Li Dingguo suffered the first heavy defeat in his life, the halberd in his hand was gone, and the four-edged silver wedge behind his back became a useless thing, and the bow and arrow missed again. Especially the last arrow, which was shot down by Lin Yi with an arrow again.

If Lin Yi's arrow to save Hao Shaoqi just now belonged to a blind cat catching a dead mouse, then this arrow must no longer be explained by coincidence.

There is a saying that it is guilty of not obeying the masters, Li Dingguo is now completely convinced, there are people outside the world, there is a sky outside the sky, his martial arts are far worse than Lin Yi in front of him, in this case, Li Dingguo, who is self-aware, can only flee in defeat.

Now it has become the official army chasing the thief, outside Suizhou City, in the land of Jingchu, first Hao Shaoqi chased the thief led by Ma Huihui, and then the thief led by Li Dingguo chased Hao Shaoqi, and now the official army headed by Linyi chased the thief, and there were three repetitions in one day, which is called a tug of war.

Killed until dark, Lin Yi's men and horses chased more than 20 miles before they stopped the soldiers and horses.

After losing the 5th Battalion of the Left and Li Dingguo's men and horses, Lin Yi won the first battle and won a lot of loot.

After this battle, Lin Yi's archery skills were spread in the army, and he was given a good name in private - the commander of the divine arrow.

Xiao Ying clamored for Lin Yi to teach archery, and she and Zhezhe's three hundred female battalion generals had already regarded Lin Yi as a male god worshiped in their hearts.

Two days later, Lin Yi's men and horses captured Yicheng with an unstoppable momentum.

Zhang Xianzhong's men and horses were defeated, and the five battalions of the old returned to the left of the revolution, in fact, only three battalions remained, and Li Dingguo was defeated back to Xiangyang City one after another.

At this time, Zhu Dadian, the general soldier of Nanjing, Hu Dawei, the general soldier of Baoding, and Yuan Shu, the general soldier of Henan Daliang, who cooperated with Lin Yi to encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong's people, were ordered by Yang Sichang to drive more than 20,000 horses from Henan to the Zaoyang area.

At the same time, the governor of the military department was Fu Zonglong and the governor of Baoding, Yang Wenyue, who went out of Tongguan, and Zheng Chongjian, who was still the secretary of the military department, and Ding Qirui, the new governor of Sichuan, took Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong out of Sichuan to pursue Zhang Xianzhong's men and horses to the Kangnan area.

In the past few months of Lin Yi's military training, the personnel changes in the imperial court have been very frequent, the original Sichuan governor Shao Jiechun has been Chongzhen Emperor Shuanggui due to the defeat of the army, and Ding Qirui has been appointed as the governor of Sichuan, so that Wang Qiaonian can replace Ding Qirui to patrol Shaanxi, but Wang Qiaonian just took office and received an order from Fu Zonglong, went south to suppress thieves, and died in Xiangyang.

As soon as Wang Qiaonian died, Fu Zonglong couldn't sit still, and he and Yang Wenyue personally went south out of Tongguan and pointed at Xiangyang.

Over there, the big eunuch Lu Jiude took Huang Degong and Huguang's soldiers and horses, and had already driven to Changsha. Several lines of officers and troops have encircled and suppressed the Xiangyang area.

Zhang Xianzhong, who has just been out of Sichuan for a few months, has just gained a foothold in Xiangyang, and now he can't sit still.

The situation that has just been good is facing severe challenges.

In Sichuan, in the face of the encirclement and suppression of the official army, suffering successive defeats, and falling into a situation of passive beating, Zhang Xianzhong's skills were superior, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong were hit by Zhang Xianzhong's sugar-coated shells, and the internal contradictions of the officers and troops were numerous, and the generals deviated from morality.

Zhang Xianzhong adopted the policy of mobile warfare, gave full play to the nature of thieves, and let the thieves flow in a veritable name, and could run 300 miles a day, the officers and troops were dragged to exhaustion, Zhang Xianzhong waited for an opportunity to attack the weak, and the officers and troops suffered defeats.

Especially after leaving Sichuan, they went all the way like a bamboo, and the situation was very good, but the good times did not last long, outside Suizhou City, within one day, the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left and Li Dingguo were defeated one after another.

Of course, Zhang Xianzhong knew their strength, and he also knew how capable his second-ranked godson Li Dingguo was, but he failed miserably one after another.

Zhang Xianzhong was not calm, and his internal shock also caused a shock, it seems that this Lin Yi is indeed too difficult to deal with, no wonder Luo Rucai and Li Zicheng and others will be planted in his hands one after another.

Zhang Xianzhong did not dare to underestimate the enemy at all, and immediately convened a military meeting of high-level generals.

Zhang Xianzhong sat on the Taishi chair, and the generals on both sides stood in columns. The four godsons are here, as well as the general Bai Wenxuan, and Zhang Xianzhong now has strategists, the most famous are Xu Yixian and Pan Duxi, and the old Hui Ma Shouying, the king of Zuojin, He Jin, and Liu Xiyao, the king of the reincarnation, are also sitting. Zhang Xianzhong's current talents are also full of talents.

