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After the New Year, Xiong Wencan and Yang Sichang mobilized almost all the forces that could be mobilized, and Shaanxi, Henan, Huguang, Jiangbei, Nanjing, Shandong, Zhejiang, Sichuan, and some of the officers and troops of the Beijing camp began to converge towards Henan.

Although the generals did not want to fight, the civilian officials were terrified to death, because they knew the temper of the current emperor Chongzhen, if they did not work hard, once the battle was lost, it must be them who were officials, so these people tried their best to raise military salaries and food to support the army's actions, so that at the end of February, a large number of officers and soldiers gathered around the area controlled by the Xingtian Army. The Xingtian Army in Henan formed a situation of encirclement.

In this way, looking at the posture, it seems to be a bit bad for the Xingtian Army, so many officers and soldiers seem to have made a thunderous momentum, completely crushing the Xingtian Army into powder, and the momentum is really terrifying.

In addition to the three divisions that are now organized, the training battalion, the cavalry battalion, and a battalion of the Dongshan Tiger, the reserve battalions that have been trained in various places have also been mobilized, and they are ready to meet the attack.

Xiao Tianjian was originally not very willing to engage in such a large-scale decisive battle with the official army at this time, the reason is very simple, that is, it is now the beginning of the spring season, and spring sowing is about to begin, once they fight with the official army, they will have to use a large number of reserve battalions to invite strong labor, and if they are not careful, they may miss this season, then in the second half of the year, there will definitely be a serious shortage of food supply in his jurisdiction.

But this battle is not something that Xiao Tianjian wants not to fight, after all, he has now become a thorn in the eye of the imperial court, and if he does not get rid of it, Chongzhen has made up his mind to destroy his Xingtian Army through this battle, and it is already impossible not to fight this battle, so Xiao Tianjian can only fight, and he is determined to end this huge battle as soon as possible and smash the imperial court's purge of him this time.

But this battle is not necessarily a bad thing, because Xiao Tianjian has realized that by this time, the elite army in the hands of the imperial court has been consumed very violently in the repeated suppression of bandits over the years, not to mention other righteous armies, in the past few years, the number of officers and soldiers who have been completely defeated by the Xingtian Army has been a lot, and even the official army like Zu Dale and others have been completely wiped out. The lack of equipment, the shortage of salaries, and the inadequate training have caused a rapid decline in the combat effectiveness of a large number of officers and soldiers; at present, apart from a small number of officers and soldiers who still have some combat effectiveness, many officers and soldiers are basically not far from the combat effectiveness of ordinary homeless troops.

So don't look at this time the imperial court mobilized more than 100,000 troops, and made a posture of completely exterminating the Xingtian Army, but Xiao Tianjian and the generals under his command did not feel very nervous about this, but arranged the defense everywhere in an orderly manner.

On the morning of February 26, in the camp of the Xingtian Army outside Ruzhou City, dozens of generals of the Xingtian Army gathered, and the big guys gathered in Xiao Tianjian's big tent, among these people there were not only Luo Li, Li Xuanzhu, Liu Bao's generals, but also many rising stars like Liu Yaoben, and more strategists like Niu Jinxing and Li Jinde, and of course Luo Bin, an officer in charge of logistics, all of whom stood in the big tent with bright armor and neatly dressed, surrounded by a huge map of the Henan Buzheng Division. Hanging alongside this map are several maps of the surrounding political secretary.

And Xiao Tianjian stood in front of the map and said to the generals who came today: "The art of war has words, knowing oneself and knowing that the other side can survive a hundred battles, this time everyone is here to tell everyone, don't look at the government's mobilization this time, in fact, there is nothing to be afraid of!" You don't have to worry too much about anything, so I asked you to come just to let you know about the arrangements of the official and military aspects.

Look here, Luoyang City! Everyone can also see that Luoyang City has actually become a lonely city, when you want to fight is up to us, we didn't fight last year, because we are not completely ready, in addition, this Luoyang City is also a fat bait, and if you collect it, you can't attract more officers and soldiers!

