Receiving Zheng Xunrui's letter, Lu Xiangsheng was still very excited, after all, he had left Wuchang Mansion, this letter was sent by Wuchang Mansion, the content of the letter, Lu Xiangsheng read it carefully, although he was a little dissatisfied with Zheng Xunrui's reminder, but he was still very grateful to Zheng Xunrui's care and reminder, after thinking twice, Lu Xiangsheng decided to reply to Zheng Xunrui.

How to write a reply, Lu Xiangsheng thought about it for a long time, he knew Zheng Xunrui's ability, and he knew Zheng Xunrui's ability to predict and deploy the battle, he wanted to inform Zheng Xunrui of the relevant deployment of this operation, if the time was too late, he could also receive Zheng Xunrui's letter again, and learn some useful experience from it.

Combat deployment is the biggest secret in the battle, once it is leaked out, it may be a catastrophe, think about how people have a clear grasp of your every move, you can easily make a lot of deployments, how to fight such a battle, and it is precisely because of such concerns that Lu Xiangsheng was ready to reply to the letter, just to express his gratitude to Zheng Xunrui.

However, he finally made up his mind and wrote out the relevant combat deployment in the letter, this is because he once fought with Zheng Xunrui and admired Zheng Xunrui in his heart.

After writing a reply, Lu Xiangsheng handed it over to the soldiers, asking the soldiers to send the letter to Huai'an in the shortest possible time, and to hand it over to the governor of Caoyun, Zheng Xunrui, in person, and no one else was allowed to see it.

In order to ensure that the letter could be delivered smoothly to Zheng Xunrui's hands, Lu Xiangsheng sent ten personal soldiers, who were the most elite sergeants in the Tianxiong Army.

When the letter was sent, the 10,000-strong army led by Lu Xiangsheng had already entered the territory of Qinyang County, which belonged to Nanyang Prefecture.

Lu Xiangsheng's first combat target was Qinyang County, which was not occupied by the Liukou for a very long time, and it is said that the Liukou's defensive deployment here was not particularly strong, so he took Qinyang County in one go. There shouldn't be much of a problem, and besides, the combat effectiveness of the rogues is not very strong, so it shouldn't be the opponent of the Tianxiong Army.

On the way to the march, Lu Xiangsheng felt that he had not been very good. This feeling has existed since the time of entering Henan, and the common people are not very interested in the imperial army, and it can be seen from the disdain and hatred in their eyes, when the army marches on the official road, there are almost no people in sight. This is by no means to say that there are no ordinary people on the official road, but that after the common people saw the army from afar, they chose to hide.

Lu Xiangsheng is very helpless, he also knows the reason, I am afraid that the biggest problem is that the imperial court decided to levy the arrears of agricultural taxes over the years, even in Huguang, the land of fish and rice, the common people are full of complaints, not to mention Henan, which has suffered many natural disasters, Henan and other northern areas. The common people have not been relieved at all, and their lives cannot be guaranteed, but at this time, the imperial court actually asked all localities to collect the arrears of agricultural taxes over the years, which makes the people have no way to live, in this case, the people must have gritted their teeth and hated the government at all levels and the imperial army.

This is a situation that Lu Xiangsheng can't change, but fortunately, Gao Qiqian brought a lot of money and grain from the capital this time, and the 30,000 army didn't need to take out too much food from the local government. If, according to the previous situation, the local government is required to be fully responsible for providing grain and grass, I am afraid that when the army enters Henan, the local government will be in a mess.

The only thing Lu Xiangsheng could do. It is required that 10,000 soldiers must not disturb the people, and during the march, they are not allowed to enter villages and towns, and they are not allowed to enter the city, and they are all camped on both sides of the official road to rest.

The fifth day of the twelfth month of the tenth year of Chongzhen.

The 10,000-strong army led by Lu Xiangsheng did not encounter any resistance along the way. They are only more than 30 miles away from Qinyang County, two days have passed, they have not seen the shadow of the Liukou, even the common people are very few, it is said that it is already the lunar month, the villages and towns should be very lively, and the people are ready to celebrate the Spring Festival.

This is not normal.

The 10,000 soldiers led by Lu Xiangsheng marched very fast, and it took only five days to arrive from Xinyang to Qinyang.

Lu Xiangsheng also felt strange, but he had participated in the battle to exterminate the rogue many times, and knew that the rogue was accustomed to mobile warfare, and rarely had the initiative to resist the imperial army head-on, so he didn't particularly care about the situation that occurred, but in the process of marching, he issued an order, requiring scouts to conduct round-the-clock reconnaissance, and requiring all soldiers to be highly vigilant to prevent rogue attacks from launching sneak attacks.

Lu Xiangsheng's high vigilance was quickly rewarded, and the scouts detected the situation, there was a group of rogues who were operating ten miles outside Qinyang County, and their whereabouts were very secretive, and they could not find out the number of people.

