The sound of gold in the Great Western Army rose, and the defeated army that had retreated sparsely returned to its own position, two thousand charging soldiers, less than 500 returned alive, and the rest turned into meat pies and remained on the hillside forever.

Seeing the Great Western Army under the mountain slowly retreating, Zubian couldn't help but shout: "Junmen, the thief army has retreated, why not take this opportunity to go out of the city and kill it, and let out a bird in your heart!" ”

Listening to what he said, all the generals and officers were a little impetuous, echoing the chorus, this battle was too easy to win, taking advantage of your illness to kill you is the consistent style of the Kuizhou army, taking the opportunity of victory, rushing out of the city to chase and kill for a while, why not?

Unexpectedly, Wang Huan and Li Tingyu shook their heads in unison and said, "No!" ”

Everyone was stunned, but when they saw Wang Huan and Li Tingyu looking at each other and smiling, Li Tingyu bowed down and made a gesture to ask Wang Huan to speak, and everyone turned their eyes to Wang Huan.

"It is advisable to chase the poor bravely, and not to sell the name of the overlord." Wang Huan said lightly: "What the ancients said is right, but now, the thief army is not poor, and it can't even be said to be a defeated army." ”

He stretched out his hand and pointed to the slowly retreating Daxi Army: "Everyone, please see, the thief army is defeated but not chaotic, orderly, and there is a faint formation system, such soldiers and horses can strike a thunderous blow at any time, when we think they are defeated and scattered, we are careless and hastily pursued, just fell into their trap, you see, the thousands of ironclad cavalry tightly encircled in the thief army, there is no chaos at all, and it can be very tight in the field!" ”

Li Tingyu nodded again and again, and said: "What the military gate said is good, Li Dingguo is deliberately selling a flaw, it seems that the whole army is defeated, but in fact, he is luring me to attack, offering thieves and horses, it is important to focus on a fast word, Li Dingguo's cavalry in the army, is his elite, back then, Yang Gebu couldn't stop him with a net on all sides, just rely on these cavalry to come and go like the wind, my Kuizhou soldiers are all foot soldiers, out of the city to fight, meet his elite cavalry, is not the best policy. ”

Only then did Zu Bian and the others suddenly realize that Li Dingguo had withdrawn his troops in a fake way and retreated, and he was still hiding these ways, and he was really cunning, and they scolded one after another.

Wang Huan and Li Tingyu stood side by side at the head of the wall, staring into the distance, quietly looking at the Great Western Army under the mountain, slowly collecting the defeated soldiers, procrastinating and slowly walking away, looking at the meaning, they almost tore their throats and shouted: "Come and chase me!" ”

Li Dingguo rode his horse in the army, his face was clouded, the Great Western Army had retreated far away, turned his head and went back to see that Longquan Mountain City had become a small black spot on the horizon, but no one from the Ming army in the city came out.

Liu Yun rode up from the rear army and reported with a sigh of relief: "Lord Wang, the Ming army is not fooled, and it has no intention of going out of the city to pursue at all, I am afraid that it will see our intentions." ”

Li Dingguotie's face was blue, and his heart was full of anger, but his voice was still calm, and he said slowly: "Unexpectedly, if the Ming army is so easy to be fooled, it will not defeat Liu Jinzhong in one battle, this group of Kuizhou army is also a strong enemy!" ”

Liu Yun rode a horse beside him, and said angrily: "Li Tingyu is too cunning, he actually came up with a way to use the rolling stone as a line of defense, so vicious, not a big husband." ”

Li Dingguo smiled dumbly and said: "The soldier is treacherous, and the one who makes good use of the schemes is the general, you are praising him when you say this." ”

His tone changed, and he continued with some doubts: "But when you say this, I think that with Li Tingyu's temperament and style, I will never think of a way to make a wall with a rolling stone. ”

Liu Yun was stunned: "Lord Wang, you have seen it, the Ming army has made it." ”

