They deliberately spoke loudly, so that Ding Qirui could hear a few words, especially when these people repeatedly mentioned Kaifeng, as if they really wanted to attack Kaifeng. [No pop-ups. After discussing for a while, Li Zicheng felt that it was almost over, so he dismissed the generals and let everyone go back to rest.

At this time, Ding Qirui was in the house, frightened and panicked, he already knew that Li Zicheng was going to attack Kaifeng, but he was more worried about his fate, early tomorrow morning, this gang of thieves will sacrifice themselves to the flag, how is it good?

About the second half of the night, Ding Qirui still couldn't sleep.

Just when he was scared to death, the door opened, and a person walked in, it was the peasant soldier who was guarding him, this person came to him and said in a low voice: "Lord Ding, Lord Ding? ”

Ding Qirui raised his head and glanced at this person by the moonlight outside the window: "What are you going to do?" ”

This man said: "The villain's surname is Ma, his name is Ma San, I only ask you, if I let you go, what benefits can you give me?" ”

When Ding Qirui heard this, he immediately saw hope: "As long as you are willing to let me go, I will have a thousand taels of silver as a gift, and I am close friends with Governor Fu Zonglong of Henan, I will ask you for an errand under his account, which is definitely no smaller than Mr. Qian." ”

Ma San nodded: "A word is a certainty." As he spoke, he pulled out a knife from his waist and cut Ding Qirui's rope.

He helped Ding Qirui and was just about to leave, when another peasant soldier came in and said sharply: "Ma San, what are you doing?" ”

Ma San smiled and said, "What's so strange about this? Take him to the flag......"

Before the man could say a second word, Ma San jumped over, raised a knife in his hand, and stabbed the man in the foreheart. The peasant army immediately fell to the ground, blood gushing from his chest, and he died.

Ma San snorted, helped Ding Qirui out of the room, and came to a small courtyard at the back. At this time, the place where the peasant army camped was a town store, not a city, and there was no city wall. Ma San asked Ding Qirui to hide in the shadows: "Lord Ding, you hide here, I'll go find Ma, and then escort you out." ”

Ding Qirui was terrified in his heart, but now that the matter has come to this, he can only fight, it is better to escape, if he can't escape, he will die left and right, so he turned his heart sideways and became bold: "It's all up to my brother." ”

Soon after Ma San left, he really pulled two horses back, he helped Ding Qirui to get on the horse, Ding Qirui shook his hand and said: "Not now, galloping on the street will alarm the thieves, let's pull the horse first, wait until there is no one, and then gallop the horse." ”

The two men pulled their horses and walked for a while, approaching the periphery of the town store, and at the intersection in front of them, there was a sentry post of peasant soldiers, where several peasant soldiers were roasting fires. They all looked a little sleepy.

Ma San stepped forward alone and arched his hand at those people: "Brothers, hard work, you go to rest, I'll change shifts." ”

A peasant soldier said: "It turned out to be Brother Ma, why did you come to change shifts alone?" Ma San smiled bitterly: "The brothers are right behind, they are wearing pants, they will come soon, you go back and rest." ”

Several peasant soldiers did not say anything, and all left their posts.

Ma San waved in the direction where Ding Qirui was hiding, Ding Qirui didn't expect it to be so smooth, and immediately pulled two horses forward, and the two flew on their horses, left the town, and galloped eastward.

Ding Qirui's heart seemed to fly out of the sky, I couldn't believe that he could still come back to life, he ran and thanked Ma San at the same time: "Brother, your great kindness to me, I will never forget, when I see Governor Fu, I will definitely give you a lot of good words, and you know the details of the peasant army, can you not be looked down upon?" ”

Ma thanked him again and again.

While the two were running, they suddenly heard a big chaos behind them, many people rode horses to chase after them, and some people shouted: "The surname Ma is reversed, intercept him, and arrest the surname Ding......

The two looked back, there was a fire not far behind them, I don't know how many people chased after them, Ding Qirui panicked: "Run, run, run, don't be caught up......"

When he was running, he suddenly heard a miserable scream from Ma San next to him, Ding Qirui turned his face to look, only to see that Ma San was hit by an arrow behind him, his body shook a few times, and he planted the horse.

Ding Qirui was so frightened that he didn't dare to get up, lay on the horse's back, and galloped lifelessly.

Maybe it was Ma San's death that restrained the pursuers, and those people wanted to take a closer look at who they shot and killed, so they opened up some distance, and the horse that Ma San found was actually a good horse, and the faster he ran, after half an hour, he couldn't see the fire behind him.

Ding Qirui was relieved that he had gone around the ghost gate and came back alive.

He ran straight until dawn, then found a family on the side of the road, asked for a bowl of water to drink, asked for the path, and then got on the horse and went straight to Nanyang. He already knew that Fu Zonglong was in Nanyang.

When Ding Qirui entered Nanyang City like a refugee, and after seeing Fu Zonglong, Fu Zonglong was surprised, he had already known that Ding Qirui had lost Gansu and was captured by the Qin army, but why did he escape and get here? He immediately arranged for Ding Qirui to take a bath and change his clothes, and then set up a banquet to entertain him.

