Chapter 210 Fog

Luo Rucai sat in Wuchang Mansion and resisted Ding Qirui's attack on Huguang after the Spring Festival and saved Wuchang Mansion. Although he lost Macheng, Ningzhou and other places, he still defended the important cities of the Yangtze River, Ezhou and Huangzhou, and did not lose a large area of territory, which also shows Luo Rucai's ability.

After learning the news that Xiao Tianjian led his troops to attack Luzhou Buke and was forced to retreat to Dingyuan County, Luo Ru quickly realized that he could not sit idly by, and his prediction was good. A few days later, Xiao Tianjian sent someone to inform him, so that he began to gather in Ezhou and prepare to attack Jiujiang Prefecture.

So Luo Ru did not dare to neglect it. He quickly gathered the soldiers and horses around Wuchang, collected a large number of ships again, and rushed to Ezhou. For a while, the Xing Tian army around Huguang also began to mobilize on a large scale.

Luo Rucai is a handsome person. Because he had expected the possibility of the next action in advance, he began to make preparations in advance. After receiving Xiao Tianjian's order, Luo Rucai's speed of sending troops was also quite fast. In less than seven days, he completed the assembly in Ezhou and mobilized nearly 20,000 lakes. Xingtian's soldiers and horses and hundreds of various ships gathered in Huangzhou and Ezhou.

However, Luo Rucai did not all follow Xiao Tianjian's instructions. Instead, after discussing with Lao Hui Hui and others, he gave Lao Hui 5,000 people, and ordered Lao Hui to lead the army to retake Macheng and then enter the area of Yinghuo Mountain to respond to Xiao Tianjian's main force going south and contain the troops of the officers and army.

At this point, Luo Ru thought that it was even more perfect than Xiao Tianjian. After all, two or three years ago, the main activity area was in the area of Yinghuo Mountain (Dabie Mountain). Not only is Lao Hui very familiar with the terrain of this area, but also very famous in this area, which made him lead the army. Returning to the Yinghuo Mountain area can obviously play a role in double the result with half the effort.

So after he always returned to Ma Shou to take orders, he was also overjoyed. Since he defected to Xiao Tianjian, although Xiao Tianjian valued him very much, he basically did not make any great achievements. The only time was to defend Huangzhou and resist Huang Degong's attack on Huangzhou. He always felt that it would go on like this. It's not a way. Seeing that the great achievements have been basically taken away by Xiao Tianjian's former old department, even Li Dingguo and other young descendants who were late for Xiao Tianjian have made great contributions one by one, so he is a little anxious. Now Luo Ru has ordered him to lead a man to fight in the area of Macheng and Yinghuoshan, which is undoubtedly given to him. It's a good time to make contributions. Although these soldiers and horses are far less sharp than those elites under Xiao Tianjian's command, the officers and soldiers are not much stronger at present, so Ma Shou is still confident to deal with this. So after receiving the order, he immediately ordered the soldiers and horses in Huangzhou, and then rushed straight to Macheng.

In this way, Xing Tianjun formed a situation of forcing Nanzhili, which suddenly plunged the whole government of Nanzhili into a catastrophe.

After Luo Ru sent the old back, he did not neglect it. He raised his army from Ezhou, and began to kill and run to Jiujiang Mansion.

Just when Luo Rucai was fighting against Jiujiang, it happened that Han and Guangmei led their troops to fight against Anqing Mansion. The officials of Jiujiang Mansion were so scared that they hurriedly sent people to find Han and Guangmei to help Jiujiang Mansion quickly, so that Han and Guangmei, who had just retreated to watch Jiang County, did not dare to neglect, and quickly led their troops back to Jiujiang. House.

So Luo Rucai led his troops to form a confrontation with Han and Guangmei in Jiujiang Prefecture. The two sides fought on the water and on land. Luo Rucai even came to the front line to supervise the battle. The officers and soldiers of Han and Guangmei fought for more than ten days. The two sides won or lost each other. Han and Guangmei couldn't see it. He repelled Luo Rucai's troops, so he gradually collected his troops and horses to Jiujiangfu City, and began to defend Jiujiangfu and could not avoid the war.

Han and Guangmei asked themselves that if it went on like this, Jiujiang Mansion might not be safe, so they quickly sent someone to ask Ding Qirui for help. Ding Qirui was afraid that Jiujiang Mansion would be lost again, so he urgently ordered Fang Guo'an, who was sitting in Nanchang Prefecture, to help Jiujiang Mansion. After Fang Guo'an was ordered, he hesitated and refused to go north from Nanchang Mansion to Jiujiang Mansion to support. He First, I'm worried that after leaving Nanchang Mansion, the Xing Tianthief will suddenly attack Nanchang Mansion again. In that case, I'm afraid that Jiangxi will be over. In addition, his troops are so many. I'm afraid that they will be consumed in Jiujiang Mansion, and he will lose his support in the future. Therefore, Fang Guoan Chen Bing Nanchang Mansion has not been out to support Jiujiang Mansion for a long time.

Fang Guoan refused to help Jiujiang Mansion, forcing Han and Guangmei to send people to Jiujiang Mansion for help almost every day. Ding Qirui also sent people to Nanchang Mansion in Nanjing many times to order Fang Guoan to send troops immediately. Finally, at the end of June, Fang Guoan ordered 10,000 officers and soldiers from Nanchang Mansion and began to rush to Jiujiang Mansion.