Li Dingguo shook his head and said: "No, if it is really Li Tingyu as the main general, he will definitely open the city gate, the soldiers will stand behind the city, and have a big battle with our army, chase if he wins, and enter the city to defend if he loses. ”

"Not Li Tingyu?" Liu Yun frowned and said: "Count the generals of the Ming army in Sichuan, except for one Li Tingyu, the last general really can't think of anyone else who can defeat Liu Jinzhong, although Liu Jinzhong is a little domineering, but he is also the general soldier of the Ming army, and his subordinates have some soldiers who can fight. ”

Li Dingguo's gaze was far-reaching, and he threw himself into the distance: "So I said, the defender in the city is my fierce enemy, no matter who he is, it is inevitable that we will be forced to fill Longquan Mountain City with our lives." ”

Liu Yun's face changed, and he said awe-inspiringly: "Lord Wang, do you want to drive the people to attack the city?" ”

In the past, the thieves used to fight in the past, and whenever they attacked the big cities, they would definitely help the displaced people as the forerunner, using them as cannon fodder, consuming the fighting spirit of the officers and soldiers defending the city and the artillery and rockets. The scene of those women and children crying and rushing forward was extremely miserable, and the officers and soldiers defending the city were often at a loss, neither to kill, nor to kill, and in the midst of hesitation, the thieves and sergeants were mixed in, roaring to climb the city and seize the gate, and hit it down.

So Liu Yun asked, those rolling stones on Longquan Mountain are placed there, the Ming army does not see rabbits and does not scatter eagles, there is no Great Western Army to attack it, they will not let go of the rolling stones, those rolling stones are big and heavy, those who attack are dead, with soldiers to attack, it is too rowable.

But without consuming the rolling stones, the Great Western Army can't even touch the edge of Longquan Mountain City.

Soldiers and civilians, who to use as cannon fodder, it is easy to make a decision.

Li Dingguo glanced at Liu Yun strangely, frowned, and said, "What?" Do you think it's time to use them? ”

Liu Yun's face was a little pale, and he said hesitantly: "If King Pingdong was waiting here, he might have done this today." ”

Li Dingguo frowned deeply, and said solemnly: "King Pingdong is the king of Pingdong, this king is this king, how can I do the same as them." ”

"Since Onishi has established the country, he can no longer come to the same way as thieves and scourge the people, except for the momentary speed, it will not benefit us at all, and it will only increase the anger of the people, it is easy to be a bandit, but you can't do it when you are an official and an army."

Li Dingguo grasped the reins of the horse tightly and continued to say in a deep voice: "Tang Taizong said that the people are water, and the king is the boat, and the water can carry the boat and also capsize the boat. Drive the people to be pawns, let their lives to die, even if we can win this battle, in the future we will have countless enemies, no one dares to get close to us anymore, everyone in the world will regard the Great Western Army as a devil alien, we will not be able to move an inch, we can only use more terrible killings to make others afraid of submission, but then, lose morality, the Qingming world and the kindness to the people that Onishi has worked hard for more than a year will be in vain. ”

Liu Yun listened silently, couldn't help but raise his head and said: "The prince cares about the world and cares for the people, Liu Yun admires it very much, but the prince wants to do this alone, and he is helpless in big things, the emperor and other ministers and generals, none of them think the same as the prince, all the princes and generals regard the people as pigs and dogs, they ......"

Li Dingguo lifted the reins, interrupted Liu Yun's words, and said sharply: "Shut up!" The major affairs of the DPRK and China should not be discussed in vain! There are a lot of people here, do you want to move your head?! With that spare time, you might as well think about how to break the city! ”

Liu Yun shuddered, and hurriedly closed his voice, and Nuo Nuo hung his head and was silent.

Li Dingguo lost his temper and was silent, and the army of more than 20,000 people returned to the edge of Shehong City in silence.

