King Qin thought for a moment, and suddenly slapped the table: "Li Kang, you let Fan Ju go, so that the details of my Qin army are all clear to the officials and soldiers, and the harm is endless, such a big crime, even if you are the leader of my guards, you will not escape the death penalty." Someone came, dragged out and beheaded. ”

Li Kang had already made up his mind to die, as long as he rescued three women, he would get his wish, so he didn't have any resistance, and kowtowed: "King, from now on, Li Kang can't accompany you to restore Daqin, you have to take care of yourself......"

After speaking, he didn't need to be pushed, he stood up and walked out, seemingly waiting to cut off his head.

King Qin's chest rose and fell, and a cold light flickered in his eyes.

At this time, the three women in the room, together with Li Yan and Wang Qian, and several lieutenants knelt down together, and pleaded for Li Dare one after another.

Especially Qianniang, she cried the most painfully: "King, for the sake of my father who has saved many soldiers of the Qin Army, spare Li Dang this time." ”

Wang Jian said: "King, now our army is the time to employ people, killing this fierce general is not good for the army, and I hope to be gracious." Li Yan also said: "Running away from Fan Ju is already a big loss, and killing Li Dang again will not be a disaster, the king will not kill him for the sake of the Qin army." ”

Everyone said their own truth, in a word, Li Dang still has merit and cannot be killed.

King Qin's face calmed down a little, and he snorted: "Come on, push Li Dang back." ”

Li Dang knelt in front of King Qin again, thanked him for his grace not to kill, and King Qin said: "If you don't behead you, everyone will intercede, and this king will not want to go against the will of everyone." However, the death penalty is forgiven, the living crime is inevitable, pull down and beat twenty sticks, my guards do not need you to take them, in the future, you will be a pawn under the account of General Wang, and if you have merit, you will be rewarded, if you are at fault again, you will be beheaded. ”

This time everyone was relieved.

Li Kang's body bones, beating twenty sticks is almost the same as scratching, at most a little skin, a few days will be fine, as for losing his official position, don't worry, there are many opportunities to fight in the future, Li Kang will definitely be promoted.

Li Yan understood that this was an explanation from King Qin to the army, although Li Dang was meritorious, it was a big crime to let Fan Ju go, so it was more appropriate to punish him like this.

At that moment, everyone thanked them, and several sergeants pressed Li Kang under the steps and beat him with twenty strokes, and then Qianniang and others took Li Kang down to recuperate.

After the king of Qin dealt with Li Kang's affairs, he did not let Li Yan and Wang Jian leave, and let the two of them into the back hall to discuss the future.

Wang Qian's brows furrowed: "King, as soon as Fan Ju escapes, there will be a lot of trouble." This person knows very well that our army is fine, and once he goes to join Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou will inevitably come to besiege again. Our army is alone here, how is it good? ”

King Qin said: "Our army is not alone, as soon as Fan Ju's matter came out, I had already sent someone to send him a letter, as long as Bai Qi could echo in Meixian, our army would have backup and response, and would not fight alone." ”

Li Yan said: "It's better to do this, we are dragging Hong Chengchou's main force in Xi'an, and let General Bai send troops to attack the counties of Shaanxi, so Hong Chengchou must be panicked, on the one hand, he wants to stop General Bai, on the other hand, he has to take care of us, we must be exhausted, we will take advantage of the chaos to attack, I believe that there is hope for breaking Hong Chengchou." ”

King Qin nodded: "I think the same way, the bigger the fire at the beginning of Bai, the more beneficial it will be for us." To be trapped in a city is to wait for death. Moreover, when fighting a war, we must move and keep still, and if we defend here, we will be quiet, and if we attack everywhere in vain, we will move. Once Hong Chengchou divides his troops to attack Baiqi, let him hold in Meixian, and we go out of the city to fight, and the movement and stillness are exchanged, so that the officers and troops cannot break through separately. ”

Wang Jian admired it very much: "The king is very right. ”

In fact, King Qin is an excellent strategist, he used to face the six countries of Shandong, six enemies in front of him, if you want to extinguish it, you need a very suitable strategy, this kind of thing King Qin is familiar with, at this time there is Bai Qi echoing outside, dealing with a Hong Chengchou, naturally much easier.

