"Who is it?"

Wang Li's face was ugly, although this was not Shandong, but any soldier with a conscience, seeing the people being slaughtered like this, no one felt uncomfortable.

"Rogues!" The person behind Wang Li said in an affirmative tone: "Only large-scale rogues can slaughter the people of a village so cleanly and calmly, and almost all the young women here are gone, then there is only one possibility, that is, they were taken away, do you think, who can have this strength in this vicinity?" ”

The name of the person who said this is Qiao Yong, about thirty years old, he is considered an old man who does not accept it, but because he always lags behind in the cultural area, he has not been able to be promoted, and he has been working in the ordinary night not accepting the position for several years, but his experience is undoubtedly very rich, even Wang Li, the foreign commissioner, respects his words very much in ordinary times.

"Rogues!"

Wang Li's eyes flashed with a hint of murderous aura, these rogues really can't change their eating, and they will harm wherever they go.

"This matter can't be finished, we have to go back and report to the huge man quickly, let his old man be the master, and we must eradicate these scourges! But before that, we have to go to De'an Mansion to investigate. ”

De'an Mansion belongs to the important town of Hubei, its city wall is naturally not too bad, in fact, the city wall of De'an Mansion is three zhang high, three miles long, it can be regarded as a high wall and a deep city, it is not easy for anyone to capture this kind of city wall in the era of cold weapons, but the people who guard this city wall are too unlucky, so it is so easy to be broken by the Liukou.

Wang Li and the others came to a hidden place outside the city of De'an Mansion, and secretly observed the movement at the city gate with a clairvoyant mirror, and found that almost no one entered or left the city, and the guards guarding the city gate were also very lax.

Dressed in tattered clothes and with rudimentary weapons in their hands, they sat lazily at the foot of the city walls basking in the sun.

Seeing the lazy and half-dead appearance of the defending army, Wang Li showed joy on his face: "These thieves are really bold, if the city defense is so lax, we only need to send people to climb the city wall at night to open the city gate, now let's immediately return to report the huge people." ”

Late the next night, the north wind was still blowing, and the early spring wind was still very cold. The intruders defending the city had already shrunk into the cave to roast and sleep, and there were only dozens of lonely soldiers on the mile-long city wall who were leaning against the city wall to escape the cold wind.

In the middle of the night, even the few soldiers who remained on the city wall were dozing off against the wall, not realizing that a nightmare was coming to them.

At this time, dozens of people dressed in black were quietly touching the south city wall, they took off the rope behind them and waved it in mid-air for a while before releasing it, the hook at one end of the rope flew towards the city head with a slight breaking sound, and soon, a slight impact sound came, indicating that one end of the rope had made contact with the city head.

The black-clothed man below pulled the rope hard, and it was very strong, proving that the hook at one end of the rope had been grasped, and the dozens of black-clothed people climbed up one after another. More than three hundred steps behind them, Pang Gang, dressed in armor, stood there quietly watching the actions of those black-clothed people, with a little solemnity on his face.

This attack on De'an Mansion by taking advantage of the enemy's paralysis and the darkness of the night was a decision made by Pang Gang based on the news brought by Wang Li and his subordinates. However, attacking the city at night is a high-risk thing, not to mention that the night is not conducive to the development of a large army, it is said that if the troops who attack the city gate first are discovered, it is easy to fall into the encirclement of the enemy army, and if they don't do well, they will all fall into it.

Behind Pang Gang were Wang Zhi, Li Yuan and other guerrillas and generals, and behind them were densely packed with countless figures, although they could not see clearly in the dark night, no one made a sound, and they all sat quietly behind their respective officers and waited quietly.

Time passed bit by bit, there was still no movement at the city gate, Li Yuan was a little anxious, and was about to say something, but at this moment, the city gate slowly opened, and at the same time, everyone saw a fire at the city gate, and this fire shook three times before stopping.

When Pang Gang saw it, he was overjoyed, and shouted loudly to the back: "Great, the city gate is open, brothers rush!" ”

"Rush!"

