"Brother Hongji, although we are not afraid of the government army, I think it is better to keep one move!" Liu Fangliang, who had never spoken, said.

In addition to Li Zicheng's nephew, Li Guo, a tiger, Li Guo, Liu Fangliang is the youngest among the people.

Liu Fangliang, 26, was a villager of Li Zicheng. Both of them were from Mizhi County and were playmates of childhood with Li Zicheng, who was a few years older than him. At the age of fourteen, he joined the Yanyulin Guard and stayed in the army for five years. Until the second year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng followed Gao Yingxiang and found Liu Fangliang, who had accumulated merits and raised to the small flag, and pulled him into the rebel army.

Liu Fangliang is brave and good at fighting, and has great strategy. He is deeply trusted and loved by Li Zicheng. The three thousand old camps in Li Zicheng's most elite are trained and controlled by him on a daily basis. He is one of the people Li Zicheng trusts the most.

Li Zicheng has always attached great importance to Liu Fangliang. When he saw him suddenly interrupting, he hurriedly asked, "Brother Liangzi, is there something wrong? You tell me, let's take a closer look!"

Liu Fangliang said, "Brother Hongji, brothers, more and more rebels from all walks of life have joined the army in the past few days, and they are defeated against the official army. I have nothing to do and asked several people. They all said that they were first rushed by the official army and horse team, and then they were defeated by infantry after breaking into the rear!"

Li Zicheng and others nodded one after another, waiting for Liu Fangliang to continue talking.

Liu Fangliang continued to speak: "It is now clear that the 10,000 government troops led by Hong Laogui in the west are the 10,000 government troops led by Hong Laogui, but the defeated rebels rushed from the north and south. That is to say, the formation of the government troops is like a big bird, Hong Laogui has a head and body, and two wings are coming! Look at this formation, Hong Laogui wants to surround us and eat it in one bite!"

Li Zicheng and others were all old wars, and they had a lot of combat experience. After thinking about it carefully, it turned out that as Liu Fangliang said, the official army wanted to surround them.

Gao Yigong slapped his thigh and said, "Brother Liu is very reasonable! Old Gui Hong has a big appetite! This is the same as what we used to go up the mountain to fight the black-faced man!"

Liu Zongmin glared and said angrily: "What a mess? We are the rebels, so where are the black-faced men?"

Gao Yigong was quite afraid of Liu Zongmin, who was usually taciturn but brave and fierce. He heard him scold him loudly, and his neck shrank down and his head did not dare to say anything again.

Li Zicheng smiled and smoothed out the situation: "Brother Yigong is just an example. Why should Jiexuan take it seriously? Since the Liangzi brothers explained the purpose of the official army, how should we deal with it next? Let's discuss it! Liangzi, you talk first!"

Liu Fangliang pondered for a while and said, "Brother Hongji, brothers, I think, if you are safe, we'd better take advantage of the fact that the official army has not yet arrived. The army goes north along the river and crosses the river to Shanxi, and stay away from Hong Lao Gui!"

Yuan Zongdi shook his head and said, "No, no! I grew up by the big river. I know that the river is dangerous. It is extremely difficult for us tens of thousands of troops to cross the river! We have to find hundreds of sheepskin rafts alone. There are no many boatmen on the river at present. Even if we make a raft, it is useless without a boatmen!"

Liu Zongmin threw the cotton cloth that wiped the long knife, stood up and inserted the sharp iron sword into the scabbard around his waist, and said with a cold expression: "Hongji, if we avoid the government army now, it will be difficult to have the final say in the rebels in the future! Who would be convinced? In my opinion, even if we want to leave, we have to fight a war with the rebels! Also, let the rebels elsewhere look at it, our eight teams are not as cowardly as them!"

Li Zicheng suddenly stood up, his bright eyes full of ambitions: "Zhong! Jiexuan is right! Our eight teams are not corrupt! Our eight teams are not a waste of time to break through! This battle must be fought! Let Lao Gui Hong taste our power and leave!"

