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And just when Xiao Tianjian led his troops to attack Runing Mansion, Luo Rucai and Liu Bao also began to gather the strength of the fourth division in the area of Mianchi, and also began to mobilize the reserve battalions of Lushi, Yongning and other places, and entered the state of combat one after another. *..!。 *

Since Cao Wenyao was defeated and killed in the Battle of Michi last year, Shaanzhou has been in a panic, fearing that the Xingtian Army may launch an attack on Shaanzhou at any time.

Originally, the strength of the official army in Shaanzhou was not small, but after Cao Wenyao was defeated, he lost a lot of soldiers and horses, although the remaining officers and soldiers fled back to Shaanzhou, but after a few months, the territory of Shaanzhou was narrow, and the west side was also coerced by the Xingtian Army, a large number of ordinary people fled from Shaanzhou in the past two years, and ran to the nearby Xingtian Army's control area to make a living, so that the townships outside the city of Shaanzhou are almost inhabited within dozens of miles, and even the people in Shaanzhou City have to move out of Shaanzhou City because of lack of food. Either go to Shaanxi to make a living, or directly choose to enter the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army to make a living.

So that by the time of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, in the area that Shaanzhou could still control, there was almost no population in ten miles and eight townships, many villages were abandoned, a large number of grain fields were abandoned, and only a few large households were left in the forts, and there were still people living in them, but the big households in these forts were not obeying the dispatch of the Shaanzhou government, and they raised troops to defend the forts, and even the officials and soldiers came to shoot arrows, forming a small group of local armed forces, and they were unwilling to obey the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

Therefore, Shaanzhou quickly declined, and the officials' orders could not leave Shaanzhou City at all, and the economy became extremely difficult, not to mention feeding thousands of officers and soldiers, and even the officials began to have a problem eating by themselves, so the governor of Shaanzhou sent people to Xiong Wencan or Hong Chengchou for help many times, hoping to help them, but now they are too busy to take care of themselves, who still has the ability to manage this place in Shaanzhou!

This situation only exists in Shaanzhou, even Luoyang City is basically the same as Shaanzhou, the people inside and outside the city were almost robbed by the officers and soldiers, and had to lose their own land and run to the control area of the Xingtian Army to survive, and the food problem could not be solved, and the salary could not be paid, so a group of officers and soldiers who originally followed Cao Wenyao from Shaanxi in Shaanzhou and Hanguguan began to make trouble, and a large number of officers and soldiers could not get food, so they went around plundering, and in a blink of an eye, they became thieves, originally thousands of officers and soldiers, In March of the 11th year, most of them ran away, and some of the officers and soldiers directly threw themselves on the side of the Xingtian Army and became members of the Xingtian Army.

Among the generals under Liu Bao, there are many old officers and soldiers who have thrown over from Shaanzhou, so this time Xiao Tianjian ordered Luo Rucai to fight Shaanzhou with him, which is not a difficult thing for Liu Bao at all.

After Luo Rucai and Liu Bao were ordered, seven or eight thousand soldiers and horses were quickly assembled in Mianchi and Yongning in early March, and Luo Rucai, as the deputy commander of the Xingtian Army, was also eager to lead the troops in person this time.

Liu Bao was specially explained by Xiao Tianjian, as long as Luo Rucai is in his heart, he always has to reuse this person, so Liu Bao and other generals of the old department must not be rude to Luo Rucai, in terms of military affairs, we must listen to Luo Rucai's opinions and obey Luo Rucai's orders, after all, Luo Rucai has been in the military for a long time, and even Xiao Tianjian is very admired in terms of grasping the overall situation.

In this way, Luo Rucai really has his status in the Xingtian Army, and after the generals were ordered, they were much more polite to Luo Rucai.

And this time Luo Rucai arrived in Yongning, and Liu Bao in Yongning carefully discussed how to capture the plan of Shaanzhou, the plan is that Luo Rucai in Yongning led a group of soldiers and horses, from the south of Shaanzhou to Shaanzhou to attack, and Liu Bao led another group of men and horses, from the east of Shaanzhou to attack Shaanzhou, the two sides of the soldiers and horses finally in a pincer shape to attack Shaanzhou, Luo Rucai led the troops to take Hangu Pass, cut off the connection between Shaanzhou and Hangu Pass, and Shaanzhou was attacked by Liu Bao led by the troops.

After the plan was decided, Liu Bao handed over a war battalion and two reserve battalions to Luo Rucai, and he led two war battalions and an artillery battalion to set off from Michi, and the two sides began to act at the same time at the scheduled time, stabbing towards Shaanzhou like two sharp swords.

But this battle Luo Rucai overestimated the ability of Shaanzhou's official resistance, to this time, Shaanzhou is called every day should not be called the earth and the earth is not spiritual, when the remaining more than 2,000 officers and soldiers heard that the Xingtian army finally came to attack Shaanzhou, there was almost no resistance, and they scattered, some people opened the city to surrender, some people fled out of the city, and the city of Shaanzhou was trampled under Liu Bao's feet in three days, and it can almost be said that he did not give He Renlong from Shaanxi a chance, and occupied Shaanzhou.

