Speaking of which, Li Zhongming is also quite unlucky.

If he could have known the news that Cao Guozhang had been arrested earlier, I am afraid that he would have surrendered with his soldiers like Zhang Lizhen.

Although the Jianmen Pass is dangerous, but there is no grain in the pass, as long as the imperial army besieges and does not attack, he can be trapped to death in a few months, how can he not know?

It's a pity that on the Mianzhu Pass, after Zhang Lizhen received the news, he directly closed the pass, and no one was allowed to pass through the Mianzhu Pass, so the news that Cao Guozhang and Zhou Yanru were arrested was blocked.

Why did Zhang Lizhen do this?

The answer is: deliberately.

The contradiction between him and Li Zhongming is so deep that Zhang Li really wants to kill Li Zhongming.

As the chief soldier appointed by the imperial court, Zhang Lizhen logically said that the generals of the various armies in the Guannai were all under his command, at least nominally, right? However, Li Zhongming was good, relying on being Cao Guozhang's first confidant, he never took Zhang Lizhen seriously, and even once whipped one of Zhang Lizhen's generals.

This tone, when Cao Guozhang was the governor, Zhang Lizhen could only endure it. But now that Cao Guozhang has stepped down, how can Zhang Lizhen easily let go of Li Zhongming?

So he put Li Zhongming together.

Li Zhongming did not receive a notice from the sentry until Qin Shuhuai's army arrived twenty miles outside Jianmen Pass, saying that the army of the grandfather of the country was coming.

So he struggled for a while, thinking to himself where did Qin Shuhuai's army come from?

One thing is certain, this army definitely did not enter Sichuan from the outside, because if the imperial army wanted to enter Sichuan, it would inevitably pass through his sword gate. Even if they take the western waterway, it will be a long time, and they have already been notified.

Thinking about it, he felt that it must be Zhang Lizhen.

Zhang Lizhen betrayed Zhou Xiang and the governor!

So he immediately gathered his generals and discussed what to do.

However, some generals suggested that since Qin Shuhuai had already subdued Zhang Lizhen and rushed straight to Jianmen, it was likely that Chengdu had been controlled by him.

But Li Zhongming felt that Chengdu City was not so easy to lose.

He knew that Wu Yutian's soldiers could fight!

Moreover, according to the report from the spies, Zhang Lizhen's army had a neat facelift, and it didn't look like it had fought a war.

So he seriously doubted that Qin Shuhuai wanted to scare himself and make himself surrender?

Donglin treats him like a mountain, Li Zhongming is a person who knows how to repay his kindness, but as long as Zhou Yanru or Cao Guozhang are still there, he will never surrender.

Besides, he still occupies the dangerous place of Jianmen Pass, and the military food in the pass is sufficient, and it is not a problem to defend it for a few months, and he is not afraid of the officers and soldiers at all!

Of course, if it is certain that Cao Guozhang or Zhou Yanru has been killed or captured, then there is no point in him resisting, and he will choose to surrender.

So he hesitated for a moment and asked the spies to probe again to see if there was Wu Yutian's team in the other party's army. If there is, it means that the city of Chengdu has been broken, and he can also surrender.

He didn't expect that such a hesitation would kill him.

First of all, after the spies he sent out, in order to see if there were any people from Wu Yutian, they had to get close to reconnoitre, but they were discovered by Zhang Lizhen's men by accident.

If these spies turn around and run, they might be able to run away.

But they didn't bother to run.

What are you doing when you run back? I haven't found anything, and when I go back, I haven't been beaten with a military stick? I have been beaten with a military stick, and when Grandpa Guo's army arrives, most of us will still die.

How good is it to surrender, no matter how you say it, we are also abandoning the darkness and surrendering to the light, isn't it? The army of the grandfather of the country is also the army of the imperial court, and he can still kill us?

So these people greeted them generously, and shouted at Zhang Lizhen's subordinates who came on the opposite side, "Brothers, our own people!

As a result, these spies became "righteous men" who abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, they first scolded Li Zhongming, and then told them about the deployment situation in the Jianmen Pass, for which one of them also won a reward of five taels of silver.

It's a joy for all.

But they rejoiced, and Li Zhongming was depressed.

