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After everyone heard this, they immediately became excited, from this time Xiao Tianjian led the cavalry battalion back to Jinnan, they had already secretly guessed that Xiao Tianjian could not come back this time just to visit relatives, it must be a bit of a big move, as for where Xiao Tianjian wanted to take, they had also faintly guessed eight or nine, and now Xiao Tianjian said it himself, which confirmed their guess, so a group of people immediately stood up and shouted: "It was for the handsome to die!" ”

Even Luo Rucai quickly stood up and said loudly: "Luo is willing to listen to the commander's orders!" ”

Xiao Tianjian stood in the upper position, glanced at everyone, nodded with satisfaction: "Okay!" Then let's stop talking nonsense and start acting now! But it should be noted that the action should be as secretive as possible, and at the same time, it is necessary to do a good job of changing guards, and go to Gaoping in batches to assemble, and I will arrive in Gaoping on the 29th of the lunar month! ”

Everyone once again responded loudly, and then Xiao Tianjian began to arrange everyone's work in detail.

Beginning on the 22nd day of the lunar month, groups of soldiers and generals of the first division began to change their guards from all over the place, and immediately after packing up, they rushed to Gaoping in batches under the leadership of the officers of various departments, and Fu Deming, who was in charge of logistics and supply, and his subordinates also immediately began to mobilize a large number of materials to transfer to Gaoping.

This New Year's offensive was also the first time for Luo Rucai, who had just joined Xiao Tianjian, to participate in such a large-scale military operation, so Luo Rucai also held the psychology of observation and followed Xiao Tianjian everywhere to inspect the preparations before the war.

Through this trip to Jinnan, Luo Rucai also has a clearer understanding of Xiao Tianjian's strength, in addition to the strength of Xiao Tianjian's regular army of three standing divisions in Henan, it turned out that he also left a supernumerary and strengthened division in Jinnan, so calculated, Xiao Tianjian's strength is much stronger than he thought, and then look at the various material reserves of the Xingtian Army, which surprised Luo Rucai, the Xingtian Army not only has a large number of reserves of grain, but also reserves a large number of weapons and ammunition in Jinnan, If it weren't for Xiao Tianjian's order to mobilize, Luo Rucai wouldn't have known that the original accumulation of the Xingtianjun was so large, thinking that he was still thinking about the idea of standing on his own again one day, Luo Rucai felt a little ridiculous.

On the twenty-ninth day of the first month, Xiao Tianjian and Luo Rucai led Situ Liang's cavalry battalion to arrive at the area of Hexi Town south of Gaoping County first, and when they arrived here, most of Yan Chongxi's first division of soldiers and horses had also arrived here, completely confining the entire area within a radius of ten miles, and a large number of materials were also continuously gathering here through Zezhou, and it can be said that they were piled up in the newly established camp.

In this New Year's offensive, Xiao Tianjian not only mobilized most of the main forces of the first division, but also mobilized two reserve battalions from Zezhou as auxiliary troops of the first division to participate in the battle, responsible for the transfer of baggage and covering the rear flank of the main force, basically concentrating the elite of Jinnan in Gaoping.

A total of five battalions of soldiers, plus a reinforced artillery battalion, a cavalry battalion, and two reserve battalions were mobilized, with a strength of more than 10,000 men.

Outside of the half-battle barracks that were confronting Xu Dingguo in Gaoping City, they were basically stationed in Hexi Town, forming a rather powerful attack group.

At this time, Xu Dingguo did not expect that Xiao Tianjian would return to Jinnan from Henan at this time, nor did he expect that the Xingtian Army would choose to suddenly exert his strength at this time of the New Year, after entering the month of Layue, because he led his troops to attack Gaoping for a long time, the soldiers under his command couldn't help but be a little discouraged, and seeing that the weather had entered the harsh winter, they all had a war-weary mood, and they were unwilling to fight under Gaoping City, so Xu Dingguo had to lead his troops to take the initiative to retreat to the north of Gaoping County. Basically, the attack on Gaoping County was stopped, and He Yihu, who was stationed in Gaoping County, also stopped the counterattack on Xu Dingguo's department because his troops were not enough to defeat Xu Dingguo's department, and after Xu Dingguo retreated, the entire Gaoping County temporarily entered a short period of calm.

But as the New Year approached more and more, Xu Dingguo began to gradually receive bad news, and some of the fine works who infiltrated the south of Gaoping began to give him feedback, saying that in the south of Gaoping, there were constantly thieves out of Zezhou to gather in Hexi Town in the south of Gaoping County, and there were countless vehicles that continued to come out of Zezhou to transfer various materials to the area of Hexi Town.

Such news immediately alerted Xu Dingguo, he couldn't guess what the Xingtian Army was going to do, but he had an ominous premonition, feeling that this time the Xingtian Army's actions were very abnormal, it was obviously about the New Year, but they didn't stop to rest, but they still made such a big move, what was the purpose?

