After winning a big victory, everyone was very happy, and Liu Jun announced that the entire army would be rewarded once, which made the soldiers very excited and cheered loudly.

It was dark, and piles of bonfires were lit in the mud ditch. After gnawing dry food for a few days, I finally could make a fire and cook and have a hot meal.

"Sir, we won two great victories in a row. Will we march into Dachang City next time?" Wang Qian, the battalion officer in the teaching battalion, asked while gnawing a piece of lamb chops. They annihilated thousands of bandits, including Shuntian King, and successfully received the food and grass they accompanied the army. These bandits used more than a thousand civilians to transport food and grass. In addition to the food they robbed in Dachang City, there were also a lot of fine wine and dried meat in the convoy, and even brought hundreds of sheep, dozens of pigs, cattle, and many chickens and ducks with the army.

Except for the Jiutou Bird that there were regulations that alcohol should not be allowed during the war, so the wine was not moved, the rest of the cattle and sheep made Jiutou Bird’s dinner very rich today.

During the war, it was really not easy to have such a sumptuous dinner. Even Liu Jun was busy with a knife and roasted lamb, eating it all over his mouth. However, when Wang Qian talked about the plan for the next stage, he put down his knife and said, "According to the plan discussed with Mei Tuan, Mei Tuan led people to intercept the thief army's baggage team that was passed by in Wushan, and we led the army to intercept most of the thief army on land."

"Now, we have successfully annihilated the thief army from land. I believe that the Tutor Mei and the others will definitely annihilate the logistics team from water. Next, we will wait here for Tutor Mei to lead his troops to join forces, and then send troops to Dachang City together."

This is the plan. When I made the plan, I never thought that the Jiutou Bird could achieve such a perfect victory in the mud ditch, and wiped out the thief army at once, and there was not even a single escape.

Wang Qian wanted to speak but stopped, looking hesitant.

Liu Jun had long guessed what he wanted to say. He sighed and said, "This victory was indeed a bit unexpected, but I don't think we can take the risk. Zhang Luo and the other thieves were entrenched in Dachang City, and they still had tens of thousands of troops. If we just ran to Dachang City like this, there would be no advantage."

"Don't mention anything to me about fake thieves to go to the city to cheat. This is too risky."

Wang Qian shut up. He had indeed had this idea, which was to change into the clothes of King Shuntian and others, and then return to Dachang City with their flags, lied that he had returned from defeat. After he had deceived the city gate, he would kill him again.

However, Liu Jun refused to take such a risk. Even if the thieves really believed that they had escaped from the defeat and fled back, they opened the city gate, but Liu Jun felt that thousands of nine-headed birds had entered the thief's cave of tens of thousands of people. That completely lost the advantage of the nine-headed birds.

The Nine-Headed Bird wins repeatedly, what is the responsibility? It depends on firearms, and every time it depends on the city or ambush, fighting a positional war, relying on city walls, trenches, or simply fighting formations to protect those firearm troops, thereby offsetting the many weaknesses of the Nine-Headed Bird as a new army. The Nine-Headed Bird’s weakness is obvious, and the establishment time is too short. It has not been trained enough, so it is better to fight a positional war. After all, rely on each other. But if it is a chaotic war, not to mention lack of experience, it will also cause the artillery to lose its effect, and the musket troops will find it difficult to play a role.

Therefore, Liu Jun would not take all his belongings to take risks for such a slight chance to enter the city.

In fact, if it weren't for the food and grass problem, and the fear of the bandits fleeing to other places, Liu Jun didn't want to take the initiative to fight. He would rather guard the city and wait for the thieves to attack. Unfortunately, the current situation must be their attack.

"Let's wait for Duke Hou Mei to meet up here and then march into the city of Dachang together."

Let Liu Jun lead his troops to Dachang City alone. Liu Jun was unwilling. Although doing so would make it unexpected and block the bandits in Dachang City. But Liu Jun was even more cautious. He was worried that if the thief was anxious and came out to fight him, he would lead tens of thousands of bandits in the open area outside the city to fight tens of thousands of bandits. Even if he could stop it, there would definitely be great casualties.

When Mei Zhihuan and the others came, even if their battalions were mostly full of things, at least the number would grow a lot.

"However, we will send people to Dachang City and tell Xian Bid that most of the officers and soldiers have come to Wushan to reinforce, and Shuntian and others will reinforce the King of Sweeping the Floor, but it is still difficult to conquer Wushan. Please ask Zhang Xianzhong to send troops to reinforce?" Fu Shan suggested.

"I have already deceived Zhang Xianzhong once, I'm afraid he will become suspicious the second time, right?" Wang Qian said.

