The camp of the thieves was pulled up overnight, and the mouths of several rebel leaders were not very strict, and they told their subordinates that Hong Chengchou was surrounding them with a big grudge, and the subordinates shouted and shouted all over the camp. Don't look at the fact that they have an army of nearly 100,000 people, and their momentum is huge, but as soon as they heard Hong Chengchou's name, they were like frightened little white rabbits, and they kicked the ground three feet high. There was no need for the leader to urge them, and the thieves packed up their things as fast as they could, a few points faster than the well-trained soldiers. The thieves who have been wandering for many years can't take other skills on the table, but this kung fu of moving, fleeing, relocation, and tossing and turning is unique in the world!

In the dark night, I don't know how many torches were shaking, and the camp tents were packed up in large areas, and the thieves and their families began to advance south in the dark, hiding in the Qinling Mountains.

The little girl who fled into the ditch shrank in the shadows, not daring to even take a breath of air, she only felt that people kept walking on both sides of the ditch, and people kept walking...... I didn't finish it for a long time. She was afraid that if someone shone a torch into the ditch, she would be doomed, but she was lucky that thousands of people had crossed over the ditch, and not a single one of them saw her hiding there. Because the thieves are also running away in a panic, how can anyone have time to get a torch to shine a ditch? They wished they could escape as quickly as possible, and escape to a place that Hong Chengchou could not see or touch.

After a long time, there was finally no sound outside the ditch, and the little girl did not dare to move, and waited for a long time, until she was sure that all the thieves were gone, and she finally poked her head out carefully...... At this time, the sky was already slightly white, and when I looked around, it was empty, and there were no people, and it seemed that the thieves of the 36th battalion had gone far away.

As soon as the cold wind of winter swept away, the little girl felt the cold pressing, and her whole body stiffened, and she was so frightened that she forgot about the cold. She went limp and threw herself on the ground. He wept bitterly with joy.

After a long time, an army appeared in the north, dressed in neat and clean cotton cloth and holding uniform weapons and equipment in their hands, and came to the place where the 36th Battalion had been stationed. This army is, of course, Zhu Yuanzhang's army.

Zhu Yuanzhang stood where the 36th Battalion had stayed. You looked around and smiled: "These guys really fell for the trick and were deceived by us to Sichuan and Hunan." ”

"We can't be considered lying to them, we should be regarded as saving their lives." Yang Hong interjected from the side.

"Huh? Look ahead...... There seemed to be a man lying on the ground. Xue Hongqi suddenly found a little girl. The little girl was lying on the edge of a dirt ditch in the distance ahead, she didn't faint, but her body seemed to be a little weak and she couldn't stand up, and her eyes also looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and Xue Hongqi and others. There was cowardice and hope in his eyes...... She didn't even shout for help or anything, and it seemed that she couldn't figure out who was coming, so she didn't dare to make a noise.

Xue Hongqi rode over, lifted the little girl on horseback, felt that her whole body was cold, and hurriedly wrapped her in his cloak, and the two women wrapped themselves together and ran back.

"Picked up a child and came back......"

"It's not a child, is it? Look at her hair, that is, she is fifteen years old, and there is no problem in getting married. Miao Mei interjected. When he said the word marry, Xue Hongqi's body trembled obviously, she is twenty-one years old this year, and the word marrying is forbidden in front of her.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at the girl, and didn't bother to ask at all. At a glance, the girl knew that she was caught by the 36th Battalion, and escaped in the dark while the 36th Battalion was fleeing south.

Xue Hongqi asked, "Sister, why are you lying on your stomach here?" ”

The little girl was very vigilant and did not introduce herself directly. Instead, he asked, "Who are you?" ”

"We are the militia of Baishui, Chengcheng, and Dali, huh...... It's Xiang Yong. ”

"Good citizens?" The little girl exclaimed with joy. After exhaling, he burst into tears: "I finally escaped...... Wow...... I finally escaped......"

She hugged Xue Hongqi tightly, put her weak hands on Xue Hongqi's waist, refused to let go, buried her head in Xue Hongqi's arms, and cried: "The little woman Li Jieqiong, Henan Yulingren, was killed by thieves all over the house, and I was the only one who had to live......"

"Yu Ling?" Xue Hongqi is from Yulin, this girl is from Yuling, although the two places have different names, but they have the same sound, I don't know what, Xue Hongqi immediately became close to her, stretched out his hand and patted her back gently: "It's good to escape, don't cry......"

When everyone heard her say that she was killed, she was the only one alive, and they all knew that she was caught by thieves for lewd pleasure, and they all thought in their hearts: This woman has been insulted by thieves, but she is a little pitiful.

Xue Hongqi wanted to ask her if she had been told anything, but she felt that this kind of question might make the little girl cry even more, so she had to give up, and everyone acquiesced to the fact that she had been insulted and stopped mentioning it. In fact, the little girl's hometown is very close to Tongguan, and the rampaging wolf has been busy fighting and marching after catching her, and she really hasn't touched her, but no one wants to get it, and the little girl herself can't see people and say that she is still finished, this beautiful misunderstanding is like this.

