Chapter 139 Redstone Mountain

Huang Degong proudly led 6,000 soldiers and horses under his command and passed through Runing Mansion. According to Xiong Wencan's requirements, he gathered 4,000 soldiers and horses sent by Gwangju, gathered 10,000 soldiers, and mobilized 3,000 officers and soldiers from Runing Mansion. In addition, thousands of people were recruited along the way, a total of nearly 20,000 people, towards Luoyang. Kill it.

After the battle of Xincai against the Left Fifth Battalion of the Revolution, Huang Degong won a big victory. In his eyes, the thief army was born as a gue. Although the number is huge, as long as he fights seven inches, it is not difficult to deal with it. He defeated nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Left Fifth Battalion with a small number of troops and killed thousands of thieves. This great credit can ensure that he can be smooth in the future. Qingyun, and his command has now gathered more than 10,000 officers and soldiers, and the prefectures and counties along the way have provided him with enough grain. Nanjing has allocated military salaries this time. It can be said that after a great victory in Xincai, now in his opinion, the officers and soldiers under his command are full of soldiers, and he also heard that he is likely to be promoted soon. The officer is a general officer. At least this time, he will be awarded the title of prince Taifu, so he brought the power of great victory and accelerated the speed of the march. He planned to go to Ruzhou to see the high and low of the thief army and take back Ruzhou in one fell swoop.

He also knew that because of his delay on the road, Ruzhou had now been defeated by the thief army. Although he could not be blamed for this matter, even if he arrived in Ruzhou on time, Ruzhou had already been captured by the Xing Tianjun. At present, Xiong Wencan's order to him was to lead his troops to Luoyang first and help the Luoyang defenders to take Luoyang first, but He always thought that Xing Tianjun was also a thief's army. Even if it was more fierce than the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo, how strong could it be? Therefore, he did not intend to completely follow Xiong Wencan's order and go straight to Luoyang, but planned to recover Ruzhou and other places from the thief army along the way, and then simply lead the winning division and directly enter Luoyang City, which was enough glory.

In this regard, Huang Degong made the same mistake as other officers and military generals, that is, he did not touch the Xingtian Army, and did not understand the tactics of the Xingtian Army and the strength of the Xingtian Army at all. Therefore, only from the analysis of military strength, I always felt that the Xing Tianjun was not terrible. I thought that he met nearly 100,000 "large army" of the Fifth Battalion of the Left of the Revolution a few days ago. All of them have been defeated. Now, according to Tan Ma, the number of thieves in front of him is less than 10,000, and even the number of troops is not as strong as his current gathering of Gwangju and Runingfu. Therefore, he did not worry when he decided to attack without listening to Xiong Wencan's instructions and directly led his troops to Luoyang north of Ruzhou. What? On the contrary, he is eager to fight with Xing Tianjun as soon as possible and win another big victory. Then the court's reward for him must be indispensable. He can also smell the title of the first general in Jiangbei. The reputation of the mainstay in the dynasty can't be run away.

But not long after he left Runing Mansion, he heard that Xing Tianjun had captured Baofeng and Lushan counties, and the fifth battalion of Gezuo had also arrived in Wuyang County. There seemed to be a faint intention to join hands with Xing Tianjun, which made Huang Degong a little nervous.

If Huang Degong has no knowledge of Xing Tianjun, it is impossible. Xing Tianjun has repeatedly fought with the officers and soldiers in recent years, and has won great victories. At present, many famous generals in Daming, including Zu Dale, Zu Kuan, He Renlong, Zu Guangxian, Xu Dingguo, etc., have suffered great losses on Xing Tianjun, and An army like Liu Ruming will die in the hands of Xing Tianjun, so even Huang Degong, who is in Jiangbei, has heard of Xing Tianjun for a long time. The reason why he despises Xing Tianjun is mainly because he has been fighting with the Fifth Battalion of the Left and other civilian army for a long time, which makes him have an idea of underes the enemy, that is, the combat effectiveness of the thief army. It is often not strong, and basically lacks the cooperation of the battle array, and the officers and soldiers are not even strong. After all, it is professional. Often, as long as he is bold and dares to fight with the thief army, it is common to win more with less, so he somewhat despises Xing Tianjun.

However, he is not a fool. Although the Gezuo Fifth Battalion is his loser, the core members of the Fifth Battalion are still quite able to fight, especially the old Hui. There are one or two thousand generals under his command. In the early years, they were all from border troops. Among them, there are both Hui people and Han people, and some Mongolian. The ancients were all veterans, and they should not be underestimated when fighting.

And Xing Tianjun is famous, and it is definitely not easy to deal with. Once the Fifth Camp of Gezuo and Xing Tianjun are colluded, then with the fierce name of Xing Tianjun and the strength of the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo, he will not be able to get a discount if he runs to Luoyang this time.

Therefore, after learning the previous news, Huang Degong ordered to speed up the march, so as to catch up with Baofeng County before the Gezuo Fifth Battalion, so that the Gezuo Fifth Battalion could not be integrated with the Xingtian Army for the time being. In that way, he would have the opportunity to 'break each'. Although the officers and soldiers under his command felt that they had been rushing for days. The road was really hard, but Huang Degong was very angry now, and no one wanted to touch his mold, so the 20,000 officers, soldiers and civilians had to speed up again and finally entered Baofeng at the end of October.

