"What?" Everyone was shocked together: "Damn, we'd rather attack the state city than let that town go, which blindless bastard actually wants to deal with it?" ”

Wang Er and Miao Mei were even more furious!

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't get angry much, and said with a smile: "That town is not marked with the words 'only Baishui Zhuba can touch', of course other rebels will want to get involved, this is a normal thing, why be angry?" ”

Xue Hongqi interjected: "According to the rules of the rivers and lakes, our scouts have already stepped on the plate in that town, only we are qualified to do it, and other rebels must wait for us to let go of that place before they can rob us, otherwise they will not give us face!" ”

"You...... Where do you get these rules? "Xu Renjie is surprised.

"Of course it's the rules of horse thieves!" Xue Hongqi said seriously: "Northern Shaanxi is very big, the horse thieves are not only my group, sometimes two horse thieves are eyeing a caravan at the same time, whose scout is eyeing the caravan first, this caravan belongs to which horse thief, this rule is the road!" ”

"This rule works among horse thieves, but it may not work among the rebels." Xu Renjie said twice: "Those who dare to rebel are all lawless people, and a few of them abide by the rules of the rivers and lakes. When Wang Jiayin was still there, the 36th Battalion could barely abide by the rules of the rivers and lakes, but now...... Hard! ”

"Regardless of whether they follow the rules or not, as long as they say so, we have an excuse." Wang Er slapped the straddled war horse fiercely, and rushed out first: "I'll bite this excuse to death, I have to save the town." ”

Wang Er, an impulsive guy, had already run away without a shadow after speaking, and he could see a slip of sand and dust dragged up behind his horse's buttocks in front of him, Miao Mei was afraid that he would have an accident when he ran alone, so he hurriedly hit the horse and chased after him.

Zhu Yuanzhang also felt a little headache when he took these two people with muscles in their brains, and the soldiers didn't bring them, so it was useful to rush out like this? If that rebel army is really a poor bear and a vicious person, it doesn't matter if you are the second king of Baishui, and kill you while you are alone, what can you do?

He hurriedly hugged his fist at Xue Hongqi and said: "Trouble the sister to lead the cavalry team to catch up, first set up a field for Wang Er, and I will come later." ”

Xue Hongqi nodded, and with a wave of his hand, the two hundred horse thieves under her command raised their whips together, and the dust was up, and the two hundred horsemen chased after Wang Er.

Zhu Yuanzhang actually has the heart to keep that town, after all, it is the town of the Ming Dynasty, and the people in the town are the people of the Ming Dynasty, although he is now a thief, but his feelings for this country are deeper than anyone else, and he does not dare to delay at the moment, so he quickly picked up five hundred elite soldiers and chased the cavalry team as fast as possible, and the other seven thousand recruits let Xu Renjie lead the chase over.

After a hurried march and a few miles away, when Zhu Yuanzhang arrived with 500 elite soldiers, he saw that the scene in front of him was so lively. At the foot of a hill stands a small town that is still quite prosperous, and from a distance, there are many houses, at least thousands of people. This is not an undefended town, but a town with some combat power, with a town wall about six feet high built on the periphery, wrapping the whole town in the middle, and the town wall is now full of village warriors, holding hunting bows, bamboo spears and other weapons, and several people dressed as squires are mixed in these village warriors.

Xue Hongqi, Wang Er and others led two hundred cavalry, blocking the gate of the town.

On the opposite side of the cavalry, there was a large number of rogues, at first glance, there were at least 30,000, and there were many people with heads after heads. But this rogue army is a little different from the ordinary rogue army, it is not like the rogue army of Wang Zuohang, Zhao Sheng, who lights the lamp, and Chaotian Monkey, but is clearly divided into three parts.

The first 3,000 men were obviously elite soldiers, they were all young and middle-aged, and all of them were carrying decent weapons, some were spears, some were knives, and some were holding bows...... Not only are they well-armed, but they also have a military formation, although it is a little crooked and not very neat, but knowing how to set up a formation shows that they are not simple.

Behind these 3,000 elites, there were about 7,000 young people, and their weapons were much worse, holding hoes, plowshares, wood knives, pot lids and other things, and they were not arranged in a military formation, but crowded in a disorderly manner.

In the back, there were more than 20,000 old and weak women, who were even more disorganized than the front, not only crowded in a disorderly manner, but also sat or lying, walked or stopped, and did not enter the mental state of battle at all.

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang saw this rogue army, his brows furrowed slightly: This rogue is not simple! At least several times stronger than the waste such as Wang Zuohang, lighting lamps, and chaotic monkeys, their leaders know how to divide the army into three groups of people according to their combat effectiveness, so as to avoid the weak army dragging the strong army back, which is much smarter than the ordinary leader of the rebel army.

Moreover, this leader is still trying to learn the tactics of the officers and soldiers, and it can be seen from the crooked military formation of the 3,000 men at the front that this leader has no formal education, but belongs to the kind of self-taught people, and this military formation is obviously secretly learned by him from the officers and soldiers, so he is not proficient in using it, and only has a basic shape.

