There are definitely people in the world who are not afraid of death, but there are definitely not many people who don't want to live.

Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, actually wants to live well, and it is better to live a long life or even eternal life.

It's just that he really likes gold and silver treasures too much, and he can't be sure that life is important at the critical moment of life and death, and he should spend money to buy his life.

Unfortunately, things in the world are always like this: the opportunity must not be lost, and the loss will never come again.

The news that "the security gate was breached by the rogue" and "the Wenchang gate is about to be lost" reached the harem of the palace, and Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, finally figured out that life is more important than money, and sent someone to summon Li Dingguo for the first time.

"General Li, please find a way to stop the rogue. This king is willing to give 10,000 taels of silver, no, this king is willing to give 30,000 taels of silver!"

Li Dingguo did come for Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, but the purpose was not enough for outsiders, so it was meaningless for Zhu Huakui to put forward conditions at the critical moment of life and death.

Li Dingguo received an order: Once Zhu Huakui was found to be sacrificing his life and wealth, he would take resolute measures to deal with it according to the original plan and completely take over the entire Chu Wangcheng.

Getting a complete Chu King City and not setting himself on fire is Li Dingguo's task. As for what kind of mentality Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, is, basically meaningless.

The 360 pro-soldiers had already taken control of the important passage of the inner court of the palace, and the internal and external news had been cut off. The so-called news that the city gate was breached was nothing more than the content relayed by Li Dingguo's own soldiers.

Li Dingguo's main attention was on Zhu Huakui and Zhu Huayi, the two impostors, to make sure that they would not leave his sight.

In order to ensure that some "important figures" did not slip through the net, Li Dingguo used the signboard of "Hengyang Yongsheng King" to rampage between the five palaces in front of the Chu Wangfu and the six palaces of the inner court, and no one dared to interfere at all.

Li Dingguo first accused Cai Zhishu, the head of the inner court, and then asked him to take himself around to inspect the area, and some key figures were invited to the Qinzheng Palace for "interviews", and more than 200 people have been concentrated to "protect security".

It wasn't until the news of "Liukou broke through the security gate" came that Zhu Huakui made up his mind to take the money, and he gritted his teeth and took out 30,000 taels of silver to buy his life.

The prince of Chu, who is worth hundreds of millions, is still reluctant to spend money at the last moment to save his life. Li Dingguo thinks that this kind of guy who wants money and doesn't want to die is really a damn life, and the gods can't save it.

Regarding the conditions and requirements of Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, Li Dingguo did not accept it, but his face deliberately looked very nervous: "Lord Wang, even if you take out one million taels of silver, it is useless, because the people in the city have long run out." The last general has no way to gather the displaced people to defend the city, and the only thing he can do is to protect the prince and his family at the last moment. ”

Li Dingguo was so busy in the royal city that he couldn't tiptoe, Chige "broke through the security gate" in strict accordance with the agreed time, and the 4,800 people of the shooting battalion poured into the city, but they did not rush into the inner court of the royal city, but rushed to the other five city gates.

Then under the banner of the "Great Western Army", the city shouted and shouted to kill, and the guards and officials stranded in the city were blasted out of the city like ducks, officially announcing that the city of Chu was captured by Zhang Xianzhong, the king of Daxi.

The two sisters, Wanying and Wanqing, carried the military flag of the "Great Western Army Healthy Women's Battalion" and went straight to the inner court of the royal city with 3,600 women's troops.

Li Dingguo in front of everyone, a horse and a single gun and Wanying, Wanqing Shuangshu fake battle triad, naturally defeated and lost, turned the horse and ran, and then hugged Zhu Huakui, Zhu Huayi and other more than 200 people to kill the east gate.

Cui Wenrong, the general of Chu Wangcheng, only had more than 600 guards under his command, and he had already agreed with Li Dingguo. Now that Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, has "escaped from danger", Cui Wenrong did not hesitate to follow Li Dingguo all the way out of the Great East Gate as a force behind the palace.

Sahur, the deputy commander of the Shooting Battalion, seemed to have only discovered that the big man had fled at this time, so he led more than 500 people to shout wildly, shouting behind him for a while.

