Knowing that Zhang Xianzhong rebelled, Prime Minister Xiong Wencan felt that a catastrophe was coming, and hurriedly ordered Zuo Liangyu to lead the troops to suppress, but Zuo Liangyu thought that this area was full of mountains, the road was dangerous and easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it was not easy to transport grain.

But Xiong Wencan knew that he could not explain to the imperial court, and only by pinning his hopes on winning by luck could he redeem his merits, and insisted that Zuo Liangyu immediately enter the army.

Xiong Wencan's side was in a hurry to suppress Zhang Xianzhong, who knew that Zhang Xianzhong's side was also eyeing his Xiangyang City, in order to confuse the officials and troops, so as to achieve the goal of attacking Xiangyang by surprise, Zhang Xianzhong released rumors everywhere, threatening that the righteous army would go to Xing'an and Hanzhong, and approach Sichuan and Shaanxi.

Xiong Wencan did not know that this was Zhang Xianzhong's plan to attack the east and west, and urgently ordered the governor of Huguang, Yunyang, Shaanxi, and Sichuan to command their own troops to defend their borders, and ordered Zheng Chongjian, the governor of Shaanxi, to send troops to encircle and suppress the rebels.

When Zheng Chongjian led his troops to Xing'an, he did not see a single soldier of the righteous army within a radius of 100 miles.

On July 15, under Xiong Wencan's repeated urging, Zuo Liangyu led 12,000 men and horses to set off from Xiangyang and marched to Fang County in the scorching heat. As a result, after only two days, the army ran out of food, and the soldiers were hungry, so they had to pick wild fruits in the mountains along the way for food, and some people secretly slaughtered military horses to satisfy hunger, and for a time the army was full of complaints, and morale was extremely low, and Zuo Liangyu was also powerless about it, so he could only turn a blind eye and pretend not to see it.

After learning that Zuo Liangyu had brought troops to come, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai decided to abandon Fang County and retreat west to the mountains.

Five days after the righteous army left, Zuo Liangyu's army was late, and after the official army rested and replenished in Fang County for a day, Zuo Liangyu and his deputy general Luo Dai continued to pursue, all the way to Luo Monkey Mountain, eighty miles west of Fang County.

In front of him is a rolling mountain, the trees are extremely dense, Zuo Liangyu rode the "Jade Flower Horse", followed in the middle of the team, constantly looking up to observe the mountain terrain on both sides, and suddenly only heard Zuo Liangyu shouting: "Pass my order, the whole army stops advancing!" ”

The herald received the order, and while galloping towards the front team, he shouted: "Zuo Shuai has an order, the whole army stops advancing!" Stop moving forward! ”

The whole team soon stopped, and the deputy general Luo Dai didn't know why, Pegasus came to Zuo Liangyu from the front of the team and asked, "Zuo Shuai, why don't you leave?" ”

Zuo Liangyu held the horsewhip in his hand, pointed to the narrow mountain path in the distance, and said worriedly: "General Luo, look, further ahead is Luo Monkey Mountain, where the forest is luxuriant, the mountain road is rugged and difficult to walk. ”

After hearing this, Luo Dai disagreed: "That Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai saw Zuo Shuai like a mouse seeing a cat, and when they heard that Zuo Shuai's soldiers were coming, they were already frightened and fled!" How can there be any ambushes? If you are not at ease, the last general is willing to take 2,000 men and horses as the vanguard, and Zuo Shuai will lead the army to sit behind, which can ensure that nothing goes wrong. ”

Zuo Liangyu thought for a moment, nodded and agreed: "That's fine, the general remember to be cautious, don't be greedy for merit, and be careless about the enemy!" ”

Luo Dai received the order and immediately ordered 2,000 elite soldiers to continue along the mountain path, while Zuo Liangyu led the main army to stand by in the mountain pass.

After walking for about two or three miles, he suddenly heard a whistle, and a group of men and horses suddenly came out of the woods, and the leader was Bai Wenxuan, Luo Dai couldn't help laughing when he saw this: "It turns out that this is the so-called ambush of Liukou?" Zuo Shuai is too cautious! ”

After laughing, Luo Dai immediately led troops to confront him, and after only a few rounds, Bai Wenxuan was defeated and fled.

Drove away Bai Wenxuan, Luo Dai continued to lead his troops forward, but he just turned a hillside, and met Zhang Nengqi head-on, the two sides only fought for less than ten rounds, and Zhang Nengqi's team was also killed.

"It's a rabble! Why be afraid? Luo Dai won two battles in a row, and couldn't help but be a little complacent, and urged the soldiers to move forward quickly and chase the fleeing Xiying rebels.

