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He was originally from a humble background, but fortunately he was taken in by Mengzu Dashou and became a domestic servant in the Li family of Liaodong, one of the six great families of martial arts. From this time on, he was first promoted to a general by Zu Dashou, and then divided into five hundred Guanning iron cavalry, which was assigned to Hong Chengchou's control.

Hong Chengchou attaches great importance to Zu Kuan and his iron cavalry, and has entrusted him with important tasks many times. And Zu Kuan did not disappoint him, he was invincible in the battle against the thieves, and made great achievements, and there were no less than ten leaders of the big and small thieves who died under his army, and there were countless ordinary thieves. Therefore, he has also been promoted very quickly, and in just two years, he has been promoted to the chief military officer of Zhengyipin, and he is almost equal to Gao Jie, another general under Hong Chengchou.

Originally, Zu Kuan was both arrogant and selfish, but after he rose to the top, he swelled even more. In his eyes, there is only one person worthy of respect, that is, Hong Chengchou, who has always made him meritorious and rewarded, promoted and wealthy, and even his original benefactor Zu Dashou doesn't matter.

When Hong Chengchou plotted to rebel, Zu Kuan, as his confidant and favorite general, participated in it from beginning to end. Zhu Yousong also attached great importance to Zu Kuan, first gave him the title of Baoding General and General of Pingbei, and promised that after pacifying the world, at least he would be given a "national prince". Under the heavy reward, Zu Kuan wanted to express himself even more, and this time he went north to Henan, and he rushed to be the pioneer.

Zu Kuan's abacus was very fine. There are now more than 10,000 rebels under his control, but most of them are newly recruited by Hong Chengchou or obtained by reorganizing the official army of Xiangyang and other local guard posts, and their combat effectiveness is quite poor, even worse than that of thieves. Therefore, he did not plan to take more than 10,000 people to fight to the death with the elite soldiers of the imperial court who had been in battle for a long time, but rushed to the middle ground of the two armies to "raise food", to put it bluntly, it was looting. Although these soldiers could not fight a war, it was still more than enough to rob the common people, and if more than 10,000 people were scattered, dozens of people could rob a village or town, and in just a few days, the land of a state or even a prefecture would be scraped clean by him.

Since Xiangyang raised troops, Zu Band has looted more than 10,000 people all the way, and all the places he has passed through have been looted. Except for a small part to be handed over to Hong Chengchou, the rest was honestly and unceremoniously kept for himself. Originally, Hong Chengchou's order to him was indeed to stop in Zhengzhou, as long as he held the south bank of the Yellow River. However, Zu Kuan snatched up, and because he relied on Guan Ning's iron cavalry to come and go like the wind and could not resist, he actually crossed the Yellow River, which had already frozen, and plundered the area of Weihui Mansion on the north bank.

Today, he is leading his standard battalion, that is, five hundred Guanning iron cavalry, into a relatively large town to "raise grain". The procedure of raising grain is also the same old-fashioned, first forced all the big families in the town to listen to the training under his account, and the Chinese army announced that Emperor Chongzhen was dead, and the new monarch Zhu Changxun had inherited the unification.

This is equivalent to a knife on the neck, who dares not to obey? These big families had to endure the pain and hand over all the floating wealth in their families, and soon scraped together 30,000 or 40,000 taels of silver. Zu Kuan was still not very satisfied, and planned to squeeze those medium-sized people again, but suddenly the Chinese army came to report: "General, there is a team of cavalry from outside the town!" ”

"Oh?" Zu Kuan immediately said vigilantly, "But the Northern Army (now the rebels claim to be official soldiers, and the real official army is called the "Northern Army")? ”

"It's a little far away, I can't see clearly, but it doesn't look like the Northern Army." "They only have a few dozen horses, and they're pretty shabby." It seemed that they also wanted to rush into the town, but they didn't dare to come when they saw us. ”

Zu Kuan smiled contemptuously when he heard this: "If this soldier's expectation is good, this is another small group of bandits. ”

It turned out that because of the catastrophe in Henan for many years, the crops were often lost, and the magnates such as King Fu and the big landlords frantically pressed the peasants, so the people were not able to make a living, and there were many bandits in various places. This time, Zu Kuan was ordered by Hong Chengchou to go north, on the one hand, to "raise grain", and on the other hand, he also wanted to recruit these bandits into his own account like co-opting the thieves, so as to completely overwhelm the imperial court in terms of troops.

Zu Kuan did collect a few bandits along the way, and the number of them was as many as thousands, so he didn't pay any attention to the dozens of people in front of him, and said with a big grin: "Let's go, go with this soldier to have a look!" ”

Everyone immediately got on their horses and left the town, and sure enough, they saw dozens of war horses standing on the official road outside the north of the town, and the people on the horses were pointing at this side. Zu Kuan saw that the other party did not play the banner of the official army, so he was even more relieved, and said to the Zhongjun beside him: "In the past, I reported the name of this soldier and told them: as long as you support the new king, you can join the command of this soldier, and you will be rewarded!" ”

The Chinese army has done this kind of errand several times, and it can be said that he is familiar with the road, so he didn't think much about it and stepped forward, shouting as he walked: "Listen to the truth on the other side!" General Pingbei of the Ming Dynasty, the ancestor of the chief military officer of Baoding..."

Before the words fell, the rider led by the opposite side suddenly scolded angrily: "Zu, your mother! "Raising your hand as he speaks is an arrow.

As a member of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, the Chinese army is not only not weak in kung fu, but also has heavy armor and body protection, under normal circumstances, not to mention one arrow, even dozens of arrows are not afraid to shoot at the same time. But this arrow was an exception, not only was it extremely fierce, but it was coming straight to the door, and if you really wanted to shoot, you had to pierce the skull.

The Chinese army was caught off guard, so they had to do their best to dodge sideways. As a result, the face was dodged, but the cheeks did not dodge, and the arrow opened a big blood groove on the face, and the blood was sprayed wildly, the pain was unbearable, and he screamed and retreated.

Zu Kuan, who was behind, saw it clearly, and couldn't help but be furious and said: "Good bandit, if you don't say a word, you will hurt people, if this soldier doesn't kill all of your people, how can you be the general of Pingbei!" As he spoke, he shook his iron spear and rode out. The fifty cavalry of the Chinese cavalry behind him also followed him and launched a charge, and one of the hundred households hurriedly asked loudly: "General, do you want to pull all the people and horses out of the town?" ”

Zu Kuan laughed wildly without looking back: "To deal with these thieves, you don't need such a big battle, these fifty horsemen around this soldier are enough." You continue to raise food, and your soldiers will come when they go! ”

As soon as the gang of bandits on the opposite side saw Zu Kuan leading the team out, they were also clean and neat, and they turned around and ran away without saying a word. How was Zu Kuan willing to give up, and chased after him, and this chase chased him out of seven or eight miles. Suddenly, a low mound appeared in front of them, and the bandits bypassed the mound and continued to flee northward, and one of Zu Kuan's 100 households reminded: "General, this place is too far away from the Yellow River, in case it collides with the northern army..."

Zu Kuan said disapprerovingly: "What are you afraid of!" This horse is flat, there is a large group of cavalry coming, will the soldiers not be able to see it? Besides, even if there is a large group of cavalry, our mounts are all good horses, and it is not too late to retreat. ”

As he spoke, Zu Kuan took the lead and had already bypassed the mound from the right. Suddenly heard a loud shout beside him: "The surname is ancestor, accept your life!" Immediately, a golden wind went straight to the back of Zu Kuan's head.