The person sent to Gaozhou to report the news was called Zhang An, and because he was not tall, the people on the mountain called him "Short-legged An". Don't look at Zhang An's shortness, but he went to private school for two years in his early years, and he can be regarded as the only non-illiterate person in Daqiao Mountain except for Song Xianggong. And he is not only literate, but also able to speak, and his mouth is very skillful, because of this, when Zhou Shixiang proposed to Boss Hu to send someone to Gaozhou to report the news, Boss Hu sent Shortfoot An without thinking about it.

Zhang An came back early, and when he entered the city, Lei Xianchu and the others were still twenty miles away. The reason why he wanted to come back first was to report to Luo Ding in advance, and secondly, because of the rules of officialdom.

Lei Xianchu is a guerrilla from Sanpin, a general of the Ming army, and this time he came on behalf of the governor of the four prefectures, so no matter what, Luoding must prepare a pomp and circumstance, and the relevant leaders must personally go out of the city to greet him, only in this way can it be regarded as in accordance with the rules.

What Zhang An saw after entering the city made him very trance, as if he thought that he had come to the wrong place, and after confirming that the huge team in front of him was the Taiping Camp, his spirit couldn't help but be steep. After seeing Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong, he couldn't care about the grief of Boss Hu's death, and immediately told everything he saw and heard in Gaozhou.

According to Zhang An, after he arrived in Gaozhou, he did not see Cheng Bangjun at all, nor did he see Li Dingguo's people, but was taken directly to the yamen of the governor of the four prefectures temporarily located in Gaozhou, and then he was locked up in a room for six consecutive days, and no one came to see him at all. A few days later, an official dressed in a green robe and of a very low grade suddenly came to see him, and he didn't say who he was, but only asked him to tell Luo Ding's situation and then left without saying a word.

The day after the Qingpao official came, suddenly another master of the governor's yamen came to tell Zhang An, saying that the governor was already clear about Luoding's affairs, and he was very appreciative of the righteous and courageous actions of the people in Daqiao Mountain, and sent the guerrilla Lei Xianchu to Luoding to negotiate with the general Hu Quan.

The master said categorically, he didn't ask Zhang An at all, Zhang An observed his words, it seemed that this master did not want to mention the military department staff Shi Lang Zhongcheng Bangjun, as long as he immediately set off to return to Luoding with Lei Guerrilla. Although Zhang An was puzzled by the other party's attitude, he didn't dare to ask more, so he was released from the governor's yamen in such a daze, and then a soldier brought him to the guerrilla thunder lord. That Lord Lei did not report to him as soon as the whip was raised, and he was asked to lead the way until he was still twenty miles away from Luoding, and Lei Xianchu's entourage asked Zhang An to go back to the city to report first.

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After listening to what Zhang An said, Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong are strange, where did Cheng Bangjun go, and what did Zhang Xiaoqi mean by sending a military attache over? Do they still admit that the Taiping Camp is a Ming army?

Song Xianggong groaned slightly and asked Zhang An: "Have they ever mentioned Brother Hu's Luo Ding general?" ”

"Nope." Zhang An thought hard and shook his head vigorously, "When I was in Gaozhou, the people from the governor's yamen didn't look down on me, and the guy surnamed Lei and his subordinates on the road didn't pay attention to me at all.

"On the contrary to what?" Zhang An's spitting made Song Xianggong a little unhappy and glared at him.

Zhang An hurriedly said: "Looking at Lei Xianchu's posture, it seems that he wants to annex us." ”

Hearing this, Zhou Shixiang laughed: "A guerrilla dares to annex the generals? If that's the case, this Lord Lei has a lot of appetite! ”

"It seems that something has happened in Gaozhou, otherwise it would be impossible for Cheng Bangjun not to show up."

