Yang Chengfu had a hunch that this was the best time to gain Zhao Dangshi's trust. Hou Dagui was originally just a small Wu Chang who did not enter the stream, but who knew that in just two or three months, he had climbed to the top of himself, and he was not majestic all day long. If there is something to do, Mr. Qian will discuss with him, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that the person surnamed Hou is already the second-in-command in the camp.

If you think about it, you still have to introspect. The surnamed Hou has been fearless of wind and rain all the way, and has repeatedly asked Ying to act as a sentry, on duty and even charging into battle, and escaped death several times. What about yourself? is often greedy for life and afraid of death, lazy and depressed, compared with Hou Dagui, he makes judgments. Not to mention that he still had the stain of escaping before.

Fortunately, Mr. Qian was kind to the old, and instead of punishing, he promoted himself to the rank of General Manager of Ma Jun. This kindness, how can it be repaid to say thank you and kowtow? You know, there are still many people down there who are looking at this position. He Yang Chengfu is also a humble man, and if he doesn't cheer up to repay his kindness, isn't he a beast? Whether it is for himself or for Zhao Dangshi, he must change his appearance.

Driven by a strong sense of crisis, Yang Chengfu was ruthless, selected ten backbones in the Ma Army outpost, and asked them to scatter outside Gao Jie's camp from far and near, monitor day and night, and report ten times a day, even if Gao Jie relieved himself, he had to report it as soon as possible.

The emperor lived up to his wishes, he was so diligent day and night, and he really gained something. One day, the scout came to report, saying that three horsemen had come out of Gao Jie's camp and headed east, and the scout secretly followed them for several miles, and only then did they withdraw when they saw them enter the area controlled by the officers and soldiers.

Yang Chengfu was greatly excited, swept away the tiredness of the past few days, and reported to Zhao Dangshi when the wind was blowing under his feet. At present, the officers and troops stationed in the east are He Renlong and Sun Shoufa, and it is very likely that Gao Jie has acted in the past two days.

The three horsemen stayed at He Renlong and Sun Shoufa for a day, and rushed back to the camp at night, but were captured by Yang Chengfu and others who had been waiting for a long time on the way. None of the three horses escaped.

In the face of interrogation, the three horsemen revealed the specific matters such as the time and route of surrender agreed by Gao Jie, He and Sun. This is also due to Zhao Dangshi intimidating these three people under the guise of Li Zicheng, if it is only in Zhao Dangshi's own name, they may not be willing to beg for mercy easily.

The three also provided another important piece of news: Liu Liangzuo was also going to surrender.

This Liu Liangzuo and Gao Jie came together to vote for Li Zicheng, and now they have surrendered to the official army together, and they are really good brothers who have always been together and never abandoned.

In the original history, Liu Liangzuo only sought an opportunity to return to the official army shortly after Gao Jie surrendered. Maybe because of Zhao Dangshi's birth, there was a small butterfly effect.

Zhao Dangshi only said that Chuang Wang Chuang would know that Gao Jie was against the water, and he would first clear the thieves, and then break the official army, and said that he was going to kill three people when he drew a knife. The three of them were so frightened that they were begging for mercy, calling them Gao Jie's coercion and temptation, and they didn't dare to disobey, if they were given a chance, they would reform and atone for their crimes.

When Zhao Dangshi heard this, he put away his knife, and said a few words of comfort, and immediately ordered the three of them to return to the camp as usual, and instructed Gao Jie to only mention the contact between the officials and the army, and not to show half of the abnormality. The lives of those three people hung by a thread, how could they not agree, nodded like pounding garlic, and hurriedly responded, Lian Dao must obey the orders of the generals, make meritorious contributions to the crime, and destroy the traitor Gao Jie.

From the three people, I learned that Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo defected to the enemy this time and were divided into two ways. Gao and Liu led the main force to go all the way, and Gao Jie's department took the gold, silver, jewelry, weapons, armor, money, food, cloth and other materials accumulated in Li Chengdong's operation to another dark road. Zhao Dangshi's goal is Li Chengdong's way.

Li Chengdong, nicknamed "Li Hezi" in the army, is brave and wise, and has won the trust of Gao Jie. However, wealth and wealth are in danger, how can you get extraordinary profits without taking risks? Zhao Dangshi is a bold person, and he does not retreat because of this.

After another two days, Li Zicheng routinely personally led the troops out of the camp to explore the surroundings, Gao Jie's troops quietly set off in the middle of the night, he was also thoughtful, from organizing the troops to leading the troops to leave the camp, many matters were thought about in advance, and the whole process was carried out extremely hidden, if it were not for Zhao Dangshi to send people to monitor, I am afraid that I would only see an empty camp when I got up in the morning.

Zhao Dangshi was repaid, sat in the camp and did not move, and only let Hou Dagui and Yang Chengfu reorganize the army to standby. After the scouts reported that Gao Jie's troops had gone away, Fang began to deploy troops and horses, and at the same time sent people to Liu Zongmin to inform Gao Jie of his defection.

