Hong Chengchou led the Shaanxi deputy general He Renlong and his 500 elite cavalrymen to travel overnight and finally arrived in Fancheng four days later.

As we arrived all the way, there were no signs of robbery in the village. Because the busy farming season was over, there were basically no farmer farmer in the fields, and there were even fewer pedestrians and business trips on the official roads. Occasionally, there were vendors and pedals. When they saw large troops of official cavalry, they had already avoided them from afar, for fear of causing trouble.

After entering Fancheng, He Renlong had already sent Ye Wu to the sentry to investigate. The brigade controlled the reins and moved slowly. The front and back teams were several miles apart to prevent the enemy from attacking, and the central army was surrounded by Hong Chengchou.

About a few miles away from Fancheng County, smoke and dust rose up in the road ahead, and the whistle of the exploring road ran back. When we arrived at the Central Army, we strangled our mounts about ten steps away from Hong Chengchou, turned over and got off the horse and walked quickly, and knelt on one knee to report loudly: "Report to the commander, I am the commander to find the county town! The city gate is closed, and there are no rebel flags on the city, there are no people in the surrounding villages, and there are no signs of plunder and burning!"

Hong Chengchou frowned slightly and stroked his beard without saying a word. After He Renlong waved his hand to let the explorer retreat, his mount leaned against Hong Chengchou and said with his body: "General, is it the rebels who found out that we were coming and had abandoned the city?"

Hong Chengchou shook his head and said, "If the Sichuan soldiers abandoned the city, it would definitely not be this scene, but the city gate opened and robbed away!"

Speaking of this, after looking at He Renlong with a squint eyes, he continued, "The reputation of the government army is not very good among the people, you should know it!"

He Renlong moved his eyes awkwardly toward others. He knew the virtues of his subordinates. He often robbed the property of the gentry and the people in daily life. Although there were very few traitors and those who harmed people's lives, the robbery of money and harmed people from time to time.

He Renlong knew in his heart that the commander turned a blind eye to the government army's behavior of plundering property. Because the constraints were too tight, the government army would become resentful. After all, the military pay was owed a lot, and if we didn't look for a chance to grab a little, the government army would lose its morale.

However, if there is any incident of burning, killing and rape, the commander-in-chief is ruthless. Last time in Mianchi County, Zuo Liangyu's army pursued the bandit Zhang Miaoshou and crashed into the sky. The bandit fled into the mountains. The official army failed to ask the county for property in the name of helping with funds. So he plundered the local wealthy household and raped his wives and concubines, causing his wife to be humiliated and jumped into the well to commit suicide.

Afterwards, the big family sued the governor's office. Hong Chengchou was furious when he learned about this. He sent his personal soldiers to arrest and behead three officials who raped and killed people, one of which was one thousand households. Afterwards, the entire army was vigilant.

Hong Chengchou ordered his advance and the entire army drove directly to the county town. After a quarter of an hour, he arrived at the city. The city gate was indeed tightly closed, but there was no one on the city.

Hong Chengchou asked several loud voices to stand under the city and shout in unison: "Governor Hong is here, the people in the city will quickly talk back and forth!"

After a while, a closed city gate suddenly opened a gap, and a group of men came out one after another. The leader was a civil servant in a blue official uniform with blue magpies and black veil on it. Seeing that the costume was probably the magistrate of Fancheng. Behind him was a group of plaid hair, with a military general dressed in a military uniform, with both hands. Hong Chengchou and others were surprised to see this situation, and the civil servant stepped forward and saluted, "Luo Fulong, the magistrate of Fancheng, met the governor!" The group of military generals who followed him knelt on the ground.

Hong Chengchou turned over and dismounted, slowly walked to Luo Fulong, and asked, "County Luo, what's going on here?"

"Mr. Governor, I have a long story. Please move to the county government and report carefully!" Luo Fulong replied with his hand.

Hong Chengchou nodded and said, "Let's lead the way in front of Guixian!" After that, he walked towards the city gate with his hands on his back.

Seeing this, He Renlong hurriedly urged his mount to come forward and whispered: "Supervisor, be careful of fraud!"

Hong Chengchou stopped and turned around and said, "Although the Ming Dynasty was raging, there were never civil officials who followed the bandits so far. I believe in Magistrate Luo!"

