The war is imminent, after the Xiying Righteous Army set up camp in Jiu Rolling Ping, Zhang Xianzhong immediately took Xu Yixian and a sentry guard out of the camp to survey the terrain, about 20 miles, Zhang Xianzhong suddenly stopped at the horse, only to see him stretch out his hand to point to a steep mountain in front of him, and turned back to ask Xu Yixian: "Old Xu, what mountain is this in front?" ”

Xu Yixian looked in the direction of Zhang Xianzhong's finger, and then said: "Jing Shuai, that's Agate Mountain!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong laughed when he heard this: "Okay, Lao Xu! You see, the terrain of the main peak of this agate mountain is extremely steep, and the trees are lush and dense, at a glance it is impossible to see the deployment situation on the mountain. If Zuo Liangyu dares to attack, he will die without a place to be buried! ”

Seeing that Zhang Xianzhong wanted to set up the old camp in Agate Mountain, Xu Yixian faintly felt a trace of worry in his heart, and couldn't help reminding: "Jing Shuai, although this Agate Mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is indeed an excellent place to garrison troops, but the mountain road is rugged, and it is still difficult for people to walk, let alone carriages and horses?" The old camp is stationed on the top of the mountain, and the grain and grass are extremely inconvenient, if Zuo Liangyu's army is killed, besieged but not attacked, our army will be trapped and die on the mountain. ”

Zhang Xianzhong waved his hand and said with a smile: "Bird! Lao Xu, why are you getting less and less bold recently? Kewang and Wenxiu led the main force to be stationed in Jiuluoping, twenty miles away, and the two armies were each other's horns, what are you afraid of? If Zuo Liangyu comes to attack, Kewang will lead the army to copy his back road, and then Lao Tzu will be able to defeat the official army in one fell swoop, and send him Zuo Liangyu a more painful defeat than Luo Monkey Mountain! ”

persuaded Xu Yixian, Zhang Xianzhong ordered Zhang Nengqi to lead a thousand men and horses to quietly touch Onyx Mountain that night, raided the cottage, killed all the rich households in the village, and then moved the old camp into the cottage.

The news of Zhang Xianzhong's move to Onyx Mountain was soon discovered by the scouts of the official army, Zuo Liangyu knew that this battle was very important to him, if he won, he would be able to snow the shame of Luo Monkey Mountain, if he was defeated, Yang Sichang would definitely go to this to impeach himself for disobeying orders. Therefore, they were extremely cautious about this battle, and did not dare to rush into it without being completely sure.

However, Yang Sichang didn't care about this, and for several days, he kept feathering and turned to Emperor Chongzhen's edict, urging Zuo Liangyu to march as soon as possible.

In desperation, Zuo Liangyu had to divide the men and horses into several roads, and quietly approached Agate Mountain, because the terrain of Agate Mountain is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Zuo Liangyu set up the Chinese army camp in a small mountain village south of Ziyang County, and sent the pioneer battalion to secretly sneak into a deep valley and dense forest only a few dozen miles away from Agate Mountain, ready to wait for He Renlong and Li Guoqi's Qin army to arrive, and launch a two-sided attack on Agate Mountain.

In order to prevent being discovered by Zhang Xianzhong's scouts scattered everywhere, Zuo Liangyu set up a fictitious town in Pingli County, leaving a large number of cronies and staff, drinking and having fun all day long, and putting on a posture of standing still.

The battle is imminent, at this moment, Liu Guoneng, who has surrendered to the official army, led the army to ambush a Zhang Xianzhong's grain team, from the mouth of the captive, Liu Guoneng learned about the deployment of Zhang Xianzhong's old camp on Agate Mountain, as well as the joint code called the gate at night.

After listening to Liu Guoneng's report, Zuo Liangyu was overjoyed, and suddenly had a plan to attack Zhang Xianzhong's old camp in his heart.

Entering the forward battalion, Zuo Liangyu immediately ordered Liu Guoneng to take the 2,000 men and horses of the headquarters as the front team, and set off quickly with the captured food team, and he personally led the 2,000 elite soldiers of the forward battalion to follow closely behind, in case the plan failed, he could storm the cottage. In addition, 2,000 men and horses were arranged to ambush near Zhuangping Village, occupy the dangerous terrain, cut off the road where Zhang Xianzhong might escape in the direction of Huguang, and use 3,000 men and horses to guard the choke point leading to Jiu Rolling Ping to prevent Zhang Kewang's rescue.

