Liu Guoneng is the eldest son-in-law of their old Liu family, Liu Guoneng gathers people to make trouble, kills officials and rebels, which is the crime of punishing the nine clans. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Uncles and brothers of the same clan and clan just want to continue to be good citizens in Mizhi County, and the government can't agree to it!

Therefore, when Liu Guoneng took a few of the children of the clan who had always been scoundrels, and were "bewitched" by Li Zicheng, killed officials and rebelled, and gathered people to make trouble, the old Liu family, a big rice fat family, but all those who had a more solid family, quickly fled with their families and went incognito to other places to make a living, and a broken household like Liu Guocheng did not have the entanglement to escape, so he simply joined the gang and followed Liu Guoneng to do it together.

Now, the uncles and brothers who followed Liu Guoneng into the grass have died several times before they wandered into the Jin Dynasty, and those who have been able to hold on to it until now have not died have all survived and become the core people under the command of Liu Guineng, the king of the collapsed sky, and everyone has a large number of subordinates.

Among Liu Guoneng's uncles and brothers, there are a lot of shrewd, but there are not many who are capable, and those who dare to fight have all died in Shaanxi, and among the remaining relatives, characters like Liu Wenxi and Liu Guocheng are already able to handle them, and it is because of this that Liu Guoneng was sent to a more important place to sit down.

Liu Guoneng does not have many cadres who can fight habitually, and there is of course a reason behind it.

Because Liu Guoneng broke away from the camp and stood on his own, Li Zicheng, Lin Yangsheng, Liu Fangliang and so on, who originally followed him, were also abducted and taken away by Li Zicheng.

And after he arrived at Wang Jiayin's side, Wang Jiayin's daughter bought horse bones, which was indeed good to him, not only gave him a lot of people who were coerced up to the mountain as subordinates, but also let him be on an equal footing with other old thieves.

However, because he is a newcomer on Wang Jiayin's side after all, many thieves are older than him, and he has a bad reputation for betraying the old master, so there are no famous and famous people who defect to him, so he can't afford to be nepotistic if he wants to.

In the end, Liu Guoneng can only be a big man in the man, and let the honest and reliable clan brother Liu Guocheng come here to guard the door.

At this moment, Liu Guocheng stood on top of the tall gate of Shimen Pass, looking at the officials and soldiers who were cutting wood and camping in the open area to the east from a distance, worried.

Liu Guoneng didn't let him fight, and he himself didn't dare to fight, he had dealt with the officials and soldiers in Yansui Town, and he knew what kind of officers and soldiers he couldn't mess with.

And at present, this small number of officers and troops with high morale and bright armor is exactly the kind of officer and army that he can not easily provoke.

It's just that he doesn't provoke the officials and soldiers who are logging and camping in Guancheng, but it doesn't mean that the officials and troops outside the city won't come to provoke him.

On the afternoon of the ninth day of the first month of May, just after Shen Shi, Li Banghua, Lu Xiangsheng and others led the main army of more than 5,000 people from the mine camp and the Tianxiong camp to a short distance outside Shimen Pass and joined Chen Tan's former army.

A journey of more than ten miles, even with sixty artillery pieces, only took more than an hour.

Li Banghua and Lu Xiangsheng came to Chen Tan's camp, stood at a distance of 300 steps, and looked at the gate of Shimen Pass, and saw that the general of the thief army defending the city had blocked the door hole under the gate with a stone, and knew that there was no other way but to attack it in the future.

Fortunately, the improved artillery of the previous Franc machine showed more powerful power than the previous Ming artillery, so Li Banghua did not feel how difficult it was to capture the city in front of him, in his opinion, it was just a matter of time before he captured this city.

Since the thieves blocked the only gate hole under the city by themselves, there was basically no possibility of a sneak attack or night attack from the city.

Therefore, after inspecting the terrain in front of Shimen Pass, Li Banghua immediately ordered the officers and men of the mining battalion to drag all the 60 artillery pieces they carried to a distance of 300 steps in front of Shimen Pass, and placed them in the center on the open area in front of the pass, lined up, with the two wings being Chen Tan's division of the Tianxiong camp and Li Bei's division of the mining camp.

These two horses, one with spears, wolf swords, and sword and shield hands, and the other with Chongzhen's flintlock muskets, were placed on the two flanks of the mine camp's car gun position, just in case.

The camp was set up, the position was set, and the night gradually fell, Li Banghua ordered Chen Tan's troops to continue to be on guard in front of the battle, and then sent more patrols to the mountains on both sides, and then arranged for the army to camp overnight.

For him, since he personally led the army, it has been quite smooth, and the morale of his subordinates is strong, this situation should be maintained, although this Shimen Pass in front of him is a gate on the flat land of the valley, there is no steepness of the legendary Huangluling, but rashly launched an attack, the casualties will not be small, if the battle is not down, the high morale that has accumulated now may dissipate a lot.

Now the mine battalion and the Tianxiong battalion under his command, after all, are all newly formed battalions since His Majesty the Emperor ascended the throne, and they are all "new troops" who have not fought hard battles.

This night, inside and outside the Shimen Pass, the two hostile armies spent this silence and doubt.

Compared with the casualties that Li Banghua was worried about, Liu Guo, who had already led a large number of reinforcements overnight, thought more.

On the morning of the same day, Liu Guocheng, the guard of Shimen Pass, sent someone to report that as soon as more than 1,000 officers and soldiers arrived at the pass, Liu Guoneng was relatively calm at that time, after all, he had already arranged for Shimen Pass and 5,000 people on the hills on both sides, and only 1,000 officers and soldiers could do anything about me.

Moreover, there are two camps on the two-day road outside Shimen Pass, why can't the officers and soldiers fight for a few days to pass!

However, in the evening of the same day, Liu Guocheng sent people back to Shikou again, reporting that the main force of the official army had arrived, and there was no end in sight on the road to the east, and the banner raised in front of the army clearly read the words "Minister of Military Aircraft Shanxi Suppresses Thieves and Supervisor Li" and "The Order of the Three Armed Forces."

As soon as Liu Guoneng heard the news, he immediately couldn't sit still.

Because the arrival of the main force of the official army shows that the two outpost camps that were placed in Lingshi Road and Fenxi Road must have been pulled out by the official army now.

The loss of 5,000 minions certainly made him feel painful, but what worried him the most was that the official army was so powerful, whether Shimen Pass could be defended, after all, Shimen Pass was very important to him, if he couldn't guard this entrance, then it was only a matter of time before Shikou Town, where his old camp was located, was taken by the official army.

It was with these in mind that Liu Guoneng learned that the main force of the official army had arrived at Shimen Pass, and quickly mobilized more than 10,000 thieves from the north, south, and west near Shikou to rush to Shimen Pass overnight.

However, under such a terrain, there is not much use in the crowd, unless the personnel guarding the pass are heavily injured, and the minions under the pass can be boarded to replenish, otherwise no matter how many people there are, they can't squeeze in!

This pass is only more than 120 steps long and five or six steps wide, and the number of defenders that can accommodate it is limited, and on the hill facing each other on the north and south sides of the gate, due to the steep terrain, there are not many people and horses at all.

However, the arrival of a large number of reinforcements led by Liu Guoneng personally still encouraged the defenders of Shimen Pass, at least let Liu Guocheng, the guard of Shimen Pass, breathe a sigh of relief.

At this time, Shimen Pass is like a dam in the canyon, isolating the two oncoming torrents from the west and east.

The war clouds inside and outside Shimen Pass were thick, and the war was about to break out.