The last month of Dongxiao's third year.

There is no suspense in everything. Hou Xun, who hastily left the pass, was defeated by Li Zicheng, which is even worse than Sun Chuanting in history.

Li Zicheng's army took over Xi'an before winter came without much effort.

After that, he asked Tian Jianxiu to lead the army south to attack Hanzhong, and asked Liu Zongmin to supervise He Jin, Dang Shousu, and Xin Sizhong to advance westward, preparing to take down the entire Shaanxi Xingdusi.

He personally led the army northward and prepared to take down the land of northern Shaanxi.

On a stormy evening, Lanzhou, Suwang Mansion, Suwang Zhu Shiyou was arguing fiercely with his chief Huangfuduan.

"The prince, the King of Qin in Xi'an, the King of Han in Pingliang, and the King of Qing in Yinchuan are all trapped in the hands of the thief. The whole mansion has ended in miserable fate. There are only three thousand soldiers in Lanzhou City. How can it be the opponent of the bandits? Get packed up and flee outside the wall."

Zhu Shiyou snorted coldly, "I took out half of my property, plus the young and strong in the city, I can always withstand ten days and half a month. At that time, Governor Lin Rirui of Ganzhou, Li Qifeng Town will not be saved by death."

Huangfu Duan also sneered, "Your Majesty, you know the fate of Luoyang Fu King. Some of the other three kings in the northwest surrendered voluntarily, while others were captured helplessly, but they were inevitably killed and destroyed. The property they had accumulated for more than a hundred years became the bags of the bandits."

"I know that you are reluctant to leave Lanzhou, but once the bandits surrounded you, you can't even get out of your way!"

Zhu Shiyou was still a little hesitant and said after a while: "There are still dozens of miles from Lanzhou to Anning Fort, in the middle..."

Huangfu Duan said: "General Ma will send a small team of soldiers to escort you to Anning Fort."

Zhu Shiyou nodded then, but he was still unwilling to accept it and sighed: "Is the Ming Dynasty's country over?"

He nagged several times, and when he saw Huangfu Duan's sure look, he felt suspicious, "Did you make up your mind to surrender the bandits early in the morning? Besides, if I pass the wall, will the people of Daxia make things as difficult as the bandits?"

Huangfu Duan shook his head: "Students surrender to the thief, there is a hidden secret in it. If the student sells his owners and seeks honor, he will not arrange for you to go outside the pass. As for the Daxia Kingdom, don't worry. His Majesty the Emperor of Daxia Kingdom said in person that even if you wait for the royal relatives to bring their families to him, you can stay temporarily and leave by sea to return to Beijing or Nanjing."

Zhu Shiyou wanted to say a few more words, but Huangfu Duan quickly stopped him, "Prince, the bandit vanguard has arrived and settled. It will take a long time to go to Lanzhou. If you don't leave, it will probably be too late."

Zhu Shiyou finally followed Huangfu Duan's advice and took away some gold, silver and treasures that were easy to carry. The large amount of molten gold, silver and grain in his treasury was left. This is also what Huangfu Duan meant, "If you take away all your property, it will easily arouse the covetousness of all parties. Secondly, your King Su is famous among the kings in the northwest. Once the bandits find that the treasury is empty, how can they not strive to catch up with the robbery?"

As for the Lanzhou deputy general Ma Du, he was not going to surrender. He was going to Liangzhou, and then joined the deputy general Ouyang Gun there to defend the city together.

Zhu Shiyou took his family and some servants out of the city, and his property was soon targeted by others. Yang Qi, a native of Lanzhou, had a large village outside the city. After learning that King Su had secretly left the city, he brought his own 100 clerks to follow.

In a valley near Anning Fort, Yang Qi and his servants suddenly appeared.

As an official and gentry in Lanzhou, Yang Qi naturally knew Zhu Shiyou, but the situation in the world was already very clear, so Yang Qi took Zhu Shiyou down and handed it over to the Dashun Army who was about to arrive in Lanzhou as a ritual of advancing.

