The fire of the imperial tomb in Zhongdu is like the largest Lantern Festival in the eighth year of Chongzhen, and the thieves who gather here are carnivaling in front of this fire.

Zhang Kewang crossed his arms and squinted his eyes, looking at the embers at the imperial mausoleum. It is said that there are 300,000 pine trees in the imperial tomb, and they are now all burned to charcoal.

"Major General, what are you doing here?"

Zhang Jinjia, nicknamed the second king, came to his side with a smile, although the relationship between the thieves was not clear at this time, Zhang Jinjia was actually in a state of semi-reading, and in most cases he was on an equal footing with Zhang Xianzhong, but Zhang Jinjia attached great importance to Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son.

The day before yesterday to break through the central capital, Zhang Kewang led Zhang Xianzhong's personal soldiers, the Great Seven-Star Banner Soldiers, to break through in front of Zhang Yichuan, the sweeping king. Although this is related to the fact that there is no city in the capital and there are not many defenders, Zhang Kewang broke through with a sword in this battle and bravely won the three armies, which made Zhang Jinjia also extremely admired.

He himself was originally a brave general, and he naturally looked at the equally brave Zhang Kewang.

"It turned out to be the second king, and the little nephew was just thinking about it...... It's just a matter of what it's going to look like here. ”

Zhang Ke looked at the shrine beside him and crooked his mouth, and Zhang Jinjia also laughed.

There was a commotion in the shrine, and there was no sacredness at all, and the leaders of the anti-king families who entered the shrine were discussing what to do next.

"What else will it look like, isn't it just noisy, these few days, which one is not noisy. The party will be noisy, and when you go back after the quarrel, you will eat and drink and the girls, or kill a few more people to relieve your boredom...... But your father-in-law, as smart as he is, actually robbed a group of eunuchs, and now he is so happy that he doesn't even come to this conference. ”

Zhang Jinjia said this with a happy look on his face, indeed as he said, he has been chased and suppressed by officers and soldiers for a long time, and there is a tyranny shrouded in the entire thief, and after the capture of Zhongdu, this tyranny has become an evil fire to vent out. Killing, reassuring, raping, and robbing have almost become commonplace, and the original banner of doing the right thing for heaven has also been replaced by "Gu Yuan Zhenlong Emperor".

Zhang Xianzhong is the same, every day is crazy and drunk, listening to the little eunuchs who have been captive, playing and singing, and seems to be very satisfied with the current situation.

"I heard that Chuang will ask the Eight Kings for those little eunuchs, maybe the Eight Kings?" Zhang Jinjia asked in a low voice.

"What kind of thing is he, Li Zicheng, who dares to ask his father-in-law for manpower?" Zhang Kewang raised his chin and looked arrogant.

"Haha, what I'm talking about is, what kind of thing is Li Zicheng!"

Zhang Jinjia was somewhat jealous of Li Zicheng, in terms of seniority in the rebel army, Li Zicheng was later than him, but Li Zicheng's strength has grown rapidly in the past two years.

"Forget it, it seems that they can't compete for any fame, I'll go back first." Zhang Kewang turned around and said.

He returned to Zhang Xianzhong, and Zhang Xianzhong, who was singing and dancing, glanced at him drunkenly, and then waved his hand: "Go down, go down, Lao Tzu is tired of listening to it, and he wants to rest for a while." ”

The little eunuchs who had long been open-mouthed were like being amnestied, and they retreated one by one, and when they all retreated, Zhang Xianzhong, who was lying on his side, suddenly turned over and got up, and there was no drunkenness in his eyes.

"My son, what news do you find?"

Zhang Kewang was originally not surnamed Zhang, but surnamed Sun, since Zhang Xianzhong started, he has followed him, so Zhang Xianzhong regards him as a son, and has more than once revealed that he wants Zhang Kewang to become his heir. It is precisely for this reason that Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates have great respect for Zhang Kewang, and even Zhang Xianzhong's personal soldiers, the Great Seven-Star Banner Soldiers, are willing to listen to his orders.

He was only seventeen years old now, and he had killed more than a hundred lives in his hands, and slept with more than ten girls, which made his eyes have a wildness and cunning that was completely different from that of his peers.

"What else can be discussed, a plate of loose sand, and it is said that you have to ask the gods for advice...... Just because they make the shrine look like that, will the gods give them good results? ”

"That's ......" Zhang Xianzhong sneered: "The gods will bless us?" ”

"Father, are we really not with them anymore?"

"That's natural, now that we've jumped out of the encirclement of officers and soldiers, there's no need to be in one place at all. King Chuang has the greatest reputation, so he dragged the main force of the official army to run for his life, Li Zicheng was that guy, and he dared to be disrespectful to Lao Tzu and wanted to rob Lao Tzu! ”

Although they both belong to the righteous army, Zhang Xianzhong was born to look at Li Zicheng unpleasantly and felt that this guy was annoying. It's just that this guy is cunning, and when the righteous army is critical several times, they all rely on this guy to turn the crisis into safety.

"I will continue to lie drunk here, in order to hide people's eyes and ears, I hope that you will go and secretly mobilize the Great Seven Star Banner Soldiers, and get ready to go. As soon as King Chuang and Li Zicheng left, we also set off. ”

"To the south?"

"That's right, King Chuang, who only thinks of Mizhi's mother-in-law, must turn back to the south of the river, let's go south, force Tianfu, if it succeeds, Lao Tzu will also go to the south of the capital to be the emperor of Hongwu for two days!" Speaking of this, Zhang Xianzhong's eyes were full of greed and silver: "I have long heard that the ladies of Jianghuai are moist, and when the time comes, some of them will be played by our grandfather!" ”

"Yes." Zhang Kewang is also very excited, Zhang Xianzhong's meaning is to let him be the pioneer and open a path for the old camp. He saluted and was about to withdraw, but Zhang Xianzhong stopped him again.

