Since the establishment of the independent army based on the hundreds of elites in Liangshanbo, it has repeatedly performed miraculous feats, is invincible, invincible, and is the trump card force in the hands of Zheng Fei, but in the mouth of the killing wind Li Gang's ambush, more than half of the casualties were killed and wounded, and suffered the first and most serious casualties, Zheng Fei was simply distressed to the extreme, and at the same time he was extremely self-reproachful, blaming himself for rushing forward, if it was not for the main force behind him in time, the Song army did not continue to fight regardless of casualties, the independent army is likely to face annihilation, and he will also be killed or even captured by the Song army.

Zheng Fei ordered the whole army to stop advancing, and held a military meeting on the spot at the killing of the wind, because since Li Gang had already arrived at the Daimyo's Mansion and commanded the Song army to set up an ambush to give Zheng Fei a shot at Ma Wei, Zheng Fei's original intention of rushing to the Daimyo's Mansion was no longer valid, and it was useless to rush over in a hurry.

At the meeting, Zheng Fei made a profound review to all the staff, saying that he always reminded everyone to win and not be arrogant and discouraged in everything, but he didn't expect that he was the first to make the mistake of pride and complacency, and he had direct and unshirkable responsibility for the fiasco of the Independence Army. He had already written a "letter of guilt" and ordered people to print and distribute tens of thousands of copies, and after it was printed, it would be circulated to the whole army, so that the whole army could take it as a warning.

Everyone was surprised, Wu Yong hurriedly stopped him, and said, "The commander must not be, in this way, it may affect your status in the eyes of the soldiers!" ”

Zheng Fei said resolutely without question, "Don't I say that the soldiers don't understand what's going on?" Didn't I say that Song Jun would also not say it? Deliberate concealment and beautification will only make the soldiers despised, and will even be used by the enemy to affect morale. On the contrary, only by honestly admitting their mistakes can the soldiers truly understand what happened, and can learn from this incident and take it as a warning! Rather than the so-called status, I would like everyone to remember the lesson and die fewer brothers in the future! ”

Everyone was moved when they heard this,

Some people proposed to change the "Killing Storm" to "Shafengkou" to remove bad luck, but Zheng Fei vetoed it, not only did not change the name, but also erected a bigger monument, engraved the three words "Killing Wind" bigger, and engraved the names of more than 3,000 fallen soldiers of the Independent Army on it, which will always be erected there as a warning monument.

Five days later, Zheng Fei re-ordered, and the whole army continued to advance, heading towards the Daimyo's Mansion.

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Li Gang led the Song army back to the Daimyo's mansion, and the news of the victory spread all over the place in an instant, although it was only a small victory, but only thousands of enemies were killed, but it was the ace army of the thieves who was defeated, and it almost eliminated the thief leader Zheng Linfeng, so the significance it brought was actually comparable to a big victory.

Of course, Li Gang deliberately did not disclose the real casualties, only saying that the Song army lost 700 people, but in fact, the number of Song army casualties was as high as 7,000, which is why he must order people to take away all the corpses of Song soldiers when retreating, which is a battle that the Song army "loses".

In short, no matter what, Li Gang's goal was achieved, the Song army was deeply encouraged, and the morale quickly rebounded.

Yao Gu also completely convinced Li Gang, although he knew that the Song army was actually defeated in this battle, but it was worth it to exchange 7,000 lives for the overall morale of the Song army, and he also knew that Li Gang was not entirely to blame for such a large number of casualties in this battle, after all, it was the ace army of the thieves that he encountered, and its combat effectiveness was beyond imagination.

But Yao Gu didn't know the real purpose of Li Gang's fight in this battle, Li Gang's purpose was not just to break the myth of the invincibility of the Heavenly Dao Army, nor was it simply to restore the morale and courage of the Song army, his other important starting point was to completely annihilate the vanguard of the enemy army in this battle, the so-called total annihilation, that is, to kill all, not even a prisoner, but also to kill in a different way, so as to provoke the thieves, and then make the thieves lose their minds and at the same time cut off the retreat of Yao Gu and the Northwest Army to surrender to the enemy, Because he never really believed Yao Gu's words from beginning to end! Any loyalty can be changed, as long as the cost is large enough.

However, although this goal was not achieved, it was able to kill thousands of people in the personal guards of the thief leader Zheng Linfeng, forcing Zheng Lin to risk his life, which also played the same role, Li Gang thought that the thief leader Zheng Linfeng must be annoyed and angry, and soon followed to launch a fierce attack on the Daimyo's Mansion to retaliate, as soon as he returned to the Daimyo's Mansion, he immediately arranged troops and prepared for it, who expected, the next few days outside the Daimyo's Mansion was calm, and not even a ghost came, Li Gang couldn't help but wonder, Didn't you kill Zheng Linfeng in a battle, and the thieves had already withdrawn? And as the front-line scouts kept reporting back to Li Gangcai, the thieves did not withdraw their troops, but stationed in the area of the killing wind.

Li Gang suddenly had a very bad feeling, and immediately sent more scouts to spy on the situation of the thief, when he learned that the thief was sending someone to carve a larger stone tablet at the mouth of the killing wind, still named "the mouth of the killing wind", his brows immediately furrowed, and when he got a piece of paper that was said to have been blown out of the wind from the enemy barracks, and saw the three big characters of "The Book of Guilt" printed on the paper and all the contents, his expression looked as ugly as eating a fly!

