When Xiao Tianjian was sitting outside Xiangyang City to attack Xiangyang, Liu Yaoben and Lao Huihui also led more than 5,000 soldiers and horses and rushed to the bank of the Tang River to block He Renlong's way.

He Renlong led more than 10,000 horses and horses from Yunyang to try to cross the Tang River to Zaoyang to help in the battle, and the two armies came into contact on the bank of the Tang River, and then a major battle began.

According to his experience in fighting with the Xingtian Army, he brought a lot of heavy shields, with the cart in front and the heavy shield behind, and then arranged a large number of archers and musketeers behind the cart, and even the javelins were prepared, while bombarding with artillery, the support soldiers would launch an attack on the defense line of the Xingtian Army, and on the other hand, he also sent his only cavalry to try to attack the Xingtian Army from the flank, trying to disrupt the flank of Liu Yao's department.

The officers and soldiers were also promised a heavy reward by He Renlong before they set off, and most of them decided to fight to the death this time, so at the beginning of the battle, the offensive of He Renlong's department was very fierce, and he actually broke through the defense line of a battalion under Liu Yaoben, forcing Liu Yaoben and Lao Huihui to retreat some distance.

The short-lived victory immediately aroused the morale of He Renlong's subordinates, and in their opinion, the tactics they applied this time were effective, and they could not really win a battle.

So He Renlong personally supervised the army, and after a short rest, he began to launch a second attack on Liu Yaoben, trying to break through their defense line and cross the Tang River to Zaoyang.

Liu Yaoben's expression was grim, but there was a subtle mocking smile on the corner of his mouth, standing tall in the army, looking at He Renlong's soldiers and horses advancing like a tide.

Lao Hui asked Liu Yaoben a little nervously: "Major General Liu, He Renlong is crazy, he is really desperate!" ”

Liu Yaoben looked at the old man who looked a little nervous, turned his head to look at Tang He, who was not far from them, and smiled with a slow face: "Don't be nervous, the two armies are fighting, it is impossible not to be a little frustrated!" The commander has a saying that if you want the enemy to perish, you must first make them crazy! Just let them win a small victory, now is the time to teach them a lesson! Don't worry, once the enemy army collapses in a while, there will be a deputy commander of Rauma who will work hard to cover up the killing! It's best to be able to catch He Renlong's guy back! This guy has been in trouble with us a lot over the years! ”

Ma Shouying looked at the young Liu Yaoben, with a confident look, and sighed in his heart, Xiao Tianjian's ability to educate people, how did he get so many young and promising juniors, and then look at the generals in the Guards Division, one by one is young, but they all seem to be very old and serious, and they don't see a trace of panic when they fight, and they have to say that they have received a lot of righteous sons, but compared with the descendants of this group of Xingtian Army, the righteous sons they received are at best crazy and rush forward to kill, Either they cut down others, or they were cut down by others, where are there a few characters like Liu Yaoben and them!

Most of the generals of the entire Guards Division were born as children in the original youth battalion, and they have gradually grown up over the years, and have entered the army, and some of them have entered the civil servant system, these young officers are full of vitality, and they are all loyal to Xiao Tianjian, and they have also undergone rigorous military training, and have received a more systematic military education, so after joining the army, all of them are qualified low-level officers, and Liu Yaoben is a child soldier who entered the army relatively early, in the years of following Xiao Tianjian in the southern and northern wars, one by one has also been trained, and has grown into senior officers, and each can be said to be able to take charge on its own.

Just now, it seemed that He Renlong had taken a little advantage and broke through the first line of defense set by Liu Yaoben, but in essence, Liu Yaoben's losses were very small, and he took the initiative to give up the defense line, retreat and join the main force behind, Liu Yao wanted to make He Renlong think that he had the possibility of winning, this time he had to give He Renlong a big lesson, as much as possible to leave most of He Renlong's men and horses here, and they would fight against the Xingtian Army in the future.

And He Renlong didn't know that there was a fake, and he thought that his dispatch was effective against the Xingtian Army, so he was bold, and transferred a large number of elites to the front, taking over the first wave of attacking generals, and planning to defeat the men and horses of the Xingtian Army in one go, if he could defeat the soldiers and horses of the Xingtian Army, even if he didn't have time to reach Zaoyang, this would be a great achievement, and in the past two or three years, who among the officers and troops of the imperial court had defeated the Xingtian Army in the field? So with this battle alone, he can laugh at the world, and this thief general is none other than him.

