The battle was like this, Li Zicheng was moved, the Tianxiong Army was so valued by Liu Renyu, isn't it for nothing!

"King Chuang, this road of officers and soldiers, just talking about combat power, I don't think it may be stronger, compared to the border army after all, it is a line behind, but the fighting spirit of this road officer army is extremely strong, and after half an hour, it is on par with our army, and it has never retreated slightly, and the number of our army is slightly more than one line, speaking of which, it is a little stronger."

Li Zicheng listened to Gao Jie's comments, but he was not annoyed, he nodded: "Four thousand against three thousand, a tie, they and us, the Ma army is not much, and in the end, we still have to rely on the infantry army to win." We have a lot of soldiers, and we have added more troops one after another, and in a wheel battle with him, their soldiers are exhausted, and we still have soldiers, and in the end they will lose.

If they end up losing, they lose! But there are also some benefits for us, such opponents, just used for training, they are a little strong, but not too strong, through this hurdle, our army's combat strength to a higher level, Li Guo, add troops, maintain the superiority of troops. ”

Seeing this, Lu Xiangsheng also added troops to the core battlefield, and in order to maintain his own strength advantage and block the enemy's reinforcements, he specially ordered artillery to bombard the rear of the beggar army, and the archers also fired arrows.

Whoever did not have artillery, who did not have archers, the artillery and archers of the beggar army immediately returned fire, and each army suffered casualties.

The infantry army, artillery, and archers all moved, Gao Jie moved with the 2,000 cavalry of the begging army, and surrounded the artillery of the Tianxiong army from a distance, and the 1,000 cavalry of the Tianxiong army also moved, entangled with the cavalry of the begging army.

The infantry armies, cavalry, artillerymen, and archers of the two sides fought separately, and the encounter was extremely lively.

The knife was missing, the thread was broken, the shield was torn into pieces, and the fight continued, and the fists, legs, feet, and teeth were used.

On the battlefield, the soldiers on both sides hugged each other everywhere, and some of the soldiers on both sides who went to Huangquan died, and their mouths still contained the flesh and blood of the enemy.

"The dog legs of corrupt officials and inferior gentry, the eagle dog of the corrupt Ming Kingdom, go to death!"

"Go to hell as a stinky thief who harms the people and poisons the living beings."

Flesh and blood flew and died generously, and no one retreated.

"Woo........, woo.........."

"Toot ......., Toot .........."

At sunset and dusk, the sky was as red as blood, and the horns of the beggar army and the Tianxiong army sounded respectively, and the two officers and soldiers who were still fighting suddenly stopped their movements, looked at each other angrily with blood-red eyes, and cautiously retreated.

The battlefield had been noisy for a long time and was quiet, except for the occasional "ah, ah" sound from crows attracted by the smell of blood, echoing above the open space covered with corpses.

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At night, Lu Xiangsheng did not shelter from the wind and snow, stood in the arrow tower of the soldier's village, and looked at the begging army camp opposite, but saw that in all directions, there were groups of torches scattered separately, with the beggar army camp as the center, slowly gathering.

Everyone knows that it is not the reinforcements of the begging army, everyone knows that it is the people from all directions, not only the people in the areas controlled by the begging army, but even the people in Kaifeng Prefecture, who are not in the areas controlled by the begging army at all, are giving supplies to the begging army.

On the other hand, on the side of the Tianxiong Army, only those township officials and gentry who do not look at the official army at all on weekdays are forced by the situation, so they have to take the initiative to give supplies to the Tianxiong Army, and they must let the Tianxiong Army hold on, otherwise the Tianxiong Army will fall, and the unlucky ones will be them immediately.

"Junmen, thanks to the help of the township officials and gentry who are well aware of righteousness, we came from Kaifeng, and the grain stock is sufficient, which is enough to support us in the battle with the Li thief."

"Today's battle with Li Thief, our army has not moved, and the striker has fought more with less, so it can be a draw with them, let them know how powerful we are, and fight again tomorrow, let's hold our breath, fight like this, and see who can't hold their breath first."

"Let's drag the Li thief here, fight with him, and when he is tired, Zuo Liangyu's troops will suddenly come out of Ruzhou Mansion, and they will definitely be able to defeat him. When the time comes, he can annihilate the Li thief. ”

The generals spoke, and they spoke, and they said that the sky was clear, as if the battle had been won.

Lu Xiangsheng didn't seem to hear it, but just stared at the departing groups of torches in a daze.

When the generals saw it, in fact, it was not a taste in their hearts, but now is not the time to think about people's hearts.

"The military gate, don't look at it, it's always the people who are deceived by the small profits of the Li thief and don't know the righteousness, so this is the way to be, and the military gate doesn't have to worry about it."

