Lu Shiyi said that the solution to this dead end still depends on Zhao Dahai, Zhao Dahai looked at Lu Shidao in surprise: "Me? Then he resolutely slapped his thigh, gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, I will give up this rotten life to be with my brother, and break into that Zhangjiabao, even if I can't save the old brother of the Zhang family, and all the villagers, it can be regarded as repaying the kindness of Brother Zhang, so what if I throw this rotten life to him?" ”

When Lu Shi heard this, he couldn't help laughing and said: "My brother is kind and wants to accompany me to the Zhang family to ask people to work hard, but the Zhang family has hundreds of townsmen and bravery, and they are all equipped with knives and guns, that is, we are all three heads and six arms, and we are also fish and meat on people's chopping boards, and we will take our lives in vain when we go." ”

Zhao Dahai looked at Lu Shidao in confusion: "Isn't it?" Brother is so mysterious, but what good way can't he do? ”

"There is a way, but this time my brother will not be able to become an official." The teacher now figured out a joint, and his heart was relieved, so he began to make fun of Zhao Dahai.

When Zhao Dahai heard Lu Shi say this, he couldn't help laughing, but the laughter was full of sadness.

"Why is my brother laughing?" asked with an inexplicable face.

"I laugh brother, you underestimate my brother, my person, although a certain is vulgar, but the word righteousness is still there, the brother of the Zhang family has a lot of care for the younger brother, and there is no shortage of eating and drinking here, this is kindness, if I even forget this, seeing the Zhang family ruined, then am I still a person? What's more, how can I watch my good daughter sad at the loss of her parents? If I were to live with a daughter who cried and cried all day long, wouldn't it cost me my life? Besides, I am a wandering person, and I can't bear to watch my children suffer in the wind and rain with me. ”

Speaking of this, without waiting for Lu Shi to answer, followed by a long sigh: "There is also a brother who doesn't know, there is already a rumor above, our little emperor, after listening to the words of the Qingliu and corrupt Confucianism, is going to abolish this post station, and immediately my brother and I will be a homeless and become a homeless person, what are you afraid of?" ”

was reminded by Zhao Dahai, Lu Shi really remembered this matter.

Chongzhen ascended the throne and took over the mess of the Ming Dynasty, the entire Ming Dynasty was already full of holes and could not make ends meet, and the court was also in tatters by the eunuch party and the clear stream struggle for many years.

In fact, if you carefully investigate the defeat of the Ming Dynasty, it is not really Li Zicheng who died and died in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but died in the Qingliu party struggle in the Manchu court.

At the beginning of the succession of Emperor Zhu Youzhen to the throne, he first vigorously eliminated the eunuchs, which was the hope of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Youzhen seized the opportunity to eradicate Wei Zhongxian's wings, so that Wei Zhongxian was in an isolated and helpless situation, and then an edict degraded Wei Zhongxian Fengyang to guard the mausoleum, and ordered the arrest. After he hanged himself, he ordered his body to be buried in the river. After that, more than 260 eunuchs were put to death, sent to war, or imprisoned for life, so that the arrogant eunuchs suffered a fatal blow.

Emperor Chongzhen eradicated the Wei Zhongxian group, which once made the Ming Dynasty have the possibility of rejuvenation. But what is worse is that it has also lost its restraint on the friends of the DPRK and China, and the court has become a one-sided and empty talk, resulting in Chongzhen's policy being at the mercy of the scholar group.

For example, now, the Qingliu are defeated in order to be defeated, and they are opposed for the sake of opposition, and there are also factional battles between the Qinglius, for example, if you say that you eat and, I must say that if you don't eat, I will never, okay, in order to oppose it, then I will resolutely not.

When the party fights at this point, what is the point? So there was no more opposition from the court.

But in the national economy alone, in fact, Qingliu is not as good as the eunuch party, and the fiscal and tax income in the late Ming Dynasty is overstretched.

Since the Manchu court has become a hall of words, the little emperor has been whispering in his ears all day long that the drought in Shaanxi is just the intention of the officials and the local governors, in order to resist the means of recovering the arrears demanded some time ago.

Collecting arrears and having to finish the grain, this is open source, not giving relief, and dismantling post stations in various places, this is throttling, and now it has saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in money and grain expenditures across the country, but it has caused hundreds of thousands of Ding Zhuang to lose their jobs, and created a vigorous historical figure - Li Zicheng.

Knowing this, Lu Shi was helpless, and now he didn't know where Li Zicheng was, nor did he know the results of the big change, but he saw that under this decree, Zhao Dahai, who didn't want to die, appeared.

There is nothing important except death, and now that this is the case, Lu Shi is even more determined in his thoughts.

"Since my brother has made up his mind, I'll tell you straight here."

Zhao Dahai looked left and right, and suddenly smiled: "I look at myself, it's just this clothes and the iron gun in my hand, there is nothing to help you, is my brother taking me for fun?" ”

"Brother, you have one of the most important things in addition to this thing, have you forgotten it?"

"What?"

"Friends."

