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Wang Zuoguai really knows the peasant army very well. The peasant army seems to be powerful, but in fact it is a combination of several uprising troops. The leaders of each unit have never given up the opportunity to become bigger, and the annexation and being swallowed happen from time to time. After all, the strength of the rebel army is respected. If there is no strength, can Wang Ziyong and Zhang Dashou still value him as much as before? Everything is unknown.

With his sharp decline in strength, what can you resist Zhang Xianzhong? Zhang Cunmeng, who has never encountered too much setback since raising the banner of uprising to the present, really doesn’t want to become a vassal of others, let alone die.

Wang Zuogao kept paying attention to Zhang Cunmeng's expression change. Seeing that the other party had not spoken for a long time, he knew that his words had worked. So he continued: "Zhang Xianzhong is a vengeful person and is cruel and ruthless. If he gains power, he will not let you live. Staying in Hequ City is also a dead end. Brother Zhang, you have been in northern Shaanxi for more than two years. Don't you know how to find a way out for yourself?"

Zhang Cunmeng's expression moved and said in a deep voice: "Who is surnamed Wang, what do you mean?"

Wang Zuogao smiled slightly, "It's very simple, give Brother Zhang another option. We don't have to fight. Our army can let you lead your troops to evacuate Hequ, and we will not send troops to pursue you."

Zhang Cunmeng sneered: "When will the Living King of Hell be so kind? Tell me about your conditions."

"The income from Hetao and the materials in the city cannot be taken away before, and of course, they cannot be deliberately destroyed! In fact, the reason is very simple. Brother Zhang needs to use the family money he has accumulated in the past six months to buy the lives of tens of thousands of brothers in the city. This deal should be very cost-effective, right?"

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Zhang Cunmeng felt a suffocating feeling. He opened his eyes wide and couldn't believe his ears.

Blackmail, **naked blackmail. Although the matter of Zhenxiwei was very secretive, Zhang Cunmeng and others still knew a little. Unexpectedly, it was Zhang Cunmeng's turn not long after Zhang Cunmeng was sacked.

Although Wang Zuoguai did not continue to say it, Zhang Cunmeng felt that he was seen through. The move of the Living King of Hell replicated the move he used in Zhenxiwei before, but even though he knew it was like this, he did not dare to refuse directly. Compared to his strength, the materials and funds were not that important. As long as he had troops in his hands, he could still rob him in the future. But if he suffered too many casualties in Hequ City and was almost wiped out, Zhang Cunmeng's situation in the northern Shaanxi rebel army would be very dangerous.

If you have the strength you are today, it is the result of annexation of other rebels. With each other's annexation, the people under your command may not be in danger of life, but the leader will definitely have no way to survive. Zhang Cunmeng hated Wang Zuoguai, who knew the situation inside the rebels too well. For a moment, both sides fell into silence. Zhang Cunmeng did not express his opinion, and Su Baisheng did not dare to interrupt at will.

After a long time, Wang Zuobu smiled in his heart. Since Zhang Cunmeng could not bear his face, he might as well give him another heavy blow. "Brother Zhang, you should be glad that only Wang is the only one who entered the city this time. If a large number of troops enter the city, do you think we can still sit here and chat calmly? In fact, like you, General Tie, don't want to lose too much because of Hetao."

With a buzzing sound, Zhang Cunmeng felt that his chest was beaten hard, and his face became extremely ugly. He had been struggling with negotiations before, but he ignored the incident of Wang Zuoguai entering the city. Now, when he thought about it carefully, he couldn't help but feel a little scared. If Wang Zuoguai could easily enter the city, it means that there was a man named Wang Zuoguai in Hequ City, and this person or a few people had a good status. If the other party secretly raised an army and turned against him and let the city gates open to welcome the officers and soldiers into the city, what would be the consequences?

As he thought about it, Zhang Cunmeng's back crawled with a layer of cold sweat, and Su Baisheng's face turned pale and he almost blurted out, "Who is that person?"

As soon as he asked, Su Baisheng was stunned on the spot. Sure enough, Wang Zuoga raised his eyebrows and glanced at Su Baisheng as if he was an idiot. However, Wang Zuoga ignored Su Baisheng and said to Zhang Cunmengyan: "Brother Zhang, please believe that Wang came with sincerity. As long as Brother Zhang agrees to this exchange, Wang will naturally keep Brother Zhang's internal troubles. Hequ City was broken by internal and external forces, and Brother Zhang had no choice but to retreat to Yan'an Prefecture. Our troops did not take risks to pursue them because of the excessive losses before. In this way, General Iron gave an explanation to the court, and Brother Zhang did not lose anything on Wang Ziyong's side."

Wang Zuogao's words almost disguisedly admitted that Hequ City had his old subordinates, and this old subordinate was strong and could affect the battle situation in Hequ City. Similarly, he also conveyed a signal that as long as Zhang Cunmeng was willing to reach this deal, he would keep his old subordinates and not leave any hidden dangers for Zhang Cunmeng.

