After a big victory, everyone was very happy, and Liu Jun announced that the whole army would be rewarded once, which made the soldiers excited and cheered loudly.

When it got dark, piles of bonfires were lit in the mud ditch, and after a few days of dry food, it was finally time to make a fire and have a hot meal.

"My lord, let's win two big victories in a row, will we take advantage of the victory to march into Dachang City?" Wang Qian, the commander of the teaching camp, asked while nibbling on a piece of lamb chop. They annihilated thousands of bandits including King Shuntian, and successfully received the grain and grass from their army. In addition to the grain they looted in Dachang City, there were also a lot of fine wine and dried meat in the convoy, and even hundreds of sheep and dozens of pigs and cattle and many chickens and ducks were brought by the army.

Except for the nine birds, which had long stipulated that they were not allowed to drink alcohol during wartime, so they did not touch those wines, the rest of the cattle and sheep made the nine birds' dinner today extremely rich.

It is indeed not easy to have such a sumptuous dinner on a field march in wartime. Even Liu Jun was busy slicing roast mutton with a knife, and his mouth was full of oil. However, when Wang Qian talked about the plan for the next stage, he put down his knife and said, "According to the plan discussed with Mei Du in advance, Mei Du led the people to intercept the thief army baggage team coming by water in Wushan, and we led the army to intercept most of the thief army by land. ”

"Now that we have successfully annihilated the army of thieves by land, I believe that they must have annihilated the baggage army from the water. Next, let's wait here for Mei Du to lead his troops to converge, and then send troops to Dachang City together. ”

That's the plan, when I first made the plan, I never thought that the nine-headed bird could achieve such a perfect victory in the mud ditch, and wiped out the thief army at once, and there was not even a single one who slipped through the net.

Wang Qian wanted to speak and stopped, looking like he was stumbling.

Liu Jun had already guessed what he wanted to say. He sighed and said, "This victory was a bit unexpected, but I don't think we can take any chances. Zhang Luo's two thieves are entrenched in Dachang City, and they still have tens of thousands of horses under their command, if we run to Dachang City like this, there is not much advantage. ”

"Don't tell me anything about pretending to be a thief army to cheat the city. It's too risky. ”

Wang Qian closed his mouth, he did have such an idea, that is, to change into the clothes of King Shuntian and others, and then return to Dachang City under their banner, lying that he was defeated. After the city gate is opened, it will be killed.

However, Liu Jun refused to take such a risk, even if the thieves really believed that they were the Shuntian King and other troops who had fled back from defeat, and opened the city gate, Liu Jun felt that ten thousand nine-headed birds had entered the thieves' den of tens of thousands of people like this. That's completely taking away the advantage of the nine-headed bird.

The nine-headed bird has won many battles, what is it? Relying on firearms, each time it was either a city defense, or an ambush battle, a kind of positional warfare, relying on walls, trenches, or simply battle formations to protect those firearms troops, so as to offset many of the weaknesses of the Hydra as a new army. The weakness of the nine-headed bird is obvious, and the establishment time is too short. I haven't trained enough, and it's better to fight positional warfare. After all, they rely on each other. But if it is that kind of chaotic battle, not to mention inexperience, it will make the artillery useless, and it will be difficult for the muskete troops to play a role.

Therefore, Liu Jun will not risk all his belongings for the slightest chance to enter the city.

In fact, if it weren't for the problem of food and grass, and the fear of thieves fleeing to other places. Liu Jun didn't want to take the initiative to fight, he preferred to be stationed in the city and wait for the thieves to attack. It's a pity that the current situation has to be attacked.

"Let's wait here for Hou Meidu to come to meet the teacher, and then march to Dachang City together."

Let Liu Jun lead his troops to Dachang City alone. Liu Jun was unwilling, although he could surprise him by doing so, and he could block the bandits in Dachang City. But Liu Jun was more cautious, he was worried that if the thieves jumped over the wall in a hurry and came out to fight him, then he would take 10,000 people to fight against tens of thousands of thieves in the open place outside the city, even if he could stop it, there would definitely be a lot of casualties.

When Mei Zhihuan and them came, even if their battalions were mostly full-looking, at least they were a lot bigger in number.

"Why don't we send someone to Dachang City again and tell the thief that most of the officers and soldiers have come to Wushan for reinforcements, and the King of Shuntian and they will reinforce the King of Sweeping, but it is still difficult to conquer Wushan, please Zhang Xianzhong send reinforcements again?" Fu Shan proposed.

"I've already deceived Zhang Xianzhong once, I'm afraid he will be suspicious the second time, right?" Wang Qian said.

