Meng Xianjie raised his mace high and smashed it towards Dingguo's head, Dingguo raised his gun to block, and the two blades collided together in an instant, Meng Xianjie only felt that his arms were sore, and the mace flew out of his hand. Meng Xianjie was horrified, he didn't care about picking up weapons, he fled in the wilderness, and before he ran three or five zhang away, he was caught up by Dingguo and picked off the horse with a shot.

Meng Zhongjie was a little late, and by the time he caught up, his brother had already died.

"Dog thief! Give my brother back! Meng Zhongjie roared angrily, brandished a big axe and slashed towards Dingguo.

Dingguo suddenly felt a chill coming, and hurriedly flashed sideways, but seeing that this person's brute strength was amazing, and he was eager for revenge, Dingguo immediately sold a flaw, dragged the plum blossom gun upside down to the ground, pulled the reins of "Erdoujin", turned around and left.

Seeing that the enemy was about to run, he was willing to give up, and chased after him with a big axe. Seeing that the enemy was in the middle of the plan, Dingguo suddenly leaned forward, looked back at the moon with a move, and the gun was like thunder, stabbing straight into the throat of Meng Zhongjie.

Caught off guard, he fell off his horse and died of anger.

Seeing Dingguo beheading four generals in a row like a god, the officers and soldiers of the left battalion instantly lost their morale and scattered and fled.

Fierce as a tiger, he endured the pain of losing his son, and led 600 Guyuan soldiers to fight hard, until the war horse fell to the ground, covered with bruises, and still refused to take half a step back. Seeing that there was nothing to do, his nephew Mengzhong hurriedly ordered his subordinates to stop him like a tiger, forcibly put him on a war horse, and broke out. However, Mengzhong himself was surrounded by the Xiying Volunteer Army on the way to the break, and finally broke the string and pulled out his sword to kill himself.

After this battle, the fierce tiger army flag and seal letter were all lost, and they were no longer able to fight with the rebels.

Besides, Zuo Liangyu, because of his deep hatred for Yang Sichang, so after receiving the urgent report that Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai wanted to go east out of Huguang, instead of going to Kuimen to intercept it, he gave way to a passage and drove the men and horses to Xing'an, Shaanxi.

Marching all the way between the valleys, watching the scenery along the way, Zhang Xianzhong was in a good mood, riding on a horse and creating a limerick poem on a whim, reciting by himself: "There is Governor Shao in front, who often comes to the regiment to dance, and then Liao joins the army, and follows me without a fight." It's a good Yang Pavilion Department, three days away from me. ”

Xu Yixian followed Zhang Xianzhong's side, and after hearing this, he couldn't help but clap his hands again and again: "Jing Shuai, you write this word well!" It is easy to understand and catchy, and it will be arranged into a song in the next section, and it will be sung by the soldiers in the camp every day! ”

Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "Old Xu, old Xu! I've been with you for a long time, but I've become crepe! But I said Lao Xu, your sycophant is too obvious, don't I know what level Lao Zhang has in my heart? ”

Xu Yixian hurriedly defended: "What Jing Shuai said is wrong, not to pat your ass!" It is precisely because the words written by Jing Shuai are easy to understand that they can be widely praised in the army, unlike such literati in Xia, who drank too much ink and wrote all the words, even if the soldiers wanted to sing, they couldn't learn it for a while! ”

"Haha, that's true!" was touted by Xu Yixian, Zhang Xianzhong stroked his long hair lightly, and couldn't help but look proud.

Xu Yixian just planned to compliment Zhang Xianzhong two more sentences, but saw the Chinese army Pegasus come to Zhang Xianzhong, jumped off the horse, and reported: "Jing Shuai, according to your order, all the generals have gathered in the mountain temple ahead!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong nodded: "Got it!" Give the order to go down, and the whole army will speed forward! Be sure to arrive in Wushan before tomorrow morning! ”

"No!" The Chinese army clenched his fists, then turned over and got on his horse and gave the order.

"Lao Xu! Now that everyone is here, let's hurry up! Zhang Xianzhong shouted, and without waiting for Xu Yixian to agree, he immediately grabbed the horse's belly and galloped away.

