The eight kings were furious, and immediately gathered their elites to rush to the city, at this time the sky was already bright, he carried the ghost head knife and carefully observed, the sneak attackers were shouting and killing people and setting fires, the people under their own hands were many but obviously not opponents, they were beaten around, some people even surrendered on the ground, the number of the other side seemed to be only a thousand people, except for a few officers and soldiers dressed up, the other people were dressed in disorderly clothes, weapons were also varied, horses and livestock poured a lot, but the war was rampant, not at all like the rules of the official army, an eagle was actually painted on the flag, and the shouting was like a Shanxi person on the other side of the Yellow River.

The eight kings immediately understood, this is not the official army called, but the black eats the black, the thieves in Shanxi have crossed the river, those guys wearing the official army uniforms must be deserters from the thieves, this group of people may still be seduced by the lanterns they drove away, this is also good, Shanxi people actually dare to go to Shaanxi to grab territory, there is no king law, the world's male soldiers out of Yulin, the eight kings have strong soldiers in their hands, do not teach this group of Shanxi peers, that is to lose the face of Shaanxi people, how will he mix in this area after the eight kings.

"Brothers, the Shanxi thieves crossed the river, and slaughtered them with their grandfather and robbed the livestock." The eight kings shouted angrily, and killed the elite of their subordinates, and the Shanxi thieves saw that the other party came with three or four thousand young people, including hundreds of cavalry, and immediately pulled out their legs and ran, of course the eight kings would not spare them, and chased the people on the beckon, and by the way, they also sent people to the city to shout, telling the people in the city to probe the brain, Shanxi thieves are coming, and they must honestly defend the county, don't want to fight the villagers with any bad ideas.

Zhang Chuanjie, Manzhu two battalions after a night of trekking, rushed to Qingjian County at dawn, but the sneak attack is not easy, the people outside the city will not camp, set up a grass shed in the east and west, the whole camp is very scattered, messy and undisciplined, Fengzhou soldiers are few, and had to divide the troops to attack, at the beginning of the other party was caught off guard, and so the people came back to taste, found that they were few, and immediately not to be outdone and fought with them, the people here are fierce, people are not afraid of death, the people gather more and more, the black pressure pressure is a large piece of pounce, handle the hoe, Sticks and even dung forks dare to fight hard, the Fengzhou army is invincible, relying on well-armed, well-trained to deal with it, Zhang Chuanjie and Manzhu gathered their own horse-owning soldiers, and repeatedly attacked the crowd with cavalry, and set fire while fighting, which barely suppressed the momentum of the people. However, after the elite of the eight kings came, Zhang Chuanjie and Man Zhu knew that if they didn't run, they would suffer a big loss, and the withdrawal horn sounded, and the Fengzhou army took the cavalry as a cover, and the horseless soldiers got on the cart to drive the cattle and withdrew, and the two battalions were not panicked at all, the Jiannu in Liaodong had seen it, who would be afraid of the common people, and those with bows and arrows also sat on the cart and released arrows to the pursuers.

"Lao Zhang, they call us Shanxi thieves, do we look like thieves?" Man Zhu ran over with a bloody broadsword, and Zhang Chuanjie was riding on a horse and fiddling with a bird gun.

"Look at us like this, it's strange that people treat us as officers and soldiers." Zhang Chuanjie angrily pointed to the black eagle flag above his head - Fengzhou lacks cloth and cotton, in addition to an old sheepskin jacket, what is warm to wear, and these people in the infantry army are basically ruffians in the pass, fugitives and gangsters in Beijing, one by one, they don't look like the official army, Zhang Chuanjie is usually embarrassed to play the banner of the Ming army, and today's battle is usually to play the black eagle flag, no wonder people admit their mistakes.

"The brothers of the bird gun have come to me, and they will fight the thieves on horseback together, Liu Qian, Lao Hou, don't run away with the two of you, take the horse team to find an opportunity to fight back." Zhang Chuanjie shouted, he has the rank of general, and the two battalions of infantry come out alone, he is the boss, and the right battalion of the full column of the infantry army also has to listen to him.

Hou Shijie and Liu Qian took advantage of the other party's stunned, each with dozens of horses to rush over, and slashed and killed the guy who was chasing the most vigorously for a while, and then quickly withdrew to the team, and the other party was cut down dozens of cavalry at once, and his heart was a little weak, and the pace of pursuit slowed down.

