Zhang Liwei often lies, often six out of ten sentences are lies, but this time what he said to Liu Guoneng was not a lie. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Wang Er is sick, and the illness is indeed not light, and Wang Jiayin is also sick, but the illness is indeed not serious.

However, Zhang Liwei's reputation for being vain is outside, and many of his words Liu Guoneng listened to in front of him.

said that Wang Er was sick, of course Liu Guoneng believed it, because he had seen Wang Er, and Wang Er had scolded him with a red face and a thick neck, and said to Wang Jiayin that he Liu Guoneng was a "three-surnamed slave" who had turned his back on the two old masters, so he was very impressed by Wang Er, the deep sunken eye sockets, the black and red face, and the cough from time to time, thinking about it at this time, made him remember it vividly.

But how sick Wang Er is, it's hard to say, after all, there is also a gap between Zhang Liwei and Zuo Prime Minister Wang Er, and it's not a day or two to look forward to his death.

However, Liu Guoneng is most concerned about Wang Jiayin, if Wang Jiayin is seriously ill, then he has to think carefully about whether to fight with the main force of the official army at Shimen Pass.

Because once Wang Jiayin is seriously ill, it is Wang Er who is in charge of Shennanyu.

Just because of Wang Er's attitude towards himself, he can't fight to the death for him Wang Er here with the official army!

At present, after a few days of fighting, ten percent of the men and horses under Liu Guoneng have lost forty percent, and they are still relatively capable of handling four adult horses.

Most of the rest are old, old, young, sick, and weak.

Fortunately, God opened his eyes today, and it rained heavily at the critical moment, which made the official artillery dumb, otherwise if the bombardment continued, the fortified fortress in front of him would definitely be bombarded in the end.

He believes that if the ammunition of the official army is enough, Shimenguan will be destroyed by the artillery of the official army sooner or later, he is not from the northern Shaanxi refugee, he is from the landlord Haoqiang, of course he knows the power of artillery.

What's more, the family's cronies, Liu Wengui and Liu Guocheng, have come to persuade him to withdraw several times, and they don't want to fight anymore, and if they fight the old Liu family again, they will lose all the money they relied on to save their lives.

Liu Guoneng's face was gloomy as water, and his kung fu changed several times after a while, and a pair of eyes stared at Zhang Liwei as if they were looking at it, which made Zhang Liwei's heart hairy.

The heavy rain weakened that night, and by the next day, it became a continuous rain, sometimes heavy, sometimes light, and intermittent.

Liu Guoneng was worried that after the rain stopped, the official artillery would continue to bombard Guancheng, and once the Guancheng collapsed, he would no longer have it, so he took advantage of the continuous rain to urge his men and horses to start building a camp behind Shimen Pass to prepare for emergencies.

The official and military camps east of Guancheng were also busy, some digging ditches along the perimeter of the camp to drain water, some were busy wiping and maintaining the artillery of the officers and soldiers in the makeshift camp tents, some went to the mountains to continue cutting wood and prepare for the production of siege vans, and so on, and so on, each with its own affairs to do.

And Lu Xiangsheng, Lu Yuanding, Chen Tan and others gathered in Li Banghua's tent to discuss the next siege strategy.

The rain was still falling this morning, and there was no intention of stopping for a while, so Li Banghua once again focused on the generals' deliberations, but this time Lu Xiangsheng already had an idea.

So after the discussion began, it sounded like the other generals didn't have any good ideas, so Lu Xiangsheng groaned and said his thoughts: "Lord Cabinet, it is raining heavily, and our firearms will not be effective for the time being, but the lower officials have an idea here, maybe it can be better than artillery bombardment!" ”

Li Banghua and the others saw that Lu Xiangsheng had an idea, and they were all listening attentively to Lu Xiangsheng's words.

Lu Xiangsheng continued: "Fortunately, the gunpowder stored by our army is in the rear barracks, although it rained and the wind was strong yesterday, the gunpowder was well preserved, and the loss was not large. So speaking of which, God is still on the side of our army.

