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In the camp of King Chuang's army in the south of Ye County, Liu Guoneng said: "Wang Chuang and I were acquainted with each other eight times. Although we parted ways later and went our own way, we never had any enmity in private.

If King Chuang is really generous, please spare the life of this child after killing me, and let your sister-in-law take him back to his hometown in Yan'an, so that my descendants will not be extinct, sorry for the ancestors. "

Li Zicheng was also touched when he heard his words, and replied: "If you are going to die, it's about the afterlife, but please don't worry. Your son is just like my son.

I will definitely send someone to escort him and his old sister-in-law out of Ye County safely. Even if your soldiers and generals don’t kill me, let them escort my sister-in-law and nephew back to their hometown in Yan’an.

I will arrange for you the travel expenses along the way and the money they need to make a living in the future. "

Upon hearing this, Liu Guoneng immediately stood up, bowed deeply to King Chuang, and said, "In this way, even if I die, I can rest in peace."

Li Zicheng seemed to be a little bit unbearable, but he turned around and saw Liu Zongmin's expression was angry, and Song Xiance was also winking at him frequently.

With tears in his eyes, he said: "Junchen, I can't keep you anymore. In terms of personal relationship, you and I are friends of eight worshippers, but in terms of military law, I can't allow you to defect to the court and refuse to turn back.

Please pay the bill. "

He then gave Wu Ruyi a wink, and Wu Ruyi immediately escorted Liu Guoneng out of the tent with four personal soldiers.

Chuang Li Zicheng sighed, stroked Liu Guoneng's son's head again, and said to him: "These are business affairs, and we have to do them as a last resort. You don't have to be afraid, I will raise you up like a father."

While speaking, Wu Ruyi turned back again, and he reported to King Chuang that Liu Guoneng, the traitor general, had been beheaded. At this time, when Liu Guoneng's son heard that his father had been beheaded, he couldn't help crying, and he jumped from Li Zicheng's arms. He jumped off and ran out of the big tent.

Li Zicheng thought that the child was going out to visit his father's body, so he ordered his soldiers to chase him out, and at the same time ordered General Liu to install a coffin for burial.

He then said to a soldier: "Go and call Erhu into the tent."

"Two Tigers" Liu Tichun hurried to the military tent, approached King Chuang, and asked, "What orders does King Chuang have, do you want me to lead the troops into the city?"

King Chuang was about to speak when he saw a soldier rushing into the tent and hurriedly reported to him: "Generalissimo, that child committed suicide next to Vice General Liu's body without being watched over!"

Chuang Wang Li Zicheng was shocked when he heard the words, he hurriedly got up and went out of the tent to look, only to see that the child had cut his throat with a dagger and killed himself.

King Chuang asked, "It's so good, why did it kill itself?"

The soldier hurriedly replied: "He looked at Vice General Liu's body and cried a few more times. When we were caught off guard for a moment, he suddenly drew the dagger from his waist and wiped it on his neck, cutting his throat with one blow."

King Chuang also stomped his feet repeatedly, but what can he do now that the matter has come to this?

Li Zicheng just sighed a few times, and said: "I didn't expect this child to be so stupid and loyal. He was taught badly by Junchen."

He sighed and turned back to the military tent, and told Liu Tichun: "Dejie, you lead two thousand cavalry into the city. Since you surrendered in Kaicheng, try your best not to disturb the gentry and common people in the city, and just pick up a few big households to supplement some money and food. "

"Two Tigers" was actually Liu Tichun's nickname. His elder brother Liu Tiren's nickname was "Dahu", but he had already died under the sword of the Ming Dynasty's army.

Although Liu Tichun has taken the word "Dejie" as his nickname since he gained some fame among the thieves, Li Zicheng and his wife, Liu Zongmin and other senior generals still like to call him Erhu.

Because Liu Tichun was a little brother who grew up under their noses, they are used to calling him by his nickname, but now Liu Tichun has also become a warrior, and everyone has begun to call him by his nickname on formal occasions. Whistle Liu Zongmin still can't change it.

Li Zicheng then remembered something, and continued: "Liu Guoneng was my sworn brother, and I wanted to save his family and stay with him to take care of him, but now his youngest son committed suicide in our army. It's not easy."

He thought for a while, and then said again: "Dejie, the first thing you need to do after you enter the city is to immediately find Liu Guoneng's family members, especially his eldest son Liu Shiwen, take strict care of them, and send them to me as soon as possible.

In addition, Liu Guoneng's old subordinates were not allowed to kill any of them. Those who they wanted to keep would stay, and those who didn't want to keep some money for travel expenses, just dismissed. "

When Liu Tichun turned around and was about to leave, Li Zicheng remembered something again, stopped him and said, "Dejie, although Zhang Woyi, the magistrate of Yecheng County, is a fellow from Shaanxi, he also strongly advocated the surrender of the city, but this person is in Yecheng. For two years, corruption and perverting the law caused great public grievances.

