Zhang Xianzhong's identity verification of the two messengers went very smoothly, and Niu Wu was indeed the personal soldier of He Guoxian, the king of Shuntian. The battalions have been united for a while, and Niu Wu often walks beside He Guoxian, so there are many people who know Niu Wu.

Only the personal soldier of the sweeping king did not know many people, and most of them were not impressed, and in the end, one of Zhang Xianzhong's personal soldiers patted his chest and said that he was very familiar with this brother. In fact, this person was the last time he ate and drank with Shi Debiao, and he felt that he was very similar.

Now that the identities of the two have been confirmed, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai basically believe in the two. On the same day, Zhang Luo and the others ordered the camp to be pulled eastward, and the number of new and old brothers in the battalion of bandits reached nearly 50,000. Because there were too many people, the ships had already been handed over to the people of the sweeping king and the king of Shuntian, who had set off from the previous two departments, so these tens of thousands of horses marched directly to Wushan by land.

When leaving Dachang City, Zhang Xianzhong sent a messenger to Daning City, so that Guotianxing Huideng Xiang would directly send troops to Fengjie later, and after their large army captured Wushan, they would go to Fengjie to join the Guotianxing Department.

In Zhang Xianzhong's view, their 50,000 horses were killed in Wushan, and it was not a matter of success.

More than 50,000 horses left the city and pulled up a mile-long procession. When the team left, Dachang City behind him was also on fire, Zhang Xianzhong himself did not defend Dachang City, but he did not intend to return it to the officers and soldiers intact. He sent people to set fire to the city, burned the city of Dachang, and even forcibly requisitioned tens of thousands of people from the city, transported grain and grass and plundered a large amount of booty.

In Dachang City and the surrounding people, the young people were either recruited into the army or forcibly conscripted into the people, and the rest were either old people who could not walk or those children. Dachang City has been completely destroyed.

Sludge ditch.

After Mei Zhihuan received Liu Jun's report, he immediately led most of the troops to the mud ditch, except for a part of the men and horses left behind in Wushan and Fengjie, Mei Zhihuan brought two battalions.

As soon as he arrived at the muddy ditch, Mei Zhihuan first saw the prisoner camp, where thousands of prisoners were sitting. Listening to the nine-headed bird's officer.

"Where are the Shuntian King and the King of Chaos?" As soon as Mei Zhihuan saw Liu Jun, he immediately asked.

Liu Jun waved his hand, and the two human heads that had been processed were held in wooden boxes.

"You killed them again?" Mei Zhihuan glared at Liu Jun, and didn't bother to say anything.

"These are just small fish and shrimp, so why care. When Zhang Xianzhong is caught, I promise not to kill him, and leave you alive. Liu Jun said with a grin.

"You think Zhang Xianzhong is a fish and turtle, you can catch it if you want to?"

"My lord, I have already laid the bait, and Zhang Xianzhong has already bitten the hook, this time. We really have a great chance to catch Zhang Xianzhong. Liu Jun reported their plan to lure the enemy into an ambush on the spot.

When Mei Zhihuan, Li Changgeng, and Yuan Jixian heard this, they couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, this Liu Jun didn't say anything, his heart was ruthless, he lured the enemy to ambush twice, and won two big victories, but now he has to play three times with a stalk.

"Zhang Xianzhong can't be so stupid, right?" Yuan Jixian also felt that he was underestimating Huang Hu.

"Zhang Xianzhong is just a thief, you don't have to look down on him. My tanma has just returned, and the thieves have come from Dachang with 50,000 bandits. Before leaving, he had already burned Dachang City to the ground. ”

"Hey, this thief is really fooled." Mei Zhihuan thought it was incredible.

"This is an asymmetry of intelligence, and the thieves have been resurrected since the Valley City. has been quite smooth, especially when he wiped out Zuo Liangyu, who had been calling Grandpa Zuo in the past, and played with Yang Gebu once, and successfully jumped out of the encirclement. Entered Sichuan. It's normal for him to be a little inflated and underestimate the enemy for a while. What's more, Maedu and the two governors have just made a comeback. These thieves seem to be underestimating the adults. ”

"Then we'll show him how good our old bones are." Mei Zhihuan clenched his fists and said.

When Mei Zhihuan and others heard that Liu Jun had annihilated more than 5,000 thieves and bandits with zero deaths and zero injuries, he killed more than 1,000 thieves including the two anti-thieves and bandits of the Shuntian Wang, and captured more than 4,000 prisoners, and rescued more than 1,000 people and hundreds of women.

Mei Zhihuan didn't bother to bother with the more than 1,000 people who were killed at this time, including hundreds of bandit backbones such as the second bandit leader who was executed after the war.

Beside Mei Zhihuan, the former battalion officer Hu Gongguo, said with admiration, "General Liu is really like a god with soldiers, which is amazing." "While Liu Jun and the others were holding back the enemy here, Hu Gongguo led three battalions of officers and soldiers in Wuxian County to ambush the Shuntian King and their more than 1,000-strong baggage team at Bawu Gorge.

The result was a complete victory, but in the end, they also paid more than 200 casualties. At this point, Hu Gongguo and the others were still very excited, feeling that the casualties were very small. But now look at Liu Jun, who is also three battalions, but he still dealt with more than 5,000 bandits, but he managed to annihilate the opponent with zero casualties.

"In fact, the morale of the bandits is not high, and we are waiting for work, arranging defense early, and relying on the benefits of artillery fire."

