Bang Bang Bang!

There was a bangzi sound, like a signal, these people got up from the ground, one of them took three steps and two steps to the entrance of the alley, looked around, returned to the crowd, and said in a low voice: "Brother Huanghu, there is no one on the street, let's do it!" ”

Known as "Brother Yellow Tiger", he was a thin man with a sallow face and a long beard under his beard, tied with a strip of cloth. He didn't answer immediately www.biquge.info but walked to the alley to look at the movement outside, and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, wait and see!" ”

"Cao Shuai and King Chuang agreed to arrive at the fourth watch tonight!" The man was in a hurry, he lowered his voice and said, "If it's delayed, it's going to be done by military law!" ”

"Ball!" Huang Hu showed a sneer of disdain on his face: "We are still engaged in military law, we are like donkeys in a trough, they are all in order, why do the two of them give orders?" It turned out that the Honggou official drove us into the mountains, and everyone had no way to join forces, and now that Luyang Pass has been broken, it is already a sea and a wide sky, and what bullshit military orders do you still need to obey? He cursed a few more words disdainfully, and his subordinates didn't dare to speak, and only after a while did he whisper: "Then, Brother Hu, why do you rush to do this?" ”

"Humph!" Huang Hu sneered: "That Li Zicheng relied on his nephew to break through Luyang Pass, and his nostrils would have to rise to the sky, if it weren't for Cao Cao's many soldiers, he was afraid that he would take this opportunity to swallow all of our thirty-six families, and they would all become his family's!" I Zhang Xianzhong didn't pee on his pot, didn't he let his nephew take Luyang Pass? Lao Tzu took down this Nanyang City to everyone, cut off the head of King Tang and kicked it as a ball, and see who is more powerful! ”

When the people heard the words of the chief, they responded one after another. It turned out that this yellow-faced man was Zhang Xianzhong, the famous leader of the peasant army in the late Ming Dynasty, because of his sallow face and brave and good at fighting, so he got the nickname of Yellow Tiger. Due to the appearance of Liu Cheng, the size of the peasant army in Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces is much smaller than in history, although Zhang Xianzhong also became the leader of the party, but the strength is much smaller than Cao Cao and Li Zicheng, but he is not willing to be subordinate, because Cao Cao has an easy-going personality, is good at reconciling the relationship with various departments, and is more moral, and has the reputation of an elder among the thieves. Li Zicheng, who is known for his great ambition and is unique among the thieves, is particularly unpleasant in Zhang Xianzhong's eyes.

"Brother Tiger, it's not a matter for us to wait here!" The man smiled bitterly: "It's night now, when the dawn comes, if Cao Shuai and they arrive, the government will definitely conduct a strict investigation, and we people will know at a glance that they are not fleeing people, even if it is for ourselves, we have to do it quickly!" ”

"You kid has a brilliant brain!" Zhang Xianzhong smiled: "But if you think about it, Lao Tzu can't think of it?" This Nanyang is a big city, there are two gates inside and outside, and there is an urn city in the middle, which gate has hundreds of soldiers guarding the city. ”

"How should that be?"

"Naturally, you have to use your brain!" Zhang Xianzhong smiled: "What did you guys do before you messed with my old Zhang?" ”

"I'm a border soldier!"

"Me too!"

"I was a post officer, I was laid off by the imperial court, and I rebelled when I had no food to eat!"

These more than ten men replied in a low voice one by one, except for the two of them, the rest were either border soldiers or post soldiers, almost all of them were former Ming soldiers. Zhang Xianzhong grinned: "Look, like Lao Tzu, they are all Qiu Ba Ming, and they are born to hold the knife handle, not the hoe handle." Why are we rebelling? It's not that the court owes us money and we can't survive to rebel? But we owe wages, don't the guards in Nanyang City owe wages? ”

"Not bad!"

"Exactly!"

Zhang Xianzhong's words were like sparks falling in an oil pot, which immediately ignited everyone's hope. Compared with the governors, soldiers, governors, and vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, they knew better about the relationship between soldiers and generals in the Ming army: the soldiers hated and feared the cruel and corrupt superiors, and the generals exploited and oppressed the soldiers on weekdays, and they could only be driven by cruel punishment and killing in wartime. This relationship is like a huge powder keg, and the fall of a spark will cause a huge explosion.