A few days later, Hong Chengchou led his troops to the west bank of Sheyanshui. During this period, hundreds or thousands of bandits defeated by the official army joined Li Zicheng's eighth team. Together with the original nearly 20,000 troops, Li Zicheng's subordinates had reached more than 30,000.

Li Zicheng gathered all the bandits who had lost their leader and then assigned them to Gao Yigong, Yuan Zongdi and others. The bandits with thousands of people and the leader was still there were sent by Li Zicheng to camp on both sides away from the official army.

This is not his kindness, but his fear that after putting these people in the front line, if they are defeated by the official army, they will disrupt his formation. These men and horses will have to be trained before they can be able to fight.

Looking at the boundless tens of thousands of people, Li Zicheng suddenly felt proud: There are so many people, where can we go in the world!

The official army set up camp on the west bank of the Sheyan River, rested for one night, and began to cross the river the next day.

It is better to say that it is wading through the river than to say that it is wading through the river.

Because of the drought and rainfall this year, the upper stream cannot provide sufficient water supply, the deepest part of the water is only at the knee.

Around Chen hour, after more than 10,000 officials and soldiers had eaten, with the horn blowing, two thousand archers of the official army stepped out of the camp, formed two square formations under the command of their respective officers, lined up left and right before shooting the formation, and three thousand people from the Herenlong tribe began to wade across the river first.

Li Zicheng did not dispatch cavalry to attack halfway, because the widest part of the Sheyan River was only more than ten feet long, not that kind of river. It was meaningless to try to prevent the official army from crossing the river, and not to mention that he was ambitious to compete with the official army.

When he learned that the official army had begun to leave the camp, he ordered Gao Yigong. Yuan Zongdi led his troops from Guancaiyuan to the direction of Sheyanshui and set up a formation three miles away. Liu Tichun and Li Guo each led the troops to two wings. He, Liu Zongmin and Liu Fangliang personally led 3,000 old camp troops to be the central army, and the remaining bandits followed as rear troops. More than 30,000 bandits marched towards Sheyanshui one after another.

In the central position of the official army, Hong Chengchou, who was riding on a horse, was watching the formation of the bandits several miles away, and He Renlong, Zuo Liangyu and others surrounded the left and right.

The formation of the thieves on the opposite side is very targeted. There are large infantrymen in the middle, and there are more than one thousand horses on both sides, which are obviously guarding against the raids of the official army from both sides.

The formation of the thief is very neat, not the kind that he used to be, regardless of the number of people, but always messy.

The bandits' central army was blocked by the soldiers in front of them, so they could not see clearly. They could only see a small team of horses in front of the central army. If not unexpectedly, there should be bandit leaders such as Li Zicheng, a general invading, among them.

He Renlong, who was standing beside him, said in a rough voice: "This group of local thieves from Donkey Ri have learned all the styles of our official army! The formation is quite good! This group of local thieves are not easy to fight!"

Zuo Liangyu said sarcastically: "What's wrong with fighting? No matter how good the formation is, it's just a bandit! He Fengzi is afraid that he doesn't want to meet the village party opposite, right? Why don't I fight this headline?"

He Renlong and Li Zicheng came from Mizhi County, so Zuo Liangyu said this.

"Don't you go! I'm an official army, he's a traitor! What a shitty village party! I'll rush to the front and cut off his head!" He Renlong said angrily.

Hong Chengchou snorted coldly and scolded: "In the war, don't talk nonsense! He Renlong! You lead the headquarters to advance from the front and give you a thousand archers! After breaking through the thief formation, drive the thieves backwards and chasing the troops behind! Those who are afraid of the enemy will be killed immediately!"

He Renlong clasped his fists and agreed loudly, then rode his horse and took his personal soldiers to the front. Sun Shoufa, a guerrilla in Shaanxi Town, followed closely behind, and a thousand archers were his subordinates.

His 3,000 troops were the vanguard of the official army and were already at the forefront. Hong Chengchou no matter how related he and Li Zicheng were, he would advance but not retreat after a military order.

"Zuo Liangyu! The left wing formation of the thief is thin. When He Renlong's troops break into the enemy's formation, you immediately lead the headquarters to press the enemy's left wing, defeat it and drive the thief to attack its horse team! Those who retreat will immediately kill you!"

