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Gao Yingxiang did not quickly lead his troops to the outside of Longzhou City as He Renlong expected, and after He Renlong returned to Longzhou City, he immediately sent Ye Bushu to investigate the whereabouts of He Fang and his officers and soldiers in the direction of He Fang's headquarters.

However, two days later, He Fang and his team of officers and soldiers still failed to return to Longzhou City, but sent Ye Bushu to find their whereabouts and brought back the news, saying that they had found some of He Fang's scattered generals, and brought the news that He Fang was defeated by the Xingtian Army back to Longzhou City.

But they couldn't tell the whereabouts of He Fang if they didn't collect it at night, after all, the routed soldiers they found were all in the melee, and the officers and soldiers who were scattered did not survive until He Fang was captured, and then fled into the mountains and forests, so no one could tell the whereabouts of He Fang.

And Ye Bushu also investigated the place where He Fang led his troops and the Xingtian Army to fight fiercely that day, but except for some completely abandoned baggage vehicles and a small number of corpses that were not buried, He Fang's shadow was not seen.

It's no wonder that they couldn't find He Fang's whereabouts these nights, they had the opportunity to get news from He Fang, after all, there were dozens of officers and soldiers who were captured with He Fang at that time, but among these officers and soldiers, the one named Liu Wanqing was always on the way back to Longzhou when the Xingtian Army escorted them, and took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Xingtian Army to escort them, and actually instigated some prisoners of war to take the opportunity to make trouble, wanting to take the opportunity to seize He Fang's escape from the Xingtian Army's formation, and the result was that even the dozens of prisoners of war were unlucky. Xiao Tianjian, who was enraged, immediately ordered them to be slaughtered and thrown into the ravine, and as a result, the news that might have been spread was also buried underground by Xiao Tianjian's anger.

At this point, He Renlong also gave up his thoughts, knowing that his nephew He Fang was likely to be more than auspicious this time, and he had not heard the news that the thieves outside the city had released the news that they had captured He Fang, so he began to think that his nephew was estimated to have died in the chaos.

So he set up a tablet for He Fang in the city, and sent someone back to his hometown to send the news of He Fang's death back to the clan, and the right was that He Fang was dead.

However, he also hated the Xingtian army outside the city to the extreme, and after returning to Longzhou City, he completely figured out the composition of the thief army outside the city, and it turned out that the Xingtian army was really a guest army to assist Li Zicheng in attacking Longzhou City.

And the reputation of the Xingtian Army, he had already heard of it when he was in Longzhou earlier, it was the Xingtian Army entrenched in Wangyang some time ago, Duan Youzhi, the prefect of Fengxiang, once wrote to him, asking him to send troops to Huangyang to exterminate this Xingtian Army, but at the beginning, he pushed it away in the name of food shortage.

And now that he is planted in the hands of this Xingtian army, it can be said that he is not wronged, if he had known that this was the case, he should have cooperated with the Fengxiang prefect to send troops to suppress this Xingtian army, and there would not be today's defeat.

He Renlong can be said to have knocked out his teeth and swallowed blood into his stomach, and he didn't even have a place to find someone to complain, if Duan Youzhi knew about it, then it was estimated that Duan Youzhi would also gloat and scold him for deserving it.

But no matter how much he hated, there was no way to take the Xingtian army outside the city at the moment, Li Zicheng nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses were stationed outside Longzhou City, and he was hoping that He Renlong would be angry for a while and go out of the city to fight! Therefore, although He Renlong was angry, he did not lose his mind, and after entering the city, he immediately closed the city gate again, while strengthening the imperial defense of the city wall, while strengthening the training of the young and strong in the city, and forcing some big families in the city to come up with some money and food to help them, so that the defense capability of Longzhou City could be further strengthened.

At the same time, the He Renlong faction sent out of the city to investigate the situation of the thief army at night, and when he heard the news that Gao Yingxiangguo was really leading a large number of chaotic troops towards Longzhou City, he also began to get nervous, and immediately sent his subordinates to report the situation in Longzhou to Hong Chengchou, and at the same time sent a letter to Xi'an Mansion to find Chen Qiyu, who is still the governor of the five provinces, to report at this time, and ask them to discuss it, and quickly send troops to relieve the siege of Longzhou.

In short, what he can be sure of is that he and Longzhou City have become a target of the Mutant Army, and they have to take him and Longzhou City! Then I'm afraid his life won't be easy in the future.

After Xiao Tianjian led the Xingtian Army to return to the outside of Longzhou City, Li Zicheng invited him and his subordinate generals to a banquet, and at the banquet, Li Zicheng's generals were very cordial to the generals of the Xingtian Army, and persuaded them to drink again and again, and those soldiers under Li Zicheng's command, when they looked at the people of the Xingtian Army, their eyes also showed a look of awe, and they were no longer as arrogant in front of the Xingtian generals as before.

Because of He Renlong's defense, the strength of the defenders of Longzhou City has increased greatly, and Li Zicheng also knows that with the strength of his army alone, coupled with Xiao Tianjian's Xingtian army, it will be difficult to capture Longzhou City in a short period of time, so the battle in Longzhou, which was still fierce, began to calm down after He Renlong returned to Longzhou City.