"In the situation seen today, this court must present the imperial court, otherwise the Li thief will be destroyed, and there will be more thieves, and the king and thief will rise again, and they will not suppress mergers, nor suppress the strong and powerful, nor rest with the people, and they will not be evenly endowed, and there will be no peace in the world!"

After Lu Xiangsheng finished speaking, he returned to the military tent with heavy steps.

The next day, the next day, although the begging army lost more than 3,000 people, the morale did not fall at all, the loss of the Tianxiong army and the begging army is comparable, because they are relatives of each other, if there is a death, it can always lead the officers and soldiers of the Tianxiong army to have a hostile heart, so the morale of the Tianxiong army is slightly stronger than yesterday.

After a day of fierce fighting yesterday, Li Zicheng already understood why Liu Renyu valued the Tianxiong Army, and the reason for his attention was only that he was only afraid that he had a strong fighting spirit, as for the combat strength, yesterday he sent a beggar army mixed with new recruits and veterans to fight with more and less, and to draw a tie, which was actually not very strong.

If we insist on following one standard, we can only say that we are slightly stronger than local recruits and weaker than border troops, and this kind of combat strength is not particularly difficult to deal with.

Yesterday evening, they planned to use a new method of warfare today, that is, first send 20,000 new troops to attack with all their might, induce the Tianxiong army to meet the battle with all their might, and then put more than 10,000 veterans of a hundred battles and surrendered officers and soldiers who had gathered in advance into the battlefield after the whole army had attacked.

The veterans of a hundred battles and the surrendered officers and soldiers are not only a new force, but also have the same combat power as the Tianxiong army, as long as they join the battle, it is enough to destroy the defense line of the Tianxiong army and defeat the Tianxiong army in one fell swoop.

Today, Lu Xiangsheng looked around, but when he saw that the beggar army was in action, he put on a large inverted 'pin' shaped military formation, and the two mouths of the character were pressed towards the two wings of his own army, and the last word was directly facing his own military formation, which was about to fight a decisive battle.

Yesterday, it was just a few people who tested each other, and the temptation was over.

"The thief army wants to take advantage of the large number of people, surround us first, and then eat us, form a circle formation, and defend."

The sound of the command continued to sound, and the large array of more than 17,000 people quickly moved into action, with swords and shields outside, spears inside, arquebuses inside, bows and arrows inside, and the artillery could no longer play a role at this time, and Lu Xiangsheng and other Tianxiong army generals and cavalry were in the innermost.

Li Zicheng saw that Lu Xiangsheng did not divide his troops into three ways and attack them separately, but lined up in a circle to defend, and immediately ordered that the three sides should be surrounded and one was missing, leaving a vacancy in the east, and then let the cavalry prepare, as long as the Tianxiong army collapsed, he would immediately pursue and expand the results.

Today's tactics of the beggar army are extremely simple, and they will not leave room for attacking desperately.

Shield against shield, gun against gun, bow against arrow, musket against musket, fight with all your might.

The shouting of killing lasted for a whole morning, and Li Zicheng keenly found that the circle formation of the Tianxiong Army was shrinking.

"It's the iron and stone people, and now I'm afraid that I'm tired of turning into mud, and I give the order, and our army will attack."

"Toot ......, Toot ........."

The Tianxiong army, who were fighting desperately, found that the pressure in front of them suddenly relaxed, and the enemy troops on three sides retreated, and they thought that the enemy army wanted to fight again after lunch, and they wanted to rest and recover their strength, but they didn't want to beg the army to kill again.

This time, there was only one way to kill the beggar army, which was different from the previous killing, they actually had armor, which looked more ferocious, and there was only one way, like a chisel, aiming at a point, chiseling fiercely, intending to go straight into the Chinese army's big array.

In the morning of the battle, the officers and men of the Tianxiong Army were already a little tired, had no food, and were hungry, and the circle formation was good at defending and besieging, but they were unable to defend against key assaults because of the equal distribution of forces.

It was a full rush of the beggar army, and immediately rushed into a gap in the circle array.

"Protect the military gate!"

The anxious voices of the officers and soldiers of the Tianxiong Army rose one after another. When Li Zicheng heard it, he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Where the military flag is, it is where the commander is, but this move is good, Li Zicheng just left, and the heavy troops went straight to the general of the Chinese army, she expected that Lu Xiangsheng would be a literati, could it be that the blade was about to be added, and he could still be calm?

Lu Xiangsheng really moved, but instead of breaking through to the west as Li Zicheng thought, he took out a long and excessive broadsword, led his men, and killed the sharp soldiers of the beggar army.