Shaanxi

Xi'an Prefecture is the same state

Baishui County County Office

Lu Xiangsheng sat in front of the hall with a dignified face and listened to the confession of the peasant army in the audience. The rushing battles in the past few days have darkened his originally fair face, but it has become more angular.

"So, you two don't know where Wang Er has fled with the flow of people?"

"The little ones really don't know, the little ones are also forced! If we don't follow him, Wang Er will kill our family, we can't help it! Spare your life! ”

"What about you?" Lu Xiangsheng's gaze stopped at the other person.

"The little ones don't know, but the little ones once heard them say by chance that if the rebellion fails, they will run to the mountains and occupy the mountains as kings."

Lu Xiangsheng waved his hand and ordered the two to be escorted down left and right.

After leaving the capital, Lu Xiangsheng first returned to the Daimyo's Mansion to recruit 10,000 soldiers, and marched all the way to Shaanxi.

Although the scale of Wang Er's rebellion was not large, the impact was very bad. In recent years, Shaanxi has suffered severe droughts year after year, grain production has been seriously reduced, and the peasants' living space has been repeatedly squeezed. Wang Er's rebellion can be said to be like a spark thrown into a straw pile, and many places have responded, and it seems that it is about to form a prairie fire.

Lu Xiangsheng has not had a moment of leisure since he entered the territory of Shaanxi, although he has not encountered any decent resistance, but these rebellious people often flee when they hear the news, you come to this county, I run to that county. I'll come out again when you're gone. In such a situation, it is logically difficult to completely exterminate these peasant armies.

But Lu Xiangsheng made the most correct decision, if you run, I will chase. You run into the mountains, and I will search the mountains. When I went to another county, I besieged and searched the city. If the leader is not killed, he will not give up, and ordinary people will be sent back to their hometowns. In this way, he gained the nickname of "King Luyan" in the peasant army.

At this time, only the last and largest share remained: Wang Er

Wang Er was born in a poor peasant family, and this person's talent is very full. Tall and strong, although he ploughs the fields for a living, he is a real farmer, but he prefers to practice martial arts, and exercises whenever he has time. Even his sister was influenced by him, dancing with him and playing with guns and sticks, humming hahahe. As the so-called hard-working people, the sky does not pay. Corruption of officials, natural disasters, has reached the point of "the grass and trees are exhausted, and people cannibalize." ". The perfect time to rebel has arrived!

He contacted Zhong Guangdao in the next village and asked this intellectual, who had studied for several years, to be his military advisor. The two hit it off, and in order to increase the momentum and success rate of the rebellion, they colluded with Yang Fa, the official of Baishui County, and Wang Gao of Pucheng, to attack the official warehouse, open the warehouse and release grain, and quickly gathered hundreds of victims, and the momentum was great! More and more victims of the disaster either voluntarily followed, or were coerced, following him to attack the towns and seize villages in the Baishui and Chengcheng areas, fight the rich and help the poor, and kill corrupt officials and corrupt officials. For a while, the responders gathered. The government sent local troops to encircle and suppress them, but not only failed to exterminate the peasant army, but even some officers and soldiers defected.

By the time Lu Xiangsheng arrived with his army, he had already gathered a few thousand people, occupied the county seat of Baishui, and was planning to attack other county seats.

After receiving the information from his subordinates, Wang Er knew that the hard stubble was coming. Lu Xiangsheng's troops, unlike the local officers and soldiers of the past, were well-equipped and neatly lined up. He knew that it would be a death to fight, in order to preserve his strength, Wang Er sneaked out of the county seat from the north gate of the county with dozens of henchmen at night, and when the peasant army in the city woke up, they found that they had been surrounded. Lu Xiangsheng's troops only shouted two slogans of surrender and not killing, and the peasant army, which had lost its backbone, surrendered.

Lu Xiangsheng took Baishui bloodlessly, but searched the whole city without finding any trace of Wang Er. There was a scene where two small leaders of the peasant army had just been interrogated.

Lu Xiangsheng ordered someone to find Yutu, stared at Yutu and pondered for a while, and made a decision after obtaining the consent of Liu Yuanbin, the supervisor of the Yongwei Battalion.

"Head to Huti Mountain now!"

Immediately, he ordered all the soldiers and horses to chase in the direction of Huti Mountain. This time, he only brought 3,000 soldiers and horses from the Yongwei battalion, first, the cavalry was highly mobile, but the thousands of peasant troops still needed to be guarded.

