In the hinterland of the Central Plains, at the southern foot of Mang Mountain at the junction of Henan Prefecture and Huaiqing Prefecture, there is a Wubi Fort built on the mountain. Such Wubi Forts can be seen everywhere in today's northern mountainous areas.

The owners of these forts are often local powerful clans who originally dominated the countryside and were rich. After troubled times, in order to protect their families and clans, they would usually go up to the mountains as a group and build a stronghold in a nearby dangerous place as a family.

A place of refuge for the clan.

If the state capital where they are located is ruled by a regime that can protect their interests to a certain extent, they will often choose to cooperate and leave the castle in the mountains. For example, the powerful people on the ground in Qingzhou, Dengzhou, and Laizhou in Shandong will all choose

Cooperating with Emperor Hongxing's regime. Although Emperor Zhu wanted to share the land with farmers in Shandong, his regime did not touch the bottom line of these powerful people, which was the land, and Zhu Cixi's army also showed that it could protect their interests.

ability.

But here in Henan Prefecture, because of Dorgon's policy of granting farmland based on oral instructions, many powerful landowners had no choice but to continue to resist, entrenched in various mountain dangers, holding high the sign of resisting the Qing Dynasty.

The owner of this dock at the southern foot of Mang Mountain is named Wu. He is said to be somewhat related to Wu Zetian. He has a long-expired Ming Dynasty imperial title and is known as Zhang Xiaolian. He was originally a large landowner in Yanshi County at the foot of Mang Mountain.

, when Li Zicheng conquered Luoyang and killed the old King Fu, Wu Xiaolian realized that chaos was inevitable. So he dispersed some of his wealth, went to Mang Mountain with his tribe, built a Wujia fort, and hoarded 100,000 stones, rice, and noodles, hoping to

In the mountains, you can escape the troubled times and preserve your family.

However, I didn’t expect that Donglu, who defeated Li Zicheng, a rogue bandit, and took control of Zhongzhou, somehow took the wrong medicine, and started doing the same thing that Li Zicheng didn’t do, and evened the land. This equalization of land caused the Mangshan martial arts family to suffer.

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The tens of thousands of acres of land accumulated by his family for generations were all equalized, and the farmers who had paid rent to his family for generations had become landowners and no longer paid attention to the Wu family. Wu Xiaolian was unwilling to accept it, so he led his soldiers down the mountain to grab grain.

As a result, he was beaten by the Qing army stationed in Luoyang and became a bandit. He threw away his armor and fled back to Mang Mountain. Then he gritted his teeth and stamped his feet and sent someone to proclaim himself a minister to the third prince of Luliang Mountain. He got the official position of Yanshi County Magistrate and began to work in Mang Mountain.

The great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty and protecting the Ming Dynasty was launched in the mountains.

But in the 20th year of Chongzhen, something unexpected happened again. Nanming, who was getting better and better in the southeast, did not come to Henan, and the third prince of the Loan King in Luliang Mountain did not come, but he had disappeared long ago.

Zhang Xianzhong, who was in everyone's sight, appeared out of nowhere and occupied Luoyang with overwhelming force.

This is the situation when Li Shimin defeated Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong when the two capitals of the East and West were in hand. Wasn't it also the same situation?

Wu Xiaolian believed very much in conquering the Central Plains and conquering the world, so he went to Luoyang to join Zhang Xianzhong and became the Yanshi County Magistrate of Emperor Daxi.

However, within a few days of his sitting in the Yamen Hall of Yanshi County, Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son Zhang Kewang was defeated in Gong County. Then Yanshi also refused to defend, so Wu Xiaolian had to reluctantly leave the county and go to Mang Mountain.

Just when he was about to resign from the official position in the Western Dynasty and go back to take advantage of the Third Prince Zhu, the Donglu fought again in Shandong with the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong, who had originally planned to abandon Luoyang and flee back to Guanzhong, became more motivated and prepared to fight a life-and-death battle with the Qing army in Yanshi. According to the news Wu Xiaolian received, Zhang Xianzhong, a lunatic, even killed dozens of concubines in a row to show his loyalty.

Breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat, there is death but no life

After killing the concubine, Zhang Xianzhong mobilized the army like crazy. Not only did he mobilize more than 80,000 Daxi elite soldiers, he also issued orders to recruit troops and food to the county magistrates such as Wu Xiaolian. He also requisitioned the Wu family fort as Daxi

Zhang Xianzhong, the emperor's garrison, planned to command the decisive battle with the Qing army at Wujiabao in Mangshan.