As mentioned earlier, Huangfu Duan arranged a hundred men under Ma Du to escort Zhu Shiyou and his party. Ma Du fled to Gansu in a hurry after falling from Liaodong. There was no Liaodong soldier under his command, all of whom were recruited in Gansu. He naturally had to stay with him. Those who escorted King Su were the old and weak.

These people are not opponents of Yang Qi's servants who have horses. In a moment, these escorted infantry soldiers were either killed or surrendered on their knees.

Yang Qi was overjoyed. He could not only seek credit from the Dashun Army, but also plunder a lot. Moreover, King Su and his party also had more than a dozen large carts covered with good fabrics. It is unknown who was sitting here.

Seeing this, Zhu Shiyou was anxious and hated and cursed: "Yang Qi, you have been deeply grateful to the country for generations. Do you want to rebel?"

Yang Qi whipped over with a whip, and he cursed: "Who doesn't know that half of the wealth is in your Su Palace, but the soldiers of the entire Shaanxi Xingdusi often make trouble for their salary. Now Dashun has occupied half of the land, and the princes are all like lambs to be slaughtered. How arrogant are you, the old boy?"

"Take it!"

After saying that, he spat at Zhu Shiwei and shouted loudly to his left and right.

Zhu Shiyou felt a chill. He couldn't help but regret that all the guards of the royal palace stayed and followed Huangfu Duan. However, there were only about a hundred guards of the royal palace, and they usually neglected to practice, and maybe they were not as good as Ma Yue's subordinates.

"Will the King Su be cut off when he reaches Gu?"

Yang Qi looked at him coldly, then looked at the dozen carriages, thinking to himself: "I heard that the princesses of King Su are all very beautiful. Let's pick one of them to stay. The rest will be presented to the King Zuo Jin together with Zhu Shiyou and his son. Such a good gift, we can get the position of a military governor."

The Jiedushi, one of the official positions that will be set up after the founding of the Kingdom of Dashun, was actually the former governor, and there were also military officers who were appointed by Zuo Jin King. After the founding of the Kingdom of Dashun, the general who was appointed by Liu Zongmin and Tian Jianxiu, was the general of Zuo Jin King He Jin of the original Left Five Camp.

Yang Qi's servant was about to take down Zhu Shiliu and others, but he didn't expect that there was another sound of horse hooves from afar. The momentum was quite large.

Yang Qi thought of the lightning, and the closest garrison to this place was Anning Fort. Could it be him?

In any case, it was no longer possible to easily take down Zhu Shiyou and others, so Yang Qi divided thirty riders to watch Zhu Shiyou and his party, and personally brought seventy riders to meet him.

Not long after, a team of cavalry appeared from a large area of ​​sand and dust. When Yang Qi saw the posture, he quickly learned who the person was.

Yue Zhenbang, a descendant of the famous general of the Song Dynasty, is only 23 years old this year, but he is already a Qianzheng in the border area. He originally worked as Qianzheng in the Wild Fox Castle under Zhuanglangwei, but he was transferred to Anning Fortress not long ago to replace Ma Du's son Ma Xirui. This was arranged by Gansu Governor Lin Rirui himself - he had heard of the fact that Ma Du and his son in Lanzhou were hooking up with the Hanhai Army outside the wall.

Yue Zhenbang was the father of Yue Shenglong, the famous general of the Qing Dynasty, and the grandfather of Yue Zhongqi.

Although Yue Zhenbang is only a thousand general, he is very skilled in martial arts and has great talent in training. His 500 cavalry under him are also well-known in Gansu.

Suddenly, Yue Zhenbang came to Yang Qi - a young general with a medium figure, short beard, but a very tough look.