Hundreds of people rushed out of the Great East Gate and joined the cavalry battalion, Li Dingguo gave an order, and more than 4,000 people went straight to Jiangxia Wangcheng along the Xunsi River.

The King of Jiangxia had 3,000 elite soldiers, and a four-gate royal city, and it was closer to the King of Changsha, which was the only place to stay at present.

The partial general Cui Wenrong originally thought that Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, was disgusted, and at the same time thought that Li Dingguo's decision was correct, so he naturally had no objections.

Only Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, was very angry: "General Li, why did you put the main force outside the city instead of bringing it into the city for defense? If there are these three elite soldiers, how can Liukou break through the royal city in two hours?"

Li Dingguo doesn't have a good face now, and he doesn't need a good face to look at a dead person: "Lord Wang, in the end, we will strictly implement the order of our Yongsheng Prince, that is, to rescue you in a critical time." Now that the Admiral has completed his mission, is there something wrong?"

"Besides, there are more than 200,000 troops under the King of Liukou Daxi. If the general puts everyone in the city, once they are surrounded by rogues, everyone will have to wait for death. This is a military matter, and it is better for the prince to ask less. "

From Li Dingguo's entry into the city to Chige's shooting battalion occupying six city gates and controlling all the forts, the whole process took two hours.

During this period, the battle for Parrot State outside the security gate was a hand-to-hand combat with real knives and guns.

Shen Xiyue, the head of the Dongting Naval Division, personally commanded the expulsion battle on the Parrot Island River, and dispatched a total of more than 70 large and small warships.

More than 3,000 people in the vanguard of Liu Wenxiu and Ainengqi of the Great Western Army and more than 2,000 people of the Huangzhou Naval Division were crushed in a close-range artillery battle.

The purpose of this war is to expel and not to kill.

If it weren't for Shen Xiyue's mercy, the vanguard of the Great Western Army would definitely be wiped out.

In this battle, Shen Xiyue personally commanded and used the reserve army of the Dongting Water Division. The reason for this situation is mainly that Deputy General Jiang Tengjiao has another important task.

The main force of Zhang Xianzhong, the king of Daxi, with more than 150,000 people, came out of Wuchang County (now Echeng) two days ago, and the vanguard had already arrived at Jiufeng Mountain.

If you deal with this side of the problem, it is the primary problem at the moment, and everything else is a minutiae.

According to Miao Sanguan's order, Jiang Tengjiao led more than 30 warships of the main force of the Dongting Naval Division, and after giving the Huangzhou Naval Division a dismount when passing through Parrot Prefecture, he immediately went straight down the river to Fankou, posing with a posture of cutting off the back road of the main force of Zhang Xianzhong, the king of Daxi.

On the morning of the next day, Jiang Tengjiao's fleet had rushed to the river north of Wuchang County (now Echeng), and all the side-chord guns of the warships were aimed at the city tower, and the battle was about to break out.

In the face of the crisis, Zhang Xianzhong ordered Yizi and Zhang Sihu, the governor of the Daxi Central Army, to lead the main force of 30,000 people to the south, preparing to raid the Jiangxia royal city and open the passage into Hengzhou, Yongzhou, and Guilin.

did not expect to be intercepted head-on by the cavalry battalion led by Li Dingguo, but Zhang Sihu was picked under the horse in one move.

Li Dingguo practiced hard for nine years in the head-on three guns taught by Xiong Chu, and killed the enemy's main general Zhang Sihu in the first head-on battle against the enemy, and the enemy's 30,000 main forces fled.

Xu Yixian, the left prime minister of the Great Western Army and the secretary of the criminal department, led 30,000 people to retreat urgently, but he panicked in the water network area of Liangzi Lake, and finally the horse fell into the water and drowned.

Li Dingguo gained self-confidence in the first battle, and thus embarked on a broad road to the road to a famous general, of course he was happy in his heart.

But the southbound passage could not be opened, and his godson Zhang Sihu and Xu Yixian, a general, were damaged, and Zhang Xianzhong knew that he was in big trouble.

There is a fortified city in front, there is no passage in the south, there is a big river in the north, and there is no way to retreat, and the Great Western Army is suddenly in a dilemma.

The shadow of the Luzhou fiasco instantly appeared in his mind, and Zhang Xianzhong's gambler psychology prevailed again.