But now it seems that the imperial court has been completely hurt by us, and this time we have taken out all the strength to eat milk, and we are transferring troops and sending generals, making it clear that we want to have a showdown with ....... ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Tianjian paused slightly with a smile, and as a result, it immediately caused the generals to laugh, and the pre-war tension in the big tent was suddenly swept away, and everyone became much more relaxed.

Xiao Tianjian nodded and raised his hand to stop everyone's laughter, and then pointed to the map and said: "It seems that a lot of officers and troops have gathered around Luoyang City, up to now, Luoyang soldiers, Kaifeng soldiers, and soldiers and horses from Mengzhou during the Chinese New Year have surrounded Luoyang City, and there are more than 30,000 people, but these 30,000 people are just decorations, except for the officers and soldiers from Mengzhou who have not suffered our big losses, the Luoyang soldiers and the Kaifeng soldiers under Chen Yongfu are all defeated generals under our hands, Shrinking around Luoyang, they didn't dare to take the initiative to attack us, so even if a few thousand Mengzhou soldiers came, it would still be useless, and now these two or thirty thousand officers and soldiers are in Luoyang, putting on a posture of a dead pig that is not afraid of boiling water, ready to lie down and be beaten!

You may still remember what I said last year, don't look at the Fuwang in Luoyang City, but that guy is a miser, he will not take out money to reward the officials and soldiers, and now Luoyang's fine work has been passed back, sure enough, although Luoyang has gathered a lot of officials and troops, but Henan Mansion can't take out money and grain to feed them, and King Fu is even more useless, and now these officials and soldiers can't get military pay outside the city, they are complaining, and they don't have the heart to fight with us! It's easy to eat them!

But don't worry, you guys! Let's not hit them first this time! Just let them lie down and wait for us to free up our hands and clean them up again! ”

After hearing this, the generals in the big tent heard another burst of laughter.

Xiao Tianjian cleared his throat and continued: "This time we won't attack Luoyang first, but we can't wait for other officials and soldiers to attack us, because once so many officers and soldiers come together, it will definitely make the lives of the people in our jurisdiction miserable, so this time we still follow the old habit and take the initiative to attack!"

Let's talk about the officers and soldiers first! This time, Xiong Wencan made great efforts, transferred Zuo Liangyu, the general soldier of Huguang, to Nanyang, and Li Guoqi, the general soldier of Shaanxi, also transferred to Nanyang, and gathered more than 20,000 officers and soldiers.

And in our west, Shaanxi, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting can not sit still, the New Year's Festival they scattered Li Zicheng in the Hanyin area, now Li Zicheng and a small number of soldiers under his command do not know where to go, presumably to find a mountain to hide, as for the other activities in the Shaanxi area, now the surrender, scattered, basically by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting to suppress the momentum, so Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting finally pulled out their hands now, began to transfer troops to the Tongguan area, according to the detailed investigation, This time, there are our old opponent He Renlong, and there is also our opponent Zu Dabi who has not met before, and their two soldiers and horses are moving towards the Tongguan area, and it seems that they are planning to go out of Tongguan to form a flank attack on us.

Also, this time, there are also officials and troops moving towards Henan in the direction of the Daimyo's Mansion, and the posture is to spread the net on all sides, and we will be wiped out!

This is the current situation of the officers and soldiers, and I will teach everyone to understand it! ”

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, all the generals were a little nervous, because this time there were too many officers and soldiers, and there were officers and soldiers running over from almost every direction in the east, west, north and south, and the number far exceeded them a lot.

Xiao Tianjian glanced at the faces of the generals, and didn't see anyone showing fear, just a little nervous, so he nodded with satisfaction and said, "Very good!" The brothers did not seem to be intimidated by the officers and soldiers! In this way, I have a lot more confidence in my heart!

