"You mean Zhang Xianzhongdong is here?"

The dry chicken man had a blue nose and swollen face, and his heart was full of remorse, especially when he knew why Huwei was chasing him, he had the heart to wipe his neck at that time. Because of his escape, the last counterattack in the old camp of the thieves completely collapsed, Tian Boguang noticed this, so he thought that he was the main general in the old camp of the thieves, and chased him after him relentlessly, but let Gao Yigong successfully escape.

"Exactly, if you return to Gongzi, this is King Chuang...... Ah, no, it's a thief's trick to attack Lu Xiangsheng with Zhang Xianzhong in Chuzhou! ”

Zhang Er, who was concocted by Gao Erzhu, really knew everything, and Gao Yingxiang in his mouth also changed from a king to a thief.

A shadow floated in Yu Guozhen's eyes, Zhang Xianzhong came to meet Gao Yingxiang, this was indeed something he didn't expect!

It is conceivable that Zhang Xianzhong will go out of Tong's city, cross the Lu' River, and then pass through Wuwei and Chaoxian, walk again along the route he once ravaged last year, and then meet Gao Yingxiang in Chu. It's just that now Zu Kuan was provoked by him to launch in advance, and he ended Gao Yingxiang's old camp again, plus there are square holes in Chu'zhou City, and Gao Yingxiang is now being attacked on three sides.

"Little official, what should I do now?"

This news made Gao Erzhu also startled, his intelligence network has not yet sent a message, there must be a reason for this!

"It's okay, even if we attack Xiang'an, there is nothing, we have nothing over there except the house, if he breaks the house, we will use the prisoners to build it again." Yu Guozhen calmed down and comforted the people around him.

Although he did not expect Zhang Xianzhong to leave the Yinghuo Mountains, he withdrew the relevant personnel and materials from Xiang'an as soon as he learned that Gao Yingxiang was besieging Lu's state, so Xiang'an was only an empty shell.

This is also the key reason why he placed his main foundation in Qin' Prefecture, the general environment, in the future, the Ming Dynasty was everywhere battlefields, if he stubbornly defended the base, he would lose his mobile surname, so the base was placed in the corner of the weaker hostile forces, which was more conducive to his accumulation of strength.

Hearing him say this, Gao Erzhu thought about it carefully, and it was indeed the case.

"Therefore, this news of yours is of no use to me." Yu Guozhen looked at Zhang Er again, as one of Gao Yingxiang's henchmen and generals, this person also told Gao Erzhu that he knew about Gao Yingxiang's movements, and there must have been something he hadn't confided.

Gao Erzhu drank in Shaanxi's Western dialect, and Zhang Er was a little surprised, because it was only now that he heard Gao Erzhu speak Shaanxi dialect for the first time!

"I said, I said...... King Chuang, no, the thief will not go west to meet the eight kings, he has long had an appointment with the subordinates of Zhu Dadian, the governor of Caoyun, if there is any accident, he will get out of the north! ”

"How is this possible?"

"Don't dare to deceive the son, it's true, if we meet officers and soldiers, a small group of easy to fight, we will naturally knock it out, if it is a large share of hard bones, we will generally send people to negotiate terms with the other party before the battle, we will divide the looted property into a part, and kill some of the people who came to kill them, and leave them for the officers and soldiers as war merits, and they will let us go. This time, I came to the east and broke into the king...... The thieves had already sent someone to contact Zhu Dadian's subordinates, and the two sides agreed to get out of them if something went wrong. This matter is very confidential, and the villain also overheard it! ”

This news was really shocking, Yu Guozhen was stunned for a while, and suddenly many questions were figured out.

In fact, the rogue who wreaks havoc in the world is not that the officers and soldiers have no way to deal with them, but that the officers and soldiers "raise" them!

Although there are many Liukou, they can only fight a good battle and cannot fight a tough battle, even if it is the subordinates of King Gao Yingxiang. They fought from Shaanxi and Jin to Henan and Anhui, and from Huguang to Sichuan and Shu, not because of how strong they really were, but because of the incompetence of officers and soldiers!