"Zhang Xianzhong didn't know that we lied to him before, but I think it's feasible. Let's let people lie and say that Wushan has been reinforced by Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers. ”

Qin Liangyu's name is known all over the world, and the white pole soldiers are the elite of the world, and it is indeed not far from Wushan.

"What if Xianzhong is directly scared away by Qin Liangyu's name?"

"Then we can say that Wushan City has been reinforced by white pole soldiers, but there are not many of them, well, how about three thousand? Tell Zhang Xianzhong that these 3,000 white pole soldiers are not Qin Liangyu's pro-commanders, maybe he will come. I remember that when Chongzhen was seven years old, Zhang Xianzhong once entered eastern Sichuan, and that time he captured Fengjie, Kuizhou, but Qin Liangyu led the troops to fight and defeated Zhang Xianzhong and fled. If there were only a few thousand white-pole soldiers in Wushan City, maybe Zhang Xianzhong wanted to take revenge! ”

Liu Jun picked up the knife and stabbed the roast leg of lamb, while continuing his words, "When Zhang Xianzhong comes all the way, we can ambush them here again." ”

"That's it! There are also ready-made trenches. Wang Qian laughed.

Liu Jun thought about it and felt that there was nothing flawed in this plan, anyway, if Zhang Xianzhong was fooled, then they could ambush him here, and if he scared him away, then they could go and recover Dachang City.

"But there is one thing, if Meidu's side fails to completely annihilate the Shun Heavenly King's baggage team, and someone runs back, then our plan will be in vain."

"The baggage team is going down the river, it should start a war with Meidu before us, if there is a leak, I am afraid that it has already run back to Dachang City and reported Zhang Xianzhong."

"But even if the baggage team goes back to report the ambush by water, they won't necessarily know the situation on the land route."

Liu Jun put down the knife again, and he felt that there was indeed an opportunity in it. In this era, communication and liaison were backward after all, and the east and west were marching by land and water, and the army was defeated by ambush by water. But even if they fled back, how would they know the situation on the land route?

"If we send someone pretending to be someone from King Shuntian, we went to Dachang City to report to Zhang Xianzhong, saying that Wushan City has received reinforcements, and King Sweeping has been defeated, and now King Shuntian and their two battalions of men and horses are also trapped. Do you think Zhang Xianzhong will come to the rescue? Liu Jun asked.

"It depends on how many officers and soldiers there are." Fu Shan Road.

Liu Jun thought for a while, "You said that if we tell Zhang Xianzhong the truth, how would they react?" ”

"What tell the truth?"

"We told Zhang Xianzhong that Wushan is now under the ambush of Mei Du himself, and the troops surrounding him are now in ambush, do you think he will come.

"Didn't Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers reinforce Wushan, but changed it to Mei Du who led the Hubei soldiers up the river and stationed in Wushan?" Fu Shan and the others were a little surprised.

"Maybe you can try?"

Dachang City.

The Eight Kings Zhang Xianzhong and Cao Cao Luo Rucai sat together, their faces gloomy.

"Brother He, you haven't heard anything from there?" Cao Cao asked.

Zhang Xianzhong shook his head, "Brother Wu, is there any news over there?" ”

"The stone ox entered the sea, and there was no news."

Zhang Xianzhong's somewhat yellowish face showed a little worry. The scar on his forehead ached faintly. It was cut by Zuo Liangyu with a knife at the beginning, if it weren't for the helmet that blocked some of the force at that time, I am afraid that the knife would have split his head in half.

"Could the two of them be gone?" Zhang Xianzhong stretched out his hand and pressed the scar and said.

"Unlikely, they had five or six thousand men with them."

The man who had fled said that they had suddenly been attacked by a large number of boats, full of officers and men, and a large number of artillery guns in the Bawu Gorge of the Daning River. Do you think these people are telling the truth, if they are telling the truth. Where did those officers and soldiers come from? ”

Cao Cao sighed, "I think they are telling the truth, I have inquired carefully, and some people say that they saw that there is a ship with the flag of the prime minister." Others said that the officers and men on the boat spoke with a Huguang accent. I suspect that those officers and soldiers may be the soldiers and horses of the new Prime Minister of the Six Provinces, Mei Zhihuan. ”

"No way. The imperial court had just appointed Mei Zhihuan as prime minister to replace Xiong Wencan, how could he run to Sichuan all of a sudden. ”

"But there's no other possibility."

Both of them didn't know anything about what was happening on the Wushan side, and sent two lines of soldiers and horses in a row. As a result, the King of Sweepers first sent people back to ask for reinforcements, and then the water route was defeated, and there was no news on the land route.

"Report!"

"Report to the king, the people of the Shuntian King have returned."

"What?" Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were shocked, and they both stood up, "Where the person is, bring it in immediately." ”

Soon, the pro-soldiers brought in two people.

