On 26 November, two days had passed since Li Wen led his army to break through the first line of defense against Liuba, but in the past two days, he still made no progress, and after breaking through the hill defense area, he stopped in front of Deng Zilong's second line of defense.

Deng Zilong set up the second line of defense on a narrow passage in the form of a camp, and if he wanted to attack Liuba, he had to pass through this passage.

Deng Zilong arranged a large number of artillery here, and even placed two Hongyi cannons here, including a large number of gunners, as well as two hundred rifled guns, planning to build this place into a cemetery for Li Wen's department.

Li Wen racked his brains to think about a strategy to break the enemy, but found that he had no choice, whether it was a strong attack or a sneak attack, it didn't work, and he was defended by Deng Zilong, not to mention that Deng Zilong's firearms were far above him, and his combat effectiveness could also be tough with them.

The most difficult thing is that the weather is getting colder and colder, the water surface is already frozen, and his expectation of helping to transport grain and grass through this section of the water has also been shattered, of course, he is more worried about Du Tong's department.

That group of people and horses took the Qishan Ancient Road, which is a road that makes extensive use of water, and now that the river is frozen, how should they move forward and how to transport grain?

The grain road is their lifeline, and if the food can't keep up, it's more terrible than anything else.

They are staying here now, and it is not so difficult to deliver food, but if they continue to move forward, it will be even more difficult to deliver food.

At the moment, there has been no food delivered for seven days, and according to the rules he set, each wave of food will be delivered to the front line at the latest seven days, but now, it has not arrived.

He couldn't help but worry about whether something was going on in the rear, if the food was cut off, he only had three days of food in his hands, where could he support it?

The progress is not smooth, the follow-up is weak, and Li Wen is even worried that his men and horses will all starve to death here.

The attack of the thousand-man team an hour ago was beaten back.

The number of Furlong guns on the other side is far beyond imagination, and the number of bird guns is far beyond imagination, and the army has not yet come close to close combat before they are beaten into a river of blood and corpses, and the bird guns and bows and crossbows on their side cannot fight against them at all, and they are defeated after a few rounds of fighting, and I don't know how they trained.

Not to mention the two very terrifying Hongyi cannons, he had never heard of them, they could actually hit two miles, although they were only solid projectiles, but he knew very well how lethal they were to the dense phalanx.

But at present, the army has no combat effectiveness if it does not form an army formation, but this Hongyi cannon can pull out a bloody path as soon as it is shot, and the army will collapse after a few times, and it is very afraid of the cannon, and there is no attack at all.

Li Wen was extremely worried.

What made him even more annoyed was that there was still no news from Li Ruzhang's department, and there was no more sound of fighting from the Liuba defense line, which made him sure that Li Ruzhang's department had not fought with the Zhennan army in Liuba at all, and it was not certain whether it had even reached the front line.

He began to suspect that Li Ruzhang had different intentions, he suspected that Li Ruzhang did not plan to fight Xiao Ruxun at all, but planned to wait and see, and wait for the result, maybe not only Li Ruzhang, but even Du Tong thought the same, Du Tong still had the praise paintings he sent to be the supervisor, but Li Ruzhang did not.

On Li Ruzhang's side, only Shaanxi Governor Liu Guangguo can supervise, but the two are not subordinate to each other, if Li Ruzhang does not respect the order, Liu Guangguo will not take him, and the power to punish him is in his own hands and in the hands of Governor Yansui.

Li Wen began to regret that his preparation was not thorough, and he actually believed in the discipline and sense of mission of the general.

It's a good thing that I'm trapped here, let alone marching, and I can't even communicate with the other two armies.

Once the food is exhausted and there is no enterprising strength, it is waiting for death.

Unless you can take the Liuba, and then follow the Liuba to find Li Ruzhang's department, only in this way can there be a turnaround.

Li Wen became more and more convinced that only by taking Liuba could there be a turnaround.

In fact, Deng Zilong didn't plan to hold out in Liuba for a long time at first, but just planned to retreat after delaying a wave, stretching Li Wen's supply line, and letting Li Wen suffer for himself, but after this period of fighting, he suddenly found that he overestimated Li Wen's combat effectiveness.

Not only that, but he also overestimated the coordinated combat ability of the Ming army in Guanzhong, saying that it was a three-way march, but until now, except for Li Wen's department, he has not seen any trace of Li Ruzhang's side, and he feels that Li Ruzhang's department is simply like disappearing in the praise slope, and the soldiers and horses on the Qishan Ancient Road under the command of Du Tong have not fought with Liu Wei so far, and Liu Wei is a little irritable in Luoyang County.

Will they fight or not? Put on a posture of Mount Tai pressing the top, and as a result, there are two or three kittens?

If Deng Zilong hadn't taken the initiative to retreat, it is estimated that Li Wen and they would not have been able to break through those hills until now, and the thousand-man team that was beaten by them an hour ago fled back to death, and even the supervising team couldn't control it.

Deng Zilong asked his deputy Li Xia to discuss it, and felt that there was a reason why Li Ruzhang didn't come, probably because he wanted to wait and see, there were too many situations he had seen along the way, Li Wen could still be forced to drive, and Li Wen was not by their side, so they naturally tried their best to wait and see.

After all, if Li Wen is defeated, he doesn't even know if he can survive, and once Li Wen is finished, the entire northwest will be about the same.

There is no reason for them to die for the sake of Li Wen.

The reason is very clear, it is easy to understand, in the face of the general trend, no one is a fool, except for people like Li Wen who can't afford to lose, no one else is necessarily, and even the Ningxia army commanded by Li Wen now is estimated to be not of the same mind as Li Wen.

Deng Zilong's army also had veterans of the 3,000 firearms battalion in Ningxia, and when he saw the military uniform and style, he said that it was the border army of Ningxia, and he really couldn't let go of fighting with his fellow villagers in the past, and he was also a little sad in his heart, and he didn't want to fight with his fellow villagers.

Everyone knows that Xiao Ruxun is the chief soldier of Ningxia, and he was once the chief general of the entire Ningxia army, and now these Ningxia soldiers may not have fought side by side with Xiao Ruxun six years ago.

And for now......

Deng Zilong is actually very much looking forward to killing Li Wen, and then don't continue to fight with this Ningxia army, but how easy is this to say?

Not everyone has the guts to learn from Chai Guozhu.

Li Wen didn't want to see his defeat, and knew that his only hope was to attack the Liuba line, so he attacked the Liuba defense line more and more fiercely, and constantly sent elite Ningxia soldiers to form a thousand-man team to attack the Liuba defense line, and there was no long-range firepower to cover at all, so they let them rush forward with the shield.

In the face of artillery bombardment, even the big shield cart was useless, and from a distance, I saw that I first used two Hongyi cannons to bombard their formation several times, and then hit them with Furlong machine guns when they got closer, and then shot them with bird guns and crossbowmen when they got closer, and when they got closer, they used spears and broadswords to cut at them.

Often, there were only a few hundred men left in front of them, and the well-trained gunners were always able to strike them the most in the shortest amount of time, making it completely impossible for them to take advantage of the numerical superiority to break the defensive line.

The battle could not be advanced and reached a stalemate.