Lu Yuanwai was stunned by Zhu Yuanzhang's words: "You protect me?" You...... Are you really a bandit? ”

In fact, in the spring, Zhu Yuanzhang told him once that if Lu Yuanwai ran into trouble, he could come to him, but Lu Yuanwai didn't believe it at all, how could this kind of thing happen? Bandits have always robbed everything and left, how have you ever heard of a thief robbing you of something, and he has to be responsible for protecting you?

Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his hand and patted Lu Yuanwai on the shoulder: "Close the door of the mansion, wait for me for a while, I will go and bring my army over, and I want to talk to Wang Zuohang of Yichuan, it will not work without the army." ”

In the world of rogues, it pays attention to whose fist is bigger, if Zhu Yuanzhang wants Wang Zuohang to stop grabbing Lu Yuanwai, or not robbing other squires who have paid taxes, he must show his strength, otherwise everything will be in vain.

Zhu Yuanzhang returned to the small valley of the Tibetan soldiers, and without hesitation, he took his troops and went straight to the bottom of Baishui City.

Wang Er was bored in the small valley, but suddenly saw Zhu Yuanzhang running back with a calm face, and his first sentence was to order the army to set off. He suddenly became excited and said with a smile: "You're going to war?" Hahaha, who are you fighting with? Officers and soldiers from Xi'an? Or did Xu Renjie get some township warriors again? ”

"Neither!" Zhu Yuanzhang said in a calm voice: "It's the king of Yichuan who hangs on the left, I don't know what's going on, he came to our Baishui." ”

"Scared? Wang Zuohang...... Isn't that the hero who started the incident in Yichuan Longerzui? Wang Er was a little angry: "Why should we fight him, we should join forces with him and fight the court together." ”

"I also want to try not to fight, but if he has to grab the white water, then he has to fight." Zhu Yuanzhang sank his voice: "Think about it, Wang Zuojiao started the incident in Yichuan, why did he run to Baishui?" ”

Wang Erleng said: "Liukoubei, those who run around are called Liukou...... What is the reason? ”

Seeing that he was stupid, Ma Xiaotian next to him suddenly smiled: "Second Brother Wang, you occasionally use your brains, thanks to Brother Zhu who often teaches you...... I can guess why Wang Zuohang came. ”

"Why? Tell me about it! "Wang Er Daqi, Ma Xiaotian, a stupid person, can actually think of it? Why can't I think of it?

Ma Xiaotian pointed to the barren fields around him, and said with a smile: "Yichuan has nothing to grab...... He almost joined us in the uprising, but we didn't mess around, we just collected the taxes of the rich, collected the autumn levy and the spring levy, collected the spring levy and then the autumn levy, and we had to collect it every year, and we could get by. However, he killed all the rich families and landlords in Yichuan, and swept most of the people in Yichuan into his army. In this case, how will Yichuan stay? It is estimated that the things he grabbed have been eaten, and there is no one in Yichuan to rob anymore, so he has to come to us. Grab one place, then another place and grab ...... Otherwise, he will starve to death. ”

Ma Xiaotian said this, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly tilted his head and nodded at him, this kid has a good surname, he has been learning to read and write with Zhang Yingxian every day for several months, and this insight began to slowly have. But Wang Er is still the same, skipping class every day, so there is no improvement in his head.

Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously to Wang Er: "If we let Wang Zuo hang in Baishui, Baishui will be in ruins like Yichuan, then this year's autumn tax will not be collected, and next year's tax will not be collected......"

"If you don't collect taxes, you can grow your own food and eat it......" Wang Er was still saying stupid things.

Ma Xiaotian couldn't help laughing: "Can we grow cloth in the cottage?" Salt? Iron? If the white water is broken, can we stay in Huanglong Mountain? will be like him, forced out of the mountains to wander around. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Ercai finally understood, and his face suddenly changed greatly: "Oh, when you say this, I finally understand that we can't let him come to Baishuihu, otherwise there will be no place for us to live." He immediately shouted: "Go, go and beat Wang Zuo flat!" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's army quickly moved in the direction of Baishui City, the closer to the city, the more people in the fields on the road, the chaotic crowd fled scattered in the fields, only to see that many people were running head-on with them, but running and running, suddenly saw Zhu Yuanzhang's army, and was so frightened that he suddenly froze.

The mouths of these people are also constantly shouting, "Oh my God! King Yichuan is about to go to the city......"

"Run ......"

"Huh? The front is ...... It's Baishui Zhuba......"

"Oh my God! Behind is Wang Zuohang, and in front is Zhu Ba, how can this be good? ”

"Should I be here for my life?"

"The ...... of the house Throw away all the belongings and run faster like this......"

"In charge, give your daughter to King Zhu Ba, and let him let us go over......"

The reaction of the fleeing villagers was also expected by Zhu Yuanzhang, who ordered the soldiers not to scare these villagers, and directly interspersed with the villagers. When his army brushed with these villagers, these people were so frightened that they trembled and fought with their teeth, but the whole rogue army passed by, and none of them used knives and guns against them, until the army was all over, these villagers breathed a sigh of relief, and sat down on the ground with a puff, sweat flowed down in eight petals, as if they had passed through a ghost gate......

