The city of Ruicheng was broken, thieves swarmed in, and the city was suddenly in chaos.

Seeing that the situation was critical, Rui'er nervously said to Zhu Youzhen: "Lord, Rui'er protects you and rushes out!" ”

Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said, "It's too late!" There are at least tens of thousands of thieves outside, and the two of us can't get out even if we are copper-headed and iron-clad. It's better to hide first, look for an opportunity and then run away. ”

"But where can you hide?" Rui'er was so anxious that she was about to cry, "The thieves will definitely rob from house to house, and we will be searched out sooner or later!" ”

"We don't necessarily have to hide in the house!" Zhu Youzhen said hurriedly.

Rui'er was puzzled and asked, "Where are you going to hide?" Do you hide in the streets? ”

"Yes, it's on the street!" Zhu Youzhen said, "Let's quickly tear up our clothes and disguise ourselves as beggars, maybe we can escape!" ”

Rui'er was still hesitating, but Zhu Youzhen grabbed Rui'er's clothes without saying anything, tore a big hole with a "snort", and picked up the soil on the ground and wiped it on her face.

Rui'er exclaimed, but saw Zhu Youzhen rolling directly in a pool of muddy water, and when he stood up again, his face was already covered with stains, but he really looked like a little flower begging along the street.

"Don't be stunned, hurry up!" Zhu Youzhen saw that Rui'er still couldn't react, and suddenly knocked her down, and the two fell heavily into the muddy water, and Rui'er became a mud monkey.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Hongji had already led their respective men to break into the city gate. The soldiers and officials who opened the city gate thought that if they took the initiative to open the city, the thieves would show mercy to their men; Unexpectedly, Zhang Xianzhong screamed, stomped on the knife, and the thieves behind him also killed and cut when they met people, and killed all the dozens of soldiers and servants in an instant.

The county commander Li Fengyuan was already so frightened that he peed his pants, and just wanted to lie on the ground and pretend to be dead, one of Li Hongji's generals had already grabbed him from his horse, lifted him high into the saddle, put a steel knife on his neck, and shouted viciously: "Take your grandfather Liu Zongmin to the county government and hand over the keys to the granary and the silver storehouse!" ”

Li Fengyuan was so frightened at this time that he had to point his finger to show Li Hongji and the others the way. Li Hongji laughed, didn't stop, and led his men and horses straight to the county office.

But Zhang Xianzhong is not. He commanded his men to go from house to house and search. Especially those big families, they are the focus of his attention. The thieves first drove everyone out of the house, and then rummaged through the cabinets in each room. As long as it is something valuable, pack it up and take it away immediately. If the master obstructs the slightest, the thieves will kill them with a sword, and even some thieves will kill and set fire to them completely at will, without any reason.

Fortunately, Zhu Youzhen and Rui'er disguised themselves as beggars, and the thieves were only interested in the rich, and they didn't bother to pay attention to the extremely poor families and those who asked for food, since they couldn't squeeze any oil and water.

After making a fuss for more than half an hour, Zhang Xianzhong grabbed a lot of money, and when he was beaming with pride, he suddenly saw Li Hongji's men and horses escorting dozens of carts out of the county office, most of which were loaded with grain, and a few carts were loaded with whole boxes of silver ingots, which was simply a bumper harvest.

Zhang Xianzhong grabbed it for a long time, although he also touched a lot of gold and silver, after all, it was relatively scattered. Seeing that Li Hongji didn't say a word, but snatched the biggest fat into his mouth, he was very dissatisfied.

He glanced at the people beside him, and his adopted son, Zhang Kewang, known as "a wall", immediately rode out, blocked Li Hongji's way and shouted: "I said that you will break into the general, do you understand the rules?" The gate of Ruicheng was opened by my father, and the things in the city should be distributed by my father, and naturally you will have a share of the king. Now you're silent, pulling things and leaving, what's going on? ”

Li Hongji didn't pay attention to Zhang Kewang, but just smiled left and right. One of his team also rushed out, pointed at Zhang Kewang and scolded: "What the are you!" If you want to ask us for something, you can, let Zhang Xianzhong ask for it himself! You have a father and a mother*, and you don't pee to take pictures of yourself, and you dare to yell at us? If you don't get out of the way, I Hao Shaoqi doesn't care who you are, one shot and one transparent hole, let you be completely cool! ”

Zhang Kewang was furious. In fact, his original surname was Sun, and after following Zhang Xianzhong's rebellion, in order to gain Zhang Xianzhong's trust, he had to be Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son and changed his surname to Zhang. Kowtow every day during the day, and have to wash Zhang Xianzhong's feet at night. In fact, he is arrogant and arrogant, and this move is really a last resort, so he is most afraid of others mentioning it in public.

But Hao Shaoqi didn't open any pot to mention which pot, and the sentence "more fathers and fewer mothers" would be scolded. Zhang Kewang was so angry that he gritted his teeth, and he didn't answer, so he slashed at Hao Shaoqi.

That Hao waved the flag and was not ambiguous, and he came to greet him with a gun. His real name is Hao Yongzhong, and he was the standard-bearer in the border army of the Ming Dynasty. Because he was very brave in fighting with the Mongols, he often waved his flag and shouted to charge ahead, so he got the nickname "Hao Shaoqi", and slowly called out, and few people knew his real name.

