I saw that the front and back of the wooden plaque were engraved with the twenty major sins of the Li father and son, and it was slightly cloudy: "The Li father and son, usurping the country and killing the master, mutilating the people, the crime is unforgivable, and it is difficult to write." His twenty grave sins are as follows, and his sin is one: to kill his master twice, in order to take his kingdom. The second crime: all the descendants of the Chen family will be killed. The third crime: to commit adultery and punishment, to regard the countrymen as enemies, to expropriate and extort tyranny, and the people are not able to make a living. The fourth crime: Shiben Li, betraying his ancestors and changing his surname, deceiving his superiors and subordinates. Crime 5: Since he usurped the throne, he falsely claimed to be in charge of state affairs and deceived the court. Crime 6: When the descendants of the Chen family were asked to return to the country, and when the imperial court returned it, they dared to rob it. Crime 7: Killing the lord of the country, Chen Tianping. Crime 8: Intrusion on the seven villages of Ningyuan Prefecture in Yunnan Province. The ninth crime: kill the local officials, kidnap their daughters, and levy their silver. Crime 10: Coercing the border officials and causing them to disperse. Crime 11: Encroaching on the border of Luzhou in Guangxi. His crime twelve: he took Xiping Prefecture without permission and killed local officials. Crime 13: The king of Champa was mourned, and raised troops to attack his old state, Gelie and other places. His crime fourteen: he attacked the black and white states of Bandarang and plundered its people. His crime fifteen: extorting more than 100 elephants from the city, and still adding troops. Crime 16: Zhancheng was subdued by the Celestial Empire, but he forged a gold seal and forced him to accept it. Crime 17: Accusing the king of the city of Zhancheng to respect China only and wanting him to do what China does. Crime 18: The court envoy sent the vassals of Zhancheng to return to his country, and robbed them at the entrance of Kunling Lane with soldiers. Its crime nineteen: both Fengzheng Shuo, but also pretending to be the name of the country, the pseudo-era saint, Shaocheng, and the name of the big year. Crime 20: The tributary does not send courtiers, but fills up sinners. Whoever is captured by the army and civilians of Annam will be given a knighthood. After the father and son of the thief were captured, they chose to ask the Chen family to establish them. ”

Zhang Shixing looked at it, secretly applauded, and passed the wooden card to Zhu Yunwen and others, after everyone saw it, they all nodded secretly, these 20 major sins are comparable to 200,000 troops, clearly organized, the audience was moved, the people of Annan did not know why the Ming Dynasty sent troops, after reading these wooden cards, they knew the sins of the Li father and son, and naturally they would not give them their lives, and they were all looking forward to the arrival of the king. It seems that there are indeed masters in this Ming army, who understand the principle of attacking the heart and attacking the city. No wonder Li Cheng was so angry that he came to them for trouble again.

Huang Zhan smiled at Li Cheng and said: "Envoy Li, this Ming army's wooden plaque is comparable to Luo Bingwang's "Seeking Wu Cao", which is really powerful, but it has nothing to do with us, we are ready to leave Annan and go elsewhere, you two go and fight to the death." Please ask the Li military envoy to raise his noble hand and make it convenient. ”

Li Cheng waved his hand, and his sergeants raised their fire guns, and the guns of the black hole were aimed at everyone, and it seemed that as long as they dared to move, they would be immediately bombarded into powder.

Zhang Shixing stepped forward and said to Li Cheng: "The eldest husband does things alone, since this matter is caused by me, I will compensate you with this life, and if you want to kill or take your convenience, but you will let my master and brothers go." ”

Li Cheng sneered and said: "You said lightly, how can you alone withstand the millions of lives of the soldiers and civilians of my Dayu country, but this matter will fall on you sooner or later, but your master and senior brothers can't leave, if you want to be a hostage, you will still be imprisoned in Xingsheng Temple." If you can retreat from the Ming army, you will be rewarded with wealth and glory, if you can't retreat, you will be buried together. ”

Zhang Shixing turned his head to look at Zhu Yunwen and the others, although they didn't speak, their eyes were full of expectation, Zhang Shixing said helplessly: "Okay, I'll follow you into the palace." You have to treat my master and brothers well. ”

Li Cheng nodded and said, "That's right, you'd better get acquainted with each other and don't have any bad ideas." After that, he ordered someone to bring over a horse and let Zhang Shixing get on the horse and enter the palace with him, and Zhu Yunwen and others were escorted back to Xingsheng Temple.

