When Zhu Yuanzhang got the news, northern Shaanxi was already fighting a series of fierce battles, and the smoke of gunpowder was all over the sky. It turned out that after Gao Yingxiang's death, the hearts of the rebels from all walks of life were in turmoil, although Li Zicheng was a more powerful monster than Gao Yingxiang, but only Zhu Yuanzhang knew about it in the world, and other rebel leaders didn't know. There was a serious division within the rebel army, with some leaders believing that they should take advantage of the emperor's edict to be appeased as soon as possible, while others were also panicking and did not know what the future holds.

In such a situation, the Hengtian King who has been occupying northern Shaanxi can't sit still, this benevolent brother's territory is near Yulin, which is a very poor place, after the Hengtian King occupies Yulin, he doesn't know how to develop production, and the territory is very painful, seeing that his army is about to collapse, Hengtian King is unwilling to sit still, so he sent a messenger to the court to beg for surrender.

The envoy set off from Yulin to Taiyuan, looking for Sun Chuanting to send a letter to beg to surrender, passing by Suide halfway, Suide is the territory of the Cupola, the messenger was pierced in Suide, and the Cupola Zhu's men drank a few glasses of wine, after drinking accidentally leaked the news and said that the head was going to descend, the rectum guy of the Cupola immediately became angry, cut off the head of the messenger with a knife, and then angrily went to the king of Hengtian to reason, persuaded him not to bow to the court.

Outcome...... Hengtian King bit his teeth, did not do two endlessly, drew a knife to chop the cupola pillar, seized his territory, this time Suide also fell into the hands of Hengtian King, but made Hengtian King and the west of the mountain border, he quickly sent people to Taiyuan, to Sun Chuanting begging.

Cupola's subordinates fled in all directions, and when they arrived at Yan'an Mansion, they found the mixed 100,000 and cried, and the mixed 100,000 were also furious. King Hengtian, you have to surrender to the imperial court and vote yourself, there have been many rebels in the past few years who have surrendered to the official army and then reinstated, so everyone also looks down on surrender, it is nothing. But in order to surrender, this guy took out a knife and chopped his brother, which was a bit wrong, so he took over the old department of the Cupola Pillar and went to the Hengtian King to settle accounts.

The two fought in Qingjian County, north of Yan'an Prefecture, and fought one after another. I don't know how many brothers died.

Zhu Yuanzhang heard the news. Immediately shouted: "Happy event." ”

Ma Xiaotian next to him was sweating: "This is also a happy event?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile on his face: "This incident gives us an excuse to seize northern Shaanxi, how can we not like it?" ”

Ma Xiaotian suddenly realized.

At this time, the red lady was still confused, she was still young, and she didn't quite understand what was going on. What's more, I didn't put my mind on this. Curiously asked, "What excuse do you need to seize northern Shaanxi?" Wouldn't it be okay to just hit it? Everyone is a thief. The thief robs the thief's territory, and the heavens are very fair. ”

Ma Xiaotian explained to her in a low voice: "Although the rogues in the world do not belong to each other, everyone treats other rogues as allies after all. If the army takes away the territory of friendly forces, it will be difficult to recruit heroes and heroes to join the gang in the future. Brother Zhu said that if you want to unload the mill and kill the donkey, it must be when the powder is ground and the donkey is no longer needed...... Now we Zhu Jun still need donkeys, and we must not do things that affect our reputation. ”

The red lady didn't seem to understand it, but she seemed to vaguely understand something, she muttered: "You can't affect your reputation, you can't kill donkeys, and someone will come to join you...... In other words, all the people who come to join the gang are donkeys......" She stretched out her hand and pointed to her nose and said, "I am here to join the gang, am I a donkey?" Wow! Ma Xiaotian, come over to me. ”

Ma Xiaotian saw that her face changed greatly, and he knew that something was wrong, so he dared to come over, and ran away. The red lady took out two flying knives and threw them at Ma Xiaotian, if these two knives were thrown at Ma Xinyu, it was estimated that there would be bloodshed, but fortunately, it was Ma Xiaotian who threw it, his eyes were clear and his hands were fast, he flashed left and right, and the two flying knives all missed. The red lady still wanted to draw the flying knife and throw it, but she was already angry, and laughed out with a "poof": "Okay, I won't throw you, you have a point." ”

Ma Xiaotian said: "It was Brother Zhu who said it, not me." He thought to himself: You don't dare to throw Bugs Zhu with a flying knife.

Sure enough, the red lady has a lot of respect for Zhu Yuanzhang, not to mention the flying knife, even if it is a small stone, she didn't throw half of it. She tilted her head and thought for a while, then said with a smile: "I suddenly thought of a problem, I'm afraid that we won't have a chance to get involved in northern Shaanxi." ”

Ma Xiaotianqi said: "What's the problem?" ”

The red lady said very seriously: "Cupola's subordinates voted for the mixed 100,000, and the combat power of the mixed 100,000 is already higher than that of the Hengtian King, plus the Cupola Pillar's subordinates, it should be no problem to kill the Hengtian King together, right?" If the mixed 100,000 wins, and our Zhu army is hindered by its reputation, and it can't make a move against the mixed 100,000, then naturally there is no reason to occupy northern Shaanxi. ”

She was right, Ma Xiaotian was stunned, and she didn't know how to answer, so she had to turn her head and stare at Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled at the red lady and said: "If you mix 100,000, you will be defeated, and the enemy we have to face must be the King of Hengtian." ”

Ma Xiaotian and the red lady asked, "Why?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and said: "After King Hengtian takes over Suide, he can let go of the road from the west of the mountain to Shaanxi, how can Sun Chuanting not come to help him?" Although the Hengtian King couldn't beat the mixed 100,000, but with Sun Chuanting's support, the result was completely different. ”

Ma Xiaotian and the red lady came to their senses, and the two of them bowed together.

