In the troubled times, everyone is struggling for their lives, even if they are mixed into a big army like the party Shousu, they are doing their best on weekdays, and it is not easy to live.

If we compare the warlords' support of the army to a business, the party has been in a bad year lately, and several transactions have lost their money, and they have been making small incomes and large expenses, and they are unable to make ends meet.

This time, he and Liu Fangliang and He Zhen took refuge in Emperor Longwu, which was a desperate gamble for Dang Shousu, who won a lot of money and still had to earn, and if he lost, he was not far from bankruptcy. After leaving Huguang for two years, the veterans under the party Shousu have been damaged by nearly half, and the armor and weapons are also in urgent need of replenishment and replacement, this time Ningyuan has suffered a big loss, and he can no longer care about the false credit of saving from the dragon, and just want to make more benefits to make up for the loss, so he did not follow Liu Fangliang and He Zhen to chase Emperor Longwu, but stayed in Ningyuan, bent on eliminating the remnants of Zhou Guodong.

Liu Fangliang and He Zhen are their own brothers who put righteousness first, knowing that Dang Shousu's loss this time is not small, the two of them directly led the army to chase Emperor Longwu, leaving Zhou Guodong's big fat meat to Dang Shousu to enjoy alone, in the two of them, Dang Shousu still has more than 10,000 horses, and it is easy to eat Zhou Guodong's thousands of remnants in one bite.

Dang Shousu also thinks so.

He commanded the troops to surround Zhou Guodong on all sides, and then opened his big mouth and bit down hard.

Then, he was broken out of two teeth.

Dang Shousu made a mistake in judgment in the sniper battle in Ningyuan, and has been hiding the most elite main force in the back camp and Ningyuan City, so that it was easily broken through by the Chu army, but his main force was also recuperated because of this, and there were almost no losses, and now in the face of Zhou Guodong's thousands of remnants, he sent the main force up, and he was full of confidence that he could fight quickly and defeat the Chu army in one fell swoop, but after a vicious battle, it was one of his main forces that was defeated, and Dang Shousu realized that Zhou Guodong was not a piece of big fat stewed softly, It's a hard walnut that will break its big teeth if you're not careful.

Zhou Guodong laughed at the lack of teeth and said that the dog cave was wide open, and seized the opportunity to fight his way out of the encirclement through the gap and fled into Jiuzhi Mountain south of Ningyuan.

Fat to the mouth...... No, how can a walnut to his mouth let him run! The party guarded the prime and chased after him on all sides, and finally trapped Zhou Guodong on a peak in Jiuzhi Mountain, surrounded on all sides like an iron bucket.

Dang Shousu immediately issued an order to encircle Zhou Guodong without fighting, as long as the food in his army is exhausted, he will be defeated without a fight, the hard walnut of the Chu army is really difficult to gnaw, since it is already invincible, there is no need to fight another cruel battle.

It's a pity that the plan didn't change quickly, and the latest information sent by the scouts forced him to mention launching a general attack.

The Western Army is coming!

Liu Wenxiu sent three generals, Lu Mingchen, Gao Wengui and Wang Shangli, chasing the heels of the Chu army into Hunan, and the soldiers pointed directly at Yong'an, among which Lu Mingchen was the fastest, and the vanguard had appeared outside the city of Yong'an County.

"There are hungry wolves in the front, and tigers in the back, what should we do now? Only by beating Zhou Guodong, the hungry wolf, to death first, and then turning around to deal with Lu Mingchen, the tiger! ”

Dang Shousu realized that he was already in a passive situation of being attacked by the enemy on his back and back, and he had to strike first to destroy Zhou Guodong before the main force of the Western Army arrived, but before the general attack, he sent an envoy up the mountain to Zhou Guodong's army in an attitude of giving it a try and persuaded him to surrender.

Two hours later, the messenger returned, his mouth full of oil and burping.

"General Zhou invited me to eat roast horse meat, a big piece must be eaten, and I will be given another piece after eating, I dare not eat it...... Belch! "Horse meat is also meat, the party has been living a bitter life recently, the soldiers rarely see the smell of meat once a day, this messenger was a little reserved at first, and then under the coercion of Zhou Guodong, he had to "give in", let go of his belly and not want to die, so that when he went down the mountain, he could only move slowly step by step, so he delayed until now to come back.

When asked about the results of the surrender, the envoy replied: "General Zhou said that he eats horse meat on the mountain, blows the mountain wind, and lives a happy life, and he doesn't want to go down the mountain for three or five months. Dang Shousu was recently named the Duke of An Guo by Emperor Longwu, and it is rare that Zhou Guodong is commensurate with this, and when the two armies are fighting, he is still not rude.

"Three or five months? ! He can hold out for half a month, even if the sun comes out of the west! Since Zhou Guodong has killed horses and eaten, it means that the army has run out of food, and he even slapped his swollen face and became fat, pretending to be a ghost in front of the general. ”

There are many springs and streams in the mountains in the south, Zhou Guodong should not be in danger of cutting off the water, but only by killing horses and eating meat, it is certainly not a long-term solution, most of the thousands of Chu troops under his command are infantry, and the cavalry does not exceed two hundred, that is to say, he only has two hundred war horses at most, plus some horses and mules and other livestock for transporting heavy equipment, the total number must be limited, even if you dig some wild vegetables and grass roots to satisfy hunger, at most half a month, at least ten days, you will definitely not be able to hold on.

