At night, the city of Taiyuan, located in the Fenshui Valley, was shrouded in darkness and silence, with lights swaying on the city, accompanied by bursts of fighting, and it was even more solemn and bleak, as if a disaster was faintly brewing. At this time, Taiyuan City is not the ancient city of Jinyang that stretches for more than 1,000 years, as early as the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Taizong hated the Northern Han Dynasty and swore to resist with a strong city, and completely burned it down after breaking the city.

But this Fenshui Valley is born to be a beautiful place, Xinzhi Yuci will not want, Song Taizong had to order the general Pan Mei to build a new city thirty miles north of the ruins of Jinyang, which is the prototype of the current Taiyuan City. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, because the third son of Taizu Zhu Di Pingfan was here, and expanded again, to the Chongzhen period, the outer city of Taiyuan is twenty-four miles around, three zhang and five feet high, and there are more than five miles around the inner city, and the Jin Wangfu is in it. Looking north of the Yellow River, except for the Ming Jingshi, there is no city that can match the scale of this city.

After the plague of the plague and the scourge of thieves, the first town of the Nine Sides is dying. Most of the people died tragically in the plague, and after the thieves occupied the city, although the population of the city was replenished, it could not stop the decline of the city. The bustling streets of yesteryear are gone, the endless caravans of horses and mules are gone, and the city is left with a boundless silence and chaos.

Liu Guoneng's Chinese army camp was set up on a burned white ground in the Yingze Gate in the outer city, after nightfall, the dark clouds suddenly rose, the air was unusually stuffy, he tossed and turned on the couch and could not sleep, so he decided to go to patrol the camp outside the city after dressing up.

It turned out that after Liu Guoneng worked hard, he recruited the victims as the army, because of the slogan of "killing the local tyrants and dividing the fields", the victims flocked to it, and even recruited 100,000 and 100,000, in addition to sending the army to the north to take the Bauhinia Pass, nearly 100,000 horses were also stationed in the city of Taiyuan, but after all, the thieves had corrupted military discipline, and the consequence of the influx of a large number of thieves was that the city was burned, killed, looted and chaotic, not only the few people left in the original were affected, but even the families of the thieves who moved to the city also suffered from the seedlings.

All of a sudden, there was a miasma of smoke in Taiyuan City, and Liu Guoneng finally listened to the advice of the think tank Liu Wenqi, and divided the newly recruited 60,000 people into four battalions and stationed them outside the four gates of the outer city of Taiyuan. In this way, it not only solved the problem of chaos in the city, but also shielded the army from the outside, and strengthened the city defense of Taiyuan City.

In Liu Wenqi's plan, as long as the army goes north out of the Bauhinia Pass, Liu Guoneng should immediately do his best to fight with Yang Sichang, as long as he defeats this person in a battle, then the army will inevitably enter the sea like a dragon, and there will be no opponent in the north of the Daming River from now on.

This plan is very much in line with Liu Guoneng's thinking, all the way to risk and rush forward, all the way to fight steadily, it is really offensive and defensible. It was in the midst of this anxious waiting that he ushered in this unprecedentedly hot and sultry night.

Out of Yingze Gate and Nanguan City, the night is full of stretching camps, a little wind lamp flashing in it, although it is lifeless, it is many times more chaotic than before. Liu Guoneng was lightly obedient, but when he arrived outside the gate, he didn't even see anyone come out to interrogate and stop him, and he couldn't help but be very dissatisfied, if there was a sneak attack by the officials and soldiers, it would be like this, and it would be okay!

Fortunately, a moment later, some thieves noticed the unusual movement outside the gate, and at a glance they saw dozens of sneaky riders outside.

"Stop, what are you doing? The barracks are important, and idlers are not allowed to enter! ”

Liu Guoneng immediately had a personal soldier beside him shouting: "Blind dog's eyes, didn't you see King Chuang arrive?" ”

The soldiers thought simply, and it was just too late for King Chuang to come to greet him, and he said that idlers were not allowed to enter, but there was really no one in his eyes.

The thieves in the gate are also helpless, these five classics in the middle of the night, let alone the king, even the generals under his command will not sleep and have nothing to do, what kind of patrol camp. Maybe it's a trick of the officials and the army. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but wake up suddenly, and looked up and down at the group of people in front of me.

I saw that the person who was the first leader, burly but dressed in coarse cloth and short clothes, if he was not hugged by people, and there was no difference between him and the farmer in the field, he would dare to pretend to be the king of this virtue?

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that his judgment was correct, so he thought about it and rushed to the thief soldiers beside him. This guy is one of the thousand thieves, and his subordinates are in charge of nearly a thousand thieves, so he decided to catch turtles in an urn.

The thieves squeaked a few times, and only opened the gap where only one person could pass through the guò.

"In extraordinary times, I don't dare to open the door, please forgive me."

Liu Guoneng was quite happy, which showed that they were conscientious in their duties and did not engage in specialization because they were the king, who knew that he had just squeezed in through the gap in the gate with his own soldiers, and the two thick wooden doors were slammed shut.

"Come on, tie up this official and soldier who pretended to be the king of Chuang and tie up Lao Tzu!"

Liu Guoneng's personal soldiers quit and shouted: "King Chuang is here, which of you dares to do it?" ”

Hearing this, the thief suddenly shrank his hands and feet, and it was not tied up, nor was it tied up.

