In late February of the 17th year of Chongzhen, several ships flying the flags of the Great Western Army stopped at a small village along the river not far from Jiangjin County, Chongqing Prefecture at noon.

Then, dozens of soldiers of the Western Army, dressed in silk and satin, jumped out of the ship in a swaggering manner.

The quiet village soon became full of excitement.

An old man who was sunbathing in the yard stared dumbly at the soldiers who kicked in the door and broke into his home. He said in panic: "Masters, I wonder where these heroes are? This young man is being polite."

As he said that, the old man knelt down in a hurry.

The leading Daxi Army soldier glanced at the old man contemptuously, and then looked at the barren yard and shouted loudly: "Grandpas are from the Daxi Army. They passed by here on military business. If there is anything delicious to eat, please bring it out and serve it."

"Are you from the Daxi Army?" The old man looked up at these glorious soldiers with doubts, and obviously didn't believe it.

"Be brave. Will you still be deceived by the fact that my grandpas are from the Daxi Army? Let me tell you, my grandpas are not only from the Daxi Army, but also from Xijing."

"Xijing! Where is Xijing?" The old man looked confused, but he breathed a sigh of relief and was no longer so panicked.

But the leading Daxi Army soldier suddenly rolled his eyes at this moment, and then he smiled inexplicably and said, "You don't know where Xijing is?"

The old man scratched his head and thought for a moment, but still shook his head in confusion.

It had not been long since Zhang Xianzhong became emperor, and Jiangjin is nearly a thousand miles away from Chengdu. It is difficult for ordinary people in the countryside to know that Zhang Xianzhong changed Chengdu to Xijing.

At this time, a timid old woman's voice came from the largest room in the courtyard: "The military men must be hungry. I will make some food for them. Although there is no wine or meat in the house, there is still some dried fish.

, it’s very delicious. I’ll cook it all for the military men and make sure they are well fed.”

Then, two women, one old and one young, leaned out of the house. However, they looked around in fear, obviously frightened by the increasingly fierce noises from the neighbors.

In the countryside, it was another year of war. The people who could not live a good life had to eat two meals a day. In addition, the boats in the village had been taken away early to prevent them from being used by the Ming army. No one was fishing anymore. There was usually nothing to do at noon.

It's just quiet and there's very little noise.

"Bah! There are only some dried fish." A soldier from the Western Army cursed in disappointment.

But another Daxi Army soldier glanced at the leader of the Daxi Army soldiers and then continued the previous topic and shouted: "I don't even know that Xijing is the capital of my Daxi Army. I think this family is either a rebel or a spy of the Ming Army."

"I think so." The leader of the Great Western Army soldier nodded with a slow smile, as if he had been waiting for this sentence, and his eyes were already looking straight at the young woman who was still at the door of the house.

"Yes, yes!" "You're right, don't try to hide from our eyes!" After reacting, other Daxi Army soldiers followed suit.

The old man was horrified, and he said again with a look of horror on his face: "We are not rebels, nor are we spies of the Ming army! The little old man's family has just returned from the disaster, and they didn't know about Xijing. I ask the military masters to forgive me."

"Yes! We really don't know about the military masters. There was a war in Jiangjin a few days ago, and we all ran to the mountains to hide. We have only been back for a few days. Please ask the military masters to investigate clearly." The young woman saw this.

Unfortunately, he hurriedly ran out and knelt down on the ground with a plop.

"Ouch! This woman is actually very pretty, and her skin is fair. We seem to have made a good choice when we chose this house." The leader of the Daxi Army soldier looked at the woman kneeling in front of him carefully with a surprised look on his face.

Then he suddenly reached out his hand and wanted to touch the woman's face.

But unfortunately, he didn't touch it.

The young woman actually boldly dodged backwards, and at the same time the old man's expression changed dramatically and he shouted, "Master, no!" and half-stretched her hand to pull him away.

