Baoding Mansion is known as "the north controls the three passes, the south reaches the nine provinces, the auxiliary land of Ji, and the capital is Nanpinghan". The name of Baoding means "defending the capital and stabilizing the world", and it has always been "the important place of Gyeonggi" and "the southern gate of the capital".

Today's south gate is under heavy siege, Li Zicheng's thieves swept through the counties of Baoding Mansion between half a month, surrounded by Shunping, full of cities, Wangdu, Gaoyang all fell into the hands of the enemy, and now camped on the other side of the Qingshui River in the south of the city.

This camp is really endless, stretching for more than ten miles, covering the sky and the sun is so great that people can see that their legs are weak, so that the soldiers defending the city are tired, and the people in the city are even more negative.

At the same time, he urgently urged the reinforcements to pull out, but as the surrounding states and counties all fell into the hands of thieves, and all the spies within a radius of 100 miles were occupied by the thief army, the spies sent out either returned in vain or were sniped, which made him angry, but there was nothing to be done for a while.

The army of thieves besieged the city, and the morale in the city was low, and the people's instability made Shi Kefa extremely anxious, but he felt a little relieved that there were still like-minded people in the city, who vowed to defend Baoding Mansion once they died.

For example, with the knowledge of Shao Zongxuan, the prefect He Fu, against public opinion, resolutely resisted, and accompanied Shi Kefa every day to inspire the army and the people, consolidate the city defense, and the local squire Zhang Luojun and others in Baoding also contributed money and efforts, calling on the gentry to donate money and food to defend their homeland, because they knew very well that if the thief army broke the city, they would bear the brunt of the destruction of their families and people.

Qingshui River, in the south of Baoding City, formerly known as Yangcheng River, ancient Yanzhao boundary river, this section of the south of the city is also the moat of Baoding City, at this time a river is separated, officials and bandits confront.

Since the defeat of the Taiyuan army, this month in the Central Plains has gained a lot, the vitality has recovered, and the ambition has risen sharply, originally just went out to rob a robbery, and now it is so momentum, it is better to go directly to the city of Beijing and talk to the emperor Lao'er, either share the world, or wrestle who wins and who sits.

At the worst, he can also remove the burden, return to Xi'an with gold, silver and jewelry to continue to be the king.

In the first battle of Taiyuan, he lost his troops and lost all his baggage, and only for more than a month, he attacked the city and plundered the land in Henan to loot gold and silver, packed his waist full, replenished the troops and restored his morale, and even a few wounded generals were healed.

The soldiers are strong, the grain and grass are sufficient, the morale is high, and the people are wanting!

Why don't I take the opportunity to take the world! On the south bank of the Qingshui River, Li Zicheng looked at Baoding City in the distance, his face was capricious, and Li Guo beside him was expressionless.

"Still thinking about that eunuch?" Li Zicheng turned his head and glanced at Li Guo: "The Ming Court is festering from head to toe to the end, it is not the power of one person, and a eunuch is not enough to mention" said and sneered: "Although the Ming Court won a small battle, it lost the overall situation!" ”

"The child is not thinking about the eunuch, as the father said, he is not enough to mention, the child is thinking about the traitor Li Yan" Li Guo gritted his teeth!

Li Yan's defection made the thief army hate it to the bone, and every time Li Zicheng thought about it, his forehead was swollen, and he couldn't wait to pick up his skin and cramp, regretting not listening to the cow dwarf!

Niu Short is the number one military advisor of the thief army, jealous of Li Yan's talent and affection, and always slanders in front of Li Zicheng, saying that it is not a thing in the pool, not a person of the same way, and it is necessary to kill it as soon as possible.

However, Li Zicheng became a lover, and it was difficult to break for a while, and finally became hate.

But than Li Yan, there is one person who makes Li Zicheng hate even more, and that is Chang Yu! At the beginning of the Battle of Taiyuan, I thought that it was Cai Maode and Zhou Yuji who were at the helm, but in the later stage, he finally turned out to be a fledgling little eunuch, but it was this little eunuch who beat him from beginning to end, assassinated Li Laiheng, captured the generals Li You, Bai Minghe, captured the general Liu Tiren, injured the general Ren Jirong, Ma Chongxi, and defeated his hundreds of thousands of troops, with countless casualties.

Li Zicheng has not suffered such a fiasco for more than ten years, Li Zicheng is ashamed, and he can't wait to eat his flesh and drink his blood, but where is this treacherous and insidious dead eunuch at this time?

