Chongzhen four years, August 15, Mid-Autumn Festival, night!

Zhu Yuanzhang led his own guard team of thirty-five people, plus one hundred soldiers of the old team, and took the lead in setting foot on the land of Chengcheng. As for the main forces of the army, they are still temporarily stationed on the edge of the border area and are not in a hurry to attack.

Today is the fullest day of the moon, according to the tradition of Chinese children, today should be a reunion with the family, but for Huanglong Cottage, this is a critical time when every second counts, and they cannot be reunited in the deep mountains. Because at this time, all parts of Shaanxi once again set off a peasant uprising that bombarded Lielie, and news kept coming from the spies arranged by Xu Renjie.

According to the spies, Shen Yikui, the leader of the Western Road Righteous Army, has recovered and is taking Zhang Mengjin and Huang Youcai, two generals, to storm Ningsai County, and it is estimated that it will not take long to occupy that city. If Huanglongshan's actions can be faster than Shen Yikui's and become the first rebel army in Shaanxi to capture the city, then Zhu Yuanzhang's prestige in the entire rebel army can rise to a higher level, and he can attract many stragglers to come and join the gang. On the contrary, if Zhu Yuanzhang's actions are not as fast as Shen Yikui, then a large number of talents will be lost to Shen Yikui!

And Zhu Yuanzhang, who still has a little impression of history, still vaguely remembers that it will not be long before Yang He will be taken over by the imperial court, and he will be replaced by the famous general Hong Chengchou.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Desperate Saburo walked side by side through a forest, while Ma Xiaotian and others followed behind, deliberately leaving a little distance to give Zhu Yuanzhang and Desperate Saburo some space to talk.

The ground was supplemented by a layer of dry leaves, which landed on it, and there was a soft rustle. Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the mood of the desperate San Lang was a little low, and he seemed to have a very heavy heart.

"When you come back to Chengcheng, you are in a surging mood?" Zhu Yuanzhang said in a low voice.

"Hmm!" Desperate Saburo nodded: "Looking back at the beginning, it's embarrassing!" If I hadn't been so stupid, I would have been so impulsive...... But with the current experience and experience, he will not lose the cave cliff, nor will he kill those hundreds of brothers. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "If it weren't for the defeat of Dongzi Cliff, how could you have grown to what you are now?" The past is gone, don't think too much about it. ”

Desperately Saburo thought about it, and felt reasonable, and couldn't help but smile: "If I hadn't met Zhu Baba here, that defeat would have killed me, but there is no chance to grow again!" ”

"That's it! Stop talking, watch the road carefully. Zhu Yuanzhang patted him: "This is your territory." ”

Desperately Saburo nodded, looked left and right for a while, looked at the mountain shadows near and far by the bright moonlight, and then said: "This is the location between Yijing Village and Xifengluo, a few miles to the north is Lingtou Village, a few miles to the south there is a Caijiazhuang, the county seat is a few miles away from our southeast, if we go faster, we can just arrive before dawn." ”

The two stepped on the dead leaves through the woods, and in front of them was a hill of varying heights, and some fields could be vaguely seen on the hillside, if they had come to this place last year, there would have been no fields on the small hillside, but fortunately a rain fell this spring, and the villagers plucked up hope again and reclaimed the land. So there are a lot of crops growing on the hillside, and I can see a little bit of life.

"That's a suburban village!" Desperate Saburo introduced: "It's a very poor village, and the people in the village are too honest, they didn't dare to do it with me when I got into trouble. ”

"Hmm!" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded to indicate that he knew: "It seems that this small village can collect some grain this year, I hope they can live well." ”

When the words fell, the breeze rose, the crops swayed gently with the night breeze, and the shadows pulled out by the moonlight also shook together, which looked very beautiful!

"Chongzhen, that kid may still be looking forward to recovering some taxes in Shaanxi this year?" Zhu Yuanzhang chuckled: "Seeing that it is going to be autumn, it will be the harvest of autumn fu soon, we came to seize the city at this time, drove away the officials, and I don't know if Chongzhen's child will be angry to death." ”

"Chongzhen's kid?" Desperate San Lang was frightened by these words, although he is also a lawless person, but when he mentions the emperor, he still has to call him "Emperor Lao'er", he never dared to say that the emperor is a child, and he couldn't help but think: Zhu Bugle is still powerful, and Chongzhen is also a child in his eyes.

The two men walked up the hillside overgrown with crops, and when they looked over, there was a small village of about twenty families sleeping at the foot of the hill opposite, and they were obviously poor, and their houses were dilapidated, and they looked cold and miserable in the moonlight.

Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and ordered Ma Xiaotian and more than a hundred soldiers who followed behind: "Look at me when you walk, don't step on the crops!" ”

"Yes!" The soldiers behind replied in a low voice: "We are also from farming, how can we step on other people's crops?" Rest assured! ”

"Hmm!" Zhu Yuan turned around and continued to walk forward.

