Li Zicheng, Book II, Chapter 11,2

Zicheng said: "I am also worried about this layer, so I must find a way to make the officers and troops dare not attack within three days." ”

"Is there a way?"

"Give it a try."

The doctor believed in the wisdom of the king and nodded reassuringly. He looked again at his own face and eyes, saw that his eye sockets collapsed deeply, and exhorted:

"Hurry up and lie down, even if it's only half an hour." After dawn, you still have a lot of things to do. ”

Zicheng walked to the small courtyard, looked up at the moon, and looked at the faint sky river that was slanting sideways, knowing that it had passed three more. He instructed a soldier to summon the small leader who guarded the gate, and immediately lit a more fragrant (1), and blew the first horn sound when the more fragrant three stopped burning, and then blew a horn sound when it was halfway burned. After instructing Bi, he yawned, turned back to the house, looked at Shuangxi, smiled at the doctor, and said:

(1) More fragrant - in the past, in order to play on time at night, a kind of incense was specially created, and each burned one was exactly one more, so it was called more fragrant.

"ZiMing, we and Shuangxi are leaning back on the chair, and there is no need to lie down."

But they had just sat down when another man came from the old camp. He was also a man who had just recovered from a long illness, his body was weak, his eye sockets were deep, his illness had not subsided, and after kurama's fatigue, his cheeks were red like fire. Without waiting for him to speak, the king asked:

"Who sent you?" What is the emergency report? ”

"King Yu Chuang, the governor sent me here. He sent me to see if the chaos here was leveled, and no matter what, please break into the king and return to the old camp quickly, and don't delay here. ”

"How about the old camp?"

"The general sentry is seriously ill, and the military conditions are very tight, so please ask the king to quickly return to the old camp and sit down."

"What happened to The Chief Sentinel Liu Ye?"

After the general post, he went from Savage Yu to the mountain pass where Wang Jiyuan was stationed to inspect, and then ordered Wang Jiyuan to take him to the vicinity of Songjiazhai to observe the terrain. As he watched, he suddenly fainted from his horse, spitting out blood and unconscious. ”

"Where is the general sentry now?"

"It has been carried back to the old camp in the second half of the day."

"Taking medicine?" Needle pricked? Still unconscious? ”

"As soon as the general sentry was carried back to the old camp, the general manager sent me to fly on the road, and I was limited to arriving in the middle of the night, saying that he would run the horse to death and not stop on the road..."

"Short and short! I ask you about Grandpa Liu's illness! ”

"Yes, I'm talking about the general sentry. Because I was in a hurry, I don't know the details. I only heard that he was sometimes awake, sometimes unconscious, and said evil things. Everyone said that he had been hit by evil, so they invited Ma Sanbo to the old camp and exorcised the evil on his behalf. ”

"Asshole! Who came up with the idea? ”

"I don't know who came up with this idea, but I only know that Wang Jiyuan sent someone to Song Jiazhai to invite him, and he asked the chief inspector Liu Ye beforehand, and he nodded."

"Oops!" King Chuang paused, stood up from his chair, and asked, "Did you meet Zhang Nai on the road?" ”

"Meet him in the Dayu Valley, and maybe you will be able to get to the old camp before dawn."

Li Zicheng sent the people out to rest, and asked Shang Jiong, "You see, does Jie Xuan's illness matter?" ”

"This is weakness after illness, overwork, coupled with riding horses at noon, heat stroke is inevitable." If you are in someone else's body, the illness will not be so fierce. Jie Xuan was a grumpy man, and when he saw that the various battles were unfavorable and the situation was sinister, and many of the soldiers were sick, they were angry and angry, so that they immediately fainted. But now it is not known whether the blood he vomited was spit out from internal organs, or whether he bit his tongue when he fainted, and I don't know how much blood he vomited. ”

"Is it easy to cure?"

"As long as you don't work hard, there is not much vomiting blood, and although this disease alone is fierce, it is not difficult to cure." Recently, because there were many people who were weak after the soldier's illness, I made a kind of medicinal liquor, with raw ground yellow as the king, Lu ginseng and poria as subjects, buried in the ground for half a month, and can already be used. When we returned to the old camp, we got up from the ground and let Jie Xuan serve a few times, and naturally healed. This medicinal liquor is also useful for you to use with all the soldiers who are weak after the illness. ”

King Chuang said anxiously, "Ziming, I originally expected that when the officers and troops attacked Savage Yu, Song Jiazhai would inevitably move. Now that Jie Xuan is ill, the old camp is unoccupied, and Wang Jiyuan is young and ignorant, so he let Ma Sanbo come to the old camp to divulge the details. At the end of Song Jiazhai, I can't rest assured. ”

"Although it is very unfavorable to us to conjure up extraordinary, the loss of the old camp is not enough." At present, you can only settle the Shimen Valley first, and then take care of the old camp. Even though the township brave officers and soldiers of Song Jiazhai were able to take wang Jiyuan and Xiao Luohu and run outside the old camp, it was still difficult to break through the old camp. As soon as Zhang Nai arrives, he will be caught between inside and outside, and he will definitely turn the crisis into safety. ”

Although king Chuang knew that Shang Immortal was saying words of relief, it was not unreasonable. He nodded and said:

"Well, let's settle this tie-up first."