Strictly speaking, it's not incompetence, but the officers and soldiers who raise thieves and fatten themselves!

"Is this true?" Yu Guozhen asked with confirmation.

At this moment, a horse came in a hurry from behind, and Gao Erzhu looked back at the horseman, who had sent it, so he stepped back and spoke to the horseman.

After a while, he hurried over: "Little official, the thieves have been relieved!" ”

"Which way are you going?"

"It was to the west, and the banner went westward, leaving only thousands of horsemen to break off, and the city of Chu'zhou sent foot soldiers to intercept and kill, but they were killed back."

"Go West......"

Yu Guozhen looked at the village, in order to prevent Gao Yingxiang from making a desperate bet, he also deliberately asked the guards to drive the captured rogues to strengthen the camp, added some obstacles outside the village, and even dug a trench. Now it seems that this measure is not useful. He looked at Zhang Er again, Zhang Er was cautiously peeping at his expression, and when he saw him, he hurriedly lay on the ground: "The villain is willing to vouch for his surname, and the thief will not go west!" ”

"But you also heard, my people said that the thief went west, why do you say, he will not go west, but north, you know, the north is Zu Kuan's Guan Ning army!"

The villain had been with the thief for many years, and knew that what he was most accustomed to was to outwardly value righteousness, but in fact betray his brother. He clearly let the villain preside over the military affairs of the old camp, but he also sent a stinking Gao Yigong to monitor the villain......" Zhang Er said this, but realized that Yu Guozhen in front of him was younger than Gao Yigong, and he immediately changed his words: "If he escapes, he will never go all the way with the rest of the group, and he will get out alone!" Lu Xiangsheng only stared at him, he knew it, how could he escape with great fanfare? ”

Although Zhang Er said it a little upside down, Yu Guozhen thought about it carefully, but there was some truth. Put him in Gao Yingxiang's situation, at this time, he just stopped fighting, and took advantage of the fast speed of his horse to get out quickly.

As for going west to rendezvous with Zhang Xianzhong, not to mention that it is very likely that they will be caught up by Lu Xiangsheng before the rendezvous, and lose Chu'zhou City as a battle, even if their two armies will meet in one place, they will be sure to fight with Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army?

If he is so sure, Gao Yingxiang doesn't need to flee all the way to Nanzhili!

So retreating with great fanfare, it is really possible that it is a suspicious tactic, nominally Gao Yingxiang is the queen of the handsome elite cavalry, but in fact, he went to use his own foot soldiers plus Luo Rucai and others as bait, in exchange for the opportunity to get out of the house!

"Bring me the map!" As soon as he thought of this, Yu Guozhen said loudly.

After the war, the city of Chuzhou was full of devastation and smoke everywhere, Fang Kongzhi stood at the head of the city and looked down, and couldn't help but sigh: "After all, the people are affected!" ”

Li Juesi looked northward, only to see the Liukou retreating, he tried his best to advocate the pursuit, but was attacked by the thieves, with nearly 100 dead and wounded, which made him feel extremely regretful. Seeing that a large group of people were coming in the distance, his heart was tightened at first, and he hurriedly picked up the clairvoyant mirror to look, and found that they were carrying the flags of officers and soldiers, and they were also carrying the banners of "Lu" and "Zu", he was immediately overjoyed: "It was Lu Xiangsheng who came, and sure enough, he came!" ”

But immediately remembering Fang Cai's defeat, he said: "Don't rush out to greet him first, wait for him to go to the city." ”

With his and Fang Kongzhi's identities, they should have gone out of the city to greet Lu Xiangsheng, but because this was wartime, Lu Xiangsheng would not be blamed for a slight rudeness. Fang Kongzhi smiled and didn't refute, but just whispered to Liu Dagong, and Liu Dagong immediately sent a person to the city with a rope and flowed towards the rolling people.

It was Lu Xiangsheng who came.