After the arrangement was completed, Zuo Liangyu was still not at ease, and sent a herald to urge the Qin army He Renlong and Li Guoqi, so that they could complete the encirclement of the northwest direction of Onyx Mountain as soon as possible, so that Zhang Xianzhong's troops would not break through to Hanzhong after the defeat.

In the early morning of the seventh day of the first month of February, the spring cold is expected to be steep, the area of Agate Mountain is full of fog for several days, there is silence inside and outside the cottage, only the footsteps of the patrol volunteers on the wall of the village occasionally walk, the two lanterns hanging high in front of the gate of the village keep swaying, and there is a faint light in the fog.

It was just dawn, and most of the people in the old camp were still asleep. Suddenly, a chaotic sound of horses' hooves broke the silence of the early morning from far and near, and the Xiying rebels on the walled wall heard the sound and hurriedly woke up the little leader who was sitting by the fire and napping.

The little leader rubbed his sleepy eyes, yawned, and walked up to the wall surrounded by everyone, and looked into the distance by the battlements, but the fog was so thick that he could not see anything.

The sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, accompanied by many footsteps, and after a few more moments, a vague figure walking in the front could be faintly seen.

Isn't it the official army attacking? The little leader came to his senses in an instant, and hurriedly ordered everyone to be on guard, and then nervously shouted at the figure in the distance: "Who is it? If you go any further, you'll have to release your arrows! ”

The team outside the village immediately stopped, followed by two short applause from the fog.

The little leader sighed, hurriedly returned two applause, and then shouted, "Victory? ”

Someone on the other side quickly replied: "Back to camp!" ”

At this time, the fog was slightly blown away by the cold wind, and the little leader looked from the wall of the wall, only to see a grain squad of thousands of people, lined up in a long line on the narrow mountain road, and the tail could not be seen at a glance.

The little leader was relieved to see that the joint password was correct, and out of caution, he casually asked again: "I said, who are you leading?" Why are you only coming back now? ”

Liu Guoneng turned his head and glanced at Wang Dazhu, the leader of the captured grain team, Wang Dazhu nodded hurriedly, and immediately shouted towards the wall: "Old Liu, don't you recognize me?" I'm Dazhu! ”

"Dazhu, it's you! I've been back for so long, I'm afraid it's a lot of gains, right? Seeing that it was an acquaintance, the little leader no longer had the slightest suspicion in his heart.

"But it's not, I said Lao Liu hurry up and open the door, it's freezing this day, and the brothers are tired!" Wang Dazhu was afraid that someone would see the flaws, so he was so nervous that his voice trembled.

"Yes, yes, look at my memory, don't worry, I'll open the door!" After that, the little leader hurriedly informed the opening of the gate of the village, and then walked down the wall of the village quickly, came to the door, and personally greeted the team that was fully loaded with food.

Who knew that just after opening the gate of the village, the other party suddenly attacked, pulled out the steel knife hidden in advance from under the grain cart, and without saying a word, cut towards the righteous army in the door, only in a moment, more than a dozen sergeants, including the small leader, were all cut to the ground.

Some people quickly rushed to the makeshift bunk next to the gate of the village, and hacked to death the sleeping volunteer soldiers inside.

As the sky grew brighter, the fog began to dissipate, and the entire old camp was unaware of the changes that had occurred in front of the walled gate.

Dingguo and Xianglian's mother and son, together with two hundred personal soldiers, lived in a courtyard on the right side of the old camp, and the remaining three hundred personal soldiers lived in two nearby courtyards with Wang Guoren, the captain of the personal soldiers, and Ma Siliang, Dingguo's cousin, which were no more than 100 meters apart.

The habit of years of cultivation, hearing the rooster crow twice a day, Dingguo will get up to practice. Today, not long after the practice, the soldiers also got up, so Dingguo retreated to the steps and watched everyone practice in the courtyard.

At this time, he heard the door of the room behind him creak and was pushed open, and Dingguo looked back and saw that it was Xianglian who walked out of the house with her young son Pu Xing, who was just half a year old.