In the face of the encirclement and suppression of several official armies, and the successive failures of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left and Li Dingguo, Lin Yi, the fierce enemy of the soldiers who were about to crush the city, Zhang Xianzhong and everyone studied coping strategies.

Zhang Xianzhong's adviser Pan Duxi gave Zhang Xianzhong an idea, asking him to give up Xiangyang, go south to take Yichang, seize Jingzhou, and rely on the Yangtze River natural danger, enter the south of the Yangtze River, retreat can return to Sichuan, the country of abundance, and must not be entangled with the official army in the Xiangyang area.

Zhang Xianzhong nodded and agreed to this plan, but this strategy was contrary to the old Hui Ma Shouying's opinion.

Ma Shouying believed that it was right to give up Xiangyang, but they should not go down to the south of the Yangtze River, but should go into Henan and Shanxi, and deal with the officers and soldiers.

They should go north, although Li Zicheng is now gone, but the officers and troops in Henan have also been transferred, and they have all been transferred to the front line of encirclement and suppression in Sichuan and Huguang, and now Henan and Shanxi are bound to be empty, and they take advantage of the weakness to enter, and then develop in Shandong.

Zhang Xianzhong thought for a while, compared the two plans, and still agreed with the plan of his adviser Pan Duxie, and asked Ma Hui to take the lead, leading the troops to the southeast to seize Chengtianfu and Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province, and then take Jingzhou.

A few days later, he pulled more than 10,000 horses under his command, including He Jin, the king of Zuojin, and Liu Xiyao, the king of reincarnation, to break away from Zhang Xianzhong and go north.

In the Zaoyang area, Ma Huihui's men and horses met with the chief military officer of the three routes, this is Zhu Dadian, Hu David and Yuan Shu, and the chief military officer of the three roads is added to more than 20,000 horses.

In the Zaoyang area launched a fierce battle, the old Hui Ma Shouying, first pulled a defeat to lure the enemy deep, just when these officers and soldiers were competing to cut off the heads of the death thieves to report the war exploits, Ma Hui Hui took three battalions of men and horses, and killed a horse gun.

The chief officer of the three roads suddenly fell into chaos and was killed, and the men and horses of Ma Huihui broke through the encirclement of the official army and entered Nanyang again......

These three general officers asked Lin Yi for help, but Lin Yi didn't bother to answer them for these wine bags and rice bags, and after winning, he didn't take advantage of the victory to pursue, but instead competed for the merits of the war.

Lin Yi was ashamed to be with them, and sent troops to Yichuan City, and the soldiers pointed directly at Xiangyang.

Xiangyang is now Zhang Xianzhong's temporary lair.

Ma Huihui didn't listen to the news of the call and defected to Xiangyang, Zhang Xianzhong was furious, "The turtle son, I knew that I should have slaughtered these kings for eight days!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong may have stayed in Sichuan for a long time, and he has learned some Sichuan dialect now.

However, the situation in front of him forced him to take measures as soon as possible, otherwise he might fall into the encirclement of the officials and troops again.

He immediately sent his right-hand man, Sun Kewang, who was also the leading brother among his godsons, to lead 20,000 elite soldiers, and let him serve as the vanguard troops, go out of Xiangyang to capture Chengtian Mansion, and then capture Jingzhou Mansion. At the same time, he sent another of his capable generals, who was also the third in line among his godsons, Liu Wenxiu, who was familiar with water warfare, and also led 20,000 elite soldiers to capture Yichang.

Zhang Xianzhong commanded more than 60,000 soldiers and horses in China, with the fourth-ranked godson Ai Nengqi and the general Bai Wenxuan and others, and went out of Xiangyang as the main backup.

Then Xiangyang City left Li Dingguo to guard and gave him 30,000 soldiers and horses, that is, let him drag these officers and troops first, and after Zhang Xianzhong's two lines of soldiers and horses took Yichang and Jingzhou, let Li Dingguo's golden cicada get out of his shell, and then retreat to the Yangtze River.

After the soldiers and horses were distributed, the men and horses of all walks of life immediately prepared, and two days later, the three armies set out one after another. Only 30,000 horses of Li Dingguo were left in Xiangyang City.

Zhang Xianzhong and the others had only left a few days before Lin Yi's army was killed outside Xiangyang City.

Li Dingguo ordered his soldiers and horses to hold the city and not be allowed to fight.

Lin Yi's men and horses fought against the enemy outside the city, and the four gates of Xiangyang City were closed and ignored.

Lin Yi did not rush to attack the city, but found a place to camp ten miles outside the city. He knew that Xiangyang was an important military town, and it had always been fought for, and the main general of the city defender was Li Dingguo, and the next battle would definitely be a tough battle, so he had to plan well. Don't look at the former, Li Dingguo failed, this person must not be underestimated, if you want to storm Xiangyang, you must wait for the artillery battalion to arrive.