So he hurriedly sent Ye Bu and Xi Zuo to bypass Gaoping County and explore in the direction of Zezhou, but at this time, the area around Hexi Town had been under martial law by the Xingtian Army, and anyone could only enter and not go out, and within ten miles around Hexi Town, there were dense layers of open and dark sentinel mobile sentinels, not to mention that they were close to Hexi Town to investigate the news, and even these cordons under Xu Dingguo's Ye Bu and Fine Work could not penetrate at all, but they were also hunted and killed by the Xingtian Army.

As a result, Xu Dingguo couldn't find out for a while how many troops, how many materials were concentrated, and what they were going to do in the area of Hexi Town, so he could only judge that the Xingtian Army might make a big move after the year, and he himself made preparations to withdraw his troops after the year, intending to end the offensive against Gaoping County.

Although Xu Dingguo guessed Xingtianjun's plan to a certain extent, he still didn't expect that Xingtianjun would do something to him on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Xiao Tianjian on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, in the temporary camp in Hexi Town, after killing animals and sacrificing the flag and swearing to take action, for this time Xiao Tianjian personally returned to Jinnan and led them to the soldiers of the Xingtian Army to go on the expedition, these generals not only did not feel dissatisfied because they had to come out to fight during the New Year, but on the contrary, they were excited, and under the command of Xiao Tianjian, they stepped out of the barracks in batches and rushed towards their established goals.

On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Xu Dingguo was still lying in the tent with two subordinate generals in his arms when he was lying down with the famous prostitutes specially invited by his subordinates from the city of Lu'an Mansion because he had a few more drinks with his subordinates last night: "My lord, please hurry up, a large number of thieves have been killed!" ”

Without waiting for Xu Dingguo to come over, there were shouts of killing in all directions around the official army camp, and several family members were anxious to red-eyed, and they couldn't care so much, so they directly broke into the warm tent where Xu Dingguo lived, and no matter how the two pink, white, red and tender women cried, they pulled Xu Dingguo up and put his clothes and armor on him.

At this point, Xu Dingguo was a little sober, and asked urgently, "What's the matter?" What the hell is going on? ”

A family member shouted at him and said, "My lord is not good! Just now, I didn't collect it at night and ran back to report that a large number of thieves suddenly bypassed Gaoping County and rushed straight to our camp, but after a while, a large number of thieves were killed outside the camp, and now they are lined up outside the camp, and they are about to attack the camp! Now that the camp is in chaos, the adults are still preparing to withdraw to Lu'an Mansion quickly! I can't stay any longer! ”

Xu Dingguo was dizzy when he heard this, and he almost fell back on the couch and shouted: "What are those generals doing?" Why don't you gather troops and horses to defend the camp? ”

The family almost cried out, and shouted to Xu Dingguo: "Don't mention it, just now the Huozhou guerrilla Ma Yue heard that the thief army was coming, and immediately lost his soldiers and horses, and he escaped from the north gate with dozens of family members, and when he fled, the others were also panicked, and they were all running outside at this time!" The soldiers are even more chaotic, and if you don't leave, I'm afraid you won't be able to leave! ”

Xu Dingguo is so angry! When drinking last night, the generals under this gang of soldiers still patted their chests one by one and spoke proudly, saying that if the thief army dared to come after the year, they would definitely kill it like this, but today the thief army really came, and these grandsons peed their pants directly, and they didn't even shout and ran away one by one, so they slipped away first, listening to the noise in the camp, the scolding of the officers and soldiers, Xu Dingguo also knew that it was over! This time he was once again completely defeated in the hands of the Xingtian Army, and it was too late to turn the tide at this time, so he rushed out of the big tent under the protection of the generals of the Ding family, and as for the two fans who had slept with him all night, he didn't care about bringing them, and he turned over and took more than 2,000 people and horses from his headquarters to immediately forcibly fight a way out of the chaotic camp, and fled from the north gate.

Situ Liang and Diao Zheng led the troops to attack Xu Dingguo's camp, it can be said that it took almost no effort, it only took a moment to blast open the door of the official army camp, and led the troops to immediately rush into the camp. Crying dad shouted mother's begging for mercy.

And Situ Liang led the cavalry battalion around the camp, all the way along the direction of Xu Dingguo's defeat and escape, and chased and killed, the cavalry pursued the infantry army, which was a matter of nine out of ten, if Xu Dingguo still had the determination to fight to the death, it was estimated that it would be more troublesome to eat them, but Xu Dingguo saw clearly that the Xingtian Army was fierce at this time, and his subordinates had lost all their fighting will, so they couldn't stop effective resistance, so they were caught up by Situ Liang and they were all killed indiscriminately, even if they were in chaos, Xu Dingguo was also considered to be a great fortune, and under the escort of 200 family members, he rushed out desperately, leaving behind the officers and soldiers under his hands, so that he was able to escape and ascend to heaven.

In less than a day, the more than 5,000 officers and soldiers led by Xu Dingguo to attack Gaoping were defeated by Xiao Tianjian, and except for a few who escaped, most of them were basically annihilated in Gaoping County.

At the same time, Yan Chongxi led another way, from the northeast of Gaoping County, and went straight to Lingchuan County in the east of Gaoping County.