This shout was like the wind blowing on the grassland, and it reached the ears of the nearby soldiers of the Great Western Army, and everyone saw that it was indeed the head of the governor Liu Jinzhong, and the eyes that were not blind were still open, and they were extremely hideous.

"It's really Liu Dudu!" A buzzing sound spread like flies in the Great Western Army formation, and the sergeants exchanged heads and talked about each other, and even the twenty or so soldiers who scolded the formation forgot to scold and turned their heads to look at Liu Yun, the general who led the team.

Someone ran forward, took off the human head tied to the spear, wrapped it in a piece of cloth and sent it to Liu Yun, Liu Yun recognized Liu Jinzhong, took it and looked at it carefully, and after confirming that it was Liu Jinzhong, he did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly sent it to Li Dingguo, who was standing in the rear formation.

"Liu Dudu's head, the cloth bag sent to the prince is Liu Dudu's head!"

"Liu Dudu is also a fierce general, with tens of thousands of soldiers under his command, he was beheaded by the Ming army and shot over, so it seems that the Ming army in the city is not ordinary."

"Shhh, be quiet, the prince heard that you were ambitious, so he had to reward you with a whip."

"But Liu Dudu's head is pretending to be there, and I didn't make it up, everyone saw it."

Discussions like this, accompanied by the fast horses that delivered people's heads, ran out of Liu Yun's army formation, and rose and fell one after another in the Great Western Army formation, and the soldiers who witnessed this situation whispered and fluctuated.

The fast horse sent the head to Li Dingguo's horse, Li Dingguo only glanced at it, and then signaled his subordinates to wrap the head, pack it up, and send someone back to Chengdu tomorrow to send it to his family.

He also heard the buzz in the formation, knowing that this was a bad move by the Ming army to fight back and scold the formation, I have to say, the Ming army did a very good job, and he wanted to hit the morale of the Ming army by scolding the formation, but the Ming army was too lazy to scold you, and directly threw down the head of the general of the Great Western Army, there is nothing more annoying than seeing the head of his main general, if the king of Anxi, as the commander, does not wave the army to attack the city, the morale of the Great Western Army may be greatly damaged.

Li Dingguo's face turned blue, and secretly said that the Ming army could not let himself get off the stage, but the siege was not what he thought, and it was the original intention to stimulate the Ming army to go out of the city, and those who knew the soldiers knew that the siege of the city was the next policy in the art of war, and it was really forced to do this risk, not to mention that the Longquan Mountain Walled City was dangerous, and the Ming army on the mountain did not look good, and if they wanted to fight down, the casualties would not be less.

When he was planning, he heard another shout in Liu Yun's array, and on the high city head, the unique sound of the crossbow sounded continuously, and one after another spears whizzed down, leaping hundreds of steps, until Liu Junjun was exhausted and smashed into the ground, each spear was tied to a human head without exception, and there were people in the army who recognized it, and they shouted and shouted, and they recognized that those heads were officers in Liu Jinzhong's army.

The crossbows on the top of the city shot nearly fifty spears in succession, and dozens of human heads were thrown down in succession, and the heads were grinning and covered in blood, and the spears pierced into the ground were like straw markers, and the heads tied to them were raised high for everyone to see.

There was a burst of laughter in the city, which was very harsh, and some people laughed loudly, saying that the thieves would play tricks on their lips if they were not enough.

It turns out that the Ming army is not going to fight back, but is waiting to be slapped in the face.

The twenty or so sergeants who scolded the formation turned pale and pursed their lips and didn't know what to do. They were closest to the spears that had been shot down, and their senses were the most direct, and they were stimulated even more, and they were so shocked that they didn't even know how to shout.

Liu Yun's face was blue and white for a while, his heart was burning like a flame, and he was angry, knowing that if it went on like this, the Great Western Army would have to attack, otherwise how would he be able to raise his head in front of the soldiers in the future. However, Li Dingguo's military order was not issued, and he did not dare to attack the mountain without authorization, so he could only restrain his subordinates and let them not act rashly.

The people of the Kuizhou army at the head of the city were full of laughter, Zubian and Ma Wannian copied their respective dialects, shouted loudly at the city, and tried their best to scold their mothers, and returned the wreckage they had just received to the Great Western Army.

