Three, two, part ways

The sunset hangs in the sky, blood red.

Everyone sat in the camp outside Zezhou City, sitting in a circle, with a small tree next to it, and there was a dry leaf on the top of the tree. The leaf just blocked the sunset, so... the sunset in everyone's eyes seemed very broken, with a hole in the shape of a dead leaf on it, which was awkward no matter how you look at it.

"Wang Er, stop crying. What do you think of such a big man? "Miao Mei punched Wang Er on the back.

"Many people died... I didn't save them... I'm just talking nonsense..." Wang Er's voice was not very straightforward.

"Okay, okay, it's not your fault!" Yingshanhong said helplessly beside her: "Do you really think you are amazing? Do you know how to cast spells and become a god? You are all the people in the world who are saved by you? You are just a strong cow, and your hands are not two feet long. Don't pull yourself like anything. You will make me punched you a few times, and your bones still hurt now."

Wang Er was speechless.

Everyone turned their heads and looked at the city of Zezhou under the setting sun. At this time, the sound of shouts of killing were still being heard in Zezhou City, but the sound was already very small. It seemed that most of the officers and soldiers in the city had been suppressed and their resistance was getting smaller and smaller.

Since Zhang Xianzhong captured the southern city, the morale in the city collapsed. The north gate and the east gate were successively defeated by the general Li Zicheng, Lao Hui, Ma Shouying, Gao Yingxiang quickly reorganized his army and attacked the western gate again. Originally, his army's morale had collapsed today, so it was impossible for him to launch another offensive, but the chaos of the defenders on the top of the city fell into the eyes of the bandits, which aroused their morale again, so they fought to break through the western city...

After the four gates were broken, Zezhou City quickly fell into the hands of the 36th Battalion. The next news that Zhu Yuanzhang and others were waiting for was whether Gao Yingxiang could suppress Zhang Xianzhong and protect the people in the city.

Waiting is very painful, especially waiting for news that will not make people very happy no matter what the result is!

The sunset sank, and torches were lit at the top of the city of Zezhou... The long night passed slowly, and a fire was lit in the middle of Zhu Yuanzhang's camp. Wang Er and others sat around the fire. Until dawn, everyone did not talk more than ten words. By the morning of the next day, the sun was dazzling... Everyone suddenly heard a huge noise in the city.

After arriving at the height, it turned out that an army was leaving the city in the north. Unfortunately, it was too far apart and I couldn't see which army it was, nor how many people there were. In short, someone opened the north gate and left...

This action is really unusual! Why did the people suddenly leave early in the morning? All the leaders felt inexplicable, and only Zhu Yuanzhang showed a calm look on his face: "If I guess correctly, it was the army of the Eight Kings. He was joined by the King of Rebellion, General of Rebellion, and Lao Huihui, and he was indignant and left the city early in the morning."

"Oh? Brother Zhu never missed something! The people of Zezhou have saved it?" Miao Meixi said.

Everyone was still a little unsure, but what Zhu Yuanzhang said was always accurate. Everyone let go of the heavy weight in their hearts. After a while, dozens of fast horses came from the direction of Zezhou City. Gao Yingxiang came. He entered Zhu Yuanzhang's camp, arrived in front of the leaders, and turned over and fell off the horse. Although he was over forty years old, he was still very agile. He hugged and clasped his fists and said, "Brother Zhu, fortunately, he has not been humiliated."

"What happened last night? I saw that the army of the Eight Kings seemed to have left in anger." Zhu Yuanzhang asked lightly.

Gao Yingxiang said, "Well...ah... let Brother Zhu Ba listen to what happened yesterday, don't laugh at our 36th Battalion."

"Don't dare!"

Gao Yingxiang said slowly. It turned out that after the city was broken, Gao Yingxiang first ordered his soldiers not to disturb the people and try his best to win the hearts of the people. He suddenly issued such an order to the bandits, which surprised the bandits. There was a sudden chaos in the army. It was finally difficult to use years of prestige to suppress these different voices. Then he also encountered the troubles that Bai Yuzhu had encountered, that is, the soldiers were disobedient and said they were willing to obey orders, but in fact they still did their own things.

Then after a good rectification, Gao Yingxiang made up his mind to change his appearance, so he beat up a few soldiers who were making trouble, and finally suppressed the situation. Next, he contacted Chuang General Li Zicheng and Lao Hui Ma Shouying while rushing to stop Zhang Xianzhong from doing anything against him.

First, he persuaded Zhang Xianzhong with great sincerity, but Zhang Xianzhong refused to listen! Then he took out the power of the No. 2 boss of the 36th Camp (the No. 1 boss was used by the Zijinliang King) to suppress Zhang Xianzhong, but Zhang Xianzhong still refused! Gao Yingxiang did not want to turn against Zhang Xianzhong. When he was in trouble, he joined forces with Li Zicheng and Lao Huihui Ma Shouying to express his support for Gao Yingxiang, and finally scared Zhang Xianzhong.

Although Zhang Xianzhong is a desperate person, he also knows the reason why public anger is difficult to break. He knows well that neither Li Zicheng nor Ma Shouying is a good person. If he breaks up with these two brothers, it will be even more terrifying than confronting all the other leaders in the 36th battalion.

