Yuan Zongdi saw that Liu Rukui had no intention of speaking, so he looked at Li Laiheng and asked: "Laiheng, tell me what you think."

Li Laiheng was just eighteen years old this year, and it was because Li Zicheng had no one to use that he was transferred from Li Guo's staff to assist Yuan Zongdi in conquering Kuizhou Prefecture.

Seeing several people looking over, Li Laiheng hesitated and said, "King Chuang asked us to open up the Lychee Road, just to enter Huguang via Kuizhou.

Since we can't defeat the Sichuan army now, why not try asking them to borrow a way?"

"Borrowing a way?"

Yuan Zongdi and others were stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then they all shook their heads and laughed.

Yuan Zongdi said: "Laiheng, you are still too young and too naive. We destroyed the city of Beijing, forced Chongzhen to death, and have become mortal enemies with the Ming Dynasty. How could they allow us to use the passage?"

Liu Tichun also said: "Even if we don't mention that they are mortal enemies, King Chuang and his men went to Huguang not to stay there, but to go down the river to Jiangnan.

Jiangnan still belongs to the Ming Dynasty. As long as the Sichuan officers and soldiers understand this, they will not be allowed to pass through Kuizhou."

Li Laiheng said: "If we can't borrow the road, then we have only two options left to ask King Chuang for reinforcements, or join forces to break through and go south."

Yuan Zongdi said: "Both Tongguan and Yulin are short of soldiers and horses. The tens of thousands of us were also squeezed out by King Chuang from everywhere, so you don't have to think about asking for help.

But what is the meaning of 'breaking out of the encirclement and heading south'? Please tell us."

Li Laiheng pondered and organized his words before saying: "Before, whether we were fighting the Sichuan army or the Qing army, it was because we had to fight for the city, or even for every inch of land. We lost the way we fought before breaking into the camp.

You will lose more and win less.

So I thought, can we fight like we did before and stop staying in one place?

First, let Taiping County City be handed over to the shaking group, and let them defend the city for us to attract the attention of the army.

If we join forces, we can break out of the encirclement either to the south, east or west.

As long as they break out of the encirclement of the army, hang them for half a year, and turn Sichuan upside down, how can they still think about defending Kuizhou?

In this way, wouldn’t we have completed the instructions given to King Chuang?”

After hearing these words, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun, and Liu Rukui all looked thoughtful, while Niu Wancai clapped his hands directly and said: "This is a good method. In fact, I have wanted to say it for a long time. If you can't beat the army, don't fight them head-on."

Hook them up and run. If we find an opportunity, we'll hit him. If we don't find an opportunity, we'll keep running. After all, this Sichuan isn't from Dashun, right?"

"That's the truth." Liu Rukui, who had been silent until now, spoke up and agreed.

Liu Tichun also nodded.

Seeing this, Yuan Zongdi slapped the table and said: "That's what we do. Zaoying, I'll leave it to you to contact Yaohuang, please hurry up."

"no problem."

In this way, several people decided on the new strategy.

As for what will happen after Yaohuang takes over Taiping County, that is not their business.

After all, the Yellow Thirteen Family and them are not from the same group...

Although Taiping was only upgraded to a county during the Zhengde period, its jurisdiction was quite large, covering nearly half of the northwest of Kuizhou.

The troops who retreated here did not gather in one place, but each took up dangerous positions to defend themselves.

Because the leader of the alliance, Yuan Tao, has not been wiped out, all parties still nominally respect Yuan Tao, the king of the struggle for heaven.

On this day, Yuan Tao was in the room forcing his newly captured eldest sister to play games with him, when he heard his subordinates outside the door shouting: "Master, Zaoying from the army is here, saying that we have something important to discuss."

Yuan Tao saw the eldest sister huddled in the corner with tears streaming down her face, unwilling to play games. He was so angry that he kicked over the stool and opened the door and went out.

Arriving at the Juyi Hall of the cottage, Yuan Tao saw Liu Rukui, and immediately smiled and clasped his fists, saying, "What's the point of bringing General Liu to my little cottage?"

Liu Rukui said straight to the point: "Of course it's about joining forces."

After hearing this, Yuan Tao became wary and said: "Didn't we make this clear before? We are all bandits and bandits, and we cannot stand the restrictions of your invasion of the camp.

Just like now, it's good to help each other and fight against the army together, so why join forces?"

After hearing this, Liu Rukui thought to himself: Why are we helping each other to fight against the government and the army? It is obvious that the government and the army are leaving you alone and are specifically chasing us to fight!

But he didn't come here to argue with Yuan Tao, but to take advantage of Yuan Tao.

