The two of them walked to the bottom of the cliff, Zicheng stopped, turned around and said, "Brother Yufeng, now the officers and soldiers have blocked the roads leading to northern Shaanxi and Huguang. The pursuers in the back ......"

He didn't want to think about how long the two hundred heroes of the Huben camp could drag all the families of the old camp and nearly 10,000 soldiers to fight against the pursuers, so he simply avoided this topic and continued, "The pursuers in the back will approach in a few days, and Sun Chuanting will personally intercept them in Tongguan in front of him. It turned out that we contacted Cao Cao, and he also promised to come to Tongguan to pick up our old eighth team out of the customs, and now the team has rushed all the way from Hanzhong, but Cao Cao has not heard from him at all;

"Brother Li, I have long said that he Luo Rucai is a glass monkey, it seems that he did not come to Tongguan to meet us. If he takes tens of thousands of horses to the outside of Tongguan, there should be some movement, even Sun Chuanting doesn't dare to surround us with all his strength, do you say?"

Li Zicheng nodded in agreement with Tian Jianxiu's words: "I think so too, we are probably in a trap." ”

The Cao Cao mentioned by Li Zicheng was the nickname of Luo Rucai, an important leader of the Thirteen Families at that time. Two or three months ago, when the Chuang army was still in the mountains in the southeast of Longdong and Hanzhong, when the officers and soldiers were circling in circles, they sent a letter to Luo Rucai, asking Cao Cao to lead the rebel armies in Henan to contain Sun Chuanting outside Tongguan and welcome his army into Henan.

Cao Cao was very happy at that time, and he agreed to follow Li Zicheng's strategy to take the army into Tongguan. Not long after, Li Zicheng received Cao Cao's handwritten reply, and he ignored the heavy interceptions of the officers and soldiers and went east to kill. However, when he entered the Shangluo area, he found that Cao Cao, who was supposed to come to lead the official army, did not come, he thought that the road was far away, and the news was not good, so he sent someone to contact Cao Cao, and now when he was trapped, Cao Cao changed his mind again halfway, what is the reason Li Zicheng can't know!

"Strange, where did Cao Cao's tens of thousands of horses go?" Zicheng whispered to himself, as if asking Tian Jianxiu.

Tian Jianxiu was about to say something, when he saw a junior colonel in the old camp leading a horse and walking towards the place where he was standing with King Chuang, so he held back his words. Xiao Xiao Xiang Zicheng said:

"King Yuchuang, Madame, please go back to the old camp quickly. ”

King Chuang hurriedly asked the person who had come to report the matter, "Tell me quickly, what is the matter?"

"There is a man in the old camp, and Madame asks you to go back at once. "The informant apparently did not know the details

"Where did the people come from?" Li Zicheng knew that he couldn't ask why, but he still asked.

"I don't know. Only the lady spoke to him, and no one else was allowed to stay with him. I only heard that it seems that this person came from the east of Tongguan, and there was a lottery on the road, and I didn't know anything else. The reporter replied cautiously

King Chuang and Tian Jianxiu exchanged glances, and they both guessed that this person might be sent by Cao Cao, but they didn't say anything, because one they understood that this matter had to be very confidential, and the other couldn't guess whether the news brought by this person was auspicious or evil.

"Yufeng, I'll hurry back to the old camp to take a look, you tell the general who came to discuss the matter, and then let everyone go to the old camp to discuss the matter. When Li Zicheng came, he once asked people to inform his generals to go to Tian Jianxiu to discuss matters, but seeing that the plan could not catch up with the changes, he had to ask Tian Jianxiu to pass the word on his behalf and let everyone go to the old camp to wait.

After Li Zicheng finished speaking, he beckoned Li Qiang to take his oolong horse, and the group of them galloped away in the direction of the old camp.

The place where the old camp is stationed is an ancient cottage called Dujiazhuang, and most of the village is located on the slope of the sunny mountain. It was originally a big village, there are more than 200 households, now the remaining houses are less than one-tenth of the original, the originally quite magnificent and tall walled gatehouse was also burned down, in the moonlight you can also see a bluestone plaque on the top of the walled gate, engraved with "Tongnan lock key" four big characters.

Today's village, the houses are almost ruined, it looks very empty, and there are unknown shrubs and weeds growing everywhere, some wild grasses have covered the paths, and even a few ancient wells have been closed by grass and trees. Outside the wall, there are cliffs and deep valleys to the left, forests to the right, stretching to the foot of the mountains, and behind the wall, there are also forests, connected to a high mountain, but some places have been scorched by fire.

A quadrangle courtyard where the old camp was stationed was the only relatively complete house in the village, but the doors, windows and furniture were also heavily damaged. Around the house, more than a dozen tents were set up, and some of the cavalry of the old battalion were stationed, and sentry posts were set up at several intersections, and they were heavily guarded. Due to the rebellion of the Great Heavenly King Gao Jie, the general Gao Yigong has recently served as the head of the army and the chief general of the Chinese army.

However, due to the tension of the battle, as the chief general of the Chinese army, Gao Yigong had to personally brave the arrows and stones to charge into battle and fight with the enemy who rushed close to the old camp, so many things in the old camp, as well as many affairs that belonged to the general manager's duties, such as the army's military supplies, supplies and finances, etc., had to be shared by his sister Gao Guiying for him.

Although Gao is a woman, she stays everywhere during the march and fights, and she is very careful. Just one piece of guard work after the old camp said that the generals and colonels of the Chinese army would arrange it carefully so as not to be negligent, but Mrs. Gao had to check it personally every day, for fear that there would be something not thoughtful enough.

She often admonished these generals and colonels of the Chinese army: "The set of methods we usually use to steal camps and rob villages and buy spies, Gao Jie has learned this ghost." As the saying goes, don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case; now everyone works harder, and you will taste the sweetness in case of emergency. ”

The Gao family is also well-known in northern Shaanxi, although the Gao family and the two families of Mizhi Li Hongming are not in the same county, they are relatives. Li Zicheng's aunt is Gao Yingxiang's sister, and according to the local so-called ancient style of nieces and aunts, Gao Yingxiang's distant niece married Li Zicheng.

Today, she had just received an instruction from Li Zicheng to bring back Shuangxi in the old camp, and she arranged for Zhang Nai to patrol outside, and Shuangxi replaced Zhang Nai two hours later, but not long after, suddenly the young general Zhang Nai brought a strange farmer to the courtyard where Li Zicheng lived.

Zhang Nai ordered the visitor to stand outside the door and wait, and he himself entered the house and whispered to Mrs. Gao: "Mrs. Bao has learned that a farmer has just been sent from the front team, and he himself said that he is from Henan, and there is a secret book to bring to King Chuang. ”

Mrs. Gao was very dissatisfied with Cao Cao's repeated broken promises, she heard that someone from Henan was almost a person sent by Cao Cao, so she stood up and asked Zhang Nai in a surprised whisper: "Is it from Cao Ying?"