Chapter 200 So it is

The sudden abandonment of resistance by the group of thieves in Liangjiazhuang made Xu Dingguo and Zuo Guangxian confused. In their opinion, Xing Tianjun has been very tenacious these days, and he is not at a low end. He is fully capable of supporting some more days. Why did he suddenly give up here? This made them a little confused. They were afraid of being tricked by the thieves. On the contrary, they did not dare to move forward easily after taking Liangjiazhuang.

So they sent Ye not to overturn Liangjiazhuang to search for the enemy. The sent Ye not to return quickly, saying that the thief army had indeed retreated, and the villagers in the nearby village also ran away, and could hardly find any villagers.

Xu Dingguo was relieved and smiled at Zuo Guang first, "It seems that the thief army still ran out of food and can't hold on here. He retreated back!" Then I won't hesitate to go to Yangcheng immediately and take down the nest of this group of thieves!"

So the officers and soldiers poured into the territory of Yangcheng, but wherever they passed, the people in the villages almost fled cleanly, so that they could hardly find anyone who led the way. They only caught a very small number of old people, but these old guys were like stones in the latrine pits, smelly. He refused to lead them to the way without saying anything and went to the nest of the Xingtian Army. Even if they killed a few old people, the rest of the villagers still refused to help them.

When they arrived at Yangcheng County, they suddenly found that Yangcheng County had already turned into ruins. The city wall collapsed several places, and the houses in the city were burned into ruins by a fire.

This couldn't help but make the officers and soldiers very discouraged. Originally, they wanted to find a good place to be warm after entering Yangcheng, eat and drink warm. These days, they were almost frozen outside. However, when they arrived here, they found that it was just a dream. Yangcheng County had already been completely destroyed by Xing Tianjun, so that they could have a good rest. There is no place.

During the first month, the weather and temperature are still very low. At this time, the officers and soldiers are not willing to send troops. If you are not careful, you will get frostbite. At night, it is even colder and you can't even reach out. Therefore, in these days when Liangjiazhuang Mountain is blocked, the soldiers will be part of the war, and many people are born with frostbite, and there are many of them. For this reason, there may be a lifelong disability.

And since they set out, they have entered the area controlled by the Xingtian Army. The local people have almost fled cleanly, so that they have nowhere to get food or get any supplies on the spot. The people have avoided snakes and scorpions to them at all without the support of the local people, and only some remnants. Those who are hostile to Xing Tianjun will provide some intelligence support for the officers and soldiers, but basically the officers and soldiers will not get much help.

But this did not make Xu Dingguo and Zuo Guang feel angry first. Just after they entered the boundary of Yangcheng and just issued a good report to recover Yangcheng County, they got an amazing news. Two days ago, they were still blocked by a group of Xing Tianjun under Liangjiazhuang. Hu Dawei The soldiers and horses on the road encountered an extremely fierce counterattack from the Xingtian Army in the southern part of Zezhou.

The thief army mobilized nearly 5,000 elites and suddenly launched a fierce attack on Hu Dawei's troops. Hu Dawei was caught off guard and led a decisive battle with the main force of Xing Tianjun, but under the fierce attack of Xing Tianjun, it suffered heavy losses, forcing Hu Dawei to lead his troops to retreat, but Xing Tianjun did not do so. Shou, launched a night attack on Hu Dawei's headquarters overnight, causing Hu Dawei's headquarters, which had already fallen in morale, to collapse immediately. Hu Dawei only led 3,000 defeated soldiers to escape back to Zezhou to avoid Zezhou City before surviving.

This news shocked Xu Dingguo and Zuo Guang. Although Hu Dawei is the worst of the four-way officers and soldiers, at least it also has four or five thousand officers and soldiers and four thousand township braves. Together, the combined force is nearly 10,000, and it will be hit by the Xingtian Army. Next, the defeat was so bad that they really couldn't believe it.

And there was also news from Pingyang Prefecture that He Renlong's progress in Yuanqu County was also very bad. Although He Renlong fought fiercely for several days to repel the Xing Tianjun, he suffered repeated setbacks in the following actions. A subordinates of Xing Tianjun fought and retreated in the eastern part of Yuanqu County, which caused heavy casualties. That one The thief soldiers of the Xingtian Army later retreated to Lishan Town. When He Renlong led his troops to pursue, not only did he not defeat Lishan Town, but the heavy battalion responsible for transporting grain to them was raided by a group of thieves, burning a large number of grain and fodder from He Renlong's headquarters, forcing He Renlong to lead his troops back to Yuanqu County and re-adjust food. As a result, the eastern part of Yuanqu County, which had just been recovered, fell into the hands of the thief army again. At present, He Renlong's troops have lost the strength to continue to attack, and they can only retreat from Yuanqu County. They can no longer continue to enter Yangcheng County and meet their three-way people.

In this way, only Xu Dingguo and Zuo Guangxian's soldiers and horses are not too much, and they still have the ability to fight in the first battle. It seems that the officers and soldiers of Hu Dawei can't counten.

In the face of such a situation, Xu Dingguo and Zuo Guangxian were a little unprepared. They hesitated for a moment. They didn't know whether they should continue to march on the Xing Tianjun or stop and wait and see the situation.

