Li Zicheng and the others saw that the officers and soldiers were no longer chasing, so they began to collect scattered soldiers, treat the wounded, and quickly caught up with the men and horses who withdrew first. 【Fengyun Reading Network. 】

After everyone met, even Li Zicheng was taken aback, and he actually lost more than 5,000 people in this battle, most of whom were infantry.

Li Zicheng's face was full of remorse, and he said to Liu Zongmin: "Jiexuan, we have suffered too much damage in this battle, we shouldn't fight, I didn't expect Lao Hong to come so quickly." ”

Liu Zongmin shook his head: "King Chuang, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, fighting all day long, who has not had a horse high and low." I think this time our appetite is too big, I want to eat Zuo Liangyu and Cao Bianjiao all, if we concentrate people and eat him all the way, I'm afraid we will be able to do it early. ”

Tian Jianxiu nodded: "What Liu Ye said is reasonable. Although we have 30,000 people, Cao Zuo and the others are both elite officers and soldiers, and their weapons are good, so they can't eat them for a while. Even when Cao Wenzhao was beaten, he didn't kill many officers and soldiers. ”

Li Bian said: "Our losses are not small, and the officers and soldiers are not much better!" We have more than 5,000 dead and wounded, and I think we will kill at least 3,000 or 4,000 officers and soldiers. If our brigade is saved, it is a victory. ”

Everyone was talking as they walked, and Li Zicheng calmed down a little bit of hatred.

The team rushed to Luoyang in the starry night, and two days later, they came to Luoyang. It is less than two hundred miles away from Luoyang City.

Guo Tianxing and the others arrived at a place a hundred miles outside Luoyang City at this time and set up camp.

Luoyang City had already known the news of their commotion, and the four gates had been closed, martial law was imposed in the city, and a curfew had been implemented.

There were 70,000 or 80,000 people in more than a dozen battalions of them, and the momentum was very great, and the company camp was set up for more than 20 miles, and the fireworks were endless.

But that night, a scholar-like man quietly came to the gate of Li Wanqing's camp that shot the sky, he signed up, and told the door army that his surname was Gu Mingtong, who was Li Wanqing's childhood friend, and asked to see him.

The gate army came in and reported to the Chinese army, and the Chinese army reported to Li Wanqing, and he was stunned for a moment, he and Gu Tong have not seen each other for ten years, why did they suddenly come today? So he commanded that someone should be brought into the account.

This man named Gu Tong entered the big tent, and when he raised his eyes, there were more than ten big men standing in the tent, all holding steel knives in their hands, glaring angrily, in case he was an assassin sent by the official army.

Looking behind the table again, it was Li Wanqing, sitting upright, his face sinking like water.

Gu Tong saw Li Wanqing and smiled: "Brother Li, if you don't say anything for ten years, will you be okay?" ”

Shooting the sky and ignoring him, he looked at the warriors in the tent, those people stepped forward, up and down, and searched Gu Tong all over and over again, and saw that there were no weapons, so he was relieved.

At this time, he finally had a smile on his face: "Who am I, it turned out to be Brother Gu, disrespectful and disrespectful, come here, look at the seat." ”

The people on the side moved a seat, Gu Tong was not polite, and as soon as the big horse golden knife sat down, the two of them became noisy.

After talking about his hometown, after parting, the conversation got to the point, and he asked: "Brother Gu, you have always been rare, and when you come to my camp today, there must be something important." ”

Gu Tong smiled, didn't answer, and looked at the warriors in the tent.

Shooting the sky and waving his hand to them: "You guys go out first, stay away, I have to talk to the old people." You also take care of the point, and don't let people come near here. ”

The warriors went out, lowered their tents, and the footsteps were far away, at least twenty paces away.

Gu Tong said: "Coming here today, there is indeed one thing, I want to have a heart-to-heart relationship with Brother Li and have a good talk." ”

Shoot the sky and smile: "What are you talking about?" Gu Tong lowered his voice: "Don't hide it, this time, I came from Lord Xiong." Shooting the sky was stunned: "Lord Xiong, Xiong Wencan?" ”

Gu Tong nodded: "Exactly, Lord Xiong has compassion in his heart, and regards the peasant army as flesh and blood, and he can't bear to kill, as soon as he hears that I have an old relationship with Brother Li, he immediately sent me here, if Brother Li can abandon the darkness and turn to the light, Lord Xiong has already made a guarantee, and can make Brother Li the post of chief military officer." ”

Shooting the sky and smiled coldly: "What about my centaurs?" ”

Gu Tong said: "All the general's men and horses are still under the command of the general, Lord Xiong said, no dismissal, no distribution, no disarming, no disturbance to interfere with outsiders." Well, this condition is generous enough. ”

After a long time, he stood up suddenly, pulled out his waist knife, and pressed it on Gu Tong's neck: "Hmph, who are you?" Come and test me, tell you, I have rebelled against the court, how can I surrender to the official army! ”

Gu Tong's face did not change, and he was still very calm: "Brother Li is so suspicious, it is beyond my expectations, if you think I am here to test you, do it now and kill me." ”

Shoot the sky and sneer: "Don't pretend to be hard-headed, it's just a matter of killing you, you said you didn't come to test me, what evidence do you have?" ”

Gu Tong smiled: "If you don't go up the ladder, how can you climb the high branches?" Please Brother Li find a confidant and dig under the broken locust tree in the forest outside the camp, there must be a certificate, if not, please Brother Li kill it again. ”

After thinking about it, he put away his knife and called in two henchmen and asked them to dig in the forest outside the camp to have a look.

