A bowl of head-killing wine, Liu Weiming's haze in the past few days was swept away, he raised the corner of his eyes, tried to turn sideways, and smiled at the white dragon standing on the side: "Brother, do it." After saying that, he honestly put his head on the stake.

Two lines of hot tears poured out of Bai Jiaolong's eyes in an instant. Although he was very contemptuous of Liu Weiming's behavior, in this situation, more than ten years of brotherhood came to his heart, and he was not allowed to be unmoved. The ghost head knife in his hand also trembled slightly, as if he had the same heart, and he was unwilling to do this thing of being a comrade.

"Brother, come on, give me a good time, send me on my way." Liu Weiming's eyes were wide open, smiling and urging. The line of sight swept under the high platform, layer upon layer, and there were all the soldiers of the Zhao Battalion standing upright.

Unintentionally, his eyes swept to a young and resolute face, it was Zhao Dangshi, the master of Zhao Ying, and his former lord. In an instant, the bloody battle against Luo Wenyuan under the mountain, the pursuit and attack on Dazhou, and the rejection of the soil soldiers by Shizhou Weili flashed through Liu Weiming's mind. He let out a long sigh and slowly closed his eyes.

"Let's go, brother!"

The knife fell, and the blood splashed on the military flag of hunting in the wind, and Liu Weiming's head was in a different place.

Zhao Dangshi turned his back, did not follow the old practice to verify the head, and walked through the crowd with a straight face. Liu Weiming can't help but kill, "Those who betray my Zhao Ying, although they are far away, will be punished." Afterwards, Zhao Dangshi said such a sentence. It's not long, it's concise. With Liu Weiming as an example, Zhao Ying, up and down, from thousands of generals to small pawns, everyone who heard this sentence was extremely shocked in their hearts. After coming to Yunyang, the military spirit that gradually began to fluctuate was also reorganized.

Zhao Dangshi had no intention of implicating others in the matter of sweeping the king, in fact, except for Liu Weiming, no one was really willing to betray Zhao Ying. Therefore, the waves caused by this incident quickly subsided, and no other negative effects were triggered.

After discussing with the generals, Zhao Dangshi decided to give Bai Wang the post of general. Bai Wang is a candidate highly recommended by Hou Dagui, he is brave and calm, and his performance in the past two days is enough to reassure. Anyway, the promise of owing him a reward didn't work, and Zhao Dangshi pushed the boat down the river and promoted him to a level, which was reasonable.

Bai Wang is grateful, he has been fighting for more than ten years, and he has been with more than a dozen forces, large and small, only Zhao Dangshi really treats him as a character. Shi died for his confidant, Bai Wang was introverted, but he also had a heart of pride and enthusiasm, he only felt that his life was Zhao Dangshi's from now on.

On the second day after Liu Weiming's death, King Chuang's military order arrived, and the whole army moved westward. This military order came in a hurry, and there was a reason for it.

The reason why Gao Yingxiang couldn't enter the Zhao camp that day and left in a hurry with Liu Zhe was actually because Mu Gongchun's plan to "drive the tiger and devour the wolf" worked.

The scorpion block Tuoyangkun did not live up to the "expectations" of Liu Zhe and Mu Gongchun, and stared at Zhang Yichuan, the sweeping king, early in the morning. Zhang Yichuan's forward army and horses had just left the camp, so he was impatient, ordered people, and raided the five camps of the sweeping king. Zhang Yichuan's main force did not come out, and after a hurry, he relied on his strength advantage to regain some initiative. The two sides fought for half a day, with a lot of casualties, if Gao Yingxiang hadn't arrived in time to persuade peace, I was afraid that Zhang and Tuo had really reached the point where they were inseparable, and they would not have stopped if they didn't fight to the death.

Zhang Yichuan lost his wife and broke his troops, angry and hateful, and was even more afraid that Tuoyangkun would be angry again, so he didn't greet anyone, broke away from the camp, and left the army that night, and went north from Shangjin to Shanyang and Zhen'an.

