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"Lord Lu, Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, said that in order to deal with the bandits from the south and the harassment of the Mongolian tribes in the north, his elite soldiers and horses have been stationed in various parts of Datong, so only a small part of the second-line guard troops can be sent to come."

"Governor Lu, the general army of Shanxi is as fierce as a tiger, saying that the officers and troops in Shanxi are making every effort to search for Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, the King of Chaotian, Guotianxing and other thieves, and they lack the skills to divide the troops, and it is really difficult to have soldiers and horses to be deployed."

"Governor Lu, the governor of the three sides, Hong Chengchou, has sent the chief soldier Cao Bianjiao to come to Xuanfu, but his troops have just finished suppressing bandits, and the soldiers are quite tired.

"Lord Lu, according to Zu Dashou, the chief soldier of Liaodong Forward, there are many warning signals in various parts of Liaodong now, and I am afraid that there will be Manchurian and Mongolian Tartars who will take advantage of the situation to invade. In order to be well prepared, the troops of all parts of Liaodong have been assigned to various border forts to strictly guard, and if they want to send troops to Xuanfu again, I am afraid that it will be difficult to transfer money for a while. ”

Hearing this series of depressing news, Lu Xiangsheng was shocked.

He never expected that under the strict orders of the imperial court, the officials and soldiers in these places would all disobey the yang and the yin, and they could delay the edict to conquer Jintang City, and they didn't care at all.

Up to now, this matter of entering Jintang City has become a matter of his own.

For a while, Lu Xiangsheng had a deep feeling of being fooled.

As he sat in his room, he let out a long sigh. "Huh, the Ming Dynasty officials and troops are scattered, the country's momentum is so declining, people's hearts are mixed, and they belong to different directions, how can they be supported by the strength of a certain Lu person."

However, Lu Xiangsheng sighed and sighed, in the end, he promised to be a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, but he still conscientiously built siege equipment, selected and trained combat soldiers and horses, and made all kinds of preparations for the attack on Jintang City.

On the second day of the third month of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng led 25,000 Xuan soldiers and horses, and about 3,000 logistics auxiliaries and people led by his brother Lu Xiangguan, and went to Jintang City.

The army of conquest and suppression marched all the way, and the momentum was quite strong. But all the soldiers, including Lu Xiangsheng, did not expect that when they set off from Wanquan Dusi, the Tang army in Jintang City knew their actions well.

This is because as early as before Lu Xiangsheng set off to unify the army, there were secret agents of the Security Department hidden in the Wanquan Division who reported to the flying pigeon in Jintangcheng and conveyed the news of Lu Xiangsheng's attack with the army.

Moreover, in addition to the secret report of the Security Division, Du Shi, the commander of the Longmen Guard of Xuanfu Town, who had been favored by Li Xiao, had also sent his nephew Du Shaoru to report the news in Jintang City.

Duan Shidi, the commander of the Dingbei Battalion, and Liu Wenxiu, the deputy battalion commander, who received the secret letter, immediately began to urgently discuss the enemy's strategy.

"Alas, I can't imagine that we are stationed in the northern part of the country, guarding the border for the country, and the court wants to cut us first, which is really lamentable." Duan Shidi sighed repeatedly.

"Hmph, the court thought that my Tang Army was in the north camp, alone outside the fortress, and there were no reinforcements outside, so it must be a soft persimmon that could be swallowed in one bite, but I didn't know that they had completely miscalculated!" Liu Wenxiu's face was ruthless, and she was also very emotional.

Liu Wenxiu, who was originally one of Zhang Xianzhong's four righteous sons, fought many times with the Ming Dynasty officials and soldiers when he was a rogue earlier, and then, after being ambushed by Li Xiao in Tielong City, Liu Wenxiu thought that he had become the self of the Ming Dynasty officials and soldiers, and would never have a battle conflict with the Ming army again.

