Hearing the arrival of the peasant army, the county town of Hequ panicked.

Hequ County ordered Quan Zhihuan to convene Zheng Dashan, the commander of the Hequ Battalion, Jiang Chang, the garrison of Hequ, and the new rescuer Li Guo and others to discuss the matter of defending the city.

In fact, the matter of defending the city has been arranged, the north gate of the river meander is guarded by Jiang Chang, a garrison with weak combat effectiveness, and the west gate and the east gate are guarded by 500 people from Zheng Dashan, the general manager of Qian. Li Guo's more than 100 people looked very strong in combat and were responsible for guarding the south gate.

In the past two days, the county magistrate Quan Zhihuan recruited Li Guo to talk a few times, Li Guo was angry, and his answer was very proper, Quan Zhihuan was very satisfied, in the end, he was an elite soldier. So Ximen sent Li Guo to defend, and Quan Zhihuan would also take a hundred and ten officials to go on a mission to assist Li Guo in defense.

At this time, with the freezing of the Yellow River, the Xikou Gudu was no longer a natural danger, and the number of peasant armies was increasing, surrounding the city of Hequ.

With the strong and tall city walls, in the face of tens of thousands of peasant troops who did not have heavy siege weapons, although Quan Zhihuan, the commander of Hequ County, could not ensure that Hequ City was one million percent infallible, if the peasant army forcibly attacked the city, the losses would be not small. Losing too much strength, the peasant army must not do it, Quan Zhihuan thought to himself. So now Quan Zhihuan can only hold on to the order and not be allowed to fight.

Zheng Dashan, the commander of the Hebao Battalion, and Jiang Chang, the garrison, did not dare to go to war, but when they saw this order, they guarded their respective city gates and refused to come forward.

Only Li Guo said to Quan Zhihuan, "My lord, the bandits have just arrived, and they will definitely win if they are killed now." ”

Quan Zhihuan didn't allow it at first, but he couldn't bear Li Guo's insistence, so he had to agree, "This battle must be safe, and if the situation is not good, return to the city immediately, and the plan to defend the city depends on the little general!" ”

Li Guo nodded, then drew his waist knife and shouted at the soldiers who surrounded him, "Brothers, prepare to fight." ”

The soldiers screamed and drew their weapons.

Quan Zhihuan stroked his beard, admiring in his heart, such morale is really rare.

But when he saw the soldiers with weapons suddenly pounce on him and his servants, Quan Zhihuan was stunned, and before he could react, two long knives had already reached his neck. Master Zhao Youbin was talking happily with Nie Xin, and he was suddenly stunned. Nie Xin smiled, waved his hand, and said to the two soldiers next to him, "Good life, protect Mr. Zhao!" Then he turned his head and arched his hand at Zhao Youbin, "Brother Zhao, don't blame, wait for the elder brother to apologize to you in person, and you will understand when the time comes." ”

At this time, on the wall of the south gate, a banner embroidered with a tiger was raised, and then the city gate was opened. Liu Tichun ordered the soldiers to tie the prepared white handkerchiefs around their left arms in accordance with Li Guo's instructions, so as to avoid misunderstandings with the civilian troops entering the city.

Outside the south gate was the team of King Gao Chuang and Li Zicheng, looking at the tiger flag on the city tower and the open city gate, the two of them smiled together.

"Self-contained, Li Guo, this kid is brave and strategic." Gao Yingxiang praised.

Li Zicheng nodded, "Uncle, although Li Guo has been stubborn since he was a child, he is very smart and deserves a big responsibility." ”

"Let's go! Town. Gao Yingxiang walked towards the city gate. Li Zicheng led the generals to follow closely.

Huang Xiu, who was hiding in the crowd, was worried about Li Guo's safety, whipped his horse, and took more than a dozen personal soldiers to grab Gao Yingxiang's horse head, and ran into the city first.

At this time, in the city of Hequ, people shouted everywhere that the city was broken! The city is broken!

Although Zheng Dashan, the general manager of Qian, was also cowardly, when he heard that the city was broken, he was anxious, so he urged the soldiers to fight hard and prepare to fight out of the city.

Zheng Dashan scolded and scolded, "Fuck me and rush forward, whoever wants to be a bad seed, Lao Tzu will kill him." ”

The soldiers' salaries are usually deducted, and the military heart has long been gone, and when they see Zheng Dashan's bad attitude, they have no intention of fighting. A fast-talking soldier somehow said what was in his heart: "I usually don't pay salaries, but at this time I remembered to let Lao Tzu work hard." ”

Zheng Dashan was furious, and with a wave of his hand, two pro-soldiers pounced, and the fast-talking soldier was ruthless in his heart, killing one pro-soldier with a knife, and the other was also knocked to the ground by the rest of the soldiers.