Who could it be? Li Zicheng? Zhang Xianzhong? Gao Yingxiang? Wang for his own use? The fifth battalion of the left of the revolution? Zhu Yuanzhang's mind flashed through these more headache-inducing names.

From a distance, Zhu Yuanzhang heard Xue Hongqi negotiating loudly: "This town is the fat meat targeted by Baishui Zhuba and Yulin Xue Hongqi, please let your army ...... Don't break the rules on the rivers and lakes! ”

Hearing her words, the rogue army fluctuated slightly, and the soldiers at the front showed obvious disdain on their faces, and a rough man, who looked like the little leader of the rebel army, came out and replied loudly: "Your fat? Don't laugh, just your cavalry, oh, there are five or six hundred infantry in the distance...... With this kind of people, we can't defeat this town at all, and this town is ours. ”

Xue Hongqi continued: "May I ask which rebel army are you?" Please come out and speak......

"Yan'an Cao Ying!" Someone on the opposite side responded loudly, and then the door opened, and a short man walked out, this person was at most five feet tall, with dark skin, a pair of thin eyes, a big nose, and a very open grin.

"Cao Ying? This looks...... Actually named Cheng Cao? Xue Hongqi's mouth has always been not very polite, the first thing he said was to scold the monkey for being a lump of earth, and later called Xu Renjie a big clove of garlic, she didn't have anything good to say about this person named Cao Ying, she opened her throat and smiled: "You shouldn't be named Cao Ying, you should be named Bantam Tiger, hahaha......"

It's actually extremely impolite for her to talk like this, and if she doesn't get it right, she will turn her face and fight. But the man named Cao Ying was not angry at all, he took a closer look at Xue Hongqi, and a smile suddenly bloomed on his ugly face: "Okay...... What an imposing girl...... I like it...... What's your name? Yulin Xue Hongqi, uh...... When I left Shaanxi, I didn't hear of you, could it be that you just broke the uprising? Pretty good name...... Are you married? ”

Xue Hongqi was rude enough to speak, but this Cao Ying was even more impolite when he spoke, and he actually asked the girl if she was married as soon as she opened her mouth, which was really more exaggerated than the other.

Fortunately, Xue Hongqi was not angry, the children of the rivers and lakes abide by the rules of the rivers and lakes, but they don't need to learn to talk about red tape like a scholar, what they pay attention to is to be straightforward and fast-talking, what to think of and say anything, Xue Hongqi actually replied seriously: "The old lady is not married yet." ”

"Huh? Not married yet? That's great! Do you want to marry me? Cao Ying suddenly said this, which scared Wang Er, Miao Mei and others so much that they didn't fall off the horse.

Xue Hongqi was also asked by this question, this ...... This guy is too direct, isn't he?

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang also led the team to arrive, and five hundred elite soldiers also lined up, and they were behind Xue Hongqi, which was regarded as a field, and then Zhu Yuanzhang rode out on horseback and rode together with Xue Hongqi, Wang Er, Miao Mei and others.

Xue Hongqi turned his head and whispered to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Eighth Brother Zhu, this guy calls himself Cao Ying, he has a five-short body, he is ugly to death, and with a hippie smile, he looks quite unproductive, so he doesn't seem to be worried." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, "This person is not simple, be careful!" ”

It turned out that when Zhu Yuanzhang heard the words "Yan'an Cao Ying", he already knew who this guy was. He is one of the most famous core figures in the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Luo Rucai!

Luo Rucai is a native of Yan'an, Shaanxi, nicknamed Cao Ying, sleek, strategic, is a rare person in the righteous army who knows how to use his brain, in the process of the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Luo Rucai has played an important role many times. Once Li Zicheng was defeated and almost died, it was Luo Rucai who rescued him and borrowed his soldiers and horses to protect him from turning over. Later, Zhang Xianzhong's army was defeated and defected to Li Zicheng, and he was almost killed by Li Zicheng, and it was Luo Rucai who privately let Li Xianzhong go and gave him 500 men and horses, so that Zhang Xianzhong could regain his career. Li Zicheng was ambushed in Tongguan, and it was Luo Rucai who united the rebels of various departments and sent troops together to save Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong only know how to strengthen themselves, but they do not know how to observe the situation in the world, if there is no Luo Rucai, they would have been reduced to a lone army, eaten by the imperial court, it is Luo Rucai who takes care of the overall situation again and again, so that the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty came to the forefront.

Of course, at this time it was only the early stage of the uprising, Luo Rucai had not yet shown his real name, the world only knew his name as Cao Ying, but he did not know his real name, and his influence in the rebel army was not as great as later, at this time he was just a fledgling dwarf. Last time, the 36th Battalion passed by Huanglong Mountain, and Cao Ying was among them, but he was very low-key at that time and did not attract everyone's attention at all.

Cao Ying said loudly again: "Sister Xue Hongqi, have you thought about it?" Do you want to marry me? If you marry me, everything is easy to discuss. ”

(To be continued)