"The red sun is scorching like fire, the fields and rice are half scorched, the farmers' hearts are like soup boiling, and the emperors will fight each other. In ancient times, Li Shen was the only one who came to sympathize with the peasants, and there were 300 chicken tongues on a plate, and today he loved the people and broke into the king, digging the river and drowning hundreds of billions of trillions of ......"

The distant singing came and woke up Li Zicheng's sleepiness, he fled for a day and night, he was too tired, so he fell asleep in the grass nest. Vaguely hearing this song mocking himself, he was furious and said sharply: "Who is laughing at me, come here, drag him out and chop him into minced meat, eat human meat buns today!" ”

His voice was like a bell, and he roared out in such a rage that the grass around him trembled. The singing really stopped, and Li Zicheng was still angry, thinking about how to attack, and suddenly realized that something was wrong.

He was not in the Changle Palace in Xi'an City, but on the way to escape from defeat in battle!

He rolled over, pressed his hand to the hilt of his sword, and looked around, but there were five or six farmer men there, and they looked at him in amazement.

"Who are you, and why are you disturbing people's dreams?" Li Zicheng turned around and looked around, his war horse didn't know where to go, thinking that he was hungry and thirsty, and went to find forage and drinking water, but his short firecracker, gold and silver, and dry food were all on the horse, and there was nowhere to find it for a while. He was vigilant when he slept last night, he couldn't take off his armor and knife, and he finally had a weapon on his body.

"Back to this general's words, we are the people of this left." Seeing that he was a military general, these farmers showed awe: "Let's come over to clear the dredging and clear the fields...... Is the general a big shun? ”

"Lao Tzu is a Ming dynasty." Li Zicheng snorted.

"It turned out to be a general of the imperial court!" The peasants' eyes were even more fearful, and they confessed. Then he took his hoe and shovel and left.

Li Zicheng suddenly thought of something inappropriate: "Stop, are you the people of the left?" ”

"Master Hui, exactly."

"You're lying!" Li Zicheng said sharply: "The people in the ten miles and eight towns around here are all so poor that they are clanging, but the hoes and shovels in your hands are all steel...... Don't try to hide it from me! ”

Although China has been a country based on agriculture for many years, and iron farming tools are also very popular, those tools belong to the rich. Ordinary people can't find a few taels of iron in their homes except for an iron pot, let alone this kind of bright steel shovel hoe. One of the important reasons why Xinxiang's agricultural output has doubled and increased is that the tools are the popularization of steel agricultural tools. Li Zicheng knows this very well, and the style of these shovels and hoes is indeed new!

The peasants were not alarmed. He smiled and said: "Back to the general's words, last year, the thieves dug the embankment, the water collapsed for thousands of miles, and the villains and others fled to the east of the mountain." When he arrived in March, he remembered that he still had to do farm work at home, so he reported to return to his hometown, and Nanhaihou also sent these tools. ”

If this is said to others, it must be bluffing, but if it is Yu Guozhen, Li Zicheng believes it. Yu Guozhen did such a loser's thing.

Another farmer said: "Not only these shovels and hoes, Nanhai Hou also taught us to grow potatoes." ”

"Yes, on the side of Nanhai Hou, I have learned a lot."

"The song you just sang was also learned in the east of the mountain?" Li Zicheng asked.

"That's what the general said. That's where I learned it. ”

"Well, you can go." If there were only one or two people, Li Zicheng would definitely kill people, but there were five or six farmers here, and there were several in the distance, and the shovel and hoe in the farmer's hand could also be used as a weapon if he was in a hurry.

The farmer laughed alongside. Then he departed. They went to work in the fields without mentioning it, Li Zicheng found the hoof prints of his horse on the ground, so he followed the trail to find it. After searching for more than a mile, I saw that the horse was being led by a farmer.

"Gun, that's my horse!" Li Zicheng shouted.

"Huh?" The peasant was shocked when he heard this voice, and looked back to see Li Zicheng hurrying over, leading the horse and running. Li Zicheng whistled, the horse was familiar with him, and he tilted his head when he heard the whistle, but he couldn't break free when he grabbed the reins. When the horse stood still, the peasant suddenly became anxious, turned around and scolded, "You thief, why do you say that this horse is yours?" ”

Li Zicheng knew that the things on the horse could be given to the peasant, but the horse and dry food were his reliance on escaping, so he said: "This horse naturally ......."

His attention was all on the farmer in front of him, but he didn't expect a sudden buzz behind him, and then his head was in a dramatic array, and the others fell to the ground!

If it weren't for the helmet on his head, this would have made his head burst!

But although being protected by a helmet is not fatal, but the back of the head is hit hard, it is also an extremely uncomfortable thing, Li Zicheng only felt dizzy in front of his eyes, and his mouth was sweet, and before he could wake up, his whole body was as heavy as being pressed by a mountain.

"Tie it up, tie it up, what about the rope?"

"Right here, hehe, this guy thought we were bluffed by him!"

"Which general of the Ming Dynasty dares to run around wearing a yellow robe and gold armor, this guy must be a thief!"

"Exactly, I heard that the Marquis of Nanhai broke the thief the day before yesterday, and the thief broke and fled, maybe he was a big man under the thief."

"I see this person with one eye, and it is said that the thief is the one eye, maybe it is the thief himself!"

There was a vague sound of discussion, and Li Zicheng knew that it was not good, but it was too late.

