"Make it up." Li Zicheng called softly.

There were snowflakes in the air, and a heavy snowfall came unexpectedly, and it became colder and colder in the mountains. Li Zicheng is no longer the prestige of the king in the past, and he is at the foot of the snowy mountain by the Dadu River at this time. This dangerous and remote area, which belonged to Sichuan in the Ming Dynasty, belonged to the Tianquan Liuban Recruitment Division, but now it is assigned to Huding County, Hanxikang Province.

The current situation is even more embarrassing than when he fled from Xi'an to Zhongnan Mountain. The soldiers and horses under his command are getting smaller and smaller, and now all the brothers under Li Zicheng add up to less than three hundred. What's worse is the current situation.

Chuanzhong is no longer tenable, they have been fleeing for the past few months, but every time they go to a place, it will not be long before they will be approached by the official army, and they have to break through and flee. Every time there is a breakout, many brothers will be captured and killed. Every time they flee, many people will run away.

They fled all the way to the foot of the snowy mountain, and hid in this most remote and inhospitable place. Although they temporarily threw off their pursuers, the cold weather and poor supplies also made it more difficult for them.

Li Zicheng was upset, after he was defeated by Qin Liangyu before, he still wanted to lead his troops to Yungui. The rebellion of Yungui Tusi gave Li Zicheng a glimmer of hope, but who would have expected that the rebellion in several provinces would be put down so quickly.

In Sichuan, there are not only many garrisons, but also a large number of reservists and township militias. The joint defense of villages and villages, and the protection of armor by every family, make Sichuan like a tight net, and they will be attacked wherever they go, and it is difficult to hide.

Li Zicheng's nephew, a tiger Li Guo came back dejected.

Li Guo went out with more than 30 old brothers three days ago to collect grain. As a result, he went out for three days, but he did not bring back a grain of grain, and when he went there were thirty-seven men, and when he came back, only twenty-one remained.

"Uncle, all the places in the vicinity have been changed. The imperial court set up a prefecture and county here, and sent troops to garrison it. There is also a reserve army and a township army, and there are militia and people's police below, and every village has a militia and weapons. On each major road, there are also military sentry posts. Especially now that people everywhere have got identity tags. When leaving the county border, there must be a road from the township police station, and if you leave the house, you must also have the county police station stamp. Not only when you enter the city, but also when you walk. ”

After they came down the mountain, they originally wanted to buy grain, but when the people in the villages below saw their unfamiliar faces and bought more grain, they immediately asked to see their identity cards, but they naturally didn't. I do not buy it for convenience. They went to another village, but the other party also wanted to check the identity card, and Li Guo took out a large ingot of silver and wanted to solve it with money. As a result, the other party hesitated for a while and then accepted it, and then said that he agreed to sell the grain.

Just when Li Guo breathed a sigh of relief, who knew that the village chief secretly sent someone to report to the township. The head of the township immediately rushed to the police and militia with the police and militia of the police station and the militia team, and the two sides fought, and Li Guo and his men had a total of 37 old brothers. actually fell behind.

Those militia people's police places familiar, sudden attack. Also equipped with muskets, grenades, etc., in a battle, Li Guo lost sixteen brothers and escaped in embarrassment.

Looking at Li Guo's embarrassed appearance, Li Zicheng couldn't blame him.

They are now in disarray, and they are short of bows and arrows. The brothers were so demoralized that they could not even eat enough, and they hid in Tibet all day long.

Even Li Zicheng has eaten wild vegetables for several days.

"Kill a horse!"

Li Zicheng waved helplessly.

"Uncle. We now have less than a hundred horses left, and we don't have enough horses, and if the officers and soldiers come to kill us, we won't be able to run away without horses. Li Guo hurriedly said.

"The family has been without food for two days, and it is difficult to hunt a prey in this heavy snow, and it is even difficult to get some wild vegetables. If there is no more food to eat, everyone will cross, and besides, we have no food and grass to feed the horses. ”

Liu Zongmin and Yuan Zong's first few old brothers came over.

When they saw Li Guo's appearance, they also understood that this time they were returning empty-handed, and they couldn't help but sigh together.

"King Chuang, we can't sit still. If you want me to say, just find a small village, let's go in the dark and grab some food to fill our stomachs. ”

Li Zicheng said with some hesitation, "In this way, it will be exposed." ”

He didn't expect that the officers and soldiers would chase after him so closely, and even in such a deserted place, the officers and soldiers kept biting on it.

"His mother's current Sichuan, bandits are suppressed everywhere, and the cottage poles in various places have been wiped out one by one, or they take the initiative to go down the mountain to accept Zhao'an. Otherwise, we could have killed one or two small poles, grabbed some grain and grass, and even added some men. ”

Li Zicheng and others have felt the drastic changes in Sichuan, and Li Zicheng has also entered Sichuan before. Only less than ten years ago, when Sichuan had just experienced the rebellion of Lu'an, there was chaos everywhere, the big poles and small poles along the road were chaotic, mountain bandits, horse thieves and even Tusi soldiers, each of them formed a village to defend themselves, and even robbed each other, and the water was very muddy. At that time, wherever they fought and robbed, hundreds of people followed the army, and the local government could not stop it at all.

But now, it's a different story. Not to mention Chengdu and other plain areas, even in the remote places by the Dadu River under the snowy mountains, the control of the government is also extremely strong.

Those cottage bandits could not see it, the guards of each village and each fortress were strengthened, and a lot of new roads were built, and there was a castle every other section, which was a military station, a post post and a warehouse, etc., and there were special patrol teams to patrol the roads, and each village and village also had its own militia joint defense team.

