Luo Rucai sat in Wuchang Mansion after the year to withstand Ding Qirui's attack on Huguang after the year, and kept Wuchang Mansion without losing, although he lost Macheng, Ningzhou and other places, but he still held the Yangtze River towns Ezhou and Huangzhou, and did not lose a large amount of territory, which also shows Luo Rucai's ability.

After learning that Xiao Tianjian led his troops to attack Luzhou Buke and was forced to retreat to Dingyuan County, Luo Rucai quickly realized that he could not sit idly by, and his prediction was good.

So Luo Rucai did not dare to slack off, and quickly gathered the soldiers and horses around Wuchang, collected a large number of ships again, and rushed to Ezhou, and for a time the Xing Tianjun in the Huguang area also began to mobilize on a large scale.

Luo Rucai is a handsome person, because he has anticipated the possibility of the next move in advance, so he began to make preparations in advance, after getting Xiao Tianjian's order, Luo Rucai sent troops quite quickly, less than seven days to complete the assembly in Ezhou, mobilized nearly 20,000 Xingtian soldiers and horses in the Huguang area and hundreds of ships of all kinds, gathered in Huangzhou and Ezhou.

However, Luo Rucai did not act according to Xiao Tianjian's orders, but after discussing with Lao Huihui and others, he gave Lao Huihui 5,000 men and horses, and ordered Lao Huihui to lead the troops to recover Macheng and then march into the Yinghuo Mountain area, so as to respond to Xiao Tianjian's main force to the south and contain the strength of the official army.

At this point, Luo Rucai considered even more perfect than Xiao Tianjian, after all, two or three years ago, the main area of activity was in the area of Yinghuo Mountain (Dabie Mountain), Lao Huihui is not only very familiar with the terrain in this area, but also very famous in this area, let him lead the troops back to the Yinghuo Mountain area, obviously can play a role in getting twice the result with half the effort.

So after the old return to Ma Shou should receive the order, he was also overjoyed, since he took refuge in Xiao Tianjian, although Xiao Tianjian valued him very much, but he basically did not make any great contributions, the only time was to defend Huangzhou, resist Huang Degong's troops to attack Huangzhou, for this old Hui always felt that it was not a way to go on like this, and watched that the great achievements were basically fished out by Xiao Tianjian's old department, and even Li Dingguo, who was later than him to serve Xiao Tianjian, and other young descendants had made great contributions one by one, so he was a little anxious, Now Luo Rucai ordered him to lead a group of men and horses to fight Macheng and Yinghuo Mountain, which undoubtedly gave him a great opportunity to make meritorious contributions, although these soldiers and horses are far less sharp than those under Xiao Tianjian's command, but the current officers and soldiers are not much stronger, so Ma Shou should still be full of confidence in this, so after receiving the order, he immediately lit the soldiers and horses in Huangzhou, and after the oath, he rushed straight towards Macheng.

As a result, Xing Tianjun formed a situation in which several groups of people forced Nanzhili, which suddenly plunged the entire Nanzhili government into a catastrophe.

And after Luo Rucai sent the old Huihui, he did not slack off, raised troops from Ezhou, and began to kill Jiujiang Mansion by land and water.

Just when Luo Rucai was attacking Jiujiang, it happened that Han and Guangmei led their troops to fight Anqing Mansion, and the officials of Jiujiang Mansion were so frightened when they heard the news that they hurriedly sent people to find Han and Guangmei, and asked Han and Guangmei to return to Jiujiang Mansion as soon as possible, so Han and Guangmei, who had just retreated to Wangjiang County, did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly led their troops back to Jiujiang Mansion.

So Luo Rucai led his troops to form a confrontation with Han and Guangmei in Jiujiang Mansion, the two sides fought again and again on water and land, Luo Rucai was even more personally on the front line to supervise the battle, and the officers and soldiers under the command of Han and Guangmei fought for more than ten days, and the two sides won and lost each other, Han and Guangmei saw that they could not repel Luo Rucai's department, so they gradually gathered their soldiers and horses into the city of Jiujiang Mansion, and began to defend Jiujiang Mansion and avoid the war.

Han and Guangmei asked themselves that if this continued, Jiujiang Mansion might not be guaranteed, so they hurriedly sent someone to Ding Qirui for help, Ding Qirui was afraid that Jiujiang Mansion would be lost again, so he urgently ordered Fang Guoan, who was sitting in Nanchang Mansion, to help Jiujiang Mansion, after Fang Guoan was ordered, he hesitated, and refused to go north from Nanchang Mansion to Jiujiang Mansion to help, he was worried that after leaving Nanchang Mansion, the Xingtian thief would suddenly attack Nanchang Mansion, in that case, Jiangxi would probably be over, and his troops were so much, for fear that they would be consumed in Jiujiang Mansion, and he would lose his reliance in the future, Therefore, Fang Guoan Chen soldiers Nanchang Mansion, but he did not send troops to support Jiujiang Mansion.

Fang Guoan refused to rush to Jiujiang Mansion, forcing Han and Guangmei to send people to Jiujiang Mansion for help almost every day, and Ding Qirui also sent people to Nanchang Mansion in Nanjing many times to order Fang Guoan to send troops immediately, and finally at the end of June, Fang Guoan ordered 10,000 officers and soldiers from Nanchang Mansion and began to rush to Jiujiang Mansion.