When Zhang Xianzhong and Xu Yixian walked into the mountain temple side by side, the generals of Xiying and Cao Ying had been waiting here for a long time, and when they saw Zhang Xianzhong coming in, Luo Rucai hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Brother, suddenly gather everyone to come, what's the matter?" ”

Zhang Xianzhong pretended to smile mysteriously at Luo Rucai, then walked quickly to the front of the offering table, waved his big hand, swept all the incense burners and sacrifices on the table to the ground, and then turned around and sat on the offering table, and said to everyone: "Brothers, my old Zhang has decided, let's send troops and attack Xiangyang!" ”

Before Zhang Xianzhong's words fell, Luo Rucai was already dumbfounded: "I said brother!" Here is more than 1,000 miles away from Xiangyang, not to mention the long distance, it is said that Xiangyang City is the root of Yang Sichang, the city is high and deep, the food is abundant, and there is Zuo Liangyu's army on the periphery, if you want to take Xiangyang, I am afraid it is not easy! ”

Zhang Kewang also echoed: "Father and marshal, think twice, our army has tens of thousands of tired soldiers to attack its fortified city, isn't it self-defeating?" ”

Led by the two generals, there was a lot of discussion, and most of them had worried expressions on their faces.

Zhang Xianzhong seemed to have expected such a result, and immediately turned his gaze to Xu Yixian, and greeted: "Old Xu, you come to tell everyone!" ”

Xu Yixian turned his head and bowed slightly to Zhang Xianzhong, and then said to the generals: "Everyone, imagine that our army is still besieging Chengdu in the middle of the month, presumably the military report has just arrived in Xiangyang at this moment, and the battle report of Kaixian County will not arrive until at least ten days later. If our army suddenly appears outside Xiangyang City at this time, the officers and soldiers will be caught off guard, this is one of them! In the battle of Onyx Mountain, the old camp of our army fell, and many of the families of the soldiers were captured by the officers and soldiers and imprisoned in Xiangyang Prison. ”

At this point, Zhang Xianzhong suddenly interjected: "There is a way to be a child and daughter, not only you, but also my old Zhang's own mother-in-law, but also his mother was imprisoned in Xiangyang Prison by Yang Sichang, if you don't take this opportunity to attack Xiangyang, when do you plan to get together with your wife and children again?" ”

Seeing that the generals in the tent looked solemn, Zhang Xianzhong motioned to Xu Yixian to continue.

Xu Yixian nodded, touched his mustache, and then said: "Yang Sichang is shrewd and capable, as long as he is in one day, he will be a great threat to my righteous army!" If we can break through Xiangyang and kill Zhu Yiming, the king of Xiang, then Yang Sichang's crime of trapping the vassal will be confirmed, and he is not far from death, this is the third! ”

After Xu Yixian finished speaking, Zhang Xianzhong added: "Breaking through Xiangyang, we can not only smash Yang Sichang's encirclement and suppression, but also seize the five provinces of the imperial court, silver, and ordnance, and rescue Lao Pan and our family!" This profitable business, everyone said, do you want to do it? ”

"! Dry! Dry! After listening to Xu Yixian's analysis, all the generals were excited, and they couldn't wait to rush to Xiangyang City immediately.

After unifying everyone's thoughts, Zhang Xianzhong immediately waved his army out of Kuimen, in order to avoid leaking the news, Zhang Xianzhong ordered all the post stations along the way to be burned, and the stagecoach was incorporated into the army.

The area of Yunxi has been repeatedly fired, the population is almost cut off, the righteous army galloped more than 300 miles in a day and night, attacked Wushan Buke, immediately withdrew the siege, from Fang, Zhu to Yuan'an, Dangyang, and on the 25th conquered Xingshan County, captured and killed the general Wu Guomao, the county magistrate Liu Dingguo.

At this time, the scout came to report, saying that Yuan Jixian, the governor of Yunyang, was leading the army to rush here, in order to reach Xiangyang City as soon as possible, Zhang Xianzhong decided to let Luo Rucai take the main force to block Yuan Jixian here, and he personally led all 20,000 cavalry, under the banner of the official army, galloped more than 200 miles in one day and night, and arrived at Yicheng, which was less than 100 miles away from Xiangyang.

The war was imminent, Zhang Xianzhong ordered the whole army to rest here for a night, and sent scouts to infiltrate the city of Xiangyang to find out the situation.

According to Zhang Xianzhong's arrangement, Dingguo stationed the Longxiang Battalion of 5,000 people on the south bank of the Hanshui River outside the north gate of Yicheng, and when the camp was almost built, Dingguo saw that the sky had not completely darkened, and immediately ordered Wang Guoren, the captain of the personal army, to bring more than 20 personal soldiers and go out of the camp with him to inspect.