But at this time, Luzhou City was defeated by Xing Tian's army under Xiao Tianjian's front.

Xiao Tianjian has been leading his troops to attack the west gate of Luzhou Prefecture these days, and has also launched several attacks on the North Gate. However, under the instigation of Wu Dapu, the defenders in Luzhou City have gathered a group of servants from the gentry in the city to help fight. According to the strong city wall and relatively sufficient military equipment, they have repeatedly used The attack launched by the Xingtian Army was frustrated.

But there is a saying that it is true that the strong city is often broken from the inside. When Xiao Tianjian led the army to storm Luzhou City for ten days, the attention of Wu Dapu and the defenders in the city was almost all attracted to the west and north of the city. On the morning of June 27, the area of Luzhou City fell. Fog, this fog is so big that you can't see the figure clearly almost dozens of steps away.

Encountering the fog, Wu Dapu and the defenders in the city were very nervous. They were worried that Xing Tianjun would continue to launch a fierce attack at this time. Wu Dapu then transferred all the troops that could be mobilized to the walls of the west and north of the city to defend the two walls.

Sure enough, in the thick fog, Xing Tian's army fired another cannon to hit the area of the West Gate. The fog seriously affected the observation of Xing Tian's gunners. Although the shelling was fierce, the hit rate was very low. Either it was too low and failed to hit the city wall, or it flew too high to fall into the city. In the thick fog, the west of the city There were also countless shouts of killing outside, which made the defenders in the city even more nervous. Almost all their attention was focused on the west of the city, and Wu Dapu also strengthened the defenders in the north of the city to the west wall.

But what they didn't expect was that at this time, a horse of thousands of people in Xing Tianjun quietly bypassed Luzhou City under the cover of thick fog, entered hundreds of steps outside the east gate of the city, and then stayed quietly in the thick fog. Even the horses were put on horse chewing, making the war horses unable. Make a hissing sound.

It was Luo Li, the general under Xiao Tianjian who led the army. Luo Li has been in a bad mood recently. He failed to make contributions in the battle of Tuanshan, but he lost a lot of people in front of the Tuanshan official army camp. For this reason, he was scolded by Xiao Tianjian and fined him for half a year, which made Luo Li quite faceless, although Then when he came to annihilate the headquarters of 10,000 yuan and Huang Degong in the north of Luzhou, he was angry and led the army to annihilate a large number of officers and soldiers. For this reason, Xiao Tianjian exempted him from the punishment of half a year's salary, but this did not make Luo Li happy. He always felt that he was holding a fire. When he came to attack Luzhou last month, Luo Li originally wanted to He made great achievements and became the first Xing Tian army to attack Luzhou City, but the weather was not good, and the heavy rain for more than half a month forced them to temporarily withdraw their troops.

This time to attack Luzhou City again, Luzhou City was fully prepared. The defenders in the city were so determined to defend Luzhou City. In the past ten days of the siege, Luo Li and the generals took turns to attack Luzhou City, but they failed to attack Luzhou City, which made everyone hold a sense of anger.

But what makes them strange is that after Xiao Tianjian came here this time, he didn't seem to be in a hurry. He routinely sent people to attack the city every day. When he encountered a little strong resistance, he immediately stopped his troops and never tried his best to attack the city. However, he didn't say why, he made the generals who repeatedly attacked the city a little puzzled and felt that Xiao Tianjian's performance this time is a little unusual.

It was not until the fog came that the generals understood why Xiao Tianjian was not in a hurry to attack the city fiercely these days. It turned out that Xiao Tianjian had already left a hand, and he did not intend to let his men consume too much to attack Luzhou City.

In fact, the last time Xing Tian's army withdrew from Dingyuan County because of the heavy rain, Xiao Tianjian not only sent Liu Yaoben to attack Anqingfu, but when he withdrew his troops, he had already considered that after the weather improved and replenished his troops and supplies, he still came to fight Luzhou Prefecture, so he was withdrawing. I made two preparations when I left Luzhou Prefecture.

Under Li Xin's dispatch, the staff department selected about two or three hundred people from all the generals, changed into the clothes of the local people, mixed with the people, and stayed in the area of Luzhou City. They did not withdraw with the army. After the withdrawal of the army, these people took advantage of Luzhou City to relax their vigilance and mixed in under various names. In Luzhou City, although some of them failed to sneak into the city, and some people later died in the search and arrest of the officers and troops out of the city, at least more than half of them still sneaked into the city.

This time, Xiao Tianjian led his troops to attack Luzhou City again. Wu Dapu ordered the gate to be closed again, and these people also stayed in the city and waited for the opportunity to seize the city.

Because it was isolated by the defenders inside and outside the city, after Xiao Tianjian led his troops to Luzhou City, it was basically impossible to contact the people in the city. Therefore, Li Xin agreed with the people in the city that after Xing Tianjun arrived, he would attack the area of the West Gate, attracting the main force of the defenders to the West Gate, and the details of the city. They contacted secretly, waiting for the fog to seize the East Gate, and the inside and outside should join the Xingtian army outside the city to attack the city.

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