Chapter 24: Bait

On the second day, Zhang Xuan's engineer battalion had not yet been formed, and He Renlong's brigade came. He Renlong shouted revenge for killing his son, but he was quite cautious in his actions, and he didn't seem to want to fight with the rebels in the mountains. He Yilong took it over.

Then chase again, and then abandon again. There is a tacit understanding with each other. Such cooperation is not once or twice.

As soon as he got out of the mountain and arrived at the ground in Xinyang, He Renlong immediately became presumptuous, and He Renlong's probe horse bit the traces of the righteous army like a wild dog, and he couldn't shake it off.

And now it's not just He Renlong's problem.

Li Zicheng immediately got the news that Hu Dawei was due west, which seemed to block the road to Nanyang, and Yang Wenyue also led his troops out of Runing City and approached to the south, as if he wanted to encircle Li Zicheng near Xinyang Prefecture, but they lacked a direction, that is, the east.

To the east is the Qianli Plain, although there are Zuo Liangyu and Lu Jiude, but on this Qianli Plain, their strength is simply not enough to form a complete encirclement. The first big move of Zhang Xuan's engineer battalion came, which was to build a pontoon bridge.

Building a pontoon bridge, whether it is for the Ming Dynasty, or later generations is not a difficult thing, Zhang Xuan has no room for command at all, but organize craftsmen, and then send people to gather the boats on the Huai River, and then connect them together with hemp rope, and the ships are connected horizontally, and it becomes a pontoon bridge.

However, it is much better to have someone in charge than no one to be in charge, and it saves a lot of time, and the army did not stay by the Huai River at all, and after crossing the river in one day, it turned to the east, leaving Yang Wenyue and Fu Zonglong behind in an instant.

It's just that at this time, bad news came.

"The Eight Kings were defeated in Nanzhili, and I don't know if they live or die? Zuo Liangyu's soldiers have already moved west? Luo Rucai touched his beard and said: "Lao Zhang has fought all his life, but he didn't expect it to be planted in Zuo Liangyu's hands. ”

"It's not just Zuo Liangyu." Li Zicheng said: "There is also Huang Degong. It is said that Lao Zhang put wine on the mountain and lay down, leading Huang Degong to attack, but he didn't want Huang Degong to take dozens of horses, and broke through all the ambushes of Lao Zhang, if it wasn't for Lao Zhang's righteous son Zhang Kewang, Zhang Dingguo reacted quickly, and Lao Zhang would have died in the hands of Huang Degong. However, as soon as Lao Zhang fled, the army collapsed. Zuo Liangyu picked up a big bargain. ”

"Huang Degong." Luo Rucai kept this name in his heart, not for anything else, if he didn't defeat Huang Degong, Luo Rucai wanted to go down to Jiangnan, it was a dream.

"However, I don't think Lao Zhang is so easy to die." Li Zicheng said: "It's just that his defeat has made us miserable." ”

"Indeed." Luo Rucai looked at the map, he felt that the officers and troops from all directions were coming to Runing, if Zuo Liangyu traveled day and night, it would only be a few days before the soldiers arrived in Henan. When the time comes, even if they have the ability to reach the sky, they will be powerless and can only flee.

If they escape, they can only take light horses, that is, they have saved all these family funds, and all of them will be in vain. Let Luo Rucai go back to the days when he ran around every day, three or four hundred miles a day and night, it is better to kill him.

"We must fight the army behind us." Li Zicheng said: "And the speed must be fast, it is now the first day of the ninth month, and we must finish this battle between the tenth day of September, otherwise, if Zuo Liangyu comes, we can only go around without eating."

Although they knew that Zuo Liangyu had already stopped listening to the dispatch, but the life-and-death event of fighting a war could not be pinned on Zuo Liangyu's disobedience.

So be quick, as soon as possible. Time must not drag on any longer. If you drag it out any longer, if you want to break it individually, it's impossible.

"I think the officers and the army will join forces in the next few days." Luo Rucai said: "Are we going to break each one before they join forces? ”

The conclusion that the officers and the army want to join forces can be drawn without looking at the map at all.

Without him, one of them came from the south and the other came from the north, they were all chasing the rebels, and the rebels turned around and went east, so they naturally chased them east, and the joint venture was an inevitability.

