Seeing Zhang Xianzhong leading his troops in pursuit, Bai Gui, the king of Xiao Qin, groaned and said to Luo Rucai, "Big brother, I don't feel right." ”

The entire 100,000 Hei Yunxiang also nodded, they didn't think that the official army would have problems when they first met the official army before. But after the defeat of the officers and soldiers, more than a thousand cavalry came out, and then they were defeated again, but Bai Gui and Hei Yunxiang both felt that something was wrong. It's just a feeling that has been cultivated over many years of combat.

Cao Cao and Luo Rucai also began to groan after hearing this, "Do you think the official army is fraudulent? ”

"I didn't think it before, but now I do feel that way." Bai Gui nodded and said, at the beginning, Luo Rucai has always been the leader of the various people's mutinies, and he has more than 100,000 soldiers and horses under his command, and later when he was surrendered in Junzhou, there were also nine battalions of soldiers and horses. And this little Qin King Bai Gui and the whole 100,000 Hei Yunxiang are the closest to Cao Cao and Luo Rucai, and some people in the official army even call these two people Luo Rucai's black and white protectors.

There was little evidence, but they all felt that something was wrong.

"Maybe the thieves are deliberately deceiving and luring the enemy."

"The thieves' ambushes have all come out and been defeated again, so there can't be a second ambush, right?" The one who spoke was Wang Guoning, one of Luo Rucai's previous nine battalions, and he was also one of the five battalions that were surrendered to Junzhou on an equal footing with Hui Deng, and he had vowed not to rebel with Hui Dengxiang and Wang Guangen. In the end, in addition to Huaguan Suo Wang Guangen, the rest of Hui Dengxiang, Wang Guoning, Yang Youxian, and Chang De'an were still opposed.

"Under normal circumstances, there should be no more ambushes, but the soldiers are not tired of deceit, who can guarantee that there are no ambushes for officers and soldiers?" Zhang Xiu, who is also one of the leaders of the nine battalions, said.

At this time, Hei Yunxiang said, "I suddenly remembered that we sent two groups of men and horses to attack Wushan before and after, but the result was never returned. ”

Cao Cao and Luo Rucai also felt that there were really some problems with the defeat of the previous two soldiers and horses, and the previous report said that the sweeping king and their first army and horses were defeated, and the second way of the mixed world king was defeated and surrounded. If this is the case, then the ten thousand soldiers of the official army should be surrounding the King of Chaos, why are there so many six or seven thousand people coming here to intercept them now?

The more Cao Cao thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong. "Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years, we have to have more eyes."

Although everything is just suspicion and speculation, it is sometimes this vigilance that escapes in troubled times. However, Cao Cao did not tell Zhang Xianzhong about his suspicions. Before, Zhang Xianzhong suspected that there was an ambush, and he said that he would take advantage of the situation to pursue. Then there was really a cavalry ambush, and now Zhang Xianzhong defeated the cavalry pursuit, and he went to say not to pursue at this time, isn't this inconsistent?

Maybe there is fraud, maybe there is none, no one can say.

"Let Huang Hu take the lead in playing the striker, let's pull back a little bit." Cao Cao made a decision immediately. A little selfish, but with the approval of the leaders of the Nine Battalions.

Since the rebellion, the ninth battalion has also suffered a lot of losses, first Wang Guangen betrayed everyone, although the remaining four battalions finally came back, but after entering Sichuan, the tenth anti-king Yang Youxian first had no news, and then the mixed world Wang Wu Ziqiang, who replaced Wang Guangen, also had no news.

In addition, the Heavenly Star Huiden, who was a little centrifugal with everyone, went to Daning, and now there are only six battalions left in their ninth battalion. Compared with Zhang Xianzhong's battalion, whose strength has expanded rapidly since the Gucheng Rebellion. Cao Cao, they are a little different.

"If there are ambushes among the officers and soldiers, then the Yellow Tiger will bear the brunt, but after all, we have a large number of soldiers, and we will definitely win at that time." The meaning of Xiao Qin Wang Baigui is obvious. Even if there is an ambush, Zhang Xianzhong will have some casualties at most, but it will not be a big problem. If not, then it will be fine.

On the battlefield over there. Zhang Xianzhong and his generals have completely given up their vigilance, and the ambush of the official army has already come out, so what are you afraid of next.

In the face of their onslaught. The officers and men were defeated and retreated, which further aroused the ferocity of the bandits, and the pursuit became more fierce.

Lu Yuansun and Lu Yuanrang brothers each led their own soldiers to desperately flee eastward, seeing that the bandits were getting closer and closer, Lu Yuansun began to let the standard-bearers around him raise a green flag.

After the first green flag was raised, many green flags were raised one after another among the officers and men who had fled.

Green flags were raised among the defeated and fleeing officers and soldiers.

Zhang Xianzhong's troops also found out, but in their doubts, the officers and soldiers did not suddenly turn around and kill a horse pistol, or an ambush ran out on both sides or something.

