Tuo Yangkun's tent was covered with blood and the ground was in chaos. Xu Zhong and Liu Yingjie's heads had been cut off, and their faces were still filled with shock and anger.

Several of the personal soldiers brought by the two were also cut off their heads. The aroma of wine and meat in the tent was mixed with blood, which made people feel nauseous.

Tuo Yangkun invited the two from the official army camp for the sake of inviting Xu Zhong and Liu Yingjie to have a drink and giving them a generous gift after drinking.

Xu Zhong and Liu Yingjie were not suspected of being cheated, and they thought that Tuo Yangkun and Zhang Wenyao had surrendered after these days of harsh abuse.

It was just dark, and the two of them happily came to the banquet with a few personal soldiers in plain clothes.

Two tables of banquets were placed in the tent, and the table of Xu Zhong and Liu Yingjie was accompanied by Tuo Yangkun and Zhang Wenyao. The personal soldiers brought were Huang Chao and Tuo Yangkun, and several confidants selected by Zhang Wenyao to accompany them.

When the wine was half over, Tuo Yangkun stood up and left the camp with the excuse of being able to get up and leave the tent. Zhang Wenyao deliberately pushed the chopsticks to the ground. When he bent down to pick them up, he pulled out the short blade in the boot.

After coughing, he squatted and stretched forward with his body halfway. He exerted force on his waist and arm, waved his arm holding the short blade, and a sharp short knife cut through Liu Yingjie's throat, sitting across the corner of the table. Liu Yingjie's body smashed backwards to the ground like wood, and there was still a sheep bone in his mouth.

Before Xu Zhong could react, Zhang Wenyao shouted loudly, threw the short blade out of his hand, and nailed it to Xu Zhong's shoulder. Xu Zhong screamed; Zhang Wenyao stood up and suddenly lifted the table and smashed it towards Xu Zhong. Xu Zhong, who was caught off guard, felt that his eyes turned black and he was smashed to the ground by the table mixed with cups, plates, basins, bowls and soup.

With Zhang Wenyao's cough, Huang Chao and others who were prepared on another table also suddenly attacked and killed several personal soldiers neatly.

Before Xu Zhong lifted the table and turned over and got up, Zhang Wenyao picked up a thick tree stump as a chair and smashed it hard on the table that he fell to the table. Xu Zhong's sternum under the table was broken and unconscious in an instant. Huang Chao rushed over from the other side, lifted the table to one side with one hand, dragged the unconscious Xu Zhong out. Another Tuo Yangkun's confidant Han San ran over, chopped the small hand axe several times, and chopped Xu Zhong's head down.

Then Huang Chao, Han San and Tuo Yangkun's confidants led their former 3,000 troops to break into the official army camp at night. They had been scattered for a long time and had no defense. Liu Er's troops were killed in the night and fled in scattered areas. Most of the weapons and armor were captured by the rebels, and all the food and supplies were owned by the rebels.

Zhang Wenyao, who left from Tuoyangkun's tent in the name of returning to the camp to gather troops, led his troops to come after the official army fled. The reason was that the soldiers in the dark could not see the way clearly, and encountered several escaped official troops on the way, which delayed the time after a melee. Although Tuoyangkun and Huang Chao were dissatisfied, they had no intention of exploring it. The major matter had been done, so it was the right way to find a way to escape Shaanxi.

Zhang Wenyao had arranged a few confidants to ride the only few war horses to Fengxiang Mansion. This matter must be reported to Sun Chuanting as soon as possible, so his future actions would become a righteous and open act under the instruction of the governor.

From Pucheng where they are now to Fengxiang Mansion, there are more than 300 miles in the middle, and it can be reached in two days without any effort. He ignored what Sun Chuanting did after receiving his report. It is not too difficult to send troops to chase or intercept them; because their group of nearly 10,000 people will leave uncoverable traces no matter where they move. Zhang Wenyao is waiting for how he can get the best benefits from it after the arrival of the official army.

According to Huang Chao's suggestion, they would rush from Pucheng to Huayin in the southeast, then turn east, and pass through the mountains near Tongguan and enter Henan.

There must be an official army stationed in Tongguan. The kind of heroic pass that has been eternal cannot be broken by their mobs. They can only bypass the nearby mountains. This is the closest road to Henan.

If you go straight east from Pucheng, there are several cities ahead, and no one knows whether there are any official troops. Even if you bypass a few cities, you will enter Shanxi.

If you walk like that, you will get closer and closer to the government troops in northern Shaanxi. What they are thinking now is that the further away from the government troops, the better. Henan is the best place to go now.

According to the lazy and disorderly habits of the thieves, when they travel from Pucheng to Huayin, the official army will definitely be able to arrive.

Sure enough, the night after the rebels passed Huayin County, Zhang Wenyao, who was dragging behind, met his confidant and Sun Chuanting's personal army, Sun Zhian.

The next day, the rebels walked to the south of the Huashan Mountains, and after passing through a valley, they walked thirty miles to see the mountains near Tongguan, from which they could enter Henan.

Zhang Wenyao, Tuo Yangkun, Huang Chao and others are discussing the way forward.

From Pucheng to Huayin, we did not encounter any official troops along the way. The four gates of Huayin County were closed. We originally wanted to attack the rebels in the county, but when they saw the archers and young men on the city, they also extinguished the idea of ​​attack. If they delayed for a few days, maybe there might be another official army around us, and they would not be able to leave even if they wanted to.

Zhang Wenyao said, "Big Head, the situation ahead is unclear. For the sake of proper reasons, I will lead the headquarters to open the road ahead, and the Big Head will be separated from me by ten miles. After the discovery, I will send someone to inform the Big Head, and then the Big Head will lead the people to move forward with confidence."

