Liu Guotai was from Yulin and served in the army for generations. His brother was Liu Guozheng, the one who died in battle when fighting bandits. However, since his brother died in battle, Liu Guotai has been promoted from general to general.

This time he was in charge of the palace, and he was always resentful because he thought it was Hong Chengchou who was putting his shoes on him.

Hong Chengchou is a villain who has been targeting him, asking him to do the hardest work and fight the hardest battle, but he is unwilling to count his money and food.

For example, this time, after hearing that he could retreat, Liu Guotai was the first to order the troops to pack up and prepare to leave, but he was told that he was ordered to be the general of Hejian and be responsible for guarding Hejian Mansion.

Liu Guotai cursed himself in anger on the spot. He has just been promoted to general. What have you done long ago? Fortunately, he is still alive and appointed him as general of Hejian Prefecture. You must know that the court has given up on Hejian Prefecture and has also let him be the general of Hejian Prefecture. This is to let him live and die with Hejian Prefecture. This is to kill him. How can he not curse him?

Hong Chengchou promoted Liu Guotai at the critical moment, but did not make the other party grateful, but instead made the other party angry, believing that Hong Chengchou was deliberately putting him to death.

So after Liu Guotai became the general, he had no good face and cursed him for a day, especially when Hong Chengchou's army retreated north and took away a large amount of food, which made him even more angry.

He thought he was now in the middle of the army alone and should have stored a lot of food and grass. The other party just gave him a little food and grass, which could only allow the soldiers to eat enough. So how can this make people fight desperately?

In Liu Guotai's words, it means that food does not make people eat enough, but it makes people work hard. Do you really think that others are raised by Xiaoniang? So when Hong Chengchou's army retreated north, Liu Guotai became the general of Hejian and the highest commander of this area. In other words, no one could take care of it. He ordered the soldiers to plunder the women of the people, enter the camp, and drink and have fun day and night.

In his words, it was raised by Xiaoniang before, but now he was considered a water ghost who was promoted to the city god and became a official. The pleasure in front of him is also the land master who eats grasshoppers - after all, it is also a meaty person.

Liu Guotai believed that the road was blocked with heavy snow. Liu Jun stationed in Linqing would definitely not dare to send troops easily. Is it bad for them to eat and drink delicious food in the city? He also risked the road blocked with heavy snow to attack his strong city, so he did not make any preparations at all. He thought that he was just responsible for sticking to the city here.

Who knew that Xiao Ning led tens of thousands of troops and suddenly appeared outside the city of Hejian Mansion and surrounded Hejian Mansion. This caused his small temple to catch fire - he was panicked.

Xiao Ning was originally responsible for attacking Dongchang Prefecture. After taking Dongchang Prefecture, he began to rectify public security, quell the rebellion in his prefecture, and eliminate the remnants of the Ming army.

Of course, on the surface, the Liu family army announced publicly that Liu Bu was leading the Wan army to station here and confront the enemy. In fact, Xiao Ning's main force was stationed in the Linqing area to deal with Hong Chengchou at any time.

After he cleared the internal forces and cleared the remnants of the Ming army in the territory, in order to support Liu Bu's troops to attack Cangzhou.

So he secretly gathered troops and prepared to launch an offensive against Hejian Prefecture.

Xiao Ning's mission is to station Dongchang Prefecture and prevent the main force of the Ming army from going south to Shandong. To put it bluntly, it is defense, but Xiao Ning understands one thing very well, that offense is the best defense.

If he defends passively, the enemy will attack from multiple directions, and no matter how he fights, it will be difficult for him to resist. However, if he takes the initiative to attack Hejian Mansion and sets the battlefield at Hejian Mansion, it can effectively block the enemy, which is the same as Liu Feiyun's strategy.

So before Liu Bu's troops left Dezhou, he began to secretly assemble troops and prepare for a strike against Hejian Prefecture.

At that time, Hong Chengshou was still stationed in Hejian Mansion, stationed a hundred thousand troops, but Xiao Ning was not afraid of tigers and was directly prepared to give the other party a good look, teach the other party to be a human being, and let him stay in Hejian Mansion honestly and not ruin his good things.

But before he prepared the army, Liu Bu had already destroyed the Tianxiong Army, which scared Hong Chengchou to flee in a panic.

Seeing that the opportunity was not missed, Xiao Ning immediately led his army out of Linqing, raided Hejian, and surrounded Hejian in one fell swoop.

Hong Chengchou had a hundred thousand troops here, and he dared to take the initiative to attack. Now Hong Chengchou has withdrawn from here, leaving behind some remnants of defeated soldiers, and he did not take the other party seriously.

Liu Guotai is very brave and good at using a spear. He charges and blocks on the battlefield. However, his troops are just average, and he is considered a brave but not a resourceful person.

