Gao Yingxiang led the army in the canyon after the attack led the remnants of the defeated army all the way to retreat into Hongdong County, he repaired, while sending someone to report to the king for his own use: King Lu Yan is too fierce, the cavalry team I led has been disabled by him, I hope to speed the main force of the righteous army to come to help, otherwise Hongdong may not be guaranteed.

Not to mention where the main force of more than 200,000 people of the 36th battalion led by the king himself, after Lu Xiangsheng tasted the sweetness of the flintlock pistol, his courage became bigger and bigger, and as soon as he finished cleaning the battlefield, he ordered someone to inform Zhang Liwei and Wang Guozhong of Zhaocheng, leaving a thousand musketeers to defend the city, and the rest of the men and horses quickly took the siege equipment to Hongdong City to join him!

So, that night, Gao Yingxiang found that King Lu Yan had caught up, and there were more than 40,000 horses, at least ** thousand!

This night, the rebels in the Hongdong can be said to have stayed awake all night, ** Ten thousand imperial court soldiers are in the city, who can sleep peacefully, one is not good, but there is no head to sleep and no head to get up!

Lu Xiangsheng did not launch an attack overnight, he connected three cities in two days, and ambushed the cavalry of the thieves, his soldiers can be said to be tired to the point that they can't do it, and it doesn't hurt to let them rest for a night, anyway, it is impossible for the main force of the thieves to rush to Hongdong within a day or two, but it doesn't take a day or two for his **10,000 army to attack a Hongdong County!

He is not blindly confident, if there are more than 20,000 thieves and thieves in the city, he may not be able to attack it in a day or two, because there are sword and shield soldiers in the infantry, and even giant shield soldiers, as long as the shield array is formed, the power of the flintlock pistol will be greatly reduced, and his own side cannot occupy an absolute advantage in the siege battle. But now most of the cavalry in Hongdong County are cavalry, and the cavalry rarely raises shields, it is impossible for them to form a shield array, without a shield array, they are the target to move!

Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng ordered his soldiers to rest for a good night, and let them have breakfast in an orderly manner the next morning, and then began to attack the city.

On one side are the officers and soldiers who eat and sleep well and win consecutive battles, and on the other side are the thieves who fled in a hurry and couldn't even sleep, and the results of this siege battle can be imagined. Moreover, Lu Xiangsheng did not besiege Hongdong from all sides in order to quickly take it, if it was surrounded on all sides, the thieves in the city would definitely resist desperately, and it would take a lot of effort at that time; If you only attack one side, the thieves in the city will flee if they can't resist it, but it will be easier to succeed.

Gao Yingxiang really had no intention of fighting, Lu Xiangsheng attacked in the north for an hour, he led 20,000 cavalry to escape from the south gate, as for the thieves who originally defended the city, they could only surrender.

Lu Xiangsheng did not continue to pursue, in front of him was Linfen City, the seat of Pingyang Mansion, which was a large city in Shanxi, and the thieves left nearly 10,000 people to guard it, and the main force of the thieves led by Wang Ziyong was about to reach Linfen, don't run over and hit it.

Now although the Tianxiong Army has gone through several battles, the formal drill has not lasted long, and it is completely to catch ducks on the shelves, and it is hard to hold on, and it is really going to encounter more than 200,000 thieves who don't know whether to do it or not.

Lu Xiangsheng doesn't take the initiative to attack here, the thieves will naturally not stupidly run over to attack the city, the attack distance of the flintlock pistol is desperate to think about, and you can also use a shield array to resist on the plain, if you want to run to attack the city, it is simply to use people as a target.

In this way, the two sides began a long confrontation on the front line of Hongdong and Linfen, and Lu Xiangsheng took the opportunity to pull the Tianxiong army to the north of Pingyang for some exercises, and successively recovered Shilou, Yonghe, Daning and other places, and the battle formation and cooperation of the Tianxiong army became more and more proficient and gradually reached the elite level of the Beijing camp.

Lu Xiangsheng was not in a hurry to attack Linfen, but the emperor said that when the expansion of Wang Gong's factory was completed, it would be necessary to start trial production of new artillery.

Lu Xiangsheng and Tianxiongjun will not press the table for the time being, and look at the situation of Sun Chuanting and Qin Jun.

It is said that after Sun Chuanting became the governor of Shaanxi, he did not randomly draw some guards to recruit 100,000 troops like Lu Xiangsheng, but personally went to the vicinity of Yulin to recruit troops.

