Chapter 97 opened the city gate, Li Yan returned to Kou, and reported that he was defeated and reported that Tingbi died of illness

Seventy or eighty people are not many, but the key is to suddenly kill behind the official army, and it is still violent. As soon as they came up, they cut down several officers and soldiers, igniting hope for Gao Yigong and others, who had already been determined to die.

Hearing the shouting and killing on the periphery, Gao Yigong shook his spirits, commanded his subordinates, and slashed desperately. At first, the officers and soldiers did not know how many people were attacking, and they seemed a little panicked, but they soon found that there were not many rogues in this group, so they calmed down and started fighting. Dozens of people, where are the opponents of so many officers and soldiers, and the situation quickly returned to normal.

Just when the officers and soldiers thought that they were in control of victory, the sound of gongs and drums and shouts of killing suddenly sounded in the alley opposite. Immediately after, I saw a crowd of people, and I don't know how many people emerged from the alley.

"King Chuang's army has entered the city, and you will be captured before you can tie your hands!" ……

The earth-shattering shouts came and went, and the officers and soldiers defending the city were completely stunned, and at first they thought that it was just a bluff by the spies who had infiltrated the city, but when they saw so many people rushing over, they were sure that it was indeed the North Gate that was lost.

Now that the army of rogues has already entered, what's the use of us holding on here, let's run for our lives. The soldiers were in great confusion, and many of them scattered and fled on both sides. At the same time as they fled, a large number of people poured out of the alley in the dark night, and at the front were the Red Lady and his men, as well as twenty or thirty rogues, and behind them, in addition to the prisoners, there were hundreds of unarmed people.

How could so many people come, this is completely the credit of Li Xin and Li Gongzi. He knew that there would be no shortage of officers and soldiers guarding the door, and with the hundreds of them, eighty percent of them would be sent to death. Therefore, he came up with an idea, when passing by the area where the poor people lived in the city, he asked people to use his own name to report from door to door, saying that King Chuang was going to enter the city, and Li Gongzi led everyone to meet King Chuang.

Li Gongzi's reputation in Qingyang City is really not small, and as soon as those poor people heard that he took the lead, they ran out to follow. Li Xin also brought some gongs and drums to help build momentum, and then rushed to the south gate. As he expected, the officers and soldiers seemed to have a large number of people, and their fighting spirit was greatly reduced, and some people began to flee, and when the red lady rushed up and slashed and killed, the officers and soldiers under the city completely collapsed, and there was no fighting spirit at all, so they fled for their lives.

Gao Yigong took the opportunity to lead people to rush into the city gate hole, opened the city gate, and as soon as the city gate was opened, Li Zicheng, who was outside the city, saw that the opportunity had come, and urged him to sit on his horse, and rushed to the city gate with the first soldier. Li Guo and Liu Zongmin led the elite of the Liukou to follow, and even those people who did not have the slightest combat effectiveness and just played tricks followed behind.

Don't look at the fact that there are not many people who can fight, they can't stand the large number of people, and the momentum is terrifying, and the generals guarding the city are also panicked, and they dare not go down to the city, so they have to lead people to retreat towards the east city.

"The king has entered the city!" "Everyone, come out to greet King Chuang!" "Open the official treasury and distribute food to everyone!" "Li Gongzi led everyone to join the king!" ……

This is the slogan that Li Xin has thought of a long time ago, and when Li Zicheng's army enters the city, he leads the people to shout.

Originally, the people in Qingyang City didn't want the rogues to come in, after all, the government wanted to publicize the evil deeds of the rogues. As long as there is enough to eat, who wants to see the Liukou, how can now, there are too many people who can't eat, and Li Gongzi's reputation seems to be a household name, so after the poor people in the city heard the shout, they responded one after another and ran out to meet the Liukou.

The whole Qingyang City was boiling, and the prefect was completely stupid, and fled for his life with his wife, concubines and cronies. These poor people are often bullied by the government on weekdays, and now they see that the prefect wants to flee for his life, today is different from the past, the grandfathers are all reversed, how can they be afraid of you, the official master. This is called the accumulation of heavy and difficult to return, the people rushed up, punched and kicked the prefect, the prefect's personal entourage saw this posture, where did they dare to rescue, they turned their heads and ran. Even his wife and concubine cried and ran for their lives. Pity this prefect, after a while, he was beaten to death by the people.

