At the western foot of Lutou Mountain, Li Guo and Song Wenzheng were sitting on the ground chatting, and they sent rangers to investigate the information of the Ming army, while paying attention to the battle on the west bank of the Luojiang River.

"Hey, General Song, you say, when will the Metropolitan Governor be able to defeat Hou Liangzhu?" Li Guo casually picked up a dog's tail grass and broke it again.

"Then it depends on when Hou Liangzhu dies," Song Wen believed in his subordinates, and even more in the combat ability of the Dadu Governor, "General Li doesn't have to worry about the Dadu Governor, but send more cavalry to investigate, once the Ming army is defeated, we should intercept the rout earlier!" ”

"General Song don't worry, the rangers have already been released," Li Guo crumpled the dog's tail in his hand into pieces and scattered it all over the sky, "I'm worried that the Metropolitan Governor will wipe out the Ming army, and we won't be able to get some credit." ”

"Impossible, right? The Ming army has 5,000, more than us, and it will definitely break and flee, and the gunners have to reload while pursuing, for fear that it will be difficult to catch up," Song Wen didn't know, whether he hoped that the Ming army would be annihilated by the metropolitan governor, or that the Ming army would have some fish that slipped through the net, but he just shuddered, "It would be nice if they all had war horses......

"General Song, you can be content," Li Guo smiled, "The soldiers of the five thousand households are all equipped with rifles, as well as mountain artillery and gunpowder bags, or, tomorrow I will talk to the Governor of Dadu, I will go to the seventh battalion, you come to my second battalion, let's change?" ”

"Haha," Song Wen laughed, "You won't knock my old man, you are still young, follow the Metropolitan Governor, you have time, but I ......" He suddenly smiled, and his face was full of grievance.

Li Guo was a little unbearable, so he patted Song Wen on the shoulder and said, "This time I went south to Bashu, and the Heavenly Mandate Army will soon occupy Sichuan...... Maybe it won't be long before the Metropolitan Governor will sweep the world......"

Song Wen shook his head, "When will the governor of the capital win the world, I don't care too much, even if he wins the world, what else can my old man do?" I'm going to do nothing but do it...... I just hated the time and was born a few years early...... With the governor of the capital, that is called a war, in Xining before, dozens of Mongols could not defeat ......"

Li Guo was full of ambition, but when he saw Song Wen's somewhat annoyed look, he stopped talking and muttered, "Who knows what will happen tomorrow?" Let's just do it today and conscientiously complete the tasks assigned to us by the Grand Governor......"

Song Wen nodded, "General Li is right, the future is terrible, the future is terrible, I'm a bad old man, it's a bit hypocritical, haha, don't say anything else, let's fight the blocking battle first, General Li, why is there no news coming, it's noon, and the Ming army in the south has not moved......"

"We are closer to Luojiang, and we haven't received information yet, how can the Ming army be earlier than us?" Li Guo said this, and his heart was also a little anxious, he stood up and looked at the east and west sides from afar, but he couldn't see anything, not even the peasants working in the fields, maybe afraid of the army, he had already hid home.

The rangers in the south kept sending back messages, all of which showed that the army was not moving, maybe they were waiting for Hou Liangzhu's message before making a decision, while the rangers in the north brought back yesterday's message.

It wasn't until the evening that Song Wen was already asleep that a ranger from the second battalion returned, "General Li, we have captured an officer and ......."

Li Guo's expression was shocked, but then he returned to his lukewarm appearance, "Officers and soldiers? Is it their ranger? ”

"It doesn't look like it, maybe it's an officer," said the ranger, "and we found out that he was riding alone, so we chased after him, and the man accidentally fell off his horse, and was not lightly injured, and refused to say when he asked, looking at the armor, it looked like an officer's ......."

"Bring someone here!" Li Guo happened to be idle, ready to interrogate him personally.

"Yes, General!"

After the ranger returned, several people led a war horse over, and there was a person on the horse's back, and even the helmet was gone, looking very embarrassed.

The two rangers took the man off the horse, still on the ground, the man snorted lightly, but he was lying on the ground and refused to get up, just looked at Li Guo and Song Wen with his eyes.

Li Guo stared and said, "Who are you?" How did they get to our turf? ”

"Your territory?" The man turned his head slightly and looked at Li Guo with a vicious gaze, "Who are you?" ”

Song Wen felt that the strange person's tone was wrong, if an ordinary person was caught by a soldier, in addition to panicking, then he dared to ask? patted Li Guo's shoulder and took over the topic, "Our Heavenly Mandate Army was ordered to come to Lutou Mountain on business, who are you, come quickly, the brothers are not very good......

"Destiny Army? What is the Mandate of Heaven? The man suddenly stared at the camouflage military uniform on Song Wen's body, frowning slightly, "Aren't you rogues?" ”

"Rogues? Haha," Song Wen laughed, "It's funny, when did we become rogues?" ”

"You're really not a rogue?" The man was skeptical, and bowed slightly, "Why isn't your service the armor of the Ming army?" ”

"I said brother, you're asking too much, aren't you? How can you confide in military intelligence at will? Song Wen said lightly: "It stands to reason that you are our prisoner of war, and you should show your identity first before ......"