But at this time, Luzhou City was broken by Xing Tianjun under Xiao Tianjian's troops.

Xiao Tianjian has been leading his troops to storm the west gate of Luzhou Mansion these days, and has also launched several attacks on the north gate, but the defenders in Luzhou City have gathered a group of family servants from the gentry in the city to help in the war, and according to the strong city walls and relatively sufficient armaments of Luzhou, the attacks launched by Xing Tianjun have been repeatedly frustrated.

But there is a saying that is true, often the fortified city is breached from the inside, when Xiao Tianjian led the troops to storm the city of Luzhou ten days later, Wu Dapu and the defenders in the city almost all of their attention was attracted to the west and north of the city, on the morning of June 27, the area of Luzhou City fell heavy fog, this fog was very large, almost dozens of steps away can not see the figure clearly.

In the face of this fog, Wu Dapu and the defenders in the city were very nervous, and they were worried that Xing Tianjun would continue to launch a fierce attack at this time, so Wu Dapu transferred all the troops that could be mobilized to the west and north of the city to hold these two walls.

Sure enough, in the dense fog, Xing Tianjun once again fired artillery to slam the area of the west city gate, the fog seriously affected the observation of Xing Tianjun's gunners, although the shelling was fierce, but the hit rate was very low, either it was too low and failed to hit the city wall, or it was too high to fly over the city wall and fall in the city, and in the dense fog, countless people shouted and killed outside the west of the city, which made the defenders of the city even more nervous, and almost all the attention was focused on the west of the city. Wu Dapu even strengthened the defenders in the north of the city to the west city wall.

But what they didn't expect was that at this time, Xing Tianjun's thousands of men and horses, under the cover of the dense fog, quietly bypassed Luzhou City, entered hundreds of steps outside the east gate of the city, and then stayed quietly in the thick fog, and even the horses were put on horse chews, so that the war horses could not neigh.

The leader of the troops is Xiao Tianjian's general Luo Li, Luo Li has been in a bad mood recently, he failed to make meritorious contributions in the first battle of Tuanshan, but he lost a lot of people in front of the Tuanshan official army camp, for which he was reprimanded by Xiao Tianjian, and fined for half a year, so that Luo Li had no face, although later in the north of Luzhou when he annihilated Wan Yuan Ji and Huang Degong's department, he took a bad breath and led the troops to annihilate a large number of officers and soldiers, for which Xiao Tianjian exempted him from the punishment of half a year, but this did not make Luo Li happy, he always felt that he was holding a fire, When he came to attack Luzhou last month, Luo Li originally wanted to make another great contribution and become the first Xingtian army to attack Luzhou City, but the sky was not beautiful, and the torrential rain for more than half a month made them have to temporarily withdraw their troops.

This time to attack Luzhou City again, the result of Luzhou City was fully prepared, the defenders of the city Wang Ba ate the scales in general, and they were desperate to defend Luzhou City, the siege battle in the past ten days, Luo Li and the generals took turns to fight, but they failed to attack Luzhou City, so that everyone held back a breath of anger.

But what makes them strange is that after Xiao Tianjian led his troops over this time, he didn't seem to be in a hurry, he routinely sent people to attack the city every day, and when he encountered a little strong resistance, he immediately withdrew his troops, and never tried to attack the city, but he didn't say why, so that the generals who had repeatedly attacked the city were a little puzzled, and felt that Xiao Tianjian's performance this time was a bit extraordinary.

It wasn't until this fog came that the generals understood why Xiao Tianjian was not in a hurry to storm the city these days, it turned out that Xiao Tianjian had already left a hand, and he didn't plan to let his subordinates consume too much to capture this Luzhou City.

In fact, the last time Xing Tianjun withdrew his troops from Dingyuan County because of heavy rain, Xiao Tianjian not only sent Liu Yaoben and his men to attack Anqing Mansion, but when he withdrew his troops, he had already taken into account that after the weather would improve and the troops and materials were replenished, he would still come to Luzhou Mansion to fight, so he made two preparations when he evacuated Luzhou Mansion.

Under the dispatch of Li Xin, the staff selected about two or three hundred people from among the generals of various departments, changed into the clothes of the local people, mixed in with the people, stayed in the area of Luzhou City, and did not evacuate with the army, and after the withdrawal of the army, these people took advantage of Luzhou City to relax their vigilance, and mixed into Luzhou City in various names, although some of them failed to successfully blend into the city, and some people later died in the search and arrest of the officers and soldiers who left the city, but at least more than half of them still sneaked into the city.

This time, Xiao Tianjian led his troops to attack Luzhou City again, and Wu Dapu ordered the city gate to be closed again, and these people also stayed in the city and waited for the opportunity to storm up and seize the city.

And because of the isolation of the defenders inside and outside the city, after Xiao Tianjian led the troops to Luzhou City, it was basically impossible to contact the people in the city, so Li Xin agreed with the people in the city that after Xing Tianjun arrived, he would mainly attack the area around the West City Gate, and attract the main force of the defenders to the West City Gate.

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