"My lord, your trick is really wonderful." Li Tingyu said sincerely: "Now Li Dingguo has changed from wanting to seduce us out of the city to fighting to having to attack the city, no wonder you have collected Liu Jinzhong's level, it turns out that you have this intention, it's too insidious!" ”

Wang Huan glanced at him: "Is this called insidious?" Soldiers are not tired of deceit, dead eyes are not good, if we don't come to such a move, we will not be suffocated to death. ”

Ma Long said: "Junmen, Li Dingguo is so angry that he is smoking, is he going to attack the mountain next?" ”

Li Tingyu smiled, stared and said: "That's natural, if it were me, I wouldn't have been able to help but give an order, this Li Dingguo can really bear it, and he won't move at this moment." ”

Wang Huan shook his head, squinted and looked at the middle army of the Great Western Army in the distance, trying to distinguish where Li Dingguo was in the black oppressive figure, and said: "Not necessarily, if Li Dingguo is really a general, he will not attack the mountain." ”

Li Tingyu's face froze, and he hesitated: "Can't you?" His governors have been slaughtered by us, and he can bear it? ”

"Because today is not the time." Wang Huan said slowly: "He only arrived yesterday, and he has no equipment needed to attack the city, how can he attack?" If he really dares to attack the city at this moment, then it can only prove that he is a reckless man and there is nothing to worry about. ”

He waited for a moment, then added, "Of course, I'm not talking about you. ”

The latter sentence was said to Li Tingyu.

Li Tingyu's face didn't blush, obviously he was used to being hit by Wang Huan, so he continued to ask: "In this case, why hasn't he retreated?" ”

Before the words fell, I heard the sound of a gong under the city, and the peasant army really called off the gold.

Li Dingguo looked at Longquan Mountain City deeply, his slender eyes narrowed slightly, as if he wanted to see clearly who was in charge of the upstairs of the city. Liu Yun's two battalion heads first slowly retracted and retracted into the large array, and then the rear army changed to the front army, more than 20,000 people changed from the glaive formation to the phalanx, and the two battalion heads were left behind to be on guard, and the whole army slowly retreated back neatly, and always maintained the posture of opening up the enemy at any time during the whole process.

The people in the city were a little surprised to see the performance of the Great Western Army, and they were all a little stunned.

"Li Dingguo is worthy of being Zhang Xianzhong's number one general, this kind of military appearance, the last general has never seen it in the thief army, and it is not much better than my Ming strong army." Li Tingyu said in surprise, his eyes were shining, obviously surprised by the retreat of the Great Western Army without chaos, retreat without panic.

Zu Bian had already closed his mouth and stopped scolding, and he was also surprised at this moment: "What's more, I think this Li Dingguo is already much stronger than my Ming official army, except for our Kuizhou army, I'm afraid there is no more invincible official army." ”

Everyone thought so, and they all remembered Wang Huan's words at the beginning when he insisted on not going out of the city to fight with Li Dingguo, and admired Wang Huan's wisdom from the bottom of their hearts. Wang Huan said, it's not that I'm afraid of Li Dingguo's strength, the Kuizhou army has almost no suspense about defeating Li Dingguo with its current ability, but it will inevitably lose the soldiers, the life of every soldier in the Kuizhou army is precious, there is no need to lose it in vain, anyway, the purpose now is to drag Li Dingguo, prevent him from going north to Baoning Mansion, and fight for Ma Xintian to fight for opportunities, and the field battle to defend the city is contained, so it is better to stay in the mountain city safely? Why bother?

Everyone talked about Li Dingguo's military appearance for a while, and listened to Wang Huan's deep command: "There is nothing to do today, but don't be careless, it is estimated that Li Dingguo will not give up, and will come to invite the battle, all the generals must remember this general's order: defend the city with heart, and anyone who goes out of the city to meet the battle without authorization, regardless of victory or defeat, will be killed!" ”

When he said this, Wang Huan's face was expressionless, he said it categorically, and his tone was cold, so that everyone couldn't help but shiver together, and even Li Tingyu was afraid of Wang Huan's prestige, and quietly trembled.

