Tempus fugit. Bayi Chinese Network ( >]).〉8?1〉

A month has passed.

In the past month, Moli has recruited troops in Yiyang, reorganized the army, and restored the order of people's livelihood.

And Zhang Xianzhong, Tu Yongzhong, Hu Jianqing and other rebels were also entrenched in Xiangyin, Ningxiang, Changsha, and Zhuzhou, relying on the city to hold on, and did not dare to continue to advance westward. Xiao Lianhao's defeat made them deeply afraid of the new Liao army, you must know that Xiao Lianhao has tens of thousands of horses, as the vanguard of the westward advance, but in just two or three days by the new Liao army defeated, only 3,000 remnants remained, which makes the rebels how not afraid.

Moreover, in the past month, the surrounding prefectures and counties of Changsha, and even in Changsha City, have appeared everywhere in the new Liao Army's wanted notices for rewards, on which more than 20 thieves have names and surnames and rewards, but Xiao Lianhao is not on the list.

Of course, Tu Yongzhong didn't believe that Xiao Lianhao would betray him, Xiao Lianhao's life was saved by him, if he dared to betray himself, he would have to be dismantled.

Of course, the rest of the leaders also felt that this was a trick of the official army, and no one suspected Xiao Lianhao at first.

Xiao Lianhao secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time he felt very aggrieved, damn, isn't this class of official dogs trying to harm my old Xiao! Fortunately, several big brothers were not fooled.

However, things seem to have taken a subtle turn for the better.

First, the New Liao Army began to deploy troops along the towns on the outskirts of Changsha, preparing to gradually compress the rebels' space for activities and further recover Changsha.

Zhang Xianzhong and the others seemed to smell a breath of imminent war. Since the new Liao army was on the front line of the Taojiang River in Yiyang and held the direction of the rebels' westward advance, the rebels now had to place their main forces on the line from Xiangyin to Zhuzhou to prevent the attack of the official army, and only a small part of the troops were active in the area towards Yuanzhou.

With the initial training of new recruits of the New Liao Army, Mo Li commanded the New Liao Army to carry out a series of military operations.

First, Cao Bianjiao's cavalry cleared the rebel ranger outposts outside the city in Xiangyin and Ningxiang, so that the rebels could only retreat in the city and did not dare to come out, and they were not clear about the movements of the officials and troops outside the city.

At the same time, in the name of the governor of Huguang, Moli transferred 7,000 soldiers from Baoqing Mansion and Chenzhou Prefecture to assist the New Liao Army in the battle.

After the arrival of the soldiers from Baoqing and Chenzhou, Moli ordered Zhou Yuji to lead 5,000 new Liao troops and 4,000 soldiers to occupy Chashan Town between Xiangyin and Ningxiang to block the southward route of the rebels from Xiangyin.

Then, he ordered Li Guo to lead 5,000 new Liao troops and 3,000 government soldiers to the south to Xinmu to guard against the rebels in the direction of Xiangtan and Zhuzhou.

After that, Cao Bianjiao led an army of 40,000 to quickly surround Ningxiang.

Ningxiang was garrisoned by Sun Kewang, a subordinate of the rebel Zhang Xianzhong, and there were 50,000 horses in the city, most of whom were rabble without much training.

Originally, the rebels of Sun Kewang's army in Ningxiang echoed each other from afar, with the rebels of Tu Yongzhong stationed in Xiangyin, most of Zhang Xianzhong's troops stationed in Changsha, and Hu Jianqing's rebels stationed in Zhuzhou.

But now the rebel sentinel rangers outside the county towns such as Xiangyin and Zhuzhou have been cleared by the new Liao army, and it is difficult to transmit military information between the rebels in time, and the reinforcements of Xiangyin and Zhuzhou were intercepted in the city by the new Liao army, so Ningxiang has not received news until it is surrounded by the new Liao army.

The soldiers pressed the border, and Cao Bianjiao immediately began to attack the city, shocking Sun Kewang in Ningxiang with the rumbling cannons.

Sun Kewang hurriedly sent people to Changsha to ask Zhang Xianzhong for help, and on the other hand, he organized troops to hold on to help.

Mo Li personally led 12,000 troops around a hillside more than ten miles east of Ningxiang City, preparing to intercept the rebel reinforcements from Changsha.

Originally, the generals did not agree with Mo Li personally leading troops to take the risk of blocking, you must know that Changsha City has more than 100,000 rebels, in case of loyalty, it will come out...... Cao Bianjiao even asked himself to lead troops to block the Changsha reinforcements several times, and Mo Li personally commanded the army to attack the city.

But Mo Li has his own considerations and still insists on his own opinions. Putting the commander of the army in a relatively dangerous position can sometimes be more intriguing to the average soldier, especially in a team that recruits nearly half of the recruits. Because they feel that even the coach is willing to put himself in danger and fight with them, so why shouldn't they try to kill the enemy?

Under the leadership of Cao Bianjiao's pioneers, and inspired by Mo Li's putting himself in danger, the 40,000 new Liao troops led by Cao Bianjiao screamed and pounced on the city wall of Ningxiang one by one, one by one as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and the crazy energy that ignored the arrows and medicines flying around him made the rebels under Sun Kewang stunned and dumbfounded.

Less than three hours after the siege of Ningxiang exploded, it was broken by the new Liao army.

Luo Dashan was the first to bite the broadsword and rushed to the city wall, and as soon as he jumped onto the city wall from the ladder, he brandished the broadsword and cut down several rebel soldiers on the city wall. Then, the soldiers behind Luo Dashan jumped onto the city wall one after another and killed the other rebels on the city wall.

The rebels could not resist and retreated.

