It happened that in the afternoon of the same day, the Shaanxi army's forward rangers, who had gone to the northeast of Shilou to scout, came back and reported that there was a Zhuangzi there called Guangwuzhuang, and there were thieves patrolling nearby. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhang Guoxing's generals Zhang Wen, Wu Rong, Jia Qi, Li Xing and others all took the initiative to ask for orders and went to the direction of Guangwuzhuang to engage the thieves and test the reality of the thief army.

Zhang Wen, a general of Zhang Guoxing's cronies, said: "Lord Zongzhen, since our army left Tongguan, it has traveled thousands of miles, but it has never fought with the thief army. However, according to Shanxi, Zhang Daren recruited 2,000 new township soldiers, but he regained a large amount of lost land one after another. ”

Guerrilla Wu Rong also said: "Lord Zongzhen, the ability of the thieves, our Shaanxi soldiers and not you have not seen it, but they are just a group of mud legs." In Shaanxi, they are not the opponents of the brothers, can they fly to the sky if they run to Shanxi? If you can't find it, it's just that, now that you have found it, you can't let it go easily, in case the township soldiers under the command of Shanxi Zhensi come out on top, the brothers will be embarrassed and lose their hair! ”

When these two people said this, the others also agreed.

Zhang Guoxing doesn't have much assertiveness on weekdays, and he mostly relies on the group of cronies and generals in front of him to govern the army and lead the troops, and when he hears them say this, he has nothing to do in his heart, but he doesn't know the depth of Guangwuzhuang, so he looks at Zhong Dewu, who is familiar with the nearby terrain.

Zhong Dewu saw that Zhang Guoxing had the intention of inquiring, so he said: "Lord Zongzhen, Guangwuzhuang is located on the road, you can go to Ningxiang in the north, and you can go to Jiaokou in the east. ”

Zhang Guoxing heard this, thought about it, and finally said: "Zhang Wen, Wu Rong, the two of you each take your own department, go to the direction of Guangwuzhuang to try, if you meet the enemy, you can fight, if there are many thieves, you can retreat to the stone tower at any time, you must not take the enemy lightly, so as to lose the first battle!" ”

After Zhang Guoxing said this, Zhang Wen and Wu Rong hugged their fists to receive the order, and they were overjoyed, and immediately went down to the various points of the city, totaling more than 1,000 Ma Bujun, and followed the rangers who came to report to the northeast.

The place name of Shilou comes from the mountain range in the east of Shilou County, and there is a stacked stone into a building, which is a wonder.

Therefore, from this place name, you can see the general topography of the western foot of Luliang Mountain.

More than 1,000 horses marched eastward for more than ten miles, and then entered the shallow mountains and hilly areas, because the Shaanxi army rangers had already come before, and there were no doubts at the moment, and they continued to lead the army.

As soon as Zhang Wen and Wu Rong's team arrived at a hillside, they saw hundreds of thieves marching towards the top of the slope at the bottom of the slope hundreds of miles away.

Zhang Wen saw that the other party was only a few hundred people, and all of them were foot soldiers, he was overjoyed at the moment, and said to Wu Rong: "The credit sent by God, if our brothers don't take it, wouldn't they be sorry for themselves!" ”

Wu Rong nodded and laughed, brandished his horsewhip, and rushed down first.

The thief army under the slope suddenly met the officers and soldiers on the slope in front of them, and rushed down regardless of it, and suddenly there was a big chaos, and the leader of the leader shouted orders to be stabilized, but the situation did not look like it could be stabilized.

Wu Rong rushed down first, and Zhang Wen naturally didn't dare to stay behind, and the various consulates rushed down.

Seeing this, the thieves at the bottom of the slope shot a rain of arrows and retreated.

Zhang Wen shouted as he rushed down: "Brothers, the time has come to make meritorious contributions!" Rush with me! ”

While speaking, Wu Rong, Zhang Wen and dozens of people on horseback from the guards around them had already rushed into the group of thieves down the slope.

The impact of dozens of cavalry is naturally not something that a thief who has no cavalry and no formation at the bottom of the slope can resist.

The thief whistled and took the lead in turning and running, and when the other thieves saw this, they also turned and fled.

Seeing this, Zhang Wen was even more overjoyed, and kept shouting: "Brothers, chase after me!" ”

Wu Rong was a little hesitant in his heart, but when he saw that he wanted to escape, he didn't have time to think about it at the moment, followed Zhang Wen, rushed forward on the horse, brandished his saber, and kept slashing the thieves who caught up.