As Pang Gang's words fell, dense torches quickly lit behind him, and countless sergeants rushed to the city gate under the leadership of their respective officers

In the general's mansion (formerly the prefect's yamen) in De'an Mansion, Liu Fangliang was sleeping soundly with a snatched woman in his arms, and he was snoring as drunk as usual.

The entire general's mansion was also quiet, and everyone was sleeping soundly, but this tranquility was quickly broken, and a fierce shout of killing came from the south.

The shouts of killing became more and more intense, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the entire city of De'an was already in chaos, with gunshots and screams everywhere.

"Knock Knock"

A loud knock sounded outside Liu Fangliang's bedroom.

"Whit, what the hell is going on!" Liu Fangliang, who was sleeping soundly, opened her eyes dimly, sat up and asked impatiently.

"Master Liu, hurry up, something is wrong, the official army has entered the city!" A voice shouted anxiously outside the door.

"Officers and troops entering the city? What is it to get out? The officers and troops have entered the city? ”

Liu Fangliang was taken aback, and shivered, this is the city, how could the officers and soldiers enter the city so easily?

Liu Fangliang, who was so frightened that he woke up from drowsiness and alcohol, suddenly got out of bed and began to dress in a hurry, and at the same time did not forget to shout: "Quick, bring the armor of the master, hurry up and call someone to meet the enemy, damn it, Lao Tzu wants to see, but which way of officers and soldiers dares to attack De'an Mansion!" ”

After another quarter of an hour, when he hurriedly put on his helmet and armor and led a group of his own soldiers out of the general's palace, he found that the whole city was now in chaos, and there were constant gunshots and fighting everywhere.

Liu Fangliang stopped a group of defeated and retreating invading troops, and couldn't help but feel angry when he saw this group of defeated troops rushing like headless flies, and raised his horsewhip to slash at several defeated soldiers, and whipped several defeated soldiers to the ground and rolled on the ground.

"You bastards, you've really disgraced our rebels!"

After taking a while, Liu Fangliang, who felt a little tired, gasped and shouted: "Get up for Lao Tzu and say, how many officers and soldiers have come into the city?" ”

A small leader looked like a soldier trembling and said: "Master Liu, the villain doesn't know, now the city is full of officers and soldiers, they kill people when they see them, and many brothers have died in their hands, and the villain and these brothers under his command still escaped with great difficulty." ”

"You bastards, you don't even know how the officers and soldiers entered the city, how many people came, so what's the use of Lao Tzu asking you!" Liu Fangliang gritted his teeth and rattled, and couldn't help but pull out the long knife on his waist and cut it down at the little leader in front of him.

At this time, he heard a burst of fire in front of him, Liu Fangliang was shocked, looked over, and through the dazzling firelight, he saw rows of sergeants wearing red mandarin duck jackets and chain mail in front of him walking in a neat line.

"It's the Qingzhou Army!"

Liu Fangliang only felt his heart tighten, and the original feeling of anger was suddenly replaced by a kind of panic, he recognized the other party at a glance, this is the Qingzhou army that defeated their more than 100,000 troops outside Luoyang City, it is because of them that King Chuang had to give up Luoyang, which was originally at his fingertips, and led the remnants to attack Hubei.

I thought that after coming to Hubei, I would not have to face that terrible army, but I didn't expect that now they would chase and kill here.

"Master Liu, what should we do now?"

The captain of the personal soldiers beside Liu Fangliang saw Liu Fangliang's solemn expression, and the captain of the personal soldiers who had followed Liu Fangliang for many years and had known him very well asked in a low voice: "Master Liu, you can't do anything, let's escort you out of the city." ”

Liu Fangliang shook his head, "No, we have to wait, Ma Shiyao and Liu Rukui have no news yet, we have to wait for them a little longer." ”

In fact, for Liu Fangliang, who was born in a rogue, it is not a shame to be forced to run away if he can't beat others, didn't King Chuang also lead everyone to run for ** years, but now it is different, now De'an Mansion is already a piece of territory of the righteous army, so naturally he can't give up so easily, otherwise it will be difficult to explain to King Chuang.

