March of the fifteenth year of Orthodoxy.

After Liu Juntao bid farewell to the general Dai Jingkui, he led his 25,000 troops all the way south, passing through Zhejiang ~ Qingtian County and Wencheng County, and rushed into Nanyandang Mountain, which is more than 100 miles north of Funing Mansion in Fuzhou.

Although the thieves of Deng Mao's seven divisions, who were operating in Funing Prefecture, heard that the official army had gone south, they could not find any trace of the official army, so they could only hold the city under the leadership of Jiang Fucheng, the leader of the bandits, and his 150,000 thieves and horses were also scattered throughout Funing Prefecture, and at the same time reported the situation to Deng Maoqi.

At this time, Deng Maoqi and Landlong were leading 350,000 people in Jianning Mansion to prepare to meet the official army.

After Deng Maoqi received the news from Jiang Fucheng, he only ordered Jiang Fucheng to defend Funing Prefecture, and there were no other orders, and there was not a single soldier in the reinforcements.

For Deng Maoqi, the 500,000 troops in Funing Prefecture and Jianning Prefecture could completely resist the attack of 50,000 officers and troops, and there was no need to mobilize hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses from the south to the north.

After the thief Jiang Fucheng received Deng Maoqi's order, he thought the same as Deng Maoqi, thinking that the 150,000 army in his hands could completely resist the officers and troops who divided their troops all the way south.

As a result, Jiang Fucheng began to dispatch troops: the 150,000 army was divided into several units, and the city of Funing Prefecture was naturally led by Jiang Fucheng himself, and the main army of 50,000 was deployed in the city; In Fu'an County, which is more than 100 miles north of Funing Prefecture, Xiapu County, an acropolis ten miles to the north, and Ningde County, which is close to Fuzhou Prefecture in the south, are each garrisoned by 20,000 horses; The remaining 40,000 thieves were ambushed by Jiang Fucheng's Dajiao Mountain in the north of Funing Prefecture, preparing to ambush the officers and soldiers who were heading south.

At the same time as Jiang Fucheng's thieves moved, Liu Juntao suddenly led an army of 25,000 to rush out of Nanyandang Mountain, and it took only two days to march to the city of Fu'an County, surrounding the 20,000 thieves in the city.

At this time, the 40,000 thieves deployed by Jiang Fucheng in the north of Dagang Mountain have not yet arrived, and they are still on the way!

After Jiang Fucheng received a letter of help from the thieves in Fu'an County, he immediately ordered the 40,000 thieves who were going north to Dajiao Mountain to turn west and go to Fu'an County to meet the official army, hoping to defeat the 25,000 official army in the foreign world.

The 40,000 thieves turned halfway and killed towards Fu'an County, and before they were halfway through, Liu Juntao received the news from Tanma, and said to Zhang Xiaojun, Sun Xu and Yan Hu with a smile: "This time, we have a good start!" This is the thief who has sent us war exploits! ”

After speaking, Liu Juntao didn't care about anything else, and ordered the front and rear battalions of the Yanzhou Mansion Guard Barracks and the Yushan Town Guards to storm Fu'an County, and he led the Yanzhou Mansion Strange Battalion to suppress the formation, while the Yushan Town Iron Cavalry Battalion under Zhou Zongsheng was missing.

At the same time, the 40,000 thieves had already entered the territory of Fu'an County and were marching in a place called Tuoyang Mountain, which although there was a mountain in its name, it was a hilly land that stretched endlessly.

The terrain here is scattered, and the 40,000 thieves can only break up the team and move forward, and they can't assemble a formation at all.

Suddenly, there was a roar from the mountain col in the distance, and then Zhou Zongsheng led three thousand iron horsemen to kill from the mountain pass, and the iron cavalry army was mighty, like a giant dragon, pounced on the army of thieves without formation.

Seeing that these thieves were in ambush, they immediately blew up their nests, and fled in all directions around Tuoyang Mountain, without resisting at all.

Zhou Zongsheng looked at the army of thieves who fled all over the mountains before the battle, he was already so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, roared loudly, and led three thousand iron cavalry to rush and fight, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep on the battlefield, unscrupulously rampage, killing the 40,000 thieves and the army of thieves to death!

"Crush! Come on! ”

Zhou Zongsheng was already in a frenzy at this time, before the war, he was still a little afraid of the huge strength of the thieves, at this time, seeing that the thieves and horses were so vulnerable, the faint fear in his heart also disappeared, and all that was left was the pride of making meritorious contributions!

And the three thousand iron cavalry soldiers are also high-spirited, although before the war, in order to enhance the combat power of the iron cavalry battalion, Liu Juntao has developed and finalized the new orthodox fourteen-year three-eyed gun developed by the Yushan Military Warfare Bureau and installed the iron cavalry battalion, but Zhou Zongsheng did not order the use of this sharp weapon in this battle.

After all, as soon as the Iron Cavalry Army launched a charge, the army of 40,000 thieves had already collapsed, and such thieves and horses didn't need the three-eyed guns to solve it, as long as they were fast and long-sworded, they could achieve a great victory!

