In Dongtai City, the leader of the mob was in the house of the Lu family, a big family in the city, and the daughter-in-law of the Lu family was full of pride.

Mantianfeng was originally an ordinary stove household, named Li Sha, although he was a salt farmer, he couldn't bear the pain of boiling salt in the wind and rain, and when he couldn't pay the salt class a few years ago and was arrested by the salt inspection department, he brazenly killed two salt ding, and then escaped.

Over the years, he shuttled around the salt area, living by smuggling salt by luck, and occasionally doing some business without capital, and gathered more than a dozen outlaws under his command.

Since Li Sha killed someone, he was naturally not tolerated by the government, he had long heard that the northern thieves made a big fuss, and the reputation of the thieves and thieves also spread here, and this year he heard that even the city of Beijing was broken by the thieves, and Emperor Chongzhen fled to the southern capital in a hurry.

Li Sha is a person who is not willing to be lonely, and he also wants to make a vigorous career like a thief. However, although there are many salt farmers in these two Huaiyan districts, they all rely on boiling sea salt to have a bowl of rice to eat, and there are not many people who are willing to make trouble, he has been making trouble for a few years, and his subordinates have not gathered many brothers.

Not long ago, the three major salt merchants in Yangzhou stopped collecting salt at the same time, making it impossible for the salt farmers in the salt area to sell their salt, and at the same time, the price of grain skyrocketed, which finally made Li Sha wait for the opportunity.

He returned to his hometown and began to incite the stove households, who had been difficult to persuade to take risks under the threat of starvation, and gathered under his banner, many in a short time, thousands of people.

With his subordinates, Li Sha moved his knife to the nearby Haozao and even the Salt Inspection Division, first captured a Salt Inspection Division, seized a large number of weapons from the archers of the Salt Inspection Division, and then shot down several Haozao's manors and got a lot of food. As a result, his ranks grew rapidly, reaching as many as three or four thousand.

So, Li Sha learned from the Shaanxi thieves to give himself the nickname of "the wind", hoping that one day, his team would be able to sweep the entire Ming Dynasty like the wind.

There were too many of his subordinates, and it was a little difficult to feed them, so Li Sha looked at Dongtai County, he first sent a group of stove households into the city as an internal response, and then waved his troops to attack Dongtai.

Although the number of his subordinates is large, they are all unorganized and ineffective stove households, if Dongtai City is properly guarded, it will be difficult to break through the wall more than two zhang high with his thousands of people.

For several days, his men could only attack the city, and did not even go up to the city wall once. A group of stove households who don't know anything are too difficult to break through the city walls.

However, while the soldiers at the head of the city were busy dealing with the bandits outside the city, Li Sha sent to the inner city to make a sudden attack, opening the city gates and setting fire everywhere.

The defenders of Dongtai were not elite, and in the face of this situation, their morale was suddenly lost, and they threw down their weapons one by one and fled, so Li Sha captured Dongtai City.

After entering the city, he could no longer control the team, and the hungry mob brazenly used knives against the people in the city, and the whole city was in chaos. Li Sha could only order his henchmen to guard the city gate, but he himself led people to attack the mansion of the Lu family, a big family in the city.

As a result, in the past two days, there was a great chaos in the entire Dongtai City, and it was the mob that was burning, killing and looting.

Li Sha was not without vigilance, but subconsciously thought that the officers and soldiers should not come so soon. After all, Dongtai is more than 300 miles away from Yangzhou City, and even if someone is sent to report the news in the city, it will take at least ten and a half days and a half to get the letter from Yangzhou and send troops again. And for such a long time, he had already sacked the city and left.

But today, suddenly a man guarding the city gate came down to report that a large group of officers and soldiers appeared in the west of the city.

Li Sha was frightened and hurriedly came to the city, and saw that a few miles west of the city, the officers and soldiers of the brigade were camping, and the scale was afraid that there were not as many as a thousand people, and there were groups of officers and soldiers walking here in the distance.

If there were only more than 1,000 officers and soldiers, Li Sha would naturally not be afraid, because he had four or five thousand men under him in the city, and there was still a city to defend. So Lisha issued an order, ordering his men to immediately stop looting and prepare to fight the officers and soldiers outside the city.

However, it was so easy for the messy team to sort out what to do at once, and it wasn't until it got dark that less than half of them were gathered. Fortunately, the officers and soldiers did not take the opportunity to attack the city, and Li Sha was secretly happy.

He issued a strict order that anyone who did not return at night should be beheaded, which forced his men who were robbing to return to the camp. He also sent troops to defend the four cities, and strictly prevented officers and soldiers from attacking the city at night.

The officers and soldiers did not attack the city, but there was a constant commotion outside the city, and the lights of the officers and soldiers camp in the west of the city were bright, as if a large number of officers and soldiers had rushed to the camp at night. The sound of gongs and drums sounded all night, forcing the thugs in the city to dare not rest at all, and Li Sha stayed awake all night at the head of the city.

Early the next morning, when I looked out of the city with my red eyes, I saw a huge camp a few miles away, stretching for four or five miles, and the camp was full of flags, and the scale was no less than 10,000 people!

After a night's work, the officers and soldiers have come to so much! I'm afraid it's not all the troops in Yangzhou City who are here. Li Sha only felt a chill in his heart.

Can't stay here any longer, the officers and soldiers came at night and were exhausted so they didn't attack the city, if they waited for them to recover, there was only a dead end waiting for them!

Although there were thousands of men under his command, the number of officers and soldiers was even greater, and Li Sha did not dare to think that his men could win more than his own officers and soldiers.

So Lisha hurriedly ordered to immediately retreat from the city and head east. To the east is the seaside, the tidal flats and lakes are covered with reeds, it is very easy for the Tibetans, and if they are not the worst, they can also take a boat into the sea, there are many small islands in the sea, as long as they hide on the islands, they can always wait for the officers and soldiers to retreat.

When the officers and soldiers are gone, they will come back by themselves.

Thousands of bandits went out of the east gate of Dongtai City with the looted property, and Li Sha had been careful that the officers and soldiers in the camp in the west of the city would send troops to pursue, but who knew that the whole army had left the county town and the officers and soldiers camp but there was no movement.

Thinking that the officers and soldiers were also afraid of war, and they were unwilling to do anything else if they could easily recover Dongtai County, Li Sha's heart relaxed.

Although he knew that when the bandits had walked less than ten miles out of the county seat and crossed a river, more than 1,000 officers and soldiers suddenly came out of a dense forest and killed the bandits who were crossing the river by surprise, and there was a great chaos.

Li Sha hurriedly sent his henchmen to meet the attack with a team, hoping to stabilize the position, but as soon as the team came into contact with the officers and soldiers, dozens of people were killed by the dense crossbow arrows and firebolts, and the others immediately retreated and fled in all directions, and the whole team was in chaos at once, and no one dared to meet the enemy.

Li Sha could no longer care about the property he had snatched and the thug team under his command, so he tore off his clothes in three or two strokes, and plunged into the river with a fierce man.

PS: Thank you brothers for your tips. Every day, you either go to relatives or receive relatives, you have to drink every day, and the rural customs are like this, and you can't avoid it. But I'm going to try to drink less and keep getting better.