Those officers and soldiers, after the green flag was raised, actually began to lose their armor.

Iron helmets, weapons, and banners were all discarded.

The bandits roared wildly and began to pick up armor and weapons as they continued to chase. Although the officers and soldiers were useless in battle, the armor was still quite sophisticated.

Zhang Xianzhong saw the officers and soldiers throw away their armor, and laughed louder and louder, "Want to escape by throwing armor?" Don't? ”

He led the cavalry without stopping, past those men who had stopped to fight for armor, and continued the pursuit.

Seeing that they were about to catch up again, the officers and soldiers began to throw things again.

This time, instead of throwing armor, they had no armor to throw away, and they began to throw things on their bodies. Broken silver, copper coins, and even some people threw away their boots directly, as if they thought that the boots would affect their lives on the muddy road.

The silver with white flowers and the copper coins with clear gold were sprinkled on the muddy road, and they were really dazzling.

Although Zhang Xianzhong and the elite cavalry were still pursuing without the slightest pause, the foot soldiers who followed the pursuit couldn't stand the temptation and began to stop to pick up money. Many people even began to fight with each other and get into fights.

The cavalry and the infantry in the rear began to disconnect.

Cao Cao, who deliberately fell many distances in the distance, held up the clairvoyant mirror and saw this, his heart shook violently, and he inhaled cold air in his mouth, and he already had a very bad feeling rising in his heart.

"Throw armor first, then weapons, and then silver and copper coins!"

"This action is so neat, it seems to be deliberately thrown, deliberately thrown, not good, this must be a fraud, stop moving forward." Luo Rucai shouted.

"Big brother, there is a valley ahead, and Huang Hu chased it in with someone!" Xiao Qin Wang Bai Gui shouted.

Cao Cao and the others only found out at this time that they had chased and chased all the way, and they had crossed the empty area before and had entered a mountainous area, and now, Zhang Xianzhong and the others had chased the official army all the way into the valley.

The most terrible thing is that Zhang Xianzhong only has more than 3,000 Tang cavalry with him, but the infantry behind him is still looking for gold and silver in the mud, and he has long been separated from the cavalry in front.

Seeing that ravine, people with a little combat experience will immediately think of two words, ambush.

Two mountains sandwiched by a ditch. The long and narrow valley is really an ideal place for ambush.

Sure enough, as soon as Zhang Xianzhong's cavalry rushed into the valley, the infantry behind had not yet followed, and at this time, a chariot battalion suddenly rushed out of the forest on both sides. They appeared quickly, and before the foot soldiers behind could catch up, they had already quickly closed around the valley and established a chariot formation.

"Grass, there are really ambushes."

Luo Rucai and the others looked at each other, and no one expected that the prediction would become a fact.

"The Yellow Tiger is in ambush. Besieged! The whole 100,000 Black Yunxiang said in shock.

On the muddy ditch, on the hillside, Liu Jun watched thousands of thieves riding and rushing into the ravine, and couldn't help shouting excitedly, "The thief has taken the bait!" ”

Although only a few thousand cavalry were surrounded, Liu Jun and the others were excited. Cavalry is the symbol of the elite soldiers among the bandits, and it is also the backbone foundation of each bandit. Although only these thousands of horsemen were surrounded, tens of thousands of bandits and elite cavalry were only a few thousand horsemen. If you can annihilate this cavalry. The bandit was really broken.

"Zhang Xianzhong, Zhang Xianzhong! Zhang Xianzhong followed up! Lu Yuansun was soaking wet, and his horse galloped all the way to the slope where Liu Jun's headquarters was located, shouting excitedly. Zhang Xianzhong is in the valley! ”

Liu Jun's heart was shocked. Zhang Xianzhong was lured in?

He caught a big fish, a big shark. In addition to being excited, Liu Jun also knew that he had made money. However, Zhang Xianzhong was netted in, but there were still tens of thousands of people outside. Those bandits are just afraid to go berserk.

Liu Jun quickly made the latest deployment and issued an order.

"General Xiao Lu led your soldiers and horses all the way forward, but regrouped at the back."

"General Hu led your men and horses to the mouth of the valley immediately to reinforce the left defense of the baggage battalion. Be sure to block the valley mouth and prevent the bandits from breaking through. ”

"The war barracks, the training camp, use the fastest time to annihilate the bandits who enter the valley. Once Zhang Xianzhong is discovered, take it as soon as possible, if he can't be captured alive, kill it directly, kill it directly, and never let the thief escape. ”

Liu Jun particularly emphasized the handling of Zhang Xianzhong, at present, although there are three major bandits in total, the fifth battalion of the Huizuo, the ninth battalion of Cao Cao, and the eighth battalion of Zhang Xianzhong, among the three major bandits, the fifth battalion of the left of the Huizuo, which has been spared the blow in the 10 years and 11 years of Chongzhen's great suppression of bandits, is the strongest. And that time in the big crackdown on bandits, Li Zicheng, who was originally extremely powerful, was defeated and annihilated.

