On the side of Kuizhou, the left army finally failed to catch up with the cunning Han army soldiers, and Yang Ming and others returned to the county seat of Kaixian safe and sound.

"This is the news brought by the business bachelor, he said that the defense line of Dongxiang County-Hanjia Village-Zhangjiachang has been basically completed, and it will be completed in two days", Shang Tao Xing is now fully responsible for the defense set up between the three key points of Dongxiang County-Hanjia Village-Zhangjiachang, and Yang Ming immediately asked the Jinyi messenger who was responsible for conveying the news of Shang Tao Xing about the defense process of the three key points of Dongxiang County-Hanjia Village-Zhangjiachang. The brocade-clothed envoy immediately informed Yang Ming of the progress of the defense of the three key points of Dongxiang County-Hanjia Village-Zhangjiachang.

Yang Ming nodded, then turned around and ordered Li Guangtian, the general and secretary of the eighth battalion who was in charge of garrisoning Kaixian: "Guangtian, then your department will be responsible for defending Kaixian for three days, and after three days, retreat from the direction of Shanyang Town and Quanxing Town, and be sure to arrive at the hidden position within five days according to the plan!" ”

"Yes, please rest assured!" Li Guangtian clenched his fists unconsciously when he answered, and scolded secretly: "Grandma's, it can be regarded as waiting for me to make a move." ”

"Kaixian is not as good as Yunyang County, Yunyang County is higher than the outside of the city, which is conducive to defense and not conducive to attacking, and Kaixian is lower than the outside of the city, it is not easy to block the left army for three days, it is necessary not to stick to the conventional tactics of defending the city, you might as well choose the combat zone somewhere outside the city, come with a preemptive strike, and force the left army to fight with you before entering a favorable situation!" Yang Ming said with a smile.

Li Guangtian nodded hurriedly: "The last general is provincial, and the last general has already prepared a generous gift for the left army." ”

"In this case, I will go back to Dongxiang County first, everything here will be handed over to you, and you can persuade the gentry and people in the city who still refuse to move away", Yang Ming waved his hand as he spoke, and Chen Gui and other soldiers immediately followed, stepped on the war horse that Li Guangtian had already prepared, and left Kaixian County with Yang Ming before the arrival of the left army.

"When the first battle of Kaixian is over, it will be the stage when strategic defense will turn into strategic offensive, and send someone to inform Lan Guanwei that it is time to prepare the second phase of the battle plan!" Yang Ming waved his whip as he spoke, and suddenly, the horse's hooves were raised, and with a long neigh, it jumped forward violently when it landed, splashing a cloud of fallen leaves. The rest of the warriors also rode their horses, and the sound of wood and iron palms clashing sounded throughout the plank road.

Zuo Liangyu was overjoyed when he saw Yang Ming fleeing into the county seat of Kaixian, and he completely threw Zhang Yingyuan's defeat out of the clouds, and even Yunyang County did not send troops to garrison it, and attacked Kaixian County with an army of more than 80,000 troops.

"Kaixian is low-lying, surrounded by hills, we don't have to march in a long snake, so as not to be ambushed by the thief army, we can divide our troops along the mountains to Kaixian to surround and advance, so I ordered Xu Ensheng's troops to advance along the direction of Huajing Mountain, be sure to arrive at the Mandarin Duck Village in the northwest of Kaixian County before sunset tomorrow, Wu Xueli Department marched west from the Great Smoky Mountain, and must arrive at Hexi Village in the east of Kaixian County tomorrow, and Changdeng Department will go around Wufu Mountain to occupy Yonghe Town in the southwest of Kaixian County from the west, and the rest of the troops will follow the old man through the plank road to directly attack the enemy of Kaixian!"

Zuo Liangyu commanded loudly, as if he had seen the fruits of victory beckoning to him, and he only had to stretch out his hand to grab it.

"Yes!" The generals of the battalions of the left army replied in unison and then took their leave, and soon, drums and trumpets sounded outside, and tens of thousands of troops rushed to the county seat of Kaixian from all directions like countless fierce green wolves.

At this time in the county seat of Kaixian, Li Guangtian also stood in front of all the soldiers of the eighth battalion with a stern expression, and shouted loudly: "Do you know how many people are in the left army that is outflanking us, they have more than 80,000 people, more than 80,000 people, Lao Tzu told you, just half a month ago, when the left army first arrived in Kuimen, how many people were there", Li Guangtian said and turned his palm over and said: "There are as many as 140,000 people, and now the soldiers of the sixth and third battalions of our Han army have been wiped out nearly 60,000 people one after another, 60,000 people, more than the total strength of our Han army, Are you saying we're losing? ”

"Not counting!" The warriors replied in unison.

"Yes, no, yesterday Gongzi revealed to me the news that the total number of casualties of the soldiers of the Han Army who had fought for the left army in front of us did not exceed 2,000, that is to say, so far, the proportion of casualties between the enemy and us is less than ...... No, not much", Li Guangtian has always been the worst at arithmetic among many generals, and he couldn't say it for a while, and the soldiers who had just become serious couldn't help but laugh when they saw this.

"Less than thirty to one!"

I didn't know that the soldier below replied, Li Guangtian hurriedly took over and said: "Yes, less than thirty to one", as he spoke, Li Guangtian scolded the soldier: "Lao Tzu knows, he is a smart guy, and Lao Tzu deliberately depends on you."

