Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 417 Black Banner Army

Outside the Chaotian Pass.

Several black flags fluttered, and the leader of the black flags faced Guan Guan, claiming to be the chief soldier of the Black Flag Battalion.

"General, can we really do this?" A one-armed, white-haired old man stared nervously at Guan Cheng and asked. The firecrackers looked extremely tough.

But facing this grand pass, he was very nervous.

The man with a small black flag on his cotton armor helmet was none other than Zhang Dapeng, the battalion officer of the Imperial Battalion in Sichuan and Shanxi. His trip from Chongqing to Hanzhong was not smooth. The itinerary was seriously off course.

He dragged Zhang Xian, Zhou Xiucai and a group of refugees from central Sichuan to forcefully form a team, and then there were many accidents when he went north.They encountered several gangs of yellow thieves one after another, but Zhang Dapeng still took the initiative to attack and annihilate them, saving many people.

There are examples such as Zhang Xian and Zhou Xiucai. Those people who were rescued wanted to go with Zhang Dapeng. At the beginning, Zhang Dapeng just accepted it passively. Later, because of the large number of people, he could no longer sneak and smuggle, so he began to fight all the way. Many residents along the way And pedestrians, are rushing to join.

So in the end, Zhang Dapeng simply raised a black flag, calling himself the Daxi Black Flag Battalion to the outside world, and selected some young and brave people to form a team, and the other old and weak were accompanied by the old battalion.

Walking and fighting all the way like this, the team has grown like a snowball, although most of his black flag battalion are hungry people fleeing, or some disabled people with missing arms and eyes that were killed by the yellow bandits and the Great Western Army. But such a group of mobs, under the leadership of Zhang Dapeng, also set up camps and set rules.

Every time he encounters a yellow bandit, he takes the lead in the charge. After the battle, all the captures will be rewarded according to the established rules, and he will never hurt innocent people and rob people, let alone women. Come.

This won everyone's trust for him. Zhang Xian, Zhou Xiucai, etc. also became the backbone of the Black Flag Camp. Along the way, under the leadership of the local people along the way, they kept attacking those yellow thieves and some bandits, not to mention Well, a group of mobs organized by the imperial camp officers using the imperial camp rules, unexpectedly killed group after group of brutal bandits.

They cut bamboo into guns, felled wood into sticks, and made shields out of wood. They took the lead with armed young men such as bows, arrows, and blunderbusses. Every time they attacked bandits, they used three-axed axes. In a surprise attack, Zhang Dapeng took the lead in charging. And Yang Wei and their soldiers divided into two teams to attack.

Basically, what they fought were small groups of thieves, even some people who were so hungry that they could eat people, so there were no dangers along the way.

Up to now, Zhang Dapeng and the others have come all the way to Chaotian Pass, and after passing the pass, they left Sichuan and entered Hanzhong.

This is the last level.

At this time, there were more than 800 people in his Black Flag Battalion, among which Zhang Dapeng's death squad had about [-] people, and the rest had more than [-] warriors.

Chaotian Pass is too dangerous, especially the Xiying general Liu Jinzhong is stationed here, it is impossible to go around and turn it over, and it is even more impossible to fight, so we can only find a way to cheat to pass the pass.

"Liu Jinzhong is not a young thief, so it's not easy to lie to him?" Zhang Xian said worriedly.

Zhang Dapeng looked at Guancheng.

Chaotianguan is located on the Jialing River in the west, and a dangerous mountain in the north. The Guancheng is located on the Chaotianling of the ancient Shu post road.

The end is that one man is in charge of the gate, and ten thousand men are not allowed to open it.

Zhou Xiucai was looking at Guancheng at this time, and he was still interested in reciting poems.

"Thousands of households are sad and wild smoke, when will all the bureaucrats go to the sky again! When the government is in place and the people are blocked, the clothes in the sky are fluttering! The spring scenery of the forbidden city leads to the sky, and the Kuilong is approaching the Dharma feast."

Dapeng praised, "Zhou Xiucai is a good poem!"

Zhou Xiucai laughed, "Although I have been studying for half my life, I have only studied stereotypes. How can I write such good poems? In fact, these are all written by predecessors. What I just said are the sentences in the three poems. The two sentences were written by Wang Wei, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, the middle two sentences were written by Zhang Xiaoxiang in the Song Dynasty, and the last two sentences were written by me towards Li Panlong."

Zhang Dapeng was an orphan before, so he did not read books, but he started to learn a little in the imperial camp, but he was only able to write his own name, and he could recognize less than a hundred characters.

"It seems that this Chaotianguan is very famous, and the poets of the Tang Dynasty began to write it."

Zhou Xiucai said, "Chaotianguan is the north gate of Sichuan."

"Isn't the North Gate the Jiange?"

"Chaotianguan is the north gate of Jiange. In the tenth year of Chongzhen, the trespasser Li Zicheng led his army to enter Shu through Qipanguan and Chaotianguan. Later, Hong Chengchou led Cao Bianjiao and others to Li Ningqiang from Mian County. Shu."

