In the eyes of these people, they thought that Zuo Liangyu would be able to hold Jingzhou City even if he was poor, even if he couldn't defend Jingzhou City, he could still retain considerable strength and retreat to Yuezhou, in that case, Yuezhou would at least be safer, and the thief army was initially heading south, without the support of the naval army, it would be difficult to take Yuezhou.

It is said that after the corpse was thrown outside the city, the common people flocked to hear the news, like the Fu King of Luoyang City, cut off his meat, chewed it and ate it when he was raw, it can be seen that the people in the Jingzhou area hated Zuo Liangyu to what extent.

The original plan was completely overturned at once, and with their strength alone, they could not stop the offensive of the Xingtian Army at all, not to mention that the Xingtian Army controlled a large number of warships under Zuo Liangyu's command, even if the strength of the water army on the river was not the opponent of the Xingtian Army, so Huang Mingxuan and Kong Xigui could only choose to avoid the main forces in Yueyang City and defend Yuezhou City.

Seeing that Yuezhou's troops were not enough to fight against the menacing Xingtian Army, Kong Xigui and Huang Mingxuan hurriedly complained to Song Yihe and sent people to Changsha for help.

When Li Qiande, the governor of Pianyuan who was sitting in Changsha, heard the news, he hurriedly gathered more than 7,000 soldiers and horses from Changsha and rushed to Yuezhou along the Xiangjiang River to help in the battle, but when Li Gande and the supervisor Dao Xu led the troops to Yuezhou, they just in time for the Xingtian army to capture Lingji City and began to land in the north of Yuezhou, and even a large number of lake thieves on Dongting Lake also heard the wind and moved to surrender to the Xingtian army.

Fortunately, the Changsha soldiers and horses led by Li Qiande did not enter Dongting Lake by boat, otherwise, they would have been besieged by a large number of lake pirates on Dongting Lake.

Seeing that the Xingtian Army rushed towards Yuezhou with the power of a great victory, Li Qiande and Kong Xigui suddenly found that the strength of the Xingtian Army landing was not as many as they thought, only more than 10,000 people, and after careful inquiry, they learned that after the Xingtian Army captured Jingzhou City, they actually divided their troops in Jingzhou City, and one went down the Han River to attack Yingshan and Weiyang.

So they were much more relieved, took stock of the troops at hand, and found that the troops they had gathered in Yuezhou were actually more than the Xingtian Army, so they suddenly felt a lot more courageous.

So Li Qiande advocated to meet the Xingtian army outside the city, and drove the Xingtian army back to the river in one fell swoop, and the province was blocked by people in Yuezhou City to fight, for Li Qiande's proposal, Kong Xigui was scoffing, when even if he objected, his opinion was very simple, that is, the thief army was fierce and incomparable, and in the case that the strength was not as large as Zuo Liangyu's troops, even Kechengtianfu, Jingmen, and Jingzhou were stunned with 30,000 troops, and destroyed Zuo Liangyu's 300,000 soldiers and horses. It is better to defend in the city and hold on for a while, the thief army will not be able to break the city, and will retreat, and then Yuezhou will be safe.

After Li Gande heard this, he pondered it, since the incident began, this criminal thief has almost rarely been defeated, and there is no place to say that he can't be defeated, and countless generals of the imperial court have fallen in their hands, and he wants to lead troops to fight them outside the city, which is simply beyond his strength, Zuo Liangyu is not a cow? Aren't you still killed by others? Thinking that he was not in a hurry to find death, he agreed to Kong Xigui's suggestion to defend the city.

But the prison army said that Xu was not going to do it, this dead eunuch didn't take other people's lives as his life anyway, this time he was afraid of death, but when he heard that the Xingtian army was not strong, he came to the spirit, in his opinion, the official army to deal with the thieves, how should the battle not be defeated!

When he heard that Kong Xigui and Li Qiande did not dare to go out of the city to fight, he was unhappy, and felt that this was a rare opportunity, if they defeated the Xingtian Army here, it would be a great achievement, even if they said that it was impossible, they had to force Li Qiande and Kong Xigui to fight.

Li Gande is afraid of this Xu Ruan, but Kong Xigui is a martial artist, and now the generals are a little self-respecting, and the emperor is far away here, so he doesn't listen to Xu Ruan at all.

After arguing for a long time, Huang Ming suggested that it would be prudent to send troops to test and probe first, if the Xingtian thief was not as powerful as the legend, it would not be a problem to send troops to fight it on a large scale.

So in desperation, Li Qiande had to send Yin Xianmin, the deputy general he brought, to lead 3,000 men and horses out of Yuezhou City to meet the Xingtian Army.

So Yin Xianmin had no choice but to order people and horses out of the city and greeted Lingji City.

Xiao Tianjian really didn't pay much attention to this Yuezhou City, after this division of troops, he only led 20,000 infantry troops and thousands of water troops to kill Yuezhou City.

After the fleet reached Lingji City, it only encountered very weak resistance from the official army, so he took Lingji City by the river lightly, and Shunshu took many of the ships left on the dock of Lingji City for the use of the Xingtian Army.