Is it sitting in Taiyuan, or in Dingzhou, Li Zicheng looked westward, a few days ago under his command to report, a Ming army of about 30,000 horses from the west from Guguan out, straight to the northwest all the way invincible, along the way the thieves are unstoppable, and finally outside the city of Dingzhou was just broken by Ren Jirong and Ma Chongxi chased by the real Dingfu, the two sides fought a big battle, when the thief army was invincible, Luo Hu led the Zhenshan camp to hear the wind, the two sides fought fiercely on the bank of the Tang River outside Dingzhou City, and confronted each other across the river from north to south.

The Ming army from the west is Zhou Yujibu, since he is here, the little eunuch should not be far away, Li Zicheng didn't know that the little eunuch was still far away outside the pass and Dolgon killed the world upside down.

Seeing that Li Guo was also looking at the western night sky in a daze, Li Zicheng sighed: "Want to go? ”

"Since Zhou Yuji is here, then Li Yanying is also here, even the treacherous gelding dog is very likely to hide behind, and the child is afraid that Luo Hu will suffer."

Li Zicheng nodded slightly: "Then you will go tomorrow, as for here" said Baoding City in the north: "If he doesn't do it in three days, I will break the city!" ”

"Three more days?" At this time, Liu Zongmin came over with a wine jug and staggered, with a drunken face: "Lao Tzu is still in a hurry to go to the capital to play the queen of Emperor Ming, I heard that the princess is also tender and water...... What kind of north wind are you still drinking in this wilderness, if you want Lao Tzu to say that you are still waiting for a hairy three days, let's do it tonight......"

The wilderness was windy, the tent was blown and hunting, Chang Yu couldn't sleep, and he repeatedly got out of the tent, it was a little cold outside, but it was much better than outside the gate.

The camp of 1,000 people is not very big, there are more than ten bonfires around, several teams of patrols are interspersed with on duty, his tent is in the middle of the camp, Chen Wangting and other personal guards are divided around, and when they hear his movements, they all drill out and call out in a low voice.

Chang Yu snorted, signaled everyone to leave him alone, and walked towards the other side of the camp until he reached the logistics area of the family, and Luo Tang hurried to see him.

"Any wine?" Chang Yu asked.

Luo Tang shook his head, saying that alcohol is forbidden in the army, and there is no selfishness.

Chang Yu was silent, just staring at him. Luo Tang's eyes dodged, and he finally knelt down with a puff: "The factory forgives the sin."

Forgive what a crime, Chang Yu just came to order wine to drink, the wine in Luo Tang is the authentic second pot head of the capital, this wine pinched the head and tail to take the second pot in the middle, called the second pot head, it is a famous wine in the capital with a history of 800 years, and the hot heartburn is particularly strong, which is favored by the soldiers and heroes.

I don't know if this pot is the second pot head of Niulan Mountain, it was drunk by Chang Yu, and then fell asleep, almost unconscious, all the generals under his command were shocked, Jiang Fa sighed to Wu Zhong: "The enemy is around, and the wine is a song, how many people can have this kind of spirit in the world!" ”

Wu Zhong rolled his eyes: "Are you a ranger who has heard too many stories, and the gods are chattering day by day, and you can be blown into the sky just by drinking a wine, this kind of wine Lao Tzu can't pour three pots!" He licked his lips as he spoke.

"Don't feel uncomfortable with the body of sin" Fan Jiaqian passed by him, as if talking to himself, Wu Zhong withdrew his gaze from the logistics tent in Luotang in the distance, and waved his hand to the general: "Sleep, sleep, sleep, such a good wine, a sip of stuffy, ruined ......."

"Wuzhong, Wuzhong" Jia Waixiong suddenly walked over and whispered: "Let's go to Jiading's place to ask for some wine."

"Begging?" Wu Zhong raised his eyebrows.

"Yes!" Jia Waixiong's waist straightened up, and Wu Zhong squeezed his eyes to signal action.

Wu Zhong also squeezed his eyes, and then Jia Waixiong turned his head sideways and saw Hu Ling sneering beside him, and said: "I went to sleep, Wu Zhongyi warned you not to look for me in the future for this kind of thing that violates military regulations" said and slipped away like a rabbit.

Wu Zhong, me...... I just wanted to explain, and I saw Li Tiezhu coming with a smile, yes, he can't afford to provoke these people, he is all the henchmen of the little eunuch on private affairs, and he is in charge of military discipline, and he is in the hands of this man, no one will give face, even if his martial arts skills are invincible, he will not dare to make a mistake, and his two fists are difficult to defeat four hands, if he dares to use force, Chen Wangting, Jiang Fa, those big masters are decorations.

It's better to say less, sleep more, hey, the smell of wine is really tempting, Wu Zhong went back to the tent.