Everyone didn't dare to slack off, and bowed down and said, "The last general and others must obey the military order!" ”

Sure enough, as Wang Huan expected, in the next few days, Li Dingguo was building siege weapons, while trying to lure the Ming army out of the city to fight. Unexpectedly, the Ming army didn't eat this set, but still shot down some spears tied to people's heads, and scolded and ridiculed loudly, which made the soldiers of the Great Western Army in the city very bored and returned in a huff. Next, he sent an envoy to the door with a white flag, and sent a letter of invitation to war, to make an appointment with Wang Huan at a time and place for everyone to fight together, for this kind of bookish and angry stupid behavior, Wang Huan scoffed, and directly slapped the messenger dozens of times, tore up the letter, and let the messenger go back with a swollen face.

Wang Huan's hooligan spirit made Li Dingguo, who was a thief, angry, and had a feeling that a robber had met a kidnapper, and after the good words let the messenger who was crying about the tragic encounter go down, he fell into a deep contradiction.

What to do? Is it to invest heavy troops to defeat the mountain city that you know is not easy to fight at a glance? Or give up the plan to go north through Shun Baoning Mansion through this pass, turn around and go north directly from Chengdu, and follow Zhang Xianzhong's footprints all the way to Hanzhong.

Give up here, return to Chengdu and then go to Hanzhong, I am afraid that as soon as I leave, the Ming army will follow along the heels, picking up the states and counties all the way, sticking behind the ass and eating away at the territory of the Great Western Kingdom. When he left, his father made it very clear that he would defeat the Ming army here and recover Chongqing by the way.

Li Dingguo was undecided, looking at the blazing charcoal fire in the middle of the tent, the thick wood was burning in the stove, and the fire shone on the wide camp tent, making the Chinese army tent warm as spring in this cold winter, and the warmth made his thinking more and more confused.

He got up irritably, put on a sheepskin shoulder, lifted the thick curtain, and went out the door.

The cold wind outside the curtain was cold, a cold wind blew, poured into his nose, so that he couldn't help wrinkling his nose, this ghost weather, getting colder and colder, and the cold with unbearable moisture, wet and cold so that the bedding in the camp seems to never dry, lying in it at night, like lying in a wet mud, it is almost impossible to sleep.

When the guards outside the tent saw him come out, they hurriedly bowed down in unison and shouted softly: "Lord Wang! ”

Li Dingguo waved his hand, signaling them to relax, and then walked towards the camp.

The soldiers divided into a group of men, silently followed him, and marched with him.

The time was close to midnight, there was silence in the camp, the birds did not call and the insects did not sing, which made the cold air of the winter night even colder, walking on the wet muddy ground, Li Dingguo only felt that his boots were about to freeze.

He stood still and stomped his foot vigorously, but he overheard the hand of a soldier following him.

The hands were full of cracks, the flesh and blood were blurred, and they looked very creepy, Li Dingguo frowned, he knew that this was an open ice mouth, and it was common to not pay attention to hot hands and feet in cold weather and have long-term exposed skin.

Seeing him look at his hand, the soldier hurriedly shrank back a little nervously, hiding his hand behind his back, Li Dingguo smiled, reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and continued to walk forward.

Li Dingguo set up the military camp outside Shehong County, firstly because he governed the army strictly, and his subordinates were not allowed to disturb the people; The second is that Shehong City is too small, unless half of the people in the city are driven out, the houses for the army can be vacated.

The camp of more than 20,000 people is several miles away, and several camps are set up, each of which is very reasonable, and his Chinese army camp tent is standing in the middle, and there is a watchtower built high in the camp, and there is an unobstructed view of what is happening nearby.

Li Dingguo walked along, walked through one camp after another, and while walking, he was thinking, and before he knew it, he had walked out of the Chinese army and came to another camp.

He pondered for a long time, still can't help but shake his head and sigh, feel that he can't delay any longer, tomorrow he will use the siege weapons built in the day, attack first and then say, if he can't succeed, he will hurry up and return along the same road, and go north to chase Zhang Xianzhong, in his heart, there are always some inexplicable worries, always feel that Zhang Xianzhong is going, it is very dangerous, the Tartar is not so easy to fight, the most capable army of the Great Western Army is his own battalion, although the other three brothers are also a hundred battles, but seriously, those most difficult bones, The most tragic battles were fought by the king of Anxi.

Thinking about it, he didn't care about the one under his feet, and tripped on a stone, Li Dingguo's body shook, and he was about to fall, but an arrow step rushed out behind him and held him steadily.

Li Dingguo smiled self-deprecatingly, turned his head to look, and now it was Liu Yun.

