025 Fish Leap Longmen Huaining City, there are many forest valleys, on the road, many of them are walking along the mountains, passing through the valley, it is too easy to find an ambush point.

Wang Lanping ambushed everyone in an inverted figure-eight valley, which was the only way to chase the people, the mountain road was piled up with a pile of felled trees and stones found on the spot, on the slopes on both sides, horses picked bells, people were silent, there was only the sound of sucking and snorting insects, everything was arranged, just waiting for the Shun army to chase after them.

In fact, Wang Lanping didn't know whether the Shun army would definitely chase after him, but he was careful to sail the ship for ten thousand years.

At the ambush, the shadows of the trees were full of shadows, and the figures were in a trance, and Wang Lanping, who was hiding behind the rocks, kept staring at the pitch-black patch outside the valley mouth.

Zheng Sen said softly, "General, do you think the Shun army will really chase after you?" ”

Wang Lanping turned back to his body, half leaned and half lyed, and said, "Soldiers, treacherous ways, it is better to prevent it than to be useless."

Zheng Sen grew up in Dongying since he was a child, and after returning to the Ming Dynasty, he has been studying Confucian classics, and he is not deeply involved in the art of war battle array, he is puzzled, "But we are gone, Huaining City already belongs to Li Laixiang, is it necessary for him to chase after us?" ”

Wang Lanping smiled, "Huaining City he wants, but it's me who really embarrass him, I can't swallow this breath if I don't die."

Zheng Sen nodded as if he didn't understand, but then he said, "But didn't you have an agreement with him, general, to hand over Huaining peacefully, how do you know that he will definitely sneak attack before we leave?"

Wang Lanping leaned his hands behind his head and glanced sideways at Zheng Sen, don't look at this son, the future national hero, at this moment, I don't really understand the deception on the battlefield, how can there be so many rules in war, only you die and I die.

"You're thinking too simply!" Wang Lanping said with a smile, "A general, he is only responsible for the outcome of the war, as for the process, no one cares about this, true and false, the purpose is to win, the agreement is a fart, those who can recruit good fighters throughout the ages, which are not famous by intrigue and trickery, only nerds are limited by rules and regulations"

Zheng Sen frowned, "Shouldn't a gentleman be a man of deeds, such a villain's behavior, how can it be done by a righteous man and a gentleman, oh general, I lost my words"

Wang Lanping sighed, it seems that famous generals are really not born, the best teacher in war can only be on the battlefield, and no matter how good a teacher is, he can't teach a famous future.

Wang Lanping patted Zheng Sen's back a few times, and said softly, "The winner is the prince and the loser, the winner is not blamed by others, now you may not understand, the coming day is long, you will slowly understand this crooked reasoning"

At the end of the hour, the lights in the tent of the main general in the barracks of the Shun army camp were still on.

A duty officer opened the curtain and entered, Li Laixiang was foreshadowing on the desk, looking at what kind of big things must be brewing, writing and stopping, meditating and contemplating from time to time, and suddenly writing like a god.

The watchman was at the tent door, wondering whether to disturb him.

"What?" Li Laixiang seems to be fully focused on the pen, but he already knows who is coming.

The officer on duty hurriedly stepped forward and bowed his hand, "General, it's almost the end of the hour, and the battalions have been standing outside for an hour."

Li Laixiang raised his eyes and looked at him, "Oh! Got it, go, call the flag officer in"

It seemed that Li Laixiang had finished writing, put away the pen, blew lightly on the ink on the piece of paper he had just written, and casually picked up the small bamboo tube that had already been prepared on the case, rolled up the written things, and stuffed them into the bamboo tube.

At this time, the flag officer came in.

"Come, send this thing to Xi'an overnight, and hand it over to my father-in-law, General Li Guo, be careful all the way."

The flag soldier was ordered to withdraw.

This is a suggestion written by Li Laixiang to Li Zicheng about civil taxation after the war, just because he is a general in the front, it is not suitable to write directly to the emperor, so he will first send it to Xi'an, hand it over to his father-in-law Li Guo, and report to Li Zicheng on his behalf.

Although Li Laixiang ostensibly disagreed with Wang Lanping's accusation that the Dashun Dynasty had no country and no taxes, and that there was no control over the dynasty, in fact, all kinds of inappropriate things within the Dashun power should have been changed a long time ago.