But he never expected that one day, Li Xiao's soldiers, who had been loyal to the country, would be recognized as traitors by the imperial court and sent troops to crusade, and he had to fight the Ming army again.

This fortune is strange, how can it be said.

"Our army is well-equipped, well-trained, and has many convenient geographical advantages. It is not difficult to break through the enemies of Lu Xiangsheng from afar. It's just that the one who will be concerned about is the edict passed on by Lord Li. A wry smile appeared on Duan Shidi's face.

Liu Wenxiu also frowned: "Yes, Lord Li explained in the flying pigeon message that he wanted us to work hard to defeat the invading Ming army, but he also said that we should minimize the damage and let it escape." Especially Lu Xiangsheng himself, we must not harm his life. If you fight a war like this, it is intimidating. ”

Duan Shi sighed: "Master Li is kind-hearted and misses his old kindness. This Lu Xiangsheng can be regarded as the old leader of Lord Li, so it is human nature that Lord Li deliberately wants to let him go. It's just that we have a lot of concerns when we start a war like this. ”

Duan Shi paused, but a fine light flashed in his eyes: "However, according to the general, this battle, as long as it is more delicate, it can still be fought." Perhaps, our army can use the method of point to end and trap the enemy in a certain defeat, so as to force Lu Xiangsheng to surrender to our army. ”

Liu Wenxiu's eyes lit up: "Oh, Camp Commander Duan has a high count?" I wish to hear more about it. ”

Duan Shidi smiled, approached Liu Wenxiu, and his words were low, but Liu Wenxiu couldn't help nodding when he heard it, and finally a bright smile appeared on his face.

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In March, the weather in northern Cyprus can change.

Just now it was still sunny and blue, and the blue sky was like a clear and sunny climate, with the continuous wind blowing, suddenly it was flying sand and stones, yellow dust and thousands of miles, the sky and the sun, there was chaos between heaven and earth, but a few feet away, it was difficult to see clearly.

The sudden change in weather made it quite difficult for Lu Xiangsheng's army, which was heading north, to march quite slowly, and the speed of the entire army slowed down significantly. The ties between the various armies are also loose and weak.

After approaching Jintang City, Lu Xiangsheng set up a position and divided the whole army into three armies, left, middle and right, of which 5,000 soldiers on the left and right wings, Mao Bin, a general of Yongning in Nanshan, led the left wing, and Yang Guozhu, the deputy general of Xuanfu Town, led the right wing, and Lu Xiangsheng himself unified the Chinese army of 15,000 people.

Mao Bin, the left-wing Yongning general who was arranged by Lu Xiangsheng, had a slender and snarky face full of bitter expressions. He covered his nose with a woolen cloth to keep out the dust, and cursed uncleanly.

"Grandma, this damn weather, what a fight. This Lu Jiandou is really, in order to invite credit to the imperial court, in such bad weather, he still has to urge Lao Tzu to beat Li Xiao, who is a dog, which is really hateful! ”

Mao Bin muttered and cursed, but he didn't consciously remember that day, when the Qing army entered the customs for the third time in the ninth year of Chongzhen, he had been stationed in the Acropolis in Xuanfu Town.

He clearly remembered that he was in a quarrel and infighting with Du Shi, the commander of the Longmen Guards who had fled back from defeat, and was about to fight, when this Li Xiao happened to lead his troops to come, and took the remnants of Du Shi away, and went to Beijing with him, so as to avoid an imminent battle and fighting.

Subsequently, seeing Li Xiao leading the well-armored and high-spirited troops of the Golden Wolf Battalion from the Huailai Acropolis to march neatly, Mao Bin felt that Li Xiao, who was the general soldier of Chifeng at this time, was by no means an ordinary person.

Later, Mao Bin heard the news that Li Xiao had captured the border city of the important town in western Beijing in just a few hours, and the Tatar general Tan Tai of the border city of the town was deeply shocked by the courage and cruelty of this person and the superior combat power of his troops.

