On the official road to Luzhou, the grain transportation team of the Ming army marched forward against the scorching sun, and one of the leaders of Qianhu rode on a mule horse, wiped his sweat, and looked at the long procession, a little anxious.

It is not easy to enter Sichuan, the road is difficult, before the war, the Ming army tuned a large amount of grain in Chongqing, after He Tengjiao attacked Luzhou, the Ming army was indeed transporting grain from Chongqing, but Chongqing did not produce much grain, Wang Deren was still stationed opposite Wu Sangui's men and horses, and also needed to keep some family funds, more than 100,000 people and horses in Luzhou consumed a huge amount of money every day, and Chongqing alone could not be, so the Ming army could only transport some grain from Guizhou to Luzhou.

"Hurry up!" Qianhuguan's name is Wu Wenkai, who was born in the Wuzhong Army, and is now a Qianhu of the Tunjun in Zunyi, he urged loudly: "Rest when you arrive at Yongningwei!" ”

Although the Ming army occupied Yongningwei, but during the war, the outside of the city was not peaceful, bandits were rampant, Wu Wenkai still had to be careful, after all, the main force of the Ming army was on the front line, and his grain protection team was all local government soldiers, that is, the level of the militia group.

The grain team sped up a little under his urging, walked for a while, and entered a corner of the official road, and at this moment, a cannon suddenly rang out in the woods on both sides, and a dense rain of arrows shot out rapidly from the forest, and the soldiers guarding both sides of the grain cart were caught off guard, and most of them were shot down in an instant.

"Don't panic!"

Wu Wenkai was shocked, and waved his knife to push away the arrows that were shooting, and the team on the official road was already in chaos under the sudden attack.

The Western army in ambush on both sides did not give him enough time to react, and after a wave of arrows rained down on his head and face, Wang Fuchen waved his sword, "Kill!" The ambushed Western army came out from both sides, and like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, they rushed out of the woods and into the grain transport team, slashing and slaughtering.

Wu Wenkai grabbed the reins to stabilize the mule and horse, looked around in panic, and found that there were at least four or five thousand thieves who rushed out, and his thousand soldiers were suddenly attacked, and nearly a hundred people had died, and they were definitely not opponents, so he immediately shouted, "Retreat!" ”

After the roar, Wu Wen pulled his horse and ran to Yongning Wei in the north, the government soldiers and the people heard the sound, followed the north, and the western army shot with bows and arrows behind, chased for a while, killed hundreds of people, and then stopped the pursuit.

Most of the food guards ran away, and the soldiers and people on the official road were not opponents of the Western Army at all, and they were killed in a few moments. Wang Fuchen walked out of the woods, saw the scattered mule carts and wheelbarrows, and then jumped on a mule cart, stabbed into the sack above, and leaked white rice, and his heart immediately rejoiced, this was at least ten thousand stones of grain, enough for him to eat for a while.

"Bring the grain away and hide it in the mountains!"

Four days later, in the camp of the Ming army in the west of Luzhou City, Li Dingguo hurriedly walked into He Tengjiao's big tent, and saw a member of thousands of household officials kneeling in the tent, and He Tengjiao's face was gloomy.

When He Tengjiao saw Li Dingguo coming in, he said: "The grain transported from Guizhou has been robbed by thieves!" ”

Li Dingguo was a little surprised, walked to the center of the tent, first saluted He Tengjiao, then looked at the kneeling Qianhu, and asked urgently, "What's the matter?" How many people on the other side can rob the grain team? ”

The grain transport team is guarded by at least 1,000 people, and it is the lifeblood of the Ming army, and once it touches it, it will become the target of the government's key attack, so if it is not for the long life, and it is not afraid of attracting the retaliation of the officials and soldiers, no one will generally touch it.

"Returning to the general, he led a thousand soldiers to guard the grain cart, walked fifty miles south of Yongning Wei, and suddenly suffered an attack by five thousand thieves, and he couldn't resist it, so he threw away the grain." Qianhu said ashamedly.

"Five thousand thieves?" Li Dingguo groaned for a while, "What banner are they fighting?" ”

"I haven't seen the flag, but it's definitely not a bandit, the last general asked the officials of Yongning, and Yongning doesn't have such a large group of bandits."

He Tengjiao was a little irritable in his heart, and when Qianhu finished speaking, he waved his hand impatiently, "Okay, you can step down!" Losing grain and grass is a capital crime, but if you report it in time, the capital crime can be avoided and the living crime cannot be escaped, go and get forty military sticks! ”

"Humble thanks to the grace of the superintendent not to kill!" Qianhu hurriedly kowtowed, and then hurriedly left the account.

At this time, He Tengjiao said: "It seems that there is a western army flowing behind us, and now there is a problem with the grain road, and the army has been attacking for six or seven days, if it goes on like this, when will we be able to take Luzhou?" ”

Li Dingguo prevented He Tengjiao from continuing to attack Luzhou, but he did not give a way to take Luzhou, the Ming army was stationed under the city for a long time, and it was not a way, and now the grain road was threatened again, and the Ming army in Luzhou could always count on transferring grain from Chongqing, and the situation was even more delicate.

The scouts sent by the Ming army to Fushun to investigate did not return, which made Li Dingguo even more convinced that the Jin army had arrived in Fushun and was waiting for the Ming army to fight with Sun Kewang.

Now the situation of the Ming army, there are some dilemmas, hard to eat Luzhou, is in the arms of the Jin army, it is very easy to be profited by the Haoge fisherman, retreat to the south bank and miss the great opportunity to eliminate Sun Kewang, in case Sun Kewang falls to Haoge, the situation of the Ming army in the southwest will be very unfavorable.

Li Dingguo knew that He Tengjiao was already a little anxious, and complained a little about him, he was silent for a while, and thought for a while, "Inspector, how did these five thousand western troops get behind us?" ”

He Tengjiao looked at him suspiciously, not understanding what he meant, "Naturally, we slipped over while we weren't paying attention." ”

Di Sanpin, the general of the Western Army stationed in Yongning, surrendered to the Ming army, and the Ming army was clear about the deployment of the Western Army on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

Luzhou is surrounded by water on three sides, and if this group of people first entered the Tuojiang River and then entered the Yangtze River by boat, the Ming army would definitely be able to see it, then they could only bypass the river crossed by the Ming army from upstream before the Ming army crossed the river.

Raft crossing the river, one is time-consuming, and the other is to choose a suitable site, otherwise it is easy to be swept away by the current, because in the current, the raft is difficult to control the direction, and the boat can indeed resist the current through the sail oars.

In the upper reaches of Luzhou, there are not many places suitable for rafts to cross the river, the near ones are easy to be discovered by the Ming army, and the far ones are more than 100 miles.

Li Dingguo suddenly clenched his fists, "Supervisor, there may be a way to break the city in the end." ”

The weather was hot He Tengjiao was about to drink saliva, and when he heard his words, he was instinctively happy, but he quickly calmed down again, how could it be so easy.

"What's the solution?" He Tengjiao didn't believe it, but he still put down the cup and asked.

"Please overseer the matter of clearing the thieves and guarding the grain road to the last general!" Li Dingguo didn't answer, but first asked He Tengjiao for his life, and then said with some excitement: "Maybe this time we can not only take Luzhou, but also be able to hit Haoge hard and avenge the revenge of eastern Sichuan!" ”

Li Dingguo's words He Tengjiao has always felt that it is still very reasonable and more pragmatic, but why does he feel so unreliable today? Take Luzhou, and hit Haoge hard?

He Tengjiao sighed, waved his hand and said, "Don't mention other things, you first exterminate the western thieves who attacked the grain road." ”