When the two of them left, Gu Tong sat in the tent peacefully, without any nervousness.

It's a little embarrassing to shoot the sky, he and Gu Tong were really good friends when they were teenagers, but they haven't seen each other for ten years, who knows if Gu Tong's sudden appearance is really as he said, it was sent by Xiong Wencan, or rather, even if it was sent by Xiong Wencan, who knows if he wanted to trap himself? Therefore, he had to be a little careful.

After a short time, the two soldiers returned, and as soon as they entered the tent, they shot into the sky and asked, "Have you dug anything?" ”

One of the soldiers took out a small cloth bag from his bosom, handed it to the shooting sky, and then went out.

Shooting up to Gu Tong, he slowly unfolded the cloth bag, revealing a four-inch square box. He wasn't worried about what was in the box, because the two soldiers had already opened it, so he opened the lid with confidence.

Inside the box turned out to be a general military seal.

Shooting the sky to pick up the seal, I looked at it again and again for a long time, and finally believed that it was true. Because they have seen a lot of such seals when they broke many counties and killed many guards, but the current one is for themselves.

Gu Tong smiled at this time: "Brother Li, this time, Lord Xiong has already cast this golden seal for you, just waiting for you to take office." ”

Shooting the sky and fiddling with this golden seal, he sat down in front of Gu Tong again: "In this way, Lord Xiong really wants to entrust me with the position of chief soldier?" Gu Tong said: "The golden seal is here, can it be fake?" As long as Brother Li votes over, Lord Xiong will immediately play the Ming Sheng, and there will definitely be a reward. ”

Hearing this, he stood up and walked back and forth in the tent a few times, when he suddenly gritted his teeth and made up his mind.

In fact, after Gao Yingxiang's death, a heart was already suspended, and it was always unstable. On the one hand, he was already discouraged by the future of the rebellion, thinking that if he continued to rebel, he would only be the same as Gao Yingxiang, and he would not escape death, but on the other hand, he did not dare to surrender, because his status and reputation in the peasant army were not very loud, and the court would not pay attention to him, and he was likely to be killed or dismissed to return to his hometown after surrendering.

Therefore, he was in a dilemma and couldn't decide where he went, so he had to follow the general flow and follow the stars and others to live a mixed life.

The news of Li Zicheng's defeat had already reached the army, causing quite a shock.

Among the peasant army, everyone has always recognized that the most powerful is Gao Yingxiang, but the one who is the most good at fighting and the most capable of fighting is Li Zicheng. After Gao Yingxiang's death, Li Zicheng naturally became the leader of the peasant army. And now, even he has been defeated, and it is said that most of the men and horses have been lost.

As soon as this news came, he felt that the sky was indeed going to collapse, not by him, but by Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting and others.

In his opinion, Sun Hong and the others in the official army are like gods and cannot be defeated.

But just when he lost confidence in the rebellion, a Gu Tong came down from heaven, and actually brought Xiong Wencan's message and a general military seal, which was an unexpected surprise.

Shooting the heavens knew that at this time he was at a turning point in his fate, and if he made a wrong step, he would be crushed.

Now it seems that the rebellious peasant army has gone to the general trend, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Liu Guoneng, Lao Huihui and other celebrities have all suffered a big defeat, the power is sluggish, Li Zicheng is defeated again, and the peasant army may not have the day to turn over.

Therefore, the surrender of the officers and troops is the trend of the times.

At this time, he shot the sky to be the first.

As long as he is the first to surrender, the court will definitely reward him greatly, and use it to lure those peasant troops who have not surrendered, so this is a great opportunity and must not be missed.

So, he came to Gu Tong and handed over his knife: "Brother Gu, I listen to you, so I will abandon the darkness and turn to the light." ”

Gu Tong smiled and shook his head: "Brother Li's knife, let's keep it for myself first, and wait to present it to Lord Xiong." At this time, the younger brother has a word, I don't know if Brother Li is willing to listen? ”

Shot the sky and said: "Brother Gu, please speak, I will definitely obey my words." ”

Gu Tong whispered in his ear: "The general surrenders to sincerity, and he must have the merit of advancement." I don't think tonight, the general will kill a few thieves, and then make a fuss, even if he can't kill all the thieves, he will definitely win a big victory, and then won't it be a great achievement? ”

Shooting the sky nodded again and again: "Good plan, good plan, I also want to make a big contribution to add some glory to Lord Xiong." Brother Gu waits for less, I'll arrange it. ”

He immediately ordered people to invite the palms of several battalions to come to his camp to eat and drink, of course, these battalions are all small in people, like Guo Tianxing, Mantian Xing and others, and he didn't want to invite them to come, because he was setting up a Hongmen banquet, and these people had some friendship with him, and they couldn't bear to start.

Shooting the sky and ambushed 200 axemen outside the tent, and when these people came, they were all killed.

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