The spies didn't wait, and Grandpa Guo's army arrived first.

Zhang Lizhen held back enough strength to pit Li Zhongming, and after the army arrived, he volunteered to go down to the pass and call for battle.

"Li Zhongming, you, a straight mother thief, recognize the thief as your father and act as a tiger, why don't you come down quickly and die?"

"If you come out and surrender now, your grandfather Zhang can still leave you a whole corpse! Otherwise, Lao Tzu will cut you with a thousand knives!"

He scolded for a long time, but he didn't mention that Wu Yutian had surrendered and Cao Guozhang and Zhou Yanru had been arrested.

If he directly pushes out Cao Guozhang and Zhou Yanru, he can instantly disintegrate the military spirit of Li Zhongming's troops, and then he will have to surrender if he does not surrender.

Zhang Lizhen knew this, but he didn't do it.

It's very simple, he just wants to trap Li Zhongming to death.

At this time, Li Zhongming was already very passive.

Even if he opens the door now, it can only be regarded as "surrender", not voluntary submission.

The difference between the two is significant.

For example, Zhang Lizhen, after receiving the news, immediately led his troops to see Qin Shuhuai, which was Guishun. But even so, he still knows that Donglin is plotting rebellion and does not stop it, and it is very likely that he will be degraded or demoted.

But Li Zhongming held on to Donglin to the end, even if he surrendered now, he would have to be tied up and sent to the capital to be tried, at most, he would repent in time and reduce the punishment slightly, but it was inevitable that he would not die.

Therefore, Li Zhongming naturally would not easily switch on and off to welcome Qin Shuhuai.

First, he wants to make sure whether Wu Yutian has descended, and if Wu Yutian does not descend, he will definitely not descend.

Second, even if he wanted to surrender, he wanted to negotiate a condition with Qin Shuhuai, such as ensuring that he could live and that his family property would not be confiscated, so he would surrender.

He felt that he had 50,000 soldiers and natural risks, so he was qualified to negotiate conditions with Qin Shuhuai.

Didn't those rogues negotiate terms with the imperial court before they surrendered?

If they can talk about it, I, Li Zhongming, can't talk about it?

After thinking about it carefully, he decided to come up with a delaying plan first.

sent someone to shout upstairs, saying that he didn't believe Zhang Lizhen, if Grandpa Guo really came, then ask Grandpa Guo to come out, and he would talk to Grandpa Guo in person.

He thought to himself, in this way, he could probe Qin Shuhuai's mouth, and when the time came, he would have a bottom in his heart.

But he didn't want to, after Qin Shuhuai heard this proposal, he just smiled disdainfully.

"Just a rebel general, how dare you face this father? Go back and tell him that if you want to surrender, you will surrender, and if you don't surrender, you will die. ”

If it was changed to the time of entering Sichuan, Qin Shuhuai would be very interested in negotiating terms with him.

But now, is it still necessary for Qin Shuhuai to negotiate conditions with him?

Wu Yutian and Zhang Lizhen have already surrendered, as long as Cao Guozhang and Zhou Yanru are pushed out, which soldiers in the Jianmen Pass will resist desperately for Li Zhongming?

This also has to talk about conditions, so there are too many conditions to talk about, right?

Li Zhongming also became afraid after hearing the news that Qin Shuhuai was unwilling to talk to him.

He felt that Qin Shuhuai was so tough, he must have hole cards.

It is very likely that Wu Yutian has really descended.

But apparently, it was too late for him to repent now.

Zhang Lizhen's plan was achieved perfectly.

After consulting Qin Shuhuai, he was given permission to attack immediately.

So, Zhang Lizhen immediately sent someone to push Zhou Yanru and Cao Guozhang out of the prisoner car.

The person on the upper floor shouted, "Above, go and call your master out, and come to identify who these two are!"

Guan Lou Shangshang took a closer look at it, and felt that one of the two people was a bit like Cao Guozhang. He hadn't seen Zhou Yanru, but he had seen Cao Guozhang.

Dengshi's face turned pale.

Hurriedly sent someone to inform Li Zhongming.

When Li Zhongming heard this, he immediately ran quickly to the top of the building.

By the time he arrived, there was already chaos on the upper floors.

