Lu Xiangsheng felt very good, and successfully won Qinyang County, which made him feel that the Liukou was vulnerable, and it was completely incomparable with before, after all, the elite of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong and others were killed by the Zheng family's army, and when they fled from Kuizhou and Banzhou in Sichuan, there were only a few hundred people who followed, and it was impossible to gather a large number of elite sergeants in such a short period of time.

It's just that Lu Xiangsheng didn't think seriously about why Liukou used to be so low-key, but now he seems to be much more high-profile.

After only two days of occupying the county town of Qinyang, the army set out again, this time aiming to go straight to the city of Yangfu.

Lu Xiangsheng left 1,000 soldiers to garrison Qinyang County, waiting for Gao Qiqian to lead 20,000 Chinese troops to arrive.

Deep in his heart, Lu Xiangsheng didn't have much hope for Gao Qiqian, the contradiction between him and Gao Qiqian had appeared, and he wanted to work together in the battle, which couldn't be done, and Gao Qiqian didn't have the ability to command the army to fight, in this case, he simply led the army to attack, defeated or even exterminated the rogue, and this battle has little to do with Gao Qiqian.

When starting from Qinyang County, Lu Xiangsheng wrote a letter to Gao Qiqian, the supervising army, asking the Chinese army to speed up the march and arrive at Nanyang Mansion as soon as possible.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng wrote this letter, which was already a pretext, he knew that it was impossible for the Chinese army to rush to Nanyang Mansion City in a short time, maybe by the time the Chinese army arrived, the front army had already taken Nanyang Mansion City, and the Liukou had already been defeated.

On the seventh day of December in the tenth year of Chongzhen, 8,800 sergeants followed Lu Xiangsheng and set off.

When leaving the county seat, Lu Xiangsheng looked back at the city wall, and had a feeling of complacency, he was about to create brilliance, since he served as the governor of the five provinces, he always thought that he could completely exterminate the Liukou, and now he was about to face Li Zicheng, the most important leader of the Liukou. As long as he can kill or even capture Li Zicheng alive, his prestige will reach a height that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve.

The speed of the army's march was not very fast, but Lu Xiangsheng was still very careful, and he sent a large number of scouts to reconnoiter along the road. More than 8,000 sergeants have always been a whole, according to the combat effectiveness of the Tianxiong army, even if they encounter large-scale rogues in the field, it is enough to deal with it, and the main target of the army is Nanyang Fucheng. There is not much time to be delayed on the road.

This time the march is similar to the feeling of just entering the territory of Qinyang, there are almost no rogues along the way, if you say that you didn't see many rogues in the territory of Nanyang Mansion at the beginning, Lu Xiangsheng still has some doubts in his heart, at this time he is confident, he thinks that the rogues are afraid of the imperial army, and the speed of evacuation is very fast.

Two completely different feelings produce a completely different state of mind.

After only one day of marching, Lu Xiangsheng gave the order. The army sped up the journey, he was very worried that the Liukou would choose to flee, so that after the army arrived at Nanyang Mansion City, what they got was an empty city.

The army sped up its journey, and the scouts were correspondingly less scouting.

On the ninth day of the twelfth month, when it was almost dark, the army was less than ten miles away from Sheqi.

At night, the scouts who were dispatched out quickly came to report and found traces of the rogue in the Sheqi.

This made Lu Xiangsheng excited. The number of scouts reporting the rogue should be quite a lot, completely different from the small group of rogue bandits outside Qinyang City.

After carefully looking at the map, Lu Xiangsheng made a judgment that Liukou was trying to stop the trip of the imperial army in Sheqi. Their purpose was to protect Nanyang Mansion City, or to give the rogues of Nanyang Mansion City more time to evacuate.

That night, Lu Xiangsheng issued a lot of orders, which were generally summed up as a quick battle and a quick solution to the rogues who blocked the army's journey. Arrive at Nanyang Mansion as soon as possible.

On the tenth day of December, at the end of the month.

The army set off and headed towards the flag.

The order to fight has long been given.

Eight thousand eight hundred sergeants rushed towards Sheqi at the speed of a rapid march, less than ten miles away, and could be reached within a quarter of an hour, Lu Xiangsheng was at the front of the team, and the soldiers on the left and right watched everything around nervously, ready to escort at all times.

The dense rogue in front of him surprised Lu Xiangsheng.

The rogues have already set up their positions.

It seems that the rogues are ready to fight, which is in line with Lu Xiangsheng's thoughts.

The two armies faced each other, Lu Xiangsheng's eyes closed slightly, the first time he encountered such a situation, the Liukou would never have faced the imperial army like this before, especially when facing the Zheng Jiajun, the Liukou was scared, and when he saw the Zheng Jiajun, they all fled.

Lu Xiangsheng raised the sword in his hand.

The war drums beat instantly, not only the war drums of the imperial army, but also the war drums of the rogue.

A rain of arrows under black pressure appeared instantly, and two torrents of red and white began to charge.

The tough bow and crossbow roared and rushed towards the rogue, and the screams that followed, the powerful impact of the bow and crossbow, even overturned the war horse directly, and the rogue on the horseback naturally couldn't survive.

