At this time, Lishan Town, Yuanqu County also ushered in a big war, He Renlong had to give up the attack after the first attack on Lishan Town, after the grain road was cut off, he returned to Yuanqu County to rest, and re-mobilized a batch of grain from Jiezhou to Yuanqu County to replenish his military supplies, and then received a reprimand from Wu Fu of Pingyang Prefecture, ordering him to quickly solve the bandits entrenched in Yuanqu County, and go to Yangcheng County as soon as possible to meet with Zuo Guangxian and other soldiers and horses, and completely pacify the Xingtian army and thieves within the boundaries of Yangcheng.

Although He Renlong is not very afraid of Wu Fu, but he can't not be afraid of Hong Chengchou, this time Hong Chengchou ordered him to come to fight against the Heavenly Army, he has dragged on for a long time, Hong Chengchou has sent someone to reprimand him a year ago, if he doesn't make some achievements, it is estimated that he will return to Hong Chengchou's hands, Hong Chengchou will not give him good fruit to eat, after all, Hong Chengchou has the Shang Fang sword given to him by Emperor Chongzhen in his hand, and for a military general like them has the right to cut first and then play, which provokes Hong Chengchou's words, with Hong Chengchou's temperament, I can't guarantee that he will really be convicted of being afraid of fighting and retreating from battle, and when the time comes, he may ask Shang Fang's sword to chop him up.

Therefore, after He Renlong replenished the grain in Yuanqu County, he once again led the army into the mountains and attacked Lishan Town, where the Xingtian Army was entrenched.

After this period of continuous fighting, he has found out that it was not Xiao Tianjian, the bandit leader of the Xingtian Army, who led the army to fight with him this time, but Xiao Tianjian's subordinates named Yan Chongxi, and the Xingtian Army only had less than 2,000 soldiers and horses left in Yuanqu County, and in addition to the 5,000 soldiers and horses he brought from Shaanxi, there were more than 3,000 Xiangyong who were deployed to him from Shanxi, and his strength exceeded the thief army by nearly four times, so he was much more courageous.

On the sixth day of the first month of February, he led his troops to leave Yuanqu County and attacked Lishan Town, this time Yan Chongxi gave him a battle and retreat, constantly blocked it, and slowly retreated to Lishan Town, and then completely stopped the retreat in a place called Sanli waist south of Lishan Town, built fortifications, and confronted the official army.

What makes He Renlong embarrassed is that although his strength far exceeds the thief army a lot, but in this area he can not give full play to the advantage of a little force, all the roads leading to Lishan Town in Yuanqu County are mountain roads, the mountains are undulating and ravines, and there are primeval mountains and forests everywhere, even if there are many generals, under such terrain, it cannot be expanded, so he can only lead the army towards Lishan Town little by little, just a few dozen miles of mountain roads, and the result makes He Renlong stunned for seven days before arching to the waist of three miles.

But after reaching the waist of three miles, He Renlong could no longer arch, and the thief army built a number of fortifications at a high end between two mountains and a ditch, which was firmly stuck here, blocking He Renlong's soldiers and horses that continued to attack, and blocking He Renlong in the valley.

After He Renlong tentatively attacked twice, he failed to touch the edge of the thief army's defense line, and was defeated by the thief army.

He Renlong then sent a scout horse to search around, caught a few mountain people who were not hidden, and learned from these mountain people after torture that this place is called Sanlijiao, which is the only passage on the road leading to Lishan Town in Yuanqu County, unless this is conquered, otherwise there is no road for the army to pass through, unless he detours to the ancient town, from another road to Lishan Town, but the last time that road He Renlong has already walked once, and the gang of thieves has already blocked the road, sent a lot of troops to garrison, and it was also a place where a man could not open a thousand people, and he pulled out his sword and killed these local mountain people on the spot.

Now he understands why the surnamed Xiao led his subordinates from Shaanxi to Shanxi Yangcheng to entrench in the area, it turned out that the surname Xiao was fundamentally interested in the terrain of the mountains and ravines in this area, and there are mountains and rivers, rich resources, which is conducive to their hiding, but it is not conducive to the official army to attack it, he also understands why the Shanxi government failed to attack it twice in a row last year, in such a terrain, even the gods will be dizzy here, so he has to Chen Bing in the mountains, While sending people to control the commanding heights around and guard against the sneak attack of the thief army, he also rushed to build a batch of siege equipment on the spot, and began to command his soldiers and generals to launch a strong attack on the thief army entrenched in the waist of three miles.

As the defender, the Xingtian Army held the dangerous place of the three-mile waist, no matter how He Renlong fought, he would never take half a step back, and with the sharp heavy bird guns in their hands, often as long as the officers and soldiers entered the firing range, they immediately lined up their guns to shoot, even if the officers and soldiers stepped forward with shields, they could not block the direct shooting of their large-caliber bird guns, and they were beaten to the point of losing their armor and retreating.

In this way, He Renlong has no good way, because the current Xingtian army is different from any of the rebels he has encountered in the past, although there is no shortage of ordinary rebels who dare to die, but basically they are very lacking in training, often a large group of people gather together, and when they fight, they swarm up, and if they win, they will win, and if they can't win, they will immediately fall in morale and flee in the wilderness.