Dingguo hurriedly took off the cloak on his body, walked quickly to Xianglian's mother and son, put them on, and said distressedly: "Madam, it's freezing outside, hurry back to the house." ”

Xianglian pursed her mouth and pretended to be angry: "Hmph, since I was pregnant with this little rabbit cub, I was either locked in the carriage or locked in the house every day, and I didn't see the light of day all day long, if I continue like this, my aunt and grandmother will be driven crazy!" ”

Dingguo was not good at words, and he didn't know how to comfort Xianglian, so he looked at her and said with a look of self-reproach: "Madam, you have suffered." ”

Seeing Dingguo's embarrassment, Xianglian couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Okay, okay, okay, I'm going to tease you!" Don't worry, Pu Xing and I will go back after a while under the eaves, so it's okay. ”

While speaking, Xiao Puxing, who was hiding in Xianglian's arms, suddenly danced excitedly at Dingguo's hand, and his mouth made babbling sounds from time to time.

"What are you talking about, little guy?" Dingguo stretched out his hand to tease Xiao Puxing, and asked Xianglian curiously.

"You're his father, even you don't know, who knows?" Xianglian glared at Dingguo mischievously.

Since the birth of the child in the past six months, every day is marching and fighting, there is no chance to return to the old camp at all, if it is not for the father specially arranged, let himself protect the old camp on Agate Mountain, I really don't know when I will be able to get together with Xianglian mother and son.

Holding Xiao Puxing's chubby little hand, Dingguo felt a little more apologetic in his heart, and secretly thought to himself: "When will this battle be fought, it will be the end!" ”

I didn't think that at this moment, the "Erdoujin" bolted in the stable suddenly became irritable, Da Chun saw this and hurriedly ran over to appease, who knew that "Erdou Jin" saw Da Chun coming, it was even more irritable, kept raising his hooves and hissing, even two feet, and kicked Da Chun out a few zhang away.

Da Chun grinned and got up, patted the dust on his buttocks, and yelled: "'Erdoujin', are you crazy? ”

The horse seemed to be really crazy, and saw it break the reins with a thud, and was about to rush out of the yard.

Where has Xiao Puxing seen this formation, he was so frightened that he cried, Dingguo hurriedly asked Xianglian to hold the child and hurry into the house, and then quickly chased to the side of "Erdoujin", stretched out his hand and grabbed its mane, and then jumped up, jumped onto the horse, and then leaned down, clinging to "Erdoujin", and gently patted its head with his hand.

A miraculous thing happened, the originally manic "Erdoujin" was patted so gently by Dingguo, slowly stopped, let out a long howl on the spot, and became docile again.

At the same time, Liu Guoneng's 2,000 men and horses poured into the gate of the village like a tide, some of them followed closely behind him, and the other part climbed the wall of the wall, outflanking Zhang Xianzhong's old camp from behind to prevent Zhang Xianzhong from escaping through the back door.

Effortlessly took the walled gate, Liu Guoneng was proud, he waved his hand, and ordered his subordinates: "Light the lamp!" ”

Immediately, someone climbed a big tree outside the gate, lit the red lantern prepared in advance, and then hung it high above the tree.

Zuo Liangyu waited for a long time with two thousand soldiers of the forward battalion, and suddenly saw the red lantern rising from the tree in front of him, and said with great joy: "Okay! It's Liu Guoneng who has succeeded! Brothers, follow me up the mountain quickly, don't let Zhang Xianzhong go! ”

After sending the signal to Zuo Liangyu, Liu Guoneng ordered his subordinates to take off their torn jackets, revealing the official and military uniforms inside, and as for the newly surrendered grain rebels, they also wrapped white cloth around their left arms in accordance with the prior agreement.

After everyone finished changing their clothes, without waiting to meet Zuo Liangyu, Liu Guoneng couldn't wait to rush to Zhang Xianzhong's old camp.

There was peace in the old camp, and no one seemed to be aware of the danger coming. Liu Guoneng was about to send a small team of people to sneak in quietly and find out Zhang Xianzhong's location, when suddenly someone behind him shouted: "The official army has robbed the village!" The official army has robbed the village! ”

Liu Guoneng suddenly shook his spirit, his heart was shocked and angry, and he turned back to follow the prestige, and it turned out to be a new righteous sergeant with a white cloth wrapped around his left arm.

This rebel soldier who surrendered by fraud had just issued a warning, and was hacked to death by the officers and soldiers on the side, but it was absolutely impossible to continue the sneak attack.

But seeing the sound of gongs in the old camp in an instant, countless voices shouted: "The official army has robbed the village!" The official army has robbed the village! ”