Song Xianggong was a little worried that something was indeed wrong in Gaozhou, and he was hesitating whether to take Lei Xianchu into the city, Zhou Shixiang had already stepped out, "It's a mule or a horse that comes out to slip away, if this surnamed Lei really comes to annex us, then let him have no return." ”

Lei Xianchu, ancestral home in Baochang County, Nanxiong Prefecture, Guangdong. Grandfather Lei Lin in the battle of Wanli Dynasty, the imperial court grace his father Lei Qing as Tingzhou Wei Baihu official, Chongzhen 14 years, Lei Qing died of illness, Lei Xianchu then attacked Tingzhou Wei Baihu official.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Jiashen was in trouble, the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and went south, the Hongguang regime did not want to forge ahead, lost the use of people, had no way to defend the war, and the southern capital was destroyed. On the seventh day of June in the second year of Shunzhi of the puppet Qing Dynasty, Zhang Kentang, the governor of Fujian in the Ming Dynasty, Huang Daozhou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong, and Zheng Hongkui, the king of the Tang Dynasty, were called the prisoners of the country in Fuzhou. On the 27th of June in leap, he was proclaimed emperor, and Fuzhou was changed to Tianxing Mansion, taking this year as the first year of Longwu.

After the establishment of the Longwu regime, Lei Xianchu was promoted from Tingzhou Wei Baihu to Qianhu Guan, and led more than 600 officers and soldiers of the Ministry of Guards to be transferred to the Shoufu, the official department and the military department Shangshu Huang Daozhou to prepare for the Northern Expedition.

Unexpectedly, the zodiac Zhou introduced the great Confucian, did not understand martial arts, and Zheng Zhilong, Nan Anbo, supported the army and respected himself, and did not send a soldier to Daozhou, Daozhou had to return to his hometown to raise money, food, soldiers and horses, and won thousands of people and more than ten horses. The soldiers marched Guangxin, and raised three months of military rations, so Dao Zhou divided his troops into three ways to attack the Qing soldiers, but all three roads were defeated.

A few days later, Huang Daozhou was ambushed by the Qing army, and the general Gao Wanrong fled the team, but Lei Xianchu could not rescue him, so the whole army collapsed. Dao Zhou was captured by the Huizhou guard Zhang Tianlu and sent to Nanjing prison, the Qing court sent Hong Chengchou to persuade him to surrender, Dao Zhou wrote such a couplet: "The history is beautiful, although it is not successful, it can be lawful; Hong En is mighty, and he can't repay the country and become an enemy. ”

When Hong Chengchou saw his couplet, he was ashamed and ashamed, and asked for exemption from the death penalty of Dao Zhou, but the Qing court did not allow it. Later, Daozhou went on a hunger strike on the 12th, during which his wife Cai sent a letter: "Loyal ministers have a country and no home, don't look inside", and on March 5, Daozhou was inaugurated in Nanjing.

After the death of Huang Daozhou, Emperor Longwu, who was subject to the Zheng brothers, decided to break away from the Zheng control and personally arrived in Yanping from Fuzhou, preparing to venture to Hunan, but was stopped by Zheng Zhilong, and was later martyred in Tingzhou.

After the fall of the Longwu regime, Lei Xianchu, who fled back from Jiangxi, was unwilling to shave his hair and surrender to the Qing Dynasty, so he led more than 30 remnants of his soldiers to the south of Guangzhou Shaowu Emperor (Longwu Di), and listened to it under Su Guansheng, a scholar of Shaowu Cabinet University. Unexpectedly, the Shaowu regime did not put the resistance to the Qing Dynasty in the first place at the beginning of the founding of the country, on the contrary, in order to compete for the imperial unity, it and the newly established Yongli regime fought with each other and met each other. In November, the Qing army under the leadership of Li Chengdong broke through Huizhou and Chaozhou, and marched straight to Guangzhou. On December 14, the Qing army opened the city gate with 14 cavalry pretending to be reinforcements, and the brigade swarmed in. Su Guansheng urgently summoned Lei Xianchu and others to resist the enemy, but they were defeated, the city fell, and Emperor Shaowu and Su Guansheng were martyred.

After Lei Xianchu, who was once again immortal, escaped from Guangzhou, he had the idea of not surrendering to the Qing Dynasty and went west to Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of Gao, Lian, Lei and Qiong, appointed by the Yongli Imperial Court.