Liu Dazhuang led the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Regiment to rush to Bishui City non-stop, passing by Kaifeng Mansion, Zhengzhou, and Xingyang along the way, but because of Li Zicheng's peasant army, these cities have long ceased to be prosperous, and the big households in them were basically robbed and killed by the peasant army. Some cities don't even have garrisons, and they are depressed.

Passing through Xingyang is the Tiger Prison Pass, Bishui City.

On the afternoon of 24 August, Liu Dazhuang led 2,000 soldiers of the Tiger Prison Regiment to stand under the Tiger Prison Pass.

Tiger Prison Pass is also called Bishui Pass, in the Tang Dynasty, because of the suspicion of Tang Gaozong's grandfather Li Hu was changed to Wu Prison Pass. It is located in the territory of Bishui Town, east of Luoyang, 16 kilometers northwest of the city of Xingyang City, Henan Province. As the eastern gateway and important pass of Luoyang, it was named after King Mu of the Western Zhou Dynasty who imprisoned the tiger here. It is connected to Songyue in the south, the Yellow River in the north, and the mountains are staggered, which is a natural danger. There is a trend of "one husband is the pass, ten thousand people are not open", and it is a place for soldiers of all dynasties.

Historically, many military activities have taken place here. In the fifth year of the Spring and Autumn Period (718 BC), Zheng defeated Yan here; In the second year of Lu Xianggong (571 years ago), the princes of the Jin Mourning King Hui Yu Qi sought Zheng, and began to build a city here with the plan of Meng Xianzi "inviting the city tiger to prison to force Zheng"; When Chu and Han fought for hegemony (203 BC), Liu Bang and Xiang Yu fought for the city here, especially in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Lu Bu fought Liu, Guan and Zhang here, which made the prestige of the Tiger Prison Pass great; Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty fought against Dou Jiande, and Yue Fei in the Song Dynasty broke the Jin soldiers in Zhuludu, and until the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were still fierce battles, and the sound of killing was heard from time to time.

However, at this time, the Tiger Prison Pass appears to be unusually depressed, and the majestic and tall city tower is several zhang high, standing majestically between the Songshan and the Yellow River.

"It is worthy of the famous Xiongguan, it is really a husband, and it is not opened"

Liu Dazhuang looked up at the Tiger Prison Gate Tower, and couldn't help but sigh.

There are not many guards on the Tiger Pass, less than 1,000, or even less than 500, not because the Tiger Pass is not important, but because the Qing army has not had time to send troops to garrison it, and after the Qing army captured the Tiger Pass, and then took the entire chassis of Henan, as the Tiger Pass inside Henan, it naturally lost the significance of defense, so the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not pay much attention to the Tiger Pass.

"Who is under the city! Get out of here! ”

On the top of the Tiger Prison, a young general of the Han Qing Army shouted to Liu Dazhuang and his party with some fear. On either side of him stood archers, and at the slightest command from the young general, these bows and arrows would fly like locusts into the tiger group.

"Lord Liu, what should I do now?" Niu Wei, who is the deputy general of the Tiger Ben Regiment, asked.

Niu Hu has been a little leisurely all day since he was transferred from the lion battalion to the tiger group, Liu Dazhuang also comforted him a few times, but Niu Hu never listened, in his opinion, the lion camp injected him with countless efforts, the lion camp should be his, but now it has been dropped to the tiger group, and the lion camp has nothing to do with it.

In those days, Niu Hu was always a drinking companion, and he was drunk every day. But one day the military advisor sacrificed wine Chen Liu suddenly went to find Niu Hu once, when Chen Liu left from Niu Wei's mansion, the next day Niu Hu began to get rid of the previous laziness and alcoholism, and began to seriously do his Tiger Camp deputy general.

No one knew what Chen Liu said to him that day, which completely changed Niu Liu's state.

What no one knows is that the reason why Chen Liu went to find Niu Hu was actually Liu Xia's signal behind his back, although Liu Xia was dissatisfied with Niu Hu being so ignorant, but Niu Hu was a tiger general after all, if he abandoned it casually, it was really a pity for Liu Xia, who was very short of manpower, so Liu Xia ordered Chen Liu to go and talk to Niu Hu.

Chen Liu, who got the order, went to Niu Wei's mansion and talked to Niu Hu in secret for a few hours, completely freeing Niu Hu from that dissatisfied state.

Liu Dazhuang looked coldly at the four or five hundred archers on the Tiger Prison Pass, and said, "You only need to outwit, you can't attack." According to the news from Yu Mingjun before, the guard above this tiger prison is the younger brother of a concubine of Liu Zhong, the current general of Luoyang City, this person is called Hua Rong, who is a gentleman, timid and afraid. There was basically no war in Henan before, so Liu Zhong dared to put his brother-in-law on the Tiger Prison Pass, I didn't expect our general to hit Henan, and Liu Zhong didn't have time to transfer Liu Zhong back, so we came. ”

Niu Wei frowned and said: "A gentleman, although he doesn't understand military affairs and doesn't know how to fight, but if they don't open the city gate and defend the tiger prison, it won't be easy for us to get in!" ”

Liu Dazhuang nodded and said: "Yes, if he doesn't come out of the city, we will have to pay a lot of money to attack the city, although they only have five hundred people, but it is not so easy to take the Tiger Prison Pass." It's not for nothing that this husband is a good man. Back then, the eighteen princes conscripted Dong Zhuo, and they suffered a lot of losses under this tiger prison and never entered it. ”

"Huarong Xiaoer, no guts and bandits, quickly come down to fight with Lao Tzu!" Immediately, Liu Dazhuang rode his horse and took two steps forward, and then shouted loudly.

