Chapter 42: Capture Liu Zhongwu alive

Liu Zhongwu stared at Li Xingzhi deadly, his face constantly changing.

"Wait now, lay down your arms! The owner of this village will spare your lives. Li Xingzhi spoke again, he knew that he couldn't delay in the cottage for too long, because no one knew how long Li Rui would last.

"Li Rebellion! Lao Tzu fought with you! Liu Zhongwu, who knew that he could not be spared, suddenly drank violently, and swung his knife and pounced on Li Xingzhi in front of him.

"Bell...... Boom! ”

Zhang Shaoqian, who was on Li Xingzhi's side, was afraid that Liu Zhongwu would be stabbed to death by the pikemen on both sides, so he stepped forward and waved a knife, which was to block Liu Zhongwu's powerful knife, and then swept Liu Zhongwu to the ground with a whip leg.

Immediately afterwards, the spears of several mandarin duck soldiers came out of the formation and put the spears in their hands against Liu Zhongwu's neck.

"Zhang Shaoqian, you actually fell into the grass, are you right about Luzhi County, right about Your Majesty?" Liu Zhongwu, who was captured alive by the spearmen, scolded.

Zhang Shaoqian's face was red with shame, where did he dare to speak to refute, he only lowered his head and was silent.

"Tie up Lao Tzu!"

Li Xingzhi drank a sentence, looked at the remaining fifty or so officers and soldiers, and said coldly: "Liu Zhongwu has been captured alive by the master of this village, as long as you surrender, the master of this village will never harm your lives, otherwise, the master of this village will avenge the brothers who were killed by you." ”

The lord was captured alive, and he was wrapped in dumplings by thieves, officers and soldiers, you look at me, I look at you, and finally unwillingly threw down the weapon.

After solving the internal troubles of the cottage, Li Xingzhi ordered Wang Zhong to first take care of the captured officers and soldiers, and then led people to escort Liu Zhongwu straight to the defense line at the eastern foot of Lijia Mountain.

Because Li Xingzhi took dozens of people with him, Li Rui's position was already precarious at the moment, and the barrels of the three tiger squat guns were already red due to the continuous bombardment, and they could no longer be loaded with medicine for the time being.

Without the cover of artillery, the sword and shield men of the officers and shields, under the cover of musketeers and archers, had cleared a section of stakes, and at the same time filled in a trench several feet long, and were now climbing frantically against the mud wall.

Fortunately, there was a mud wall to cover it, and the rebels could not see the miserable appearance of the officers and soldiers who died in front of the mud wall, otherwise they would probably have collapsed long ago, and it was also a loss of mud walls, and the casualties of the rebels were not very large, so far, only more than 40 people have been lost.

The mud wall is not high, only more than one person high, obviously it cannot stop the overwhelming number of officers and soldiers, and some officers and soldiers even trample on the bodies of their comrades who died in battle, climbing up.

"The whole army assaulted, rushed up to Lao Tzu, today Lao Tzu wants to wash Li Jiashan in blood, and avenge the brothers who died in battle."

The breakthrough of Lijiashan's defense line is imminent, Liu Guangyong will be high-spirited, he knows that as long as he breaks the mud wall in front of him, then Lijiazhai will have nothing to stop the footsteps of the official army.

Li Rui was already full of blood at the moment, running back and forth behind the mud wall with more than ten soldiers, where there were officials and soldiers coming up, he was going to rush there, but there were too many officers and soldiers, densely packed everywhere, and the defenders with only more than 100 people left would be exhausted.

"Defeated!"

Looking at the officers and soldiers on the defense line who kept climbing the mud wall, Li Rui sat on the ground in a gloomy manner, he couldn't run anymore.

Just when he was already desperate, a dense sound of fire suddenly sounded on the right side of the defense line and behind him.

Ma San, a small leader beside Li Rui, roared excitedly: "Li Tou, look, our reinforcements have arrived, and they are the big boss and the second boss." ”

The officers and soldiers who attacked the mud wall were caught off guard by this sudden attack, and more than ten people were hit when they landed, and the rest turned their heads and jumped off the mud wall in shock.

