Chapter 75 Out of expectation

When Xing Tianjun passed by Tianjiazhuang in a big way, Tianjiazhuang was already like facing a big enemy. Last night, the thieves and the officers were fighting a few miles away. Although they did not dare to come to the scene to watch the battle in person, the fierce sound of gunfire in the evening had already spread to the people of Tianjiazhuang. In his ears, after nightfall, more soldiers of the officers and soldiers fled to Tianjiazhuang to seek asylum, so the big family surnamed Tian in Tianjiazhuang had already learned the news of the defeat of the officers and soldiers.

So since yesterday, they have closed the door of the village and did not let anyone enter the village. Even if the officers and soldiers came to ask for help, they would drive them away with arrows and did not dare to take them in at all for fear of causing disaster.

And when the flag of Xing Tianjun traveled outside Tianjiazhuang, the people of Tianjiazhuang were even more frightened. How dare they come out to find the trouble of Xing Tianjun?

A team of sentries rushed to the outside of Tianjiazhuang and shouted to Zhuang Nei: "Xing Tianjun took advantage of this place. The people inside heard it and were not allowed to leave the village without authorization. Violators will be killed without mercy!" Let your landlord immediately send five pigs, ten sheep, a hundred stones of rice grain, and ten pieces of silk cloth, and we will wait for you! If you are interested, do it quickly!"

At this time, Tian Jiazhuang's surnamed Tian also looked out of the wall in fear. Looking at the formation of the Xing Tianjun and the string of officers and soldiers' prisoners who were bound and escorted, he was already scared. He was confident that Tianjiazhuang could withstand the siege of three or five hundred thieves, but he looked at the thief army that claimed to be the Xing Tian Army. After the situation, even if he denied the idea of carrying it to death and listened to the shouts of the Xing Tianjun sentry outside Zhuang, he didn't even fart. He immediately asked Zhuang Ding to prepare supplies according to the instructions of Xing Tianjun, and he lay on the wall of Zhuang with a smile and shouted:

"It's an honor for your army to pass through here, and how dare you offend your army! It's just that because the place is not calm, I dare not open the door and invite you to enter the village to rest. Please forgive me! As for these things, it's a little good to give it to you, and it's better to give it to you! In addition, I will give you two hundred taels of silver. If you don't respect me, I hope your army won't think too little!"

Not long after, Tianjiazhuang drove out pigs and sheep from the side door, and sent people to carry more than 100 bags of grain and piled it on the open space outside the village. Ten pieces of silk cloth were also placed outside the village, and a tray was placed on the grain pile, with 200 taels of silver. The people who came out of the village were nervous. Xixi ran back to the village and closed the door with a bang.

Xing Tianjun's soldiers were not polite. They went up to collect these things. As for the 200 taels of silver, Zhang Chao weighed it in his hand, raised his hand and threw it outside the Zhuangmen and shouted to the people in the village, "Our Xing Tianjun has always been counting the numbers. We didn't ask you for money. We will return the money to you!

Our Xing Tianjun has his own rules. To put it all the same, our general said that there is no great trouble for your surname Tian, so I won't bother you. If you accumulate more virtue and do good deeds in the future, you will naturally be safe! Let's go!"

After saying that, Xing Tian put these things on his military uniform and drove in the direction of Longzhou City without looking back.

The old rich man surnamed Tian looked at the distant back of Xing Tianjun in surprise. It was not until he was sure that Xing Tianjun had left that he dared to open the Zhuang door and let people go out to retrieve the 200 taels of silver left outside the Zhuangmen. Looking at the 200 taels of silver, he muttered like a dream: "The world has only heard that thieves love money. Today, they don't take the money of these thieves! It's weird! It's weird! That's strange! Believe in people! Do people who are thieves also keep their trust?

He Fang lay in front of a big car. Originally, it was still time. Seeing that it was bright, he thought that it would not take long for He Renlong to lead his troops to rescue him. If He Renlong led most of his troops and horses, he estimated that this Xing Tianjun was probably not an opponent. He must be able to escape from the chaos, but when he saw that the sky was approaching, he still didn't even see the shadow of an officer and army, so he completely thought about it. He lay in the car and closed his eyes. He couldn't help but secretly start to hate He Renlong. He Renlong, who didn't think about his nephew's life or death at all, but I have run back to Longzhou City.

He Fang's complaint was that he misunderstood his uncle He Renlong. It was not that He Renlong didn't want to rescue his nephew He Fang, but that he really couldn't spare his hands and couldn't come to rescue He Fang at all.

At noon the first day, Xing Tianjun repulsed the generals sent by He Renlong at the Dashi Bridge, and defeated He Renlong twice in a row. The two soldiers and horses under He Renlong were so full of water, so that he was forced He Renlong to be confused. He was afraid that this was Gao Yingxiang or Li Zicheng's treacherous trick, so he turned his head along Hebei and chose another place to cross the river.

While Xing Tianjun was fighting fiercely at the big stone bridge in He Renlong's headquarters, several people stood far away in a small forest only one or two miles away from the battlefield, looking in the direction of the big stone bridge.

