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Chapter 178
Dawn the next day.Reinforcement arrived.

It turned out that Li Shimin, Li Xuanba, Changsun Wuji, and Liu Hongji led three hundred cavalry to join Li Jiancheng.Different from Li Jiancheng's prudence and conservatism, Li Shimin believed that the bandits that Li Chongjiu had assembled for a short time were nothing more than mobs. The sudden victory over Pan Changwen before was just because the opponent underestimated the enemy. Quick decision.

You must know that after hearing the news of the civil strife in Taiyuan County, Wei Daoer and Wang Xuba's Shanggu rogues are already heading towards Taiyuan County.After Li Yuan heard this, he and his deputy Wang Wei, Wu Yalang and Gao Junya led 10,000 officers and soldiers to prepare to face Wei Daoer and Wang Xuba's [-]+ bandit army, and immediately let Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng fight quickly. Meet up with yourself.Hearing Li Yuan's order, Li Jiancheng joined Li Shimin without hesitation and launched an attack on Li Chongjiu's four thousand thieves.

Although the bandits under Li Chongjiu's command were mobs, they fought bravely against the officers and soldiers, but it was not easy for the three brothers of the Li family to join forces.Li Shimin, Li Xuanba, and Changsun Wuji of the Li family personally led a hundred Xuanjia cavalry, tore through the center of the bandit like a knife, and cut the bandit in two.
Li Hu, Su Su, Sun Erniang and more than a dozen bandits led more than 500 cavalry to besiege Li Shimin, Li Xuanba, and Changsun Wuji's mysterious cavalry, but they still couldn't stop them.The three of them are unstoppable, especially Li Xuanba who is a mighty general, and Changsun Wuji who has the desire for revenge. Nearly half of the more than 500 cavalry were killed, and seven of the thirteen leaders also died in battle. Li Hu and Su Su were also in frequent distress. Finally, Li Chongjiu led a hundred cavalry to rescue him, and shot Li Xuanba in the left arm with an arrow. , Su Su, Sun Erniang and the others may have to explain here.
After that, Li Chongjiu packed up more than 300 cavalry, and broke into Li Jiancheng's central army. He shot an arrow 120 steps away and killed Li Jiancheng's horse, causing chaos among the officers and troops. The advantage withdrew from the battlefield, but the rest of the bandits were not so lucky. Li Jiancheng led the army to hide and kill, and all of them were killed and captured.After collecting the remnants of the army, Li Chongjiu led less than [-] cavalry and [-] bandits. After Li Jiancheng and the others saw that they had defeated Li Chongjiu's main force, the officers and men from Loufan County, Mayi, and Yanmen County continued to be in charge of the encirclement and suppression. They led their troops back to Jinyang to join forces with Li Yuan.

Loufan County was the hometown of Loufan Kingdom in those days. Later Zhao Wuling King Hufu defeated Loufan Kingdom with riding and shooting.Li Jiancheng thought that he could wipe out Li Chongjiu's tribe by relying on the net formed by the county soldiers, so he hurried to Jinyang.

What Li Jiancheng didn't expect was that just a few days after he left, Liu Wuzhou, the school lieutenant of Mayi County, killed Wang Rengong, the governor of the county, and rebelled.Liu Wuzhou's move was not hasty, but he had planned for a long time. After the incident, he quickly captured the whole county of Mayi.Yanmen and Loufan counties were suddenly in danger, and there was no spare force to encircle and suppress Li Chongjiu's bandits at this time.

Instead, Li Chongjiu fled unimpeded all the way. After reuniting with the remnants, his strength reached [-] troops and [-] horses.At this time, three hundred bodyguards from the Yanmen Bodyguard Agency came to meet them, and after two rounds of meeting, they immediately removed all the shadows of the previous defeat.

At present Li Chongjiu led five hundred cavalry to Lingqiu County first, and after three days of walking, they came to the city.Li Chongjiu saw that the top of the city was as calm as ever, so he dialed his horse and called for the door. If it was normal, the city gate officer would have opened the door in a hurry.But the officers and soldiers at the city gate today were hesitant.

"You bastard, don't you even know the sheriff? Call Gao Chu!" Li Chongjiu shouted loudly.

There was a commotion at the city gate, and the last person who looked like a general stood up and said: "Young Master Gao has been dismissed from his post and sent to prison, so he can't come here for the time being."

Li Chongjiu's eyes flashed, and he shouted: "Since Gao Chu is not here, who will be in charge of the county right now? Where is Zhao Zhubo?"

"Master Zhao has long been imprisoned, and the old man is in charge now!"

After the words fell, the original Zhou Gongcao stood on the top of the city, pinching his beard and smiling triumphantly.Li Chongjiu narrowed his eyes, and said: "Xicao, you were the one who dismissed Gao Shaofu and Zhao Zhubo and sent him to prison?"

Gongcao laughed, and then said righteously: "Li Chongjiuer is just a young thief. Thanks to the grace of the emperor, he was suddenly promoted to the head of a county, but he didn't think about it. Dou Jiande, the secret relationship is really a debt to the emperor. Now that you have conspired to rebel, the emperor has stripped you of his official status, and he still wants to come here to deceive the gate of the city. Unfortunately, I have already prepared and told you about you. In the whole county, all the rebellious officials and thieves will be punished."
The corner of Li Chongjiu's mouth twitched, and he said, "Okay, who am I to know? It turns out that you secretly reported to Si Li about my meeting with Dou Xianniang, right?"

