readx; Huang Degong and others and Wang Chengen were anxious to send out the urgent military situation that the rebels wanted to storm Hukou, but they had no carrier pigeons, and they could not cross the river, so they were simply at a loss. When the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info was hesitating, he suddenly heard the sound of flapping wings overhead. It turned out that since the imperial court used a large number of flying pigeons to pass on books, the people began to follow suit, and there were naturally carrier pigeons among the rebels. The pigeon flew straight northeast, presumably to deliver a message to the thieves entrenched in Nanzhili.

"This place is only 1,300 miles away from the Pengcheng area, and the carrier pigeons can arrive in a day at most." Weng Yu frowned and said, "If the thieves raise an army to attack the mouth of the lake, General Qi is in danger!" ”

Huang Degong was also as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and suddenly asked Wang Chengen: "You said that the attack time agreed between Hong Lao Thief and that bullshit sect leader is five days later?" ”

Wang Chengen nodded blankly, and Weng Yu also analyzed: "Yuezhou is more than 500 miles away from the mouth of the lake, and there are not many ships here, and the Hongbing army can walk 100 miles a day, which is almost the limit." The thieves are farther away, and they will only arrive later. ”

"Then as long as we can get ahead of Old Thief Hong and bring the news to Old General Qi, won't we?" Huang Degong jumped up and said, "You go and find a hiding place, I'll go first!" ”

"Wait! General Huang, where are you going alone? Wang Chengen hurriedly grabbed Huang Degong, he already had Huang Degong's martial arts as the highest among several people, and with him by his side, he still felt a little steady.

"Of course, it's to deliver a letter at Hukou." Huang Degong said impatiently.

"But you don't have horses, these more than 500 miles..."

"Can't I walk without a horse?" Huang Degong said arrogantly, "Walking one hundred and twenty miles a day, isn't it ten miles every hour?" Could it be that my old Huang can't even walk ten miles in an hour? ”

"But it's impossible for you not to rest..."Wang Chengen said with a smile and a smile.

"It's such a big deal, what's the point of not sleeping for a few days and nights?" Huang Degong said that he had already begun to gallop towards the east, and his voice floated from afar, "Besides, my luck is so bad that I can't grab a horse halfway?" ...”

Enmity is far away, ghost ship hatred, hatred is hated by loneliness

"Let him go, that's his temper." Weng Yu looked at Huang Degong's fading back and smiled helplessly, "Aside from this, we really don't have a better way." ”

They were not wrong at all, and only one day later, the carrier pigeons released by the White Lotus Sect flew to their destination: Lingbi County, Fengyang Prefecture, the central capital.

From Fengyang, the song art Fengyang Flower Drum has been popular all over the country, and there is a song that is particularly popular with the poor people: "Say Fengyang, Dao Fengyang, Fengyang is a good place; Since Emperor Zhu came out, there have been nine years of famine in ten years. Although the lyrics are "rebellious", they are spreading more and more widely, so that they are popular.

In fact, Fengyang Mansion was really not a good place. Since the Song army in the Southern Song Dynasty to prevent the Jin army from going south, the Yellow River embankment was opened, causing the Yellow River to burst, the Yellow River first seized the Huai into the sea, and then broke many times, and the river swayed from north to south. Fengyang Mansion is located in this area, so it often suffers from floods, and after floods, there are often major droughts, especially at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, otherwise Zhu Yuanzhang would not have starved to death with his family, and he was forced to become a monk.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang established Fengyang as the central capital, and of course he wanted to change the poor appearance of his hometown and build Fengyang Mansion into a metropolis comparable to Suzhou and Hangzhou. However, the method was too simple and crude: he directly forcibly requisitioned 150,000 wealthy households from all over the country and moved from his hometown to Fengyang. I really expect to rely on the strong economic strength of these rich people to quickly change the face of Fengyang; However, the people who had stayed well in their hometowns were suddenly forced to move to Fengyang, and they were unfamiliar with the place, and they felt that they were inferior to their hometowns, and they didn't want to leave here.

But the imperial court has a strict order not to let him return to his hometown, what should he do? As the saying goes, "the wisdom of the people is infinite", didn't the court let us leave? In a famine year, there is no food at home, so we can always go out to escape the famine, right? As a result, many people who were originally from very wealthy families pretended to be beggars and singing artists, small businessmen, hawkers, etc., and secretly left Fengyang. It was difficult for the local government to prohibit it, and it was difficult to report the famine to the emperor every year.

However, by the Wanli Apocalypse, the original rich families had long escaped, and under the effect of the "Xiaoice River Period", it was now really ten years of famine, and the local people in Fengyang Mansion were full of hungry people, and they were extremely dissatisfied with the imperial court for a long time, as long as someone raised their arms and shouted, a large number of hungry people would rebel. Therefore, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other "thirteen" thieves were able to enter the army so smoothly that they easily burned down the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum.

Lingbi County is now the temporary base camp of the "Thirteen Families", and the city is full of thieves' armies. They belonged to different chiefs, each of whom occupied a piece of territory. When things were going well some time ago, the ministries were still able to get along. Recently, however, the thieves have suffered defeat after defeat, and a large number of defeated soldiers have poured into the city, and there are not enough places, and there have been more conflicts between the various departments, and people can be seen in the streets all day long, scolding and fighting, and even drawing swords against each other.

But today is an exception, the streets of the city are under martial law, the four largest thieves in the city, Li Chuangwang, the eight kings of Cao Xianglao, each sent elite troops to patrol back and forth in the area in charge, whether it is a thief or a local resident, they are not allowed to go out, otherwise they will be killed. Therefore, the entire Lingbi City seemed to be extremely solemn, and it was clear that something big was about to happen here.

However, in the "Juyi Hall", which used to be the hall of the county government, it was a different scene. There was a blazing bonfire in the hall, on which a whole fat pig was roasting, and the smoke and fire were smoky all around, and the air was warm. More than a dozen big men sat around the bonfire, eating meat and drinking in large pieces, and a few of them even shouted to guess the boxing order, and the atmosphere was not warm.

Only Zhang Yichuan, nicknamed "King Sweeper", and Liu Guoneng "Shot Collapse" Li Wanqing were silent, and drank sullen wine without a sip. It is no wonder that in the two Dangshan battles, the men and horses of the three families of the three families killed and captured most of the officers and soldiers. Especially Zhang Yichuan, who has become the commander of the light pole, has to rely on Luo Rucai, who is nicknamed "Cao Xiang", of course his mood will not be good.

The most active at the table was none other than the "Eight Kings" Zhang Xianzhong. At this time, he was using the strength of wine to make fun of "King Chuang" Li Zicheng: "My brother Li, you must be drunk, I am in front of you, but you are me!" Oh, I forgot, though I'm in front of you, but in front of your left eye, you're me, hahaha..."

Everyone burst into laughter, although Li Zicheng was not annoyed on the surface, he was eager to dismantle Zhang Xianzhong in his heart. His left eye was blinded by Rui'er with an arrow in Ruicheng, Shanxi, Zhang Xianzhong didn't open which pot to mention, how could Li Zicheng not be angry?

Finally, he held back his anger and coughed dryly: "The wine is almost eaten, and it is important to discuss serious matters." To the flying pigeon from Yuezhou, how about the leaders