Huanglong Mountain is not the name of a single mountain, but a continuous mountain range, covering an extremely wide area, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, it is connected to Baishui in the south, Chengcheng in the southeast, Yichuan in the north, and Luochuan in the west...... To the east is the Yellow River, and crossing the Yellow River is the boundary of Shanxi*xi Province.

After Wang Zuo hung in Baishui and suffered defeat, the place where he fled was Luochuan in the west of Huanglongshan, starting from Zhu Yuanzhang's cottage to the west, passing through the vast mountains, it only takes about six to seven days to arrive.

Dealing with 1,000 officers and soldiers, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't dare to hold it up, so he directly ordered the most elite old team to the 12th team, a full 1,200 people, leaving only 400 people left behind by desperate San Lang with the new 13th team to the new 16th team.

Desperate Saburo was a little puzzled: "Brother Zhu, although Miao Mei is a man, in order to save such a person, it seems a bit worthless to take more than a thousand brothers to take risks." "Desperate Saburo's fear of officers and soldiers is the deepest one among all Zhu Yuanzhang's subordinates, and he is the only one who has the most profound understanding of the difference between officers and soldiers and rogues in nature. That's not an opponent that can be easily defeated! It is not worth it to cheer on the officers and men unless it is absolutely necessary.

"That's right!" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said, "If it's just to save a person like Miao Mei, it's definitely not worth it for me to take more than a thousand brothers with me." ”

When he said this, he paused slightly, and suddenly changed the topic: "Do you think that our thousands of brothers, trapped in the small cottage of Huanglong Mountain, relying on the nearest counties to grab some money and food, and just keep consuming it, can it really be a big deal?" ”

Although this ...... is not smart, he still has this bit of self-knowledge, and replied: "It shouldn't be promising, the people from several surrounding cities who are willing to come to our village have already come up to the mountain, and it is impossible for us to expand our strength for a long time." ”

"That's right!" Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously: "To save Miao Mei, it's not just to save him alone...... I also want to send a signal to the heroes of the world, and this signal is: My Zhu Ba's cottage can accommodate people! ”

"Uh, I don't understand!" Desperately Saburo shook his head.

"Although the main force of the officers and soldiers has been transferred to Beijing this time, it can be seen from the assembly of the 18,000-strong army that the officers and men have begun to attach importance to the rogue bandits, and in the near future, the officers and men will use various methods to deal with the various bandits and rebels...... Under such circumstances, for a long time, the rogues in western Shaanxi will be chased by officers and soldiers and flee in embarrassment, with nowhere to stay. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice: "I want to use the action of saving Miao Mei to tell the heroes of the world...... When you don't have anywhere to go, you can come to me. ”

"Uh......" Desperate Saburo seemed to finally understand something: "I understand, just like the 10 and 8 stars in "Water Margin", when those heroes and heroes were cornered, they thought that there was a Liangshan to go to, so they came from all directions. ”

"Yes!" Zhu Yuanzhang said very seriously: "In this way, we can recruit heroes from all over the world and strengthen the strength of the cottage...... You can expand your power again. In fact, I have been thinking about how to expand the influence of the cottage for a long time, and this operation of the officers and soldiers to exterminate Wang Zuohang just gave me this opportunity. ”

"I finally got it! Brother Zhu, don't worry, I will guard the stockade. Desperate Saburo also said seriously: "In order to get together with more heroes and heroes!" ”

"Second Wang, Generalissimo, are you ready?" Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and shouted to a few brothers on the other side.

"Great! The food, weapons, and armor are all packed, just waiting for your order......" Xu Renjie laughed: "It's finally time to fight, hahaha, a chance to show my strengths......"

In the third year of Chongzhen, in the middle of January, Zhu Yuanzhang left the cottage with 1,200 well-trained soldiers and headed towards Luochuan in the west......

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Luochuan, which is connected with Yichuan and Huanglong in the east and Yijun and Baishui in the south, is an important hub connecting Guanzhong and northern Shaanxi. This is a rare flat area in the terrain of the Loess Plateau, and as far as the eye can see, there is a plain and continuous farmland. Before the arrival of the great drought, it was the most important agricultural area on the Loess Plateau, commonly known as the "granary of Yan'an".

After the arrival of the great drought, Luochuan was also hit by the destruction of the surname, and a large area of farmland turned into a dry and cracked mud field, and the grass and trees were withered.

In a deserted village in this wasteland, Wang Zuohang's army was resting. This rabble army has now become a bit of a decline, and the long time has made most of them physically exhausted, and the old, weak, sick and disabled are miserable. Even young adults feel physically and mentally exhausted.

There was no water in the deserted village, eight thousand Liukou, no, now it had expanded to nine thousand, because he had brought with him many poor people from Luochuan...... The nine thousand men were scattered in search of water, their lips open and their faces covered with wind and frost.

Miao Mei helped Wang Zuohang and sat down in a house without a roof, Wang Zuohang looked a little embarrassed, and it seemed as if he had just experienced an embarrassing escape.