Zhang Shixing entered the palace, and Li Hancang scolded him: "It's all a good thing you did, and I will be wiped out." ”

Li Jiyak grabbed him and said to Zhang Shixing: "Master Kongzhi, please take a seat." ”

Zhang Shixing sat down and said to Li Jiyak: "Emperor Taishang, Zhu Neng is dead, why don't you keep your promise and detain me?" ”

Li Jiyak stared at him and said, "Then did Zhu Neng die of illness, or did he die at your hands?" ”

Zhang Shixing said: "Is there any difference in this? ”

Li Ji said: "Although I live in Annan, I also heard that during the Ming Dynasty and the Wuwu Change, many courtiers fled from Beijing and fled to all directions. If I am not mistaken, you and your master and brothers are one of them, so you have a deep enmity with those heroes of the martyrdom, and you will want to put each other to death. I'm right. ”

Zhang Shixing thought about it, felt that there was no need to hide it, and said calmly: "Emperor Taishang, you don't care who we are, what do you have to do, just say it, don't beat around the bush, if I do it, you let us go, if I can't do it, you kill me to vent your anger, don't embarrass my master and brothers." ”

Li Jiyak patted his thigh and said, "Okay." In that case, I'll be blunt. I don't care who you are, as long as you can help me fight off the Ming army, I will crown you as the king, and I will replace you hereditarily. If you can't, I'll kill you along with your master and brothers. ”

Zhang Shixing sighed and said: "The 800,000 Ming army came in two ways, and it was so overwhelming that it was really difficult to resist. On my own, how can I turn the tide? ”

Li Ji said: "I want to lead the army and people of Dayu to fight to the death with the Ming army. Since you were an official in the Ming Dynasty, you are probably also a military general, so you must be familiar with the inside story. As long as you can help our army and repel the Ming army, I will never break my word. ”

Zhang Shixing said: "Then I'll give it a try." ”

Li Cheng ordered someone to put the map on the table and introduced the situation to everyone: "I got the battle report today, the Ming army has broken through the two passes of Ailiu and Jiling, and will join the army in Baihe, and will arrive at the foot of Thang Long City in the near future. ”

Zhang Shixing frowned and said: "The two passes of Kouliu and Jiling are really dangerous, and if you lose these two passes, there is no danger to defend in Shenglong City, and it is really difficult to do." ”

Li Cheng said angrily: "It's all your fault, a few days ago, news came from the border, saying that Zhu Neng, the chief soldier of the Ming Dynasty, died of illness, so that we all relaxed our vigilance, who knew that within a few days, they took advantage of the situation and won these two passes." I wonder if you're both singing a bitter trick. ”

Zhang Shixing retorted: "Li June, how can there be a bitter plan to let yourself die." It's true that I didn't kill Zhu Neng, but I saw that he was terminally ill at the time, so I didn't do it. Unexpectedly, they took advantage of this, repaired the plank road in the open, and turned a big crisis into a big victory, this Zhang Fu is really clever. ”

Li Hancang asked, "Who is this Zhang Fu?" Why was he able to succeed him as Chief Soldier? ”

When Zhang Shixing heard this, Zhang Yu's cold face and tall figure appeared in front of him, and he said word by word: "This Xincheng Marquis Zhang Fu is the son of Zhang Yu, the Duke of Rongguo, Zhang Yu is a general under Zhu Di, the king of Yan, who died at my hands in the battle of Dongchang. ”

When the Li father and son heard that Zhang Shixing had killed Zhang Yu, their eyes lit up, and they seemed to see hope, and asked, "Master Kongzhi, what is the name of the layman?" What has been the case? ”

Zhang Shixing waved his hand and said: "The past is like a cloud of smoke, you don't have to ask." Now that the army is approaching the city, let's think about how to deal with it. ”

Li Cheng said: "I intend to immediately send troops to the Baihe River, hold the south bank, prevent the Ming army from crossing the river, and wait for its food to run out, and its soldiers will retreat." ”

Li Jiyak looked at Zhang Shixing and said, "What is Master Kongzhi's opinion?" ”