Luo Dashan led dozens of his subordinates to the city gate, hacked to death dozens of rebel soldiers guarding the city gate, opened the city gate, and countless new Liao soldiers swarmed in, and soon controlled the situation in the city.

When Sun Kewang heard the news that the city gate was lost, he wanted to escape with his own soldiers, but he was quickly subdued by Fang Jingbo, the deputy captain of the Snow Eagle Special Scout Brigade, who followed Cao Bianjiao to attack the city, and was captured alive on the spot.

After breaking through Ningxiang City, Cao Bianjiao ordered He Zhendong, Yang Shouli, Luo Dashan and others to control all parts of Ningxiang City, clear the remnants of Sun Kewang's army, and then personally led 3,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry with Lian Yiqiu, Hui Dengxiang, Feng Ke and other generals to Wangniupo more than ten miles outside the city to support Moli.

Over there, there was already a faint sound of shouting and killing.

Cao Bianjiao was anxious and led 3,000 cavalry to Wangniupo first, only to see that the hillside was full of fighting crowds, and Mo Li personally commanded more than 10,000 soldiers of the New Liao Army to fight fiercely with the Changsha Zhang Xianzhong rebels who rushed to Changsha after hearing the news.

Zhang Xianzhong didn't come, but he came with 70,000 horses led by his general Liu Wenxiu.

In the original history, Sun Kewang, Liu Wenxiu, Li Dingguo, and Ai Nengqi were all adopted by Zhang Xianzhong as adopted sons, among which Sun Kewang was one of the four adopted sons. Now Li Dingguo was rescued by Mo Li a year ago and brought back to Heiyunzhai for cultivation, Zhang Xianzhong only took in three adopted sons, and the other Ai Nengqi is still young, only thirteen years old, and follows Zhang Xianzhong.

And this Liu Wenxiu is actually not big, but he is in his early twenties, but he is clever and brave in battle, and like Sun Kewang, he is quite loved and trusted by Zhang Xianzhong.

This time, after receiving Sun Kewang's urgent request for help, Zhang Xianzhong sent Liu Wenxiu to lead the army to help, and at the same time sent people to Xiangyin and Zhuzhou to ask Tu Yongzhong and Hu Jianqing to join forces and rush to Ningxiang. Several rebel armies have both glory and loss, and now they have formed an alliance, Zhang Xianzhong is not afraid that they will not send troops.

Liu Wenxiu led an army of 70,000 to Wangniupo, but was blocked by 12,000 elite officers and soldiers led by Mo Li, the commander of the new Liao Army and the governor of Huguang, and the two sides fought a bloody battle.

Moli took advantage of the narrow terrain on both sides of Wangniu Slope to set up layers of ambushes to block Liu Wenxiu's reinforcements layer by layer.

Liu Wenxiusheng had the advantage in troops, but Moli had a geographical advantage, and the morale of the officers and soldiers was high, and the firearms were advanced.

After paying the price of two or three thousand casualties, they finally rushed through the minefield planted by the New Liao Army, and the flint guns and bows and arrows of the New Liao Army attacked like rain. What's even worse is that the front was frantically attacked by the New Liao Army with muskets and arrows, but I didn't expect that the back was bombarded by the rockets of the New Liao Army.

Since the artillery of the new Liao army was taken to attack the city, Moli did not carry artillery on his side, only dozens of rockets.

And because Liu Wenxiu rushed to the aid urgently, he naturally didn't have time to carry heavy artillery, so the two sides basically used guns and muskets to exchange fire, but the cavalry was more charged with long knives and spears, fighting together.

Although the rocket slip and flint gun are not small and easy to operate, because the supply of ammunition is not large, when Cao Bianjiao led the army to arrive, Mo Li, Ma Jinzhong, Xiao Yang and others had already led their subordinates to start a fierce white-knuckle battle with the rebels.

After all, Liu Wenxiu's rebels were too numerous, almost seven times more than the new Liao army led by Mo Li, although the new Liao army was brave, but after all, the disparity in strength was too great, and it was gradually at a disadvantage, Mo Li also personally took Sima Jian and other personal soldiers to fight, and gradually had the momentum of being besieged.

Liang Peijun didn't come with her this time, not because she didn't want to come, but because Mo Li didn't allow her to come - she was pregnant and currently staying in Yiyang.

Cao Bianjiao led the cavalry to arrive first, Mo Li saw it from afar, exhaled, and said with great joy: "Xiao Cao, you have come just in time!" ”

Cao Bianjiao brandished Fang Tian's halberd, like a killing god, broke into the enemy formation, killing the rebels, and they all ran away.

Cao Bianjiao rushed all the way to Mo Li, and pleaded: "My lord, the last general should die, the rescue is too late." ”

Mo Li wiped the blood from his face and said, "It's not too late, Xiao Cao, you came at the right time. Quick, kill all these rebels for me! ”

Cao Bianjiao, Lian Yiqiu, Hui Dengxiang and other generals led their troops into the battle group, which caused a lot of pressure on the rebels, and the addition of Cao Bianjiao's 3,000 cavalry, like an exploding warhead, killed the rebels one after another.

With the arrival of 20,000 infantry led by generals such as Bai Zhicheng and Feng Ke, the situation on the battlefield began to tilt in favor of the new Liao army. The strength of the New Liao Army has reached more than 35,000 people, although this strength is only half of the rebel army, but how can the well-trained and battle-hardened New Liao Army be able to compete with the rabble of Zhang Xianzhong's rebels?

On the Wangniu slope, the sound of killing shook the sky, resounding in the sky, and the rebels turned from offensive to defensive, and then kept retreating, ambushing corpses for ten miles. Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Wenxiu hurriedly ordered to return to Changsha......