And He Renlong and Li Zicheng's mood at this time is not much different, although the battle at dusk is remarkable, recovering the decline of the officers and troops under his command, reinvigorating the military prestige, and restoring the confidence of his soldiers, but for He Renlong, this small victory does not make him happy.

In the morning of the first battle, the officers and soldiers under his command were beaten with heavy losses in the face of the strange way of changing the people's army, not to mention his prestige, let him lose a lot of generals, forcing him to divide his troops to cross the river, but the defeat that followed made him angry, for fear of falling into the tricks of Li Zicheng or Gao Yingxiang, so he gave up forcibly crossing the Wanzi River from Dashiqiao, and instead went to the upstream to cross the river, what was the result?

The result was very bad, he bumped into Li Zicheng's thief army, but let the Xingtian army that beat him run away without a trace, judging from the news obtained, the Xingtian army ran to find trouble with He Fang's official army, and his main force was restrained by Li Zicheng at this time and couldn't move here, and he couldn't draw out his troops to rescue He Fang's department.

And the strong combat power shown by the Xingtian Army in the battle against Huang Qiang in the morning still makes him feel palpitations, and He Fang's troops are limited, and the strength of the Xingtian Army exceeds He Fang's strength by a lot, what he is worried about is whether He Fang can withstand the attack of the strange Xingtian Army, and he can't lead his troops to flee back to Longzhou City.

He Fang is the eldest son of his brother's family, and he attaches great importance to him, once He Fang makes a mistake, then he, who is an uncle, may not be able to explain in front of the clansmen!

Now Li Zicheng has led his troops to come here, so it is impossible for him to withdraw again, although there is a battle at dusk today, he can see that there is not much difference between Li Zicheng's generals and two years ago, but with his current strength, it is not easy to defeat Li Zicheng in a battle, and now Li Zicheng's fame is already very big in Shaanxi, and the number of displaced people like locusts will immediately swarm in, Li Zicheng is very fast in replenishing soldiers and horses, as long as a stick can't kill him, A thief army like Li Zicheng immediately changed places, and it was convenient and prosperous.

In the battle of the Carriage Gorge, Chen Qiyu, the governor of the five provinces, had obviously consumed most of the strength of the thief army, but as soon as they jumped out of the Carriage Gorge, how long did it take! gathered so many chaotic troops again, which really made He Renlong feel a headache for the imperial court.

This is not the most important thing at the moment, he just got the Pegasus Express after nightfall, saying that there is already a thief army, which is coming from the direction of Baoji County, and there are many cavalry, which should be the elite under Gao Yingxiang, so that is to say, Gao Yingxiang has learned the news that he has returned to Longzhou City halfway, gave up Baoji County, and rushed over here, with the current speed of Gao Yingxiang's forward, he may arrive here as soon as tomorrow night, if he is still dragged here by Li Zicheng, So once Gao Yingxiang leads his troops to kill here again, then his army will probably fall into a heavy encirclement immediately.

He Renlong tossed and turned, unable to think of a way to rescue his nephew He Fang, and finally had to sigh and secretly pray to God that He Fang would be better able to escape from the pursuit of the Xingtian Army and return to Longzhou City.

After dawn, both armies got up early, buried the pot to cook, He Renlong ordered the soldiers and horses out of the camp, sent people to Li Zicheng's camp to scold the battle, but did not think that Li Zicheng came to a closed door, simply ignored his battle, He Renlong was unable to launch a strong attack at this time, after thinking for a while, he arranged a subordinate palace, pulled out the camp, and began to withdraw in the direction of Longzhou City.

And Li Zicheng only led his troops out of the camp at this time, and fell behind He Renlong unhurriedly, coldly sending a small number of cavalry to launch sporadic attacks on the soldiers and horses behind his palace, as if he wanted to delay his pace back to the city.

But He Renlong arranged it very properly, always maintained a formation, marched slowly, and sent cavalry from time to time to attack and harass Li Zicheng's righteous army that fell behind, the two armies just tested each other, and slowly walked towards Longzhou City, no one could help anyone, and no one could bite off another piece of meat from the other party.

In this way, stop and go, a whole day, He Renlong led the soldiers and horses to the east gate of Longzhou City, saw He Renlong led the troops back to Longzhou City, the defenders in the city and the officials and people were immediately happy, the guard Yang Yulin personally led the soldiers to defend the city, opened the east gate, and welcomed He Renlong into the city, so far Li Zichengcai led the troops to return to the camp set up five miles outside the city.

