In fact, until now, everyone, including Zuanshan Leopard, still does not believe that Liu Guoneng will collude with the government, because Liu Guoneng also used his old foundation in the battle with Huang Degong.

Besides, in the late Ming Dynasty, a war was a war, and it was quite common for the Ming army and the peasant army commander to have contact, and both sides would exchange information. It's not like it's an interoperable song, at least it's a kind of propaganda and psychological warfare, so these leaders don't think about it in that direction at all.

Why do leopards say that? It's just to find a reason to prove the righteousness of his subordination. But the reason he was looking for happened to be the truth.

On September 15, the Diamond Mountain Leopard took the initiative to invite Ying to be the pioneer and led more than 10,000 people to conquer the ruined Wuwei County again. After that, he invited Liu Guoneng, Jin Xiong and other leaders of the Chinese army to the city for a banquet.

Although Liu Guoneng entered the city, his long career of licking blood from the knife made him quite cautious, so Liu Guoneng refused the banquet on the grounds of fatigue, and only spent the night in the city.

The plan failed, so the mountain leopard immediately used the second plan, and he attacked Liu Guoneng's residence in the middle of the night. But Liu Guoneng was desperately guarded by the guards, killed the city wall and jumped out of the gap, picking up a life. Jin Xiong was unfortunately killed.

After dawn, he learned that Liu Guoneng's troops who had mutinied were in chaos, and Liu Guoneng couldn't distinguish between friend and foe, and he didn't dare to gather his troops. With only more than 10,000 people from his old battalion, he immediately surrendered to the Runing army that followed.

On September 18, Xue Yong suddenly heard of the mutiny and immediately ordered his three legions to pursue him in three directions. Due to the remnants of Liu Guoneng's troops all over the mountains, the three legions were entangled in their footsteps, and the pursuit of the Zuanshan leopard was unsuccessful.

On the same day, the Tao Xin Division, which had already reached the Lujiang River, encountered nearly 20,000 people from the Zuanshan Leopard Division, who had fled in a hurry. Tao Xin also thought that the Diamond Mountain Leopard Department was a part of Liu Guoneng, so he didn't let his troops change from a marching state to a combat state at all. Just send someone to the Drill Mountain Leopard Department to contact.

However, as soon as the liaison approached the Drill Mountain Leopard Department, he was ordered to shoot by the Drill Mountain Leopard. So the two sides immediately began an encounter.

At the beginning of the battle, the Tao Xin troops were quite passive, they were not ready for battle, and they encountered a group of poor soldiers, so they were a little caught off guard, and the battle was once in a state of hand-to-hand combat.

And then came a bitter battle. Because there were too many recruits in the newly formed regiment, after hastily encountering the enemy, many recruits were panicked and forgot even the basic tactical movements. I just know that running around like a headless fly, the whole army is in chaos.

It wasn't until Tao Xin personally went into battle and rushed to the front line with three hundred personal soldiers that the entire front stabilized. During the battle, Tausin's axe handle also broke. The armor was also crumbled, but fortunately there were only minor injuries.

Take advantage of this gap. The newly formed regiments were finally in formation. The rest of the battle was lackluster. The leopard part of the drill mountain is also a board axe. When the Runing army began a formal battle, they immediately dispersed.

It wasn't until after the prisoner trial that Tao Xin knew that there had been a mutiny in Liu Guoneng's department, but at this time, the Zuanshan Leopard had already left with the remaining more than 6,000 horses, and Tao Xin just wanted to chase it too late. Thereupon. He could only wait in place, waiting for Xue Yong's convergence.

This time, Liu Guoneng's surrender was completely anticlimactic, which made Xue Yong and Tao Xin depressed. They immediately sent the news back to Runing, but Wu Shigong did not accuse. He still sent kind words to comfort the two of them.

After the Zuanshan leopard returned to Dabie Mountain, he immediately went on a killing spree and killed thousands of family members of Liu Guoneng's soldiers. For this reason, according to Wu Shigong's order, Liu Guoneng's old battalion was organized into a regiment, and combined with the Huguang regiment to form an ape leap town. Tao Xin also became the commander of Ape Leap Town, and Liu Guoneng was the deputy commander.

And Ape Yue Town and Jiaozheng Town, these two towns with two legions each began to suppress bandits in the Dabie Mountains, that is, to completely exterminate the Zhuanshan Leopard and others.

The operation to suppress bandits was carried out quite hard, and it lasted eight or nine months. And during this time, it was impossible for the two towns to conduct military operations elsewhere. Fortunately, this period of time was also a rare period of calm, so the two towns regarded this crackdown on bandits as actual combat training for recruits.

"Grandpa Lu! You can't delay it any longer, we are the official army of Nanzhili, and now we are in the land of Prime Minister Xiong, so I am afraid that the dog will take the mouse, and it will be thankless! One of Lu Jiude's aides persuaded him.

Hearing this, Lu Jiude's bloodshot eyes looked straight ahead, and he sat motionless, as if he didn't react. After a long while, Lu Jiude came back to his senses, he let out a long sigh and said, "The miscellaneous family can't figure it out, why do you have such a clear distinction between the thieves and the army?" It's just a breath away! ”

After Lu Jiude joined Liu Yuanbin and Xu Ming, the whole army had reached 25,000 men. After resting in place for a while, Lu Jiude took this army to chase after the Zhang and Luo coalition forces.