After you enter the city, you still have to arrest him, behead him in public, and eliminate harm for the people. The military division of Song Dynasty will enter the city with you, post a list to calm the people, and the military division will know all about the crimes committed by Zhang Wuyi. "

"Yes, King Chuang."

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"Shan Ye" Tong Shoushan is now also a leader in the camp. At first he was assigned to the head of the cavalry team under Liu Fangliang, and later he was sent out to collect food. It became a share and was listened to and used under the command of Liu Fangliang and Li Guo successively.

Now, he is a general under Liu Tichun's command, and he is trusted and reused by Liu Tichun. This time King Chuang ordered Liu Tichun to lead two thousand cavalry into the city, and the first thing he thought of was Tong Shoushan's "Shanzi Battalion".

There were nearly 5000 to 700 horses and horses in Tong Shoushan's camp, but there were only [-] cavalrymen, and there were less than [-] infantry left, as well as some soldiers' family members.

After receiving Liu Tichun's military order, Tong Shoushan immediately assembled his cavalry, and the infantry would follow the army ahead of schedule and stationed near Nanyang in preparation for the siege of Nanyang.

At this time, seeing no one around, he said softly to Bao Jiqiang, the leader of the trusted team: "Master Hai sent a letter a while ago, saying that Chief Chen wants to save Liu Guoneng."

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Lord Hai is Liu Jinhai, the chief soldier of the Xuanfu and Zhang Cheng sent by Yongning Bo to secretly operate in Jinan and Yu Province. Affection.

Although the journey was thrilling and exciting, it was also very fruitful, especially Shen Shichun personally verified the theory put forward by Zhang Cheng, that is, the plague is likely to be spread through the powder in the air.

Shen Shichun and his entourage have achieved certain results by strengthening personal protection, sealing off the epidemic area first, then conducting general disinfection and cleaning, and isolating the patients in a certain area, and then applying medicine and stones to rescue them.

Although it was not possible to rescue all the patients infected with the plague, it also greatly reduced the speed of infection and greatly limited the further spread of the plague.

The biggest achievement of Shen Shichun and his party is that they met Wu Youxing, a generation of famous doctors who also explored the pathology of the plague, and they walked with him, benefiting a lot.

Wu Youxing, whose name is Danzhai, is a native of Wu County, Jiangsu Province. He was a rare generation of medical masters in the late Ming Dynasty. Because of the epidemic in his hometown of Wu County, "there are more than a hundred families in a lane, and none of them is spared; each family has dozens of people. mouth, not a single one survived."

He lamented that the doctors at that time used typhoid methods to treat febrile epidemics, but often found no curative effect, so he began to search for the cause. He traveled from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the north, passed through Shandong, entered Henan, and then went to Jinan. Said that there was a plague, and he appeared there.

During this period, he was also infected by the plague, but survived through his own patient treatment, and then summed up a set of his own theoretical basis, which also deepened his confidence in exploring the cause of the plague.

Although in the original history, Wu Youxing finally wrote the book "Theory of Epidemic Epidemics" based on his own clinical practice, and did not open the door to the syndrome and treatment of epidemic diseases, but at this moment his book "On Epidemic Epidemics" is It's far from a book.

Wu Youxing was also very interested in Shen Shichun, especially the masks that Shen Shichun and his party wore were much better than the piece of cloth he used.

It is precisely because of this that Wu Youxing also became very interested in the person behind Shen Shichun, because his theory was not understood by the doctors of this era. Not fascinated?

Since then, they have been walking together to find a way to fight the plague together. It is precisely because of Zhang Cheng's strong support that the prescriptions such as Dayuan Drink and Sanxiao Drink developed by Wu Youxing are also available in Jinan. It is widely used locally, and the plague has been greatly alleviated.

At this moment, Liu Jinhai, who accompanied Shen Shichun and his party to protect Shen Shichun, also received a letter from Chen Zhong, a guerrilla in the Yuhe camp, asking him to try to focus on the movements of the intruders in southern Henan.

After Liu Jinhai informed Shen Shichun and Wu Youxing of this matter, they believed that the epidemic situation in southern Jinan had eased, and they were planning to go to Henan Province to further verify whether their theory was correct, so they went west into Northern Henan .

Not long after they entered the territory of Kaifeng Prefecture in Henan Province, they encountered a group of cavalry sent by Chen Zhong, a guerrilla in the Yuhe camp.

At present, Shen Shichun and his party were guarded by a hundred elite cavalry from the Yuhe Battalion cavalry, and Liu Jinhai was able to lead a small number of elite cavalry with Tielin, leading Chen Zhong and Wei Huaibing to prepare for Ji Youci, the prefect of Huaiqing He Chongwu, etc. He wrote the letter himself, rode his horse and swung his whip straight to the south of Henan.

