Then, when Wu Junzhen was about to open his mouth and ask the magistrate to borrow a few fast horses, he was stopped by the magistrate of Mingqin Shui and said, "It's rare for you to come once!" This official has specially collected a batch of fine wines and intends to share them with you. Serve the wine. "Seeing that the magistrate is so hospitable, Wu Junzhen and others are not easy to refuse! But he still proposed, "Lord Zhixian, I have something to say?" ”

Looking at Wu Junzhen, who had a serious expression, he suddenly made the magistrate feel that something was abnormal, so he said bluntly, Wu Junzhen reported: "Right now, the Liukou Eastern Expedition has come to Shanxi, and the Chengxuan Political Division has broken through several cities one after another!" Pingyang Mansion has basically been occupied by the Liukou, and we also escaped while the Liukou were not killed, so I want to ask the magistrate if you can ask for a few fast horses? Ming Qin Shuizhixian, who got the news, was shocked and hurriedly asked, "What should I do now?" Even if the Liukou are going eastward, I am afraid that Zezhou will not be able to keep the peace! The top priority should be to flee to Ning Shanwei first. ”

Just when the decision was made, the soldiers outside the city hurriedly ran over and reported: "Report, outside the city gate, I found that there are bandits and a team of rogue bandits hanging the Shunzi flag are shouting outside the gate, and please show the county lord?" ”

Wu Junzhen explained to the magistrate: "They should be chasing their own rogues and the bandits on Chagui Mountain, the magistrate, please quickly let the soldiers resist the city gate and escort the people to withdraw first!" "But Mingqin Shuizhixian's idea is to escort His Royal Highness the county lord to withdraw with them first, as for the people, the Liukou army will not kill them for a while anyway, so he doesn't intend to care about the life and death of the people, in order to show loyalty, he immediately ordered the soldiers to go to the city gate to resist, and the rest of the people fled to the back city with his own protection of His Royal Highness the county lord.

At this moment, the red lady at the gate of the city led the bandits to the city gate and shouted, "The Ming army in the city listen, quickly release the general of the right battalion of Dashun: Li Yan, otherwise this king will definitely set foot on this city!" After some shouting, the Ming army saw that she was a woman, so they didn't care, just smiled, and the soldiers of the Shun army next to them said to General Dashun Right Guoyi: "General Right Guoyi, do you think we want to cooperate with this female bandit leader to attack the city?" ”

I saw that the general of Dashun right Guoyi weighed it and decided to immediately order the artillerymen to ignite the cannon (dong, dong, dong) to blast to the city, and the red lady who heard the sound of the cannon led the bandits to charge the city while setting up arrows, and broke the arms of several soldiers in the city with flying claws hooked, and the Ming army gunners were suppressed by the rogue army as soon as they shot a few guns, so that the bandits successfully landed in the city, but when they went up to the city tower, the bandits who rushed to the front of the bandit bird commander, just wanted to show it in front of the red lady, Unexpectedly, after slashing and killing a few rogues, he was shot in the chest by the Ming gunners, and the Ming gunners raised the guns and smashed his head.

When the red lady on the ladder next to him noticed that he was injured, he wanted to save the Ming army gunners who were hiding next to the battlements and shooting, and the only way to blow them up was to blow them up with wind and fire, so the bandit soldiers stepped forward and said, "King, do we want to throw thunder and blow up the battlements?" As soon as these words came out, the red lady immediately retorted: "No! The Bird Commander is still on top of the castle tower, so he can't blow it up! ”

Suddenly, a Ming army aimed at the red lady with a bird gun, and was about to pull the trigger, when he happened to be discovered by the bird commander, he got up and shouted: "King, be careful!" As soon as the words fell, he was shot and died, so angry that the red lady hurriedly commanded the bandits to storm the city tower, and finally broke through the city defense and rushed into the city with a murderous red lady.

Here, when Wu Junzhen was retreating, he suddenly thought that the Liukou general was still being imprisoned in the cell, so he wanted the officials to go back and catch him and run together, or use him to block it to buy time for His Royal Highness the County Lord to retreat, but the timid and fearful Mingqin Shuizhi County retorted, "When is this still thinking about the Liukou general?" It's all about saving your life right now! ”

Wu Junzhen, who was Han, was a little angry and wanted to turn back, but Zhu Youlan hurriedly took his hand and persuaded him, "You don't listen to the words of the magistrate, don't you listen to my words either?" The embarrassed Wu Junzhen calmed down and escaped from the back city with everyone.