The chaos here is over, and Liu Guoneng has also had an accident over there. On the same day, Liu Guoneng reconnoitred Zhang Yichuan and Tuoyangkun in the west, intending to fish in troubled waters, and led thousands of soldiers and horses to dispatch. Unexpectedly, he encountered the official army Qin Yiming in Yunxi County. Because of the hurry, the sentinel was unfavorable, and the officers and troops took the lead, and after the fierce battle, they were defeated, and several of their capable generals Black Demon God and Flying Tiger were all killed, and they didn't even dare to go back to their own camp, so they hid directly in the camp for shelter.

Gao Yingxiang didn't know the inside story, but Liu Zhe was bitter. The plan of killing two birds with one stone is to kill chickens and eggs, Zhao Ying is safe and sound, but Liu Guoneng is very moved, it can really be said that stealing chickens is not a loss of rice. Mu Gongchun got the news and took the initiative to ask Liu Zhe for the blame, but fortunately, Liu Zhe was generous, sighed, and no longer pursued it. It was only later that I found some rumors from Gao Yingxiang, and I realized that the reason why Zhao Dangshi was able to get past him and successfully make an appointment with Gao Yingxiang was actually to take Han Gon's path. Han Gon is different from others, he is not only a strong general in his own camp, but also has to be loved by Gao Yingxiang. With his face, Gao Yingxiang will happily rush to Zhao Ying.

Thinking back about the matter again, Liu Zhe couldn't help but be frightened, and while thinking about it, he sighed that Zhao Dangshi was really bold. Combining the situation of the Land Temple with the situation of Zhao Yingbei's Yuanmen, Liu Zhe determined that it was not an accident that Zhao Dangshi would fall into the siege of the sweeping king's forward, but he had carefully planned it. It is very likely that he is betting that Gao Yingxiang can arrive in time to relieve the siege, so he did not even let out his own soldiers and horses, and completely pretended to be an innocent victim. And this dangerous plan finally succeeded, and he survived this crisis safely.

Mu Gongchun couldn't help shaking his head when he heard what happened. The barefoot are not afraid of wearing shoes, no matter how careful their minds are, they can't prevent Zhao Dangshi from having a bear's heart and leopard gall, and he makes dangerous moves. He thought that his debut was not a last resort, and he had never failed like this, so he was ashamed, and remembered the name "Zhao Dangshi" in his heart.

The march was imminent, although Liu Zhe and Mu Gongchun sighed, but they were forced by the situation, so they had to press the mind of competing with Zhao Dangshi again.

The camp is like a big ship, when it doesn't move, it is like a mountain, but if you want to move, small fish and shrimp like Zhao Ying, who are attached to the bottom of the boat and accept shelter, have to move with it.

According to Gao Yingxiang's deployment, because Zhang Yichuan, the sweeping king, and other troops had already gone north, after the army assembled on the north bank of the Han River, they set out one after another, and went west along the river, and the destination was Hanzhong. In this operation, Gao Yingxiang and Tuoyangkun were the main forces. In order to avenge Yunxi's defeat at Qin Yiming's hands, Liu Guoneng took the initiative to stay in the Yunyang area, and was not only responsible for liaising with Lao Huihui, Cao Cao and other battalions who were still wandering in Xiangyang and Junzhou, but also shouldered the important task of responding to the Shaanxi-Yun channel and dredging in the center.

As the new attached army of the camp, Zhao Ying did not continue to stay in Yunyang, and followed the camp from the order, and coordinated with Zhang Miao's hand to be responsible for the security of the right flank of the army.

When most of the camp withdrew from Yunyang and entered Shaanxi, it was mid-April. During this period, Qin Yiming, Deng Zuyu and other officers and soldiers tried their best to obstruct the march into the camp, but they were all intercepted by Liu Guoneng. Liu Guoneng learned the lessons of the previous times, and did not fight with the officers and troops, but only continued to feint and distract the attention of the officers and troops, making it impossible for them to pursue with all their might. Later, although they were defeated by Qin Yiming and Deng Zuyu in Nanzhang and Yunyang respectively, they were well prepared and retreated in time, and the losses were not large.

