Please ask me to be the emperor

When the soldiers finished eating the hot broth and flatbread, they began to tighten their armor, check their bows and knives, and prepare for a desperate fight.

Many of them are children of Huaiqing. They have been practicing martial arts since they were young, in order to do the business of sucking blood from the blade.

Learn martial arts and become an emperor! This is their way of survival.

If you can pass the martial arts exam and have an official status, that would be great.

If you can't, that's okay.

They range from bodyguards and guardians to thieves and bandits, as long as they have food to eat, they can do it.

Now everyone is lucky enough to follow King Shun and win consecutive battles. The military pay, rewards and pensions they receive are enough for the whole family. How can An Neng not die?

Because Li Mou was good at using troops, he sent dead soldiers to take turns to attack the camp last night. Therefore, except for the slight lack of sleep and the difficulty of marching, the rebels were not as sleepy and tired as they imagined.

In this case, Li Mou couldn't help but continue to ask: "This time, which group's turn is it to go into battle?"

"Back to General Li, it's our turn this time!" A dark-faced young man stepped forward and responded.

"Okay, be careful!" Li Mou warned, "It's not as dark as the sky at dawn. If you want to camp as easily as before, I'm afraid it won't be that simple!"

"I know!" The young man and the more than 200 people under his command laughed and laughed, "We have a great life, how can we give it away lightly?"

Under Li Mou's gaze, not long after, these two hundred men who dared to die, headed by Huaiqing's children, filed out with knives on their waists, bows and arrows in hand, and moved towards Liancheng in front.

This connected city is relatively small. In fact, it does not directly cut off the Forbidden ditch. It can only be built on the cliffs on either side of the Forbidden ditch and defend according to the danger.

The rebels who dared to die relied on ropes, stepped on tree roots, and grabbed vegetation with their hands, climbing up one by one like apes.

Just to reduce the loss of soldiers, Li Mou had to force the soldiers to climb wearing armor, which greatly increased the difficulty of climbing.

Fortunately, these people have their own martial arts training and have a lot of strength. If it were an ordinary strong man, let alone armor, it would be quite difficult to climb even with bare hands.

Li Mou stood there uneasily and built a shelter with his hands to watch, not knowing what the situation was like. After a while, I heard a scream, and then the sound of fighting came from a distance.

After waiting in fear for a long time, he suddenly saw a wisp of smoke rising up.

Li Mou couldn't help but feel a thump in his heart, and he quickly ordered: "Quick, the second team is ready for me, waiting for orders to support at any time. Fei Biaoqiang is loaded with ammunition and ready, waiting for my order to fire!"

Not long after, the smoke went out again, and then some soldiers came back from the cliff to the city.

"What's going on?" Li Mou asked nervously.

"Reporting to the general, when we invaded, the enemy was cooking. Unexpectedly, after being blocked for a moment, someone took the opportunity to pull a piece of firewood from the stove and lit the beacon tower!"

"That's fine, why don't we just follow the plan!" Li Mou heard this and knew that the morale of the army should not be shaken in the slightest, so he sneered, "The second team can go to the next connected city, first select a few good players who can speak Shaanxi accent, and say While cooking at this beacon tower, smoke was accidentally set off, so I'm here to inform you!"

"When the officers and soldiers approached to ask questions, they got angry and attacked. They pretended to open the city gate and killed the generals in!"

It has to be said that under heavy pressure, Li Mou unleashed his full potential. He himself didn't expect that he could be so quick-witted, and obviously the officers and soldiers on the opposite side didn't either, so he was forced to conquer the city again by the rebels.

But the good luck of the rebels ended here. Since the city was half deceived and half stormed, it was inevitable that the officers and soldiers would buy some time to light the beacon tower again.

If the beacon fire ignites once, it can be said to be a misoperation. If it is said to be misfired the second time, it would be a bit insulting to other people's intelligence.

Therefore, Li Mou had no choice but to order his soldiers to carry artillery and storm the remaining three connected cities.

Since Liancheng is built on a high platform, ordinary direct-fire artillery requires a high shooting angle, otherwise it will be difficult to hit the target.

It just so happened that the rebels' Feibiaogun was a typical large-scale mortar. When the rebels were preparing to raid the Forbidden Valley, they took this issue into consideration and took great pains to bring this extremely heavy thing over the mountains and ridges.

The big iron bullet weighing one hundred and fifty kilograms went straight down, piercing Liancheng who had never considered attacking the top in one fell swoop, and then made a dull explosion.

The shrapnel from the explosion caused horrific damage in the enclosed space.

The smoke of the explosion spurted out from the small shooting holes of the beacon tower, forming several frightening columns of smoke.

The brave men who had been waiting for a long time took advantage of the remaining power of the cannonballs, jumped in quickly, killed the generals in, and captured the city in a short time.