"It's better to be careful! I'll send someone in to investigate first. It's not too late to supervise the commander and enter the city after confirming that there is nothing to do!" He Renlong was very persistent.

Just kidding, if someone pretends to be ambushed and the commander is trapped, then he will be a serious crime to behead his head and kill the clan.

Seeing that his attitude was firm, Hong Chengchou followed the good side and stood there waiting.

He Renlong hurriedly sent a team of personal soldiers to the city to investigate, while Hong Chengchou started chatting with Luo Fulong.

After about a quarter of an hour, the personal soldiers rode back and came to Hong Chengchou to dismount and salute, and then reported loudly: "Report to the commander, the gates of the city are closed, and there are no signs of fighting. There are yamen runners on duty in front of the county yamen. Look at their expressions, they are not unusual!"

After hearing this, Hong Chengchou replied and said, "Magistrate Luo, let's go, take my supervisor to the county government to rest!" Luo Fulong took a bow and took a few steps forward to lead the way. Hong Chengchou followed.

After He Renlong called a private soldier to a low voice, the private soldier turned his horse's head and shouted, taking the lead in running along the city wall, and more than a dozen cavalry were separated from the team to follow him. At this time, the group of generals and officials who came out of the city stood up one after another. He Renlong winked at the personal soldiers around him. Some of the private soldiers took their bows in their hands, and some drew their swords and sheathed them. He Renlong looked at the group of people dressed in the official army with caution. He Renlong trotted and followed Hong Chengchou into the city.

The county town is not large, and there is no one on the street at this time. Neither the shops nor residents around the country are closed, and you can vaguely see the eyes behind the door looking at everyone.

After entering the city, the cavalry that followed divided into several teams to walk along several streets in the city to investigate, while the rest drew their swords and looked around vigilantly.

After a while, the group came to the county yard in the middle of the city. Several yamen runners stood listlessly at the door. When they saw the county magistrate, they hurriedly saluted.

Luo Fulong reached out to ask the governor to enter the yamen. A few personal soldiers had already entered the room to check. After a moment, one person came out and shook his head to show that nothing happened.

Hong Chengchou then walked into the county yard first. His personal soldiers dismounted. Most of them were outside to guard the surroundings. More than a dozen personal soldiers held weapons and rushed the group of generals into the yamen.

Hong Chengchou walked around the screen in the lobby and entered the inner hall. He Renlong and Luo Fulong followed closely behind. The naked generals stood in the yard of the county government, and the personal soldiers were monitoring it.

Luo Fulong respectfully asked Hong Chengchou to sit down, but he sat down horizontally. He Renlong stood behind the commander with a knife, but did not sit down. An old servant heard the movement and came in from the backyard. Luo Fulong ordered him to see the tea, and the old servant left.

"Magistrate Luo, what's going on? Those generals should be the generals of the Sichuan soldiers. What happened? Tell me quickly!" Hong Chengchou said.

"Report to the Governor, those people are indeed generals of the Sichuan Army. This is the case..." Luo Fulong replied.

After Deng Qi, the Sichuan general's aid and suppression commander, took his six thousand officials to the camp and rushed to Fancheng.

Deng Yan was a mean and ungrateful person. He had long deducted the salary of the subordinates and beat and scolded him. The monthly salary of ordinary soldiers was 1 tael or 2 cents, and the court distributed the salary according to the heads of the people. Although he often owed some, he would also levy some of them every few months, but he would not make up for the compensation.

The salary was allocated to the army, and the soldiers could only get half or even less. The amount of money and food in the war was for money and food. Over the past year, Deng Yan had deducted a total of more than 10,000 taels of military salary. He sent his personal soldiers to escort the deducted military salary back to his hometown in Sichuan. When the officers and soldiers learned about it, they were all angry and their grievances became increasingly serious.

On that day, the official army set up camp ten miles northwest of the county town. The magistrate of Fancheng organized local gentry to work in the army and sent dozens of jars of fine wine, ten live pigs, and some oil, salt, rice and grain.

After the soldiers from Fancheng County left, Deng Qi ordered his personal soldiers to kill pigs and cook vegetables, and chatted with the eunuch Liu Yunzhong and his confidants to drink and drink all night. In a few days, the fine wine and meat he sent were consumed by them. The officers and soldiers were not full of food at ordinary times. Finally, someone sent wine and meat, but they could not even see any meat stars, so the officers and soldiers gathered to make noise.

