After walking less than two miles, he saw a group of thieves coming to separate the refugees and come to him to protect them out of the refugee circle. Then he got on his horse and whipped his whip to go north.
Is the little eunuch afraid? When they heard that Li Guo had been released, Luo Hu and Gu Kecheng were greatly surprised. They found it incredible and quickly drove their horses to meet him.
"It's a long story. I'll go see my father first." Li Guo had no intention of attacking the city at this time and told them the reason in detail. He ordered the two of them to surround Zhending City and keep an eye on the little eunuch to prevent him from leaving the house. Then he attacked Ma Bei. Go to Daying to see Li Zicheng.
While galloping, Li Guo's heart was in turmoil. Chang Yu's words spoke to his heart: What if it goes on in reverse? He won't really be able to sit on the dragon's throne. This is too unrealistic! It's really better to just accept it when it's good. It's also a good thing to accept the imperial court's recruitment and be granted an official title. What's more, the imperial court is at the time of employing people. There are foreign invasions in the north and Zhang Xianzhong in the southwest. If you surrender, you will be reused, even if the imperial court holds a grudge. Even if he is unwilling to do so, he still has an opportunity to atone for his sins and allow the court to calm down.
I don’t know what his father thought about it, but Li Guo decided to try his best to persuade him.
However, he soon discovered that something was wrong. As he got closer and closer to the camp, he saw refugees everywhere. Many of them were even carrying military flags, but they were actually bare-handed, but there were almost no soldiers in sight.
These people are not soldiers at all, but refugees! When Li Guozheng was confused, a cavalry came galloping towards him, but he recognized the person in front of him. It was Wang Liangzhi, the Bo of Queshan, who was the same Wang Genzi who led his troops to surrender and gave the city of Xi'an to Li Zicheng.
Although Wang Genzi was a surrendered general from the imperial court, he won the trust of Li Zicheng, mainly because he took the initiative to offer the city, which was far beyond the comparison of Bai Guangen, a repetitive villain, and Chen Yongfu, who had a personal enmity with Li Zicheng.
When Li Zicheng secretly visited Chencang in the early hours of last night, he secretly went south and asked Wang Genzi to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses to drive nearly 100,000 refugees to the Zhending siege to attract the attention of the officers and soldiers.
"My Lord should have crossed the river and gone south by now!" Li Guo was dumbfounded after hearing Wang Genzi's words. He felt a mixture of joy and sorrow in his heart. He was happy that Li Zicheng actually tricked the young eunuch and slipped away from under his nose. He was worried. How to end this surrender matter? As the little eunuch said, now is the best opportunity to surrender to the city. If you pass this village, you may not have this shop.
Seeing his uncertain expression, Wang Genzi asked curiously: "Bohou, are you worried about the trouble at hand?".
Li Guo turned around and looked at Zhending Fucheng: "Isn't it difficult?"
Wang Genzi chuckled: "I think it's nothing for my humble position. Everything has been planned by the Lord. If everything goes well, the Lord has already crossed the river and left. There are nearly a hundred thousand refugees here, but the officers and soldiers in the city are blocked and unable to get out. Then we will drive some of them to attack the Hutuo River defense line. Luo Hu and Gu Kecheng's troops will cover them up, and we can easily rush over. As for whether these refugees will live or die, we can leave it to fate."
Seeing his confident look, Li Guo sneered: "If you want tens of thousands of refugees to charge into the battle, it would have been useful a month ago, but now you are betting so much on them, you don't know how you will die." ".
Wang Genzi was shocked: "Why did Lord Bo say this?"
Li Guo sneered: "Do you know why I was defeated and captured yesterday? In addition to Ma Shiyao and Ren Jirong who rebelled against the enemy, refugees cannot be reused, and escaping during the battle is also one of them."
Wang Genzi was silent for a while: "Now..."
"wait"
Li Guo decisively ordered Wang Genzi to continue to stand still and keep the young eunuch secretive. At the same time, the refugees outside the city and along the river did not withdraw and continued to maintain a siege. He wanted to see Li Zicheng immediately and tell him about his surrender. If everything is settled, everything will be happy. If we continue to work alone, we will send troops to attack Huang Degong's tribe from behind and help Luo Hu and others cross the river and go south.
Chang Yu and Li Zicheng became friends a few months ago, and they fought each other from Taiyuan to Baoding Prefecture. Every time they got the upper hand, Li Zicheng became disgraced and almost died. He was angry but could do nothing about it.
However, this time he finally sent an army together with the young eunuchs. At ten o'clock in the afternoon, when Chang Yu was waiting for him on Zhendingfu City, in Shenze County, nearly a hundred miles due east, Li Zicheng's main force had quickly crossed over. The Hutuo River enters Jinzhou, which borders Gaocheng to the west and Zhaozhou to the south.
