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Li Xuanzhu stood on the gate of Zhuangmen in Hexi Village, and looked into the distance on the road to the north outside the village, only to see a group of flags of officials and soldiers gradually appearing on the road in Zhuangbei, his eyes began to become ruthless, and he shouted in a deep voice: "Start loading!" ”

A group of gunners stood on the wall of the village, immediately put down the bird guns on their shoulders, took out the paper shells from the leather boxes on their waists, and began to bite open the wax paper shells, pouring the gunpowder into the guns......

The speed at which the officers and troops came still exceeded Li Xuanzhu's expectations, originally he thought that the officers and troops on the Qinyang side would not attack until two or three days later, in that case, he would have more time to prepare for the battle. *..!。 *

Since getting the news of Feng Gouzi, he began to step up the construction of the wall of Hexi Village, and led people to dig a trench outside the village, and built a low wall on the outside of the trench with the excavated soil and stones, forming a ring fortification outside the village.

Judging from the news sent by Feng Gouzi, the number of officers and troops gathered in the direction of Qinyang this time exceeded 3,000 people, but he only had 400 troops under his command, and the disparity between the forces of the two sides was very large, so even if the Xingtian army was very brave and good at fighting, it was impossible for him to take the risk of taking these 400 soldiers out of the village to face the officers and troops who were more than seven or eight times more than them, so he could only use Hexi Village as a base to block these officers and troops from attacking Yangcheng.

At present, Xiao Tianjian led Yan Chongxi and Luo Li to Yuanqu County, and only he and Zhao Erdonkey and Jiang Cheng were left in Yangcheng, and this time the officers and soldiers were divided into three ways to enter Yangcheng, except for some of Shi Ran's scouts and more than 1,000 recruits from Liu Bao in Dongye Town, he couldn't expect anyone to help him again, so he could only rely on the four hundred soldiers at hand to block the officers and troops coming from the direction of Qinyang, otherwise, once they broke through the pass of Hexi Village and went straight to the boundary of Yangcheng, Then their hard work in the past six months or so may be in vain, not to mention that the summer grain cannot be harvested, and the local people definitely don't know how many will be killed.

Therefore, even if there is a huge disparity between him and the strength of the official army, he can't take half a step back, and only by holding out here until Xiao Tianjian leads his troops back to help can this trouble be solved.

But even so, Li Xuanzhu didn't feel afraid, after all, the soldiers and generals under his command were all fiercely trained soldiers, compared to ordinary officers and soldiers and Xiangyong, it was not a grade at all, not to mention that he had more than a hundred bird guns in his hands, as well as a few small Franc machines and three-pole nine-headed birds, with these guys, it was impossible for this officer army to break through Hexi Village and rush into the boundary of Yangcheng without killing 1,800 people!

And Li Xuanzhu is more confident in the will of these soldiers and generals under him, following Xiao Tianjian for more than a year, the new and old subordinates under his command have all been beaten by Xiao Tianjian like iron, there are few people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, Xiao Tianjian always tells them that the soldiers are fine but not many, and the elite line taken by the Xingtian Army has made them have not suffered a loss for more than a year, no matter who they are against, and the Xingtian Army has already formed this kind of psychological advantage, and they don't know what it means to be afraid.

When the scouts reported in the morning that the official army had set out from Qinshui County and rushed straight to Hexi Village, Li Xuanzhu ordered the troops who were working outside the village to call it a day and return to the village to rest, and invited all the things they had prepared for the past few days to prepare for the battle.

And Qinshui County to Hexi Village is only a dozen miles away, the Xingtian Army often sent troops into Qinshui County to rob large households before and after the New Year, making the local big households in Qinshui County everyone in danger, and many homes were broken by the Xingtian Army, because of the matter of the Xingtian Army, a group of officials in Qinshui County have already been unable to sleep and eat for this, but I am afraid that Qinshui County will also become the next Yangcheng County, so this time when Wu Fu ordered the order of the three-way march into Yangcheng, Qinshui County responded the most quickly, in addition to quickly convening more than a thousand townsmen in the local area, He also prepared 10,000 taels of silver and a lot of grain for the officers and soldiers who came here from all walks of life for the officers and soldiers to attack and suppress the Xingtian army.

In this way, the officers and soldiers assembled in Qinshui County had nothing to say, so after getting enough money, they sent troops to attack Yangcheng County.

There is only one big road from Qinshui County to Yangcheng County, and the rest are some very narrow country roads, which cannot be passed by a large number of officials and soldiers, so if they want to enter the boundary of Yangcheng, they must pass through Hexi Village, which is located next to the road.

Originally, when the official army assembled in Qinshui County, it was directly assembled in the south of the county seat, so as soon as the official army set off, it did not take long to arrive at Hexi Village.

The officers and soldiers who came here to attack the Xingtian Army in Hexi Village also knew about the situation, and knew that Hexi Village had already been a garrison of the Xingtian Army, and there were troops from the Xingtian Army stationed there, so before leaving, they had already sent several spies to inquire about the defense of Hexi Village.

