Chapter 179 The War in Western Henan

The morale of the officers and soldiers fell to the bottom of the valley again under the almost crazy counterattack of the soldiers and civilians in the city. They hurriedly began to retreat. Countless arrows and cannons followed them like shadows, fell on their exposed backs and shot them to the ground. At this time, Li Guoqi just came. That kind of arrogance has also been knocked down.

At the beginning, he detected that the garrison of the Xingtian Army in Lushi County was very weak. He thought that he could take this opportunity to easily take Lushi County. In addition, he won a big victory in Luanchuan Town, which gave rise to the idea of underestimating the enemy. What's more, this time they entered the army to speed up, they did not carry a lot of grain and materials, and Moreover, the people of the Xingtian Army implemented a hard wall and clear field around Lushi County, which made it impossible for them to rob grain to supplement the military. Moreover, Lushi County resisted so resolutely that after their attack was frustrated, their morale plummeted. Li Guoqi had to temporarily order a two-day suspension, while sending officers and soldiers out to fight for food. Find another way to attack Lu's county.

These scattered officers and soldiers are worse than bandits. They can't find food and can't catch people, so they burn the people's houses. Once they find the people who hide in the mountains, it is more common to looting and rape, making a mess in Lushi County. Even several iron works of Xing Tianjun in Lushi County have been They destroyed it. In a few days, the territory of Lushi County was made smoky.

At this time, Liu Bao led two war battalions back to Lushi County at the speed of several strong troops from Lingbao County. Li Guoqi, who was outside Lushi County, heard that the thief army was coming to help, so he transferred troops to fight. However, for Liu Bao's soldiers, who are now moraleful, they were not Gao Shuxian at the beginning. Those rural soldiers led by Luanchuan Town are comparable. Needless to say, the result of the battle is that more than 2,000 soldiers from Liu Bao's headquarters will attack for a long distance. After arriving outside Lu's County, they are already exhausted. However, how can the phalanx of the Xing Tianjun be resisted by the soldiers and horses under Li Guoqi's command? As a result, after the first battle, Li Guoqi was immediately defeated. He had to quickly collect the troops and fled to the south of Lushi County with the defeated soldiers. After seeing the tragic situation in Lushi County, Liu Bao was even more angry. Regardless of fatigue, he led the soldiers to pursue with all his strength.

Poor Li Guoqi was also a big man at the beginning and declared that he would recover Lu's County within five days. As a result, he was beaten by the Xing Tianjun. He recovered Luanchuan Town all the way from Lu's County, drove him out from Luanchuan Town, and fled all the way to Neixiang County. Only then did Liu Bao lead his troops to stop the pursuit and take stock of the results of the battle, Li The 5,000 officers and soldiers brought by Guoqi lost about half of the battle in Lushi County, and only less than 3,000 Shaanxi soldiers escaped back. In a short period of time, they can be said to have basically lost their combat effectiveness.

Afterwards, Wang Qinian led the township soldiers to open the gate and go out of the city. He ordered that from him, the civil and military officials of the Xingtian Army in the whole city wore filial piety and went out of the city to collect the bodies of the people under the city. Wang Qinian led the people to personally scrub them and mortrate them and send them to the burial. In this way, the relatives of these dead people were not good. On the contrary, I feel that the officials of Xing Tianjun are really benevolent and righteous, and they are much more cordial to Xing Tianjun.

Although Li Guoqi led his troops to invade Lushi County, which brought great losses to the production and life of Lushi County. Many villages were burned into ruins, the scourge of the people was not very severe for the people in other places except Luanchuan Town. What's more, when Wang Qinian ordered the evacuation, he asked the people to bury important materials such as agricultural tools and grain. The basic living capital did not lose too much. With these basic living materials, the resumption of production was much faster. Wang Qinian also ordered the allocation of grain seeds to be allocated to these losses. The people who lost a lot let them resume farming quickly. At the same time, they also allocated grain and a batch of money to compensate the people who lost a lot of money and let them restore their homes.

For Wang Qinian's series of measures, the people are even more grateful to Xing Tianjun, and many people are enthusiastically demanding to become soldiers in the Xing Tianjun and fight with Xing Tianjun.

And there was basically no loss to the personnel of the blacksmith camp this time. Although several iron work sheds were destroyed or set on fire by the officers and soldiers, there were many carpenters among them. It was not difficult to rebuild such a shed. After the craftsmen returned to the station, they quickly dug out the tools and iron materials they buried. How many days have they begun to resume production? After this disaster, the craftsmen have experienced the unscrupulousness of the officers and soldiers. After the resumption of production, they have enough energy. Almost without encouraging them, they work overtime day and night. While the quality of all kinds of armor does not decline, the output is compared with Before the war, there was a lot more. Before the shed was built, they worked in the open air. In short, everything recovered quite quickly, even beyond Wang Qinian's expectations.

Luo Rucai and Liu Bao were responsible for the incident that Lushi County was invaded by the officers and soldiers. They only cared about He Renlong and Zu Dabi in the direction of Tongguan, but they did not expect that Li Guoqi would suddenly attack Lu County. This time, after capturing Lingbao County, they strengthened their defense against the southern part of Lushi County and dispatched a The war barracks is located in Luanchuan Town, which can be regarded as a perfect defense of the jurisdiction.