The Red Lady who invaded the city immediately ordered to stop the pursuit of the Ming army, and went to find the whereabouts of Li Gongzi as soon as possible. I asked several people one after another, but they all said they didn't know! Angry, the red lady picked up a whip and slapped the ground fiercely, and said to the soldiers and civilians in the city: "Who can tell the whereabouts of the general of the right battalion of Dashun, this king will reward him with one or two silver!" ”

As soon as these words came out, a soldier in cloth armor came out and said, "King Qiqi, the little one knows where he is?" It seems that he was escorted to the cell by the captains of the brocade guards? When the red lady learned the news, she gave him a tael of silver.

Then she quickly ran to the cell to see the whereabouts of Li Gongzi, when the red lady came to the cell, she saw the smoke coming from the nearby fence that had been burned by the fire, she was very worried about Li Gongzi's comfort and hurriedly asked the thieves to put out the fire, and she walked to the dungeon, and shouted with smoke while walking, "Li Gongzi, Li Gongzi, are you in it?" Li Gongzi! ”

After screaming for a while, but there was no response at all, the red lady was in a hurry, she pulled out her saber and slashed at the half-burned fence in front of her, rushed into the dungeon, the red lady looked around and found that it was not the person she was looking for, and finally found a man in armor in a corner cell, and the figure could probably be determined to be him, so he asked the bandits who followed behind him to cut the bars of the cell and rushed in, the red lady quickly helped up the general of the right battalion of Dashun and shouted: "Li Gongzi, wake up?" Li Gongzi, don't you scare me? ”

The thief next to her saw that she was a little excited, so he persuaded her, "The king is said to be able to wake people up by pinching people?" ”

So the red lady stretched out her hand and pinched the middle of the person, sure enough, the general of the right battalion of Dashun coughed a few times and woke up slowly, because he had been smoked for too long, so he didn't open his eyes in time, the red lady let the thief carry him out of the cell, and after escaping, the red lady hurriedly ran to the street, grabbed a person and asked, "Do you know where there is a medical hall?" Or a pharmacy? The frightened people pointed in the direction of the street opposite.

Seeing this, the bandit ran over with the general of the right battalion of Dashun on his back, and as soon as he entered the door, the red lady directly knelt down and said, "Doctor, please!" You must save him, and I will give him as much money as I want. ”

The doctor doesn't look like a good person when he sees them? I'm also a little scared! Especially looking at the fierce and vicious bandits holding knives next to them, they were even more frightened that the doctor's hands trembled and did not dare to agree to heal, and the red lady also saw this, she turned her head and asked the bandits to put away their sabers and retreat.

I saw that the doctor wiped his sweat and turned around and walked over to pick up the medicine box to prepare for treatment, he first gave the lying Dashun right battalion general a pulse to confirm that the person should be fine, after checking the eyes and nose, it was judged that the person was inhaled too much smoke, and it was okay to rest for a few days! The red lady was relieved when she learned about the situation, but she still asked the doctor to prescribe a tonic to eat.

On the other side, Wu Junzhen and others, who were pursued by the rogues and fled to Yangcheng County, came to the city in a sleepy manner, and he asked Zhu Youlan and the captains of the Jinyi Guard to walk across the suspension bridge and shouted to the city: "The Ming army guarding the city, listen, this is His Royal Highness the county lord, and please open the city gate as soon as possible and let His Royal Highness the county lord enter." ”

As soon as the words fell, the magistrate of Mingyang City: Yuan Tongbao, I happened to come here to patrol the city and asked the soldiers what the situation was below? The soldier explained that the city seemed to be driven by His Royal Highness the county lord? Knowing that it was His Royal Highness the county lord coming, he was frightened by the magistrate of Mingyang City, and immediately ordered the opening of the city to greet him.