And when Huang Degong soldiers came to Baofeng, the fifth battalion of Gezuo took the initiative to avoid its edge because of Huang Degong's hand, gave way from Wuyang and turned to the direction of Kaifeng. Only then could Huang Degong successfully reach Baofeng territory.

However, at the same time, Xiao Tianjian also led several battalions of soldiers and horses of Xing Tianjun, rushed to Baofeng County in advance, and stopped at the southern foot of Hongshi Mountain, an incompretous hill in the south of Baofeng County, guarding the road to Luoyang.

Xiao Tianjian did not command this battle against Huang Degong in Ruzhou this time. The reason is very simple, because Huang Degong came this time and not only led the 6,000 Beijing battalions under his command, but also brought thousands of officers and troops in Gwangju and Runing Prefecture, which far exceeded his original expectations for Huang Degong's strength, so After sending back the news, he immediately set out from Ruzhou and personally led two battalions including Li Shuanzhu and Huang Shengqiang's artillery battalion to Ruzhou.

After arriving here, Xiao Tianjian gathered three battle camps under his command, including Li Shuanzhu and Luo Li, as well as a new battle barracks. At the same time, there was Huang Shengqiang's artillery battalion, Situ Liang's cavalry battalion, and Liang's engineering battalion, with a force of about 6,000 people. On the whole, The strength of Xing Tianjun is much weaker than that of Huang Degong, but in fact, Xiao Tianjian himself knows that with his strength, dealing with more than 10,000 officers and soldiers of Huang Degong can be said to be killing chickens with a cow knife. With the combat effectiveness and equipment quality of Xing Tianjun, it is conservatively estimated that if there is the help of the artillery battalion, the two war battalions are Baofeng blocked Huang Degong, which was more than enough, but this time Xiao Tianjian chose to sit in the army in person and fight the battle with 'advantage' troops.

The reason why Xiao Tianjian attaches so much importance to Huang Degong, the sentry officer and army, according to his words, is to completely hurt Xiong Wencan and Yang Sichang, so that they can truly realize how powerful Xing Tianjun is through this battle, so that they are still procrastinating. If you want to fight, you can fight quickly to save time.

He just wanted to show his strength to the court through this battle of the Central Plains, consume the last elite of the Ming Dynasty, and make this already devastated building collapse faster. The faster the Ming Dynasty is destroyed, the more he will have to reorganize the rivers and mountains. Li, although the pig tails outside the gate are quite powerful now, they are not really strong enough to annex the whole Central Plains. The sooner they are freed up to replace this rotten Ming Dynasty and deal with them, the more beneficial it will be to China. This is also the reason why he abandoned his previous step by step and acted cautiously, only Because he has felt that his strength has basically matured. Instead of waiting for the development of history step by step, it is better to let go of the development of history and let the world see that Xing Tianjun is the hero who can turn the tide.

When Huang Degong's striker arrived in the area of Hongshi Mountain, Xiao Tianjian did not hide the truth. When Situ Liang's cavalry battalion was sent to fight, he killed the forward soldiers and horses sent by Huang Degong and fled. Situ Liang's current cavalry battalion was not the two or three when he first entered Henan. The scale of a hundred people. Since the Yichuan War annihilated Zu Dale and Zu Kuan's Guanning Army, Xing Tianjun obtained nearly 2,000 war horses and eliminated a batch of injured horses. In addition, after the capture of the battle, Xing Tianjun has nearly 2,000 fat and strong war horses, and has collected a large number of old troops of the original Guanning Army. It made the strength of the cavalry battalion expand like blowing a balloon.

After being influenced by the unique barracks culture of Xing Tianjun, the original Guanning soldiers who surrendered also figured out that it was not a way out to be a soldier for the Ming Dynasty, and Xiao Tianjian personally promised them that one day he would lead them back to the customs and take their lost land from the wild boar skins. After grabbing it back in his hand, these old Guanning soldiers then calmed down and began to become a member of the Xingtian Army.

Originally, most of the Guanning soldiers grew up outside the customs. They have been riding horses like Mongolians and virgins since childhood, and they are also engaged in grazing life, so there is no needless to say about riding skills. Almost all of them are good hands, and most of the people selected by Xing Tianjun to join the cavalry battalion are the elites among the Guanning soldiers, so now It can be said that the cavalry battalion is not only not weaker than the previous Guanning iron cavalry, but also added a batch of newly built self-made firemen, which has improved their combat effectiveness a lot.

Therefore, Huang Degong sent 2,000 Runing troops to take the lead, but without waiting for them to stand firm in Hongshi Mountain, Situ Liang led hundreds of cavalry to attack, and killed the two thousand Runing troops and fled back. If Xiao Tianjian had not ordered in advance, he only needed to defeat Huang Degong's striker. If it is necessary to pursue, it is very rare for these two thousand people to escape back.

After learning the news that the striker was defeated, Huang Degong was also shocked. He had to readjust his previous views on Xing Tianjun. He began to become solemn and cautious. He ordered to close the parts. He no longer dared to send light troops to march forward, but wrapped them into a group and pushed towards Hongshi Mountain together. Huang Degong also learned The main force of the Xingtian Army has been waiting for him in the area of Hongshi Mountain in the south of Baofeng County, so he waved his army and planned to meet with this Xingtian Army for a while in Baofeng and see how powerful the Xingtian Army is.

So Baofeng Hongshi Mountain, such an inconspicuous place, finally started a fight at the end of October.