It turned out that not long ago, Wang Zuohang left the main army of Liukou, only with a team of 300 people went out to fetch food, and as a result, he ran into a township warrior team with as many as 500 people, this township warrior team was led by a Xiucai named Li Panlong, and it was actually quite combative, and the battle was clear and orderly, but Wang Zuohang was defeated for a while, fortunately Miao Mei gave up his life after the palace, he escaped, otherwise he might have fallen somewhere.

"It's hard!" Wang Zuohang let out a long sigh: "It's really hard to rebel......"

"Big brother!" Miao Mei said in a low voice: "I think, let's also learn from Zhu Ba, find a big mountain to station in, build a small village, and live in peace." ”

"Build a stockade? I...... I won't! Wang Zuohang smiled bitterly twice.

Miao Mei had no choice but to sigh a long sigh, the biggest problem of their rogue army is that there is no talent, the leader is a soft-horned shrimp, and several of his subordinates are all reckless men, such as Miao Mei, Flying Mountain Tiger, and Big Red Wolf, all of whom only know how to fight hard, and do other things with black eyes.

The two looked at each other speechlessly for a while, and suddenly a rogue ran into the house and shouted urgently, "Big brother, something is wrong...... The brother who went out to look for water came back with a message, saying that he had caught two villagers nearby and asked something from the villagers. ”

"What's the matter?"

"The imperial court has sent an army to chase after us...... It was a soldier led by a general soldier named Du Wenhuan, with a strength of up to 1,000 people. ”

"What?" When Wang Zuohang heard this, he was so frightened that he almost didn't jump up, and when his feet shook, he kicked down a broken stool next to him, and said in a panic: "A thousand officers and soldiers? Oh, my God! That's a lot...... What to do? What to do? ”

Before the change, he was not very afraid of a thousand officers and soldiers, at least he would not be scared like this when he heard it, but since he was severely taught a lesson by Zhu Yuanzhang with hundreds of people, he finally recognized his strength. The ** Qianliu Kou under his command is not able to fight at all, it is okay to scare the soft corners, and to break the officers and soldiers is to find death.

"Big brother, don't panic!" Miao Mei hurriedly comforted: "Since we got the news that the officers and soldiers are coming in advance, it's simple, just run away...... The officers and soldiers had to rob the good people along the way, and the march was very slow, for fear of where he would come. ”

"But where can you run?" Wang Zuo looked left with teary eyes, looked right, looked forward, looked back, and after looking for a long time, he said bitterly: "The world is so big, there is no place for me, I knew that I would not have rebelled in the first place...... I'm not one of those people who can't live without rebellion. ”

"That's you...... It was you, the Flying Mountain Tiger, and the Big Red Wolf who instigated me to rebel! Wang Zuohang began to speak incoherently: "No, I can't go on like this, I'm going to surrender, I'm going to surrender to the officers and soldiers." ”

Miao Mei was anxious: "Big brother, you can't surrender, the officers and soldiers like to surrender the most...... If you go and descend, you will die and have no life. ”

"I don't care, I have to surrender." Wang Zuohang jumped up: "I don't believe that the officers and soldiers want to kill and surrender, this is all made up by you, you keep deceiving me with words in order to deceive me into rebelling with you...... Tricked me into this field, and this time I won't believe you for anything......"

Wang Zuojiao rushed out of the dilapidated house, let go of his voice and shouted at the army of rogues outside: "Brothers...... Come and listen to me...... We can't go on like this...... Shall we be good citizens again? Come with me and beg to surrender to the officers and soldiers. ”

His roar was like a pebble cast on the calm surface of a lake, rippling round and round among the rogues......

"Begging?"

"Be a good citizen?"

Countless pairs of eyes that had lost their luster looked at their leader together, and many inexplicable and inexplicable emotions spread through the crowd...... It's really bitter to cause, especially with a leader like Wang Zuohang...... They were tired and tired for a long time, but they had no way back, and now the leader said that they would beg to surrender...... Is this really a way to live?

The crowd began to whisper: "Big brother said that he wanted to descend, what do you think?" ”

"I think...... There should be a play......"

"Since ancient times, the government's attitude towards dealing with large groups of anti-thieves has been that the first evil must be dealt with, and those who are not prosecuted. The first evil is the eldest brother, and the servant is us, even if the eldest brother is beheaded by the government, we will 'not investigate'......"

"Okay, let's surrender......"

Thousands of people had the same little calculation in their hearts, many hands were raised, and many people shouted together: "Okay, surrender...... Let's go and surrender......"

Seeing that most people supported surrendering, Wang Zuohang suddenly perked up, happy that his decision had been supported, and he couldn't help but laugh wildly: "Surrender...... Surrender...... I'm not a thief anymore...... I can be a good citizen again...... Hahahaha......"

In the crowd, Miao Mei slowly moved her pace, walking towards the edge of the Liukou group, he knew that Wang Zuojiao could not be persuaded to come back, but he was never willing to surrender, rather than take the road of ten deaths and no life, it was better to break through again.

"Farewell...... Eldest brother! Miao Mei sighed deeply: "Brother parted ways with you here......"

Behind Miao Mei, a group of people silently followed, the Flying Mountain Tiger and the Big Red Wolf were among them, and there were hundreds of young men who dared to fight, and they were also the same as Miao Mei, they sighed deeply at Wang Zuohang, and then turned to leave......