After leaving Pingshan, under the guidance of the guide and Li Xiaofei's generosity, they soon came to the city of Ba County.

When he was about to arrive in Ba County, Liu Mingge went southwest, saying that he was going to find a herb. Li Xiaofei was also inconvenient to keep, so he had to let Liu Mingge go.

The gate of Bajun City was closed, it seemed that it had been guarded for a long time, and the flag at the head of the city was still the flag of Liang Guo, and Li Xiaofei was a little relieved.

Li Xiaofei sent a few people over to give an order to the defenders of Ba County to open the city gate, but they were killed by a random arrow in the city.

Li Xiaofei put on heavy armor and came to the city with his own soldiers waving the edict in his hand, and the personal soldiers pointed at Li Xiaofei and shouted: "Don't release arrows, it's your own people, we are reinforcements from Xiangyang, and His Majesty the Emperor sent us to help you!" This is our Marshal Li Xiaofei, Master Fu! ”

Li Xiaofei waved his hand: "I am the Taifu of the Great Liang and the Marshal of the West!" Please also ask your Taishou to come out and meet you."

"I am Liang Guoba County's Taishou Tan Banshan, and you just want to seize Ba County and occupy Shuzhong! This official has never seen or heard of a marshal in his twenties! Defend the city, and don't let a single soldier in! A middle-aged man in heavy armor shouted at the top of the city

Li Xiaofei couldn't cry or laugh, so he had to let Qin Le take out the holy decree and shout: "Lord Tan, I am a prison sent by the palace, if you don't believe the marshal, you should always believe me!" ”

"Don't use these clumsy tricks to deceive the official, release the arrows!"

Arrows rained down on the city, and Li Xiaofei and the others had to raise their shields to block the arrows and retreat.

After retreating for more than ten miles, he found a high ground and set up camp, Li Xiaofei looked at the sun in the sky: "It's weird that it's hot this day, give the order to go down, dig some holes to make fires, and everyone takes turns to unload their armor and rest in the holes!" ”

Qin Le was puzzled: "It's already so hot, why do you want to make a fire, isn't it good to go directly to the river to wash?" ”

"Qin Jianjun, the weather is too hot, we not only have iron armor on our bodies, but also an inner lining made of linen and fur, and our bodies are a stove. So you have to find a hole to light a fire to keep it warm before removing the armor. Li Xiaofei hurriedly stopped Qin Le, who was untying the iron armor

Qin Le hurriedly fastened his belt: "Thanks to Marshal Li's reminder, this knowledge of marching and fighting is really not ordinary, and I will ask the marshal for more advice in the future."

"I can't talk about it, I can't talk about it, I just know a little about it. But right now, this Bajun City, I can't enter, and I can't fight, I have to think of a wonderful way" Li Xiaofei looked at Qin Le, thinking that it would be better to send Qin Le into the city to inform Tan Banshan of the truth, maybe there would be a turnaround.

Qin Le was not stupid, and immediately said with a smile: "It's still uncertain whether this city is still loyal to the imperial court, if you go rashly and be kidnapped by them as a hostage, it will not be good." I think I'll wait until Mr. Liu comes back."

As soon as Li Xiaofei heard this, he knew that this Qin Le couldn't be counted on, so he also smiled: "Okay, I have another way, this Bajun City, I, Li Xiaofei, will definitely enter!" ”

Li Xiaofei knew that he couldn't tell others that he couldn't help it at this time, otherwise his morale would be lost, and the team of 5,000 people would not be able to take it.

The second day was the ninth day of the fourth month, and the natives were going to Ba County to catch the market according to the custom, Li Xiaofei had an idea, so he sent more than ten people to change some clothes with the natives with iron armor, put on them and sneak into the city, and brought Li Xiaofei's letters and holy decrees to see Tan Banshan.

Li Xiaofei waited with hope for Tan Banshan to open the city to welcome him into the city, not wanting these more than ten people to be blasted out.

