Shu County, the closed basin climate makes this year's summer extraordinarily hot, the air is almost not flowing, the restless cicadas began to chirp wildly from June, and lasted until the end of August, the dogs are listlessly lying in front of the door and spitting out red tongues, there is no one to see in the village, all the people and animals stay in the house to maintain a static state, try to minimize the volatilization of heat in the body, only the river is crowded with bare-bottomed children playing in the water, and the noise is heard for miles.

This is a village called Yangzi Village, there are more than 200 households, located in the north of Chengdu 20 miles, the farmers of this village make the sunrise, sunset and perch, the east end of the village is a large dense forest, a radius of dozens of miles, there are more than a dozen large and small villages distributed around this forest, Yangzi Village is just one of the extremely ordinary, its only special place is that it is close to the official road, the nearest row of houses is less than 30 steps away from the official road.

Since two days ago, there was a tense atmosphere in the forest in the east of the village, occasionally flashed the shadow of chaos, and there was a faint neighing of horses, there were a few bold people in the village to go in to see, but never returned, at noon, a few dogs suddenly stood up vigilantly, looking at the forest in the east of the village, for a moment, they all barked wildly, only to see a large number of heavily armed soldiers rushing out of the dense forest, murderously rushing into Yangzi Village, Yangzi Village was in chaos, screaming, crying, for a moment, the whole village fell silent, Dead silent.

Two hours later, an army slowly marched along the official road from the north, this is from Chang'an to investigate the Yang family's extermination case in the imperial history of Cheng Cui Wuxian and his party, more than 1,000 Jinwuwei soldiers to protect their safety, from Chang'an, they stopped and walked, for half a month, all the way without incident, has already relaxed the vigilance.

On this day, the team was less than 20 miles away from Chengdu, the weather was extremely hot, and the team was not excited about to arrive at the destination. The soldiers were listless one by one, and Cui Wuxuan and more than a dozen officials were hiding in the carriage, and they didn't bother to ask the soldiers.

The army slowly approached Yangzi Village, and on the way they passed through the state capital, and there were many such villages, and the weather was so hot and humid that no one would stand under the sun and watch them, but not even a dog ran out and barked, which was the first time they had seen it, but no one would pay attention to it. The crowd walked numbly forward, while some of the brave soldiers quietly ran to the river to water the river while the commander was not looking.

Cui Wuxian is the one who is valued by Cui Yuan among the next generation of the Cui family. He is the second son of the Shaanxi County Thorn Shi Cui, although he is a concubine, but his performance is very outstanding, and he became a jinshi at the age of seventeen. At the age of twenty-eight this year, he became a royal historian. Supervise the words and deeds of hundreds of officials, and the power is very great.

Cui Wuxian did not disappoint Cui Yuan, after he took office, he did not show favoritism, cleaned up a number of unqualified supervision officials, and handled several major cases, including his sixth uncle, Jining County Magistrate Shi Cui Yan was stolen by the case, Cui Yan lost his official position and was imprisoned, and Cui Wuxian became famous for a while. This time, he was sent by Cui Yuan to investigate the case of the Yang family's annihilation, and the key goal of the case has long been clear, that is, Zhu Wu, who was voted by many people, who is he?

Just as he was thinking about it, a loud shout suddenly came from behind. interrupted Cui Wuxian's train of thought. He pulled up the curtain and looked behind him, and saw that many soldiers by the river looked like they had blown up their nests. His face sank, and he asked unhappily, "What happened, why are you arguing?" ”

I saw a soldier stumbling towards him, his face full of panic, and he shouted from afar, "Envoy, the river is full of children's corpses!" ”

Cui Wuxian was taken aback, and before he could react, there was a bang sound from the village next to the road, and thousands of arrows were shot like raindrops, and the soldiers on the official road were caught off guard, and a large number of them were shot and fell to the ground. Lin Lei

Cui Wuxian couldn't dodge, his face was shot by an arrow, and he screamed and fell on his back on the car.

At this time, thousands of soldiers in armor rushed out of Yangzi Village, they brandished their swords, hiss and roared, and rushed to the official road in a moment, blocking all the ways out of the officers and soldiers, the sword and sword shadow on the official road, shouting and killing shook the sky, although the Jinwuwei soldiers resisted desperately, but their number was far less than the other party, plus these ambushes were extremely fierce, refused to accept surrender, all of them were killed, and even the people who jumped into the river to escape were closely pursued, and all of them were shot to death in the river.

Gradually, the shouts of killing became quieter, the official road was piled up like a mountain of corpses, blood flowed like a river, more than a thousand officers and soldiers were all killed, not even a single wounded, and hundreds of ambush soldiers were killed, at this time, a young man with cold eyes and silver hair came out of the village surrounded by dozens of people.

