Sanligang Village, dozens of miles away from Fengyang, the central capital, is an inconspicuous small village. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It was only half a day ago that the original calm was completely broken.

Zhang Xianzhong's department, which suffered a big loss under Fengyang City, retreated all the way to here, and none of the 100 residents in the village were left behind, and all of them were slaughtered.

In a slightly dilapidated private house, Zhang Xianzhong, who had a calm eye, stared at the map that he had snatched from the officials and soldiers on the table.

From the fine work who escaped from the city, I learned that the Ming army defending the city head at that time was no more than 100 people.

Hearing the news, Zhang Xianzhong's face immediately turned green, and while roaring nonsense, he raised a knife and cut down the fine work that came to report on the spot.

In fact, Zhang Xianzhong knows very well that this secret report is true, but he can only say that the fine work is more unlucky, and it touched the moldy head and caused death.

"Father-in-law, since Fengyang can't be taken, it's better to go to Luzhou and Anqing immediately, and then fight back at Fengyang after uniting with other rebel armies!"

Zhang Xianzhong's son, and Liu Wenxiu, one of the four generals, suggested.

"Repelled by hundreds of official thieves, if it spreads, how can Lao Tzu have a foothold in the world!" Zhang Xianzhong scolded sharply, so frightened that Liu Wenxiu didn't dare to say more.

Zhang Xianzhong changed his words and continued: "If you withdraw the army now, you will only fall into the encirclement of Hong's lackeys, so you must not retreat again, give me an order to go down and cut down trees and build ladders immediately!" ”

"But father-in-law, our army is short of food and grass, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold out for three days!" Ai Nengqi, who is also Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son, said with concern.

"Especially the governor of the capital, aiding the general soldier Zuo Liangyu, who can fight well, has heavy troops, and is stationed in Xuzhou, which is not far from Fengyang!"

Sun Kewang, the general of the Kou Army who was standing on the side, interjected, but he carefully observed Zhang Xianzhong's expression, for fear of touching his head.

The reputation of the chief soldier Zuo Liangyu is not small, and the combat effectiveness of his soldiers is even better, and he is a very difficult opponent.

"Zuo Liangyu is just a self-preservationist, he has a self-respecting army, and he doesn't even listen to the emperor's orders!" Zhang Xianzhong sneered confidently, looked around at the generals and continued, "Fighting with our army is a completely loss-making business, so Zuo Liangyu will never send troops to help Fengyang!" ”

"As for the lack of grain and grass, I will use Lao Tzu to teach you, immediately pretend to be an official and go to the surrounding villages to loot, and by the way, grab some women for Lao Tzu to come back!"

Zhang Xianzhong was just a scoundrel and a bully.

The so-called asking for the lives of the people of the world, only slaughtering the upper gentry is just a demagogic slogan, just casually talking, who is stupid and who believes.

Although the Ming army in the late Ming Dynasty was degenerate and scattered, often taking the heads of innocent people as military merits, looting and massacres occurred from time to time, but the Kou army, which claimed to be a rebel army, was even more unbearable.

The central capital is Fengyang, Dongcheng.

As a dignitary of Fengyang and a wealthy businessman, Dongcheng has the most prosperous street in the entire central capital.

The people who live here, even if they are slaves, feel superior when they walk down the street.

However, in the past few days, in order to purge the rebels in the city, the entire Fengyang City has been under full martial law, which has seriously affected the business of Dongjie for a while.

Originally, this kind of thing was carefully investigated and handed over to the county order and county office, but the busiest were the battalion soldiers and guards who were full of excitement.

The battalion soldiers and guards are also very experienced in extortion, and they will not go to the gentry of the hometown, but only focus on the rich who have no background.

For several days, the extremely excited battalion soldiers and guards forgot to sleep and eat, and rushed to break into Fu Jia's house.

searched without scruples, and when he left, he not only took the sheep by the hand, but also kidnapped the children of the rich family in the name of censorship.

If the male member of the family is tied up in prison, at most he will be beaten violently, threatened and intimidated, and if the beautiful female relatives are brought into prison, the consequences will be unimaginable.

The reason why only the children are arrested is because the head of the family is the hope of the family, and the arrest of the head of the family will only make the family panic all day long, and the ransom will not be collected for a while.

But kidnapping the children of the family, especially the only son and daughter, those desperate rich people will immediately raise funds to ransom their families, this trick has been tried and tested.

To put it simply, it means that if you are Kou Jun's meticulous work, then you must be, and no one can argue.

Therefore, the rich people in Fengyang City took out gold and silver to ransom people, and the officers of the guard station and the battalion officers immediately made a lot of money.

The battalion soldiers and the guards are also very sincere in doing business, and it is not ambiguous to release people when they give money, and generally even female dependents do not touch them.

The only thing that made these businessmen and tycoons sad and angry was that the battalion soldiers and the guards always came back and forth, and sometimes even came to the door repeatedly.

It's just that no one dares to talk about justice and law with these vicious demons, so they can only obediently shut up and raise money to ransom people.