As soon as Lu Shi said friends, Zhao Dahai seemed to finally understand what Lu Shi was referring to, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he patted his thigh again and said: "It's not a brother to remind me, I really forgot, yes, I have a class friend." Thinking of this, he suddenly got up and walked around the room excitedly, thinking in his heart who could trust to sacrifice his life, but after thinking about it, he sighed and sat down.

"Why, don't you have any friends to trust?" Lu Shi asked puzzledly, and he was inevitably disappointed in his heart.

"That's not it, it's just that Zhangjiabao City is high and deep, like a small county town, and there are more than 100 townsmen in the fort, plus the children of the Zhang family, there are two or three hundred in a greeting, the Zhang family has been in business for many years, and it is connected with the guard, I don't know how many official and military standard ordnance has been bought, the offensive and defensive equipment is complete, and the weapons are also very sophisticated, that is, my brother is willing to work hard, that is also in vain deaths and injuries, but he must not be able to take Zhangjiabao, at that time not only take the lives of my brother's men, but even the villagers who were arrested in Zhangjiabao must also suffer."

Lu Shi knew that in ancient times, the siege of the city was to pay for the city, that is, to rely on the ladder rope, relying on manpower to fight to the death, and most of the current poles adopt this method of fighting to the death.

The second is the tunnel bombing city, but at this time the gunpowder is not called explosives, strictly speaking, it should be called propellant, and the formula is not pure, and many other substances are superstitious in it, which is simply impure and even more impure, so the power of bombing the city is not great, and digging tunnels is just trying to get through to the city, and to come inside and outside. However, this method will implicate time, and what the pole is most afraid of is wasting time, because it can cause the encirclement and suppression of the officials and soldiers and the nearby mutual protection landlords.

There is also the city digging method applied in Pumian now, which is to organize a group of dead soldiers, run to the city, beat the masonry of the city wall with a sledgehammer, and then hollow out the rammed earth inside, but this is also a method of fighting with heavy losses.

Therefore, the current poles are not willing to attack the fortified fortresses, or plunder the unprotected villages and towns, rob the people's food and goods, and then coerce the people who have robbed all their property, strengthen themselves, and then roar away.

At that time, although the pole could gather thirty or fifty thousand people, but all the families went into battle together, men, women and children, and the old and weak accounted for about sixty percent, the noisy was just a number, the momentum was shocking from a distance, people were like the ocean, but the real young and strong did not have four, and there was no practice at all, just dropped the hoe and picked up the stick peasants, not to mention the swords, guns and armor, the iron blade only had the cronies of the pole head to be matched, but it was also the time when the façade was strong.

Such a team can only do some cutting paths, and when there are many people, they also attack the small forts scattered all over the place, and fight a good fight, and once they hit a hard bone, when there are one or two percent of casualties, they will rush away, and scatter as birds and beasts.

This is the status quo of the peasant army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, why Li Zicheng claimed to be a million at every turn, but he could only become a rogue sweeping through the countryside, coercing more people, and rarely laid down the real big city, even if it was time-consuming and laborious to build a big city like Luoyang in Kaifeng, it was also taken captive and immediately abandoned, although this was related to the narrow thinking of the peasant army at that time, but the greater reason was related to the organization of the peasant army at that time. Every army has an old battalion, dragging families with mouths, how to fight, it is more appropriate to say that the displaced people are moving, once the official army counterattacks, it will be a fiasco.

In order to save his relatives, he had to take the lives of his friends, which was the result that Zhao Dahai's righteous people did not want to see.

"Now I just want to know, at this time, where are the friends who are willing to be in the same boat as you and me." These are Lu Shi's words

Zhao Dahai looked at this brother who was usually indispensable, and now he looked serious, looking at this is really for Zhang Laoshi, a person who has known each other for a short time is willing to approve an honest person, so how can a person who has been close to the Zhang family for many years retreat? So he sighed and said: "Actually, I have a good brother, who gathered on that Woniu Mountain and raised a village, called the celestial star, as long as I say a word, he will come without hesitation." ”

"What is that man?" Lu Shi asked hurriedly.

"Righteous anger, gratitude and retribution."

"That's it." Lu Shi clapped his hands and said with great joy.

"But-" Zhao Dahai was very embarrassed, but he wanted his brother to die for his own affairs, and he couldn't bear it in his heart.

Seeing that Zhao Dahai was embarrassed, Lu Shi chuckled: "If I tell him that I have a way to go down to Zhangjiabao without climbing, and tell him that there is a large amount of grain, gold and silver stored in Zhangjiabao, do you think your brother dares to do it?" “

"If there is such a good thing as Zhangjiabao if you don't fight to the death? If that's the case, who wouldn't dare to do it? Let's not talk about saving people, even this food is the material that these poles want the most, and it will also be taken to the death. ”

And so it was,

"Do you really have the means? Don't joke with my brothers' lives. Zhao Dahai said suspiciously.

"Brother, but relax, how can I do that stupid thing to kill and injure the lives of many brothers for one person?" Lu Shi said confidently.

"Okay, I'll take my brother up to Woniu Mountain and listen to your tips."

The two of them planned to stop, and they didn't rest, settled the sister-in-law of the Zhang family and the third girl, and rushed to Woniu Mountain, thirty miles away, overnight.