Chapter 198 War Cloud Pressure

Xing Tianjun also spent the Spring Festival in intense preparation. Because of the pressure of the officers and soldiers, there was a pre-war tense atmosphere everywhere, so even the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival was completely diluted, and everyone was immersed in the busy preparation.

The chiefs of security in various places led the rural soldiers to carry out the final evacuation of the villagers under their jurisdiction, and arrange the lives of the people in the mountains. The people also brought everything they could take away into the mountain according to their requirements. If they could not take away, they dug pits and buried them on the ground and followed the generals without hesitation. Hiding in the mountain forest, looking for a cave in the mountain or making a nest, they began their difficult life.

The battalions of soldiers are training in full swing in various places, and the fierce soldiers and horses are waiting for the arrival of the war.

A team of scouts came and went to investigate the movements of the officers and soldiers at the junction, and sent the news to Lianhuazhai.

The craftsmen on the other side of Shuangfengzhai did not rest even on New Year's Eve and the first day of the lunar new year. They produced all kinds of weapons at full power, and continuously transported all kinds of materials to Lianhuazhai.

Originally, Xiao Tianjian planned to marry Fan Yutong before the New Year, but because this matter was stranded, he had to do it again. After arranging the affairs of the troops, he personally took the guards out of Lianhuazhai and went everywhere to inspect the preparations before the war, so that he was so busy that he didn't even have a day off.

After repeated preparations, the new barracks of the Xingtian Army also ended the training of new soldiers and turned to the fourth battalion of the soldiers on the spot. Liu Bao temporarily served as the general of the fourth battalion, which enriched the strength of the soldiers of the Xingtian Army. At the same time, Xiao Tianjian ordered to select 3,000 elite township soldiers from the township troops from various township troops, and temporarily formed two super township soldiers. The battalion, as the reserve force for the Xingtian Army to deal with the officers and soldiers this time, ordered Jiang Cheng and Zhao Erli, the two deputy battalions to lead a township barracks, as a reserve army of the war barracks, to enrich the combat effectiveness of the Xingtian Army, and ordered them to transfer 100 generals from the original battalions to enrich the township barracks and temporarily serve as The middle and low-level officers, who control these temporarily organized township soldiers, have unified their command. Even if the training of the township soldiers is not sufficient, they also have considerable combat effectiveness under the leadership of these people.

In this way, the number of soldiers of the Xingtian Army has also increased to about 8,000. Although the number is still quite different from that of several officers and soldiers, these troops are already relatively sufficient to defend the Yangcheng area.

It was under such a tense preparation that Xing Tianjun finally ushered in the attack of the officers.

On the twelfth day of the first month of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Chen Bing's four-way officers and army around Yangcheng were ordered to start to act together. He Renlong's army was ordered to attack Yuanqu County again. Zuo Guang's first army was ordered to leave Jiangzhou and set out from Jiang County to Xu Dingguo's Qinshui County, while the Hu Dawei Department set out from Lu'an Prefecture and entered the south of Zezhou to sweep Xingtian. Army.

This time, the four-way army accepted the lesson of the last defeat of Shanxi soldiers and horses. They did not make mistakes in their actions, but began to take action at the same time.

The response measures taken by the Xingtian Army were that Yan Chongxi's first battalion continued to garrison in Yuanqu County and resisted the attack of He Renlong's army in Zhengjiapo. Luo Li's second battalion resisted the attack of Zuo Guangxian and Xu Dingguo's two officers in Qinshui County. The southern part of Zezhou was handed over to Wang Chengping's cavalry, led by the two sentry cavalry under his command. Attacked the officers and soldiers of Hu Dawei.

The rest of the battalions have contracted back to the Yangcheng area. According to Xiao Tianjian's words, this time, Xing Tianjun took the first step to resist the battalion, and then gradually contracted and introduced the officers to the Yangcheng boundary for a decisive battle.

After the four-way officers and soldiers took action, except for the tenacious resistance of the first battalion of Xing Tianjun led by Zhengjiapo, led by He Renlong to the west of Yuanqu County, the other three-way officers and soldiers progressed very fast. Luo Li and Wang Chengping led their forces to resist fiercely. Luo Li, who guarded Qinshui County, was only a few points from Qinshui to Yangcheng. There was a certain degree of resistance in the esluice, knocking out the leading soldiers and horses of some officers and soldiers. Then when a large number of officers and soldiers arrived, they took the initiative to retreat, gave up fighting with the officers and soldiers, and slowly retreated to delay the speed of the officers and soldiers entering Yangcheng.

Wang Chengping, on the other hand, took advantage of the flat terrain in the southern part of Zezhou and the characteristics of cavalry operations. In the south of Zezhou, he simply consumed the tiger power. He did not confront the tiger power head-on at all. Instead, he led the cavalry under his command around the south of Zezhou and turned around the nearly 10,000 officers under the tiger's power. If they can't catch them, they will be accidentally bitten by the cavalry led by Wang Chengping, giving full play to the cavalry's advantage of quick mobility, which greatly makes Wang Chengping and his brothers experience the pleasure of plundering around the border town at the beginning, but this time they are dealing with a large amount of officials. Army.

As long as the officers and soldiers under the command of Hu Dawei sweep everywhere, Wang Chengping led the cavalry to select those officers and soldiers with few troops to carry out a sudden attack, killing hundreds of officers and nearly a thousand villagers under Hu Dawei in a row, and led the army everywhere to find Wang Chengping's thief cavalry decisive battle. However, Wang Chengping just didn't give Hu Dawei a chance and took the cavalry around, which made Hu Dawei unable to catch their tails at all.