"Don't talk about that, hey, the back waves of the Yangtze River push the long waves, my old Hu has really convinced you. General Liu, remember to teach me both hands when you have time in the future, so that I can also learn a little. ”

"What Counselor Liu?" Liu Jun had already heard Hu Principality call him a general twice.

Mei Zhihuan said with a smile on the side, "You don't know yet, when we marched into Sichuan, the emperor issued a holy decree and crowned you as a general, and you are my prime minister's standard battalion general." Congratulations, you have been promoted again, and not only have you been promoted to a staff general, but your original signature of the commander of the capital has also gone, and now it is the official title of the commander of the officer. ”

Mei Zhihuan looked at Liu Jun, more than half a year ago, he happened to meet Liu Jun in a roadside tea shop, at that time, Liu Junshang was just a young man who was uneven, an ordinary martial arts student, thinking about going to Liu's house to recognize his relatives, but he was rejected. But in the blink of an eye, this young man has become a general of the Ming Dynasty, a twenty-year-old general.

is really a hero in troubled times, and the times are also powerful, when it is peaceful, how can such a thing happen. But even at this time, I am afraid that not many people can have an opinion on Liu Jun's promotion. After all, there are more adjutant generals, commanders, governors, and governors in the world who are higher than the generals, but there are few who can really fight in these years. Although Liu Jun is young, he has won one after another in a short period of time, which is quite rare.

Hu Gongguo smiled and said to Liu Jun, "General Liu is really prosperous, and it has not been a few days since he did the inspection from the ninth grade, and he was immediately promoted to the general manager of the eighth grade. As a result, the general position of Lian was not yet hot, and in a blink of an eye, he was promoted to garrison, and he was just appointed, and then the emperor enshrined the guerrillas. This guerrilla has not been done for two months, and he has been promoted to a staff officer again. If it goes on like this, it won't take more than two months, and it is estimated that he will have to be promoted to deputy general again. ”

Lu Yuanrang on the other side continued, "What's the use of two months, since General Liu entered Sichuan, he has successively won two great victories in Wushan and Mudgou, annihilated more than 5,000 bandits in both battles, and even beheaded the four bandit leaders of the King of the Earth, the Ten Anti Kings, the Shuntian King, and the King of Chaoshi. ”

Everyone smiled and congratulated Liu Jun, but after all, everyone also felt that Liu Jun had been promoted to a general at a young age, and they were afraid that it would be difficult to get promoted again in a short time.

Liu Jun's staff general belongs to the commander of the prime minister's standard battalion, so he can be regarded as an assistant general. There are generally two types of generals in the Ming Dynasty, one is the assistant general, that is, the general who is in the same city with the general army, or directly under the governor, governor, prime minister, and superintendent to lead the pacesetter, this kind of general does not have his own defensive ground.

The other type of general is to guard the road, which should also be called the general of the guard. The weight of the sub-guard staff should be heavier than that of the assistant guard generals, but in any case, Liu Jun is now an official staff general.

"General Liu, now tell us about your ambush plan!" Li Changgeng said to Liu Jun with a smile.

Two days later, the night did not collect the flying thief twenty miles away.

But at this time, Liu Jun didn't have the slightest excitement at all, and the army of thieves traveled all the way to this trap. But now Liu Jun is a little hesitant, yes, he hesitates.

Standing in the military tent, Liu Jun looked at the rows of rain flowing down from under the tent, and his heart was extremely depressed.

Just when Zhang Xianzhong, the big fish, had been hooked and he was about to reel in the line, the sky was not beautiful, and the sky had been sunny, and it had suddenly rained heavily since last night.

It was raining heavily, and it hasn't stopped until today. Although it is going to rain, it is something that cannot be stopped, but for Liu Jun, this rain is too untimely.

As soon as it rained, the combat effectiveness of the nine-headed bird basically plummeted, not even by one and a half stars, but by more than half. Now that the nine-headed bird doesn't even have thirty percent of its combat strength, how can this battle be fought.

The rain kept falling, and everywhere was wet, and although the soldiers of the Hydra were equipped with ponchos, their firecrackers could not be used in the rain. The artillery is similar, greatly affected.

Without firearms, he only relied on knives and guns to fight against tens of thousands of bandits, and Liu Jun really had little confidence.

Liu Jun thought at this time, how good it would be if his flying dragon guns were all flintlock pistols.

Liu Jun was still hesitating, but Mei Zhihuan did not hesitate, the thieves were coming, even if the fire of the nine-headed bird could not play a role at this time, it could only be blocked by soldiers, and the water would be flooded.

"Make a rain canopy for the artillery, as for the firebolts that can't be used, the bows and arrows are also greatly affected, and there is no way to do it. But at this time, we can't retreat, the thieves have arrived, and it is quite dangerous for us to retreat temporarily. Mei Zhihuan first expressed his attitude, and then said, "But even if there is no firecracker, the artillery bow and arrow will be affected, but I don't think there is any need to be afraid." There are five battalions of men and horses gathered here, and they still occupy the advantageous position, although the thieves are twice as large as me, but they are all rabble. ”

At the end of the day, this battle must be fought.

Hu Gongguo also knew that although the nine-headed bird used to fight sharply, it mostly relied on firearms. This time it rained heavily, and the combat power of the nine-headed bird was greatly reduced, so he took the initiative to stand up and proposed that they should be the main force, and the nine-headed bird would cooperate and assist.

"If you want to fight, you can only change the combat arrangement." Liu Jun saw that everyone was going to fight, and he could only support this battle. "We are still ambushed on all sides, but this time we have to rely on cold weapons to win." (To be continued......)