Emperor Sun made his fortune from scratch

The grain in the mountains is basically running out, and after two or three days, Heihuling will run out of food.

Li Zhao told all the soldiers that if they could not win the battle, everyone would starve to death, and that no matter how difficult it was, they should continue to fight.

If you lose, everyone will end up together, and if you win, the Zhaowu army will be reborn.

After sufficient preparations, including Li Zhao, the whole army of 861 people, armed with long knives and spears, faced the morning glow and advanced towards the destination.

Halfway through, Li Zhao ordered everyone to rest in place, eat some dry food, recover their strength, and then continue to set off.

When the whole army arrived at a hillside, Li Zhao ordered the whole army to lie down and hide. Liu Xuan has been training for so long, and he has basically achieved the expected results, the soldiers move quickly, and no one dares to expose himself at will.

An hour later, his subordinates reported that a convoy was found in front of them, transporting more than a dozen truckloads of firewood, and Liu Xuan immediately went to prepare.

After a while, the convoy arrived here, accompanied by only about ten people. Liu Xuan gave an order, and the two teams of men and horses quickly outflanked the front and back, surrounding the convoy.

The leader of the convoy was shocked, there were few mountain bandits on this road on weekdays, but he didn't expect to encounter them today, and quickly explained: "Heroes, don't misunderstand." He pointed to the carriage behind him and said, "Good man, please see, this is not a valuable thing, just some ordinary firewood."

Liu Xuan said: "There is no misunderstanding, the firewood has to be sent to the Zhang family outside the city." The

leader of the convoy looked tight, realized that the purpose of these people was not pure, and said cowardly: "Yes. "

What's your name?"

"Every time you deliver firewood to the Zhang family, how do you enter the Zhang family's mansion? Tell me the truth, if you lie to me, you will take your life immediately. Liu Xuan said murderously.

Zhang Daliang was obviously frightened, his expression was frightened, and said: "Every time the villain delivers firewood to the door of the Zhang family's mansion, someone from the Zhang mansion will come out and move the firewood into the mansion, and the villain has never entered."

Wang Zichen looked around the convoy and said to Li Zhao: "I suggest that the soldiers can hide in the car and cover the outside with firewood." But these cars could only hide a maximum of fifty soldiers, and the rest were hidden outside the mansion. When the Zhang family opened the gate, the soldiers in the car immediately came out to control the gate and led others into the Zhang family. "

Yes!"

Liu Xuan stared at Zhang Daliang and the others, and said, "You also heard what you said just now." If you are not careful, causing me to be discovered in advance, or want to inform, you will be the first to die. Even if I don't attack the Zhang family, it will be easy to kill all of you. If you are willing to cooperate, you will be rewarded after the deed is completed, understand?"

"The villain understands, and he will definitely cooperate. Zhang Daliang hurriedly said.

So, fifty Zhaowu sergeants hid in the car, and the others followed closely and went to the Zhang family's mansion together.

About half an hour, the firewood transport team arrived at the Zhang family's mansion. Li Zhao and others, in order not to be discovered by the soldiers standing on the wall, hid in the distance.

Zhang Daliang was very nervous in his heart, and pretended to be calm and shouted at the wall: "Firewood is here, hurry up and move it." The

person on the wall knew Zhang Daliang, first confirmed that there were only a dozen people beside him, most of them were familiar faces, and then quickly notified the housekeeper in the house.

After a while, the door of Zhang's house opened, and the housekeeper and some subordinates walked out.

The housekeeper pointed at Zhang Daliang and scolded angrily: "What's going on today? Why did you come so late?" Next time, don't think about getting paid again.

Zhang Daliang lowered his head, not daring to refute. From time to time, his eyes glanced at the carriage, and a lot of sweat broke out on his forehead.

The housekeeper didn't notice Zhang Daliang's abnormality, snorted coldly, and was about to ask his subordinates to carry firewood.

At this moment, Liu Xuan suddenly got out of the firewood. The housekeeper was taken aback. Without giving the housekeeper time to react, Liu Xuan drew a knife and cut down the housekeeper, splashing Zhang Daliang with blood, so frightened that he sat on the ground.

