When Li Zicheng heard this, he did not immediately express his position, but was silent.

He had no doubts about Hao Shaoqi's combat effectiveness. When he Li Zicheng was not famous, Hao Shaoqi was already famous, at that time under the subordinates of King Gao Chuang, Li Zicheng was still a young little general, Hao Shaoqi made many military exploits, especially after Gao Yingxiang died, how many officers and soldiers did he kill?

Two years ago in Fengyang, Anhui Province, Li Zicheng clearly remembered the scene of Hao Shaoqi fighting He Renlong. He Renlongren called He a madman, and he didn't want to die when he started a fight, and Hao Shaoqi was responsible for breaking the queen. The battle was quite tragic, He Renlong and Hao Shaoqi, both of them were wounded in many places, and most of their soldiers were killed and wounded, but they still fought to the death, buying time for Li Zicheng and them to retreat safely.

Take the present, these generals under his command, Hao Shaoqi is not the top in terms of martial arts, he can't even rank fifth, in terms of courage and fierceness, Hao Shaoqi is undoubtedly second to none.

"King Chuang, what, can't you believe me Hao Shaoqi?" Hao Shaoqi's eyes widened.

Li Zicheng knew that Hao Shaoqi had a hot temper, and this person was a little proud, and the biggest problem was that he loved to drink, and the army under Li Zicheng, Hao Shaoqi's team discipline was relatively poor.

Everywhere he went, robbing the people, raping women happened from time to time, Li Zicheng repeatedly proposed strict military discipline, also proposed a number of beheadings, and also warned Hao Shaoqi, but Hao Shaoqi relied on his old qualifications, so he still went his own way, and sometimes he reasoned with Li Zicheng at every turn, and theorized.

Li Zicheng knows his problem, and more importantly, he fights bravely, and is an indispensable general under his command, in addition, he has a group of iron buddies under him, all of whom are members of the old eighth team, that is, Gao Yingxiang's subordinates, Li Zicheng doesn't want to fall out with him, otherwise he is likely to pull his group of people to set up another mountain.

However, in addition to the poor discipline of the army, this Hao Shaoqi can generally obey Li Zicheng's orders, so Li Zicheng is very accommodating to him and does not want to engage in separatism. If he had to act in strict accordance with military discipline, Hao Shaoqi would have been killed a long time ago.

Li Zicheng was afraid that he would misunderstand, so he shook his head and explained, "No." Wave the flag, you can go to this battle, but you have to remember that since ancient times, arrogant soldiers have been defeated, Lin Yi is not easy to deal with, you don't have to fight with him. Let Li Guo go with you, or have a response, the two of you can rush to Danyang in advance, and your subordinates will be suspicious, hold their positions, and drag them first. As long as I can hold on for ten days, I will rush over after I have dealt with the matter here, and when our men and horses arrive, we will fight Lin Yi to the death. ”

"Yes." Hao Shaoqi agreed, is it necessary to say that in his heart? You also think too highly of the surname Lin. Didn't he just win a few battles?

Li Guo also agreed, and the two of them went down and ordered 10,000 soldiers and horses to leave.

Now Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses are not a few thousand, and when he first took these three county towns, he was still four or five thousand people.

But that's no longer the case. Conquered three county seats, which defeated Yang Sichang's more than 30,000 horses, and these two victories collected thousands of people just by surrendering soldiers.

Yang Sichang was newly defeated, and retreated to Nanyang City with more than 10,000 horses with two general officers, not daring to fight.

Li Zicheng took advantage of this opportunity to continue to open warehouses and release grain on the basis of the original three county towns to help the people.

One of these money and grain came from the spoils of the two wars, and the other came from the local landlords and wealthy families, gentry and tyrants. Li Zicheng killed all these people, and except for keeping their things for military use, the rest were distributed to the common people, winning the hearts of the people, and recruiting soldiers and horses from all over the world, because he saw that this trick was very effective.

The common people rushed to tell each other, and the hungry people in the vicinity came with hoes, so in just a few days, Li Zicheng's men and horses doubled several times, and now his total strength has exceeded 30,000, and people come to join them every day, and the momentum has sprung up.

After Li Guo and Hao Shaoqi left, Li Zicheng immediately divided his troops and sent generals, and he planned to use more than 20,000 soldiers and horses under his command to attack Nanyang. Now it is different from a few months ago, when there were only a few thousand men and horses, and he did not dare to attack Nanyang, and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers chased after him.

Now he has to take Nanyang, because Lin Yi's men and horses have arrived, and the army of Henan will come over again, and if it is united with the army of Nanyang, it will form an encirclement for him.

More importantly, he had to be resupplied as soon as possible. Because there are so many more soldiers and horses under his command at once, how much does it cost people to eat horses and feed them for a day? The rich landlords and wealthy households in the three county towns had limited money and grain, and the grain and salary captured after two victories were also limited, and in addition to the food and drink of the army, they were distributed to the common people, and they were almost exhausted. Only by taking Nanyang can his men and horses get more money and food supplies.

Therefore, Li Zicheng stepped up his planning, planning to take Nanyang within a week at the latest, solve this worry, and then concentrate on dealing with Lin Yi's men and horses.

Li Zicheng's men and horses are away from Danyang, a maximum of two days' journey. Danyang here refers to the area of Danyang Town in Dengzhou City, Henan Province in later generations.

Therefore, Li Guo and Hao Shaoqi's army of 10,000 soon drove to Danyang, checked the favorable terrain, set up camp, began to build fortifications, and sent probing horses to spy on Lin Yi's military situation.

In fact, the terrain they chose didn't need to be built. Because this is a typical landform of two mountains and one ditch, the name is Laohukou.