Lu Xiangsheng drove Gao Yingxiang from the west to the east, and then drove back to the west from the east, and planned several provincial officials and troops for thousands of miles, but in fact, he was also a little powerless. Therefore, Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Yichuan went out of Yun in two ways, and his deployment was largely unable to keep up with the rapid changes in the current situation. With the failure of Qin Yiming and other troops, he judged the situation and did not continue to wait and see in Xiangyang, Yunyang, Nanyang and other places, but returned to Luoyang, gathered all the officers and troops, and rearranged the arrangement.

The eastern end of Shaanxi was defeated for many years, and the population withered, and the army broke into the camp directly crossed Xing'an, Pingli and Xunyang, and arrived at the boundary of Shiquan and Hanyin.

Speaking of which, an important motive for Gao Yingxiang to enter Shaanxi was to rendezvous with the general Li Zicheng, but the battle situation made it difficult for him to achieve this expectation in a short time.

Since Lu Xiangsheng, the premier of the military affairs of the five provinces, and Hong Chengchou split up to suppress the Kou, "the governor runs the northwest, and the minister runs the southeast", Gao Yingxiang's life is not easy, and Li Zicheng's situation is even worse. With Lu Xiangsheng sharing the pressure, Hong Chengchou was able to free up his hands and "dictate himself". Yu Chongxiao, Zuo Guangxian, He Renlong, Sun Shoufa, and other people from all walks of life in Shaanxi fought very hard under his supervision; from August last year to the present, Li Zicheng and the starry Zhou Qing were defeated in successive battles, and they were wandering around Shaanxi, and there was almost no peace, and life was very sad. So much so that the second battalion of the Tianxing changed banners and surrendered several times, although they all rebelled later, it also reflected the difficult situation of Li Zicheng and others.

By the way, the nickname of Zhang Tianlin, who followed the eighth team to participate in the encirclement and annihilation of Cao Wenzhao in Hutou Town, is also called "Guo Tianxing", but first of all, his strength is not strong, and secondly, he has gradually been absorbed by the eighth team, so now when everyone mentions "Guo Tianxing", they think of Hui Dengxiang, who is known as the "Three Giants of Northern Shaanxi" with Li Zicheng and Zhou Qing, who is full of stars.

Li Zicheng and other battalions were trapped on the ground north of Xi'an, and it was difficult to communicate with the news, and Gao Yingxiang did not want to act rashly before getting further information about the battle situation, so he ordered each battalion to be stationed in Shiquan and Hanyin counties in the nearest places, one to wait and see, and the other to rest and recuperate.

Approaching June, for a whole month, the camp army was distributed in a radius of hundreds of miles in the east of the Han Dynasty, the military discipline was good to fight grain and plunder, the military discipline was not good to rape and kill, Shiquan, Hanyin outside the city withered and slaughtered like a tomb, except for the occasional bustling passing by of the battalion soldiers, not a single living creature on the official road could be seen.

Zhao Dangshi did not let go of this rare respite. Out of the mud but not stained, clear ripples but not demons, the words of the scholar. Development is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat, Zhao Ying wants to maintain the current weather, and even further expand the scale, it is impossible to be high, everywhere abnormal. Due to the constraints of military discipline, compared with other battalion leaders, Zhao Ying's style is already excellent. People don't kill, houses don't burn, but the work of catching food is not less, and even the strength can be ranked in the forefront of the camps. For this, Zhao Dangshi has already figured it out. Survival is Zhao Ying's top priority at this stage, and the rest of the "freezing to death without demolishing the house, starving to death without plundering" and the like are still illusory. Only by being pragmatic can we make progress, and only by living can we have hope and possibility of change.

Because of his own hard work, Gao Yingxiang deliberately took care of it, and Zhao Ying's strength expanded rapidly. After absorbing and annexing some small forces, the number of Zhao Ying's soldiers once reached 10,000. However, according to the current load capacity of Zhao Ying, it is difficult for so many people to absorb all of them, so after the elimination and elimination of personnel, it is better to make up for the shortage of the middle, front, and left battalions first, and to establish a new battalion, and we will talk about it later. Even so, after such a supplement, Zhao Ying's existing strength has actually exceeded 6,000, becoming the "middle class" among the rogues.

