() Li Mao's determination has been made, and everyone does not dare to say more, the high walls of the states are deep, the walls are clear, and the Age has repeatedly provoked, and the various ministries have been ordered to hold out. He was long in cavalry maneuvers and short in fortifying cities, and he was disgraced for a while. Although the land northwest of Beijing is large, the people are few and the materials are scarce, and the 40,000 military horses of Ah Ge obviously cannot be covered by digging voles, and they are hungry and cold for a while, and they have no choice but to exchange fire with several bandits entrenched on Hengshan.

These bandits each have no less than 10,000 people, build forts and cities, divide one side, and the government does not provoke them, and they often go down the mountain to find trouble with the government, not to mention that Ah Re takes the initiative to provoke.

For a time, the battle up and down the mountain was turned upside down, Ah Re won and lost, broke the undefeated body, but relied on the advantage of troops and gradually gained the upper hand, the frustrated bandits asked Li Mao for help, Li Mao was generous, provided for supplies, and sent troops to respond, and the already tilted balance of victory and defeat was corrected.

The bandits in Hengshan had a deep grudge against the government, and even they turned their hostilities into rebellion, and other bandits also saw the opportunity and asked Li Mao for help. Li Mao also did not refuse, and he would never let people go home empty-handed.

Taking people's money and people to eliminate disasters, the horse bandits in the northwest have always taken the word "Xinyi" very seriously, and they went back to continue to find trouble with Ah Ge, and fought unequivocally.

These bandits, who were originally scattered in the sand, were threatened because of their survival, and they also began to secretly connect with each other, and bandit alliances such as "Eight Great Mountains", "Killing Hu Hui", "Thirteen Shanzhai Alliance", and "Three Mountains General Village" appeared successively. Famous leaders such as "Flying on the Grass", "Braised Hu in Oil", "Bringing Down the Sky", and "King Li" have emerged.

There will be many heroes.

Under the movement of the right wing, the small and medium-sized alliances formed the "Hengshan League", elected "Tianwang Li" as the chief military division, and coordinated all the villages to work together to fight with Ah Ge. After a stalemate for another half a year, Ah Ge felt a little unbearable. The officers and soldiers have a way, but the bandits are invisible. They are not afraid of confronting the officials and soldiers head-on, but they are afraid that these bandits will stab them in the back and release cold arrows. That's really unguarded, miserable.

After dealing with Li Mao for such a long time, Ah Ge understood that he had encountered a difficult opponent, this opponent was not very particular, he was a prince and a prince, but he said he would run on the battlefield, and he didn't care about his face in order to use his tricks, but although this opponent was not particular, he was ruthless and tight, playing tricks, making himself unable to reach the sky, not to the ground, unable to return to the grassland, unable to enter Chang'an, and hanging in the air.

If he continues to suffer so much, he can only be dragged to death by him, trapped to death, and must venture out before his treacherous plan succeeds, return to the grassland, return to the grassland, recuperate for three or five years, and then compete with him when he recovers.

After entering the summer, Ah Re has been looking for a way to get out, the land near Linzhou is about to be gnawed flat by him, and if he doesn't leave, he doesn't have to fight, and he will starve to death, not to mention that the gang of "Heavenly King Li" has been funded by Li Mao, kicking their noses and faces, and provoking vigorously. However, it is not easy to talk about leaving, Li Mao set up an iron bucket array, surrounded the entire northwest of Beijing into an iron barrel, and stationed heavy troops in all directions.

After all, Ah Ge had come all the way in blood and fire, and the wind and snow sword on the grassland gave him an incomparably strong heart and sharp eyes. After careful reconnaissance, he gradually glimpsed the reality of each state: the northern front has the strongest troops, and there are famous generals like Qian Duoduo, and it is difficult to break through. Fengzhou is Yang Qi's old nest, Yang Qi has been guarding the border for many years, experienced in a hundred battles, wise and brave, in the old days of the Great Qingchuan War, he fled into the thin forest under the Yin Mountain, and with the geographical advantage to trap and kill the five governors under the command of Asman, it shows his ruthless and cunning nature, such a person can not provoke as much as possible.

Xia Suiyin has Li Mao personally in charge of the front line, with heavy troops, and famous generals like Chang Mucang and Yan Qin, so he can't go. The east is the Yellow River, and the moat is sad, even if it passes, the east of the river is the land of Longxing of the Tang Dynasty, how can it be mixed?

From the point of view, only Youzhou in the west is an opportunity, although there are many soldiers and horses in Youzhou, but it is not very elite, and it is lonely, and there is no support around it. Li Mao's love general Mu Dahai is not a good general, and he can be transferred away with a trick. And Youzhou is the relay station of Guanzhong and Fengzhou, and there are a lot of grains, grasses and ordnance, if you can capture Youzhou to replenish supplies, and go west over Helan Mountain into the desert, it will be like a dragon returning to the sea and reborn.

After several temptations, Ah Re concluded that Youzhou was preferable, so he issued an order for the Great Khan to transfer troops, gathered the scattered troops, appointed himself as the commander, and led the troops to attack Yanyang Mountain, where the headquarters of the Hengshan League was located, with the goal of capturing and killing "Tianwang Li"; With Ji Wujin as the main commander, he feinted to attack Xiazhou and contain Yan Qin; With the instigation as the main commander, he attacked Youzhou and contained the mother sea.

