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Chapter 300
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The Zhangliang Ancient Temple is located at the foot of the Zibai Mountain on the southern slope of the Qinling Mountains. It is 150 miles away from Hanzhong in the south and [-] miles away from Feng County in the north. The official road at the foot of the mountain was one of the must-pass sections of the official road from Shaanxi to Hanzhong in the Ming Dynasty. Although it is not as good as Dasanguan, Heshangyuan, Yangpingguan and Fengxian, it can be regarded as one of the important corridors in central Sichuan.The scenery of the temple is very beautiful. As soon as you enter the mountain gate, you can see a small wooden bridge with railings and chairs. The flowing water is gurgling and pleasant. After crossing the wooden bridge, there is a tall and majestic stone temple gate, with bell and drum towers on the left and right, Lingxiao Hall in the center of the courtyard, octagonal cornices, glazed tile roof, painted arched eaves, and Sanqing Hall, The supporting halls such as the Sanguan Hall and the Sanfa Hall are quite spectacular in scale and architecture.

From the north side of the hall, through the courtyard, you enter the courtyard where the main hall is located. The main hall is majestic and majestic, with two plaques of "Ming Zhe Feng Gao" and "Emperor's Teacher" hanging on it. The end of the worship of Chongfeng Yan was opened by Bigu. There is also a statue of Zhang Liang in the hall, and there is a worship hall in front of the main hall, and the left and right wing rooms stand symmetrically.The courtyard is quiet and elegant.The lintels of the halls are covered with plaques of praise, such as "retire bravely from the rapids, remonstrate appropriately, be wise and brave", and so on.The pillars of the hall are decorated with many couplets, such as: "Qin Shi Wushuang Guoshi; Han Ting No. 1 minister, rich and noble, with Confucian spirit; indifferent to Ming Zhi, as a god of flat earth" and so on. ——I have to admit that the ancestor who Young Master Zhang put gold on his face was indeed very majestic.

But it is a pity that this thousand-year-old ancient temple, built in the Han Dynasty and full of incense, is close to the brink of destruction due to the spread of war......

"Hurry up, hurry up, put the silver coins, silk and satin Taoist robes, all in the box for me!" In the main room in the backyard of the Zhangliang Temple, the abbot Suichen led a large group of Taoist priests , was busy packing up the luggage for moving, and the howling voice of Sui Chen echoed endlessly inside and outside the room, "The land deed! The land deed for the temple property is brought here, and I will keep it myself! The remaining things, how much can you move?" Try to move as much as possible, if you stay here, don't even think about getting it back in the future!"

"Abbot, don't you need to be so flustered?" The Zhike who was called from the temple gate by the old Taoist Suichen to participate in the tidying up salute kindly persuaded: "The rebellious thieves have just arrived in Feng County, and Feng County is guarded by the imperial court's General Qin and General Zhao. Now, whether the rebels can attack or not is still the same thing. Why should we leave in such a hurry? If the rebels can't attack Liuba at all, we will flee to Hanzhong again. Are all these things that can’t be taken away stolen?”

"You know what a fart?!" Suichen jumped three feet high, his white and fat face was full of anger, waving his arms and shouted angrily: "You didn't listen to the pilgrims who escaped from the north. There are hundreds of thousands of rebels coming here. The thousands of soldiers from the imperial court can't even defend Dasan Pass, but they can still defend a small Feng County? Hundreds of thousands of rebels just spit on one person , can also drown thousands of officers and soldiers alive! Do you understand? Do you know? If you still don’t understand, then you bring me two little Taoist priests and stay here to guard the temple, do you understand?!”

"Yes, I understand." Zhike wiped off his cold sweat, and quickly turned around to pack his luggage.Suichen old Taoist stopped him again, beckoned him to the front, and whispered in his ear: "When you leave in a while, you personally bring two reliable little Taoist priests to the town, and take care of me there. Xiaochun and Widow Huang were also taken to Hanzhong, and a small yard was reserved for them to live in. Remember, don’t let others know.”