The generals who guarded Qingyang Mansion learned the news, where did they have the intention of resisting and wanting to run, but they saw the rogues stationed outside the city, and they were also a little weak. But thinking that staying in the city would be certain death, he mustered up the courage and led his men to break through the siege.

Of course, they didn't attack the camp from the front, but went around in the dark. Most of the rogues outside the city were ordinary people, and they did not set up camp, but some people saw the officers and soldiers and went out of the city, but when they saw that the target of the officers and soldiers was not them, they did not provoke them, and let the officers and soldiers flee. The same is true of the other two gates, they didn't dare to stay in the city, desperately broke out of the city, they didn't expect everything to be so easy, and when they bypassed the camp of the Liukou, they didn't encounter the slightest resistance.

Li Zicheng rushed into the city, first ordered Li Guo and Liu Zongmin to lead troops to occupy the yamen in the city and control the official warehouse, and then called Gao Yigong and praised his merits. Gao Yigong was also humble, saying that he was able to open the city gate this time, all thanks to the help of the people here. came over with Li Xin and the Red Lady and briefly talked about the help of the two of them. When Li Zicheng heard this, he was overjoyed, and immediately invited Li Xin and the red lady to come over to talk.

Previously, Li Zicheng was sitting on a horse, and when he saw Li Xin coming, he hurriedly jumped off the horse and greeted him. Don't look at Li Zicheng is not a cultural person, but he still admires the scholar very much, seeing that Li Xinwen is polite and extraordinary, he likes it very much, so he welcomes him personally. Of course, there is another reason for this, that is, at that time, there were some poor people who could not eat, and they were not treated well by intellectuals.

When the two met, Li Xin saw that Li Zicheng was heroic, and thought that the king of Chuang was Gao Yingxiang, who was preached by the people, immediately bowed down and saluted, "No, Li Xin visited King Chuang." ”

"Sir, hurry up and excuse me, I dare not be the king, I am Li Zicheng. The gentleman called me by my first name, that is. Li Zicheng said humbly.

Seeing that the other party reported that it was not King Gao Yingxiang, but Li Zicheng, Li Xin couldn't help but look at the man in front of him again, simple and heroic, he was indeed a good man. Li Xin immediately said politely to Li Zicheng, and then said: "Now that Qingyang Mansion has been broken by the general, what does the general plan?" ”

Li planned to appease the people first, and then open a warehouse to release grain and help the people. There is a big family in the city who is rich and unkind, and Li has always been polite, killing people, and leaving part of the property for my righteous army for his own use, and part of it for the people. Now that my uncle King Chuang is still behind, I plan to stay here for a few days, and after joining him, I will advance into the hinterland of Shaanxi and make plans again. Li Zicheng said bluntly.

The general is really benevolent and righteous, and Li Xin admires it. Now the court is unkind, corrupt officials are rampant, and it is a natural disaster, the people are hungry, and it is not far off to change the dynasty. Li Xin is willing to serve the general and help the general overthrow Wudao, but I don't know if the general can take him in. Li Xin said sincerely.

"If Mr. comes, it is really a blessing for Li, please accept Li's worship." As he spoke, Li Zicheng bowed down. He had just listened to the narration of his subordinates, and knew that Li Xin was a talented and resourceful person, and if he didn't help him this time, it would be difficult for Gao Yigong to take the city gate.

"General, don't be polite, it's really annoying Li Xin......" Li Xin hurriedly held Li Zicheng up.

Li Zicheng looked at Li Xin, Li Xin looked at Li Zicheng, looked at each other for a moment, and the two laughed out loud together.

Qingyang Mansion fell into the hands of Li Zicheng, and then they stayed in the prefect's yamen. Li Zicheng did what he said, opened the official treasury, and left part of the grain in it for the military, and distributed the rest to the people. Not only that, Li Zicheng ordered people to destroy the rich families in the city, confiscated the family property, kept most of it himself, and distributed the rest to the people.

Don't look at it as a small part, but the number is also a lot, and the people are even more happy, so many people are willing to join Li Zicheng's troops.