It turned out that when Zhang Cheng left Henan and retreated back to Xuanfu, he left an order to Chen Zhong to try his best to make friends with local forces from all over Henan in order to form a loose alliance.

Even if they can't be used by Zhang Cheng, at least they should not fall completely to Li Zicheng's side, so that the military of Yu Province can make a difference.

Chen Zhong was originally a guerrilla general of the imperial court, and he also had the official voice of Wei Huaibing and Ji Youci, and Yang Shibin, Li Shidong, Xu Yousi and other local tycoons around Mangshan made a bridge.

Liu Hongqi from Runing, Han Jiadi from Xuzhou, Li Hao from Yuzhou, Liu Xuan from Xiangcheng and other relatively powerful local forces in Yu Province had already established contact with Chen Zhong earlier.

And with the help of Yu Wei who defeated Li Zicheng under the city of Kaifeng with the help of the Xuanfu army, he brought them under the leadership of Zhang Cheng in name, and made a wish to Liu Hongqi, Han Jiadi, Li Hao, and Liu Xuan in private, and tried his best to win them over. .

Recently, Chen Zhong got a report saying that Chuangni's activities were rampant in southern Henan. He had already killed the supervisor Zonglong outside Xiangcheng, and he went north and south, sometimes threatening Kaifeng and sometimes Nanyang.

However, most of Chen Zhong's power is concentrated in Jibei, especially the territory of Weihui Mansion. In the past half a year, Chen Zhong has expanded his subordinates to a team of three in accordance with Zhang Cheng's original instructions. , its main barracks has more than [-] troops.

In addition, in some key surrounding villages and castles, there are some scattered tribes with nearly 2000 troops. However, the standard battalions of He Chongwu, the prefect of Weihui, and Ji Youci, the military constitution, each have only a few hundred recruits. Stepping up training.

So in this way, what Chen Zhong can call is the [-] soldiers in his own battalion, but even if the bandits and bandits in Weihui Mansion have been suppressed by him, there must always be a soldier left to guard the river. Banknote off.

After all, the thousands of soldiers and horses in the three major villages around Mangshan on the south bank of the Yellow River were not Zhang Cheng's direct subordinates. If it weren't for Mangshan's police, even Zhang Cheng's brother-in-law Yang Shibin's unit would be difficult for Chen Zhong to call.

After all, the armed forces in the villages around Mangshan Mountain are still in the nature of local militia groups, and their main function is still to protect local security. They are not Zhang Cheng's private army and cannot be used at will.

It is precisely because of these reasons that Chen Zhongcai is very concerned about Li Zicheng's whereabouts. If Li Zicheng invades Nanyang, he will be beyond his reach. Just get along with it.

However, Zhang Cheng was more concerned about the few rogues in southern Henan who were loyal to the imperial court after being appeased. He especially asked Chen Zhong to help them out if possible, thinking that the power of rogues would be divided and disintegrated in the future. a primer of .

That's why Chen Zhongcai sent his cavalry team of the Chinese army to secretly sneak towards Nanyang to wait for an opportunity. Liu Jinhai had been cooperating with Chen Zhong before, and secretly contacted several local forces in southern Henan, so he was more familiar with the situation there. Liu Jinhai came over.

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At this moment, Bao Jiqiang nodded after hearing the words: "Shan Ye, Hai Ye said so, but now that Liu Guoneng has been beheaded by King Chuang, how can he keep it?"

Tong Shoushan didn't answer immediately, he looked to the left and right first, then walked back slowly towards the cavalry gathering place, and said softly as he walked: "Tou Chen sent Tielin secretly to hide around Xiangcheng earlier, contact Han Jiadi in Xuzhou, Liu Xuan in Xiangcheng, and Li Hao in Yuzhou are powerful, hoping to jointly resist us if necessary.

Before King Chuang surrounded Ye County, Tielin led his men to sneak in. He wanted to help Liu Guoneng guard Ye County, but unexpectedly he threw himself into a trap and came to King Chuang's camp to die. "

Bao Jiqiang walked slowly beside him, and asked softly, "Master Shan, what is the order? To be honest, can't you trust us?"

Tong Shoushan saw that he was about to return to the cavalry when he went forward, so he said bluntly to him: "I heard that Liu Guoneng has an eldest son who is between seventeen and eighteen years old. Now King Chuang killed his father. The blood feud of killing my father, we have to try to leave this curse for King Chuang."

At this time, he lowered his voice, and said: "When you enter the city later, you will take our old brothers alone and run to Liu Guoneng's house alone, and the camera will cooperate with Haiye and Tielin to protect the It's their safety."

"It's all right, Master Shan, don't worry, we will do it!"