Although Jinzhou is one of the five states under the jurisdiction of the Zhending Prefecture, it is close to the Hutuo River. Previously, when the rebels crossed the border and headed north, most of the people in the city were trapped and the city was almost abandoned. Li Zicheng's men easily occupied the city and ordered the entire army to rest and reorganize, and then conducted investigations everywhere. Inquire for information.
At this time, Chang Yu had no idea about this and thought that he was discussing the recruitment and surrender with Li Guo right under his nose. Knowing that there would be no news soon, he went down to the city and waited leisurely.
Huang Degong, on the other hand, felt as if he was facing a formidable enemy in the Hutuo River. He looked at the densely packed refugees on the other side with a solemn expression. In case the young eunuch and the intruders didn't come to an agreement, he didn't know if these cannon fodders from his direct line could be deceived. Otherwise, they would waste their fighting power in a fight.
Chang Yu did not expect that Li Zicheng had already crossed the river with his plan to assassinate Chen Cang again, and Huang Degong also did not notice it. Although he had previously ordered a detective to investigate the area within a fifty-mile radius, the intruder took the east road and Shenze County was nearly a hundred miles away, outside the scope of the investigation. Secondly, his attention was completely attracted and disturbed by the Luo Hu tribe and the large number of refugees in the north. At this time, Li Zicheng crossed the river early to rest, and the two brothers were still waiting dumbly.
Of course, compared to Huang Degong, who was enjoying the wind and sunbathing by the river bank, Chang Yu in Zhending City was much more comfortable. He was squinting on the recliner under the tree in the Yamen courtyard. The fragrance of tea next to him filled his nose. The guards around him were chatting with relaxed expressions. .
"I'm afraid that Li Zicheng is at the moment of war between heaven and man. He won't be sure to pay attention for a while. It will be dark soon as we wait." Li Muchian shrugged and looked up at the sun. It was probably Shen Shi (afternoon) around three o'clock.
"After more than ten years of fighting, the huge foundation and the gains from this trip are not small amounts. He needs to weigh the gains and losses carefully. Of course, he must also list some conditions. You said it will be dark until dark. I estimate that I will not believe it until tomorrow morning. "Chang Yu didn't even open his eyes, with a confident look on his face.
Everyone nodded, and Li Muxian added: "But that's not necessarily the case. If General Li Yan chased more closely, the intruder might have been earlier."
Chang Yu opened his eyes and said, "Frowning, in fact, it is not advisable to follow too closely at this time. If you follow too closely, it will easily anger the intruder and make him lose his calm judgment. He is very likely to whip away in anger."
"But now that we are surrounded in the city, we can't inform Li Yan," Hu Ling said.
Chang Yu closed his eyes again and took a long breath: "With Li Yan's wisdom, if he knew that the intruder Chen Bing was stationary outside the city at this time, and he would know after a little connection, he would be able to relax easily."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
However, he was wrong again!
There was a former camp of the bandits on the banks of the Qingshui River in the north of Qingyuan County. At first light, the officers and soldiers who had rested for the night lit a fire and made food, then broke out of camp and sent troops to chase the bandits.
At half noon, they stopped to rest on the bank of the river more than ten miles south of Qingyuan County. Horses came from the front to report that the rebels had camped on the bank of the Tang River more than ten miles south to set up a defense line in the river and drove thousands of refugees into the river.
Zhou Yuji heard this and scolded Liu Fangliang for being conscientious. As the rearguard, he knew he was outmatched, but he resisted, fled for a while, fought for a while, and now he caught some refugees everywhere to use as cannon fodder.
At first, these refugees were either coerced or willing to go north with the rebel army, with a huge momentum stretching for hundreds of miles. But now that the rebel army is fleeing south, some of them are directly dragged to fill pits, some are responsible for setting off smoke bombs to confuse the officers and soldiers, and some cover the escape of the main rebel army. The other one was wandering around without knowing anything, and at this moment Liu Fangliang casually pulled him as a shield.
At noon, the well-fed officers and soldiers crossed the Fu River and attacked Liu Fangliang's defense line. Li Yan repeated his old tricks and divided his troops to attack them, easily defeating the enemy. Liu Fangliang and Zhang Nai fled in embarrassment again.
Zhou Yuji's tribe calmly seized the spoils of war, rested his troops, and then slowly pursued him. He chased for another twenty miles in one breath. He wanted to give up now, but at this time the spies came to report: "The intruder last night We had arrived at Qizhou City, but our troops split into two groups and headed south late at night..."
Why were you leaving in such a hurry? Zhou Yuji and Li Yan became suspicious. They had previously known that Chang Yu helped Huang Degong fight the rebels on the southern front and captured Li Guo. Could it be that...Li Zicheng wanted to besiege Zhending Fucheng to rescue Li Guo?
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