At Li Xin's suggestion, Li Zicheng set the policy and slogan of "punishing the unreasonable, suppressing the army and reassuring the people," and strictly rectified military discipline; no matter where the army goes in the future, it will never commit any offense against the people, and if the people are willing to join, it is the best, and if they are unwilling, they will not be forcibly coerced.

Li Xin joined Li Zicheng's army from then on, and changed his name to Li Yan, the word Linquan.

Li Yan had to ask why the red lady robbed the prison to save herself, and why after seeing herself, she was like knowing her before.

The red lady is also a woman among women, and she does not hide her admiration, and she is telling the truth at the moment.

It turned out that the Red Lady was originally a saint of the White Lotus Sect, and her father was Xu Hongru, who almost overturned Shandong back then. Xu Hongru was defeated and died, and the red lady was taken by her mother and continued to work underground, based on the White Lotus Sect, secretly demagoguery. However, the imperial court has been vigorously purging the remnants of the White Lotus Sect, and they have not done much. A few years later, her mother died of illness, and the red lady became a new generation of saints, but she did not defraud the people of their money in the name of selling incense like her mother, but made a living by selling art openly.

She led her mother's cronies to set up a juggling class, and traveled everywhere to perform in the rivers and lakes, and the red lady had a stunt, which is also the origin of her name, that is, the red rope skill. Attach a red rope to two poles, on which she can do anything, like a tightrope walker now. That year, she went to Qingyang Mansion in Shaanxi Province to perform and did a difficult move that shocked the audience, which won the applause of the audience, but in the cheers, it was mixed with a frightened call. The red lady looked down at the shout, and it turned out to be a young man, who was looking at herself with wide eyes and horror, and saw him standing a little far away from the audience circle, holding a white horse in his hand, as if he had just arrived. Just when the red lady looked down and looked at each other, she couldn't help but feel a palpitation in her heart, like an electric shock, why did she suddenly be distracted by her experienced performance? It's just that the child's eyes showed a look of sincere concern and worry, which she rarely sees, not to mention that this is from a handsome and elegant young man, how can it not make her heart flutter. The boy also seemed to be aware of the affectionate eyes of the red lady, he was previously attracted by her superb skills, vigorous posture, and beautiful face, but now his heart was even more moved by the seductive eyes.

This son is Li Yan, Li Yan's father Li Jingbai, who was the governor of Shandong in his early years, but was impeached and sent to the opposition because he offended the Donglin Party. Their hometown was originally Henan, but because the Donglin Party was powerful and the magistrates were members of the Donglin Party, they were often innocent and embarrassed, and finally migrated to Qingyang, Shaanxi. People who have been governors, of course, the family will not be poor, the Li family is very rich, Li Yan is kind, and the young man is smart, he was admitted to the lifting of people in less than twenty, this day is to go out, and come back and meet the red lady. was made by a showgirl in the rivers and lakes, and it was difficult to control himself, he remembered his identity, how could he be so frivolous, so he forced himself to leave the field.

After a few years of hurried farewell, the drought in Shaanxi can be described as mourning all over the wilderness, and the people are not able to make a living. Li Yan has a reputation for making meritorious contributions, and twice suggested that local officials open warehouses and release grain to help the people, but they were refuted by the Qingyang prefect. The poor people, knowing that Li Yan was kind, went to his door to beg and shouted that Li Gongzi should save us.

Li Yanxin was saddened and immediately opened his granary to relieve the hungry. Li Yan's parents all died, and the family did what he said, and he took out most of the family's property to buy grain and opened more than 20 porridge sheds.

The local people trumpeted the good name of Li Gongzi, and as a result, Li Yan's reputation was getting bigger and bigger. After learning about it, the prefect of Qingyang ordered Li Yan to be arrested and imprisoned, and convicted him of gathering the people and plotting against him, and also used this to seize the property of the Li family. Many people cried out for Li Yan, but they were all arrested and imprisoned by Qingyang Mansion, that is, the gang of people who were released from prison with Li Yan.

Just two days before Li Zicheng led his troops to call, the juggling class of the red lady came to Qingyang Mansion again and heard about it. The red lady didn't know that "Li Xin" was the son back then, but she was upset for Li Yan and was ready to smash open the prison and save Li Yan out. When he was thinking of a way, Li Zicheng's army came, and the red lady made up her mind that it was better to take this opportunity to smash open the prison and rescue Li Yan. Coincidentally, on the night of the operation, the people who were a senior were also fanning the flames in the city, and they took care of each other.