When a large number of officers and soldiers pushed the carts and cautiously attacked the large array of the Xingtian Army, a large number of officers and soldiers followed, staring at each other, with a nervous face, and involuntarily clenched the weapons in their hands, just waiting to go up and fight.

However, when their carriage advanced to more than 70 steps away from the Xingtian Army, there was a sudden violent explosion on the line of the carriage, and a large number of carriages were suddenly blown apart in this explosion, and the stumps and broken arms of the auxiliaries who pushed the carriage flew into the air with a bang, and with this explosion one after another, the ground also shook, so that the officers and soldiers thoroughly understood what it means to shake the ground, and many people were so frightened that they fell to the ground on the spot. Many people cried and shouted for their mothers to turn around and run.

It turned out that Liu Yaoben saw He Renlong's arrangement of troops, and saw that He Renlong's army had launched a large number of carts, so he guessed what He Renlong's idea was, so he had an idea and decided to give He Renlong a yin play, so he mobilized his troops and set up two defense lines on the west bank of the Tang River, and then immediately ordered the army engineer team to take out the mines carried by the generals, and lay a mine belt between the two defense lines.

And because of the cover of the first line of defense, He Renlong's side could not observe these small actions made by Liu Yaoben, after the battle, when he broke through the first line of defense of the Xingtian Army and forced the Xingtian Army to retreat, he mistakenly thought that their tactics were effective, and under the great morale, the whole army pressed up, trying to drive the Xingtian Army into the Tang River behind him.

But before they could do it, just after they launched another offensive, Liu Yaoben saw a large number of oars entering the mine belt, and immediately ordered the mines to be detonated.

Although the power of the mine at this time was not too great because of the black powder, but when it was made by the Xingtian Army, it was very large, and the charge of each mine weighed more than ten catties, and there were a lot of broken porcelain pieces or broken iron pieces and other things on the mine, once it exploded, the power was not much smaller than the anti-tank mines of later generations, not to mention that the explosion of these wooden oars was like a play, and it tore the entire line of the official army and the defense line of the official army into pieces.

The officers and soldiers were counting on to use these oars to resist the sharp firearms of the Xingtian Army, and once the defense line was torn apart, a large number of officers and troops behind were exposed to the direct fire of the Xingtian Army.

Without Liu Yaoben's personal order, the battalion commanders of each battalion began to direct the musketeers to fire, and they no longer let the pikemen line up, but ordered all the musketeers to line up in front of the formation and began to fire in rotation at the opposing officers and soldiers in the form of three strikes.

With the sound of rows of dense firecrackers, the officers and soldiers were out of luck, and the dense array of officers and soldiers happened to become the target of excellent platoon shooting, and a large number of officers and soldiers were like being cut rice, and one row after another was knocked to the ground, and the miserable howls filled everyone's ears.

Lao Hui looked at the tragic scene of the officers and soldiers on the battlefield, and couldn't help but want to close his eyes, where is there still a war! It's a one-sided massacre! I've never seen anyone so vicious, and this volley of fire from the Heavenly Army is really too powerful!

When He Renlong heard a series of explosions in front of him, he felt that something was wrong, and quickly ordered to stop the attack, but without his command, the officers and soldiers under his command had already automatically begun to rout, and countless frightened officers and soldiers, you pushed me and scrambled to flee to the back, but the firecrackers of the Xingtian Army continued to fire at their backs, and continued to knock them to the ground in rows, which aggravated their confusion.

Originally, He Renlong was determined to drive the Xingtian army into the river this time, and there were many reserves behind the attacking soldiers and horses, ready to press up at any time, but the officers and troops in front of them retreated too quickly, and they rushed into the queue behind, and more than 10,000 people collided together on a wide area of several miles, and it was immediately chaotic.

Liu Yaoben looked at the soldiers and horses of He Renlong's subordinates who fled in embarrassment, turned his head and said to Ma Shouying, who was looking stunned: "Deputy General Ma, there will be you next!" ”

Ma Shou should be a young general who Liu Yaoben admires now is a five-body throw, and he doesn't feel that there is anything wrong with being called by Liu Yaoben, so he hugged his fists and said: "Obey!" After that, he turned over his horse, raised his machete to the sky, and yelled, "Kill ...... with me."

Two thousand soldiers and generals who originally belonged to Ma Shouying, after hearing Ma Shouying's roar, raised their knives and guns together, screamed excitedly, and Sa Yazi followed Ma Shouying and galloped out......

(Chapter 6 is presented!) Hurry up and eat, keep dry, and have a chapter in the evening to catch your breath! ）