After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, everyone couldn't help but be a little surprised, they didn't expect Xiao Tianjian to suddenly change the kind of generosity towards other rebels in the past, this time he was so unkind to Zhang Xianzhong, because of this incident, he was about to destroy Zhang Xianzhong, and the smarter people immediately understood that Xiao Tianjian was simply using this incident to play on the topic, and wanted to take this opportunity to kill Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai was even more chilled behind him after hearing it, and fortunately he voted for Xiao Tianjian earlier, Later, he loyally followed Xiao Tianjian to do things, otherwise God knows what fate he would have ended up with.

This Xiao Tianjian seems to be generous on the surface, but in fact, his heart is not as good as he imagined, and now that his strength is full, his cold nature is revealed.

However, in the eyes of others, Xiao Tianjian doesn't seem to be as deep as Luo Rucai thinks, at least in Li Xin's opinion, Xiao Tianjian seems to think more deeply about some things, Xiao Tianjian is actually right to do this, at this time, everyone has already seen that Xiao Tianjian already has the strength to win the world, and since Zhang Xianzhong refuses to be attached, then Xiao Tianjian regards him as an enemy, in fact, there is nothing wrong, not to mention that this time the matter is wrong with Zhang Xianzhong, who let him indulge his subordinates to kill the people of the Heavenly Army? This annoyed Xiao Tianjian and wanted to take revenge on him, no wonder Xiao Tianjian had anything.

After hearing this, the generals nodded their heads and said yes, and one by one they immediately cheered up and asked for battle to clean up Zhang Xianzhong.

Xiao Tianjian raised his hand to stop the generals, stood up and walked to the side of the map and looked at it carefully, then sneered: "Since you want to fight, then this time you can't just defeat Zhang Xianzhong!" What I want is to get rid of them all, Zhang Xianzhong will either die, or I will capture him alive, in short, I can't leave him! Li Xin, your staff department should study how to fight this battle!

There are two requirements, one is that this battle must be fought hard and fast, and it cannot be delayed, and the other is to completely solve him! Let's go down and prepare! ……”

Zhang Xianzhong couldn't have dreamed that just because his subordinates attacked and killed more than 20 subordinates of the Xingtian Army in Nanzhang County without authorization, it would cause Xiao Tianjian to retaliate so violently, so after Zuo Liangyu heard that Xiangyang City was conquered by the Xingtian Army and withdrew his troops from Baokang, Zhang Xianzhong did not have any preparation, so he once again waved his army into Baokang County, swaggered to occupy Baokang County again, and sent 3,000 men and horses to enter the territory of Nanzhang County to continue their grain business.

As everyone knows, at this time, the Xingtian Army has begun to move in secret, and gradually laid a big net for him around Baokang County, just waiting for Zhang Xianzhong to enter the urn.

This time to deal with Zhang Xianzhong, Xiao Tianjian did not use too many troops, on the surface, his main force of soldiers and horses, or Chen stationed in the Xiangyang area to rest, only secretly mobilized Liu Yaoben, Li Xuanzhu under the command of the four battalions that are good at fighting in the mountains, plus Lin Luo's scout brigade and other more than 5,000 generals, secretly left Xiangyang at night in batches, sneaked into the territory of Baokang County, under the leadership of local guides, specially selected some inaccessible roads to march, and Lin Luo's scout brigade is responsible for contacting these troops, Coordinate them in the center to avoid omissions, and Li Xin personally followed Lin Luo this time to be responsible for the overall command of this operation, and finally several teams gradually surrounded the Houping Belt in the south of Baokang County in the middle.

As for the operation of the Xingtian Army, even many officers of the Xingtian Army who had not been mobilized did not know about it, and only the senior officers above the battalion general level knew a little about it, so the secrecy work was done quite well, so that Zhang Xianzhong's people were not aware of the Xingtian Army's action at all.

On the contrary, Xiao Tianjian ordered that a group of men and horses who had already captured Nanzhang County evacuate Nanzhang County, made a move to gather soldiers and horses to go south along the Han River, and also sent a large number of soldiers and horses to search for ships that could transport troops along the Han River and Tangbai River, and made great preparations for the southward attack on Jingzhou.

Zhang Xianzhong in Baokang County also sent a lot of fine works, to Xiangyang area to inquire about the news, when he learned that the Xingtian Army had abandoned Nanzhang County, and in a big fanfare to make preparations to attack Jingzhou in the south, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, he was afraid that the Xingtian Army would not leave, come to him for trouble, now it seems that this worry is superfluous, so he immediately Li Dingguo and others, led thousands of men and horses to immediately stationed in Nanzhang County, and began to look for food for them in the Nanzhang County area.

After all, Zhang Xianzhong spent a lot of money to bribe the officials of the Ming Dynasty during this period of lurking in Gucheng, only relying on the land of Gucheng and a county, the food accumulated in the past year was very limited, and after the recovery, he quickly pulled up tens of thousands of horses, so many centaurs ate horses and chewed horses, and his little stored grain was not enough to eat, so he originally wanted to attack Xiangyang, trying to get a large amount of grain and grass from Xiangyang to meet the needs of his soldiers and horses.