"I understand—" Zhike comprehended.The old Taoist Suichen suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly ran to the main hall. The confidant was stunned, and hurriedly asked: "Abbot, where are you going?"

"Main hall! You bring two people here too!" The old Taoist Suichen agreed as he ran, with a scream in his voice, "I almost forgot, when I reshaped the golden body of the statue of Zhang Liuhou a few years ago, There are 66 taels of gold foil pasted on his idol, if you don’t take off all the gold foil, you’ll be a thief—!”

66 Two taels of gold gold leaf is not a small amount. After waking up, Zhike hurried to the main hall with a few young Taoist priests to help, followed the old Taoist Suichen to climb up the Buddha seat, and threw himself on the statue of Zhang Liang to carefully remove the gold leaf. Not a single cent of the gold leaf was allowed to be left behind, Sui Chen even climbed onto the shoulders of Zhang Liang’s statue and rode on it, pulling Zhang Liang’s neck to uncover the gold leaf on his head. It was pasted too tightly, and the old Taoist Suichen peeled it off for a long time, but he didn't take off a piece of gold leaf.Anxiously, Sui Chen could only roar: "Come on, get a kitchen knife, get a few more kitchen knives, and scrape off the gold leaf one by one!"

The little Taoist priests rushed into the kitchen and brought a few kitchen knives. When the old Taoist Suichen took a kitchen knife and began to dig out Zhang Liang's eyes, a few people came in from outside the main hall, leading a young boy dressed as a scholar with a knife in his hand. With a folding fan, before entering the hall, he laughed and asked: "It turns out that there are people. Didn't you hear that this good temple is full of incense? Why do pilgrims enter the courtyard of the main hall, but no Taoist priest who knows the guests comes to greet them? It's just this service attitude." , Do you still want incense money?"

"Who?" Suichen asked impatiently.Zhike replied: "The accent sounds like a foreigner, and most likely he is a poet from there. He intends to inscribe a few strokes in an arty way here, and spend a few copper coins to buy a good reputation, but he doesn't know whether he is fat or not." In the meantime, the little boy had already entered the main hall, and seeing Sui Chen sitting on the shoulder of the statue of Zhang Liang, with a kitchen knife in his hand digging out the eyes of the statue of Zhang Liang, the little boy couldn't help being furious, and shouted: "Who's here?" Old Niubi, how dare you ride on the statue of my ancestor? How dare you destroy the statue of my ancestor?"

"Come on." Suichen said impatiently, "My good temple has at least 180 Zhang family members who come to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors every year. They all spend some money to buy a good ancestor. I'm calling, everyone, don't waste your time, I'll give you a discount, you pay two taels of silver, and I'll give you a blank Zhang Liang family tree, you can fill in whoever's name you want."

"Two taels of silver? My family tree is worth two taels of silver?" The little boy almost twisted his nose in anger, and shouted, "Come on, drag me down and beat me!" The entourage brought by the little boy agreed in unison, and the tiger roared He rushed up like a wolf like a tiger, and dragged Suichen and a few Taoist priests down three times, dragged them into the hall, beat and kicked them, making Suichen and others howl like ghosts, "What are you doing? What are you doing? Killed someone, hurry up, report to the police, there are some unscrupulous people here who want to kill someone!"

"Idiot!" A follower kicked the old Taoist Suichen in the face, and cursed: "Old bull nose, gouging the eyes of my young master's ancestor statue, and dare to report to the official that my young master killed someone? Report to the official? My young master is the largest in Shaanxi and Sichuan. Officer, the governors of Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan have to kowtow to him when they see him!"

"The biggest official in Shaanxi and Sichuan?" The veteran Suichen was not too stupid, and he soon came to his senses, pointing at Young Master Zhang and screaming: "Could it be that he is the famous Zhang Tanhua, Mr. Zhang, the new governor of the five provinces?" Good Master Zhang?!"

