Azig defeated Li Zicheng's army, and Zhang Dingguo beheaded the two kings of Jianyu in one day, and these two powerful news quickly spread throughout the Central Plains through the arrival of the two imperial courts in Beijing and Nanjing.

At this time, He Tengjiao had already led his troops north to Ningzhou County, Nanchang Prefecture.

It turned out that before Zuo Liangyu led his troops to rebel, he invited He Tengjiao, who was "Huaixu Soldier Preparation", to accompany him, but He Tengjiao did not agree. So he transferred from Ningzhou to Liuyang and arrived in Changsha. gathered his former subordinates Gu Yinxi, Fu Shangrui, Yan Qiheng, Zhang Kuang, Zhou Daqi, Wu Jinxi, etc., and made an alliance to serve the court.

They distributed horses, boats, grain and grass, and hurriedly organized an army to block Zuo Liangyu.

The army had just set up camp outside Ningzhou County, and Huang Keji, the county commander of Ningzhou County, was busy going out of the city to ask for a meeting.

At this time, He Tengjiao already knew the news of Zuo Liangyu's death and the destruction of Jiujiang City, and after a long conversation with Huang Keji, he learned that Jianyu Azig had defeated Li Zicheng five days earlier and was stationed in Wuchang.

Hearing this, Du Yinxi hesitated: "What a matter, since Zuo Liangyu is dead, Chu Zhen will not move, our army might as well look for the thief first and get rid of this big trouble!"

When He Tengjiao heard this, he was silent for a long time: "Lord Huang, do you know Li Zicheng's movements?"

Huang Keji gave up his hand, "The imperial court report only said that after Li Zicheng's army was defeated, 2,000 remnants of the army rushed into the Makufu Mountains and disappeared without a trace. The other thieves were even fewer in number, so they fled into the mountains nearby."

He Tengjiao was silent again, and after a while, his eyes were calm, "Early tomorrow morning, the whole army will march into the Mufu Mountain Range to find Li Zicheng!"

At the same time, Li Zicheng led less than 2,000 cavalry and marched with difficulty in the mountains and forests of the Mufu Mountains.

", this rain is too cold!"

Niu Venus staggered behind him, although he wore a hat, he was still shivering from the cold, "It's almost April, and it's still so cold when it rains."

"It doesn't matter if it's raining, the mountain road is difficult, and the rain is cold, the *** cavalry will definitely not continue to pursue!" Li Zicheng dismounted and pointed ahead, "Let the brothers go to the dense forest over there to take shelter from the rain, I ...... Ay...... Go ahead and find your way!"

Niu Jinxing heard that Li Zicheng was unwilling to continue to praise me, and felt sorry in his heart, "Your Majesty, go to shelter from the rain, explore the way, just let the soldiers go."

"Forget it, the brothers are tired, let's go, after so many years, I haven't suffered anything, just this rain, it's not a matter at all."

After the words fell, Li Zicheng took ten personal soldiers and rode away.

They traveled seven or eight miles, but they did not see a village, let alone a living person.

"You're not going to go into the old forest, are you? The army is running out of food, and when there is no village to replenish food and grass, the hearts of the people are scattered."

Li Zicheng walked while thinking.

Gradually, the rain became heavier and heavier.

After walking another five or six miles, Li Zicheng was also very tired.

Suddenly, he was shocked, "Look, there are a few thatched huts over there! That's great! Go to three people, go up and ask for directions!"

The three soldiers rode away, and Li Zicheng slowly followed.

Half an hour later, there was a commotion, and the screams continued.

Li Zicheng frowned, looked from a distance, and saw his three personal soldiers chasing and slashing a few villagers with knives.

"What's going on?"

Li Zicheng rode away, and when he arrived, he found that there were several corpses lying in the vicinity of the grass hut.

"How do you kill people indiscriminately?"

