King Chuang and his entourage crossed the river and did not go straight to Fugu County, but hid in Huangfuchuan and waited for Zhang Ding, and by the way contacted the internal response in Fugu City, Zhang Ding was famous in Yansui, Lu Ziye, black and white were all eaten, and he could be pulled into the gang, and he would be mixed up in northern Shaanxi in the future, and Zhang Ding really came as promised.

After the first war in Huaining, the government cracked down more and more, and all kinds of thieves in Yansui were either defeated, or fled, or accepted Zhao'an, Zhang Ding was lonely, so he had to hide in the mountains to suffer, the mountains were cold and the food was not good, and he was in a hurry to develop outward, Bai Guangen, a subordinate of the Chaotian Monkey, suddenly found him, and said that King Chuang and a few of them asked him to join the gang, and Zhang Ding also agreed - King Chuang and the four of them had dealings with him, and they were all old acquaintances, and they could only survive the difficulties by hugging each other. So Zhang Ding packed up and rode eight hundred fine horses to the rendezvous.

The famous eagle condescended to come, and a group of thieves were relieved, after having this signboard, it was easy to mix, after eating and drinking, they jointly embraced Zhang Ding as their boss, and then surrounded Zhang Ding Hao to kill Fugu County.

The thieves arrived at the foot of Fugu City, but they didn't see Neiying open the city gate, but found that the city wall was full of officials and people, Zhang Ding immediately became angry, and asked King Chuang and the four of them, where should Nei Ying? They are also confused, the things that were originally arranged have suddenly changed, did they leak the news? was hesitating, the city suddenly thick smoke and ignited several fires, the people on the city wall suddenly became chaotic, the thieves were first happy and then at a loss, they just wanted to rush into the city to loot, but forgot to prepare a few ladders, Zhang Ding looked at the thieves at a loss and shook his head, pointed to the stones and soil on the ground and told them to pile up soil to attack the city, the thieves reacted at this time, and took their subordinates to move stones in a chaotic manner.

Seeing the thieves piling up mud and stones under the city, the people in the city panicked, and the guns, bows and arrows were fighting indiscriminately, but this could not scare the thieves under the city, the mound of soil was getting higher and higher, and the people in the city were even more frightened. The thieves were getting proud, a rush of trumpets suddenly came from behind him, Zhang Ding listened to the heartbeat, this kind of horn horn sound is too familiar, Xiao Sigui quickly ran to report urgently, and the officers and soldiers of the brigade of iron horses were killed, most of them were Fengzhou iron horses with black eagle flags.

"Li Yuzi, you will be in Shanxi for a while, you will be in Shaanxi for a while, running around and fighting around, do you still have a royal law!" Zhang Ding was angry for a while, pointing at the pale thieves and shouting, "Didn't you say that Fengzhou Tieqi was in Shanxi, why did they suddenly cross the river?" What are you doing in a daze, take your people down and prepare for battle! ”

The thieves hurried to greet their subordinates, and the city was immediately lively, and the thieves shouted and shouted in a mess, and the soldiers reacted quickly, and soon got on the horses and lined up, and the people from the thieves were still running around, and the guys from the horse thieves were quietly shrinking back, Zhang Ding scolded a few words and didn't want to care, and saw that his men and horses were already dressed up and waiting in line, and immediately led the team to rush out to meet the battle - now they can only block for these guys for a while, otherwise everyone will be finished together.

Zhang Ding's people are all old brothers who have followed him for many years, most of them have worked in the border army, are well-trained and well-equipped, and they are not discouraged in the face of danger.

"Xiao Laosi, you are not my opponent, call your boss." Zhao Ji slashed as he spoke, and a few knives forced Xiao Sigui to breathe.

"Hack you to death, fly on the grass, my boss has no time to pay attention to you." Xiao Sigui's mouth was still hard.

"Boss, you go find the Sky Eagle and let me deal with him." Qiu Xian came over with a smile, waved his knife to intercept Xiao Sigui, and while the two were fighting, Zhao Ji rushed towards Zhang Ding's eagle flag with a yellow background.

Zhang Ding with his subordinates and the Fengzhou Iron Cavalry has been a group, the Fengzhou Iron Cavalry did not use the tactics of bow and arrow attack against him, but entangled him to death, this is more troublesome, if the opponent is the honest Li Yu, he can also bully it, who would have thought that the big horse thief grass flew over from outside the pass, leading Qiu Xian, Haishan two battalions to surround him tightly, the two sides know a lot of acquaintances, the fight is lively but a group of harmony, entangled in strength can not be used.

