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The morale of the officers and soldiers fell to the bottom again under the almost frantic counterattack of the soldiers and civilians of the Xingtian Army in the city, and they all began to retreat in a hurry, and countless arrows and cannons followed them like shadows, landing on their exposed backs, shooting them to the ground.

At the beginning, he detected that the strength of the defenders of the Xingtian Army in Lushi County was very weak, and he thought that he could take this opportunity to easily take Lushi County, and he won a big victory in Luanchuan Town, so he had the idea of underestimating the enemy, not to mention that this time they marched into the army in order to speed up the speed, and the people of the Xingtian Army carried out a strong wall clearing around Lushi County, so that they could not rob food on the spot to supplement the army, and Lushi County's resistance was so resolute that after their attack was frustrated, their morale also plummeted, Li Guoqi had to temporarily order a two-day truce, while sending officers and soldiers out to fetch food, and at the same time trying to find a way to attack Lu's county.

These scattered officers and soldiers were worse than bandits, and they could not find food and catch people wherever they passed, so they burned down the houses of the common people, and once they found the people hiding in the mountains, looting, adultery, and adultery were commonplace, and they made a mess in Lushi County, and even a few iron works of the Xingtian Army in Lushi County were destroyed by them.

It was also at this time that Liu Bao led two battalions of soldiers from the direction of Lingbao County to drive back to the territory of Lushi County, Li Guoqi, who was outside Lushi County, heard that the thief army was coming to help, so he transferred troops to meet the battle, but for Liu Bao's subordinate generals who are now in high morale, they are not comparable to those township soldiers led by Gao Shuxian in Luanchuan Town, needless to say, the results of the battle needless to say, don't look at the more than 2,000 soldiers under Liu Bao's department who will run for a long distance, and they are all exhausted after arriving outside Lushi County. However, the phalanx of the Xingtian Army could not be resisted by the soldiers and horses under the command of Li Guoqi, and the result was that after the First World War, Li Guoqi was immediately defeated, so he had to quickly collect his troops and flee towards the south of Lushi County with the defeated soldiers.

Poor Li Guoqi at the beginning of the unashamed declaration that he would recover Lushi County within five days, but the result was that he was defeated by the Xingtian Army, all the way from Lu's county town to Luanchuan Town, and then from Luanchuan Town to drive it out, all the way to Neixiang County, Liu Bao then led his troops to stop the pursuit, take stock of the results, Li Guoqi brought 5,000 officers and soldiers, this battle lost about half of the battle in Lushi County, and only less than 3,000 Shaanxi soldiers fled back, and it can be said that they basically lost their combat effectiveness in a short period of time.

Afterwards, Wang Qinian led the township soldiers to open the city gate and go out of the city, and ordered to start with him, and the civil and military officials of the Xingtian Army in the whole city wore linen and filial piety, and went out of the city to collect the corpses of these people under the city.

Although Li Guoqi led his troops to invade the territory of Lushi County, which brought great losses to the production and life of Lushi County, and many villages were burned to ruins, the disaster to the common people was not very serious except for the people in the area of Luanchuan Town, not to mention that when Wang Qinian ordered the evacuation, the people buried important materials such as farm tools and grain, and the basic living capital was not lost too much. Wang Qinian also ordered the allocation of a batch of grain seeds to these ordinary people, who had suffered relatively large losses, so that they could quickly resume farming, and at the same time, he also allocated grain and a batch of silver money to compensate those people who had suffered heavy losses and let them restore their homes.

For Wang Qinian's series of measures, the people are even more grateful to the Xingtian Army, and many people are eager to ask to be soldiers in the Xingtian Army and fight the world with the Xingtian Army.

The blacksmith battalion basically did not lose any personnel this time, although several iron workshops were destroyed or set on fire by the officers and soldiers, but there were many carpenters among them, and it did not take much effort to build such sheds, after the craftsmen returned to the station, they quickly dug out the tools and iron materials they had buried, and it did not take many days to resume production again, and the craftsmen after this catastrophe realized the unscrupulousness of the officials and soldiers, and after the resumption of production, the motivation was sufficient, and there was almost no need to encourage them. They worked overtime day and night, and while the quality of all kinds of armor did not decline, the output was much larger than before the war, and the shed was not built, so they worked in the open air, in short, everything recovered quite quickly, even beyond Wang Qinian's expectations.

Luo Rucai and Liu Bao were both responsible for the invasion of Lushi County by the official army, they only cared about He Renlong and Zu Dabi's department in the direction of Tongguan, but they did not expect Li Guoqi to suddenly attack Lushi County, this time after they captured Lingbao County, they strengthened the defense of the southern part of Lushi County, and dispatched a war battalion to sit in Luanchuan Town, so that the defense of the jurisdiction was perfected.

