Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Although the first wave of the mountain people's attack was blocked, Li Zicheng's side also suffered more casualties.

Two people were killed, three were seriously injured and one was slightly injured.

Li Zicheng counted and found that there were less than ten people around him who could fight.

Taking advantage of the time when the mountain people were retreating, a powerful soldier in charge said: "Your Majesty, why don't you tell these people your identity, and give them a big reward, so they let us go."

Li Zicheng frowned and said: "If it was before the battle, this move might win their trust. But now that he has killed several of us, do you think they will believe us again?

What's more, the person in charge called us thieves from the very beginning. Not surprisingly, most of them were landlords who had hatred against us.

If they knew E's identity, they would probably only want to take E's head to receive a reward from the Qing captives. "

The guard in charge said, "Then what should we do now? We can defend two more waves at most, and we won't be able to defend."

Li Zicheng frowned into a Sichuan character, and the brown-yellow eyeballs in his one-eyed eyes did not move, obviously he had no choice.

Seeing this, the others showed deep despair.

However, these people were all Li Zicheng's true confidantes, and they were greatly favored by him. Even at this time, no one wanted to use Li Zicheng's head to survive and seek wealth.

Even if some people think so, they may not dare to implement it.

Without the connection, no one knew how many people present were loyal to Li Zicheng.

If there is only one person to do it, most of them will be hacked to death without success.

Not long after, Li Zicheng and others didn't have to worry about it.

Because the mountain people outside attacked again, and threw in a few dung balls that were smoking!
Apparently, these mountain people came prepared, and it was considered that they would not be able to enter the mountain temple.

As more than a dozen specially-made dung balls were thrown in, the originally small mountain temple was suddenly filled with thick smoke—although there were leaks in the mountain temple, it would take some time for the smoke to dissipate.

outside.

A 40- to [-]-year-old man in silk and satin looked at the thick smoke with a ferocious and excited expression, and shouted: "Kill all these intruders, and leave no one behind!"

Li Zicheng's guess was correct, this person's name was Zhou Wang, and he really had a grudge against Chuang Jun.

The Zhou family was originally a major landowner in Xinyang Prefecture, but they were almost destroyed by the Shun Army.

Thanks to Zhou Wang's father watching the troubled times coming, he had already made a cunning strategy, allowing Zhou Wang to build a village in Zhenlei Mountain, and only then did the next group of people survive.

Later, Zhou Wang gradually developed by relying on the village in Zhenlei Mountain, and within a few years he became a big "overlord" in the depths of Zhenlei Mountain, with more than 3000 villagers and more than [-] soldiers.

His cottage is just a few miles away from the mountain temple.

When it was raining earlier, an Orion in the village had come here to take shelter from the rain, but he noticed the presence of Li Zicheng and others in the forest, and thought that the Shun army was defeated, so he went back to report to Zhou Wang.

The large group of Shunjun Zhou Wang dared not provoke, but the small group of defeated soldiers Zhou Wang wanted to kill them quickly.

In fact, a few months ago Zhou Wang also met the defeated Shun army who had retreated to Zhenlei Mountain—they were all defeated by the Qing army and fled.

Therefore, Zhou Wang thought that these dozen or so people were the remnants of the Shun Army's defeated soldiers from that time.

It's just that he doesn't recognize Dashun, so he calls it a thief.

Zhou Wang originally thought that after being so smoked, the Shun army inside would definitely rush out, and then he would be able to let his soldiers rush forward and kill them easily.

Who knew that after smoking for a while, the smoke began to thin out, but no one came out.

Zhou Wang asked people to shoot arrows inside, but no screams could be heard, as if there was no one inside, or everyone was dead.

'It's quite difficult. '

Zhou Wang narrowed his eyes.

He was originally a boy, and he spent a few years in Zhenlei Mountain with half the people and half the cost. He was not good at fighting big battles, but he had a lot of ways to deal with such small-scale battles.

Immediately shouted: "Whoever dares to wear a wet cloth to rush in and kill these intruders, the village master will reward three buckets of rice and five taels of silver for a head!"

Hearing that a human head was three buckets of rice straight, many soldiers' eyes turned green.

What is the most valuable in Henan today?Not gold and silver, but rice!

Even in this Thunder Mountain.

Immediately, dozens of people took off their clothes and wet them in the rain puddle on the ground, covered their mouths and noses and rushed in.

Immediately, there was a chaotic sound of swords piercing into flesh and killing in the mountain temple.

In a few breaths, five people rushed out, and they were all Shunjun—even though they knew that there were enemies outside, they had no choice but to rush out because they would also die inside.

Seeing this, Zhou Wang sneered, waved his hand and said, "Fire the arrow!"

Dozens of hunters who were ready shot arrows together, and immediately three of the five people were hit by the arrows.

One of them was Li Zicheng!

"His Majesty!"

Seeing that Li Zicheng was hit by an arrow in his calf and fell to the ground, Hu Er couldn't help shouting anxiously.

But he didn't rush to protect Li Zicheng, but took advantage of the interval of the rain of arrows to pounce on Zhou Wang who was ten steps away!
Zhou Wang jumped, stepped back quickly, and shouted anxiously: "Block him! Stop him!"

Although he is not a frail scholar and can slash people with a knife, he is by no means a match for someone like Hu Er who looks fierce.

More than a dozen servants and members of the Zhou family rushed up to stop Hu Er.

However, these people basically had no armor on them, and their fighting skills, experience, and strength were too poor. They were easily beheaded by the armored Hu Er one by one.