The eight kings chased him with anger in his heart, and he was always at a loss when he chased down this way, obviously he was a lot of people - more than 3,000 elite young and strong, including 500 horse teams, and thousands of cheering people behind the buttocks, but they couldn't eat each other, the other party walked unhurriedly, fast and not chaotic, several times the horse team had gone around to the front of the other party, but the other party's cavalry was too powerful, and a rush opened the gap, but instead beat his horse team to the point of fear and did not dare to approach, the other party's foot soldiers were even more difficult to provoke, not only the arrow shot accurately, And there are dozens of bird guns in their hands, the eight kings saw with their own eyes that the other party's foot soldiers were chased impatiently, a few people dared to jump out of the car and rush over, easily kill a few people to scare the pursuers, and then unhurriedly returned to the team, the eight kings were more determined that the other party was also a thief, and it was a veteran of the thieves, the officers and soldiers did not have such great courage, look at their riding skills, maybe they were still mixed outside the border, the eight kings had a whim, if they could receive this group of Shanxi thieves to their subordinates, it would be much stronger than collecting a large group of people who ate mixed rice, He made up his mind that he must leave this group of colleagues behind today, and shouted to his men to chase after him.

Chased for twenty miles in one breath, the people of the eight kings were tired and panting, the young and strong elites could still keep up, the common people had already been left behind, the eight kings were considering whether to chase down, but the gang of Shanxi thieves stopped and didn't go, the eight kings were overjoyed, the other party must not be able to run, this piece is just an open flat land, then let's fight, this is my territory, see how many you can escape back.

The gang of Shanxi thieves shot a few arrows into the air in a row, and then there was a response from the nearby valley, the eight kings were cheering up their minions, and they were startled when they heard the sound of the cannons, he was a soldier and couldn't figure out what was going on with the arrows, but he was familiar with the horn cannon, that was the Ming army transmitting orders from a distance, is there an official army near here?

The Shanxi thieves all got off the cart at this time, the foot soldiers were rapidly arrayed, the people in the front line had already put on armor, the weapons were replaced with all colored spears, and the cavalry soldiers were swinging in an attack formation on the two wings of the infantry formation, and a crumpled red Ming army battle flag was also played, and with the rhythm of the bullhorn, the large array began to move forward slowly. Almost at the same time, from the valley not far away, a large number of armored cavalry, it seems that there are thousands of cavalry, the soldiers are divided into two ways are rushing to the two sides of the thief, one cavalry is playing the flying tiger flag, and the Shanxi thief in front is probably an accomplice, the other is the Yulin iron cavalry with the banner of the Ming army, among which there are the words "Zhenxi General" and "Governor of the Governor".

Du Dashuai personally went out of the horse, and even for me, a little thief, and so many iron horses came at once, this is not for me to live, the eight kings thought in horror, but they didn't let go softly, they couldn't run, so let's fight, he shouted "Brothers, there are not many officers and soldiers and thieves in Shanxi, rush up and kill them" to cheer up the minions, but he quietly turned the horse's head.

"Yuzi, it's time to do it, your three battalions of iron cavalry should block the back road of the thieves," Du Wenhuan greeted Li Yu beside him with a smile, and then waved his hand, "Du Hongfang, Zuo Guangxian, immediately lead the team to charge." ”

The Ming army Du Hongfang and Zuo Guangxian took the lead in rushing straight to the enemy, the Ming cavalry of the brigade shouted and followed closely, Chen Erzhu's horn sounded, and Meng Ke and Chaolu, who had already detoured back to the flank of the thieves, immediately launched an attack, and the elite of the eight kings was hit head-on, and was immediately beaten back to their original shape, in fact, in addition to the hundreds of people who had horses as soldiers, the others were originally to help the common people who had just touched the knife and spear, and they couldn't withstand the impact of this iron cavalry at all, and they collapsed almost instantly, and the eight kings could no longer take care of their subordinates, The horse ran back desperately, and his cavalry fled with him, and the remaining foot soldiers who could not run away were surrounded and killed by the iron horsemen, and soon some of them threw away their weapons and shouted for surrender.

The battle went too smoothly, the thieves' foot soldiers were defeated, there were countless descendants, and a few stubborn resistance were also wantonly killed by Du Hongfang and Zuo Guangxian's cavalry, Zhang Chuanjie and Manzhu's people could only contain the prisoners, Hou Shijie was so angry that he scolded the thief for being too useless, and didn't give him a chance to have a good time, Meng Ke and Chaolu's Flying Tiger Cavalry didn't care about the foot soldiers at all, and after using the rain of arrows to cover the Yulin Iron Cavalry to divide and surround the opponent, they immediately changed horses to pursue the cavalry that the other party ran away.

The Eight Kings ran wildly all the way for more than ten miles, not only did they not get rid of the chasing soldiers behind them, but the front was chaotic again, and the people who had fallen behind were rushing towards him with shouts, and behind them were the iron cavalry of the brigade, and several black eagle flags with red backgrounds frightened him - it was over, the back road was also copied by others, and these gang of Black Eagle Banners were obviously also thieves, how did they hook up with the official army?