He slowly came to the carriage of Cui Wuxian, Cui Wuxian was not dead at this time, he was covered in blood, an arrow was still stuck in his face, he was lying on his back on the ground, his chest rose and fell sharply, and a man with silver hair slowly fell into his eyes.

"It's you!" Anger gradually ignited in Cui Wuxian's eyes, and he trembled and pointed at him and scolded: "You are ungrateful, Cui Xiang will not spare you!" ”

A silver hair is Zhu's signature, he stepped on Cui Wuxian's head, bent down and stared at him with a cruel smile: "Cui Xiang is a fart, since Lao Tzu has been reversed, you have to taste the taste of being an emperor, if you surrender to me, how about I let you be Cui Xiang again?" ”

"You actually want to be the emperor?" Cui Wuxian suddenly laughed, "You don't pee and take care of your face, your father and son are all slaves of the Cui family, and the slave also wants to be the emperor, which is really a strange thing in the world." ”

Speaking of this, Cui Wuxian pulled out the arrow in his face violently, and stabbed Zhu in the leg with all his strength. With a bang, the arrow pierced Zhu's leg and belly, and blood flowed out at once.

Zhu slowly pulled out his sword, with a cruel smile on his face, he chopped off Cui Wuxian's head with a sword, kicked it to his subordinates, and said coldly: "Put it in a box and send it to Cui Yuan, remember!" After taking Chang'an, the man's wife and daughter were camped in rotation for three days. ”

At the end of August of the second year of Xuanren, Zhu killed Cheng Cui Wuxian and his party who came to investigate the Yang family's extermination case, and officially rebelled in Luo County.

On the tenth day of the ninth month, on the plain west of Luo County, Zhu led an army of 40,000 slaves who had gathered from various estates of the Yang family to fight against nearly 20,000 officers and soldiers of Jiannan Jiedu who came to suppress the bandits.

The wind began to rise in the sultry sky, and dark clouds were already rolling in the distance, like a huge mountain of black clouds, slowly pressing down on the earth.

The two armies are less than two miles apart, the Tang army has bright armor, swords and guns, the formation is neat and majestic, the middle is divided into two pieces, and the front part is three thousand crossbowmen. The back 5,000 people are sword and shield men, the formation is as dense as an iron plate, this is the Chinese army that protects Xian Yu Shuming, and there is a 3,000-person pikemen phalanx on each flank of the Chinese army.

There are not many cavalry in Shuzhong, only a thousand cavalry on each of the outermost sides of the two wings, their task is to hunt and kill the fish that have slipped through the net, hundreds of banners are hunting and flying in the wind, and the army is ready to go.

Zhu's army, on the other hand, was much more chaotic, with no formation, and tens of thousands of people were like wheat in a large wheat field. The length is uneven, and the ranks are mixed with various weapons. Some people wear armor, while others don't even have shoes; Some of them were armed with swords and crossbows, while others were fighting against hoes, and they stood at will. There were even people sitting. The crowd in the team was noisy, laughing and scolding, as if it was like a huge township grass market.

This is a rabble no matter how you look at it, which is in stark contrast to the majesty and neatness of the Tang army.

Xian Yu Shuming is Cui Yuan's confidant, at the beginning of the year from Jing Zhaoyin was appointed as the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, he was born in the Tianbao period, he is almost sixty years old, has rich experience in politics, but has little experience in leading troops to fight. However, the civil officials of the Tang Dynasty were not as weak as the civil officials of the Song Dynasty, and they knew a little bit about leading troops.

Xian Yu Shuming saw that the bandit army was untidy and the formation was chaotic, and he couldn't help but feel contempt in his heart, and he smiled at the generals next to him: "I really don't know where he found these tens of thousands of people?" Why should I bring 20,000 men? It only took 5,000 men to destroy it. ”

The generals beside him laughed. Shaking his head again and again at the Zhu Di army, they were all the ones who led the troops. At a glance, it was clear that the other party was a group of vulnerable rabble, and a general who knew a little about the inside story smiled: "Xianyu makes you know something, these people are actually slaves from the original Yang family manor, and they have only been trained for a few months, how good can they be?" ”

Xian Yu Shuming nodded slightly, and was already thinking about how to write the twists and turns of today's battle, personally leading the army of tigers and wolves, killing the bandits, capturing tens of thousands of enemies, and the battle was over

Zhu rode on the horse, looking coldly at the officers and soldiers who were pressed by the black, he knew that the other party was laughing at him, but this effect was exactly what he wanted, underestimate the enemy, as long as the other party had the heart of the enemy, he had a chance, more than 40,000 slave troops presented in front of the other party were indeed a rabble, more than 10,000 temporarily recruited peasants, but behind these people, there were more than 20,000 neatly equipped slave troops, this was an army that he spent millions of dollars to equip up, all of them were strong young people, and they had been trained for nearly half a year.