Although some of these meticulous spies were arrested, some people still ran back to the Qinshui official barracks, and informed the general in charge of the command of the situation here, and this time in Qinshui County, who was responsible for the command of the army to attack the Xingtian Army, was a Wei commander surnamed Xu, when he learned that the thief army guarding Hexi Village was only about 400 people, he was immediately happy, he also heard about the strength of the Xingtian Army, more than two months ago in the first battle of Beiliu, the 2,000 people of the Xingtian Army defeated Niu Tai 4,000 soldiers and horses, and the officers and soldiers killed fell into the water. Niu Tai also ended up fleeing back and being arrested and executed, originally he was afraid of this time to send troops to attack the Xingtian Army, but when he heard the news, he was immediately relieved, three thousand against four hundred, and most of his hands are still official soldiers, think with his ass, he can also guess who is strong and who is weak, if three thousand people can't beat Zhuangzi guarded by four hundred thieves, then there is no need for him to go down as an official.

So after ascertaining the strength of the defenders of Hexi Village, he did not delay any longer, and immediately rushed towards Hexi Village, and when it was not enough to noon, the official army entered outside Hexi Village.

At this time, Xu Yishi Lerma stopped and looked towards Hexi Village, although this place guards the road from Yangcheng to Qinshui, but Hexi Village used to be just a small village after all, the village wall is not high and not solid, and the thief army is only to defend this place, only outside the village to build a low wall that is not very high, it is not easy to defend and difficult to attack, such Zhuangzi, in the surrounding and other places abound, usually it is able to guard against dozens of thieves to attack Zhuangzi, it is difficult to block the siege of the army.

And the Xingtian army wanted to block the passage of the official army from this place alone, obviously looking down on the official army a little too much, so this Xu Yan matter was more confident in his heart, and immediately collected the soldiers and horses, and the generals who came from all over the place to listen to his orders were invited to him, and asked them: "You have also seen the situation here, I don't know which one is willing to take the lead and capture this village?" ”

All these officers who came with the army also saw the situation in Xihe Village, and couldn't help but start to feel a little happy in their hearts, feeling that a Zhuangzi like this would not be a problem for them to take this place at all.

So a thousand general manager immediately came out and hugged his fists and said loudly to Xu Yishi: "Qi Xu Yishi, Ma is willing to lead the troops to go and pull out this village!" Open the way for grown-ups! ”

Xu Yishi took a look, this Ma Chengliang is a thousand generals of Fushan Wei, his subordinates brought a battalion of soldiers and horses this time, a total of about 500 people, this is in the current situation, a thousand households can mobilize 500 generals, it is already commendable, according to normal speaking, a hundred households should have 112 soldiers, a thousand households should control ten hundred households, and there should be 1,120 soldiers when it is full, but at present, among the guards, there are many deserters, like Ma Qianzong, a thousand households, it is quite good to be able to mobilize two or three hundred people, but this Ma Qian always transferred five hundred soldiers at once, which shows that this person still has some ability to control troops.

So Xu Yishi nodded and said: "Since Ma Qian always has this ambition, then this official is here to wait for good news, come, beat the drum to cheer for Ma Qian, I hope that Ma Qian will succeed in the battle, don't fall the prestige of our official army!" In addition, the general's cannon is placed in front of the army, and the cannon is fired at me to bombard the thief army! ”

After hearing this, Mr. Ma Qian immediately walked to his team with his head up, pulled out the waist knife, and shouted to his soldiers: "Brothers, today is the time to use you, and you have also received the salary you should receive, now don't fucking pretend to be a grandson!" Shangfeng said, this time into the city of the city to suppress bandits, kill a thief, reward five taels of silver, these thieves are fat oil, and Lao Tzu killed thieves! ”

After listening to the agitation of this Ma Qianzong, hundreds of his subordinates were also interested, so they raised their arms and shouted: "Kill the thief!" Kill the thief ......"

After the sound of war drums, Ma Qian led his five hundred soldiers, carrying some ladders and shields in hand, and rushed towards Hexi Village in a swarm.

Li Xuanzhu has always stood on the Zhuang wall and looked at the situation of the official army, this official army has mixed flags, obviously not from one place of the official army, but by several officers and soldiers combined, the equipment situation is also very general, only three medium-sized Furlong cannons, and a few tiger squat guns, and obviously not fully utilized, just scattered out of the army, Chen Bu outside the village, after all, the tiger squat cannon range is limited, the officers and soldiers had to lift these tiger squat cannons to only sixty or seventy steps away from the low wall outside the village, erected there, A group of gunners hurriedly began to reload, apparently planning to open the way with cannons and force the storm.

Among the officers and soldiers, there were 500 soldiers, and they lined up in front of the formation, and after a while, they let out a cry of killing thieves, and rushed towards Zhuangzi.

A hideous smile appeared at the corner of Li Xuanzhu's mouth, and he immediately shouted loudly: "Brothers, these officers and soldiers are just like this, they actually underestimate our Xingtian Army so much, give them a little bit of power!" ”