Huaxian fell silently into the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang, a small county town very close to Xi'an, which had been completely blocked by the Zhu army at this time, and all the people in the city were forbidden to go out, lest they leak the current situation of Huaxian, and the people outside the city were not allowed to enter again. All the city gates, along with every inch of the city wall, were under the watchful eye of Zhu's army.

The officials of the government and the leaders of the militia were all imprisoned in the prison under the county yamen. But instead of being held in the same cell, they were held in separate cells.

The dungeon is very dark and damp, and it is also holding prisoners who were previously detained by the county order of Huaxian County for committing crimes. Normally, when the thief army breaks through the city, they will release all the prisoners and let them join their army, but Zhu Jun did not do this, they did not pay attention to these prisoners at all, and let them continue to be locked in the dungeon, feeling the smell of darkness with the officials.

Li Qingshui sat in the corner of the cell with his head down, his heart was full of chagrin, he sat for a long time, and suddenly thought of committing suicide. His face this time was too great, rather than being killed after being humiliated by the thief, it was better to die himself, and if he died, he would be a hundred, and there would be no more shame.

Li Qingshui stood up, he wanted to find a suitable way to die, and he had to find a rope to hang him, right? At this time, a soft voice came from the cell opposite him: "Lord County, are you looking for death?" ”

It turned out that Luochuan Xiucai Li Panlong was being imprisoned in the cell opposite, and when he saw that Li Qingshui wanted to commit suicide, he hurriedly persuaded him: "Lord County, don't kill yourself, if you die, you can't do anything." ”

Li Qingshui smiled bitterly: "If I don't die now, I will be humiliated and die by Zhu Ba's evil thief when I turn back." What does it make if you die early or later? Anyway, a chick like me can't do anything...... Alas...... For the past two years, I've been being played by thieves, what do you think people like me are for? ”

Li Panlong smiled bitterly and said: "Lord County, don't be presumptuous, it's not that you are useless, but that Zhu Ba is too powerful." To tell you the truth, the student had a deal with him a few years ago, when the student led the Township Warrior Army to pursue Miao Mei, but he didn't expect to be ambushed by him. was scared by his words, and the students were scared...... After that, the student was also very depressed for a while, but the student thought of a few words before standing up again......"

"Oh? Which few words? Li Qingshui is strange.

"The heavens will descend on the Si people, and they must be ...... first," Li Panlong said.

"Gotta don't carry it. I know what you mean. Li Qingshui sighed: "But this time it's not something that can be slapped with a little suffering, you and I can't escape death after all." ”

"This is not necessarily, according to what the students have seen, Zhu Ba is not a murderer, and the last time the student fell into his hands, he was not killed. Although he arrested many people this time, none of them lost their lives. Li Panlong said seriously: "The student thinks that when he gives up Huaxian and goes to the next county, we will be let go by him." ”

"You can get away. But I couldn't escape this time. Li Qingshui shook his head and said: "Even if Zhu Ba doesn't kill me, the emperor can't spare me, and I will definitely not be able to escape from the charge of appeasement and raising thieves." If you don't know if you will be burdened by your teacher, it is better to die here. So that my teacher doesn't have to be implicated. ”

Li Panlong thought about it, this is true, he doesn't know what to persuade.

Li Qingshui searched around the cell, but found nothing that could be used to commit suicide. I'm afraid I won't be able to die if I hit the wall. So he untied his belt and tried to hang himself on the beams of the house. As soon as he put the belt on the beam of the room, he heard a group of people shouting at the door of the cell and walked in, the person who came was Xu Renjie, who was alias as the generalissimo, and he walked to the door of Li Qingshui's cell with a large group of henchmen, and shouted: "Why is the county lord playing with the belt?" ”

Li Qingshui snorted coldly and said: "Xu Yuanwai, you are very good, the thief rebelled, and the nine clans should be punished for the crime." ”

Xu Renjie ignored his words and said with a smile: "Brother Zhu, please go and talk, oh, by the way, and Brother Li Maocai, let's go and drink tea together." ”

"The official and the thief have nothing to say." Li Qingshui snorted coldly.

"For the sake of the tens of thousands of people in Baishui, it's better for you to talk to Zhu Bugs." Xu Renjie's language was menacing.

Li Qingshui was dumbfounded, people were holding his life, and they actually used the people to threaten him, so angry that his hair almost stood upside down, and he snorted angrily: "Okay, this official wants to listen to what he has to say." ”

Xu Renjie invited Li Qingshui and Li Panlong, and then invited the leaders of the township warrior army in Huaxian and Pucheng, these two people, like Li Panlong, are also the most famous local rich gentry. Everyone walked out of the dungeon together, and when they arrived in the study of the county yamen, they saw that tables and chairs had been set up here, and several cups of tea were set up, just like a picture of hospitality.

