Liu Yaoben crossed his waist with his two hands, stood in the tent and said to his subordinates, after listening to Liu Yaoben's words, these young generals were a little ashamed of their panic just now, so they immediately straightened their chests one by one, and their faces also recovered their resolute expressions, and they waited for Liu Yaoben's order one by one.

After seeing the performance of his subordinates, Liu Yaoben's face slowed down, and he nodded with satisfaction: "Since this is the case, then we will do it this time, everyone listens to it......"

Before noon that day, the company commanders all went down to their own companies and began to work nervously, the fortifications built by the original companies in the area of Guandaokou Village were now required by these young generals to increase their subordinates again and strengthen again, and at the same time, the township barracks that followed the training camp were also ordered to cooperate with the training battalion to cut trees, dig ditches, and transport various materials to enhance the ability to defend here.

The new battalion of Lushi County, which was originally stationed in Lushi County, was also transferred half of its strength from the city and rushed to Guandaokou to reinforce the teaching battalion, so that the strength of the Xingtian Army in the area around Guandaokou reached the scale of about 1,700 soldiers and about 1,000 auxiliary soldiers.

Cao Wenyao slowly urged the war horse, looked around the surrounding terrain, and looked at the soldiers and horses passing by him, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, he was ordered to lead his troops out of Shaanxi to enter Henan to suppress bandits this time, which can be regarded as a fat difference, and suddenly Hong Chengchou allocated him four thousand Shaanxi soldiers, these soldiers and horses are basically elite soldiers, after giving him, he has soldiers in his hands, and naturally there will be more opportunities to make a fortune in the future.

And this time the opponent he wants to deal with, before he left Tongguan, he has already sent someone to inquire, at the beginning I heard that even He Renlong and Zuo Guangxian were defeated in their hands, Cao Wenyao was still a little nervous, but after passing Tongguan to Hangu Pass to meet the Henan army in Shaanzhou here, after learning the strength of the thief army in Lushi County from the local official army, the heart was put back in his stomach.

Shaanzhou garrison Yu Fuxiang received an order from Wang Jiazhen one step earlier, so that he cooperated with Cao Wenyao this time, and assisted Cao Wenyao to recover Lushi County from the north of Lushi County, Yu Fuxiang did not dare to slack off, and sent a number of batches of fine disguises to infiltrate Lushi County in advance, to find out the situation of the Xingtian Army in Lushi County, and secretly made preparations for departure in Shaanzhou, in addition to Shaanzhou itself to transfer 4,000 headquarters officers and troops, Luoyang this time Feng Yijun also sent him more than 1,000 soldiers and horses, At the same time, the governor of Shaanzhou also requisitioned 5,000 people to accompany the army in the surrounding areas.

When they learned that Lushi County only had a combat battalion and a newly formed battalion of the Xingtian Army stationed in Lushi County, both Yu Fuxiang and Cao Wenyao were completely relieved.

They had to secretly admire Hong Chengchou's analysis of the situation, and if it was true, the Xingtian Army focused its main efforts on the Yichuan area of Ruyang, and the main force was basically stationed in the area of Ruyang County and the officers and troops under Wang Jiazhen in Ruzhou formed a confrontation, and Chen Bu's troops in Lushi County were indeed limited, which was also in line with Hong Chengchou's intention to recover Lushi County in one fell swoop with superior forces.

So after the two armies of Hangu Pass joined forces, Cao Wenyao immediately supervised the division and began to rush towards Lushi County, although the generals under his command complained that Cao Wenyao was not sympathetic to his subordinates, but they did not dare to say much, after all, this time it was Hong Chengchou who personally ordered them to obey Cao Wenyao's control and enter the suppression of the thieves in western Henan, Cao Wenyao had the power of life and death to them, so this group of officers and soldiers under the supervision of Cao Wenyao traveled in the mountains for two days in a row, and they were actually stunned to drive out of the road for nearly 100 miles. On 6 April, Cao Wenyao led his troops to a position about 10 miles away from Guandaokou Village.

Looking at the large number of officers and soldiers winding and circling on the official road in the mountains, Cao Wenyao couldn't help but be complacent, although he had also heard of the reputation of the Xingtian Army for being good at fighting, but after all, this time there was a huge disparity in the strength of the two sides, and the thief army obviously did not expect that they would send so many soldiers and horses to attack a small Lu County, with the strength of only about 2,000 people in the thief military region, wanting to stop them from recovering the Lu family, in Cao Wenyao's eyes, this is almost a fantasy.

So after arriving here, Cao Wenyao ordered the officers and soldiers to slow down slightly, and after looking at the sky, he ordered the forward men and horses to start camping on the spot, preparing to attack the territory of Lushi County tomorrow.

Along the way, the army kept finding that there were thieves and horses often haunting the officers and soldiers, but Cao Wenyao didn't bother to care about them, after all, more than 10,000 soldiers and horses were marching, and they couldn't hide if they wanted to, not to mention that the enemy situation of the thieves was already clear, no matter how they explored the situation, they couldn't turn the sky upside down!

So Cao Wenyao came here with such a swagger, in his opinion, if the thief will be a person who understands, now it is time to quickly lead the troops to run away, in that case, they estimate that they can still save a life, the province was completely crushed here by him like Mount Tai crushed, and he also spent his strength to attack Lu's county again, as long as he won Lu's county, then this battle is equivalent to pulling out the jackpot, it is a great achievement, and his reward will definitely be indispensable to his recounting merit.

