Early the next morning, stepping on the winter frost all over the ground, Li Dingguo opened the gate of S Hongcheng City, waved his army out of the city, and the army of 23,000 people at the head of 16 battalions marched out in a mighty procession and marched towards Longquan Mountain, which was more than ten miles away. 【Latest chapter reading. 】

Li Dingguo's command is also divided into two kinds of battalions, soldiers and miscellaneous soldiers, each battalion has 1,000 people, a total of 10 battalions, and 10,000 soldiers. There are a total of six battalions in the war barracks, of which five battalions are 2,000 people per battalion, 3,000 people in the pro-military battalion, and there are 13,000 soldiers in total, and most of the soldiers in the war battalion are the original Ming army soldiers, many people are still border troops, both individual combat effectiveness and organization are much stronger than the miscellaneous battalions, and they are also the main soldiers of the Great Western Army Guard, and the pro-military battalion is the killer weapon of Li Dingguo's pressure at the bottom of the box, 3,000 cavalry, people wear iron armor horses with leather saddles, spears and bows have everything, even if they meet Tartars, they also have the power to fight.

Therefore, leading such a strong army, Li Dingguo is very confident, strong generals still need to be strong, without the athletes under his hands, Li Dingguo will not be listed as one of the four righteous sons in the Great West Kingdom, and Zhang Xianzhong will not value him so much.

An army of more than 20,000 people, the whole army advanced, and the smoke and dust raised could be seen from a long distance, Li Dingguo secretly ordered the whole army to be on alert, in case the Ming army on Longquan Mountain saw the army coming, trying to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Western Army to suddenly rush out and take a surprise, after all, Liu Jinzhong was defeated in this way.

However, I walked all the way, until I reached the foot of Longquan Mountain, and I didn't see half a person rushing out of the mountain city in front of the formation, and on the top of the mountain, several blue and green flags were displayed, and there were faintly crowded people, but no one went out of the city to fight.

Li Dingguo rode on the horse, a slight smile at the corner of his mouth, and a trace of pride appeared on his face: "The Ming army still knows the severity, and seeing that I am invincible, I dare not come out in the city." ”

Smiling, he steadily stepped in front of the mountain, lined up the whole army into a crescent array, and surrounded the Longquan Mountain Pass in an arc.

Then he squinted his eyes and looked up at the terrain.

Longquan Mountain is not high, but it is steep, and the geographical location is even more critical. The whole mountain is a huge stone mountain, which stretches in the north-south direction, isolating Tongchuan Prefecture from Chongqing Prefecture, Tongchuan Prefecture in the west and Chongqing Prefecture in the west.

Halfway up the mountainside in the middle of the mountain, there is a stone crack, about several zhang wide, the simple loess official road passes through it, the traffic is two, forming a pass, it has always been the main road of the Chengdu Plain to the east of Sichuan, if this road is cut off, if you want to cross the Longquan Mountain, you have to go around to Baoning Mansion, and walk hundreds of miles of road, so here there is a stone city since the Southern Song Dynasty, the city is actually a cottage, take the mountain stone and build, build it according to the mountain on the edge of the pass, stand at the head of the city, just reach out and throw a stone ash bottle, you can block the official road below the ten zhang.

Li Dingguo's brows furrowed slightly, feeling a little tricky, and then looking at the way up the mountain to attack the city, his brows suddenly wrinkled even deeper.

The stone city is built in the middle of the mountain, because the mountain is not high, the head of the city is close to the top of the mountain, the city is built by the mountain, the cliff on the mountain virtually increases the height of the city wall, the four sides are as high as dozens of zhang, even if the ladder is erected, it can not reach the wall, if you want to attack it, you can only follow the dirt slope that stretches from the foot of the mountain to the city gate at the pass of the halfway mountainside.

Originally, there was no obstacle on this dirt slope, and a stone slab staircase led directly up, but now, the Ming army actually took advantage of these few days to build four or five stone walls on the soil slope, the wall is half a person high, and it is higher than one by one along the hillside like a terrace, and if you want to attack the city gate, you have to break through these stone walls first.

Behind the stone wall, rows of Kuizhou soldiers wrapped in white cloth scarves were looking at themselves fiercely, although the stone wall blocked their vision, and they couldn't see what weapons they were holding in their hands, but the fool also knew that it would definitely not be welcome flowers and reward cakes.

Li Dingguo's teeth are itchy, looking at the appearance of the Ming army, this is not going down the mountain, you have to attack the mountain by yourself, the people in the official government are the most cunning, where did the arrogance of beating Liu Jinzhong go a few days ago? Kind of come down and fight me a dozen.

More than 20,000 people under the command of King Anxi, it sounds like a lot, but Li Dingguo is reluctant to spend here, the original plan, can easily defeat the Ming army here, seize the time to go north to Baoning Mansion, and Zhang Xianzhong will meet outside the Sword Pavilion, ditto the Golden Bull Road, preemptively lay down Hanzhong before the Tartars, and take advantage of the geographical advantages in Hanzhong to fight a decisive battle with the Qing army, as long as it wins, then north of the Qinling Mountains, will be the territory of the Great West.

