When the Xingtian Army reached about ten miles east of Hancheng Town, the whole army stopped with Xiao Tianjian's order, and with the waving of the order flag, the second and third battalions immediately advanced forward, and began to line up in front of each other, each arranging a standard Xingtian Army infantry military formation.

The soldiers who came with the army followed Xiao Tianjian's guard company and were arranged behind the two phalanxes, as a reserve force to ensure that there would be nothing wrong with the back road.

The engineer company immediately rushed to the front of the team with more than 1,000 people who had been recruited locally, began to cut down trees nearby, and divided a part of the manpower to start digging a trench in front of the phalanx of the two battalions.

The engineer company is equipped with the new Shuangfeng Zhai craftsman battalion in accordance with Xiao Tianjian's requirements specially built for them sapper shovels, short pickaxes, big saws, axes and machetes and other things, all of which are made of fine iron after many quenching of good guys, and they are quite easy to use.

And the people around Yongning County who were recruited with the army, all of them are good at doing farm work, and they will definitely not succeed in fighting, but they are all good hands when they are used to do earthwork, and after receiving the sapper shovel and sapper pickaxe, they can be said to be very fast.

The reason why these people came to meet the officers and soldiers with the Xingtian Army was not because they were not afraid of death, but because after the Xingtian Army captured Yongning County, they did not commit any crimes against the refugees who gathered outside Yongning County, and immediately opened the grain depot in the county seat, took out a lot of grain, and set up porridge sheds outside the city to help them, the refugees, so that many refugees were saved because of the Xingtian Army's soup kitchen.

This is not counting, as soon as the Xingtian Army took Yongning County, they posted a list outside the city and announced their method of dividing the land, saying that the fertile land that belonged to King Wan'an and several local gentry in the original Yongning County would be distributed to them, the landless and vagrants.

After the homeless people heard the news, they immediately boiled, in this troubled world, their lives are like ants, let others bully, everyone kills, but no one pities them, sympathize with them, when the Xingtian Army comes, they are also afraid, but the reason why they did not flee is because they are so hungry that they really have no strength to escape, they can only watch the Xingtian Army pass by them.

But they never thought that this Xingtian Army was actually a benevolent and righteous army, compared to all the armies they had seen before, it was much more benevolent and righteous, not only giving them food to eat and giving them fields to plant, these homeless people were naturally grateful to the Xingtian Army, as soon as they heard that the Xingtian Army was going to recruit some people to accompany the army to fight against the official army, and promised that they would never expel them into battle, only let them do what they could, even if the young and strong people among these homeless people enthusiastically participated, they rushed here with the Xingtian Army.

Along the way, the Xingtian Army did not have the slightest oppression for these soldiers and civilians, and they were able to eat two mixed flour cakes with salt every meal, and they didn't dare to say that they were full, at least compared to the days when they couldn't drink a mouthful of porridge in the past few days, it can be regarded as heavenly.

Therefore, these requisitioned homeless people spared no effort, and they did whatever they were asked to do along the way, and they could even get a bowl of bone broth to drink if they did a good job, so just for this delicious mouthful, they also sold enough strength.

As soon as the army stopped, they rushed forward, and went crazy to work according to the requirements, and in a short time they dug out a shallow trench two feet wide and more than half a person deep in front of the two battalions, and there were many people who were strong, and quickly cut down a lot of trees nearby, and according to the requirements of the soldiers of the Heavenly Army, they quickly threw themselves into the shallow trench, erected these trunks in the shallow trench, and quickly backfilled the excavated soil into the shallow trench, and compacted the empty soil. In front of the two battalions, a sturdy fence was formed that was more than one person high.

As the scouts returned, the gopher stood among the people and shouted, "Become brothers! Thank you for your hard work, go down! Leave the rest to the heroes of our Heavenly Army! Our general has an appointment in advance, and he will never drive you to wait for your life! Withdraw to the back, and you can eat the flatbread as you like! ”

After hearing this, the more than 1,000 people were completely relieved, cheered one after another, picked up the tools in hand, flew back to the rear of the large array from the two phalanxes, and squatted far behind the large array.

"I said this brother, do you say that the heroes of the Xingtian Army can be the opponents of the official army? If the heroes of the Heavenly Army can't defeat the official army, then won't we be unlucky again? ”

"Damn it, let's put it bluntly, it was given to us by the heroes of the Xingtian Army, don't you see what kind of characters the heroes are? That's all like the gods descended to earth, and I don't know how this General Xiao brought out the soldiers, anyway, I have seen a lot of all kinds of soldiers and horses, like the heroes of the Xingtian Army, I have never seen them before, the officers and soldiers are calculated, in front of these heroes, nothing is anything, this battle will definitely be won! ”

"Yes! I fled here from Nanyang, I have not seen the official army and the righteous army in the past two years, but I have never seen such a majestic soldier and horse, and I have never seen such a benevolent soldier and horse, although sometimes some of the righteous army will also open a warehouse to release grain, but they all ate a place, just change a place, never said that they would give the people a field and land, this is God pity us, to us sent such a benevolent army, please God bless, you must let them win! ”

"I've thought about it, if I look back on this Xingtian Army, I'll also go to work for this General Xiao, and see what they do, which will make my heart warm......"

For a while, the people squatted behind and said anything.

Xiao Tianjian lifted the horse to the front of the big array, rode the horse back and forth in front of the big array for a few rounds, and then pulled the reins of the horse, the yellow horse immediately let out a long neigh, and the two front legs were in the air.

Xiao Tianjian grabbed the reins of the horse and raised his right hand into a fist, the cheers gradually subsided, his eyes scanned the generals of the Xingtian Army in front of him like electricity, and shouted to them: "Brothers! Today! We came here, but the government didn't agree, and wanted to drive us away from here, I want to ask you, do you agree? ”

When the armies heard this, they immediately shouted loudly: "No promise! ……”

Xiao Tianjian clenched his right fist again and raised it high, and continued to shout to the generals: "Behind you, there are countless people like you who used to be, they are looking at us with countless pairs of eyes, shouting and cheering for us, sweating for us, we have no reason to let them down!"

Therefore, I order you, no matter what kind of enemy is in front of us, we will never retreat, no matter how fierce they are, in front of our Heavenly Army, we will always be strong! Here I am, among you, and I will not take half a step back! I will fight side by side with you to the end, let the government know, and let the current court know that our Heavenly Army is invincible! ”

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's agitation in front of the formation, the generals all raised their arms and shouted: "The Xingtian Army will win!" …… Win! "The heads of countless spears shimmered with cold light, shining in the sunlight, as if they were a jungle of steel.

(This battle between the Xingtian Army and the Guan Ning Army, I will spend a lot of pen and ink to describe it, please be a little patient!) ）