Chased all the way to the village of Boji, it was nearly noon, the scorching sun was scorching, and the heat was unbearable. Seeing that the Xiying rebels had run away, Luo Dai ordered the whole army to bury the pot and cook and rest in place for a while.

As soon as they heard of the rest, the officers and soldiers were all relieved, hurriedly threw their weapons on the ground, and hid in the shade of the trees on the side to take advantage of the shade, and some even took off their clothes and armor, and lay on their backs on the ground bare-chested, panting heavily.

Luo Dai saw that all the officers and soldiers lost their armor one by one and collapsed to the ground, like defeated soldiers, he couldn't help but be furious, raised his horsewhip and hit the person lying on the ground.

Just when he was helpless, he heard the sound of horses' hooves from far and near, Luo Dai turned his head to look, but saw Zhang Dingguo alone, with a gun and a horse, rushing towards him, and shouted in his mouth: "Luo Dai child, get off the horse quickly and die!" ”

When Luo Dai heard this, his heart couldn't help but be on fire, and he also waved his knife to meet him, and the two of them fought for more than a dozen rounds, and Dingguo suddenly shook a shot, turned around and walked up the mountain. Luo Dai rose up to kill, and when he saw that Dingguo was about to run, he didn't think about it, left the soldiers behind him, and chased him up the hillside.

Unexpectedly, this mountain path is densely covered with vines, and Dingguo has already taken the "Erdoujin" to familiarize himself with the terrain, and it is natural to walk on the ground. But it was bitter for Luo Dai, and if he was not careful, the horse's legs were entangled by the vine rose, and Rao was so good at riding that he even fell heavily on the ground with a man and a horse.

Seeing Luo Dai fall to the ground, Dingguo immediately turned his horse's head and laughed at him: "General Luo, you don't have to make this big gift, hurry up and get even!" ”

Luo Dai was ashamed and angry, waved a knife to cut off the vine on the horse's leg, got on the horse and continued to chase, who knew that there were many forks in this mountain path, Luo Dai was dizzy, but he couldn't find any trace of Dingguo, and he couldn't even find the way back just now.

Further on, a dense vine covered the path up the mountain, and in desperation, Luo Dai had to abandon his horse and climb the mountain on foot.

After walking less than half a mile, there was a sudden ambush. Seeing that he was under siege, Luo Dai shouted and raised his knife to fight, but the Xiying rebels were numerous, and the roads were narrow and difficult to perform, so they were finally captured.

Besides, Zuo Liangyu, after learning the news that Luo Dai was ambushed by Liukou, he was afraid that he would be outnumbered, so he ordered the army to quickly send reinforcements. Who knew that when he walked to Boji Village, he saw the corpses of countless officers and soldiers lying everywhere, and Luo Dai's 2,000 elites had been wiped out.

Before Zuo Liangyu could react, he only heard a cannon sound in the mountain, and in an instant, wood and stones continued to roll down from the mountains on both sides, blocking the mountain path in front of him.

Zuo Liangyu was shocked, and secretly said that it was not good in his heart, and urgently ordered the whole army to retreat, but he knew that the mountain path behind was also blocked by the Xiying Yi Army with wood and stones, and the army was trapped in this narrow passage, with no way to advance or retreat.

Zhang Xianzhong stood on the top of the mountain, looked at the black head under the mountain, and shouted: "Zuo Liangyu! You're surrounded by me, why don't you get off your horse and be captured? ”

Zhang Xianzhong touched his long hair, thinking of the haunting Zuo Liangyu, who was afraid that he would be in a catastrophe today, and couldn't help laughing.

"My life is at stake!" In Zhang Xianzhong's laughter, Zuo Liangyu closed his eyes in despair.

As the horn of the attack sounded, the military advisor Xu Yixian raised the command flag high, waved it in the air a few times, and from the mountains and forests on both sides of the mountain road, countless soldiers of the Western Battalion with bows and crossbows immediately flashed.

Seeing that the soldiers of the Xiying camp were all in place, Xu Yixian glanced at Zhang Xianzhong, Zhang Xianzhong nodded slightly, Xu Yixian was about to press down the flag and issued a military order again!

With the issuance of the military order, for a while the arrows were like flying locusts, and the officers and soldiers suddenly fell into a desperate situation, Zuo Mengeng stubbornly commanded the soldiers to rush to the mountain several times, but they were all shot back by the random arrows of the Xiying Righteous Army.

People around them kept falling from arrows, and the panicked officers and soldiers were squeezed in this narrow mountain road, in order to avoid the flying arrows, they actually trampled on each other, as long as someone accidentally fell to the ground, they would be trampled into a pile of broken flesh and bones in an instant.