"Old Zhou, you are from Baoning. I heard that Liu Jinzhong is also from Baoning. What do you think of this person?"

"It's hard to say, in this troubled world, the generals are domineering, and it's even more difficult to say."

"My lord, do we have to go through the Chaotian Pass?"

Zhang Dapeng was a little helpless, "If there were only a few of us, of course there is no need to go through the Chaotian Pass. We can always sneak across any beasts and firewood roads, but now we have more than 2000 people, and we are attacking yellow thieves all the way. Now that the Thirteen Thirteen Thieves have already caught up, do you think we have any other way besides going forward?"

"But Liu Jinzhong may not be credible."

"There is no other way, just meet him for a while."

Zhang Xian objected, "Your Excellency has a heavy responsibility to rush to Hanzhong. Too much time has already been spent on the way. It is better for you and Yang Xiaowei to go to Hanzhong first, and Zhou Xiucai and I will go to see Liu Jinzhong. If we can't get out, everyone should disperse and hide in the mountains."

This is a more sensible suggestion.

But Zhang Dapeng has been getting along with everyone day and night these days, and he already has feelings for him.

Some of these people were rescued by him, some joined halfway, and they were all devastated by war and famine. Even his death squad of more than 300 people, the most fierce guy who rushed to beat the thieves, was mostly Disabled, they were maimed by thieves and yellow thieves, missing arms and noses, many of them became alone in troubled times, their families were destroyed.

They just wanted to escape, trying to find a way to escape from this hell. Although they had a deep hatred against the yellow thieves and western thieves, their cruelty made them suppressed by fear.

But Zhang Dapeng, the man from eastern Zhejiang, aroused the anger in their hearts, and they released the bravery in their hearts, and they began to strive to avenge those thieves.

They became not afraid of death, and even regarded death as home.

In every battle, some disabled fighters will die, and some seriously injured will even kill themselves or ask someone to kill them. Everyone will send them off together, but no one is sad.

Zhang Dapeng has magical powers, turning them from evasive cowards into brave fighters.

Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. Zhang Dapeng told them that this is what a famous person in the south of the Yangtze River said. Now he is also holding high the banner of resisting the Qing Dynasty, and he is a trusted minister of the saint.

The example of the unyielding resistance against the Qing Dynasty in eastern Zhejiang made those disabled cowards stand out.

Kill one is enough, kill two to earn one.

Even if they died without killing, they fought back.

Zhang Dapeng gave generous rewards to the Death Squad, and he promised to honor these military achievements in the future and recommend them for official positions, but the Death Squadrons didn't really care.

They live every day as if it is their last day, and they just want to live this last day well.

Money is not money, fame is not fame, but it has been temporarily thrown aside.

Zhang Dapeng set up his own Black Banner Army and called himself the Chief Soldier. He temporarily granted official positions to those who followed him, such as Zhang Xian, the leader of the death squad, this white-haired one-armed old man, is now the most free and easy death squad member, despite his age. , but there is an aura of desperate Saburo.

He is not tall, and he is very thin, but every time he fights, he can burst into endless fierceness. He was knocked out of the knife during a battle, and even threw himself directly on the man-eating yellow thief, using his mouth He bit off the man's throat, gulped several mouthfuls of the enemy's blood, and even bit off a piece of raw meat to chew.

He roared and laughed wildly on the battlefield, shocking those yellow thieves who usually eat people to satisfy their hunger, and retreated from approaching.

Zhang Dapeng appointed Zhang Xian as the battalion officer of the Death Battalion of the Black Banner Army, and Zhou Xiucai, an old scholar, was appointed as the supervisor of the Black Banner Army.

Yang Wei is the deputy commander, Liu Chengzu is the battalion officer of the Black Spear Battalion, Ma Liang is the deputy battalion, and the commanders of the sentinels at all levels are also those desperate Saburo-style ruthless people.

Along the way, the Black Flag Battalion formed by these refugees was able to block and kill gods and Buddhas all the way to Chaotianguan.

They killed dozens of groups of yellow thieves with thousands of people.

This is something that seems impossible, but they did it under their madness.

Now that he can't advance or retreat, Zhang Dapeng plans to go crazy again, and he will personally enter Chaotianguan to meet Liu Jinzhong.If you can cheat, you can cheat the switch, if you can't cheat, you can reveal your identity.

Didn't have to wait too long to get off.

Liu Jinzhong from the pass sent people out of the pass to meet him.

However, Liu Jinzhong only asked the commander-in-chief of the Black Flag Battalion to bring ten servants in.

Zhang Xian told Zhang Dapeng not to enter with winks, Zhang Dapeng smiled and ordered ten death squads to enter.

"You are the commander-in-chief of the Black Flag Battalion, dare to ask Gao's name?"

The tall and burly Liu Jinzhong had a big beard, and when he saw Zhang Dapeng, who was also tall, he looked at him with some scrutiny.

"Miangui's surname is Zhang, Zhang Dapeng."

Liu Jinzhong looked at Zhang Dapeng, and then at the ten special servants behind him, each wearing a mask. "Why do these servants of General Zhang wear masks?"