In this way, the rebel army captured the remaining two cities. Seeing Tongguan in sight, Li You was also overjoyed.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the rebels occupied the last connected city, they saw a group of people from Tongguan City coming out from the south gate of the city and going up the forbidden ditch to meet the rebels.

The connected city that the rebels had just occupied was no more than ten feet long and four feet high.

To put it mildly, it is called "Liancheng", but in fact it is just a beacon tower that is protected by danger. Now that the rebels have been fighting hard day and night, they are already hungry and exhausted. What can they do?

Defending is not enough to defend, and fighting is not enough to fight!

Li Mou hesitated for a long time, then gritted his teeth and ordered: "Listen to my order, only the injured will stay in this city, and the other soldiers will go with me to meet Zuo Guangxian, the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi."

Since you will die if you defend, and you will die if you fight, it is better to fight to the death!

"Our army has fought hard and hard, and with success in sight, we can't let this thief block the exit of the forbidden ditch!" Li Mou said angrily.

"Don't keep any dry food in your hands. Let's eat as we go and get ready to fight!"

"General, we are really tired. Why don't we take the cannons with us?" The soldiers dragging and pushing the flying guns and golden cannons were miserable, and they quickly showed Li You their feet, which were bleeding from their straw sandals.

"No, we are already exhausted. Without this cannon, we would all die without a burial place!" Li Mou objected.

Then, he stretched out his hand and pulled the rope from the soldier's hand, and shouted loudly: "Listen to my command, everyone push and pull hard together, and you must use this cannon to open the door of life and death in the forbidden ditch!"

When the soldiers saw that even General Li Mou was desperate, what else could he say?

The place where the two sides met happened to be the southern end of the intersection of Forbidden Valley and Tongshui. This was the last natural danger of Forbidden Valley, which was called "Shimen Pass".

Shimen Pass is not actually a checkpoint, but because the terrain is relatively narrow. After passing here, Jingou and Tongshui meet, and the valley suddenly opens up, so it is called "Shimen Pass".

When the officers and soldiers crossed the intersection of Jinggou and Tongshui and came to the formation at Shimen Pass, the rebels also limped to the front.

The officers and soldiers looked at it intently and couldn't help but be stunned.

What an army this is! They walked with a limp and staggered, and the heavy armor on their bodies seemed to be about to crush them.

However, although their eyes were bloodshot, they were full of killing intent and fighting spirit.

Don't stop when you return to the army, you will be surrounded by the enemy!

Although these people are at the end of their fight, they will never agree to the officers and soldiers trying to destroy them before dawn.

"Cannon please!" Li Mou shouted loudly, and he personally dragged a golden cannon to the front of the formation with twenty or thirty soldiers.

Immediately, the second golden cannon was pushed out, and the muzzle of the gun was aimed at the officers and soldiers in the dark hole.

"What's going on? The road in the ditch is difficult. How can the thieves carry such a cannon!" The officers and soldiers couldn't help but feel cold and had a bad premonition.

When we meet on a narrow road, the brave one wins, and when we meet on a narrow road, the one with strong firepower also wins!

"fire!"

"fire!"

Following Li Mou's order, the two golden cannons spit out tongues of fire, and two round cannonballs flew into the formation of officers and soldiers, and then exploded into a cloud of white mist.

"Ah, my eyes!"

"It hurts, it hurts!"

"I can't see anything!"

It turned out that when the rebels attacked Jindou Pass, they suffered losses from the quicklime of the officers and soldiers. Zhang Shun was so anxious that he asked his soldiers to put crushed quicklime into the explosive bullets to enhance the power of the explosive bullets.

At that time, the quality of the fuses of the explosive bombs could not be guaranteed. Calculated based on the time required for normal combustion, there was no guarantee that the explosive bombs would explode at an appropriate distance from the ground.

Even the gunners who shoot all year round often miss and lose their lives.

Therefore, the blooming bombs launched by the Ming army were mostly filled with rosin, bean powder, dry paint and other smoke-prone substances to disrupt the enemy's formation. For example, the common artillery shells such as the poisonous fire flying cannon, flying cannon, and thunder cannon are all similar products.

After the lime bombs were fired, Fei Biaogun also began to show off his power, throwing poisonous smoke bombs commonly used by the Ming army into the ranks of officers and soldiers. For a time, gunpowder smoke, poisonous smoke and quicklime filled the valley.

Where can the officers and soldiers stay? They took the initiative to attack the rebels in an attempt to get rid of the situation of being passively beaten.

Li Mou then directed the rebel soldiers to fight hard, while using the golden cannon to fire cannonballs to counterattack.

Due to the narrow terrain of the valley, neither side was able to attack from the side, so they had to fight head-on to the end.

The rebels rely on their sharp artillery, and the officers and soldiers rely on their leisure to wait for work. The two sides fought hard for a while, fighting from dawn to dusk, with no winner or loser.

