After Liu Yaoben was instructed, he led the training battalion back to Lushi County, and immediately began to reorganize and defend in the area of Guandaokou, cutting off the passage between the north of Lushi County and the direction of Tongguan and Shaanzhou, and built fortifications near Guandaokou Village, ready to meet the attack of the official army that might come from the direction of Tongguan.

Although Liu Yaoben is young, but the time with Xiao Tianjian is not short, and the experience is not small, since the establishment of the teaching camp, after this year's campaign, the teaching camp has erected an image of courage and good fighting, and also made the teaching camp, the newly established combat battalion of the Xingtian Army, become a sharp blade in Xiao Tianjian's hands, for which Liu Yaoben also won the love of his subordinates, this time he was ordered to guard Lushi County, Liu Yaoben and several young generals under his command also used a lot of thought, In addition to garrisoning the area around Guandaokou Village with the 1st Teaching Battalion under his direct leadership, he also arranged for the new 1st Battalion of Lushi County to be the main force guarding Lushi County, and at the same time mobilized the newly established township barracks in Lushi County as an auxiliary of the 1st Teaching Battalion, responsible for supporting the operation of the 1st Teaching Battalion.

On April 4, sure enough, a road of officers and troops came from the direction of Tongguan, but what surprised Liu Yaoben was that it was not only the officers and troops from the direction of Tongguan, but also an official army from Shaanzhou with Cao Wenyao this time, which completely broke Xiao Tianjian's expectations.

After the two armies joined forces, the strength of the army was close to 10,000, not counting the number of soldiers and civilians they forcibly conscripted, if they brought the number of soldiers and civilians, the number of officers and soldiers of these two routes alone exceeded 15,000.

Originally, according to the detailed information, this time the official army of Shaanzhou should not participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Xingtian Army, and even if they sent troops, they should attack in the direction of Yongning County, but what no one expected was that this time Jiang Qin's intelligence went wrong, and the garrison of Shaanzhou not only participated in this attack on the Xingtian Army, but also the target of the attack was not Yongning County, but cooperated with Cao Wenyao's department from Shaanxi to attack Lushi County, starting from the back of the Xingtian Army. He wanted to expel the Xingtian Army from western Henan, and then gradually drive the Xingtian army from western Henan to the central Henan Plain, and then gather troops to carry out the final encirclement and annihilation of the Xingtian army.

It is really unpredictable to say that Cao Wenyao ordered the Qin soldiers to enter Henan this time, which should be regarded as a strange soldier all the way, and he came to cooperate with the soldiers and horses under the command of Wang Jiazhen in Henan, and contain the Xingtian Army from behind, so that the officers and troops formed a form of encircling the Xingtian Army on all sides, forcing the Xingtian Army to take care of one and lose the other, but he didn't think of this plan, and in the end, in Hong Chengchou's place, it was modified, in front of Hong Chengchou, a man who is old in military affairs, although Xiong Wencan is not inappropriate in this arrangement, but compared to Xiong Wencan, Hong Chengchou knows more about Xingtianjun.

At the end of the eighth and the beginning of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Hong Chengchou was a person who suffered a big loss under the Xingtian Army, and he sent He Renlong and Zuo Guangxian to enter Jin to suppress the Xingtian Army.

Therefore, after Hong Chengchou of Shaanxi learned of Xiong Wencan's plan for this attack, even if he pointed out that attacking Lushi County with Cao Wenyao's troops and horses was likely to be ineffective, and this would only distract the forces of the official army, and it was likely to repeat the mistake of the defeat of the Fourth Route Army in Shanxi to suppress the Xingtian Army.

Therefore, when Hong Chengchou strongly advocated that when Cao Wenyao was sent to send troops, the Henan Army in Shaanzhou, Henan Province must cooperate with Cao Wenyao to send troops to Lushi County at the same time, gather the strength of the two armies, and use the momentum of Mount Tai to suppress the top, so as to recover Lushi County in one fell swoop and annihilate a part of the Xingtian Army, at least it can also cause a certain blow to the Xingtian Army.

Such a change, whether it was Liu Yaoben or Xiao Tianjian, could not have been predicted when the counterattack plan was originally arranged, so Xiao Tianjian only sent Liu Yaoben's teaching battalion to sit in Lushi County, thinking that with Liu Yaoben's combat battalion plus the new battalion in Lushi County and the local township barracks, it should be easy to deal with this situation.

When Liu Yaoben found out the strength of the officers and troops who had invaded the Lu family, the matter was irreparable, and the more than 10,000 officers and troops had already joined forces in the area of Hangu Pass, and only rushed towards Lu County.

