Luo Rucai rolled his eyes and said, "Then what should I do?" Huguang can't go, Xinggui can't hide in the mountains, is it trapped in this eastern Sichuan? ”

Zhang Xianzhong took a few steps in the big tent and took a breath. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

He was a little angry, he couldn't imagine that Li Zhi would arrange him so tightly and block him in eastern Sichuan. He has been shuttling back and forth between various states and counties in Sichuan these days to seize the states and counties that no one defended, but he was always defended by Li Zhixian, but he was delayed because of the back and forth. Now if you want to enter Huguang through eastern Sichuan, you have been blocked by Li Zhi at the key 32 passes.

Zhang Xianzhong felt like he had walked into a dead end, and the only exit from the alley stood Li Zhi's army.

Zhang Xianzhong took a breath and scolded: "Donkey hairball, do you really want to force me Zhang Xianzhong to death?" ”

Hui Dengxiang stood up and said, "Eight Great Kings, Li Killing God knows that we have to go to Huguang, so he can estimate our route in advance, and send troops to defend all the states and counties along the way. If we don't go to the east, but to the west, Li Zhi can't figure out the direction of our progress, and he won't be able to block us. ”

"Stay in Shuzhong?"

"That's right! Stay in Shudi! Don't go! ”

Zhang Xianzhong looked at Hui Dengxiang and said, "Li Killing God is chasing us in the west, if we go west and are caught by him, it will be a big war and we can't run away." ”

Hui Dengxiang said: "Eight kings, now that the road to the east has been blocked, and the storming of the thirty-two passes will be attacked by Li Killing God before and after, there is no other way except to go west!" We don't need to be so afraid of Li Zhi, we might as well rush to the west. There are more than 50,000 of us, and even if we fight with Li Zhi, the outcome is unknown! ”

Zhang Xianzhong listened to Hui Dengxiang's words, paced back and forth in the big tent, and did not speak.

Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son Zhang Dingguo also stood up and said: "Dashuai, now, I can only go west. Even if you fight with Li Killing God, it's nothing. If you continue to the east, you will be attacked by Li Zhi in front and back in the mountains of the 32 passes, and once you are surrounded, it will be a dead end, and you may not be able to escape. ”

When Zhang Xianzhong heard Zhang Dingguo's words, he suppressed the fear in his heart and said, "My son, you are right, there is no way out in the east. Let's go west and see if we can sneak through. If you really can't do it, let's fight with Li Zhi and see how capable this Li Killing God is! ”

The generals in the tent have been running away these days, and they really don't want to run away anymore. They all stood up and said in a loud voice:

"The marshal is right, let's have a battle with Li Killing God!"

"I don't believe that Li Zhi's more than 10,000 people can beat our more than 50,000 people?"

"Even if the army is defeated, we can still flee to the mountains! Li Zhi can't catch us! ”

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In the big tent of the Chinese army of Li Zhi's army, Li Zhi looked at a thief captain who was kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy, and shouted: "Fight again!" ”

Xue Sanku, who was guarding next to him, kicked the prisoner in the stomach, and kicked the captain to the side with all his feet in the air. The captain of the thief soldier just wanted to turn over and get up, but two of Xue Sanku's guards rushed up and beat him violently, until the captain was bleeding from the corner of his mouth and begging for mercy.

If you continue to fight, you will be killed.

Li Zhi looked at the thief soldier, waved his hand to signal the guards to stop, and asked the thief soldier with his back: "Let me ask you again, is the thief going from Liangshan County or Zhongzhou?" ”

The lieutenant was beaten with a mouthful of blood, for fear that Li Zhi would kill him here, so he kowtowed desperately to Li Zhi and shouted, "My lord! My lord! Handsome... No, it's really Liangshan County that the thief left! Now the thief is already in Liangshan County! ”

Li Zhi saw that the thief was exhausted, so he let him go. Li Zhi sat back in his chair, tapped his fingers on the handle of the chair, and smiled.

After the seven Ming army generals defected to Li Zhi, Li Zhi had enough cavalry to defend the states and counties, so he took back the Xuanfeng regiment as a scout. Two thousand cavalry were released by Li Zhi to a vast area to spy on the enemy within a radius of 100 miles.

The soldiers of the Selective Regiment are all elite, and their combat effectiveness is far superior to that of the thieves, and they are often able to catch the thieves' scouts when they are scouting at the front.

In the past few days, Li Zhi has caught three rogue scout captains. Under repeated torture, these scouts obediently explained Zhang Xianzhong's marching route to Li Zhi, and Li Zhi had a deep understanding of Zhang Xianzhong's whereabouts. These scouts all confessed: Zhang Xianzhong's march to the east was blocked, and now he turned around and went west, wanting to cross through Liangshan County.

With the excellent reconnaissance ability of the Xuanfeng Regiment, Li Zhi found out Zhang Xianzhong's whereabouts clearly, and of course he would not let Zhang Xianzhong escape from the encirclement.

Li Zhi stood up and said: "The whole army marched in a hurry to Liangshan County to stop Zhang Xianzhong!" ”

After chasing hard for so long, he finally wanted to catch Zhang Xianzhong, who was fleeing, and all the generals were overjoyed and shouted loudly:

"Order!"

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On December 27, Li Zhi's army marched in concealment, and finally encountered Zhang Xianzhong's army fleeing west in the northeast of Liangshan County.

The weather was already very cold, and the air that came out of Ha turned into a white mist, which dispersed in the air with the pace of more than 10,000 people. There had been a light snowfall the day before. There is still snow in the four fields, and there is a white expanse everywhere. The thin layer of snow on the official road was trampled by the soldiers' leather boots, turning into water and black mud, making the road slightly muddy.

However, the soldiers of the Tiger Division wore leather boots, and the mud did not affect the march.

As soon as Zhang Xianzhong's army saw Li Zhi chasing after him, he turned around and ran east. The distance between the two armies was only ten miles, and they pursued one after the other on the official road in Liangshan County.

Chasing to Liyuping, Zhang Xianzhong finally couldn't run.

There is a mountain pass in front of it, and only ten people can pass through the crossing at a time. It would take a long time for Zhang Xianzhong's 50,000-strong army to cross this crossing. If Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to escape into this pass, he would not be able to take care of each other at that time, and he would definitely be defeated by Li Zhi's attack.

Zhang Xianzhong made a move and set up a position in Liyuping to meet Li Zhi's army.

Zhang Xianzhong completed the arrangement before Li Zhi's army arrived, and he placed 30,000 foot soldiers in the middle, 15,000 old thieves on the left flank, and 8,000 elite Tang horses on the right flank. At this time, Zhang Xianzhong's army ran wild in eastern Sichuan for half a month, the food and grass were insufficient, the hungry soldiers had already fled, and there were no hungry soldiers in the thief army.

Li Zhi's army set up a circular formation, with 4,000 men placed in the left, front, and right directions, and 3,600 men in the rear.

This time, Li Zhi brought out 200 field guns, which were operated by 1,500 soldiers of the Selector Regiment. The artillery is deployed in the left, front, and right directions, and of course it is always ready to support the rear.

There were also 400 soldiers of the trapped regiment, who were arranged by Li Zhi to bypass the mountain pass from the mountain road on both sides and ambush behind the mountain pass.

Three miles away, the army of thieves held the determination to break the net, howling and shouting, and pressed up towards the tiger master. (To be continued.) )