"Lu Xiangsheng is so valued by the marshal, our army should attack with all its might, so that it can win steadily, but Luoyang Dayi, and the wealth of the blessed king is here, it is still necessary to prevent the official army from copying Luoyang, I feel that it is enough to defend the city with 3,000 soldiers, plus young and strong."

After thinking about it for a while, he gave such a number.

Three thousand people, for the beggar army, there is not much of it, and there is no lot of it. Ordinary officers and soldiers came to attack Luoyang, but 3,000 people were able to defend him for a few days.

"Three thousand is three thousand, and the instructor with three thousand people is enough to resist 30,000 officers and soldiers."

"What did King Chuang say, how could I have such great ability."

Shocked by Li Zicheng's efforts to pursue him so hard, he was polite on his lips, and he was really useful in his heart.

"Instructor, so Luoyang please."

Li Zicheng's face was solemn and he bowed his hand.

This is not a military order, but it is better than a military order, although the sky is shocked, although the identity is special, at this time, it is also necessary to make a show, to give Li Zicheng face.

"Please rest assured that the city is in the people, and the city is ruined."

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On the official road from Kaifeng to Luoyang, an officer army, three people in a row, stretched for dozens of miles, and marched towards Luoyang mightily.

This is naturally Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army.

The Tianxiong army marched all the way, the spring was cold, and it was difficult to see pedestrians on the road, so they saw it, and when the other party saw that it was an official army, he immediately hid to the side, unwilling to look at it.

Along the way, the villages and towns and fortresses, when they saw that the official army was coming, they could hide, but they couldn't hide, so they looked at the Tianxiong Army with horror, fear, and some kind of incomprehensible, similar to the kind of banter that can still be jumped for a few days by relying on you.

This is the mentality of the people at the end of the Ming Dynasty when they saw the official army, although they were the official army, the people regarded them as enemies.

"Hey, Junmen, it's strange to say, in Beizhili, those township officials and gentry, when they saw us, their eyes were full of disgust, but the township officials and gentry in Henan are very different, we haven't arrived yet, so we prepared a reward early, silver money and grain, we arrived, and the flow price was sent to us.

It's just that the auxiliary soldiers and civilians are not easy to find, I heard that we are going to suppress the Li thief, and they will not give us help if they say anything, even if they make money, they can't be called. In the end, we forcibly recruited some people, and they fed croton to our horses when they were feeding the horses. Thanks to our grooms, we watch carefully, otherwise it will be a disaster when there is a war. ”

A silver-armored general entered the big tent of Delu Xiangsheng, Xu has been in the place for a long time, he is very familiar, and he has not seen the courtesy, and he shook out all the things he encountered today like beans.

"What do you do with the people who feed the horses and eat croton?" Lu Xiangsheng's face was calm and asked.

"What else can I do, tie it up first, and interrogate whether it is a spy of the Li thief, and whether there is a comrade."

"What do they say?"

"They didn't admit it, and they also said that we wouldn't be able to jump for a few days, and in a few days the beggar army would fight back against us, and the beggar army would avenge them. Damn, these Diao people, who are the officials and soldiers! It's the other way around, they ....."

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, his brows furrowed, and he couldn't help but think of the intelligence of the sentry in his mind repeatedly: "Wherever the beggar army goes, the people welcome it, and call Li Zicheng the reincarnation of the blue sky, the living Bodhisattva." ”

Look at the attitude of the people of Henan towards the Tianxiong Army, the two heavens of ice and fire, the people regard the beggar army as a heavenly soldier, but regard the official army as a thief, Lu Xiangsheng suddenly felt that his heart was pressed with a thousand catties of heavy burden, and he was panicked and uncomfortable.

"What are you going to do with those people?"

Lu Xiangsheng forcibly suppressed the boredom in his heart, slowed down his tone, and deliberately bit the word "people" very hard, and asked the silver-armored general.

"People!?"

When the silver-armored general saw that Lu Xiangsheng didn't call those people spies, he knew what kind of answer his general needed, so he could only say a little unwillingly: "It's always these people who are deceived by the Li thief to make these moves, and the general will teach them a lesson and let them go back." ”

"The people and the government are incompatible, we can save every point is a point, suppress the Li thief, say that we must get rid of the maladministration, clean up the officialdom, and let the people see that the Ming Dynasty still loves the people, and the court and the emperor still have the world in their hearts."

Since Lu Xiangsheng entered Henan, after hearing about the situation of the beggar army, I don't know how many words like this have been said, and the silver-armored general listened to it, and immediately took over the conversation and said: "It is a blessing for the people of Henan to have such an honest and loving blue sky as the military gate in Henan. ”

Lu Xiangsheng was not very happy about such words, but just smiled bitterly.

