In May, even in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty in the matter of Xiaoice River, the solid ice has melted, the frozen soil has been soft, the sun and Xun, warm people's hearts, but the lobby of Puzhou County, Shanxi Province, is like a cold winter, cold to the bone marrow.

The feeling of panic was written on everyone's faces, their pressure, their fear, and their despair all came from the news, the terrible news that Liu Renyu led the Jingbianbao army into Shanxi to suppress the thieves.

The county government hall was quiet and the needle drop could be heard, no one spoke, and no one could put forward their own opinions on the news, because it was difficult to find a way to encounter such an official or soldier.

If you don't speak, you can't solve the problem, it's okay if others don't speak, but it's okay if Wang doesn't speak.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I believe you already know very well that King Liu Yan of Shaanxi is here, and it is estimated that he is in Taiyuan at the moment, I heard that he came with more than 10,000 people, and they are all cavalry, in addition, he also brought those dogs who can track our whereabouts, you say, what should we do?" Wang used all the important information to be discarded.

Under Wang Ziyong's hand, there was a word Wang Tuo Xianling, a scorpion block Tuoyangkun, a neat Wang Zhang Fat Man, Lao Hui Ma Shouying and others heard it, and they were silent.

"You can't solve the problem if you don't speak, how does King Liu Yan do things, I believe you all know very well that he is an acute son like Cao Wenzhao, the only difference is that he is stronger than Cao Wenzhao and Master Cao. If there is no way, he will bring his men down to destroy us and kill us all.

We can't run away, his men and horses are all horse soldiers, he will never give up until he achieves his goal, his officers and soldiers cannot be bought, he doesn't seem to have the intention of raising his own respect, he doesn't accept our surrender, even if we drill into the ravine, he can find us with dogs. When Wang Ziyong said this, he suddenly stopped talking, and did not want to say any more, because the more he continued, the more frightened he became.

After Wang Ziyong's words were finished, the entire county hall became colder and colder.

"Run, only by running, can you escape." Lao Hui Ma Shouying broke the silence and said firmly.

"Where to run, Shaanxi is Hong Chengchou's land, how did Hong Chengchou live, you should all remember that his old man has always killed us, and he can't go to Gyeonggi, the emperor is over there, let's go over, the emperor is angry, and the local officials are going to kill us." We can't go to the north, but the north is the land of the Mongols, and if we go, we will die and die. The neat king Zhang Fat Man took Ma Shouying's words and said some directions that might escape, but they were all dead ends or dead ends.

"Fat Zhang, you have already said that the east, west, and north are all dead ends, so we can only go to the south." Scorpion block Tuoyangkun took Zhang Fatzi's words and said.

"But now that the Yellow River is thawing, we are afraid that it will be difficult to cross the river." One word Wang Tuo Immortal Ling frowned and said.

"In my opinion, we can only go to the south, and the south is Henan after the Yellow River, which is a place where grain is produced, and I haven't heard of any disasters recently, so we can just go there to eat. According to the urine nature of the imperial court, when we were uprising in Shaanxi, only the officers and soldiers of Shaanxi suppressed us.

When we arrived in Shanxi, at first only the officials and soldiers of Shanxi suppressed us, Liu Yan was so powerful, and Shanxi was separated by a Yellow River, and I didn't see him coming, and he only came over after two years of trouble in Shanxi. If we look at this situation, maybe we will enter Henan, and we can wait for another two years before he will come to Henan to suppress us.

At that time, we can't say that we have pulled up a bigger team, although he is very powerful, 700 dared to beat our king 30,000 people, and now he has more than 10,000 people, well, let's pull up a million army, just the number of people can scare him to death, right? ”

After listening to everyone's opinions, Wang Ziyong suddenly felt that he had seen the light of day through the clouds and mist, and suddenly thought of the only way to fight against the Jingbian Fort Army, so he excitedly presented the bright prospect and the plate, so that everyone present was so happy.

"What Prime Minister Zuo said is very true, but now we have to think about how to escape to the south of the Yellow River." Zhang Fatzi raised his worries at the right time.

The Yellow River thawed, and the natural danger lies between Shanxi and Henan, but how to escape is also a big problem.

"Without further ado, let's immediately set off to the south, to the bank of the Yellow River, put away all the fishing boats, make a pontoon bridge to cross the south, and then burn the pontoon bridge with a fire, let the other rebels stay in Shanxi to block King Liu Yan, if they are unlucky, die in the hands of King Liu Yan, my king should burn incense and pray for them every New Year's Festival, if they are lucky enough to escape, we will follow them through the state and county, eat and drink spicy." Wang Ziyong thought of a way out in an instant.

According to his assumption, his group of people is not the closest to Liu Renyu, Gao Yingxiang, the armor-breaking cone, and the king of the troubled times are closer to Taiyuan, Liu Renyu will definitely strike at these rebels first, so that he can buy time for him to escape.

"Without further ado, when the grain collection teams scattered everywhere come back, we will pack our bags and head south to Jiyuan. In addition, you still need to send scouts to Taiyuan to investigate the military situation, and see if Liu Yanwang's men and horses are killing other rebels, and confirm whether there are any official troops coming towards us. The king commanded.

Since he has made up his mind to escape, he is naturally going to run immediately, but now that there is today's grain in Puzhou City, he must wait until the grain collection team comes back and has enough food before he can set out, which may take a few days, so he must pay close attention to the movements of the Jingbianbao army.