He learned that Zu Kuan had started in advance last night, and he was worried that Zu Kuan would not be able to support it alone, so he followed closely with the Tianxiong Army, and the team was still behind, and when he arrived, Zu Kuan beat Liu Zhe and Huanglong to the ground, and he also drank some soup. Then he immediately drove to Chu'zhou City, wanting to surround the Liukou under the city.

But when he saw this, he knew that he was one step too late.

"Soon after the thief leaves, he will definitely be able to catch up!" Zu Kuan said a little unconvinced.

Lu Xiangsheng sighed lightly, he originally wanted to wait a little longer and then launch a surprise attack, but he didn't expect Zu Kuan to act in advance. At this time, a subordinate sent an envoy from the city to him, and he first asked if the city was okay, and then said, "Do you know where the thieves are going?" ”

"It's the West gone!"

"Going west? That must be to join forces with the thieves! Zu Kuan was overjoyed when he heard this: "Premier Lu, the last general is willing to chase after him and prevent the thieves from escaping!" ”

"Thieves are the most cunning...... Remember to ask where the thieves are going, and take more prisoners! He is willing to make meritorious contributions, and Lu Xiangsheng will naturally not stop him: "I will lead the army and answer you in the back!" ”

"Premier Lu just waits for the good news of the last general in Chuzhou, oh, let the city prepare more wine and meat!" Zu Kuan laughed twice, and led Guan Ningjun to the horse.

The city learned that it was indeed Lu Xiangsheng, and immediately opened the city gate, and Li Juesi, Fang Kongzhi and Liu Dagong greeted each other in front of the city gate.

"It is really hard for the prime minister to come from afar to relieve the siege, and the yazhong has prepared a little wine to wash the dust for the prime minister." Li Juesi smiled and said to Lu Xiangsheng.

But he was a little jealous in his heart, Lu Xiangsheng was only in his thirties at this time, and he was in the prime of life, but he was already a member of the five provinces. One step further, it is the chief officer of the six departments, if there is still some luck, it will be a matter of time before he enters the cabinet!

Not only him, but even Fang Kongzhi also felt that the future was terrifying, he was ten years older than Lu Xiangsheng, but his rank and position were far apart.

"This official doesn't have any hard work, but he has eaten a little dust with the thief's horse, but you stick to Chu'zhou, resist hundreds of thousands of thieves, and keep the city from losing, and the credit is really not small."

Lu Xiangsheng actually didn't like this kind of cold noise, but he had to do it. Several people exchanged their names and official positions, and then described their relationships, Lu Xiangsheng found that the three of them had a very close connection with Donglin, and their attitudes suddenly became enthusiastic, and Fang Cai's perfunctory words turned into real words.

When he became enthusiastic, the atmosphere was much better. Asked about the process of defending the city, especially seeing the corpses of both the enemy and us, and the burned city turrets in the first few places of the city are still decadent, Lu Xiangsheng sighed with emotion, and repeatedly said that he would go to the court and ask for credit for several officials who defended the city.

Li Juesi saw that Fang Kongzhi was silent, and he smiled and said: "Yu and Qianfu and Liu Zhizhou are originally responsible for guarding the land, and they are loyal to the king. If you really want to talk about it, it is Yu Guozhen, a righteous citizen who has nothing to do, took his family, personally braved the arrows and stones to fight fiercely with the thieves, not to mention the thief army, and escorted the messenger sent by Prime Minister Lu to the city, so that we can only hold on to this day when we know that the Ming Duke is coming. The prime minister made a contribution to the imperial court, don't forget this person - this person is the nephew of the hidden husband, and he is not an outsider! ”

"I see, why don't you let it out?" Lu Xiangsheng's eyes suddenly flashed with a sharp light.

"This son's surname is Zi Lijie, and there is no one in his eyes, although he has some skills, but his greater ability is to offend people. It's okay to be white, but if you are a leader, you will have trouble with your boss and colleagues, which is the way to get into trouble. Fang Kongzhi sighed: "In order to protect his family and surname, the official ordered him not to go out." ”

As soon as these words came out, Lu Xiangsheng was stunned.

(To be continued)