The thousand households pointed at Liu Guoneng and scolded with a smile: "This farmer still wants to pretend to be the king, but Lao Tzu is still the king and his uncle!" Less nonsense is tied up for Lao Tzu! ”

With the support of their own thousands of households, the thieves no longer hesitated, and rushed up to tie up Liu Guoneng and several pro-soldiers.

Liu Guoneng was angry and smoked, where is this, I wanted to have a private visit to Weifu, but who knew that he was arrested by a stunned young man as an official and military detective.

"I'm Liu Guoneng, call your general!"

According to Liu Wenqi's plan, there are four battalions outside the city, each battalion has one general and two deputy generals, and has several thousand households under its jurisdiction, so there are generals at the head of these thousand households.

The thousand households smiled, "Don't you say that Lao Tzu will also tie you to the general's horse, wait for death!" As he spoke, he kicked Liu Guoneng to the ground, and kicked him twice hard, making his originally neat and neat coarse cloth full of dust, and the wolf was unbearable.

Liu Guoneng even blew up his lungs, what kind of goods is this, acting so recklessly......

In the blink of an eye, the news that the camp had caught the official army and the horse spread that the general of the Nanying was Liu Guoneng's old subordinate, and when he saw that the so-called official army and the horse were actually the real king, he was sincerely frightened, and scolded the thousand households just now for not having eyes.

Qianhu was dumbfounded, how did Tanma become the king? He even regrets his intestines now, he said that he was the uncle of King Chuang, and he kicked King Chuang, that one is disrespectful, and then look at the indignant and angry soldiers around King Chuang, and his heart is completely finished this time, and he must not be chopped alive by these turtle kings!

But at this moment, someone outside suddenly pulled his throat at the lake and river: "Oh no, the north city gate is on fire, the north city gate is on fire!" ”

At this time, Liu Guoneng had already loosened the rope, and glared at the general of Nanying fiercely, and he didn't care about pursuing the thousand households, so he hurriedly went out of the tent and looked north. Sure enough, the northern flames lit up most of the night sky. The secret scream in his heart is not good, he is irritable at night, and always thinks that something will happen, and now it really verifies his hunch. Rushing to the north gate with his entourage, the fire is not a trivial matter, as long as the rescue is one step late, the consequences are unimaginable!

General Nanying shouted at Liu Guoneng's back: "King Chuang, how to deal with this rabbit cub, how to deal with it?" ”

Qianhu consciously escaped, and wiped the cold sweat on his face, "Thank you for the protection of the general!" ”

"Humph! Lao Tzu doesn't dare to spare you, come, tie up Lao Tzu, and wait for King Chuang to fall! ”

The wolf-like thieves swarmed up and tied up the thousand households in a solid knot, looking at the general's cold expression, and then looking at the gloating eyes around him, he only felt a chill all over his body, this time it was really completely finished!

Suddenly, someone came to report again, "Spread the king's order, please ask General Nanying to order a battalion of men and horses, and quickly go to Taiyuan North to lock the far gate to fight the fire!" The rest of the people in Nanying immediately blocked the east-west traffic, and no one was allowed to pass, and violators were killed! ”

The general of Nanying did not doubt him, and after arranging to block the east-west traffic, he immediately ordered a battalion of men and horses to go to the north city quickly, more than twenty-four miles around Taiyuan City, and there were seven or eight miles from the south city to the north city, and fighting the fire was like saving lives, so I didn't dare to delay for a moment!

And Liu Guoneng once again encountered embarrassment when passing through the Zhenwu Gate in Xicheng, led by a thousand households, saying that it was the king's order to cut off the north-south traffic, and no one was allowed to pass through guò, and the violators would not be pardoned!

Liu Guoneng couldn't cry or laugh, how could he have given such a strict order, why didn't he know it himself? At this moment, Liu Guoneng's personal soldiers no longer dared to confide in Liu Guoneng's identity as the king, and said that he was the general of his family, and the thousand households were also polite, but they just wanted to pass over from his territory but couldn't.

Liu Guoneng guessed that it might be that after Liu Wenqi heard about the fire in Beicheng, he was afraid that someone would take the opportunity to cause chaos, so he issued an order in his name to cut off traffic everywhere, and this kind of handling was also appropriate. He came privately without being informed, and people didn't recognize him, and if he didn't buy it, he did things according to the rules, which is understandable. I don't want to entangle with it anymore, so it's a big deal to take a detour from elsewhere.

A group of entourages hugged Liu Guoneng and went far to the west to bypass Zhenwumen, but he didn't know that as soon as he left on his front foot, General Nanying and his men and horses in the camp were also stopped here, and the two sides disagreed, and there was a tendency to be tense.

Who knew that after passing the axis of Fuchengmen in Xicheng, he was suddenly stopped by a team of people, claiming to be a thousand households under the command of General Xiying, this place has been blocked, please Liu Guoneng take another detour. It just so happened that this thousand households were recognized by Liu Guoneng's old department, so he hurriedly stepped forward to make amends, "I don't know if the king has arrived, please atone for the king!" ”

"I ask you, who and when did you cut off the north-south traffic?"

The thousand households are not very good.

"As soon as the north gate is on fire, the general will explain the matter, and the specific person who gave the order, the last general has no way of knowing!"

Liu Guoneng suddenly felt strangely alert, this matter was strange, he faintly felt that there was an invisible net gradually opening up and spreading over himself and Taiyuan City!