Everyone in the main hall was eager to fight, but only Dou Yuquan was worried.

While Mu Jingnan and the others were all out to reorganize the army, Dou Yuquan grabbed Liu Ximing and asked:

"The two sides are fighting hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses at every turn, what should we do if the imperial court knows about such a big move, won't our strength in Dengzhou be exposed at that time?"

Liu Ximing suddenly stopped, and Dou Yuquan's words were right.

Now is not the best time for the Liu family to raise the flag, if the strength is exposed, it is indeed worth the loss.

"It seems that the only way to report the army is to lie to the imperial court", Liu Ximing, who couldn't find a suitable way after thinking about it, sighed lightly, "As long as you and I report the enemy more normally, and report more casualties, I think we can hide it first." ”

Dou Yuquan suddenly laughed, "Damn, what's the matter, others are overreporting military merits, but we have to underreport, it's really upside down." ”

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October 12 of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Neixiang County, Nanyang Prefecture, Henan.

A few days ago, Liu Ximing had already come to the inner countryside with tens of thousands of troops, and as soon as the tens of thousands of troops arrived, they instantly calmed down the panicked people in the inner countryside who heard about the movements of the Liukou.

Today's inner countryside has been cleaned up inside and outside the Datong Society, although the people in the inner countryside are not yet clear, but at least they will not communicate with the inside and outside of the court like ordinary gentry, so Liu Ximing directly stationed the army outside the inner township county.

Coupled with the soldiers and horses that the inner countryside has itself, more than 60,000 people are densely connected outside the county seat.

Yali in Neixiang County has now become the base camp of the Liu family's army.

In front of the main hall of the county ya, a huge map of Neixiang County was hung, and all the people of Liukou and Liu's army were marked with small flags and inserted in corresponding positions.

At this moment, Mu Jingnan, who was appointed as the chief staff officer of the operation, talked eloquently in front of Liu Ximing, Lei Hong and others.

"Second brother, Lei County Order, although the combat strength of the Liukou is not as good as our army, but there are many people, we agree that if the Liukou is allowed to enter Nanyang, it will definitely cause disaster damage to the entire inner countryside and Dengzhou and other places."

"Therefore, the central idea of this operation is to block the enemy at the exit of Shangluo Mountain, even if the rogues escape, they cannot be allowed to flee in groups, so as to reduce the damage to the place."

Mu Jingnan took his baton and pointed to Danyang Town in the west of Neixiang, "This place is cut off from the exit of Shangluo Road, and further east from Danyang is a smooth road, which is suitable for our army to line up and intercept, so we suggest that we immediately send troops to the west, and be sure to intercept Li Zicheng's army in Danyang." ”

"In addition, in order to deter the place as much as possible, according to the instructions of the second brother, we have already sent a letter to Cao Bianjiao and Shao Rongbu who are still in Shaanxi, asking them to come from Shaanxi as soon as possible and attack the Liukou on both sides."

"Okay, it seems that you have thought about this battle clearly", Liu Ximing laughed and patted Mu Jingnan on the shoulder, "Since the battlefield situation is very clear, then we will march according to this strategy, and we must block Shangluo before Li Zicheng's troops." ”

"Whoa"

With the formulation of military policies, the officers and soldiers in the inner countryside soon took action again.

As the control area of the Liu family, there is no shortage of all kinds of materials, so the logistics problem can be directly omitted, which greatly simplifies the difficulty of the operation.

Liu Ximing took Mu Jingnan and others all the way without stopping, and finally rushed to Danyang Town on July 13.

To the west of Danyang Town, there is a big mountain, and the winding Shangluo Ancient Road zigzags back and forth in the mountain, taking on the important task of communicating between the east and the west.

At the moment, Liu Ximing directly divided the army into three routes, the Chinese army was stationed outside Danyang Town, and the left and right armies blocked the exits on both sides respectively, sealing the entire Shangluo Ancient Road tightly.

On October 14, Li Zicheng and others, who had marched with a large army for more than ten years on the Shangluo Ancient Road, finally saw the plains in the inner countryside in the distance.

However, before everyone could be happy, the news from the front made Li Zicheng and the others jump.

"There are already soldiers and horses stationed in the inner countryside, and all the exits of Shangluo Road are blocked?"

Li Zicheng's rugged face showed a look of disbelief, when did the official army have such well-informed news, one step faster than himself and others.

Song Xiance reacted first: "King Chuang, I have a plan, please quickly send a probe to investigate the direction when I come, if there is an official and military shadow, I must make a decision immediately." ”

Not only Li Zicheng, but also a group of generals in the army were all shocked.

Yes, since the officers and soldiers were able to learn the news in advance to intercept it, who can guarantee that there will be no pursuers flanking from both sides?

Liu Zongmin immediately shouted, "Don't be alarmed, I'll send someone to investigate." ”

In the queue of the army like a long snake, nearly 100 fast horses immediately galloped towards the direction of Shaanxi.