This Yulin is terrible, Yulin Ming Dynasty is not called Yulin City but Yulin Town, is one of the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Yulin is a place where heavy troops gather, over the years and the Mongolian Tatars have been fighting endlessly, and the armament has never been relaxed.

The area of Yulin Town is not large, although there are more than 200 miles from southwest to northeast, the entire jurisdiction is as narrow as a spoon, the narrowest place is less than ten miles wide, but there are more than 30 guards in such a long and narrow place, and the number of troops can be imagined!

The people here can be said to be military households, and they have not farmed much since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and the traditional occupation is to be soldiers, and the main source of income is military salary. Usually the neighbors chat, talking about not how much land your family has planted, how much grain my family has received, but where the old man of the east family has beaten, how many heads the boy of the west family has cut off, and the fierceness of the people's customs is not blown.

It is said that Li Zicheng suffered several losses in Yulin when he was crisscrossing Shaanxi, and he was really angry, so he sent an army of 100,000 to conquer, but a small Yulin county town was fought for eight days before it was defeated! persuaded people to surrender, and they said directly: "The people of my Yulin, men don't know how to farm, and women don't know how to weave." The county magistrate transferred his salary to eat me, and for 300 years, he was loyal and righteous and chivalrous in the nine sides, and he was willing to be a thief? The loyalty and courage of Yulin people can be seen.

There was also the decisive battle of Jinzhou that determined the luck of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Wu Sangui ran shamelessly with the main force of the Ming army, and the Guanning Iron Cavalry also withdrew to Ningyuan, causing 100,000 Ming troops in Jinzhou to bomb the camp and flee all the way to the south. Only 30,000 Qin soldiers did not move, and in the end, when there were only a few hundred people left, they decided to attack Huang Taiji's Chinese army, which frightened the imperial camp and the yellow flag ran away for more than half, and finally Huang Taiji had to draw his sword and go into battle in person, so as to turn the danger into safety!

Yulin people can be said to be a model of professional soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, and Sun Chuanting naturally wanted to recruit Yulin soldiers.

These years coincided with the economic recession of the Ming Dynasty, and the number of border troops was gradually compressed, and there were more than 30 guards in Yulin, and the border army was less than 30,000! The people of Yulin, who make a living as soldiers, can't live anymore, just at this time Sun Chuanting came to recruit soldiers, and the soldiers and civilians of Yulin were naturally so excited that they didn't need to shout at all, they all came.

According to the calculation of 5,000 military households in a guard station, there are about 150,000 or 60,000 military households in Yulin, excluding 30,000 border troops, there should be only 1230,000 soldiers left, but more than 150,000 people who came to sign up were more than 150,000, so that Sun Chuanting's mouth was about to wear out before he persuaded more than 50,000 people who were not recruited to go back!

Needless to say, the quality of this Yulin soldier is naturally decent, with a little training formation, the array will be decent, and the marching and camping do not need to be managed by Sun Chuanting, because many of them grew up in military tents!

In the fourth year of Chongzheng, there were not many thieves in Shaanxi, and most of the troops went to Pingyang Mansion in Shanxi Province to eat and drink spicy food, leaving behind thousands of rogues. For the Qin army, which is full of Yulin soldiers, these thieves are just a plate of dishes, and it is easy and pleasant to suppress them, and when they encounter thieves, they don't need Sun Chuanting to mobilize, they themselves howl and rush up, that speed, as if there is money to pick up in front. For Yulin soldiers, isn't the head of a thief just money!

Later, Zu Dabi was even more stunned, and he took this group of screaming Yulin soldiers everywhere to find thieves, and when he encountered thieves, he rushed to grab them, and the thieves in Shaanxi were terrified, but all those who had a way went to Shanxi.

Therefore, in less than three months, there was basically no trace of the righteous army in Shaanxi, and almost all the righteous troops in the entire northwest gathered in Pingyang Mansion in Shanxi.

The 36th battalion of the main force of the righteous army is more than 200,000, and Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army and Sun Chuanting's Qin army add up to more than 200,000. It seems that as long as Sun Chuanting is allowed to launch an attack on the Western Front and go straight to the south of Linfen, he can come to an iron wall and wipe out the main force of the righteous army.

Will it be like this? This volume is over, and let's see the next volume break down.