Will Lu Xiangsheng listen to the orders of Zhu Yiduo, the king of Zheng, to defend Huaiqing Mansion City?

This is naturally impossible, there is no point in staying here, and the thieves will not run away when they see a large army stationed in Huaiqing Mansion City.

They occupy four or five county seats, and they occupy most of the land in Huaiqing Mansion, and they are living a comfortable life, if you don't fight them, why do they run?

King Lu Yan is not the kind of person who sits and watches the thief at ease, his habit is to attack, attack, and attack again, and drive people to reincarnate!

The next morning, he issued a series of orders.

ordered Xu Dingchen, the governor of Shanxi, to transfer 5,000 men and horses from Zezhou and Yangcheng to rush to the outside of Huaiqing Mansion to wait for the dispatch;

ordered Qi Yuanfu to send 5,000 foot soldiers to escort grain and grass to the outside of Huaiqing Mansion, and cooperate with 10,000 elite horsemen to camp;

Ordered Qi Xianzong and Qi Zhenzong to send detectives to spy on the anti-thieves in Wuzhi, Hanoi, Wenxian, Mengxian, Jiyuan and other places.

In the afternoon of the same day, the 5,000 Tianxiong army infantry soldiers escorted the grain and grass to arrive, and the 10,000 elite cavalry finally had a camp tent, and they could also bury pots and boil water to make food, and the scouts and cavalry everywhere also reported one after another, and Lu Xiangsheng finally had a general understanding of the distribution of anti-thieves in various places in Huaiqing.

Stationed in Hanoi are the anti-thieves who broke into the sky Liu Guoneng and the Li Wanqing department who shot the sky, with about 30,000 people;

Ma Shouying and He Yilong of the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo were stationed in Meng County, with about 50,000 people;

The troops stationed in Wen County were originally the anti-thief Cao Cao Luo Rucai Division, with only more than 20,000 horses, but after Gao Yingxiang led the army to flee to Wen County, there were more than 60,000 people there;

There are many anti-thieves stationed in Jiyuan, and the other small leaders of the thirty-six battalions led by King Zijin Liang are all gathered there, with more than 100,000 people, plus more than 30,000 people under Zhang Xianzhong of Wuzhi, the number of anti-thieves has reached more than 200,000!

Lu Xiangsheng now finally understands why Zhang Bin said that he can't destroy the thieves at this time, as soon as you fight, he will run, and the so-called foot soldiers are nothing to them at all, as long as the main cavalry can run away, it won't be long before they can recruit tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of foot soldiers, and you can't kill them.

It is really "the wildfire burns inexhaustibly, and the spring breeze blows and grows." "Ahh

He also understood at this time, if you want to exterminate these anti-thieves, the only way to completely eliminate their main cavalry, the problem is that there are not only many anti-thief cavalry, but they don't fight with you at all, they generally drive cannon fodder foot soldiers to come up and send them to death, once the situation is not right, they will immediately lead the cavalry to escape, that is really faster than a rabbit, no matter how you can't catch up.

The cavalry against the thieves did not mean that there was no way at all, or they would surround them and lay an ambush on all sides, so that they would have nowhere to escape; Either you have more cavalry than them, bite them to death, keep pursuing, keep pursuing, chase them all the time, chase them have no way to go to the sky, no way to enter the ground!

Obviously, neither of these methods could be implemented now, because he simply did not have so many troops at his hands to surround them, and there were not so many cavalry to chase them around.

Lu Xiangsheng analyzed the situation, and immediately gave up the unrealistic idea of exterminating the anti-thief, combined with the performance of Zheng Wang Zhu Yiduo, he was also full of disgust with these rich and unkind imperial relatives, so he completely chose the strategy set by Zhang Bin, only chased but not surrounded, and let the anti-thief clean up these rich and unkind dog things!

Of course, this time he couldn't let the thieves clean up King Zheng Zhu Yiduo, because the order he received was to come to the rescue of King Zheng Zhu Yiduo, and if King Zheng Zhu Yiduo was finished, he would also be finished.

He decided, as long as the thieves were driven out of Huaiqing Mansion, he would lead the army back to restore his life, and as for other royal relatives, corrupt officials, local tyrants and squires, etc., let them die!

In fact, it is not very easy to drive the rebels out of Huaiqing Mansion, because he has too few available troops, and he can mobilize 30,000 horses at most, while the rebels have more than 200,000 horses, if they are gathered in a city to garrison, then there is really nothing he can do with them.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to let the thieves gather together, otherwise it will be troublesome, he looked at the map, and soon had a plan, and now he is waiting for the Shanxi Tunwei of Zezhou and Yangcheng to arrive.

