Chapter 138: Reinforcements Arrive
Not only did Huang De's power department rush over, but at the same time, there were several rebel armies with a number of about 50,000 or 60,000 people, who were also rushing from Jiangbei to the hinterland of Henan, and had entered the Wuyang area.
After Xiao Tianjian heard the news, he was a little surprised, why did these five battalions of people and horses also rush towards Yuxi at this time? Speaking of the old back to the five of them, but in the Ming Dynasty is also quite famous, at the end of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng, Tuoyangkun and other Lu Yijun jumped out of Shaanxi into Huguang, Henan shortly after, at the beginning of the decade the old back they also jumped out of Shaanxi, all the way along the road that Tuoyangkun once walked, first divided the troops into the central and eastern part of Henan, Ma Shouying led the troops to Kaifeng City, and later in Chen Yongfu and other officials and troops counterattacked, retreated to the western Anhui area, and the rest of the Geliyan, Zuo Jinwang and other four battalions began to operate in the western Anhui area.
After Xiong Wencan took office, he was defeated by the Xingtian Army first, and then began to focus on Zhang Xianzhong and his rebels, mobilizing officials and troops from Jiangbei, Nanjing, Huguang, Shandong, Henan, Jiangxi and other places, and separately attacking and suppressing these rebels.
Ma Shouying and his five battalions began to fight with the officers and troops in the western Anhui area, but they fought vigorously, at least better than Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng and others, and gradually formed a group of the five battalions of the revolutionary left.
But I didn't think about it for nearly two months, Xiong Wencan began to turn his attention to the five battalions of the left of the revolution in Jiangbei after the defeat of Zhang Xianzhong and other departments, and continuously sent a large number of officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress them, which made the life of the five battalions of the left also began to be difficult. The life was relatively clean, so he decided to abandon Jiangbei and temporarily enter Henan to get close to the Xingtian Army, echoing each other with the Xingtian Army, and striving to gain a foothold in the hinterland of Henan.
Originally, after they withdrew from Jiangbei, they fought and walked along the way, and a lot of displaced people were recruited along the way, and a large-scale group of nearly 100,000 people was formed, but they didn't expect to meet Huang Degong, who was receiving Xiong Wencan's order and rushing to the aid of Ruzhou in the Xincai area.
Huang Degong and the Fifth Battalion of the Left Wing have been fighting in Jiangbei for the past year, and the two sides can be said to be enemies who are very angry when they see each other, and no one in the Fifth Battalion of the Left has not suffered the loss of Huang Degong, so when I heard that Huang Degong's power department arrived in Xincai, the Fifth Battalion of the Left Revolution thought that Huang Degong had made a special trip to pursue them, so they started a fight with Huang Degong in Xincai.
The result was that the five battalions of the left side of the revolution were not properly coordinated with each other, and Huang Degong took a loophole, first broke the first battalion of He Yilong, and then drove the department of He Renlong to attack the other battalions.
And Huang Degong also met the 5th Battalion of Gezuo on the way, and fought this battle, but it was delayed for a lot of time, so that Xiong Wencan asked him to rush to Ruzhou in ten days, but he was stunned and walked for 20 days before rushing to Runing Mansion, delaying a lot of time.
But even if it was delayed, Xiong Wencan had nothing to say, after all, Huang Degong made another great contribution this time, defeating nearly 100,000 horses and horses of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left, beheading more than 1,000 people, and dispersing tens of thousands of displaced people who were attached to the thief army, so that the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left suffered a big loss, so not only did he have no fault, but also made great contributions.
At this time, the situation in the Central Plains is completely lively, the five battalions of the left are in Henan, and it is a big mess all over the Central Plains, the five battalions of the left are not the kind of military discipline of the Heavenly Army, although it is better than the official army, but the states and counties where they have passed, it is still a scene of mourning, a large number of ordinary people have a difficult life, once the righteous army arrives, they may not rob them, but at least the life is more difficult, so they simply either abandon their homes and flee, or simply follow the righteous army to be coerced away, The rich man's Zhuangzi was even more bloodied, making a mess in the Central Plains.
After getting the news, Xiao Tianjian finally understood why Xiong Wencan reacted so slowly, it turned out that it was not that he did not send a large number of officers and troops to rush to the aid of Ruzhou, but that he was dragged by the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo on the road so that he had not arrived yet, but let him take Baofeng and Lushan counties for nothing.
On the other hand, news also came that after Chen Yongfu was ordered, he raised troops from Kaifeng, traveled all the way along the Yellow River, and arrived in Luoyang around October 15, and Chen Yongfu, who had suffered the loss of the Xingtian army, said that he had been admitted to Luoyang, but he camped on the spot outside Luoyang City, and he did not plan to go south or west to launch a counterattack against the Xingtian army.
However, after Cao Wenyao on the other side of Shaanzhou learned that Mianchi was captured by the Xingtian Army, he began to work closely to prepare for the resumption of Mianchi County.
From Yongning and the Lu clan and the newly occupied Yiyang, all kinds of supplies and soldiers from the reserve battalion also began to pour into Mianchi County in a steady stream, strengthening the military strength under Liu Bao's command.
At the same time, in order to prevent the official army from attacking the Lu clan again, Gao Shuxian, the guard general stationed in Lushi County, also strengthened the strength of the Guandaokou Soldier Fort, and continued to recruit the Lu Clan to build the Guandaokou Soldier Fort.
Further afield, in Shandong, after Yan Jizu was instructed, Liu Zeqing, the deputy general of Shandong, led 10,000 Shandong troops to start marching towards Henan from the Qufu area, and then prepared to enter Kaifeng to replace Chen Yongfu to temporarily maintain the security of Kaifeng.
Even in Shanxi, Lu Xiangsheng also received the will of the imperial court, began to mobilize troops in Shanxi on a large scale, and began to make a situation of threatening the area controlled by the Xingtian Army in southern Jinnan, and a large number of Shanxi officers and troops began to be stationed in Lu'an Mansion, Pingyang Mansion and Jiezhou to assemble, according to the information collected by Fan Yaoshan, Lu Xiangsheng was ordered to personally lead the army to recover Jinnan, erase the Xingtian Army from Jinnan, and recover Zezhou and other prefectures and counties that had been lost for more than two years.
For this reason, Yan Chongxi, who was sitting in the base area of southern Jinnan, also began to gather troops and horses in southern Jinnan, and began to station troops in the three directions of Gaoping, Qinshui, and Yuanqu, and was ready to deal with it.
The entire Central Plains and even Shanxi showed a tense atmosphere before the war, and both sides were gearing up to see a high and low in this war. (Today's chapter must be the Two Klux Klans, everyone bear with me, I had a terrible back pain yesterday afternoon, and acupuncture and physiotherapy went!) Sorry, sorry! )