On the mountain trail, six fast horses galloped silently with their cages and their hooves wrapped in cloth. About three miles from the top of the mountain, the horse that was running in front suddenly lost its front hoof, and the horseman seemed to have been on guard, and a harrier turned over and rolled out, and stood firmly two feet away, and at the same time drew his knife in his hand, and his eyes were full of vigilance.

The five horses behind them didn't have time to rein in, they both tripped and fell, and the knights on the horses were smashed and gnawed on the mud all over the sky. At the same time, a dozen or so men sprang out of the forest, half of them stepped forward and tied up five fallen horses lying on the ground, and half surrounded the knight who was standing there, "Throw away the sword!" ”

The knight was tall, with a sword in his hand, and had no fear. Seeing that the people surrounding him were all dressed in black, he asked, "Are you robbers, or are you brothers who have passed through the stars?" ”

Hearing him say the number of the big leader, a man said strangely: "Who are you, how did you know the big leader of my family?" ”

The knight nodded, and knowing that these people were Guo Tianxing's subordinates, he also relieved his vigilance, and said while putting away his sword: "Take me to see Hui Dengxiang." ”

When the men saw that this person could tell the name of the big leader, they knew that this person and the big boss must be old acquaintances, so they also took the knife, and the man led by him hugged his fists and said: "I'm sorry, I'll take you to see the big leader, but please blindfold a few people." ”

The knight and his men did not resist, but let them be blindfolded, and helped them to their horses, until they entered the tent at the top of the mountain, when they were blindfolded. There are a lot of camps on this mountain, all of which are built on the mountain, the terrain is very dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it is the rebel army who only transferred from Wu'an a few days ago to fight over the Tianxing Division.

The leader of the rebel army Guo Tianxing, his real name is Hui Dengxiang, a native of Yulin, Shaanxi, Chongzhen started in the northwest in the second year, and Chongzhen was active in Shanxi with Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, in four years. The department is one of the 83 battalions of the Jinyu Righteous Army and one of the 32 battalions of Henan, with more than 10,000 subordinates. At the beginning of the year, he moved to Wu'an and other places with the Eight Kings, but because the officers and troops came from all sides to suppress him, he had to lead his troops to retreat to this Gaoze Mountain, preparing to wait and move.

The tall knight is called Li Zicheng, who was originally a Yinchuan post officer, after the court abolished the post station, he went home unemployed, and owed debts, and because he couldn't pay the debts of Ai Zhao, he was sued by Ai Juren to Mizhi County. The county commander Yan Zibin paraded him through the streets with a flail, almost died, and after being rescued by relatives and friends, he killed the creditor Ai Zhao in a fit of rage, and killed his wife again because of the adultery between his wife Han Jin'er and the village named Gaihu. In this way, Li Zicheng had two lives in his body, and the government could not help but ask, and he could not die if he suffered a lawsuit, so he simply went to Ganzhou, Gansu with his nephew Li Guo to join the army.

At that time, the general soldier of Ganzhou was posthumously awarded by the imperial court as Taifu Taishi, nicknamed "Wuxiang", and now Yang Zhaoji,——, the father of Yang Yufan, the general soldier of Tongzhou who led his troops to garrison Laizhou. Li Zicheng was soon promoted to the general of the army because of his tall stature and some skills under his command, but later killed the general Wang Kingdom and the local county commander in Yuzhong due to the problem of unpaid salaries, and launched a mutiny.

After the mutiny, Li Zicheng moved to Hanzhong and joined Wang Zuohang's rebel army. In the third year of Chongzhen, after Wang Zuohang was recruited by Yang He, the governor of the three sides, he turned to Zhang Cunmeng, who was nicknamed "not sticking to the mud", as a captain under Zhang, and then Zhang Cunmeng was reduced by Chen Qiyu, the governor of Yansui, and Li Zicheng was desperate and surrendered together, but he still had a rebellious will and waited for the opportunity to rebel again.

