The message from Guguan, Li Zicheng didn't dare to be careless, he faintly felt that something was wrong, could it be that Hong Chengchou came to Guguan so soon? After opening the message, he realized that things were not as bad as he thought!

In this message, Ma Youshui told Li Zicheng that there was a group of Shaanxi thieves with hundreds of people who wanted to go to Longyou through Guguan, and they didn't know whether to take them in or not.

The thieves rushed south to Guguan, Hong Chengchou's people should not be far behind, these thieves are mixed, who knows if there are any spies hiding Hong Chengchou?

What do these thieves have to do with me? What does their life and death have to do with me?

Li Zicheng has always hated the thieves in Shaanxi, and that feeling is like Lu Xun's Ah Q, "mourning his misfortune and being angry with him", for no reason, how could he take in these thieves?

He immediately asked He Xiaomi to pass the book to Ma Youshui Feige, all thieves, temporarily not allowed to enter the customs, and when he went to Guguan, he would consider the identification!

Li Zicheng measured, from Ningyuan County to Qingshui County, the road is narrow on the way, and there are many rivers blocking it, so it is extremely inconvenient to march at night, so it is better to wait for dawn before setting off.

Although the bridge pier has not been completed, he can no longer take care of it, with these thieves leading the way in front, Hong Chengchou's army is likely to rush over in the near future, or go to Guguan as soon as possible.

He asked his soldiers to pass the order, everyone went to bed early, ate on the fourth watch tomorrow, set off on the fifth watch, and try to rush to the Red Deer Station in one day, even if it can't reach the Red Deer Station, at least it is Changning Station.

This will be the first time that the Mandate of Heaven Army and the imperial army will fight, and on the opposite side is a Confucian general like Hong Chengchou, Li Zicheng does not dare to support him, he will personally sit in Guguan!

Li Zicheng also went to bed early, and in the early morning of the next day, like his own soldiers, he got up on the fourth watch to wash and eat, and did not even dismantle the camp tent, only carrying dry food and water, and went east lightly.

On the way, he met Ren Erxi, who was supervising the people's repair of the road, because the repair of the roadbed was about to be completed, he took him and rushed to Guguan together.

When passing through Qingshui County, it was already Shen Shi, Li Zicheng was in a hurry, and did not enter the city, even Tian Fen was not alarmed, he crossed directly from outside the city, and stayed at the Red Deer Post that night.

After dawn, I hurried and hurried to Guguan at lunchtime.

At this time, Guguan is facing the danger of war, the only three city gates have long been closed, He Xiaomi is waiting to come forward to knock on the pass, suddenly heard a few "bang, bang" gunshots, and was taken aback, "Dadu Governor ......"

Li Zicheng listened attentively, the gunshots came and went, only a few sporadic sounds, and then said: "Don't worry, Xiaomi, the gunshots are sparse, it shouldn't be a strong enemy, maybe it's not the people of the imperial court!" "I was about to send my own soldiers to investigate, but I didn't want the west gate to be opened.

It turned out that the defenders in the city saw that Li Zicheng had arrived, and immediately reported to Ma Youshui, Ma Youshui knew that Li Zicheng was coming, but he didn't expect to come so quickly, he heard the message, and hurriedly opened the west city gate, personally went out to greet him, and bowed to the ground, "My subordinates didn't know that the metropolitan governor had arrived so soon, and they had not been far away, please punish the metropolitan governor!" ”

"There is water, as the chief general of the city, you have a heavy responsibility, and you close the city gate, what is the crime?" Li Zicheng helped Ma Youshui up and said, "Why is there a gunfire in front?" ”

Ma Youshui said: "They are another group of thieves, they want to enter the Guanxi, and their subordinates do not let them get close to the Guancheng, so they are warning by firing guns!" ”

Li Zicheng frowned and said, "There are many gangs of thieves, whose subordinates are they?" ”

Ma Youshui grunted: "I heard that it is a person who has returned to the old man, but I don't know if it is true or not!" ”

"Old back? Ma Shouying? Li Zicheng remembered that when he fled to Ganzhou with Li Guo that day, Lu met Lao Huihui's subordinates and chased and killed the people on a snowy night, and his heart was a little unhappy, but a little strange, "According to Anping, didn't Lao Huihui flee to Shanxi?" ”

"The subordinates asked them, saying that the main force of Lao Hui fled to Shanxi, and they stayed in Suide to help Lao Hui to look after his family, and now Suide has been broken by the official army, and they have no choice but to go south......

"How many of them are there?"

"About two or three hundred people, some of whom had the appearance of Salars, with high noses and broad eyes......"

High-nosed and wide-eyed? Li Zicheng muttered in a low voice, and only then did he realize that the old Hui was a Hui person, and he originally hated the Hui people's terror religion, so he tried his best to naturalize the Hui people in Xining and Longyou, so that they would give up the terror religion, and if they refused to worship God, it was best to erase them from this planet.

In addition, seeing the bloody cruelty of the people who returned to the old and returned with their own eyes, a nameless anger rose in his heart.

Shaanxi Hui and Han live together, and the subordinates of the old Hui may not all be Hui people, but since the Han people have joined the Hui team, sooner or later they will be assimilated, and these Han people, in order to survive, even their ancestors don't want it!

No matter what the people think, Li Zicheng has branded them.