"Brother Tiger, you still have a way, you say something, let's do it immediately!" The man looked eager to try, Zhang Xianzhong patted his head and said with a smile: "What's the hurry, it's not your turn to appear, I have already inquired, this team of soldiers is from Xin'an, Henan, He Qi, this is your fellow countrymen!" ”

"Well, this matter will fall on me!" He Qi responded and stood up: "Brother Tiger, I will do what you say I should do!" ”

"Don't worry, don't worry, let's sit down first, just wait!" Zhang Xianzhong made a gesture for everyone to sit down, he looked around, lowered his voice and explained his plan.

The residence of the prefect of Nanyang.

"General Wang!" Li Xianfeng raised his voice slightly, and Wang Shaoyu, who was already nervous, hurriedly stood up, bowed down and replied, "Lord Prefect, please command!" ”

"General Wang!" Li Xianfeng pressed down with his right hand, motioned for Wang Shaoyu to sit down, and said in a low voice: "You have also seen today's events, because of the matter of the thief, King Tang has no intention of receiving blessings in the palace, as the saying goes, the lord is worried about the humiliation of the minister, and the lord is humiliated and the minister is dead." The King of Tang was enshrined in Nanyang, you and I are civil and military officials in Nanyang, this is your responsibility and mine! ”

Wang Shaoyu didn't know what Li Xianfeng was going to say, so he had to even claim that it was, but fortunately Li Xianfeng didn't let him wait longer, coughed low and said in a low voice: "The first thing to do in this matter of defending the city is that the food is sufficient, the prince has already paid five thousand taels of silver, and the official has also paid two thousand taels from his private pocket, and you also have two thousand taels, so that the soldiers can rest assured." The day after tomorrow, I will ask the gentry in the city to come again, and I must guard this Nanyang! ”

Wang Shaoyu listened to Li Xianfeng's words, his face changed greatly, he never expected that Li Xianfeng would not only let himself take out the five thousand taels he had just received, but also take another two thousand taels out of his pocket, as for where his two thousand taels came from, he naturally didn't know. He was thinking about how to excuse himself, but he heard Li Xianfeng say: "General Wang, even His Royal Highness the King of Tang has paid for it, and the civil and military officials in Nanyang are headed by you and me. ”

Wang Shaoyu was buttoned down by Li Xianfeng's hat of "focusing on big things", and he was speechless for a while, and only after a while did he whisper: "Since the prefect said so, then the general can only obey his fate!" As he spoke, the muscles in his cheeks twitched slightly, and it was really painful.

Li Xianfeng saw Wang Shaoyu nodded, and he also breathed a sigh of relief, and spit out two thousand taels of silver from his mouth, and he felt very uncomfortable, but judging from the situation just now, this His Royal Highness the Tang King is not a good stubble, if he doesn't pay for it, I'm afraid that he will say something in the future. Anyway, since he and Wang Shaoyu paid for it, the Nanyang gentry had to have some blood, and when they passed this level, they should be able to make up for it from other aspects. He was thinking about how to comfort Wang Shaoyu for a few words, when suddenly an exclamation came from outside: "It's on fire!" ”

"What?" Li Xianfeng jumped up from the chair and shouted, "Where is the fire!" ”

The door was slammed open, and a staff member rushed in and said in a loud voice: "The east, west, and south of the city are all on fire, I'm afraid there are not seven or eight places!" ”

Li Xianfeng snorted coldly, pushed the opener and ran quickly towards the backyard, where there was a mound with a two-story building on it, and the terrain was quite high and could overlook most of the places in Nanyang City. Wang Shaoyu hurriedly followed, and the two quickly climbed the small building and pushed open the window. Li Xianfeng suddenly gasped, only to see that there were fires in the city, and there were at least more than ten places!

"It must be the thief's guilt!" Wang Shaoyu scolded angrily. Li Xianfeng didn't speak, his face became extremely ugly, he realized that he should have underestimated the power of the thief, there were so many fire points at once, it was obviously a fire prepared in advance, obviously the thief was now outside the city, just waiting for the inside and the outside to meet.

"General Wang, how many personal soldiers do you have?" Li Xianfeng asked, knowing in his heart that at this time, only Wang Shaoyu's personal soldiers could be on top.

"There are more than 200 people!"

"Good!" Li Xianfeng immediately decided: "Immediately take your own soldiers to inspect the city gate!" The matter of fighting fires in the city is in charge of the officials and officials! ”

"Yes!" Wang Shaoyu responded, he also knew that it was already a critical juncture, and the unhappiness of Fang Cai was immediately thrown away, and he ran out quickly.

North Gate.

The soldiers on the tower looked nervously out, and in the darkness they could see that the official roads outside the city gate were dotted with torches, and it was obvious that they were the vanguard of the thieves. Experienced veterans can also judge from the density of torches that it should be cavalry, in the past few years, the thieves and Cao Cao's fierce and good fighting has been widely spread, these officers and soldiers have also heard of it, they hide their bodies behind the female wall, through the perforation to observe the fire outside, their hearts are full of anxiety.