While Lushi County was attacked, Luo Li was not idle. First, after learning the news that Xing Tianjun was attacking Runing Mansion all the way, Chen Yongfu from Luoyang took an adventurous action.

He led nearly 10,000 Luoyang officers and soldiers to try to raid Yiyang County, which posed the greatest threat to Luoyang City, and wanted to retake Yiyang County and take the opportunity to attack Ruzhou again.

But how could Luo Li give him such a advantage? As soon as Chen Yongfu moved, he quickly received the news. In addition, Yiyang County was originally stationed in a war camp under Luo Li and a local reserve battalion. Although there were not many troops, there was not much problem in defending the city.

Chen Yongfu led his troops to attack Yiyang County for several days. In addition to the corpses lost on the ground, it can hardly be said that they did not take any advantage. The soldiers of the Xingtian Army shot with fire guns in the city. In addition, they were equipped with a lot of Thunderbolt guns. Every time every officer and soldiers and ants attached to the city, they threw them down to play. Yier, even if the Thunderbolt gun of this era is not very powerful, it is thrown into the crowd and still blows up the officers and soldiers.

Chen Yongfu led his troops to attack Yiyang for a few days, so he turned around and wanted to attack Yichuan, but he was blocked by Luo Li's troops halfway. After a fight, Chen Yongfu was defeated again and had to lead his troops back to Luoyang. This battle not only did not get much benefit, but it was a loss. With one or two thousand people, the officers and soldiers of Luoyang were even more depressed and did not dare to move lightly under Luoyang City.

However, Luo Li couldn't be idle. After Xiao Tianjian led his troops to raid Runing Mansion and destroyed Huang Degong, Sun Yingyuan saved his strength and followed Zuo Liangyu to chase Xiao Tianjian. As a result, Xiao Tianjian led his troops around Yuzhong and Yudong. Sun Yingyuan invited Zuo Liangyu several times to lead his troops to attack with him, but Zuo Liangyu pushed I refuse to resign.

As a result, Sun Yingyuan was so angry that he no longer followed Zuo Liangyu. At the end of March, he turned around and led his troops to attack Ruzhou. After learning the news of a large number of officers and soldiers coming, Luo Li quickly led his troops back to Ruzhou. As a result, Sun Yingyuan caught fire in the east of Ruzhou. The two sides launched a big war. Originally, Sun Yingyuan wanted to It was a shame in this place, but when he fought with Luo Li, he found that it was not all the elite soldiers of the Xingtian Army who led Xiao Tianjian to Runing Mansion. Some elite soldiers were still left here. As a result, although he had an advantage, he still could not win this battle.

Luo Li's side could not gather all the elite soldiers under his command because he wanted to prepare for the sneak attack of 20,000 or 30,000 officers in Luoyang, and his troops were not superior. Therefore, in the eastern battle of Ruzhou, although Luo Li resisted Sun Yingyuan's troops, he failed to defeat Sun Yingyuan. The two sides suffered losses to each other. Sun Yingyuan defeated and returned to Xuzhou Xiu. However, because Luo Li's strength was not enough to pursue, he had to lead a few subordinates to control Baofeng and monitor the actions of the officers and soldiers.

But this was not over. Then Zhang Renxue, the general soldier of Henan, suddenly led 3,000 officers and soldiers brought from Zhangdefu and took a detour to Fangcheng County to attack Lushan County at night. There were few defenders in Lushan, and there were only a few hundred reserve battalions. As a result, Zhang Renxue's surprise was successful and attacked Lushan County. Although the reserve battalion soldiers in the city resisted desperately. However, the troops were too few, and they were caught off guard by Zhang Renxue and had no time to mobilize local forces. As a result, Lushan County was captured by Zhang Renxue in early April. Only more than 200 defenders broke out of the city and fled to Baofeng County.

When Luo Li learned that Lushan was conquered by the officers and soldiers, he immediately killed an officer from the Lushan reserve battalion who fled back on the spot, and then led his troops to try to counterattack Lushan. However, Zhang Renxue, the general of Henan, relied on his superior forces to defend the city. Luo Li failed to attack for two days in a row, and Sun Yingyuan led his troops to attack Baofeng County. Therefore, Luo Li had to lead his troops back to Baofeng to garrison. As a result, Lushan County was recovered by the officers and soldiers.

In a word, in more than a month, Xing Tianjun fought with multiple officers and soldiers. It can be said that there was a win or defeat for each other. Liu Bao and Luo Ru captured Shaanxi and Lingbao, but Lu was attacked. Luo Li repelled the defenders of Luoyang and Sun Yingyuan's troops, but Lu Shan was conquered by the officers and the army, so the harvest was only slightly greater than the loss. But in general, Xing Tianjun did not completely fall into a decline. It basically preserved its strength and defended a large area of Western Henan.

It was also under such circumstances that Xiao Tianjian finally ended the guerrilla war in the eastern part of Henan, and led his troops to make a break with Zuo Liangyu in the area of Qi County.