Hong Chengchou continued to order.

The left wing of the thief was Liu Tichun's more than 4,000 people. They shrank behind the front of the thief, and used a variety of weapons, and were basically all civilians, and they were obviously not elite.

Zuo Liangyu sang and beat a horse toward the headquarters of the right wing.

"Youjie! You lead your troops to move to the left! Place the horses and guard against the enemy's right-wing horses!"

After receiving the order, the Shaanxi-Tire General You Jie took his personal soldiers to the left. There were nearly 3,000 people in his headquarters, including a thousand archers, and the rest were spearmen and sword and shield soldiers.

After the generals left, Hong Chengchou ordered his battalion to divide a thousand horse team, led by the governor Li Shu to the right wing of Zuo Liangyu as a cover, and the remaining five hundred battalion horse teams were used as reserves to wait for his military orders.

Gao Yigong and Yuan Zongdi, who were in front of the bandit, saw the official army coming, immediately ordered more than a thousand archers and two hundred shield players to come forward to meet them.

Because there was only one side of the official army opposite, and they confronted their own horse team several miles away, the two were not worried about the safety of the archers.

As for the more than ten cavalry in the official army directly opposite, they were obviously guarding the chief general, and the two chose to ignore this cavalry.

He Renlong immediately ordered Sun Shoufa to prepare to lead the archers forward to meet the enemy, and then called He Shisan, the personal army team, and took off his armor and shouted: "Thirteen! Take these sixteen personal soldiers with you, and rush forward to kill the archers while the enemy is unprepared! As long as the archers of the thief army are broken, I will give you a reward!"

He Shisan, who was about thirty years old, was the nephew of He Renlong's family. He has been in the army in Shaanxi Town since the age of sixteen. Since the second year of Chongzhen, he followed He Renlong to fight in the east and west, and saved He Renlong's life several times in the battle formation. After He Renlong was promoted to deputy general, he wanted to put him down and lead his troops in order to repay his kindness. He would be able to promote and use his military achievements in the future, but He Shisan refused to leave He Renlong's side, saying that he was leaving, and no one would save He Renlong's life.

He Renlong was both moved and helpless, so he took out money to help He Shisan ask for his wife and bought a house in Guyuan to settle down. Then his wife gave birth to two sons and one daughter for He Shisan. He Shisan was very satisfied with this and was even more grateful to He Renlong.

He Renlongyan saw that there were more thieves than the official army, so he would probably suffer a lot of casualties when shooting. These archers still had to keep the turbulent bandit formation, so they could only defeat the thieves' archers first.

The only way he could think of at present was to use his own soldiers to defeat the robbers' archers. These more than ten cavalry were not eye-catching in such a battle of tens of thousands of people, and could just play the role of a surprise weapon.

As long as you master the opportunity of this kind of rush, there will be no great casualties.

As long as the archers on both sides start shooting, the thief army shield players gather in front to cover the official army's bows and arrows. Whether it is the archers or shield players, their attention will be focused on their fronts and they are not prepared for both sides. If these more than ten cavalry speed up and rush in, the thief army archers will definitely be defeated.

With the help of the soldiers beside him, He Renlong took off the mountain literary armor and personally put on He Shisan, who jumped off the horse. The two layers of heavy armor will protect He Shisan's safety to the greatest extent.

Helping He Shisan tie the straps on the armor, He Renlong stared at He Shisan's eyes and said, "Thirteen, don't blame me, I am the leader, I have to find a way to win! I will give you a reward when you come back alive! You are going to die, I will raise you my niece and three nieces. As long as I, He Renlong, eat it in one bite, they will never be short!"

He Shisan smiled and said, "Uncle Fifth, what a big deal? It's just a thief! Just wait and invite me to drink! Look at me!"

After the other sixteen personal soldiers were ready, He Renlong ordered Sun Shoufa to lead the archer forward to meet the enemy, and told him that whenever he saw that He Shisan and the others were about to catch the enemy, he would immediately stop firing arrows.
Chapter completed!