"Afraid to scare people."

"Oh, this general also rolled over among the dead, why don't you uncover it and have a look?"

Zhang Dapeng nodded to the Death Squad, and then everyone took off the masks on their faces, revealing the hideous and mutilated faces below. Liu Jinzhong was stunned for a moment. Ten of them had no noses. There were two holes left in the noses, which was scary. Some faces There are big scars on the face, and even one guy has no lips, showing white teeth.

"This?"

"They are all real fighters. They broke through the gate of hell and came back. Each of them has at least a dozen heads under their hands!"

Liu Jinzhong nodded.

He looked at Zhang Dapeng and then at these ferocious servants, "Let's call you Zongbing Zhang. Is Zongbing Zhang trying to trick Chaotianguan into Hanzhong, or is he looking for an opportunity to seize my pass? Where is Liu Jinzhong's head?"

"What does the governor mean?"

"Let's open the skylight and tell the truth. As soon as the emissary of the old Long live's declaration left, you came back, holding a black flag and calling yourself the Black Flag Camp, but I won't believe it.

If my predictions are correct, you should be the group who attacked the yellow thieves in Baoning Mansion recently. You don’t have to deny it. I, Liu Jinzhong, am a local, and most of my Xiaoqiying brothers are from northern Sichuan. Recently, a group of powerful people who specialize in suppressing yellow thieves suddenly appeared here, how could I not have any news? "

"Let me take a guess. You are definitely not the Daxi Army, nor are you in the camp, nor are you some people rising from the people, or bandits who eat black people. Judging from some news I have received, this The Zhi people are not like the people in Sichuan.

I used to wonder where this god came from, but now that I saw Zhang Zongbing, I suddenly realized that I heard that a group of imperial forest pro-army officers from Zhejiang Datianzi came to Chongqing and formed a Sichuan-Shaanxi camp. You should Is it from Zhejiang?
It should be true, although you try your best to conceal your accent, I can still hear some accents of Zhejiang Yue dialect.

It’s just that I still don’t understand how you came to Boryeong, and it’s still in this form. What I’m even more curious about is why you can pull such a small group of people in this mountain. With such a team, and in such a short period of time, they beat the yellow thieves into the water?
Can you tell me your real identity and purpose? "

Zhang Dapeng didn't want to be told the whole story as soon as he entered the city.

The ten daredevils put their hands on the handle of the knife directly, and their whole bodies collapsed, ready to fight at any time.

Zhang Dapeng was silent for a while.

He held out his hand to let the daredevil relax.

The other party has already discovered their identities, so there is no hurry.

"My name is indeed Zhang Dapeng!"

"Chongqing Chuanshan Imperial Battalion?"

Zhang Dapeng nodded.

Liu Jinzhong was secretly startled, he just cheated just now, but he did not expect to be right.

"General Zhang, is he coming to seize my Chaotian Pass, or is he coming to annihilate my Xiaoqi battalion?"

"Neither of them." Zhang Dapeng also opened his mouth and said, "I have been in Sichuan, and I have seen and heard everything that makes me horrified and angry. I was able to kill them all at once. I saw the Seven Kills Monument dedicated to thieves in Baoning, but I also saw Liu Dudu's six prohibitions.

Compared with the thieves, Liu Dudu is a rare good man in this world of thieves. "

"What kind of a good person am I? These days, anyone with a knife should be killed, and no one is innocent." Liu Jinzhong laughed at himself.

"To be honest, I was ordered to deliver a letter to Hanzhong. There were some accidents on the way, which delayed me a lot of time. Now there are many people around me, so I had no other choice but to borrow the way from Dudu Liu."

"Borrow the way?" Liu Jinzhong was a little surprised.

"Um,"

The two were silent for a while.

After a long time, Liu Jinzhong told Zhang Dapeng, "If you are going to Hanzhong to deliver a letter to Ma Ke, I advise you not to go."

"why?"

"Although Ma Ke was originally a famous general, he has already surrendered."

"Why did the governor lie to me?"

"What did I lie to you? I just came back from the defeat of the Hanzhong army. Do you know why I was defeated? It is one thing to underestimate the enemy, but more importantly, there are Jianzhou Tartars in the Hanzhong Make army. There are also [-] cavalry. I was lured by Ma Ke, so I would not have been defeated, but at a critical moment, [-] Tartar cavalry suddenly rushed out from behind and broke through the rear of our army. back."

Zhang Dapeng was in a daze, as if he still didn't dare to accept this result.

"Although I don't know how Ma Ke secretly colluded with the Tartars, this is already a fact. I advise General Zhang not to leave Chaotianguan, otherwise, although your Black Flag Battalion is very good at shaking the yellow thieves, you will not be able to deal with it." For those Tartars, it is estimated that there are not enough to give away."

Zhang Dapeng was completely confused, and was speechless for a moment.

After a long time, he raised his head, "Why did Dudu Liu tell me this?"

Liu Jinzhong took out a silver seal, "I have already belonged to Daming. This is the silver seal of the admiral given to me by Master Wendu. We are actually our own people."

(End of this chapter)