The injuries on the man's body were obviously not light, and after saying these few words, he was already out of breath, and he rested for a while, but he looked around, mainly on the surrounding soldiers, the cavalry was the armor of the Ming army, but the infantry, like the two generals in front of him, were all in this strange costume, what was going on?

It seems that the rogues on the shore of Luoshui are this kind of costume......

Could it be that they are the Ming army somewhere, because the food is insufficient, and the infantry is without armor? Are they their own people? Rogue wouldn't have been dressed so neatly......

"Seeing that you are wearing standard armor, I respect you as a brother," Song Wen suddenly turned his face and said coldly: "If you refuse to explain, we have a way, Ling Chi is light...... I wonder if the 'long stick' will be more comfortable......"

Song Wen was originally born in the Ming army, and he also knew something about the shady scenes of the Ming army, the so-called "long stick", that is, he took off the prisoner's pants, and then used a wooden rod or iron rod to pass into the body from the anus, and expanded and contracted several times in a row, and the long stick pierced the intestines, and the person was sure to die.

But the blood remained in the body, and there was no trace of it on the outside, so it could only be regarded as a violent death.

If you die, you will die, since you have fallen into the hands of the enemy, death may be the most ideal ending, but after the long rod is pierced into the body, the speed of blood flow will not be too fast, and the person will not die immediately, but will be tortured until the blood in the body is exhausted, and then slowly die.

Before death, people are awake, the pain in the body, can be felt, but can not be touched, that kind of pain, not ordinary people can bear, so some people are hit by the "long stick", knowing that they will inevitably die, or have to spit out the secret in their hearts......

The man obviously knew the "long stick", a trace of fear appeared in his eyes, the corners of his mouth twitched, but he kept his face calm and did not speak, as if there was a fierce struggle going on in his heart.

"Okay, my patience is limited," Song Wen said in a deep voice: "There is a battle going on right now, and I don't have the heart to fight with you, either tell your identity, or taste the taste of 'long stick', and come to ......"

"Okay, I said," the man said in his heart, once he tasted the taste of the "long stick", he would definitely not survive, and he would only die, so he said: "I am the chief soldier Hou Liangzhu......

"Chief soldier Hou Liangzhu? The general army of the Ming Dynasty? Li Guo was overjoyed, and rushed out in one step, looking left and right on his face, but unfortunately he didn't know Hou Liangzhu, and before he went south to Sichuan, he didn't even know Hou Liangzhu's name.

"Can I tell you who you are?"

"Whether what you said is true or false, we need to verify it," Song Wen suppressed the ecstasy in his heart and said lightly: "I heard that Hou Liangzhu is fighting in Luoshui, how did you come to Lutou Mountain alone?" ”

"We are defeated," Hou Liangzhu sighed and said, "We are defeated......"

"Oh?" Song Wen secretly said that if he was really defeated, Hou Liangzhu would definitely flee south and want to join the Ming army in Deyang, but he was alone, could it be that the whole army was annihilated? The battle of the Metropolitan Governor...... Thinking of this, he said: "You say, you are Hou Liangzhu, can you prove it?" ”

Hou Liangzhu said weakly: "The diploma is on you, you can search for it yourself......

Song Wen opened his mouth, two soldiers went to search his body, and sure enough, he found a diploma and a bronze tooth plate, Song Wen unfolded it, both of them have names, positions, and yamen, and they should not be wrong!

"You said that the Ming army was defeated in Luojiang, is it true?"

"Now that I am in your hands, do I dare to lie to you?" Hou Liangzhu closed his eyes desperately, and his face showed pain.

"General Hou doesn't have to be too sad, it is your honor to lose in the hands of the governor of my family," Song Wen said: "Don't say it's you, and the governor of Sichuan, Wang Weizhang, is the governor of the five provinces, Hong Chengchou, when he sees the governor of my family, he can only kowtow and beg for mercy!" ”

"Hong Chengchou?" Hou Liangzhu almost couldn't believe his ears, Hong Chengchou was not only good at strategy, his subordinate generals were all famous, Cao Bianjiao, Zuo Guangxian, and the previous Cao Wenzhao, which one didn't kill countless rogues, how could he fail? "Hong Overseer's army is in Shaanxi, but it's ......"

Song Wen said with a smile: "You are really right, we are indeed from Shaanxi, and this time we are going south to rescue the people of Sichuan." ”

"You are the Manifest Destiny? Why haven't I heard of it? Hou Liangzhu looked at the strange service worn by the soldiers of the Heavenly Mandate Army again, and sighed in his heart, maybe this is true......

"Hong Chengchou has suffered a defeat, can he publicize it to the outside world?" Song Wen laughed, "I don't know that this time, General Hou's army was wiped out, how to explain to Wang Weizhang and the court when I go back?" Oh, you don't have to confess, you're already our prisoner of war, haha......"

Hou Liangzhu closed his eyes in pain again, and he didn't know if it was for himself or Hong Chengchou......

When Li Zicheng rushed to Lutou Mountain, the sky was about to darken, and when he heard that Hou Liangzhu had been caught, he was overjoyed, and none of the five thousand Ming troops had slipped through the net!

He originally wanted to make a fuss about Hou Liangzhu, but when he saw that Hou Liangzhu was dying, he gave up, what else could a dying person do?

Hou Liangzhu didn't consume food in vain, from his body, Li Zicheng still thought a lot, isn't there still 1,500 Ming army prisoners of war?