In this way, I turned a few corners along the mountain road, chased out more than two miles, and saw that there were almost more than two hundred levels before and after, so I hurriedly stopped Zhang Wen, who was still non-stop, and shouted: "Brother Zhang stays, the mountains ahead are steep and dense, I am afraid that there will be ambushes, we have already made our first achievements, why chase again!?" ”

Zhang Wen heard that he thought about it, so he reined in his war horse and shouted at the Shaanxi army cavalry that was still swarming forward: "Collect the troops and garrison the horses, and prepare to return to the army!" Collect your troops and prepare to return to the army! ”

As soon as Zhang Wen's words fell, he heard a drum and remembered, and he was stunned, and suddenly a rain of arrows shot out from the mountains and forests on both sides.

Zhang Wen and Wu Rong's men and horses suddenly screamed.

Wu Rong immediately understood that he had been ambushed by the thieves, and immediately shouted: "We have been ambushed!" Retreat! Retreat! ”

However, at this time, behind the bushes of the two gangs of the road, groups of thieves and soldiers suddenly rushed out, brandishing knives, guns and sticks, and rushed up the mountain road, blocking the hundreds of steps of riding around Zhang Wen and Wu Rong.

The mountain road is about ten steps wide, and there are bushes on both sides, and at this time it is full of soldiers on both sides of the enemy, and dozens of cavalry under the command of the two can no longer play the role of accelerating the impact, so they can only spin in place at this time, and they don't know what to do.

Zhang Wen and Wu Rong are both fierce generals, at this time, they knew the carelessness, fell into the trap of the thief army, and they were even more remorseful in their hearts.

With the sword and shield hands outside, the spearmen in the middle, and the archers inside, Zhang Wen and Wu Rong each led hundreds of people, one after the other, and fought against more and more thieves on the mountain road.

Speaking of which, the hundreds of thieves that Zhang Wen and Wu Rong met on that slope were originally going to go to Shilou County to invite a battle in order to lure the officers and soldiers to come and pursue, but before they got out of the mountain, they encountered the officers and soldiers who took the initiative to come to test the attack.

And this thief who led the team had already broken away from the battle on the mountain road at this time, and was on the mountain not far away, continuing to offer advice to the big thief leader "Zijin Liang" Wang Ziyong, who was ordered to lead the army to garrison Guangwuzhuang.

This time, after Wang Jiayin led the thieves battalion to leave Yongning Prefecture, he first went all the way to the east, after entering Luliang Mountain, then turned south, went all the way around, and finally settled in Shennanyu in the middle of Luliang Mountain, deep in the mountains, killed the mountain people who refused to return, opened a government here, and established the first small regime since the thieves' uprising.

Due to the more than 100,000 men and horses under his command, Shennanyu, a small place deep in the mountains, could not accommodate all the horses at all, so Wang Jiayin quickly accepted the suggestion of Wang Er, the "left prime minister and military advisor", and divided the men and horses under his command into five roads, leading the middle road to sit in Shennanyu, and the remaining four roads were divided into four directions.

"King of Great Liang" Wang Zuohang led the headquarters to the north road, stationed in the north of Shennanyu and Ningxiang at the western foot of Luliang Mountain. This Ningxiang County was renamed Zhongyang in later generations.

Wu Yangui, the "king of the whole world", led his department to the east road and garrisoned Huangluling leading to Fenzhou.

Liu Guoneng, the "King of the Collapsed Heavens", led his headquarters to the south road and stationed Shikou Town in the southeast of Shennanyu. This place was renamed Jiaokou in later generations.

"Zijin Liang" Wang Ziyong, as one of the most relied on thieves by Wang Jiayin, was arranged on the West Road and stationed in Guangwuzhuang outside Shilou Mountain in the west of Shennanyu.

At this moment, the "Zijin Liang" Wang Ziyong was in the mountains and forests southwest of Guangwuzhuang, listening carefully to the words of a newly rising leader of the thief army.

I only heard this person say: "Prime Minister, the officers and soldiers have been tricked!" It's just that I don't know that it's useless to eat all the small dishes in front of me, so why don't you use this dish as bait, continue to lure the officials and soldiers in Shilou County to come to help, and then give them a pot! What do you think, Prime Minister? ”

The prime minister in this person's mouth is naturally the big thief king nicknamed "Zijin Liang" for his own use.

After Wang Jiayin proclaimed himself the "King of Hengtian", Wang Er was named "Left Prime Minister and Military Division", and "Zijin Liang" Wang Ziyong was named "Right Prime Minister".

Therefore, the thieves have all been called Wang Er and Wang Zi by "official names".

After the man had finished speaking, he looked at the king and waited for the following.

Wang Zi laughed heartily with "hahaha", and then said: "Cao Cao, Cao Cao, you are really the right name!" Sure enough, it is the resourceful Zhiduoxing under the command of the Hengtian King! ”

The thief who was called Cao Cao also laughed when he heard this, and then said: "The prime minister has won the award, the award!" ”

After saying this, he laughed again.

That's right, this thief who offered advice to the king for his own use was the famous Cao Cao Luo Rucai in history.