"Li Chengliang? Is he as good as Lord Jinong? ”

"Lord Jinong?" Ahmat thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Acton, I'm afraid this is not easy to compare, the merits of life depend not only on your own ability, but also on the promise of Allah, when the time is not good, even if you have great ability, what is the use?" Jinong was born in the Jiajing period, and at most he could only be like Li Chengliang; If Li Chengliang was born today, why can't he support the army like Lord Jinong and divide himself? ”

"Yes!" Acton sighed, a gloomy look in his eyes. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Ahmat said with a smile: "Acton, now it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for you to beg and be as charming as you were at the beginning of Ai Xinjue Luo. If Aixinjue Luo had not been a lackey of the Han people at the beginning, he was afraid that he would have been wiped out by Li Chengliang like Wang Gao and Atai, how could he have today? Lord Jinong, if he wants to use troops against the Jurchens, he will definitely use the charming power of Qilie to contain the Jurchens from behind, if you can make a great contribution to Lord Jinong, even if you canonize you as the charming Great Khan of Qilie, it is not impossible! ”

"How is it possible to become a beggar glamorous Great Khan? I don't have anything, do I? Acton looked at Ahmat dumbfounded.

"What's impossible, Nurhachi started with thirteen pairs of armor, you now have 100,000 iron arrowheads, there are more than 100 people with you, and the bird gun armor is complete, so your current capital is much stronger than he was at the beginning!" With that, Ahmat stood up, patted Acton on the shoulder gently, and walked out, leaving Acton alone on his knees, his eyes glazed over.

Ye.

It was already dusk, and a small group of officers and cavalry, about 20 horsemen, galloped to the north gate with sweaty horses. Due to the reason of the infestation of thieves, the gate of the city has been closed these days, and the city is full of people guarding the city, and the general Qian, who guards the north gate, poked his head out under the shield and shouted: "Where did you come from, where are you going!" ”

The officer at the head shouted: "We are the subordinates of Liu Guoneng, the deputy general under the command of Governor Hong, and we are about to go to crusade against the thieves, quickly open the city gate and let us enter the city to rest!" ”

Mr. Qian looked at the costumes of the cavalry below, although he felt that there were no flaws, but when he remembered the fact that the thieves disguised themselves as officials and soldiers to deceive Kaecheng, he became more and more uneasy, so he shouted loudly: "What official documents can you bring with your ranks?" ”

"Aren't you embarrassed us? We are the sentinels in front, where did we get the official documents! The officer shouted.

"I'm sorry then! I heard that a large number of thieves are coming towards Ye County, and the county magistrate has ordered strict guards, and no one is allowed to enter the city without an official document! ”

The cavalry under the city shouted a few words, and when they saw that the city head ignored it, there was no way, and after a while, the leader shouted to the city head: "Brother, it's dark and windy, throw two bundles of firewood down and let us roast!" ”

Mr. Qian, who was guarding the gate, was afraid that the officials and soldiers under the city were really officers, so he hurriedly responded: "Okay, wait a minute!" ”

Sure enough, a few bundles of firewood were soon dropped on the city, and the cavalry lit the firewood, and gathered around the fire to roast and eat dry food. Seeing such a scene, Mr. Qian also put his mind at ease, and went to the shack to drink and rest without mentioning it.

About an hour later, there was a sound of horses' hooves outside the city, and hundreds of cavalry arrived, led by Liu Guoneng, and the officer led by Fang hurriedly greeted him, bowed down and said, "General!" ”

"What's going on?" Liu Guoneng looked at the closed city gate in Ye County: "Why don't you open the door?" ”

"There are a large number of thieves nearby, and they dare not open the door!" The officer said in a low voice: "The Qian always who guards the door wants an official document, but the villain doesn't have it, so he froze!" ”

Liu Guoneng snorted coldly, and took the copper seal from the hand of the Chinese officer on the side: "You show him this, quickly open the door and let the soldiers enter the city to rest!" ”

Liu Guoneng's bronze seal soon worked out, and the city gates opened. As soon as he entered the city, he jumped off his horse and said loudly to the county commander who came in a hurry: "County honor, I will be ordered by the governor to come to beg for thieves, do you have any news of thieves here?" ”

The county commander was a middle-aged man with a pale face, the green official robe was empty in the wind, it looked like a clothes rack, he was quite dissatisfied with Liu Guoneng's rudeness, but considering the "Governor" in the other party's mouth, he didn't dare to show it, so he had to bow and say: "General Liu, yesterday I heard that there were more than 200 cavalry crossing the Shahe, and I don't know which bandit it is, it is said that the brigade of thieves is going to Nanyang, there are tens of thousands of people, and there is a message that Nanyang has been captured." ”