But this is not a real killer, Zhu's real backbone troops are his father's five thousand old troops, these are the elite of the Qingzhou army, three thousand cavalry, two thousand infantry, can be one enemy and three, they are hidden in the center of the team, led by him Zhu himself.

The war drums of the officers and soldiers rumbled, the formation began to change, the cavalry on both wings stood out first, outflanking both sides like a net, while the Chinese army and the two wings went out together, they gave up the archers, the crossbowmen retreated to the rear, the infantry formed a large formation and pressed on the whole line, they were full of disdain for the bandits, all kinds of tactics were canceled, and they only wanted to use the simplest way to defeat the bandits with one impact.

The officers and soldiers were getting closer and closer, and it was less than a mile, Zhu suddenly turned around and shouted loudly: "Listen to the army, if this battle is lost, everyone will not survive, and the reward for killing an officer and soldier will be a hundred dollars, and those who escape from the battle will be killed!" ”

Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men, especially the soldiers who escaped from the slave nationality, they are grateful to Zhu, Zhu not only gave them the land of the manor, but also exempted them from all taxes, each of them knows very well that once Zhu fails, according to the law of the Tang Dynasty, they and their wives and daughters will become slaves with a tragic fate again.

"Kill!" More than 40,000 people burst out into a loud roar and strode towards the officers and men, these large dark clouds covered the sun, the sky was already a little dark, the frequency of the drums among the officers and soldiers suddenly increased, and at this time the signal of the attack, the officers and men began to run, 100 steps, 50 steps, 30 steps

Many of the newcomers in the Zhu army began to be afraid, and the courage that had just been inspired by the heavy reward disappeared, and the nearly 1,000 people at the front were the first to turn around and flee, but the ranks were too dense and they had nowhere to escape.

Rumble! The two armies collided like two mountains, shouts, begs for mercy, and wails suddenly rose, and those bandit troops who had no will to fight and tried to flee became the first round of victims, the stabs of officers and soldiers slashed and slashed in the dense bandit army, and the whole battlefield was filled with the sound of crying and sparing, and thousands of temporarily recruited peasants were frightened by the bloody scene, and they threw away their hoes, threw away their pitchforks, or knelt down and begged for mercy, or turned around and fled in both directions.

The officers and men had already killed their hands and red eyes, and they showed no mercy, as if they were peeling bamboo shoots, peeling off the tattered skin layer by layer, and they began to encounter the slave army, which was much stronger than the peasants who had been recruited, and their armor was neat, their weapons were sharp, and their morale was so high that the attack of the officers and soldiers began to become difficult.

By this time, the two armies had been strangled together, and it was difficult to distinguish between them, and the sky began to rain moderately, and the rain made the ground muddy and slippery, and made the hand-to-hand combat of the two armies even more difficult.

Xian Yu Shuming's brows furrowed, things didn't seem to be going as he imagined, and the other party was not as vulnerable as he thought, compared to the deafening begging for mercy everywhere at the beginning, it was much quieter now, and the enemy army seemed to be well-equipped and well-trained, which did not quite fit the definition of a rabble.

Although Xian Yu Shuming was already somewhat aware of the wrong, he was no longer able to control the army, the two armies were like fighting in a group in the field, there was no discipline at all, the two lines were fighting in a single line, they were distorted, and any dispatch could not work.

The rain became heavier and heavier, time passed little by little, and two hours of fighting had been fought, and the plains were full of corpses, and the soldiers were still fighting with the corpses.

But at this moment, suddenly a new force was killed from the bandit army, they did not enter the battle from the beginning, they were full of physical strength, this army was completely different from the slave army, they were extremely brave, violent as a storm, and the goal was clear, and they went straight to the Chinese army occupied by Xian Yu Shuming, and in a moment they killed a bloody road, they trampled on everything, overwhelmed everything, and were invincible on this bloody road.

Xian Yu Shuming was caught off guard, and actually let the new force of five thousand people suddenly burst into front of him, less than twenty steps away from him, his hundreds of personal soldiers couldn't resist at all, Xian Yu Shuming was so shocked that his heart stopped beating, he turned around and fled, Zhu sneered, stretched his bow and took an arrow, and aimed at Xian Yu Shuming's back

At this time, 5,000 people shouted in unison, "The officers and soldiers have been defeated!" The officers and soldiers are defeated!"

Under the lead of Xian Yu Shuming to escape, the crossbowmen behind could not resist the elite of the tiger and wolf-like bandits, and in a moment, the Chinese army of officers and soldiers was the first to collapse

In September of the second year of Xuanren, the officers and soldiers suppressed the bandits in Yu County, and were defeated because of the light enemy, and there were countless people who were killed and surrendered.

Three days later, Zhu's soldiers came to the city, and Yang Zilin, the assassin of Shu County, surrendered Chengdu, and Zhu led the army into Chengdu, and at this moment, a messenger from Longyou handed over a handwritten letter from Zhang Huan to Zhu.