The heroes' views are similar, just like Lin Chunhong's idea. Zuo Liangyu is also training more than 2,000 soldiers at hand through marching. Although the soldiers are not called elite soldiers, they are at least in a smooth military order and have high morale.

Hou Xun took care of his beloved generals, allocated sufficient military rations and handed over the best military armor to Zuo Liangyu.

After entering Guangping Prefecture, Zuo Liangyu and Zijin Liang Wang were entangled with each other, fighting all day long, winning and losing each other.

Let’s talk about Lin Chunhong as soon as he stepped into Mi County, Henan, when he received an order from Henan Governor Shang Jing, who ordered him to lead his troops to Xiuwu County to rescue Huaiqing City, which was surrounded.

Lin Chunhong thought inwardly: "There are so many old men on this head. No matter who gives the order, you will never fight if there is no benefit!"

Lin Chunhong took out the map and fell into deep thought. The first battle in the Central Plains is that if you don’t fight, you will have to make a big splash.

After leading the army to the war, Lin Chunhong felt deeply that there was a lack of planning in the surrounding area, and even the people who discussed it could not be found. Li Guangzu, Wei Yuexiang, Sheng Kunshan, Ling Su, Lin Chunyi and others were at their limits to manage their subordinates properly, so how could they have the ability to plan?

It would be great if my father-in-law was by my side. Even if Zhang Zhao was by my side, he wouldn't do everything himself! Unfortunately, my hometown and logistics are fundamental, and it wouldn't be possible if he left the two of them.

Therefore, Lin Chunhong couldn't find someone to discuss, so he had to think about it alone.

After the preliminary reconnaissance of the Cavalry Camp, Lin Chunhong knew the situation clearly. In Wuzhi County, southern Huaiqing Prefecture, Li Guo, the general of Li Zicheng, led more than 2,000 elite cavalry to entangle with local reinforcements in Henan. To the east of Huaiqing Prefecture, Gao Jie led more than 10,000 troops to focus on Xiuwu County as the center, smashed grass valleys everywhere and raised food, while Li Zicheng personally led more than 20,000 troops to besiege Huaiqing Prefecture.

Li Zicheng's troops were divided into three places, which made Lin Chunhong feel inexplicably excited. So, finding a gap to annihilate one of them became Lin Chunhong's natural choice. Originally, according to Shang Jing's order, Lin Chunhong should join the local reinforcements in Henan to attack Li Guo. Lin Chunhong thought about it over and over again, thinking that the chance of winning against more than 2,000 elite cavalry against Li Guo was not very good. Even if he could win the battle, he would win miserably and his contribution was not obvious. So Lin Chunhong threw Shang Jing's order aside and abandoned him as if he was a waste.

As for the detour attack on Li Zifeng's troops, the risk is greater, and the food route may be cut off by Li Guo, and Lin Chunhong has not been so arrogant to that extent against Li Zicheng's 20,000 troops.

Therefore, Lin Chunhong targeted Gao Jie who was driving the grass valley.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Chunhong kept calculating his capital: At present, except for the cavalry, everyone wearing plate armor, Luying and Cheying generals and elite selections were all wearing plate armor, while other soldiers were all wearing cotton armor or leather armor. With such armor ratios, any official army would be envious of it. But Lin Chunhong was still not satisfied. His soldiers were piled up with money. If the battle was destroyed, he would have to pay a large amount of pension.

Besides, how can new soldiers who have experienced the battle formation be comparable to those of new soldiers? No matter from which angle, Lin Chunhong spared no effort to enhance his protection capabilities.

Even if the forging workshop runs with all efforts, it is far from meeting the needs of conscription personnel. At present, the equipment of bows and arrows and steel crossbows each account for half. The bows mainly come from the Datian Qianhu Station and are not considered strong bows. The steel crossbows not only have a long range, but also is much more convenient to build than bows and arrows. Lin Chunhong intends to replace all bows with steel crossbows.

But steel crossbows have shortcomings, and their firing speed is not as good as bows and arrows. Lin Chunhong has considered building muskets, but building muskets is more troublesome than bows and arrows, and its effect may not be better than bows and steel crossbows, so Lin Chunhong had to put it aside for the time being.

What Lin Chunhong proud of is the Che Camp. Although the Che Camp only has more than 500 people, it has 50 shield cars. Each of them carries two tiger squat cannons, and four red-clothed cannons. Given that the red-clothed cannons are too heavy and inconvenient to transport, it is transported by Zhang Zhao to Jining on the water.