According to Zhang Xianzhong's plan, he would personally lead his elite troops to lurk on Mang Mountain, and then Zhang Kewang, Zhang Dingguo and others would surround the Yan division, attract reinforcements from the Qing army, and finally encircle the point for reinforcements, annihilating the Qing reinforcements in one fell swoop.

But what happened next was beyond Zhang Xianzhong's expectation. Zhang Kewang, Zhang Dingguo and others besieged Yanshi for many days, but the Qing army ignored them. Zhang Xianzhong ordered them to attack by force, but the small Yanshi city seemed indestructible.

Can't beat it down.

Just when Zhang Xianzhong felt upset and depressed, reinforcements from the Qing army arrived again. Now Lao Wansui felt better about himself and immediately led his troops to attack, hoping to give the Qing army a disincentive.

Who knew that Nikan, who was in charge of the war in Luoyang, had already joined forces with Mandahai, who had broken into Suining before? After Li Yan went south, Mandahai retreated all the way to the west and withdrew from Nanming's territory. They met in Henan and were captured by Dole again.

Gun was sent to Nikan's command. In this way, Nikan had an army of 20,000 and 9 banners, so the number of Qing troops who reinforced Yanshi exceeded 15,000, as well as 12 3-pound cannons.

Even without telling you the result, it was a disastrous defeat! Even Zhang Xianzhong himself was scratched by an iron bullet fired by the Qing army's 3-pound cannon during the battle. One arm was shattered and fractured, and he fell off his horse.

By the time he was robbed by his men and taken to Wujiabao, he was no longer able to survive.

Wu Xiaolian, who was familiar with the terrain, had no choice but to venture down the mountain to find the four adopted sons Zhang Kewang, Zhang Dingguo, Zhang Wenxiu and Zhang Nengqi.

It was dark at this time, and the worried Wu Xiaolian was walking on the mountain road of Mang Mountain with the four princes of Daxi who were even more worried.

The group of people just walked forward in silence, going straight to Wujiabao. No one said a word along the way.

Long live Zhang Xianzhong was already dying. The doctor who accompanied the army made a ginseng soup using thousand-year-old wild ginseng and barely managed to survive until Zhang Kewang, Zhang Dingguo, Zhang Wenxiu and Zhang Nengqi arrived.

In a dimly lit room with simple furnishings, Zhang Xianzhong, whose face was gloomy and his eyes had lost their sparkle, struggled to explain the funeral arrangements.

"Damn it, it seems that I can't pass this level! But it doesn't matter, I even became the emperor, and did it twice, it's so worth it! But I didn't expect the dog

The Tatars are so powerful, it seems that we have lost our minds when we left Sichuan and went north. Now that I am dead, you four little bastards can take care of the little family property left behind."

Zhang Xianzhong slowly said his last words, his tone full of sadness. The adopted sons all had tears in their eyes and looked at the emperor with complicated expressions. By the time Zhang Xianzhong finished speaking slowly, Zhang Dingguo had already started crying.

"Old Long Live, please stop talking and rest well. You will definitely get better. Once you are well, we will keep you to conquer the world!"

"Alas," Zhang Xianzhong waved his hand, "What's the point of resting now? Just go down and see Li Zicheng. I'll tell you four first. You four can't let me pretend to be alive. If you're a man, you'll die."

If you are dead, why are you pretending to be alive? He appears to be greedy for life and afraid of death, and is not a good man."

Zhang Kewang wiped away tears: "Long live Ada, we can't live without Ada!"

Zhang Xianzhong's breathing suddenly became rapid, his face turned blue, and he looked like he was about to die.

"Fuck you," Zhang Xianzhong cursed again and took a deep breath, "Let me tell you two more things. First, Daxi's team cannot be divided. If you four little bastards want to survive, you can't separate and work alone.

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Second, you cannot surrender to the Tatars. I was beaten to death by the Tatars! The Tatars are the father-killing enemies of the four of you, so we must live together until we die together!"

"The children must avenge this!"

The four adopted sons said in unison.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong was already breathing more out than in, and his voice was inaudible, "If the Ming Dynasty is not good, the Ming Dynasty will not be good either. They are all treacherous ministers and ignorant kings, not a thing! I don't have the same surname as Zhu."
Chapter completed!