Li Gang understood that he had met an opponent this time, a really terrible opponent, that Zheng Linfeng's terrible not lies in his strength, nor in his cunning, but in his calmness, his series of actions clearly show that he is a very good at finding problems, and has the courage and wisdom to face the problem, such a person is difficult to have weaknesses, you let him be fooled last time, no matter how much loss this time he made, he will not lose his mind, but will be more vigilant with attention than he has been several times more vigilant to you, Never fall for your second time!

Li Gang regretted it a little, he knew that this was the case, he should have annihilated Zheng Linfeng at any cost at the beginning of the killing outlet, but the regret medicine was not sold, and he had no time to regret it, he seized the time to continue to organize the Song army to make the final preparations for the upcoming war, and on the other hand, he mobilized the people and gathered the heroes in the city to participate in the defense of the city.

At noon on the sixth day, when the Song army, who had been highly stressed for several days, was inevitably tired, the dark clouds covering the sky suddenly rose from the horizon, and the rumbling sound was faintly heard.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of a loud warning gong resounded throughout the Daimyo's Mansion,

The army of thieves has finally arrived!

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Zheng Fei led an army of 500,000 to the front of the Daimyo's mansion, set up camp, arranged troops, and surrounded the Daimyo's mansion.

Everyone thought that Zheng Fei would attack immediately, but Zheng Fei was not ready to do so, if there was no Li Gang before, he would definitely launch an attack to coerce Yao Gu and the Northwest Army to surrender, but now with Li Gang, this matter is full of variables, once the war starts, it is very likely to face the situation of fighting to the death with the Northwest Army.

As a last resort, Zheng Fei never wanted to destroy the Northwest Army, emotionally speaking, the Northwest Army was all Han compatriots, who had made great sacrifices for the Han nation to defend the northwest for generations, and was a respectable army; In the long run, the Northwest Army can fight well, especially in the desert Gobi with the Dangxiang people, if it can be used for its own use, it will definitely come in handy in the future when conquering the Western Xia. Moreover, fighting to the death with the Northwest Army is bound to hurt the feelings of the Seed Master Dao and Liu Fa and the nearly 100,000 former Northwest Descending Army. Therefore, Zheng Fei decided to adopt the strategy of first persuading the surrender and then besieging the city, as long as he could force the nearly 100,000 Northwest Army in the Daimyo's Mansion, especially Li Gang and Liu Fa, the more than 100,000 Northwest Army scattered elsewhere would not attack and surrender obediently.

For Zheng Fei's decision, most people were very surprised, only the seed master Dao and Liu Fa secretly breathed a sigh of relief, they have been worried about what kind of anger the commander who experienced the fiasco of killing the tiger's mouth will vent his anger on the Northwest Army, although they have completely surrendered to the Heavenly Dao Army, but if they want to pick up the sword in their hands and fight to the death with their former comrades-in-arms, they will obey the order, but they will also be in pain! And now that Zheng Fei really kept his promise to them, Master Dao and Liu Fa were both moved, and the two knelt down on Zheng Fei together, expressing their most sincere gratitude to Zheng Fei on behalf of all their subordinates.

Zheng Fei helped the two of them up and handed them over the matter of persuasion to surrender.

Seed Master Dao and Liu Fa did not dare to delay, and quickly wrote a letter of persuasion in the name of the two of them, and sent someone to shoot the tower of the Daimyo's Mansion with arrows.

But the result was as Zheng Fei expected, Li Gang and Yao Gu categorically refused to surrender, and Yao Gu personally scolded the seed master Dao and Yao Gu on the city tower for being traitors, and threatened to crush them and the thief leader Zheng Linfeng to ashes!

Seed Master Dao and Liu Fa still did not give up, and continued to write persuasion letters, and the two of them also came to the city tower in person to persuade them, but they were greeted by arrows like raindrops.

After more than ten times of hard work, the seed master Dao and Liu Fa finally understood helplessly and sadly that persuasion to surrender all the way would not work, in this case, the call for war within the Tiandao Army became more and more high, and many people thought that even if they were persuaded to surrender, they had to give the Song army a little color to see, and beat them hard, so that they knew that it hurt, and only then did they know that it was bad,

Zheng Fei couldn't help but be a little shaken, after thinking about it, he agreed, but it was a pity that there was a natural moat in front of the Daimyo's Mansion, which was wide and deep, and he couldn't take the previous method to dig tunnels to blow up the city tower, so he ordered people to lay hundreds of catapults outside the Daimyo's Mansion, throwing stones into the city every day, mixed with some fire oil bombs,

Since then, thick smoke has been billowing out of the Daimyo's Mansion every day, and it can even be said that if Zheng Fei hadn't been compassionate and couldn't bear the people in the city to be harmed by the fire, he would have been fully qualified to turn most of the Daimyo's Mansion into a sea of fire!

But even so, the Song army in the city is still holding on, resolutely not surrendering, and not coming out to fight to the death.

In a blink of an eye, the Heavenly Dao Army has been besieging the Daimyo's Mansion for more than a month, but the progress is no different from before it came, the Heavenly Dao Army is starting to become tired, and what's worse is that the weather is gradually getting colder, and the situation seems to be more and more unfavorable to the Heavenly Dao Army.

Zheng Fei's patience had begun to drain rapidly, and just as he was gradually inclined to attack, unexpectedly, an unexpected situation suddenly appeared .......