Chen Yongfu and Chen De, father and son, were killed on the spot because they happened to be standing at the head of the West Gate at that time, while their other son, Chen Pin, was very eye-catching, and ran away from the other gate with a small number of cavalry in the morning.

A few days later, Long 13 recruited a total of 3,000 suitable teenagers under the age of 20 from the lead mine fort, iron mine fort, salt mine fort, and mining city.

On the way, they ignored the county seat of Yexian County, and ran straight towards Yuzhou after bypassing.

Yuzhou, later Fangcheng County.

To the east, it is the Yumai Erlang Mountain that extends to the northwest of Tongbai Mountain, and to the north, it is the Yumai Lu Mountain that extends to the southeast of Funiu Mountain.

Between Erlang Mountain and Lu Mountain, it is a wide valley leading to the Nanyang Basin in the Great Plain of Eastern Henan.

And Yuzhou, which is stuck in this valley, guards the throat road in the northeast of Nanyang Fu City.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, wherever there are mountains, there must be mountain thieves, and in the flat land, there are river and ocean thieves, and such key places as Erlang Mountain and Lu Mountain are naturally inevitable.

When the Xiaoqiang Brigade was heading south, the two bandits that had been dormant for a long time with Erlang Mountain and Lushan finally came out of the mountain.

Speaking of these two thieves, it is also related to the first time Huang Taiji entered the north to go north to King Qin's army, at that time there was a Guangdong, Guangxi King Qinwang soldiers and horses before they reached the capital Huang Taiji returned full of plunder, if Huang Taiji was still near the capital at the time, all the Qin King soldiers and horses along the way can still get some grain and grass supply.

But as soon as the calamity was removed, the faces of the magistrates changed, and the supply was immediately cut off, or the previous three-day supply was changed to a ten-day supply, and the corporal quit, and almost all the officers were killed after a terrifying battalion roar.

The soldiers who stayed behind must be elite, especially the wolf soldiers from Guangxi are the most, they rushed into Erlang Mountain and Lushan nearby, a few years later, the leader of Erlang Mountain (the core area in the later Wugang City) was headed by Li Hao, the former wolf soldier.

And Lushan (the mountain south of Lushan County) is headed by Guo Junzhen.

These two men have dozens of soldiers mainly from Guangxi wolf soldiers, plus local bandits, each with hundreds of people, scourging Yuzhou, Lushan, and Wuyang, and Nanyangwei has repeatedly sent troops to recruit and suppress without success.

However, in the past, whether it was Li Hao or Guo Junzhen, although there were a large number of subordinates, they never dared to pay attention to the county and county, and at most they focused on a town and fort in a remote place, but with the southward movement of Long Thirteen, they were not tempted. qs

When Long Thirteen was still in Ye County, the two of them joined forces to besiege Yuzhou Prefecture!

As mentioned earlier, the so-called 36 and 72 families, except for a very small number of military discipline is acceptable, most of them are no different from ordinary thieves, and thieves like Li Hao and Guo Junzhen are even more ferocious, and when they come out of Lushan and Erlang Mountain, they are like locusts to sweep away the towns and Zhuangzi they encounter.

Then tens of thousands of men, women, and children surrounded Yuzhou City!

Obviously, they learned the siege strategy that was popular among thieves and officials at this time - to drive the people to attack the city.

At this time, the commander of Nanyang Wei was called Bai Jue, and he was also a family of military generals who were moved here in the early Ming Dynasty, and he has inherited this command for three generations.

At this time, Bai Jue naturally could no longer sit firmly on the Diaoyutai, so he had to personally dispatch a guard to Yuzhou to meet the enemy.

Originally, a Nanyang guard was a soldier of 600 guards, but if you put away the two thousand households in Tang County and Dengzhou, there should be 3,600 guards in Nanyang Mansion City, plus the guards of Tang Wangfu, it should not be a problem to get together 4,000 people.

However, the Nanyang Wei set up in the Hongwu period had already been rotten by this time, and the person dispatched by Bai Jue had reached his limit, among which there were less than 800 real "young and strong", and the most people were all rich families recruited from Nanyang Mansion City to temporarily "work as errands".

