Kill Niu Yonggui? Several of the routs looked at each other, but did not speak.

Although they are not Niu Yonggui's cronies, they have always followed Niu Yonggui. These people are all from military families, and they have been military families for generations, but Niu Yonggui's family is a hereditary commander, has been in charge of the army, and has annexed and controlled a large number of military fields. Under the prestige, let them rebel and kill Niu Yonggui, how dare they?

"You don't have to be afraid, the Nanchang Imperial Court will not last long at all, and in the future, this Jiangxi will return to the control of the Imperial Court, and it will be the world of the Praetorian Guards. The emperor will inevitably pursue all the rebellions, the officials of the Nanchang court, and the rebel generals who led the troops in various places, none of them can escape punishment, and Niu Yonggui can't escape at all.

And you all fought with Niu Yonggui and the Praetorian Guard, and it is said that you should also be punished, but as long as you kill Niu Yonggui and make a contribution, the Praetorian Guard will naturally look down on you, and the past sins will naturally not be pursued again. Ma Hou said bewildermently.

"However, there are still seven or eight people around General Niu, can we beat them?" Under Ma Hou's bewitchment, several defeated soldiers were indeed a little moved, but they still hesitated.

"Didn't you just say that those people are not Niu Yonggui's family members, and they are in the same situation as you now. Killing Niu Yonggui is good for everyone, how can they not want to? Ma Hou smiled.

The building will fall, as long as you are not a fool, you know how to choose.

"Okay, I'll listen to Master Ma!" A rout said.

"I did it too!" The rest of the rout also said.

Ma Hou was overjoyed, and after eating the roasted frog, he led a few people to look for weapons. In the process of escaping, everyone's weapons were lost, and they had to get their hands on them.

Sharp rocks by the stream, broken trees for clubs, and soon they found weapons, rudimentary but still usable.

So Marquis took them back the way they came.

"Why did you go so long?" Seeing Ma Hou and the others returning, Niu Yonggui scolded angrily, He was already hungry.

"The general is angry, it's too dark, it's too hard to find food." Ma Hou walked over with a smiling face.

"What did you find to eat?" Niu Yonggui looked at Ma Hou, the night was dark, and although there was moonlight, he still couldn't see what Ma Hou was holding in his hand.

"Found a stream, caught some frogs by the stream, you see, General." As he spoke, Ma Hou raised his hand.

Frog? Niu Yonggui was overjoyed, and when he hurriedly went to look, he saw Ma Hou wave his hand heavily and smash the thing in his hand on Niu Yonggui's head.

With a "bang" sound, Niu Yonggui felt a sharp pain in his head, the sky was spinning, and his body fell to the ground all of a sudden.

"Do it!" Ma Hou shouted, lifted the wooden stick in his other hand, and smashed his head and face at Niu Yonggui.

Seeing that Niu Yonggui was beaten by Ma Hou, several of the defeated soldiers who followed Niu Yonggui were also bold, and they stepped forward one after another and smashed Niu Yonggui on the ground with stones and sticks.

"You guys, what are you doing?" The seven or eight defeated soldiers around Niu Yonggui were stunned, and they all stood up and shouted loudly.

Some defeated soldiers subconsciously wanted to step forward to protect Niu Yonggui, but found that there was no weapon in their hands.

"Kill Niu Yonggui and take other people's heads to surrender to the Praetorian Guard!" Ma Hou shouted.

"Yes, brothers, kill Niu Yonggui and surrender to the Praetorian Guard, we can divide the land." Several of the defeated soldiers who followed Ma Hou also shouted.

Hearing this, the seven or eight defeated soldiers who followed Niu Yonggui hesitated for a moment, and they no longer stepped forward.

After smashing Niu Yonggui violently, seeing that Niu Yonggui had no movement, Ma Hou finally stopped his hand and looked at the defeated soldiers: "You guys also come over and smash a few times." ”

"Huh?" The routs were stunned.

"Everyone smashes a few times, everyone is their own people, and then we will go to the Praetorian Guard together, hurry up." Ma Hou shouted.

smashing Niu Yonggui is equivalent to surrendering the name, and Ma Hou will take them with him, otherwise he will have to worry about these routs against him.

The seven or eight routs hesitated for a moment, stepped forward one after another, and kicked and beat Niu Yonggui on the ground.

When everyone stopped, Ma Hou squatted down and touched Niu Yonggui, who had already stopped breathing.

.......

After sleeping in the mountains for one night, the next day it was dark, and Zheng En and the others had already woken up.

"Mr. Zheng, are we still chasing after him?" After eating dry food, one of his Praetorian Guard soldiers asked.

"What to chase, the night has passed, and the rebel general has long been gone." Zheng En said stupidly.

"There's someone over there." Just as he was about to return to Xincheng County with his men, a Praetorian Guard soldier suddenly shouted.

