Tian Jianxiu never expected that Lushan, a small county in central Henan, would become the loser of the Shun army and the official army Heluo.

After receiving the military order to garrison Xuzhou and stabilize the rear road of the main force of the Shun army, Tian Jianxiu moved his line to Luyang Pass, the main pass of the three passes of Yiyang.

Luyang Pass is in the southwest of Lushan County in central Henan. When the traffic between Luoyang and Nanyang Basin rushes to the point, it has been a military battleground since ancient times, and it is also the only way for the Central Plains to enter Chu.

In order to ensure the smooth flow of the grain road, Tian Jianxiu commanded 20,000 troops and horses to guard Luyang Pass, and ordered Tian Hu to command 5,000 troops to guard Xiaoluyang Pass, and his brother Yu Bin to command more than 10,000 troops out of Lushan County, which is more than 100 miles away from Luyang Pass.

Yu Bin is also a fierce general, is an old thief who followed Li Zicheng's uprising, has experienced many battle formations, although the Dashun army and the official army confronted each other in Zhuxian Town, Xuzhou is a real rear, but he was not negligent, since stationed in Lushan County, he requisitioned the people of the county to desperately strengthen the city defense, raise grain, and at the same time sent a large number of scouts to and from the north and south of the official road, thinking that it was a foolproof plan.

Tian Jianxiu and Yu Bin's caution paid off.

On the eighth day of the third month of the first year of Yongli, the scouts of the Shun army found that thousands of officers and soldiers came straight to Lushan along the Shangshui.

"How many people are coming from the Shandong army?"

Lushan County Ya, Yu Bin frowned and listened to the report of the scout leader.

"Leader Qiyu Yu, there are about 2,000 people in the Shandong army, but the military appearance is very strict, the small ones look from a distance, almost everyone is wearing armor, there are still a large number of ships in the commercial water, look at the depth of the draft, it should be artillery and other heavy materials, depending on the situation, this may be their vanguard force."

After the scout leader finished speaking, he just looked up at Yu Bin.

"Okay, Brother Liu, what do you say? Did you hit this group of officers and soldiers first? Or stick to the county seat? ”

Yu Bin looked surprised, he really couldn't figure out how thousands of officers and soldiers dared to go deep alone and insert into the hinterland of Dashun, which didn't take Dashun in his eyes at all.

"Since the officers and soldiers dare to go deep alone, there will be a large army behind, I estimate that this army is likely to be their vanguard, the small city of Lushan County is thin, we still report to the leader of Tian and the king of Chuang, but the Shandong army carries artillery, the city wall of Lushan is just rammed earth stacked up, if you blindly defend the city, we can not last long, and the officers and soldiers are tired from afar, if we dare not fight, we are afraid of falling into the prestige of our brothers!"

After He Yilong and Luo Rucai captured and killed Li Zicheng, Liu Xiyao said that he was not the opponent of the invasion army, so he led his troops to surrender the powerful invasion army, but he was a new person, and Li Zicheng arranged him in Tian Jianxiu's army.

"Uh...... This, what Brother Liu said makes sense, his mother's Shandong thieves are not able to set up the more than 10,000 troops under Lao Tzu, so let Brother Liu preside over the overall situation in the city, let's take people out to meet the Shandong army, Lao Tzu wants to see if they are heavenly soldiers. ”

Liu Xiyao's reputation fell into disrepute, which completely angered Yu Bin, and what Liu Xiyao said also made sense, the city wall of Lushan was too thin, and it couldn't stop the artillery bombardment at all, when the Shun army attacked Lushan, only three rounds of artillery bombardment, the city wall was blown down a corner, and now the city wall in the southeast section is still newly repaired, and the artillery of the Shandong army can block the ghost of the Shandong army, and the Shandong army only has 2,000 people, so it is better to eat this army horse and give the follow-up Shandong army a little power.

Yu Bin did not underestimate the enemy, he knew that the Shandong army that could destroy the Manchurian soldiers one after another was by no means comparable to the ordinary Ming army, and he also knew that the lion fought the rabbit and needed all his strength, so after deciding to go out of the city to annihilate this military horse that might be the vanguard of the Ming army, the main force was exhausted.

The Shun infantry who went out of the city were placed in a zigzag formation by Yu Bin, and the reason why this was so was that the front formation was defeated and the rear two formations could delay the advance speed of the official infantry.

And once the infantry of the official army comes into contact with the front formation, then the gap between their formations will be exposed, which just gives him the opportunity to outflank the left and right flanks, and the reason why Liu Xiyao stayed in the city is because half of the military horses in his department are soldiers of the fifth battalion of the original revolution, in case Liu Xiyao turns back in front of the formation, the consequences will be really unimaginable.

Up to now, the battle situation is still in Yu Bin's expectation and control, the only thing that surprised him is that the Shandong army actually took less than a moment to set up a formation on the front line of Shangshui, and the people on the ship are constantly transferring artillery to the shore, and from the perspective of time alone, the Shandong army does not have the fatigue of a long journey.

"Squeeze Lao Tzu forward in the front battle, and be sure to meet the officers and soldiers as soon as possible."

At the moment when the military formation was properly arranged, Yu Bin impatiently issued an offensive military order, and the more than 3,000 Shun troops in the middle were pressed towards the military formation just arranged by the officers of the Shun army like a moving city wall under the command of the officers of the Shun army.

"Ge Laozi, let the artillerymen prepare, line up in front of the white pole soldiers, our first town was the first to be formed after the prime minister raised the army, Yang Shuai said that everyone is an old man who followed the prime minister from Li Jiashan to fight the world together, usually the prime minister has good wine and meat to support us, today is the time for us to serve the prime minister."

Wang Deren joined the Jingbei Army after the Battle of Agate Mountain, and Jin Shenghuan and Daniel Zhang had similar military positions in the Zuo Liangyu Army back then, but these two goods were already Jingbei Army town generals, which made Wang Deren envious, and now that the military merit was in front of his eyes, he naturally did not want to let go of this rare opportunity.

Of course, he also has reason to believe that with the 2,000 soldiers in his hands, he must be able to resist the more than 10,000 Shun troops in front of him, because what he brought over was not Yang Biao's newly compiled military horses from Huaiyang, but the elite soldiers who had defeated the puppet Qing Beile Abatai and Prince Cheng Yue Tuo.

This time to send troops to Xuzhou, Wang Deren and Jing Si brought a total of 5,000 soldiers, these soldiers are all veterans of the Jingbei Army, since entering the territory of Xuzhou, Wang Deren sent people to investigate the deployment of the army in Lushan, and knew that Lushan County was not enough to intercept Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of troops, so he set his sights on Lushan, which was guarding the official road, and led the troops to attack the county seat, but it was to attract the attention of the Shun army in the city, so that Jing Si, who was halfway divided into troops, could seize Lushan as soon as possible.

"Boom, boom, boom......!"

There are not many artillery pieces dragged ashore by the Jingbei Army, and they are all small cannons of five or six hundred catties, but because the Shun army is the attacking side, the first to enter the range of the opponent's artillery is naturally the first to press up the more than 3,000 Shun troops.

More than 30 artillery pieces in the formation of the Shun army's advance, played intensive firepower, in the rumbling cannon, the first Shun army to rush into the formation suffered heavy casualties, only one round of artillery bombardment, nearly 100 people were hit by the whistling cannons, and many people were knocked down by the cannons that bounced up on the ground, either missing arms or broken legs, and let out a burst of terrible screams.