"Soaring eagles, the mountain tigers, and Sun Erniang have all defected to us, and now it's up to you, what are you doing with these rotten thieves? Come with us. Zhao Ji quickly found Zhang Ding and persuaded Zhang Ding while fighting.

Zhang Ding didn't use his sword to face the battle, he must have no worries about his life today, so he didn't know if those rotten thieves were fighting or not, so he should help him anyway!

Of course, someone helped him, mixed 100,000 horses into the loyal is very righteous, with seven or eight hundred people under his command to reinforce his previous boss, but his strength is too poor, only more than 400 people have horses, others ride mules, donkeys, armor soldiers are only more than two hundred, his name is too small, no one shows him mercy, the big horse thief Sun Fuhu rushed over and killed, his team was beaten to pieces, and when he met Zhang Ding, there were only three or four hundred people left, and he couldn't run now.

Chuang Wang, Chuang Tian and Chaotian Monkey are much smarter, and they followed Ma Jinzhong at first, but when they saw the official army and iron cavalry outflanking from both wings, they couldn't take care of the mixed 100,000, so they turned their heads and ran backwards, Li Yu and Li Bei picked up a big bargain, almost chasing them, Chuang Wang, Chuang Tiantian braved the rain of arrows to rush open a bloody road, and fled with hundreds of horse bandits, Chaotian Monkey died in the chaos of the army with poor luck, and his big boss Bai Guangen saw that the situation was not good, dismounted and surrendered to Li Bei, and the thieves who couldn't run away saw that the general trend had gone, There are also people who have fallen to the ground and asked to surrender.

Li Yu immediately turned his head to deal with Zhang Ding, of course Zhang Ding refused to surrender, but this was not up to him - his brothers didn't want to fight, even Xiao Sigui and Ma Jinzhong also stopped, Zhao Ji and Sun Fuhu came over, pulled Zhang Dingsheng off the horse, and surrounded him to mess around, when Li Yu came over, the three of them were arguing.

"Don't come to persuade me, the court is a fart, I already don't like it, don't want me to surrender!" Zhang Ding said to Li Yu.

"Who told you to surrender, we are brothers, brothers should be together, and the court will get out of the way." Li Yu smiled and hugged Zhang Ding, Zhang Ding couldn't break free, so he had to hug him, and a burst of enthusiastic cheers broke out around him.

After the battle was over, the thieves who escaped were only a thousand people, most of them were taken prisoner, the Fengzhou army and the official army were killed only more than 200 people, it can be said that it was a complete victory, the whole army was jubilant, Hadari and Richard brothers and children couldn't even talk about it, the battle was over before shooting a few arrows, Fugu Zhixian went out of the city to join in the fun, the thieves frightened him when they attacked the city, and now he has turned the corner to safety, no matter what, I have to express it.

Li Bei and Li Yu were still humble to each other, Li Yu was worried about Baode and Hequ, and immediately thought about crossing the river and returning to Shanxi, not the head, the captive, the spoils, just wanted to ask for food, and casually threw the head of the monkey to Ma Ke, asking him to exchange money to marry a wife, Ma Ke couldn't close his mouth.

"How can this be! It's obviously your credit, you don't want anything, others still think that my brother is bullying you, and I don't have any food in my hands. Li Bei shook his head vigorously, but his eyes glanced at Fugu Zhixian.

"I can't help it, so many captives plus the families of the thieves who intercepted it, I can't take them away and can't afford to raise them." Li Yu smiled bitterly helplessly.

"In this way, the captured war horses belong to me, and the other livestock belong to you," Li Bei rolled his eyes and said to the prefect of Fugu, "Lord Zhixian, we saved your life, you should take out some grain in your warehouse, we won't take it for nothing, exchange it for livestock, how about it?" ”

The magistrate looked greedily at the herds of camels, horses, mules and donkeys, thought for a while and replied: "The officials and soldiers should be rewarded for relieving the county from danger, but I only have more than 1,000 stone grains in my warehouse." ”

"You give me all the grain, and I exchange a thousand head of cattle for it, why don't you do it?" Li Yu said immediately.

The fool didn't do it, and the magistrate turned his head and ran back to the county seat to get food. As soon as the grain arrived, Li Yu set off overnight to rush back, and this time the team expanded again, and more than 1,000 people from Zhang Ding and Ma Jinzhong also joined the Fengzhou army.