Sun Shoufa led the way, led the three cavalry battalions of Terig, Qiu Xian and Kubai along the Qingjian River for a night, and when they arrived at Qingjian County, the eight kings had already taken the elite to chase the Shanxi thieves he identified, and the few remaining people in the city were powerless to resist, and soon they either fled or surrendered, and the iron cavalry immediately turned around and swept north, there was almost no decent battle on the way, and the people who fell behind could not run, so they simply sat on the side of the road and waited to surrender to them.

Terrig, Qiu Xian and Kubai chased all the way to here, and finally saw a decent cavalry running towards them, and the Fengzhou Iron Cavalry immediately came to the spirit and roared to meet them, and the cavalry of the Eight Kings immediately became a mess - the people were sleepy and the horses were flanked back and forth, and the battle could not be fought, and the cavalry fled one after another.

"Little white wolf, don't run away from that guy, he's the head of the thief!" Qiu Xian was busy directing his subordinates to intercept the fleeing enemy cavalry, Meng Ke rushed over quickly, the guy who was being chased by him in front was unloading his armor while running, Qiu Xian's eyes lit up, there are few thieves wearing armor, this is a big guy, since you hit the door, don't run.

Qiu Xian swung his knife to meet the guy and pounced, the other party saw that someone was blocking the way, roared and picked up the ghost head knife and slashed, the two big knives smashed together, Qiu Xian felt that his arm was numb, and the big knife almost got out of his hand, Qiu Xian was furious in his heart, and when the two horses were staggered, he took out the meteor hammer from the skin bag and smashed it at the other party, and the other party was also agile, and he dodged the meteor hammer as soon as he got around, and then Meng Ke arrived and threw out the lasso casually, just lassosing the opponent's neck, and Meng Ke dragged the other party off the horse with all his might.

"****, your grandfather has already been eyeing you for a gust of wind, you still dare to run, little white wolf, beat him," Meng Ke jumped off the horse is punching and kicking, Qiu Xian had fire in his heart, and kicked the guy all over his face with blood, both of them were born as horse thieves, and they were ruthless and heavy-handed, if it wasn't for Sun Shoufa running over and telling them that someone recognized this guy as the eight kings of the bandits, and he must be caught alive and sent to the marshal to deal with it, they are likely to beat people to death.

Qingjian succeeded in suppressing the thieves, the thieves were wiped out, and the casualties of the officers and soldiers were minimal, Du Wenhuan was happy, and heard that the eight kings of the bandit leaders were also caught, and immediately ordered to be escorted up for interrogation.

When the Eight Kings limped with their stomachs and were escorted by Meng Ke and Qiu Xian, the generals in the handsome tent were stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter, this guy looked miserable, with blood on his face, black circles under his eyes, and a piece of blue and purple on his body, Li Yu knew what was going on at a glance, and glared at the triumphant Meng Ke and Qiu Xian, these two people didn't take it seriously at all.

Du Wenhuan held back a smile, cleared his throat and was about to ask a question, but the eight kings knelt down on the ground first, kowtowing vigorously, and crying and shouting: "The villain is willing to surrender, the villain is willing to serve the court and make meritorious atonements, Du Dashuai spares his life!" ”

"You know Ben Shuai, too? Tell us your name, place of origin, and where you come from. ”

"The villain Zhang Xianzhong, a native of Dingbian Liushujian Fort, has been a soldier in our Yulin Town, the villain admires the handsome the most, the three generals of the Dashuai and the three generals, everyone in the world knows about it, the villain guessed that the handsome man is coming, and the tiger power taken by the handsome man wants to escape early," the eight kings felt that the words were not finished, and hurriedly added, "In fact, the villain has long wanted to be recruited, so he neither dared to fight against the marshal's male soldiers, nor dared to attack Qingjian County, the villain really didn't do anything bad!" ”

"You thief also deserves a loyal word, handsome, don't talk nonsense with this thing, pull it out and cut it." Du Hongtai kicked Zhang Xianzhong to the ground.

"The villain doesn't want to rebel, it's hard to be a soldier, you can't get military salary, you can't feed a family, you can't get a few buckets of rice if you treat your wife as a wife, and the brothers really can't survive, so they take risks and eat together, and they will never dare to really go against the court, my lord, spare us poor people!" Zhang Xianzhong lay at Du Wenhuan's feet and cried loudly.

