Zu Quan had a mocking smile on his face, looking at the guards who were blocking him, and behind him, about two hundred cavalry Guan Ning troops gathered together, silent.

He is the most useful general under Zu Kuan, if Zu Kuan is Lu Xiangsheng's fierce general, then he is Zu Kuan's fierce general. Like Zu Kuan, he was also born a slave, so he is extremely envious of Zu Kuan's current rank as a general soldier.

This expedition, with his merits, he may be able to be promoted to a general or something, and he will be able to lead the army alone.

But it's just maybe, after all, until now, neither he nor Guan Ningjun has been able to take a lot of credit.

Beheading hundreds, thousands, what's the use, that is, the Nanzhili troops guarding Chu'zhou also beheaded thousands, and the family under the command of Yu Guozhen, counting the beheadings, I'm afraid there are nearly 10,000!

This number is extremely terrifying, and it is really enviable. Zu Quan always felt that although Yu Guozhen was scheming, it was because of people after all, and if there were no officers and soldiers, especially the strong pressure from their Guanning army, Yu Guozhen would not have gained so much.

Especially when I heard that they took out the old camp of King Chuang, seized countless gold, silver and equipment, and immediately transported them away by boat, and didn't even give them a chance to let Guan Ningjun get a piece of the pie!

Fortunately, Zu Quan was a little cunning, and always felt that it was unreasonable for Yu Guozhen to stand still after the rout, so he quietly sent someone to keep an eye on it, and when he learned that Yu Guozhen went north overnight, he was leading a team of personal soldiers to loot everywhere in the name of clearing out the remnants of bandits, and he didn't even have time to report to Zu Kuan, so he led the two hundred Guan Ning troops to rush over.

They are officers and soldiers, representing the imperial court, no matter how capable Yu Guozhen is, he is only an ordinary person, so Zu Quan feels that he can completely suppress the other party. Moreover, even if Yu Guozhen had other ideas, with his two hundred Guan Ning Army, it would be enough to deal with this thousand miscellaneous cards.

"The time that Lao Tzu gave you is up, if you don't open the door again and hand over the Kou Qu, Lao Tzu will treat you as harboring the Liukou!" A Guan Ning soldier shouted.

At this moment, the closed gate opened, Zu Quan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he saw Yu Guozhen's figure, as well as Qi Niu beside Yu Guozhen.

He knew that Qi Niu had been rude to Zu Kuan, so he pondered in his heart, and now he would take this opportunity to ask Yu Guozhen to hand over their seizures and take this big man away by the way.

"Let's go, let's go in!" He said proudly.

Guan Ningjun urged the horse forward, but was stopped by the people led by Yu Guozhen, Zu Quan pointed at Yu Guozhen: "I suspect that you are hiding Kou Qu, you ......"

"The thief Gao Yingxiang was caught by us." Yu Guozhen said calmly.

Zu Quan was about to continue, but then he realized what Yu Guozhen said, his eyes widened, his mouth opened wide, and saliva flowed down his chin, but he was still unconscious.

followed Yu Guozhen to make a profit, but if it was King Gao Yingxiang...... This one is not ordinarily big!

In order to break into the thief, the court marked the reward of the marquis!

This credit must be grabbed!

A fierce light suddenly appeared in his eyes, and in order to snatch this credit, he had to kill people with a knife. No matter what Yu Guozhen's background is, no matter what credit he has made for the Ming Dynasty, he must die!

"Someone ...... coming"

As soon as he drank, he saw that Yu Guozhen had turned around and made a hand gesture.

Make a fist with your right hand and give a thumbs up, but the thumb is pointing to the ground.

Zu Quan's heart tightened, and the experience of many years of fighting made him realize that something was wrong, but at this time, what he saw was already the muzzle of the "Tiger Weiyi" in the black hole.

There were three or four hundred muskets pointed at them, and the muskets were already lit with arquebuses, and Zu Quan shouted: "You want to ......"

The words "killing officials and rebelling" were covered by the sound of gunfire, and with the tongue of fire spewed out from the muzzles of hundreds of muskets, half of the Guan Ning army that followed Zu Quan into Shigu Village had already fallen!

The other half reacted, pulled out the three-eyed guns and began to prepare to shoot, but at this moment, two hundred muskets in the second row were already aimed at them.

After the second round of shooting, the Guan Ning army, which was still sitting on the horse, had only more than 40 people left. They turned around and tried to escape from the stockade, but at this time they found that the gate of the stockade was closed again.

They were greeted by muskets.

If it had been placed a year ago, Yu Guozhen would not have dared to kill officers and soldiers on such a large scale, but now it is different, with Hoi An as a retreat base, especially these tiger guards, all of whom have nominal "shares" in Hoi An, their minds are firm, and there will hardly be a matter of betraying Yu Guozhen, even if there are a few such people, no one will believe it.

After a chaotic shot, no Guan Ningjun was still standing.

Ye Wuya took people to clean up the battlefield, the iron armor on Guan Ningjun's body was still good, and he could exchange it for gold and silver with other officers and soldiers, as for the firearms such as the three-eyed gun they used, Yu Guozhen didn't care about it. At present, the weapons and equipment research institute of the Xinxiang Iron Workshop has begun to develop its own cavalry guns, especially flintlock cavalry guns.