Liu Xuan roared angrily: "Do it!" The

rest of the Zhaowu soldiers quickly got out of the carriage and slaughtered towards the gate.

The surrounding family soldiers, suddenly encountered such an accident, and saw that the comer was not good, so they hurriedly closed the door of the mansion.

Seeing that the gate was about to close, Liu Xuan led people to kill. Forced the gate open, temporarily taking control of the gate.

Li Zhao, who was hiding in the distance, saw that Liu Xuan had succeeded, and without the slightest delay, he immediately led all the soldiers around him to kill the Zhang family.

Li Zhao ran very fast, because there were only fifty Zhaowu soldiers in front of the gate, he was worried that he would not last long, and he had to go to reinforcements as soon as possible.

What I didn't expect was that Yang Zhi was so old that he ran ahead of Li Zhao. This old fellow, holding up the long knife, looked excited.

Forward, dozens of people were shot with crossbows. One of the crossbow arrows was only half a step away from Li Zhao. Even so, Li Zhao still led the crowd to advance quickly, knowing in his heart that only by attacking the palace as soon as possible could he have a chance to win the battle.

The sound of the fight quickly attracted the attention of the soldiers of the Zhang Mansion, and when they found that there was an invasion of foreign enemies, they hurriedly went to Liu Xuan to kill them, wanting to drive out the Zhaowu soldiers who had entered the mansion.

Seeing this, Liu Xuan was not afraid, guarded the door, did not retreat, and tried to buy time for Li Zhao. Although the enemy is outnumbered, the Zhaowu soldiers around Liu Xuan were all soldiers of the Yongwang Mansion before, with rich combat experience and dare to fight.

The Zhang family soldiers, with the help of strong fortifications on weekdays, naturally have no problem defending. But when the enemy army rushed into the mansion, they couldn't help but be a little flustered, and they couldn't drive Liu Xuan out for a while.

Liu Xuan gritted his teeth, and the Zhaowu army beside him suffered heavy casualties, desperately guarding the gate.

Just when the situation was critical, Li Zhao led his troops to kill. More than 700 Zhaowu troops swarmed in.

"Guard the gate, and never let anyone go out of the house. This place is less than ten miles away from Liucheng and cannot be discovered by officers and soldiers. Li Zhao said urgently.

Wang Zichen also participated in this battle, leading 50 or 60 men to guard the gate.

Zhou Wen and Liu Xuan continued to lead their troops to attack the depths of the mansion. The two of them were covered in blood, and they swung their knives quickly and ruthlessly.

Li Zhao's combat effectiveness was a little weak, and he followed behind everyone.

The family advocates Gao Shun, who is flirting with the concubine on the bed in the bedroom, with a comfortable face.

The sound of killing was faintly heard in his ears, the sound became louder and louder, and his face changed drastically.

When he left the house, he saw that the mansion was full of slaughter, and there was fighting everywhere.

The Zhaowu army had the first-mover advantage, and after Liu Xuan's long-term training, they were basically familiar with a variety of assassination actions; although their weapons were inferior to Zhang's soldiers, they did not fall behind. If the opponent is wearing armor, the spear will quickly stab the throat or face.

Because the battle broke out so suddenly, some of the soldiers were caught off guard, and before they could even put on their armor, they were killed.

Liu Xuan was crazy, and there were many people rushing over there. Even if he was stabbed in the left arm, he still fought to the death.

In terms of elite, the soldiers of the Zhang Mansion could not be compared with the soldiers of the Yongwang Mansion, and their willpower and combat effectiveness were only stronger than those of ordinary mountain bandits.

As the number of people killed in the battle increased, many Zhangfu soldiers were afraid.

Yang Zhichong was too fierce and saw Gao Shun. His eyes were blood-red, and he directly swung his knife at Zhang Gaoshun and killed several people in a row. Frightened, Zhang Gaoshun retreated again and again, and urgently ordered the surrounding soldiers to stop Yang Zhi.