And at the same time that Lushi County was attacked, Luo Li was not idle here, first when he learned the news that the Xingtian Army was attacking Runing Mansion all the way, Chen Yongfu of Luoyang took a risky action.

He led nearly 10,000 Luoyang officers and soldiers to try to raid Yiyang County, which was the greatest threat to Luoyang City, and wanted to recapture Yiyang County and take the opportunity to attack Ruzhou again.

But how could Luo Li give him such an advantage, as soon as Chen Yongfu moved, he quickly received the news, plus Yiyang County originally had a battalion of soldiers under Luo Li and a local reserve battalion, although the troops were not much, but there was not much problem in defending the city.

Chen Yongfu led his troops to storm the county seat of Yiyang for several days, except for the corpses that were thrown on the ground, it can almost be said that they did not take advantage of the slightest advantage, the soldiers and generals of the Xingtian Army used fire guns on the city to carry out volleys, plus they were equipped with a lot of thunderbolt cannons, every time the officers and soldiers attached to the city, they threw this thing downward, even if the thunderbolt cannon of this era was not very powerful, but when it was thrown into the crowd, it still blew up the officers and soldiers on their backs.

Chen Yongfu led his troops to attack Yiyang for a few days, and then turned around to attack Yichuan, but halfway was blocked by Luo Li and his troops, and after a good fight, Chen Yongfu was defeated again, and had to lead his troops back to Luoyang.

But Luo Li couldn't be idle, Xiao Tianjian led his troops to raid Runing Mansion and wiped out Huang Degong, but Sun Yingyuan preserved his strength and followed Zuo Liangyu to pursue Xiao Tianjian, the result was that Xiao Tianjian led his troops around central and eastern Henan, Sun Yingyuan invited Zuo Liangyu to lead his troops to attack with him several times, but Zuo Liangyu refused.

The result was that Sun Yingyuan was annoyed, no longer followed Zuo Liangyu, at the end of March, he turned around and led his troops to attack Ruzhou, after learning the news that a large number of officials and troops were coming, Luo Li hurriedly led his troops back to Ruzhou, and the result was that Sun Yingyuan was connected to the fire in the east of Ruzhou City, and the two sides started a big war. As a result, although he had superior forces, he still failed to win this battle.

Luo Li's side because of the need to guard against the sneak attack of Luoyang's 20,000 or 30,000 officers and soldiers, so he could not gather all the elite soldiers under his command, and he was not superior in terms of troops, so in the battle in the east of Ruzhou, although Luo Li withstood Sun Yingyuan's department, but he failed to defeat Sun Yingyuan, the two sides suffered losses from each other, Sun Yingyuan led his troops to retreat to Xuzhou to rest, and Luo Li had to lead a few subordinates to sit in Baofeng and monitor the actions of the official army because the troops were not enough to pursue.

But this is not the end, and then Henan general soldier Zhang Renxue suddenly led three thousand officers and soldiers brought from Zhangde Mansion, detoured to Fangcheng County and attacked Lushan County at night, Lushan defenders are very few, only a few hundred reserve battalion soldiers and horses, the result is that Zhang Renxue raided successfully, invaded Lushan County, although the reserve battalion soldiers in the city will resist to the death, but the troops are too small, and Zhang Renxue was caught off guard, too late to mobilize local forces, as a result, Lushan County was captured by Zhang Renxue in early April, and the defenders only more than 200 people broke out of the city and fled to Baofeng County.

Luo Li learned that Lushan was conquered by the official army, and immediately angrily beheaded an officer of the Lushan reserve battalion who fled back on the spot, and then led his troops to try to counterattack Lushan, but Zhang Renxue, the general soldier of Henan, relied on the superior forces to defend the city, Luo Li attacked for two days, and Sun Yingyuan led his troops to attack Baofeng County, so that Luo Li had to lead his troops back to Baofeng to garrison, and Lushan County was recovered by the official army.

In short, in more than a month, the Xingtian Army and many official armies fought each other, it can be said that there were mutual victories and defeats, Liu Bao and Luo Rucai captured Shaanzhou and Lingbao, but the Lu clan was attacked, Luo Li repelled the defenders of Luoyang, and repelled Sun Yingyuan's department, but Lushan was conquered by the official army, so the gain was only slightly greater than the loss, but in general, the Xingtian Army did not completely fall into decline, basically preserved its strength, and held a large part of the jurisdiction of western Henan.

It was under such circumstances that Xiao Tianjian finally ended the guerrilla warfare in eastern Henan, and led his troops to put on a posture of breaking off with Zuo Liangyu in the Qixian area.