Li Xiaofei only learned after asking that half a month ago, a team pretended to be the army of the imperial court and forged the official seal of the Holy Decree to earn Ba County, and at the moment of opening the city gate, Tan Banshan found a flaw, so he fought a battle and repelled the team. From then on, Tan Banshan no longer believed in the people who claimed to be the imperial court, and this time he thought that Li Xiaofei did not directly attack the city, so he released the people back.

"How was this flaw discovered? Where are the flaws? ”

"Marshal Li, in fact, there is no flaw, it was Lord Tan who casually said when he was about to open the city gate, when to enter the city! Over there, immediately go back to kill Tan Banshan first, and then take the treasury! ”

"Hahahaha, there are still such strange things in the world, it seems that this Tan Banshan's life should not be extinguished! You have worked hard, go down first, Ben Shuai will have a way tomorrow, I am very interested in this Tan Banshan"

said that there was a way, but in fact, he was very anxious, if only Liu Mingge was here.

Li Xiaofei thought about it for a while, and suddenly thought that this Liu Mingge actually left on purpose, the purpose was to let Li Xiaofei find a way to enter Bajun City without Liu Mingge.

Attacking is the next policy, originally Tan Banshan thought that they were rebels, if they forcibly attacked the city, they could only let Tan Banshan's soldiers and civilians unite to fight to the death, and even if Ba County was defeated at that time, I am afraid that they would no longer be able to move west. What's more, they are all their own people, if they end up losing both, Li Xiaofei will not be able to explain to the court.

Outwitted, it can't be done, Tan Banshan is too vigilant, even if Li Xiaofei rides into the city alone, he will not let Tan Banshan believe, but will be detained, which is not good for the overall situation.

Trust! What Tan Banshan needs is something trustworthy, or people!

Li Xiaofei thought of this, so he shouted to the city head again on the tenth day of the fourth month: "Lord Tan, I am young, you have never seen it, and it is normal for people not to believe me!" Dare to ask, who will you be convinced of! ”

"Chen Hongyi! Or Chen Kuan! In today's imperial court, there are only these two old friends who are still alive! I'm afraid that you won't be able to learn if you find someone to pretend to be! Tan Banshan said the names of Chen Hongyi and Chen Kuan

Li Xiaofei was finally relieved, so he smiled: "Okay, since Lord Tan mentioned Old General Chen and Master Chen Kuan, it's great, Lord Chen Kuan's rear team will be here in ten days at most!" We are not in this Ba County City, we will bypass Ba County and walk a long way to Chengdu! Please also ask Lord Tan not to send people to chase after you! ”

These words are true, Tan Banshan will be suspicious, but after all, he is still cautious, and he did not let go: "You go by yourself, don't say it on purpose, we are stupid, but we will not fall for your tricks to go out of the city to catch up, and you will be tricked to divert the tiger from the mountain!" ”

In fact, what Li Xiaofei wanted was Tan Banshan's suspicion, so as not to be pursued by Tan Banshan after leading his troops across the river.

With his mind decided, Li Xiaofei took the generals of each battalion to search for boats and make rafts to cross the river.

In less than half a day, he found all the large and small boats and rafts to cross the river, Tan Banshan did not send troops to pursue, but sent more than a dozen secret agents to follow Li Xiaofei and them.

In the evening, Li Xiaofei's more than 4,000 people had all crossed the river to the west bank to make a fire and camp.

Tan Banshan in the city nodded after inquiring about the secret agent who came back: "It's better to be careful!" These thousands of men and horses would have to walk an extra hundred miles if they made a detour, and crossing the river and turning back was only an overnight effort. This official will personally lead people to defend the city tonight! ”

When the day dawned, I didn't see the people and horses on the west bank returning, but I vaguely saw them continuing to climb the mountain to the west.

"It seems that they are really the people of the imperial court, but even if they leave, if they stay in this Bajun City, it will be difficult for us to supply them with food, grass and military supplies!" Tan Banshan was already worried about the food and grass of the thousands of people under his command, if there were a few more people, this Bajun City would be eaten by people.