Even some of the forts under the jurisdiction of Shaanzhou did not dare to meet the soldiers of the Xingtian Army, as soon as the soldiers of the Xingtian Army arrived, they sent people to surrender to the Xingtian Army, and they did not ask for anything else but to ask the Xingtian Army not to attack their walled forts, so that they could continue to live on this land, as for what the Xingtian Army wanted, they would give it, and they had already sent people to inquire about the rules set by the Xingtian Army, which was absolutely acceptable, and even some officials in Shaanzhou hurriedly surrendered to the Xingtian Army after Liu Bao's army arrived in Shaanzhou. So the battle of Shaanzhou is really nothing worth mentioning, even if it encountered some resistance, but also under the soldiers of Liu Bao and Luo Rucai, it was instantly disintegrated, only after the Shaanzhou Zhizhou finally learned that the city was broken, he first forced his family to hang himself in the house, and threw himself into the well, and finally he himself also put a fire in the house and burned himself to death in the room, which was considered a martyrdom for the Ming court.

Only Luo Rucai led his troops to Hangu Pass, encountered a little trouble, Shaanzhou garrison Yu Fuxiang brought hundreds of soldiers, guarded in Hangu Pass, refused to open the surrender, ordered to open artillery bombardment of the soldiers and horses attacked by the Xingtian Army, and made a certain resistance, so that Luo Rucai could not take Hangu Pass at once, and was blocked under the pass.

However, after Liu Bao took Shaanzhou City, he learned that Luo Rucai's attack at Hangu Pass was blocked, so he immediately transferred the artillery battalion of the Fourth Division to Hangu Pass, and personally led a battalion of soldiers to Hangu Pass, and Luo Rucai joined together, set up heavy artillery, and pointed the gun at Hangu Pass.

Although Hangu Pass has been called Xiongguan since ancient times, but when faced with the cannons of these thieves who are densely pointed at it, the officers and soldiers in the pass are still frightened, not to mention that the Hangu Pass has run out of food, although Yu Fuxiang refused to surrender to the Xingtian Army, but the remaining officers and soldiers did not want to follow him to die, so after the cannon of the Xingtian Army sounded, a general under Yu Fuxiang suddenly led some officers and soldiers, and opened the gate and welcomed the Xingtian Army into the pass, acting as the internal response of the Xingtian Army. Yu Fuxiang finally led a small number of hardcore officers and soldiers to make a senseless resistance in the pass, and was chopped into meat sauce on the spot by countless swarming Xingtian army members, and since then Hangu Pass has also been conquered by the Xingtian army, making the Xingtian army gain an important danger pass, and completely control the entire western Henan area in the hands of the Xingtian army.

However, on the second day after Luo Rucai and Liu Bao captured Hangu Pass, He Renlong and Zu Dabi, who were ordered to gallop to the aid of Shaanzhou, left Tongguan and killed in the direction of Hangu Pass.

In order to prevent the two armies of He Renlong and Zu Dabi from leaving Tongguan after learning that Hanguguan had fallen, they turned to attack the official road crossing of Lushi County, so the two simply gathered troops and horses, and went straight out of Hanguguan to take the initiative to meet He Renlong and Zu Dabi who were driving in the direction of Tongguan.

On March 13, the two sides finally met near the Shahe River in Lingbao County, west of Hangu Pass, and a fierce battle ensued in Kotsunehara.

Both sides have invested a lot of military strength in the area of Xiaochangyuan, except for the baggage battalion of the Fourth Division of the Xingtian Army, the remaining three combat battalions, an artillery battalion and a reserve battalion from Lushi County have been put into the battlefield, with nearly 7,000 troops, while He Renlong and Zu Dabi have invested more than 20,000 troops.

The two sides fought fiercely in the area of Xiaochangyuan for more than ten days, and finally Luo Rucai and Liu Baocai repelled the two armies of He Renlong and Zu Dabi, so that they withdrew to Tongguan after suffering heavy losses, and returned to the territory of Shaanxi, and this battle Luo Rucai and Liu Bao's soldiers and horses, but the loss was not too big, they always maintained a formation, relying on the firepower advantage of the Xingtian Army, in the case of inferior troops, but always pressed the opponent's officers and soldiers to beat hard, and fought until later, actually beat He Renlong and Zu Dabi in the camp for several days in a row, always holding the initiative on the battlefield, and finally forced Zu Dabi to take the lead in leaving He Renlong to escape, and then let Luo Rucai lead a battalion of men and horses to bite He Renlong, and beat He Renlong hard, and took a good breath when he was in Shaanxi, He Renlong was defeated several times and then chased the wolf to run for his life, this battle has never been so happy as today, if it was replaced by the soldiers and horses he brought before, It is estimated that when he meets Zu Dabi and He Renlong, he only has to run away immediately, where can he be allowed to fight with the officials and soldiers so happily here! Therefore, Luo Rucai also showed his brave side in this battle, and in several battles, he rushed to the front first, but his group of guards were scared enough, and he had to block in front of him to protect his safety.

After the battle of Lingbao, the Shaanxi army sent by Hong Chengchou ended in complete failure in the area of Tongguan, and Luo Rucai and Liu Bao also beat rabbits with grass after this battle, and by the way, Lingbao County was also captured.

However, after they ended the battle of Lingbao, they still could not be idle, because when they were fighting fiercely with Zu Dabi and He Renlong in Lingbao County, Li Guoqi was ordered to set off from Nanyang and lead 5,000 Shaanxi soldiers, and suddenly launched an offensive in the south of Lushi County, and soon attacked from the south of Lushi County into the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army.