Everyone stopped closing their eyes and waited in the Zen room for the sound of the horns.

After the second blow of the horn, it was less than four times the weather. Li Zicheng asked his soldiers to bring The Detailed Work to him and said:

"I have promised to spare your dog's life, and I will let you go now." But after you go back, the truth in the village is not allowed to be said. You can tell the officials and military that the mountain tiger still surrounded Li You in the temple, and many people died on both sides, and they could not stand each other. If you speak like this, I'll let you go back. ”

Hosoku knelt down on both knees and said, "Thank you king for not killing!" The little one returned to the camp and saw the commander, and if he did not follow the king's instructions, he would wear arrows and trample on the mud! "When I finished, I even prostrated my head like mashing garlic."

"Get up and go out with me." I ordered someone to take you down the mountain. ”

Li Zicheng walked out of the great temple with his own works surrounded by pro-soldiers and generals. Dou Kaiyuan, Ding Guobao, and Feng Sancai each took a few escorts and waited outside the mountain gate. These three leaders, only Dou Kaiyuan had studied for three years when he was a child, and he also knew a little about the rules of the army, and those two were all a pole habit. When black tiger star was here, although they were all his subordinate leaders, they were not big or small when they met, they did not go up and down, and when they talked, they were full of dicks, eggs, and fucking women, pointing fingers and feet, and often put their feet on the table in front of Black Tiger Star and laughed loudly. Everyone is used to a reckless life, as long as the righteousness is the same, no one will say that there is anything wrong with such a relationship between the upper and lower levels. But it was strange, unknown what kind of force it was that had caused them to change significantly in less than an overnight. In particular, Feng Sancai, who was still so arrogant under the command of the mountain tiger yesterday afternoon, with his escort, almost pointed his sword and sword at the tip of the Chuang King's nose, but now they stood respectfully along the side of the road with Dou Kaiyuan. Li Zicheng looked at them and said softly:

"Follow me to the village to see, first look at the West Village."

Although his voice was soft, as soon as his words fell silent, there was an immediate sound of rapid footsteps. Dou Kaiyuan and the other three big chiefs rushed to the front of the king, led the way for him, and slowly walked from Xizhai to Beizhai. Sometimes he offered a word or two of condolences to the leaders of the village and the brethren, and everyone replied respectfully with their forked hands. There was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old young man, born with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a childish face, holding a red gun in his hand, and a sword hanging from his waist, very heroic, but when the king came to him, he couldn't help but be nervous, his breathing was short, and his heart fluttered and jumped. Zicheng looked at him all over and felt that he looked like Shuangxi, so he asked:

"Have you ever practiced marksmanship?"

"Practiced."

"What about a single knife?"

"I've practiced it too."

"You practiced your marksmanship for me to see."

The young man was slightly embarrassed and went down to the village to practice marksmanship. Stabbing, picking, resisting, blocking, the action is clean and neat; vertical, jumping, entering, retreating, legs and feet are stable and fast. King Chuang stood on the village and looked at it, frequently nodding and smiling. When he finished practicing one set and returned to the wall, the king patted him on the shoulder and said:

"You still have some roots in this marksmanship. This is the Yang family's marksmanship plus some changes, but the place where this change is all flower guns. The flower gun looks good, but it is not useful. In a few days, there will be no war, you go to the old camp to live for a few days, ask Liu Fangliang to point out the master, remove the flower gun, and return to the Ewha (1) authentic. Some of the postures you do well, but unfortunately not round enough. Holding a long gun in your hand is a stick if it is not round; only when you are well trained can you forget your hands and forget your hands, which is what people often call 'handy'. ”

(1) Pear Blossom - that is, pear blossom gun, that is, Yang family gun method.

People on the left and right knew that the officers and soldiers would soon come to attack the village, but they did not expect that the king of the Chuang Dynasty would have the leisure to watch this half-pile child practice a set of marksmanship, and he did not hurry to point out a few words before he inspected forward. Walking to the North Village, there were people standing inside the road, all of them were full of energy and silent. The walls are not only filled with roller stones, but also shotguns. King Chuang was feeling satisfied, when suddenly from the corner of the wall thirty meters away came the quarrel of two people. Standing still, King Chuang glanced at Ding Guobao and asked, "After passing on military orders, who would dare to speak casually?" Ding Guobao ran with a few of his soldiers to the bend in the wall. King Chuang put one foot on the gap between the two village stacks, looked out of the village, pointed to several dark and heavy hills, and asked Dou Kaiyuan for his name. However, in a few moments, Ding Guobao returned with two human heads and said to the king:

"King, I cut these two boys off."

