Chapter 80 Soldier to Lu's

After Liu Yaoben walked to Xiao Tian Fitness, he also looked at the new recruits who ran far away and said to Xiao Tianjian with a smile, "What do you think of these recruits, commander-in-chief?"

Xiao Tianjian also stared at these distant recruits and said, "It's very simple! In the past, no one told them how to live, so they lived a muddle-headed life. Now after following us, someone tells them how to live, and they naturally have a head start! I'll leave this group of people to you. You look at me in Yongning County. When I come back next time, I want to see these new recruits become elite soldiers! In addition, in Shanxi, another group of young brothers of your youth camp have also graduated. They will come from Shanxi soon. You can leave some and add them to the new barracks, and the rest will be added to the second battalion and the third battalions! Remember, Yongning County can't be lost. This is the foundation of our foothold in Henan!"

Liu Yao nodded somewhat depressedly and took the order, but immediately asked, "Can't you let others do this kind of thing?" I still want to work with the handsome! Even if you let me be a pawn!"

Xiao Tianjian turned around and looked at Liu Yaoben, patted him on the shoulder and said, "You are the first to follow me and know me, and you are destined to be a general. Sooner or later, you will be alone for me. Last time you stayed in Yongning, you did a good job. I can rest assured that you stay here for me! As for the future, there are still many battles to fight! Are you still afraid that you can't fight without a war?

A team of soldiers and horses slowly walked out of Yongning County and headed west. Luo Li and Li Shuanzhu each led a battalion of troops and walked in the middle of the team. In front of them was Situ Liang's cavalry team, and behind them was a heavy team of nearly dozens of carts. Xiao Tianjian walked in the middle of the team and constantly saw them off on both sides of the road. The crowd waved.

After settling down the clay pot and the group returned to Shanxi, the situation in Yongning County also began to stabilize. Under the deterrence of the Xing Tianjun, the local gentry bowed their heads and declared their submission. In order to show their loyalty, these local gentry sent their children to the new barracks of the Xingtian Army one after another. As a soldier, he was trained by the Xingtian Army with those new troops. In this way, these people were also tied to the chariot of the Xing Tianjun, and they couldn't help but be careless in the future.

As for the resettlement of exiles on the ground in Yongning and other affairs, Luo Yingjie has been fully spread out. Naturally, this kind of matter is left to him to be responsible. Moreover, he is not a person in the general system. It is also convenient to communicate with some squire and scholars on the ground. In addition, Liu Yaoben led the teaching camp and more than 2,000 new barracks to support him in Yongning. The waist should be able to control Yongning's side.

What's more, Zu Kuan and Wang Shaoyu were newly defeated. In a short time, Henan could not transfer too many troops to Yongning, so Xiao Tianjian had no worries.

After obtaining a large number of supplies in Yongning County, Xing Tianjun has also solved the problem of logistics supply. In addition to continuing to smuggle gunpowder, armor and muskets from Shanxi, with the Yongning base, his operation in Henan can be fully spread.

According to the original plan, Xiao Tianjian chose the target in Lushi County. The reason why Lushi County was selected is that it is adjacent to Luonan, Shanxi Province in the west, which is the junction of Shaanxi and Henan. Moreover, it is deep in mountains and forests, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is a very good place for Tibetan soldiers to raise soldiers, and you can defend Tongguan to the north. The officers and soldiers in the field can threaten Nanyang to go south. Whether it is as a strategic depth or as a starting point for attack, this is a good choice. It can be said that it is a good place to attack, retreat and defend.

Moreover, Lushi has iron, lead and gold mines. As long as Lushi County is occupied, Xing Tianjun will have one more choice. At that time, in Lushi County, weapons can also be built, and a lot of soldiers can be obtained.

Therefore, after stabilizing Yongning, Xiao Tianjian and his generals constantly formulated a plan to capture Lu's County, and chose the fifth day of November, the army set out and began to march towards Lu's County.

In this matter, the Lushi County government and the local Haoqiang have already been in chaos. After Yongning was captured by the Xing Tianjun, they foresaw that their Lu's County was likely to become the next target, so Zhixian rushed to Luoyang three times a day and asked Feng Yijun, the governor of Luoyang, to send troops to Lu's County to strengthen Lu's County. The ability to guard.

Unfortunately, Feng Yijun is powerless at this moment. Send Wang Shaoyu. As a result, Wang Shaoyu first hesitated in Yiyang, and then finally asked Chen Biqian to transfer Zu Kuan to lead his troops to help the battle. As a result, Zu Kuan, who was regarded as General Changsheng, was also defeated by Xing Tianjun in Yongning and gathered in dismay. The remnants turned around and ran back to Lushan.