Lin Chunhong kept counting his capital and sighed: "There is not enough..."

How to fight this battle?

Out of peace, Lin Chunhong decided to detour eastward first and arrive in Huojia County east of Xiuwu County to see Li Zicheng's reaction. For Li Zicheng, Lin Chunhong was cautious and was definitely not an easy person to be able to survive the thief until the end.

After entering Weihui Mansion, Lin Chunhong stopped his flag and arrived in Huojia County, set up camps, and sent the Cavalry Camp to investigate the news of the bandits.

However, Lin Chunhong's reconnaissance cavalry is very limited, and even ordinary reconnaissance is difficult to compete, let alone block the battlefield. His whereabouts and strength are well known by Li Zicheng. His generals under him are very depressed and cannot do it even if they know themselves and their enemies. How can they fight this battle?

However, Lin Chunhong seemed to have not realized this at all, and was still full of confidence. He sent out a detective cavalry like a routine every day, and strictly prohibited the detective cavalry from fighting with Li Zicheng's ranger. At the same time, he ordered his subordinates to constantly improve the camp, treating himself as a turtle, and unable to retreat every day.

Lin Chunhong responded to changes in a constant way and lived a comfortable life, but Li Zicheng made a different story. After arriving in Henan, the situation did not develop in the direction he imagined.

Li Zicheng stood on a low hill, looking eastward at the horizon in a daze. He was tall, with lines on his face as if carved by a knife, his cheekbones were very high, and his thick eyebrows and big eyes were bright. His cheeks were prominent and his thick lips were thick. At first glance, he looked like seeing a farmer with a difficult life. Who would have thought that this was Li Zicheng, a general who was invading the world?

The red battle robe on his body was blew by the northwest wind, wrapped between his legs, and the cold air that poured into his neck made him shake.

This winter is particularly cold! Since entering Shanxi in the third year of Chongzhen, the entire Shanxi has been messed up by them. Coupled with the lasting year of drought, Shanxi's grain output has dropped sharply.

Li Zicheng, who was wrapped in tens of thousands of ordinary people, traveled all over Shanxi, unable to obtain enough food and grass, so he had to break through Zezhou alone, cross the Taihang Mountains, and rush into Henan. While the government army was unprepared, he easily occupied Xiuwu County and obtained a batch of military supplies and food and grass, temporarily getting rid of the food crisis.

Lu Xiang looked at Li Zicheng with a high look. Li Zicheng did not consider the strategic significance of entering Henan at all. Invading Henan was also considered a blind cat to meet a dead mouse. In Li Zicheng's dictionary, there are only robbery and killing officers and soldiers for the time being.

The capture of Xiuwu County gave Li Zicheng's subordinates a lot of confidence. They rushed to the west and prepared to knock on the city gate to attack Huaiqing Mansion. However, Huaiqing Mansion was strong and vast, so it was not so easy to capture? The militia army, which lacked siege equipment, had to sigh at the city and gather grain around Huaiqing Mansion every day.

As time goes by, the reinforcements in Henan gradually arrived from various prefectures and counties. Even the troops of Lin Chunhong, a Tuman from Jingzhou, secretly ran to Huojia County, less than fifty miles from Xiuwu County!

When Li Zicheng heard the report from his subordinates, he laughed: "Haha, the local barbarians in Jingzhou? Can they fight wars? Do they dare to join in the fun?"

General Gao Jie grinned and replied, "It's okay if there are five thousand people. I heard that the Jingzhou army has no military rations and is well-armed! Why don't we take the opportunity to eat him?"

"Oh?" Li Zicheng became a little interested in Lin Chunhong, "Don't be anxious, wait for the detective to return!"

Of course, Li Zicheng is not a guy who works hard to do it. His years of rebellion have long led to his bold and cautious thinking habits and will never do that hot-headed thing.

"Report... Lin Chunhong couldn't hide near Hezigou, Huojia County. He worked hard to build camps every day and trained soldiers..."

"This..." Li Zicheng received the report and pondered without saying a word.

Gao Jie said again: "The camp is not easy to fight. We don't have any siege equipment at hand. If we attack rashly, the losses will inevitably be heavy. If we don't transfer back to Li Guo and lead the elite cavalry to cut off Lin Chunhong's food route?"