"Let them leave Guguan immediately, where they should go, if they continue to stay here, shoot immediately, and if they don't stay, they will let the recruits train their courage!"

"Yes, Metropolitan Governor, my subordinates will do it!"

Ma Youshui has always been worried about the thieves outside the gate, kill them, they are not the army of the imperial court, they are not enemies, to some extent, they are still friends of the Mandate of Heaven; Don't kill it, the thieves are coming in gang after gang, and sooner or later they will attract the officers and soldiers.

At this time, he received the express instructions of the Grand Governor, and immediately relaxed, he called a soldier, whispered a few words, and the soldier quickly gave the order.

Li Zicheng entered the city and personally climbed to the head of the east city to watch the battle.

Ma Youshui pulled out all the five hundred households that had just been turned into soldiers and issued rifles, and in order to prevent accidents, there was also a hundred households of soldiers after the palace, and they went out of the north gate and squeezed the thieves.

In the northeast corner of Guguan, hundreds of Lao Huihui's subordinates are leaning on a place about 200 steps outside Guancheng at this moment, where there is a gentle slope, as long as the Mandate of Heaven army allows, they can immediately cross Guanshan from the cement road north of Guguan, enter Longyou, and completely get rid of the pursuit of the official army.

There are old people, women and children in the crowd, their clothes are extremely ragged, and they don't know how many lifetimes of inventory they have, but it is actually early winter, but the strong men are still poorly clothed, if they are not holding all kinds of iron and wooden weapons in their hands, they are not as good as refugees.

Although they were separated by a hundred steps, they still saw the hungry eyes of the children from the heads that poked out, and the women, although their clothes were better than those of the strong men, but there were still some parts, casually driving in the air.

Perhaps they had lost their strength, and most of them leaned on the gentle slope, looking in horror at the Ma Youmibe gunners who were leaving the city, but they had no intention of leaving.

Could it be that this is the army of the old Hui? Compared with them, the equipment and morale of the Heavenly Mandate Army are not exaggerated to describe them as heaven, and the two are not on the same level at all!

Ma Youshui has followed Li Zicheng for a long time, looking at these people, he has a trace of pity in his heart, but with the lesson of facing the Salar people last time, this pity can only be hidden deep in his heart.

He understood the mind of the governor, and the Han people could say that these Hui people were ...... There is no way in Xining, still in Longyou, the Metropolitan Governor absolutely does not allow the Hui people to exist independently, if they refuse to "become Han nationality and worship God", then they can only go to their Allah Allah early!

There were only two or three hundred people, and Ma Youshui didn't pay attention to it, so as not to reveal the terrifying range of the Xining rifle, he asked the gunsmiths to stop a hundred paces in front of the thieves.

The bullets had already been loaded, and the gunners of the five hundred households had already lined up and were now aiming.

Looking at the nearly thirty percent of the old women and children in the team, Ma Youshui really couldn't bear it, and he asked his soldiers to shout at the opposite side: "Give you time to pee, and if you don't leave, I can only send you to see the king of Hades!" ”

"General, general, we are all old and returning people, don't do anything," among the thieves, a middle-aged man in a tattered coat suddenly stood up from the slope and gestured to Ma Youshui, "We are not officers and soldiers, we have been chased and killed by officers and soldiers, how can we hide the people of officers and soldiers?" ”

"I don't care who you are, get out of here!"

Ma Youshui is too lazy to talk to him, give you a way out, you give up yourself, you can't complain about others, as for how long they have to live under the encirclement and suppression of officers and soldiers after leaving Guguan, that's not your own business, "out of sight is clean"!

"General, it's really not good, give us some food, we haven't eaten enough for three days under the pursuit of officers and soldiers, and we really don't have the strength to walk," the middle-aged man threw the waist knife in his hand and slowly approached the Tianming army, "General, for the sake of God, give us a little food, even if we can hold on, these women and children...... Please......"

Yes, if a man has not had enough food for three days, how can he have the strength to hurry? Especially when there were still women and children in the team, Ma Youshui once again gave birth to a trace of compassion in his heart.

What to do? Do you want to give them some dry food? He hesitated.

"My lord, it's only sixty steps......

The words of the pro-soldier made Ma Youshui wake up immediately, they are not the brothers of the Heavenly Mandate Army, and they are not even Han Chinese, what does their life and death have to do with me?

The Metropolitan Governor is supervising the battle at the head of the city, if the Metropolitan Governor is allowed to see it......

Ci is not in charge of the soldiers! The Metropolitan once said that kindness to one's enemies is cruelty to oneself!

At the moment of the great enemy, Ma Youshui didn't care if these people were his enemies, he gritted his teeth and squeezed out two words from between his teeth: "Shoot!" ”

"Bang, bang, bang......"

The Xining rifle rang out, and in a "bang" sound, the middle-aged thief who wanted to get close to the Heavenly Mandate Army suddenly covered his chest with his hand, his pace stagnated, his body shook for a while, and his other hand slowly raised, pointing at Ma Youshui, and then his body slammed down, staggered, fell to the ground, and was no longer silent.

His body couldn't stop all the bullets, most of them still flew over his location, aiming at the thieves on the slope.

There is a relatively high concentration of thieves, and it is within the best range of Xining rifles, and in the face of almost stationary thieves, even if they are recruits, the accuracy will not be too bad.

After a short period of stagnation, there was a cry of despair, the despair of men, the misery of women, and the helplessness of children......