Under the city of Jingbian Fort, the rebel leader Shen Yiyuan, in addition to Gao Yingdeng, Shen Yiyuan's brother Shen Yikui and other two important leaders all looked at the Jingbian Fort in front of them with grim faces.

"Ying Deng, Yikui, no wonder that Liu Invincible's name is very loud, just looking at the defense of Jingbian Fort, he knows that this person must be a person who knows the soldiers. If we want to take this place, it will not be easy. ”

"What the eldest brother said is that in addition to the moat in front of the Jingbian Fort, there are two deep trenches, and there are horses behind the moats, and there are cannons on the head of the city. Just looking at this defense is a headache. Shen Yikui also nodded with a stern face.

"I think this Jingbian Fort exudes a strange atmosphere, we come out of the Dingbian Camp, we can still slaughter the fort along the way, catch the raw mouth, to the left of this Jingbian Fort, stunned not to see a raw mouth, want to ask the details of the Jingbian Fort can not find anyone. And, you see, since we came, there have been more than 700 soldiers in the city. Gao Yingdeng said with some confusion.

"Liu Renyu said in the Tang newspaper that Liu Renyu led 700 people to break Wang Jiayin's tens of thousands of rebels, and it has been more than a month since now. We have 3,000 elite border soldiers, another 4,000 Mongols to help, and there are still a lot of raw mouths to drive, I'm afraid they will do something. Shen Yiyuan said nonchalantly.

"That's right, but we've been fighting for two days, and we've used a lot of raw drives, and even the first trench hasn't been filled yet. If you want to touch the bricks of the city wall, I don't know how long it will take? Gao Yingden sighed.

"Their trench is quite cleverly designed, 80 steps from the city wall, and when our men fill in the earth, they will be bombarded by cannons and fired with bows and arrows, and the manpower will be greatly damaged, but the progress is extremely slow. However, since we have arrived at the city of Jingbian Fort and provoked Liu Renyu, then we must break through this city and kill Liu Renyu, otherwise this guy will definitely not let us go. Shen Yiyuan said solemnly.

"Alas, I knew that Jingbian Fort was so difficult to fight, so it was better not to rebel." Gao Yingdeng sighed.

"Ying Deng, what do you do when you say these things, you do everything you do, and now you know what's the use of being afraid!" Shen Yiyuan said Gao Yingdeng's face with an extremely serious face.

Gao Yingdeng listened to Shen Yiyuan's words and smiled, but he didn't say anything to refute it in one fell swoop.

After Shen Yiyuan finished talking about Gao Yingdeng, he smiled bitterly, and secretly said sadly: "If you are not forced to be helpless, who wants to rebel." ”

He said to himself for a while, and his thoughts went back to half a month ago.

At that time, Shen Yiyuan was still the Yansui army to calm the border camp and border soldiers, although the court had not been paid for a long time, he was very poor, but he never thought of rebelling. Because he thought that after all, the Ming Dynasty was a behemoth, and even if the rebellion was momentarily powerful, it would still end up being exterminated by the imperial court after all.

For example, not long ago, there were a few reports from the imperial court, one of which was that Liu Renyu, the garrison of Jingbian Fort, led 700 border soldiers to defeat Wang Jiayin's 30,000 thieves in one fell swoop, and among these 30,000 thieves, there were thousands of Qin Wang's defeated soldiers, and their combat effectiveness was really not weak.

The imperial court specially sent such a newspaper, in fact, the main purpose was not to praise Liu Renyu, but to use his name to come to the border soldiers of the town.

After all, since the first year of Chongzhen, the border soldiers have mutinied, rebelled, and joined the thieves, so the imperial court specially told this group of border soldiers that even if they defected and participated in the thieves, they would still be suppressed and would die ugly.

Jingbian Fort is actually not far from the Dingbian camp, it is only separated by more than 160 miles, and the cavalry can ride horses for a day to rush from Jingbian Fort to the Dingbian camp.

At that time, when Shen Yiyuan heard this news, he followed the robes and sighed that the Jingbian Fort Army was really powerful, and in addition, he didn't have any special impression of Liu Renyu.

