According to Hong Chengchou's instructions, the 'Great Heavenly King' hurriedly told everyone present what he knew, 1510, "There is a cave in the place five miles north of Namizhi County, and it is said that during the Gaoqing Uprising in the last year of the Yuan Dynasty, troops were stationed in the cave. Gao Qing rode a flower horse, known as Hua Ma Gaoqing, so later the people of Mizhi called this hole the Flower Horse Cave......"

"Li Zicheng's brother ambushed the day, he and Li Guo and another monk fled, passing by this cave, there are officers and soldiers chasing outside, several of them are also chased exhausted, so with his nephew Li Guo and the monk, hid in the cave to avoid the arrest of the official army, by chance he got a sword left by Gao Qing, the sword is extremely sharp, Li thief often wears it, and on the hilt of the sword engraved with the word 'flower horse sword'. Gao Jie had an answer to ten, telling Li Zicheng about the situation of the sword.

Sun Chuanting said to the generals: "You heralds your subordinates to be careful, and anyone who has a sword next to the dead body is Li Thief himself." ”

The chief military officer, Ma Ke, said: "This sword, the last general has also heard of it, saying that it is indeed a good sword. Last year, he captured a traitor, who had been the leader of the Li thief, and according to him, this sword clicked and jumped out of its sheath every time it met an unrighteous person. Although this statement is not credible, it shows that this sword is quite famous among thieves. ”

Sun Chuanting said: "No matter who gets this sword, you must present it to the master of Taiwan." ”

Hong Chengchou smiled humbly and said: "The successive victories all depend on Lord Sun's good command and personal bravery. Of course, this sword should be kept by Lord Sun, and it will be a family heirloom forever. ”

Sun Chuanting was full of joy, but when he stood up, he didn't say anything: "The protégé doesn't dare, he doesn't dare." ”

"But before leaving Sichuan," Gao Jie, the 'Great Heavenly King', said, "I heard that Li Zicheng had already handed over this sword to his subordinate Zhang Nai, and he himself used another sword." ”

Sun Chuanting hurriedly asked, "Is there a word on the sword?"

"The word 'Longquan' is engraved on the body and scabbard. ”

Sun Chuanting said to the generals: "Remember, the thief's sword body and scabbard are engraved with the word 'Longquan'. ”

The Great Heavenly King added: "Although this sword cannot be said to be as sharp as clay, it is as sharp as a sword of flowers. Because it is two inches longer than the Huama Sword, I heard that Li Zicheng likes to use it very much recently. ”

Hong Chengchou also instructed the king to tell everyone the appearance of the bandit leader Li Zicheng, Li Guo's uncle and nephew, as well as Gao Guiying, Li Guo, Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu, Gao Yigong, Liu Fangliang and others, and then nodded and said, "Go down." The Great Heavenly King Gao Jie kowtowed and was taken out by Hong Chengchou's Chinese army.

A general in the lobby stood up, intervened and was about to speak to Hong Chengchou, when the generals saw Hong Chengchou's Chinese army general hurriedly walked in, and the Chinese lieutenant muttered in Hong Chengchou's ear, and the general who wanted to talk to the superintendent clearly heard the report of the Chinese army: "...... Please hurry up and take the order. ”

"Another holy decree?" Hong Chengchou was still a little surprised by Chongzhen's will many times recently, and he secretly thought to himself, "Could it be that there is an unexpected ...... in Gyeonggi?"

"Yes, the lieutenant who delivered the decree has entered the gates. ”

"Everyone, come with me to greet the order!" Hong Chengchou said loudly to the generals in the hall.

Hong Chengchou said that he had already stood up from the tiger skin Taishi chair, tidied up his clothes a little and walked out. Sun Chuanting and Ding Qirui led all the civil and military forces to follow closely behind him, and there was no time to change clothes at the moment, so everyone had to dress up while walking. Although everyone speculated that this holy decree must be related to the two things of Chuang Chuang and King Qin, because they had never been able to touch the young emperor's dog temper, people's hearts were like fifteen buckets of water, and some people wondered if they would be severely reprimanded by the emperor.

