In the ambush near Shilou Mountain, Zhang Guoxing, the chief soldier of Shaanxi, and the 3,000 elite Shaanxi army he brought out from Tongguan were almost wiped out, except for a part of the escape from the five-bloody battle of the general bell and a part of the team that fell behind on the rescue road for various reasons. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the night of the end of the ambush, Luo Rucai, who refused to give up, once again asked Wang Ziyong to let him take people to seize Shilou County.

This time, the king agreed, gave him 3,000 men, and allowed him to take them and garrison them there for the time being.

And this is exactly what Luo Rucai wants.

Luo Rucai is so hard-working, of course, not for Wang Jiayin's own use or Wang Jiayin, he is for himself.

Although after he rebelled, he has been relying on Wang Jiayin or Wang Ziyong and others to survive, but in his heart, there has always been a plan to stand on his own, but now his strength is still small and he can't stand on his own.

Originally, when the army of thieves abandoned Yongning Prefecture, he wanted to follow Gao Yingxiang and Ma Shouying to the north at first, but when he left, he still felt that it was too difficult to follow Gao Yingxiang and Ma Shouying to stand on their own.

So in the end, he took the risk and followed Wang Jiayin, because Wang Jiayin not only claimed the king himself, but also allowed the people with mountains under his command to claim the king.

This is the reason why Liu Guoneng broke away from the camp and became independent, and then joined Wang Jiayin's side, and it is also the reason why Luo Rucai, a hero-level figure, chose to follow Wang Jiayin.

So since he followed Wang Jiayin into Luliang Mountain, he has been trying his best to strengthen himself and stand on his own as soon as possible.

Now it seems that this wish is about to be achieved, if you can take these 3,000 people and garrison them in Shilou County, then the mountain is far away, whether it is Wang Jiayin or Wang Ziyong, they can no longer form a real constraint on themselves.

Luo Rucai's abacus crackled, but unfortunately, when he hurriedly felt outside Shilou County with his subordinates and the three thousand people allocated to him by Wang Ziyong, he was suddenly released, and above the north gate of Shilou County, there were already swords and guns and flags flying.

Zhang Zongheng, the envoy of Shanxi, has already brought 2,000 township soldiers under his command, as well as more than 1,000 fugitive guards who have been gathered all the way after going north from Jizhou.

Shanxi is set up along the Yellow Line, and there is a town Xiwei from north to south, as well as numerous thousands of households and pass fortresses under it.

The thieves crossed the river on the ice, broke through from Jizhou and Wubao, quickly captured the county town along the Huang County, and finally joined forces to defeat the city of Yongning Prefecture, and although the guards along the Yellow Line fled, after all, many people fled rather than died in battle, nor surrendered.

After the thieves quickly moved north, many of the escaped guards gathered in places that had not been occupied by the thieves.

In this way, Zhang Zongheng, the envoy of Shanxi, traveled all the way from Jizhou to the north, not only recovering many county towns and forts, but also gathering a small guard force, plus the original township soldiers, the total number exceeded Zhang Guoxing, reaching more than 3,500 people.

When Zhang Guoxing sent someone to ask him for help, hoping that he would send troops to rescue Zhang Wen and Wu Rong's subordinates, Zhang Zongheng realized that there was a problem at that time.

Because he had been in Pingyang for a long time, he had to understand the terrain and roads at the western foot of Luliang Mountain more than the newly arrived Shaanxi army, and at the same time he also had some understanding of the distribution of thieves, so he opposed sending troops to rescue, but in order to persuade Zhang Guoxing to be cautious, he immediately rushed over from Yonghe Pass in the south with his men and horses.

By the end of the evening, when he finally arrived with his men and horses, the city was already empty except for a team of personal soldiers left by Zhang Guoxing to guard the grain and grass.

However, fortunately in the misfortune, he arrived in time, and finally prevented Shilou County from falling into the hands of thieves again, and it fell into the hands of Luo Rucai, the thief leader.

Although there are no more businessmen and civilians in the city, at this time they are hoarding a lot of grain, grass, baggage and other things that Zhang Guoxing and his subordinates have looted and even looted along the way.

Soon after Zhang Zongheng arrived at the stone tower, some Shaanxi officers and soldiers fled back one after another outside the north gate.

The more than 100 Shaanxi officers and men who fled back one after another were all people who had fallen behind on the way to the rescue for various reasons.

When these people were finally about to catch up with the team, they found that there was a trap ahead, and where did they dare to rush in at the moment, they could only run back quickly, and they escaped in this way.

At the same time, it was also the first time to report to Zhang Zongheng the general situation of the ambush in Shilou Mountain.