The silver-armored general came to Lu Xiangsheng, with the intention of killing these people who fed the horses of the Tianxiong Army to the croton, but Lu Xiangsheng wanted to let them go.

The silver-armored general had no choice but to reprimand these people and let them go.

The Tianxiong army made these people make a fuss, and suddenly felt that their situation did not seem to be very good, so they even had to send troops to protect the water source to prevent the local people from poisoning.

Originally, the army did not have an advantage, and it was difficult to receive food and salary, and the Tianxiong army relied on Lu Xiangsheng's love for soldiers like a son, so as to maintain combat effectiveness, and now the people of Henan are all towards the begging army, so that the morale of the officers and soldiers of Tianxiong has been hit again, and the decisive battle with the begging army has cast a thick shadow.

More than 400 miles from Luoyang to Kaifeng, the Tianxiong army traveled 150 miles a day, and they could meet the beggar army in three days.

Because Liu Renyu attached great importance to Lu Xiangsheng, Li Zicheng was particularly jealous of the Tianxiong Army, and he not only took all the elite 40,000 troops of the beggar army to attack, but also sent sentry spies in waves, always spying on the intelligence of the Tianxiong Army.

At this time, the deeds of the begging army have spread throughout Henan, and the people of Henan are very envious of the life of the people of Henan Province, and they are looking forward to the early arrival of the begging army.

As much as they looked forward to the coming of the beggar army, they hoped that the Tianxiong army would be destroyed soon.

The sentry of the beggar army came, and as long as the people saw the red turban and the gray clothes, they all reported the situation of the Tianxiong army they saw to the beggar army.

Because of the great help of the people, the information sent to Li Zicheng was extremely accurate, and sometimes Lu Xiangsheng ate a few bowls of rice at noon, and Li Zicheng could know what he was eating.

On the other hand, the sentinels sent out by the Tianxiong Army had to guard against the attacks of the beggar army, as well as the people's whistleblowers, and the information was really difficult to be accurate.

In contrast to the two, the beggar army has the upper hand again.

On the twentieth day of the first month of the seventh year of Chongzhen, in the territory of Gong County, near the left of Luoyang, in addition to the elite of the nine sides, the last available official army in the north of the Ming Dynasty - the Tianxiong Army, met with the begging army here.

Since the two sides fought and looked at each other, they lined up in a circle, and there was no appeasement, Lu Xiangsheng wanted to exterminate the beggar army and eliminate this hidden danger that was enough to destroy the Ming Dynasty; There was no pre-battle dialogue, Li Zicheng was determined to eliminate this strong army that Liu Renyu valued a little, destroyed this official army, and the Central Plains were all in the hands of the beggar army.

Without dying, the artillerymen on both sides spoke first, opening the prelude to this battle to the death.

It was all Furlong cannons, and the iron projectiles were fired with huge kinetic energy.

The iron projectile whizzed, slammed heavily on the ground, and brought up the dirt, and the castration continued to stop, plowing through the dense military formation.

The broken arms and retreats, the shattered internal organs fly in all directions, and the blood mist rises, turning the plain silver makeup into a fishy red.

The men were dead and wounded, and the soldiers of the two armies were not seen.

Immediately, soldiers filled in the gaps caused by the fall of these robes, and then a trumpet sounded, in the Ming army, it was a swan sound, and in the beggar army, it was a trombone.

The two armies advanced against each other, ignoring the shells that flew one after another.

The two sides pulled closer to within seventy paces, and the archers were ready, pointed their bows diagonally at the sky, and fired.

The arrows in the sky were screaming and flying to each other's military formations, and some of the arrows were coincidental, and they actually took a look in the sky, and when they touched each other, they all lost their kinetic energy and fell to the ground.

Most of the arrows were still inserted into the military formation, and each side raised their shields to block most of the arrows, and some of the arrows were still pierced into the bodies of the soldiers on both sides, and the middle one pounced.

At twenty paces, the cannon stopped, the bow was retracted, the arquebus was fired, and the lead projectile came out, bringing with it a mist of blood.

Whether it's a cannon, a bow or arrow, or an arquebus, it's just an appetizer.

Separated so closely, no matter how fancy, the infantry of both sides moved, and with the huge kinetic energy accumulated by running, the soldiers at the head of the row collided fiercely.

Yan Ling knife, mace, iron bones, you come and go, it is difficult to separate.

Half an hour has passed, the casualties on both sides are not counted, but they are still entangled, and people continue to fill in the lives, the beggar army does not retreat, and the Tianxiong army does not retreat.

For such a long time, when the battle began, where were the two sides, an hour passed, and the front line did not move slightly.