Li Zhao was a little surprised that this old guy was so violent.

Yang Zhi is about to be half a hundred years old, and he still dares to fight for his life like this. This also stimulated other Zhaowu soldiers, including recruits. No one wants to admit that they are inferior to an old man.

The Zhaowu army was greatly strengthened, and the offensive became more and more fierce.

The soldiers of the Zhang family retreated step by step, and gradually began to collapse.

Yang Zhi kept staring at Zhang Gaoshun, waiting for the soldiers around him to flee for their lives, finding the right opportunity, and slashing Zhang Gaoshun to the ground with a knife, without even a chance to beg for mercy, that is, a life.

The family asserts that Gao Shun is dead, and the gate is blocked again. The soldiers in the house lost their fighting spirit and died or surrendered.

Li Zhao saw that the victory was decided, and after disarming the family soldiers, he separated them from custody.

I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, and finally won the war, and the Zhaowu army also paid a lot of price, with the number of dead and wounded approaching three hundred.

Wang Zichen ran over excitedly, "Dashuai, I just asked the person in charge of money and food in the mansion. I learned that there were 200,000 taels of silver in the mansion alone, and that there was no time to count the copper coins, gold, silver, and jewelry, and so on, and I thought that there were a lot of them, and the grain was 50,000 stones. There are also many weapons in the mansion, such as long knives, bows, crossbows, armor and the like.

Li Zhao was ecstatic, and his excited voice trembled a little, "Quick! Quickly arrange for someone to move back to Heihuling immediately and move them all." Ox carts, horse-drawn carts, and so on, all full.

"No! The accumulation of three generations of the Zhang family is by no means more than that. I suggest that Dashuai go to Zhang Gaoshun's room to find it again, maybe there is some dark room. Yang Zhi said suddenly.

"Song Jun, you take someone to find it. For example, bookshelves, calligraphy and paintings, under the bed, walls, etc., everything that should be smashed must be found. Li Zhao said to a person beside him.

"Yes. Song Jun hugged his fists, and then immediately led people away.

"Where does this Zhang family come from?" Li Zhao said curiously.

"The Zhang family is a strong man in Hanzhong, and many of the children of the family are officials in Hanzhong. It is said that in the court of the Qi State, a Hubu Langzhong was also a member of the Zhang family. Yang Zhidao.

"This mansion is built like a fortress, and the soldiers are well-armed, but there are people in the army. Li Zhao asked.

"Zhang Gaoshun's three sons are not in the mansion at present. The eldest son, Zhang Xingyuan, and the second son, Zhang Xingmao, are currently in Nanzheng, the capital of Hanzhong, and both serve in the army. Therefore, if you want to get a large number of ordnance, it is not a difficult thing for the Zhang family.

Li Zhao's face was puzzled, and he was puzzled: "The laws of the Qi State allow weapons to fall into the hands of these powerful people, aren't you worried about their rebellion?"

Yang Zhi smiled contemptuously, "Naturally, it is not allowed." Wang Jingpifu also knew that Hanzhong was an important land, but he still expropriated violently, causing many people in Hanzhong to fall into the grass. Among the countless mountains in Hanzhong, there are many cottages like Heihuling, all of which are due to Wang Jing. This person is not only not good at people's livelihood, but also ignorant of military strategy. "

Why can such a fool become a stab in Hanzhong. Li Zhao also asked Wang Zichen the same question before, after all, Wang Zichen was from Wei and did not know much about the national conditions of Qi State.

"Wang Jing's sister is the princess of today's Qi Kingdom. Wang Guifei was very much loved by Emperor Qi, and she had three princes. Wang Jing often sent money and grain to the third prince, Jiang Yu, and the three princes were able to buy off the ministers of the court and compete for the crown prince. Under the strategy of Wang Guifei, Wang Jing became the assassin of Hanzhong. And the land of Hanzhong, far away from Jinling, the capital of Qi State, is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there has been no war in recent decades. As for the poor people in the mountains of Hanzhong, even if Emperor Qi knew, he would not care. Wang Jing was able to sit firmly in the position of assassin in Hanzhong. I

see, Li Zhao roughly understood the situation in Hanzhong. couldn't help but glance at Yang Zhi a few more times, this old guy has been studying and farming at home on the surface over the years, and I'm afraid he hasn't been really idle.