Then go east out of Tongguan, the Central Plains is in front of you, the towering city wall of Beijing is not out of reach, Li Zicheng did not complete the cause, the Great Western Army will complete it on his behalf, what a brilliant future this is, in Chinese history, there will be a brilliant figure of Li Dingguo, and the brilliant military exploits make people's blood boil.

However, now that he is blocked under this stone mountain, Li Dingguo is inexplicably angry.

He steadied his mind, and the body of a hundred battles instinctively began to ponder a plan to break the enemy.

"Liu Yun!" Li Dingguo was silent for a while and shouted.

"Lord Wang, the last general!" A member of the athlete will come in response, this person is wearing a helmet and armor, a body of iron leaves clanging, under the wide eaves of the iron helmet, a twenty-year-old face is heroic, two thick eyebrows are particularly eye-catching, the national character face is wide-lipped, a pair of eyes are blazing, revealing a martial spirit, riding a black horse, behind the two halberd C on the heart belt, the voice is like thunder: "What does the prince command?" ”

"Take the head of your battalion and march forward two hundred paces." Li Dingguo said in a deep voice: "Choose a person who is good at scolding, call for battle!" ”

Liu Yun is a native of Shaanxi, born in poverty, ancestors of the military family, since childhood to practice a martial arts, because the eldest brother in the family against the lack of the army, even the field did not get a point, teenagers because of the poverty of the family can not support themselves, live in the rivers and lakes, by the art for a few silver money to live, Chongzhen in the summer of the twelfth year, in Kaifeng for a moment of anger to kill a few bullying outsiders, wanted by the government, when fleeing to the west, just met Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army passing by, he joined the army, and threw himself at Li Dingguo's side, Li Dingguo fell in love with this young man who was a few years younger than himself at a glance, and took him as a cronie, and handed over the two battalion heads of the war battalion to him to lead, and Liu Yun also lived up to high expectations, fought bravely, and took the lead in battle.

Liu Yun arched his hand and said loudly: "Obey!" ”

He pulled out his horse and walked away, galloped to the side of his camp, stood in front of everyone, and shouted: "The king of Anxi has an order, ordering me to wait for the front to send troops out of the field, and call for a battle to scold the enemy!" The generals will come with me! ”

The four thousand men at the head of the two battalions agreed in unison: "Wow! ”

The neat army marched forward in unison, and the army marched forward two hundred paces, forming two phalanxes, with long swords and banners, and less than five hundred paces in front of them was the dirt slope that went up the mountain.

More than two dozen soldiers who were good at scolding their mothers and had high-pitched voices ran out of the formation, puffed out their eyes, coughed a few times to moisten their throats, and began to tear their throats.

"The dog raised by the son of a bitch, there is a seed, what is hiding in the shell of the turtle? Turtle grandson? ”

"Grandpa is standing here, N is on the N, see if you dare to come out!"

"P's officers and soldiers are not even rats in front of my Great Western Army! It's all a group of women's cowards! ”

……

The foul language is endless, but the voice is subdued and frustrated, and the rhythm of scolding is distinct, high and low, like an unbearable chorus, the listener is angry, and the listener is annoyed.

The Great Western Army suddenly burst into laughter, some applauded, some laughed wildly, and more people coaxed together, especially those soldiers of the original Ming Army, who laughed vigorously, these soldiers were already old fritters, and they wished they had fun and laughed.

Li Dingguo stared at the head of the city tightly, waiting steadily, if the Ming army couldn't bear it, going out of the city to meet him would be in his arms, if the Ming army ninjas were invincible and couldn't scold to death, it could also hit the morale of the Ming army in the city, and if the morale was low, its army would be defeated.

But there was silence at the top of the city, and the white-robed soldiers behind the stone walls were equally motionless, as if their ears had been stuffed with cotton, and they were deaf to the insults that had been insulting their ancestors for three generations.

Unconsciously, the shouting and scolding had lasted for two quarters of an hour, and the twenty or so soldiers who were scolding had entered the best state, and new words and old words emerged in an endless stream, one set of them without repetition, the joy of scolding, the joy of scolding, and a few people even took off their armor, and they all scolded and sweated.

At this moment, there was a "whoosh" on the head of the city, and S came out of something, falling from the sky with a sharp sound of breaking the air, flying a distance of nearly five hundred steps, "tied", and smashed into the ground in front of the scolding sergeant, but it was a spear about five feet long.

The spear was still shaking slightly, and the humming sound was still there, and it smashed a little in front of a sergeant's toe, bluffing the sergeant into a blank face, and if it was hit, it would not be a problem at all to wear a cold heart.

This spear is obviously issued by the bed crossbow on the head of the city, there are these sharp weapons to defend the city on Longquan Mountain, and the people who Zhang Daqi lost the mountain city and left these things to the Kuizhou army.

The sergeant stayed for a long time before he forced his composure and grinned, and was about to say something bold out loud, but the next second he immediately stared at a round object tied to the shaft of the spear.

He took a closer look, turned his head in horror and shouted, "This is the head of General Liu Jinzhong!" ”

(End of chapter)