"General Li, Zhou Xiang and Governor Cao have all been captured. Also, Wu Yutian has already descended!"

Li Zhongming only felt that the sky was spinning for a while, and it was difficult to get out of the depression in his chest.

Pointing at Zhang Lizhen who was lower, he scolded, "Zhang Lizhen, you hurt Lao Tzu!"

Can he still not understand?

If Zhang Lizhen didn't want to harm him, he wouldn't have deliberately blocked Mianzhu Pass. If he doesn't block Mianzhu Pass, Chengdu City is broken, how can he not know the news that Cao and Zhou were arrested?

Moreover, even if he didn't know before, if Zhang Li had moved out of these two people as soon as he arrived in the city, he would have surrendered a long time ago. In this way, at least he can surrender on his own initiative.

And now? He wants to negotiate terms with Qin Shuhuai, and this is the best evidence that he supports his troops and respects himself and refuses to surrender.

He will surely die.

Zhang Lizhen laughed, "Li Zhongming, you yourself defected to Donglin to oppose the party and helped the abuse, why are you blaming me now?"

Li Zhongming was furious, and shouted to his subordinates, "Shoot an arrow! Shoot him to death!" Tell the whole army, Qin Shun is a thief of the country, the soldiers must fight bravely, and those who dare to fight will be killed!"

He wants to fight with Qin Shuhuai to break the net.

But he only heard the sound of "rubbing the waves", and one of his staff officers put a knife on his neck.

Li Zhongming looked at him in surprise.

"I'm sorry General Li, the brothers are not afraid of death, but they are a little wronged to die like this. ”

As soon as the general made a move, several other generals and soldiers immediately ran over happily and pinned him to the ground.

Li Zhongming kept struggling on the ground, shouting in his mouth, "Zhang Lizhen, you despicable villain, Lao Tzu will not let you go!"

Zhang Lizhen couldn't stop laughing.

Soon, the door slowly opened.

All the soldiers in the pass put down their weapons, knelt on both sides, and shouted, "Greetings to the king!

When the sword gate is closed, Shu is calm.

"Ding-dong. ”

The long-lost system sounded.

"Congratulations to the host, complete one of the main quests: become the Governor of Dongchang. You will receive 10,000 chivalrous points, as well as a red wheel once. Next, you will complete the last task, which is to let the Ming Dynasty prosper and all nations come to the dynasty. ”

Qin Shuhuai's heart perked.

It turned out that it was necessary to wait for Donglin to be cleaned, and the system would think that its "Dongchang Governor" had been recognized nationwide before it could be considered to have completed the task.

Yay!

With these 10,000 points, you can learn another divine skill.

When the time comes, facing Yan Wuyue, it will increase some confidence!

The army entered the customs for repair.

In the evening, Wang Datong ran to say with a smile, "Brother Qin, guess who is coming?"

Qin Shuhuai said, "Didn't Tang Sanniang come with reinforcements?"

Sure enough, as soon as the words fell, there was laughter outside.

"Little baby, do you know who we are?

As soon as I heard it, it was Meng Hu's voice.

The little soldier guarding the gate said, "Grandpa Guo has no order, no one is allowed to trespass, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!"

"Hey, you little ghost, take a chicken feather and use it as an arrow? When your brother and I were on duty for Grandpa Guo, we weren't as horizontal as you!" Meng Hu quipped.

"If you can't get in, you can't get in. ”

Since this little soldier became Qin Shuhuai's temporary personal guard, he was also very arrogant.

This is natural, how many people can guard the door for the grandfather of the country?

Qin Shuhuai smiled, "Let them in." ”

Only then did the creep get out of the way.

Meng Wei, Meng Hu, Chang Wuji, Li Jingting, and Li Daliang walked in.

"Meet Grandpa Guo. ”

"Meet the Alliance Leader. ”

"Meet the Governor. ”

The names of the five are different.