If it were only Yue Zhenbang, Yang Qi, a descendant of the Yang family of the Northern Song Dynasty, would not take him seriously. However, Yue Zhenbang was the largest chieftain family in Gansu. The son-in-law of the Lu family, the commander of Zhuang Langwei, was originally a Mongolian nobleman of the Yuan Dynasty. After surrendering to the Ming Dynasty, Zhenlang (Yongdeng County) was the chieftain with the strongest military and financial resources in Gansu.

At this time, Zhu Shiyou had been tied up by Yang Qi. Yue Zhenbang couldn't help but curse: "Old man Yang Qi, your Yang family is the queen of Yang Linggong. Although your reputation is not as good as that of the Yue family, he is a loyal and patriotic person after all. How can you do this murder and robbery now?"

Yang Qi was not angry either. He knew that with his huge power, the first Yang family in Hexi, even if Yuezhenbang is crowded, he would not do anything to him. Yuezhenbang is naturally loud, but there is only one Yuezhenbang, which is still a small Qianzheng. Compared with the Yang family, what's the point?

"I can't understand what Mr. Yue said. King Su is a relative who was guarding Lanzhou in the imperial court and could not leave for a moment. Now they fled in a hurry. What do they mean? Most of them wanted to go out of the pass through Anning Fort guarded by Mr. Qian. Although I was idle at home, I was just eating the king's fortune and loyalty to the emperor. How could I sit and watch such a big thing happen?"

Yue Zhenbang was stunned when he heard this. Although he was quite famous in Gansu, he was a young man who had just been in a short time in his prime. How could he be the opponent of Yang Qi, the old Jianghu in Cifeng? However, there was a man around him, who was taller than him. The man whispered a few times beside Yue Zhenbang.

After hearing this, Yue Zhenbang shouted loudly: "Yang Qi colluded with bandits and had a bad intention. As a general in the border guard of the imperial court, how could he turn a blind eye to the people who came to take them all down!"

Yang Qi was stunned now. He also heard of this person Yue Zhenbang. The person who could marry Mongolian chieftains was definitely not a thing of the past. Grandpa Yue’s intention to "serve the country with loyalty" in history could not appear in him.

Yang Qi, the person who just spoke softly in Yue Zhenbang's ear, had a vague impression of him, but he couldn't remember who he was.

Just as hesitated, Yue Zhenbang's three hundred cavalry had already rushed up. Yue Zhenbang personally rushed towards Yang Qi's seventy cavalry with two hundred cavalry, while the man rushed towards the thirty cavalry who were left near the carriage with one hundred cavalry!

Poor Yang Qi, who originally wanted to gain a "shocking" wealthy sect, but unexpectedly, Cheng Yaojin came out halfway.

Not long after, his hundred cavalry was no match for Yue Zhenbang at all. Half an hour later, half of them were killed and injured. What made him even more annoyed was that Yue Zhenbang and the man did not seem to have the intention to keep people at the forefront. They killed the thirty cavalry near the carriage and surrounded them.

At this time, there were only thirty riders beside Yang Qi!

Yang Qi was angry and frightened, and he shouted, "My surname is Yue, you just want this wealth and honor, so why bother to kill everyone?"

"Hahaha"

Only then did Yang Qi understand something when he saw the man beside Yue Zhenbang urging his horse to come to him.

This person was Yang Tingyu, who had been a horse thief in Guazhou before. However, after the Heshuo Special Army occupied the Guasha area, Yang Tingyu disappeared, and unexpectedly appeared in Yue Zhenbang's army.

Yang Tingyu is Yang Qi's distant nephew. Yang Qi or Yang Tingyu was driven out of the Yang family and traveled thousands of miles to avoid the disaster to Guazhou.

Only Yang Qi and Yang Tingyu know about the activities here, but it is not important to others. I won’t go into details here. The spear in Yang Tingyu’s hand has already found Yang Qi!

When Yang Qi saw the spear's standard, he immediately understood.

"Who are you……"
Chapter completed!