After arriving here, he got off the boat and landed, led the soldiers and horses to rest for two days, to be honest, these soldiers and generals from Henan are obviously not very accustomed to taking a boat now, when they are on the shore, each is a dragon and a tiger, but after taking a boat from Jingzhou, many people have experienced a little wind and waves, and they vomited a mess on the boat, just want to vomit out the liver and pull it down, many people are dizzy and want to die, and have the mind of jumping into the river, not to mention that the dragon and tiger are fierce, even the insects are not as good, this is still a boat on the Yangtze River, If these people were to be dragged out into the sea one day, I don't know how many people would jump into the sea!

The northerners are not good at water warfare, and it is really not covered, and fortunately they surrendered Zuo Liangyu's water camp, otherwise, even if these people get a boat, they will not have combat effectiveness.

Therefore, after the Lingji City was defeated, these infantry soldiers under Xiao Tianjian's command rested outside the Lingji City for two days to recover, and the people in the province were dizzy and weak, and they couldn't even lift their swords and guns, and the water camp immediately entered the Dongting Lake, and joined a large number of lake thieves who took refuge in them there, and once again the water camp grew a lot, and more than 3,000 lake thieves and more than 200 boats of all colors were merged into the water camp at once.

Just when Xiao Tianjian was still resting in Lingji City, he heard that an official army came out from Yuezhou and rushed towards them, this time Xiao Tianjian and his generals laughed, but they didn't expect that there were such people in Yuezhou, and they didn't wait for them to attack the city and take the initiative to come out to meet the battle, so Xiao Tianjian immediately ordered Gao Jian to lead his troops to meet the battle.

After Gao Jian got the order, he immediately gathered his men and horses, and ran into the officers and soldiers, while Situ Liang sent some cavalry, made a circle around the periphery, and ran to the flanks of the officers and soldiers to ambush them.

Yin Xianmin, the deputy general of the official army, had bitter water in his mouth, and scolded Xu Hui in his heart that this dead eunuch was not a thing, obviously they had soldiers in Changsha, and they had not seen swords and soldiers for many years, and the generals would not fight at all, and now it was good to be able to pull them to Yuezhou, but Xu Xu, the dead eunuch, actually forced them to come out of the city and fight with the scared thieves, didn't this force them to seek death?

So after Yin Xianmin led his troops out of the city, even with himself, he was trembling all the way, not to mention the Hunan soldiers under his command, three thousand hedgehogs gathered together, walked three steps and two steps back, and they walked for half a day in just a few miles, and when they saw a team of people and horses of the Xingtian Army appear in front of them, the collective legs of these people were weak.

The southern part of Huguang is the Hunan area of the later generations, in this era can be said to be peaceful for a long time, although the northern mountains of Shaanxi Henan and the north of Huguang and the north of Huguang and other provinces of the righteous army are turned upside down, but in the Hunan area, it is rarely affected, so the ground in Hunan is relatively stable, the people are hard, but they suffer less disasters, and they can still live, so there are relatively few people who rise up, so the officers and troops in Hunan have basically not seen any battles, At most, it's just a petty fight to catch some thieves.

But today let them deal with the people and horses of the Xingtian Army that shook the world, they really looked up to them a little, they were really chasing ducks to the shelves, and when they saw that the Xingtian Army blocked their way and wanted to fight with them, the Xingtian Army had not yet fired, and this group of officers and soldiers began to mess up their own formation.

Although they have never seen the Xingtian Army, but they have all heard of the strength of the Xingtian Army, when they see the Xingtian Army again today, they immediately feel a murderous aura rushing towards their faces, which directly presses them out of breath, the reason why the male soldiers can be called male soldiers is not that their array stands neatly and is considered a male soldier, but only the soldiers and generals who have survived a hundred battles, the kind of temperament that exudes from the invisible body, makes it converge into a murderous aura, and at the same time, on the face of the Xingtian army generals, there is also a kind of arrogance, such soldiers and horses, can be called a hero.

And Gao Jian, who led the team to meet him, was also very young, about twenty years old, but there were several scars on his face, which made his originally delicate face look a little hideous, although he was not very old, but his face was full of fierceness, this Gao Jian was not an outsider, it was the younger brother of Gao Cheng, the most important gunpowder chief under Xiao Tianjian.

When Gao Cheng saved his younger brother, he followed Xiao Tianjian in vain, and Xiao Tianjian thought that he did not hesitate to break his head in order to save his injured brother, and later accepted the two brothers, and Gao Cheng followed his father to make gunpowder because he was a child, so he followed Xiao Tianjian to be responsible for making gunpowder, and later made a lot of things such as thunderbolts and rockets, mines, etc., and now he has become the gunpowder chief of the Xingtian Army, and is generally responsible for running between various places under the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army and establishing gunpowder factories. He supervised the manufacture of gunpowder and various explosives for the Xingtian Army, because he was serious and intelligent, so that the quality of the gunpowder of the Xingtian Army has been maintained quite good quality, and the power of granular gunpowder is also very good, providing a strong foundation for the Xingtian Army to maintain strong combat power, so it is deeply valued by Xiao Tianjian.

(Today, special thanks to the Spicy Grim Reaper, Deadly Tenderness, Smile in Boredom, and other brothers!) Thank you very much! ）