Everyone walked all the way along the official road to Xiangyang, about less than five or six miles, and suddenly heard a faint sound of horses' hooves behind them.

In the hazy night, it was faintly visible that a horse was galloping in their direction, and those who dared to swagger along the official road to Xiangyang at this time would definitely not be the rebels. Dingguo hurriedly ordered everyone to dismount and scatter in the grass on both sides of the road, and laid three tripwire in the middle of the road.

After a while, the rider traveled from far and near, and soon came to the place where they were ambushed in Dingguo.

With Dingguo's order, the three tripping horses "Poof!" Almost at the same time, he pulled up from the grass and stretched straight. The horse was running so happily that he didn't have time to react before he fell and flipped on his back.

The rider fell to the ground, and had just gotten to his feet in a daze, when the soldiers rushed up and tied him tightly. Wang Guoren walked quickly behind the rider and kicked him hard in the leg socket, causing the rider to feel pain and his legs involuntarily fell to the ground.

Wang Guoren stepped forward and retrieved a letter from the rider and a bronze talisman that was only half cut off.

Taking the letter and military talisman from Wang Guoren's hand, Dingguo took a closer look through the faint moonlight, and this was actually an urgent document sealed by fire paint, which read: "I hereby send Liu Xingxiu, a garrison of the Chinese army, to Xiangyang, hand over the Xiangyang military preparation Dao Zhang, and escort it to the prefectures and counties along the way." There is also the word "urgent" in the upper right corner, and the middle seam on the back is the year, month and day of the document, and it is stamped with the seal of the superintendent and auxiliary ministers. The half-cut talisman was cast from brass and shone with a gold-like glow.

Dingguo put down the fire paint paperwork, walked up to the rider and asked, "Are you Liu Xingxiu?" ”

"The general spares his life! The general spares his life! As long as you don't kill the villain, you will know everything and say everything! Liu Xingxiu kowtowed like pounding garlic and kept begging for mercy.

"Spineless thing." Wang Guoren said with a look of disdain.

Dingguo waved his hand and motioned for Wang Guoren to retreat, then patted Liu Xingxiu on the shoulder and pulled him up from the ground: "Don't worry, I won't kill you, but I can't let you go now, and in a few days, our rebels will defeat Xiangyang City, and we will let you go home and reunite with your family." ”

Liu Xingxiu saw that his life was saved, and he was very grateful.

Dingguo then asked Wang Guoren to escort Liu Xingxiu back to the camp with all his relatives and soldiers as soon as possible, and strictly guarded him, while he took the fire paint documents and military talismans into his arms, flew and jumped on the "Erdoujin", raised the horsewhip, and went straight to Zhang Xianzhong's Chinese army camp.

At this time, the scouts sent to Xiangyang City had also returned, and told Zhang Xianzhong about the emptiness of troops in the city. Zhang Xianzhong was overjoyed, and immediately found Xu Yixian, a military advisor, overnight to discuss the plan to attack Xiangyang.

Although there are few soldiers in Xiangyang, after all, the city defense is strong and the inventory is strict, and the two have not come up with a perfect plan after discussing it for a long time. At this time, he suddenly heard that Dingguo was coming, and Zhang Xianzhong hurriedly called him into the big tent.

Although Zhang Xianzhong knew that Dingguo must have a good way to break the enemy, he still knowingly quipped: "In the middle of the night, you kid doesn't sleep, what are you doing here?" ”

"Father! Strategist! What is this? Ding Guo hurriedly stepped forward and presented the fire paint document and the talisman to the handsome case.

Zhang Xianzhong glanced at the fire paint document on the handsome case, picked up the talisman again, put it in his hand and looked at it carefully for a while, and suddenly laughed and said: "Okay, Dingguo!" You've done a great job! Now there's a good show! Where is the Chinese army? ”

Hearing Zhang Xianzhong shouting himself, the Chinese army hurriedly entered the tent, hugged his fists and said, "What do you command?" ”

"Drum for Lao Tzu!" Zhang Xianzhong stroked his long hair lightly, triumphant.

"Huh? Respectfully, it's late at night, the generals should all be asleep! The Chinese army was stunned, thinking that he had misheard.

"Sleep a bird! Drum for Lao Tzu! If you want to sleep, you all fucking go to Xiangyang and then go to sleep! Zhang Xianzhong's eyes widened, and he smashed his fist on the handsome case.

"No!" Seeing this, the Chinese army hurriedly agreed, turned around and walked away quickly, beating the drums.