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Chapter 494 "Hua Guan Suo"

On the suspension bridge outside the west gate of Kaifeng Fucheng, Zhang Nai was overturned by the horses and fell to the ground. He reacted quickly enough, and he just rolled backwards to stop his figure.

As soon as he turned over, he saw several guards running back, and the city gate began to close slowly. He shouted loudly: "Quick, rush over, you can't close the gate..."

Two little chieftains led more than twenty riders to the front of Zhang Nai. When they heard Zhang Nai's roar, they urged their horses even harder and ran towards the city gate.

Suddenly, Zhang Nai felt that his feet were shaking uncontrollably. He quickly gathered his attention and saw that the suspension bridge had begun to rise slowly. At this time, except for the twenty or so cavalry rushing down the suspension bridge and rushing towards the city gate, there was no one else. Only a dozen or so riders rushed onto the suspension bridge.

Zhang Nai screamed anxiously. He swung the waist knife in his hand and slashed at the iron rope. The thick hemp rope was already stretched tight. None left.

He hurriedly shouted to the back: "Abandon the horse, climb up, grab the door, hurry, hurry..."

More than a dozen cavalry cavalry immediately abandoned their horses and climbed onto the suspension bridge. There were not many refugees on the suspension bridge at the moment, and almost all of them were occupied by bandit soldiers. jump over.

It was only with the help of several people on the suspension bridge that they barely climbed up the suspension bridge. Although they slowed down the rising speed of the suspension bridge, they still couldn't stop the suspension bridge from continuing to rise.

At this moment, a small leader of the Chuangjun ran back quickly and shouted: "The city gate is closed, it can't be opened..."

Zhang Nai yelled and was about to rush to cut the gate, but was stopped by the bandits. They all knew that the gate of Kaifeng was so thick and solid that it would be impossible to break through it with a knife and an axe. , this operation is considered a failure.

At this time, the guards on the tower also realized that they were not real officers and soldiers. Rolling stones and trees were thrown down one after another. A bandit soldier beside Zhang Nai was hit by a big stone, and his brains were mixed with blood. It was all over his face.

The little leader who came back from the city gate just now shouted: "Master Zhang, we are protecting you, jump back quickly, it will be too late!"

As he spoke, he commanded all the bandit soldiers to raise their shields to protect Zhang Nai's body. In addition to rolling wood and rocks, there were many arrows flying down from the tower. They were shot by arrows one after another, fell to the ground and howled.

Zhang Nai saw that the matter had come to this point, although he was extremely unwilling in his heart, but he also knew that it would be of no use to continue struggling, so he shouted: "Let's go, jump back."

All the thieves raised their shields up one after another, Zhang Nai jumped up with a run-up, and almost landed on the edge of the ditch. Several thieves rushed up to support him, and retreated.

They came with [-] riders to attack the south gate of Kaifeng, but only less than [-] people rushed to the suspension bridge, and less than [-] people escaped from the suspension bridge.

As the suspension bridge was raised high, Zhang Nai also led the thieves to retreat one after another to avoid the arrows and bullets from the tower.

Outside Xiguan, to the west of them, a large cloud of smoke and dust rolled in, getting bigger and bigger, all over the sky, boundless!
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At the time when the west gate of Kaifeng Fucheng was attacked, the boat of the governor Yang Sichang was going down the Qutang Gorge in Kuizhou to the east.

Now he has to rush to Shashi as quickly as possible, in order to know the whereabouts of Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, the two thieves, so that he can decide to pursue the next step.

Yang Sichang was alone in the big cabin of the boat, looking at the rolling Yangtze River outside the window for a long time, not allowing anyone to come in to disturb him.

After a long time, he sighed softly and said to himself: "Your Majesty, I am exhausted!"

In May of last year, he had forced all kinds of thieves to the east of Sichuan. Under the siege of the army, Hui Dengxiang, Wang Guangen and other thieves had surrendered one after another, even Luo Rucai, who was known as "Cao Cao", had Soothe your heart.

How high-spirited he was at that time, only the "Eight Great Kings" Zhang Xianzhong was left, and he was surrounded by the mountains between Kui and Wu. It was only a matter of time before he was completely wiped out.

But what he didn't expect was that the officials from all walks of life had been exhausted for a long time after years of hunting down the thieves, and they gradually became slack.

First of all, Shao Jiechun, the governor of Sichuan, did not follow his strategy to deploy troops, and secondly, the two townsmen, He Renlong and Li Guoqi, the Shaanxi giants, ran away in Kaixian with a lot of noise, and led the army back to Shaanxi privately, so that the west road could be blocked. The troops are empty.

At the same time, Zhang Xianzhong persuaded and coerced Luo Rucai again and again, which made Luo Rucai change his mind, and joined forces with the bandits to lead the army into the heart of Sichuan.

In desperation, Yang Sichang had no choice but to rush to Chongqing himself. He originally planned to drive the two thieves Zhang and Luo to a remote place in northwestern Sichuan, and then tried to surround and annihilate them.

However, under the exhaustion of the veterans, the generals will not die, the soldiers have no fighting spirit, and Shang Fang's sword will not work. All the strategies he planned to block and suppress all failed.

In just half a year, Xian and Cao bandits fled from eastern Sichuan to northern Sichuan, and then returned to attack Chengdu City. After that, they went down the Tuojiang River to attack Huzhou in western Sichuan, and then returned from western Sichuan to the north. Tongjiang, going south quickly, his whereabouts are very mysterious, and there is no news for a while.

While Yang Sichang was searching hard, Xian Bandit and Cao Bandit suddenly appeared in Huangling City, Kaixian County. After defeating the army of the General Army, they rushed out of Sichuan from Kuizhou and Dachang.

Looking at the river, he thought to himself: "I have been ordered to supervise the teacher so far, and I have spent millions of taels of state money, but I also asked Xian and Cao to flee back to Huguang. The painstaking efforts of the past year and a half have been ruined!"

Yang Sichang thought hard for a long time, but he still couldn't figure out where the thief would go to continue to cause chaos, and he couldn't think of any good strategy to deal with the thief. He only felt that he had a lot of things to appeal to the court and the emperor.

But as the saying goes, "Once you go abroad, you can reach thousands of miles", now that you are far away from the center, you have to let others criticize you, but you can't do anything!

His mood was extremely depressed and heavy, and he subconsciously called out: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty!..."

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For a while, many past events in the past half a year kept coming to Yang Sichang's mind.

I still remember the scene when he entered Sichuan from the Three Gorges in September last year, vividly before my eyes...

In the first ten days of September last year, Yang Sichang took a boat from Yiling to the west and went up the river, and arrived outside Wushan City on September [-]th. The boat was moored by the river, but he did not go ashore. He only stopped here for one night and continued to go west. into Sichuan.

The reason why the ship docked here was just to meet a bandit general who sincerely surrendered.

In fact, among the bandits who surrendered to the official army in eastern Sichuan, Yang Sichang valued the battalion of "Huaguansuo" Wang Guangen the most. He stayed here to meet him on the big ship and give him silver coins. Words of comfort.

(End of this chapter)