The leader of the Daxi Army soldier suddenly became furious, kicked the old man down and shouted: "I'm tired of living! Since you came out of the mountains, it seems that you are rebelling. The evidence is conclusive, you should all be killed, if you want to

Want to survive..."

"ah…"

At this time, a scream suddenly came from somewhere outside, followed by several people suddenly and tragically howling. It was obvious that someone had been killed.

The Daxi Army soldier who had just finished speaking was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the soldiers behind him who were still watching the show and said: "Damn, they have already let go, so let's stop being coy. You go search the house first."

Let’s see who else is there.”

After seeing the soldiers shouting excitedly and rushing towards several rooms, the leader of the Daxi Army soldier took out his knife and put it directly on the neck of the frightened old man and said viciously:

"If you want to survive, you should donate all your money to us for the military resources, and then let this little woman serve the big men for fun. Otherwise, I will accuse you of rebels and chop them all into pieces and throw them into the river.

Feed the fish in the middle.”

"Please, military lord, please let us go! Please military lord, please let us go!" The old woman, who was paralyzed at the door of the room, began to cry loudly.

"Aren't you the Daxi Army? How can you frame me and other common people like this? Aren't you afraid of military law?" The young woman suddenly asked loudly.

The leader of the Daxi Army soldier was stunned for a moment. He felt a little inexplicable, but he immediately became impatient and said angrily: "Grandpas follow the military law. If they say you are rebels, you are rebels. Just accept your fate. If you talk nonsense anymore, I will be cut first.

This old man."

Just as he was talking, the cry of a child came from inside the house. Then a Western Army soldier came out carrying a four or five-year-old boy and shouted: "This is the only child in the room, there is no one else."

"Don't hurt my son!" the young woman shouted with her face pale.

The leading Daxi Army soldier suddenly became happy and said with a sinister smile: "As long as you are obedient, everything will be easy. If I hear another annoying croak, I will chop up that child."

As he spoke, he suddenly raised a knife and cut off one of the old man's arms.

Following the old man's scream, the young woman's eyes straightened on the spot, and she desperately covered her mouth to keep silent.

The old woman wailed even louder and rushed towards the old man like crazy. However, when she saw the leading Daxi Army soldier raising his knife again to cut, she and the old man immediately stopped their painful sounds simultaneously, only their faces were full of fear and fierceness.

Twitching the body.

The leading Daxi Army soldier burst out laughing, then grabbed the woman's hair and pulled her into the house.

Seeing the boss enter the house, the Daxi Army soldier who was still holding the crying child swallowed hard, then walked towards the old woman and raised his foot and said: "Go and cook quickly, I'm hungry, I just want to have a taste."

That dried fish of yours.”

But when the old woman finally got up and tremblingly prepared to walk to the woodshed, another Western Army soldier rushed out of the house and ran straight to the old woman, tore up her pants and said: "It's so greedy! I can't wait any longer.

, just let me make do with it first."

The Daxi Army soldier who was holding the child didn't react and was stunned, while the old man's eyes darkened and he fainted.

At this time, the entire small village was completely noisy, with all kinds of cries, shouts, shouts and laughter heard endlessly.

However, although the village is small, and the incident happened suddenly and completely unexpectedly, the villagers were not completely killed, and many of them fled in different directions.

The Onishi Army, which was raging in the village, did not pursue them, as if they were not worried about the matter being exposed.

Of course, not all Daxi troops are not worried.

In the largest household in the village, there was a sharp-voiced Daxi Jun who was sitting alone in a room, awkwardly looking at the lewd and bloody scenes outside and feeling worried.

The fish just placed in front of him didn't whet his appetite.

When he discovered that a Daxi soldier in another room had gotten off the woman and was rummaging through boxes and cabinets, he hurried out of the room and carefully stepped over the two headless corpses to catch up.

"Didn't you just go into the village to find some game to eat? Now we have gone too far. This place is too close to Jiangjin and we cannot continue like this, otherwise..."