If it weren't for the fact that there were still his Bai Jue's 200 cavalry inside, Bai Jue would not dare to take these horses to Yuzhou to suppress the thieves.

According to Bai Jue's plan, he himself led his family and the large army to walk slowly behind, and let his family leader lead the first horse, because he knew that the two mountain bandits with Guangxi wolf soldiers were almost

There is no cavalry, and as soon as he rides out, the mountain bandits are very likely to "scatter as birds and beasts".

In the past, when he sent troops to recruit bandits from Bears Ears Mountain, Funiu Mountain, and Tongbai Mountain, this trick was tried and tested repeatedly, and it worked frequently.

But he obviously miscalculated this time, although Li Hao and Guo Junzhen are just ordinary soldiers in the Guangxi wolf soldiers, they have also experienced excellent military command skills in the past two or three years.

When they learned that Bai Jue was about to arrive, this time they rarely did not run away immediately, but met him.

Of course, they were still pioneers who sent the villagers of Yuzhou to meet the battle first, and then set up an ambush in a valley, and when the family Ding happened to chase the villagers up, Guo Junzhen and Li Hao's government soldiers fired bows and arrows together, shooting dozens of family members on the spot, and Li Hao also shot the leader of the family with an arrow!

The rest of the family were horrified and fled back in a hurry.

In the end, he returned to Bai Jue's side, and in this battle, he lost 100 family members!

At this time, Bai Jue's heart is bleeding - these 100 family members are hereditary family members supported by the financial resources of his Bai family for three generations.

However, the first thing he thought of was not to rush to Yuzhou to avenge his family, but to retreat to Nanyang Mansion City in fright, of course, he said to Tang King Zhu Yujian and Nanyang Prefect Wan Yuan Ji that "the thief is grand, avoid it first".

As a result, Li Hao and Guo Junzhen were able to force tens of thousands of Yuzhou villagers to attack the city.

At this time, all the cities on the flat ground are rarely without moats, and Yuzhou City is no exception, although it is winter now, and the water of the moat has long been frozen, but this does not prevent Yuzhou Qingzhuang, who is defending the city, from destroying the ice first.

What's more, the ice layer of the Yuzhou River is far less thick than that of the Yellow River, even if it is not destroyed, after putting a cloud ladder, there are not too many people standing on it, but Li Hao and Guo Junzhen still urge the villagers to attack the city.

After three days of siege, there was a section of the moat that had already been filled with ice and the corpses of villagers, and it was possible to build a ladder to attack the city.

At this time, I saw that Li Hao was holding a knife in his mouth, holding a shield in his left hand, and climbing the ladder with his right hand, "rubbing the ......", and rushed up to the city in a few steps!

Yuzhou City, there are neither guards, nor recruits, even regimental training, all of them are young men and women personally organized by Zhizhou, although these young men have commendable courage, but they are obviously not enough in front of the wolf soldiers in Guangxi.

In the past few days, they can resist one or two in the face of the attacks of nearby villagers, but in front of dozens of former Guangxi wolf soldiers led by Li Hao and Guo Junzhen, who looked short and thin, but were extremely strong, these young men were quickly defeated.

Yuzhou has fallen!

After capturing Yuzhou City, Li Hao and Guo Junzhen ransacked the city, and then prepared to garrison in the city - Long Thirteen's small strong brigade was coming soon, and they were going to dedicate this city to Long Thirteen, and then get a leader.

Long Thirteen and the others, who were walking in that valley, soon learned the news of Yuzhou City, but they did not learn about it from the envoys sent by Li Hao and the others, but from the mouths of rich people who had escaped from Yuzhou City.

Although there is no way to occupy the Fangshan area in front of him, Yuzhou City Dragon Thirteen, which is the northeast gateway of Nanyang Mansion, is not ready to give up, and after learning that it has been taken by Li Hao and the others, he is naturally very happy at first.