Here, Li Xiaofei's grain transport team has been three days away from them, relying on the code left by the native guide and Li Xiaofei's scouts to advance along the road.

Li Xiaofei's own team consisted of 5,000 men, and the men who transported grain and the army that escorted grain and grass were 12,000 people, of whom 9,000 pushed wheelbarrows and lined up in a long line on the mountain road.

Everywhere the grain transport team passed, there was a ten-person team left by Li Xiaofei to pick up, but there was no one left here in Ba County.

Li Xiaofei was gambling, betting that Chen Kuan and the grain transportation team arrived at the same time, and also betting that Tan Banshan would not dare to go to the grain transportation team.

Li Xiaofei won the bet, and Chen Kuan caught up with the grain transportation team and rushed to the city of Bajun at the same time as them.

Chen Kuan's arrival finally reassured Tan Banshan.

Tan Banshan personally went out of the city to greet him, hugged Chen Kuan and cried: "I can look forward to you!" I don't even know how long I can stay! There are several groups of people outside the city, and I don't dare to believe it! I'm afraid that this Bajun City will be ruined in my hands."

Chen Kuan patted him on the shoulder: "Thanks to you, Tan Banshan, who has been cautious all his life, otherwise, if Bajun falls into the hands of others, it will be even more difficult for us to recover Shuzhong this time!" Okay, don't cry, this time we will also add some grain and grass to you, you can continue to guard Ba County with peace of mind, and after we pacify Shuzhong, we will play the court to reward you for meritorious deeds! ”

Tan Banshan was a little surprised: "You don't trim and trim? Ba County is small, but it won't be like there is no place for you to rest."

"I know that your Lord Tan is well governed, and this Ba County is rich, but if we don't speed up our pace, Li Xiaofei's thousands of people will have to starve to death in the mountains!"

"That Li Xiaofei was really sent by the imperial court?" Tan Banshan was a little panicked and had many questions

"Do you think that this young man in his twenties can't be a marshal, haha, human nature. But that's a long story! Most of the people who are using it at this extraordinary time are also very people! ”

"Listening to your words, I have been studying for ten years in vain, I think we have studied hard for many years in the cold window and studied both civil and military cultivation, and even made silver to do the county guard, alas, the times have changed!"

"Don't sigh, I'll give you a thousand carts of grain and grass, and leave a thousand people at your disposal, we're going to keep going! I'll tell you about this Li Xiaofei next time we meet."

Tan Banshan still wanted to reminisce about his mother-in-law, but Chen Kuan turned around and left.

When he came to the river, Chen Kuan ordered people to blow the big horn and beat the war drums, and sure enough, the drums on the west bank also beat the drums in response.

This is Professor Liu Mingge's unique method of transmitting messages to the army, the trumpet sounded three times in front, the drum was beaten three times in a row, and then the trumpet sounded three times, which was the signal of the Liang army's assembly.

Li Xiaofei led the men and horses to immediately go down the mountain and assemble by the river, pushed out all the boats and rafts that had been hidden in the woods, and crossed the river to the east one after another.

Li Xiaofei also cried with joy when he saw Chen Kuan, these thousands of people and horses have been out of food for two days, digging wild vegetables and tree roots in the mountains to find wild fruits, hunting pikas and birds to satisfy hunger, but they have gained very little.

If the grain convoy does not come again, these more than 4,000 people will be dispersed.

"Uncle Chen Kuan is really my savior, when I get to Chengdu, I want to be the east and invite you to have a good drink!"

"You kid is really bold, you dare to go so far with an army that is short of food and grass! Looks like you've got two hits! ”

"Didn't I hear that Zhao Kuo could go without food for more than 40 days, but he tried it for two days and was almost desperate, it seems that there are some things that can't be believed!"

"Okay, okay, bury the pot and make rice, everyone has a full meal, and continue to walk along the official road! Chengdu is still far away! ”