On February 15 of the eighth year of Chongzhen, the 100,000 troops of Gao Junshan drove to the outskirts of Guide Mansion and tightly surrounded Guide Mansion.

There are four gates in the east, west, north and south, and there is an urn city outside each of the four gates.

In order to strengthen the defense of the castle or pass, the urn city was built outside the city gate in a semicircular or square gate. The two sides of the urn city are connected with the city wall to be established, and there are defensive facilities such as arrow towers, gate gates, and pheasant moats.

There was a moat outside the city wall, and the defender Wen Liang relied on the advantage of the wide moat, and used the moat as a barrier to arrange his troops on the bank of the moat, and cut down trees as a fence to resist the charge of the rebels.

It was Li Wanqing's troops who served as the main attacker, and Gao Junshan allocated the tens of thousands of hungry people who had recently joined to Li Wanqing, and he rode on a tall jujube red horse and shouted: "Brothers, give me a wade across the river, the woman and the silver are waiting for us on the opposite side!" ”

"Rush!" Tens of thousands of rebels descended the moat and poured across the river, as if it was too late for a woman to have money.

The rebel soldiers who crossed the river first erected a pontoon bridge, so that the tide of rushing and killing was even more turbulent, and the rebels in front cut down the officers and soldiers to build a gate, and drove the defenders back to the city.

Li Wanqing saw that his troops had rushed across the river embankment, he excitedly patted the horse's buttocks, and rode his horse onto the pontoon bridge, he wanted to be the first to enter the city, he had already heard that the eight families in the Guide Mansion were very rich, and they would occupy his family first, and they would not have to worry about eating, drinking, and having fun.

Just when Li Wanqing was proud of the spring breeze, suddenly, the flames soared into the sky, black smoke billowed out, and the defenders violently bombarded the besieging rebels with artillery, and in an instant, the pontoon bridge was smashed into two, and many rebels fell into the river.

Li Wanqing first heard the rumbling explosion, and then with the rupture of the pontoon bridge, the river set off a huge wave, and he also fell down from the horse, first the red in front of him, then it turned black, and then he felt that the whole person was sinking in the water, and then he didn't know anything.

The sound of artillery shook the sky, and the rebels were blown up all over the ground, and countless corpses floated on the water, and blood stained the entire moat.

Gao Junshan was taken aback when he got the report, what kind of artillery did the Ming army use, and the lethality was so powerful? He's going to see for himself.

Sun Kewang followed him closely, and as soon as he walked out of the big tent, he saw a group of guards running back from the front carrying a person on a stretcher, and Gao Junshan stepped forward and asked, "Who is carrying a person on a stretcher?" ”

"It's shooting the sky."

"What's wrong with General Lee?" Gao Junshan asked with concern.

One of the guards replied while crying: "Back to King Qin, the head of my family was blown into the water by the artillery of the Ming army, and both eyes are blind!" ”

Gao Junshan approached to see Li Wanqing, and the man gently lifted the blanket covering Li Wanqing's body, "Big boss, King Qin has come to see you." ”

Gao Junshan saw Li Wanqing lying on his back on a stretcher, his eyes wrapped in blue cloth.

"Where is King Qin? Where is King Qin? I can't see, I can't see, I can't see anything. Li Wanqing touched his hands wildly, not knowing what he wanted to do.

Gao Junshan comforted: "Brother Li, take good care of your injuries, it will be fine, it will be fine." ”

The sound of cannons in front of him kept ringing again, and Gao Junshan asked Li Wanqing's personal soldiers to carry Li Wanqing back, and he had to go forward again.

This is Cai Zhishan coming, he saw Gao Junshan going in the direction of the cannon, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop: "King Qin, you can't go forward, it's very dangerous!" ”

"What kind of cannon is this, so powerful?" Gao Junshan asked.

Cai Zhishan replied: "This is a red-clothed cannon." ”

Gao Junshan said: "The red-clothed cannon? Bolan, I order you to be the commander of this siege, and you immediately lead your elite to take down the Guide Mansion for me. We need these redcoat cannons so badly. ”

Cai Zhishan said: "King Qin, we can't fight hard, we must evacuate immediately." ”

"Evacuate?" Gao Jun Mountain was on fire, "If you want to withdraw, you will withdraw, but I will not withdraw." ”

Cai Zhishan reported: "King Qin, according to the Tanmalai report, Hong Chengchou's 100,000 army has arrived in Kaifeng Mansion, they are divided into four routes, and they are chasing us here, if we don't evacuate quickly, the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

The two were arguing, Tian Wenju came to report that Cao Cao and Guo Tianxing's men had arrived.

As soon as Luo Rucai saw Gao Junshan, he told him that Zhang Xianzhong had occupied Fengyang and proclaimed himself "Emperor Guyuan Zhenlong".

Gao Junshan sneered: "If you want to be an emperor, you have to rely on your strength, not that you say that you are the emperor or the emperor." ”

Luo Rucai asked Gao Junshan: "What are you going to do now?" ”

Gao Junshan said: "Hong Chengchou's men and horses will arrive soon, and I plan to go to Anhui." ”

Luo Rucai said: "If King Qin wants to go to Anhui, I am willing to go with you." ”

So, Gao Junshan ordered the withdrawal of the besieging troops and counted the men. In this battle, Gao's army lost more than 13,000 people.

Hui Dengxiang (Guo Tianxing) returned to Gao Junshan's team, and Gao Junshan transferred Li Wanqing's men and horses to Hui Dengxiang's side, because Li Wanqing couldn't accept the fact that he was blind, and he had already killed himself with a sword, and his subordinates were unwilling to leave.

Gao Junshan's brigade marched south along the Mashang River and entered Anhui to march to Bozhou.

……

Bozhou, Caopu School.