So much so that Hu Dawei did not dare to divide the troops and sweep them easily later. He could only wrap the soldiers and horses into groups and slowly push forward, gradually squeeze the activity space of Wang Chengping, a group of cavalry.

At the beginning of the war, the two sides fought not so fiercely. Although the officers and soldiers were not able to clean up the large number of soldiers and horses of the Xingtian Army like the autumn wind sweeping the fallen leaves, they still gradually moved forward step by step, and the battle between the two sides mostly ended with the active retreat of the Xing Tianjun.

In this way, in less than ten days, the officers and soldiers of Zuo Guangxian, Xu Dingguo and Hu Dawei basically recovered Qinshui County and the southern part of Zezhou, and He Renlong, who was responsible for attacking Yuanqu County, also achieved certain results. Yan Chongxi's battalion tenaciously blocked He Renlong's troops in Zhengjiapo area for five days. He took the initiative to give up Zheng Jiapo and retreated to the west of Yuanqu County, so that He Renlong led his troops to attack Yuanqu County and relieved the siege of Yuanqu County.

Although there are not many officers and soldiers who have been sentenced, the reports of victory have been sent to Pingyang Prefecture in a row. Wu Xiong is also very happy after reading these victory reports, but his staff do not think so, because the number of annihilation of enemy troops is included in the number of annihilation reports. I can't figure it out. Sometimes after a battle, I only beheaded a few levels, and I have never been beheaded more than 100 levels. Therefore, the staff reminded Wu Jing that in this way, although the officers and troops are progressing relatively smoothly, the Xing Tianjun has not lost much strength because of this, so it is estimated that the future battle will become more and more fierce.

After listening to this, Wu Yu was deeply convinced. He quickly sent people to send letters to the main generals of several officers and soldiers, so that they must be more careful. Don't rush alone and be ambushed by the Xing Tianjun.

However, for Wu Yong's reminder, except for He Renlong, Zuo Guangxian, Xu Dingguo and Hu Dawei of the other three soldiers and horses did not listen to it. They thought that Wu Yong was too cautious. At present, they are progressing smoothly, and the Xing Tianjun has been in theirs several times. They fled without fighting in front of the attack, and basically did not make too much strong resistance, and they had many soldiers and horses. With the strength of the Xingtian Army, even if they played some tricks, they could not help them.

So Zuo Guangxian and Xu Dingguo joined forces. After recovering Qinshui County, he immediately attacked the boundary of Yangcheng County. However, what they never expected was that after they invaded the boundary of Yangcheng County, they encountered the tenacious resistance of Xing Tianjun in Liangjiazhuang.

After leading the troops and retreating to Liangjiazhuang, Luo Li stopped and continued to retreat. With Liangjiazhuang as the center, he built several strong defense lines in advance on the road from Qinshui County to Yangcheng.

Liangjiazhuang is also a small village located at the junction of Qinshui County and Yangcheng County, but it happens to be on a mountainside. Below is the only channel between Qinshui County and Yangcheng. Compared with the Hexi Village where Li Shuanzhu was stationed in the previous period, the terrain is much more complicated. Although it can't be said that a man can't open up, it can also be It is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Under Liangjiazhuang, if the officers and soldiers want to capture Liangjiazhuang, they must attack from bottom to top, and the terrain under the slope is narrow. No matter how many soldiers and horses the attacker has, they can't deploy them all here. They can only use oil-adding tactics to constantly rotate to attack Liangjiazhuang.

After Luo Li led his troops to retreat from Qinshui County to Liangjiazhuang, a group of township soldiers had already built several strong defense lines for them with the help of the Xingtian Army Engineering Barracks.

Liang Tietou, the drilled gopher of the engineering battalion, personally took command here, dug the official road with earth and stone, and then went down to the slope. The soldiers of the engineering battalion and the villagers gathered nearby built four solid chest walls. After withdrawing here, the second battalion under Luo Li's command immediately stationed in Liangjiazhuang. , took over the defense here and nailed it firmly here.

Xu Dingguo led his troops to the bottom of Liangjiazhuang first. After receiving the soldiers and horses, he looked up at the location of Liangjiazhuang and was slightly shocked. The terrain here was very unfavorable to him. The thief army had cut off this passage and built fortifications on the mountain. It seemed that he was going to fight with them here.

And on the ramp leading to Liangjiazhuang on the mountain, there are also a lot of wood thistle and iron thistle, and several deer forts have been built one after another. If they don't take this Liangjiazhuang, they will be blocked here and unable to enter the boundary of Yangcheng.

So he immediately mobilized the artillery in the army, put it at the foot of the mountain, aimed at the position of the Xing Tianjun on the mountain, and then sent a general of his men, led 500 officers and soldiers, and began to attack Liangjiazhuang.

Luo Li stood behind the first chest wall, patted the dust all over his body, and muttered, "Mom, there are really a lot of cannons of the officers and soldiers!" I almost got down!"

When the officer and the army carried out a round of shelling just now, Luo Li happened to stand on the chest wall to watch the arrangement of the officer and army. A shell hit his position not far away. If the two guards hadn't pulled this guy off the chest wall in time, this guy would have been bombarded, but even so, he was also The dust stirred up by the shells made me feel a little embarrassed.

"General Luo, the officers and soldiers are coming up. Do you want to turn up the firearms and let them taste the power of our firearms?" A sentry will propose to Luo Li.

Luo Li shook his head and stood up straight, stretched out his head to look at the movement below, waved his hand carelessly and said, "No need! Our general said that if we want us to withstand this large number of officers and soldiers here, if we use our firearms so early, we will be afraid of the officers and soldiers! It's enough to transfer the archers of the villagers and the villagers to deal with them!"