Chapter 203 Blocked everywhere

At this time, Lishan Town, Yuanqu County, also ushered in a big war. After the first attack on Lishan Town, He Renlong had to give up the attack, returned to Yuanqu County for a rest, re-mobilized a batch of grain from Xiezhou to Yuanqu County to replenish his military supplies, and then received from Pingyang. Wu Yu's rebuke made him quickly solve the bandits in Yuanqu County. He went to Yangcheng County and Zuo Guangxian as soon as possible to meet several soldiers and horses, and completely pacified the thieves of the Xingtian army in Yangcheng.

Although He Renlong is not very afraid of Wu Yong, he can't be afraid of Hong Chengchou. This time, Hong Chengchou ordered him to suppress the Xing Tianjun. He has been delayed for a long time. Hong Chengchou has sent someone to reprimand him a year ago. If he doesn't make some achievements, he is estimated that he will return to Hong Chengchou. Hong Chengchou will not give him good fruit to eat. After all, Hong Chengchou has the Shangfang sword given to him by Emperor Chongzhen in his hand. For a general like them, he has the right to behead first and then play. If he provoked Hong Chengchou's words, with Hong Chengchou's temper, he may really be guilty of being afraid of fighting and retreating in battle. At that time, please come out Shangfang's sword and chop it. Maybe he doesn't.

Therefore, after He Renlong replenished the grain in Yuanqu County, he once again led the army into the mountain and attacked Lishan Town, where the Xingtian Army was located.

After this period of continuous engagement, he has found out that it was not Xiao Tianjian, the bandit leader of Xing Tianjun, who led the army to confront him this time, but a subordinate named Yan Chongxi, and Xing Tianjun stayed in Yuanqu County with less than 2,000 soldiers and horses, and in addition to the 5,000 soldiers and horses brought from Shaanxi, he also There are more than 3,000 township braves assigned to him in Shanxi, and their strength is nearly four times that of the thief's army, so they are much bolder.

On the sixth day of February, he led his troops to leave Yuanqu County and attacked Lishan Town. This time, Yan Chongxi gave him another battle and retreated, constantly blocking him, slowly retreated to Lishan Town, and then completely stopped retreating at a place called Sanli waist south of Lishan Town and built a defense worker. There was a confrontation with the officers and soldiers.

What embarrasss He Renlong is that although his military strength far exceeds that of the thief's army, he can't exert a little advantage in this area. All the roads from Yuanqu County to Lishan Town are mountain roads, with ups and downs and ravines, and there are primitive mountains and forests everywhere. No matter how many generals there are in such a place. Under the shape, there was no way to unfold, so he could only lead his army to arch towards Lishan Town, just dozens of miles of mountain road. As a result, He Renlong arched for seven days before arching to the waist of three miles.

But after reaching the three-mile waist, He Renlong could no longer arch. The thief army built a number of fortifications at the high end of the two mountains and a ditch, which was firmly stuck here, blocked He Renlong's soldiers and horses that continued to attack, and blocked He Renlong in the valley.

After He Renlong tentatively attacked twice, he could not touch the edge of the thief's defense line, so he was beaten to death by the thief's army.

He Renlong then sent a horse to search around and caught several mountain people who had not been hidden. After severe torture, he learned from the mouths of these mountain people that this place is called Sanli waist, which is the only channel on the road from Yuanqu County to Lishan Town. Unless it is conquered here, there will be no way for the army to pass through. The road, unless he took a detour to the ancient town and could only go to Lishan Town from another road, but the last time He Renlong had already walked on that road. The group of thieves had already blocked the road and sent a lot of troops to garrison it. It was also a place where He Renlongqi drew his knife and killed him on the spot. These local mountain people.

Now he understands why the Xiao led his subordinates all the way from Shaanxi to the area of Yangcheng, Shanxi. It turned out that Xiao simply fell in love with the deep terrain of the mountains and valleys in this area, and there were mountains and rivers, and rich resources, which was conducive to their hiding. , but it is not conducive to the army's attack. He also understands why the Shanxi government failed to suppress it on a large scale twice in a row last year. In such a terrain, even the immortals will be dizzy here, so he has to send people to control the surrounding commanding heights in the mountains to prevent the sneak attack of the thief army. He also built a batch of siege instruments on the spot, began to command his generals, and launched a strong attack on the thieves who were in the waist of three miles.

At the beginning of this war, it is difficult to solve the problem of both sides. As a guard, Xing Tianjun, defends the dangerous place of Sanli waist. No matter how He Renlong fights, he will never take half a step back. Moreover, with the sharp heavy bird gun in their hands, often as long as the officers and soldiers enter the range, they will immediately shoot. Even if the officers and soldiers are When they came forward with a shield, they couldn't stop the direct shot of their large-caliber birds, and they were beaten to throw away their armor.

In this way, He Renlong has no good way, because the current Xingtian Army is different from any Rebels he has encountered in the past. Although there are many ordinary rebels who dare to die, they basically lack training. They often gather together in large groups of people and rush up when fighting. If you win, you will win. If you can't win, your morale will immediately plummet and you will run away.