To Li Zicheng's surprise, he had just returned to the outside of Longzhou City, and he received a message sent by Liu Zongmin, saying that the Xingtian Army had actually returned to their camp before them, and brought back a lot of booty and some prisoners of war from the official army.

Li Zicheng pretended to be happy, ordered Li Guo to lead his troops into the camp to rest, and he brought a few guards to turn around and come to the camp of the Xingtian Army.

"Congratulations Brother Xiao! This battle can be described as a complete victory! Foolish brother is not as good as you, but in the end, he still failed to prevent the madman from returning to Longzhou City! As soon as Li Zicheng arrived at the gate of the Xingtian Army, he saw Xiao Tianjian and his generals coming out, so he immediately dismounted and congratulated Xiao Tianjian with a smile on his face.

Xiao Tianjian looked at Li Zicheng's smiling face, and sneered in his heart, but his face was full of enthusiasm, and he immediately hugged his fists and said to Li Zicheng: "How dare you!" How can the foolish brother be as powerful as Brother Li said! It's a pity that our troops are really limited, not enough to stop most of He Renlong's troops and horses, but only won a small victory! And it can only be said to be a pyrrhic victory! However, it can't be said that there is no gain at all, although our troops will pay a lot of price, but this time they have beheaded some officers and soldiers, and there is no shame! It made Brother Li smile! ”

Because this time the Xingtian Army fought beautifully, the Xingtian Army all raised their eyebrows, they were a guest army, this time they defeated He Renlong several times, and the official army was defeated, Xiao Tianjian and these subordinates all stood at the gate with their chests folded, watching Li Zicheng's arrival.

Li Zicheng glanced at these generals behind Xiao Tianjian, and saw that several of them were injured, it seemed that what Xiao Tianjian said was true, they did go through a fierce battle, and even these generals were hung up, so it can be seen that after this battle, the Xingtian Army also suffered a lot of casualties, even if it wins, it should be a tragic victory, so it makes Li Zicheng feel a little better.

However, Xiao Tianjian played a trick, and did not spread the news that they had captured He Renlong's nephew, but warned the officers and soldiers in the army to strictly guard this secret, although Xiao Tianjian has not yet figured out what to do with this He Fang, but after all, catching such a big fish, for him, it should be a strange commodity to live in, and there may be some unexpected effect!

Therefore, Li Zicheng naturally had no way to know the details of their battle this time, and after everyone greeted him for a while, Li Zicheng immediately invited Xiao Tianjian and his subordinates to his camp for a banquet, and he wanted to personally set up a banquet to celebrate the great victory of the Xingtian Army.

For Li Zicheng's request, Xiao Tianjian naturally appreciated it and immediately agreed.

After Li Zicheng returned to the camp, Gu Junen came to see Li Zicheng, with an embarrassed look on his face, Gu Junen also knew that this time he had a bad idea for Li Zicheng, not only did not let Li Zicheng get a little cheap, but made Li Guo lead his troops to rush over, and bumped into the main force of He Renlong.

"General, at this time, I blame the lowly duty for not expecting things to develop to such a point, it is really the fault of the lowly position, please punish the general!" After Gu Junen entered the account, he immediately knelt down and pleaded guilty to Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng laughed and said, "Mr. Gu, please hurry up, the world is unpredictable!" I can't blame you at this time, but we all underestimate the ability of Xiao Tianjian and his Xingtian Army! How can you blame Mr. alone? This matter will not be mentioned again, and now we still have to think about how to take down this Longzhou City! ”

Gu Junen stood up with a ashamed face, thanked him repeatedly, withdrew from Li Zicheng's big tent, turned his head to look at the Xingtian military camp, and shook his head slightly, this time he really didn't expect things to develop to such a point, although he was thinking about Li Zicheng from beginning to end, but he never expected that a small Xingtian army, under the hands of a fledgling erection, would be so capable of fighting, it is really unpredictable! And Xiao Tianjian finally gave him a profound lesson, although this incident was unintentional or unintentional for him, but Xiao Tianjian made him lose face in front of Li Zicheng, and couldn't help but make Gu Junen hate Xiao Tianjian a little.

Although Li Zicheng did not complain about him, Gu Junen also heard Li Zicheng's words bluntly, for this incident, he Gu Junen still can't escape responsibility, which can be regarded as a heavy smear for him to do things under Li Zicheng in the future.

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