But the Zhang and Luo armies were very cunning, their whereabouts were erratic at the right time, and they also threw down some cannon fodder from time to time, playing a trick of the golden cicada shelling, and made Lu Jiude's department and Zuo Liangyu's department miserable. At this time, the news that Liu Guoneng passed through Chuzhou and committed Yangzhou came again.

There was an urgent report in Nanjing City every day, urging Lu Jiude to lead his troops back. Because the place where Lu Jiude chased was already Huguang, and this was already the territory of Xiong Wencan, the prime minister of the five provinces, so Nanjing City asked Lu Jiude not to meddle in his affairs.

Gradually, Lu Jiude was a little unable to resist, but he was also very unwilling. Seeing that the Zhang and Luo coalition forces are about to be blocked, if they return east now, won't they have lost all their efforts?

But Lu Jiude also understands that he has just taken up the post of eunuch guarding Nanjing Town, and his foundation in Nanjing City is not yet solid, so if he doesn't go back, he may be impeached and will fly all over the sky.

"The spy who caught it said that the thieves were going to go this way. Wait three more days! Although Lu Jiude was in command here, he still consulted with everyone in a pleading tone.

Seeing Lu Jiude like this, everyone who was discussing the matter also softened in their hearts. But just as they were about to nod their heads, a general rushed into the tent in a rage, and he said, "The thief army has appeared thirty miles to the northwest. ”

Lu Jiude stood up excitedly all of a sudden, and ordered loudly: "The whole army gathers, go with the miscellaneous family to kill the thieves!" ”

"Godfather! This time, the Eight Kings were also generous and gave us this way. We are not as cumbersome as the Eight Kings, as long as we hurry for a few days, we will be able to get rid of the official dog. Yang Chengzu said happily.

"The Eight Kings are still unambiguous." Luo Rucai also touched his short beard and smiled: "If he hadn't taken the initiative to speak, I would have been embarrassed to divide the troops." We can't help but be righteous, and when we get rid of the official dog, if we can help, let's help the eight kings! ”

"Huh!" Yang Chengzu hurriedly nodded in agreement.

At this moment, suddenly a fast horse came galloping, and before the spy could stop the horse, he cried out in a loud voice: "O king! Ten miles ahead, Eunuch Lu's troops were found. ”

But before Luo Ru could wake up from his shock, another spy came galloping over, and he said again: "King! On our right side, the officers and troops of the left thief are coming! ”

Luo Rucai suddenly thought that this road was recommended by Zhang Xianzhong to himself, and he immediately understood, so he scolded: "The thing that is not good to die wants to send us into an ambush and let him escape by himself, what the hell is the Eight Kings of Bo Yuntian?" Bullshit! ”

"Godfather! So what do we do? Yang Chengzu was also anxious.

"What else can I do? Run! Escape one is one, grass! This place in the south of the Yangtze River is evil, and when we go out, we will go back to Shaanxi. Under the extreme corruption, Luo Rucai was already a little speechless.

"Then I'll lead people to block it! Godfather! Take your brethren away! ”

Zhang Xianzhong, who was entangled by the official army, came up with a trick to divert the tiger from the mountain. He took the initiative to give Luo Rucai a way, and then sent someone to secretly report to Lu Jiude and Zuo Liangyu, and threw Luo Rucai out as an outcast.

Luo Rucai was really fooled, and he was ambushed by Lu Jiude and Zuo Liangyu. Under Yang Chengzu's desperate resistance, he left almost all his belongings, and Luo Rucai barely escaped.

Fortunately, Zuo Liangyu helped a lot, and when his soldiers saw the property all over the ground, they immediately stopped chasing and looted on the spot, and the robbery was quite lively, and even blocked the road that Lu Jiude's troops were chasing. So in the end, Luo Rucai's losses were bearable, with nearly 2,000 casualties before and after, at least the skeleton of his troops was still intact. After that, Luo Rucai took his troops and walked towards Shaanxi without looking back.

And after Zhang Xianzhong took advantage of Luo Rucai, he also successfully withdrew his troops to Hubei. Due to the return of Lu Jiude's army to the east, Zhang Xianzhong, who only faced Zuo Liangyu's Ming army, was under great pressure, but this trip to Nanzhili also caused him a lot of losses. Therefore, Zhang Xianzhong can't wait to take some time to recuperate.

I didn't expect the drowsy to meet the pillow. Xiong Wencan, who was suppressed by the prime minister of Xiangyang, sent people to recruit Zhang Xianzhong in line with the principle of focusing on Fu. And Zhang Xianzhong also expressed his willingness to accept the appeasement, and sent someone to give Xiong Wencan a batch of treasures, including two pieces of jasper more than a foot long and two pearls with a diameter of inches.

Xiong Wencan, who is greedy for money and good goods, is of course Dayue, he thought that he could appease Zhang Xianzhong not only to get the merit of leveling at his fingertips, but also to collect endless treasures, so he tried his best to suggest appeasement to the imperial court.

And this good news was reported to the imperial court, which made Emperor Chongzhen happy, and the two giants Zhang Xianzhong and Liu Guoneng succeeded in appeasing successively, so didn't it take the effort of the sword to achieve peace in the world?

At this time, the soldiers and salaries of the "ten-sided net" presided over by Yang Sichang have also been prepared. (To be continued......)