Zhang Shixing said: "It is 200 miles away from Baihe, and it is difficult to transport food and salary for the army. In my opinion, it is better for the whole army to retreat to the line of the Fuliang River, from the north bank of the Fuliang River to the Haichao River, from the Xijiang River and the Malao River to the Pantan Sleepy Mountain, with standing trees as a fence. Then build an earthen city in the multi-state pass, build a city with a tree fence, connect bridges and streams, and send troops to defend. Then he logged down the river on the south bank of the Fuliang River, and moored all the boats and ships in the country. Where all the ports can be navigated, all the wood is rejected. ”

After Li Cheng heard this, he shook his head again and again and said: "In this way, the joint camp is more than 700 miles, and troops are stationed everywhere, if one place is broken, all the plates will be lost, and Thang Long City will not be able to protect it." ”

Zhang Shixing said: "Now people's hearts are panicking, and they will want to die and live." Now that there are only more than 100,000 soldiers in the Dayu Kingdom, how can they be the opponents of the 800,000 tiger and wolf army of the Ming Dynasty? The Fuliang River is close to Thang Long City, and His Majesty can drive the old and young women of the country to defend everywhere to help the momentum, as long as they survive this winter, the Ming army will run out of food and naturally retreat. ”

Li Jiyak nodded and said, "What Master Kongzhi said is reasonable, I can mobilize two million people in the country to help in the war. ”

After some discussion, the Li father and son finally adopted Zhang Shixing's strategy and deployed defense on the front line of the Fuliang River.

Wang Yiding did not go to Pingxiang County in October, entered the country with his teeth, and looked at the mountains and rivers in his country. Bi, the edict to the people said: 'The emperor is not the people of the land of Annan, but for the thieves to harm his lord, abuse his Li Shu, pursue the heavenly crusade, in order to continue the peerless, Su people are poor. Ding Ning warned us not to kill people unless they were in battle, not to take things, not to plunder children, not to burn houses, and not to trample on crops. You should flatter the virtue of the Son of Heaven, ('You should flatter the virtue of the Son of Heaven', the original word "virtue", according to the compilation of records, the clear borrowing of the moon mountain house remittance banknote supplement. To make a miracle. Those who do not need to be killed will be dealt with by military law, and there will be no forgiveness. All shouted for their lives. It is said that the army entered the slope barrier pass, unveiled the former example of the officials in the country, and used the intention of the court to kill the crime and hang the people to attract them. Wang Xunzhi is south of the slope base, from the pass to stay in the pass to the Jiling Pass to the Qin station, the mountain is deep and dangerous, the forest is shady, and there are many streams. Worried that the thief was ambushed, the advance Yingyang general Lu Yi sentry. and the governor of the capital of Tongzhi Han Guan camp, built roads and bridges on the slopes, and supervised the transportation of grain. Wushen, the army of Cichuwen County. Ji You, the post to the pass to stay in the pass, the thieves 20,000 people formed a village according to the mountain, resolutely attacked it, beheaded 40 levels, and captured more than 60 people. It is said that the hussar general Zhu Rong and others also broke the Jiling Pass and beheaded more than 80 levels, ('beheaded more than 80 levels', the original "eight" character is "six", according to the compilation of Ming records, the Qing Shengchao relics were changed.) Eleven people were captured. When the thieves heard that the second pass was broken, their troops and ambushers scattered. Renzi, the army is the second chicken Lingguan. Guichou, Ciqin Station. It is said that the advance Yingyang general Fang Zheng, the guerrilla general Wang Shu, etc., ('The advance Yingyang general Fang Zheng guerrilla general Wang Shu and others', the word "first" is derived from the original word "so", according to the compilation of records, the Qing borrowed Yueshanfang banknote book deleted.) Arrive at Jialin County on the north bank of the Fuliang River.

At that time, the left deputy general, Xipinghou, also marched from Mengzi County, Yunnan, and entered the country through the barbarian barbarians. They all commanded Zhu Jun and others to seize the fierce pass, and Yu Rang and others pulled out the gates, built forts and garrisons everywhere, and cut down trees and built boats. They all commanded Xu Yuan, Kong Bin and others to highlight the Xuanguang River estuary and seize the sand such as Xuanguang River. The left staff general Fengcheng Hou led the troops to cross its upstream, and the governor Cheng Da and others crossed the mountain in the middle of the night, and went out of the Taoshui River from the middle road, set fire to the thief boat, and then seized the Fuliang River.