At that time, Mao Bin decided in his heart that a brutal and capable guy like Li Xiao would definitely mess with him less. Otherwise, just relying on their own soldiers who are useless, inefficient in training, and incompetent except for eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, I am afraid that it will not be enough to stuff Li Xiao's teeth.

Therefore, this time, when Lu Xiangsheng sent his troops to attack Li Xiao's Jintang City, Mao Bin was terrified and was very resistant to this military operation. It's just that he was afraid that the military order would be difficult to disobey, so he had to lead the army head-on.

However, Mao Bin secretly decided in his heart that in this battle, he could only move with the current, never rush to the front, and go to the fire for Nalu Xiang to get millet from the fire, so as to stupidly damage his own strength and fight with the elite Tang Army, which was very armed to the teeth. Moreover, as long as the losses of his own subordinates are slightly greater, he must immediately retreat and retreat to Yongning, and never lose his precious troops in this remote place in the north of the Saibei.

It's just that, in the midst of a whistling wind, Mao Bin suddenly heard that there seemed to be a faint sound of horses' hooves in front of him. It's just that because the sand and dust are too big, I can't see how many soldiers and horses there are.

Mao Bin was hesitating, but the sound of horses' hooves in his ears became louder and louder, until it rumbled like thunder like popping beans.

"General, it is the rebellious Tang Army cavalry that is coming ahead! There are 2,000 of them! A sharp-eyed entourage of guards pointed forward in a frightened voice.

"Ahh Mao Bin tore off the cloth on his face, and his long and thin face was full of fear. "Tang, the Tang army came so fast?!"

"Quick, hurry up and raise the command flag and urgently ask for help from the Chinese army! It was said that the Tang army, which had entered the dog, took advantage of the wind and sand to attack the left flank of the general, and asked Governor Lu to send troops to rescue him quickly! Mao Bin yelled.

It's just that in such a windy and dusty weather, the flag signal sent by Mao Bin and the conch horn played have no effect at all.

Mao Bin was horrified to see that from the yellow dust in the sky, 600 heavy cavalry of the Tang Army, all dressed in thick steel armor, were arranged in a wedge-shaped battle formation like a black steel blade, and the horses' hooves charged towards their own military formations.

Mao Bin soon noticed that after this heavy cavalry, there were also two light cavalry, one of which was wearing cotton armor and holding a cavalry spear, which was similar to an ordinary sentry horse. The other cavalry made Mao Bin dumbfounded, because he saw that this fierce Tang Army cavalry was actually wearing the armor of the Qing Army's Zhenghuang Banner!

The cavalry of the Tang Army charged in clusters, the momentum was extremely majestic, and the flying horse legs were like countless drums, beating the vast land, and the sand and dust raised on the ground seemed to merge with the dust and sand flying in the sky. These fierce Tang cavalry were like a multi-legged black steel monster, roaring and rushing towards its prey.

In such a dusty environment, they can still cooperate with each other so skillfully, which shows the proficiency of these Tang troops in battle. Mao Bin quickly thought that these Tang cavalry must have been trained extremely hard and harshly on weekdays, and they must have been repeatedly trained in such bad weather, so that they could carry out attacks and operations almost unaffected in such a bad climate environment.

"Withdraw! Evacuate! ”

Seeing these Tang cavalry, who were like devils killed from hell, rushing towards their own army formation, Mao Bin roared wildly, took the lead in pulling out the horse's head, turned around and fled.

It's too late.

When the Xuanhu heavy armored cavalry, which was equipped with steel heavy armor and weighed more than 530 kilograms, had already accelerated with all their might, the heavy armored Xuanhu cavalry that charged in a wedge-shaped battle formation reached an almost terrifying state.