Now among the officers and soldiers of Shun, there is a voice everywhere, saying that the Ming Dynasty is dead, the battle is over, and the money is enough, so it is time to go back to his hometown to buy land and property, marry a daughter-in-law and buy a few maids to live a good life.

This kind of voice spread more and more widely, and the morale of the army was very hit, which can be seen in the battle of Huaining City this time, how dare the Dashun army fight and dare to kill in the past.

Therefore, in the letter, Li Laixiang suggested that Dashun should first be based on the people's livelihood, due to the large number of deaths and escapes of rich households and farm owners, resulting in a large number of barren fields, no one cultivates, at this time Dashun should give all these lands to the landless, not a year and a half, and so on people's livelihood is rich, naturally conducive to the implementation of the farmland tax, will not be too disgusted by the people.

At the same time, it is also forbidden to loot any rich businessmen, scare these rich people away, business withered, how to survive in all walks of life, how can the tea, rice, oil and salt of the people on which the people's livelihood depends be circulated, this method of killing the rich and taking wealth and raising soldiers is really a stinky chess, just like killing chickens and eggs, it is not enough to take, it should be treated differently, the notoriety is far and wide for the rich and unkind, never soft, for those who are known to be idle, even if their families are rich, they will not take a penny, but also send troops to protect, this can be the stability of the market, the people's stability, The people's will is fixed, and Dashun replaces Daming, which is even more obedient to the people.

Li Laixiang to Wang Lailan's words cut into the internal time paralysis of Dashun, very unexpected, often more than once in his heart secretly praised this person not only has an extraordinary ability to command troops, but also has a good eye for this politics, the more he thinks so, the more he hates, the Ming Dynasty still has such capable people in the world, will be the fierce enemy of Dashun in the future, can not be used, will be removed.

Li Laixiang changed into armor, took his sword, and lifted the curtain to come out, and a soldier happened to run over and whispered in his ear, "Report to the general, everything is quiet and normal in Huaining City"

Li Laixiang smiled slightly, it seems that the six hundred war horses are not in vain, in exchange for a time for the other party to relax, and when will he not break the city at this time.

Li Laixiang walked to the mount, urged the horse's belly, and came to the three thousand sergeants who had already gathered.

A group of young generals bowed to Li Laixiang, "General, give the order, I can't take Huaining this time, I'll wait to see you."

Li Laixiang waved his hand, "Okay, everyone, the celebration banquet will be placed in the city and set off."

At the sound of an order, the three thousand soldiers bowed their feet, did not dare to make a sound, and walked out of the camp gate.

The head of Huaining City was still bright with torches, and the rows of straw men stood neatly, as if they were unaware of what was happening outside the city, which made the Shun army who quietly touched it overjoyed.

When they were more than a hundred paces away from the city, the 3,000 Shun troops scattered separately and surrounded the city on three sides along the ditches and ditches outside the city, the woods and grasses, and by the darkness of the night.

The Shun army touched the city, and the city was still as silent as death, of course, Wang Lanping had already withdrawn, and there was no defender in Huaining City now, and the Dashun army was really not too troublesome, the city gate was not closed, and you could enter it if you pushed it open, so why bother so much.

One by one, the city climbing hooks were thrown on the head of the city, and along the ropes, hundreds of people had come up on the city walls one after another, and when everyone wondered why no one was defending, they heard someone shouting, "Look, everyone, the city wall is full of straw men"

The news quickly reached Li Laixiang's ears, he is so angry, straw man? How can it be a straw man, the Ming army? What about Wang Lanping, what about my six hundred war horses?

Li Laixiang finally walked into Huaining City, but he didn't have the joy of success at all when he came in like this, on the contrary, he was embarrassed to be played.

Rushing up to the city tower, Li Laixiang looked at the rows of 'Ming army guards' trembling all over, the scar on his face was tight, and a group of his subordinates took a few steps back to the side in amusement.

"Yikes!" Li Laixiang pulled out the sword at his waist and frantically cut down these straw men, and for a while the grass clippings flew sideways, and the torches on the side of the straw men also rolled down to the ground, igniting the dry grass, and the flames on the city rose brightly as day.

A general was afraid that the fire would hurt the main general, so he came over and pulled Li Laixiang, "General, be careful"

Li Laixiang pushed him away and shouted, "Search, search the whole city for me"

At one time, the whole army of Dashun entered the city, and the silence of Huaining City was broken at this moment, and the dogs in the city barked four times, and a team of Shun troops shuttled through the streets of the city.

