Qin Zuoming smiled when he heard this: "His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King ordered me to come and rescue you, but he didn't say that he wanted to tie you up. ”

He raised his hand to the north, "I'm still in a hurry to fight the Sword Gate, please take care of yourself."

"Ah, by the way, you can let these people go to the southwest, Wang Dutang has prepared a disaster shed, porridge and rice in Mianzhou, and he will help to block it."

Liu Wenxiu was stunned, "General Qin wants to let me go?" ”

"Yes, it's important to clean up the thieves, you are all Han Chinese, I don't want to spend more time here."

Liu Wenxiu looked at him in surprise, "But, I'm ...... Wait, General Qin just said that he was going to fight the Sword Gate?! ”

"That's right. If you lose Jiangmen, the thieves will be able to invade Sichuan without hindrance. I not only want to take back the Jianmen Pass, but also continue to go north and defeat Guangyuan and Ningqiang! Qin Zuoming was arrogant, "Maybe even Hanzhong will be recovered together." ”

"Guangyuan? Ning Qiang?! But the general, you will bring 4,000 men and horses......"

Qin Zuoming smiled slyly, "Surprise the enemy, unprepared to attack the enemy!" Do you know that at the beginning of the year, His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King bypassed 60,000 thieves, attacked Xianxia Pass, and blocked the Boluo army in Fujing.

"In today's situation, I can concoct the same method and capture the Sword Gate Pass, and all the thieves who enter Shu will become turtles in the urn. Speaking of which, these Tartars really have no memory.

"Well, no more ado. You gather your headquarters and protect the more than 100,000 people. ”

He saw that Liu Wenxiu was still standing in place, as if he didn't know what to do, so he turned around again and patted the latter's arm, "What, you want to go to Tartar with me?" ”

Liu Wenxiu was so excited that he almost forgot that the person in front of him was the Ming army, the sworn enemy, and hurriedly took a step back, and said: "I don't know if the eldest brother, the second brother and Her Royal Highness the Queen are out of danger, if the general doesn't capture me, I have to look for them." ”

Qin Zuoming smiled again, "According to the prisoner's confession just now, seven or eight thousand thieves went to Baoning Mansion early yesterday morning. Even if you rush there immediately, you won't be able to do it in time.

"But don't worry, my eldest brother should have saved people by this time."

Liu Wenxiu was overjoyed, "What General Qin said is true?!" ”

"Why should I lie to you?"

"Okay, good ......" Liu Wenxiu rubbed his hands excitedly, and suddenly looked up at Qin Zuoming. He has always hated the corrupt officials and stupid court of the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming army in front of him and their generals seem to be very different, and there is a feeling full of vitality and hope.

He couldn't help but nod vigorously and said, "Okay!" In this case, I will go with General Qin to kill the Tartars! ”

……

"Report! A large group of thieves chased after them, about four or five thousand people! ”

"Second general," an officer from Onishi said anxiously, "if we get entangled with this group of thieves again, and when the Tartars near Jianmen Pass arrive, don't say that we will save the crown prince and the queen, even if we ourselves are afraid that it will be difficult to get out......"

Li Dingguo frowned and nodded, two days had passed since he received Sun Kewang's request for help, and this place was still more than forty miles away from Langzhong City in Baoning Mansion, but the Qing army behind him was holding on to it.

He left half of his troops to guard the Sword Gate Pass before, and even if the two thousand five hundred men and horses in his hands could fight hard against the pursuers, he was afraid that he would not be able to fight in Langzhong again.

He raised his eyes to look in the direction of Langzhong, but he was seeing a low mountain with extremely dense vegetation not far away, and suddenly his eyes narrowed, and he immediately turned his head to the deputy general and said: "Put away the flags of each battalion and go up the mountain overnight!" ”

Xing Ne was a little bored, he had led the vanguard to Langzhong as soon as possible - the prince, queen, and prime minister of Xiankou were all there, and it was definitely a miracle to capture this city.

Who would have met Li Dingguo on the way, although he was numerous and had high morale, but after several contact battles, he did not get a little cheap, and hundreds of people died. At present, he was still fifty miles away from Langzhong, and Wang Zuntan's troops of the rear army arrived at the city first.

"General Yu," it was night, and a horse galloped to report, "Xiankou men and horses are camped at the foot of Shanwei Mountain, nine miles away!" ”

Xing Ne hurriedly asked for the details again, and couldn't help laughing proudly, "Li Dingguo, a fool, actually set up the camp at the foot of the mountain, if he is suddenly attacked, there are hills behind him, and he has nowhere to run." Then he turned to his subordinate officers and said, "God help me!" The order is that the whole army will make food at the end of the day, and take the camp at dawn! ”

The next day, as soon as it was dawn, nearly 5,000 Qing troops had silently touched the vicinity of Shanwei Mountain. Xing Ne looked at the smoke rising from Li Dingguo's camp, obviously unprepared, and was overjoyed at the moment, and immediately ordered the whole army to attack the enemy camp head-on.

However, when his army rushed into Li Dingguo's camp, he found that it was empty, only hundreds of charcoal fires on the ground flickered and dimmed.

Xing Ne felt bad in his heart, and before he could come up with a reason, he suddenly heard a series of trumpets and cannons on the mountain tail in front of him. He followed the sound and looked up, and saw flags standing in the bushes on the slope of the mountain, shouting and killing endlessly, and I don't know how many people and horses were hidden.

His eyelids jumped, and he hurriedly turned his horse's head and shouted to the lieutenant general: "There is an ambush!" The thieves must be trying to take advantage of the mountain to rush down and attack me, retreat quickly! ”

"Huh!"

The movement of the Xingne's headquarters was not slow, and immediately turned the rear team into the front team, and hurriedly withdrew to the west. But at this moment, two teams of men and horses rushed out from the two wings of the Qing army.

The captives suddenly changed formation, just at the time of chaos, and they had to beware of the ambush soldiers on the mountain behind them, and they had no intention of responding to the battle, and rushed to the west.

Li Dingguo took the lead, rushing into the enemy formation like a killing god, slashing left and right, and the Qing army suddenly screamed continuously, and the collapse situation was even more out of control.

Before Xing Ne ran two miles away, he heard a drum and horn sounding in front of him, and the Great Western Army that appeared out of nowhere stopped them head-on. His men had become frightened birds, and immediately turned around and ran back to the direction of Shanwei Mountain.

In fact, Xing Ne was too flustered under the sudden attack, and he didn't notice that the three attacking enemies combined were only more than 2,000 people, and the mountain tail mountain, which had always frightened him, was always only waving flags, and he didn't rush down a single soldier at all.

By the dawn of the day, nearly half of the Xingne troops had been killed and wounded, and they were surrounded by a small piece of sloping land in embarrassment, surrounded by the Great Western Army.

Li Dingguo was about to order a general attack, but he suddenly heard a report from Tanmalay, saying that a group of Jianjiao was coming from the east, at least more than 3,000 people.

Li Dingguo was quite calm, his unit was the elite of the Great Western Army, and he was almost undefeated against the same number of Jianjiao, and he had just won a while, and it was when morale was strong.

He instructed his lieutenant to bring about 500 men to shoot at the Xingne army with bows, and he himself led the rest of his troops and horses to turn around and line up to meet the captive army on the eastern flank.

Wang Zuntan gained a lot this time, but he was still not greedy, and he was ready to lead his troops to Chengdu to make another profit, but he didn't expect to encounter the siege of Xingne.

When he heard that there were only more than 2,000 people in the Great Western Army in front of him, he laughed at Xing Ne in his heart, and immediately ordered the formation to prepare to meet the enemy.