After carefully analyzing the map drawn by the scouts, Lu Xiangsheng made a judgment that this group of rogues should have been sent by the rogues in Qinyang City to reconnoiter the surrounding situation, and the whereabouts of the army must have been discovered by the rogues.

After a little deliberation, Lu Xiangsheng gave the order to fight.

He divided the 10,000 soldiers into two routes, he led the 5,000 Tianxiong army, rushed to Qinyang County as fast as possible, and started the siege battle, and the other 5,000 people, following behind, always pay attention to the surrounding movements, to prevent the rogue from sneaking in behind or left and right.

Lu Xiangsheng felt that the 5,000 Tianxiong army was enough to capture Qinyang County, after all, the strength of the Tianxiong army was also very famous in Daming, and Liukou was by no means an opponent.

After the battle order was issued, Lu Xiangsheng led the soldiers of the 5,000 Tianxiong Army and quickly started the operation.

What Lu Xiangsheng never imagined was that they actually encountered the rogue group mentioned by the scout five miles away from the county seat, and the hand-to-hand battle began immediately.

The Tianxiong army is known for being good at using strong crossbows, in the face of this group of rogues, Lu Xiangsheng did not hesitate at all, and gave the order to attack, the battle went smoothly, beyond Lu Xiangsheng's expectations, the fighting only lasted for a quarter of an hour or so, and the rogues were completely defeated, and the rogues did not flee in the direction of the county, but fled in all directions on both sides of the official road.

Lu Xiangsheng quickly stopped the fight, he would not ask the sergeant to chase and kill, this was a measure that outweighed the loss, the goal of the Tianxiong Army was Qinyang County, not this small group of rogues.

At the end of the battle, the army did not rest and quickly moved in the direction of Qinyang County.

The gates of the county town were closed, and no one could be seen around, and heavily armed rogues could be seen on the walls.

Lu Xiangsheng carefully looked at the movement on the city wall with a monocular, and a smile appeared on his face, and the rogues he saw on the city wall were all curled up, and their expressions seemed to be a little depressed.

The siege battle began.

The soldiers of the 5,000 Tianxiong Army, according to the pre-deployment, 1,000 people were responsible for shooting the rogues on the city wall with strong crossbows, and 1,000 people were responsible for attacking the city.

The power of the strong crossbow was fully exerted, and the rogues on the city wall almost did not dare to show their heads, and the bows and arrows shot were also sparse, which could not form a deterrent at all.

The former soldiers of the Tianxiong Army, who were in charge of the siege, soon arrived under the city walls.

An unexpected scene appeared on the city wall, the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army did not take a ladder to climb the city wall, but hit the city gate with a chariot, and the heavy wooden gate was knocked into the frame.

This is Lu Xiangsheng's tactics of attacking the city, the first thing is to hit the city gate, if you can break the city gate in the shortest time, then you don't need to climb the city wall with the help of a ladder, after all, this kind of practice, the loss is very large......

A quarter of an hour later, the gates were smashed.

The black hole appeared in front of the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army, and a rain of arrows came out of the road, and the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army in front of them were caught off guard, and many people fell down screaming after being hit by arrows.

More soldiers pushed the chariot and rushed into the corridor.

Lu Xiangsheng immediately ordered 2,000 soldiers to quickly charge towards the city gate, and they must rush into the city gate in the shortest possible time, as long as they can control the city gate, the battle will be half of the victory.

While the battle was still going on, the scouts suddenly came to report that the north gate of Qinyang County had been opened, and a large number of rogues had fled from the north gate.

Lu Xiangsheng was stunned for a moment, and ordered the scout to investigate again.

Lu Xiangsheng did not make the decision to attack the north gate, although it was very likely that the scouts saw the courage of the imperial army and chose to flee from Qinyang City.

In less than an hour, the battle was over.

Lu Xiangsheng successfully took Qinyang County, and the Tianxiong Army only killed more than 100 soldiers.

The battle of attacking the city and pulling out the village, with such a small casualty, can take a city, Lu Xiangsheng doesn't know whether the Tianxiong army is too strong, or the Liukou is too weak, of course, he believes in both aspects, after all, he has fought with the Liukou many times before.

After entering the county seat, Lu Xiangsheng saw that the situation was very deserted, there were almost no people on the street, the shops were closed, and the people's houses were also closed.

Lu Xiangsheng, who sighed slightly, asked the army not to harass the people.

Entering the county office, some rogues who had not yet had time to escape knelt in the lobby, including the officials who were doing things in the county office.

This scene surprised Lu Xiangsheng, and he was also a little disdainful, he couldn't imagine that Liukou could actually send people to maintain the operation of the county government, according to the ability of Liukou, how could it be possible to maintain the normal operation of the county government.

This night, Lu Xiangsheng slept very peacefully, so smoothly took Qinyang County, so that he was full of confidence in the upcoming battle, after dawn, he ordered the scouts to send a letter to the Chinese army's Gaoqi Hidden Prison Army, informing that the battle was very smooth, and he would lead the army to go straight to Nanyang Fucheng. (To be continued.) )