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On the morning of the second day of the first month of March, as soon as the hour arrived, the officers and soldiers inside and outside the Runing Mansion heard the rumbling sound of the Xingtian Army's horn and cannon outside the city, and a group of Xingtian Army members followed the sound of the drum after the sound of the cannon, and the group of fish ran out of the camp and lined up a phalanx outside the city.

Huang Degong has not slept all night since the Xingtian Army came, he still remembers the scene of the battle of Hongshi Mountain vividly, the sharp artillery fire of the thief army seems to be still echoing in his ears, and the defeat of the day has almost become his nightmare, although he has also lost against these thieves, but there has never been a defeat, which can make him remember it so vividly like that day.

The fierce artillery fire of the Xingtian Army, as well as a team of soldiers who regarded death as if they were at home, the neat formation cut out of the knife, and the large array of spears gathered like a forest, all made him feel amazed, the battle that was defeated in the hands of the Xingtian Army can be said to have made him defeat convincingly, think back to himself, if that battle was not for the Xingtian Army to find the battlefield in advance, even if he chose a random place and let him fight with the Xingtian Army, in the end he didn't believe that he could win, but at most he could delay the defeat for a while, Just lose a little bit decently.

Such a conclusion made Huang Degong feel frustrated, but there was no way, he didn't know how the thief army trained the soldiers, how he could train the gang of homeless people under him into such male soldiers, the thief general can be said to be as easy as an arm and finger when controlling the army, and on the side of their official army, he can't do this anyway, not only can he not do it, even if he changes to any general in the current official army, he may not be able to do it like the Xingtian Army.

There is no comparison between the two sides in terms of equipment, morale, or even the degree of training, and it is no wonder that the Xingtian Army, a thief army, has always been invincible in repeated battles with the official army.

In fact, this can't blame Huang Degong for anything, after all, Huang Degong is an old-style general, the training of ancient military generals is not as strict as the drill of the modern army, in the late Ming Dynasty among the officers and soldiers, that is, Qi Jiguang's Qi family army has always been wonderful, but even if the Qi family army exercises, it is also a drill every three days, and the general officers and soldiers can exercise for seven days or even more than ten days, which is considered good, and the exercise of large physical strength is to consume more food than usual. The officers spent their days pondering how to deduct some money from the teeth of their soldiers to fill their own pockets, and how they were willing to spend so much effort and food to train soldiers and horses! Therefore, the generals of the imperial court are often passable, and they are satisfied if they can stand in formation when they train their soldiers.

In terms of equipment, although the quality of the equipment of the official army is better, but in fact, at this point, it is not much better, the military bureau responsible for building weapons is in charge of the eunuchs, and the generals want to receive the armor, they have to bribe the eunuchs from top to bottom, and finally get the armor they want, and the distribution of weapons has actually become a way for the eunuchs who control the production and management of weapons to make a fortune. Even if you are forced to transfer a batch of weapons and armor under pressure, they are all some tattered old goods at the bottom of the box, which are not usable at all, so the generals sometimes look for the weapons of the officer, but it is a bit like they are paying for them themselves.

As an officer, he still expects to make a fortune, how can he pay out of his own pocket to buy good things for the soldiers, so in terms of equipment, after Huang Degong was defeated in Hongshi Mountain, he basically lost the little capital he brought out of the Beijing camp, and gave it to the Xingtian Army cheaply.

Now, although Huang Degong was ordered to recruit thousands of soldiers and horses, the great eunuch in charge of the arsenal in Nanjing refused to allocate good armor to him, and in desperation, he only allocated a part of the old rags, so the quality of the equipment of Huang Degong's generals is much worse than when he first faced the Shangxing Heavenly Army.

In contrast, the Xingtian Army has its own set of training methods, and they do not hesitate to consume a lot of food every day to feed the soldiers, and then let them carry out all kinds of drills with great physical strength, often the amount of training in a month is almost catching up with the training amount of the official army in a year, so this is also the main reason why the Xingtian Army is getting stronger and stronger.

This time, after Huang Degong heard the news that the Xingtian Army took the initiative to attack him and Sun Yingyuan first, even if he was a little frightened, if it wasn't for the emperor's order, he really wanted to go back to Lima and go home, he would rather run back to the western Anhui area to fight with the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo, rather than stay here and fight with the Xingtian Army to the end.

It is precisely because of this that when the Xingtian Army came to Runing Mansion, Huang Degong didn't even have the slightest idea of sending troops to fight them, and yesterday all day, he was personally urging the soldiers under his command and the people in the area of Runing Mansion who were captured, and they were busy working around the camp, digging trenches, trapping horse pits, burying horses, and sending people into the city to scatter the iron thistle and other imperial guards around the camp. He won't go out of the camp to fight.