"You are the subordinates of King Shuncheon?"

One of the two stood up, "Back to the Eight Great Kings, the younger one is the personal soldier of King Shuntian, called Niu Wu." ”

"Tell me quickly, where are the Shuntian Kings and the Mixed World Kings now, and what is the situation?"

"Back to the words of the Eight Kings, after we sent troops from Dachang City, we marched all the way to Wushan, and the road was safe, until we reached Wushan City, we suddenly met some brothers under the command of the sweeping king, it turned out that the sweeping king and the ten anti-kings had been defeated by the official army, and the two divisions were scattered."

"What the hell is going on?"

"Eight kings, it's better to let this brother say that he is under the command of the sweeping king."

Zhang Xianzhong glanced at the man at this time, felt familiar, and then quickly remembered, "I remember you, it was you who came back to invite reinforcements before." ”

"The memory of the Eight Kings is really good, it is indeed small."

"Then you say, what happened after that?"

Shi Debiao continued to impersonate the Sweeping King's personal soldiers, while the other Shuntian King's personal soldiers were genuine, but he had already surrendered and joined the Nine-Headed Bird. Under the narration of the two, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Ru learned what was going on in Wushan.

It turned out that after the new prime minister Mei Zhihuan, Huguang Governor Yuan Jixian, and Yunyuan Governor Li Changgeng were appointed, they neither went to the capital to meet the emperor nor Yunyang to meet the superintendent, but directly summoned 10,000 Huguang soldiers and went straight to Sichuan by boat. When he took Dachang City, Mei Zhihuan also led his troops into Fengjie and Wushan.

The sweeping king and the ten anti-kings attacked Wushan unfavorably, precisely because there were Hubei soldiers in the city to assist in the defense. Subsequently, Mei Zhihuan led troops to reinforce Wushan and defeated the sweeping king and the ten anti-kings.

Then they directly used river boats and artillery on the Bawu Gorge of the Daning River to defeat the waterway baggage team of the Shuntian King.

However, among all the bad news, the good news is that King Shuntian and King Chaoshi encountered official troops in Wushan, and they are currently under siege, but the damage is not large.

"King Shuntian and other subordinates sent dozens of brothers to break through the siege at night to report the news, and asked the two masters to come to the rescue quickly."

After listening to the detailed report, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were silent for a long time.

"Take these two brothers out to dinner, and reward each of them with ten taels of silver."

After the others left, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were silent for a while. Zhang Xianzhong sighed, turned his head and asked Luo Rucai, "Do you think their words are credible?" ”

"Let's check it out below, see if anyone knows these two people, if no one knows, it may be a fraud, if someone knows, the two are indeed the personal soldiers of the King of Sweeping and the King of Shuntian, this matter can't be wrong."

"Grass, Mei Zhihuan is so bold that he dares to intercept us with 10,000 Huguang soldiers."

Cao Cao stroked his chin, "But we have to admit that this Mei Zhihuan is bold, but it did catch us off guard, didn't it?" Yang Sichang always thought that we would go to Shaanxi and gather all the heavy troops on the border of Hubei and Shaanxi, but the new prime minister had already guessed that we would come to Sichuan, and rushed directly by boat to intercept it. ”

"No matter how simple it is, he is not just a handful of people. 10,000 Huguang soldiers, it is estimated that at most they are the local guard army, how powerful they can be. That is, Cao Wei and He Guoxian, these brainless fools, must be careless and defenseless, so they will be ambushed. ”

Cao Cao sighed, "The current situation is very unfavorable to us, although Yang Sichang had expected that we would enter Sichuan, but now he must be mobilizing troops and horses to pursue us." But now Mei Zhihuan has taken the lead in entering eastern Sichuan, and now he is surrounding us with tens of thousands of horses. The thief is chasing after the front block. ”

"I'm afraid that he is a bird, since Mei Zhihuan can't open his eyes and dares to block our way, then we will kick him away first."

"You mean we're going to Wushan?" Cao Cao asked.

"Why don't you go, do we want to throw away the tens of thousands of horses of He Guoxian? And now that Yang Sichang and the others haven't arrived yet, if we don't take this opportunity to kill Mei Zhihuan first, it will definitely be more troublesome in the future. ’

"I'm afraid, I'm afraid that Mei Zhihuan is not easy to deal with."

"It's just 10,000 people, He Guo is now careless of the enemy, if they have been prepared, the officers and soldiers have nothing to fear. Didn't Zuo Liangyu just be wiped out by our army? This time, we happened to cut the newly appointed prime minister of the Chongzhen Bird Emperor. ”

Cao Cao pondered for a moment, "Okay, if the identities of those two informants are found to be credible, then we will send troops to Wushan." (To be continued......)

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