After Xiao Tianjian came back with the army this time, he also began to raise his profile a lot, began to hang out recruitment signs, and took the initiative to recruit generals.

Originally, after Li Zicheng led his troops to Longzhou, the surrounding refugees who learned the news rushed to join Li Zicheng, and few people cared about the Xingtian Army that followed Li Zicheng, even if some people knew that the Xingtian Army was more famous in the Huangyang area, but with Xiao Tianjian's fame, it was still incomparable with Li Zicheng, so the displaced people who rushed to join the army basically did not consider the matter of joining the Xingtian Army, and they all chose to join Li Zicheng's army.

And after the Xingtian Army fought with He Renlong this time and won a big victory, under Xiao Tianjian's deliberate instructions, the news quickly spread throughout Longzhou through the scouts who were released outside, making many homeless people who came to join the army turn to pay attention to this Xingtian Army, which they were not very optimistic about before.

When they learned the news that the Xingtian Army had also begun to recruit soldiers, some homeless people came to the Xingtian military camp in an endless stream, asking to join Xiao Tianjian as soldiers.

Coupled with the deliberate rendering of the scouts outside, many people knew that the quality of the food in the Xingtian Army was much better than that in Li Zicheng's camp, at least it could feed them, which made the Xingtian Army more attractive, and the number of displaced people who joined the Xingtian Army soon increased.

For these homeless people who came to vote, the Xingtian Army naturally still used the old method, and it had to be carefully selected before the young and honest people and craftsmen who knew some ironwood skills were included in the army, and for those who were ruffian, or the old and weak, they would not accept anything, and always insisted on following their elite line.

In such a selection, the Xingtian Army actually caught a few spies sent by He Renlong in the city, and even showed these spies to the public, and threw their bodies outside the camp gate to feed the wild dogs.

As for the recruitment of the Xingtian Army, although Li Zicheng didn't like it, he couldn't help it, after all, he had no reason to only allow him to recruit and buy troops and horses by himself, but he didn't let Xiao Tianjian recruit troops and buy horses, and he had limited grain reserves in the army, not as rich as the Xingtian Army, when he first came, he could still let his subordinates eat two meals a day, but once the number of displaced people recruited increased, his food began to be stretched, and he had to send his subordinates to the surrounding areas every day to collect food, so as to meet the demand for grain in his army, so even if his appetite was big enough, It was also a bit unbearable to eat so many homeless people who had joined the army, so he had to watch the Xingtian Army pick and choose people, and some of the displaced people who were eliminated would then join his army again.

However, Li Zicheng also has some incomprehensible places, the selection of soldiers by the Xingtian Army does not seem to be all based on physical strength, many of them obviously look strong, and at first glance they can be soldiers.

Regarding this situation, Li Zicheng privately understood that Xiao Tianjian was deliberately lowering his posture, and did not search for all the strong men to join the army, but also left him a part.

For Li Zicheng and his generals' doubts, Xiao Tianjian will not explain to them, these eliminated young and strong, in fact, there is a common problem, that is, these people have a slick eyes when selecting soldiers, and each has a slippery and tricky temperament, although they look very strong, but really use their words, these people are by no means qualified soldiers, and when they are about to fight, they will take advantage of the cheap, and if they are not cheap, they will lose their guys and flee, which is only harmful to the construction of the army, and these people will not want it. And Li Zicheng is willing to accept them, so he naturally can't control it.

On the surface, Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses grew rapidly, from the time he first came, thousands of people, in less than ten days, through the shelter and coercion of the homeless, rapidly increased to more than 15,000 people, but the really useful soldiers accounted for less than 30% of them, and the rest were old, weak, women and children or treacherous people, which was not enough to use them to go into battle.

On the surface, although the Xingtian Army did not recruit many troops, only a few hundred people, but various craftsmen accounted for more than a hundred people, and these craftsmen and their families were directly incorporated into the barracks, and the rest were all young and strong, and after a little training, they were usable soldiers.

And the original recruits in the new barracks, after experiencing the test of the battle of Dashiqiao, have also met the requirements of the soldiers, after returning, immediately disbanded, they were scattered and supplemented into the various outposts of the soldiers, so that the number of soldiers in each sentry has reached nearly 200 people, although there is still some distance from the goal set by Xiao Tianjian at the beginning, but now the combat effectiveness of each outpost has also reached a new level.

As for the newly recruited soldiers, it is still the same old rule, they are directly assigned to the new barracks for training, and they must be made to meet the requirements before they can be incorporated into the combat corps, and to do this kind of thing, the Xingtian Army is already familiar with the road so far, and Liu Bao, the sentry general of the new barracks, and more than 30 instructors under him can fully undertake such work.

With the mechanism of the new barracks, the Xingtian Army will not worry about the future of the soldiers, the new barracks can be said to be an assembly line, the batch of recruits into a usable soldier, delivered to the various posts of the war team, can always ensure the combat power of the barracks, will not be due to the replenishment of novices will appear a decline in combat power, which is also an important reason why they are not easy to be defeated by the enemy when they go into battle.