Li Laixiang went straight to the county office, here is Wang Lanping's temporary city defense tent, the courtyard wall is towering, not ordinary people can compare, if there is a street battle, this county government can be regarded as a small fortress.

At this time, it was dark in the Huaining County Yali, the gate was closed, and several Shun soldiers were hitting the county yamen again and again with the big wooden beams that had just been removed from a merchant's house.

Outside the county office, there were layers of Shun troops holding torches, and Li Laixiang rode a horse and shouted, "Hard, knock me out"

The gate of the county government and the city gate are incomparable, and there are only a dozen or so, and I heard the sound of a wood breaking, and the gate fell in response, and the army swarmed up.

In the county ya, more than a dozen officials stood in a semicircle behind the door with a Pu knife in their hands, trembling under their feet, looking at the Shun army who rushed in, not knowing what to do.

Shunjun doesn't care if you are a soldier or a servant, if you have a knife in your hand, you are the enemy, and you are about to rush up and chop these dozen or so people into pulp.

Li Laixiang walked in, "Stop, those who descend will not die, Huaining City has returned to Dashun, put down the knife"

The officials looked at each other, or don't die, the Ming army is gone, what are we still tossing, they threw their knives together, and knelt down.

Li Laixiang said, "Who's the head?"

The county man got up from the ground tremblingly, "Hui, back to the general, the small one is the county Cheng"

"Tell me, what about Wang Lanping, where is your Wang Zhuangyuan, where have all the Ming troops in the city gone?" Li Laixiang grabbed him by the collar.

"Go, go, go" The county was already frightened.

"Where?"

"I went out of the city through the east gate, where to go, no, I don't know" The county really doesn't know.

"Then why don't you run away, you want to be a righteous man for Daming's martyrdom?" Li Laixiang really wants to kill people to vent his anger now, but he has just written a book, and he wants to persuade Li Zicheng to kill less and be more favorable, so let's kill as little as possible.

"I, our county lord is dead, I, I am a county prince, I lost my official position in the city, and I will die if I go to the imperial court" The county prince's legs were weak and he couldn't stand.

Li Laixiang didn't dare to lie about this county, so he turned around and said, "Light cavalry battalion, follow me to chase"

Take Huaining City and run Wang Lanping's battle is equivalent to fighting in vain, if you want this city to be a fart, Wang Lanping will not die, the next city will have to be a vicious battle, the Ming Court still has thousands of cities in the south of the Yangtze River, according to this fight, no matter how many Shun troops are not enough, what surprises Li Laixiang is that this kid has become a sperm, how can he calculate that I will sneak attack tonight.

Li Laixiang had just ridden the war horse and was about to lead someone to chase after him, when the county man shouted inside, "General, general, our Wang Zhuangyuan said that I left something for you in the county yazheng hall."

When Li Laixiang heard this, he led people to the main hall again, and looked around, and on the desk of the main hall, there was an envelope pressed under the shocking wood.

A soldier stepped forward to get it, Li Laixiang Zhan saw the letter, and couldn't help laughing, there were only a few numbers on the letter: Does the general want to follow the example of Zhang He? If you see it, you can accept it, and it will not damage the general's reputation. Thank you to the general for the horses, help me travel 800 a day, and then go down to Jinling to marquis Xiang, hope that my brother will come early, and then decide between male and female.

"Collect the troops, don't chase it, the whole army will take over Huaining, after dawn, the people will be on the list, pass my general order, the army will withdraw from the city, stay in the barracks, no one is allowed to harass the people in the city, dare to kill a person without permission, rob a household, military law will be engaged, send a sentry early tomorrow morning to welcome Yuan Xiang's army" Li Laixiang suddenly changed his mind.

Zhang He, the famous general of the Three Kingdoms Wei, Kong Ming attacked Chen Cang, could not attack, so he retreated, Zhang He made meritorious contributions, led his troops to chase, and was ambushed and shot by Kong Ming at the wooden gate.

Wang Lanping left this letter, which was to tell Li Laixiang, don't chase me, Zhang He is your end.

Li Laixiang is not afraid, but the other party has expected that he will chase, and the terrain and night are not conducive to him, if he really falls into the ambush of the other party, then what is the point of catching up, it is just a waste of killing and injuring his subordinates.

Li Laixiang burned the letter, looked at the beating flames, and said secretly: Jinling, I will definitely go, Wang Lanping, you wait, you won't have such good luck next time.