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Chapter 176: Luring the Enemy into Pursuit

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Xiao Tianjian Chen soldiers were outside the city of Runing, on the east and west sides of the city were a mess, the two official and military camps were in ruins, and a large number of officers and soldiers hid in the city and refused to go out of the city to fight. Flash Dance 35

Although Xiao Tianjian led his troops to attack Runing City for three days, but because the city walls of Runing City were strong and the number of defenders in the city was large, they failed to capture Runing City.

It turned out that Xiong Wencan learned the news that the Xingtian Army took the initiative to attack Runing Mansion a few days ago this time, originally in his opinion, this was a good thing, the thief army took the initiative to come out, it was a good time for him to encircle and annihilate the thief army, plus there was Sun Huang Erjun in Runing Mansion, there should be no problem, even if Sun Huang Erjiang couldn't solve the Xingtian Army's people, at least he could drag them to death.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he could just send Zuo Liangyu to lead his troops to Runing, and together with General Sun Huang, he strangled this gang of thieves in the area of Runing Mansion.

But I didn't think that Zuo Liangyu had grown in strength in the past two years, and his orders began to be violated, and after the transfer, he was stunned for two days, and there was no movement, but Runing Mansion sent people to tell the emergency, saying that the thief army was strong, and Sun Huang Er General might not be able to withstand the attack of the thief army, and if he didn't send reinforcements, Runing Mansion would be in danger.

In this way, Xiong Wencan panicked, there are two vassal kings in Runing Mansion, King Chong and King Heyang, who are in the city, once there is a loss, he Xiong Wencan will not be able to make trouble, so he immediately sent people out of the city to urge Zuo Liangyu to send troops quickly, and invited out the sword of Shang Fang to threaten Zuo Liangyu If he does not send troops again, he will march to the law.

Only then did Zuo Liangyu set out in Nanyang and led 20,000 soldiers and horses to Runing Mansion.

And Zuo Liangyu is not a good bird, his subordinates recruited all the scum on the rivers and lakes and some rogues, awarded to the officials, and gathered tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in a short period of time, and the strength developed very rapidly, but the government couldn't take enough soldiers and salaries to feed him so many soldiers and horses, so Zuo Liangyu plundered the troops, relying on robbery to meet the needs of his generals, so that Zuo Liangyu's military discipline may have become the most corrupt military discipline in the current official army. Everywhere he passed, the common people were almost robbed by them, and he even connived at his subordinates to kill good people everywhere, forcibly robbed the people's daughters, and coerced them into the camp to wantonly commit adultery in the camp.

But this also brought a benefit, this group of rascals who were gathered by him are very grateful to Zuo Liangyu for treating them so kindly, and when they are really used, they are willing to give Zuo Liangyu their lives, and their combat effectiveness is actually quite strong, for more than a year, they have defeated Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng, Wang Guangen, Wang Guoning, Hui Dengxiang and many other rebels, forcing them to surrender one after another, so that Zuo Liangyu has made a lot of contributions.

So that now in the Jiangbei area, the strength of the officers and troops under the command of Zuo Liangyu is the strongest, this time the soldiers are out of Runing Mansion, Zuo Liangyu also wants to see how the Xingtian Army is capable, so he was ordered to rush towards Runing Mansion, but although he set off to lead the troops, but along the way is still the same, all the way to rob, and the places along the way are even more miserable for the people along the way, so less than three hundred miles, it took five or six days to walk to the territory of Runing Mansion.

After learning that Zuo Liangyu led his troops to pounce, Xiao Tianjian also knew that it was impossible to kill Sun Huang's two troops at the same time and take Runing Mansion this time, so after a little discussion with the generals, he immediately made up his mind, began to pack up the guys, pulled out the camp and set up the village, and after showing off his might under the city of Runing Mansion, he pulled out the camp and drove towards Xuzhou.

When Zuo Liangyu led an army of 20,000 to Runing Mansion, Xiao Tianjian had already led his troops to leave here for most of the day, and it was only at this time that Sun Yingyuan dared to open the city gate, led his troops out of the city, and joined Zuo Liangyu, and was ordered by Xiong Wencan to chase in the direction where the Xingtian army left.

On the way, Xiao Tianjian led his troops to fight and retreat, first led his troops to Xuzhou City, and after sweeping a while, after waiting for Zuo Liangyu to lead his troops to follow, he turned his head and led his troops straight to the direction of Kaifeng Mansion, and at the same time ordered Situ Liang and Liu Yaoben to lead part of the troops to march in the direction of Taikang County, so Zuo Liangyu led his troops to turn again and chased Xiao Tianjian in the direction of Kaifeng Mansion.