After Liu Yaoben heard the news, he was in the tent for a while, a little unable to believe the news, but after asking the scouts who came back to report the news several times, he had to believe that this thing was true.

So Liu Yaoben ordered his company commanders to be summoned to his tent to discuss matters, and at the same time immediately sent messengers to Ruyang to report the news to Xiao Tianjian, and asked Xiao Tianjian to immediately mobilize troops and horses to help Lushi County.

When Liu Yaoben's subordinates gathered in his tent, they couldn't help but be taken aback when they heard the news, according to Xiao Tianjian, this time the official army attacked Lushi County, they originally prepared a table of dishes, but two tables of guests came, no matter how they put it together, they couldn't entertain so many enemy troops.

So these young generals who came from the junior camp immediately buzzed in the tent to discuss, and each of them had a somewhat anxious look on their faces.

Liu Yaoben's face was very unhappy, and he looked coldly at these subordinates who were arguing in the tent, and he didn't speak for a while, until these people began to realize that his face was wrong, Liu Yaoben suddenly slapped the dwarf in front of him, and said angrily to these subordinates: "What kind of system!" Isn't it just that there are more officers and soldiers? As for scaring you one by one? ”

When the generals heard this, they all quickly closed their mouths, and they all stood up and bowed their heads to listen to Liu Yaoben's lecture.

Liu Yaoben stood up and walked back and forth in the tent for a few steps, suddenly stood still, turned his head and said: "This matter is indeed beyond our expectations, but you must remember the importance of Lushi County to Dashuai and us!" The reason why Dashuai sent me back to guard Lushi County is because I believe that we can defend here! No matter how many officers and soldiers come, this time we have to stand up here, and we can't let the officers and soldiers step into Lushi County for half a step!

You have all heard it clearly to me, if anyone is afraid, then say it as soon as possible, I, Liu Yao, can call the shots today, let you leave on your own, find a place to hide as a shrinking turtle, and live your life carefully from now on! If you have any kinds, calm me down and fight this battle well! Did you hear it? ”

After being yelled at by Liu Yaoben, these young generals under him hurriedly stood up one by one and shouted: "I heard it!" ”

Liu Yaoben squinted, learned Xiao Tianjian's expression vividly, and scanned the faces of each of his subordinates, and everyone who was looked at by him hurriedly straightened their chests, indicating that they were not afraid.

Liu Yaoben nodded slightly and said, "This is about the same, I finally didn't lose the face of these brothers from our youth camp!"

If you say that you are not nervous at all, it is, Lao Tzu heard the news just now, and he was also shocked into a cold sweat, but this also can't scare Lao Tzu, isn't it just that there are more officers and soldiers here? And what is there to be afraid of? Don't forget, the words of our Xingtian Army, Xingtian Dance is a relative, and the fierce ambition is always there! Our Heavenly Army will never give up!

Or what I just said, Lushi County is too important to us, Yongning can be lost, Song County can be lost, and even Yichuan and Ruyang can be lost, but Lushi County can't be lost!

Why do you also know very well, our new craftsman camp is here, the iron mine is here, and the roots of our Xingtian Army in Henan are also here, once Lushi County is lost, then our Xingtian Army will have no roots in Henan in the future, so this is the key to the commander sending us back to sit in Lushi County, that is, I believe that we can hold the Lu family!

If we only heard that there were more officials and soldiers, we would be so scared that we lost the Lu family, I don't know if you have the face to see our handsome, at least my surname Liu will not have the face to see our handsome again in my life!

So we not only have to fight this battle, but also fight it hard and fight beautifully! Even if we die here, we must survive until the commander leads the troops back to Lushi County!

Don't think that following our marshal to be a soldier, only eat and drink spicy food, as long as you are a soldier in our Xingtian Army, you must have a little blood and a little backbone!

In addition, let me tell you, it is not easy for the marshal, this time he has to deal with Zu Dale's Guan Ning army, Wang Shaoyu's Luoyang soldiers, and Chen Yongfu's Kaifeng army, and the battle over there is not easy to fight, so we must be ready, stick here and buy time for the marshal to come back to help here.

Of course, I also know that our troops are limited, but you don't have to be too nervous, I have already sent someone to report the changes here to the marshal, and at the same time ordered Chuanqi to go to Yongning County to ask General Liu for help, presumably within four days, Uncle Liu will send reinforcements to help us in the war!

Until reinforcements arrive, we're going to have to stand up here anyway! ……”