"Lao Tzu doesn't know how to read, how can I know so many bird rules!" Hao Shaoqi sneered and put the porridge bowl in front of the other party: "Go over there and have to start from the beginning, Lao Tzu is hungry, quickly serve porridge to Lao Tzu!" “

The porridge man is also a tempered man, seeing Hao Shaoqi so arrogant, he was also annoyed, turned around and walked to the porridge bucket and threw the wooden spoon into the porridge bucket, put the lid on the porridge bucket, and scolded: "You don't even look at where this is, you dare to play tricks in front of your grandfather, get out of the way, don't delay other people to eat porridge, otherwise it won't look good!" “

"Doesn't look good?" Hao Shaoqi suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, he suddenly rolled on the ground and lay on the ground, crossed Erlang's legs, and sneered: "Lao Tzu is still screwed with you today, I have to eat the porridge here, Lao Tzu didn't eat the porridge, no one wants to eat a bite, Lao Tzu wants to see what you can give me!" “

When the porridge man saw Hao Shaoqi so scoundrel, he was immediately furious, and he rolled up his sleeves and was about to hit Hao Shaoqi with a blowtorch, but he stretched out a hand behind his back to pull it up. He looked back and saw that it was his leader, and said angrily: "Why are you pulling me! “

"Look!" The leader was sharp-eyed, and he had already seen clearly from the side, Hao Shaoqi was not alone, the dozens of men behind him were eager to try on their faces, and many of them had bulging pockets around their waists, as if they were holding weapons.

"I've already asked people to rule the big leader of Tianda, let's stabilize these guys here first, you go to the back to prepare first, and let me deal with it here!" After the little leader told his subordinates, he turned around and had a smile on his face: "A few good men, it's not easy to eat porridge, just hand over the bowls one by one, and I'll naturally pick the thick ones for you." “

Hao Shaoqi saw that the other party was not provoked by himself. With a hint of disappointment on his face, he jumped up from the ground and handed the bowl over. The little leader lifted the lid of the porridge bucket, stirred it twice in the porridge bucket with a long-handled wooden spoon, and sure enough, he poured a thick bowl for Hao Shaoqi, and said with a smile: "Next." If it's not enough to eat and then come to fight, we'll have enough here! “

Hao Shaoqi took the porridge bowl, stood aside and took a sip, his eyes rolled, and he had another idea, and suddenly spit the porridge on the ground in one gulp, and scolded: "You dog thief, how do you cook porridge with moldy rice?" “

The little leader was stunned for a moment, tasted it with a wooden spoon and said, "How can it be moldy rice." This is obviously good rice! ”

"Phew, it's obviously old moldy rice, but it's still Lao Tzu who can't lie to you!" Hao Shaoqi couldn't help but say, and even the bowl of porridge was buckled on the little leader's face, and the little leader's face was suddenly red and white, and he rolled on the ground screaming.

"Dog kills!" The porridge man was standing aside, and when he saw this, he was furious, and he picked up a burning stick and hit Hao Shaoqi. Hao Shaoqi turned sideways and flew up with a kick that hit the opponent's lower abdomen. Kicked it out, just knocked down the porridge bucket, and the bucket full of boiling porridge splashed on his body, and immediately let out an inhuman scream.

Suddenly such a mess was born, and the porridge shed was suddenly in chaos, and Hao Shaoqi pulled out his waist knife. Walked over to the stove where the porridge was cooking, and took out a strip of white cloth from his bosom and tied it to his right arm. shouted loudly: "Kill the thief under the order of Liu Chengliu, the general of the left battalion of Yansui Town, and those who do not have a white cloth on their right arm are all thieves, and there is no forgiveness for killing!" ”

Dozens of people behind him suddenly agreed. They also pulled out a strip of white cloth from their arms and tied it to their right arm, pulled out their blades and rushed around to kill and set fire, there was a sudden chaos in front of the Dongguan Gate, the hungry people who were waiting to line up to receive porridge did not want to fall from the sky, they called their masters and daughters, and fled in all directions, many peasant troops wanted to come to bomb and press, but they couldn't distinguish between the enemy and me, and even killed each other, and soon the scene was out of control, and more than a dozen fires rose outside Dongguan, and the fire began to spread to the city.

The old battalion of the peasant army.

