Zhang Kewang and other prisoners were taken to Lu'an City and were sent to Xu Dingchen.

Xu Dingchen was also a ruthless person. After only two days of trial, he pulled out more than 600 people who were extremely guilty and killed.

The remaining more than 400 prisoners who were willing to change their minds and serve the court were all incorporated into various camps to let them suppress bandits for the court.

Zhang Kewang is among them.

Xu Dingchen was a scholar and believed that people were originally good. In his opinion, Zhang Kewang was still young and could still be transformed into a pillar of the court.

But Xu Dingchen soon regretted it.

Less than a month later, Zhang Kewang fled with more than a hundred prisoners.

...

After Zhang Bingzhong killed Hui Dengxiang and annexed thousands of troops, he fled back in Licheng, Shexian and Linxian County, and annexed small bandits everywhere. In less than two months, he had another 20,000 troops.

The title of the Eight Kings is still very loud.

Zhang Kewang also quickly found Zhang Bingzhong. The father and son met and sighed.

After learning that Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi were also taken away by the Qin surname, Zhang Bingzhong was furious and cursed in the direction of Luliangshan, and made a poisonous oath: If you don’t kill someone with the Qin surname in this life, you will not be reborn in the next life.

After a lot of fun, Zhang Bingzhong took Zhang Kewang and his 20,000 troops to Wangwushan and Yuanqu areas, and met with Gao Yingxiang, Li Hongji and others.

Not long ago, the bandits in Mount Wutai had nothing to eat on the mountain. Not long after, they rushed downstairs and circled around the mountains to avoid Lu Xiangsheng and Liang Fu. They called Zuo Liangyu and others to beat them up, and finally ran to Wangwu Mountain to find the King of Chuang to cry.

Luo Rucai and more than a dozen bandits who wanted to bypass Tongguan and enter Shaanxi were beaten by Li Bei, the commander of Zhang Zongheng, who was powerful and fierce, and the others, and he had no choice but to run back.

Seeing that the Ming army's encirclement was shrinking and smaller, Luo Ru became more and more uneasy, so he simply went back to Wangwu Mountain to find Gao Yingxiang and others to discuss countermeasures.

In November, the main forces of bandits gathered in Wangwu Mountain.

The King of Rebellion Gao Yingxiang, the Eight Kings Zhang Bingzhong, the General Li Hongji, Cao Cao Luo Rucai, Lao Hui Hui Ma Shouying and others, many famous capitals gathered here, and in order to deal with the narrowing encirclement of the Ming army, they gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

Li Hongji didn't say much because he and King Chuang had boasted that the Yellow River would be frozen within three months. Now that three months have passed, the Yellow River still shows no sign of freezing, causing King Chuang to be driven to the desperate situation where the three sides are mountains and water.

If the Yellow River does not freeze, they will not be able to cross the river. It will not take long to be completely surrounded by the Ming army. At that time, they will not be able to escape.

After discussing for a while, Luo Rucai suddenly proposed to surrender and surrender to the Beijing camp.

Cao Wenzhao, Zuo Liangyu, Li Bei and others are not easy to share. In contrast, Wang Pu and Ni Chong, the two generals in the Beijing camp, have been much easier to share. These two have been here for more than half a year and have not made any great contributions. If they surrender to them, they will definitely accept it happily.

It is a great achievement to recruit so many bandit leaders.

Moreover, I heard that the eunuchs in the army, Lu Jiude and Yang Jinchao, were greedy for money and gave them some gold, silver and treasures to the two eunuchs. This matter was almost certain.

As long as they can stabilize the officers and soldiers, drag them for a while, and when the Yellow River freezes, they will be able to escape.

As soon as Luo Rucai made this plan, Gao Yingxiang and others slapped their thighs and agreed to act according to this plan.

...

Seeing that Cao Wenzhao, Zuo Liangyu and other troops were winning battles and their contributions were getting more and more, Wang Pu and Ni Chong became anxious.

They have been here for so long and have not won many victories. Seeing that the bandits are desperate, they don’t hurry up and win a few big victories, and this trip will probably not make much credit.

So, the two kept urging their subordinates to speed up the marching, trying to find the main force of the bandits before the other groups of troops.

When they arrived in Jiyuan, the two suddenly received an envoy sent by the bandits, saying that they were willing to surrender to the two generals. They asked them to stay in Jiyuan for a while and wait for them to capture and kill several of the bandits who were not far away to surrender before they came to surrender.

At the same time, Lu Jiude and Yang Jinchao each received a considerable amount of gold, silver and treasures. The two were very happy, so they waved their hands and asked Wang Pu and Ni Chong to wait for a while, so that the bandits in the meantime would come to surrender.

At the same time, Lu Jiude and Yang Jinchao sent someone to inform Cao Wenzhao, Zuo Liangyu, Li Bei, He Renlong, Deng Qi and other friendly forces, saying that they were negotiating with the bandits to surrender, so that all friendly forces would slow down for the time being. Don’t be too anxious to force the bandits, so as not to panic and fail to surrender, resulting in their efforts being wasted.

After receiving the news, Cao Wenzhao Zuo Liangyu and others slowed down their advancement. After all, they did not want to bear the blame for destroying the bandits and being surrendered.

In this way, the crisis of bandits was temporarily alleviated.