On the left and right sides are rolling mountains and forests, this is the only way to go, if the officers and soldiers do not go from here, they can only follow the original way back, and then detour, then at least a few hundred miles of detour.

Therefore, they chose this place to stop Lin Yi's men.

Tiger's mouth, just by hearing the name, you know how dangerous it is here. Mountains on both sides and a winding mountain road in the middle.

Although the mountain here is not high, it is a mountain with a mixture of earth and rock. But as long as they hold the mountains on both sides and seal the mountain passes, no matter how many men and horses want to pass through the middle mountain road.

There were many people to work, and Li Guo commanded his soldiers, and soon blocked the middle road with rocks and felled trees.

But when the officers and soldiers come, they are likely to attack the mountain. Capture the hills on both sides, and then clear the obstacles in the middle of the mountain path, so what they need is to hold the hill and stop the officers and troops.

Therefore, the middle mountain path was cut to death by stones and branches.

But what they need to do is to pile up a large number of stones on the top of the mountain, cut down trees and use them as rolling logs to defend the mountain, which can be used as a bow and arrow, and hug the thick and thin trees to get up the mountain, and if the officers and soldiers rush up the mountain road, they will put these boulders and rolling logs down to prevent the officers and soldiers from attacking the mountain.

The work of getting stones and logging trees in the mountains was all commanded by Li Guozai alone, and the terrain was also chosen by him. Hao Shaoqi didn't care at all, he drank wine and ate meat, and when he was full of food and drink, he slept in the camp.

Li Guo didn't care about him, and the commander was sweating profusely here.

waited until he was all ready, Li Guo called Hao Shaoqi, and the two of them each brought 5,000 soldiers to guard the mountains on both sides.

Hao Shaoqi looked at the stones and trees piled up on the mountain road, as well as the boulders and rolling logs piled high on the hills on both sides.

"You kid is really strong, the brothers are tired, is it necessary? Do you think it's necessary? Really. The officials and soldiers just came over and killed them directly, and slaughtered the surnamed Lin, why bother with this? ”

Li Guo smiled, "Uncle Shake the Flag, I know that you are very capable of fighting, but the art of war is cloudy, you have ambition and ambition, and you have no wisdom to make power." If we guard it like this, it will be much easier than fighting with the officers and soldiers. ”

"I don't care so much, I'll go down and kill when the official army comes, otherwise my hands will itch uncomfortably. You just take someone to keep watch, and they won't be able to get by these dog days anyway. With that, he took the people and left.

On the third day when they were ready, Lin Yi's forward troops arrived at the bottom of the mountain, this was Lin Yi's fourth battalion, and the battalion officer was Jiang Xingyuan.

More than 3,000 people stood still when they saw how far away they were from this formation.

Someone hurriedly came to report to Jiang Xingyuan, Jiang Xingyuan rode a horse and carried a big shovel, and came to the front of the team to take a look. The mountain path had been cut to death, and the tops on both sides were full of thieves, archers, rolling logs, and stones of all sizes.

"Damn, these thieves are really immoral enough, they will fight when they fight, what are they doing with the road. See, this means not letting it pass. ”

Then Jiang Xingyuan scolded on the mountain: "Stinky thief, if you have a seed, come down, what kind of hero is hiding in the mountain and playing this game?"

"Damn, if you have the ability, you can come up and fly over!" Li Guo's people fought back from above, and the soldiers and generals on both sides began to curse each other up and down the mountain.

The two sides just scolded a few times, and a team rushed down from the hill on the right, led by a general, who was five big and three thick, carrying a golden flagpole on his shoulder, it was Hao Shaoqi, followed by two thousand people.

Jiang Xingyuan was happy when he saw that the people on the mountain had come down, "Brothers, give me a rush to occupy the hillside on the right!" ”

"Kill me!" Hao Shaoqi rushed down and took the lead in killing Jiang Xingyuan's team, and the men and horses on both sides shouted loudly, and they were in a scuffle at the bottom of the hillside.

Li Guozhi, who was on the hillside on the left, shook his head, "This Uncle Banner Waver, how good it is to guard it, they can't get by, and they can't fly up, why do you go down to it......"

But you can't control Hao Shaoqi, according to his seniority, he has to call Hao Shaoqi uncle, and now he has to watch the melee between the two sides on the hillside on the left.

More than 30 miles away, Lin Yi and Zu Keyong commanded the main force of the Chinese army, and were moving forward, when they suddenly got a report that in the tiger's mouth, the pioneer battalion had already caught fire with the thieves.

Lin Yi said: "Brother Jiang is also an anxious person, fast, accelerate forward."

Half an hour later, Lin Yi's men and horses drove to the vicinity of the battlefield, and the battle between the two sides was raging.

The ground was full of dead and wounded, blood stained the rocks red, and I don't know how many tug-of-wars they fought.

Lin Yi looked at the mountain road that had been planted here and the tops on both sides, densely packed with the banners of thieves, and the mountains about dozens of zhang high were piled up with bows, arrows, stones, and logs, it seemed that this was a tough battle.

Lin Yi was immediately at a high place, a few hundred meters away from the battlefield, he probably glanced at the terrain here, and then his eyes fell on the battlefield of the melee.

At this time, Jiang Xingyuan's team had already been defeated, Jiang Xingyuan was covered in blood, and he was chased behind.

"Let me go!" General Zu Keyong said and took off the big axe.

Lin Yi nodded, "If you win, remember that you don't have to chase after you, the terrain here is dangerous, don't fall for the thieves' tricks." ”

"Great Commander, his subordinates know." Zu Keyong said, and pressed up with hundreds of cavalry.