This encirclement and suppression seems to have reached a stalemate, and the biggest specialty of the anti-thieves is to run away, and it is really difficult to catch them on the plains.

Xiong Wencan is very helpless at this time, he has enough soldiers and horses, Li Zicheng can naturally be blocked, and there is nowhere to escape, the problem is that he doesn't have so many people now, what can he do?

He was even ready to transfer the Qi family army to the north, but in that case, it would take a long time, the Qi family army rushed over from Huguang, not to mention a month, and it would take time to chase and intercept Li Zicheng later, that is to say, in three months, he could only exterminate the anti-thief Li Zicheng, and the Yang Pavilion would be able to exterminate the anti-thief in three months.

This will definitely not work, in case the emperor gets angry, he and the cabinet will be unlucky.

Xiong Wencan couldn't help but be bored for a while, this doesn't work, that doesn't work, what should I do?

He looked up at the generals below again, hoping that they would come up with a solution.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng was also very helpless, he had a way, the problem, he knew that Yang Sichang was used by the emperor to suppress Zhang Bin, and this Xiong Wencan was promoted by Yang Sichang, that is to say, they are political enemies, if they help him clean up Li Zicheng, it is equivalent to being a "capital enemy"!

If the thieves are really eliminated on schedule this time, Yang Sichang will definitely be more appreciated by the emperor, Zhang Bin's life will be even more difficult, and his life will also be difficult.

This is tantamount to lifting a stone to shoot yourself in the foot, do you want to help Xiong Wencan clean up Li Zicheng?

At this point, Zhang Bin didn't have any special explanation when he came, and even Zhang Bin didn't explain anything to him at all.

He understood what Zhang Bin meant, that is, let him make his own decision, after all, they are not big traitors like Wen Tiren, and it is a good thing for the country and the people to exterminate the rebels, and they will never do anything to drag Xiong Wencan back.

However, it is a bit of a headache to do the things that help on the other hand, maybe this is the reason why Zhang Bin didn't give him any explanation.

Lu Xiangsheng hesitated for a long time, and finally gave up: "My lord, my subordinates feel that General Zuo's plan is not completely unreasonable, as long as it is slightly adjusted, it is still feasible." ”

"Oh?" When Xiong Wencan heard this, he couldn't help but look at Lu Xiangsheng in surprise.

This guy is Zhang Bin's cronies, he knows this quite well, Zhang Bin and Yang Gebu are opponents, will this guy really help himself?

He said tentatively, "How to adjust?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng continued to arch his hand: "My subordinates feel that the Xi'an direction can send less than 10,000 Qin troops to help, so that the possibility of the thieves escaping from the west is low, and the 20,000 Henan soldiers in Lantian can all be transferred, so that the possibility of the thieves escaping from Lantian to Hanzhong is high." If we pretend to accidentally show a little flaw during the siege, the anti-thief will definitely flee in the direction of Lantian, and when the time comes, the subordinates will lead the army over in advance and ambush it, and the anti-thief will not be able to escape. “

Ambush, this sounds a little more reliable.

Xiong Wencan couldn't help but ask: "Where is the ambush, how do you lure the thief there?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng said confidently: "There are two roads from the north of Lishan to Qinling, one is the main road near Xi'an, and the other is the small road near Weinan, we know this, and the thieves must also know it, if we are so ......." ”

Xiong Wencan listened to it, and couldn't help nodding frequently, this is indeed a clever plan, if Li Zicheng is lured into the path near Weinan, he will be dead.

This problem is tantamount to entrusting his fate to Lu Xiangsheng, if he wants to pretend to be invincible and let Li Zicheng go, he will be in big trouble.

This kind of thing, the remnants of the eunuch party have done a lot of it, will Lu Xiangsheng do this?

Xiong Wencan hesitated for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and nodded: "Okay, just do as you say." ”

He also has no choice, the only way to do this is to quickly exterminate the anti-thief Li Zicheng, he can only gamble.

Xiong Wencan knows that Lu Xiangsheng is still very upright, and he is fundamentally different from the remnants of the eunuch party who have brought disaster to the country and the people.

Everyone discussed for a while and made a detailed plan, and Xiong Wencan began to mobilize people.

At this time, Li Zicheng was in the wilderness between Lintong and Weinan, and it was a good time to implement this plan.

Xiong Wencan directly ordered Zuo Liangyu to lead 40,000 Shanxi troops to the direction of Chengcheng and block the road to the north;

He also ordered Ma Xianglin to lead 20,000 Sichuan army white pole soldiers to Weinan to block the road to the east;

And he and Lu Xiangsheng waited in Lintong for all kinds of soldiers and horses to come and gather.

