Hearing the report of the Ming cavalry who came to him, Li Guo sighed, he knew that He Tengjiao, a coward, had escaped a catastrophe, and because he launched an attack on the Huaxia army, the enemy transferred back the troops attacking him.

Now that the enemy has sufficient troops and is surrounded on all sides, I am afraid that this battle will not be easy to fight.

Now he can still get rid of the enemy's encirclement and suppression through some terrain, and escape back and forth on both sides of Chen Youzheng and Dashun's loyal camp, and so on in a few days, the enemy's encirclement is formed, and Chen Youzheng can't run away, he can run back and forth between the two terrains, and there is no meaning, as long as the enemy surrounds the two of them, the loyal camp will not be able to hold on in the end.

The strength of the loyal battalion is too much, the grain and grass are too little, this is the bottleneck that restricts the development of the loyal battalion, the original number of troops is the advantage of the loyal battalion, anyone who hears so many troops, is not frightened, do not dare to attack, or do not delay time, mobilize more troops to attack, this gives themselves a calm arrangement, escape time, now the Chinese army is surrounded on all sides, but not besieged, the purpose of the fight is to starve the loyal battalion.

"Someone, go and reply to General Gao, ask him to mobilize 10,000 combatable soldiers, plus 100,000 people, send them to Chen Youzheng, and give them to him for command." Li Guo's eyes were as sharp as eagle's eyes, staring at the fields in the distance, and shouted loudly.

As soon as the generals heard him, they knew his purpose, threw the burden to the friendly army Chen Youzheng, and asked the friendly army to support the 100,000 coerced people for him, and at the same time use 10,000 combatable soldiers to sweeten the enemy, so that the enemy would not refuse.

Chen Youzheng's total strength is only a little more than 10,000, and with these 110,000 troops, he will have extra troops whether he is defending the city or attacking, which will create more trouble for the Huaxia army and relieve the pressure on the side of the loyal battalion.

At night, Zhang Qiang's war eagle had been patrolling the battlefield for several hours, checking around Jingzhou Mansion and returning home.

A few days later, the various troops were mobilized in place, and he also collected a lot of information about the loyal battalion and Chen Youzheng's anti-party army, and asked the attendants in the attendant room to write out this information, and then sent it to all troops, and each unit knew the enemy's troop deployment, and even how many troops were guarded.

Coupled with the continuous infiltration of the intelligence officers of the Military Intelligence Department, the news was transmitted back that the scout cavalry had been reconnoitring the enemy's movements for several days, and there was no secret between the loyal battalion and the anti-Japanese army.

Li Guo once again led his elite cavalry to run around, attacking the scout cavalry, robbing the baggage troops transporting grain, with the contraction of the Huaxia army, he returned many times in vain, in the face of the counterattack of the Huaxia army, the baggage troops also increased musketeers and artillery, as well as the militia's bows and arrows, broadswords, spears, shields, and his cavalry also lost a lot.

Li Guo found that the enemy seemed to know where he came from, and could always send troops to wait for him at his destination, whether it was an infantry attack or a cavalry sneak attack, the enemy always knew his purpose one step ahead, and increased his troops in the corresponding places.

This made him very distressed, so he had to restrain himself and lead his troops back to Jingzhou Mansion.

A few days later, the enemy completely cut off their contact with Chen Youzheng's army, closed the road, and a force of 2,000 cavalry and 10,000 militiamen completely blocked their passage to Chen Youzheng's army.

After a few more days, the enemy's various units began to compress their space for maneuver, and slowly mobilized their forces to the border of Jingzhou Prefecture, surrounded on all sides.

In the northwest there is most of Merlinfish's 21st Field Brigade, in the west there is the 24th Field Brigade, and there is an enemy garrison regiment, plus tens of thousands of newly formed militia and converted captive troops, in the south there is the enemy's 19th Field Brigade, in the east there is the enemy's 20th Field Brigade, and in the north there is the enemy's cavalry brigade and militia troops blockade.

Fortunately, during this period, they successfully broke through the weak point of the enemy's forces, and sent 100,000 civilians and 10,000 soldiers to Chen Youzheng, hoping that they could defeat the enemy's 7th Field Brigade, and then wave their troops to rescue their loyal battalion.

To say that the loyal battalion is not without strength, 300,000 troops, even if they are distributed to Chen Youzheng's 100,000 troops, 10,000 combatable soldiers, there are also 200,000 troops, including more than 500 elite veterans who followed the Dashun army to fight in the south and north, more than 1,000 veterans of the Ming army who joined later, and more than 10,000 Han veterans of the Qing army who were converted from captives.

These five hundred veterans of the Dashun Army's most loyal are now at least a hundred generals, and the highest is already a general of a single army, and many veterans of the Ming Army who joined later also followed the loyal battalion of the Dashun Army to share weal and woe, and are more loyal to the loyal battalion, and it can be said that they are also the backbone of the Dashun Army.

These more than 1,500 troops are the backbone officers who support the 20,000 elite soldiers of the loyal battalion of him and Gao Yigong and other generals of the Dashun army, and under his hands are more than 10,000 veterans of the Han army banner, these veterans of the Han army banner have followed them to fight in the north and south, in Henan Prefecture, Hubei Prefecture, Huguang, and even the soldiers in Shaanxi and Gansu, at least they will not defect to the Qing army before the war.

In addition to the elite veterans of the 20,000 elites, there are also 30,000 Ming army, Qing army, and rebel army soldiers who took refuge in Hubei Prefecture and Huguangzhou, all of whom have seen blood and can fight, although they belong to several different factions, but they are also soldiers and generals who can be driven in wartime, and they can be regarded as soldiers of the loyal battalion.

In addition, Li Guo himself also has a cavalry unit that has followed him to fight in the north and south, and has fought fiercely with the Qing army and the Southern Ming army, about 1,000 people, where there are 500 cavalry in Gao Yigong, and there are 1,000 cavalry where other generals will gather together, and then select some soldiers who can ride horses from the troops, forming 3,000 usable cavalry, these cavalry have made a lot of contributions to the sneak attack on the baggage troops and scout troops of the Huaxia Army.

In other words, there are at least 63,000 soldiers in the loyal battalion this time, all of whom are veterans who have experienced the tempering of war, and their strength is much stronger than Chen Youzheng.

These people are good at sneak attacks, sports warfare, and wandering operations, if they are placed in a place with complex terrain and given a wide space, the 300,000 Ming troops may not be able to beat them, and it can be said that they are more powerful than Li Zicheng's troops in history.

But now Li Guo is a little regretful, he knew that the Huaxia Army had adopted such a method, he would have let the 60,000 troops go to fight in exile, and he would not fight with the enemy, this is all to blame for that He Tengjiao, with some materials and weapons and armor, plus the order of the imperial court, he threw him here, and let himself block the Huaxia Army for him.

This old fox is still as cunning as before, always driving his own people to fight the enemy, fighting the Qing army, fighting the Huaxia army, his Ming army always runs and runs, and rarely comes into contact with the Qing army or other forces head-on, and the contact is also knowing that the enemy is weak, and then he pounces on it to fight, and always grabs his own credit.

(End of chapter)