As he spoke, he said: "Although we have lost a lot of city land, is this necessary, as long as we are still there, we can take it back, but it is undeniable that these so-called elite soldiers of the Left Army are really not good, or they will not fight thirty to one, we are almost catching up with the record of the Qi family army fighting the Japanese invaders!" ”

As soon as Li Guangtian said this, he immediately burst out laughing.

So, Li Guangtian continued: "But we are definitely not as powerful as the Qi family's army, and the elite soldiers of the left army have also been defeated like this, do you think we still need to be afraid of them?" ”

"Don't be afraid! If they come, Lao Tzu will keep and kill them all! ”

"That's right! Kill them all! ”

After Li Guangtian pressed his hand, the soldiers below quieted down, and Li Guangtian pointed to the hill in the distance: "Just over the mountain, now there are more than 80,000 left troops outflanking us, and the task taught by the great prince is to hold on here for three days, but I gave Gongzi a package ticket, saying that the soldiers of our eighth battalion are all Zhang Yide alive, and they can scare off millions of soldiers with a roar at Dangyang Bridge, not to mention that they can defend it in three days and thirty days, you can't let me break my word!" ”

"General Li rest assured, three days is just three days, and we will definitely be able to block these more than 80,000 left troops outside Kaixian County!"

"Okay, now, according to our prior arrangement, we are going to open the first big gift to the left army, the person who comes is a guest, his left army is coming from afar, and we can't be too stingy as the host", Li Guangtian said with a wave of his hand, and the soldiers of all departments immediately dispersed, and not long after, the trumpet sounded in the sky, and the more than 5,000 soldiers of the eighth battalion disappeared without a trace in an instant like poisonous snakes entering the mountain.

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On Huguang's side, the battle between the second and seventh battalions had begun, and the seventh battalion had even started the first round of attacks outside Yuzhou City.

Yuzhou City did not have a brick city wall, and the mud-tammed city wall had been destroyed by Zhang Xianzhong, so when the officers and soldiers stationed in Yuzhou saw the cavalry soldiers of the seventh battalion rushing towards them, they had to immediately erect horse stakes and raise countless spears in an attempt to resist the cavalry soldiers of the seventh battalion.

Seeing this, Tan Wen immediately shouted: "According to the plan, the first standard will attack head-on, the second will attack the left wing, and the third will attack the winged!" At this time, the front row of soldiers of the first target had already climbed the mountain and dismounted, and at the same time as the horses rushed over, they had also rolled into the past, and most of the soldiers simply used the horse cover to dodge the iron bullets and feather arrows flying in the air and immediately threw countless earth-shaking thunders to the officers and soldiers behind the horse pile, and at the same time that the sky-shaking thunder bombarded countless white smoke, the horse stake had been pushed away by them, and the soldiers behind immediately accelerated at this time, and the soldiers who were galloping like iron streams put away their riding guns, Wielding a scimitar made of fine iron, he rushed over and frantically slashed at the officers and soldiers on both sides.

The spear formation of the official army is futile, the cavalry soldiers of the Han army are combined attacks, the soldiers galloping in front are responsible for killing and injuring the enemy with scimitars, and the enemy galloping behind them uses cavalry guns to shoot at the enemy to directly disrupt the enemy camp and create a better environment for the soldiers in front to destroy the enemy. For a time, the 5,000 officers and troops stationed here were directly defeated, and when the first standard was impacted and attracted a large number of officers and soldiers to pass, the second standard had already broken through from the left flank, and they directly threw the prepared fire to the newly built Yuzhou wooden city wall, and then, the third standard soldiers who rushed from the right wing directly poured tung oil, and in an instant, Yuzhou City became a square sea of fire.

"The first standard is withdrawn, and according to the plan, it will directly throw off the officials and troops of Chen Hongfan's department and directly attack the Fang Guoan Department in Dangli Town, and immediately send a signal when it is found that Chen Hong's officials and troops are coming to help!" Tan Wen rode his horse and slashed the officers and soldiers, and at the same time raised his voice to the trumpeter who was responsible for the order beside him. Soon, a stream of iron flowed out of the raging fire, and at the same time, the other two streams of iron also rushed towards the east of Yuzhou in a pincer shape with countless sparks.

As soon as the first division of the first standard of the cavalry came to Dangli Town, it spared a bend, like a meteor crossing the sky at night, across the darker and darker earth, and soon rushed to the artillery camp of the Ministry of Fang Guosecurity, and in an instant, the artillery battalion of the Ministry was disrupted, and many gunners were directly cut to the ground, and at the same time, the second and third divisions attacked Fang Guoan's Chinese army camp, and the fourth division rushed its firearms battalion, and soon, the Fang Guoan Department fell into chaos.

Chen Yan heard that the Ministry of National Security was attacked, and it was just a few bands of thieves and cavalry who were contemptuous for a while, so he decisively ordered Chen Hongfan's troops to send reinforcements, Chen Hongfan did not refuse, he had been praised as a thief buster, he did not hesitate to send 30,000 elite soldiers to rush there, and when these 30,000 elite soldiers came to Tianshan Village, not far from Dangli Town, the Fifth Division rushed over, sometimes rushing to slash and sometimes suddenly withdraw, which disturbed the 30,000 Chen Army, so he had to form an offensive in place to prepare to devour the Fifth Division.

Just when the 30,000 elite soldiers were about to swallow the fifth division, the second and third standards had already rushed over, the second standard first directly cut off the connection between Yuzhou and Jingmen County and frantically attacked the Chen army camp outside Jingmen County, while the third standard bypassed and attacked the tens of thousands of Chen troops stationed at the main gate of Jingmen County, the center of the official army.

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