After Hong Chengchou took over as the governor of the three sides in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng rebelled again, led dozens of people to cross the Yellow River eastward, and defected to his uncle Gao Yingxiang, the "king of Chuang", in Shanxi, called "Chuang General". Last year, the imperial court appointed Chen Qiyu as the governor of the five provinces, unified command of the five provinces to suppress thieves, Shanxi general Cao Wenzhao also led his troops to defeat the peasant army in Shanxi one after another, so that the peasant army could not gain a foothold in Shanxi, in desperation Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and others went to Henan, Huguang and so on, Li Zicheng has also been following his uncle's side.

Guo Tianxing and Li Zicheng are also old acquaintances, the two had drunk in Gao Yingxiang's tent, and suddenly saw Li Zicheng coming, Guo Tianxing was taken aback, jumped up and shouted: "Brother Li, you are so bold, aren't you afraid of running into officials and soldiers along the way?" ”

Li Zicheng didn't care about speaking, and sat down, "Water!" ”

"Water, water!"

Guo Tianxing hurriedly shouted out, and several pro-soldiers brought in a few large sea bowls and handed them to the six people, Li Zicheng took it and poured it down, and drank it in the blink of an eye, and then wiped his mouth and said urgently: "The situation is urgent, to make a long story short, Zijin Liang and Xing Red Wolf are surrounded!" ”

"Huh? Besieged? Where's the fence? ”

Guo Tianxing was startled again, Zijin Liang and Xing Hongwolf were the old alliance leader Wang Ziyong had the most troops under his command at the time, and there were many sons and daughters who could fight, how could they say that they were surrounded when they were surrounded?

"Chased by Zhang Zongheng and You Shilu from Yangcheng to Zezhou, and then Gao Ping, the eldest son, and Tunliu, chased and killed all the way, couldn't gain a foothold, and fled into the mountains, You Shilu has surrounded the mountains, Zijin Liang has no escape, and there is no way out." After speaking, Li Zicheng gritted his teeth and punched his thigh. (Author's note: Zhang Zongheng, commander of the Daning Division; You Shilu, deputy chief soldier of Ningxia, his younger brother You Shiwei, chief soldier of Changbing)

Guo Tianxing also slapped the table again and again, sighing: "It's a pity, it's a pity, it's hateful!" ”

Seeing that he was "unfortunately hateful" for a long time, and didn't say anything more, Li Zicheng couldn't help asking: "What, you sit idly by?" ”

Hearing this, Guo Tianxing's eyes widened, and he asked Li Zicheng: "Tube?" How? ”

Li Zicheng glared at Tianxing for a long time, shook his head, and said earnestly: "Brother, we can't do without Zijin Liang, he is going to finish, and our righteous army will disperse!" ”

Guo Tianxing was unmoved, he waved his hand and said, "I didn't say no, but brother, do you know how many people Zhang Zongheng has?" Our horse army only has a few thousand people, but there are many more officers and soldiers than us, and they are still old, so didn't we go to death in the past? Besides, it is more than 100 miles away from Tunliu, and we have to wait until the infantry army arrives, Zijin Liang is already finished, and You Shilu is waiting for work, don't we send ourselves to the tiger's mouth? ”

Li Zicheng shook his head and said, "You don't have to run more than a hundred miles. ”

"How can I save it?" Zijin Liang and the others were surrounded and detained more than 100 miles away, but Li Zicheng said that he could save people without running more than 100 miles, which confused Guo Tianxing.

Li Zicheng glanced at Tianxing, and knocked the middle finger of his right hand on the table, "Hit Liaozhou City!" ”

“……？！”

Guo Tianxing became more and more confused, and looked at Li Zicheng in confusion.

Li Zicheng explained to him: "I don't know how many men and horses there are in You Shilu, but I know that there are only 4,000 defenders in Liaozhou City, and there is food!" Fight Liaozhou, Zhang Zongheng will come back! ”

"But it's a city, it's a big city! Only two of us can take it? Guo Tianxing hesitated, this business seemed to be a bit hot.