Zhou Gongcao couldn't help being proud, and he bowed to the south and said: "Son of Heaven, Shengen, although I am just a Xi Cao, but when you encounter such a bold and self-assertive general defense, you can only inherit everything you do from the sky. Listen, let the Son of Heaven decide. As the saying goes, the sky’s net is wide and sparse, but you think you can hide it for a while, but you can’t hide it for the rest of your life. Now you are in such a miserable state as a bereaved dog, which is where the retribution lies, understand?"

Gongcao's words were spoken impassionedly, and immediately above the city, more than a dozen flatterers applauded one after another, and everyone in the city thought that Li Chongjiu was deposed by the imperial court, and it was because of this person that he framed him.

"Okay, you Zhou Xicao, the lord has always treated you kindly, but you turned against him and betrayed him, what kind of face do you have?"

"Every man, come down for me, and see if I don't cut you into seventeen or eighteen sections!"

"My surname Zhou, you planted a frame to frame the prince. After my old beard breaks the city, I will kill you all the good and bad!"

Zhou Xicao's face was livid when he heard this, and he said: "A group of unruly people only dare to yell in the city. In the future, the imperial court will make you subdue the law. The imperial court has appointed me as the magistrate of Feihu County. I will not be afraid of you and wait. I'll shoot the arrows!" After speaking, the officers and soldiers on the top of the city raised their hands one after another, and dozens of random arrows shot back Li Chongjiu and other cavalrymen under the city.

"Let's attack the city! Your Majesty."

"Let's attack the city! I can't swallow this breath of birds."

Left and right have suggested to Li Chongjiu.But Li Chongjiu said to everyone: "I have never heard of cavalry attacking a city, so let's step back for now."

After Li Chongjiu gave the order, everyone could only camp not far outside the city. With Li Chongjiu's force, it was impossible to surround the city like when Wang Xuba attacked Feihu County, so they could only camp temporarily.That night Li Chongjiu did not sleep, and led [-] cavalry to Zhaojiabao.

Knocking on the gate of Zhaojiabao in the middle of the night, when the Zhao family members heard that Li Chongjiu had come, they all came forward and cried.It turned out that Zhou Xicao relied on the merits of betraying Li Chongjiu, and after becoming the county magistrate, he eliminated dissidents. First, Zhao Wansan, Gao Chu and Li Chongjiu's confidantes in Feihu County were arrested and imprisoned in the name of collusion and rebellion. Bo's candidates were all replaced by his confidantes.After Zhao Wansan was captured, the Zhao family tried their best to manage it, trying to save the patriarch from prison, but they failed.
But now after Li Chongjiu came personally, the tribe thought about it and decided to save Zhao Wansan, and turned back together.Li Chongjiu immediately summoned more than 500 soldiers from the Zhao family and rushed to Feihu County.On the next day, Li Hu, Su Su and the others also led more than 500 infantry troops to arrive, and the momentum was greatly improved.

At this moment in the county government office in the city, the newly appointed county magistrate Zhou is holding two beautiful women in his arms, hugging left and right.One of the two women is in her 20s, showing a mature charm everywhere, on the surface, she is always smiling and welcoming to Zhou County, while the other is fifteen or sixteen years old, and Zhou County is deeply in her clothes. The big hand showed a faint displeasure.

Zhou Xianzheng was looking at the expressions of the two of them at this moment, one was pretending to be ingratiating, the other was unhappy but did not dare to get angry, so he didn't know.But his heart was full of pleasure, and he suddenly felt a sense of complacency.The older woman of the two was Cheng Chong's Fifth Household, young and beautiful. At a Cheng Chong family banquet, he was invited to the table at Cheng Chong's family banquet.When he saw it, he was stunned for a while. From then on, he never forgot about this woman, and it was only when he got a new love that he eased up a bit.

The other is Cheng Chong's youngest daughter, who is also one of the best in the county. At the beginning, Cheng Chong was quite proud of her daughter. She taught piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since she was a child. In the future, it will also be used as a helping hand for starting a family.At that time, Zhou County had been coveting these two for a long time. Later, after Li Chongjiu ransacked Cheng County Prime Minister's house, he killed all the men and put all the women in prison.He wanted to gain power, but Zhao Wansan refused.

Suddenly he held a grudge in his heart, thinking that he is a majestic Western Cao, but he doesn't even have this bit of power, and he has spent more than 30 years in the county government, and has served several county magistrates. Climb to the position of Xi Cao, and once Li Chongjiu succeeds, he will rise straight to the top and become the head of a county. How can he not be jealous.

"This kind of grass bandit deserves the crown of a monkey!" Thinking of this, Zhou Xian couldn't help but gritted his teeth.

Now he secretly reported that Li Chongjiu, Zhao Wansan and others were all knocked to the ground. Once he succeeded, he ascended to the county magistrate position he had dreamed of for many years, and also took into his hands a woman whom he had never dreamed of before.

"A man should be like this!" Zhou Xianzheng immediately felt the ambition of Liu Xiang, drew his sword and danced, thinking that the emperor has no way now, and in troubled times, it may not be impossible to become a prince with my wit and wit.

At that moment, Zhou Xianzheng pointed his sword at the two women, and said with a long smile: "I have punished your Chen family and punished your enemies. Do you think you should thank me for coming?"

And at this moment, Li Chongjiu communicated properly with Ying inside the city.

(End of this chapter)