Lintong is located between Xi'an, Weinan and Lantian, gathering in these three places are less than 100 miles, the next day, all walks of life have gathered, and at this time, Zuo Liangyu and Ma Xianglin must have arrived at the designated place, Xiong Wencan did not hesitate to lead He Renlong and 50,000 miscellaneous troops from west to east to press, Lu Xiangsheng led 10,000 Tianxiong army to move south, and the encirclement finally began.

Li Zicheng naturally received the news that the reason why he was able to throw the officers and men far away was because of his strong mobility ability, and another reason was that he scattered the reconnaissance cavalry everywhere, and the actions of the officers and men basically could not escape his eyes.

Isn't this Xiong Wencan crazy, he actually transferred all the officers and soldiers of Lantian to encircle and suppress him, wouldn't he be able to cross Lantian and go straight to Qinling!

Of course, he knew that there were two roads from the northern foot of Lishan to Qinling, one was the main road near Xi'an, and the other was the small road near Weinan, and these two roads had to pass through Lantian in the end, and he didn't want to take the six roads of Qinling to the "dead end" in Hanzhong unless he had to.

Therefore, when the officers and soldiers were stuck in Lantian, he didn't think about running in the direction of Qinling at all.

However, the situation is different at this time, there are officers and soldiers everywhere in the southeast, northwest, and northwest, and the encirclement is getting tighter and tighter, if he doesn't run again, he won't be able to run away!

Now there is only one question, take the big road or take the small road, this problem is actually he has no choice, because the entrance of the road in Xi'an is too close to Xi'an City, and the officers and soldiers in the city can rush out to block him when they receive the news, and the army of King Lu Yan is in the south at this time, as long as he is blocked, King Lu Yan will definitely quickly lead the army to rush over, and at that time, he will die.

He could only take the path on the Weinan side, because the entrance of the road on that side was thirty or forty miles away from Weinan, and even if Li Wanqing in Weinan City received the news, he would not have time to send troops to stop him.

The encirclement on all sides is getting tighter and tighter, especially the officers and soldiers in the east, west, and north directions are moving very fast, and they are less than thirty miles away from him, only the king of Lu Yan in the south walks and stops, and he seems to be very careful, he estimates that King Lu Yan is afraid that he will bypass Lishan and go straight to Qinling.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng was still far away from the entrance of the road near Weinan, and if he hesitated any longer, he might not have a chance to run.

Li Zicheng was forced by the Fourth Route Army to have no choice, so he had to lead the army to rush to the entrance of the small road on the west side of Lishan Mountain from the gap between the officers and soldiers of the two roads in the southwest.

In fact, Lu Xiangsheng had already led the army to ambush on the road, if Li Zicheng sent someone to Lu Xiangsheng's camp to investigate, he would find that there was no one in it at all, then the Lu Zi banner was standing there, but the camp only had hundreds of temporarily transferred Qin soldiers walking back and forth on the periphery, and there was no Tianxiong army soldier at all.

The speed of the cavalry was quite astonishing, and in less than half an hour, Li Zicheng had already led his army to rush into the path on the west side of Lishan.

Unfortunately, it was too late, when the nearest Sichuan army white pole soldier rushed to the valley mouth, Li Zicheng had already traveled more than 20 miles in the path, and he was about to rush to the exit near Lantian.

Just when Li Zicheng was secretly proud, a valley suddenly appeared in front of him.

However, this valley is much wider than the valley where he ambushed the officers and soldiers, looking at the width of almost two miles, and this is not a dead end, he knows that he has not gone wrong, not far in front should be Lantian, what is there to worry about in such a valley, even if the officers and soldiers are ambushed, they are not afraid, the path in the middle is almost a mile away from the mountains on both sides, what bow and arrow can shoot so far.

At this time, he ignored the fact that officers and soldiers not only had bows and arrows, but also muskets and even artillery!

He did not hesitate to lead the army to rush in, and as a result, not long after he ran, a terrifying loud noise suddenly sounded on the hills on both sides.

"Boom, boom", the roar of artillery echoed in the valley, and hundreds of shells fell from the hills on both sides, knocking over hundreds of cavalry in an instant.

Oops, there was an ambush, Li Zicheng looked up and saw that the valley mouth in front of him had been stopped, a row of horse rejection forks was scattered, almost filling the entire valley mouth, and a team of Ming army musketeers were neatly lined up behind the horse rejection forks, and they were raising their guns to aim at them!

Li Zicheng hurriedly raised his hand and shouted: "Quick, fast, slow down, turn around." ”

It's a pity that it's still late, the galloping war horses don't say that they can stop if they stop, and by the time they slowly stopped, the striker was less than two hundred paces away from the Ming musketeers at Taniguchi.