At this moment, his brows furrowed slightly, and a strange feeling rose in his heart, as if he had sensed something. He couldn't help but tilt his body slightly, looking to the west of the village at the foot of the mountain.

Sure enough, there was a group of black shadows there, moving rapidly, because the sky was too dark and the distance was far away, it was difficult to detect this group of black shadows with the naked eye. The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang could feel their presence was because these black shadows had burrowed into a field, moving under the cover of the crops in the field, and the shadows of the crops pulled out by the moonlight shook unnaturally, breaking the silence of the night.

"Damn the guys!" Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but scolded in a low voice: "I actually drilled the fields indiscriminately!" It's rare to have a good year in a great drought, and it's hard to grow some crops, but these guys take the crops and trample on them, which is really hateful! ”

Desperately Saburo heard his low scolding, and also turned his head to look: "Something is wrong, this group of black shadows is not like the people in the village, looking at them drilling in the fields, they are obviously trained soldiers, not farmers." ”

"Hmm!" Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head and ordered to Ma Xiaotian: "Tell the brothers in the back to slow down and hide their figures, there are some situations in front, and you are not allowed to move without my order." ”

The soldiers behind him all squatted on the spot, and Zhu Yuanzhang and Desperate Saburo glanced at each other, bent their waists, and ran down the mountain, intending to see what was sacred.

They had barely reached the halfway point of the mountain, and the shadows had crawled out of the field and scurried to the front of a dilapidated house. By the light of the moon, you can see that there are about fifty or sixty people in this group, and they are holding dicks in their hands. Four of them blocked the house of the first villager. Then the rest of the people spread out to the rest of the village's houses.

"Brother Zhu, what are they doing?" Desperate Saburo couldn't read it, but his intuition told him that something was wrong.

"Four people in front of each house!" Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly and said: "After distributing the manpower, give an order, attack all the houses at the same time, and kill all the people, this is to slaughter the village......"

"Silk!" Desperate Saburo gasped: "Who is so ruthless? ”

"I don't care who it is, it's important to save the villagers first." Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand back, and Ma Xiaotian and the others behind got the order of the gesture, and hurriedly ran over.

"Spread out!" Zhu Yuanzhang gestured twice: "Our number is doubled, every group of eight, staring at four people opposite, all the villagers have saved me." ”

"Yes!"

The soldiers began to divide into groups, and soon spontaneously formed a dozen squads. Then the cat bent down the ridge on the hillside and disappeared into the night.

These people are either the elite of the old team, or the thirty-five guards close to Zhu Bazhang, none of them are fuel-efficient lamps, and they act silently, but they are quick and flexible.

A secret attack and a counter-attack unfolded silently in the dark night.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that the soldiers had dispersed, so he no longer concealed his figure, he pulled up the desperate San Lang and said, "Let's go, let's walk into the village generously." ”

The two of them stood up, took a step, did not hide or hide, and walked towards the village!

The mountain road passed in a blink of an eye, and the two of them arrived at the front of the village in a short time, because the two of them walked swaggeringly, the group of black shadows had obviously discovered them, and a few people gave up their blocked houses, and the cat's waist was bent, and they surrounded Zhu Yuanzhang and desperate Saburo by the cover of broken walls, fences and other things.

"Brother!" Zhu Yuanzhang laughed: "How do you feel weird, it seems that there is a young man who wants to plot against me!" ”

"Big brother!" Desperate Saburo also smiled: "Brother, I also feel this way, isn't there some thief doing dirty work?" On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, there are still people who have this leisure. ”

Hearing the conversation between the two, the people who were going to ambush them also knew that they were exposed, so they simply walked out of their hiding place, and four people came and outflanked them from two directions.

By the moonlight, Zhu Yuanzhang and Desperate Saburo hurriedly looked at the coming of these thieves, they didn't know if they didn't see it, and they were immediately angry when they saw it, only to see that these guys were wearing standard suits of officers and soldiers, mandarin duck battle jackets! Either carrying a knife or a spear in his hand, it was clearly a group of guards. One of them was actually wearing a Wenshan armor, and at first glance he was an officer. Judging by the number of people, it is estimated to be a hundred.

Zhu Yuanzhang's brows were wrinkled together: "Uncles who are soldiers, don't you accompany your wife and children at home to admire the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival, come out to kill the good and take the merits, and plunder the people's wealth?" ”

"That's a lot of nonsense!" The hundred-household official who wore the Wenshan armor spoke, and at the beginning he looked up to the sky and shouted: "Are you ready?" Do it! Kill them all, don't leave them alive......"

He raised his head and roared, and the tranquility of the village was suddenly broken, and shouts were heard everywhere, and in front of each villager's house, there were several black shadows, "bumper bumper", and the sound of feet breaking the door continued to sound......