Deng Yan was drinking and chewing with Liu Yunzhong. When he heard the noise outside the camp was getting louder and louder, he ordered his personal soldiers to check it out and soon came to report that the officers and soldiers gathered.

Deng Qi stood up, exposed his upper body covered with heart-protecting hair, and came outside the tent in a crooked manner.

After the guerrilla Gao Qixun came forward to see the ceremony, he spoke, "Master General, we heard that the county government sent someone to send some wine and food to him. I'm very welcome to lǐng    qǔ!"

Deng Qi looked at him drunk and said, "It is true that the county government sends people to work in the army, but the wine and food are given to me and the army supervisor. What qualifications are you qualified to enjoy as a guerrilla?"

Gao Qixun suppressed his anger when he heard this and said, "Mr. General Secretary, brothers have been living and dying for the imperial court. They often don't even have enough food to eat, and the salary is even short of money! It's very easy for someone to send meat to send me, why don't we have the right to enjoy it?"

When Deng Yan saw him contradicting him, he was furious. He lowered his head and found a wooden stick. He bent over and picked it up and whipped it down according to Gao Qixun, and cursed while thrusting: "You are a little guerrilla, how dare you contradict me. Who gives you the courage? Believe it or not, I have killed you?"

After a beat, Gao Qixun's head and face were covered with blood.

When the eunuch Liu Yunzhong and others heard the sound, they walked out of the tent. Seeing Deng Qi whipping Gao Qixun, Liu Yunzhong smiled and laughed, clapped his hands and applauded, screaming: "Good fight! Fight hard! This is the best thing to beat people who are not distinguished from the superiors and inferiors!" Deng Qi's confidants also laughed.

Liu Yunzhong didn't understand military affairs at all. He relied on his arrival from the palace and became arrogant when he came to the army. He claimed that his godfather was the eunuch Zhang Yixian, the eunuch in charge of the seal, and was a celebrity around the emperor. If anyone dared to offend him, he would tell his godfather that he would not be able to take advantage of his life.

Usually, except for General Deng Yan, other deputy generals, generals, guerrillas and other major generals, they had to give him a big gift when they saw him. The officers and soldiers were very disgusted with him. However, they were also very afraid, which further encouraged Liu Yunzhong's arrogance and often beat soldiers for no reason. Over time, the officers and soldiers' disgust towards him rose to anger.

Deng Qi then beat Gao Qixun with alcohol. The gathered officers and soldiers dared not speak out. The scene was silent, but the anger of the officers and soldiers had already ignited.

Before Deng Qi's anger was gone, he turned around and pulled out the waist of a personal soldier beside him, turned around and waved the knife to kill Gao Qixun under the knife.

Gao Qixun's personal soldier Liu Erzhu saw that his general was about to die under the knife, and he was on his head with blood. He stepped forward with a quick arrow and pulled out his waist and slashed it. Deng Qi screamed, and his right hand holding the knife had already been slashed to the ground from his elbow. He let out a scream that was not like a human voice, and rolled on the ground with his broken arm in pain.

Liu Erzhu went forward and raised his knife to cut it down. Deng Qi's head suddenly separated, and blood spurted out from his neck. Both the gathered officers and soldiers, Liu Yunzhong and others were shocked. A general of the court with heavy troops was actually beheaded by a small soldier under his command!

Before everyone could come back to their senses, Liu Erzhu raised his sword and yelled: "Tei Deng is dead. Kill Eunuch Liu and everyone drinks and eats meat!"

The gathered officers and soldiers suddenly became excited, and hundreds of people shouted at Liu Yunzhong and others with swords and guns. In a moment, Liu Yunzhong and others were chopped into meat paste by random knives.

People were killed and disasters were caused. Everyone slowly calmed down and began to become scared.

Gao Qixun stood there on the spot. Although he questioned Deng Yan because of his anger, he never thought of killing the general and the military supervisor. That was a serious crime!

Now, a bloody crime caused by a meal of wine and meat cannot be changed. He finally managed to accumulate merit and become a guerrilla general. This time it was all over. He squatted down with his head in despair, and where to go, his mind was blank.

The other officers and soldiers also looked at each other, slowly put down their swords and guns, and did not dare to speak, for fear that anyone who spoke first would be pushed out as a scapegoat.

