More than 100,000 troops walked slowly, walking on the official road, Zhu Cang looked at the mountains in the distance, his face was solemn, although Li Xin's soldiers and horses had not yet appeared at this time, Zhu Cang knew that Li Xin would never let go of himself, after the Biyang River, Pei Yuanqing's soldiers and horses were still following behind, and the distance was getting closer and closer, what made Zhu Cang even more helpless was that in order to deal with Pei Yuanqing's cavalry, he gathered all the cavalry together, and now even the spies were soldiers with better foot strength, which made him feel a little panicked.

"Is there a spy up ahead?" Zhu Cang said to Zhu Tian beside him: "I always feel that Li Xin's soldiers and horses are near here, let's be careful, Li Xin will definitely not let us go." ”

"Not yet, the first twenty miles are all mountain roads, if you want to investigate carefully, the soldiers will definitely come back slowly." Zhu Tian also explained in a low voice.

"Your Majesty, this is Wang Shichong's territory, Li Xin is going to attack Xiao Mo now, it is impossible to attack Wang Shichong, we have crossed the Biyang River, Li Xin wants a team, how many soldiers and horses are needed, I'm afraid it needs more than 100,000, Pei Yuanqing is monitoring us." Nie Bin said indifferently.

Zhu Cang nodded, silently, looked at the soldiers around him, and saw that these soldiers were all weak, and he was still a little anxious in his heart, even if he entered Zhugou and entered Funiu Mountain, the morale of the army was like this, how many people would really follow behind him.

"Stop." Zhu Cang looked into the distance, the official road into the mountainous area, there have been a lot of bamboos on both sides of the official road, this is the origin of the bamboo ditch, the autumn passes, although there is still a lot of green, but more is still desolate, full of the breath of slaughter, Zhu Cang, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, looked at the official road, his face was solemn, and he ordered someone to take a bow and arrow, and he opened a bow and arrow. He fell into the surrounding bamboo forest, and ordered the surrounding soldiers to shout loudly, and instantly saw some birds and birds flying up, rushing into the sky, and disappearing without a trace. Zhu Cang nodded at this time.

"Let's go." Zhu Tian was a little dissatisfied with Zhu Cang's caution, but seeing that Zhu Cang had agreed, he waved his hand immediately, and the army of more than 100,000 suddenly entered a relatively narrow official road.

"It's difficult and dangerous here, if Li Xin ambushes an army here, I'm afraid that our hundreds of thousands of troops will be buried in the fire." Zhu Cang looked at the surrounding terrain and said, "It's like a turtle in a cage." The mountain road is narrow, and if we attack it with fire, it will be very difficult for us to die. It's a pity that the current Li Xin may not have rushed to this place yet, if it weren't too late, I could also ambush in this place and destroy Pei Yuanqing's army of 20,000. Go, and order the army to quickly pass through the mountain road. ”

"The prime minister is wise." On the mountainside in the distance, behind the boulders. Ma Zhou and Liang Shuo arched their hands towards Li Xin, releasing birds in the bamboo forest, and once Zhu Cang shot an arrow, he released the birds in the forest. Ma Zhou originally didn't suggest this, but he didn't expect Zhu Cang to really shoot an arrow, and he ordered people to shout loudly, and a team of flying birds rushed out of the forest. Zhu Cangcai ordered the soldiers to advance.

If it weren't for Li Xin's order to prepare, Zhu Cang would really be suspicious. At this time, Zhu Cang led an army of more than 100,000 into the official road, and Li Xin's plan was half completed.

"Where has Pei Yuanqing arrived?" Li Xin looked into the distance. There was a faint cloud of smoke and dust rising from the distance of the official road, it should be Pei Yuanqing's cavalry, and he said to Ma Zhou at the moment: "Raise the banner, raise the wolf smoke, shoot the arrow, and burn Zhu Cang." Li Xin gave the order very calmly.

Zhu Cang, who was walking on the official road, became more uneasy as he entered the mountain road, and he looked around, and he didn't know if it was autumn coming, weeds were growing, or if it was around Zhugou itself, he felt that there were more weeds around him than he had seen, and they were more lush. Zhu Cang couldn't help jumping off the horse, looked at the wild grass next to him carefully, and suddenly saw that there was still a trace of wetness on it, so he couldn't help but step forward and touch it, and then put it next to his nose and sniffed it, and his face changed.

"Retreat, retreat." Zhu Cang shouted loudly, turned over on the war horse, and galloped out, he smelled the smell of fire oil just now, although it was very light, but in this weather, if the dry grass is stained with fire oil, then it will ignite a raging fire.

At this time, a loud roar came, and then I saw countless black soldiers on the peaks on both sides, these soldiers opened their bows and arrows, and the flames on the bows and arrows were ignited, and then I saw countless sharp arrows falling from the sky and falling into both sides of the official road, and in an instant I saw countless flames rising into the sky, dyeing the entire valley red, and then seeing countless wine jars falling from the sky, not only smashed into the grass, but even smashed on the soldiers, and when they touched the sparks, they burned more fiercely, and for a while, on the mountain road, there were screams again and again.

Although Liang Shuo and Ma Zhou had a premonition, but when they saw everything in front of them, they also felt a pity in their hearts, hundreds of thousands of troops appeared in the valley, with the army led by Cheng Yanjin in front and Pei Yuanqing's cavalry behind, guarding the entire valley firmly, the flames on the mountain road were burning, the black smoke and dust were above the clouds, and the entire mountain road became a sea of flames, endless, as if it was purgatory, allowing others to make bursts of screams inside.