At this time, a fast horse rushed to Cao Wenyao's approach, was stopped by the family and dismounted, walked quickly in front of Cao Wenyao, and said loudly to Cao Wenyao: "General Cao, ten miles ahead is the official road crossing, the thief army has blocked our way at the official road crossing, and built a lot of pass walls to resist horses and deer in the area of the official road crossing!" ”

"Oh? What is the strength of the thief army? Cao Wenyao immediately asked about this night who came to report the news.

"Please forgive me, the thief army has many checkpoints in the area of the official road crossing, and the small ones can't get close to investigate, and a few brothers have been damaged for this, the specific strength of the thief army has not yet been clarified, but according to the villain, the thief army is not much, and some of them should be homeless people on the spot, and the total strength will not exceed three thousand at most!" I didn't accept it this night and didn't talk nonsense, and replied to Cao Wenyao truthfully.

Cao Wenyao waved his hand and said, "Let's go down!" Reward him with five taels of silver! Revisit! ”

"Thank you, sir!" If I didn't listen to it this night, I immediately smiled on my face, and quickly knelt down to thank Cao Wenyao, and then got up and followed Cao Wenyao's family to receive the reward and leave to explore again.

Cao Wenyao rubbed his face, straightened his beard, sneered and said to Yu Fuxiang who came over: "I didn't expect Yu Garrison, this thief army still didn't escape when he heard that our army was pressing, and it seems that he plans to intercept us from entering the Lu clan in the area of the official road crossing!" What do you think? ”

This Yu Fuxiang frowned and grabbed the reins of the horse and replied: "Lord Qiyu, this thief army is said to be very brave and good at fighting, and he rarely met opponents when he was in Shanxi earlier, so he must have led the thief general to be a fierce general!" They don't retreat, they must just want to stop us in the area of the official road crossing, and wait for the main force of his thief army to return to help here! ”

Cao Wenyao nodded and said: "What Yu Garrison said is right, this official has also heard a lot of news about this thief army, and they are indeed the fierce enemies of the current imperial court!" In the past, all over the country did not pay much attention to the surname Xiao's fang, and actually let this fang sit big in Shanxi, but now it is good, let this fang run to your Henan territory as a disaster, but unfortunately you Henan will not be much, so that this fang is so big in western Henan! ”

Cao Wenyao's words looked down on these generals sitting in Henan, although Yu Fuxiang was unhappy after hearing it, but there was no way, after all, this Cao Wenyao has his arrogant capital, his brother Cao Wenzhao is known as the first fierce general of the Ming Dynasty, he followed Cao Wenzhao and really fought a lot of big battles, his nephew Cao Bianjiao is known as General Cao, and Cao Wenzhao is called General Cao, which makes many thieves frightened, as the Cao family, Cao Wenyao looks down on their Henan generals, and it is understandable.

So Yu Fuxiang laughed dryly and said: "What Lord Cao said is reasonable, but this fang went south into Henan, it was really unexpected, I thought that this fang just wanted to be based in Shanxi, but I didn't expect him to suddenly lead his troops to cross the river to the south a year ago, so that we people didn't expect it at all, and this fang was very fierce, not only forcibly took Yongning and other counties, but even the Guanning army under the command of General Cao's colleague Lord Zu was also defeated in his hands, I really didn't expect it!" ”

After Cao Wenyao listened to Yu Fuxiang's words, he was a little panicked in his heart, he and his brother Cao Wenzhao and nephew Cao Bianjiao were also from the Guan Ning Army, and he just satirized Yu Fuxiang and their Henan guards for being incompetent, but he immediately fought back, saying that even Zu Kuan was defeated by the thieves, in fact, it clearly means that they Henan guards will not succeed, and it is not necessarily that his surname Cao is stronger than their Henan guards.

So Cao Wenyao sneered and said, "That official wants to see the power of this thief army!" Let's see how many heads they have grown enough to cut off the official! Well, that's all for today! I'm tired of guarding you to go down and arrange the camp, have a good night's rest today, and tomorrow I will take troops to the official road entrance to see the power of this thief army! Hum! ”

After hearing this, Yu Fuxiang immediately hugged his fists and said: "Obey orders!" I'm going to arrange for camping and resting! Please wait a moment! ”

Cao Wenyao waved his hand and said, "Please be on guard!" ”

Yu Fuxiang rushed to the front of the team, turned his head to look at Cao Wenyao, who was stationed in the center of the army, and sneered: "What kind of stinky shelf for Lao Tzu, no matter how powerful your brother is, won't he die in the hands of the thieves?" Hum! If it weren't for Lao Tzu leading his troops to cooperate with you this time, these Qin soldiers you brought would not necessarily be the opponent of the thief army! In front of Lao Tzu, what kind of big clove of garlic to pretend, I want to see if your surname Cao is really as powerful as rumored! This army of thieves is not easy to meet! Lao Tzu doesn't believe that you can be more powerful than Zukuan, where are they! Hum! You just go crazy first! There you have a good look! ……”

(Then who said I was a Ku Klux Klan!) I don't think 2,000 words in my chapter is a lot! ）