"Your Majesty, when you ask them, they are polite, but when they want to buy their rice, these villagers resolutely do not sell it, and they have to drive them away.

Li Zicheng shook his head, "We are out in the remnants, so we should be careful everywhere, and we are not allowed to act like this next time!"

"Got it."

The soldier answered, went into the house, took out the firewood, and made a fire for cooking.

Li Zicheng didn't want to be too harsh and went to another room to rest.

Two quarters of an hour later, the soldier brought rice, "Your Majesty, let's have some food."

Li Zicheng took the dishes and chopsticks and asked, "I can inquire just now, where is this place?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the name of this place is Xiaoyuankou Village, and the name of this mountain is Jiugong Mountain! It belongs to the territory of Wuchang Province. Further south, it is Ningzhou County, Nanchang Prefecture."

"Jiugong Mountain!" Li Zicheng muttered.

"Yes, it was a Xiucai who didn't sell rice just now, chattering a lot, saying that this place is a famous mountain of the Five Great Avenues, because the nine brothers of the King of Jin'an of the Southern Dynasty built nine palaces on this mountain, so it was named. During the Chunxi period of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhang Daoqing, the patriarch of the imperial Taoist sect, set up an altar here and built many palaces."

"You remember it clearly." Li Zicheng said with a smile.

"It's boring all the way, so I should have listened to the story just now." The soldier also laughed.

A group of 11 people were eating rice when they suddenly heard a noisy sound from far and near.

Li Zicheng said, "What's the matter? Go out and see."

And one of the soldiers got up, and went out of the hut, and behold, three or four hundred men had gathered around him from all sides.

"It's this person who killed all the Lu Xiucai family in our village!" A half-sized boy shouted.

"Are you sure?"

"Uncle Cheng, I'm sure. I just saw it in the woods."

Cheng Jiubo got closer again, saw the corpses all over the ground, and saw the person dressed as a bandit, with an indifferent look on his face, and he was angry.

"Folks, kill for your life, let's kill these bandits together!"

Li Zicheng heard the conversation outside the house and immediately got out of the thatched hut.

"Folks, the emperor of the Great Shun Dynasty, the former king of Chuang, just now there was a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding."

"Just you? Still the king? Return the emperor?"

Cheng Jiubo was full of anger: "Folks, Lu Xiucai can read a thousand words at the age of four, memorize Tang poems at the age of six, read the Four Books and Five Classics at the age of nine, and be proficient in poetry and songs at the age of twelve.

The villagers shouted, "Avenge the Xiucai that only appeared in our village for a hundred years!"

"Kill the bandits and avenge Lu Xiucai!"

Although Cheng Jiubo called everyone villagers, these people were all group training cultivated by low-level officials in the Ming Dynasty, and the purpose was to fight against thieves.

At this time, everyone rushed forward with fierce eyes, vowing to kill the bandits.

"There is a huge disparity in the number of enemies and friends, and everyone is breaking through to the mountains and forests!" Li Zicheng whispered to his own guards and took the lead to kill the slope.

Li Zicheng's horses were tethered in the backyard and had been controlled by the villagers, so they had to walk on foot.

These intruders are all long-standing rogues, who have killed countless people and have excellent martial arts, and they don't think that they will die here, and they feel that as long as they kill three or five people casually, they will naturally retreat these villagers.

In fact, these village warriors with hoes and blunt knives were indeed not opponents of the soldiers, and as soon as they fought, seventeen or eighteen people died under the knives.

In just a quarter of an hour, Li Zicheng rushed out.

"Chase!"

Although Cheng Jiubo saw that these bandits were strong in martial arts, he could take advantage of the terrain and knew that there was a trap arranged by himself in front of him, so he began to consciously expel and chase after him.

Li Zicheng and the others knew that there was a huge disparity between the enemy and me, and they couldn't fight hard, and once they were surrounded, they would be surrounded and killed by the villagers sooner or later, so they trotted all the way away.