Chapter 176 Seduce the enemy to pursue

Xiao Tianjian and Chen Bing were outside Runing City. There was a mess on the east and west sides of Runing City. The two battalions of the officers and soldiers were in ruins, and a large number of officers and soldiers hid in the city and refused to go out of the city to fight.

Although Xiao Tianjian led his troops to attack Runing City for three days, because of the strong wall of Runing City and the large number of defenders in the city, he failed to capture Runing City. At this time, a scout came to report that a large number of officers and soldiers had appeared more than 30 miles southwest of Runing Mansion. Look at the flag. People are the soldiers and horses of Zuo Liangyu, the general of the lake.

It turned out that Xiong Wencan learned that Xing Tianjun took the initiative to attack Runing Mansion a few days ago. Originally, in his opinion, this was a good thing. The thief army took the initiative to come out. It was a good time for him to besiege and annihilate the thief army. In addition, there should be no problem with Sun Huanger in Runing Mansion, even if Sun Huanger will solve it. By no means the passers-by of Xing Tianjun, at least they can hold them back.

Taking this opportunity, he can just send Zuo Liangyu to lead the army to Runing and hang this group of thieves in the area of Runing Mansion with Sun Huang Er.

However, I didn't think that after Zuo Liangyu's strength had grown in the past two years, he began to disobey his orders. After being transferred, he was delayed for two days and there was no movement. Instead, Runing Mansion sent people to complain about the emergency, saying that the thief's army was strong, and Sun Huang'er may not be able to withstand the attack of the thief's army. If again If there is no reinforcement, Runing Mansion will be in danger.

In this way, Xiong Wencan panicked. There were two vassals in the city, King Chong and King Heyang, in Runing Mansion. Once he lost, if he didn't make a good job, he would lose his head. So he immediately sent someone out of the city to urge Zuo Liangyu to send troops quickly, and invited Shangfang's sword to threaten Zuo Liangyu if he didn't send troops again. It's time to march.

Zuo Liangyu then went on an expedition in Nanyang and led 20,000 soldiers and horses to Runing Mansion.

Zuo Liangyu is not a good bird. His men recruited some scum and some bandits from the world. He gave it to the officials and gathered tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in a short time. His strength developed very rapidly, but the government could not afford enough soldiers to support him so many soldiers and horses, so Zuo Liangyu went on. Plunder, relying on the robbery to meet the needs of these soldiers and generals. In this way, the military discipline of Zuo Liangyu may become the most degenerate of the military discipline among the current officers and soldiers. Where they pass by, the people are almost robbed by them, and he even condoned his men to kill good deeds everywhere and forcibly robbed the people into the camp. Indiscriminately humiliated in the camp.

But this also brings a benefit. This group of skin splashing hooligans gathered by him are very grateful to Zuo Liangyu for treating them so well. When they really use them, they are also willing to work for Zuo Liangyu. Their combat effectiveness is actually quite strong. For more than a year, they have been defeated Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng, Wang Guangen, Wang Guoning, Huideng had a lot of rebels, which forced them to surrender one after another, which made Zuo Liangyu make a lot of contributions.

So much so that in the Jiangbei area, the officers and soldiers under the command of Zuo Liangyu are the strongest. This time, the soldiers came out of Runing Mansion. Zuo Liangyu also wanted to see what the Xing Tianjun's ability was, so he was ordered to rush to Runing Mansion. However, although he set out with his troops, he was still the same along the way and grabbed it all the way. The place where he passed was even more difficult for the people along the way, so it took less than three hundred miles to walk for five or six days to reach the territory of Runing Mansion.

After learning that Zuo Liangyu's troops rushed, Xiao Tianjian also knew that it was impossible to kill Sun Huang's second department and take down Runing Mansion at the same time. So after a little discussion with the generals, he immediately made up his mind and began to clean up the guys, pulled out the camp, and After showing off his power under the city of Runingfu, he pulled out his camp and drove towards Xuzhou.

When Zuo Liangyu led 20,000 troops to Runing Mansion, Xiao Tianjian had already left here for more than half a day. It was not until this time that Sun Yingyuan dared to open the gate, led his troops out of the city, and merged with Zuo Liangyu. He was ordered by Xiong Wencan to chase in the direction of Xing Tianjun's departure.

On the way, Xiao Tianjian led his troops to fight and retreat. First, he led his troops to the city of Xuzhou. After sweeping, he waited for Zuo Liangyu to follow up, he turned his troops and went straight to the direction of Kaifeng Prefecture. At the same time, Situ Liang and Liu Yaoben led some soldiers in the direction of Taikang County, so Zuo Liangyu led his troops to turn again. , chasing Xiao Tianjian in the direction of Kaifeng Mansion.