But this time, Zuo Liangyu did not act together with the whole army, but immediately divided his troops and horses and pursued them in the direction of Taikang.

In this way, the two sides began to circle around in the Central Plains, Xiao Tianjian was walking faster and faster along the way, while Zuo Liangyu was walking slower and slower, it is no wonder that Zuo Liangyu had to rely on plundering along the way to replenish grain and straw to take the opportunity to make a fortune, but Xingtianjun was carrying relatively abundant grain, so that Zuo Liangyu and Sun Yingyuan always followed his ass and couldn't catch up with them.

And along the way, Xiao Tianjian followed Li Jinde's advice, constantly turned around and knocked Zuo Liangyu's soldiers and horses, as long as Zuo Liangyu was not careful, he would be bitten hard by Xingtianjun, and Zuo Liangyu was like thunder, but he had to be careful and slow down the speed of chasing Xiao Tianjian.

Sun Yingyuan persuaded Zuo Liangyu to join forces with him, speed up and catch up with the Xingtian Army, it was best to fight to the death with the Xingtian Army, but Zuo Liangyu said that there was no shortage of food, and he wanted to find a place to find food, and he always refused to pursue Xiao Tianjian with his life, so that this circle came down, and a month passed in a blink of an eye.

However, in this month, the Xingtian army had a good harvest, and broke through Yanling, Taikang, Weishi and other counties along the way, and also broke a lot of Dahuzhuang Fort, and added a lot of grain and materials, but this time Xiao Tianjian did not break through these counties again, and sent troops to garrison, but ordered that whenever a city was breached, the city walls would be demolished immediately, and then the city was abandoned, and the entire central and eastern Henan areas were a mess.

And Xiao Tianjian did this because he knew very well that in this situation, even if he captured these county towns, with Zuo Liangyu and Sun Yingyuan's soldiers and horses chasing them behind, it would be difficult to hold these cities, and this time his purpose was not to grab territory, but to rely on mobile warfare to consume the strength of the official army, disintegrate the imperial court's attack on him this time, capture these places, and if he defended them, it would be good for the officials and troops, so whenever he captured a city, he would immediately demolish the city walls. Even if the officers and troops chasing after him took back these cities, they would not be able to defend the towns, so that when he returned to these places in the future, he would no longer have to attack the cities, which laid the foundation for him to occupy the entire Central Plains in the future.

But going on in circles like this is not a way after all, Zuo Liangyu and the officials and troops of all parties are now beginning to converge towards central Henan, wanting to block him and strangle him in the area of the central Henan Plain.

And although they relied on the captured grain and straw along the way to replenish some supplies, but after all, there were too many displaced people and local armed forces who defected to him along the way, although most of them were given a small amount of rations by Xiao Tianjian and let them go to the area under the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army in the western part of Henan, but the team has been constantly expanding, and he had to collect a part of the team while walking, and he had to train these newly formed men and horses while walking, so that they could cooperate with their main action, only for more than a month. The soldiers and horses under his command have expanded from less than 10,000 when they came out to more than 20,000, and there were only two reserve battalions used as auxiliaries, but by this time they had been expanded into five supernumerary reserve battalions.

And after they came out, it was impossible to obtain the material replenishment in the jurisdiction, so they could only rely on their captured goods to arm these newly recruited men and horses, among which they had to rely on the battle of Ru Ning to capture a lot of weapons from Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan, so they could barely arm these newly recruited soldiers and horses, but if they want to achieve the quality of the equipment of the main force, it is obviously impossible in this kind of mobile combat.

Therefore, the men and horses of these reserve battalions are equipped with more miscellaneous weapons, so that they have a certain combat effectiveness, so that they can cooperate with the main action, but the problem brought by this is that the number of troops has increased, and the consumption of grain and straw has also increased, so that the materials of the Xingtian Army have gradually begun to have a shortage of materials.

At this time, Xiao Tianjian and Li Jinde watched the movements of Zuo Liangyu and other road officials, and ordered to stop the action, camp on the spot, gather the scattered troops, Chen soldiers outside Qixian County, it only took half a day to conquer Qixian County, and waved their troops into the county seat of Qixian County.

And this time, Xiao Tianjian did not order the demolition of the city wall again, but ordered the army to gather around the county seat of Qixian County, and set up several strong camps around the county seat of Qixian County, only to wait for Zuo Liangyu to lead his troops to attack.

(Now I can say that I fulfilled my promise and did not break during the Spring Festival, although my grades were not good, and I fell to sixth place in the classification list, I finally lived up to the brothers who were still chasing!) I am content! I drank too much last night, hehe! I didn't forget to update it, and I flaunted myself! ）