In fact, Lu Xiangsheng's military intuition was very accurate, and Wang Er and the others fled all the way to Huti Mountain after leaving the county seat. The place was chosen by the military advisor Zhong Guangdao, and in his words, Huti Mountain was the main transportation route connecting northern Shaanxi and Guanzhong. The terrain is dangerous, and it has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times. If you enter the troubled pass, you can retreat to hold the main road and block the road and rob.

As early as a month ago, he ordered people to set up a camp on the mountain and hoarded a lot of grain and grass. A group of people rushed non-stop all night and finally came to the foot of Huti Mountain.

"Brother, drink saliva." Wang Er's sister, Wang Yue'e, handed him a water bag.

Wang Er took the water bag and drank a few sips, looked at his sister's slightly haggard face, and said distressedly:

"Yue'e, I've made you suffer."

"I'm not bitter, I just can't kill all those dog officials! If it weren't for those people, Daddy wouldn't have starved to death! Wang Yue'e gritted her teeth and said.

Wang Er looked back at the dozens of dejected brothers and felt a little dazed. The road of rebellion is not easy to walk, bullying and bullying the landlords and squires is almost the same, and encountering the regular army of the imperial court is a plate of scattered sand.

Zhong Guangdao, who was on the side, saw Wang Er's emotions and comforted him:

"Second brother, retreating at the moment is just an expedient measure, we still have a chance. It is impossible for the troops sent by the imperial court to stay here for a long time, and the terrain of Huti Mountain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. After this hurdle, where can't the second brother in the world go? ”

"Is that true?"

"Seriously!"

Zhong Guangdao's words rekindled Wang Er's fighting spirit! swept away the depression just now, and shouted at the brothers behind him:

"Brethren, cheer up and are about to enter the mountain! The sergeant said that this mountain was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the officers and soldiers would not call. After this limelight, let's go to the rich land of Guanzhong and eat his mother! him! Find a few more wives to satisfy the brethren's cravings! ”

"Good!"

These people who escaped together were all hardcore who followed him to kill officials and rebel, and they had no choice but to follow him up the mountain together.

On the official road forty miles away, Lu Xiangsheng rode Wu Mingji with a grim face and galloped in front of the team. They had already found traces left by Wang Er's escape.

In the evening, they reached the foot of Huti Mountain.

Zhou Yuji turned over and dismounted and observed on the ground for a while, then came to Lu Xiangsheng and bowed down to report: "My lord, judging from the horseshoe prints and footprints left at the scene, Wang Er and they should have gone up the mountain, should we attack?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng looked at the sky and ordered:

"It was getting late, so I ordered the soldiers to camp around the mountain and bury the pot to make food. Let them know that we are coming. ”

"Yes!"

The soldiers of the Brave Guard Battalion began to pitch tents around the foot of the mountain and lit bonfires. I have to say that the flint and steel on the sapper shovel is really easy to use, and it can be ignited by rubbing it on the hay. After a while, smoke rose from all around.

It was getting dark, and after Wang Er went up the mountain and settled down, he fell asleep on a simple bed. He was so tired that he hadn't closed his eyes for a moment since last night. But not long after falling asleep, he was woken up by the cry of his brother Liu Xiaoshan.

"Second brother! Second brother! Officers and soldiers chased after them. ”

"What?" Wang Er got up in a panic, touched the steel knife next to the pillow, and asked hurriedly, "Where is it?" ”

"At the foot of the mountain."

Wang Er slapped his face and scolded: "Then what's your fucking name?" Didn't hit again. ”

After speaking, he walked out angrily, leaving Liu Xiaoshan covering his face and not speaking.

Wang Er went out and found Sergeant Zhong Guangdao and asked about countermeasures.

Zhong Guangdao said calmly: "The terrain here is steep, and the officers and soldiers don't know our location, so they will not dare to attack rashly." We can break through at night. ”

Wang Er nodded in agreement and summoned all the brothers.

"Brethren, I think you already know that the officers and soldiers are catching up. We have no way out, I will take all the brothers to break through tonight! To survive, we eat and drink spicy. If you can't survive, our brothers will still walk together on the Huangquan Road! ”

"Good! Second brother! We follow you! ”

"Fight with them!"

The crowd was excited, and they couldn't wait to rush down immediately and fight to the death with the officers and soldiers.

Until a man shouted in a panic:

"Second brother! Liu Xiaoshan is gone! ”