"Tens of thousands? Nanyang has already been captured? Liu Guoneng frowned, he knew in his heart that this county commander might not be able to give him any accurate information, with his past experience in the peasant army, he didn't believe that Nanyang would be captured so quickly, after all, neither Li Zicheng nor Cao Cao's army had many firearms, nor did they have the necessary equipment to attack the city, and for the peasant army, which was mostly from Shaanxi, Nanyang was a "hard land" (the black language at that time, that is, the area that the peasant army was familiar with and had many potential supporters), and it was difficult to deceive the city gate with internal methods. After a little thought, he decided to continue advancing towards Nanyang tomorrow according to Hong Chengchou's order until he obtained a sufficiently accurate military situation.

"County Honor! I still have more than 1,000 steps to ride behind, all the way from Luoyang hurried over, please prepare horse materials, dry food, and accommodation! The military situation is urgent, and it is disturbing! Liu Guoneng arched his hand to the county order, and then turned back to greet his own soldiers and generals since ancient times, and put the county order aside. The county commander was speechless, and only after half a ring did he pause and scold: "Thief Qiu Ba, relying on Hong Hengjiu's momentum, dare to be so rude!" ”

That night, the sound of chickens flying and dogs jumping in Yexian City was endless, Liu Guoneng 2,000 men and horses were most likely the old brothers who followed him when they were thieves, although they could fight, but the military discipline was very bad, and he himself did not have too strict restrictions on weekdays, after all, there were too many arrears, if he did not give his subordinates some benefits, no one would work hard to fight. Early the next morning, before setting off, he asked for more than 300 people and more than 200 cattle from the county order, and then went all the way to Nanyang.

Along the way, Liu Guoneng continued to send spies to inquire about the news, and soon arrived in Fangcheng, compared to other officers and generals, he was very familiar with the tactics used by the peasant army, so he soon found some strange things, although the fleeing people and merchants said that the number of thieves was very large, and even said tens of thousands, but there were very few people who saw it with their own eyes, even if they saw it with their own eyes, they were all small stocks, and the most important thing was that he did not see the traces left by the outgoing squad to collect food, which was contradictory to having a large group of thieves haunting the vicinity.

"Damn, I guess it's Cao Cao again, this guy has the most ghost ideas!" Liu Guoneng reined in his horse and began to think. In his opinion, since the enemy is bluffing, then the real situation of the enemy is very bad, and it is likely that the leaders of those families have lost a lot of men and horses in the past winter, and only a few thousand people remain. (Liu Guoneng didn't expect that Nanyang City had been breached so quickly, and he got the grain in the city, so the peasant army naturally didn't need to disperse his troops to get food)

"Why don't you take the risk and give it a try?" Liu Guoneng thought to himself, he looked back at the army behind him, although there were only more than 2,000 people, half of them were cavalry, and most of the remaining infantry were veterans. Although there are not many of them, even if it is difficult to win, there is no problem in self-preservation, and more importantly, his identity as a former thief, if he retreats like this, he is afraid that he will end up with the crime of "cowering and escaping", and will be punished by the court and the governor. Thinking of this, he already had an idea in his heart, but he still deliberately asked left and right, "What do you think should be done?" "Some of the generals on the left and right advocated stationing on the spot, and sent people to ask the governor for instructions on how to advance and retreat; Some advocated rushing to Nanyang for reinforcements; Others advocated turning west to join the army on the Three Crows. Liu Guoneng finished listening, shook his head and smiled: "You can't do these methods, you still listen to Lao Tzu!" ”

Liu Guo was able to give the soldiers a full meal, and then found two nearby villages to slaughter, and then took all the clothes of the accompanying people to change for the cavalry, and gave up the banner of the official army, as if it was a peasant army. Then he personally led the cavalry, and the infantry team fell behind for more than ten miles, all the way to Nanyang. However, as the distance from Nanyang Mansion City became closer and closer, the news obtained became more and more surprising: there were tens of thousands of thieves, the city was captured by thieves, the vice president of the prefect was killed, and the whereabouts of the Tang King were unknown.

Liu Guoneng found himself in a dilemma, if he continued to advance, he was likely to be surrounded and annihilated by an enemy with absolute superiority in numbers, and if he retreated, he was likely to be used as a scapegoat by Hong Chengchou and executed for the crime of "poor rescue and loss of relatives". At this time, he couldn't help but secretly regret it, why didn't he stay in Ye County, there would be a few words of shirk at that time, now it was only a little more than a day away from Nanyang, and it was too late to pretend that he didn't know.