It wasn't until the Mongols went south to plunder in the autumn according to the usual practice that the name Liu Renyu reappeared in Shen Yiyuan's mind, and even became a nightmare.

This was because the Mongols invaded the south and Ningxia was tight, so Yang He ordered the border army of Dingbian Ying, which was closer to Ningxia, to fight and rush to Ningxia.

The border soldiers of the Dingbian battalion have not practiced for a long time, and the fighting methods are no longer very proficient, and at the same time, because they have not received their salaries for a long time, some soldiers have sold their weapons, and now they want to go to the battlefield, what should they do to fight with the Mongols!

In this way, the soldiers of the Dingbian Battalion are unfamiliar with martial arts, and going to fight the Mongols is no different from sending them to death, and secondly, the imperial court sends troops to fight, not to mention the lack of distribution, and even refuses to pay the money for buying lives, how can the soldiers have no resentment in their hearts.

However, the commander of the Dingbian camp was a man who was afraid of things, and he was afraid of Shangguan like a tiger, so he insisted on driving his soldiers to battle.

The soldiers of the Dingbian battalion naturally refused to fight, so the main general captured a few soldiers who took the lead and refused to fight, and directly executed them.

There was already resentment in the hearts of the soldiers, but the commander of the Dingbian camp was a simple and rude person who was unpopular with the army, and the soldiers were naturally extremely dissatisfied, and the entire Dingbian camp was like a powder keg, which would explode at any time, and the person who lit this powder keg was Shen Yiyuan.

Shen Yiyuan doesn't want to die in vain, he still wants to live, but the current situation forces him, he can only go to the point of no return, but he is the only one who rebels, the strength is not enough, he must take others to do it together.

Since ancient times, they have paid attention to one who only punishes the head of the evil and never asks about it.

Therefore, the soldiers of the Dingbian camp wanted to rebel, but they were afraid that if the rebellion failed, they would be taken and executed by the imperial court, so generally speaking, the soldiers refused to raise the banner of rebellion first.

Shen Yiyuan was not afraid of this, he raised his arms in the barracks and shouted: "Today, if you go to aid Ningxia, you will definitely die if you fight with the Mongols, and if you start a rebellion, you will also die, it is the same death, it is better to rebel, at least we can have a few full meals first, and then die after a few comfortable days, you say, do you dare to follow me to rebel." ”

"I dare," Shen Yikui and Shen Yiyuan are brothers, brothers in war, fathers and sons in battle, elder brother wants to rebel, how can the younger brother be good to himself.

"I dare," Gao Yingdeng, a member of the Divine One Yuan's army, hissed.

"I dare."

"I dare."

"It's a death left and right, it's better to be a full dead ghost, I'll follow you God Yuan."

The soldiers roared excitedly.

"Okay, let's kill the general Lu Dengdao who treated us harshly first." Shen Yiyuan shouted, and then led a group of soldiers to kill Lu Dengdao, the general of the Dingbian camp, and slaughtered the Dingbian camp.

In this catastrophe, Du Wenhuan, the acting chief soldier of Yansui Army, died with his whole family.

Shen Yiyuan led the troops to slaughter the Dingbian camp, and then collectively besieged Ningsai Fort to the east, and then, with the response of the soldiers in the fort, they took Ningsai Fort lightly, killed the general Chen Sanhuai, and then slaughtered Ningsai Fort on a large scale.

After this battle, Shen Yiyuan had already gathered more than 3,000 members of the border army, and the combat strength was extremely strong, and the officers and troops near the Dingbian Battalion and Ningsai Fort did not dare to engage with it.

Shen Yiyuan was extremely proud to lead the rebels to kill and plunder, eat fragrant, drink spicy food, be a groom every day, and live a fast and beautiful life.

But a few days after these days, once when the leaders of Shen Yiyuan's rebel army were eating wine and dinner in Ningsai Fort, Shen Yikui reminded his brother worriedly: "My generation has been rebelling for many days, and I want to come to the imperial court will definitely send a large army to suppress it, our Dingbian camp is very close to Jingbian Fort, I am afraid that when the imperial court has a military order, Liu Renyu will lead the troops to kill, and at that time, how should we deal with it?" ”