golden scales

"Look! There's smoke!"

Thick smoke billowed in the distance, like an oolong leaping into the air, baring its teeth and claws.

The two parties who were fighting twelve miles away saw this oolong, Zhu Cihong was naturally excited, but Li Zicheng's mouth was dry and his eyes were dark.

That location was Longmen Town, where he hoarded military rations.Although it hasn't been transshipped enough, it has already saved more than half of it. How heartbroken it is to be burned to the ground now!Everyone is going through life and death, living a life of licking blood, isn't it just for food!

"Your Majesty!" After such a big incident, the horse that informed him had already rushed in front of Li Zicheng: "Zuo Guang turned back first!"

Li Zicheng had just been chased for a full three miles by a group of officers and soldiers who looked like mad dogs.The army on all sides was in a mess, and there was no commander to guide them. Fortunately, this pond horse was able to find them.

"Of course he's rebellious!" Li Zicheng scolded angrily, "You bastard! You treated him so well! You did such a thing that was condemned by God! Where did he escape! We must catch him and skin him Only then can the hatred in my forehead be relieved!"

"He ran to the southeast!" Tang Ma said.

Li Zicheng was thinking about which general behind him should intercept Zuo Guangxian, when he saw a fast horse rushing towards him, saying: "Report~Your Majesty! The Zhu thief ran north into the mountains."

"What are you waiting for!" Li Zicheng was furious.

"General Li of the rear battalion said that he was afraid of an ambush." ​​That Tang Ma whispered.

General Li in the back camp was Li Guo. Although he fought bravely, he was also thoughtful.Seeing that the officers and soldiers dared to rush straight into the camp with a small force and managed to escape, Li Guo worried that there was an ambush in the mountains to the north.Firstly, he suffered from an ambush just before, not to mention the loss of [-] elite soldiers, and even Ma Chongxi, General Youguoyi of the battalion, was beheaded by Prince Zhu to sacrifice the flag.This Ma Chongxi had been with him for many years, and he was unambiguous at all in the South and North Wars, but he was too courageous, and finally underestimated the enemy and died.

According to the rewards agreed upon by those civil officials, General Guo Yi is enough to be an earl. There is no such thing as wealth and honor!

After seeing the Yellow River, there are only old, weak and remnants of Shanxi, and beyond Shanxi is Yanjing. There is no army capable of fighting in Ming Dynasty that can stop 10 horses from entering the camp. I haven't even got a title yet!

What's more, the most important thing now is not to chase down a small group of vermilion thieves who are no longer a threat, but to gather the rebels as soon as possible!If they were left alone and only focused on the transfer of the brigade, it might cause even greater chaos.Once night fell, those strong men and auxiliary soldiers who were forcibly conscripted would not find their barracks, but would just scatter and flee.

Li Guo made up his mind, so he naturally refused to enter the mountain blindly.It gets dark early in winter, even if there is no ambush in the mountains, the brigade will not get any benefits if they go in.

Li Zicheng was already furious, and cursed angrily: "Li Guo, you idiot! If the officers and soldiers had ambushes on the mountain road in the north, they would have come out by now! Waiting for them to chase them? Thieves and motherfuckers!" After hearing this, the guards were defeated. All the clouds of worry were swept away: Li Guo is your majesty's nephew!

"Your Majesty! Calm down, Your Majesty!" Song Xiance joined the army as a military adviser, and finally found Li Zicheng among the chaotic soldiers.

When Li Zicheng saw Song Xiance, he finally suppressed his anger, told Song Xiance what happened, and asked, "What advice does the military advisor have?"

Song Xiance is okay to show off his mystical skills, and he knows his worth, but he is unwilling to fall into the title of "Military Master", which has a very high gold content, and pretends to be calm: "Your Majesty, there will always be those bandit soldiers who will bow their heads and wait to be killed in the future." Time! At this moment, it is time to ask for the left. Zuo Guang first contacted the old department for thousands of people, killed our people, and burned Longmen Town up and down... Tsk, the flames are still raging, the heat wave is rolling, and even the city gate is closed. Can't get close!"

"Didn't they cross the river in the southeast and flee back to Hejin?" Li Zicheng's heart tightened gradually. I'm afraid it's not as simple as he thought.

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"Now that the Yellow River is frozen, it's easy to go back to Hejin." Cao Ning squatted on the ground and drew a simple and clear map on the ground with an old fan: "There is a sandbar six miles southeast from Longmen, but... "

Zuo Guangxian and Xiao Donglou squatted on both sides of Cao Ning, waiting for him to continue talking.

Cao Ning drew a long line straight down from Longmen Town where he is currently located: "Look, I checked before I came out, here!"