"My lord! Someone from across the side is coming! A voice woke Liu Guoneng from his troubles, he looked in the direction of his subordinates' fingers, and sure enough, a group of cavalry came from the west, about more than a hundred horsemen, and the banner should be a thief. He hesitated for a moment and then made up his mind: "Send the order, let everyone tie up the left sleeve as a marker, and then I will rush up and swallow this pole as soon as I give the order!" ”

The adjutant general was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly reminded: "Don't you take a look at the surrounding situation first?" Maybe they'll be followed by a large stream of thieves! ”

"I can't care so much!" Liu Guoneng looked around, lowered his voice and said: "Nanyang City is broken, the life and death of King Tang are unknown, do you think that if we don't go back in a fight, the Governor will spare us?" ”

The deputy general was not a fool, and immediately understood the meaning of Liu Guoneng's words, and his face suddenly turned pale. Liu Guoneng patted the other party's shoulder and said in a low voice: "Don't panic, in fact, this is also an opportunity, Nanyang has fallen, and the Governor has to think of ways to escape the punishment of the saint, if we can win the battle and kill the first one or two hundred levels, he will definitely ask for credit for us!" ”

"I see, sir!" The lieutenant nodded, and his spirits were lifted.

After issuing the order, Liu Guoneng began to check the surrounding terrain, where the mountains were gentle, and there was a hilly area with a river valley in the middle. It seems that there is water in this river all year round when the year is good, and it was originally a tributary of the White River. Later, the valley changed, the terrain near this was raised, the river was diverted, and it became a dry valley, which was no more than ten miles long, more than one mile wide, and only a few branches in the narrow place, and there were still some streams in the river in summer. Liu Guo was able to let his subordinates spread out the formation, put on a vigilant look, and let a personal soldier step forward and shout loudly: "Where are you poles?" ”

The cavalry on the opposite side walked to the edge of the river and stopped, and a man who looked like a leader stepped forward: "I am a subordinate of King Chuang, where are you?" ”

"Oh, it turned out to be Brother Hongji's centaur!" The pro-soldier pretended to be surprised and happy, and shouted in official dialect with a heavy rice fat accent: "My surname is He, a single name and a brave word, I am a winged and flying second master, a few days ago, the big boss was the arrow of the official army, and I returned to the sky with a serious injury, and the brothers elected me to be the big boss!" A few days ago, I heard that several leaders broke through Luyang Pass and came to Nanyang, so I also brought my brothers to beg for food! ”

The man who was the leader was Yuan Zongdi, he was ordered by Li Zicheng to go to Yexian County to spread the news, and when he came back, he happened to meet Liu Guoneng, he also heard the name of Yiyifei, and knew that he had a leader surnamed He, most of the peasant army crossed the Yellow River east and went to Shanxi, but Yiyifei stayed in southern Shaanxi, but he didn't want to meet here. Hearing the familiar Mizhi accent, and seeing the other party shouting out Li Zicheng's real name, Yuan Zongdi had already believed it for seven or eight points, so he smiled and arched his hand: "It turned out to be Leader He, I have worked hard along the way, King Chuang and Cao Shuai are in Nanyang, everyone gets together and does a big business!" ”

"Cao Shuai is also there?" The pro-soldier pretended to be overjoyed, and said with a smile: "That dare is good, everyone gathers firewood and the flame is high, everyone gets together this time, Hong Chengchou is afraid that he won't even be able to sleep well at night!" Come, everyone make out! With that, he beat his horse and walked to the middle, Liu Guoneng put a burqa on his armor, and followed behind him with another personal soldier.

"Not bad!" Yuan Zongdi laughed, and was about to hit the horse over, but was stopped by the soldiers behind him: "Boss, this group of people came suddenly, be careful!" ”

"It's okay!" Yuan Zongdi shook off his arm and moved the iron whip on his waist to a position close to his right hand, he had always been known for his bravery and good at fighting under Li Zicheng's account, especially good at making a twelve-pound bamboo iron whip, for a samurai wearing heavy armor, this blunt weapon is far more terrible than a sword, because in the melee the sword will curl the blade, it is difficult to cause fatal damage to the enemy in armor, and the iron whip is different, as long as you take a hit, even if you are wearing iron armor, you have to break your tendons and fractures, even if you don't hit someone, When a twelve-pound bamboo iron whip meets a one-handed sword weighing three or five kilograms, it is basically a tiger's mouth torn and loses its combat effectiveness. (To be continued.) )