Chapter 173: Mountain Rain is Coming

In the two battles of Hexi Village and Liujiabao, there were many military tents and equipment captured by the officers and soldiers, and more than 1,500 people were captured by the officers and soldiers alone, and the seizures of various artillery and firearms were as many as hundreds, which was a big victory for the Xingtian Army, but at the same time, because of Zhao Erdonkey's improper command in the battle of Liujiabao, it also caused great losses. Basically no combat effectiveness has been lost.

After the end of this war, Xiao Tianjian took advantage of the situation to lead his troops to the east, and swept away Dadonggou, Chuandi, Lizhai and other places west of Zezhou in one fell swoop, firmly stuck the two main roads from Zezhou to Yangcheng, and no longer worried that Zezhou would enter the Yangcheng territory from here, and also took advantage of the situation to obtain more territory, occupied more than 20 forts, and firmly controlled the eastern part of Yangcheng in the hands of the Xingtian Army.

Luo Li, who stayed in Hexi Village, did not stay honestly, and after a few days of rest in Hexi Village, he became restless again, and after learning that Xiao Tianjian had defeated the official army of Zezhou Yiyi, he immediately sent someone to ask Xiao Tianjian for his life, to lead his troops to attack the territory of Qinshui County, and immediately obtained Xiao Tianjian's consent.

After getting Xiao Tianjian's approval, Luo Li immediately led a sentry general under his command, and gathered a group of township soldiers in the north of the county to cooperate with his actions, and led the troops to send troops from Hexi Village with the power of victory.

In this way, the Shanxi Buzheng Division's use of troops against the Xingtian Army this time can be said to have ended in complete failure, not only did it not expel the Xingtian Army from the territory of Yuanqu County, but even Qinshui County and Zezhou also lost a large piece of territory, so that the control area of the Xingtian Army almost doubled in more than a month, forming a control area with Yangcheng County as the core of about 100 miles.

As for this attack and plundering of the Xingtian Army, because the local people had already heard of the Xingtian Army's style of acting, the vast majority of the people not only did not resist the Xingtian Army under the call of local officials and big households, but under the command of the Xingtian Army, they rose up one after another to kill officials and rebel, and took refuge in the Xingtian Army, not only to report to the Xingtian Army, but also to help the Xingtian Army attack the landlord and gentry's fort, and help the Xingtian Army to transfer materials, so that the speed of the Xingtian Army's progress was very fast.

Moreover, many small groups of poles in Qinshui County, in the face of the attack of the Xingtian Army, either looked down to the wind, or simply packed up and fled to other places, in short, few people dared to provoke the Xingtian Army, so that the situation in the new control area of the Xingtian Army was quickly stabilized.

But after all, there are limits to such raids, and after such an operation, although the Xingtian Army has acquired a large amount of land, in early July, Xiao Tianjian still ordered to stop the operation of continuing the offensive and began to enter the affairs of managing these newly acquired territories.

A few sentinels and horses, after such a continuous month of high-intensity combat, the generals are already exhausted, and casualties are inevitable, and the combat effectiveness has been greatly weakened, although it is not a problem for the sentries and horses to replenish the troops on the spot, but between the mechanism of the Xingtian Army, Xiao Tianjian will not allow such an unauthorized recruitment situation.

So after laying down these positions, Xiao Tianjian ordered that in addition to Yan Chongxi's sentry stationed in Yuanqu County, the remaining four sentries and horses should retreat to Lotus Village for rest, leaving only a small number of township soldiers to garrison.

At the same time, Xiao Tianjian ordered Fu Deming to send his subordinates to the newly occupied area to carry out land reform in the newly acquired area, and after Fu Deming was instructed, he immediately gathered a group of subordinates who were originally in Yangcheng, and each of them was assigned to carry out land reform in these newly acquired territories.

After having the experience of land reform, these people did such a thing again, they were more familiar with the road, after receiving the order, they soon organized people in the local area to carry out the land reform work, originally those belonging to the landlords and gentry, was redivided to the local people to cultivate, but also made these people grateful to the Xingtianjun is the five bodies to the ground, all of them ran to congratulate each other.

When Xiao Tianjian dragged his tired body back to Lotus Village, he couldn't wait to do anything, and slept directly in bed for three days and three nights, in the past few months, he can be said to be more tired than anyone in the army, almost non-stop around Yangcheng, large and small led the army to fight dozens of battles, although now more often there is no need for him to personally go into battle and fight, but more do mental work, every day is thinking about what to do next, what to do, and now it is easy to return home"I really want to just leave nothing at all and rest for a few days.

But this kind of thought can only be thought about, if he really wants to rest, he really can't rest, anyway, this time he still resolved this crisis, and at the same time gained a lot of benefits in this crisis, but also found a lot of problems.

Some time ago, he stationed a few sentinels and horses in various places to guard, although it effectively played a role in protecting the boundary of Yangcheng, this time blocking the official army from attacking Yangcheng at the same time, but it also brought a big problem, that is, the controllable mobile combat force in his hands was greatly weakened, just like a person opening his fist into a slap, and he felt that it was very difficult to deal with such a war.

He knows very well why he has been able to win many battles during this period of time, in addition to the harsh training with his generals for a long time, the opponents they have encountered are still too weak, almost every battle is not a team composed of local village warriors, or the local garrison of the government, the strength of these armies is too poor, so it seems that they are very strong, and he also knows that at this time, the Ming Dynasty has not yet reached the point where the gas is completely exhausted, and the Ming Dynasty still has quite a lot of elite soldiers and horses, It's just that he didn't make a big enough fuss at the moment to provoke the court to pay special attention to him.

And at the moment, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng are the thorns in the eyes of the imperial court, and almost all the attention of the imperial court is focused on them and the Jiannu in the north, if he continues to make trouble like this one day, sooner or later it will attract the attention of the imperial court, once the imperial court mobilizes a large number of elite soldiers to deal with him, with his current strength, it is difficult to stop so many soldiers and horses in the imperial court.

And this time his defeat of the two official armies can be said to have been a lot of trouble, if as expected, the imperial court should also notice his team, as long as he pulls out his hand, he will mobilize a large army to come here to suppress him, so before that, he must be fully prepared to meet the next storm, this is really a mountain rain is coming!

Therefore, unlike the jubilant subordinates, Xiao Tianjian not only did not become complacent because of this successive victory, but became a little worried.

As soon as he returned to the Lotus Village, Xiao Tianjian ordered his soldiers to rest for three days, and he allowed to take out a batch of wine and meat to reward the soldiers of the three armies, and after celebrating the success of the generals and soldiers, he rushed back to his house, stood in front of the map and touched the beard on his chin and began to fall into deep thought.

"Badass! When you come back, in addition to doing things, you're just drilling here yourself, won't you go and see me? The soldiers outside are drinking to celebrate this great victory, and why are you hiding here alone in a daze? Just as Xiao Tianjian was touching his chin and standing in front of the map in contemplation, a woman's disgusting voice sounded behind him.

Xiao Tianjian immediately turned around, and as a result, a pretty figure appeared in his eyes, who else could talk to him like this? It was Fan Yutong who came to his room in person.