Liu Erzhu, carrying a knife that was still dripping blood, strode to Gao Qixun and said loudly: "General, why don't we go back? We can't eat enough all day long and have been owed half a year. We are working hard for money! Now there are thieves everywhere, we are the general, we occupy the mountain as the king, and drink big bowls of wine and eat meat. Wouldn't it be fun!"

Gao Qixun suddenly jumped up, punched and kicked Liu Erzhu, and scolded, "I told you to occupy the mountain and be the king! I asked you to eat a lot of meat! You are the traitors and ruin your mind! We are the official army! You are the official army! You dare to join the thief and kill you gǒu     rì     de!"

Liu Erzhu didn't dare to fight back, so he threw the knife and hugged his head and squatted on the ground. Gao Qixun beat him up. Anyway, he was thick-skinned and thick-skinned, so he just fucked and tickled for a few punches.

Gao Qixun stopped after a while, and was so tired that he was breathing heavily. Seeing this guy's smile and indifferent expression, he suddenly became angry again and went up and kicked him a few more times. If this guy hadn't saved him a few times on the battlefield, he would have chopped him with a knife as a scapegoat and explained to Shangfeng.

He cursed hatefully, turned around and whispered to the officers and soldiers: "Each leader will lead everyone back to the camp. No military orders are allowed to leave the camp. Those who violate the orders will be killed! I have something to say if those above the thousand-way general stay!"

Everyone dispersed, and several thousand generals stayed.

Gao Qixun greeted them into Deng Yan's camp. After everyone sat down, they had no appetite for the remaining fine wine and meat, and were all worried about their future.

Only Liu Erzhu saw so many delicious foods and swallowed his saliva secretly, but when he saw Shangguans' expressions look ugly, he didn't dare to eat them by himself.

"Let's talk about it, what should I do next? You can't really be like the gangster who said that he was a bandit?"

Gao Qixun has the greatest official position, and this incident was the first to take the lead. He is brave enough to fight in daily life and has a great prestige in the army, so he is the main general.

The generals looked at each other, and General Qiang General Yao Huailong said, "General, what Liu Erzhu said is right. We have been suppressing thieves for several years. The more we suppressed more and more, and our people are fighting less and less. I heard that the King of Rebellion Gao Yingxiang is strong and strong, even the governor of Hong and Lu are afraid of him. In a few years, he might be really successful! We might as well join him. These thousands of soldiers and horses are also a big force. Besides, we have rich combat experience. If the general goes there, he can also get a duke and marquis to sit in the future!"

"Shut up!" Before he could finish speaking, Gao Qixun shouted sternly.

"Mr. Gao, I, has known benevolence, righteousness, courtesy and wisdom since I was sensible! I know to be loyal to the emperor and the court! Since I joined the army, I vowed to be a hero like yuè      wǔmu! These bandits burned, killed, looted, and treated the people as pigs and dogs! Under the rule of the court, although the people were poor, they would not be slaughtered for no reason! We are all poor and have family and relatives. If we had not joined the army, now those who died under the swords and guns of the bandits may have been you, me or my relatives and old friends! What's more, how many brothers and friends in the army have already died under the swords and guns of the bandits? We are humans, not livestock! Those bandits are living things that are worse than livestock! I am incompatible with the bandits. Whoever says that the thief will kill his head!"

Yao Huailong stopped talking awkwardly, and everyone was silent.

After a long time, Chiang Yibang broke his silence and said, "General, we are all vulgar people and can't think of any tricks! It's better to find someone with knowledge. Those with knowledge must have a way!"

When everyone heard this, it was this reason. Scholars had a lot of mind and knew a lot. There was definitely a way to deal with this kind of thing. There were all rough men in the army who could not read big words. Where can I find someone with knowledge? Everyone thought about it for a long time but couldn't find the answer.

Liu Erzhu, who was standing aside, muttered: "I can't find it in the army, go to the county town to find it!"

Gao Qixun slapped his thigh and cursed with a smile: "Well! The magistrate is a scholar! He is a Jinshi, and he has great knowledge! Haha, this stuffed guy is sometimes not as stupid as he looks!" Then everyone agreed to go to the county town together at dawn, and then sent someone to bury the bodies of Deng Qi and others, and Deng Qi's head was also buried with his body.
Chapter completed!