Really!

An hour later, 40,000 thieves were defeated and returned, and Zhou Zongsheng's iron cavalry army pursued and killed for more than 20 miles before returning victoriously.

In this battle, at least 17,000 or 8,000 of the 40,000 thieves died here, plus some of the routs who took advantage of the chaos to escape, there were only more than 13,000 thieves who fled back to Funing Prefecture!

And when Zhou Zongsheng returned to Fu'an County with almost no casualties, Liu Juntao had already commanded the main army to capture the city, and the 20,000 thieves in the city had been wiped out!

Liu Juntao saw that the city had fallen, so he gathered the gentry and big families in Fu'an County, and ordered everyone to come forward to organize Qingzhuang to temporarily defend the city, maintain order in the city, and wait for the imperial court to send someone to take over the county.

After that, Liu Juntao did not stop, and directly led the army to Xiapu County, preparing to take Funing Prefecture directly.

At the same time, Zhou Zongsheng led his troops to break away from the main army and pounced directly south to Ningde County, preparing to cut off the retreat of Jiang Fucheng's thieves in advance!

The words are divided into two ends, one for each table.

When Jiang Fucheng, the leader of the bandits, gathered more than 10,000 defeated soldiers, his heart was like dripping blood, and in just a few days, he lost more than 40,000 troops, and also lost a city!

Such a blow made the army of thieves under Jiang Fucheng very moved, and their morale was greatly hit.

Jiang Fucheng sent several waves of people to Deng Maoqi in Jianning Mansion for help, but before Deng Maoqi's reply came, he waited for more than 20,000 troops from Yushan Town led by Liu Juntao.

"What! Xiapu County is besieged? ”

Hearing the news here, Jiang Fucheng can be said to be full of heart and gall, from Fu'an County to Xiapu County, the middle isolation is so far, the official army arrived so quickly, which is enough to make Jiang Fucheng feel chills in his heart.

At this time, Jiang Fucheng's only hope was that the 20,000 troops in Xiapu County could hold out a little more and consume more of the official army.

But such a wish is destined to be unfulfilled!

On the same day, Jiang Fucheng stood at the head of Funing Prefecture and heard the roar of firearms from the north.

The loud sound made Jiang Fucheng frightened, and the surrounding thieves and soldiers were also terrified, and even many people were rumoring: The official army has received the help of Lei Gong and can send thunder to bombard the city!

In the afternoon of the same day, the roar of Xiapu County in the north gradually subsided, Jiang Fucheng was shocked when he saw this, and was about to send someone to investigate, when he stood on the head of the city and saw the rout of the mountains and fields appear, rushing towards the city gate!

"It can't be!"

Jiang Fucheng no longer had the slightest will to fight at this time, and on the one hand, he ordered that the defeated troops outside the city should not be allowed to enter the city, and on the other hand, he mobilized troops and horses, prepared to break through at night, and directly led his troops to Ningde County in the south, and first went to Yanping Mansion or Quanzhou Mansion to join the rest of the thief army.

In this way, Jiang Fucheng and the army of thieves in the city endured the angry scolding of their companions outside the city, and finally waited until the sky was getting dark, but fortunately, the official army only wandered in the distance for a while, and did not immediately attack the city.

That night, Jiang Fucheng led an army of more than 60,000 thieves to rush out from the south gate and rushed all the way to Ningde County.

At the same time, Liu Juntao also received the news, but he did not rush to catch up, but directly led the army into the city, while collecting prisoners, while handling the stability affairs of Xiapu County and Funing Prefecture, and began to establish a team of young and strong villagers in the two places.

Three days later, Liu Juntao led the army south to pursue the thieves and soldiers, and pursued them all the way to the territory of Ningde County.

At this time, the prospecting horse in front sent back the news that the thief Jiang Fucheng led his troops to arrive, and was commanded Zhou Zongsheng to lead the iron cavalry battalion to raid successfully, and the thief was seriously damaged, so he abandoned Ningde County and fled west in the direction of Yanping Mansion.

Liu Juntao did not chase after him, and directly led his troops to join Zhou Zongsheng's department, and captured Ningde County in one day, gathering and annihilating 20,000 thieves in the city.

At this point, Liu Juntao led his troops to recover the entire territory of Funing Prefecture and sent people to report the victory to the general Dai Jingkui.

At this time, Fuzhou Mansion was still in the hands of the official army, and Liu Juntao originally wanted to lead his troops to advance west from Fuzhou Mansion, capture Yanping Mansion first, intercept the main force of thieves in Jianning Mansion in the north, and gather and annihilate it together with the general Dai Jingkui's department.

But then the news sent by the general Dai Jingkui made Liu Juntao give up this plan.

It turned out that the war on the Western Front was also going well, and now the main force of the thieves led by the thief Deng Maoqi has been hit hard, and has retreated to the northern line of Yanping Mansion, and has made contact with the thieves of Ye Zongliu's department stationed in Yanping Mansion.

As a result, the general Dai Jingkui ordered Liu Juntao to continue to attack Quanzhou Mansion according to the predetermined plan.