Seeing that Hu Er was so capable of fighting, the surrounding soldiers did not dare to come up for a while.

Hu Er didn't stop at all, after killing the people around him, he picked up a waist knife and threw it at Zhou Wang!

With a puff, Zhou Wang, who was running away, froze.

He turned his head and looked back, showing an expression of disbelief on his face.

He never expected that he would lose his life in such a muddle-headed manner after seeing that he had won.

Seeing Zhou Wang's death, the rest of the soldiers in the village immediately went into a commotion and almost collapsed.

But in the next breath, a member of the Zhou clan who was the leader of the village soldiers shouted loudly: "Shoot the arrows! Kill these people to avenge the village master!"

The man's name was Zhou Fa. After he shouted, an arrow shot at Hu Er.

Unknowingly, the soldiers in the village distanced themselves from Hu Er again.

Hu Er swung his saber, knocked away the arrow, and rushed to the nearest soldier again, forcing the soldier back again and again by himself.

But soon, more than a dozen long spears stabbed him, forcing him to stop; more arrows continued to shoot, making his situation even more dangerous.

Most importantly, the sound of fighting in the mountain temple ceased, and the most valiant soldiers withdrew to attack the injured Li Zicheng and the remaining guard Tian Zhao.

Fortunately, Tian Zhao is also a master, so he temporarily protected Li Zicheng by himself.

But with only two people, no matter how good their skills are, there will be times when their strength will be exhausted.

Seeing that Hu and Tian were in danger, the injured Li Zicheng and the other two seriously injured soldiers also struggled to get up and fight again with their knives.

Although the soldiers in the village were shocked by their bravery, they also understood that they were all at the end of their battles, and they only needed a little more grinding, a few more knives, and a few more arrows to kill them.

So no one retreated for a while, but became more excited.

Although Zhou Wang died, the village still belongs to the Zhou family.No matter who wants to inherit the position of the village lord, he must avenge Zhou Wang and honor the reward that Zhou Wang promised before.

But twenty or thirty breaths later, another accident happened.

There were screams from the soldiers outside the village first, followed by angry shouts.

Hearing that the Shasheng's accent was obviously Shaanxi dialect, Hu Er said pleasantly: "It's Miao Yousheng and the others who are here!"

After all, the soldiers in the village were not a regular army. Seeing that the Shun army had come to reinforce them, they couldn't tell how many people there were in the forest for a while, so they broke up and fled in all directions.

Miao Yousheng's 30 people who rushed here through the thick smoke before did not pursue, but hurried to the front of the mountain temple.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me for the delay in coming to the rescue!" Seeing Li Zicheng, Miao Yousheng immediately knelt down on one knee to plead guilty.

At this moment, Li Zicheng's face could not tell whether it was sallow or gray, and he barely stood up while leaning on the ground with a knife.

He opened his mouth to say something, but before he could say anything, he fell down with a plop!

"His Majesty!"

The three guards, Miao, Hu, and Tian couldn't help but quickly help Li Zicheng and check his body.

But at some point, Li Zicheng's armor was torn, his left waist was stabbed, and his armor and trouser legs were soaked in blood.

The three guards and the surrounding soldiers were all people who walked over from the mountain of corpses and blood, and it was clear that such injuries were hopeless.

Thinking of the various scenes of Li Zicheng leading everyone to fight in the South and North in the past many years, dozens of Shunjun men couldn't help crying.

No matter what Li Zicheng did, whether he was successful or not, he finally led these low-level men to the sky. Even if this sky was only temporary, he still became a hero in the hearts of these low-level men.

Now, their hero died at the hands of a group of mountain people in this little Zhenlei Mountain.

Thinking that Dashun's career would collapse overnight with Li Zicheng's death, all these Shun soldiers felt sad.

Li Zicheng felt his body getting colder and colder, and the hand still holding the knife was getting weaker and weaker, so he knew he was going to die this time.

He also felt great hatred in his heart - if it wasn't for these mountain people, he would definitely be able to get out of the mountain alive.

So, he looked at the three guards and said: "After Er's death, you go back and let people lead soldiers to slaughter all the people in Zhenlei Mountain, and avenge Er...."

The three nodded, and Miao Yousheng gritted his teeth and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, we will make Zhenlei Mountain no longer alive!"

Li Zicheng forced a smile, and said: "After Er's death, everyone will listen to Zehou first. If we can join Li Guo and Gao Yigong in the future, let Li Guo inherit Er's Dashun."

In the end, Li Zicheng's voice became smaller and smaller.

But suddenly, his eyes brightened inexplicably again, and the hand holding Hu Er suddenly became stronger.

So he said intermittently: "If you don't...you can't do anything, everyone will demote...Daming."

After finishing speaking, the light in Li Zicheng's eyes went out like a blown out candle.

In an instant, the wailing in front of the mountain temple shook the sky——

"Chuang Wang!!!"

The soldiers from the Zhou Family Village hadn't fled too far away at this time, and many people heard the wailing, even the former Miao Yousheng and others crying "Your Majesty".

People with a little bit of knowledge and brains were suddenly in doubt.

Zhou Fa, the leader of the Zhaibing, thought of a terrible possibility, not only stopped, but turned his head to look in the direction of the mountain temple.

"Among the intruders we killed just now, there shouldn't be Li Zicheng, the king of intruders, right?" '

Thinking of this, Zhou Fa only felt chills in his heart, and hurried to the stockade quickly...