Li Zicheng shook his head and said, "Henan officers and soldiers are flocking from Wu Zhi, and Wu Zhi cannot live without Li Guo. Besides, the city is densely packed here, and the cavalry alone cannot cut off the food route. If we accidentally destroy the cavalry, we will lose all our capital!"

Gao Jie's eyes rolled and he asked, "Is the Lord going to return to Shanxi?"

Li Zicheng didn't say anything, staring at the boundless wilderness in the east, staring blankly.

Half an hour later, the army orders issued by the headquarters: "Let Liu Zongmin take his equipment to step up the attack on Huaiqing City..."

"Let Gao Jie lead his headquarters to station Xiuwu, and be vigilant to the Jingzhou Army in the east..."

"Let Li Guo look for fighter jets and must defeat the enemy in the south..."

...

Li Zicheng couldn't bear to give up the fat piece of Huaiqing Mansion, and was ready to take another try in the end!

Lin Chunhong saw very thoroughly about Li Zicheng's predicament. When his detective heard that most of Li Zicheng's elite cavalry continued to be entangled with the local troops in Henan, he keenly felt that the fighter plane had arrived. When Huaiqing's letter of help was sent to his camp in a hurry, Lin Chunhong couldn't help laughing and immediately beat the drums and gathered the generals to prepare for the war.

"This time I will eat Gao Jie and cut off Li Zicheng's finger!" Lin Chunhong was full of energy, pointed to the big knife in his hand, and shouted: "Set out!"

The torrents rushed straight to Xiuwu County, rolling up the yellow sand in the sky.

Lin Chunhong was really a little upset when he met Li Zicheng in the first large-scale battle. Although Gao Jie was full of mobs, Lin Chunhong's more than 5,000 archers had never seen the real formation. No one could tell what problems would arise at that time.

Before going to war, Lin Chunhong considered that his subordinates were equipped with shield cars and had strong long-range strike power, so he decided to defend first and then wait for an opportunity to counterattack. After all, organizing offense is far more difficult than defense.

Xiuwu County was ruined, and there was almost nothing! After the Bianmin Army entered Xiuwu County, they happily burned and killed Yin and turned the entire Xiuwu into a white land. After the carnival, the Bianmin Army calmed down and found that in Xiuwu County, they could hardly find a few houses that could escape the cold!

Gao Jie, who was stationed in Xiuwu, had no choice but to order his subordinates to camp outside the city and send the elite troops at hand to attack everywhere, intercept the food and grass, and relieve the pain of the rare shortage of food and grass.

When Li Zicheng issued the order to Jingti the Jingzhou Army to the east, Gao Jie did not dare to slack off, so he gathered the elite troops and sent a cavalry to monitor Lin Chunhong all day long. Hearing that Lin Chunhong was coming, Gao Jie was overjoyed, and the turtle shrank finally left the turtle shell!

No wonder Gao Jie looked down on Lin Chunhong. The local barbarians in the south are probably not as good as Shanxi's official army. What's more, Gao Jie has more than 1,000 soldiers at hand, and nearly 10,000 people who can fight, and there are nearly 10,000 people who can help, so he will not lose no matter how he sees it. After entering Henan, Li Zicheng's team further expanded, and the people who lost their winter reserves could not, so many of them joined the Migrant Army.

Gao Jie placed his elite troops in the central army and divided the other militia into two parts, and lived on two wings.

The cold wind raged for more than ten days, and finally disappeared completely, replaced by the warm sun.

The sun in winter is very precious, not to mention the sun at Chen hour, shining on people warmly. The military army, exposed to the cold wind all day, is energetic and has high morale. However, their weapons are really unable to show off, and they can hardly see dazzling light, let alone swords and guns.

Gao Jie rode on the tall horse, holding an iron spear, holding a pavilion with his hands, looking east, and cursing Lin Chunhong: "Sure enough, treacherous and cunning, nainai, I'm heading east, the sun is dazzling!"

"Dongdongdongdong..." The deafening drum sound declared that a war was about to begin!

Xiuwu County is backed by Taihang Mountains, and the territory is an endless plain, which is actually the first choice for military strategists to fight. China has rich history and military strategists are emerging one after another. Both sides of the war work hard to avoid unfavorable terrain, and choosing a battlefield that is fair to both sides has become the top priority in the decisive battle.