He Renlong's experience in dealing with such a wandering army can be said to be quite rich, first resist the opponent's onslaught, as long as he can hold on to it without collapsing under a battle, the wandering army will basically catch blind, and then it is the performance of the officers and soldiers under his command, often a counterattack, the peasant army can be killed to a big defeat, but now he meets the Xingtian army is completely different, the performance of the Xingtian army is more well-trained than when he first met them a year ago, even if this time he has the advantage of troops, Fighting against each other against opponents is not afraid of the officers and troops under his command at all, not to mention that the tactics of the Xingtian Army also make him very unaccustomed, the Xingtian Army is very well-equipped, basically eliminated cold weapons such as bows and crossbows, the main battle weapons are mainly spears and bird guns, and the opponent's bird guns are very sharp, much more powerful than the bird guns used in the hands of the officers and soldiers, often before the officers and troops under his command get close to the enemy, they will be shot by the Xingtian Army, so that the offensive he just organized will immediately disintegrate and disintegrate, It also made the officers and soldiers under his command very afraid of the Punishment Heavenly Army's bird-fired salvo tactics, and every time they were ordered to attack, they were held back and slowed down as much as possible, resulting in heavier casualties.

After hitting the three miles here, He Renlong's offensive was completely contained by Yan Chongxi, He Renlong looked at this small three miles, but he couldn't step over, although he was angry like thunder, but there was no way, he could only launch one or two attacks every day, and he dropped a few corpses at the pass of the three miles waist and withdrew, and the battle situation in Yuanqu County was so deadlocked.

And after Xu Dingguo and Hu Dawei led their troops to Shuangfeng Village, although they also saw the strange wall of Shuangfeng Village, and realized that this Shuangfeng Village would be very difficult to deal with, but considering that Hu Dawei was defeated for a while, and now he is waiting for the guilt, if they have so many troops, they can't beat a small Shuangfeng Village, not to mention that there is a problem of light on their faces, so they can't explain to Wu Fu and Hong Chengchou when they go back.

Therefore, after the two discussed it, they divided up and led the troops to prepare, and ordered the craftsmen of the army to create a batch of large shield cloud ladder siege equipment on the spot, and then began to attack Shuangfeng Village from the north gate and the east gate of Shuangfeng Village.

At this time, there are Li Xuanzhu and Zhao Erdonkey, Jiang Cheng and others who stayed in Shuangfeng Village, the strength of the army is about 4,000 people, and the difference between the enemy and our strength is very large, but these people are not very nervous, after all, after Xiao Tianjian's construction for more than a year, Shuangfeng Village has become a very strong fortress, and Shuangfeng Mountain is full of workshops, and the craftsmen inside are still producing all kinds of weapons, whether it is food or other material reserves are very abundant, Therefore, it is not nervous to deal with the officers and troops under the mountain with their troops.

Several of the township soldiers of the Xingtian Army crouched at the battlement of the wall and looked down the mountain, all of them looked very nervous, after all, there were more than 10,000 officers and soldiers under the mountain, and this kind of battle was the first time for them to see it, even the veterans of the Xingtian Army had never seen many battles of this scale, let alone their township soldiers.

So the villagers looked a little nervous, but they turned their heads to look at the soldiers of the Xingtian Army resting under the wall, only to see that these soldiers seemed to be old gods one by one, and they all looked like they didn't care, especially some of the veterans, they couldn't see that they were a little nervous, they should laugh and laugh, they should drink water, and some people closed their eyes and hugged their guys and dozed off, as if they didn't put the more than 10,000 officers and soldiers under the mountain in their eyes at all.

However, the villagers on the wall of the village were all very nervous, and some even subconsciously kept pulling the bowstring in their hands, repeatedly picking up and putting down the knives and guns in their hands, picking them up again, and putting them down again.

A team general who was temporarily withdrawn from the war barracks to supplement the township barracks saw the performance of the township soldiers under his command, and his face also showed a trace of disdain, so he scolded them loudly: "Look at your behavior, this damn official army hasn't started attacking our village yet, you are all scared like this, it's really a fucking shame for our Xingtian Army!"

Turn your heads and see what the brethren in the barracks below are like? Look at you again, touch your crotch, and see if your birds are still there! If it's gone, hurry up and get out of the way for Lao Tzu, and let Lao Tzu look at it here! It's not that Lao Tzu looks down on these officers and soldiers below, even if they give them another 20,000 people, they won't be able to defeat our Shuangfeng Village! You'd better cheer me up, if you start to do it for a while, who dares to give Lao Tzu a strain, see if Lao Tzu doesn't chop him! ”

After listening to the laughter and scolding of this team general, the township soldiers in the township barracks were a little more stable, and no one wanted people to say that there were no birds in their crotch, so they took a deep breath one by one, calmed down a little, and looked down the mountain again.

Li Xuanzhu took Zhang Chao, Zhao Erdonkey, Huang Shengqiang, Jiang Cheng and others to inspect the preparations everywhere on the wall, and from time to time scolded some of his unprepared subordinates, and the whole wall was a busy scene.