Li Dingguo mentioned to him in this regard that even if he did not belong to the Xingtian Army, he might as well agree to join forces with the Xingtian Army on the surface, go south to Jingzhou together, and cooperate with the Xingtian Army to attack Jingzhou, so that they could solve the food problem in Jingzhou, but Pan Duao, the military division, did not know what the considerations were, and opposed Li Dingguo's suggestion, believing that they would first occupy Gucheng, Baokang, Nanzhang, Fangshan and other places in the northwest of Huguang, and they could completely follow the practice of the Xingtian Army, and train troops while stockpiling grain. If the Xingtian army captures Huguang, they can go south from this area, go to Xingshan to fight Badong, and then enter Sichuan from Badong, as long as they occupy Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong can still sit on the ground and claim the king, not necessarily in the future can not compete with Xiao Xingtian to seek the world.

Therefore, Pan Duao's opinion was very much in line with Zhang Xianzhong's appetite, so that Xiao Tianjian's various support for Zhang Xianzhong at the beginning had long been left behind by Zhang Xianzhong, and he was bent on being self-reliant and could not have anything to do with Xingtianjun, at this point, Zhang Xianzhong's ambition was completely demonstrated.

In addition, it is precisely because of this that Zhang Xianzhong learned about Luo Rucai's current situation, and also learned that the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution has also been divided and absorbed by Xiao Tianjian under his command, for fear that one day he will get too close to the Xingtianjun and be accidentally swallowed by Xiao Tianjian, so he would rather choose to adopt a hostile attitude towards the Xingtianjun than have anything to do with Xiao Tianjian at this time.

And Zhang Xianzhong's situation is different from Xiao Tianjian, Xiao Tianjian has already had a large and stable base for so many years, and he will prepare a relatively sufficient supply of grain and grass for each battle, and the Xingtian army has strong combat effectiveness, and there are few misses in the siege, so where he passes, he can often rely on capturing a large number of large landlords' forts and recovering the grain they hide, so as to support the consumption of the army. These grains were originally gradually accumulated by the imperial court to Xiangyang, as materials for the soldiers and horses in the Huguang area to go north to conquer Henan, and now they are cheaply given to the Xingtian Army, so the Xingtian Army gathered tens of thousands of horses in Xiangyang City, and there is no problem with people eating and chewing horses, and the life is quite comfortable.

But Zhang Xianzhong didn't do it, he said that there were tens of thousands of horses, but he didn't dare to gather tens of thousands of people together, so that he couldn't make up the food consumed every day, and Baokang and other counties could grab what they could rob, plus this is basically a mountainous area, the fertile land is small, and the population is small, so in order to solve the problem of eating for his subordinates, he had to disperse the people and horses as much as possible, and only gather them when they were engaged in large-scale operations, and let his soldiers and horses loot food everywhere on their own. to meet their needs.

Therefore, after Zhang Xianzhong reoccupied Baokang County, he saw that the county seat had been destroyed by Zuo Liangyu's men and horses, so he placed his Chinese army in the area of Houping south of Baokang County, where only more than 2,000 elite soldiers under his command were concentrated, so that it was convenient to solve their problem of eating.

However, Zhang Xianzhong's arrangements fell under Xiao Tianjian's control, and when he decided to retaliate against Zhang Xianzhong, he sent a large number of meticulous works and scouts to infiltrate the area of Baokang and Fangshan, and basically explored Zhang Xianzhong's arrangement, which also provided an opportunity for them to arrange a surprise attack on Zhang Xianzhong's Chinese army camp.

At the beginning of June, in the mountains of Baokang, the night is still quite cool, but there are more mosquitoes, as long as these blood-sucking things smell the smell of people and animals, they will immediately pounce on them, sucking blood to their heart's content, making people itch unbearably.

But in the several ravines around the back lawn, there are a large number of soldiers lurking in the dark, who have been silently resting with their eyes closed, and the nasty mosquitoes are constantly buzzing around them, and everyone's exposed skin is full of bites and pimples, and occasionally someone will gently slap it, but it does not make too much noise, but most people have to scratch their ears and cheeks, and only a few people with big nerves sleep with their eyes closed, and they are not disturbed by these mosquitoes at all.

And not too far away from them, from time to time there will be noisy human voices, including the cries of women, the wild laughter of men, and the sound of drinking and fists, all of which came from Zhang Xianzhong's camp.

Although Zhang Xianzhong's military discipline is not as corrupt as the officers and soldiers under Zuo Liangyu, it is not much better, the women they snatched out of the rich families are all taken in the army for their soldiers to play with, and it is never forbidden to drink, so at night, the camp is chaotic enough.

But they never imagined that around them, there would be groups of men and horses gathering towards them, and all the roads in front and behind them had been cut off, and even some of the soldiers and generals who sent patrols in Zhang Xianzhong's camp were also overturned one by one by the scouts of the Xingtian Army, and there were more scouts who were approaching Zhang Xianzhong's camp and pulling out some of the open and dark posts one by one.

(Today's reward is really powerful, many of them are new friends, and I am very excited!) Special thanks to the Spicy Grim Reaper, acmuser, Caotang Cricket, Night Visit to the River, Luke 123, Hover99, Wind Mu Chunjiang, and Dream Watchman, thank you very much! ）