Li Yu arrived at Baode City in the afternoon of the next day, the banner of "Shanxi Thief Army" had been planted on the city, but the city was in a mess, Li Yu shook his head slightly, the thieves really went south, and now it depends on whether the officials and troops of Shanxi Town can stop them. When the Ming army in the city saw the banner of the black eagle, they immediately opened the city gate, Bai An, Zhou Yuji and other generals went out of the city to greet them, surrounded Li Yu and asked how the battle was going.

"Light the lamp, why are you here?" Li Yu suddenly saw that there were still Zhao Sheng, Gu Keli and others in the crowd.

"My lord, I'm back again, I'll follow you this time," Zhao Sheng was embarrassed, looked up and saw the grain bags carried by the large group of livestock, and shouted in surprise, "My lord, you still brought back food, I have been drinking thin for the past few days, my lord, let me eat a few dry meals." ”

"If you eat dry, I'll have to drink thin." Zhao Sheng ran and jumped to see the grain, Li Yu couldn't help but mutter, this guy seems to be thicker than before, he quietly asked Bai An and Zhou Yuji, what the hell is going on with this guy.

"I've cooked you with a lamp, I'm afraid I won't be able to get rid of him in the future." Bai An smiled bitterly.

As soon as Li Yu left, Wang Jiayin gave up the river meander, and rushed over with 200,000 troops, how dare Bai An and Zhou Yuji's "Shanxi Thief Army" stand in the way, avoid them from afar, and let them go all the way south. Zhao Sheng didn't dare to stay in Baode for a long time, and he had to follow after packing up his tattered belongings, but as soon as he came out of Baode City, he met Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, and his rival was very red when he met - Zhang Xianzhong had already set his eyes on Zhao Sheng, and he also made an appointment with a few thieves who wanted to catch a handful, taking advantage of Wang Jiayin's main force had gone first, and there were no officials and soldiers around, Zhao Sheng was also anxious, and he was desperate with his subordinates, and Zhang Miao, the leader of Baode who lived with him, was beaten inexplicably, and he couldn't be angry, and he also stepped forward to help with people. The two of them and Zhang Xianzhong and his gang fought, but one of them was a poor scholar and the other was a poor tailor before, and they couldn't fight because they had many people, and they couldn't stand it after a long time.

Bai An took the "Shanxi Thief Army" quietly to the vicinity to patrol, wanting to intercept the thief's tail and take a bite, seeing the thief's infighting opportunity to take advantage of, he beat Zhang Xianzhong's buttocks, Zhang Xianzhong was suddenly beaten, and immediately understood the taste, shouting "Light the lamp, Zhang Miao's hand to the enemy, betray the rebel brothers" fled in a hurry, Zhao Sheng's heart was horizontal, simply partnered with Bai An's official army, chased Zhang Xianzhong and his gang to fight, Zhang Xianzhong's army was defeated like a mountain, and fled with the remnants, so Bai An's thief army and Zhao Sheng, Zhang Miaoshou's thieves merged and occupied Baode City together, Zhao Sheng did his previous errands again, helping the officials and soldiers to pacify the homeless, and he also had one more helper - Zhang Miaoshou, both of them understood that they could not go back to their former accomplices.

"How many mouths have these two added to me?" Li Yu asked after listening.

"There are 25,000 of them, and when they were chasing the Eight Kings, they robbed some people back, and now there are 27,000 people, everyone has no food in their hands, and the villagers can't watch it. Bai An shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"Big Brother Bai, you are a good person!" Li Yu looked at Bai An and said.

"It's better for you to be this good person, I can't stand it, these days with you, I don't think I'm like a soldier." Bai An hurriedly waved his hand.

Li Yu entered Baode City, Sun Xianzu immediately ran over, this time he picked up a river meander city for nothing, but he didn't dare to pursue the fleeing thieves, but ordered the troops to quickly withdraw to Ningwu Pass, and ran alone to see Li Yu.

"My lord, quickly order the iron cavalry to go south, the officers and troops of Xingxian and Qilan will definitely not be able to stop the thieves." Sun Xianzu shouted when he saw Li Yu.

"I didn't expect them to stop the thieves, but their tens of thousands of people should be able to hold back the thieves for at least a few days, my iron cavalry has run a long circle in the east and west of the river, and I must rest for a few days before I can attack." Li Yu shook his head and refused.