"Hurry, hurry, all sentinels are gathered and set off immediately!" Li Zicheng shouted angrily, urging his soldiers and horses to assemble in the school field, at this time he already understood in his heart that he had fallen into the strategy of the official army, and the other party initially promised that he would exchange hostages with firearms was just a strategy to paralyze himself, and at the same time sent Xizuo to rescue Lu Boqi and Ma Ziyi in the city, and at the same time to rob the east gate. From this point of view, the strength of the official army should be very small, otherwise there is no need to play so many tricks, but as long as the official army can enter the city of Dunzhou, as long as the gentry in the city drive the servants and clansmen to the city, its high and thick city wall alone is enough to make the peasant soldiers who have no siege equipment cry out, and the key now is who can control the Dongguan City Gate first.

Li Zicheng did not wait for all the soldiers and horses to be assembled before setting off, he knew very well that the most important thing now was not the number of troops but the time, and he was also very worried about the safety of Li Guo, who had already set off. Soon he set out with eight hundred infantry and two hundred cavalry.

On the steep slope, Liu Cheng could clearly see a peasant army of about 50 cavalry and 100 infantry galloping towards Dongguan along a ditch on the slope.

"Sure enough, as the adults expected, Dongguan was attacked, and the thieves came out of the old camp to rescue!" Du Guoying on the side said with a smile, although he often compliments his boss like most officials on weekdays, but at this time, the praise for Liu Cheng is purely from the heart, Liu Cheng has played with the number of thieves who are far more than himself through clever scheduling, and now these more than 100 thieves have completely fallen into their trap, as long as they give an order, they can be easily annihilated in one fell swoop. But Liu Cheng didn't seem to hear the compliments of his subordinates at all, just frowned and looked at the enemy troops under the steep slope for a while, and looked at the old enemy camp in the distance for a while, and did not issue an order to annihilate them at all. Seeing that this group of thieves was about to get out of the ambush range, Du Guoying, who couldn't help it anymore, said in a low voice: "My lord, why haven't you issued an order yet?" “

"Orders?" Liu Cheng turned his head in some surprise and asked, "What order?" “

"Destroy this group of thieves?" Du Guoying pointed to the enemy at the bottom of the mountain and said, "Isn't it a good time now?" “

"There are only 2,000 thieves who can fight, so what's the use of defeating more than 100 people?" Liu Cheng asked rhetorically: "If our reinforcements are exposed, it will be difficult to clean up this group of thieves!" “

"My lord, don't you plan to retreat to Fucheng after destroying this group of thieves?" Du Guoying asked with some surprise, according to his guess, Liu Cheng's plan was to ambush this group of thieves. Taking advantage of the thieves' ignorance of the truth to recapture the city, as long as there is the protection of the towering walls of the city, even if there are several times more thieves outside, they can't help them. Anyway, in five or six days at most, the main force of Liu Cheng's team will arrive, and then this group of thieves will have to retreat. Recaptured the captured capital city, and there were more than 100 heads, and his own losses were very small. No matter how you look at it, it's a very beautiful big win.

"Return to Fucheng? Didn't that spare the thief? Never! Liu Cheng shook his head and said: "This self-proclaimed 'King Chuang' thief is not ordinary, if he is not captured today, I am afraid that there will be endless troubles!" “

"What, are you planning to take down the thief's head?" Du Guoying couldn't help but be shocked, he didn't expect Liu Cheng to have such an arrogant idea, ready to capture and kill the leader of the thieves with more than 2,000 people with more than 600 people, although the armor training of the thieves is far inferior to the Ming army, but after all, the other party has a numerical advantage of more than three times!

"Not bad!" Liu Cheng looked at Du Guoying's pale face all of a sudden, and said with a smile: "You just listen to my orders." Just let this stream of thieves go! ”

"Let them go?"

"Yes, when this group of thieves came out of the old camp, there was no attack on the Dongguan side, they shouldn't have come to rescue Dongguan, if I guessed correctly, the old camp thieves will come out again, that is the reinforcements to rescue Dongguan!"