Liu Zongmin was sleeping soundly with three or four women in his arms, and when he suddenly heard this, he was shocked, jumped up, and quickly ordered his subordinates to assemble. He first sent someone to check on Gao Jie's camp, and saw that in addition to the miscellaneous soldiers who didn't know, Gao Jie had already taken more than 50 Ding people to the camp, and then rushed to Zhao Dangshi to ask for details.

Zhao Dangshi was also confused, but he was also discovered by the soldiers on patrol, and he only learned about it. Li Zicheng was not in the camp, so Liu Zongmin made a decision on behalf of the plenipotentiary, and did not hesitate at the moment, leading the troops to chase after him. He chased the main force led by Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo, and Zhao Dangshi led people to chase Li Chengdong.

The night was vast, the trail was winding, and Li Chengdong took more than 100 people to take advantage of the moonlight to bury their heads and hurry. In addition to the 30 family soldiers, there are still dozens of pushers pushing dozens of sheephorn carts. The top of these caristers was covered with linen, and the bottom was piled up with various articles and grains, which were very heavy. A few pushers were slightly sluggish, and then they were subjected to a violent whipping.

Li Chengdong ordered the team to speed up as he looked back. At this time, there is already a way from the battalion of the eighth team, and after a while, they will enter the circle of influence of the official army, and Deputy General He and Sun Guerrilla will send troops and horses to meet them, so there is no need to worry about it anymore.

After so many years of hard work, Li Chengdong was very happy in his heart when he didn't think that he could turn into an official soldier in the end. He was still immersed in the fantasy of a bright future after Congliang, but there was a scream in the back of his head.

He had heard this voice countless times, and almost reflexively rolled off his horse and shouted: "Enemy attack! Although the action is fast, it is inevitable that he will be hit by an arrow in the ribs.

Li Chengdong's people were in a mess among the flying arrows, and they were out of control. Only after Li Chengdong desperately shouted did he panic and lit a torch to check. It was pitch black before, although there were arrows, but there were not many, and the current fire was a day, and it attracted ten thousand arrows when it landed, and there were countless arrows.

Li Chengdong swung his knife and cut off the handle of the arrow at his waist, and immediately ordered to push the crooks together, using the carts as a fence to form a semicircular defensive array, and at the same time gathered the archers and gunners to start a counterattack.

"Thieves' things, bad things!" Seeing that he was about to successfully escort the baggage, how could Li Chengdong not be angry and ruined after such a killing? But he was not idle, and soon made up his mind, and under his organization, his subordinates, who were originally in danger of collapse, gathered back together and relied on the chariot formation to resist.

Hou Dagui coveted the enemy in the dark, and admired this Li Chengdong in his heart, and at the same time, he didn't expect that this surnamed Li was indeed a bone that was difficult to gnaw. At that moment, he suspended the offensive and shouted: "Listen to the brothers in front, Gao Jie has defected and has nothing to do with the people. The palm of the plate has been sent to chase after the army, if you know each other, take off the sword and remove the armor as soon as possible, so as not to lose your life in vain! ”

shouted several times in a row, but Li Chengdong only ignored it, but instead beckoned left and right: "Give Lao Tzu a hard beating!" The guns under his command bombarded intensively in the direction where Hou Dagui's voice came from, and under this darkness, the hit rate of the projectile with a straight trajectory was undoubtedly much larger than that of an arrow with an arc trajectory. Hou Dagui didn't expect Li Chengdong to come with such a hand, only to hear the "whooshing" sound in his ears, and hurriedly crawled away, but a general manager next to him was hit by a bullet, and his head was covered with blood and was dragged behind.

"His grandmother's!" At the beginning of the war, he lost a hundred people, Hou Dagui was furious, this was the first time he led so many people to fight, the enemy was clear and I secretly suffered losses, such a performance reached Zhao Dangshi's ears, where is his image? In a fit of rage, he shouted and ordered his subordinates to charge, "Follow Lao Tzu at his mother!" ”

The first group of nearly 100 people rushed towards the car formation with swords, axes, guns and spears. Li Chengdong was unmoved, and strictly ordered his subordinates not to attack recklessly. When the other party was more than ten steps closer, Fang gave an order, accompanied by the sound of "crackling", and more than ten of the nearly 100 people who were charging were killed on the spot.

When the remaining soldiers of the Zhao battalion rushed to the front of the car formation, Li Chengdong had already changed into a spearman to guard the front. They continued to stab their spears through the gaps in the sheep's horn carts, reaping the lives of the soldiers of the Zhao battalion who were about to climb the cart and jump into the formation. The two sides were separated by a car formation, and Hou Dagui's side failed to break through, but suffered a lot of losses. After losing a fifth of their men, the first Zhao battalion soldiers to charge could only retreat.