"It's on fire, it's on fire in the city!" A voice came from behind them, and the soldiers turned around in a panic, only to see a ball of fire rising in the city, which made them more and more frightened, could it be that the thieves had already attacked the city?

This is someone in the city shouting to the city: "Fellow, it's hard to guard the city at night!" ”

The familiar hometown accent made the soldiers look back, and they vaguely saw two dark shadows rising from the ridge of the city, and a veteran replied: "Fellow, in the middle of the night, you are also working hard, what are you doing here?" ”

"Huh!" The man on the ridge laughed twice: "The brothers outside the city want to enter the city, and we brothers are thinking about how to open the door and let them in." Fellow, open the door! ”

There was chaos in the city for a while, and a voice shouted: "You are thieves, you put those fires, we are officials and soldiers, how can we open the door for you!" ”

The man on the ridge said with a smile: "You said that you are officers and soldiers, but how long has the court not paid you?" Unpaid officers and soldiers who are still fart? Cut wheat for the landlord's house for a day, and the landlord will give a few pieces of white flour buns to eat! ”

This answer made the city silent for a while, and the man on the ridge smiled: "Don't talk about this, I am from Xin'an Cangtou, where are you, fellow?" ”

"Oh, I'm from Ishii, and it's just across a ridge!" Speaking of this, the voice at the head of the city became more and more cheerful: "Sure enough, it's a fellow villager!" Folks, folks, feel closer when you leave your hometown. Big brother, what is your surname? ”

"What about you?"

"Cheap surname Luo!"

"Oh, then you and our Cao Shuai are our own family!"

"Don't dare to climb high, but you can't break a Luo character, it was one five hundred years ago!"

"Fellow, you are out eating food and being a soldier, how are you mixing the sun and the moon?"

"Eggs! As a soldier, there was no pay last year, and the general didn't dare to take care of it, and when he didn't fight, he didn't do anything, he wandered around, he was free, no one dared to care, but he was not a fairy? Usually find some extra money by yourself, but you are also a poor and happy life! ”

"I heard that there is too much money in the Tang Palace, and the grain is piled up. Why don't you ask him? Is the meat too fatty? Are you afraid of fish bones pricking your hands? ”

"Hey, fellow, we want it, can he give it? Although the prince's silver money is piled up, he still thinks that he has not scavenged enough miles from the common people! The palace is a dog* yamen, only entering and not leaving. We are still wearing national uniforms, what should we do? Wait and see. ”

These words caused a lot of laughter in the city and under the city, and there was a sound of horses' hooves from the city, and someone warned in a low voice: "General Wang is coming, don't speak!" The Xin'an man at the head of the city replied nonchalantly: "****** care, Lao Tzu is not afraid now!" He didn't pay Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu scolded a few words, to see if he could take Lao Tzu's ...... Biting! He has the ability to defend the city by himself! As soon as his words fell, someone next to him, apparently in support of him, deliberately said loudly:

"Now that the thieves are besieging the city, it is difficult for them to protect their net worth as big officials, so they should also know the current affairs, kill and kill the prestige, don't ****** offend our little soldiers. Hades is ruthless, and Hugh blames the imps for being unjust! ”

At this time, Wang Shaoyu had come to the city, he could hear the last two words of the soldiers in the city clearly, his face became extremely ugly, he sent a few personal soldiers to take the enemy on the ridge, and he led a team of personal soldiers to the city, and his subordinates shouted loudly: "Who is talking to the thief, and then dare to talk more, first hit a hundred military sticks, and then insert arrows to the camp!" But he didn't want the guards to have accumulated their grievances to the extreme, so the veteran greeted him and asked Wang Shaoyu: "Master General, you came just in time, when will our arrears be paid?" ”

Wang Shaoyu's face became extremely ugly, and he replied sharply: "At present, the thieves are besieging the city, and everyone can only defend it together, is it the time to make noise and ask for wages?" After the thief retreats, are you still afraid that you will not be paid the arrears, and you will be rewarded according to your merits? ”

The veteran shouted loudly: "The words of the court and the government have always been considered farts, and we soldiers don't believe it at all." You will pay now, and if you don't pay, we will disperse in a hurry, and don't think that we will defend the city! Brothers, tonight you have to pay Wang Daotai, don't be afraid that the big officials will play prestige in front of us soldiers and oppress people with power! ”

(To be continued.) )