Therefore, although he knows that Xing Tianjun's appetite will never only occupy the area of Yongning County, and will definitely continue to expand to the surrounding area in order to gain a foothold in Henan, he can't have any powerful troops at hand to deal with the next expansion of Xing Tianjun. He can only make the counties around Yongning County strengthen themselves. Guarding, he hurriedly sent people to ask Chen Biqian, the governor of Henan, for help.

Chen Biqian was also shocked after hearing the news of Zu Kuan's defeat. Originally, in his opinion, as long as he took out such a sentry like Zu Kuan to go to Yongning, he could easily determine the dangerous situation of Yongning County. However, he never thought that Zu Kuan, who was invincible in his opinion, was also in the Xingtian army. There was a big loss at the front.

In this way, Chen Biqian also panicked and hurriedly ordered to transfer soldiers and horses from all over the world to Yongning to suppress it again in Kaifeng. This time, he did not dare to ask for it. While dispatching generals, he wrote a medal to send it to the capital and submitted it to Emperor Chongzhen, asking Emperor Chongzhen to think of a way quickly.

In short, the defeat of Zu Kuan was so shocked in Henan that the officers and soldiers from all walks of life couldn't help but be nervous after hearing the news.

But this is not an unlucky thing. Just a few days after the Xing Tianjun led the defeat of Zu Kuan's troops, the Eighth King Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng and other road rebels also went out of Shangluo and Sichuan again. From the Nanyang area, they entered Henan, broke through the collapsed sky and led the troops to cross the river into the Jingxiang area, and began to plunder, and Zhang Xian Zhong led his troops to Gwangju, and Scorpion Kuai Tuo Yangkun led his troops to the east at a very fast speed and went straight to Fengyang again.

Even Li Zicheng took over a batch of Gao Yingxiang's old troops after obtaining the military supplies of Xing Tianjun. The momentum has been revived again, and his combat effectiveness has been enhanced a lot. He fought with Sun Chuanting in Shaanxi, and even trapped several counties, which made Sun Chuanting, who was responsible for suppress the area of Shaanxi, nervous. This is also Not to mention that, even Luo Rucai, who was forced to flee to the northeastern part of Shaanxi under the strong pressure of Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting a while ago, seemed to have grown a lot overnight. Unexpectedly, he took advantage of the freezing of the Yellow River to cross the ice and broke into Shanxi, and the soldiers pointed straight to the area of Xiezhou.

So the slightly stable situation just formed by the efforts of Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng fell into chaos again, and all over the country flew to Beijing Normal University like snowflakes.

It can be said that to some extent, Xiao Tianjian began to completely affect the development of the current situation. On the one hand, he entered Henan and provoked the rebels who had been forced out of Henan to turn around and return to Henan again. On the other hand, he strengthened them by selling the weapons of Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai and other Lu Rebels. The strength has reversed the disadvantage to a certain extent, strengthened their strength to fight against the officers and soldiers, and greatly muddyed up this pool of water.

Of course, for this situation, Xiao Tianjian, who is leading the army to push Lu, is not very clear. He just tried to secretly push the situation in the direction he hoped. As for the situation of all kinds of rebels at present, he did not immediately grasp it in a short time.

The straight-line distance from Yongning County to Lushi County is less than 100 miles, but the west of Henan is mountainous and foresty, and the roads are winding in the mountains, so the actual journey is basically 200 miles. After leaving Yongning County, it is basically a mountain road, and the road is rugged and difficult to travel, although Xing Tianjun is famous for hiking. But under such a mountain road, you can't get up soon if you march with a heavy car.

Originally, Xiao Tianjian's plan to attack Lu's county in three days was also because of the difficult road. In addition, some local tyrants in Lu's County destroyed the road in advance along the way in order to prevent the Xingtian Army from attacking Lu's army, and there were also a small group of local armed people wandering in front of the Xing Tianjun from time to time, forcing Xing Tianjun to one side. To send engineers to repair the road in front of him, he had to send a team of people in front of them to remove the local armed forces that tried to disturb the Xing Tianjun's advance, so that the road was planned to be completed in three days, but he walked for two more days before arriving at Lu's County.