Qin Shuhuai said with a smile, "A few of you came at the right time, my father has just arrived in Sichuan." ”

Meng Wei said, "Grandpa Guo won't laugh at us." After we got Tang Sanniang's notice, we rushed all the way, and in order to avoid Jianmen Pass and Mianzhu Pass, we took the mountain road. I didn't expect to arrive in Chengdu City soon, and suddenly I heard that Grandpa Guo had pacified Chengdu, so I hurriedly went back again, so I didn't catch up until now. ”

Meng Hu said, "Grandpa Co-authored Guo asked us to come and see the scenery, haha." ”

Everyone also smiled, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.

Sichuan was pacified so easily, which really surprised and delighted them.

However, they are also used to it, but it is the grandfather of the country who knows things like a god, and the Donglin party people at the end of the strong crossbow are inevitable.

Until now, they don't know how dangerous Qin Shuhuai has been these days.

Zhiren, Wang Datong, Li Dingguo, Zhang Lizhen and others also came, and after a few pleasantries, they got to the point.

Qin Shuhuai said, "Gang Master Wang, Meng Wei, Meng Hu, Chang Zhenren, Li Daliang, the five of you still need to stay in Shu for a while longer." ”

"What's the matter?" Meng Wei asked.

"There is a small country called Ruoqiang in the Western Regions, where there is an empress, and her subordinates are as skilled as clouds. I don't know how Donglin got in touch with them, but in short, the empress sent a bunch of masters into Sichuan, and also brought a Tsing Yi army. The Tang Sect was destroyed by them before, and Emei and other Shuzhong sects were implicated. Many of these people are still attacking the Shuzhong sect in various places, and now that Donglin has fallen, it is estimated that they also want to withdraw. Your task is to let them die here, and if they can die as much as they can, they can only wait for us to attack Ruoqiang. ”

After a pause, Qin Shuhuai said to Zhang Lizhen again, "General Zhang, the soldiers in your hands, let's mainly suppress these Tsing Yi troops next." You have to cooperate with them. ”

Zhang Lizhen hurriedly said, "The last general obeys the order! Grandpa Guo, please rest assured, the last general will do his best to avenge the Sichuan martial arts! It is not in vain that the martial arts will fight for my Ming Dynasty's loyalty and bravery!"

"Very good. I am waiting for your good news. ”

Speaking of which, Li Daliang asked, "Dugong, my subordinates received a report from the secret agents in Gansu, and there was another change on the Demon Sect's side. ”

Qin Shuhuai smiled slightly, "Could it be that the Demon Sect masters who were originally in the Bright Peak have all gone to Lanzhou?"

Li Daliang was stunned for a moment and said, "It turns out that the governor already knows?"

Qin Shuhuai smiled bitterly, "I know! People go directly to the bedside of their father-in-law at night to tell their father-in-law, can they not know?"

The crowd was shocked.

"This ......," Li Daliang said strangely, "who is so strong that he can go straight into the governor's house?"

"Could it be the Demon Sect Master?" Meng Hu asked urgently.

"Not really. Qin Shuhuai took a sip of tea and said, "It's Mei Yinzhi, the right protector of the Demon Sect." ”

Chang Wuji frowned and said, "As far as Poor Dao knows, that Mei Yinzhi's skill is on par with Zhao Wuxian, and he can enter the alliance leader's room at will, but the alliance leader can't detect it?"

At this time, Wang Datong said, "Don't guess, it's because the alliance leader was seriously injured, so he took advantage of it." No, the Heavenly Sword was also taken away by him. ”

The crowd was even more astonished.

"Grandpa Guo is seriously injured?" Meng Wei said hurriedly, "No wonder I always feel that Grandpa Guo is not speaking the same way today as usual." How's it going? Better, isn't it?"

Qin Shuhuai waved his hand, "It's okay, it will be almost fine in a few days." In short, everyone will do what my father said, and after the Tsing Yi Army in Shu is pacified, you will return to Shaanxi, and we will meet again. ”

He didn't say anything about going to Lanzhou, and he didn't say anything to Zhiren and Wang Datong.

If they do, they will inevitably block it, and then they will have to bother to speak.

On the second day, everyone separated.

Wang Datong and the others, together with Zhang Lizhen's soldiers and horses, went back to suppress the Tsing Yi Army.

Qin Shuhuai took Li Dingguo, as well as 5,000 soldiers and horses, and escorted Cao Guozhang, Cao Guoqing, and Zhou Yanru to Sichuan.