"Xia Guan saw that the official grenades of the imperial court were quite powerful, and he thought that our army might be able to concentrate the grenades in one place, and then put them under the city wall of Shimen Pass, maybe they could blow them up, but this morning, Xia Guan went to check the gunpowder in the mine camp, but he felt that if our army directly transported the gunpowder barrels that stored gunpowder to the city, buried more than a dozen barrels of gunpowder into the city wall or foundation, and ignited and detonated at the same time, the power may be much greater than the concentrated use of grenades!"

After Lu Xiangsheng said this, he looked at Li Banghua, and Li Banghua listened to Lu Xiangsheng's thoughts, nodded immediately, and said, "This is also a method!" It's not easy for you to draw inferences about that. Although gunpowder is extremely important to our mine camp, it is important to use it to extinguish the thieves, although this move is a little wasteful, but in order to break the city, it is not impossible to try! ”

After Li Banghua finished speaking, he looked at Lu Yuanding, who knew the most about the application of firearms in the army today.

Lu Yuanding knew that Li Gebu was asking for his opinion, and immediately said: "With my humble understanding of Dias black powder, no matter what kind of city it is, I'm afraid it won't be able to withstand the power of these dozen barrels of gunpowder!" ”

As soon as Lu Yuanding's words fell, Li Banghua immediately stroked his palm and said, "Since this is the case, there is no need to wait." Use siege trucks, cover the guards and soldiers to reach the city near the city, dig up the earth and stones, bury gunpowder, if you can break the city today, it will be the best! ”

Li Banghua and the others had just agreed on the next step in the big tent to break through the Guancheng, and were about to disperse and prepare, but suddenly heard a report from someone outside the big tent, saying that Dong Xueli personally brought people to meet Li Gebu.

Li Banghua hurriedly passed on, and after a while, Dong Xueli led two people in a hurry, and then knelt down on one knee to salute, clasped his fists and said: "Lord Cabinet, Wang Guoliang, the chief military officer of Shanxi Town, has taken Huangluling, and these two people are messengers sent by Wang Zongzhen, bringing the military report of Huangluling!" ”

Dong Xueli finished saying this sentence excitedly, and then said: "In the past few days, there has been a fire on Luliang Mountain, and the smoke is filled, which is the handwriting of Wang Zongzhen and others!" A fire burned tens of thousands of thieves, and Mr. Wang can be described as a hero! ”

After Dong Xueli said this, he was full of praise, and he admired Wang Guoliang in his words.

Li Banghua was first overjoyed, then shocked, and then suddenly realized, the thick smoke in the sky for several days of emotion was all caused by the kingdom's Liang fire attack on Huangluling!

At that moment, he hurriedly handed over the military emergency report handed over by Dong Xueli, and when he unfolded it, the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became, and the more he looked at it, the more silent he became, but when he finally read Wang Guoliang's emergency report, he also breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Fortunately, it rained heavily yesterday, otherwise it is really difficult to predict when and where this fire will burn!" It's just that I pity the people of the mountains! ”

After Li Banghua said this, he handed the letter in his hand to Lu Xiangsheng and others to circulate, and then said: "But in the final analysis, Wang Guoliang has taken Huangluling after all, the whereabouts of the thief and the king of the whole world are unknown, and the other thief is the head of the flying tiger and the tiger, and the thief army of the whole king of the world is 20,000 or 30,000 people in ashes, no matter how you say it, it is a great achievement, a great victory!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng, Lu Yuanding, Dong Xueli and others also immediately said: "The cabinet is compassionate and compassionate, but the attack on Huangluling by the fire of Shanxi Wang Zongzhen is indeed a great victory, congratulations!" Report to the court, the emperor must be happy! ”

Although Li Banghua is a disciple of the saint, he pays attention to the benevolent and loves others, but he is not a corrupt Confucian, and he will not be soft on the thieves because the saint says that the benevolent love others, but after a moment of compassion and compassion, he soon resumed his decisiveness in killing, and said at the moment: "There is no hurry to report to the imperial court, and when you take the city in front of you, and make the same meritorious deeds as the soldiers of Shanxi Town such as Wang Guoliang, this cabinet department will report to the imperial court together for you and ask for merit to Your Majesty!" ”

After saying this, Li Banghua looked at Dong Xueli and said: "You came at the right time, take your cavalry to prepare, maybe before noon, my army can rush through this pass!" ”