The Hua Rong on the top of the city tower was immediately furious when he heard it, where would anyone dare to say such a thing to himself on weekdays? You must know that he is the younger brother of Liu Zhong's favorite concubine, and he can be said to be a person who can walk sideways in Henan Mansion, but now he has let an unknown person who came out of nowhere point point and scold, and he can't help but be angry.

However, he is still a little sensible, he knows what kind of material he is, he can still hold a knife and gun, but it will be mysterious to fight others.

After hesitating, Hua Rong still did not dare to lead the troops down, but in order to vent the anger in his heart, Hua Rong immediately ordered the archers to release the arrows.

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! The locust-like arrows flew over, but they all landed one meter in front of Liu Dazhuang.

"Hahahaha, guts bandits, really weak people. This tiger prison is really insulted by such mediocrity. Hahaha" Liu Daqiang laughed twice and rode back.

The soldiers in the Tiger Ben Regiment laughed loudly at Hua Rong's cowardice and cowardice at this time, and stomped Hua Rong's feet on the top of the city tower.

But even so, Hua Rong still didn't dare to lead troops out to fight Liu Dazhuang, no matter how the soldiers of the Tiger Regiment and Liu Dazhuang insulted him, this Hua Rong just didn't open the city gate, so what do you do?

"Master Liu Yangyong, how is this?" Niu Wei frowned.

Liu Dazhuang smiled and shook his head and said: "Brother Niu doesn't have to care, the military advisor has already given the school a plan before he came, and as long as this plan is needed, this tiger prison will definitely be captured." ”

"Oh?" Niu Wei was shocked and said, "I don't know what to do? ”

Liu Dazhuang stepped forward and leaned on Niu Hu's ear and said, "This plan is ......"

After hearing this, Niu Hu showed joy on his face, and quickly nodded and said: "If this is really the case, then the tiger prison will definitely be captured." ”

Liu Dazhuang nodded and said, "In this way, Brother Niu, let's go and prepare, and we can drink freely in the Tiger Prison at sunrise tomorrow." ”

On the top of the tiger prison, Hua Rong glared angrily at the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Regiment under the gate, and those soldiers were still insulting him Hua Rong at this time.

A literati beside Hua Rong said in a low voice: "General Hua, General Hua can't fall for them, they insult the general so much just to lure the general out of the customs." ”

Na Hua Rong snorted angrily and said, "Where does General Ben not know their tricks? No matter what they say, General Ben won't go out half a step. This Hua Rong looked arrogant, as if he had seen through the enemy's strategy and couldn't go down, not because he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to go down.

After the pass, the soldiers of the Tiger Regiment began to retreat.

But the insults didn't stop.

"Hua Rong is timid, don't be afraid of him, he is so tired from coming here today, why don't you have a big drink?" A Fen Wu Lieutenant said with a big grin to a Fen Wei Wei beside him.

Captain Fenwei was a deputy battalion commander, although his official position was not small, but he didn't have much decision-making power, so he frowned and said, "This ...... I'll have to ask the head of the regiment. ”

After all, drinking alcohol during a war is a big taboo!

After a while, the Fenwei Lieutenant shouted loudly to the Fenwei Lieutenant, "The regimental commander has agreed to allow the drink, and everyone will have a good time tonight." ”

"Whoa"

After listening to the words of the deputy battalion commander, the six or seven hundred soldiers of that battalion were suddenly overjoyed.

Closing the door, Hua Rong was attracted by this shout, and said to a soldier beside him, "Do you know what happened to them?" ”

The soldier said respectfully: "Returning to the general, the little ones vaguely heard, they seemed to say, as if they were saying......"

Hua Rong kicked at the little soldier's eyes and said, "Say what, hurry up." ”

The little soldier was so frightened that he trembled, and said, "Back to the general's words, the little one doesn't dare to say it." ”

Hua Rong immediately knew that those people must have said something bad about themselves, so he said: "It's okay, tell General Ben, General Ben will spare you." ”

The little soldier said helplessly: "Returning to the general, just now they said that the general you are a gutless bandit, even if they throw their weapons, general, general, you don't dare to go out of the city half a step." So he went to their head and asked them to drink and have fun, and at last after some plea, the head of the enemy agreed to drink and have fun, and they rejoiced. ”

When Hua Rong heard this, he was immediately angry.

"Ridiculous, ridiculous, how can General Ben be such a timid person?"

"How dare you drink and have fun? Hmph, you think that General Ben doesn't dare to go out, and General Ben really went out to show you once, but, hmph, not now. ”

Hua Rong looked at the tiger group that was gradually moving away in the distance, and it was a mile away from the Tiger Prison Pass, and the tiger group was encamped outside, and sneered.

The literati beside Hua Rong was taken aback after hearing Hua Rong's words, so he hurriedly said: "The general can't, the general can't, don't go out, it must be the enemy's strategy." ”

Hua Rong waved his hand and said: "General Ben is not so stupid, just now General Ben suddenly thought of a plan, hahaha, if General Ben's strategy is successful, he will definitely kill the enemy army outside the Guan, capture Liu Xia's general, and tell the court when the time comes, wouldn't it be able to seal the marquis and crown the king!" ”

The literati secretly despised Hua Rong in his heart, and thought: Can you still come up with a plan like you?