These farmers in the countryside heard the ballad of "King Chuang comes and doesn't pay for food", and opened the door to welcome Li Chuang's arrival. But the reality has educated them, Li Chuang not only can't get rid of food, but also "digging rivers and drowning hundreds of billions of trillions", he completely ignores the lives and deaths of the people!

Li Zicheng has a lot of belongings, his 100,000 army went east, and the materials he carried were piled up, many of which were even Xinxiang's products. This time to defeat Li Zicheng in Yanggu County, just to clean up the battlefield, it took Yu Guozhen, the 10,000 tiger guard, three days, and 20,000 people from the rear to send it out. Of course, Yu Guozhen doesn't need to do this kind of thing, he has already returned to Liaocheng, and Zhang Bingwen has already arrived here.

What surprised Yu Guozhen a little was that Li Yan also arrived in the shortest time.

"It's a pity that we couldn't meet in Xinxiang at the beginning." Seeing Li Yan, Yu Guozhen smiled. After his rise over the years, there are many smart people in the world who have learned from him to run an industry, but Li Yan has got a share of his fur, and the rest of the children are all inferior to anti-dogs. Therefore, Yu Guozhen also had some appreciation for Li Yan, but when he saw Li Yan coming alone, he knew that he had no intention of taking refuge.

"Li came to see Nanhai Hou, just to ask one thing, how is King Chuang now?" Li Yan's face was full of sorrow, and he knelt down and said.

"Five days ago, he fought with Li Zicheng in Yanggu, and beheaded more than 20 generals such as Tian Jianxiu and Gao Yigong, escaped Li Zicheng and Liu Fangliang, and captured 60,000." Regarding his results, Yu Guozhen did not hide it: "Why, Li Zicheng never went north to look for you?" ”

"Whatever direction King Chuang goes, he won't come to me." Li Yan sighed: "Nanhai Hou Shi is a scheming, he is ...... to me now"

Speaking of this, Li Yan felt a little like he was venting his bitterness to Yu Guozhen, shut up at the moment, and then looked at Yu Guozhen: "What conditions do you need for Nanhai Hou to let go of the army?" ”

"What do you mean by that?" Yu Guozhen raised his eyebrows: "Let go of the intruding army?" ”

"I have heard that the Marquis of Nanhai is the most important in military discipline, so if the sergeants of the enemy and us violate the military discipline and kill the people, they will definitely be subject to the judgment of the court in the army, and there are only two results of the ruling of the enemy sergeant, one is hard labor, and the other is execution?"

"It does."

"The soldiers of the intrusion army were trained by me, and they were ordered to act against their will, and I should bear them. Therefore, I came alone, that is, I asked the Marquis of Nanhai to blame me, and don't blame the sergeant. ”

Li Yan's standing up made Yu Guozhen look up to him, he looked at Li Yan for a while, and said: "I heard that when Niu Jinxing offered the strategy of digging the river, you were the only one who objected, and for this reason, Li Zicheng was also angry with you and stripped you of half of your military power, but is there such a thing?" ”

"Yes."

"I heard that Li Zicheng relied on looting to maintain morale when he was in Baoding Mansion, and it was you who repeatedly admonished him, but Li Zicheng didn't listen, but ordered you to move out of sight outside the city, but is there such a thing?"

"Yes."

"I heard that Li Zicheng nominally tortured hundreds of officials to recover stolen goods when he was in Beijing, but in fact connived at the rape and abduction of good people by soldiers.

"There is ......"

Li Yan was very surprised in his heart, he didn't expect Yu Guozhen to be so clear about what happened to them at the beginning, which proved that Yu Guozhen had been staring at the top of the army, and there were also many Yu Guozhen's spies in the army!

These three consecutive "have" words made Yu Guozhen nod with satisfaction.

"You still have a little merit to the people, although you are atoning for Li Zicheng's sins, but merit is merit, and I still have to admit it." Yu Guozhen said: "However, your merit can only reduce your personal sins, these years you have helped to abuse, for Li Zicheng to give advice, if it were not for you and Niu Jinxing, Li Zicheng is not a first-class Koer, how can you enter the Beijing Division, and even lead Jianyu into the customs, this crime is so big, not your little function to redeem." Today you are single, I will not punish you, but if you want to bear the great sin of tens of thousands of people on your own, with all due respect, you think too highly of yourself. ”

This remark made Li Yan embarrassed. In his opinion, he should be a thorn in Yu Guozhen's eye, and the role of being quick to get rid of it, with his own body, it should be enough to resist the guilt of tens of thousands of soldiers, but he never thought that Yu Guozhen didn't take him to heart at all!

His mind raced, and he said, "I can't atone for my sins, but they can atone for their sins, and make up for their mistakes, like a dead sheep, it's not too late!" ”

"How do I make up for it?" Yu Guozhen finally became a little interested in this.

"Wave the division out of the Jade Gate, cross the Hexi, enter the Desperate Domain, follow the old path of Zhang Qian, Ban Chao, and Li Jing, and open up the territory for China outside the territory!"

Speaking of this, Li Yan stared at Yu Guozhen tightly without blinking.

He knew that after this defeat, the army was in a dilemma, the Central Plains had lost its capital, and it was not enough to retreat to Longshan to confront Yu Guozhen in the future, so the only way to break the situation was to jump out of the scope of the Ming Dynasty and move westward. And Yu Guozhen's condition for him to transfer to King Chuang was this.

He was gambling, betting that Yu Guozhen was sincere when he put forward that condition. (To be continued)