After hearing the sound of opening the city gate, Wu Junzhen happily took His Royal Highness the county lord and everyone into the city, and said to the soldiers guarding the city: "Dare to ask, where is the county lord?" I have something to see him. After hearing this, the soldier took him to prepare to go to the city, and just met the magistrate of Mingyang City, who was going down to the city tower, he came to the county lord of Mingtai'an next to him: Zhu Youlan, saluted and said, "The lower official sees His Royal Highness the county lord, I don't know that His Royal Highness the county lord is far away, and I ask for forgiveness!" Dare to ask His Royal Highness the County Lord, why are you here? ”

Zhu Youlan, she said very happily: "Don't hide it, this county lord is here to take refuge this time!" The Liukou is coming, and please ask the county lord to escort the county lord to Ningshanwei to join the local garrison to ensure peace for a while, otherwise as soon as the Liukou army arrives, this city will soon be breached! After learning the seriousness of the matter, the magistrate of Mingyang City was not timid, but said to Zhu Youlan very calmly: "Your Royal Highness the county lord, the lower official will send someone to escort you away, rest assured that as long as the official is still there, this city will not be captured by the rogue?" ”

After speaking, he ordered the soldiers on the left and right to escort Zhu Youlan to flee to the back city, which moved everyone present very much, Wu Junzhen, Ma Wei and Liu Ruilin immediately clasped their hands into fists and saluted him and turned to leave.

At this moment, General Dashun Right Guoyi and the bandits under the Red Lady converged together, and the two sides combined 80,000 troops stationed in Qinshui County. The good thing is that he can save Li Yan and stabilize the morale of the army, but the worry is that as soon as he comes back, his rights will be empty! So he went to visit the general of the right battalion of Dashun.

And lying in the backyard of the county government, Li Yan was being fed by the red lady with a decoction, and suddenly he was woken up by the general of the right battalion of Dashun after feeding more, he slowly opened his eyes and saw that the red lady was taking care of himself by his side, so he got up and thanked, "Below, thank you for the life-saving grace of the red girl!" But this lonely man and widow are in the same room, and I am afraid that it will not be good for your reputation! Ben will go out! With that, he got up and left.

But was stopped by the red lady and said, "Hey! Wait for the girl to finally rescue you, your life will be mine in the future, come and drink this bowl of soup medicine first, and I will let you go. Seeing that he couldn't say anything about her, the general of the right battalion of Dashun had no choice but to pick up the bowl and drink it all.

At this time, General Dashun Right Guoyi walked in under the leadership of the bandits and saluted: "The last general, see the general of the right battalion, I have seen the red girl, now the Ming army is on the run, I don't know if we want to continue the pursuit?" "The general of the right battalion of Dashun, who picked up a life, decided to take revenge and beat the Ming army, so he agreed to continue to advance, and the red lady saw this, and also ordered the bandits to cooperate with the battle and go to Qindi Township together.

According to the Shun army in front of the Ma Lai report, the Ming army in the vicinity are fleeing, or gathering troops at all have no time to engage them, so this Shun army went all the way south through the jungle to a place three hundred steps outside Yangcheng County before stopping the pace, the general of the right battalion of Dashun on horseback saw that the soldiers on the city tower were standing majestically and upright, and the formation was not chaotic at all, and the flag was also planted neatly, making people look like there were ambushes at a glance? Fearing deception, he sent 300 soldiers of the Shun army to explore the way.

The Ming army defending the city saw a small group of rogues coming over, and immediately reported the situation to the magistrate of Mingyang City, who had always hated the rogues, he directly ordered to kill this team of rogues with firecrackers, only to see the firecrackers raise their guns and aim at the front and slowly pull the trigger (bang, bang, bang) lead bullets quickly penetrated (step armor) and shot fifty rogues.

In order to scare off the Liukou soldiers, the Ming army defending the city also deliberately beat drums on the top of the city tower, so that the rest of the Liukou saw the majesty of the Ming army and hurriedly retreated to the back.

The soldiers of the Shun army who withdrew reported to the general of the right battalion of Dashun: "General of the right battalion of the Qi Dynasty, the offensive of the Ming army is relatively fierce, and it seems that it is prepared, you see if we are..." Seeing the timid appearance of the soldiers of the Shun army, the red lady coughed and said, "Aren't you scared by the Ming army?" Afraid that they will not dare to fight, so they make up a lie, right? ”

However, when General Dashun Youguo Yi heard this, he felt that she was very frivolous, so he said, "If the red girl has the ability, then you can take the lead in attacking the city!" Just let me wait to see what the Red Girl is capable of? ”