Li Zicheng secretly thought about whether he would give up the large group of men and horses, take the elite cavalry, and run hundreds of miles day and night to kick the camp for the officers and soldiers, but after thinking about it, he still gave up this tempting idea. Yang Wenyue has fought against him many times, he is not a novice, his talent may be a little mediocre, but it is quite rigorous, and this kind of sudden attack may not be effective.

And Fu Zonglong is also a veteran, of course, Fu Zonglong is too old. became famous in the apocalypse years, what is the wrist in the end. Li Zicheng has never tasted it, but the people under Fu Zonglong's command are all old acquaintances of Li Zicheng. They are all very familiar, and to put it mildly, the main force of Li Zicheng's gang is from the Qin army, and the fighting styles of both sides are very similar.

There is a high probability that such a surprise attack will be entangled by the Bega human dragon.

"Wait." What did Li Zicheng suddenly think? said: "Do you know He Daming, the son of He Renlong? ”

"Remember, it's far worse than his father, it's not worth mentioning at all." Luo Rucai said.

"He Daming died, that is, at the hands of your son-in-law." Li Zicheng said: "And when he killed He Daming, he also claimed to be He Daming's grandfather." ”

Luo Rucai chuckled and said, "I didn't expect that I could do such a thing with it." However, Luo Rucai immediately thought that Li Zicheng never did useless things, and when he mentioned this matter today, something must have fallen on Zhang Xuan's head, Luo Rucai frowned slightly, and asked tentatively: "What does Brother Li mean?" ”

Li Zicheng didn't answer positively, but asked, "Brother Luo, who of these people is the most troubled?" ”

Luo Rucai's gaze hesitated on the map, and his gaze swept over one name after another: Fu Zonglong, Yang Wenyue, He Renlong, Li Guoqi, Hu Dawei. and the names of other generals. Luo Rucai finally left his eyes on the three words "He Renlong" and said: "The one who suffers the most must be He Renlong." ”

"Why?" Li Zicheng said.

"Brother Li laughs at me?" Luo Rucai said: "Wenchen overseers are not enough, unless it is Lu Xiangsheng, who dares to go into battle in person, but shake the paper fan in battle, what use can it be?" As for Hu Dawei, he is just a general, he can only control thousands of his subordinates, and let him charge into battle as a member of the general, but as the commander of the army, he is very unqualified. As for Li Guoqi? Although he is also considered a general, is there a difference between He Renlong's subordinates as He Renlong's lieutenant general? Li Guoqi's ministry can be regarded as the dragon department of Heren, and Li Guoqi is just a false name. ”

"Yes, it's He Renlong, I'm fighting He Renlong, now the time is urgent, I hit other departments, He Renlong still has the courage to stay, or the camp is dead, but if He Renlong is disabled, it can make the army lose courage. The battle is decided, but He Renlong is not easy to deal with. Li Zicheng said.

"That's nature." Luo Rucai sneered: "He Renlong is so easy to deal with, is it still He Renlong?" ”

"If you face He Renlong head-on, although it is not without the certainty of victory, but in this way, you and I will be greatly injured. Therefore, to deal with He Renlong, you have to use the old methods. Li Zicheng said.

"Ambush." Luo Rucai said.

"Exactly." Li Zicheng said.

I don't know how many officers and generals have died in this trick, Cao Wenzhao, Tang Jiuzhou, and so on a series of lists.

"He Renlong is not a chick? How do you attract people to take the bait? As soon as Luo Rucai's voice fell, he immediately understood and said, "Are you going to use Zhang Xuan as bait?" ”

"I don't believe it, He Renlong looked at him wanting to be his father's killer enemy, dangling in front of his eyes, he didn't have any idea." Li Zicheng said.

Luo Rucai was a little reluctant, he was unwilling to let Zhang Xuan get into danger, but now he had no choice. After all, everything can be given up in the face of survival, and if it is arranged, this bait will not be eaten by He Renlong.

"Okay." Luo Rucai's eyes flashed, and he said, "It's just how to arrange this bait?" ”

It can't be arranged too conspicuously, He Renlong will see it at a glance, but it can't be arranged too secretively, He Renlong doesn't know, so what's the use?