But Liu Fangliang didn't expect that it was this momentary hesitation that became his life-threatening talisman.

Just when Liu Fangliang was hesitating, Pang Gang had already commanded three battalions of foot soldiers to rush into De'an Mansion, and another cavalry battalion guerrilla black iron led thousands of cavalry to block several city gates.

The sound of slashing and killing, the sound of fire guns resounded in De'an Mansion for almost a night, and after dawn, most of the 30,000 troops in De'an City were either annihilated or surrendered, and the newly established left battalion of the army disappeared in the army, and even Liu Fangliang, the general of the left battalion system, was shot in the arm and fell off the horse and became a prisoner.

The sky was bright, and the city of De'an returned to its former tranquility, and the people of De'an City, who had been hiding in the house and shivering all night, quietly poked their heads out of the house.

But what they saw was not those ragged soldiers, but the familiar Ming troops wearing red mandarin duck battle jackets.

"It's the officers and soldiers, it's the officers and soldiers who have fought back." The common people trembled and told each other that in their opinion, whether it was officers and soldiers, or rogues, no matter who they were, they were not fuel-efficient lamps, and they were also unrelenting when it came to the common people.

In the small courtyard of a family, an old man in his fifties gently opened the door and was about to go out, but was stopped by his daughter-in-law.

"Old man, you don't want to die, there are officers and soldiers outside, if they find out, do you want your old life?"

The old man struggled hard, and said eagerly: "Old woman, don't pull me, the family is about to run out, I don't go out to find a job, do you want our family to drink the northwest wind?" ”

"It's better to break the cooking than to die, I just won't let you go, my son has been taken away by the rogue, leaving only the daughter-in-law and an unweaned baby, if you have another three long and two short, how can you let our mother live!" The gray-haired old woman began to cry as she spoke.

"You let go!" The old man was also anxious, and said sharply: "You also know that our family still has an unweaned baby, let me tell you, that is the only root of our old Jiang family, if you are hungry, how can you explain to the ancestors of the Jiang family under Jiuquan after I die." ”

"You let go!"

"I won't let go!"

"If you don't let go, I'm welcome!"

Just as the old couple were arguing, a burst of gongs accompanied by a loud voice rang out in the street outside the door.

"The people in the city listened, and we waited for the army under the command of the hussar general and champion Hou, and we were ordered to come and exterminate the Liukou. The people in the city do not need to panic, the officers and soldiers have not committed any crime against the people, but if the people who secretly hide the rogue at home are guilty of the same crime as the rogue coar, but if the person who denounces the officers and soldiers is rewarded with ten taels of silver, the general will be rewarded with ten taels of silver, the one who denounces the two will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver, and if the leader of the bandit is rewarded with one hundred taels of silver! This reward will be cashed on the spot at the prefect's yamen, and it will never be in arrears! The people of the city listened."

As the gong went away, the old man surnamed Jiang and his wife looked at each other, and gradually a trace of brilliance flashed in the eyes of the old man Jiang, and he seemed to vaguely remember that there seemed to be a person hidden in the abandoned small house in his backyard last night

Pang Gang took Li Yuan, Wang Zhi, Bin Shiqian and other generals and his own personal guards to walk on the street where blood stains could still be seen, and from time to time there were prisoners of the intruding army who were pressed by the sergeants of the Qingzhou Army to clean up the dead bodies on the street.

When Pang Gang came to the city, that is, near the prefect's yamen, there was a burst of gunfire in front, and then a burst of cheers came, "Catch Liu Fangliang, catch Liu Fangliang!" ”

"Oh, caught Liu Fangliang? Let's go, go and see! Pang Gang was overjoyed, and urged the horse to run forward quickly.

When Pang Gang and his entourage came to the entrance of the prefect's office, they saw a group of sergeants coming over with a few tying soldiers, and they hurriedly saluted after seeing Pang Gang.