Half a month, at most half a month can win without a fight, get a large number of weapons and equipment, and thousands of first-class elite soldiers, with their own losses continue to increase, the expectations of the party are also rising, and now he no longer intends to let the Chu army go, except for Zhou Guodong and a few officers and soldiers, he is ready to absorb all these thousands of Chu troops.

It's a pity that the Western Army has already come, and if Liu Wenxiu himself arrives with the main force of the Western Army, Dang Shousu will have to retreat, so before that, he wants to eliminate Zhou Guodong first and get back some of his capital.

"The general will order, the whole army will eat, and the time will go out to attack this mountain......" He hesitated for a moment, and added: "Those who kill Zhou Guodong will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver, and those who are captured alive will be rewarded together!" ”

Although intellectually knew that this person could not be killed, he still found a reason to motivate himself to persuade himself, and offered a reward of 1,000 taels of silver to buy Zhou Guodong's head.

There must be brave men under the heavy reward, the soldiers under the party Shousu know that the Chu army is already a tired soldier at the end of the crossbow, so after the attack, everyone is vying to be the first, bravely moving forward, all want to rush to the top of the mountain to make a windfall, in addition to the various rewards issued by the party Shousu, everyone knows that the soldiers of the Chu army are also rich, and there must be a lot of valuable things on their bodies, at least there will be a large number of military tickets that serve as military salaries, although this kind of military tickets are paper money like treasure money, but it is a hard currency that can be exchanged for silver money at any time.

Attacking the mountain from the bottom to the top, the difficulty is no less than the siege, all need to fill with a large number of lives, the party is reluctant to waste the lives of his subordinates, so the attack did not do it brutally, on the mountain road to the top of the mountain to launch a feint attack, but secretly sent a team of elite dead soldiers, carrying ropes and hooks, climbing to the top of the mountain from the steep slope of the back mountain without a road, and a divine soldier descended from the sky.

At the beginning, their sneak attack was a great success, killing people and setting fires in all directions, causing a large area of chaos on the top of the mountain, the defenders of the front mountain saw the fire on the top of the mountain, and the morale of the army was obviously affected, and they lost two dangers in succession, and were killed halfway up the mountain by the Qinwang army of the party guard, but it didn't take long for Zhou Guodong to personally lead the army to the top of the mountain, and all the elite dead soldiers personally selected by the party Shousu were eliminated, and the loopholes were re-plugged.

No matter how fierce the dead soldier is against the sky, he will not wear bulky armor when climbing the cliff, he will not carry any long weapons, how can he defeat the fully armed elite in armor with only a cloth coat and a slap knife?

Seeing that the fire on the top of the mountain was gradually extinguished, and there was no more shouting of killing, Dang Shousu knew that the sneak attack had failed, and he should have retreated temporarily at this time, but he was like a gambler who had lost a red eye, and he ordered a strong attack in anger.

The results speak for themselves.

Nearly 2,000 men and horses were folded in, and with a battalion full of wounded soldiers, the party guards returned with a feather.

The bloody facts finally made him understand that Zhou Guodong was neither a piece of fat nor a hard walnut, but a copper pea that could not be steamed, cooked, hammered, fried, or exploded, after regaining his composure, he began to seriously consider the issue of retreat, and if he delayed it here, he looked a lot of more than 10,000 people, but it was just a plate of hors d'oeuvres for Liu Wenxiu.

Packing up the empty bags, with the pain all over his body, Dang Shousu is ready to embark on a wandering journey again, retreat to Hengzhou Mansion and Chenzhou in the northeast, and after meeting Liu Fangliang and He Zhen, he will make the next step, as for Zhou Guodong, the copper pea that broke his mouth full of teeth, Dang Shousu is really afraid of him, and he can't afford to provoke me, so it's best not to meet again for the rest of his life.

He made up his mind to run away, but the battle situation took a new turn.

After the Western Army advanced to the front line of Daozhou and Ningyuan, it suddenly stopped, and the three troops of Lu Mingchen, Gao Wengui and Wang Shangli lined up against the county seat of Ningyuan, neither attacking the city, nor outflanking the back road of the party's defense, and tens of thousands of troops were like running to see the excitement, standing next to them with their arms in their arms, watching coldly.

"This is going to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight!" Dang Shousu was crooked, and vaguely guessed the intentions of Lu Mingchen and other generals of the Western Army, and immediately realized that before he eliminated Zhou Guodong, the Western Army would not easily intervene.

"In that case, this is a rare opportunity!" Dang Shousu thought of this festival, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice, fortunately, it took a whole day to clean up those tattered belongings, and he was not in a hurry to withdraw his troops from Jiuzhi Mountain, since he already knew that the Western Army would not interfere easily, he could continue to spend time with Zhou Guodong.

Let's see who can outperform whom!