Thinking of this, Hu Xian sighed in his heart, feeling that what he is not a man and his future is unclear. But although he thought so, he did not think that this battle would be defeated, but it was not as clean and neat as he hoped.

At this time, several soldiers came over with someone. When they got closer, the man had already shouted: "Mr. Liu, Lord. Liu, I am the butler of the Zhou family. Don't you remember?"

Liu Wenzheng looked at it and looked familiar, but now it is not the time to get close. He asked calmly: "Are you coming from Cross Road Town to be a spy or a lobbyist?"

The visitor complained helplessly, "Mr. Liu, I have no choice. Then Meng Jiucheng asked someone to send you a letter. If you don't give it, you'll be cut off your head!" As he said that, he took out the letter tremblingly.

Liu Wenzheng took it casually and read it. In fact, he could guess it even if he didn't read it, it was nothing more than threatening to persuade him to surrender.

Humph, after a few glances, Liu Wenzheng snorted coldly, threw away the letter, and scolded: "It's really nonsense to say that I colluded with Jin people and planned to rebel. Come on, take him up first and then talk about it after our army wins."

The soldier without saying a word, pushed and shoved the sender and took him down.

"If there are firearms in the Red Turban Army, I think I can win invincible." Liu Wenzheng turned to Hu Xian and sneered: "This time, let them see the power of our arms."

"Yes, sir." Hu Xian responded and turned to command the soldiers.

There are indeed some firearms in the Liu family's army. I heard that the Red Turban Army won this and then recruited craftsmen to create them. Among them are the divine fire Hunyuan Ball, the poison smoke ball, and the thorn fire ball, which were also considered relatively advanced weapons at that time.

However, because the gunpowder formula of these three types of gunpowder is incorrect, it mainly uses burning smoke to kill the enemy, and the explosion is very small.

For example, the Hunyuan ball is made of sulfur, yellow, and flame salt to make particles, then the arsenic yellow, fixed powder, and the yellow dan is ground into powder, and the dry paint is also beaten into powder. Bamboo ru and maru are fried into powder over fire, and then yellow wax, rosin, clear oil, and tung oil are boiled into paste over fire. Then add the aforementioned powder and stir evenly to make a ball shape. The outside is wrapped with thick paper, five layers inside and outside, and then tied with hemp rope. The rosin is burned and melted and wrapped and fixed...

There are many ingredients and cumbersome manufacturing, but looking at its formula, you will know that it is mainly burning and burning, and has little power. It is most suitable for defending the city.

However, as a local armed force, the Liu family army was able to create firearms, which was enough to make Liu Wenzheng proud and have sufficient confidence.

According to normal history, it will take more than ten years to achieve the powerful explosive firearms made by the Jin Kingdom, but the formula is not the best.

Liu Wenzheng shrank all his troops, was on guard in Lingyang Town, and asked Liu Tingyu in the county for help, preparing to deal a heavy blow to the Red Turban Army.

Meng Jiucheng's side was progressing smoothly. Han Shouzhong led the vanguard to occupy two fortresses in succession, of course, empty and none of them. But this did not affect the progress of the combat plan. The army continued to advance steadily and approached Lingyang Town.

"Liu Wenzheng is really a dog who keeps his family and has no ambition." Wang Zhongfeng and Meng Jiucheng walked side by side, constantly receiving reports from the front, and made appropriate comments on Liu Wenzheng.

"What the master said," Meng Jiucheng smiled and said, "If our whistle detective had not been sent to the surrounding area and could quickly grasp the enemy's movements, I would have doubted whether Liu Wenzheng wanted to lure the enemy deeper or send troops to attack our rear!"

"It's only a dozen miles away to lure the enemy deeper?" Wang Zhongfeng shook his head and asked in confusion: "90%, are you sure that the situation will not change unfavorably to us? The reason why Liu is a little conservative is that he cannot see the situation clearly and wants to wait and see the changes."

Yes, Liu Tingyu, Liu Wenzheng, and many landlords who only seek to protect themselves are waiting for the final clarity of the situation. Whether to continue to take the charity flag, or change the party and surrender to the Jin Dynasty, it is difficult for them to make the final decision.

But Meng Jiucheng saw farther than them and thought clearly. He was best at taking action before the situation changed. No one could compare to the advantage of taking the lead.

"Don't worry, Master, my apprentice has repeatedly deduced it. Even if there are some small deviations, it will not affect the overall situation." Meng Jiucheng smiled confidently, "The citron that has stood out is rotten first, with large red coat troops such as Yang Aner, Li Quan, and Liu Erzu. The Jin army will not notice this small county."

"Although it is a small county, it is managed by you." Wang Zhongfeng has also seen the situation of the Red Coat Army outside. It seems to be powerful, but in fact it is quite weak, and the business is even worse.

"Master has given me a prize. We don't even take up all a small county now!" Meng Jiucheng smiled and felt a little satisfied.

The vast majority of peasant uprising troops have had relatively similar disadvantages: they know how to attack, are not good at managing, and are like bandits; they cannot afford to pay for their own food and pay, and do not know how to war in the battle; they plunder wives and women's property, they only know how to take it from others, but they do not know how to support the people...

This often causes a large territory that may occupy but a loose foundation; it may seem that there are many soldiers and generals, with more than 100,000 troops or hundreds of thousands of troops, but the combat power is weak.

Meng Jiucheng learned from history and knew the importance of the base area. He worked hard to operate the territory he occupied. Naturally, his population, production and stability were not comparable to those Red Coat Army who had always occupied one state or several states.

Big but empty, small but real. The level of thoughts and theories determines that Meng Jiucheng will not have much reputation in the early stages of his business, but those who are well aware of his internal situation will be impressed by his strength and potential.

The so-called accumulation of strength and solidity and stability are Meng Jiucheng's current thinking and implementation of the development strategy.

"Liu Tingyu, Liu Wenzheng, you are the rats." Wang Zhongfeng curled his lips contemptuously, "We are just around the corner."

Meng Jiucheng nodded vigorously, thinking that this judgment was correct.

In times of troubled times, people's minds change. Strong and cunning people think it is the time for them to develop. But how many people have the ambitions and powerlessness, or have misunderstandings and stand in the wrong team, and finally fail to fall into the sand?

The steady advancement of the troops was not only the confidence to win in one battle, but also gave Liu Wenzheng time to send people to seek help. The partial division led by Xiao Ying and Zheng Si'an had set out indirectly, preparing to ambush the reinforcements from the county town, so as to achieve a combat arrangement to resolve the two Lius.

At almost noon on the sun, Meng Jiucheng led a brigade to outside Lingyang Town.

As Liu Wenzheng's old nest, Lingyang Town began to operate after the start of the incident. Ramming earth city was a common method at that time, and Liu Wenzheng was no exception. Now Lingyang Town is like a small town with a soil wall of about four meters high and a radius of hundreds of meters, and it looks quite solid. This is also the reason why Liu Wenzheng is more confident.
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