest, and the next day he got the news that Lingbao County had just transferred a group of officers and troops to attack the peasant army, and there were only two or three hundred officers and troops in the city at present.

Li Yan was overjoyed, and immediately made arrangements with Li Dang, and a team of more than 600 people would attack Lingbao County in the second night.

It's still the old way, first send people into the county seat, secretly ambush, wait until the evening to come out and set fires, create chaos, and wait for the officials and soldiers to send people to the city to quell the chaos, and then attack.

After everything was properly deployed, Li Yan made people rush to make long ladders, and in just one day's effort, dozens of long ladders were made, because the troops did not have many weapons, most of them cut wood into soldiers, almost all of them were sticks.

At night the next day, Li Yan led the team to sneak under Lingbao City.

Nearly three watches, I saw a fire in the city, and it didn't take long for it to become a film, and it was almost red for half a day, Li Yan scolded secretly in his heart, these guys, I don't know how many houses they ordered, I hope they don't burn people to death.

With the fire in the city, the officers and soldiers at the head of the city began to be busy, and soon there were officers who led people down to the city, Li Yan knew that the time had come, and with an order, everyone began to carry ladders and rush to the city wall.

This siege is not like the previous few times, light more torches, pretend to be more people, in order to intimidate the Ming army, this time to attack Lingbao County, Li Yan ordered, no torches, no sound, quietly attack the city, everyone is puzzled, but they don't dare to ask more.

At this time, as soon as the fight started, I knew Li Yan's wisdom. Because there were very few Ming troops at the head of the city, and they all looked at the city, when these hundreds of people outside the city touched them, none of the Ming troops found them.

It is no wonder that the Ming army was careless, the peasant army that entered Henan had not yet hit here, and they were all hundreds of miles away, so these people never dreamed that someone would dare to attack the city.

Because the fire in the city was too big, the Ming soldiers stood on the edge of the battlements inside the city wall and watched, and there was no one in the battlements outside, so when Li Yan's team climbed up to the top of the city, these Ming soldiers had not yet found out.

The first to climb the city was called He Dashou, who was a hundred households in the army, this person had participated in the peasant army, and was also regarded as the vanguard of the rebellion, because he was defeated by Cao Wenzhao's Guanning Iron Cavalry, the leader was killed, he fled back to his hometown, and joined Li Yan's team. At this time, he climbed up to the top of the city, saw that the officers and soldiers were unprepared, lightly touched the back of a general flag, suddenly picked up the big stick in his hand, and smashed it on the back of the head of the general flag.

The head of the general flag immediately blossomed. One of them went down to the city. Everyone around him was taken aback, and when they came back to their senses, He Da's big stick had already swept four or five people out of the city.

The Ming army was shocked, and at some point someone touched it, and when they raised their weapons to meet the enemy, the follow-up team had already climbed up to the top of the city with dozens of people.

So the two sides began to scuffle.

The Ming army in the city was already small, and a group of people were sent down to fight the fire, and the remaining Ming army was divided into four gates, with less than forty people at each gate, and Li Yan's hundreds of people attacked one gate, and the Ming army of course couldn't stop it. As more and more people climbed the city, the Ming army was killed and wounded, and all those alive fled from the city walls.

The people's army opened the city gate, and Li Dang, who was waiting outside, led all the horses and rushed into the county seat.

At this time, the city was already in chaos, the Ming army did not know how many thieves came, and when they saw that the city gate was broken, they had no fighting spirit, and they opened other city gates and fled, and the county commander had already fled and did not know where to go. As soon as dawn arrived, the entire county town had been occupied by the people's army.

Li Yan and the Red Lady and others entered the city and ordered to post a notice to reassure the people, and he especially ordered that no one was allowed to rob the people and rape women. Violators will be beheaded.

Then Li Yan was busy packing up the money, food, and weapons in the county town and arming himself.

After being busy for a while, I suddenly saw Li Dang running in a hurry, with a panicked look: "Brother, it's not good!" Li Yan was stunned: "What, is the official army coming?" He secretly thought that the officers and soldiers could not come so quickly.

Li Dang shook his head: "No, it's a matter in our army." Someone reported that He Dashou with more than a dozen subordinates was raping women, and I led people to see it, and it was really good, so I arrested these people, how do you think about it? ”

When Li Yan heard this, he couldn't help frowning, this He Da had a great hand to go to the city and made great contributions, but he clearly disobeyed the military order and must be severely punished, so he asked, "Where are the people?" ”

Li dared to say: "It's tied up in the vegetable market street, waiting for you to fall." Li Yan waved his hand: "Let's go together." ”

The two of them led a group of people's troops to the vegetable market street, and before they reached the street, they heard a woman shouting to the sky, and there were many people around the street, but most of them did not dare to speak, just watched there.

Li Yan separated the crowd and came to the scene, only to see twelve people kneeling in the circle of people, led by He Dashou, at this time he was holding his neck, his hands were tied behind his back, his feet were tied together, he couldn't stand, behind him, a woman with a head full of hair was like crazy and hit on the back of his neck, this woman was pulled by the people's army behind her, but it took a lot of effort, and it didn't pull it away, and He Dashou's neck had been scratched out of blood.

Li Dare looked angry and shouted, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, which exploded in everyone's ears, frightening the woman's whole body violently, and finally stopped, taking advantage of this moment, the people of the People's Army pulled her aside.

There was a deathly silence in the crowd. Only the woman let out a low cry.

Li Yan came to He Dashou and looked down: "What's the matter?" ”