Zezhou and Yangcheng are actually not far from Huaiqingfu City, if you count the straight-line distance, the two cities are less than 100 miles away from Huaiqingfu City, the problem from Zezhou and Yangcheng must cross the two mountains of Taihang Wangwu, the official road is there, but they are quite difficult to walk, so, Lu Xiangsheng has been waiting for three days, and the Shanxi Tunwei of Zezhou and Yangcheng arrived in Huaiqingfu City one after another.

After the arrival of the 10,000 guards, he immediately sent 3,000 to Xiuwu to exchange defenses with the 5,000 Tianxiong army under Qi Yuanfu, replacing them and preparing to start the next battle.

Although there are only fifty or sixty miles between Huaiqing Fucheng and Xiuwu County, this change of defense requires Shanxi Tunwei to arrive at Qi Yuanfu before he can lead the army to leave, if both sides set off at the same time, it is not called a change of defense, but Xiuwu County is a dangerous place, who knows whether Zhang Xianzhong of Wuzhi will take advantage of Qi Yuanfu to leave, Shanxi Tunwei did not arrive, and directly sent people to occupy Xiuwu County, this kind of thing is not impossible, because Wuzhi is more than 30 miles away from Xiuwu, and he can arrive in Xiuwu before Shanxi Tunwei.

This change of defense took another two days, and when the Tianxiong army gathered, Lu Xiangsheng finally led the army to set off, his target was Hanoi County, which was less than twenty miles away from Huaiqing Mansion City, Wen County, Hanoi, and Huaiqing Mansion City were exactly a straight line, dividing Huaiqing Mansion into two parts, east and west, as long as Hanoi and Wen County were taken, the thieves would be divided into two halves, and it would be very easy to clean up that side at that time.

Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing, who were stationed in Hanoi, were so frightened that they ran away when they heard that the officers and soldiers were coming, because they had a total of 30,000 horses, and according to the spies, there were almost 30,000 officers and soldiers, and they might not be able to do it ten to one, let alone one to one, and they were still a fart, so run away!

They originally wanted to run in the direction of Jiyuan, because there was the main force of the small semi-peasant army led by Wang Ziyong, there were more than 100,000 people, and the more people there were, the safer they felt.

However, as soon as they started to run west, the spies from the west hurriedly ran over to report that the 10,000 elite cavalry of the officers and soldiers had blocked the official road to Jiyuan!

In the past, don't you throw yourself into the net, Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing were so frightened that they turned south directly and ran to Wen County.

At this time, there were more peasant troops in Wen County, and there were more than 90,000 people in Gao Yingxiang's department, Luo Rucai's department, Liu Guoneng department, and Li Wanqingbu.

More than 90,000 people Lu Xiangsheng did not pay attention to it, he directly left 2,000 guards to garrison Hanoi County, and then led 25,000 men and horses to Wen County.

At this time, there were divisions within the peasant army again.

Gao Yingxiang insisted on holding on at the instigation of Li Zicheng, and the main reason for the loss he suffered in Xiuwu last time was that they made a mistake in command, and did not arrange the veterans of a hundred battles to resist on the eastern city wall, and the "new soldiers" were thrown into chaos by the artillery bombardment of the officers and soldiers, and they did not play any role at all.

This time, Li Zicheng made a new move, he not only suggested that Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai cover the northern city wall of Wenxian with veterans, but also suggested that all the cavalry of the Fourth Route Peasant Army should be gathered together, ambushed outside the city, and harassed from both flanks when the officers and soldiers launched an attack, so that the officers and soldiers could not take care of the three sides and could not attack the city with all their might.

Luo Rucai didn't think about holding on or running, he directly sent fast horses to Wang Ziyong, Ma Yingshou and Zhang Xianzhong for help, and asked them to come to help in three ways, surround the officers and soldiers in the north of Wen County, and beat them up, if they are lucky, they can even kill these officers and soldiers, and they will never be troubled!

As for Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing, their proposition is to run, run quickly, hug up and run directly to Jiyuan, to join the main force of the peasant army led by Wang Ziyong, in that case, there will be nearly 200,000 horses, and in the face of more than 20,000 officers and soldiers, they are still defending the city, no matter how much they can defend.

In fact, it stands to reason that Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing's "strategy" is the most correct, and Lu Xiangsheng is afraid that they will gather together to hold on to a city.

It's a pity that Li Zicheng was a little unconvinced by the defeat last time, and he vigorously instigated Gao Yingxiang to do it again, and Luo Rucai also imagined that other peasant armies would cooperate with them to beat up the officers and soldiers, and they were unwilling to run, even if Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing wore out their mouths, it was useless.

Before a result came out here, Lu Xiangsheng had already led 10,000 elite cavalry, 10,000 Tianxiong troops and 5,000 guards to the north of Wenxian County.

This time there were nearly 100,000 horses in the city, and he did not run recklessly to attack, but scattered the men and horses, set up a large camp, and built siege equipment without hurrying.