In just an instant, the wedge-shaped assault of the Tang Army's Xuanhu heavy cavalry was like a sharp and blazing blade, cutting straight into the unprepared hairy part. Immediately, like a knife cutting butter, the entire left flank of the Ming army, which was fleeing and chaotic, was torn in half from the middle, and quickly rushed through a wide bloody road and came out of the formation!

The left flank of the Mao Bin Department was crushed by a single blow.

Countless soldiers of the Mao Bin Army, wailing and screaming, abandoned their swords one after another, and fled in all directions. At this time, the main general Mao Bin, who fled regardless of his head, ran away in the morning.

However, Liu Wenxiu, the deputy commander of the Dingbei Battalion, who personally led all the cavalry to charge into battle, just coldly watched them run wolf and flee in all directions, but did not send troops to chase and kill.

Although these guys have become enemies with themselves, no matter how they say, they are still former comrades-in-arms, and they really want to kill these people, Li Xiao does not agree, and Liu Wenxiu himself can't pass the psychological level.

After Liu Wenxiu reorganized his troops and horses a little, Fu Leng coldly ordered: "All cavalry obey the order!" According to the original plan, before the enemy army has reacted, directly attack the baggage troops in the rear of the enemy army! ”

"Order!"

A group of cavalry roared loudly, followed Liu Wenxiu, pulled out their horses and rushed straight to the back because of the sudden battle in the front, at this time it was a panicked and chaotic Ming army logistics troops.

"Hurry up and form a team, don't panic!"

Lu Xiangsheng's second brother, Lu Xiangguan, who was brandishing his waist knife and ordering a group of auxiliaries and civilians not to scatter, suddenly heard the rumbling sound of horses' hooves in the front of his own military formation.

He looked in astonishment, only to see that in the yellow sand in the sky, a group of fierce heavy cavalry carrying an extremely large and bright red and dazzling military flag with the word "Tang" had already killed like a black whirlwind.

"Run, Tang Jun is coming!"

I don't know who shouted, but the auxiliaries and people who had finally calmed down a little bit at the bottom actually abandoned the grain, grass and ordnance when the Tang army was still nearly a hundred steps away from them, and scattered with a bang, which could not be recovered.

"Don't run, don't run, you bastards, stop for this officer! Did you hear that? ”

Looking at the auxiliary soldiers and people scattered in all directions, Lu Xiangguan who was holding a waist knife, sighed and scolded endlessly.

It's just that at this moment, the sound of horses' hooves coming like thunder completely overshadowed Lu Xiangguan's shout.

"Enemy general, where to escape!"

Hearing a deafening shout behind him, Lu Xiangguan turned around in horror, only to see a young general wearing a six-petal phoenix-winged silver tasseled helmet, wearing dazzling steel armor, and riding a majestic white horse as white as frost and snow.

This young general is the deputy commander of the Dingbei Battalion, Liu Wenxiu.

"Dang!"

With a crisp sound, Liu Wenxiu pulled out the steel gun in his hand, and knocked the waist knife in Lu Xiangguan's hand away. Then he rushed on the horse, the wolf's waist probed down, the ape's arm was lightly relaxed, and he grabbed Lu Xiangguan's belt and grabbed him who was stumbling to the ground.

"Haha, the enemy general has been captured by this general, and you won't surrender early!"

Liu Wenxiu sandwiched the dancing Lu Xiangguan under his arm, and then shouted at the stunned Lu Xiangguan and his guards.

Seeing that the winner was about to be captured, the guards no longer had the heart to fight, so they abandoned their swords and knelt on the ground and begged to surrender.

Seeing that he was attacking all the way and breaking through the enemy's left flank and logistics troops, Liu Wenxiu was very happy in his heart. Immediately, he left all the Flying Harrier light horsemen and was responsible for guarding a large number of captured grain and grass and heavy loads and prisoners of the Ming army. Then, Liu Wenxiu gave an order, and led all the Xuanhu heavy cavalry and Manchurian cavalry, roaring towards the Yang Guozhu department on the right flank of the Ming army, and rushed away!