However, the thief hated by the emperor today is Zhang Xianzhong, Zhang Xianzhong is very old in the bandits, whether it is in the early years of Wang Ziyong or later Gao Yingshen and other bandit alliance era, Zhang Xianzhong belongs to the main thief leader, and Zhang Xianzhong later attacked Fengyang and dug up the emperor's ancestral tomb.

And originally last year, all kinds of bandits in the Central Plains were destroyed or surrendered, and the banditry situation in the Central Plains was already very good. But Zhang Xianzhong surrendered and rebelled, and many bandits who had already surrendered to make trouble, the emperor had already decreed that the other thieves might be able to accept surrender and give appeasement, but only Zhang Xianzhong would never accept his surrender, and he must be captured alive or beheaded, and he must die.

Liu Jun had killed four anti-kings before, but they were not as good as one Zhang Xianzhong.

Capturing and killing Zhang Xianzhong will definitely be the first achievement.

However, Liu Jun doesn't care whether Zhang Xianzhong is dead or alive, as long as he can kill him, he will not be afraid to capture one alive.

"Fire the gun, give me a hard shot!"

In front of the trench on the hillside, Mei Qing was wearing a poncho, standing in front of the tiger squatting cannon, and was directing three firemen to load ammunition.

She looked up, and it was raining heavily, but the nine-headed bird had built a temporary canopy over the trench, made of trees and thatched leaves, etc., and although there was still some leakage, it was able to withstand a lot of wind and rain.

At the very least, the cannon can still be fired, and the gun can still be fired.

The firefighters opened the shell box wrapped in a rainproof cloth, took out a packet of gunpowder from it and stuffed it into the barrel, then loaded it with 200 small leads, and then stuffed in a large lead and pressed it tightly.

"Report, loaded!"

Mei Qing had been observing every step of the loading just now, knowing that there was no mistake in the loading, nodded, and then glanced at the thief cavalry who rushed into the valley down the slope at this time, and also knew that they had been ambushed and were in chaos. Some continued to rush forward, some wanted to retreat, and some wanted to rush up the hillside on both sides.

At the foot of the slope of the ditch in Meiqing, a large group of thieves and horsemen were gathered. Mei Qing sneered and brought the torch in his hand closer to the firerope.

Although it was raining in the sky, the artillery was not affected much under this simple canopy.

Mei Qing praised Liu Jun in her heart, she could actually think of such a way. Digging a trench on the hillside, and now building a canopy on the trench, what a talent.

"Bang!"

Almost at the same time, in front of the trenches on the two slopes, the large and small cannons rang out in unison, and countless shells fiercely attacked the cavalry in the valley.

At the same time as the cannon was fired, the musketeers in the trenches also aimed at the target.

Although the trench under his feet was full of rain and cement, which was very uncomfortable, there was a canopy on his head, a poncho on his body, and the fire ropes wrapped around the wrists of the firecrackers were also burning normally. The paper bullet in the cowhide bullet bag was not wet with moisture, took out a paper bullet, skillfully bit a corner, first poured a little into the powder pool, then closed the fire door cover, and then poured gunpowder into the gunpowder tube, and then stuffed the lead bullet and the paper shell into the gun, picked up the whole strip and stabbed it.

A gun who has fired more than 200 rounds of live ammunition has already stabbed the paper bullets to just the right amount in just a few strokes when he stabbed them, and this tightness is completely practiced by relying on those hundreds of rounds of live ammunition, and if he does not have enough experience in live ammunition, he can grasp this feeling very well. And a little tight or a little loose, will have a great impact on the accuracy of the bullet shot.

The sound of artillery is incessant, and the gunfire is continuous.

The thief who chased into the valley was almost stunned.

Many thieves couldn't help but look up at the sky, and the big raindrops fell and hit their faces, which was very cold and cold.

It's raining, heavy rain.

"Why can the firearms of the officers and soldiers still be used?"

The continuous lead bullet iron sand poured down, and the thief riding on the horse, no matter how fierce it was, could not escape from the dense lead at this time.

The horse thieves were shot down one after another, and from time to time the horses neighed and fell to the ground.

Zhang Xianzhong was also stunned, why could the firearms of the official army be launched in the rain?

Then he finally saw that there were many sheds on the hillside, and the officers and soldiers fired their guns under the sheds.

"Thief, mother!"

Zhang Xianzhong almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, how could the dog officers and soldiers be so cunning, and actually built a canopy for the artillery firecrackers.

"Withdraw, withdraw!" Zhang Xianzhong only glanced at it, and knew that the method of directly attacking the artillery formation of the official army would not work, although the artillery array was close, but there were many rejecting horses in front, as well as the breastwork, and it was impossible to attack it in a hurry.

Upon hearing this order, the thief began to shout and turn around and rush back, trying to rush out of the way he came.

The shouts of the thieves did not affect the Hydra warriors on the slopes on both sides, they just kept shooting, shooting and shooting, one, two, three, four, five! (To be continued......)