After Ji Wujin led his troops to leave, Ah Re immediately ordered the army to turn around, withdraw from Hengshan, and go to chase and instigate, and the two armies merged in one place, and suddenly surrounded Youzhou City with lightning speed.

The Yokoyama General League was the closest to Youzhou, and when "Tianwang Li" learned that Ah Re was pouring out of the nest, he immediately asked the mother sea for help, and the mother sea led the main force of Youzhou to feint on the rear flank of Ah Ge's flank to respond to "Tianwang Li". Leaving the general Wang Jinghong to sit in Youzhou, Wang Jinghong heard the police and went to the city, saw that the city was surrounded on three sides, only the south side remained, and saw that thousands of men, women and children who were not hung up at all came to the city, these men and women were unarmed, and were driven by Ah Ge to act as human shields. It not only blocks arrows, but also fills in ditches.

Wang Jinghong was shocked, and said to the left and right: "They are all my subjects of the Tang Dynasty, how can I bear to release arrows at them." The adjutant general said: "If you abandon the city and don't defend it, you should be beheaded for the crime." Wang Jinghong said: "Indiscriminate killing of innocents, I feel uneasy. I'd rather let the master be beheaded than kill innocent people. He immediately ordered the city to be abandoned.

Due to the fierce fighting for many years, the people in the city have already moved inward, and many of the remaining military households and merchants have also fled when they saw the garrison retreating.

The rangers were sent to monitor the Tang army and the people leaving the city, and those who fled with their belongings were shot and killed, and if they fled empty-handed, they were left alone. They were already exhausted, coveting the materials in the city, and at this moment they had no intention of capturing slaves, nor did they want to clash with the Tang army again.

"Escorting" Wang Jinghong away, Ah Ge ordered to disperse the thousands of people who were captured by him to serve as human shields, lest they consume the grain and grass in the city. When I entered the city, I saw that the warehouses were very well stocked, and the stables and sheepfolds were full of livestock. Age was overjoyed. Everyone was overjoyed.

Someone proposed to send someone to recover Ji Wujin, and instigated: "King Zuo Shuai was ordered to act as a side guard, and he couldn't get out of his body for the time being, and when the Khan returned to the grassland safely, I personally led my troops to pick him up." The crowd did not dare to say more.

The armies entered the city to replenish their provisions. Ah Ge held a feast, rewarded the three armies, and after a full meal, he leaned on the couch of Youzhou Thorn Shi, burped, and said to the left and right: "Li Mao is ambitious and talented after all, and he thinks that he can trap me with a few cities, which is really ridiculous." We recuperated for two days, replenished our provisions, and headed west, back to the grassland, and became the king of the grassland again. ”

Instigated two young camp prostitutes to sleep, Ah Re laughed: "Escape from death, how can two be enough, I want twenty!" Life must be happy, don't make Jin Zun empty to the moon. Hahaha. ”

Indulging in laughter and sleeping, at noon on the second day, at the instigation of the report, an underground secret room was found in the Assassin's Mansion, in which a large amount of ordnance and spices were stored. Ah Ge felt novel, put spices in the armory, what did this Youzhou assassin Shi think. So he got up and went to inspect, the entrance to the secret room was narrow, and it was pitch black inside, and everyone was not used to using Han lanterns, so they all lit torches in their hands. As soon as Ah Ge entered the secret room, he smelled a strange smell in his nose, which caused him to sneeze several times.

Because I saw that in addition to armor and ordnance, there were hundreds of large rectangular wooden boxes in this secret room. Ah Ge saw a large amount of yellowish powder flowing from a wooden box that had been pried open, slightly pungent, he grabbed a handful and looked at it in his hand, sniffed it again, and couldn't figure out what it was. At this time, someone found two large urns in the middle of the wooden box, the mouth of the Weng was covered with a red silk cloth, and it was very tightly closed, and some powder was sprinkled around the urn, which was pure white and had a very light smell.

Dai instigated and smiled: "The officials of the Tang Dynasty are really greedy, they even ask for the spices of the barbecue, and they hide so much that they can't eat it in a few lifetimes." His cousin said with a smile: "It's not necessarily spices, this smell is weird." You see that he is so well sealed, maybe the urn contains gold and silver beads. Another general exclaimed, "There are words on the urn, what is written?" Reaching out and wiping the pure white powder off the urn, there were four Chinese characters.

The words are small and the light is dim, and it is not real to see, so Harbour took a torch and looked closer. He was proficient in Uighur, but he did not know the Chinese, and he could not explain why.

But Ah Ge recognized the four Chinese characters: fireworks are strictly prohibited.

Before he could turn his mind to what he meant, he heard a bang, and the torch in his hand ignited the white powder scattered on the urn, and the powder emitted dazzling sparks, emitting a large amount of smoke, and the red silk cloth that covered the mouth of the urn also burned.

The red silk cloth was only a thin layer, crumbling and tight, and when it was burned by the fire, a large hole was immediately cracked, and a thick, stubborn, braid-like thing poked its head out from under the torn red silk cloth, and was ignited by the fire, emitting a beautiful, dazzling flame......

"Something, it's so pretty." Everyone exclaimed in unison, their faces full of joy.

Ah Ge was shocked by the tiger's body, and his face was like dust.

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