However, when the rich merchant saw that Long Thirteen's team was orderly and disciplined, and although there were a large number of people in the team, those people did not seem to be in distress, but were more cheerful than he had seen before, he knew that this "rogue" in front of him seemed to be different from Li Hao and them.

So, he told the truth about Yuzhou City.

"After King Li and King Guo captured the state city, they immediately guarded the four city gates, and drove the villagers outside the state city to the city wall, and they themselves went door to door and looted them."

"They divided the food, money, goods, and young women they had stolen into piles, and then took the woman's family in front of the Chenghuang Temple in the city, and with the order of Na Li Hao, hundreds of thieves carried out a massacre of those people with knives."

"There was originally a family in the city, at least 20,000 people, except for the women they specially selected, the rest of the men, the old and the weak were all killed!"

Long Thirteen's face was expressionless, "What do you mean by saying this to me, don't you know that I am also a thief?"

The merchant was startled, knelt on the ground and grabbed the ground with his head, "The king spares my life, the king spares my life."

After a while, Long Thirteen said, "Get up, what you said is right, my Dragon Thirteen's little strong brigade is indeed a different kind of thief."

This time, he personally led the 1,000 cavalry of the 1st Brigade to the front, and arrived at the north gate of Yuzhou City in a short time.

From afar, when they learned that the Xiaoqiang Brigade was about to arrive, Li Hao and Guo Junzhen regretted it a little, because at this time, Bai Jue had already sent someone to contact them, ready to recruit them, and if they agreed, they could at least get a garrison position.

Becoming the Ming army again, or the supreme leader of the military attaché of a city, such a temptation is too big for Li Hao and the others, because although the small strong brigade of Long Thirteen is in full swing, they don't think that they can turn the sky, but just like they won Yuzhou City, they are just happy for a while.

However, compared with Li Hao, Guo Junzhen, who has a more flexible brain, said: "I heard that there are more than 10,000 horses and thousands of cavalry under the thirteenth dragon, and they are all fighting all the way from Shaanxi and Shanxi, how strong is the combat power?"

"If we annoy him, I'm afraid we won't even be able to do it as a bandit, let alone the garrison and the thousand generals."

Li Hao was still a little hesitant, the prestige of the official army and the freedom of the bandits made him unable to make a decision.

In the end, Guo Junzhen said: "If you make up your mind to accept Bai Jue's recruitment, it is better to do a big vote if you really make up your mind."

Li Hao said, "How?"

Guo Junzhen said with a smile: "The first step is to quickly send someone to Nanyang Mansion City to inform Bai Jue and ask him to send troops to come to respond, and the second step is to bring the dragon thirteen into the city, and then tie it up, or kill it, what do you think, dragon thirteen, what kind of character is that?" When I was in Shanxi, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers couldn't deal with it."

"If you can make this great achievement, the court will be happy, and it is not impossible for you and me to be appointed as a general soldier and a guard commander or something."

In terms of brains, Li Hao is naturally not as good as Guo Junzhen, but when it comes to fierceness and boldness, he Li Hao is far greater than Guo Junzhen.

"It's done!"

Thinking that he could be the commander of the guard and the general soldier from the previous ordinary soldier, and no matter how bad he was, he was also the deputy general and general of the defending side, Li Hao patted his thigh excitedly.

In this way, in the evening of the same day, when there was still a faint smell of blood wafting from time to time in the entire Yuzhou City, Li Hao and Guo Junzhen took ten wolf soldiers with horses to greet Long Thirteen near the north city gate.

"Li Hao, Strength is 81, Domination is 60, Wisdom is 39"

"Guo Junzhen, Force Value 75, Domination Value 55, Intelligence Value 69"

When the simulator boxes of Li Hao and Guo Junzhen appeared, Long Thirteen couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"Li Hao's face is very red, obviously hostile to me, and Guo Junzhen's red is very light, appearing for a while, disappearing for a while, obviously the two of them are not completely of the same mind."

And Li Hao, who was in front, couldn't help but hesitate in his heart when he saw the thousand horses behind Long Thirteen.