Rogues who lack bows and crossbows can rely on bows and arrows.

However, the casualties caused by the bow and arrow are not very large, the speed of the cavalry impact is very fast, unless the bow and arrow occur on horseback, the effect cannot be very good, in terms of personal military quality, the Liukou is definitely not as good as the sergeant of the Tianxiong Army, and the gap between the two is too big.

The 10,000 troops led by Lu Xiangsheng are all equipped with war horses, of which the 5,000 Tianxiong army is a brave cavalry, which is by no means comparable to the Liukou.

The proportion of casualties among the Tianxiong army and the rogues in the charge can be seen clearly with the naked eye, many of the rogues fell, but the number of Tianxiong troops who fell was very small.

When the red and white torrents collided, a loud bang appeared.

The torrent of white was quickly torn apart.

In the confrontation between the two armies, the Tianxiong Army instantly occupied an absolute advantage......

Li Yan held a monocular, his face was unusually grim, he didn't believe in the judgment of Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, about the courage of the Tianxiong army, in his opinion, as long as it was properly organized, supplemented by the advantage of troops, it was easy to defeat or even annihilate the official army, and the official army was not three heads and six arms, Li Yan even thought about whether he could use the 20,000 former army to form an encirclement of the official army, or even exterminate the official army in advance, so this time in the battle of the social flag, Li Yan was determined, and confronted the official army head-on, to see how the combat effectiveness of the official army was, But the situation of the battle shocked him, the cavalry of the righteous army, under the impact of the Tianxiong army, was vulnerable, this is like a game between adults and children, there is no suspense about the outcome of the victory.

At this moment, Li Yan came to his senses, he finally understood the meaning of Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, Li Zicheng decided to bet on all the rebels, a full of 80,000 people, against the official army, Li Yan felt that it was not necessary, this is a big fuss, I think in my opinion, it is Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, who has foresight.

Only a quarter of an hour after the battle began, the rebels could no longer resist the attack of the officers and soldiers, and the formation of the cavalry was all scattered, while the officers and troops were orderly and brave.

Can't afford to delay time, Li Yan spoke to the sergeant beside him.

"Order the red lady to retreat immediately, never fall in love, the faster the retreat, the better......"

The red lady felt the same, she couldn't imagine that the officers and soldiers were so brave, the army under her command was not able to resist the attack of the officers and soldiers at all, and the fighting lasted less than a quarter of an hour, and they could not hold on, and some of the sergeants had already shown a look of fear.

If it weren't for Li Yan's order, the red lady would have been eager to go into battle in person.

When Li Yan's order came, the red lady was unwilling, her most elite three thousand sergeants had not yet launched a charge, and I believed that after these three thousand people charged to join the battle group, they would definitely be able to get rid of the rout.

However, the order cannot be disobeyed, the main task of the front army is to lure the officers and soldiers, and the ambush circle formed by the army led by Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, is only more than 50 miles away from here, and the task of the front army is to lure the officers and troops into the ambush circle, and then join the Chinese army to launch a comprehensive attack on the officers and troops.

Unwillingly, the red lady gave the order to retreat.

A scene that neither the red lady nor Li Yan expected appeared.

As soon as the order to retreat was given, the rebels turned around and retreated like a tide, leaving their backs to the officers and soldiers.

The arrangements for retreat have been implemented a long time ago, and we must retreat in an orderly manner, and we cannot retreat separately.

Finding that the situation was not right, the red lady was ready to lead the three thousand elite soldiers around her to charge, allowing the rebels to retreat smoothly.

At this time, Li Yan rode to her side.

"Evacuate quickly, and leave the deployment ahead."

Although they were all on the war horse, Li Yan still pulled the red lady's arm.

The strong red lady was about to speak, but Li Yan pulled her arm, her face turned red, she didn't say anything, turned her horse's head and began to evacuate.

The battle didn't start for long, and Lu Xiangsheng had been paying close attention to the battle situation.

Liukou's combat effectiveness is indeed weak, and it can be said to be vulnerable, which makes Lu Xiangsheng's determination even stronger.

The evacuated rogues retreated like a tide, Lu Xiangsheng decisively gave the order to pursue, he had been fighting for a long time, and he could see that the rogues could not support it, and the pursuit at this moment would definitely be able to win a big victory.

It's also a good thing to be able to kill as many rogues as possible, at least these rogues can't retreat to Nanyang Mansion City.

The order to pursue the general was quickly given, and more than 8,000 troops also chased after it like a tide.

Lu Xiangsheng also did not hesitate, and followed the army to charge forward......

Li Yan and the Red Lady never dreamed that it was precisely because of their dissatisfaction, because they wanted to fight well with the official army, so that the former army could perfectly complete the task of luring the enemy into the deep while making heavy sacrifices, and Lu Xiangsheng completely believed that the righteous army had no combat effectiveness and was vulnerable.

Compared to bringing the officers and soldiers into the ambush circle, the sacrifices paid by the front army were nothing at all. (To be continued.) )