Since there is this misunderstanding, everyone thinks: This woman can't go back to her hometown, otherwise gossip will be enough to drive her to death.

Xue Hongqi hugged Li Jieqiong and said, "Come back to the city with us." ”

Li Jieqiong nodded, still hugging Xue Hongqi tightly.

Alas, Zhu Yuanzhang sighed in his heart: If you knew that you would leave the thief's camp and enter the thief's den, I don't know how you would feel? Let's take her back to the city, arrange a place for her to live, and let her get away from our group.

Everyone confirmed that the 36th battalion had fled into Qinling, and then led the army back to the city, and when they returned to the city, it was already dawn, and they saw that the head of Huaxian County was still in a solemn position, Xu Renjie, Li Panlong, Li Qingshui, as well as the county commander of Huaxian County, Baihu wearing two-layer fish scale armor and others, were nervously waiting for the thieves to attack the city again, and saw that it was actually Zhu Yuanzhang's Xiangyong, except for Xu Renjie, all the people were wide-eyed and puzzled.

Zhu Yuanzhang entered the city, came to Li Qingshui, and said seriously: "Lord County, we explored the camp of the thieves and found that the thieves had fled south and entered the Qinling Mountains. ”

"Huh? They're not coming to Huaxian anymore? The county magistrate of Huaxian County was the first to shout.

"Great!" The hundred households wearing two layers of fish scale armor clapped their hands and cheered, and one was unsteady on his feet, and he fell to the ground and couldn't get up.

Li Qingshui also breathed a sigh of relief, and the soldiers and villagers behind them even cheered.

Only Xu Renjie flattened his mouth and muttered dissatisfiedly: "What kind of fame, it's not that the enemy army has been completely annihilated, it's just that the enemy's strategy has shifted, are you happy?" They don't fight Huaxian anymore, they don't want to harm other counties, do you just care about the snow in front of your own house, and don't care about the frost on the tiles of others? ”

Xue Hongqi was not happy when he heard him speak, and snorted: "Where did you get so much nonsense? If you have the ability, you can catch up and destroy all the 100,000 people, and I will obey you. ”

When Xu Renjie heard Xue Hongqi's voice, he also wanted to argue, turned his head to look, but saw Xue Hongqi followed by the little girl who dragged the oil bottle, the girl was very weak, holding Xue Hongqi's waist with both hands, Xue Hongqi left, she was left, Xue Hongqi was right, she was also right, sticky like kraft candy.

Xu Renjie was immediately happy: "What is your situation?" ”

"Well, I picked it up, blame the poor girl." She told the story of the situation.

Xu Renjie is still a kind person in general, and after hearing this experience, he also felt sympathy, so he spread his hands and said: "Okay, then you can let her stick like this for a while, I heard that the turtle will bite people when it is frightened, and it will not let go until thunder." When the thunder strikes, I'll see if this kid will let go of your waist. ”

"Dead and poor, this kind of thing is also poor?" Xue Hongqi waved his fist angrily.

Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to leave and go back to Baishui after eating, but the county magistrate of Huaxian County and Li Qingshui were unwilling to let go, saying that they would wait for the governor to come and ask for merit for Zhu Yuanzhang.

The two of them insisted on staying, and Zhu Yuanzhang's disguised identity now was inconvenient to save their face, so they had to press it down and wait with them. Two days later, Hong Chengchou's army finally came to the west gate of Huaxian County, Zhu Yuanzhang and others welcomed out of the city to see, only to see that this army array is really not small, the total number of people is about 10,000 to 15,000, of which 2,000 people are Hong Chengchou's soldiers, their equipment is extremely sophisticated, every soldier is wearing iron armor, although these iron armor is not fish scale armor or what kind of top armor such as full-body plate armor, but the important parts are basically protected by iron plates, to arm such an army out, it costs a lot of money, And such an army can deal with at least 20,000 thieves on the battlefield.

In the ancient army, the importance of armor was stronger than that of weapons, because weapons were nothing more than those kinds, such as spears, knives, bows, crossbows, etc., all of which had a common problem, that is, the lethality was limited, and once they encountered iron armor, they had no effect at all. When a soldier wearing iron armor and a soldier wearing a mandarin duck jacket (cotton armor) are put together, it will be fine to be stabbed by the opponent seven or eight times, and the cotton armor wearer can be put down with a backhand knife. This is also the reason why the ancient generals charged into battle and killed very majesticly single-handedly. The generals were all covered in fish scale armor, rushing into a bunch of miscellaneous soldiers wearing cloth clothes, the sword flashed, and the heads flew, but the swords and guns of the miscellaneous soldiers could not pierce the fish scale armor...... Therefore, the imperial courts of various dynasties explicitly forbade the private possession of armor by the people, but they did not prohibit the private possession of weapons. This situation did not begin to change until firearms became popular.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw Hong Chengchou, an ironclad family of 2,000 people, and finally knew why he could win wherever he went, with the equipment conditions of the peasant rebel army, he couldn't gnaw such a hard bone at all, even if the current Zhu Yuanzhang army was facing an army armed to this point, it was difficult to speak.

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