"You still know me?" Young Master Zhang asked with a sneer.The old Taoist Suichen hurriedly got up and knelt down and kowtowed, flattering and saying: "Governor Zhang's name is so famous that it is like a thunder, and everyone in the world doesn't know it? Who doesn't know it? Poor Dao is lucky to be able to preside over the ancestral temple for Mr. Zhang, so what?" Do you dare to know Master Zhang's great name? And after hearing that Master Zhang is a descendant of Zhang Liuhou, Pindao invited master craftsmen to build a statue for him next to the statue of Zhang Liuhou according to the rumored appearance of Master Zhang. For pilgrims to look up and worship."

"What else? I also have a statue?" Young Master Zhang was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked: "Where is my statue? Quickly point it out to me to see if it is majestic or not." The man who was released by the soldiers Daoist Chen didn't dare to be negligent, so he quickly got up and led Young Master Zhang to a statue on the right, and said respectfully: "Please look, my lord, this is the golden body that Pindao made for you."

"It's really mine!" Young Master Zhang saw that his name was indeed written on the Longevity Card at first glance, and when he took a closer look at the face of the god after being overjoyed, Young Master Zhang was dumbfounded again—this is not true. It is said that the statue of Young Master Zhang is not majestic enough, but too majestic!With a pitch-black face, a leopard head with ring eyes, a swallow jaw and a big mouth, and a messy black beard on a fleshy face, it is Zhang Fei's rebirth and Li Kui's rebirth!In a fit of rage, Young Master Zhang couldn't help cursing again: "Damn, is I so ugly? Make my god like this, how can I still pick up girls in Shaanxi and Sichuan in the future? Come on, give me Fight again!"

"Master Zhang, please forgive me. You can't blame Xiaodao. According to folklore, you look like this! Some people say that you have seven heads, eight mouths, thirteen arms and nine legs. Even the poor Daoist dared not touch that." How to do it...!"

After finally beating the old Taoist Suichen enough, and the young master Zhang was angry enough, the young master Zhang called the soldiers to stop, and called the old Taoist Suichen to ask what happened. The reason why Taoist Chen wanted to flee with the temple crowd in a hurry.It turned out that on March [-]th the day before yesterday, the Ming army suffered a big defeat in the area of ​​Shencha, and the loss of troops was countless. Even the governor of Shaanxi was seriously injured. Qin Liangyu, who was worried about being trapped by the rebels in Fengxian County, turned his back on the enemy, and took the initiative to fight against the rebel army in the area of ​​Qingfeng Pavilion many times. Although he succeeded in repelling the rebels every time, the casualties were not small. The war was raging, and they fled to the south one after another. The veteran Suichen was also worried that the rebel army would break through Feng County and enter Liuba, so he planned to flee back to Hanzhong with the temple property.

"Hong Chengchou suffered a big defeat? How is it possible? Hong Chengchou's army is the main force in countering the rebellion of the Shaanxi-Gansu Army, and with the assistance of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, two thieves who are familiar with the situation of the rebels, how could it be so easy to lose so easily?" Zhang Da The young master frowned very tightly, knowing that if Hong Chengchou couldn't resist in the north and was successfully broken out by the thieves, his Baoji encirclement would also be in vain.However, it is obviously impossible to ask the detailed military situation from Sui Chen and others. In desperation, Young Master Zhang had no choice but to order: "Send a few people with waist badges to guard at the intersection. The official messenger from the county will bring it to me immediately."

"Zhang Butang, do you want to send someone to give an order to Chief Qin and the others quickly? Tell them not to take the initiative to attack again, make way for the main force of the rebels to enter the mountain area, and relieve some pressure on Hong Zhongcheng?" Shi Kefa asked tentatively. .Young Master Zhang pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said: "You don't need to give orders, the more Qin Zongbing and the others take the initiative to attack and stop the thieves from entering Sichuan, the better the effect of luring the enemy will be for us."