"Do you remember what happened at this time last year?" Zhang Xianzhong asked.

Zhang Kewang frowned: "Zhang Ru, Wang Guohua, Huang Wending? ”

"Exactly, I asked you to send someone to contact these people to test Nan Zhili's truth, but although these three people made a fuss, they were wiped out...... What's that person's name, I've forgotten my surname recently. ”

"Yu Guozhen."

"That's the person, and after that, have you been staring at this person?"

Zhang Kewang nodded slowly, of course he was staring. Under Zhang Xianzhong's account, the first time he was in charge of things alone, was to be responsible for contacting the starting point of local heroes in Nanzhili. At that time, when Zhang Xianzhong was facing difficulties, he wanted to find out how the garrison of the imperial court in the southeast was, and secondly, he also wanted to divert the attention of the officers and soldiers.

But this plan, or most of it failed, although Zhang Kewang contacted the remnants of the Wenxiang Sect, and also let them launch a riot in Tong's City, but in just a few days, this riot was extinguished, in addition to making Zhang Xianzhong judge that the people in Zhongdu and Nanzhili were also boiling, and did not reduce their pressure.

This matter has always been a regret in Zhang Kewang's heart, and the first thing his father-in-law gave him to do was not completed. And what made him fail to do it was a guy named Yu Guozhen, nicknamed ...... Nothing is a tiger cub.

"I remember that guy was also young, only sixteen or seventeen years old?" Zhang Xianzhong said.

"Eighteen this year, the eldest son is one year old."

"Kill him." The Eight Kings said this in a very flat tone, usually when he wanted to kill, the pockmarks on his face would always seem to come to life, but now he didn't.

In his heart, he really felt that this was an insignificant matter, there were hundreds of strong families, he fought all the way, he didn't kill hundreds, he also killed dozens, if this Yu Guozhen didn't happen to be bad for him, the name would not have reached his ears at all, and his people would not have been remembered by him at all.

"Yes." Zhang Kewang laughed.

"It's a little cold." Sun Lin looked up at the gloomy sky, the winter of the past few years has been extremely cold, although there is no rain, but the freezing rain that comes down makes people even more uncomfortable.

Yu Guozhen nodded with a heavy heart, such a cold weather is really difficult, especially for those who have left their hometowns, it is even more difficult to the extreme.

"Do you want to continue to persuade?" Sun Lin asked again.

"That's natural, my neighbors, if you don't work hard, you will regret it later." Yu Guozhen took a breath.

The next family is Lei Jiu's family, because he has made a small fortune in the past two years and saved a thousand taels of silver, so Lei Jiu demolished his broken house, and only started the courtyard with three entrances before and after a few years ago, which is worth at least three or four hundred taels of silver.

Without waiting for Yu Guozhen to ring the knocker, the door had already opened, and Lei Jiu, who had a gloomy face, walked out, and when he saw Yu Guozhen, he gave a salute, and then asked, "Little official, seriously...... Do you really want to move out? ”

Yu Guozhen nodded: "If the thieves go south, our Xiang'an will be harmed, and if we are willing to move away, we can go to Qinzhou with my people, and you can still wear single clothes in the winter over there, and the rice will be harvested three times a year......"

"The petty official doesn't have to say this to the villain, the villain only asks...... Even if it's a petty official, can't keep Xiang'an? ”

Yu Guozhen shook his head: "I only have three hundred people now, if I am given three thousand elite soldiers, I can try to defend Xiang'an, only these three hundred people...... The only way to avoid the real is to avoid the false. ”

The total number of guards in Yu Guozhen's hands has not exceeded 500 so far, of which 50 have been transferred to the Fishery Administration Bureau, and 50 of the fourth phase and 20 of the third phase have remained in Xinxiang. Therefore, Yu Guozhen currently has only just over 300 people in his hands. Among them, there are more than 100 of them, who have never been on the battlefield in the fifth phase.

Even if there are 500 people, Yu Guozhen is not guaranteed to win in the midst of the thousands of ants attached to the pigs, and even if he can win like this, his own casualties are too large, and it will not benefit him at all.

On the contrary, with the help of the threat of thieves, all the people he knew in Xiang'an Town were moved to Xinxiang, which was originally what he planned.

Before Lei Jiu could answer, the daughter-in-law behind him stuck out her head: "The petty officials can't defend it, the officers and soldiers always guard it, and the officers and soldiers ......."

"Horn!" Lei Jiu turned around and slapped the girls, so that the girls' words were directly blocked.

"If the petty officials can't hold it, then even the 30,000 officers and soldiers can't hold it!" Lei Jiu said sharply: "Let's move, you girl, clean up the house, we have received the great favor of the little officials, and the little officials will not abandon us!" ”

He has the cunning of a small citizen, and binds himself to Yu Guozhen in his words. Yu Guozhen smiled: "Lei Jiu, I won't treat you badly." ”

This is the first one willing to move, Lei Jiu said again: "The petty officials persuaded them to hide, what did they say?" ”

"They all said they wanted to see it."

"Hehe, the little official is not as good as the villain, the villain will help you persuade!" After Lei Jiu finished speaking, he turned around and yelled at his mother-in-law again: "What are you doing with the pestle to clean up?" ”

Yu Guozhen got his sentence, and his heart was even more happy, and he couldn't help but look up to the north.

He had a feeling that the thieves going south would inevitably attack Xiang'an, and if the people of Xiang'an were withdrawn, he could also rely on here to fight the thieves.

(To be continued)