"Yes, Prime Minister Zuo."

The leaders of the thieves had a clear goal of escape, and they suddenly felt that the world was full of sunshine, and their faces showed expressions of relief, and they were busy packing their things.

Over the years, there have been a lot of beautiful women and gold and silver treasures that have been robbed, but I am reluctant to leave them like this, and I have to bring them to Henan anyway.

All of a sudden, the cavalry in Puzhou City came out in all directions, galloping away in different directions.

Outside the city of Puzhou, in the wilderness, the homeless people who were unclothed, their faces were withered, their faces were unkempt, their eyes were empty, and they were sitting or lying down looking at all this blankly.

One of the horsemen looked in this direction, frowned, and then took a pancake from his bosom and threw it into the crowd.

This pancake is about to be thrown over, just like throwing a torch into the withered wood, and it immediately activates these homeless people, they are desperate, you fight for me, fight for life and death, just for a pancake, in order to live.

In the end, the weak are defeated, the strong are defeated, and only the strongest and most ruthless can win this battle.

A young homeless man took a bloody pancake, glanced at the other homeless people around him who were retreating in fear, and without saying a word, swallowed the pancake in one gulp.

He ate so fast that he choked a little, and there was no water, and he was very uncomfortable, but there were a few people in front of him who had just been killed, still fresh and hot, and he went up and bit the throat of one of them, and sucked it in a big gulp, and sucked the scarlet blood into the throat.

"Hah, comfort." After sucking the blood, the homeless man shouted, and immediately frightened the other homeless people around him to shrink their necks and avoid them even further.

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"Ahh The sound of a sharp blade entering the flesh rang out, causing a scream.

"How many waves of rogues have you killed?" He Yaozong pulled his Tang knife out of the body of a thief sentry, and while wiping the blood stains on the knife with the clothes on the thief's body, he asked his subordinates beside him.

"Back to He Ye's words, with this wave, we have already killed five waves." A cavalryman replied to He Yaozongdao.

"Five waves! It seems that these thieves are already a little alert, you quickly go and report this matter to the commander. He Yaozong said to his subordinates.

"Yes, Master He." The cavalryman agreed, then turned his horse and ran straight along the official road to the north, in the direction of the headquarters led by Liu Renyu.

"Go, keep going, get ready to intercept their sentry." After He Yaozong gave the order, he took the lead and ran to the south.

This He Yaozong and his thirty elite subordinates were all wearing clothes obtained from the homeless people, and they were dressed very gorgeously, but they were very poorly matched, and they came all the way south, and the sentry sent by Wang Ziyong also said that they were friendly troops from other departments, and they didn't take it to heart.

He Yaozong took advantage of this opportunity many times to get close to the thief sentry and use his hands. The crossbow changed the frame and killed, killing all five waves of rogue sentry spies on the spot.

This was one of Liu Renyu's tactics, to make Wang Ziyong blind and deaf, ignorant of his own actions, so that he could carry out a surprise attack.

Fifty miles away from He Yaozong's killing of the thief sentry, Liu Renyu was listening to the information reported by He Yaozong's subordinates: "Report to the commander, He Qian always took the little ones to kill the five thief sentry sentry all the way, and we didn't ask anyone to escape." ”

"Very good, you continue to move forward, and then meet the thief sentry, kill them, stop thirty miles away from Puzhou City, and wait for our army's brigade." Liu Renyu commanded.

"Yes, Marshal." Then He Yaozong's subordinates got the order, so they went straight to the horse.

"Gentlemen, the thieves are far from the regular army, they have no plan to fight, and their vision is not long-term, a group of bandits are only, I expect that they must not be tightly fortified at this time, if Wang Ziyong and other thieves are still in Puzhou City, our army should send He Yaozong's scouts to pretend to be thieves, and rush straight into the city, guard the city gate, hang on the left, you take your fire soldiers to follow up immediately, rush into the city, the thieves will be defeated, Tie Niu, you and I lead people to guard outside the city,

The leader of the thieves and their old camp must have horses, and they will definitely take the way out of the city, and when the time comes, you will join me with the military dogs and pursue them, pay attention, the left hanging, the iron bull, the thieves captain and above will be beheaded, not a single one will be left, and the old camp will be beheaded even if they are not the captain.

Let the rescued displaced people stay where they are, and later, I will send someone to send them to the Jingbianbao army in Shaanxi. Liu Renyu said to Zhang Tieniu and Wang Zuohang.

"Yes, Dashuai," Wang Zuojiao and Zhang Tieniu replied in a slump of voices.

After Liu Renyu finished talking to Zhang Tieniu and Wang Zuohang, he continued to ride his horse and whip and gallop south.

Since the enemy that the Jingbian Fort Army dealt with this time was a rogue thief, and the combat effectiveness of the rogue was quite poor, the Jingbian Fort Army certainly did not need to wear three layers of heavy armor to meet the battle, but this time the Jingbian Fort Army was only wearing a layer of cotton armor, which was not only warm, but also protective, and very light.

The Jingbian Fort army only wore a layer of armor, so that they could travel 300 miles a day, and the people were not tired, and the horses were not tired.

He Yaozong and his men continued to march south, and they never encountered the thieves and sentinels along the way, so they stopped at a distance of thirty miles from Puzhou City, waiting for the arrival of the large army led by Liu Renyu.