Now, Zhang Cunmeng has to agree, and even if he doesn't agree, he has to agree. He is really one of the three kings of the rebel army. Who knows how many old subordinates Wang Zuoguai has? After several years of development, the rebel army has been disrupted, especially after Wu Yangui was wiped out by the court, the troops of various units became even more chaotic and the source was no longer found.

Zhang Cunmeng would not suspect that Wang Zuoguai would lie, he had no need, and with Wang Zuoguai's influence in the rebel army, it was not surprising that his old subordinates remained there.

Wang Zuoguai did not leave Hequ City, but stayed. As for the message transmission, someone else would do it. Wang Zuoguai never left the county government office from beginning to end, which made Zhang Cunmeng very upset. He wanted to take the opportunity to find the spy inside. Similarly, Zhang Cunmeng also understood that Wang Zuoguai's eyeliner was also there.

The more I think about it, the more I feel that Hequ City is no longer able to stay. Suide is originally the old nest of Wang Zuohang. Now there are so many people who are Wang Zuohang in this place. It is really hard to explain clearly. Judging from this situation, as long as Wang Zuohang is willing, he can send someone to wipe Zhang's neck at any time, and the success is not small.

The next day, both sides stopped, but at night, the storm changed suddenly. The leader of the peasant army stationed in the south city, Feitianhu Wu Shide suddenly turned against the enemy and opened the north city gate. Then Wu Shide led more than 3,000 troops from his troops to act as a leader and led the officers and soldiers to quickly occupy the entire Hequ North City. For a time, the chaos in Hequ City was in chaos. Zhang Cunmeng led his troops to escape from Hequ from the east and retreat south along the hilly area. Because the sky was too dark and the hilly area was not suitable for cavalry, the officers and soldiers gave up their pursuit.

In Gushan Mountains, the stretching hills extend to twenty miles northwest of Fugu. On the long hills, a huge army slowly walked. The dawn of dawn broke through the clouds and shone on the panicked faces.

Zhang Cunmeng followed the team at the end of the team. From time to time, he looked back at the direction of Hequ City. Last night seemed lively, but in fact, the two sides did not fight, but even so, the tens of thousands of soldiers under his command still lost more than 4,000 people. Wherever the more than 4,000 people went, they could even think of it. It is worthy of being Wang Zuogu, who took away more than 4,000 brothers as soon as he appeared. Fortunately, the alive King of Hell did not want too much casualties. Otherwise, Wang Zuogu raised his arms and shouted, and the more than 4,000 people suddenly attacked and cooperated with him inside and outside, so Zhang's fate would be terrible.

Zhang Cunmeng made up his mind that after he went back this time, the first thing he had to do was to break up the existing organization and prevent the incident in Hequ City from happening again.

"I didn't expect it to be the Feitian Tiger Wu Shide. He turned out to be the old subordinate of Wang Zuoguai." Zhang Cunmeng remembered that Wang Zuoguai did not like to take over power, so the real old subordinate of Wang Zuoguai was the thief Miao Mei. However, Shaanxi thief Miao Mei also joined Wang Zuoguai to join the Living King of Hell. Who would have thought that besides Miao Mei, Wu Shide was also the one who was Wang Zuoguai.

The Feitian Tiger Wu Shide was born in Mizhi, and can be regarded as the leader of Wang Jiayin. After Wang Jiayin was killed, he defected to Wang Ziyong and later placed under him. Wu Shide was brave in fighting and was loyal to others. Only then did Zhang Cunmeng entrusted him with important tasks and asked him to guard the southern city wall where the officers and soldiers gathered heavily. I really didn't expect that Wu Shide was actually Wang Zuo's man.

The matter of Hequ City quickly spread throughout northern Shaanxi. Wang Ziyong and others didn't know the details, so it was difficult to understand the matter. Zhang Cunmeng still held more than 40,000 troops in his hand and guarded a Hequ City. How could it be taken down by officers and soldiers in two days? Two more days later, Zhang Cunmeng led the defeated army of Hequ City to retreat to Ansai City. At this time, the details about Hequ City were only known. When he learned about Hequ City, Zhang Tianxing was frightened and the thought of blaming Zhang Cunmeng was gone.

Wu Shide led his people to rebel and let go of the city gate. If he did not evacuate in time, God would probably be the only one who could be left with 10,000 people. In Yan'an City, Zhang Dashou was hunched over with his body, his eyes shone sharply, "Wang Zuogu, you are really a scum of our generation. If it weren't for him, why would the Hetao Plain be thrown so quickly?"

Zhang Cunmeng was able to lead the crowd to retreat in time. Wang Ziyong and Zhang Dashou naturally breathed a sigh of relief, but one person was very unhappy. This person was Zhang Xianzhong in Mizhi City. Zhang Xianzhong had been hoping that the officers and soldiers would fight to the death with Zhang Cunmeng. It would be better for both sides to fight to the defeat, but the result was a loud thunder and little rain.