As soon as Hong Chengchou led all the civil and military forces to the gate of Xingyuan, the lieutenant eunuchs who came to announce had already galloped in. According to the usual practice, the emperor's edict must be handed over to the cabinet first, and the cabinet can send an official to pass the decree after the cabinet has a public opinion, and there is no need for the eunuch to be sent directly by the palace celebrant and eunuch.

However, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen, has always been suspicious of his subordinates, even for Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, who have always been loyal and hardworking, he is not very relieved, so he sent a close eunuch to come to check whether the soldiers in front are willing to fight the enemy with their lives.

Hong Chengchou and the civil and military officers knelt outside the gate in two rows, the eunuch jumped off the horse, took off the yellow burden from his back, held it in his hand, and entered through the middle of the line, he passed through the Yimen, walked into the hall, and stood in front of the incense case that had been hastily arranged; Hong Chengchou led the civil and military forces to follow behind Eunuch Liu, and they knelt down again in the hall.

The summoned lieutenant eunuch said majestically and loudly to everyone: "Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting listen to the order! The rest of the civil and military officials have all retreated!"

After dozens of civil and military officials had withdrawn, the lieutenant official who had announced the decree opened the yellow satin bag he was holding and took out a box with vermilion lacquer depicting a golden dragon; he respectfully opened the box, took out a yellow silk dark dragon envelope, gently took out the edict from the envelope, and read it aloud:

"Fengtian carried the emperor's edict and said: Thieves and thieves have plagued the country, ten years have been in the country, ten thousand surnames have been destroyed, and the mausoleum is shocked. Whoever is my courtier, who does not cut his teeth! The culprit is huge, and he carries two of them, or the head is awarded in Guanzhong, or he is successively in Hanbin. Ge, Zuo and other wait-and-see wanderers in Huaidian, and Lao Hui Hui and other Yu Yu are cramped in southern Henan, which are all prisoners to be killed, which is not a big trouble for the imperial court. However, the thief Li Zicheng, although he has been defeated repeatedly, the fierce flame has not been extinguished, and he still thinks about it when he runs alone. There is a skill in enveloping, and the dead party is consolidated but not dispersed; the small favor confuses people, and the foolish people are willing to be the eyes and ears of them. If it is not flattened, the disaster in the heart of the country will be stopped!"

Listening to the Zhongguan's proclamation, Hong Chengchou knelt on the ground and pondered the emperor's words in the edict, and he understood that the "mausoleum shock" mentioned in Chongzhen's decree refers to the fact that in the eighth year of Chongzhen, the giant Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng, and others broke Fengyang and burned the emperor's mausoleum; Cao Cao, Luo Rucai and other thieves surrendered to Xiong Wencan, the prime minister of thieves, in Huguang and other places.

Hong Chengchou was not allowed to think more, so he listened to the Zhongguan read aloud, "I have already issued an edict before I have issued an edict and earnestly admonished: 'We must break into the rebellion and destroy it quickly, especially the traitor and the thief's wife Gao, the giant thief Liu Zongmin, Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Tian Jianxiu, etc., one by one, or behead them, and never let one of them slip through the net'. Erhong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting have always been powerful in suppressing thieves, and they have made outstanding achievements, and I am very grateful. The generals who have made efforts to suppress thieves have been rewarded for their meritorious service from the second department of the officials and soldiers. I hereby give Erhong Chengchou a sword again, and act cheaply before the battle. He also gave 30,000 taels of silver, 200 horses of red silk and 200 horses in the table, and 500 silver medals for the purpose of rewarding merit before the battle. ”

Hong Chengchou nodded secretly, he naturally knew that now the treasury is washing, and the emperor seems to have made a bloody investment, using his emperor's private property, that is, the internal treasury to labor the army, if there is no silver in the inner treasury of this palace, he really can't think of where the silver that the Ming Dynasty has always sent before the army started to fight came from.