So he said: "If we can't unite our troops, we can just hold on to the county seat for a few days, right?"

"Guard the county seat?" Yuan Tao was confused after hearing this, "There are tens of thousands of you, don't you even lack people to guard the county seat?"

Liu Rukui said: "The officers and soldiers have been too rampant recently, and Mianhou is preparing to gather his troops to give the officers and soldiers a hard blow.

But the county seat is too important and must be guarded by someone.

After much deliberation, we can only leave it to you, the Yaohuang Thirteen Family, to guard it - you don't have to worry that they will take the opportunity to swallow up your troops, because they will all withdraw from the county."

Hearing this, Yuan Tao's eyes lit up.

It was not that he immediately believed Liu Rukui's words, but he thought of the wealth in the county.

Although there were very few business travelers traveling to and from Lizhi Road during the war, there were still some, so Taiping County was still richer than other places, at least many times better than the village he occupied.

If they can enter the county town and guard it for a few days, they can take advantage of the opportunity and make a lot of money.

I don’t dare to think too much about money and food, but there are always some beautiful women, right?

Thinking of this, Yuan Tao said: "It's not impossible, but you have to provide food and grass - King Chuang has become the emperor now, so he won't send hungry soldiers, right?"

Liu Rukui's already dark face turned even darker after hearing this, but thinking of the strategy discussed earlier, he still responded: "Don't worry, we will leave some food and grass for you. But you must go there within three days, otherwise this matter will be over. ."

Yuan Tao smiled and said: "General Liu, don't worry, as long as you withdraw from the county, we will arrive within three days."

After Liu Rukui left, Yuan Tao ordered his men: "Immediately send someone to inform everyone about this matter."

"yes."

The people who were waiting for work responded and went out. Yuan Tao's dog-headed military advisor asked: "Master, since we have food and grass, why do we need to notify everyone? Isn't it better to go and get the food and grass yourself?"

Yuan Tao kicked the dog-headed military advisor angrily, "Use your dog's brain, is it so easy to get food and grass for the army?"

Even if there are no ghosts inside, we will definitely be attacked by the army. How can we defend it without recruiting more people?

Besides, what if there are less people going and Chuang Jun gets distracted?!"

···

Three days later.

An abandoned town twenty or thirty miles away from Taiping County has become a camp for Sichuan officers and soldiers.

Li Dingguo and Ma Gan were looking at the march map in the tent when they heard someone outside the tent say: "The Flying Eagles have important news to report!"

"Come in."

Two people wearing earth-green camouflage uniforms came in, but they were Chang Wei and Li Siming of the Flying Eagles.

After the salute, Chang Wei carefully took out the tablet in a special box from his backpack, turned it on and called up a video, and then handed it to Li Dingguo.

Then he said: "We are cooperating with the spies at the front and have seen the abnormal mobilization of troops and horses in Taiping County in the past two days."

Li Dingguo opened the video and watched it, and found that it was either a scene of enemy troops entering Taiping County, or a scene of a large number of troops leaving the county.

Ma Gan was also watching. He frowned and said before he finished reading: "It seems that the people entering the city are not intruders, but yellow bandits."

Li Dingguo nodded and said: "Those who left the city were all insurgents."

"What are they going to do?" Ma Gan couldn't figure it out for a moment.

After watching the video, Li Dingguo asked Chang Wei, "Have you found out the whereabouts of the intruders?"

"No." Chang Wei shook his head, "But another team of our Flying Eagle team is cooperating with the spies to investigate this matter. I believe there will be results within a day or two."

Li Dingguo frowned and signaled to Chang Wei and Li Siming to rest. Then he called the ordering soldiers in and said: "I have sent you my military order. From now on, all armies will move closer to my camp and are not allowed to pursue the enemy without authorization. Anyone who violates the order will be punished by military law. Dispose of it!"

While talking, Li Dingguo wrote a military order with his own hands, stamped it and handed it to the ordering soldier.

The reason why messengers were used instead of walkie-talkies was because Li Dingguo found that the communication distance of walkie-talkies was greatly restricted in the high mountains of Kuizhou, and sometimes the communication would be inexplicably interrupted.

Therefore, important military orders are still transmitted by ordering soldiers to deliver paper military orders.

···

In a hidden mountain valley more than ten miles away from Taiping County, in the large tent of Yuan Zongdi's headquarters camp.

Liu Tichun said very excitedly: "Now our army has withdrawn from the county and joined forces in one place, but the official army is still divided into several groups.

This is simply a God-given opportunity - as long as we can find Li Dingguo's troops and attack them before other troops come to help, then the Sichuan troops in Kuizhou won't be anything to worry about!"
Chapter completed!