The people in the city have fled most of the time when the Great Western Army went out of the city to attack the mountains, and the already bleak county town is nowhere to be seen, except for some old people who can't walk, and there are no people in the city.

Li Dingguo did not chase the fleeing people, rested in the military camp outside the city until the next day, and drove the military horses to the foot of Longquan Mountain to call for battle.

Of course, Wang Huan turned a deaf ear, and was scolded by the Great Western Army called the formation, and shot down some of the heads of Liu Jinzhong's army, Li Dingguo was of course angry again, and drove the miscellaneous barracks to attack the mountain, knowing that the miscellaneous soldiers were forced by the bows and arrows of the supervising team behind them, and went up the hill hard, this time there were few people who went up, and the dodging and dodging were very open, and the Ming army actually refused to let go of the rolling stones, and shot the miscellaneous soldiers down with crossbow arrows.

Li Dingguo's face was green, and he ordered the battle team to shoot a few retreating generals, and then forced the heads of the two miscellaneous barracks to go up, this time the Ming army saw that there were more people, and happily put down another rolling stone, and the rolling stone rolled down with a bang, harvesting hundreds of lives.

Li Dingguo has already made up his mind, and today he vowed to have a result, and when the second stone wall was broken, he drove the miscellaneous barracks up, and under the attack of several times, he used nearly 4,000 lives to break the five stone wall barriers placed by the Kuizhou army on the front slope of the mountain city.

When the last stone wall turned into a rolling stone and rolled down the hill with the body of the soldiers of the Great Western Army, the white-robed soldiers guarding the hillside did not dare to hold it up, and hurriedly poured into the Longquan Mountain City.

Looking at the shattered corpses and bloodstains on the vast hillside, Li Tingyu was a little unbearable, and sighed and said to Wang Huan, who was standing on the head of the city: "Li Dingguo is going to work hard, and he is actually willing to spend so many soldiers to be cannon fodder, unlike the style of a thief." ”

Ma Long also said: "And he didn't arrest the people as the front army, but actually used his own soldiers to consume our rolling stones, and the thieves turned sexually?" ”

"The year before last, the thieves attacked Chengdu, Zhang Xianzhong collected the people of the surrounding ten miles and eight townships, and each person forced them to smash the Chengdu city gate with a stick, when my father was defeated and died, the team was scattered, I took a few stragglers to hide outside the city of Chengdu, I wanted to enter the city, but was blocked by the thieves attacking the city, and saw the tragic scene with my own eyes." Zhang Jianchun said with a desolate voice: "The sound of wailing under the city is like Shura hell, but the thieves are hiding behind the people, and when the defenders of the city don't know what to do, they will mix among the people and climb the city wall, plus the inner should open the city gate from the city, and the giant city of Chengdu will be broken like this." ”

Wang Huan listened to what a few people said, narrowed his eyebrows, and said with a faint smile: "In this way, Li Dingguo does not lose his humanity and understands the truth that bad things cannot be done. ”

"But now is not the time to praise him." He said coldly: "The thief army is about to attack the city, and the next thing is to fight a tough battle, all the generals, according to the city walls that they are guarding, each belongs to you!" ”

The generals sang loudly, scattered in great strides, and on the fortress of Longquan Mountain, the bow was suddenly bowed and the knife was unsheathed, and there was a solemn posture of battle.

And under the city, Li Dingguo had already immediately stepped in front of the hillside, and on the hillside in front of him, thousands of bloody corpses were scattered all over the ground.

"Order, the archers are lined up under the city, open the bow to suppress, the four battalions of the left guard and the left sentinel, and go out to attack the city!" He roared, drew his sword in his hand, and swung it into the sky.

The drums sounded, the horns sounded, the sound was like a dragon's roar, and the four thousand western troops poured out of the queue on the left, carrying the ladder, pushing the shield cart, swarming and stepping on the flesh and blood all over the ground, and struggling down the hillside, shouting towards the stone town on the mountain.