Fortunately, although there are a large number of local powerful armed forces in Lushi County, after all, the combat effectiveness of these local armed forces is very low. Although they try to prevent the Xing Tianjun from advancing along the way, as long as they meet the generals of the Xing Tianjun, they are often beaten into birds and beasts. By the way, they are under the command of Li Shuanzhu, who was sent as a striker. The generals of the two companies, led by Zhao Erlu, actually pulled out two or three powerful fortresses along the way, and slaughtered the two or three powerful homes of the local powerful people who tried to hinder the Xing Tianjun. In this way, they detered the local armed forces who were constantly trying to obstruct the Xing Tianjun, so this Some local tycoons had to take back their own Zhuangding Xiangyong, and began to shrink into their castle, strengthen the wall, and prepare to defend the castle.

And Xiao Tianjian's attack on Lushi County this time also changed his previous style of clearing the local forces around the county, and directly rushed to Lu's County.

When their soldiers arrived in Lu's County, Lu's County was already in a panic. Feng Xilian, a magistrate, was not as good as Wu Da Lie, a magistrate of Yongning County. This man was as timid as a mouse. Although the means of bullying the people was quite fierce, he was simply a corrupt official. Being an official was the primary purpose for him to make a fortune, but It's to let him die with this small Lu's county, but he won't do it.

When he learned that the soldiers and horses of the Xing Tianjun came straight to the county, Feng Xilian took stock of the available power at hand. Perhaps it was because he already knew that Lushi County would be difficult to withstand the attack of the Xing Tianjun this time. He had promised Feng Xilian to dispatch them. Several local gentry who bravely entered the city and guarded the city have actually laid soft eggs. They refused to send each village bravery to the county for Feng Xilian to help guard the county. One by one, they contracted their respective Zhuangding Xiangyong back to their own Zhuangbao, intending to protect themselves wisely and protect their own land first to see the wind. Say it again.

As a result, Feng Xilian only had a few hundred old and weak defenders left in his hand, and there was basically no manpower to use other than that.

Seeing that the resistance was no longer possible to succeed, Feng Xilian also made a sharp decision. The night before Xing Tianjun's arrival, he cleaned up the soft house in the city, installed seven or eight big cars, opened the gate overnight, and then took his wife, concubines, children and domestic slaves out of the city and fled the county in a panic.

As soon as Feng Xilian's family fled, Lushi County was in chaos. When his officials saw that the magistrate had run away, he had no intention to stay and take over this mess! One by one, they wrapped up in soft things and fled the county with their families. Suddenly, Lushi County became an undefened city.

If the official runs away, where can a soldier spontaneously organize resistance? After the garrison in the city learned that the officials had run away, they scolded one by one. The officials had money to escape with thin softness, but these big-headed soldiers were poor. Where can they run? Even if you want to run, you have to find a way to get some money and valuables to escape first, so that after running, you will become a freed person who will starve to death on the roadside.

As a result, these defenders became bandits overnight. In order to get some money to escape from this place, they ganged up and began to rob the people in the city.

This time, the people in Lushi County suffered. Even some rich masters in the family were not spared. They were regarded as fat sheep by these bandits in the city and became the first victims. Their homes were broken by these bandits one after another. With a little resistance, they were killed by the bandits. The bandits took their family's money. Not to mention the looting of soft things, it even developed to the extent of robbing women and humiliating them on the street.

The whole city of Lu's county fell into anarchy. The streets were full of bandits wielding blades and running around, constantly bumping open the door of a house. After rushing in, there was a lot of robbery. Even some splashers in the city looked at this opportunity and joined the plundering team, spontaneously grouping up everywhere. Burning, killing and looting began. Suddenly, adults called children to cry in the city, and the beautiful women were even more unlucky. They were knocked down in the room or even on the street by bandits and these rappers. They were humiliated in public. Some women could not stand such insults, hanged themselves, threw themselves in wells, and there were hundreds of women in the city for a while. Suicide, the wailing of the family resounded over the county.

Some soldiers who grabbed enough, one by one, ran away from several gates one by one, escaped from several gates one by one, and more defenders had already robbed and forgot that the danger was in front of their eyes. They continued to be crazy in the city. There were four gates in the east, west, north and south. What's more, no soldier has been guarded, and the suspension bridge has also been put down by the defenders who fled from the city. The gate is even open. Even the gate has lost clothes and other things that are not easy to carry. Lushi County has become a completely undefensed city.

At this time, a group of about 200 cavalrymen began to walk out of the mountain road north of Lushi County. A strong army led by him raised his hand to stop the soldiers who followed him behind him, took the rein and took a pergola to look at Lu's county...

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