But this time, Zuo Liangyu did not act together with the whole army, but immediately separated all the way and chased in the direction of Taikang.

In this way, Shuangyi began to circle around the Central Plains. Xiao Tianjian walked faster and faster along the way, while Zuo Liangyu walked slower and slower. It is no wonder that Zuo Liangyu had to rely on plunder to supplement grain along the way to make a fortune, but Xing Tianjun carried relatively abundant grain, so that Zuo Liangyu and Sun Yingyuan began. Finally, he followed his buttocks and couldn't catch up with them.

And along the way, Xiao Tianjian, according to Li Jinde's advice, kept turning around and knocking Zuo Liangyu's soldiers and horses. As long as Zuo Liangyu is not careful, he will be bitten hard by Xing Tianjun, making Zuo Liangyu jump like thunder, but he has to be careful and slow down the speed of chasing Xiao Tianjian.

Sun Yingyuan advised Zuo Liangyu to join forces with him and speed up to catch up with Xing Tianjun. It was best to fight to the death with Xing Tianjun. However, Zuo Liangyu said that the grain was not good. He had to find a place to eat, and he always refused to fight after Xiao Tianjian, so that a month passed in a blink of an eye.

On the contrary, Xing Tianjun's harvest was also good in this month. Along the way, he broke through Yanling, Taikang, Weishi and other counties, and also broke a lot of Dahu Zhuangbao and replenished a lot of grain materials. However, this time, after Xiao Tianjian did not break through these counties again, he sent troops to garrison, but ordered anyone who broke through a city, and then stood up. That is, the city wall was demolished, and then abandoned, stirring up the whole area of Yuzhong and eastern Henan into a mess, and the urgent snowflakes from all over the country flew towards Kaifeng Mansion and Nanyang.

And Xiao Tianjian did this because he knew very well that in this situation, even if these counties were captured and followed by Zuo Liangyu and Sun Yingyuan's soldiers and horses chasing them, it would be difficult to defend these cities. This time, his purpose was not to grab the territory, but to rely on mobile combat to consume the officers and army. Li, disintegrate the imperial court's attack on him this time and capture these places. If he defends it, it will happen to make the officers and soldiers happy. Therefore, whenever he captures the city, he will immediately demolish the city wall, so that even if the officers and soldiers chasing behind him take back these cities, they will not be protected by the town. In this way, when he returns to these places in the future Wait, there is no need to bother to attack the city, which lays the foundation for him to occupy the whole Central Plains in the future.

But it has been going around like this, and it's not a solution after all. Zuo Liangyu and all the officers and soldiers are now starting to gather towards Yuzhong, trying to stop him and hang him in the Yuzhong Plain.

Although they relied on the captured grain and supplemented some supplies along the way, after all, there were too many exiles and local armed forces who defected to him along the way. Although most people were given a small amount of food rations by Xiao Tianjian to go to the territory under the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army in western Henan, the team was still constantly expanding, and he had to As he walked, he organized a part of the team. While walking, he had to train these new recruits to cooperate with their main actions. In just over a month, his soldiers and horses expanded from less than 10,000 when he came out to more than 20,000. Originally, there were only two reserve battalions as auxiliary soldiers. By this time, it had been expanded into five super-edited reserve camps.

After they came out, it was impossible for them to obtain the replenishment of materials in the jurisdiction, so they could only rely on their captured goods to arm these newly acquired people and horses. Among them, they had to worship Runing to seize a lot of weapons from Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan, so that they reluctantly armed these newly collected soldiers and horses. Come on, but it is obviously impossible for them to reach the equipment quality of the main team in this kind of mobile combat.

Therefore, the people and horses of these reserve battalions should be equipped with more miscellaneous weapons, so that they can have a certain combat effectiveness, so that they can cooperate with the main action. However, the problem brought about is the increase of troops, and the consumption of grain is also increasing, which makes the shortage of materials for the Xingtian Army gradually begin to appear.

At this time, Xiao Tianjian and Li Jinde watched the dynamics of Zuo Liangyu and other road officers and troops, so they ordered to stop the action, camped on the spot, and collected the scattered troops. Chen Bing took only half a day outside Qi County to conquer Qi County and enter the county seat of Qi County.

This time, Xiao Tianjian did not order the demolition of the city wall again, but ordered the army to gather around the county seat of Qi County, surrounded by several strong camps around the county seat of Qi County, and waited for Zuo Liangyu to lead his troops to attack.

(Now I can say that I have fulfilled my promise and did not interrupt the update during the Spring Festival. Although the results were not good, I fell to the sixth place in the classification list, and finally I have lived up to the brothers who are still chasing this book! I'm satisfied! I drank too much last night, hehe! I didn't forget to update it. Let's advertise ourselves!)