Liu Yun waited for him to stand still, shrunk his hand and bowed and said, "The prince patrols the camp late at night, and Liu Yun is here to escort him." ”

Li Dingguo smiled slightly: "Okay, you go with me." ”

The gas exhaled from his mouth condensed into a white mist in the air, and dispersed without a trace with the wind, Liu Yun hurriedly said: "The weather is cold, the prince's daughter's body, don't freeze your body." ”

Li Dingguo was stunned for a moment, and then scolded with a smile: "Frozen body? Liu Yun, this king walks in the world, what hard days have you not had back then? Are you still afraid of freezing your body? Do you really think that this king is a golden branch and a jade leaf? ”

Liu Yun was inconvenient to talk, and said repeatedly: "Don't dare, don't dare." ”

Li Dingguo smiled, and asked about the business as he walked: "Forget it, we were born poor, we have been thieves for so many years, and now we are rich, we are a little unaccustomed, but this is also a good thing, doesn't the book say that it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift?" Keeping a piece of clarity has its own benefits. ”

Liu Yun listened attentively, although he had never read a book, but he was very studious, and he also invited scholars to teach him to read and write on weekdays, and he could understand these words, and then responded: "The prince said well, so far, many people have lost their roots, just want to have fun, forgetting that the world is not peaceful, but they have lived a peaceful life first, which is not good." ”

Li Dingguo looked at him unexpectedly and said happily: "Yes, it's very good that you can have this thought." ”

Liu Yun said humbly: "Follow the prince, you will know something when you hear and see." ”

Li Dingguo laughed again: "The sycophants are getting more and more invisible." ”

He changed his words, and then said solemnly: "You are right, today's Daxi, civil officials and military generals are grabbing power and profit, trapped in the nest of Wenle without knowing it, occupying a corner of the middle of the river, they don't know the height of the sky, short-sighted, surrounded by strong enemies and not in danger, sigh in vain!" ”

Liu Yun followed his footsteps, slowed down a little by half a position, and hesitated: "But the emperor Shengming has his own plan to determine the world, and the prince doesn't have to mind too much." ”

Li Dingguo sighed softly and said in a low voice: "Although my father is wise, he can't get rid of his reckless breath, and he blindly kills when he encounters problems, and the murderous aura is too heavy, which is not the way to govern the country." ”

Liu Yun's face changed, and he hurriedly waved his hand behind him, asking the guards to follow a little farther away, so as not to hear Li Dingguo's words, and Li Dingguo was still saying as if he was completely forgetful: "The sage said, the way to govern the country is to relax one by one." The people have been suffering for a long time, and they are looking forward to stability, being able to eat a full meal, and having a shelter from the wind and rain, they will be satisfied, but is there such a possibility in the current Daxi? ”

At the beginning of the conversation, Li Dingguo seemed to be a little unable to hold back, these words had been suppressed in his heart for a long time, at the moment in the dead of night, the words he said did not enter the ears of the three of them, and he was 100% relieved of Liu Yun, so he spoke very heartily.

Before Liu Yun could speak, Li Dingguo asked himself and replied: "No, Daxi still does not change his true character as a thief, at the beginning of the year, my father can still listen to my advice, can not kill people, open up wasteland, and rest in peace with the people, Daxi also has a weather, but when things fluctuate slightly, there are some remnants of the Ming Dynasty who rebelled, and the father was furious, hit the board on the people, and opened a killing ring, so that Shuzhong, the country of abundance, was made into another Shaanxi, and when it met a disaster year, it was no different from Guanzhong back then. ”

He sighed and said: "I look at my father and the emperor, it seems that I also see these problems, but he doesn't want to solve them, in his heart, Sichuan is ruined, and if he loses it, he just needs to find a rich place to continue to be the emperor, but he doesn't know that if he continues like this, he will die sooner or later!" We started by rebellion, and now that the Ming Dynasty has been beaten to the south, who else can rebel? You can't rebel against yourself! ”

Liu Yun finally caught the opportunity for him to stop talking, and said eagerly: "Lord Wang is cautious!" The emperor has a lot of ears and eyes, but I am afraid that your words will be heard by someone who cares, in case it ......"

Li Dingguo let out a long sigh faintly, looked at the dark night sky without a single star, and said softly: "It's okay, what this king said is the truth, and my father is also clear, but I don't want to admit it." ”