During the banquet, Ding Qirui told his story one by one, and finally he told Fu Zonglong that Li Zicheng's troops were about to attack Kaifeng.

Fu Zonglong firmly believes in Ding Qirui's words. Because the two are close friends.

So Fu Zonglong immediately ordered the Kaifeng guards to patrol the city day and night, strictly investigate the spies, and then strictly defend. Because Fu Zonglong knew that in the past, the peasant army had broken several big cities, and the method used was to send spies into the city first, come out in the middle of the night to make trouble, take advantage of the chaos to open the city gate, and receive the large number of people outside the city into the city. Therefore, in order to keep the opening, you must not let the spies in.

Then Fu Zonglong ordered all walks of life to gather people and horses, and went to Kaifeng one after another, preparing to intercept Li Zicheng's troops on the periphery, encircle and suppress them in all directions, and he himself rushed to Kaifeng City.

As for Ding Qirui, Fu Zonglong knew that he was not lightly responsible for losing Gansu, and he couldn't afford to cover it up no matter what, so he had to let it go. asked people to escort Ding Qirui to Jingshi to ask for guilt.

Ding Qirui has already escaped death once, and he understands that when he arrives in the capital, as long as he goes up and down, naturally someone will intercede for him, and most of them will not die. It's always much safer than this time in the peasant army. So I'm not scared too much. After resting for two days, I went on the road back to Beijing.

Besides, on Li Zicheng's side, of course that Ma San is not dead, he is not called Ma San, but Li You, a low-level general of the old eighth team, Ding Qirui naturally doesn't recognize him. When he was running away, he inserted a wooden board behind his back, and while Ding Qirui was not paying attention, he pulled out a hidden arrow and inserted it into his back, deceiving Ding Qirui, because Li Zicheng knew that once Li You really followed Ding Qirui to Fu Zonglong, Fu Zonglong was a fine person, and if he noticed it, it would be a bad thing, so Li You had better fake his death and let Ding Qirui escape alone, which is the best strategy.

As for Li You's killing and stealing horses, it was naturally all within the plan, and it was all for Ding Qirui to see.

After Ding Qirui escaped, Li Zicheng immediately sent someone to sneak into Nanyang to find out the news.

Within a few days, the news came, Fu Zonglong had already gotten up and led a heavy army to Kaifeng.

The time has finally come.

Li Zicheng immediately issued an order, gathered men and horses, and besieged Luoyang. At the same time, he sent the party to lead 5,000 men and horses to attack Kaifeng, saying that it was a false attack, but it was not exactly, he wanted the party to defend Su to open several counties on the periphery of the closed city, and the momentum was a little bigger.

In short, before the peasant army besieged Luoyang, Fu Zonglong must not be allowed to perceive the true intentions of the peasant army.

So the brigade began to assemble and march, according to the prior arrangement, divided into four roads, and marched towards Luoyang City. Li Zicheng and Song Xiance led the main force, about 24,000 people, and went straight to the south gate of Luoyang. Liu Zongmin led Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi went to the West Gate, Tian Jianxiu took Hao Shaoqi, Gao Yigong besieged the East Gate, Liu Fangliang took Li Jin and Zhang Nai around a circle to surround the North Gate. Four people went out together. Killed and came to Luoyang.

Just when Li Zicheng set his sights on Luoyang City, Fan Ju and Ziyi in Anhui also made a move.

The two of them led 5,000 men and horses from Huguang all the way north to Huainan. These 5,000 men and horses can be regarded as Fan Ju Ziyi's private army. He was faithful to them.

At this time, Fan Ju had already sent someone to find out that the fifth battalion of Gezuo was in the area of Su County. The company camp was hundreds of miles, and the momentum was huge, and no one in the local officers and soldiers dared to touch it, so they had to retreat to the county town in order to protect themselves.

After Fan Ju arrived in Huainan, he immediately ordered to gather people from all walks of life in Anhui to come to Huainan to listen to the order.

But the order was given, and after a few days there was no response. It turned out that there were seven or eight generals in Anhui, stationed in Anqing, Lu'an, Chuzhou and other places, and when they received orders, they did not listen to the tune and still did not move.

It turned out that these generals knew that Fan Ju was a general, and some generals in the court had already ventilated them, saying that Chongzhen was not at ease with Fan Ju, and wanted to use the hands of the fifth battalion of the left of the revolution, except for Fan Ju, and everyone had already guessed that sending Fan Ju here was a scapegoat, as long as the first battle was not good, the court would immediately send Jinyi Wei to take Fan Ju to Beijing to punish the crime. In this case, everyone and Fan Ju don't know each other, who still goes to support Fan Ju?

Fan Ju saw that none of the generals came, and he sneered in his heart, and he already understood what was going on.

Ziyi was so anxious: "Sir, these guys are obviously watching our jokes." With just a few thousand of us, even if we fight ten of them, we will not be able to defeat the peasant army. Fan Ju nodded: "Yes, the court sent us, we didn't have a good heart, these generals are not stupid, they must have guessed, so I dare not listen to orders, although I am the nominal governor of Anhui, but I have no prestige, no prestige, and no one to look forward to, how can I move these local snakes?" ”

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