At this moment, the rebel army has almost reached its limit! Li Mou sat paralyzed on the ground, panting and looking at the hot barrel, thinking: Fortunately, this cannon was forged, otherwise the barrel would have exploded, and the rebels would not be able to survive today.

It's just that when manpower is limited, the way of heaven has its own rules. I'm afraid I will be buried here today!

Li Mou was still urging everyone to fight to the death, but many people fell there and smiled bitterly: "We have no strength at all, how can we fight anymore?"

"If King Shun has his destiny, he should send a miracle to help us escape from death; if King Shun does not have his destiny, we should die here!"

Are you kidding me? Do you still expect meteorites to fall from the sky and kill the officers and soldiers?

With the sound of "dong dong" drums, the officers and soldiers charged forward again.

Fifty steps, forty steps, thirty steps...

The rebel artillery made a feeble attempt to mount a final resistance, but the shotgun blasts could only sweep through twenty or thirty people, unable to deter the officers and soldiers at all.

Seeing that the entire rebel army was about to be wiped out, unexpectedly the officers and soldiers in front of them staggered, and many fell to the ground on the spot.

Others who had not fallen to the ground also felt it was difficult to breathe, as if someone was holding their throats.

"Is there... any magic?"

"Ghost...ghost!"

Seeing that victory was just around the corner, this strange situation occurred. The officers and soldiers could not explain this phenomenon at all. They were so frightened that they quickly dropped their weapons and ran away.

However, in the process of escaping, countless soldiers fell to the ground and never got up again.

The rebels couldn't help but look at each other, at a loss.

For a long time, someone shouted loudly: "This is God's will. In order to favor King Shun, God has sent down punishment to punish the disobedient!"

Everyone just woke up from a dream, struggled one after another, and kowtowed to the heaven and the earth: "The sky is above, and the earth is below. We are willing to be loyal to King Shun until death. We dare not regret it!"

"Please protect me from all the gods in the sky, and bear witness from heaven and earth. Anyone who violates this rule will never be reincarnated!"

What do you think? It turns out that the valley is closed and the smoke is difficult to disperse.

The rebel artillery kept firing, slowly filling the valley with poisonous smoke. Over time, it reached a certain critical point, and it was natural to die of poisoning or suffocation!

People at that time were ignorant and didn't know the key. They thought it was a manifestation from heaven.

Li Mou and others rested for another half an hour, then endured their weakness and crossed Shimen Pass along the forbidden ditch.

Looking through the starlight, I saw a dragon lying on the hill, raising its head and spitting out a rumbling roar.

Only then did everyone "understand" that it was the Dragon God who helped, and they all knelt down to thank the Dragon God for saving his life.

When everyone got up, they looked there again. Where were the dragon gods and Pi Lian?

It was clearly a dragon in the mountains. The rapids went straight down and fell into the blue pool, making a rumbling sound.

There is a waterfall above and a deep pool below, which is called Longqiu.

It turns out that this place is the intersection of Tongshui and Jinggou. The clear stream flowing out from the Qinling Haocha Valley and the spring water in the Jinggou merge together. It forms one of the eight scenic spots in Tongguan called "Forbidden Valley Longqiu".

Lin Yunhan, a poet whose birth and death dates are unknown, once sang:

There is a spiritual source at the foot of Forbidden Valley Mountain, and a deep abyss penetrates the sea gate.

The dragon looks up at the mirror and sighs at the mist in the sky. The fish penetrates the stone and makes moss marks.

At four o'clock, the rains help farmers look forward to it, and the wind and clouds thousands of miles away turn into clouds.

I take advantage of the joy to visit the scenic spots, and I will be drunk with wine in the spring.

Just because this poem is related to this war, it is also considered to be "a work to flatter Taizu".

Hundreds of years later, when most historians talk about this period of history, they all hold the theory that "it was Taizu who used miraculous things to forge the destiny of heaven in order to fool the people, so it cannot be taken seriously."

However, there are still many people in the field who insist that "Taizu's life is a legendary life. It cannot be regarded by ordinary people, nor can it be explained by materialism. There is God's will in it!"

In short, in this battle, the rebels fought hard for three or four months. Finally, after reaching Tongguan, they attacked Shaanxi Commander Zuo Guangxian from front to back.

The officers and soldiers in Tongguan were already in low morale because of their consecutive defeats. They were also faced with the constant bombardment of the rebel army's Hongyi artillery day and night, and they had long been frightened.

When Li Mouqi came out of Jinggou, Zuo Guang was unable to stop him, so he took advantage of the opportunity before the rebels encircled him, and withdrew from Tongguan and retreated to Huayin and Huazhou to monitor the movements of the rebels.

Once the thousand-year-old pass was broken, the Guanzhong area opened its door to the rebels.

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