Zhang Zongheng already had an ominous premonition, but at this time, he was even more shocked, and immediately wrote a letter, asking people to quickly report to Hong Chengchou, the person who spoke on the southern front.

Although he knew that it was too late to rescue again, and it was possible that he might even fall into it with himself, Zhang Zongheng was still very uneasy in his heart and watched his friendly troops being surrounded and annihilated without saving him.

But soon this uneasiness disappeared, because just when he was entangled, Luo Ru led a large group of men to the city.

Zhang Zongheng was originally worried that the thieves would come to seize the city after destroying Zhang Guoxing's department, so after entering the city, more than 3,500 people were all in battle and did not dare to relax a little.

Luo Rucai saw this situation, looked outside the city for a long time, and finally chose to retreat.

If there are no soldiers in the city, you can do this by simply picking up a bargain.

If you spend your heart and soul to attack the city, you can't do it.

After all, these thieves have been tossing in the mountains and forests to the east of Shilou Mountain for a day with ambush and fighting, and it is almost impossible to capture the city that has been prepared and the troops are still quite compatible.

Luo Rucai's regret that he was one step late under Shilou City did not hinder Wang Ziyong's elation in the slightest.

The day after the ambush near Shilou Mountain ended, Wang Ziyong left his henchmen and leaders to continue to garrison Guangwuzhuang with a large number of minions, and he and Luo Rucai and others were the elite thieves of the old battalion, escorting Zhang Guoxing and his subordinates to attack Li Xing and the two, and rushed to Shennanyu in the depths of Luliang Mountain with great interest, and went to Wang Jiayin, the "King of Hengtian", to report his success.

Shennanyu is located in the deepest part of the middle section of Luliang Mountain, the mountains are high and dense in a radius of dozens of miles, easy to defend and difficult to attack, belong to a piece of high mountain flat land surrounded by mountains, as if it is a paradise in general.

Of course, Shennanyu is not a real paradise, because as early as the Song Dynasty, Shennanyu has been inhabited by mountain people, and there is a Yunfeng Temple, as well as a Nuwa Niangniang Temple, and at the same time, it is also indispensable to leave the remains of the cottage cave left by the bandits and bandits of the past dynasties.

After Wang Jiayin, Wang Er, Wang Ziyong and other thieves in northern Shaanxi left Yongning Prefecture, first to the east, and then to the south, after robbing the small county of Ningxiang, they continued to advance to the mountainous area south of the middle section of Luliang Mountain, and finally came to Shennanyu under the guidance of the local thieves and mountain people, and saw the situation here, very satisfied, so they robbed and killed the host of Yunfeng Temple who refused to vacate it, robbed Yunfeng Temple and Niangniang Temple, and made the official office of the palace of "Hengtian One Word King".

The monks in Yunfeng Temple refused to be killed by the thieves, and the thieves were forced to return to the world and become minions.

The Taoist girls who cultivate immortals in Niangniang Temple are occupied by the "princes" of the thief army, and the young ones are served as maids with the young women who were snatched from the mountain, serving and living, and the old ones are sent to the back camp to wash and cook for the thieves.

At noon on this day, Wang Jiayin and his subordinate "Zuo Prime Minister and Military Division" Wang Er, as well as his wife and brother Zhang Liwei, clan brother Wang Guozhong and other confidants, were leisurely drinking and having fun in Yunfeng Temple, bragging and patting horses, and suddenly received a report from people outside the temple, saying that the right prime minister Wang sent people to report that the righteous army won a big battle outside the mountain, killed thousands of enemies, surrendered 2,000, and captured a general officer alive.

Wang Jiayin and others came to summon the small leader sent by Wang Ziyong, this small leader can speak well, and described an ambush battle as wonderful, climaxing, and also said that Wang Ziyong will personally escort this chief military officer to come to sacrifice prisoners, Wang Jiayin, Wang Er and others are overjoyed to hear these words.

Therefore, when the sun set, when Wang Ziyong, Luo Rucai and other people crossed the mountains and mountains to Shennanyu, Wang Jiayin, Wang Er and others also came to greet him with a large team of people.

After Wang Jiayin, Wang Er, Wang Guozhong and others saw Zhang Guoxing and guerrilla Li Xing in Shaanxi who were tied up and pushed to the ground by Wuhuada, they walked around the two twice, kicked a few feet, and then looked up to the sky and laughed for a while, and said in a loud voice: "Good, good, good, good, it seems that it is really me!" ”

After saying this, Wang Jiayin laughed again, and the people around him also laughed together.

Luo Rucai stood behind Wang Ziyong, looking at everything in front of him thoughtfully, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, but he thought in his heart that it was difficult to say who the number of days was!