Li Yan has long forgotten the appearance of the red lady, but the red lady has deeply engraved Li Yan's appearance in her heart and has never forgotten it, so she was surprised when she met.

Perhaps this is also the will of God, the two have become a couple since then, and the red lady also followed Li Yan to join Li Zicheng's rebel army.

Speaking of the officers and soldiers who fled from Qingyang Mansion, some of them fled to Chang'an, and some fled to Pingliang Mansion. The way to escape to Pingliang Mansion was led by the Qingyang Division. Without waiting for them to run to Pingyang, they met reinforcements from Pingliang on the way, and the two converged, and it was known that the Liukou had captured Qingyang Mansion, and the reinforcements did not dare to advance further, so they could only camp on the spot and report the situation to the Pingliang Prefect and the sub-guarded generals.

When the two great lords learned of this, they were shocked, and they expected that the rogue would be powerful, so they hurried to Pegasus to report to the governor.

When Li Zicheng first arrived in Qingyang, Qingyang had already sent people to Gansu to report an emergency.

On the Gansu side, Yang Yishan achieved a great victory, and the first thing he did was naturally to report the victory to the imperial court. Gao Yingxiang led the main force of the Liukou to run away first, Yang Yishan ordered Zuo Liangyu to pursue separately with Wujia Province, and the rest of the soldiers and horses were stationed in place to appease the people.

Most of these people were coerced, and now they have nothing, they have copied the camp of the rogues, and they have not found much food, this time, Yang Yishan has a headache, hundreds of thousands of people, if they have no food, they will not starve to death, they will have to take risks again.

Although Sichuan sent 100,000 stone of military rations, but this time the war did not bring all of them, only 20,000 stones, enough for soldiers and horses to eat for two months, and the rest are still in Chang'an. At present, a large amount of food is needed to appease the displaced people, and in desperation, they can only grit their teeth and take out the existing military rations, set up porridge sheds, and provide relief to the people.

Yang Yishan's troops, a day's ration has to be 300 stones, all the way, to today, it has been 23 days, nearly 7,000 stones, the rest is only 13,000 stones, if this time is long, their troops will have nothing to eat. Seeing that if it goes on like this, it will definitely not work, Yang Yishan can only urge the court to send grain, and ask the court to allocate food to appease the people. There is a saying that the house leak happened to rain overnight, and within two days of exterminating the Liukou, Xiong Tingbi actually got a sudden illness, except for the military doctor, there was no good man, lack of medicine and medicine, Xiong Tingbi did not last for three days, and died of illness in the army.

Lord Yang was already busy with the relief of the homeless, and the death of the old man made it even worse, and he simply handled the funeral, so that Xiong Zhaosi and Xiong Hu would take care of the coffin back to their hometown first, and they would stay here. But before the Xiong brothers and sisters left, a soldier sent news that the rogue was attacking Qingyang Mansion. This news was like a thunderbolt from the sky, and the startled Yang Yishan almost fainted.

He immediately ordered Cao Wenzhao to lead the people of the headquarters to set off first, galloping to help Qingyang, he had the heart to go back, but with so many people, he was also afraid of another chaos, expecting that Qingyang had 10,000 defenders, and would not be lost in the short term, so he did not leave immediately. Find Zhangye's guards and the governor of Gansu, arrange for the displaced people to return to their hometowns, and send 8,000 stone of military food to the people.

Eight thousand stones of grain to be distributed to hundreds of thousands of people is really a drop in the bucket, but there is no way to do it, Yang Yishan can only hope for the imperial court. However, he said that after he returned to Chang'an, he would send troops to bring another 40,000 stone of grain over to let the people hold on for a while.

But Cao Wenzhao just left, only a day and a half later, the news of defeat came, and Qingyang was lost. Yang Yishan was even more shocked, and immediately fainted, and his subordinates hurried to help, and after a while, Yang Yishan woke up and shouted loudly: "Pull out the camp and raise the village, and send the soldiers to Qingyang!" ”

He can't take care of anything else this time, Qingyang is lost, and it will be bad to let the Liukou flee back to Shaanxi. Of course, he didn't dare to hide the situation here, so he could only play it truthfully.