The three of them hurriedly returned to Xi'an and began to mobilize the soldiers of the Zhu army, after a period of development in southern Shaanxi, the soldiers of the Zhu army increased a lot, and the number of troops stationed in Xi'an alone exceeded 20,000, counting the troops stationed in Tongguan, Wuguan, Hanzhong, and Luochuan, the total strength exceeded 40,000, and all of them were young and strong soldiers with combat effectiveness, which were not the same as the ordinary old and weak women and garbage soldiers.

Of course, the troops stationed at the various passes and important towns must not move, and orders must be sent to them to step up their defenses. Zhu Yuanzhang finally mobilized an army of 15,000, and it was impossible to set up a few lieutenants with so many troops, so he sent a letter to Xu Renjie and Xue Hongqi stationed in Tongguan, asking Xu Renjie to come over as his deputy to help command, as for Xue Hongqi, she needed her cavalry troops. Tongguan is still responsible for a city and a cloud.

Two days later, Zhu Jun set off to the north, passing Tongchuan, Yijun, Huangling, and came to Luochuan County, Luochuan County ordered Li Panlong to come out to meet him, Wang Er and Yingshanhong were also waiting in Luochuan, and Xu Renjie and Xue Hongqi also came here to meet. Zhu Yuanzhang and these old brothers have not been seen for a long time, and everyone is happy to see each other.

Everyone sat down to eat together and told each other about parting, but they were also happy. Xu Renjie invited Li Panlong to also go with the army, but Li Panlong smiled and shook his head and refused, he led the townspeople out to fight in order to make meritorious contributions and be promoted, but not because he liked to fight. Now that he has become a county magistrate, he no longer has any interest in fighting.

On the second day, Zhu Yuanzhang led the army to continue northward, leaving the territory of Luochuan County, and entering the rule of Yan'an Mansion. When they were in southern Shaanxi, they had to be careful not to trample on the potato fields beside the road, because although the potatoes grew underground, they also had branches and leaves on the ground, and soldiers would be severely punished if they trampled on the crops of the common people during the march.

But walking into the land of northern Shaanxi has completely lost this problem, the land here is dry and yellow, obviously abandoned for a long time, not to mention crops, even weeds are not easy to see, there are occasional white bones on the left side of the road, no people are inhabited, walk dozens of miles, and do not see half a human figure. On this day, Zhu Jun finally saw a small county town in the north, and soldiers who were familiar with it came up and reported: "This is Ganquan County. ”

When everyone heard the three words Ganquan County, they all felt familiar, and Xue Hongqi was the first to think of it, so he smiled and said: "This Ganquan County is the place where the legend has it that the monkey robbed 108,000 taels of silver." ”

Hearing her say this, Xu Renjie also thought about it and couldn't help laughing. He and Xue Hongqi couldn't help but glance at each other, thinking in their hearts: This is the root of our relationship.

I saw a big flag floating on the city wall of Ganquan County, with the word "mixed" written on it, and the city gate was closed at this time, and it was obvious that the arrival of 15,000 troops of the Zhu army frightened them, so they quickly closed the city gate. A thief will poke his head out of the city, and it turns out that he is also an old friend of everyone, the pangolin. Back then, the pangolin's subordinates robbed and fished out the border into Luochuan, and were killed by Xu Renjie and the crowd, which seemed to be yesterday

When the pangolin saw Zhu Jun coming, he was obviously a little angry, he rode a bad horse to meet him, rushed straight to the front with the boldness, and said angrily: "Is it Brother Zhu and the Generalissimo who are coming?" Back then, our brothers entered Luochuan and were killed by your Xiangyong army, and now you have fished the territory of our army, what is it? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was too lazy to talk nonsense with such a small character, and glanced at Xu Renjie. Xu Renjie walked up with a smile and said, "Brother Pangolin, don't come unharmed." ”

The pangolin said angrily: "Don't be close, go back to your southern Shaanxi quickly." ”

Xu Renjie said with a hippie smile: "We're not here to grab things, don't worry...... Think about it, from your sweet spring to the south, all the way to the border line of Luochuan, what is worth grabbing? ”

The pangolin was dumbfounded by his words, this is a fact, northern Shaanxi has been thousands of miles away, what can Zhu Jun get when he enters this broken place? Can't see the scenery?

Xu Renjie said with a smile: "We went north this time to clean up the traitor Hengtian King. ”

The pangolin finally understood, and he thought to himself: The King of Hengtian has his own 100,000 big brothers to clean up, and he wants you Zhu Jun to come here to join in the fun? But it was inevitably hurtful to say this, most of the soldiers and their families in the mixed 100,000 army were taken over by Zhu Jun to be raised, and it was not a way to make trouble with Zhu Jun, so he turned his words into a more polite one: "Hengtian King, this traitor, the 100,000 big brother has already rushed over to clean him up, don't bother Zhu Ba Ge to take action." (To be continued.) )