Fourteen-year-old Second Young Master Feng had breakfast and walked to Mr. Xu's private school, where there was a stream with a water width of no more than five meters, and a wooden plank was built at both ends to form a single-plank bridge.

There were seven or eight children standing on the bridge, blocking the way for Second Young Master Feng, and the child headed by him was called Liu Wenxiu.

Liu Wenxiu and Second Young Master Feng are classmates, and they had a fight with Second Young Master Feng before, and now he is looking at Second Young Master Feng with fierce eyes.

Second Young Master Feng walked up to the bridge, and the two slightly taller children beside Liu Wenxiu pushed Second Young Master Feng with their hands, and said wildly: "Dog, do you want to cross the bridge?" This bridge is not something you can cross, just go into the water and walk across it if you want to. ”

A few children behind Liu Wenxiu scolded in a mocking tone: "Liu Wenxiu's defeated generals still want to cross this bridge?" If you want to go over, swim through it in a dog-planing style, hahaha......"

The second young master Feng didn't say a word, picked up a tall one and threw it into the water on the right, and then picked up the other one and threw it into the water on the left, "poof, poof" The two people who fell into the water shouted for help in panic, and several classmates behind Liu Wenxiu saw that something was wrong, and ran away, leaving Liu Wenxiu standing alone at the bridge.

Liu Wenxiu's face was unscrupulous, relying on his tall and powerful people, he stretched out his hand and wanted to push the second young master Feng into the water, but the second young master Feng grabbed Liu Wenxiu's sleeve stubbornly, and the two pulled up.

Liu Wenxiu, who was enraged, was like an angry lion, pulling the second young master Feng and rolling off the bridge, and the two fell into the icy water at the same time......

The four of them climbed onto the other side and were already soaked, and the two sides just looked at each other angrily, and there was no more fierce conflict, and they walked into Mr. Xu's private school.

Behind the gate of the private school, a few people were there to probe their brains, and they walked straight into the courtyard as if nothing had happened.

I don't know who told Mr. Xu, and Mr. Xu brought a few sets of clean clothes for them to change, so the four of them stripped naked in the yard and changed into dry clothes brought by Mr. Xu.

Mr. Xu was furious and decided to punish this student for staying in the classroom.

When class time came, the students entered the school, which could accommodate a total of about 20 students.

Mr. Xu walked in with square steps, he was well-dressed, black-crowned, red-robed and green-leader, neatly dressed and clean, with a delicate and white complexion. He looks like he is in his early twenties, with thin eyebrows, small eyes, and a wide mouth, and a serious face. This Mr. Xu is Xu Zuolin, who later joined the Snow Garden Club and is known as one of the "Six Sons of Snow Garden".

The noisy school was quiet under Xu Zuolin's majesty, he patted the ring ruler, and said slowly: "Learn a new chapter today, please turn to the sixteenth chapter and read it with me." To the extreme, keep quiet. All things work together, and I look at it. There are many things, and each one returns to his roots......"

The students in the school read along with Xu Zuolin sentence by sentence. ……

After school, Xu Zuolin really left Second Young Master Feng and Liu Wenxiu behind.

Xu Zuolin held the ring ruler in his hand, pointed at Liu Wenxiu and began to teach a lesson: "Your father is sick, and the land rented by the family has been taken back by the owner, and he has fallen into the situation of raw fish in the kettle, and he has eaten the last meal without the next meal, you still don't know how to work hard, and fight with this gentleman all day long," Xu Zuolin pointed at the nose of the second young master Feng with the ring ruler when he talked about the gentleman, "If there is another fight in the future, you don't come to me to study, I don't have the face to be your husband." ”

Both bowed their heads and remained silent.

Xu Zuolin pointed the ring ruler at the tip of the second young master Feng's nose again: "You rely on the money in your family, you make trouble every day, you either step on the roof of other people's houses outside, or destroy other people's vegetable gardens, and you also steal thousands of beggars' meals, and drive other people's pigs all over the street." is still fighting with Liu Wenxiu, you don't weigh yourself, are you Liu Wenxiu's opponent? You were beaten by Liu Wenxiu, and I lost money to your family. ”

After Xu Zuolin taught a lesson, he asked them to stand in the courtyard, and he ate lunch alone. After the meal, he hummed a little song to entertain himself, Liu Wenxiu stood under the wall and faced the window of Xu Zuolin's house, so Liu Wenxiu heard Xu Zuolin's movements clearly.

At this moment, a person came to Xu Zuolin, Xu Zuolin warmly welcomed this person into the house, and the conversation between the two was clearly heard by Liu Wenxiu.

"King Qin wants to fight Bozhou!" The person who came said excitedly to Xu Zuolin.

"Okay, we're ready to answer, are you all ready?"

"Ready, I have prepared dry firewood at the north city gate, just wait for the arrival of King Qin's army, we will light a fire."

Xu Zuolin said: "Very good, we will use fire as a sign to open the city gate to welcome King Qin." I have already contacted several officers and soldiers, and as long as they see the fire above the north city, they will do it at the same time. ”

"My people will go and open the north gate of the city to welcome the team of King Qin into the city." ”

……

is going to fight, Liu Wenxiu has been looking forward to this day for a long time, when Zhang Xianzhong fought in Fengyang more than ten days ago, he wanted to defect, but he didn't expect that he happened to fight with the second young master Feng that day, and was left in the hall by Xu Zuolin, and missed the time to set off with other partners, this time he shouldn't miss anything.

After Xu Zuolin released his hall, he immediately went to gather his six or seven friends and said: "You all listen, the King of Qin will soon fight Bozhou, you all go to prepare dry firewood and torches for me, when the King of Qin attacks the city, we will make a contribution to the King of Qin." ”