In particular, this identity tag and road strip keep them from hiding.

"King Chuang, now the investigation in the southwest is tight, hundreds of thousands of elites of the imperial courts of Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan provinces have gathered, especially Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan-Gui, there are officers and soldiers everywhere, all of them are the ace elites of the imperial court. In addition, the provinces of Sichuan and Hunan are also full of soldiers, there are local garrisons, there are also reserve armies, township armies, militia joint defense teams, etc., all roads are very tight, we are now this little person, not to mention the regular official army, that is, we meet the rural joint defense team, militia team, we are not their opponents. ”

Li Zicheng was so confused that he couldn't stay in Sichuan, and he couldn't go to other southwestern provinces. It's not to go, it's not to stay, what to do.

"It's a little looser to the west, but there is a snowy mountain over there, and it is snowing all year round, not to mention that it is a cold winter in Layue right now, and we have no food, grass and no clothes, so we can't get through the snowy mountain."

The beard on Liu Zongmin's face has not been taken care of for a long time, and it is as messy as a handful of thatch. His eyes were a little less energetic, "But you can't sit still like this." Now there are rumors out there. said that Luo Rucai had been captured by the officers and soldiers, and there were portraits of King Chuang and our general series posted everywhere outside. ”

At this time, a voice whispered, "Why don't we go down the mountain and surrender." ”

Unexpectedly, this sentence did not cause King Chuang and others to shout, and everyone was surprisingly silent.

After a long time, Liu Zongmin sighed. "I heard that the Mongolian tribes in the northern steppes have surrendered to the imperial court, and the Jurchens have also moved their capital to the extreme north, and now the Tusi Rebellion in the southwest has been pacified" He sighed again, "It seems that the Han Dynasty is destined to return, and Liu Jiye is the true son of heaven, and the world is stable." ”

"After the chaos, there will be great governance." Tian Jianxiu said suddenly.

Li Zicheng became more and more annoyed in his heart, but he understood that what everyone said was the truth.

It's not that they haven't been defeated in the past, but even if they lose badly. If you have a chance to breathe, re-raise your banner and shout, thousands of people will inevitably respond. But now, the land is at peace, and no people are willing to support them, let alone follow them.

They see them as thieves, and they see them as cowards. Wherever they went, the people closed their doors as if they were thieves. Swords and arrows face each other. The imperial court is also increasingly pressing, and there are officers and soldiers everywhere, like a net from heaven and earth.

In the past, the world was in turmoil, and they were like fish in water.

And now, the water is gone, and they are a school of fish in the desert.

"We're all on the list. The court will not let us go. Li became a self-enlightened man.

Liu Zongmin said again, "Either we kill the horse and then have a full meal, and everyone will disperse and leave." Then find a secluded place, change your name and surname, and be an ordinary person? ”

Li Zicheng sighed again, the people's hearts were scattered, and the team couldn't take it anymore. Even Liu Zongmin, the No. 2 person in the army, has the idea of going, and there are still a few people in this team who are willing to continue.

"What do the others mean?" Li Zicheng looked at Yuan Zongdi and the others.

Everyone bowed their heads and remained silent.

But silence is acquiescence, and it can be seen that everyone is tired of this kind of escape without a future.

"That's fine." Li Zicheng nodded, "But I also have something to say, everyone doesn't want to run away anymore, and it's right." If the Tao has changed today, the way of the world has also changed, the world has stabilized, the mandate of heaven belongs to the Han and Liu Jiye, and we continue to rebel, and there is no way out. Incognito is also a way out. However, I advise everyone to go to the west over the snowy mountains, although it is now also the territory of the Han Dynasty, Xikang Province, but the control is definitely not as good as that of Sichuan. If we go over there, we'll be safer if we go incognito. ”

"If there is a time to come, we can flee west." Li Zicheng said again.

A conversation can be regarded as deciding the final fate of the breaking army.

"Slaughter a few horses, let's eat first, and then everyone will cross the snowy mountains, and then disperse after arriving there, and go their separate ways!"

Everyone returned to the temporary camp with a heavy heart, and Liu Zongmin personally selected two thin horses to slaughter.

When the fire was lit, large pieces of horse meat were thrown into the pot to stew, and more than 100 people who had not eaten a full meal for a long time gathered in front of the pot, roasting the fire while smelling the meat in the pot.

Everyone ate this horse meat feast very fiercely and silently, and they all gobbled it up, but few people spoke.

Everyone knows that although it will not be dispersed today, this is a scattered meal.

A few miles away, a caravan of horses approached, all on white horses, with white cloaks on them, and even the horses with white hoods.

The first rider raised his hand, and the knights behind him stopped their horses.

"The gang of thieves is ahead, everyone dismounts and quietly touches over."

Not long ago, they received a report that there had been a case of robbers going down the mountain to rob in Luding County, and the joint defense team fought with them and killed 16 robbers. The officers of the county police station, who arrived later, found something on the bodies of the robbers at the scene, and initially suspected that these people were not ordinary robbers, but should be a rout of the bandits.

As soon as Jinyiwei, who was tracking down the relics of Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai, and other rebels in Sichuan, received the news, he immediately transferred the information to the Jinyiwei special reconnaissance team in Lushan County, which was the nearest to him, and ordered them to rush to investigate as soon as possible.

At this time, the captain of the special reconnaissance team did not know at all that the rout army of more than 100 people that appeared in his telescope was not just an ordinary rout, but the last bandit capital of the breaking army was here.

"If there is resistance, kill on the spot!" The captain gave the order in a low voice, then pulled out his loaded short gun and was the first to touch it. (To be continued.) )

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