Chongzhen seven years, late autumn!

Zhu Yuanzhang sat in his small courtyard, studying the geographical map of mountains and rivers with Yang Hong, Xu Renjie, Wang Er, Xue Hongqi and other leaders.

At this time, the map was already full of large and small arrows, each representing a strong peasant rebel army.

Yang Hong pointed to an arrow and introduced: "After Hong Chengchou took over the governor of the five provinces, he was about to launch a general attack on the rebels, when suddenly the imperial court was in chaos, and the officers and soldiers stationed in Xining mutinied, and as a result, Hong Chengchou hurriedly led his troops to Xining, giving the rebels a chance to breathe. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the rebels from all walks of life entered Henan one after another and gathered between Wan and Luo. ”

Xu Renjie nodded, and his finger also stroked along an arrow: "Chuang General (Li Zicheng) and the Eight Kings of Xiying (Zhang Xianzhong) are also out of Shaanxi, they entered Henan from Wuguan and headed northeast......"

All the leaders followed his finger to the middle of the map, and countless arrows vaguely pointed to the same place.

Although the other leaders are not very good at military strategy, they are not fools, and as long as they see so many arrows pointing at one place, they know that there will be fun to watch.

Xue Hongqi couldn't help but point his slender finger to a point on the map, and frowned: "This is Xingyang, right?" All the rebels are advancing towards Xingyang, is this going to hold a dirty meeting? "Horse thieves in northern Shaanxi will occasionally act together to rob large caravans, after robbing. The caravans would meet in one place and discuss the dirt. So when Xue Hongqi saw so many rebels getting together, the first thing that came to mind was the problem of separating the dirt.

"What's the dirty assembly? It's really a thief. Xu Renjie said with a smile: "This is a meeting for the rebels to gather together to carve up the world. ”

Yang Hong also nodded and said: "At the beginning of the year, we received news from the 36th Battalion, saying that all the rebels were invited to hold a conference, and it seems that the venue of this meeting is in Xingyang." ”

All the leaders glared at Zhu Yuanzhang, wanting to hear what he had to say.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "I said last time, we must go to this conference!" Let's get ready, everyone. On Bai Shui's side, 3,000 recruits were left to practice the formation every day in the training ground, confusing Li Qingshui and making him think that the militia had not moved. The rest of the elite soldiers were all brought with them. ”

"Brother Zhu, do you need the whole army to be dispatched? Just go to a meeting, you don't need to play so big. Miao Meiqi said: "Everyone is the leader of the rebel army, this meeting should be to sit down and talk, and it doesn't seem good to take more than 10,000 people to go." ”

"No!" Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "This is a conference to demonstrate strength, and only a powerful rebel army can grasp the right to speak at the conference, and if you don't have enough troops, you won't have the qualifications to speak." ”

When Miao Mei heard this, she suddenly realized. All the leaders hurried back to make arrangements.

At the end of autumn, Zhu Yuanzhang's army completed preparations for the long journey. Food and ordnance were all prepared. It was still Yang Hong and Desperate Saburo who stayed to manage Baishui and Chengcheng, while Xue Hongqi left a city and a cloud to manage Dali. More than 10,000 people boarded a troop transport ship in Chengcheng and went down the river...... Set off towards Xingyang.

At this time, the banks of the Yellow River were more desolate than the last time Zhu Yuanzhang took a boat to Babaoshan, and there was hardly a boat or figure on the river surface in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, and both sides of the river were as quiet as a dead land, until the fleet passed by the river section near Luoyang, and everyone saw several ferries on the south bank of the Yellow River swaying. But when they saw Zhu Yuanzhang's army, these ferries were so frightened that they all shrank in the reeds and didn't dare to move.

A few days later, the fleet was getting closer and closer to Xingyang, and I didn't expect that there were more boats on the river at this time. A broken boat in the east and a broken boat in the west are across the river, and the boats are all sitting with some fierce-looking thieves. Armed with guns or bows, they patrolled back and forth on the river.

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the fleet to hold up the flag, and a large flag embroidered with "Baishui Zhuba" fluttered in the wind, because Xue Hongqi had not officially become his subordinate. Therefore, it can only be regarded as a friendly country, and by the way, it also held up a banner of "Yulin Xue Red Flag". As soon as the thief ships swaying on the river saw these two big flags, they immediately hid to the side, not daring to come up and make noise. The name of the person, the shadow of the tree, at this time, the two names "Baishui Zhuba" and "Yulin Xue Hongqi" have a certain status in the hearts of the rogues all over the world.

The closer to Xingyang, the more lively the shore is, there is a large army on the shore on this day, the number of people is about 10,000 people, they are obviously marching to Xingyang along the south bank of the Yellow River, the army is waving many tattered flags, the flag is written "Hengtian King" three big characters. None of the leaders under Zhu Yuanzhang had ever heard of the name "Hengtian King", and they couldn't help but laugh dumbly, which mountain did this drill out of a mountain king?

As a result, the boat traveled for a while, and another thief army crossed in front of him, also waving a big flag, and wrote "Mixed 100,000", Xu Renjie couldn't help but shook his head and said: "Where did this 100,000 monster come from?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to sigh: "The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and we really don't know how many waves there are behind these front waves." ”

The fleet soon passed the Bishui Pass, only to see that this Xiongguan has also fallen into the hands of the rebels, there is a row of big flags on the wall, it seems that several rebels have taken it together, the leaders stared at those big flags for a long time, only to see that it was written "Ge Li Eye, Lao Hui Hui, Zuo Jian King, Reincarnation King, Eight Kings, Heavenly Stars, Nine Dragons ......"