However, it was too late. On the sixth day of Li Zicheng's capture of Qingyang, Gao Yingxiang led the main force to Qingyang. When the two armies converged, Gao Yingxiang was naturally very happy, greatly praised Li Zicheng, and then everyone discussed the next plan.

Li Yan had already thought of countermeasures for Li Zicheng, and after they captured Qingyang, they also got accurate information, some of the soldiers and horses led by Yang Yishan were transferred from Shanxi, and some of them were transferred from Sichuan, Sichuan's terrain was dangerous, and the governor Zhu Xieyuan had some skills, which were not easy to capture, but Shanxi, which was relatively easy.

So, at the meeting, Li Zicheng put forward the countermeasures that had been discussed in accordance with Li Yan's intentions, and the troops entered Shanxi. His proposal was approved by everyone, and seeing that the imperial army would soon arrive, the Liukou only rested for a day, and then left Qingyang Mansion and rushed towards Shanxi.

The news of Liukou's occupation of Qingyang soon reached the ears of Zuo Liangyu and Wujia Province, and they led the army to chase after them in the starry night, and when they arrived, they met Cao Wenzhao, who was ordered to come, but Liukou had already walked from Qingyang City for three days, and looked at the direction, it should be going to Shanxi.

The three generals wanted to lead their troops to pursue, but the military rations they brought were only enough for two days, so Zuo Liangyu and Cao Wenzhao decided to send a letter to Yang Yishan to report the situation, and the soldiers and horses were waiting for Yang Yishan's army to arrive. But Wujia Province couldn't afford to wait, and when he learned that Liukou was going to Shanxi, he was so anxious that he saw that the other two didn't plan to go, so he could only take his own people and horses and chase them in the direction of Shanxi.

The rogue was also afraid that the officers and soldiers would chase after him, so this time, he did not coerce the people, but only led the main force to set off. However, he did not coerce the people, and he was worried that the officers and soldiers would chase after him, which was only the reason on the one hand, and on the other hand, he still relied on Li Zicheng, and it was he who strongly demanded that the people should not be coerced, so as not to affect the speed of the march.

The front army has always been the most advantageous, because the rogue is mainly robbed, and the one who walks in the front is naturally the first to rob, and when the rogue passes by, there will be nothing left.

In order to strive to be a pioneer, several leaders of the Liukou earned a red face, and after repeated negotiations, finally with the support of Gao Yingxiang, this task was obtained by Gao Yingdeng, the king of the heavens.

Among the rogue army, Li Zicheng now has the most soldiers and horses, and he now has more than 10,000 people in his hands. And the other ones, together are only more than 10,000 people, which is also because they don't dare to bring more people in order to escape for their lives, but the people who follow them are elites. The relationship between the Liukou is not a subordinate relationship, but dependence, so to speak, the leaders of these battalions are just attached to Gao Yingxiang, and Gao Yingxiang is the eldest brother.

Gao Yingden only had about a thousand people under him, and he acted as the front, and he had already thought about what to do. Grab more silver and pull more strong men, so as to ensure your strength.

From Qingyang all the way to the east, you can enter the territory of Shanxi, Gao Yingdeng looted all the way, but to be honest, he couldn't grab anything. In these years, the people did not dare to farm the land, because whoever planted and robbed whom, no one planted the land, and the people wandered around, except for the city, there was nothing to grab in the countryside.

After walking for more than ten days, Gao Yingdeng and his gang did not grab anything, but the displaced people collected several thousand, and the increase in manpower was not enough to eat the military rations they brought. Many of these homeless people are not good people, they can't eat, so they do some robbery, and seeing that Gao Yingdeng's troops don't have much food, they help come up with ideas.

A kid named Qiao Wu told Gao Yingdeng that eighty miles to the southwest, there is a place called Xishan Town, where there are many people, and there are people who grow dealers, which are relatively rich, so we can go to Xishan Town to rob them. Gao Yingdeng was also a little anxious, as soon as he heard that there was a surplus, how could he care about anything else, and led the men and horses to Xishan Town.

But how did Gao Yingdeng know that if this place was easy to rob, he would still need to rob it. Qiao Wu's gang is engaged in robbing the business of villages and towns, they have suffered losses there, and they want to use Gao Yingdeng's power to avenge their revenge.