"No eggs means no eggs!" The sharp voice's persuasion was interrupted impatiently. His face suddenly turned red to the roots of his ears, and at the same time he suddenly lost the mood to continue to persuade.

He was touched and his feet hurt.

The shrill voice is a eunuch!

But he didn't get angry, he just talked back.

Although the Daxi Army was just his guard leader, he was an old member of the Ming Dynasty palace.

Zhang Xianzhong had just become emperor, and it was too late to make ready-made eunuchs. He could only use people like them for the time being, and there was no telling what would happen in the future! So Squealer still had a clear understanding of his status.

Finally, when all the Daxi Army soldiers who had disembarked from the ship were full of wine and food, satiated their animalistic desires, and were about to board the ship and leave, suddenly a large group of soldiers and horses bearing the flag of the Daxi Army came galloping from the direction of Jiangjin and surrounded them aggressively.

However, the Onishi troops wearing silk and satin were not afraid at all, and they quickly asked the newly arrived Onishi troops in homespun uniforms, who were much more numerous than them, to put away their weapons and get out of the way without any temper.

They even had to escort them along the river.

And when they successfully arrived at Jiangjin City in the evening, a large number of people were already waiting at Jiangjin's pier to welcome them.

Perhaps inspired by the awe of the Jiangjin defenders, the sharp-voiced guard leader disembarked and walked a few steps before looking at the open city gate where people were still coming and going and pretending to say: "As soon as I approached Jiangjin, I realized that this was a long and long journey."

There are actually quite a lot of people outside the city along the river, and now the city gate can still be entered and exited. Aren't you afraid that Thief Li will come for a sneak attack? Aren't you afraid that the mob will take the opportunity to cause trouble? What a nonsense."

He felt that since their emperor went to the rear of Chongqing Fucheng where Jiangjin made a surprise attack when he attacked Chongqing, the place should have been heavily guarded and the nine gates should have been tightly closed.

After hearing the words of the guard leader, the shrill voice was startled. As a eunuch in the former King of Shu's palace, he was not new to the world. He looked a little uneasily at the armored general accompanying him.

He knew that this armored general was currently the second-largest leader in Jiangjin, and his military rank was much higher than that of his own guard leader.

However, although the armored general looked stunned for a moment and was obviously angry, after looking at the sharp voice who had always kept a low profile and seldom spoke, his expression quickly changed and he said politely:

"Brothers, you don't know something. There are nine gates in Jiangjin and eight city gates along the river. We only open the gate in the middle along the river. It is impossible for thieves to suddenly approach here through the long city along the river.

Moreover, there is a large army on standby behind this gate, which can ensure that the upper city gate is closed in case of trouble, so there is no need to worry about sneak attacks by thieves and mob rebellion.

Instead of closing all the city gates and allowing the people to continue to gather on the riverside and under the city, our King Dingdong said that with so many gates opened in a county and eight along the river, it seems that the surrounding people and merchants have great demand for this place.

, if there is no emergency, don’t interrupt everyone’s life easily.”

King Dingdong is Zhang Rujing.

Zhang Xianzhong became emperor, and his adopted sons were all crowned kings.

However, originally in history, Sun Kewang was the king of Pingdong, Liu Wenxiu was the king of Funan, Li Rujing was the king of Anxi, and Ai Nengqi was the king of Dingbei. Now not only is Ai Nengqi missing, but Li Rujing has also become the king of Dingdong.

The sharp voice was the eunuch sent by Zhang Xianzhong to convey the order to Zhang Rujing.

Since Zhang Xianzhong has just proclaimed the emperor, the Daxi Army at present still attaches great importance to the imperial edict, which is also very new. The Daxi Army in Jiangjin has only encountered the person who preached the imperial edict for the second time. The last time they learned about Zhang Xianzhong's proclaimed emperor and

Their eldest son was named King of Dingdong.
To be continued...