"It's really hilarious...... This time, there is finally a wave like ours. Xu Renjie pointed to the flag of "Old Huihui" and smiled bitterly.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Bishui Pass was not far from Xingyang, so he called the fleet to dock, they were such a large fleet from the river, it had already attracted the attention of the rebels of Bishui Pass, and the people on the pass naturally also saw the banner of "Baishui Zhuba", so many people greeted them from the pass.

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang and the others stepped on the riverbank, several smiling leaders of the rebel army came over to greet them: "Baishui Eighth Brother Zhu is also here, I have heard the prestige of Eighth Brother Zhu for a long time, and when I see it today, Sansheng is fortunate to ......" is almost this kind of tune, anyway, they are all about the same, so I won't list them one by one. Of course, there were also leaders of the rebel army who greeted Xue Hongqi in the crowd, but because Xue Hongqi was a woman, the leaders of the rebel army had a lukewarm attitude towards her.

Zhu Yuanzhang and these leaders of the rebel army greeted each other one by one, they reported their names, what reincarnated kings, passing stars, nine dragons, Shuntian kings, etc., Zhu Yuanzhang linked his face and name one by one to remember, but these people are not great people, there is no need to pay attention.

There was only one man in the crowd who caught Zhu Yuanzhang's attention, this person was about forty years old, with a sturdy figure, only one head smaller than Wang Er, and he could be regarded as a giant, and his outfit was different from everyone around him. The leaders of the rebels next to him were all wearing gray or blue cotton clothes, linen clothes, and even wearing Wenshan armors stolen from officers and soldiers. But this man was dressed in white and had a white round hat on his head, which seemed out of place in the whole environment.

Zhu Yuanzhang recognized this kind of clothes, this is the national costume of the Hui * people, that is to say, the leader of the rebel army is a Hui. Among the various rebels of the peasant uprising at the end of the Republic of China, there was only one person who was famous and returned, "Lao Huihui" Ma Shouying, second only to Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in strength, and the third hero of the rebel army at the end of the Ming Dynasty. He was born in the Suide border army, Xiao Yong is good at fighting, the core force of the army is a cavalry unit composed of Hui people and Mongols, and the peripheral troops are "Yi Han and Ding", and the history secretary is "strong armor and iron cavalry, and the soldiers are disciplined", and other rogues are not on the same level at all. He was an important leader in the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, who revolted very early and almost held out to the end, and his position was unshakable.

Zhu Yuanzhang walked in front of him, hugged his fists, and said with a smile: "Isn't this the old brother Huihui?" ”

Sure enough, this person hugged his fists and said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Exactly!" Finally met Brother Zhu, you are the first hero of the uprising in the world, and the first hero to capture the state city, during the battle of Zezhou, I have long wanted to see you, but unfortunately after fighting Zezhou, you have infiltrated Taihang, I have been looking for you in Taihang Mountain with the 36th battalion for a long time, and I have never seen you, I didn't expect to see it here, where did you come from this time? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "I have been active in Zhongtiao Mountain recently, and I heard that everyone gathered in Xingyang, so I released the boat from Zhongtiao Mountain......

Lao Hui replied without doubt, and said with a smile: "It turned out that I entered Zhongtiao Mountain, and I said why can't I find you in Taihang Mountain." He turned around and shouted at the thieves behind him: "Go and prepare wine, I want to have a good ...... with Brother Zhu."

Everyone laughed: "Don't drink it...... If the old brother is drunk, then he will have to drink in the dark, and we won't be able to talk to Brother Zhu well. ”

"Hahahaha!"

Although the thieves were not authentic when they killed people and set fires, they spoke in private with a heroic atmosphere. Zhu Yuanzhang coped with their banquet, and then let the army be stationed on the east side of Bishui Pass.

After stationing, he sent someone out to investigate, only to know that there were already thieves stationed in this vicinity, dozens of camps stretched out, and the camp was dozens of miles long, not only the few flags he saw, but also many rebels who had heard the name or had not heard the name were stationed nearby, and there were many large and small groups of rebels gathering here.

Zhu Yuanzhang's scout actually caught a spy from the imperial court, he spied next to the company camp of the thief soldiers, and also copied the name of the leader of the thief army on paper, Zhu Yuanzhang snatched the piece of paper he copied and wrote, and it actually wrote the grand occasion of the thief army: "In the winter of the seventh year, the thief came from the west, and immediately went to the wheat field in Xiguo. The big flag is fluttering, looking at the cliff mouth and south, the flag covers the sky, the light is shining brightly, the south is the south mountain, the north is the river meander, and the waves are surging to the clouds. But I heard the sound of neighing horses, from morning to night, and the camp was dozens of miles...... The thieves have trampled on people and animals, the road is five or six miles wide, and I don't know the geometry of the crowd ......" (32 changes note: This paragraph is excerpted from the sixth volume of the "Song County Chronicles" in the 31st year of Qianlong, and the old chronicles revised by Lu Zhixun in the 31st year of Kangxi quoted in "Xingye Attached to Xiangyi". ）

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