It's a pity that the time is not right, and the enemy is not right.

Zhang Xianzhong's order to attack the city of King Chu and Yuezhou with all his strength has not yet been issued, and another piece of bad news has arrived:

"A force of more than 5,000 people suddenly moved north from Ganzhou City and was approaching the direction of Wuchang County at full speed. There is no doubt that the imperial court officials and troops will rely on the Great River and the Heavenly Trench, and then surround the Great Western Army on three sides!"

This force was none other than Zhang Chengzong's department, which was on standby to attack according to Miao Sanguan's orders.

Zhang Xianzhong crossed the river from Huangzhou to the south to attack Wuchang County, and the guards of Jiujiang City not only did not send reinforcements to the west, but even abandoned their city and fled.

Zhang Chengzong's long-awaited fighter finally appeared, taking the opportunity to seize control of the entire Ganzhou, which was an extremely important link and Zhang Chengzong's main combat goal.

Now, Zhang Chengzong has occupied Ruichang, which is only three days away from the county seat of Wuchang. It not only cut off the passage of the Great Western Army to the east to attack Luzhou, but also formed a three-sided attack on the Great Western Army.

Zhang Xianzhong has read some books and heard a lot of books, of course he knows that Cao Cao's Chibi defeat was back then.

The position of the Great Western Army now is more dangerous than that of Cao Cao back then. If you attack the Chu King City in the west now, if you can't resolve the battle quickly, once the imperial court officials and troops arrive one after another, it will be the end of the entire army.

The situation is so precarious, where do we go from here?

Zhang Xianzhong summoned all the senior generals and held a meeting for two days in a row, but in the end he did not come up with a very safe action plan.

As the saying goes: there is no way to heaven.

At the critical juncture when Zhang Xianzhong was wandering, Zhang Qi, the former military governor, suddenly sent someone to report quickly: "Ma Guangyi, the head of the camp in Weiyang, and Chen Jie, the chief eunuch of the Yongsheng Palace, both of them came from Yuezhou City, hoping to meet the king of Daxi as much as possible. "

Zhang Xianzhong was a little surprised; Didn't Lao Huihui take refuge in King Chuang? Could it be that he surrendered to King Hengyang Yongsheng again? This is not like his style. In the past ten years, no matter how sinister the shape is, Lao Huihui has never surrendered to the imperial court, how did he change his temper this time?"

Pan Xuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites of the Great Western Army, shook his head: "King, according to the news from the front, Ma Huihui did not betray King Chuang, nor did he surrender. However, he did not attack Lizhou and Changde according to the original plan, but strictly guarded the defense area and ruled by dividing the river with the south. "

Nodding, Zhang Xianzhong understood a little: "King Chuang wants to swallow others to eat ready-made ones at every turn, and he almost killed this king back then." However, this time killing Ge Li Eye and Sai Cao Cao was a bit more than worth the loss. Although he got more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, everyone would never believe him again. Master Pan, do you think it's possible for us to go back to the camp with the old man?"

Pan Xianzhong is just a handsome and down-and-out scholar, except for being able to write beautiful characters, he has no insight into military affairs, and Zhang Xianzhong does not expect to get any brilliant opinions from him.

An hour later, Ma Guangyi had a clear attitude as soon as he came over: "Eight kings, if it was placed half a year ago, of course we would have no problem with the joint venture, and that year when we entered Fengyang in the east, we were also a joint venture." But this is not the case, and my uncle did not authorize me to come and talk about it. "

Before Ma Guangyi finished speaking, Zhang Xianzhong's face began to be gloomy.

It turned out that the "joint camp" was an agreement in the rebel army: if one battalion faced a desperate situation, it could request a "joint camp" from another battalion.

In fact, "joint venture" is a decent term, which is meant to be "temporarily affiliated". During the attachment period, the party proposing the "joint venture" is to cooperate with the military operations of the other party.

However, the joint venture is not a merger of the two companies, as long as the difficulties are overcome and the conditions are ripe, the two joint ventures can operate separately at any time.

Now he put down his shelf and asked for a "joint venture", but Ma Guangyi refused, this is a very shameless thing, Zhang Xianzhong's face is of course not good-looking.

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