"It is said that this camp, this is only the middle camp led by himself, and there are four battalions in the front and back, left and right, each battalion has a few hundred horsemen, plus here, the total number is close to three thousand, and there are a large number of infantry troops."

"Don't say 3,000 cavalry, even if there are only 300 cavalry, it's not something we can deal with, or if you don't accept Zhao'an, you can simply take refuge in Long Thirteen, anyway, it's good to enjoy the shade under the big tree, once Dragon Thirteen fights unfavorably, you ......can also take refuge in the official army."

At this time, it was another scene in Guo Junzhen's eyes.

"Fortunately, I came out in person, compared to Bai Jue's family, the thousand cavalry of Long Thirteen is only strong, this is just one of them, how spectacular it would be if all of them appeared, compared to it, Bai Jue's troops are simply chickens and dogs!"

"Lao Li"

Guo Junzhen suddenly shouted.

Li Hao turned around, he saw Guo Junzhen's solemn face, and thought that he was also intimidated, so he beckoned to him, ready to discuss with him again.

Guo Junzhen urged the horse over and said to Li Hao

After a few words, Li Hao didn't hear clearly, "Lao Guo, come closer."

Guo Junzhen approached him as he said, and then leaned close to his ear.

"Ahh

At this time, Li Hao suddenly let out a miserable howl, and when he looked down, he saw that there was an extra knife in his heart!

At the same time, Guo Junzhen's people also attacked Li Hao's people!

A fire appeared under the nose of Long Thirteen, after Guo Junzhen killed Li Hao, he sent people to stabilize the city on the one hand, and came to Long Thirteen alone on Pegasus.

"The big boss, I am equivalent to the righteous army, Li Hao dared to prepare to make a move against the big boss, I really couldn't see it, so I had to kill him first."

"Very good"

Long Thirteen helped him up, "There are still some people who follow Li Hao, I will let him follow you, pay attention, kill all Li Hao's people, don't leave a single person behind!"

He pointed at Li Zhong and said.

Guo Junzhen was overjoyed, in order to control the situation today, he arranged for his people to guard the north gate early in the morning, but there are still many people loyal to Li Hao in the city, if there is no help from Long Thirteen, he is not sure that he can control the situation in the city.

So, with the assistance of Li Zhanchun's 300 horsemen, Guo Junzhen's people launched a killing campaign against those who were still loyal to Li Hao that night, and the killing did not finally stop until midnight.

Midnight, the big school field.

The torches were bright, illuminating the campus as if it were daytime.

After the two killings, the number of people in Guo Junzhen has been sharply reduced to less than a hundred, but Long Thirteen has already released a word, and he wants to reward these 100 people.

At this time, Long Thirteen's large army had already arrived outside Yuzhou City, and a part of the infantry army had entered the city to control the city, and all the cavalry had also come to the Daxiao field.

Looking at these majestic cavalry, Guo Junzhen was also envious.

"Since the big boss has released words to reward us and others, it is better to be a cavalry leader, having horses to walk on behalf of him is better than walking after all, even if he can't beat the officers and soldiers, he can run away in time, and the horses I have stolen before are not war horses, and they can't go to the battlefield."

Looking at these "wolf soldiers" in front of him, who were generally short in stature, but all looked perverse and ruthless, Long Shisan also felt a little emotional in his heart, he pointed at Wu Dading and said, "Guo Dangjia, this is my gift to you."

Wu Dading crossed out with three hundred cavalry of the Fourth Brigade, and Guo Junzhen was a little puzzled for a while, "Could it be that Long Thirteen wants me to lead a cavalry at the head of a battalion?" This is naturally good, but I'm not proficient in riding and archery, yes, Dragon Thirteen wants to buy people's hearts, so ......

At this moment, Wu Dading's people had already rushed over on horseback!

In the cursing, screaming, and shouting of Guo Junzhen and others, Wu Dading's three hundred horsemen swept over them like a violent wind, and they were to accept the review and reward of the Dragon Thirteen as people with great merit, so they naturally did not carry weapons.

After the three hundred horsemen swept over, all that remained on the ground that had been crowded with a hundred people a moment ago was the howl of the evening wind.