Gao Jie was quite satisfied with this battlefield, and at the same time, he knew the combat effectiveness of the Bianmin Army. The army of more than 10,000 people, except for the thousands of people around him, was full of mobs. When the battle was going smoothly, the Bianmin Army was like a tiger, and when it was unfavorable, it scattered. Gao Jie, who had been in the military for many years, certainly knew how he should make a decision.

Seeing the Jingzhou army approaching slowly, there was still a mile. Gao Jie held an iron spear and shouted loudly: "The central army attacks, and surrounds the left and right wings!"

Gao Jie's purpose was very clear, which was to use the advantage of large numbers of people to make it difficult for the Jingzhou army to take care of it, and eventually crush the Jingzhou army.

The flag bearer who was ordered kept waving the flag, and the war drums sounded like thunder, urging the civilian army to move forward in a mess!

The rebels all over the mountains and fields were like ants, forcing the Jingzhou army, which surprised the archers who had never fought with the rebels. Is this an army? In addition to the central army, they must have a formation without a formation, weapons without weapons, and can they carry a hoe to kill people?

Lin Chunhong looked at the ant colony, showed contemptuous eyes, and briefly ordered: "Getting a round formation!"

The effect of the devil-like training was reflected here. Although the warriors who had never experienced the battle formation were nervous, the long-term habits made them orderly. The soldiers pushed out shield cars one after another, and pointed the black muzzle at the militia army. After the shield cars, there were a series of long spearmen, swords, shields and crossbowmen all looked solemn, and their eyes widened at the militia that was coming like a whirlwind.

When the Jingzhou army was busy, Gao Jie's militia army was getting closer and closer!

The generals on the left and right wings of Gao Jie could not control the situation. Bianmin accidentally broke into the range of the crossbow and was shot to the ground by the wave-like arrows. The screams rang out in the sky!

The disappearance of life finally helped the left and right wings stop the formation, and turned into civilian blood and knew how far away it should be from the turtle formation!

Gao Jie kept staring at the Jingzhou Army's circular formation, and there was no possibility that his subordinates would turn his head!

Gao Jie waved the iron spear in his hand and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Strike!"

The war drum suddenly changed its rhythm, becoming fast and fast. Under the command of the war drum, the militia army broke out like a tsunami, took a step forward and rushed towards the Jingzhou army!

The central army was in order, one stood around Gao Jie, and the other was rushing forward under the leadership of the general. The swords, shields and hands in cotton armor rushed forward, with spearmen following closely behind, and archers broke into the range, and fired rockets at the shield vehicles.

The left and right wings were in a mess, and they only knew that they would follow the commander forward, not even bent down!

"Boundman, shoot!" The whistle generals watched as the civilians rushed to a distance of 180 steps, and shouted and issued orders. For the Jingzhou soldiers, the tactical command power for the last battle was returned to the whistle generals, and the way they responded to the enemy's rushing into the bone marrow. They chose counterattack measures effortlessly according to their daily training.

The chargers fell down like wheat blown by the wind. The lives of people in troubled times were like grass. The rebels flocked to the crowd without caring about the people around them.

Seeing that it was only a hundred steps away from the shield car, the whistle-like cry sounded again, "Bowman, shoot!"

Immediately after the bow and arrow, the tiger squat cannon also began to show its power, rumbling in a rumbling circle.

The sound of breaking through the air made people feel irritated, and the banging gunpowder exploded continuously. "Boom... Boom..." The shield cart was full of fire, and the tiger squat cannon shot out countless lead bullets and iron, shooting the mutants who were rushing forward into sieves. They were hit by the vitals and struggled on the ground for a few times, and then went to the Western Paradise.

Those who did not hit the key point fell to the ground and shouted bitterly. Their calls made the rebels feel numb!

In a moment, smoke filled the Jingzhou army, which wrapped the Jingzhou army in the immortal family and could not dissipate for a long time.

After finally rushing to the shield car, the militia army was still facing a wall of iron! They were stabbed by the long spears and fell to the ground and died. A shield car caught fire, and militia army rushed to the shield car and took the opportunity to rush in, but were easily driven out by the sword and shield hands that had been waiting for a long time and died under the bow and arrows and muskets.

Lin Chunhong looked at the rocket flying all over the sky, his lips slightly raised, and the shield car was covered with wet leather, so it was not so easy to ignite!

Behind Lin Chunhong, more than a hundred elite cavalry were standing, and the leader was the battalion commander Sheng Kunshan!

Seeing that the militia army could not break into the round formation, Sheng Kunshan couldn't help but shout: "Sir..."
To be continued...