All the Praetorian Guard soldiers immediately raised their weapons and looked ahead, and saw more than a dozen people on the mountain road in the distance, dressed as anti-thieves.

"Dog's day, there are still a few miscellaneous fish, surrounding it." Zheng En said excitedly.

To everyone's surprise, these routs did not try to escape, but instead walked towards them.

"Don't open the guns yet, everyone." Zheng En felt that the other party's behavior was a little strange, and ordered.

These Praetorian Guard soldiers are really tenacious, and they are still chasing. Looking at Zheng En and the others in the distance, Ma Hou was secretly happy in his heart. Fortunately, he bewitched the rout and killed Niu Yonggui, otherwise when these Praetorian Guard soldiers chased after him, he might not be able to survive even if he surrendered.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we killed the deputy general Niu Yonggui, we are here anyway." When they were a hundred paces away, Ma Hou and the others stopped and shouted ahead.

Well? Zheng En was overjoyed in his heart, he thought that he had given up the pursuit, but he didn't expect this guy to kill the rebel general.

More than 20 Praetorian Guards stepped forward and surrounded the dozen or so routs, and then saw that these routs were empty-handed, and there was a corpse lying on the ground.

"This is the rebel general?" Looking at the corpse on the ground, Zheng Enhu asked suspiciously.

"General Hui, it is Niu Yonggui, the deputy general of Jianchang Mansion, who is also the chief general of the rebel army who led the troops to attack Xincheng County this time, and was besieged and killed by the villain with them last night." Ma Hou said with a smile.

"By the way, all the armor and weapons on his body were thrown away when he fled, but you can identify them if you find some rebel prisoners." Worried that Zheng En would not believe it, Ma Hou continued.

"You're not that, that......" Looking at Ma Hou, Zheng En felt a little familiar, but he didn't think about it for a while.

Ma Hou knelt down with a puff: "The villain is Ma Hou, the inspector of the Xincheng County Inspection Division, who had no eyes and was bewitched by others, and went to Tong'an Town with his archers, and asked the general for forgiveness." ”

"Oh, it's you, a dog thief, who took more than a hundred people to rob us of the military rations we had managed to raise, but we were defeated." Zheng En finally remembered, pointed at Ma Hou and scolded.

"The villain has no eyes and is bewitched by others, and he asks the general to forgive his sins." Ma Hou kowtowed repeatedly.

"Forget it," Zheng En waved his hand, "I don't count whether you are guilty or not, but for the sake of you killing this rebel general, it is estimated that the problem is not big, come back to Xincheng County with me." ”

"It's hard for you to carry the corpse so far."

"Back to the general, when he fled, he lost his weapons and couldn't cut off people's heads, so he could only carry them over."

"Hahaha......"

......

"General Zhang, I'm back." Zheng Enxing shouted angrily.

"It's good to come back, then the rebel general will flee if he escapes, and it doesn't matter if he can't catch up." Seeing that Zheng En and the others finally came back, Zhang Huangyan finally breathed a sigh of relief and comforted.

"Caught up, and already cut off the head of that dog." Zheng En waved his hand, and one of his subordinates stepped forward and placed Niu Yonggui's head in front of Zhang Huangyan.

"Not bad, not bad." Zhang Huangyan said happily.

"General Zhang, let's send troops to attack Jianchang Mansion." Zheng En said suddenly.

"Attack Jianchang Mansion?" Zhang Huangyan was stunned, why are you more belligerent than me, just one hundred and ten soldiers, and you want to conquer Jianchang Mansion City?

"My subordinates have inquired clearly, most of the rebels in Jianchang Mansion have been brought here by Niu Yonggui, and it can be said that the whole army has been wiped out, and now there are not many troops in Jianchang Mansion at all." Jung Eun said.

"There are only a hundred of us, do you think it's possible?" Zhang Huangyan asked. It's already a fluke to be able to take Xincheng County, and to fight Jianchang Mansion, it's really muddy to be a rebel.

"Isn't there still Squire Lu and their hands in the country, and it shouldn't be much of a problem to reorganize these captives." Jung Eun said.

Zhang Huangyan was a little moved.

In the first battle of Xincheng County, he defeated thousands of rebels with 100 people, which fully shows that the rebels do not have much combat effectiveness, so they may really be able to defeat Jianchang Mansion.

"When will Mr. Li be here?" Zhang Huangyan asked suddenly.

"According to the plan, it will be possible to get out of the mountains and enter Jiangxi in about three or four days, and if you reach Xincheng County, it will take five or six days at most." One of his men replied.

In five or six days, you should be able to take Jianchang Mansion City. Zhang Huangyan touched his chin and pondered.

"Come, you come." Seeing that Zhang Huangyan was still hesitating, Zheng En slipped Ma Houti out.