Wang Pu Ni Chong and Lu Jiude and Yang Jinchao waited for more than ten days. Before the bandits came to surrender, they waited for the news that the Yellow River was frozen.

The few people were shocked and suddenly realized that they had been hit by the bandits' delaying plan.

The weather suddenly drops and is extremely cold, and the Yellow River will inevitably be frozen. In this way, the bandits can cross the river in large numbers and escape from the sky.

Several people regretted it and hurriedly led a small number of light horses and whipped it to the banks of the Yellow River in Wangwu Mountain.

But when they fell, no one saw it.

As early as the day the Yellow River was frozen, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Bingzhong, Li Hongji, Luo Rucai and other leaders led tens of thousands of troops to cross the river from the ice overnight and raid the Ming army on the south bank. The Ming army guard Yuan Daquan was unprepared and was defeated in one fell swoop. From then on, the bandits were high and allowed birds to fly.

Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Bingzhong, Luo Rucai and others immediately divided their troops and rushed towards the rich Central Plains such as Luoyang, Dengfeng, Xingyang, and Kaifeng.

As Henan has been drought for many years, locust plague has arrived again. There are crowds of hungry people wandering around everywhere, and countless bandits are rising up.

Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Bingzhong and others were like fish in water, carrying hungry people, annexing small bandits, and quickly grew to 200,000 people, swept across Henan like locusts. In just one month, they even captured more than a dozen prefectures and counties.

North of the Yellow River, Wang Pu, Ni Chong, Lu Jiude, Yang Jinchao and others all turned green.

...

Loufan, Montenegro Fort.

Qin Chuan sat in the steel and concrete office room on the south city wall, looking carefully at a letter.

This was the transfer order issued by Xu Dingchen to him, and he ordered him to go to the Yicheng area of ​​Pingyang Prefecture to quell the bandits.

After reading it, Qin Chuan threw the order and smiled indifferently: "Haha, I'm so cold that I'm going south. I'm afraid that when I get there, the bandits will cross the Yellow River and run completely."

Luo Daniu, who was beside him, picked up the order, squinted his eyes slightly, and looked at it seriously.

Qin Chuan kicked him angrily: "If you don't understand, don't pretend. I'll tell you to go to school to learn to read more. You'll be fine. Run to Li Anru's boudoir all day long."

"Hehehe."

Luo Daniu rubbed his butt embarrassedly, and it turned out.

Wencheng took it and looked at it a few times, and said, "Sir, Xu Dingchen will not be unaware of the hardships of the cold winter march. At this time, I'm afraid there will be frauds in it."

Qin Chuan frowned and soon laughed again: "It seems that Zhu Youjian is going to kill me."

Wang Jizong, who was standing aside, said with a serious expression: "Sir, you have to prepare early. Once the court eliminates the bandits, it will free up about 100,000 war-friendly soldiers to surround Luliang Mountain."

"Don't worry, they're going to destroy the bandits."

At this time, a Guandi army suddenly came outside the door and said respectfully: "Sir, there is a caravan outside, with about 400 people, saying that they want to buy Loufan iron and iron pots."

Qin Chuan nodded: "Well, just let Luo Wentian talk to them."

"Mr. Luo cannot be found by my subordinates."

"Go to Cuixianglou to find it, it's probably there."

"yes."

"By the way, a messenger just sent a letter to Mr. Wang."

As he said that, the Guandi Army took out another letter from his arms and walked in and handed it to Wang Jizong.

"It's been a labor."

Wang Jizong took the letter, took it apart, took it out and read it.

After only a few glances, his face suddenly changed drastically and his hands trembled slightly.

Qin Chuan frowned: "What happened?"

Wang Jizong closed his eyes and sighed: "Ge Lao Xu died of illness."

"What?" Wencheng also looked aside.

"Her old man Xu Ge died of illness, just on the eighth day of last month."

Wencheng couldn't speak in a daze, and sighed sadly after a long time.

Qin Chuan didn't know what to say, so he had to sigh.

He admired Xu Guangqi very much, an enlightened man from the Ming Dynasty, who did a lot of good things that benefited the country and the people throughout his life.

He continued to promote new crops, wrote the "Complete Book of Agricultural Affairs" and "Taixi Water Method", and made a lot of contributions to agricultural development. He also wrote books related to mathematics and industry such as "The Original Geometry" and "Kaogong Jixu".

It’s a pity that he was born in the decadent late Ming Dynasty, and was born in a chaotic world. He had only talent but had nowhere to display it.

If you were born in the middle or early Ming Dynasty, the people of the world would be blessed.

"Go and have someone set up an incense table and bid farewell to Mr. Xu."

After sighing again, Qin Chuan said to Luo Daniu next to him.

"yes."

Luo Daniu got up and walked out quickly.

Not long after, an incense case was set up outside Heishan Fort. Qin Chuan led Wang Jizong, Wencheng, Chen Zhan, Li Xuejing and others, as well as a group of officials to burn incense and worship the incense case.

Among them, Chen Zhan and Li Xuejing couldn't stand up for a long time and cried.

They were officials of the Ministry of Works and were also under Xu Guangqi's disciples. When Sun Yuanhua went to Denglai, they recommended themselves to Xu Guangqi and went to Denglai to assist Sun Yuanhua in building artillery.
Chapter completed!