Besides, Xiao Tianjian is really not idle these days. The war situation everywhere is summarized on his desk every day. He keeps giving his orders everywhere. The situation in Yuanqu County is better. Although He Renlong's subordinate is more powerful, Yan Chongxi's battalion is not a vegetarian. As Xiao Tianjian's best Rui's first battalion, even in the case of a great disparity in strength, Yan Chongxi's first battalion basically did not fall behind. Taking advantage of their familiarity with the terrain, they repeatedly fought with He Renlong in various important places in Yuanqu County, constantly consuming He Renlong's troops with local advantage.

Because He Renlong suffered a loss from Xing Tianjun, although he wanted to find the scene through this fight, in the face of the more fierce firepower of Xing Tianjun, his generals were a little scared, afraid of suffering another big loss. Even after the retreat of the Xing Tianjun, the speed of pursuit was not fast, and it was Yan Chongxi, who dares not bite, is too tight. If he is not careful, he will be bitten hard by Yan Chongxi.

Moreover, Yan Chongxi still holds five three-pound and six-pound cannons newly cast by Xing Tianjun. Such cannons take advantage of them when fighting with He Renlong. In terms of range and power, they are far more than the Fran machine cannons equipped by He Renlong. He Renlong's gunners have no power to fight back. In Xing Tianjun's cannons Under the fire, He Renlong's department suffered a great loss. In the battle of Zhengjiapo alone, He Renlong lost a total of 1,000 and several totals.

Therefore, Xiao Tianjian is not very worried about the situation on Yan Chongxi's side. After all, Yan Chongxi finally has such a dangerous place as Lishan Town for him to defend, which is enough to stop He Renlong's attack.

And his main focus is on the soldiers and horses of Hu Dawei in the south of Zezhou. Judging from the news sent back by various soldiers and horses, among the four officers and soldiers, the weakest is the Hu Dawei, and Hu Dawei is responsible for recovering the southern part of Zezhou. In the first area, in a few days, Wang Chengping's cavalry caused a lot of trouble to Hu Dawei. Hu Dawei's troops were exhausted all day, and gradually entered the depths of the Xingtian Army's control area under the attraction of Wang Chengping.

So Xiao Tianjian took this opportunity and passed the order to Luo Li to delay Xu Dingguo and Zuo Guangxian's troops in Qinshui County at all costs, so as to buy time and create conditions for him to lead the main force of the Xingtian Army left in Yangcheng to defeat Hu Dawei's headquarters.

Only then did Luo Li fight desperately to block Xu Dingguo and Zuo Guangxian's two officers and soldiers in Liangjiazhuang. In the past few days, the officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties, but Luo Li's side was not easy. Even if the officers and soldiers were not good, they occupied more than ten times the advantage of their troops, and were also equipped with a lot of three-eyed fire and bird soldiers. Under the rotation, Luo Li led his troops to fight very hard. In addition, the number of artillery of the two officers and soldiers was far more than several times the number of artillery of the artillery of Luo Li's second battalion. In order to conquer Liangjiazhuang, the officers and soldiers did not hesitate to bombard the Liangjiazhuang defense line at the expense of gunpowder. After several days of fierce fighting, the second battalion suffered a lot, and nearly one-third of the casualties were casualties. Finally, after getting the news from Xiao Tianjian, they took the initiative to give up Liangjiazhuang and abandoned Liangjiazhuang overnight and withdrew from Lianhua Village.

Taking advantage of the time when Luo Li resisted Xu Dingguo and Zuo Guangxian in Liangjiazhuang, Xiao Tianjian personally led Li Shuanzhu's third battalion and artillery battalion, as well as Wang Chengping's cavalry and two temporary township barracks, and quickly rushed to a place called Jiaozhuang in the south of Zezhou, where he was about to lead the attack. The Tiger Power of the Yangcheng Realm.

After the encounter between the two armies, Xiao Tianjian immediately bombarded the Hu Dawei array with three six-pound guns, three three-pound guns and more than ten Fran machine guns in the artillery battalion.

Although the solid shell power of the artillery is limited in the absence of flowering bombs, the gunners of the Xingtian Army have basically received regular aiming training. The shooting accuracy is much higher than that of the gunners in the Hu Dawei's officer army. After several volleys of artillery fire, the cannons in the Hu Dawei Army have been shot up. Turn over.

In this era, because of the poor accuracy of artillery, no one knows the concept of artillery suppression. After adopting two good guns, they aim at the enemy's array randomly. The two gunners fight separately, and no one can do anything about it. However, Hu Dawei did not expect that as soon as the two sides fought, Xing Tianjun's artillery. His hand first knocked off the guns in his hand, and then turned the muzzle and bombarded his central army.

The power of the bouncing bullet of solid bullets should not be underestimated, especially after the army's assembly, when it is arranged into a dense formation. When the bouncing bullets are fired, a single shell can kill and injure a lot of people. Therefore, under the cannons of the Xing Tianjun, even if there are more than a dozen bloody roads in the Hu Dawei army array, the cannonballs The officers and soldiers who passed were beaten and screamed to the sky. Suddenly, the dense team began to show chaos.