Presumably, the big guys are waiting for me to give orders! Good! I won't sell it anymore! Everyone listened! ”

When the generals heard that Xiao Tianjian was about to give the order, they immediately hurriedly retreated from both sides of the line, holding their chests tall and waiting for Xiao Tianjian's order.

"Liu Bao listens to the order!"

"The last general!" Liu Bao immediately stood up and responded loudly.

"This time, Vice Marshal Luo will personally lead your third division, as well as the reserve battalions of the Lu family, Yongning, and Mianchi, and be responsible for the He Renlong department and Zu Dabi department from the direction of Tongguan! In short, give Vice Marshal Luo and you a month, take Shaanzhou down for me, and take Hangu Pass for me as well, what to do, you discuss with Vice Marshal Luo, in short, the officers and soldiers can't enter the official road crossing into the territory of Lushi County, once there is a loss, I will only ask the two of you! Xiao Tianjian raised his hand and took out two arrows from the quiver and threw them down.

Luo Rucai also immediately got up and stood with Liu Bao and received the order loudly, for this time Xiao Tianjian asked Luo Rucai to lead the troops to be responsible for resisting the officials and troops from Shaanxi, Xiao Tianjian discussed with him in advance, and Luo Rucai was also very happy about this, at least Xiao Tianjian didn't use him as a decoration here now, and the reason why Xiao Tianjian used Luo Rucai was also because Luo Rucai had been fighting with the official army for nearly ten years after all, and he had a better grasp of strategy than any of his generals, and he fought the battle of Lu'an Mansion in the New Year. Luo Rucai also participated in the whole process, and he already understood the combat methods of the Xingtian Army, and it was obviously a waste of resources to let people like Luo Rucai not use it.

After Luo and Liu received the order to retreat, Xiao Tianjian then shouted: "Li Xuanzhu listens to the order!" ”

Li Xuanzhu immediately stood up and answered loudly.

"You led the three divisions under your command to give me the central dispatch of Ruyang, Yiyang, Songxian, Ruyang, Lushan, Baofeng, plus Ruzhou, these places will be handed over to you to be responsible! In short, you lead the three divisions under your command and the ten reserve battalions in these places, plus this battalion of Dongshan Tiger, give me a good home, and give me the 20,000 or 30,000 officers and soldiers in Luoyang, and if they take this opportunity to make a move, give them a hard beating! In short, we must find a way to see these places, and we can't let the officials and soldiers enter our territory!

I know your troops are a little stretched, and it will be a little difficult for you to defend so many places! But you still have to think about it, and make sure you do what I ask you to do as much as possible! Once necessary, ask Vice Marshal Luo and Liu Bao to give you support, do you understand? ”

After hearing this, Li Xuanzhu immediately nodded and said, "Accept the order!" Just rest assured! As long as I don't die, our three divisions will have to defend these places! ”

Xiao Tianjian nodded with satisfaction, and then said to Luo Bin: "Luo Bin listens to the order!" “

Luo Bin also put on a gray-blue military uniform specially made by the officers of the Xingtian Army today, looking heroic, and when he heard Xiao Tianjian point to him, he also strode out to receive the order.

"You stay in Song County, and in terms of logistics and materials, you must ensure the supply of Vice Marshal Luo and Li Xuanzhu, once they lose the battle because of the materials, I will only ask!" Xiao Tianjian commanded Luo Bin in a rare stern tone.

After hearing this, Luo Bin nodded quietly and saluted: "The last general will be ordered!" Please rest assured! "There are not many words, but they are very calm, which makes people feel reassuring to listen to.

Speaking of this, the rest of the generals who had not been arranged all grinned and laughed, and vaguely guessed what Xiao Tianjian was going to command next.

So Xiao Tianjian glanced at the generals and said with a smile: "Don't bare your teeth and snicker at the rest!" You all follow me, and if you don't fight well, then don't blame me for being rude to you! If this military stick is hit, you guys will be the first to suffer! ”

After hearing this, the remaining generals immediately answered the order loudly, and withdrew with an excited salute.