After such a big purge operation, it is impossible not to fail to catch a single detail, and if it is reported by others, there will be no good fruit to eat.

Soon the battalion soldiers and the guards began to arrest people with a tacit understanding, and more than a dozen people were beheaded at the entrance of the vegetable market every day, many of whom were dragged to fill the innocent people.

Those who give money will be released, and those who don't give money will be beheaded, and the people's resentment was boiling for a while, and even many secretly scolded Zhang Xianzhong, why did they fail to capture Fengyang City.

Fengyang Garrison Mansion, bloodshot garrison Zhu Guozheng, has been busy these days.

Every day before dawn, he got up and busily dispatched the battalion soldiers, preempting the guards and kidnapping the children of the rich to collect money.

And send people to send money to the central government to get some points, no matter how much it costs, but also to bring down the prefect who has been acting as a prestige.

On this day, Zhu Guozheng, who had not appeared for a long time, suddenly gathered his subordinates to gather in the mansion.

All the subordinate officers were present, and even the newly promoted Qianzong Zhang Tanghuai was also impressively listed, but soon Zhu Guozheng's proposal frightened everyone.

"Although the Kou army is defeated, it is still overwhelming, and you must not go out of the city to pursue, and you must guard the adults to think twice!" Although Zhang Tanghuai is still young, he was the first to get up and advise.

"The thief Zhang Xianzhong led the thief Kou to slaughter and entrench in Sanligang, and it is reported that he is cutting wood to make engineering equipment.

"Besides, the Kou army is newly defeated and its morale is low, and when this official personally leads a thousand elite cavalry, he will definitely be able to win a big victory!"

"My lord..."Zhang Tanghuai wanted to persuade again, but he was pulled by Chen Jinghao, the president next to him.

"I've made up my mind, so you don't have to say more!"

In fact, the garrison Zhu Guozheng was not a reckless person, and it could be seen that he judged the situation at the beginning and quickly led his troops to help the west of the city.

The reason why Zhu Guozheng will lead his troops to attack has to start with the detailed work that he just returned half a day ago.

At the beginning, the Kou army in Fengyang City was cleaned up, although the main purpose was to blackmail those rich people, but it also caught a lot of fine work.

Zhu Guozheng did not kill all these people, but selected some people who knew the current affairs and let them go to spy on Zhang Xianzhong's intelligence.

In order to survive, these meticulous workers who know that they will die are naturally willing to serve.

Half a day ago, he returned and reported an unexpected event to Zhu Guozheng.

To put it simply, Kou Shouzhang Xianzhong had a disagreement with his subordinate generals on the key issue of whether to continue to attack Fengyang City.

Soon the disagreement turned into a conflict, and Zhang Xianzhong cut off the head of the partial general in front of everyone in order to keep the troops.

The Kou army had suffered defeat before, and now Zhang Xianzhong was frantically killing the generals, and for a while the hearts of the Kou army were fluctuating.

According to the detailed statement, there were only 800 people in the headquarters who followed Zhang Xianzhong at this time.

When Zhu Guozheng heard this, he was furious and angrily accused him of deceiving him and causing him to be thrown into prison and tortured to extract a confession.

It's just that he was beaten to death, and the information he got is still the same.

Just when Zhu Guozheng was hesitating, the rest of the fine works came back one after another, and the statement was not much different from what the beaten and killed fine works said.

In addition, the high-ranking officials who served in the imperial court sent people to send secret letters, in order to recommend to the saints, hoping that Zhu Guozheng could make new contributions.

If Zhang Xianzhong, who can be successfully killed, even the governor Hong Chengchou can't be eliminated, plus someone in the imperial court is elected, then the extremely popular minister in Beijing will be a matter of course.

Under the extreme expansion of self-confidence, Zhu Guozheng insisted on going his own way, and had decided to lead all the more than 1,000 cavalry of Fengyang to personally attack Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhang Tanghuai, who had a sad face, returned to the garrison barracks and told Han Yu everything that happened at the meeting.

Han Yu frowned slightly, sat on the side and thought to himself: "Zhang Xianzhong is definitely not a good type, it is definitely deceitful to deliberately show weakness at present, it seems that Zhu Shoubei has gone and has no return!" ”

However, for Han Yu, Zhu Guozheng's death was small, but these more than 1,000 cavalry were the only mobile force in Fengyang City that could make the Kou army fearful.

Although the cavalry had a great advantage over the Kou army, Zhu Guozheng was not a famous general, and the defense was more than enough to attack, and the Fengyang cavalry was not the Guanning iron cavalry.

Once surrounded in unfavorable terrain, a thousand cavalry will definitely have no return.

It's just that even if Han Yu was very clear about Zhang Xianzhong's plans, he still couldn't change the garrison Zhu Guozheng, and he was in a hurry to reincarnate with more than a thousand cavalry.

"Brother Zhang, try again tomorrow, and you must persuade the garrison not to rush in!"

Han Yu thought for a while and suggested to Zhang Tanghuai.

"That's how it should be!"

Zhang Tanghuai thought so, he felt the grace of the encounter, and naturally he didn't want to watch the garrison Zhu Guozheng die.