In the end, Zhang Xianzhong had to compromise and no longer faced the butcher's knife at ordinary people, but instead blackmailed the wealthy businessmen, gentry, bureaucrats... In short, Zezhou City was exempted from a massacre, but still could not escape a small massacre. The rich were killed, and there were no one knows how much gold and silver were stolen. After all, this place was a prefecture city, and there were much more rich people than county towns. After Zhang Xianzhong made a fortune, he no longer wanted to act with Gao Yingxiang and others, because he found that these people were not people he could control, so it would be better to find some friendly leaders who were easier to fool.

So as soon as it dawn, Zhang Xianzhong opened the North City Gate and left straight, no longer acting with Gao Yingxiang and others.

After understanding the turmoil in the city, Zhu Yuanzhang breathed a sigh of relief. The small massacre was fine. It was better to die fewer people than the dead. He had done his best. What could be saved was luck, and what could not be saved was life...

After telling the story, Gao Yingxiang hugged Zhu Yuanzhang again and said, "Brother Zhu Ba, although he offended the Eight Kings, the trick you taught me this time is indeed quite effective. In the past, after I broke through the city, the people would fight desperately, and they would have to go through several days of chaos to completely control the city. Any soldiers who were alone would be killed by the people lurking in the dark alleys... But after entering the city this time, I restrained the soldiers and told them not to rob and burn them randomly. Instead, they quickly put the chaos in the city under control. The people retreated back to their homes and did not hide and wait for an opportunity to fight with my soldiers. The losses were reduced a lot."

"That's right, if the people are not forced into desperate situations, why do they have to fight with the soldiers?" Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "And most ordinary people are poor, and killing them will not get any benefits."

Gao Yingxiang spread his hands: "I never thought of this before...ah...I will do it well in the future! My nephew also praised me, saying that I did it right this time, and that only by doing this can you achieve great things. Ha, this nephew has been a border army and is very angry. He has never praised me for what I did before, but this time he said a few good words."

His nephew with a high spirit is Li Zicheng! He is indeed a handsome man at this time!

In fact, Li Zicheng was not a very villain at the beginning of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty. On the contrary, his military discipline was much stricter than other thief soldiers, and he was better to the people than other thief soldiers, and he knew better to win the hearts of the people. Later, after he won Niu Jinxing, Song Xiancai, and especially Li Yan and other advisers, he paid more attention to stoking the hearts of the people and compiled a song like "Open the city gate to welcome the king of crusades, and the king of crusades will not pay food when he comes", which shows that he understands the principle of people's favor.

His army also developed very fast. The so-called millions of thieves were not a boast. If it were not won by the people, how could it be of this scale?

Of course, after entering the capital and overthrowing the Ming Dynasty, this guy felt relieved and suddenly became a demon king. This shows that he had always pretended to be hypocritical, and he was still a bandit deep in his heart! But the four words "know how to disguise" are not so easy to do. A hero who has great perseverance cannot do the same level as Li Zicheng.

Well, I accidentally got out of the way!

In short, the matter came to an end. Gao Yingxiang smiled at Zhu Yuanzhang and said, "Although the Eight Kings left with anger, he was a member of my 36th Battalion. Lao Hui was worried about him and planned to follow him to the north to take care of him, but my nephew told me not to join the Eight Kings and advised me to go south to attack Huaiqing in northern Henan... So my nephew and I are planning to go south now. What are your plans in the future?"

Zhu Yuanzhang heard that they had to divide their places from the south and the north, but he was not surprised. The 36th Battalion divided into dozens of stocks and flew everywhere. It was a historical foregone conclusion. He didn't want to interfere in such matters. Anyway, the more they were having a good time, the more they could get to take root and sprout in Baishui.

He hugged and said, "Brother, I have no plans, just go around, just go wherever I go..."

Hearing that he said this, Gao Yingxiang didn't ask any more. He turned his head to Xue Hongqi and said in the slogan of his elders: "Crazy girl, what are your plans? If you have no place to go, come and act with your uncle... Look at your hair, you haven't gotten married yet, right? Do you want your uncle to arrange a marriage for you?"

"This..." Xue Hongqi actually wanted to get married, but her daughter's family couldn't say it. She shook her head: "Uncle Chuang, don't joke with me, where are you going to arrange a marriage for me? What I'm looking for is a hero, don't have any cats or dogs."

"Tsk! Look at what you said, how can uncle have a bad vision? Uncle is talking about my nephew, a general! This is a hero among men, and his future achievements will not be inferior to uncle." Gao Yingxiang smiled and said, "If you don't want it, uncle will marry his daughter to him."

After hearing this, Xue Hongqi's face changed slightly. After spending time with Zhu Yuanzhang and others for a long time, she was also influenced by Zhu Yuanzhang and others, and instinctively rejected the leaders of the 36th battalion. She felt that those guys were all thieves who were not on the table. When she heard that they were Chuang Generals, she felt unhappy, so she clasped her fists and said, "Uncle Chuang, please keep it as your son-in-law."
Chapter completed!