"Papapa", a dense burst of muskets rang out, and the cavalry in front of them suddenly fell off their horses row after row like cutting wheat, and in the blink of an eye, at least thousands of people were shot and fell off their horses, and even Li Zicheng's body sounded the sound of crackling bullets, fortunately, he was wearing armor, otherwise he would have to be shot and fall off his horse.

"Boom, boom, boom", the roar of artillery sounded again on the hills on both sides, and hundreds of people were smashed and fell off their horses.

At this time, all the thieves didn't need Li Zicheng's command, they turned their horses' heads and ran back desperately.

Thousands of men and horses were lost in less than a quarter of an hour, Li Zicheng was frightened, blocking the front, no need to ask, it must be the Tianxiong army of King Lu Yan, they must not be able to rush through, there are chasing soldiers after the interception, how is this good!

Although the speed of the cavalry running in the path was not very fast, but more than 20 miles was a matter of two quarters of an hour, and Li Zicheng had not yet thought about what to do, when there was a sudden night in front of him who did not receive a report: "Report, in charge, it's not good, the front is also blocked by officers and soldiers." ”

In fact, there is no need to ask this, the officers and soldiers will definitely catch up, it is not strange to block the road, the important thing is whether he can lead the army to rush out.

Li Zicheng had no choice but to hit the horse and came to the front to take a look, so that a mouthful of blood spurted out.

There are not many officers and soldiers in front, only about 20,000 people, and all of them are infantry, it stands to reason that they should not be able to stop the more than 40,000 elite horsemen under him, the problem is very shameless, they actually carried a lot of boulders, cut a lot of branches, and blocked the entire road, including the gentle slopes on both sides of the road, and his cavalry had to slow down when they rushed over, otherwise they would have to trip over boulders and branches.

If the cavalry has no impact speed, it will not be much different from the foot, this Li Zicheng is quite clear, this officer and soldier is really fucked, he hesitated, and then roared: "Rush, rush over for me, King Lu Yan will chase after you, hurry up, only by rushing from the front, can you escape." ”

All the thieves know the horror of King Lu Yan, and when they heard that King Lu Yan was catching up, they were so frightened that they rushed forward, but they didn't know that it was the white pole soldiers of the Sichuan army who blocked the road in front of them, Ma Xianglin was a terrifying existence equivalent to King Lu Yan, if they could run at speed, with the help of the horse's momentum, they might be able to cause some trouble to Ma Xianglin, but at this time, the road was full of boulders and branches, no one dared to ride a horse and gallop wildly, losing momentum, and they were also a dish in front of the white pole soldiers of the Sichuan army.

A melee unfolded like this, the weapon in the hands of the white pole soldiers of the Sichuan army is the nemesis of the cavalry, the front can be stabbed, the back can be smashed, the horror is incomparable, a group of thieves are either stabbed by the blood or smashed the head of the bloodstream, more than 40,000 cavalry can not break through the 20,000 steps of the block, the two sides are deadlocked.

In less than half an hour of fierce fighting, Xiong Wencan and He Renlong also rushed over with 50,000 miscellaneous troops, and this time, the thieves made matters worse, the number of officers and soldiers was almost twice as many as theirs, even if their combat strength was close to that of the officers and soldiers, it was useless, and it seemed that it was only a matter of time before the whole army was wiped out.

After less than half an hour of fierce fighting, Lu Xiangsheng also led the Tianxiong army to slowly force over in a neat formation, and now, the thieves finally couldn't bear it, and they threw away their weapons one after another, howling: "I surrender, I surrender, don't kill me!" ”

A big battle ended like this, and the 50,000 elite horsemen under Li Zicheng were finally captured.

In this battle, the casualties on the side of the officers and soldiers were not very large, the white pole soldiers of the Sichuan army who were blocking the front and fighting with the thieves were still less than 1,000 killed, and less than 5,000 were injured.

On the other hand, on the side of the anti-thieves, there were four or five thousand killed by Lu Xiangsheng alone, as many as five or six thousand killed by Ma Xianglin, and more than 40,000 injured and industrious.

This can be said to be a rare big victory, but Xiong Wencan is not happy at all, because the anti-thief leader Li Zicheng is gone, no one alive, no corpse dead!

In fact, Li Zicheng ran away as early as when his elite cavalry was fighting with the white pole soldiers of the Sichuan army, and when he saw that the situation was not right, he shouted indiscriminately: "I'll go to the back to see if King Lu Yan has followed, you hurry forward." ”

Subsequently, he took Li Guo, Li Yan and Liu Zongmin and other cronies and generals and dozens of Ye Bushu to run wildly behind, with the lesson of his uncle Gao Yingxiang, he would not be stupid to take his subordinates and officers and soldiers to fight hard, until the rout and then run.

The situation is not right, hurry up and talk about it, it is the right way.

As for where he ran away, none of the captured thieves knew!

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