"Zhang Xianzhong didn't know that we were lying to him before, so I think it's feasible. Let's let someone lie that Wushan got reinforcements from Qin Liangyu."

Qin Liangyu's reputation is well known throughout the world. The Baigang Soldier is the elite in the world, and it is indeed not far from Wushan. It is indeed credible that Wushan received reinforcements from Baigang Soldiers, which caused both soldiers and horses in the front and rear to fail to capture Wushan City.

"What if Zhang Xianzhong was scared away by Qin Liangyu's name?"

"Then we can say that Wushan City received reinforcements from Baigang soldiers, but the number is not large. Well, what about three thousand? Tell Zhang Xianzhong that these three thousand Baigang soldiers were not controlled by Qin Liangyu, maybe he would come. I remember that in the seventh year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong entered eastern Sichuan once. That time he captured Fengjie, Kuizhou. As a result, Qin Liangyu led the troops to fight and defeated Zhang Xianzhong and fled. If there were only thousands of Baigang soldiers in Wushan City, maybe Zhang Xianzhong wanted to take revenge!"

Liu Jun picked up the knife and continued his words while holding the roast lamb legs, "When Zhang Xianzhong arrives all the way, we can ambush them here again."

"That's it! There are ready-made trenches here." Wang Qian laughed.

Liu Jun thought about it and felt that there was no flaw in this plan. Anyway, if Zhang Xianzhong was deceived, they could ambush him here. If he scared him away, they could go and regain Dachang City.

"But one thing is that if the Mei Duke fails to completely wipe out the Shuntian King and others' baggage team and someone runs back, then our plan will be disappointed."

"The baggage team went down the river and should start a war with Us Mei before us. If anyone missed the net, he would have run back to Dachang City and reported to Zhang Xianzhong."

"But even if the baggage team goes back to report the ambush by water, they may not necessarily know the situation by land."

Liu Jun put down his knife again, and he felt that there was indeed a chance. After all, communication and communication in this era were backward. He advanced from east to west and west, and was defeated by ambush on the water. But even if they escaped back, how could they know the situation on the land?

"If we send people to pretend to be Shuntian King and run to Dachang City to report to Zhang Xianzhong, saying that Wushan City has received reinforcements, the Sweeping King and the others have been defeated, and now the two battalions of Shuntian King and the others are trapped. Do you think Zhang Xianzhong will come to rescue?" Liu Jun asked.

"That depends on how many official troops there are." Fu Shan said.

Liu Jun thought for a while, "You said if we told Zhang Xianzhong the truth, how would they react?"

"What's the truth?"

"We will tell Zhang Xianzhong that Wushan is now in charge of the ambush and surrounded his troops. Do you think he will come?

"It was not Qin Liangyu's white-rod soldiers who reinforced Wushan, but changed it to Mei Du led Hubei troops to the river and marched into Wushan?" Fu Shan and others were a little surprised.

"Maybe it can be tried?"

Dachang City.

The Eight Kings Zhang Xianzhong and Cao Cao and Luo Rucai sat together, their faces gloomy.

"Brother He hasn't had any news yet?" Cao Cao asked.

Zhang Xianzhong shook his head, "Is there any news from Brother Wu?"

"The stone cow entered the sea, there was no news."

Zhang Xianzhong's slightly yellow face showed a little worry. The scar on his forehead was aching. It was cut by Zuo Liangyu with a knife. If it weren't for the helmet blocking some force at that time, I'd like the knife to split his head in half.

"Will the two of them be gone?" Zhang Xianzhong said, reaching out and pressing the scar.

"It's unlikely, they are carrying five or six thousand people."

"The person who escaped back said that they were suddenly attacked by a large number of ships in Bawu Gorge, Daning River. They were all large ships, with officers and soldiers on the ships, and there were many artillery and guns. Do you think these people are telling the truth? If it is telling the truth, where did those officers and soldiers come from?"

Cao Cao sighed, "I think they are telling the truth. I have inquired carefully. Some people say that the flags on the ship are the prime minister's banner. Some people say that the officers and soldiers on the ship are all in Huguang accents. I suspect that those officers and soldiers may be the soldiers of Mei Zhihuan, the new prime minister of the six provinces."

"Impossible. The court has just appointed Mei Zhihuan as Prime Minister and replaced Xiong Wencan. How could he run to Sichuan all at once?"

"But there is no other possibility."

Both of them knew nothing about what happened in Wushan and sent two groups of troops to the scene. As a result, the King of Sweeping the floor sent people back to reinforce, and then the water was defeated, and there was no news via land.

"Report!"

"Report to the king, the people of Shun Tianwang are back."

"What?" Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were shocked and stood up. "Where are the people, bring them in immediately."

