Chapter 147 The Battle of Shanxi

The bad news is that after entering November, the government in Shanxi finally made a move. This time, under the order of the emperor, Lu Xiangsheng had to transfer soldiers and horses from all over Shanxi. After rectifying, he launched the encirclement and suppressing the base of the Xingtian Army in Jinnan.

Because of the terrain, Lu Xiang rose to suppress Jinnan. He only used troops from Pingyang Prefecture, Lu'an Prefecture and Jinnan. In fact, it was still the old way of the past. He marched into the army on the third way in order to recover Jinnan.

This time, Lu Xiangsheng has to stay in Xuanda to prevent the Qing army from entering the bandit again, so it is Xu Dingguo, Hu Dawei and other Shanxi generals who really command the army.

And these two people still remember the fiasco of Yangcheng at the beginning, and they know that Xing Tianjun is getting stronger and stronger, so they have taken a cautious approach to suppress Jinnan this time.

Xu Dingguo sat in Lu'an Prefecture and led his army to attack Gaoping County, while Hu Dawei led his troops to attack Qinshui. On the other hand, an unknown general named Fan Meng sent troops from Xiezhou to attack Yuanqu County.

As a response, Yan Chongxi sent his men. He personally led the troops to sit in Qinshui County, while his deputys, Diao Zheng and He Yihu, sat in Gaoping. Even Feng Gouzi, who had been dedicated to intelligence work, was also mobilized this time to sit in Yuanqu County, and the new and old war battalions and reserve camps in Jinnan were all He was mobilized and assigned to various important places to guard.

In mid-November, the war began. Xu Dingguo led 20,000 officers and attacked Gaoping, while He Yihu led a Jinnan military battalion, a gun battalion, plus a reserve battalion, and fought with Xu Dingguo under Gaoping County. After more than ten days of fierce fighting between the two sides, Xu Dingguo was unable to capture Gaoping County, and He Yi The Xing Tianjun on the tiger's side was also much more careful because Xu Dingguo was careful. Although he had a firepower advantage, he had never been able to completely defeat Xu Dingguo. The two sides formed a confrontation in Gaoping County, and there was nothing they could do.

And Yan Chongxi, who was sitting in Qinshui County, was much better. As soon as Hu Dawei entered Fushan, Yan Chongxi took the initiative to lead his troops to meet him. Just in Fushan County, he caught fire with Hu Dawei. The two sides launched a big war. After five consecutive days of fierce battles, Hu Dawei was defeated, so he had to lead his troops to retreat and leave the battlefield. Chen Bingyu Outside Pingyang City, he did not dare to attack Qinshui County again. As a result, Fushan County was also taken by Yan Chongxi.

As for the other side of Yuanqu, Feng Gouzi no longer led the army in the past two years, but he was not ambiguous at all. He led his troops at the mountain pass west of Yuanqu and directly blocked the attack of the officers and soldiers. The fight was very lively. Fan Meng, the general of the army, deterred the Xing Tian army, and did not dare to fight hard. After a few games, he stopped attacking, and He led the troops to station outside the mountain pass and used the dragging formula, while Feng Gouzi did not fight me if you didn't hit me. Chen Bing kept training all day long in the area of the mountain pass west of Yuanqu, making a posture to fight with the officers and soldiers at any time.

This battle was dragged down in this way. Originally, Lu Xiangsheng was still willing to increase Xu Dingguo and Hu Dawei's troops, but at the end of November, Li Lingfeng, a giant thief in the north of Jin Dynasty, and Chengping, a horse thief in Shuozhou, suddenly exerted their strength and formed a group in the north of Jin. First, they captured the Shenchi Fort in one place, and then attacked it again. In Ningwu County, without waiting for Lu Xiangsheng to send troops to suppress it, they turned to Ningwu County, which had been looted, and went straight to Zhenwuwei (dai County). In December, they arrived at the city of Xinzhou. In an instant, they messed up Jinbei, which had been relatively stable since Lu Xiang's promotion to office.

Lu Xiangsheng vaguely felt that these two groups of Jinbei giant bandits should have a certain connection with Xing Tianjun and wanted to destroy them. However, these two groups of huge thieves were mostly horse thieves. Lu Xiangsheng could not catch their shadow at all, but they were restrained them. The strength of a large number of officers and soldiers in Jinbei made it impossible for Lu Xiangsheng to send more troops to Jinnan in a short time.

Therefore, the two or three months at the end of Chongzhen's ten years have gradually passed through this kind of chaos.

Xiao Tianjian saw that the New Year was approaching, and because there were too many states and counties recently captured, the front line was a little too large. In addition, the ammunition consumption of each department needed to be replenished and adjusted, so he also stopped the new offensive and ordered each department to turn into a rest and make full preparation for the next year's actions. At the same time, an order was issued to reorganize these soldiers and horses in Henan into three divisions. The original two, three, four and three battalions were all upgraded to divisions. Luo Li, Li Shuanzhu and Liu Bao served as the division commanders of the three divisions, forming three regiments that could have independent combat capabilities.

Each division temporarily prepares three battle camps, one heavy battalion plus an engineering company and one artillery battalion. At the same time, it can also get reinforcements from two or three local reserve battalions once needed, so that each battalion reaches about 7,000 people in the regular army. Under special circumstances, it can be expanded to about 15,000 people, making it quite strong. The ability to fight independently.

However, although it is so allocated at present, in fact, every division cannot be fully equipped, especially the artillery battalion. Because the artillery casting speed is slow, the number of artillery battalions is not enough to equip each artillery battalion with enough artillery, and because the production of firearms cannot meet the needs at present, the equipment of the battalions in each division. The quality is also different, and the combat effectiveness is uneven, so each battalion is divided into Class A and Class B. The original veteran battalions basically reach the combat effectiveness of Class A battalions, and the remaining two battalions are basically Class B battalions, so each division cannot reach an absolute full state.

But this is also something we can do now. We can only gradually grow in the future wars!

After arranging this matter, Xiao Tianjian ordered Liu Bao's fourth division stationed in Michi, Yongning, Lu and other places, and was responsible for deterring the officers and soldiers around Shaanxi and Tongguan. Luo Li's second division was stationed in Yiyang, Yichuan, Ruzhou and other places, and was responsible for deterring Luoyang, while Li Shuanzhu's third division was stationed in Baofeng and Wu. The Yang and Lushan area are responsible for the defense of the southeast area, so that it forms a three-legged trend. Each is responsible for one side and can support each other to ensure that the fruits of victory are not taken back by the court again.

As for Situ Liang's cavalry battalion and Liu Yaoben's iron bone battalion, they are not assigned to the divisions. They are left in Xiao Tianjian's hands and used as the mobile reserve team of the Xing Tian Army. Once they encounter a strong enemy army that can't support, they can support at any time.

After arranging these things, Xiao Tianjian remembered that in the past two months, he was only busy with the war, but almost forgot Luo Ru, who had defected to him.

After Luo Rucai led his troops to escape into Lushi County, because of the great loss, he finally got a chance to breathe. He did not follow Xiao Tianjian into the battle. Instead, he huddled in the south of Lushi County and took a rest. Even Luo Rucai did not go to Ruzhou to see Xiao Tianjian.

After remembering this matter, Xiao Tianjian touched his chin and asked Niu Jinxing, " By the way, Luo Rucai hasn't come to see me during this period. What is he busy with?"

(There will be more things as soon as the Spring Festival approaches, but I promise that I will insist on updating, and the outbreak is estimated to be dangerous, but I will try my best to make sure that my brothers will not be unable to wait for the update twice a day!)