Seeing Zhang Kewang and Hao Shaoqi fighting together, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Hongji couldn't hold their breath anymore, and hurriedly scolded the two to return to the team.

Zhang Xianzhong first slapped Zhang Kewang with his backhand, and said angrily: "The adults on both sides are here, do you have the doll to speak?" ”

In fact, Zhang Kewang is not a few years younger than Zhang Xianzhong, but at this time, he was under the eaves, so he had to bow his head, and he had to cover his face and retreat aside.

After teaching Zhang Kewang a lesson, Zhang Xianzhong laughed at Li Hongji and said: "General, children are not sensible, you are not strange!" ”

Li Hongji also smiled faintly and said, "The Eight Great Kings are too polite. They are all their own brothers, and it is common for them to occasionally lose their words, so there is no need to blame Ke Wangxian's nephew too much. ”

Zhang Xianzhong still said with a smile, "Since we are our own brothers, we don't have to go through those twists and turns when we speak." It's not a good rule to behave in your way! It's no wonder that Kewang is angry, you make a fortune so silently, aren't you afraid of the big dragon's blame? ”

Hao Shaoqi was about to speak, but Liu Zongmin, the general under Li Hongji's account, stopped him, and laughed rudely at Zhang Xianzhong: "Zhang Jingxuan (Zhang Xianzhong character Jingxuan), we will respect you for being a character, so we don't blame you for blocking the way, don't kick your nose in the face, reverse right and wrong!" Who said that Ruicheng was brought down by you? Obviously, our two rebel armies entered the city together, and the opportunity is equal, whoever takes it first will be counted as whoever takes it! Your vision is not as high as ours, and your start is not as fast as ours, this time you see us holding the baby, but your eyes are red, it's really unreasonable! ”

Zhang Xianzhong was furious when he heard this, and he had a faint murderous intention in his heart, and sneered at Li Hongji: "General, do you mean the same thing?" ”

Li Hongji said unhurriedly: "Justice is in the hearts of the people." The big dragon head is about to enter the city, wouldn't it be better to let him be an old man? ”

Zhu Youzhen was disguised as a beggar at this time, huddled in the corner of the street and watched coldly. When he saw that Zhang Xianzhong and Li Hongji seemed to have the intention of merging, he couldn't help but be secretly happy, so he wanted to sneak out of the city with Rui'er by taking advantage of the chaos. But he inadvertently swept his gaze, and suddenly found that there were a large number of people behind Li Hongji, one of whom looked very familiar. When I looked closely, it was Li Zicheng, the young gang leader of the Shaanxi Business Gang!

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but feel nervous, secretly thinking why this Li Zicheng was also in Ruicheng at this time? He also lent him a lot of silver, if Li Zicheng was killed by thieves, wouldn't he want people to die and settle the account? Besides, the two have been together for many days, and the relationship is not bad, and I can't bear to watch him lose his head.

But there are many thieves, and Zhu Youzhen never dares to forcibly rescue him. Just when he was thinking about it and couldn't think of how to rescue Li Zicheng for a while, Li Hongji was blocked by Zhang Xianzhong, and it was difficult to break through, so the two sides confronted each other on the street. Li Hongji didn't care too much, and he was idle, so he began to interrogate his captives.

These people were all caught by Li Hongji from an inn. Li Hongji first ordered his subordinates to entangle these people's plates, and personally interrogated the guests one by one.

He seemed to have a special hatred for wealthy merchants, and whenever he said he was in business, he lifted his chin slightly. The pro-soldier next to him understood, immediately pulled the person aside, and cut off his head with a click. In a short time, more than ten people died under Li Hongji's butcher's knife.

When it was Li Zicheng's turn, Li Hongji smiled and asked, "Mr. respects his surname, where is his hometown?" ”

Li Zicheng was already frightened at this time, and he was busy reporting his name honestly. He heard from the accent that Li Hongji seemed to be from Mizhi, and in order to get close, he smiled and said: "The villain's brother Li Ziqian, now he is the county magistrate of Mizhi County, I don't know if the king can know?" ”

Unexpectedly, Li Hongji was stunned, and suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed: "Self-made, this name is good!" Self-contained, self-contained! Soldiers, from now on, I will change my name to Li Zicheng! ”

Zhu Youzhen couldn't cry or laugh when he heard it, he just wanted to break his head, and he couldn't guess that the name "Li Zicheng" came from this!

After Li Zicheng laughed, his face sank suddenly, and he glared at Li Zicheng and said, "It's a pity that you have such a good name!" It's okay if you don't mention Li Ziqian's dog official, since he arrived in Mizhi County, he has been tyrannical and oppressive to the people, I, Li Zicheng, have long wanted to kill him and do the right thing for heaven! Since you are here today, please take this knife for your brother, and I will thank you for your grace! ”

As he spoke, Li Zicheng raised the single knife high, wanting to cut it off at Li Zicheng's neck. Li Zicheng never expected that his horse's fart would be slapped on the horse's hooves, so he had to admit that he was unlucky, close his eyes and wait for death.

Zhu Youzhen saw that Li Zicheng was about to die, and suddenly had an idea, remembering Song Xiance's trick to fool people, and hurriedly shouted at the top of his voice: "Eighteen children are the main artifact!" ”

Li Zicheng paused the knife in the air, swept his sharp gaze towards Zhu Youzhen like lightning, and shouted: "Who are you?" What is the gibberish there? ”