"What do you mean?" Shi Kefa was very confused.Young Master Zhang smiled and said: "There is a saying in the book of war: the false is the real, the real is the false. Qin Zongbing and the others gave up the advantageous city defense and took the initiative to attack. There are too many times. Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai, two old treacherous thieves, and Fan Wencheng's old loach must also be suspicious-why did Qin Zongbing and the others take the initiative to attack? Is it because Hanzhong is empty, Qin Zongbing and others are afraid that the main force of the rebels will besiege Feng County, and divide their troops to raid Hanzhong, so Qin Zongbing and the others Only then do you take the initiative to attack and keep the enemy out of the country?"

"It makes sense. Once the thieves like Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai find that Hanzhong is empty, they will definitely step into our ambush." ​​Shi Kefa nodded in agreement with a vague understanding, and said worriedly: "But the key now is Hong Chengchou and Hong Zhongcheng. On the other hand, if he can stand still, then everything will be easy to talk about, but if he can't, then everything will be over."

"Wrong, the key is not Hong Chengchou, and I have never counted on him." Young Master Zhang shook his head, and said calmly: "Hong Chengchou has a strong personality, aggressive, and strong self-esteem. He will not listen to my command completely and unconditionally, and it will be difficult for me to completely control him. So this time the key to the success or failure of the northern front is not him, but Wu Zimian, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong." Speaking of this, Zhang Da The young master sighed, closed his eyes and said, "I hope they don't let me down."

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"Kill—!" Time moved forward, back to the night of the Ming army's disastrous defeat in March [-]th, after they surrounded Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's defeated army in the ruins of Yimen Town, they wanted to kill the traitors and stabilize the morale of the army. The army of thieves immediately launched wave after wave of fierce attacks on Yimen Town. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who knew that surrender would be fatal, fought a trapped beast in the town, struggling to support, hoping that the Ming army north of the Wei River would The team can send reinforcements to support our army to break through.However, from the second watch until late at night, and then from late at night until dawn, the Ming army on the north bank of the Weishui River did not have a single soldier to cross the river for reinforcements. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong had less than [-] defeated soldiers, and only a thousand remained. People are dying.

After the time of day, the sun gradually rose to the top of the Qinling Mountains, and the dilapidated earthen walls of Yimen Town were completely controlled by the army of thieves with sufficient strength. There is no water or food for support in the street fighting of the houses, only the army of rebels who can't see the end at a glance, and the so-called reinforcements in the foreseeable future.Faced with such a situation, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, who knew their defeat was imminent, were already weeping secretly, knowing that the end was near.But at this moment, the army of the rebels rang the sound of gold, and the rebel troops at the front of the front line also retreated one after another, leaving the battlefield, and the battlefield fell into a short-term calm.

"What's the matter? Could it be that reinforcements are coming?" Li Zicheng, whose lips were already dry and bleeding, raised his blood-stained face and tried to look north.Zhang Xianzhong, who was also covered in blood, shook his head in pain, and said powerlessly: "Don't have this dream. If Hong Chengchou really came to save us, he would have come a long time ago, so there is no need to wait until now? Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai called gold, probably Want to have a good laugh at us, and see our jokes."

Sure enough, after a while, a small white flag was unfurled in the bandit army. Gao Yingxiang, Luo Rucai and Fan Wencheng leaped out. Answer, I have good news for them." The soldiers of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's army did not move, and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who were hiding behind the broken wall, did not dare to make a sound, they just raised their ears together.

"Don't move? Looks like Little Chuang and Eight Heavenly Kings are nearby, can you hear me?" Fan Wencheng was very clever, and immediately guessed the reason why the soldiers of the Ming army refused to move, and laughed loudly: "Xiao Chuang Wang, Eight Heavenly Kings, since you can hear me, let me ask you a question, do you regret it now or later?"

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong continued to remain silent, but they had all kinds of feelings in their hearts.Fan Wencheng laughed again and said: "Little King Chuang, Eight Great Kings, you should now understand who that little mad dog Zhang Haogu is? He tricked you into rebelling against the rebels with a little bit of sweetness that was so impossible to cash in." , sacrificed the city of Xi'an, and treated you as scapegoats, and asked you to fight each other with Da Chuang and Cao Tianwang, brothers and sisters, what did you get?! Now you have been surrounded by Da Chuang and Cao Tianwang all night, The soldiers suffered countless casualties, the arrows and supplies were exhausted, and the lackeys of the little mad dog did not even send you a single reinforcement, is this a reward for your devotion to Xi'an?"

