Seeing that Li Zicheng was silent, Liu Zongmin couldn't help but say: "King Chuang, look at this posture, it won't take a few days for the Jiang Ning army to come over, what should we do?" ”

After that, he looked at Li Zicheng with some concern, for fear that this impulse would choose to resist hard.

"What else, let's go?"

Unexpectedly, Li Zicheng did not carry it hard, but chose to retreat very happily, which also surprised Li Zongmin, who was originally going to persuade him.

Li Zicheng glanced at Liu Zongmin and said in a deep voice: "What...... Do you wonder why I didn't stay in the city, but walked away as usual? ”

"Indeed!"

Li Zongmin replied honestly.

Li Zicheng pointed to the chair next to him: "Brother Zongmin, sit down." ”

"King Xie Chuang!"

Liu Zongmin sat down at this time.

"Thank you, thank you, it's all your own brother."

Li Zicheng waved his hand disapprovingly, sat down, and then sighed lightly: "Brother Zongmin, our righteous army has fallen to this step of the field today, and it has nothing to do with me. ”

"King Chuang, what does it have to do with you?" Liu Zongmin hurriedly said: "Our righteous army is doing the way for the sky, and what we originally did was to lick the blood with a knife. Didn't King Lao Chuang die in the hands of the Jiangning Army like this, and there were still fewer people in our righteous army who died in the hands of the officers and soldiers of the court over the years? It's all fate, and it has nothing to do with you. ”

"Brother Zongmin, you don't have to comfort me." Hearing Liu Zongmin say this, Li Zicheng's face finally looked better, and he pondered for a moment before he said: "Brother Zongmin, I finally figured it out in the past two days, we are not the opponents of the Jiangning Army at all, and it is not possible to fight hard, and the only way we can fight against the officers and soldiers is to run...... If we run away after grabbing a place, we must not fight hard with the officers and men, otherwise the consequences will be as complete as before. ”

"King Chuang is so right." Liu Zongmin slapped his thigh: "Our rebels are all bitter haha, there are no firearms or artillery, and there is no endless supply of food and supplies.

The only thing we are better than the officers and soldiers is that we can not only endure hardships but also run, as long as the officers and soldiers chase us, we will drill into the deep mountains and old forests, I don't believe it, those pampered Jiangning troops will run to those places where birds don't to chase us.

If they dare to chase after them, then don't blame us for being polite, we can drag them, drag them fat and thin, and drag them down! ”

"Exactly." Li Zicheng's face finally showed a rare smile, "It seems that we are really heroes, and your words have reached my heart."

Just do this, and later you will immediately scatter all the outposts, and the investigation must be at least eighty miles away, and once you find any trace of the Jiang Ning Army, you will report it immediately, so that we will have enough time to prepare. ”

"I have written down the words of King Chuang!"

The two discussed for a while, and then Liu Zongmin walked out, and Li Zicheng sent him to the door in a rare way.

After Liu Zongmin returned to his residence, his cousin Liu Zongliang hurriedly came over to inquire about what happened just now after hearing the news, Liu Zongmin said what Li Zicheng said just now, and finally said: "Zongliang, King Chuang has made up his mind to go, and he has sent us an envoy, and you will arrange it immediately, and transfer another hundred people from our camp to search." ”

Liu Zongliang was very unhappy and said: "Big brother, King Chuang is uneasy and kind, he has the most men and horses, why even send a few sentinels to let us go, he still has more than 20,000 old battalion soldiers and horses under his hands, and he always nests in the old camp all day long, I really don't know what these waste soldiers can do." ”

"You know what." Liu Zongmin glared at his cousin, "How important is the responsibility of the sentinel, King Chuang is telling me that he has put the safety of the righteous army in our hands, and this is a show of goodwill to me." ”

"Uh...... There's something else to say. Liu Zongliang suddenly realized, but he immediately said a little strangely: "Hit, didn't you say that King Chuang was already a little jealous of you, why is it like this now?" ”

Liu Zongmin sighed and said: "There is no way, our righteous army suffered heavy losses in the first battle of Hangzhou Mansion, and even Yuan Zongdi was killed in battle." It can be said that now that the rebels have reached the point of life and death, if we are still intriguing like before, I am afraid that this is the place where we will be buried. ”

"Won't it?" Liu Zongliang was a little unconvinced, "I admit that the Jiangning Army is really powerful, and we can't beat them, but can't we still run if we can't beat them?" I don't believe it, we can't beat the Jiangning army on the flat ground, but can they still be so powerful in the mountains?

It's not that I'm boasting, if they dare to follow, just going around in circles will kill them. ”

Liu Zongmin bowed his head and said: "Second brother, your idea is really good, but there is a premise here, we must have a large amount of food ourselves, otherwise we can't gnaw grass roots and bark without food after drilling into the ravine, right?"

Otherwise, when it really happened, instead of dragging the officers and soldiers to death, we would have starved to death first.

Besides, how long do you think we can hold out with a few thousand people under our hands? Now that the rebel army has reached a critical juncture, cooperation is a matter of benefit and harm, and it is precisely because King Chuang saw this that he would win us over so vigorously. ”

"Big brother, I was wrong."

Liu Zongliang has an advantage, that is, he corrects mistakes and admits them very happily.

"In that case, then this time I will personally lead the team and promise to warn you before the officers and soldiers arrive."

Seeing that his cousin took the initiative to ask for battle, Liu Zongmin was also very pleased, and his family was still reliable at a critical time, "That's good, I don't worry about others going, I'll work hard for you this time." ”

Liu Zongliang slapped his chest thumping: "Big brother, just look at it, I am your eyes, and I will definitely warn you in time." ”

Liu Zongmin nodded with satisfaction: "Without further ado, you should hurry up." ”

"Cheng, then I'm gone."

Three days later

In the dense woods, an official road large enough to carry four carriages in parallel stretched from a distance, don't look at this official road in the eyes of later generations can only be regarded as a county-level road, but in this era, this is already very good.

On the official road, accompanied by the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, a group of cavalry galloped from a distance, and when they got closer, they found that this group of cavalry was quite embarrassed, and at least several of the more than ten people were injured, but they all gritted their teeth and did not make a sound, just desperately urged the war horses under their crotches to advance.

If you take a closer look, you will find that the person at the head is actually Liu Zongliang, and I saw him urging: "Hurry up, everyone, you must rush to Jiading County as soon as possible and pass the news to King Chuang and Liu Ye, otherwise it will be too late." ”