Liu Guangyong, who was in command on the hillside, saw that there were more than 200 thieves who came to support, mainly from the Nanshan side.

"Let the brothers stand down and regroup!" At this moment, although the number of officers and soldiers is still superior, but the reinforcements of the thieves arrived, and it was obvious that Liu Zhongwu's men and horses had been defeated by the thieves, which seriously hit the morale of the officers and soldiers, and Liu Guangyong reluctantly issued a military order to retreat.

After the reorganization of the official army was completed, Liu Guangyong counted the losses, and this time the officers and troops under his own command who attacked the mountain actually lost more than 150 people.

"Huang Wenchang doesn't fight, and his crime should be punished!" Liu Guangyong scolded hatefully.

At that time, if Huang Wenchang could contain the defenders of the thieves in Nanshan, the thieves who turned around behind the mountain would not be enough to stop his army, and now it is okay, Liu Zhongwu does not know whether he is alive or dead, and he has lost so many military horses.

At this moment, Liu Guangyong was unable to attack and could not attack, and he was unwilling to retreat.

Just when he couldn't make up his mind, the thieves' shouts came from the bandits' position.

"The one who attacked the mountain is General Liu of Baoding, the owner of the village is Gaoyang Li Xingzhi, and Liu Zhongwu, the Xin'an garrison, has been captured by the master of the village, do you want to follow in the footsteps of the Liu garrison."

Liu Guangyong raised his eyes and saw that there was a person standing on the mud wall, it was Liu Zhongwu, who was being escorted by several thieves at the moment.

Liu Guangyong was shocked and angry, and was about to urge the troops to attack the mountain again, but there was a sound of Lu Liangzhi collecting troops from the bottom of the mountain.

Li Jiashan is not high, the battle situation on the mountain, Lu Liang can see it clearly, when he saw the arrival of the thief reinforcements to drive the official army down the mud wall, he knew that he could not win the battle today, so he had to order the troops to be withdrawn, and the generals returned to the camp to make another calculation.

Soon!

Liu Guangyong, Huang Wenchang and other generals and Zuo successively entered the military tent.

As soon as he entered the military tent, Liu Guangyong grabbed Huang Wenchang and said angrily: "Huang Guerrilla, your military horses are responsible for attacking Nanshan, how can the thieves transfer reinforcements from Nanshan, causing our army to fail, you say, how did you fight this battle?" Do you know how many brothers Ben will fold? ”

Huang Wenchang spread his hands and sneered: "General Liu Shen, you are not in Nanshan, General An Zhi has not done his best, Lu Zhixian has strictly ordered the last general to bluff, and the thief who turned from Nanshan must be the thief in front of the general?" If you can't win the battle, don't buckle the basin to the end! ”

Liu Guang's courageous head was bruised, but he was helpless against Huang Wenchang, the Ming Dynasty adhered to the policy of restricting the size of military generals, although he was a general, but he couldn't move Huang Wenchang at all.

Lu Liangzhi frowned and retreated the two, looked around at the generals in the military tent and asked, "Have you ever seen Liu Garrison?" ”

Liu Guangyong sighed: "Lu Xianzun, the last general is right, Liu Shoubei has been captured by thieves, and his people are probably more than lucky." ”

"Ahh Lu Liang was shocked when he heard it, he knew Liu Zhongwu's martial arts, and besides, this person was still the youngest son of his friend Liu Bangzhong, if he was harmed by thieves, how would he face Liu Bangzhong.

Li Jiashan.

After forcing the officers and troops to retreat, Li Xingzhi ordered all the troops to count the battle losses, and after checking today's battle, Wang Zhong's troops who stayed in the rear camp lost more than 50 people, and the defense line at the eastern foot of Lijia Mountain also lost more than 50 people, plus Chen Wu's patrol horse, 120 people were killed in battle, and 39 people were wounded.

On the part of the officers and soldiers, there were almost 200 casualties and 56 prisoners.