Li Zicheng's side didn't break the game for a long time, Gao Yingxiang couldn't bear the loneliness, and hit Hanzhong City once halfway. Zhao Ying did not participate. Later, I heard that on the day of the siege, it suddenly rained heavily, and dozens of artillery pieces prepared by the official army on the city were damp and dumb, Gao Yingxiang's younger brother "Zhongdouxing" Gao Yingen and his brother-in-law and the number one general of the camp "Fanshan Harrier" Tuo Pangao - this "Fanshan Harrier" is not Gao Jie's "Mountain Harrier" also - the two took advantage of the rain to almost break through the city, but Hong Chengchou's Gansu general Liu Shaozong led 3,000 soldiers and horses to come to the aid in time to defeat the besieging army, Gao Yingxiang for the sake of insurance, did not fight again, and led the troops to withdraw to Shiquan.

Soon after, news came from the north, good news and bad news. The good news is that Yu Chongxiao, the general soldier of Yansui, carelessly underestimated the enemy after defeating the Tianxing Huideng Prime Minister in Sorghum, and relied on Gao Guangdou, the governor of Yansui, to help him in the rear, so he waved his troops to race, but unexpectedly fell into the heavy siege of Li Zicheng and Hui Dengxiang, and died in defeat, with 3,000 soldiers and horses under his jurisdiction, including more than 1,000 veterans and elite soldiers.

Gao Yingxiang was overjoyed when he heard this, but then after hearing the bad news, his heart was half cold.

The bad news happened just after Yu Chongxiao's death. Guided by the surrendered officers and soldiers, Li Zicheng found rice fat from Jing'er Mountain and wanted to sneak attack the county seat. I didn't want to know that Wen Yingxing of the county was brave and couldn't resist, so he had no choice but to change his hexagram and attack Yulin, and sent spies into the city in advance, but because he acted hastily, He Renlong learned in advance that he was ambushed at the foot of Woyang Mountain in Zhenchuan Fort. Li Zicheng did not know, went to Yulin, was defeated by the ambush army, and the officers and troops who had surrendered turned against each other, echoed inside, and collapsed like a landslide. Heavy rain that day, the Wuding River overflowed, the Liukou panicked, and drowned countless people, in the end, only Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin escaped with hundreds of horses. Fortunately, Gao Yigong has just recruited more than 10,000 people from Guyuan to come to the meeting, and Li Zicheng will not have no family funds. But it is impossible to say that with these new 10,000 people and a few old battalion soldiers and horses going south through Guanzhong to join the army in Hanzhong, it is absolutely impossible.

Gao Yingxiang, who had no hope of meeting the eighth team, was a little depressed for a while, and at the end of the month, under the persuasion of Liu Zhe, he launched two battles, and successively attacked Shiquan and Hanyin counties. Shi Quan snapped his fingers, Gao Yingxiang in order to vent his anger, the soldiers slaughtered in the city for three days and three nights, after the knife was sealed, there were almost no heyers in the city, miserable as hell. The soldiers and civilians of Hanyin fought to the death, attacked for a few days, but there was no progress, Gao Yingxiang did not want to delay any longer, and immediately lifted the siege.

Zhao Ying did not participate in these two battles.

Soon entered the middle of June, Zhao Dangshi has been training soldiers these days, and the food and grass are not sufficient, and he will be safe in the short term. Without the pressure of the battle, he had a very comfortable life, which can almost be called the most comfortable time for Zhao Dangshi in recent years.

On this day, there was a heavy haze in the camp, and the sergeants were resting in the tent, Zhang Miaoshou suddenly came to the door in person, saying that King Chuang had a meeting and asked Zhao Dangshi to go with him.

Gao Yingxiang was finally about to move, Zhao Dangshi jumped up, and his long-lazy body instantly regained his vitality.