While blocking the pursuing troops, Li Chengdong did not forget to send people to continue to ask for help to the east - there was no obstacle on the way forward, as long as he continued to hold on, and when the official reinforcements arrived, he could still preserve this batch of supplies.

Hou Dagui soon organized a second wave of offensives. This time he learned his lesson and put the archers in front, with the axemen following closely behind, slowly advancing. The arrows fired from the bow went around the carister, hitting the soldiers of the high battalion who were crouching behind it.

Li Chengdong was unwilling to be beaten, and remobilized his guns to shoot back. Most of his subordinates were bird-bearers, and there were not many bows and arrows. Although the power is great, the range is much worse. This is not to say that the bird shot not far, but Hou Dagui was quite cunning, and only let the archers be listed at eighty or ninety paces. At this distance, coupled with the fact that the soldiers of the Zhao battalion were in the dark, the soldiers of the high battalion holding the bird guns in their hands were obviously inaccurate when firing.

The opponent's archers were constantly firing arrows, and it took a long time for the guns in the chariot array to reload. Not only the sheep's horn car, but the ground in front of Li Chengdong was also full of arrow handles, and he felt that it was not a way to sit still like this, so he ordered a group of people to cross the car to fight hand-to-hand, intending to disperse the archers on the opposite side.

This is just in the heart of Hou Dagui, he has already prepared men and horses on the left and right, at this time the soldiers of the high battalion came out of their shells, and immediately commanded the pincer to attack, and the two melee together.

During the melee, Hou Dagui's archers could still shoot and injure the enemy troops in front and behind, while Li Chengdong's gunners could only stare dryly. Li Chengdong soon realized that he had made a big mistake, and it was too late to make amends. The soldiers of the high battalion who went out of the battle were entangled by the other party and couldn't get out at all, and if they wanted to regain the initiative, they could only retreat into the formation, but in this way, the lives of those soldiers who went out of the battle were given away in vain. Li Chengdong didn't want to watch his own soldiers being surrounded and annihilated, so he could only continue to draw troops from the formation to help, and even push his porters to push all the feet, hoping to defeat the opponent outside the formation.

Hou Dagui's centaurs are like magnets. continues to attract Li Chengdong to add troops. As the defenders in the chariot formation continued to dwindle, the chariot formation he set up was also useless, and a defensive battle had now evolved into a complete melee.

Hou Dagui took the lead, and rushed to the front with a sword. There are many others, and they are all competing for the first place, and they are not inferior to Gao Ying in terms of momentum. The two sides advance and I retreat, you retreat and I advance, and they have been fighting for a long time, and it is difficult to distinguish between victory and defeat.

Li Chengdong was anxious and kept looking ahead. It was still dark and silent, and he wished that he could rush out of there at this time and help him out of the siege.

The small army in front of him is easy to deal with, but the other party also said that the large army of the general is on the road, and if it can't meet with the officers and troops who respond as soon as possible, it will be more than auspicious to drag it down. Li Chengdong observed the battle situation while silently praying for reinforcements to arrive as soon as possible.

Perhaps it was his sincerity that had an effect, and suddenly, from the darkness of the road to the east, there seemed to be the sound of horses' hoofs in a hurry.

Li Chengdong thought that he had a mental problem, patted his face and listened carefully, it was clear that someone was coming.

Reinforcements have arrived!

He was overjoyed and was about to shout loudly to encourage his own army and deter the enemy, but he rode out of the dark shadow in the east first, and at the same time threw two human heads flying over: "Li Hezi, look what is this?" ”

picked up the heads left and right to check, and then said with a bitter face: "Oh no, reinforcements are coming!" ”

The two heads belonged to the messenger who had been sent out earlier to ask for help. Li Chengdong shouted angrily, and Zhang Gong shot at the man, scolding: "Zhao Dangshi, you maid, do such pickled things." Lao Tzu has no grievances or hatred with you, why bother with each other! The two battalions were not far apart, and he recognized that the arrogant knight was Zhao Dangshi.

Zhao Dangshi didn't answer, his head flashed, and with a wave of his hand, dozens of cavalry behind him churned and rushed over. Li Chengdong saw that he couldn't stop it, so he flew on his horse and left-the soldiers on his left and right had been sent to the melee at this moment, and the guards had few personal soldiers and could not resist.

Originally, in history, Li Chengdong was willing to be an eagle dog, shot Emperor Longwu to death for the Qing court, captured Emperor Shaowu alive, and single-handedly instigated the three slaughters of Jiading. Such a capricious, fierce and vicious person, Zhao Dangshi does not intend to let it go easily. He left most of his men and horses to flank the soldiers of the high battalion, and led seven or eight horsemen to chase Li Chengdong.

Li Chengdong rode his horse in a saddle, and his followers gradually thinned out, and in the end, only a single rider was left to flee for his life. He found that Zhao Dangshi was chasing after him, and he was bitter in his heart. Seeing that he was about to be caught up, a Biao army rushed out of the diagonal and knocked him directly under the horse.