Soon, the personal soldiers brought in two people.

"Are you subordinates of King Shun Tian?"

One of the two men stood up, "Go back to the Eight Great Kings, the youngest one is the personal soldiers of King Shuntian, named Niu Wu."

"Let me tell me, where are the King Shuntian and King Hunshi and others now, and what is the situation?"

"When we go back to the Eight Great Kings, after we sent troops from Dachang City, we marched all the way to Wushan. The road was safe and sound. When we were almost at Wushan City, we suddenly met some brothers under the command of the Sweeping King. It turned out that the Sweeping King and the Ten Anti-King King had been defeated by the official army, and the two divisions were dispersed."

"What the hell happened?"

"Eight Kings, it's better to let this brother say that he is under the command of the sweeping king."

Zhang Xianzhong looked at the man at this time, feeling familiar, and then quickly remembered, "I remember you, the reinforcements you invited before."

"The Eight Kings have a good memory, they are indeed small."

"Then you say, what happened after that?"

Shi Debiao continued to pretend to be the personal soldiers of the sweeping king, while the personal soldiers of the Shuntian king were real, but he had surrendered and joined the Nine-Headed Bird. Under the narrative between the two, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Ru learned what was going on in Wushan.

It turned out that the new Prime Minister Mei Zhihuan and Huguang Governor Yuan Jixian and Yungeng Li Changgeng were appointed, neither went to the capital to meet the emperor nor Yunyang to meet the commander. Instead, they directly summoned 10,000 Huguang soldiers and came straight to Sichuan on a boat. When he took down Dachang City, Mei Zhihuan also led his troops to Fengjie and Wushan.

The Sweeping King and the Ten Anti-King attacked Wushan was not good because Hubei soldiers were already in the city to defend themselves. Mei Zhihuan then led his troops to reinforce Wushan and defeated the Sweeping King and the Ten Anti-King.

Then they directly carried cannons on the Bawu Gorge of Daning River, defeating Shuntian King's waterway and supplies team.

However, among all the bad news, one of the good news is that King Shuntian and King Hunshi encountered the official army in Wushan. They are currently besieged, but the losses are not large.

"The King Shuntian and others sent dozens of brothers to break out at night to report the news, and ask the two leaders to rescue them quickly."

After listening to the detailed report, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were silent for a long time.

"Take these two brothers out for dinner, and each person will receive ten taels of silver."

After the others left, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were silent for a while. Zhang Xianzhong sighed and turned to ask Luo Rucai, "Do you think their words are trustworthy?"

"Let me check below to see if anyone knows these two people. If no one knows them, it may be a fraud. If someone knows them, they are indeed personal soldiers of the King of Sweeping the Floor and King Shun Tian, ​​and this matter is not wrong."

"Cao, Mei Zhihuan is so brave. He dares to intercept us with thousands of Huguang soldiers."

Cao Cao stroked his chin, "But we have to admit that Mei Zhihuan is bold and bold, but she did catch us off guard, right? Yang Sichang always thought we would go to Shaanxi and gather all the heavy troops on the border of Hubei and Shaanxi, but the new Prime Minister had long guessed that we would come to Sichuan and rushed to intercept him by boat. Mei Zhihuan is not simple."

"No matter how simple it is, he only has ten thousand people. Ten thousand Huguang soldiers are probably at most, so how powerful can they be. In other words, Cao Wei and He Guoxian are these brainless idiots, who must be underestimating the enemy and being unprepared, and they will be caught."

Cao Cao sighed, "The current situation is very unfavorable to us. Although Yang Sichang had expected that we would enter Sichuan if he was wrong before, he must be mobilizing troops everywhere to chase him. But now Mei Zhihuan is taking the lead in entering eastern Sichuan, and now he has surrounded us tens of thousands of people. The thieves are blocking front and chasing back."

"I'm afraid he is a bird. Since Mei Zhihuan doesn't open her eyes and dares to come and block our way, then we'll kick him away first."

"You mean we are going to Wushan?" Cao Cao asked.

"Why don't you go? Should we throw away the tens of thousands of people from He Guoxian? And Yang Sichang and others have not arrived yet. If we don't take this opportunity to kill Mei Zhihuan first, it will definitely be more troublesome in the future."

"I'm afraid Mei Zhihuan is not easy to deal with."

"It's just ten thousand people. He Guo has shown that they underestimated the enemy. If they were prepared for it, there would be nothing scary about the official army. Didn't Zuo Liangyu just beheaded by us? This time we just cut off the newly appointed Prime Minister of the Bird Emperor Chongzhen."

Cao Cao pondered for a moment, "Okay, if we find out that the two informants are credible, then we will send troops to Wushan." (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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