"My lord, the officers and soldiers in the pass are not as good as your Fengzhou soldiers, 10,000 people can make up to 5,000 people to fight, and the food and armament are insufficient, I dare to say that the thieves have passed under their noses, they don't dare to stop them, in fact, Ningwu Pass is the same, the five or six thousand people left behind can defend the city, there are only about 2,000 people, so I am in a hurry to transfer the troops back, my lord, now it's all up to you, send troops quickly!"

"****, Shanxi depends on Lao Tzu alone, half of the people can't pull out of the war, how much empty pay do you eat?"

"My lord, if you don't eat, you can't eat, you're still hungry, and if you don't eat empty food, you'll have to wait for death!"

Li Yu didn't want to listen to it, waved his hand and told Sun Xianzu to get out, he sat down and thought about it for a while, this acting chief soldier is really killing people, this mess in Shanxi has to continue, you can't fight if you want to, forget it, for the sake of Lord Song, let's continue to fight.

Early the next morning, Bai An's "Shanxi Thief Army" and Sun Fuhu and Qiu Xian's two battalions of cavalry were ordered to set off to chase down the thieves, Li Yu only gave them five days' rations, and ordered them to go back quickly.

Zhao Sheng ate a few meals of millet dry rice and suddenly became energetic, volunteered to make meritorious contributions with the army, and cheekily asked Li Yu for a war horse, it was best to send a few more people to protect him, Li Yu was too lazy to pay attention to him, in his eyes, Zhao Sheng and Zhang Miaoshou were not thieves, and it was best not to get involved in the war.

"Uncle, I have a war horse to lend you, and I can protect you." Hadari's eyes lit up, and he called Richard to pick up Zhao Sheng and run.

Li Yu was angry, Mo Rige stepped forward to stop him, and said with a smile: "Forget it, I'll go with them, nothing will happen." ”

After sending off Bai An and his entourage, Li Yu called Zhang Miaoshou to go to the camp of the displaced people to have a look, Baode's camp of the displaced people is located under a leeward hillside not far from the city, and a large number of shacks and tents have been erected, after Li Yu came back from Fugu, he wanted to divide some food and let the displaced people go home, but everyone said that going was a dead end, and he resolutely refused to go, Li Yu had to give a few liters of rice to each family of the displaced people, and the people barely had a mouthful of life food, but this could not be eaten for a few days, and no one knew when the food would be distributed next time.

Li Yu casually walked into a few shacks, it was time to eat, the pot or clay pot in each house was black paste, and there were not a few grains of rice, Li Yu tasted a few bites, and felt a little bitter and had a strange smell, the people already recognized him, although they were still a little scared, but they also dared to say a few words to him, and told him that the food was not enough to eat, and he cut some grass and tree rhizomes from the ground and mixed them into the porridge, and ate two meals a day, so that he could last a little longer, as long as he was hungry and did not die, Li Yu walked out with a gloomy face, shook his head and whispered: " The famine is so great that every family drinks this kind of thin food, and if it goes on like this, people will starve to death! ”

"That's not bad, it's miserable in my hometown, the bark and weeds are eaten up, and finally even the soil and rocks are eaten, and the people who starve to death are called many, and the most pitiful are the dolls, the adults are so hungry that they can't move, and they are thrown into the field and don't care, either the beasts are eaten or the people are eaten, and everyone can live until now is also the blessing of the adults." Zhang Miao hung his head and put his hands in his sleeves, and said with an indifferent expression.

Li Yu glanced at Zhang Miaoshou, this person gave him a good impression, and Zhao Sheng is not a thief, he was originally a good tailor, he still has some money in his hand, unlucky he bought more than a dozen acres of land cheaply, the northwest land is barren and has been plagued for many years, the people can't pay the land for farming, and the land price has fallen to four or five taels of silver per acre of good land, Zhang Miaoshou feels that he has the skills to cope with the land burden, but with the intensification of the drought, there are more and more people who abandon the land and flee, and the burden of those who guard the land is getting heavier and heavier. In the end, he also owed taxes, the official unceremoniously arrested him to the county seat flail to show the public, his mother-in-law was frightened, and handed over a few buckets of rice hidden at home to the government, Zhang Miaoshou returned home and felt that he couldn't live, and he had the courage to go to the county government with the people in the village to reason, originally just wanted to scare the government, but he didn't expect them to make a fuss, the people of all the townships and villages came, and finally evolved into a civil uprising.