However, it is a bit strange that his men and horses are scattered, a total of 15,000 foot soldiers, they did not gather together to camp, but let 5,000 tun guards camp in the west of Wen County, blocking the official road from Wen County to Meng County and Jiyuan, and the Tianxiong army camped five miles north of Wen County, manufacturing siege equipment, as for the cavalry, it was directly stationed in the middle of the two foot soldiers!

This posture is clearly to tell Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai that you can run east and join Zhang Xianzhong; You can also run south and go to Kaifeng Mansion to be happy; However, it was not possible to run west to join the main forces of the peasant army!

At this time, the leaders of the peasant army in the city had no time to think about why Lu Xiangsheng wanted to discharge such a strange "big array", after eating the lesson of the last time, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng thought that Lu Xiangsheng would build some cloud ladders and ran over to attack the city, they were desperately strengthening the city defense at this time, and there was still time to think about other things.

Lu Xiangsheng didn't build too many other things this time, but ordered people to build two hundred siege vehicles, as for the ladder or five hundred, no matter how many things are actually useless, because there are so many people under his hands, no one will use it to build more siege equipment.

Two days later, the siege equipment was manufactured, and early on the third morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Lu Xiangsheng ordered the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army and 10,000 elite cavalry to gather together and prepare to attack the city.

This time it was still the same formation as last time, 10,000 Tianxiong troops were preparing to attack the city in front, and 10,000 elite cavalry were lined up on the left and right flanks to cover, but this time there were 200 more siege vehicles nearly eight feet tall in the siege team.

When the time came, Lu Xiangsheng gave an order, and the 20,000 troops came to a mile outside the north gate of Wenxian County without hurrying, set up a formation, and prepared to attack the city.

This time, the siege formation was slightly different from the last siege, the front was still 7,000 foot soldiers, lined up, carrying 500 siege ladders to prepare for the siege, and the back was still 200 tiger squat artillery trucks lined up, ready for fire support, but the middle 2,000 musketeers pushed 200 siege vehicles this time.

Are siege vehicles used to siege cities?

Under normal circumstances, siege vehicles are naturally used to siege cities, but this time, Lu Xiangsheng did not want to use siege vehicles to attack cities.

As soon as the tiger squat artillery truck was set up, Lu Xiangsheng decisively ordered, "Yuanfu, you are still here to command the artillery bombardment, I will command the siege and prepare to open fire!" ”

After Qi Yuanfu experienced the last siege battle, he had already adapted to Lu Xiangsheng's method a little bit, and when he saw that Lu Xiangsheng had already stepped forward, he decisively ordered, "All artillery, load the guns, and prepare to fire." ”

"Click" another neat sound sounded, Li Zicheng on the north gate of Wenxian County heard this voice, and immediately shouted, "Officers and soldiers are about to open fire, hurry, hide." ”

The reason why they suffered heavy casualties last time was that there were too many people on the city wall, and they couldn't hide if they wanted to, and second, the recruits were blowing up the pot and scurrying around, and in order to maintain order, more people were killed by hacking than by shells.

This time, they only arranged 5,000 men and horses on the city wall, and all of them were veterans, Li Zicheng's voice all the veterans immediately shrank under the arrow stack, "boom, boom", a burst of artillery roar sounded, and the city wall only "jingle bells" rang for a while, and no one was injured.

Seeing this, Li Zicheng glanced at the officers and soldiers below proudly, this method was what he came up with, and it really worked.

Lu Xiangsheng didn't care so much, he still raised his arms and shouted, and then took the lead and rushed towards the city wall.

The veterans on the walls here did not need to be commanded, and the archers had already drawn arrows from their quivers, put them on their bows, and were ready to shoot.

After a while, "boom boom" was another burst of artillery roar, and this time there was no need for Li Zicheng to shout, and the veteran soldiers on the city wall reflexively shrank under the arrow battlement, and there were still no casualties.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng had already led the army to rush to about 100 steps away from the city wall, and the old team in charge of the command on the city wall immediately raised his hand and said, "Archer, shoot." ”

"Whoosh", a rain of arrows shot over, Lu Xiangsheng immediately raised his hand and shouted, "Sword and shield hand, raise the shield." ”

This time, the arrows were a bit dense, but there were no casualties among the siege soldiers, because the protection effect of the mandarin duck array against the arrows was quite good, and there were not many arrows that could penetrate the shield array in front and shoot at the back.

Lu Xiangsheng looked at the sparse rain of arrows, roughly estimated the distance, and then shouted again, "Musketeer, get on the siege vehicle, aim and shoot." ”

The two thousand musketeers behind stopped one after another, quickly climbed to the roof of the siege vehicle, and raised their guns to aim at the peasant army on the city wall.

At this time, the casualties of the peasant army were relatively heavy, because the height of the city wall was only one zhang, the height of the siege vehicle was eight feet, and the height of the musketeers standing on it had exceeded the height of the city wall.

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