Zuo Mengeng led more than a dozen cavalrymen to hold their shields high, covering Zuo Liangyu, and stepped directly on the officers and soldiers who were congested in the middle of the road, and retreated all the way to the crossing that was blocked by wood and stone.

"Quick! If you want to live, get out of the way! Otherwise, everyone will die! Zuo Mengeng shouted loudly to the officers and soldiers who fled in panic, reorganized them, and moved the wood and stones blocking the road together.

"Look! Zuo Liangyu wants to run! Xu Yi was conspicuous and sharp, and he discovered the intention of the official army at a glance.

With a wave of Xu Yixian's banner to the right, all the archers turned their targets to the rear of the official army.

"General Dingguo, you take a thousand people to fortify the mountain pass, in case Zuo Liangyu breaks through, be sure to intercept and kill him!" Xu Yixian glanced at Zhang Dingguo, who had just returned to the top of the mountain and was panting, and issued a new combat order.

"No!" Dingguo agreed, and immediately ordered a thousand soldiers from the Western Battalion to urge the horses to go down the mountain.

Hurried all the way, and as soon as he reached the mountain pass, he saw Zuo Liangyu retreating here under the protection of hundreds of remnants of the defeated generals.

"Don't let Zuo Liangyu go! Brothers, kill with me! After that, Dingguo grabbed the horse's belly, held the plum blossom gun, and killed Zuo Liangyu.

Zuo Liangyu had just escaped here, and when he was in shock, he suddenly saw this Xiying rebel army rushing out of the slope, and he couldn't help but be shocked.

At this critical juncture, I saw that the general Zhang Ling immediately blocked behind Zuo Liangyu, and turned around from time to time and shouted: "Zuo Shuai, go quickly!" There's a doom in the way! ”

This collar move only attacked but did not defend, but it was a fight with his life, and for a time Dingguo and him were inseparable. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zuo Liangyu ran away from the road, and even lost his own talisman seal.

After killing Zhang Ling, he turned around and chased Zuo Liangyu, but where could he catch up. Seeing that the success fell short, Dingguo beat his chest and paused, and he was not annoyed in his heart.

Besides, Zuo Liangyu ran out in one breath for I don't know how many miles, and seeing that there were no chasing soldiers behind him, he stopped by "Yuhua Cong", and looked around, but he couldn't even find any of them.

After another long time, Zuo Mengeng took hundreds of remnants to find Zuo Liangyu. Seeing that his son was safe and sound, Zuo Liangyu couldn't help but burst into tears, so he gathered the rout and retreated towards Fang County.

In this battle, the Xiying Righteous Army can be said to have won a complete victory, annihilating more than 10,000 elite officers and soldiers in one fell swoop, and capturing countless ordnance, and finally fled back to Fang County with Zuo Liangyu, only less than 1,000 people.

Let's say that Luo Dai was tied up by Wuhua and pushed into Zhang Xianzhong's Chinese army tent, although he was tightly tied, but Luo Dai kept scolding in his mouth, just asking for a quick death.

Zhang Xianzhong stroked his long hair, looked at Luo Dai proudly, and asked with a smile: "General Luo, don't come to harm?" ”

Luo Dai just looked at each other coldly, but did not answer.

Zhang Xianzhong was not angry, and ordered the left and right to loosen the ties for Luo Dai, and then persuaded with a pleasant face: "General Luo is brave and fierce, my old Zhang has already learned something, and now that the number of Ming Qi has been exhausted, why don't the general abandon the secret and surrender to my Xiying?" He will be crowned a marquis and worship the prime minister one day, and achieve a lot of fame! ”

Luo Dai stood with his head held high and refuted: "Joke, I am a dignified court official, how can I be a thief?" It's a pity that I couldn't kill you under Nanyang City at the beginning! Since it has fallen into your hands today, if you want to kill it, you will listen to it, why do you want to act here? ”

"So, General Luo is bent on death?" Zhang Xianzhong put away his smile and said solemnly.

"Daming only has a decapitated general, not a surrendered general! Luo begged to die! Luo Dai raised his head and replied without hesitation.

Seeing Luo Dai's generous death, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help but sigh regretfully, and then waved his hand outside the tent: "In this case, my old Zhang will fulfill you!" Come on, push Luo Dai out and behead the public! ”

Immediately, two knife and axe men stepped into the tent, stepped forward and held Luo Dai left and right, who knew that Luo Dai suddenly shouted: "Slow! ”

"What? General Luo changed his mind? Zhang Xianzhong raised his head sharply and looked at him expectantly.

But he saw Luo Dai push away the knife and axe, straighten the clothes and armor on his body, and said angrily: "Lao Tzu will go by himself!" ”

After saying that, I saw him turn straight and walk resolutely towards the outside of the tent.