Especially his military discipline was extremely poor, and his military discipline was extremely poor. Hong Chengchou was here to take care of it and there were certain constraints. When Hong Chengchou left and asked him to take charge of the overall situation, he was lawless. In just a few days, he made the Hejian Mansion chaotic and the people complained.

If the people were complaining, it would be fine. Even the soldiers under his command were full of resentment and were very dissatisfied. This was because it was so cold that there was still a lot of food and grass left on it, and as a result, he was directly embezzled by Liu Guotai.

Liu Guotai was an ordinary military family. The two brothers relied on their own bravery to capture today's territory. Therefore, he also had his own way of governing the army. He always said that these soldiers were not good birds. They could not be filled with food. They would have to make trouble after eating, so this became a reason for him to deduct military pay in a legitimate way.

After embezzling military rations, this guy was sold to merchants in the black market, turning it into silver, and sent troops back to his countryside in Yulin overnight. In this way, it would be strange if the soldiers were not angry or angry?

Therefore, the entire Hejian Prefecture is panic and has internal and external difficulties.

After Xiao Ning sent troops to surround Hejian Mansion, this panic and uneasiness became even greater. Everyone was in chaos and was looking for a way to survive, but few people thought about how to resist with the tall city walls of Hejian Mansion.

After Xiao Ning surrounded Hejian Mansion, he immediately made a harsh statement, limiting the other party to surrender within three days, otherwise the day the city was destroyed, no one would be left behind.

Such ruthless words scared the defenders and the people in the city. They had no intention of dying, but now they had encountered this ruthless master, and they had nothing to say.

Only then did Liu Guotai realize that he was afraid and quickly summoned a group of confidants to discuss. They knew that the Liu family army was a group of ruthless leaders, and they could say that they could do it. Just like the Tianxiong Army was so capable, they were destroyed by the Liu family army in the end. They surrendered and lived well. Wherever they went, they were all old men. Those who insisted on resisting were killed and bombed to pieces.

So they were afraid that they would follow the footsteps of the Tianxiong Army, so they discussed and could not come up with an effective method. However, they still did one thing, which was to ask Hong Chengchou, who was far away in Baoding, as soon as possible.

But they clearly understood that it was Bai Qiu who went to rescue them. Hong Chengchou had just escaped. The reason why he escaped was to avoid the Liu family army's troops. Why did he dare to come and ask for battle on his own initiative? So they thought they were dead.

Liu Guotai cursed angrily, saying, "The court is even more stingy than the local rich man in Shanxi. He gave us three walnuts and two sour dates, and wanted us to work hard. This is a loss-making business. If we don't learn from the Lu Manzi, we have died so many people, and we don't even have pensions. We have died in vain."

Liu Guotai's words touched everyone's hearts. Since these people were left behind, they were filled with complaints and thought they were the abandoned ones. The court just wanted to treat them as scapegoats and turn them into sword-blocking people.

If the court gave Tianxiong Army a good pension, everyone would be more balanced, but the Tianxiong Army's pension had not been brought down for a long time, and the court was in chaos. Everyone knew that even if they died, they would probably be in vain and worthless, so no one would have the will to fight to the death.

This is the biggest difference between the Tianxiong Army and other armies, that is, the Tianxiong Army never thought of surrendering, and when facing a strong enemy, the other armies never thought about resisting at all, but thought about how to save their lives and maintain their wealth. Therefore, Liu Guotai's words were agreed by everyone, so they decided to send envoys to negotiate with the Liu family army.

Xiao Ning was planning an attack on Hejian Mansion, but the envoy sent by the other party said he was having a peace talk with him, which made Xiao Ning very surprised. The two sides were in a state of trouble. What's there to talk about? Just fight.

As a result, the other party's envoy came to surrender, asking what price the Liu family army could offer?

This made Xiao Ning a little overwhelmed. He was planning to fight a tough battle with the other party. It would be best to destroy the other party, but the other party did not want to fight with him. Instead, he wanted to surrender. What conditions could the other party give?

Since the other party said that, Xiao Ning knew that these people were all a group of cowards and did not dare to fight at all. He said, "What are the conditions you have? You might as well raise them."

If he could take down Hejian Mansion without blood, it would be very beneficial to the Liu family army. Since the other party proposed to surrender, he would not be able to miss this opportunity.

Liu Guotai's envoy said: "My general hopes to ensure the safety of our lives and property after he defected to the Liu family army, and continue to command the troops of our headquarters. As a general who is no less than the general level, the food and military pay must be supplied on time. Our headquarters is obeying the command and not the propaganda."

It would be a hell that if you could agree to such a condition, Xiao Ning said, "This is the condition of your general? Nothing else?"
Chapter completed!