"It's Zhang Haogu's little mad dog's lackeys, don't you have an army to reinforce you? No!" Fan Wencheng laughed triumphantly: "Although the barbarian Hong Chengchou suffered a big defeat, his army in Shenshahe was unscathed. With the help of He Huchen's barbarian's new force, it's easy to rescue you! It's the little mad dog's lackeys who can't rescue you? No! Yimen Town is open on all sides, and we can't arrange an ambush to surround the town to help. They just need to send troops to rush, and You should work together inside and out, and saving you is just as easy! But why didn’t the lackeys of the little mad dog save you? What’s the reason? If you don’t know, then I can tell you—because in the eyes of the little mad dog, you are a group of people who can die at any time Dog, no matter how much you die, he won’t feel bad! Maybe, that little mad dog would like to see you all die so that he can save some military pay, some salary, and the money he saves so that he can use it to raise The concubine raises the outer room, raises those brutal and dog officials who oppress you!"

Li Zicheng wanted to scold, but he couldn't find the words to retort.Zhang Xianzhong also wanted to scold, but he couldn't muster up the courage to scold back.At this time, Fan Wencheng finally expressed his intentions, and laughed and said, "Little King Chuang, the Eight Heavenly Kings, you should thank me! Originally, all the great kings wanted to get rid of the evil, punish the traitors, and kill the chickens to make an example to the monkeys. After persuasion, they still agree to give you another chance to turn around! Surrender, King Da Chuang and King Cao Tian will not kill any of you, and they will not investigate your past mistakes. Treat you as brothers."

"Chuangjiang, come back." Gao Yingxiang finally spoke, and shouted: "I promised to make you little Chuangwang, this promise is still valid, I swear to God in front of all brothers, as long as you surrender and come back, I will never Hurting a single hair of your hair! And I will adopt you as a foster son, make you a little Chuang King, and I can make up for the soldiers you lost!"

"Eight Heavenly King, the relationship between our two brothers is the best." Luo Rucai also shouted: "Come back, I will still treat you as a brother, if in the future you are surrounded by the dog officer's army like last time in Bailuo City , I will also rescue you at any cost as before! Good brother, come back, I have prepared fine wine and beauties for you, waiting for you to come back!"

"Eight Great Kings, what should we do?" Li Zicheng asked Zhang Xianzhong tremblingly.Zhang Xianzhong's lips trembled, and he answered in a low voice after a while: "What do you think should be done? Let's go back, will Luo Rucai and Gao Yingxiang really let us go?"

Li Zicheng didn't answer, he was very hesitant.Seeing that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong hadn't heard back for a long time, Fan Wencheng laughed and said, "What's the matter? Little King Chuang and Eight Heavenly Kings are still worried that after returning, Great Chuang King and Cao Tianwang won't let you go? If this is the case, then you are worrying in vain! To tell you the truth, even if someone can’t tolerate you in the future, I will protect you to death! Because I know very well that as long as you two live, you will always be beaten by Zhang Haogu. The slap on the face of this little mad dog will always be a wake-up call for all the kings, reminding them what will happen if they surrender to the little mad dog! For the great cause of the rebel army in Shaanxi, for our Dajin Kingdom in Liaodong, and for me being brutalized by the little mad dog Zhang Haogu Parents, relatives, brothers and sisters who were killed, I will never allow anyone to hurt a single hair of you!"

"Little King Chuang, Eight Great Kings, we sincerely invite you back, you have to believe me!" Luo Rucai shouted.Gao Yingxiang also shouted: "General Chuang, for the great cause of our rebel army, I will never hurt you, you have to trust me!"

"General Chuang, perhaps, King Chuang and the others are telling the truth." Zhang Xianzhong, who is notoriously capricious, was finally tempted, and tremblingly said to Li Zicheng: "Hong Chengchou will not come to save us, we will die if we are beaten or not, why not take a gamble King Chuang and the others keep what they say."