Zhang Xianzhong was very unwilling to accept that in order to save Hetao and help Zhang Cunmeng, he sent heavy troops to attack Yinzhou Pass. In the end, he suffered heavy casualties, and even Sun Kewang was left there. Zhang Cunmeng, who should have suffered more miserable times than himself, actually pulled most of his troops back to Ansai City. Isn't that too unfair?

Who is the Living Hell? That is the master who is skinned when meeting him. Just because he is Zhang Cunmeng can easily retreat under the nose of the Living Hell? Zhang Xianzhong doesn’t believe Zhang Cunmeng’s nonsense. There is something wrong with Hequ City.

With the fall of Hequ City, the situation in northern Shaanxi also changed tremendously. After learning the news, the Shaanxi officers and soldiers who had originally attacked Ganquan City suddenly retreated. Under the command of Hong Chengchou, the officers and soldiers retreated again and again, and even took the initiative to abandon Linzhou and retreat to Yuhua Mountain to garrison. At the same time, Chen Qiyu's Xi'an Prefecture army also gave up attacking and retreated back to Xianyang City.

The officers and soldiers retreated directly disrupted all Wang Ziyong's deployment. He originally wanted to take advantage of Zhang Cunmeng's return to concentrate his forces to defeat the officers and soldiers near Ganquan City first, but who would have thought that the officers and soldiers would retreat voluntarily and withdraw from a hundred miles as soon as they retreated. Heavy troops went to attack Yuhua Mountain, but Wang Ziyong was not so stupid as to this point.

Yan'an Prefecture, Zhang Dashou, Zhang Cunmeng and others gathered together, and they were all at a loss. Zhang Yichuan said with a dark face: "What the hell are the officers and soldiers doing? They just captured the entire Hetao and are in a strong morale. Shouldn't they strike while the iron is hot and attack Ganquan City and Ansai City? Why did they retreat just by evacuating?"

The matter was so weird that Zhang Dashou didn't dare to take the opportunity to go out of the city to pursue him.

Zhang Dashou did not know that at this time, the border troops of Xuanfu and Datongfu were exhausted, especially the cavalry and artillery under Tiemo. The cavalry were almost circling around, and they were exhausted one by one, and the artillery was even worse. There were only less than ten shells left in the hands of the Liehuo Camp. The logistics supply could not keep up, and the accumulated shells were almost empty, and the workshop could not replenish them for a while.

The cavalry could not run, and the artillery had no shells. To put it bluntly, the border troops in Hetao could not be killed, so they needed time to rest and recuperate.

As for Hong Chengchou and others, it is better understood. Wang Ziyong has more than 100,000 peasant army, and his strength cannot be underestimated. He attacked Ganquan City before to cooperate with the border troops in the north to take down Hetao. Now that Hetao has been taken down, there is no need to fight to the death in Ganquan City. Hong Chengchou and Cao Wenzhao will not be blinded by the victory in front of them. They are very clear that the troops in their hands are not enough to actively attack the peasant army.

Even if the border troops in Hetao in the north cooperate with the north and south attack, they still cannot bite Wang Ziyi's hard bone. It is definitely impossible to fight. It is better to retreat as soon as possible. If Zhang Cunmeng Zeng's troops were allowed to Ganquan, it would not be easy to retreat at that time.

In Yuhua Mountain, the breeze is coming and the sun is warm. Hong Chengchou is wearing a red robe, looking radiant and energetic.

"Hetao has finally been taken down, which is considered as an explanation to the court. If the court can increase its troops in Shaanxi in large quantities, it will not be impossible to destroy Wang Zihua's bandits. What a pity."

Hong Chengchou seemed a little unwilling to accept it, but Cao Wenzhao was very satisfied with the current result. "Mr. Hong, you and I are very clear that it is already very rare to have such a situation. You must know that General Tie and General Man fought hard. As for the increase in troops in Shaanxi, it can only be a luxury in a short period of time. You also know the situation of Xuanfu and Datongfu, especially Xuanfu, after a series of fierce battles, he has never rested. This time, General Tie gritted his teeth and pulled out his troops and rushed over."

"What's more, the situation in Henan seems to be very bad, and the court must protect Henan first."

Hong Chengchou frowned, instantly adding a bit of sadness.

Everything was as Cao Wenzhao said, when the good news from northern Shaanxi arrived in the capital, the entire Ming Dynasty became nervous because of another thing. At this moment, the court had no time to take care of the decaying land of Shaanxi.

On April 28, the third year of Chongzhen, Gao Yingxiang of the peasant army, led a 20,000 army to besiege Nanyang City, and finally kicked off the peasant army's entry into Henan.

Almost the day after Nanyang City was besieged, Xiangyang City responded. Huang Lin, the garrison in Xiangyang, led more than 5,000 troops to support Nanyang. If nothing unexpected happened, he was ambushed by Li Zicheng's troops in Xinye. Huang Lin was defeated and had to retreat to Xiangyang.
Chapter completed!