Yang Zhiding looked at Li Zhao fixedly, there was light in his eyes, and said, "Handsome, Hanzhong can be drawn." Sure

enough, this man had ambitions. Li Zhao didn't care about this, ambition was a good thing, as long as he was loyal to Zhaowujun.

Li Zhao acted as a reason: "There are only 100 people in the Zhaowu army, not to mention Nanzheng, the capital of Hanzhong, and there are 3,000 defenders in Liucheng alone. It is unknown whether I will be able to protect myself, and I dare to think about it again. "

The land of Hanzhong is one prefecture and four counties, because Hanzhong is close to Wei. The number of defenders in the county seat of Hanzhong is generally higher than that of the county seat in other places, and the capital Nanzheng has tens of thousands of troops.

Li Zhao's words, Yang Zhi naturally didn't believe it, no matter how Li Zhao looked at it, he was not a peaceful person. When he was in the Wei State, he and his father King Yong actively plotted to force the palace, took the lead in attacking the East Palace, and dared to point a sword at Emperor Wei. After the defeat, he fled to the state of Qi, bought people's hearts on the Black Tiger Ridge, and then established the Zhaowu Army. Obviously, this man has a big plan.

"After breaking through Zhang's Mansion, the money and food obtained were enough for the commander to expand his troops by thousands. Secondly, it is recommended that no matter which city in Hanzhong is attacked, it should not be attacked in the short term. "

Go on.

Wang Zichen, Liu Xuan and others also leaned over, looking quite interested.

Yang Zhi froze and slowly said his thoughts: "In the eyes of the Qi Imperial Court, as long as you occupy the cities in Hanzhong, it is equivalent to controlling the entire Hanzhong. However, more than half of the people in Hanzhong did not live in the city. Because of Wang Jing's cruelty, the people fled outside the city even more. Some people choose remote places to live, and some people simply fall into the grass in the deep mountains. If the marshal wants to attack Liucheng, he will definitely attract the attention of the Qi army. It is better to focus on the outside of the city, gradually raid other cottages, and accommodate the people. In this way, even if you don't have to worry about attracting the attention of the Qi army, you can gradually expand your strength.

After Li Zhao heard this, he suddenly realized. Yang Zhi's meaning is very simple, it is not cost-effective to attack the city, and it will attract a large number of Qi troops, so it is better to focus on the outside of the city. This is similar to what the great man said: "the countryside surrounds the city".

Li Zhao was in a wonderful mood and said to Yang Zhi: "Well said, you have made great achievements this time, and you can lead the troops to fight like Liu Xuan, Zhou Wen and others in the future, I hope you will not disappoint Ben Shuai."

Yang Zhi's face was full of excitement, and he hurriedly knelt down and said: "Xie Dashuai trusts, and the last general is willing to serve the work of dogs and horses." Before

meeting Li Zhao, Yang Zhi was really unwilling and depressed all day long. He thought he had a strategy, but he couldn't enter the officialdom of Qi State. When Li Zhao first went to Black Tiger Ridge, Yang Zhi was a cold bystander at first. It wasn't until later that he found that although Li Zhao was not very old, his means were good, and everyone up and down in the cottage quickly convinced Li Zhao, so he decided to work for Li Zhao.

"But there is one thing, you make Ben Shuai not very happy. You instigated me to attack the Zhang family, it should have another purpose. Li Zhao said unhappily.

Yang Zhi sighed in his heart, and he really couldn't hide it, "I'm ashamed, I was framed by Zhang Gaoshun and locked up in prison, and I hated Zhang Gaoshun very much in my heart."

Li Zhao had already guessed this, and said lightly: "Only this once, not an example." "

Yes!"

At this time, Song Jun ran over excitedly and shouted, "I have found the secret room." "