"Then..." Li Zicheng hesitated for a while, finally nodded, and said softly, "Then bet."

"Gambling." Zhang Xianzhong also nodded, and was about to walk out of the earthen wall with Li Zicheng to answer, but thunderous horseshoes and fierce shouts came from the east. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong subconsciously stopped, and when they turned their heads to look, they saw Dong Dust billowed on the face, a group of Ming army cavalry came to cover up and kill them. A large flag in the formation had the word "Wu" written on it, but it was the handsome flag of Wu Zimian, the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi Zhulu.Seeing the big banner, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were so excited that they almost suspected that they had seen the wrong eyes, while Fan Wencheng screamed, "Wu Zimian? How is it possible? How could that dog officer come to reinforce?"

"Kill!" A new cry of killing came, and He Huchen's army, who had been silent all night on the north bank of the Weishui River, finally moved out, crossing the river from north to south to kill.Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong shouted excitedly, "Master Zhang didn't give up on us, and Marshal Wu didn't give up on us, they still believe in us! Brothers, kill! Kill and join Marshal Wu!"

"Kill!" The reinforcements finally arrived. The morale of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's army was boosted. They completely forgot about fatigue and hunger. They followed behind Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong and rushed to the east. When the success failed, the morale was drained, and they all fled under the pincer attack of the Ming army. Although the furious Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai tried their best to urge the army to block the attack, their morale had already collapsed. The footsteps of meeting teachers.On the east side, Wu Zimian, who had been suppressed by Sun Chengzong and Hong Chengchou all the time, and who was once in high spirits, went into battle in person, led the army to charge, and kept shouting, "Brothers, follow me! Save our brothers——!"

Contrary to the Ming troops such as Wu Zimian, He Huchen, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong who were struggling to kill, at the same time, on the north bank of the Weishui River, Hong Chengchou, who was still standing still, had turned his face into a livid color. Wu Zimian sent He Huchen one after another The four military orders were also torn into pieces by Hong Chengchou - last night, Wu Zimian, who received the urgent report, kept in mind Master Zhang's instructions, and sent four military orders to He Huchen in just one hour, ordering He Huchen to rescue the victim at all costs. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's army surrounded by thieves, although Hong Chengchou stopped the first three, but in the fourth military order, Wu Zimian threatened He Huchen that if he did not send troops to rescue, he would march and rule by law He Huchen's crime of delaying the military aircraft!What's even more outrageous is that almost at the same time when the fourth military order was delivered, the cavalry of the Ming army led by Wu Zimian had arrived on the battlefield and launched a surprise attack on the rebel army that surrounded Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. The restrained He Huchen had no choice but to lead an army of [-] in a surprise attack.

"Marshal Wu's military order—!" What made Hong Chengchou even more angry was still behind. At this moment, Wu Zimian's fifth messenger rushed to Hong Chengchou's army position, showed Wu Zimian's warrant to Hong Chengchou's right-hand man Du Wenhuan and Ma Ke, and shouted Said: "General Du, General Ma, and the Minister of the Ministry have issued a constitutional order, ordering Marshal Wu Zimian to command all branches of the Shaanxi-Gansu Army, and to command all troops to wipe out the rebels! Officials at all levels, without orders from the Minister of the Ministry, cannot Interfering with Marshal Wu's dispatch command! Now Marshal Wu orders you two to lead the troops of the headquarters to attack, and to meet General Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong to break through the siege, there must be no mistakes!"

"This..." Both Du Wenhuan and Ma Ke were dumbfounded, and subconsciously turned to look at Hong Chengchou who was emptied by the constitutional order of Young Master Zhang.Hong Chengchou understood what they were thinking, and wanted to have an attack but couldn't find an excuse or a reason for the attack, so he could only say helplessly: "You are under the control of Wu Zimian. Since he has a military order, what should you do? Just do what you want. .”

(End of this chapter)