King Qin's face was still a little heavy: "But if Hong Chengchou transfers enough men and horses, on the one hand, to trap Xi'an, and on the other hand, to attack Bai Qi to the death, it will be troublesome." ”

Li Yan said: "Yes, although Bai Qi occupies three counties at the moment, the defense of those three counties is not strong, the city outline is not solid, and it is not easy to defend it." ”

King Qin said: "At present, there is only one way to solve the Qin army's predicament and avoid falling into a heavy siege." ”

Li Yan thought for a while: "Let the peasant army enter the Qin land? ”

King Qin nodded slowly: "As long as Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng's men and horses can come, we have a lot of room for maneuver." ”

Wang Jian said: "The people sent have not yet believed, I don't know if I have seen Gao and Li......

Almost on this day, in the mountains near Wanyuan, Sichuan, there was a group of men and horses camping.

The sky was dark, and the vast mountains showed only a undulating black line, stretching endlessly. The sky was starless and moonless, and the clouds were dense and heavy overhead, which made people a little depressed. The withered grass in the mountains was blown up and down by the cold wind, the pine waves were echoing, and from time to time there was a wailing of wild birds, echoing in the mountains, which seemed strange and desolate.

There is a high post in the mountain, at this time there is a small group of people and horses standing on the high post, the leader of the person wears an old felt hat, the red tassel on the hat has changed color, wearing a worn-out big gun, there are several holes in the hole, revealing the cotton inside, it looks a little dirty, he stepped down and rode a tall five-flowered horse, with a bow on his back, a quiver at his waist, more than a dozen feather arrows inserted inside, and a scabbard hung under his left waist, and the flower horse sword was in the sheath.

Looking at his face, this person has a high nose and deep eyes, thick eyebrows and big eyes, his beard should not have been shaved for a long time, and the stubble is hard, which shows his hardness and fierceness.

This person is none other than the general in the peasant army, Li Zicheng.

Since last year they crossed the river from the wild boar nose and entered Henan, at the beginning of the smooth wind, attacking Zhou Kexian, very easy, but in the second half of the year, the situation is getting worse and worse, one is that the local state and county in Henan have strengthened the defense, and the other is that several tiger generals in the court have arrived in Henan, and more and more officers and soldiers have been transferred to strengthen the encirclement and suppression, after the winter, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng and others have difficulty in getting food, so they moved to Huguang and Sichuan and other places.

But unexpectedly, the toast in these places is extremely fierce, especially the Sichuan toast Qin Liangyu is the most famous, the two sides fought a tough battle in Bazhou, Sichuan governor Liu Hanru and Qin Liangyu joined forces, actually defeated Gao Li and the two people, Gao Li and the two because of huge losses, so out of the battlefield, to the north to Wanyuan.

Gao and Li didn't have a definite answer to where they would go next, so they dragged the officers and soldiers around the circle in the mountains.

Although the battle was lost, it was not all bad, because two old friends heard the news and rushed to meet them overnight. These two people are Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, who were defeated under the city of Xi'an.

After the two were defeated and retreated, they originally fled separately, Luo Rucai went south, Zhang Xianzhong went north, Luo Rucai needless to say, came all the way to the south, rested along the way, and soon heard the news of Gao Li and the others, and immediately came. As for Zhang Xianzhong, he fled north first, and then used a small number of men and horses to lure Cao Wenzhao to continue the pursuit north, and he took most of the men and horses to the south, bypassing Xianyang and reaching Qinling.

At this point, the four leaders of the peasant army once again joined forces.

As soon as there are many people, they will be bold, and in the past few days, Gao Li and the others have dragged the official army to a very large number, and they are tired enough, if it weren't for Qin Liangyu's ability to supervise the army, and the people and horses have not yet dispersed, the peasant army would have killed a horse gun a long time ago.

At this time, Li Zicheng stood on top of the high hill and looked to the north, only to see that in the shadows of the continuous mountains, a little spark was lit in the distance, like a sky full of stars, and I don't know how many. He knew that it was the official army camping, and the two sides were separated by dozens of miles of mountain roads, and the officers and soldiers would never walk at night to prevent an ambush, so tonight, it should be very calm.

Despite this, the peasant army still did not dare to be careless, and arranged a lot of secret posts to probe the actions of the officers and soldiers.

After seeing it clearly, Li Zicheng estimated the approximate number of officers and soldiers, and felt that there was no change from the previous few days, and his heart was a little relieved. At this moment, a herald came and rode up to him: "General Li Chuang, King Chuang has an invitation, let you go to his old camp immediately." ”

Li Zicheng nodded: "I'll go now." Can I help you? ”

The herald said, "There are a few people from the old camp, and it seems that they have brought important news. Li Zicheng's face became solemn: "In this way, let's go quickly!" So saying, he led the small group of men and horses and ran down the hill with the heralds.