Du Wenhuan is now turning to find Zhu Ba's main force, it is obviously impossible!

The deputy chief soldier beside him couldn't help but ask, "General, what about the group of enemy scouts in front?" Do you want to catch up and kill them? ”

"Nonsense! If you don't kill these bastards, how can I get angry. Du Wenhuan waved his horsewhip, pointed to the plain in front of him, and said, "Catch up with me and screw off the heads of these scouts." ”

Before he could finish swinging his horsewhip, the scouts gathered in front of him suddenly whistled and ran. Don't say it, it's really fast, those two legs are turned over like wheels, and they run out more than ten feet in the blink of an eye. Du Wenhuan couldn't help but rub his eyes, and when he looked again, the dozens of scouts ran farther.

"It's too fast!" Du Wenhuan was furious: "The thief army also chooses people who are good at running to be scouts. ”

If you want to talk about the war in the era of cold weapons, this is the worst point, you watch the enemy run a few miles in front of you, but you don't have planes, no cars, no motorcycles, etc., you can't chase ...... Although horses can also travel, but the Ming Dynasty lacks horses, like the bandit army led by Du Wenhuan, he is the general and the deputy general below, hundreds of households have horses, and the others are all thrown on two legs to hurry.

If the enemy army is also a large force of infantry, it is easier to chase, because there are always fast and slow runners in the army, and no matter how fast the people are, they have to wait for the slow ones to run together, otherwise the army formation will collapse, so an elite soldier chases a weak brigade, and often catches up and then "beheads countless people".

But if an army chases dozens of scouts, then don't think about rewarding!

Du Wenhuan didn't dare to let the horse catch up by himself, this was not a martial arts movie, he couldn't win thirty or forty enemy scouts with a few lieutenants, so he could only watch the scouts run farther and farther.

How can this be reasonable, Du Wenhuan really wanted to jump up and scold his mother, but he had to hold back, so as not to lose the prestige of the general, so he had to cough dryly and said: "My purpose is to exterminate the main force of the thief army...... Let them go. ”

The officers below all understood, and said that they would let them go, but in fact they couldn't catch them, but everyone was smart enough not to break it, and they all laughed it off.

Du Wenhuan's breath in his heart was really hard enough, he turned his head left and right, and suddenly saw a small village standing on the horizon to the south, with a few wisps of cooking smoke floating above the village, obviously an inhabited village. But judging by the size and architecture of this village, it is a remote village, and it should be inhabited by poor farmers.

"Humph! Lao Tzu never returns empty-handed. Du Wenhuan pointed to the village in the distance and said to the adjutant beside him: "This official thinks that the village is full of rogues, and there is no good citizen...... Take some people and cut off their heads for me......"

As soon as the adjutant heard this, he immediately understood that this was going to kill the good and take the risk! At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was really not a new thing to kill good and take risks, and many officers had done it, and if they returned empty-handed, they might not be able to get promoted and make a fortune, so they killed ordinary people and took their heads to risk their military exploits.

Everyone nodded silently, this thing can be done, but it can't be explained, once explained, they can't hang on their faces, so several low-level officers said together: "The general is wise, the subordinates look at this village, and they also feel that the village is full of thieves, and there is no good citizen, so let's lead the troops to level the village of the thieves." ”

So, the regular officers and soldiers of the imperial court, who had just appeared to be righteous and wise, suddenly turned into killers who were more ferocious than robbers, and they rushed into the small village next to them, and soon the screams of the old men and children, the cries of the women, and the roars of the men rang out in this remote village...... It took a long time to fall silent.

This poor little village was still strong and upright after the raids of countless rogues, but under the attack of officers and soldiers, it died out in an instant...... Wei Daming, what's wrong with you?

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Disorderly!

Chaos!

Zhu Yuanzhang responded to Miao Mei and used the golden secret trick to get rid of the pursuers, which seemed to be a very great event, but at this time in Shaanxi, it was just a trivial matter. Elsewhere, there were many more big events going on, and it made the trilateral governor Yang He anxious and dizzying.

On March 28, the third year of Chongzhen (1630 AD), a rebel army crossed the Yellow River from Shenmu and penetrated into the boundary of Shanxi Province, and since then the peasant uprising is no longer a matter of Shaanxi Province, but both Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces have been involved. When the imperial court got the news, it was shocked and hurriedly divided its troops into the west of the mountain to intercept it.

In the third year of Chongzhen, in June, Wang Jiayin, who was beaten by Hong Chengchou and hid in the mountains, made a comeback again, connecting and capturing Fugu and Hequ. When Hong Chengchou heard the news, he hurriedly led his troops to encircle and suppress, and Du Wenhuan also hurriedly ran to support.

Hong Chengchou and Wang Jiayin fought like this, Du Wenhuan followed the past all the way to kill good and risky achievements, such a trouble, stirred up the situation a big mess, the so-called troubled times must produce heroes, if there are no heroes, there will be heroes, and if there are no heroes, there will be demons, a character who can't tell whether he is a hero or a hero, whether he is a hero or a demon, really just came out.