There are also Guan Ningjun who are pretending to be dead or seriously injured and have not yet lost their breath, and Ye Wuya has brought people to mend their knives. If Kuanquan hadn't been too rampant, he wouldn't have let the two hundred Guan Ning troops die silently. Yu Guozhen looked at their corpses and frowned slightly.

Killing them was a last resort, but after killing, they still couldn't be treated the same as the rogues.

Thinking of this, he beckoned to Tian Boguang, who came over with a smile, and his heart was very happy. You must know that the mutiny in Denglai was inextricably linked with these Guanning troops.

"Little official, what are your orders?"

"Although these people are our enemies, and their cruelty to the people is no less than that of the outlaws, after all, they have served the country on the border. When people are put to death and their sins are removed, they shall be buried alive, and their bodies shall not be desecrated. ”

According to Tian Boguang's surname, he would like to crush these Guan Ning soldiers and scatter them to ashes, but after listening to Yu Guozhen's orders, he still responded, and then ran to talk to Ye Wuya.

The two discussed for a while, and then they divided their labor, and someone went to dig a pit and bury all the corpses of Zu Quan and Guan Ningjun. As for those horses, they became horse meat, which was another dish that Huwei added to eat salted fish that was dehydrated and suppressed.

Even Gao Yingxiang, who was imprisoned in the room and could only hear the sound of muskets and screams outside, was given a piece of food. He fled all night, and he was already exhausted, and he didn't care about his image, so he just ate the food, and the taste was surprisingly delicious.

He heard the voices outside, and his heart moved secretly, and whatever happened seemed to be in his favor. But a moment later, he heard a voice outside, and then Gao Erzhu appeared in front of him.

"Breakfast is okay, isn't it?" Gao Erzhu said with a smile.

"You should call me uncle."

"After your rebellion affected the family and killed the family, this generation is meaningless."

"Lao Tzu is not a rebellion, it is an uprising, in order to save the people of the world who are affected by this court dog official Zha Teng, I look at your son, and also have the idea of helping the people and saving the world, why do you want to act for the tiger and embarrass us who are righteous men who do the right thing for heaven?" Gao Yingxiang previously realized that it was absolutely impossible to persuade Gao Erzhu to turn against Yu Guozhen, so he turned to the rest: "Please come to see me, I have something to say to him." ”

"My son-in-law is not interested in seeing you." Erzhu laughed twice: "He knew that you would say some pretentious words, and also do the way for the sky, how did you do the way for the sky in this Shigu Village, and kill all the people in the village?" Could it be that this village is full of dog officials? ”

As soon as these words came out, Gao Yingxiang couldn't help but stutter.

These rogues always regard themselves as righteous soldiers, and occasionally do do some so-called deeds for the heavens, such as publicly executing corrupt officials and bad gentry who are extremely angry with the people. But most of the time, what they do is to rob the "rich" of the people to help their "poor", and the people are better than the government.

After all, the government still has to worry about a Ming Jun and a clean official, and without Bao Zheng, having a Hai Rui is enough for them to be uncomfortable, and these rogues are fearless, and if they are fearless, they have no scruples.

"That's why my son-in-law looks down on you...... That's it, don't say so much, I'm just coming in to tell you something. ”

Speaking of this, Gao Erzhu's expression became cold, and then he said: "Just now your subordinates tried to save you, and they have all been killed, in addition, because there are more prisoners with us, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, we will take you forward first, and as for the rest of the prisoners, they will be placed in this village to guard." ”

Gao Yingxiang was in the reward offered by the imperial court, but he was ten thousand taels of silver and the title of marquis, and he alone was more important than the rest of the hundreds of captives combined. Gao Yingxiang laughed miserably: "It's not bad, at this time, there are still people who are willing to come to save me desperately." ”

He didn't doubt the rest, because no matter how rich his imagination was, he would never have imagined that Yu Guozhen would dare to kill two hundred Guan Ning troops, let alone two hundred Guan Ning troops would be killed in one fell swoop almost without resistance. You must know that he fought with Zu Kuan all the way, often gathering six times or even one or twenty times the number of troops to fight against his 3,000 Guan Ning army, but he was repeatedly defeated.

Soon after the meal, he was really tied to his horse again, Yu Guozhen left 200 people here to guard the prisoners, and led them slowly forward, but he led the main force to the south at full speed, and it only took a day of effort, and then returned to Chu'zhou.

At this time, in the city of Chuzhou, the lights are being put up, one is to celebrate the victory of defending the city, and the other is to make up for the New Year that has been delayed by the thieves. The sound of firecrackers can be heard everywhere, and the festive atmosphere makes several officials in the city full of poetry, one after another, and wrote a lot of poems.

Naturally, Lu Xiangsheng is the protagonist of this poetry meeting, but everyone else is elated, but he is a little worried.

"Why is Premier Lu unhappy, is he still worried about the thieves?" Li Juesi asked with a smile.

"Indeed, since Wang Zuogui, Wang Jiayin, Shen Yikui, and Zijin Liang, among the thieves, there is no more cunning and great plot than the thief. Before the head of the thieves, but the horseman, only the thief is the most serious, last year's ancestral tomb, this year's Chu'zhou, this thief has been the heart of the Son of Heaven, and he fights more and more cunning, if you don't get rid of it, there will eventually be a ......"

Speaking of this, Lu Xiangsheng closed his mouth and sighed.

(To be continued)