Tuo Yangkun pondered for a while, but didn't notice anything was wrong, so he nodded and responded.

Zhang Wenyao returned to the back road and assembled his troops, crossed Tuo Yangkun's subordinates and walked into the valley.

After about an hour, Zhang Wenyao sent someone to report that there was nothing wrong with the future, so he asked Tuo Yangkun to lead his troops to follow up.

Amid the scolding of Huang Chao and other leaders, thousands of rebels took half an hour to assemble. Then Huang Chao led his subordinates into the valley first, and Tuo Yangkun led the central army to follow up.

There are cliffs on both sides of the valley. The path in the valley is narrow and difficult to walk, so only three people can walk in parallel. Fortunately, the rebels only had dozens of war horses and did not carry any extra baggage, so it was not difficult to move forward. The team was dragged seven or eight miles away. The rebels in front had already turned around, and the rebels behind had not yet set off.

Just half an hour after the rebels on the last side disappeared on the mountain road, the three thousand Qin troops who stayed in Xi'an Prefecture appeared at the mountain pass.

Zhang Wenyao's confidant rushed to Fengxiang Mansion to find Sun Chuanting but failed. After learning that he was in Linggu County not far away, he rushed to Sun Chuanting, who was leading his army to besiege the bandits.

Sun Chuanting immediately ordered Sun Zhian to return to Xi'an Prefecture with the governor's order with the people sent by Zhang Wenyao, mobilized 3,000 defenders to chase the rebels, and ordered that the rest be killed except Zhang Wenyao's troops be killed.

As for the fleeing Xu Zhong and Liu Yingjie's troops, they could send people to collect the thieves after they wiped out the bandits. Regarding the disposal of this batch of waste, Sun Chuanting brought a message to Yang Mingsheng: Disarming and military farming under the protection of the Qin army. Xu Zhong and Liu Yingjie submitted a report to the court for the crime of indulging the enemy.

Sun Chuanting rewarded Zhang Wenyao's confidants thirty taels of silver each so that they could return with Sun Zhian overnight despite their fatigue.

Sun Zhian brought several personal soldiers and Zhang Wenyao's confidants to Xi'an with two horses, and drove to the torches overnight, and rushed back at noon the next day. After arriving, Sun Zhian presented a governor's order to Chen Yong, a guerrilla warrant in the Qin army. Chen Yong immediately gathered his troops and rushed to the Huayin area two hundred miles away.

Sun Zhian and the others ran towards Huayin area regardless of their fatigue, and met Zhang Wenyao who was dragging behind him at dusk the next day.

After entering the valley, they walked less than ten miles. Huang Chao's troops who were walking in front ran back in panic and reported that the road ahead was blocked, and Zhang Wenyao's troops who were exploring the way were missing.

Huang Chao ordered the team to wait on the spot, and he and a few small leaders separated the crowd and rushed to the front.

On the mountain road ahead, huge rocks mixed with miscellaneous wood blocked the narrow road tightly.

Huang Chao climbed onto the pile of stones blocking the road with his hands and feet, and looked around. There were the same obstacles within more than a hundred steps ahead. It would take half a day to clear these debris.

He got off the stone pestle and wanted to find the personal soldiers sent by Zhang Wenyao to inform him, but they were gone. He thought that he had sneaked to the front and ran away while no one was paying attention.

No need to see, these obstacles were arranged by Zhang Wenyao, who sent someone to the front, but why did he do this?

Just when Huang Chao had not figured it out, a rumbling sound came from the steep cliffs on both sides. Large rocks rolled down along the mountain. The gravel and broken wood brought along the way swept the dust all over the sky. The figures on the tops of the mountain on both sides swayed, but they couldn't see clearly.

Just as the huge rock rolled down, Huang Chao suddenly understood: Zhang Wenyao had no intention of zào     fǎn! Tuo Yangkun and him were both fooled! Since he dared to block the road here, the government army must have arrived behind him!

The result of the battle was no surprise. Huang Chao was smashed into pieces by the first wave of falling momentum, and hundreds of thieves were killed with him. In a panic, the thieves rushed to the back, and countless casualties were injured due to the trampling and squeeze.

Tuo Yangkun, who was in the middle, could not easily control the chaotic situation. Seeing that the road ahead was blocked, he could not climb on both sides, so he could only retreat and then look for his way.

As a result, the thieves finally got out of the valley, but outside the mountain pass were waiting for them with three thousand soldiers and armored soldiers.

Under the 500 muskets, 500 archers and took turns to attack, the thieves who were only more than 3,000 left were left with casualties and wounded all over the ground. The idea of ​​fighting for a fight and fighting for a bloody path was completely shattered.

Tuo Yangkun committed suicide by raising his sword, and he was still a heroic death. After being ordered by the official army to abandon his weapons, the remaining bandits knelt on the ground and asked to surrender. Finally, he was ordered to be killed by the Qin army guerrilla Chen Yong.

When Zhang Wenyao led his troops out of the valley, he saw an extremely tragic scene, which was no exaggeration to describe it as corpses everywhere.

Zhang Wenyao's subordinates were secretly grateful, but they did not follow Tuo Yangkun again, otherwise the one who was lying here would be his own body.

Chen Yong sent someone to Huayin County to inform the county government and asked the government to send people to bury the bodies and clean the battlefield.

The magistrate Feng Qi was puzzled by the identity of the group of people who had just passed by a few days ago. After hearing the brief comments from the official army coming to communicate, he suddenly realized that it was a group of thieves.
Chapter completed!