This person is Yanbian Zhang Xianzhong!

Zhang Xianzhong, a native of Yan'an Wei Liushujian. He was a soldier in Yansui Town, and in June of the third year of Chongzhen, Wang Jiayin broke the valley and the river meander. Zhang Xianzhong responded with troops, proclaimed himself the "King of the Eight Kings", and supported Wang Jiayin with each other. Of course, at this time, Zhang Xianzhong had very few troops and little power, and no one knew that he would become a madman who swept the world in the future.

What could be more terrible than the birth of a demon?

Well, you guessed it, it's two demons who came into the world at the same time......

At the same time as Zhang Xianzhong led the people to revolt...... In a place called Mi Fat * County...... There's another demon on the move......

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Li Zicheng is walking on the edge of the fields in his hometown, he is twenty-five this year, he is in the prime of life, he has a very good face, good facial features, especially two eyebrows, which fly straight into the sideburns, looking very imposing. Especially a pair of eyes, the vision is far-reaching and profound, as if there is nowhere to tell if there is no place to tell the ambition.

There was not a single plant in the farmland around him, and all of them were abandoned, which shocked Li Zicheng for a while...... When he was twenty-one years old, he left his hometown to work as a post man in Yinchuan, and he did not return for several years. How do you live?

On the side of the road ahead, a small blacksmith shop appeared, and a young man who seemed to be the same age as Li Zicheng was sitting idly in the shop, obviously having no work to do......

Li Zicheng frowned, and greeted from afar: "Zong Min, what are you idle?" Don't work harder? ”

It turned out that this young man was a blacksmith, that is, a blacksmith, named Liu Zongmin, who had been Li Zicheng's friend since he was a child, and the two grew up playing together, and their relationship was excellent. A few years ago, Li Zicheng went out to work as a post boy and cut off contact, but when he came back this time, he felt cordial.

Liu Zongmin looked for a sound, and saw his childhood friend who he hadn't seen for a long time, and immediately laughed: "It turns out that you are back...... Huang Wa'er (Li Zicheng's young name), I haven't seen you for a long time, didn't you go to Yinchuan to be a post boy? How did you get back? ”

"Alas, the post guard can't do it anymore, and since last year, the imperial court has cut down the post station and told me to roll up the shop and leave!" Li Zicheng walked up to Liu Zongmin and sat down, and said with a wry smile: "I went to Ganzhou to be a border army for a year, but now the border army is not paid, so I have to go back to my hometown to see if I can farm some fields by myself." ”

"Farming?" Liu Zongmin laughed strangely: "Plant a fart field, our rice fat is now three feet on the ground, you have to thank God for being able to dig out a mouthful of water for you to drink, what kind of water do you use to farm?" ”

It turns out that there is also a great drought in rice fat! Li Zicheng was secretly shocked in his heart, he has traveled south and north in the past few years, but he has also seen a lot of the world, he knows about the drought in western Shaanxi, but people are this kind of thing, if they don't go home to see, they can't always give up.

"What then? I really don't have anywhere to go now! Li Zicheng smiled bitterly.

"Huang Wa'er, you have been a bold and courageous hero since you were a child, and now that you have nowhere to go, you might as well forget it!" Liu Zongmin laughed weirdly: "It's so chaotic outside now, there are soldiers everywhere catching thieves, and thieves killing soldiers...... Rebellions are commonplace. If the heroes of our rice fat don't catch up with this trip, don't let the heroes of the world look down on them. To tell you the truth, I have already fucking wanted to rebel, but I ran to rebel alone, and my heart was not solid, so I had to pull a few brothers together. ”

"Rebellion? How can it be so easy! Officers and soldiers are not easy to deal with...... Li Zicheng is a person who has served in the border army, and he knows very well that the regular army of the imperial court is not for fun, it is an army made with real swords and guns, and it is not something that a group of peasants can win with a hoe in their hands.

"The officers and soldiers are not easy to deal with, so can we deal with them easily?" Li Zongmin smiled hesitantly: "Lao Tzu opened two knives, and thirty idle men can't get close to me." Huang Wa'er, if you use real kung fu, you are a little better than me, and you are afraid of an egg. Our two brothers join forces, and Nagasaka Dangyang can also kill seven in and seven out. ”

"!" Li Zicheng said with a smile: "The military formation is not what you think...... The two men rushed into thousands of horses, and they couldn't find a single bone. The incident at Nagasaka Bridge, I think it's Mr. Storyteller's nonsense, Zhao Yun really dares to rush the million-strong army single-handedly, he is definitely the number one fool in the world. ”

Liu Zongmin was ridiculed by him, but he was not angry, and said with a smile: "Who said that there are only the two of us, don't hide it from you, our village ...... Nine out of ten people want to rebel, but they haven't found anyone to lead everyone to start up, isn't it providence that you, who have been soldiers and fought in battles, come back at this time? I think this is the end of the matter...... You're in charge, we'll do it with you......"