After running forward for a while, Zhu Yuanzhang found that several teams of Xiangyong ran from the front, these Xiangyong had obviously only gone through a tearing up, several people were injured, with blood stains on their bodies, but fortunately they didn't hurt their legs, so they could still run fast. Those who hurt their legs probably won't be able to escape.

These villagers ran over and saw Zhu Yuanzhang's army, just like the villagers just now, and they were frightened.

When Zhu Yuanzhang passed by them, he grabbed a villager and asked, "What is the situation ahead?" ”

"Scared? Miscellaneous...... What the...... What's going on? Xiang Yong trembled with fright.

"I'm asking how the battle is going ahead? How many people are there in the Xiang Yong Army? How many people are there in Wang Zuohang? The situation of the war? ”

Na Xiangyong was frightened, how could he be in the mood to calmly answer Zhu Yuanzhang's question, he trembled and said: "A lot...... A lot of rogues, too many to count...... Several of the township warriors organized by the lord have been defeated, and now ...... Only Master Xu Renjie Xu is still supporting in front...... If it weren't for him holding on, Whitewater City would have been finished. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang secretly praised Xu Renjie in his heart, threw Naxiang Yong away, and continued to lead the troops forward.

After a long and rapid walk, the walls of Whitewater City could finally be seen in front of me. Zhu Yuanzhang's army came out of the Huanglong Mountain in the northeast, so he came from the northeast and saw the east gate of Baishui City.

And Yichuan Wang Zuohang should have come from the side of Huanglong Mountain, so he came from due north, and the attack should also be the north gate of Baishui City, from Zhu Yuanzhang's current point of view, Wang Zuohang's army can not be seen yet. But looking to the north, you can see that on the other side of the walls of Whitewater City, a lot of yellow sand and dust has been raised in the sky.

This kind of dust, ordinary people must not understand what it is, but Zhu Yuanzhang has been on the battlefield for a long time, and at a glance, he knows that this thing is the mud and dust raised by the army when he stepped on the dry and hard ground when he was marching. At this time, there was a great drought in the world, and the ground was extremely dry, and anyone who landed on such a ground would inevitably raise dust and ashes. And dozens of people, hundreds of people marching together, the dust raised will not be very conspicuous, but thousands, or even tens of thousands of people trotting together, the dust raised can rush up and be seen from a long distance.

Scouts or generals in ancient times generally have a special skill, called "the method of observing dust", because they carry out reconnaissance and sentry work all year round, they are very familiar with the sand and dust raised by the army when they march quickly, and they only need to look up from a distance to see how high the sand and dust raised by the enemy army is, and how large the enveloping range is, so that they can guess how many people the enemy army has, of course, this will not be very accurate, and often make mistakes, and the error may even reach several thousand people. Therefore, the method of observing dust can only be used as a preliminary prediction, and cannot replace the reconnaissance of scouts.

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyes and swept away the mud and dust, and his heart was suddenly shocked: "This scale...... At least 5,000 people ......"

He hurriedly asked the army to speed up, stick to the city wall and go around, and rushed to the north gate as soon as possible.

As soon as he bypassed the corner of the city wall, the vision in front of him opened, and a battlefield of no small scale appeared in front of Zhu Yuanzhang!

I saw that outside the north gate of Baishui City, in the middle of the vast and dry fields, there were two armies that had just entered the stage of confrontation, one army stood with its back to the city, the number of people was only one thousand at most, the composition of this army was very complicated, among them, there were two hundred people who should be the guards of the Ming Dynasty, wearing bright red mandarin duck battle jackets, holding spears in their hands, as well as swords and shields, etc., and there were a few people wearing the uniforms of military attachés of the Ming Dynasty, which should be a hundred generals.

The other 600 people, also carrying neat spears in their hands, wearing neat blue cloth clothes, the front chest and back of the clothes are actually embroidered with words, it is a big "Xu" character, needless to say, these 600 people are the township warriors organized by Xu Renjie Xu. He is really funny, and he actually prepared a neat costume for his fellow soldier.

In addition, there are two hundred people, that is, the miscellaneous townsmen, dressed very messily, and the weapons in their hands are also varied, and they have not been carefully prepared at a glance, and these two hundred people should be from a small-scale township team organized by multiple squires, and now they are only temporarily put together, which looks chaotic.

Standing opposite them was the army of rogues hanging on the left side of King Yichuan......

Zhu Yuanzhang swept over at a glance, boom, it's really a big scale, all over the mountains, there are people everywhere, people are head to head, people are crowding people's heads...... Zhu Yuanzhang, who had seen countless military formations in his previous life, only took a short time to judge that there were at least 8,000 rogue here!

It is rumored in the rivers and lakes that the king of Yichuan has more than 10,000 thieves, and it seems that more than 10,000 is a bit of a false report, but 8,000 is not less.

With so many thieves, they were really scared to death, and the 1,000 officers and soldiers and the Xiangyong coalition army standing opposite them were all so frightened that their legs were trembling, and they were in a cold sweat. At the head of Baishui City stood Cao Baoxiang, the eldest lord of the county, his face was like dirt, and he muttered in his mouth: "Why...... I'm obviously the * county commander of Baishui, why should I be beaten by the Liukou of Yichuan? This...... It doesn't make sense......"