Li Zicheng exhaled a breath of turbidity, twitched his crotch and said, "Let's go, follow me to the mountain over there to watch the battle." ”

The Shangluo Road where the army marched was all winding in the mountains, and from the northeast slope, you could see the shape of the inner countryside.

Li Zicheng led his generals and strategists to ride up the mountain, and when they looked from the top of the mountain, everyone in the army gasped.

"Where did so many officers and soldiers come from in the inner countryside?" , Li Zicheng looked at Yuan Zongdi and the others and couldn't believe it.

It is also clear which of the officers and soldiers in the Central Plains are rogues, and the total number of Yang Sichang's subordinates is only about 100,000, but looking at the battle on the opposite side of the mountain pass, I am afraid that there must be tens of thousands.

"Could it be that Yang Sichang sent other troops to intercept us and the others?" , Bull Venus cried out in a lost voice.

But then he reacted and shook his head and said: "No, King Chuang, you see, the officers and soldiers below are not wearing warrior mandarin duck robes. ”

Li Yan sighed and continued: "It's the Dengzhou militia, I thought that the Dengzhou militia was just a fluke to win, but now it seems that people do have this strength." ”

All the people on the hillside, including Li Zicheng, were silent, letting the warm wind on the mountain blow whirring.

After a long time, I heard Li Zicheng flick his whip and say: "No matter, we're all here, send troops to try him first." ”

"Which of you dares to fight the vanguard?"

Seeing Li Zicheng asking, Liu Zongmin, Yuan Zongdi and others all flinched a little.

Even if Li Zicheng has claimed to be the king of Chuang, it is still not much different from the military system during the thief period, and it is the old way of being a soldier.

Although Liu Zongmin, Yuan Zongdi and others sincerely support Li Zicheng, no one is willing to lose their people in vain.

Li Zicheng waited for a while and saw that no one spoke, and finally pointed at Liu Zongmin with some impatience, "Jiexuan, you go and take the lead." ”

Liu Zongmin saw that Li Zicheng was pro-pointed, but he was not ambiguous at this time, and immediately received the order to prepare for the war.

When the Liukou arrived at the mountain pass, Liu Ximing and others immediately received a military report, and the battalion was launched early, and the troops mainly of the 105th Division began to assemble in the battalion.

At present, the Liu family's troops have not been able to complete all the firearms, because of the production reasons, except for the militia groups stationed in Dengzhou and Neixiang on the border, most of the militia groups in other places still use spears and big knives.

However, this is enough, with the 105th Division and other musket units as cover, the militia can barely rely on the policy to fight the enemy, not to mention that there is an artillery position in the southeast of the battalion.

Liu Ximing and the others watched intently from the watchtower of the camp to observe the movement of the mountain pass, and suddenly, a team of about 3,000 people walked out of the mountain pass first and began to form in front of the Liu family's army.

"Hehe, the thief still knows how to tempt, it seems that the battle of the past few years has not been fought in vain."

Liu Ximing turned around and laughed, causing Mu Jingnan and the others to laugh.

He immediately turned pale, "Respect the difficulty, send troops to fight, you don't have to be too strong, you can't be too weak." ”

Mu Jingnan immediately understood, too strong was afraid that he would beat the thief away, and too weak and easy for the thief to forcibly rush into battle.

He smiled and immediately walked down from the watchtower to make arrangements.

In the camp of Liu's army, 3,000 soldiers and horses were also divided, of which 1,000 musketeers were in the front, and another 2,000 militia groups with spears were behind.

At the Shangluo Pass, Liu Zongmin formed a little formation, and rushed up with people.

He went from a blacksmith to Li Zicheng's confidant general, relying on his courage and courage to fight and take the lead.

Under the leadership of such a fierce general as Liu Zongmin, all the soldiers of the army burst out with a twelve-point spirit, and rushed forward one by one with wild shouts.

In front of the Liu family's army, Yuan Baosong, who was in charge of leading the team, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, calmed down and shouted kindly: "Musketeers come forward, prepare!" ”

The musketeer, dressed in a blue-black robe and a flat-capped cap, stepped forward and raised his musket.

In the middle of the formation, Liu Zongmin was shocked when he saw the dense musket formation on the opposite side.

It's this thing again, who the hell are these people?

Speaking of which, it is not the first time that Liu Zongmin has fought with Liu Jiajun, but Liu Ximing has been concealing it several times before, and the news in the rogue is not particularly well-informed, so he naturally can't figure out the true face of Liu Jiajun.

But the scene in front of him made Liu Zongmin sure of one thing, these people are really people from the Dengzhou militia, and this is the way to go when they fought against them last year.

Thinking of the fierce firepower of the enemy army at that time, Liu Zongmin's heart trembled and shouted loudly: "Accelerate the charge, rush over to survive!" ”

"Roar"

A shout erupted again from the rogue, and one by one the rogues wearing the armor and robes captured from the official army ran desperately all the way.