Li Zicheng nodded, did not speak, but turned his eyes to the officers and soldiers who were being escorted behind by the brothers, as if this battle had forgotten him. Seeing that Li Zicheng's military discipline was so strict, he was terrified in his heart, and when he saw the king look at him coldly, he did not feel that his soul was flying out of the sky. He knelt down first and pleaded:

"I implore Grandpa Wang to be gracious and let the little one go back!"

Zicheng instructed his soldiers: "Untie his rope, chop off his right hand, and let him get out of the egg." ”

As soon as he heard that he was going to chop off his right hand, Hesita quickly prostrated his head and begged for forgiveness. But the king ignored him, and a soldier dragged him from the ground, untied the hemp rope that bound his hands around his back, and cut off one of his right hands. Li Zicheng said to Dou Kaiyuan:

"You send a soldier with an arrow and send him out of our realm."

As soon as Xiao Zuo was sent out of the village, Li Zicheng took Dou Kaiyuan, Ding Guobao, and Feng Sancai back to the Great Temple immediately. Kaiyuan and others saw the people and horses in the big temple ready to go, and couldn't help but be secretly surprised. Zicheng led them into the Zen room, retreated from the people, and said to them:

"Zheng Chongjian's troops were insufficient, and he did not want to attack from Yaoling, but the Yaoling officials and troops heard that there was an internal traitor in Shimen Valley, and because they were willing to surrender and sacrifice the village, they planned to pick up a bouncing jujube (1). Now that I have put the detailed work back, the officers and soldiers know that I have personally come to the Shimen Valley, that the civil unrest has been eliminated, that the military orders have been rectified, and that the defense is tight, and that I will not dare to rush into the attack. I can't stop here much, I have to leave immediately and rush back to the old camp. I will also take all of Li You's brothers, and leave you only the grain stored in the temple. The burden of defending the Shimen Valley is entrusted to all of you. As the saying goes: there are thousands of families in the family, and the principal is in one person. In the future, the main defender of this Shimen Valley will be the exhibition hall, and everything will be mainly the exhibition hall. National treasure, you and the three talents must be his arm, obey his orders, and single-mindedly guard this pass and kill the officers and soldiers. Zhan Tang, you should consult with them more when things happen; if you can't do the Lord's business, send someone to me at any time, and I will make the decision for you. ”

(1) Pick up a bouncing date - that is, pick up someone else's cheap. Others beat dates, fall to the ground and still jump on the ground, while others are effortless and will pick them up in their hands.

Dou Kaiyuan said, "Please rest assured king Chuang." As long as we all have one heart, Shimen Valley is foolproof. ”

Ding Guobao and Feng Sancai said in unison, "Please rest assured that king Chuang is." ”

Li Zicheng left the last two hundred taels of silver that Li Qiang had brought to Dou Kaiyuan, and then instructed: "I am not afraid of the officers and troops attacking, but I am only afraid of chaos in the nest." Although several evils such as sitting on the mountain tiger have been eliminated today, how to appease the hearts of the army and establish military discipline still requires you all to worry a lot. Just now two brothers were arguing in the village, and I asked the national treasure to behead them all together, also for the sake of building a mighty force for you. More than a thousand of your generals here are all newly-talented and unscrupulous generals, and Hanger Lang is used to it, and in addition to the fact that in the past two days, a few people who have sat on the mountain tiger have blackmailed the crowd to make noise, and if they do not kill a few people ruthlessly, they will not be able to establish military discipline and suppress the evil atmosphere. The ancients said, 'To rule the world in turmoil, use heavy codes.' The same is true of our rebel army. However, it is not enough to have power alone, and it is necessary to give grace and power at the same time, which is indispensable. Shuwei is not just killing people. You yourself act in a decent manner, lead by example everywhere, and reward and punishment on a daily basis, and do not show favoritism, and you will be able to build up your might. If you can't make everyone respect and obey, you only know that one dozen and two kills will also be bad. The Chinese army, the rumors make people get up! ”

The centaur immediately got up. Li Zicheng walked last with the old immortal and Shuangxi. Dou Kaiyuan waited for him to be sent out of the village, and he wanted to send him far away, but he stopped him. After getting on the horse, he instructed Dou Kaiyuan to move into the great temple so that he could command. After instructing bi, he arched his hand, turned the horse's head, and stepped on the moonlight.

The people and horses hurried to the road, and the words were rare, but there were pine waves and horseshoes in the mountains. Although Li Zicheng and the monks and immortals were worried about the ji fierceness of the whole army, after all, they were too tired to stop shaking on their horses and go to sleep. After a while, king Chuang suddenly shouted, "Jie Xuan! Jiexuan! "I woke up and knew I was dreaming. He thought about Liu Zongmin and Lao Ying, and his heart was anxious, and he could no longer close his eyelids.