But what is afraid of what, as soon as the Xingtian army arrives, it immediately aimed the spearhead at his camp, when he heard the sound of the Xingtian army's horn and cannon, Huang Degong hurriedly dressed neatly, and hurriedly ran to the top of the watchtower built in the camp with his own soldiers, while ordering his soldiers to hurry up to prepare for the battle, while ordering no one to leave the camp, when he saw that the thief army outside the camp began to line up was the spearhead pointed directly at his camp, and finally he simply ordered to dig another deep ditch in the gate, in short, he made up his mind, I will die in this camp and not go out.

The officers and soldiers were kicked and beaten out of the camp tent by the officers and soldiers, and they were pushed out of the camp camp by the officers and kicked, and they were on the inside of the camp fence in the camp, and the messy artillery was also carried out, erected in the camp fence, aimed at the outside, and there was not much of a swarm of bee rockets also carried out, as for the archers and musketeers, they were ordered to prepare bows and crossbows, and put them at the front of the line, and the sword and axe men were simply arranged behind these archers and musketeers, if anyone took half a step back, Immediately on the spot (long live the harmony) law!

With the Xingtian army out of the camp, the prelude to this battle gradually opened, even the cannons on the city of Runing Mansion were stripped of their cannon clothes, and the muzzles of the black hole were aimed at the outside of the city, and everywhere was filled with the shouts of the officials and soldiers, and groups of panicked officers and soldiers were driven to the city wall, and more people in the city were grabbed under the city wall to help carry the things of the imperial guard.

However, the Xingtian Army didn't care about how the officers and soldiers in Runing City were busy, but under Luo Li's order, they pressed towards Huang Degong's camp step by step.

In front of these soldiers, there was a large row of carts, hiding the people of the Xingtian Army behind the carts, and in front of the formation, a column of sword and brand players with large shields on their shoulders, followed closely behind them to cover the pikemen and musketeers behind them to force towards the official camp.

Seeing that the team of the Xingtian Army was about to approach about 100 steps to the camp, Huang Degong shouted from the watchtower: "Fire at this officer!" Don't let the thieves get close to the camp! ”

As a result, the limited and chaotic artillery in the battalion immediately roared, and a stone or iron bullet was fired at the formation of the Xingtian Army, and immediately a cloud of dust and smoke rose from the front and rear of the Xingtian Army's attacking team, and the two oars were immediately hit by the jumping shells, and they immediately fell apart.

"Fire!" Huang Shengqiang also arranged the artillery camp positions under his command at this time, and before the bunkers of each artillery were completely built, he pulled out his waist knife and roared loudly.

Since then, the tragic offensive and defensive battle of Runing has begun, and in the dense rumbling artillery, the shells of both sides whistled through the sky and fell towards each other.

An officer of the Xingtian Army shouted: "The commander has an order, conquer this official army camp and cut off Huang Degong's head!" Kill!! ”

The subordinates of the Xingtian Army, whether they were recruits or veterans, who were slowly advancing to the periphery of Huang Degong's camp, burst out with an angry roar from their lungs: "Kill ......" immediately quickened their pace, pushing the cart and rushing towards the official army camp under the cover of the big shield in the front row.

Huang Degong's face was pale, looking at the bandits outside the camp rushing over, as well as the cannons of the thieves who kept spitting fire and the shells that kept falling in his camp, the flying earth and rocks, broken trees and broken limbs of the soldiers, gritting his teeth and shouting and firing arrows.

A dense rain of arrows rose from the official barracks, and flew locusts scattered on the open space outside the camp, and when the Xingtian army advanced to a distance of thirty steps from the official army camp, the carts were blocked by the horses, deer and other things outside the camp, and could no longer cover the advance of the follow-up soldiers.

The arrows and the projectiles of the fire guns fell on their bodies or their feet, and the tribes screamed or snorted and fell on these red deer bars, and blood sprayed on the ground beneath them, and many of the tribesmen's feet were pricked by the iron thistles scattered on the ground, and they fell to the ground holding their feet.

In the face of such a counterattack, Luo Li was a little surprised, he didn't expect Huang Degong to have this ability, and the resistance was so fierce, so he immediately ordered the firecracker to fire.

As the smoke rose from the row, the sound of popping beans immediately spread far away, and after the sound of gunfire, the officers and archers standing in the barracks began to fall in rows in a pool of blood.

However, such a row of guns still did not stop the frantic counterattack of the officers and soldiers in the battalion, and a row of archers fell and immediately another row of archers would be driven forward to release arrows and guns, and the officers and soldiers also tried their best to move all kinds of wooden sandbags and other things into the camp fence, and erected them as cover to cover the projectiles shot by the Xingtian Army, and the entire battlefield was filled with all kinds of guns, shouts and screams.

At this time, even the official cannons on the west side of the city began to sound, although the accuracy was not good, but it still caused a certain amount of damage to the attacking Xingtian army, and among the rising dust, it was also mixed with the stumps and broken arms of the Xingtian army, and the bloody corpses fell down one by one.