Looking at Liu Cheng's confident eyes, Du Guoying didn't say anything. He bowed his head and said, "The last general obeys!" “

As Liu Cheng expected, about half a cup of tea later. Out of the old camp came another wave of soldiers and horses. Compared with the team of soldiers and horses in front, this team of men and horses marched faster, and the ranks of the team were longer, and the few teams that were left behind had simply lost their formation. Looking at the scene under the ramp, Liu Cheng's face showed a smug smile: "As I expected, the order will go down." Ignition! “

With Liu Cheng's order, more than 20 soldiers pushed seven or eight trolleys up the dirt slope, aimed the wooden boxes on the trolleys at the enemy soldiers who were passing under the steep slope, and then lit the fuse behind the wooden boxes.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

"Stand back! Turn around! Li Zicheng shouted.

The shrill whizz of the rocket as it pierced through the air was joined together, as if a huge blower was spinning endlessly. Blows a large amount of air through a narrow outlet. Li Zicheng could clearly see that the two distant cousins and nephews who were only a dozen steps away from him had turned into two huge hedgehogs, and the huge impact brought by the burning jet gas of gunpowder even lifted them off the horse's back and fell to the ground. Compared to their masters, the vitality of the horses is much more vigorous, these unfortunate beasts are stimulated by the severe pain, they frantically pinch their horses, knocking the knights next to them off the horse, the hard horseshoe easily crushed the bones and muscles, turning them into broken bones and flesh, and the knights who could stay on the back of the horse shouted loudly, clamping the ribs of the mount with their legs so as not to be thrown off.

With excellent riding skills and a bit of good luck, Li Zicheng finally controlled his war horse. But by this time he was sad to find that the best part of his army was finished, with at least eighty horsemen struggling and groaning in pain on the ground, and the rest of the lucky ones were trying to regain control of their mounts under their hips, although they had not yet been attacked, and the infantry behind them were in disarray. At this time, Li Zicheng couldn't care about his personal safety, he beat his horse and ran to the side of the flag-bearer who was holding his thighs and wailing, snatched the flag, raised it high and shouted in the loudest voice he could: "Don't move, there are not many officers and soldiers, everyone hold on for a while, and the reinforcements from the old battalion will arrive immediately!" ”

As if to prove that Li Zicheng's judgment was not wrong, after two rounds of rockets, the attack on the top of the slope was temporarily stopped. Li Zicheng jumped off his horse and ran to the ranks of the infantry, using all means such as fists, kicks, knife backs, and knife handles to inspire and force the infantry to rush to the top of the slope, and the archers of the peasant army also began to shoot arrows at the top of the slope. The officers and soldiers on the top of the slope also began to shoot arrows and shoot birds, arrows and lead came and went, and the people around him died like weeds, but Li Zicheng did not feel a trace of fear, and the blood seemed to be boiling in his veins, giving him incomparable strength. Suddenly, a black light flashed in Li Zicheng's eyes and fell to the ground. It was a black rattan the size of a human head. Before Li Zicheng could react to what was going on, the black mass hissed and burned, and then sprayed out a pale yellow irritating gas, Li Zicheng was able to cover his nose and eyes, almost at the same time, more of this kind of thing was thrown down from the top of the slope, and soon a large amount of irritating gas was sprayed out of these black vines, and the thieves at the bottom of the slope let out a cry of pain, their eyes were covered by a large number of tears, and their throats and noses were tormented in pain. They dropped their weapons and tried in horror to find a way to escape, but it was a futile effort, and most of them fell to the ground before they had gone far, and then let out their last breath under the trampling of their companions behind them. Buckshot and arrows from the top of the slope are nothing compared to that.

"No!" Li Zicheng shouted in despair: "No, no-" but in this chaos, no one heard his roar at all, everyone was trying to find a way to live, death and fear permeated the crowd. Li Zicheng took a few steps back, tripped and almost fell to the ground, he turned around and found that it was his mount that tripped over him, the horse had fallen to the ground at this time, blood was pouring out of its once strong body, those eyes were looking at their master sadly, and the moist nose was twitching in pain. Li Zicheng gritted his teeth, pulled out a knife from his waist and gave it a good time, then he tore off a piece of his coat with force, soaked it with blood and covered his face, and stumbled in the direction of the exit of the road in his memory.

In the valley under the steep slope, Li Zicheng was carried by the flow of people, stumbling and moving forward, he gritted his teeth and struggled forward with his eyes closed, several times he was squeezed to the ground, but he stood up again with strong physical strength and tenacious will, and he could feel that there were hands grabbing his legs from time to time. Li Zicheng knew very well that these were all subordinates who had fallen to the ground, and the only thing he could do at this time was to break free and pull forward. (To be continued.) )