"General, there are only more than 500 troops left in Jianchang Mansion now, and they are all old, weak, sick and disabled, and then there are some government servants...... "Ma Hou knelt on the ground and explained the situation in Jianchang Mansion 1510.

"Okay, hit!" Zhang Huangyan finally made up his mind.

With the defeat of Niu Yonggui, Jianchang Mansion should already be panicked, as long as he leads his troops to kill, maybe many people will surrender, maybe there is no need to fight, and Jianchang Mansion can be easily taken.

With a hundred troops, he successively took Xincheng County and Jianchang Mansion, and wiped out five or six thousand enemy troops, which is not a small credit. couldn't help but feel unmoved.

"We are willing to follow the general and take Jianchang Mansion City." Squire Lu and others also showed loyalty. The battle in Xincheng County gave these squires a strong confidence in Zhang Huangyan and his Praetorian Guards. In addition, knowing that the army in Jianchang Mansion was gone, he was naturally willing to continue to follow Zhang Huangyan.

Zhang Huangyan immediately ordered to transfer 1,000 young men from the squire's Xiangyong to distribute weapons as the main force to attack Jianchang Mansion.

Then he sent people to reorganize the more than 2,000 rebels who had been captured, controlled all the officers of more than 100 households in the rebel army, left them in Xincheng County and handed them over to Xiangyong for custody, and then began to reorganize the remaining rebel soldiers.

Zhang Huangyan sent more than 20 Praetorian Guard soldiers to temporarily serve as commanders, each leading a hundred rebel prisoners, and then selected some chiefs from the prisoners to carry out a simple formation.

To tell the truth, if these prisoners were to be used, they should not have taken down the officers of hundreds of households, but still appointed those military officials to maintain their full strength. in order to maintain a certain combat effectiveness. However, Zhang Huangyan had too few troops in his hands, and he was worried that these rebel prisoners would turn against him, so he had to control the officers of more than 100 households and install Praetorian Guard soldiers as officers to control these prisoners.

Although this does not have much combat effectiveness, it can ensure that these rebel prisoners will not turn back.

In order to make these captives obedient, Zhang Huangyan sent people to brainwash them.

"Listen, as long as you are honest and obedient, after you take the city, you will be let go home, and you will be given a share of the land, if you can make a contribution to the attack on the city, you can also be recruited to join the Praetorian Guard and become a member of the Praetorian Guard. The Praetorian Guard is the most elite army in the world, and His Majesty the Emperor's personal soldiers, after joining the Praetorian Guard, can divide more land, not to mention, they have a salary of two taels of silver every month, and after retirement, they can still serve in the towns and villages as a clerk. ”

The new generals spoke hard, and the captives were very excited. Not to mention anything else, just two taels of silver per month is enough to make many people crazy. These rebel soldiers, the monthly salary is only one tael in name, and most of them are greedy by the officials, and there are very few in their hands, it is good to be able to mix a full meal all day long, and the treatment of the Praetorian Guard soldiers makes them extremely envious.

Even if you can't join the Praetorian Guard, as long as you can be sent home. Many rebel soldiers have long since ceased to want to be military households, and just want to be farmers and farm honestly. It's really a hard time for military households. If it is really like what these Praetorian Guards always said, in Juntian, Jiangxi, everyone can have their own land, and the imperial court will not give it in the future, then the ghost wants to be a soldier! Honestly farming at home, isn't it good for wives and children to have hot kang heads? When you are busy, you can farm the land, and when you are free, you can go to the workshop opened by the gentry to work, and your life will definitely be prosperous.

After brainwashing, the morale of these rebel captives was boosted. Taking advantage of one day to reorganize the army, Zhang Huangyan set off with the army the next day and killed the city of Jianchangfu.

One hundred Praetorian Guards, one thousand young and strong people, more than two thousand five thousand rebel prisoners, a total of three thousand six hundred troops, is not too many. Whether such a rabble can take down Jianchang Mansion, to be honest, Zhang Huangyan does not have much confidence.

But it's worth the gamble! If you win the bet, you can win Jianchang Mansion, and you will make a great contribution, and you will be able to conquer the entire Jianchang Mansion with 100 people, which is enough to rise to one or two levels.

The bet was lost, anyway, most of these 3,000 people were not his subordinates, so it was a big deal to withdraw to Xincheng County with 100 subordinates, and honestly wait for the arrival of Li Yanzhi's army.

Just when Zhang Huangyan led a large army to attack Jianchang Mansion, an army of tens of thousands of people was coming out of the vast mountains, which was the main force of the Fujian Praetorian Guard under Li Yanzhi.

"Where is Zhang Huangyan, this bastard?" After passing the Shanguan Pass, he didn't see Zhang Huangyan coming to greet him, and Li Yanzhi couldn't help but scold angrily.