Zheng Dashan saw that something was wrong, he got on the horse and wanted to leave, but he didn't know who it was, so he stabbed Zheng Dashan off the horse with a knife, and he couldn't live anymore.

The chaos in the meandering city became more and more chaotic.

Jiang Chang, who was guarding the meander, was already afraid of the enemy like a tiger, and when he heard that the city was broken, he immediately changed into shabby clothes, led a few relatives, and ran home, wanting to escape with his family. But at this time, the street was even more chaotic, with the sound of horses' hooves and fighting from time to time, Jiang Chang was so frightened that he trembled, and he didn't know whether to go out or hide quietly at home.

While he was hesitating, there was a hurried sound of horses' hooves, which suddenly stopped at the door, slammed the door open, and broke into some soldiers. Jiang Chang's face was pale, and he secretly said in his heart, it's over!

"Pack up your things and come with us!" A leading shout.

Jiang Chang was stunned, because these soldiers were wearing the clothes of the Ming army, but they had a white handkerchief wrapped around their left arm. Jiang Chang took a closer look, and suddenly realized that he knew the leading soldier, who was said to be the small leader under the general surnamed Li (Li Guo) sent by Hong Chengchou, named Li Twelve.

"You're not..." Jiang Chang said suspiciously, but he understood a little in his heart, could it be that these Ming troops who rescued the meanders were pretended to be peasant soldiers?

"Less nonsense! Come with us! Then Li Twelve glared.

Jiang Chang hurriedly packed up with his wife, took the children and a few relatives and maids, and followed Li Twelve. Why didn't these people kill themselves? Is it because he is usually greedy for some military salaries, and there is no great evil? Jiang Chang looked at these soldiers and trembled in his heart.

After a while, Jiang Chang found that his group was taken to the door of the master Zhao Youbin's house, and met the old lady of Quan Zhihuan of Zhixian County, Jiang Chang saluted Quan Zhihuan's old lady, and was taken to Zhao Youbin's house together. Immediately, the gate of the courtyard was closed, and there were soldiers with towels wrapped around their left arms inside and outside the courtyard.

After a while, there was a "sealed knife" from the street! Sealed knives! Jiang Chang knew that the battle was over.

Because the troops of Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng were the first to enter Hequ, Hequ City was not greatly damaged.

Li Guo put the team in order, met Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, Huang Xiu saw Li Guo, and immediately led more than a dozen personal soldiers to Li Guo's back.

Gao Yingxiang shook his head when he saw Huang Xiu's appearance.

Li Zicheng was about to speak, and Liu Zongmin next to him opened his mouth, "Make up for it, you are a good soldier, and the six relatives don't recognize it!" ”

"What's going on?" Li Guo was puzzled.

Liu Zongmin glared at Huang Xiu behind Li Guo, "Aren't you going to prepare for war against King Gao Chuang and Brother Li?" ”

Li Guo looked back at Huang Xiu, Huang Xiu's face turned red and his head lowered. Grandma's, this little girl is in trouble, Li Guo scolded in his heart.

"Uncle! Second uncle! Children are not sensible, you are not to blame. Li Guo said to Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng.

Gao Yingxiang waved his hand, "It's okay, this time to break through the river meander, you have a great achievement, and the rest is a trivial matter." ”

Li Guo nodded, and behind his back, he called Huang Xiu, "Mother, say, what are you doing again?" And to go to war with your own people? ”

Huang Xiu said cowardly, "Actually, I don't blame me, they want to rob the sheep!" ”

"Sheep? Where did the sheep come from? Li Guo didn't understand.

It turned out that after Huang Xiu robbed Liang Yongdong's sheep, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng's men came. Huang Xiu ordered all personnel, including the child soldiers, to take up arms and surround the sheep, of course, there were too many sheep to surround them.

Several Gao Yingxiang's soldiers saw that there were sheep and rushed over to catch them, but Huang Xiu picked up his knife and rushed over. Fortunately, Gu Ying stopped him, or he had to fight.

Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng saw that they were Li Guo's people, so they drank their subordinates.

Huang Xiu's sheep were saved. But Huang Xiu was not a dime, and sent Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng dozens of sheep to fight for tooth sacrifice. Huang Xiu thought to herself, this is what I sent, it's not okay to rob it! The loot is our grandfather Li's own, I want to protect it, Huang Xiu is not willing to let Li Guo suffer at all.

Oh, it turns out that this is the case, how many sheep can there be, such a big fight, Li Guo disagreed. "So, Gu Ying and they are still watching sheep outside the city? I said how I didn't see him and the children. ”

Huang Xiu nodded.

Li Guo thought for a while, and said to Nie Xin beside him, "Send Zhixian Quan Zhihuan, Garrison Jiang Chang, and Master Zhao Youbin to Gu Ying outside the city." Secret, don't let anyone know! ”