"Do you think it's cruel?" Li Xin's voice was very flat, he was high up, looking at the flame mountain in front of him, as if it was not a person burning at all, but a group of ants, his face was calm, his eyes were indifferent, the voice sounded in the ears of Ma Zhou and Liang Shuo, that Li Xin said: "Over the years, since Zhu Cang rose between the Jianghuai River, I don't know how many people have become the food in his belly, even if it is his soldiers, most of them are cannibals, what is the difference between such behavior and beasts, I will come, from east to west, from south to north, a hundred miles of barrenness, without people, These people are either fleeing, or these guys are eating more, and there are naturally human means to deal with people, and there are naturally means to deal with beasts. ”

Ma Zhou and Liang Shuo were stunned when they heard this, lowered their heads and stopped talking, it is nothing to kill people in troubled times, and there are also people who eat easily, but Zhu Cang takes pleasure in killing people and eating people, that is a great crime, how could Li Xin let such a person go! It's just that hundreds of thousands of troops were burned to death, which is a pity.

"If there are people who survive, all of them will be escorted to Guanzhong to serve as a road construction army, and if they don't die, they will go to build roads to atone for their sins!" Li Xin has made up his mind not to use these hundreds of thousands of troops anymore. The word soldier, the more than 100,000 people in front of him is undoubtedly unworthy.

The Zhugou fire burned for two days, not only burned the Zhugou, but also burned down all the official roads along the way for nearly ten miles, Li Xin ordered people to burn them at the same time, but also ordered people to release arrows, causing countless casualties to the soldiers on the official road, and it was impossible to escape from the sea of fire, although some soldiers escaped from both ends of the official road, but most of them were injured.

Two days later, the heavy rain whistled, washed away the flames on the official road, and when the army entered the official road to search, Zhu Cang's jade seal and sword were found among the many corpses, and then Zhu Cang's identity was recognized, and later calculated the results of the battle, only more than 6,000 people escaped the catastrophe, most of them were injured, and the rest were all burned to death by the fire. Li Xin escorted these thousands of people to Guanzhong, and asked these prisoners of war to build an official road from Chang'an to Hanzhong. History books later recorded that thousands of people died tragically on the way to build the road, and only more than 100 people survived.

The whole bamboo ditch was burned black, the three armies cleaned up the bones of the bamboo ditch took three days to barely clean up, outside the bamboo ditch, also dug a mass grave, buried Zhu Cang and his hundreds of thousands of troops, a few years later, some people still say that in the depths of the bamboo ditch every night there are bursts of terrible screams.

On the fourth day, Li Xin led the army to Dengzhou, and this really began the conquest of Xiao Miao. After the news of Li Xin's extermination of Zhu Cang spread, the world shook, and Du Fuwei between Jianghuai and Wang Shichong of Luoyang strengthened their defenses in the territory, and no one was sure whether Li Xin would lead a large army to attack his own territory.

In the Liyang Governor's Mansion, Du Fuwei and Fu Gongqi walked in the back garden of the Governor's Mansion, Du Fuwei's face was gloomy, and Fu Gongyi's face was not good-looking, Li Xin eliminated Zhu Cang's 200,000 army, although Dengzhou was annexed, but Dengzhou was actually not much away from Liyang, although Li Xin's soldiers and horses did not kill him, but the soldiers had already had an impact on Liyang.

Du Fuwei and Fu Gongqi are close friends. When he was very young, Fu Gongyi often stole sheep from his aunt's house and gave them to Du Fuwei to eat. Later, because of the robbery case, the government pursued them, and the two fell into the grass, when Du Fuwei was only 16 years old, the years have changed, and the two brothers are now in the prime of life, and he and Fu Gongyi led the people to revolt. Later, he moved to Huainan, gradually expanded his power, proclaimed himself a general, successively merged the rebel armies such as Miao Haichao and Zhao Po's formation, and greatly increased his power, and merged Liuhe, threatening Jiangdu, and defeating Sui generals Song Hao, Gongsun Shangzhe, Chen Ling, etc., occupying Liyang, claiming to be the governor of Liyang, and making Fu Gongqi make a long history, integrating all the departments under his command, and completely occupying Jianghuai.

Later, he surrendered to the emperor and was named the king of Chu, and became the governor of the east, although he became the king of Chu, but in the army of Jianghuai, he and Fu Gongqi were the leaders of the army.

"According to reason, I have submitted to the Emperor Tai, and now the Emperor Tai has submitted to Li Xin, you and I are also Li Xin's subordinates, although Li Xin did not send people to surrender, but it can't change this fact. Fu Bo, Li Xin is attacking Xiao Mo now, and he first burned Zhu Cang to death, his goal is obvious, that is, he wants to capture Jiangnan! Duvowe whispered.

"The King of Chu is ready to submit to Li Xin?" A trace of gloom flashed in Fu Gongyi's eyes, and he said: "Li Xin is a tiger and wolf, if the king of Chu submits to Li Xin, his life is in the hands of Li Xin, and if he wants to kill him, he will be at Li Xin's disposal!" Fu Gong Qi explained.

"I don't have the intention of being the king and hegemon, the reason why I and Fu Bo Xing soldiers, I don't want to be killed by the faint king, Li Xin occupies Guanzhong, and he has a meritorious role in governing Guanzhong, I heard that the wind and rain in Guanzhong are smooth, the country and the people are safe, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, I yearn for it in my heart!" Du Fuwei really has no ambition to be the king and hegemon, and he has been pushed up by others to this point, otherwise, his mansion would not still call himself the "Governor's Mansion", and he would not say "I" between his mouths, but should be called "Lone", which shows his thoughts. (To be continued......)