"Hancheng?" Zuo Guang was taken aback for a moment.

"It's Hancheng." Cao Ning said: "Look, if you want to transport food, you have to set up several points along the way, otherwise how much manpower will be needed on the road? So Longmen is a point, and Hancheng must also be a point."

Zuo Guang nodded first: "The rations are indeed transported from Hancheng."

Xiao Donglou chuckled: "Let's just say that managing food and grass is your old profession! Alright, let's go and burn Hancheng together!"

Zuo Guang broke out in a cold sweat when he heard it first, and quickly waved his hands and said: "The military order is only to burn the grain in Longmen Town, we are acting against the order!"

"Not in the way." Xiao Donglou took out the military order issued to him by the military command department from his arms, and handed it to Zuo Guangxian: "General Zuo, please look, this is the military order given to me by His Highness, and there is no mention of hurrying back."

Zuo Guang took a look first, and sure enough, he only had the order to respond to the "left part" and to burn the thieves and stockpile food, and there was an additional power to "do things cheaply".But... "Han City is not Longmen Town. There are at least 2000 guards over there, responsible for safety along the way." Zuo Guang quickly put out the difference in the number of troops and said: "You are only two hundred-man bureaus, and my side is worthy of battle." In fact, there are only a hundred family members! It is impossible to fight 300 people with 2000 people, and the location is not right."

"You can lie." Cao Ning said.

"Let's rush all the way south now, pretending to be Li Chuang's men and horses." Xiao Donglou added.

Zuo Guangxian was in a cold sweat, and thought to himself: The supervisor once praised me as a hero in the army, why do you look at these two people more fiercely!Who are the people under the East Palace Tent?

"I'm afraid it's not easy to deceive!" Zuo Guangxian immediately said: "Although I have a fake letter, Longmen is only forty miles away from Hancheng, and the wind will arrive in a blink of an eye..."

"In a blink of an eye, we have already beheaded them," Xiao Donglou said.

Zuo Guangxian still shook his head: "After all, our brigade can't move as fast as the road between horses and horses. Maybe there is news from Hancheng?"

"That's very easy!" Cao Ning stood up: "We were ordered by His Majesty to arrest you! Does the guard of Hancheng know you?"

"I know, it's Li You, the handsome and mighty general, a fake." Zuo Guang first reported Li You's official name, then hurriedly added, "It was rumored that Thief Li wanted him to marry Baijiuhe... Baijiuhe It was General Zuo Guoyi of the Youying Army... Let the two of them cross the river from Hancheng to fight against Wanrong and Pingyang. As a result, Yuan Zongdi's fight in Qingyang was not smooth, and the Baijiuhe couldn't make it back in time, so the Let Li You wait for him to join forces in Hancheng."

"Very good!" Cao Ning laughed and said, "It's much easier to know each other. Let's go to Hancheng!"

Zuo Guang saw that the two had already made up their minds, and after a little inquiry, he knew that Xiao Donglou was one of the two leading colonels under the command of the Eastern Palace. It is good for the Lord.Moreover, in Longmen Town before, they were very familiar with watching these two hundred people murder and set fire, and they didn't even say much. The military discipline was strict, and it was indeed a strong army.

Zuoqian headquarters detoured south from the mountain road, sneaked into Longmen Town with the help of Zuo Guangxian, and had already changed into the winter clothes for camping, and never brought out the Daming flag.Just from the outside, it's hard to tell the truth from the fake.It's just that Li You was born in Shuai Biao Zhongquan's personal guard, and he knows many generals, so if he talks nonsense, he may not be able to deceive him.

Fortunately, it has been a while since Zuo Guang surrendered first, and he caught up with Li Zicheng who established the country and proclaimed himself emperor. Instill the current position of the generals of each battalion.

"You only say that they are Liu Fangliang's subordinates," Zuo Guang first said, "They are Zuoying. After the founding of the Puppet Shun, they were renamed Zuofuying. Because their original flag was black, they were also called Zaoying. Now the black flag is former The color of the battalion's flag was changed from the left battalion to white, but the bandit soldiers did not change their name, and they were still called Zaoying."

"Hey, General Zuo really knows the intruders like the back of his hand." Xiao Donglou looked down on the surrender and traitor from his heart, so he stabbed at him unconsciously.

Zuo Guangxian was at a loss for words for a moment, he hesitated a few words, and then ran away on horseback under the pretext of supervising the army.

After Zuo Guang left first, Xiao Donglou couldn't bear it anymore and asked, "Xiucai, what the hell are you thinking?"

"The mountain people have their own tricks!" Cao Ning shook out his fan, fanned it twice in the cold wind, shrank his neck, and quickly put it away, looking like he was holding a wisdom pearl. (To be continued.)