A hundred presidents headed by Pang Gangyu reported to Pang Gangyu: "Lord Qiyu, the lowly rank and others have caught Liu Fangliang, the leader of the thieves, and others, and are preparing to wait for the adults to fall, please show them." ”

Pang Gang smiled and nodded, "Okay, well done, which battalion are you sergeants?" ”

This hundred households said solemnly: "Lord Qiyu, the lowest rank is under the command of General Li of the third battalion. ”

"Well, well done!"

Pang Gang gently patted the shoulder of this Baihu to show encouragement, and he was happy that this Baihu felt that his body was ten pounds lighter.

Wang Zhi, who was standing on Pang Gang's left, remained silent, but Bin Shiqian felt a sense of regret in his heart, if it was his subordinates who caught Liu Fangliang, then there would be light on his face.

And Li Yuan, who was standing behind Pang Gang, was already so happy that he couldn't see his teeth and eyes at this time, and his small eyes had become a thin slit, this hundred households gave himself a long face, and he must be praised when he turned around, thinking of this, Li Yuan's originally upright chest was even more upturned.

Pang Gang slowly walked up to Liu Fangliang, looked at the famous Li Zicheng's henchman in history, and said coldly: "Liu Fangliang, you have lived up to your high hopes of breaking into the king, and you lost De'an City so quickly." ”

"Phew" Liu Fangliang spat and said coldly: "Don't be too happy, when my rebel army returns, I will see if you can be so proud!" ”

"Oh, really?" Pang Gang's face turned cold, and he said: "If this official can defeat that thief once, he will naturally be able to defeat him a second time, but the posture official doesn't understand, are you rogues who can only burn and plunder also worthy of becoming a rebel?" ”

Liu Fangliang raised his head and said: "Hmph, we will only burn and plunder, if it weren't for the current dog emperor mixed with Wudao, you dog officials will be tyrannical and expropriating, so that we ordinary people can't survive, how can we rebel, speaking of which, you dog officials are a hundred times more vicious than us!" ”

"You"

Li Yuan on the side saw that Liu Fangliang had become a prisoner under the stairs and was still so hard-mouthed, and was about to stand up to show him how powerful he was, but was stopped by Pang Gang stretched out his hand, Pang Gang said contemptuously: "Liu Fangliang, don't talk about the government, if you really don't do anything for Tianxing Daoqiu, this official has to praise you for being a good man, but look at it, what kind of are you so-called rebels doing." Let me ask you, is it a good thing that you have done a good job when all the people and children in Guojiazhuang, a village full of people and people in Guojiazhuang, 30 miles away from the city, have been slaughtered? There is also a government official who heard that there is a group of women in the prefect's yamen who have been robbed to offer silver music to you, these are not what the government forced you to do, this official asks you, what are you doing and beasts! ”

In the face of Pang Gang's questioning, Liu Fangliang was speechless, and finally could only hold his head high and say: "Hmph, become a king or defeat a coward, whatever you say, anyway, Lao Tzu never thought of getting out alive when he fell into your hands, if you want to kill or chop you as you like!" ”

"Good, good!" Pang Gang nodded, "You want to die to fulfill you!" ”

"Someone's coming!"

"Here!" Two pro-soldiers stepped forward.

"Hold him down, keep a strict watch, and never let him escape!"

"Yes!"

After the soldiers pressed Liu Fangliang down, Bin Shiqian saw that Pang Gang's face was not good, and stepped forward to comfort: "My lord, it is a great joy to successfully capture De'an City today, but it is not worth it to be angry for Liu Fangliang, a thief." ”

Pang Gang nodded, and was about to walk towards the prefect's yamen, but heard a commotion from behind.

"Stop, don't break in, or you'll be killed!"

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, I want to see your lords, I want to receive the silver! I want to get the silver! ”

"Hmm!" Pang Gang stared, turned his head and looked back

(To be continued)