He Renlong's experience in dealing with such a migrant army can be said to be quite rich. First of all, he resisted the fierce attack of the other party. As long as he can hold on and not collapse in the first battle, the exiled army will basically be blind. Next is the performance of his officers and soldiers. Often a counterattack can kill the peasant army, but now he meets The Xing Tianjun is completely different. Xing Tianjun's performance is more well-trained than when he first met them a year ago. Even this time when his military strength is superior, he does not have any disappiness with his subordinates against each other's opponents. What's more, Xing Tianjun's tactics are also very unaccustomed to it. Xing Tianjun's equipment is very good. Liang, basically eliminated cold weapons such as bows and crossbows. The main weapons are mainly long guns and bird guns, and the opponent's bird guns are very sharp, which is much more powerful than the bird guns used by the officers and soldiers. Often before his officers and soldiers get close to the enemy, they will be shot by the Xingtian army's platoon gun, making the offensive he has just organized immediately. The ice will disintegrate, which also makes his officers and soldiers very afraid of the Xingtian Army's zipping tactics. Every time they are ordered to attack, they will not move forward and slow down as much as possible. As a result, the casualties are even more severe.

After hitting the three-mile waist, He Renlong's offensive was completely contained here by Yan Chongxi. He Renlong looked at the small three-mile waist, but he could not step over it. Although he was furious, there was no way. He could only launch an attack once or two every day and drop it at the pass of the three-mile waist. Several bodies were withdrawn, and the war situation in Yuanqu County was so stalemate.

After Xu Dingguo and Hu Dawei led their troops to Shuangfengzhai, although they also saw the strange wall of Shuangfengzhai and realized that this Shuangfengzhai would be very difficult to deal with, considering that Hu Dawei had been defeated for a while, now they are waiting for a crime. If they have so many troops and can't fight a small Shuangfengzhai, first It is said that there is a problem of light on his face, so he can't explain it to Wu Jing and Hong Chengchou at all when he goes back.

So after the two discussed, they prepared separately. After ordering the military craftsman to create a batch of large shield ladder siege equipment on the spot, they began to attack Shuangfengzhai from the north gate and east gate of Shuangfengzhai.

At this time, Li Shuanzhu, Zhao Erlu, Jiang Cheng and others stayed in Shuangfengzhai. The number of troops is about 4,000, and the enemy and us are very different, but these people are not very nervous. After all, after more than a year of construction by Xiao Tianjian, Shuangfengzhai has become a very strong fortress, and And Shuangfeng Mountain is full of sheds, and the craftsmen in it are still producing all kinds of weapons. Whether it is grain or other material reserves, it is not nervous to deal with the officers and soldiers at the foot of the mountain.

Several Xiangtian Army soldiers of Xingtian Army fell down at the mouth of the fortress wall and looked at the bottom of the mountain. They looked very nervous one by one. After all, there were more than 10,000 officers and soldiers under the mountain. It was the first time for these ordinary people to see such a battle. Even the veterans of the Xingtian Army have never seen it many times. Such a large-scale battle, not to mention these township soldiers.

So the village soldiers looked a little nervous, but they turned their heads to see the soldiers of the Xing Tianjun resting under the wall. They only saw that this group of soldiers seemed to be old gods one by one, and they didn't care. Especially some of them, they couldn't see that they were a little nervous at all. Laughing and laughing, those who should drink water, and some people closed their eyes and hugged their guys dozed off, as if they had not paid attention to the more than 10,000 officers and soldiers at the foot of the mountain.

On the contrary, the villagers on the wall were all very nervous. Some people even subconsciously kept pulling the bow string in their hands, repeatedly picked up and put down the knife and gun in their hands, picked it up again, and put it down again.

A team temporarily pulled out from the war camp to supplement the township barracks saw the performance of his village soldiers, and there was a trace of disdain on their faces, so they scolded them loudly: "Look at your behavior. The fucking officers and soldiers have not yet begun to attack our stockade. You have all been scared into this model. Well, what a embarrassment to our Xing Tianjun!

Turn your head to see what the brothers in the barracks below look like? Look at you again, touch your crotch, and see if your birds are still there! If it's gone, get out of here quickly, so as not to make me upset here! It's not that I look down on the officers and soldiers below. Even if there are another 20,000 people for them, they can't beat our Shuangfengzhai! You'd better cheer me up. If you start to do it later, if anyone dares to have diarrhea for me, let's see if I don't chop him!"

After listening to the laughter and scolding of the team general, the soldiers in the township barracks were more stable. No one wanted people to say that there were no birds in their crotch, so they took a deep breath, calmed down a little, and looked down the mountain one after another.

Li Shuanzhu took Zhang Chao, Zhao Erlu, Huang Shengqiang, Jiang Cheng and others to inspect the preparations on the wall, and from time to time scold some underprepared men. The wall was full of busy scenes.