Zhu Yuanzhang sat in the first place, and next to him sat a large group of thieves and leaders, and two people with their faces covered and wearing armor also sat next to them, I don't know where these two people came from. Of course, Li Qingshui couldn't have known that these two masked generals were actually the big and small two Cao, and they were also held hostage by Zhu Yuanzhang, and they couldn't help but be invited over.

As soon as Li Qingshui came in, he said angrily: "What does the thief have to say? After saying it happily, give the official a knife to make it happy, don't be so annoying and fussing. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled slightly, coughed lightly and said, "I invite you to come today to tell you a little thing......

He paused for a moment, and saw that everyone's attention was focused on him, and then he said slowly: "It won't be long before our army will occupy the entire western part of Shaanxi and drive out all the officers and soldiers and court officials, but ...... Without officials, it will be a little difficult to govern the county or something, and I can't use a group of illiterate leaders to manage government affairs, so I would like to ask everyone here to do me a small favor and do your best to help me govern the place. ”

As soon as he finished saying this, everyone's faces changed color.

Li Qingshui said angrily: "A bunch of nonsense, occupying the entire Shaanxi*, do you talk in your dreams when you are awake?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "Is it nonsense, please come with me to see it!" He stood up and walked out the door in the lead.

Everyone wanted to see what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd, so they stood up and walked out of the yamen with Zhu Yuanzhang, only to see that the streets of Huaxian County were full of thieves, and these thieves seemed to be assembling towards the west gate, they were holding firearms, crossbow arrows, and even a few teams of soldiers pushing cannons, all moving in the direction of the west city gate.

Zhu Yuanzhang took them to join the flow of soldiers, and after a while, he brought all this group of people to a high arrow tower by the West City Gate, and a group of soldiers came over, tied them up with ropes, and gagged their mouths with cloth balls: "You guys are here to watch the play, and there will be a good show in a while." ”

Everyone had to watch helplessly.

I saw that the Zhu army on the side of the city wall was hurriedly preparing something, and two hundred of them changed into the mandarin duck battle jackets of the guards, and suddenly turned into officers and soldiers of the imperial court, while the other thieves still maintained the dress of the township warriors, and a big banner was raised on the edge of the city, with the words "Baishui Mintuan" written on it.

Three hundred and fifty musketeers entered the houses on both sides of the gate, while the crossbowmen lay down on the walls and rooftops. Five hundred heavy infantry lined up around the corner. Xue Hongqi led five hundred cavalry out of the city and ambushed in the woods a few miles outside the city.

The whole thing was quiet, no one made a sound.

Li Panlong's reaction was the fastest, he was the first to see that the thief was preparing to ambush someone, but he didn't know who Zhu Jun's target was to ambush. I only saw Li Qingshui next to him sweating profusely and kept muttering, but unfortunately he was tied up to death, and his mouth was stuffed with cloth, so he was helpless at all.

Time passed slowly, and I don't know how long it took, Li Panlong suddenly saw a big flag appear on the official road to the west, and an army of thousands of people appeared on the horizon.

This is the army that Zhu Ba wants to ambush? Who's coming? Li Panlong stretched his neck hard to look, and it was not until the army got close that he finally saw the words on the flag clearly, and this time he was suddenly shocked that one Buddha was born and the second Buddha ascended to heaven. I saw that the military flag raised high read: "Hong, the military governor of the five provinces."

It turned out that it was Hong Chengchou's army!

Li Panlong thought of this, only felt that there was a layer of sweat all over his body, and his heart fell to the bottom in an uproar, no wonder Zhu Ba said that he was about to occupy the entire Shaanxi, it turned out that Hong Chengchou was getting into the big pocket under his cloth.

Li Panlong then remembered that they had written a letter to inform Hong Chengchou in advance about the attack on the thief army here, and Hong Chengchou left 5,000 defenders in Xi'an, and then led 5,000 elites to Huaxian, the original intention was to help them retreat from the enemy and drive the thieves out of Tongguan, but he did not expect Huaxian to fall into the hands of thieves first. Hong Chengchou didn't know anything about it...... It's over, it's all over!

Li Panlong was devastated, and Li Qingshui next to him was also full of shock, he screamed and screamed, wanting to do something, but he couldn't do anything, tears rushed out of Li Qingshui's eyes, soaking the official uniform......

Li Panlong sighed in his heart, and couldn't help but think: What a powerful Baishui Zhu Ba, this is simply a serial scheme, one ring is linked to the other, and everyone is in the palm of his hand.

At this time, Hong Chengchou's army had already come outside the city gate. The musketeers and crossbowmen hidden in the houses and on the roofs were all in a state of combat readiness, and the soldiers had already loaded the muskets with ammunition and inserted the fire ropes. The crossbowmen on the rooftops were also ready for anything, and the five hundred heavy infantry on the corner of the street were all in position.

Zhu Yuanzhang took a group of leaders, opened the city gate, stood in the doorway and posed as a guest, and watched Hong Chengchou come in with a smile. (To be continued.) )