"It is precisely because it is a big city that 4,000 people can't hold it, so it's easy to fight! I have contacted the Eight Vajra, and he said that as long as you do it, he will do it, and we can't take 4,000 people from 20,000 people? In order to be able to send troops to Guotianxing, Li Zicheng tried his best to cheer him up, and believed that his move to encircle Wei and save Zhao would be successful.

"What is the Eight King Kong doing?" Guo Tianxing's eyes lit up, there were more soldiers in the Eight King Kongs than him, if he was willing to do it, this was a much greater certainty.

Li Zicheng nodded without hesitation: "Yes!" ”

Guo Tianxing didn't instigate, and responded immediately, "Okay, mother's day, Ba King Kong did it, and Lao Tzu did it too!" ”

Li Zicheng, Guo Tianxing, and Ba King Kong attacked Liaozhou City at night, and they succeeded in one fell swoop, and Zhang Zongheng really abandoned Zijin Liang to save Liaozhou. Zhang Zongheng struggled to attack the city, Li Zicheng and others insisted on two days and two nights, You Shilu finally succeeded in climbing the city from the west ladder, Li Zicheng had already emptied the granary, and then set fire to the city, opened the east gate and withdrew. Zhang Zongheng was exhausted and unable to catch up. The peasant armies of Zijin Liang and Xing Hongwolf escaped the encirclement and moved closer to Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and other units, hoping that the various battalions and associations would regain their momentum together, but they did not know that a larger encirclement had already covered them

After the young emperor ascended the throne, in order to try to reform, he once issued an edict saying that whenever there is an emergency military situation or disaster, the cabinet must immediately hear about it, even in the middle of the night, and he must be woken up. Because of this will, after King Lu of Fan Weihui hurriedly played to the cabinet, Xu Guangqi, the bachelor on duty, did not dare to delay for a moment, and sent someone to call the first assistant Wen Tiren, the second assistant He Ruzhong and others to knock on the Qing Palace when they were ugly.

Driving in the middle of the night, something must have happened, Chongzhen, who stayed at Concubine Tian that night, did not dare to slack off, and immediately put on his clothes and came out. Please pass St. Ann, Wen Tiren handed over the fold, there is a circle of red strokes in the upper right corner of the fold, and the word "urgent" is in the middle.

"I just received an urgent performance from King Lu, and the thieves have arrived in Xishan, Shunde, and Zhending, and they are close to Jifu!" Wen Tiren didn't dare to speak after finishing the ceremony, and stood there cautiously waiting for the Son of Heaven to speak.

Chongzhen was also taken aback, took the urgent report and read it, and was speechless for a long time before he said: "Shaanxi, Gan, and Jin are flattened, and the thief is about to enter the Beijing Division." Zhang Zongheng suppressed the thief and came to my heels! Drove away the outer thieves, and then let the inner thieves surround them? Let me do another battle to defend the capital division? ”

Wen Tiren hadn't thought about how to answer, He Ruzhong spoke first: "Your Majesty, don't worry, this is just a thief from the mountain rats." Shaanxi, Gansu, and Jin can be quickly pacified, and Henan and Hebei will also be able to be quickly swept away, so that the thieves will not be allowed to reach the feet of the Son of Heaven. ”

"Rogue? The states and counties to which Huaiqing, Zhangde, and Weihui belong have been burned and looted! Is this a thief? Chongzhen sneered again and again, a few months ago, Henan also reported that the situation was stable, and the thieves lost their momentum last year, I don't want to think that it has only been a few months, and more than a dozen counties in the three prefectures have called the thieves to rob them all, how can he not be angry. You must know that when Lu Dao first heard that Henan swept the Jie, saying how many bandit leaders he had beheaded and how many prefectures and counties he had recovered, he, the emperor, was so happy that he almost couldn't sleep. Now the situation has changed abruptly, and the thieves who have been exterminated by the official army have revived, not to mention that he is a young man, and he will be so angry that he will vomit blood if he is a common man

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