Du Wenhuan sneered disappreciatively, and slowly raised his hand, but Li Yu relented, and took Du Wenhuan's hand and pleaded: "Dashuai, I have tasted the taste of starvation, people will do anything when they are hungry, maybe this person is not a bad person, Dashuai will spare his life!" ”

Du Wenhuan glanced at Li Yu dissatisfied, put his hand down again, Zuo Guang spat at first, and said to Li Yu: "Don't listen to his nonsense, Lord Adjutant General, this guy looks like a hungry person, he is a thief, and the brothers under the last general recognized that this guy had been with the Yichuan Thief King Zuohang, and he had already descended once in Ningzhai, so he must be a thief who is not dead and has rebelled." ”

"Dashuai, it's Wang Zuo's thief's heart that is not dead and rebellious, the villain is just a small leader under him, and he sees that this thief is not authentic, so he broke up with him, and the villain really wants to recruit An!" Zhang Xianzhong kowtowed again, then knelt at Li Yu's feet and cried and said, "My lord, the villain really can't live to be a thief, if the adult saves the villain's life, the villain is willing to be a family for the adult and wait for the adult for a lifetime." ”

"Dog thief, you make a big housekeeper, what are you doing with my grandfather?" Meng Ke was inexplicably angry, and kicked Zhang Xianzhong again, and Li Yu hurriedly drank Meng Ke.

"Zhang Xianzhong, you tell Ben Shuai honestly, do you know the whereabouts of the thief Wang Zuohang?" Du Wenhuan asked sharply.

"Dashuai, the villain knows where Wang Zuohang went, this thief went to Dingbian with Miao Mei, Feishan Tiger, and Big Red Wolf, and I heard that he also made an appointment with Huaining thieves to fight the sky Eagle Zhang Ding, and the villain was willing to lead the way for the officials and soldiers to destroy this group of thieves." Zhang Xianzhong replied through gritted teeth.

Li Yu heard Zhang Ding's name again, and his heart tightened suddenly, maybe this guy can help me find Brother Zhang, he pleaded with Du Wenhuan again: "Dashuai, it's still useful to keep this person, just spare his life for the time being, and let him redeem himself for meritorious service." ”

Du Wenhuan pondered for a while, waved his hand and said, "Take this thief down and keep it under strict guard." ”

Zhang Xianzhong was escorted down, and Du Wenhuan immediately ordered Li Huai and Du Hongtai to write a letter to Yulin to report the victory, and at the same time asked Yulin Governor Hong Chengchou to send additional reinforcements to kill Wang Zuohang and Zhang Ding in one fell swoop, and then told the officers in the tent to camp in place for three days, and the generals cheered and left.

In the end, only Du Wenhuan and Li Yu were left in the tent, Du Wenhuan stared at Li Yu with both eyes, without saying a word, Li Yu blushed, lowered his head and said softly: "Maybe he is really a good person." ”

"How can there be such a simple person as a good person and a bad person in this world, you will understand in the future," Du Wenhuan picked up his helmet and walked out, walked a few steps and then stopped and said, "Do you believe that there are naturally bad people in the world?" ”

After three days of rest for the army, they set off again to Dingbian, Sun Shoufa sent back the horseless foot soldiers from Suidelai, but he and the cavalry stayed behind to continue to follow Du Shuai, and the captured people were also handed over to Qingjian to take care of, but Qingjian Zhixian did not want the captured more than 3,000 young and strong elites, saying that Qingjian County was too poor to support these people, Du Wenhuan told Li Yu that this was the county was afraid that these people would resurge after staying.

After the team dragged away with the captured young man for two days, they met reinforcements sent by Yulin on the way, about 2,000 people, Li Yu saw the commander of this team, and immediately hugged him - Cao Wenzhao, the deputy general of Yansui, arrived, Cao Bianjiao asked Meng Ke where he was as usual, and as soon as Meng Ke appeared, the two fought together again.

"I've become an official, I've made a fortune, Xiao Cao, it's time to pay back." Meng Ke looked Cao Bianjiao, who was wearing a military uniform, up and down, and stretched out his hand with a hippie smile, he still remembered that when Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao's uncle and nephew left the Beijing Division, Li Yu gave them a bag of silver.

"Return your size, do you think our uncle and nephew are people who drink the blood of soldiers?" Cao Bianjiao blocked Meng Ke's mouth as soon as he could.

"Du Shuai, I have here a letter from the governor to you and Vice General Li," Cao Wenzhao hurriedly changed the topic and said to Du Wenhuan and Li Yu, "Yichuan Thief King Zuo Hang, Miao Mei and others have been defeated by my Dingbian deputy general Zhang Yingchang, Huaining thief Zhang Ding also appeared in Dingbian, the thieves seem to have a tendency to converge, the governor sent the last general to listen to the order, please be sure to rush to Dingbian to exterminate the two thieves, the governor is very happy that Vice President Li will come to help, has sent someone to report to the military department, and also asked Vice General Li not to worry about military salaries, as long as the Yulin soldiers have, The Fengzhou soldiers will never give one less big son. ”