After watching Xing Tianjun's two consecutive defeats, these people couldn't help but be a little stunned. One of the little leaders was stunned for a long time before muttering, "Mom! This Xing Tianjun is too powerful! Don't they do this like us? Why can they beat the maniac's subordinates to throw away their armor with just such manpower? Xiao Liu, please quickly return the war here to us! Don't delay!"

After a thin man nodded and agreed, he immediately retreated from the other side of the forest, turned over and slapped the horse's buttocks, raised a slip of dust happily, and ran towards Li Zicheng's camp in Longzhou City.

Li Zicheng listened to the gunfire outside Longzhou City and the shocking shouts of killing, but his mood was not on the war outside Longzhou City at all. No matter how lively it was, he also knew that it was just a sham attack. With Gao Jie's ability, it was impossible to capture this Longzhou City at all. This battle was just a show. In fact, he All his thoughts were placed on the officers of Xing Tianjun and He Renlong, who were more than ten miles away.

Originally, he made an appointment with Gao Yingxiang this time and used a plan to transfer the tiger away from the mountain. He wanted to take advantage of Gao Yingxiang's opportunity to transfer He Renlong from Longzhou City to sneak up and capture Longzhou City, but he didn't think that He Renlong had left some elites in Longzhou City, which made Gao Yingxiang's plan to fail.

He Renlong is thick and thin. He is really a strong enemy to deal with. Although they are from the same hometown, since he Li Zicheng rebelled, He Renlong has been chasing and beating their Rebels fiercely. When they were in Shaanxi, they ate a lot of He Renlong's sullen losses and often fought with him. Their rebels lost more and won less, so that now Li Zicheng has a headache when talking about He Renlong.

When Xiao Tianjian mentioned today that he wanted to lead his troops to intercept He Renlong's officers and soldiers, Li Zicheng was very uninterested about Xiao Tianjian's battle, but Gu Jun's words were also good. For a fledgling boy like Xiao Tianjian, if he was not allowed to suffer a little, he must have thought that the world was only his subordinates Xing Tianjun's. General, he can come and go at will!

This is also the reason why he finally agreed to Gu Junen's suggestion. In his heart, he still wants to see Xiao Tianjian become more obedient after suffering a big loss. It is better to recognize the current situation and use it for him. Even the worst, let Xiao Tianjian devote himself to Gao Yingxiang. Generally speaking, Xiao Tianjian is still a young and capable person. Once he can subdue it, it will be of great help to his development in the future.

At this time, Li Guo had already gathered the 2,000 elites under his command. When the news of the defeat of the Xing Tian army was sent back in front of him, he wanted to lead his troops to take advantage of the situation to rescue Xiao Tianjian, take the opportunity to show his goodwill to him, and let Xiao Tianjian owe him a great favor.

Therefore, after the departure of Xing Tianjun, Li Zicheng had been waiting for the news from Tanma in front of him. It was past noon, but there was still no news in front of him. Li Zicheng couldn't help but feel a little anxious. He stood up and walked outside the Dongyuan Gate and stopped to look southeast.

After waiting for a while, a soldier on the arrow tower on the right side of Yuanmen pointed to the distance and shouted to Li Zicheng, "Breaking general! Come over there and ride a fast horse!"

Li Zicheng looked into the distance and really saw a sle of smoke rising in the southeast and rushing towards his camp.

"Gun Li Guo, let him be ready, and we will leave at any time!" Li Zicheng immediately ordered his own soldiers.

The guard immediately received the order and quickly rushed back to the camp. He only heard a noisy sound in the camp. After Li Guo took the order, he began to team up in the camp and was ready to go!

"Report! ..." The skinny man who rode was quite skillful in riding. When he was about to get outside the door, he saw Li Zicheng standing outside the door and slowed down a little. Before the horse stopped, he jumped off the horse, ran a few steps with the help of impulse, came to Li Zicheng and knelt down on one knee to Li Zi. Cheng shouted.

"Tay!" Li Zicheng shouted to him.

"Breaking the generals! Xing Tianjun blocked He Renlong's department at the big stone bridge of Wanzi River, defeated He Renlong twice, and killed hundreds of enemies! Please make a final order!"

"Ah? ..." Li Zicheng was a little dumbfounded after hearing this and immediately asked, "What? Say it again! How about Xing Tianjun?"

"Report to the general! Xing Tianjun's victory! On the west side of the Great Stone Bridge of Wanzi River, he was defeated by two troops under the command of He Renlong and killed hundreds of enemies!" The sentry reported loudly again.

At this time, Li Zicheng did not suspect that there was something wrong with his ears, but this was the opposite of the news he wanted to hear. All the preparations he made were empty.

How is that possible? Xing Tianjun sent troops this time, but only brought more than a thousand people, and He Renlong had more than 3,000 soldiers and more than 2,000 auxiliary soldiers. How could he be defeated by this Xing Tianjun?

"You tell me about his battle carefully!" Li Zicheng asked the sentry in a harsh voice.